<p>The Waterman–Winsor Farm is a historic farmhouse located in the Greenville part of Smithfield, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>One of the first owners of the farm was likely Resolved Waterman (1703-1746), a grandson of Resolved Waterman (1638-1670) and Mercy Williams, a daughter of Roger Williams. Waterman acquired 600 acres of farmland surrounding this property, and he also operated a tavern nearby in the center of the village of Greenville to which the historic Smithfield Exchange Bank branch was later attached.</p><br>
<p>The Waterman–Winsor Farm House contains a main part and a rear gambrel ell, which may have been moved to the site from elsewhere. The earliest part of the house may have been constructed in the early eighteenth century as early as 1710, and it may have been the original home of "Colonel Abraham Winsor (1720-1798). The other parts of the building may have been constructed circa 1774-1780 by Capt. Andrew Waterman, Resolved Waterman&#39;s son. In the late nineteenth century, the farm was known as Maplewood Orchard because of the row of seventeen sugar maple trees which William Waterman Winsor planted during the Civil War in 1863 and which still survive today. The farm was the largest apple orchard in the state around the turn of the twentieth century under Thomas Winsor and produced apples for over 100 years into the mid-twentieth century until the surrounding land was sold for suburban developments of ranch houses. The house remained in the Waterman and Winsor families until 1975 when Stanley Winsor sold the Winsor Farm and, all that remained was 1.85 acres of the original 600 acres of land with the house and remaining outbuildings."</p><br>
<p>Forestville Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Wake Forest in Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. Constructed in 1860, the church building is a combination of Greek Revival and Italianate style architecture. The building may be attributed to Jacob W. Holt, or his brother, Thomas J. Holt, architect with the Raleigh</p><br>
<p>and Gaston Railroad.</p><br>
<p>In October 1984, Forestville Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 1761 Milestone is a mile marker located at 640 South Main Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The stone originally marked the junction of a Colonial highway from Great Road and an east–west route from Boston, Massachusetts to Connecticut. It was rediscovered during the installation of an electrical road . In 1898, it was restored to its original location by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The stone is embedded in a low retaining wall at the corner of South Main Street and Smithfield Road. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1982, and is historically significant as a Colonial-era highway marker.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 1761 Milestone is a historic marker that marked the junction of a Colonial highway. In 1761, it was located at the intersection of Great Road from Providence, Rhode Island to Mendon, Massachusetts, and an east–west route from Boston, Massachusetts into Connecticut. Currently, it rests near the intersection of South Main Street and Smithfield Road (previously Great Road) and occupies the land designated by the Woonsocket Assessor as plat 4-C, lot 69.</p><br>
<p>The 2 ft by 3 ft marker is described by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination form as an "odd-shaped piece of grey slate, somewhat broken and effaced".</p><br>
<p>The stone was unearthed during the installation of an "electrical road", according to a report to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which probably refers to a tramway; the Woonsocket chapter of the DAR restored it to its original location. Sometime later, the DAR placed a bronze plaque on the stone, but it was absent at the time of its nomination in 1982. The marker is currently mortared into a retaining wall at the edge of the sidewalk on 640 South Main Street at the intersection.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination states that the marker is at its original site and is historically important because it is "the only extant Woonsocket property which well recalls this era in the early history of American overland transportation," and that there are "but a handful" of stones in Rhode Island which marked colonial highways. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Stimson House is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Built in 1891, it was the home of lumber and banking millionaire Thomas Douglas Stimson. During Stimsons lifetime, the house survived a dynamite attack by a blackmailer in 1896. After Stimsons death, the house has been occupied by a brewer who reportedly stored wines and other spirits in the basement, a fraternity house that conducted noisy parties , as student housing for Mount St. Mary&#39;s College, and as a convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>A Los Angeles landmark</h3><br>
<p>When Stimson House was built in the 1890s, the Los Angeles Times described it as "the costliest and most beautiful private residence in Los Angeles," a building "admired by all who see it." More than a hundred years later, the Times said: "From the front, the 3-story house resembles a medieval castle, with brick chimneys standing guard like sentries along the roof and an ornate four-story crenelated tower on the northeast corner, a noble rook from a massive chess board." With its $150,000 cost, it was the most expensive house that had been built in Los Angeles at the time.</p><br>
<p>From the day it was built, the 30-room house was a Los Angeles landmark. Neighbors and occupants have referred to it over the years as "the Castle" or the "Red Castle" due to its turret-top walls, four-story tower, and red-stone exterior.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior features</h3><br>
<p>The original occupant, Thomas Douglas Stimson, hired architect H. Carroll Brown, then only 27 years old, to design his new home. Stimson designed the home principally in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, with rough-hewn stone, round headed arches, short columns, rows of arched or rectangular windows and an overall fortress quality. The Richardsonian style was popular in the Upper Midwest in the 1880s, though the style never became popular in Los Angeles. Stimson reportedly wanted his new home to resemble the brick-and-stone mansions of Chicago&#39;s Gold Coast, including the Palmer Mansion. A Los Angeles Times music critic reviewing a chamber music performance at the house in 1989 called its architecture "Midwestern Ivanhoe." With its Gothic tower and other features, the style of the house is not strictly Richardsonian. A Times writer in 1948 noted that the house presents a "puzzling" appearance: "Its architecture reflects the Mission influence, a bit of Byzantine, something Latin and a little Fort Ticonderoga."</p><br>
<p>Brown obtained the distinctive red stones from a quarry in New Mexico and used San Fernando sandstone for the windows, balconies and the tower&#39;s crown trim. The most prominent feature on the house is the four-story Gothic tower. The top of the tower and ridges are crenellated and finished with notched battlements. Other important features include a third floor balcony with a gabled arch and a stepped gable with a Palladian window. A porch with carved stone columns surrounds the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood in which the Stimson House was built became known as "Millionaires Row" in the 1890s, though the size and stone construction of Stimson House set it apart from the wood houses along Millionaires Row.</p><br>
<h3>Interior features</h3><br>
<p>Some have noted the "irony" in a lumber baron&#39;s home being built of stone rather than wood. However, the interior has been described as "a shrine to lumber, a museum of wood, a smorgasbord of timber -- ash, sycamore, birch, mahogany, walnut, gumwood and oak, all shipped from lumber yards in the Midwest." Each room on the first floor is furnished with a different type of wood, and the heavy doors have double thickness, to match the wood of the room on either side. An intricate parquet border is found at the edge of the oak floors throughout the house.</p><br>
<p>Under the first floor there is a basement, "a maze of rooms and arched doorways." There was a room that at one time served as an underground lounge and bar. In another recess there was a wine cellar equipped with an iron door that served as a makeshift jail cell and the scene of many pranks during the house&#39;s later years as a fraternity house. There were also traces of organ pipes that once were installed there.</p><br>
<p>The interior features also included a Diebold safe hidden behind a door in Stimson&#39;s study. The nuns who occupied the house in later years reportedly stored their cleaning supplies in the safe. Stimson reportedly took photographs of his Chicago mansion and hired Carsley and East Manufacturing Co. to duplicate them and ship the finished products to Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Thomas Douglas Stimson</h3><br>
<p>Thomas Douglas Stimson (1828–1898) was one of the wealthiest men in Los Angeles. He was known as a self-made man who left his home in Canada at age 14, and worked as a trader in Michigan. However, rather than retiring, Stimson became one of the most active members of the Los Angeles business community. He became one of the largest shareholders in the Citizens Banks and was vice president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<p>In 1893, Stimson used the same architect who had built Stimson House (H. Carroll Brown) to build the Stimson Block, a six-story office building at the corner of Third and Spring streets downtown. The Stimson Block used many of the same architectural features employed in Stimson House, and when it opened in 1893, the Stimson Block was the tallest building in Los Angeles. The Stimson Block was demolished in 1963 to make room for a parking lot.</p><br>
<p>Stimson died at Stimson House in February 1898. His widow, Achsah, lived in the house until she died in 1904.</p><br>
<p>Stimsons son Charles D. Stimson followed his father into the timber industry and was the patriarch of the Seattle-area Stimson family whose other members have included Dorothy Stimson Bullitt and the conservative pundit Charles "Cully" D. Stimson. The Seattle scion also built a notable home, the Stimson-Green mansion on First Hill, and another descendant built a notable house in Capitol Hills Harvard-Belmont Landmark District on the site of Horace C. Henry&#39;s former mansion.</p><br>
<h3>"Dynamite Fiends"</h3><br>
<p>In February 1896, the Stimson House was the target of a bizarre bombing attack. The headline in the Los Angeles Times read, "DYNAMITE FIENDS: An Attempt to Blow Up the Stimson Mansion; The Redstone Walls Resisted the Terrific Explosion." A "stick of giant powder" was placed against the foundation of the house, directly under Stimson&#39;s bedroom. A large hole was torn in the side of the house by the explosion, but the thick foundation wall was not damaged. Reports indicated that a frame house would have been shattered into fragments by the explosion, but the solid stone structure withstood the blast. Two neighbors witnessed the culprit lighting the fire on the dynamite, grabbed their guns, ran across the lawn, and were thrown off their feet by the explosion. On regaining their balance, the neighbors saw a man running away from the scene and fired several shots in his direction, but the man escaped.</p><br>
<p>Initially, there was suspicion that "the plot to blow up the house" was either a robbery attempt or the "dastardly" act of "some Anarchist or enemy of capitalists who took this cowardly method of expressing his hatred for men of wealth, and singled out a man who is reputed to be one of the wealthiest in Los Angeles, and who lives sumptuously as becomes his station."</p><br>
<p>Later that month, private detective Harry Coyne was arrested for the attack. Stimson testified at the preliminary hearing that he had hired Coyne to accompany his son to Mexico the prior month. Shortly after returning from Mexico, Coyne told Stimson that he was in danger from the machinations of a notorious Mexican criminal. Stimson confronted Coyne and told him he suspected the affair to be a blackmailing scheme by Coyne himself. and he was eventually convicted and sentenced to five years at Folsom Prison.</p><br>
<h3>Edward Maier</h3><br>
<p>After Stimson&#39;s wife died in 1904, the house was purchased by a civil engineer named Alfred Solano. In 1918, Edward R. Maier, sportsman and owner of Maier Brewing Co., bought the house, and it served as the Maier family home until 1940. Maier was said to have stored his wines and liqueurs in the labyrinthine basement.</p><br>
<h3>Fraternity Hijinks</h3><br>
<p>In 1940, the Maier family sold the house to USC&#39;s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for $20,000 – about 13% of the original cost of construction.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, the Pi Kappa Alphas held a reunion at Stimson house, which they had referred to as the "Red Castle." They found the iron-gated wine cellar just as it was when errant pledges (and UCLA prisoners) were locked inside and sprayed with a hose. Memories flowed as the fraternity brothers gathered at the house, one recalling his proposal to his wife on the stairs of the house, and another recalling pelting a pledge with eggs from the same staircase, only to discover that the pledge was allergic to eggs—paramedics had to be called when his eyes swelled closed. One of the returning fraternity members recalled that, as a pledge, he crawled through an air shaft to escape from the catacombs and, covered with soot, appeared at the door of a neighbor asking if he might use the phone—the neighbor being Mrs. Doheny who later bought Stimson House to rid herself of the Pi Kappa Alphas.</p><br>
<h3>Convent for Sisters of St. Joseph</h3><br>
<p>The property behind Stimson House (on Chester Place) was the home of Carrie Estelle Doheny, the widow of wealthy oil man, Edward L. Doheny. Mrs. Doheny had grown up in the neighborhood and had watched as the Stimson House was built. She recalled, "I remember when Mr. Stimson was building this house. When I was just a little girl, my father would take me for a walk on Sunday afternoons, and we&#39;d always walk this way to see how far along the work had progressed."</p><br>
<p>When the fraternity brothers gathered for their reunion in 1996, the Los Angeles Times noted: "What a difference half a century makes. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet now say their prayers in those wood-paneled rooms where the PiKAs sang: He rambled down to Hades, To see the poor lost souls, Saw a bunch of Kappa Sigs a-roasting on the coals...."</p><br>
<p>The Sisters of St. Joseph operated the house as a convent from 1948 to 1969. From 1969 to 1993, the house was converted to use as housing for students at Mount St. Mary&#39;s College. In the fall of 1993, the sisters returned to Stimson House and resumed using it as a convent.</p><br>
<h3>Earthquake damage</h3><br>
<p>Stimson House suffered substantial damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The roof had to be removed after bricks fell through it, and the chimney, parapets and tower were also damaged. The Sisters of St. Joseph had reoccupied the house as a convent in the fall of 1993, but were forced to vacate the property for ten months while repairs were made.</p><br>
<h2>Designation as historic building</h2><br>
<p>The Stimson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and has also been named a Historic-Cultural Monument (# 212) by the City of Los Angeles. Material prepared for the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission&#39;s review of the Stimson house in 1977 called it "architecturally unique in Los Angeles," "the best example of this period of American architecture in Los Angeles" and "one of the most significant structures in the Los Angeles area."</p><br>
<h2>Use as a filming location</h2><br>
<p>The house has been used as a shooting location in numerous commercials, television shows, and feature films, including:</p><br>
<p>It appeared in the films Another You, House II, Casper Meets Wendy and After Midnight.</p><br>
<p>It appeared in the mini-series Captains and the Kings and Testimony of Two Men.</p><br>
<p>It appeared in an episode of The Bionic Woman in which Lindsay Wagner&#39;s double jumped off a second-floor porch. Vincent Price, who appeared in the episode, liked the spooky acoustics of the house and recorded some of his later productions there.</p><br>
<p>It was used as the orphanage in the 1994 comedy film Clifford.</p><br>
<p>It appeared in an episode of Pushing Daisies as a mortuary.</p><br>
<p>The exterior was used during the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Mad Men as the home for the Francis family.</p><br>
<p>It appeared in the third episode of the third season of the TV show Legion, as an early version of the Xavier Mansion and the childhood home of David Haller.</p><br>
<p>It appeared in the third episode of the first season of the TV show Rutherford Falls.</p><br>
<p>The 2021 horror film The Manor was filmed at the Stimson House.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall in Richmond, Illinois, US is a historic public building located in the village&#39;s primary business district. It was constructed in 1907 and has served as a focal point for community government and recreation. In 1993 Richmond Memorial Hall was added to the USA Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Richmond Memorial Hall was built in 1907 with a US$ 10,000 bequest from Charles Dewitt McConnell, grandson of Richmonds first settler, William McConnell. The bequest was filed in McConnells will on September 3, 1903 and by 1905 the village had organized a committee to begin investigating a site to build Memorial Hall. In April 2021 Memorial Hall was sold by the Village of Richmond to a private owner for the sum of $230,000 and the interior of the building is currently undergoing remodeling to facilitate its use for commercial purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two story building has a total perimeter of 254 feet and has a full basement. The building has an upper level auditorium, with lobby space, a closet, ticket office, stage and balcony. The ticket office remains in the front foyer, as do the two stairways leading up to the balcony. The gabled roof has asphalt shingles. The orange-yellow brick facade is in good condition but the current metal doors are not original to the building. Fred Arp was the contracted builder used by the village of Richmond in 1907.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The building is locally significant for its association with the Richmond village government as government administrative offices. Memorial Hall has also served a long time entertainment function in Richmond, catering to a variety of groups over the years. Since its construction Memorial Hall has been a focal point and hub of the community in Richmond. On August 19, 1993 Richmond Memorial Hall was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The New Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at New Hill, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in southwestern Wake County. The district encompasses the commercial and residential center and includes 2,820 acre, 59 buildings, and one structure. The district developed between about 1860 and 1950, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the W. T. Roundy commercial complex, C.J. Bright&#39;s general merchandise store or New Hill Emporium, W. T. Roundy House , Duncan Lashley House , John Bright House , New Hill Baptist Church , Glass-Gardner House , and several farm complexes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Bartley Holleman House is a historic home located in New Hill, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in southwestern Wake County. Constructed in 1913, the -story building is an example of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architecture. Other buildings on the property include a wellhouse, pumphouse, engine house, smokehouse, and wash house.</p><br>
<p>In January 2008, the Samuel Bartley Holleman House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Fairbury City Hall is a historic city hall in Fairbury, Illinois, United States. It was constructed in 1892 with a clock tower that was added in 1912 as a gift from local business owners. The building was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In September 1888 the city of Fairbury leased land from Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway in order to build a new city hall. The city council then passed building bonds in the amount US$23,060 to erect the new city hall. The Fairbury City Hall was constructed in 1892 at the southeast corner of Locust and Third Streets facing the central business district in Fairbury, Illinois. The city hired Wiggoner Brownson to complete all carpentry work, including the cornice and the roof. The stone and brick masonry work was done by Joseph Stickoffer.</p><br>
<h2>Clock tower</h2><br>
<p>The buildings bell and clock tower was added to its northwest corner in 1912, a donation from local business owners. It features a four-face Seth Thomas clock and large bronze bell. There are double brick arches above all four clock faces on the tower. The clock was formally presented as a gift to the city on January 1, 1913 at a city council meeting by Isaac and J.W. Walton, owners of the local Waltons Department Store.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Fairbury City Hall is a two-story rectangular building approximately 29 feet by 60 feet in size. The building was constructed on a corner lot and has its northwest corner, and main entrance, angled toward the intersection of Locust and Third Streets. The building&#39;s roof line features a decorative metal cornice. Fairbury City Hall is considered representative of American city and town halls built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>Fairbury City Hall has been the center of the citys government activities since its completion and it continues to serve its original purpose. The building accommodated, at one time or another, the city council, the fire department, a justice of the peace and the city clerks office. Many decisions important to Fairbury were made within the city hall building. For its importance to local politics, Fairbury City Hall was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Schubert Theatre is a theater located in Gooding, Idaho, United States. Built in 1920, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The building is a fairly simple two-story two-part commercial block, three bays wide. The theatre seats 400 and is adorned with murals and gold leafed crown molding. Sound equipment installed in 1930 allowed for "talkies" to be shown.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the theatre was purchased by Charmianne and Lonnie Leavell, a local couple who planned to restore the theater and turn it into a cultural center for the community of Gooding. The couple later donated the theatre to a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, GREAT, Inc. (Gooding Restoration for Entertainment, Arts & Theater), a nonprofit they formed to help in their goal. As of 2020, significant work had been done to restore the theatre, including replacing the roof, however work was still needed in electrical and plumbing to make the building functional.</p><br>
<p>The Star of the Sea Painted Church in Kalapana, Hawai&#39;i was built in 1927-1928 under the direction of the Belgian Catholic missionary priest Father Evarist Gielen, who painted the upper section of the church interior.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, the church was moved to its present location just ahead of an advancing lava flow. It is located on Highway 130 between mile marker 19 and 20. It is on the National Register of Historic Places for its historical relationship with Father Damien, or Joseph Damien de Veuster.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Beach House is a historic home located in Fairbury, Illinois, United States. Built in 1872, it is a fine example of Italianate architecture, and has been compared with a building considered a landmark example of the style. The house was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Beach House was built by Thomas A. Beach in 1872, and he lived in it until he died in 1911. The front half of the house was completed in 1872, the back half of the house in 1886 and a front porch was added c. 1900. Following Beach&#39;s death the house was occupied by his granddaughter, Alma Lewis James, a local author and historian. The house remained in the Beach family until 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Beach House is a two-story brick structure with a basement and central tower. It is a particularly fine example of Italianate architecture and has a number of elements that are hallmark of the style. Besides the central tower, its double bracketed eaves, large overhang at the gutter line, and its long slender windows all exemplify the Italianate style. The homes physical appearance is very similar to its original appearance; besides a garage added to the propertys rear in 1951, there have been no major alterations since the original spate of construction.</p><br>
<p>The Beach House is similar to both the Morse-Libby House in Portland, Maine and the Fugate House in Fairbury. The Fugate House was constructed using the same mason as the Beach House, T.D. George.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural and historic significance</h2><br>
<p>As a fine example of Italianate architecture, the Beach House has drawn comparison with what is considered to be a landmark example of the style: the Morse-Libby House. The house also displays some significant construction techniques, such as its triple-thick brick walls with airspaces between them for insulation.</p><br>
<p>The Beach family was important socially and made a number of important political and economic contributions to the history of Fairbury, giving the house local historic significance. Thomas Beach was a local banker and was active in municipal and school government. His granddaughter, Alma Lewis James, wrote several genealogical works and a history of Fairbury. The Thomas A. Beach House was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1983, for its architectural importance as well as its importantance to Fairbury&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Ramsdell Theatre is a historic playhouse theater building and opera house at 101 Maple Street in downtown Manistee, Michigan. The building was financed by local businessman and politician Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell and was built in 1902. It replaced the town&#39;s two previous opera houses which had been destroyed by fire, one in 1882 and the other in 1900. Besides producing plays the facility was later used as a movie theater. James Earl Jones started his acting career at the theater as an actor and stage manager.</p><br>
<h2>Building features</h2><br>
<p>The Ramsdell Theatre, characterized by the Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia as "the finest of several opera houses built in small Michigan cities at the turn of the twentieth century", was constructed between 1902 and 1903, paid for by the towns only lawyer Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell at a cost of $100,000. Architect Solon Spencer Beman designed the structure. The building, located at First and Maple Streets, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972 and the state of Michigan named the Theater as a Michigan Historic Site in 1980. The Theatre & the adjacent Hall together serve as a community center for the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>The general design has been described as Greek Revival or Grecian architecture and also as a classic Colonial design. The National Register Nomination form has the buildings design being of Greek and Italianate styles. The front is a design of red brick with Doric columns that support the flat portico over the buildings main entryway. The Theatre and the Ramsdell Great Hall (the adjoining assembly hall), are distinct buildings from each other. There is a solid wall in-between, although both were built at almost the same time. The building has a hipped roof, with a closely spaced teeth-like block modillion cornice, a decorated colonnaded porch, an overarched entrance, ornamental brick panels, and an interior dome mural.</p><br>
<p>The theater features two balconies with private viewing boxes along the main floor. The seating has been cut back to 489 from its original capacity of 1200, one reason being the upper balcony has been closed-off to the public because of fire safety. Two seating boxes are located almost on each end of the stage with two additional ones in the lower balcony. An unusual feature of the interior is that the balconies are in the general shape of a horseshoe. The auditorium has been altered more than the outside of the building, the major difference in the present interior being the addition of a projection booth in the middle of the top balcony. Though the specific date the booth was constructed is unknown, it was built sometime before April 1925 — a 2012 article in The Manistee News Advocate quotes its April 8 edition: "The Ramsdell has been equipped with two of the latest type motion projection machines and they are already in place in a fireproof room at the rear of the balcony."</p><br>
<p>The stage is 34 ft deep and 60 ft wide with a proscenium arch of 26 ft. The theatre has nine trapdoors — three can be lowered beneath while six can be raised from the stage.</p><br>
<p>Walter Burridge created the front curtain – A Grove Near Athens – which is still in use at the present time. Burridge was a notable artist who painted theatrical scenery for plays and opera companies throughout the United States. He also created cycloramas for prominent national exhibitions. Artist Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell, Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell&#39;s son, painted both the dome in the auditorium and the two lunettes in the lobby. The lobby scenes depict women listening to a young musician and the dome in the house shows Venus, ringed by cherubs and riding a chariot through the sky.</p><br>
<h2>Theatre planning and construction</h2><br>
<p>Planning for the building began in 1901 after the two previous Manistee opera houses were destroyed by fire. The third opera house, built by Ramsdell, is the structure that still stands and is being used today as the Ramsdell Theater.</p><br>
<p>The neighboring Assembly Hall was finished in 1901 before the Theatre and an opening ball was held in December 1902 by the local Manistee Retail Clerk&#39;s Union. The theater itself officially opened on September 4, 1903, with a performance of A Chinese Honeymoon. Ticket prices for this first production went from $25 for the best seats in the house to $10 for the upper balcony, ticket prices for succeeding productions were lower. Its original budget was for $25,000, but it ultimately cost $100,000 when finally built.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1903 until 1914 the Theatre was used for a variety of events including plays from professional touring companies, community events such as amateur plays and also movie screenings. By 1914 the Theatre&#39;s original purpose as a performance space was no longer in evidence. By the 1920s the theatre space was largely abandoned and remained unused for any stage productions until 1951.</p><br>
<p>Ramsdell died in 1917. The theater was purchased for $25,000 from his estate in 1925 by the Manistee Rotary Club.</p><br>
<p>The Manistee Civic Players formed in 1939. The Butterfield company permitted the Players to use the theater space for two plays and their rehearsals a year. The Civic Players performed multiple productions over the next few years. In 1943 the City of Manistee bought the Theatre from the Rotary Club, The City used only the Assembly Hall for the Manistee Recreation Association, leaving the Theatre itself shuttered. In 1950 a group of women&#39;s clubs formed the Civic Betterment Committee with the purpose being to restore the Ramsdell Theatre back to its original purpose.</p><br>
<p>The Manistee Drama Festival was formed in 1951. One of them each year is designated for a musical production and sometimes a second one.</p><br>
<p>Actor James Earl Jones was a stage carpenter and an occasional actor at Ramsdell during the 1953 summer stock season. From 1955 to 1957 he served as The Summer Theatres stage manager as well as taking on more challenging roles. Jones first appearance onstage as Shakespeare&#39;s Othello was at the Ramsdell in 1956, he played the role while also serving as stage carpenter and stage manager. He has returned twice to support fundraising efforts for the restoration project.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 the Ramsdell Restoration Committee was formed for fundraising and managing restoration. The Ramsdell Governance Committee was formed in 2005 by the business people of Manistee and the city took over the responsibility for the building in 2006.</p><br>
<h3>Historical Marker</h3><br>
<p>There is a Michigan State Historical Marker placed at the front entrance of the theater.</p><br>
<p>The Perry Mill is a historic mill building at 337 Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a large five-story stone structure on the Newport waterfront. It was built in 1835 by master stonemason Alexander MacGregor  as part of an initiative to boost the city&#39;s flagging economy. Of the four mills built in the 1830s only this one and the Newport Steam Factory survive. This building was originally four stories when built.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The building now houses a club and hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Rhode Island State Airport Terminal is a historic airport terminal located on Airport Road in Warwick, Rhode Island, at what is now known as T. F. Green Airport. It was constructed in 1932, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In July 1931, the State of Rhode Island opened Hillsgrove State Airport on 158 acre in Warwick, the first state-owned and operated airfield in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The terminal building opened in January 1933. For many years, it was occupied by an office of the USA Weather Service. It currently houses the offices of the Airport Operations Department.</p><br>
<p>The Apponaug Historic District is a 2 acre residential historic district in the central village of Warwick, Rhode Island, which is also known as Apponaug. It consists of five properties  dating to no later than the early 19th century. These houses are a remnant of what was once a much larger collection of period houses in Apponaug, many of which have succumbed to modern 20th-century development of the area.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Since the listing, the odd-numbered houses have all been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Boston and Providence Railroad Bridge in East Providence is a railroad bridge on the East Junction Branch spanning Ten Mile River. A portion of the bridge also spans Roger Williams Avenue. The bridge was built in 1884 by the Boston and Providence Railroad, replacing an earlier structure on the line. The bridge abutments are faced in coursed ashlar stone, with brick-faced segmental-arch tunnels piercing them. The main span of the bridge consists of two Warren trusses resting on the abutments and a central pier in the Ten Mile River. The bridge formerly carried two tracks, but has been reduced to one.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It continues in active service carrying Providence and Worcester Railroad freight trains between East Providence and Seekonk, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System is a national historic district located in Nassau County, New York, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses Jones Beach State Park and many of the related causeways and parkways built by Robert Moses to connect to it. Furthermore, the district consists of a total of 22 buildings and 33 structures.</p><br>
<p>The causeways and parkways landmarked as part of the district are the portions of the Meadowbrook & Wantagh State Parkways south of the Southern State Parkway – in addition to the Ocean Parkway and the Loop Parkway.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain over 5,000 graves, including a colonial-era slave cemetery and Jewish graves. The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Common Burial Ground was established in 1665 on land given to city of Newport by John Clarke. It features what is probably the largest number of colonial era headstones in a single cemetery, including the largest number of colonial African American headstones in the United States. The predominantly African-American northern section of the cemetery is commonly referred to by local African-Americans as "God&#39;s Little Acre".</p><br>
<p>The Island Cemetery was established by the city in 1836, and transferred to the private Island Cemetery Corporation in 1848. Many members of Newport&#39;s most prominent families have been buried there over the years. Notable people buried there include Medal of Honor recipient Hazard Stevens, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Commodore Matthew C. Perry and financier August Belmont.</p><br>
<h3>Grave markers returned</h3><br>
<p>In 2016, three gravestones were discovered which had been lost for years. One stone, found in Pennsylvania, was a 12 x 24 marker for a 1-year-old child. The others were 1835 stones for a Newport woman, which were found in a Newport yard during a renovation. The recovered stones were reset in the Common Burying Ground in 2016 by the Newport Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, two more burial stones found in Pennsylvania, those of Violet and Duchess Quamino, were returned and restored. Duchess Quamino, a free Black woman formerly enslaved to William Ellery Channing, had been an active member of Newport&#39;s African community.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<h3>Prominent people buried in the Common Burial Ground</h3><br>
<p>John Howard Benson - Artist and stone carver.</p><br>
<p>John Linscom Boss Jr. – United States Representative.</p><br>
<p>Christopher Champlin – First Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Christopher G. Champlin – United States Representative 1797–1801, United States Senator 1809–11.</p><br>
<p>Michele Felice Cornè – Painter.</p><br>
<p>John Cranston – Colonial Governor of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Cranston – Colonial Governor of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>William Ellery – Signer of the Declaration of Independence and colonial Deputy Governor.</p><br>
<p>James Franklin – Printer and brother of Benjamin Franklin.</p><br>
<p>Ann Smith Franklin – Printer & publisher, wife/widow of James Franklin (1st woman USA newspaper editor)</p><br>
<p>Prince Greene - Enslaved African-American who served as a soldier in the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper) – Heroine of the 19th Century. Recipient of the Gold Lifesaving Medal.</p><br>
<p>Henry Marchant – Delegate to the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<p>Dutee J. Pearce – United States Representative.</p><br>
<p>Duchess Quamino (1739–1804), a formerly enslaved woman, known as the "Pastry Queen of Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>Asher Robbins – United States Senator 1825–39.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert Stuart – Portrait artist, is not buried here, but is honored on the monument above his wife&#39;s grave. (cenotaph)</p><br>
<p>Jane Stuart - First woman portrait artist in Newport, and daughter of Gilbert Stuart. Her mother and a few of her sisters are buried there, too.</p><br>
<p>William Greene Turner – Sculptor, perhaps best known for his statue of Oliver Hazard Perry in Newport.</p><br>
<p>Frances (Latham) Vaughan – "The Mother of Governors," widow to colonial President Jeremy Clarke, and mother of colonial governor Walter Clarke.</p><br>
<p>William Vernon – Colonial era merchant.</p><br>
<p>Richard Ward – Colonial governor of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Ward – Delegate to Continental Congress and colonial Governor of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h3>Prominent people buried in the Island Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>Hugh D. Auchincloss – Naval officer, government official and stockbroker</p><br>
<p>Lillian Barrett (1884–1963) – novelist and playwright</p><br>
<p>Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris – Mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis</p><br>
<p>August Belmont – Chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1860 to 1872 and founder of the Belmont Stakes</p><br>
<p>August Belmont Jr. – Developer of the IRT Subway in New York City and the Cape Cod Canal</p><br>
<p>Perry Belmont – United States Representative and Army officer</p><br>
<p>Gunner George F. Brady, USN – Medal of Honor recipient.</p><br>
<p>Captain Kidder Breese, USN – Commander of the Naval Landing Party at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.</p><br>
<p>Brevet Brigadier General Henry Brewerton – Superintendent of West Point Military Academy.</p><br>
<p>Melville Bull – United States Representative, 1895–1903</p><br>
<p>George Henry Calvert – Writer and Mayor of Newport</p><br>
<p>Rear Admiral Augustus Case – Career Navy officer</p><br>
<p>William Cole Cozzens – Mayor of Newport and Governor of Rhode Island, 1863</p><br>
<p>Henry Y. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island and commander of the Artillery Company of Newport</p><br>
<p>Robert B. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>George T. Downing (1819–1903) – abolitionist, entrepreneur, restaurateur</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Thomas Eadie, USN – Medal of Honor recipient (buried in Island Cemetery Annex).</p><br>
<p>William Channing Gibbs – Governor of Rhode Island, 1821–24</p><br>
<p>George Washington Greene – Historian</p><br>
<p>John N. A. Griswold – Merchant, industrialist and diplomat</p><br>
<p>Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) – Noted architect of Gilded Age</p><br>
<p>Charles Bird King (1785–1862) – Painter</p><br>
<p>Clarence King (1842–1901) – Geologist</p><br>
<p>George Gordon King – Congressman</p><br>
<p>Lewis Cass Ledyard – Lawyer and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club</p><br>
<p>Captain Christopher Raymond Perry – Privateer in the American Revolution and naval officer in the Quasi War</p><br>
<p>Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1794–1858) – Commander of Black Ships Expedition to Japan in 1853</p><br>
<p>Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819) – Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in War of 1812</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Colonel John Hare Powel – Army officer, Mayor of Newport and commander of the Artillery Company of Newport</p><br>
<p>George L. Rives – Assistant Secretary of State</p><br>
<p>William Paine Sheffield Sr. – Congressman and United States Senator 1884–85</p><br>
<p>William Paine Sheffield Jr. – Congressman</p><br>
<p>Major General Thomas W. Sherman – Civil War general</p><br>
<p>William Watts Sherman (1842–1912) – Socialite and treasurer of the Newport Casino</p><br>
<p>Brevet Brigadier General Hazard Stevens – Medal of Honor recipient and son of Isaac Stevens</p><br>
<p>Major General Isaac Ingalls Stevens – Civil War general who was killed in action at the Battle of Chantilly</p><br>
<p>Frank K. Sturgis – President of the New York Stock Exchange</p><br>
<p>Brevet Brigadier General George Washington Tew – Civil War officer. Lieutenant Colonel of 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Commander of the Artillery Company of Newport.</p><br>
<p>Commodore Benjamin J. Totten – Career USA Navy officer</p><br>
<p>Charles C. Van Zandt – Governor of Rhode Island 1877–80</p><br>
<p>Major General Gouverneur K. Warren – Chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg – Commander of V Corps (1863–65)</p><br>
<p>George Peabody Wetmore – Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator</p><br>
<p>Katherine Prescott Wormeley – Literary translator, founder of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<h3>Common Burial Ground</h3><br>
<p>Cranston.John&Samuel.grave stone.Com Bur Gnd.20110722.jpgOriginal grave slab for Governor John Cranston on left, and newer slab for both him and his son, Governor Samuel Cranston, on right</p><br>
<p>Ward.Samuel&Richard.grave site.Com Bur Gnd.20110722.jpgTable marker for Governor Samuel Ward on left; brick vault for his father, Governor Richard Ward, on right</p><br>
<p>Ellery.Wm.grave plot.Com Bur Gnd.20110722.jpgEnclosed plot for Deputy Governor William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence</p><br>
<p>William Ellery grave at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgWilliam Ellery grave inscription</p><br>
<p>Ellery.Wm.grave plaque.Com Bur Gnd.20110722.jpgGrave plaque for William Ellery</p><br>
<p>Ida Lewis grave at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgIda Lewis monument</p><br>
<h3>Island Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>Newport Cemetery.JPGIsland Cemetery in 2009</p><br>
<p>Entrance building at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgEntrance building</p><br>
<p>Chapel building at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgOvergrown cemetery chapel</p><br>
<p>Chapel building front at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgChapel</p><br>
<p>Chapel roof hole at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgHole in the Chapel roof</p><br>
<p>Richard Morris Hunt grave at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgGrave of Richard Morris Hunt</p><br>
<p>Richard Morris Hunt grave inscription at Common Burying ground Newport RI.jpgGrave of Richard Morris Hunt</p><br>
<p>The Smith Hill Historic District is a historic district located in northwestern Providence, Rhode Island, just west of the Rhode Island State House and Interstate 95. It includes 57-65 Brownell Street, 73-114 Holden Street, 23-80 Jewett Street, 189-240 Smith Street and 10-18 W. Park Street. This area is a densely built residential section, an isolated remnant of what was once a larger residential area. Most of the 41 properties are residential units built between 1870 and 1930, and are typically 2-1/2 or stories in height. They are set on lot sizes ranging generally from 3000 to 5000 square feet, and are set close to the sidewalk. The only major non-residential buildings are St. Patrick&#39;s School at 244 Smith Street and "The Mohican" at 185-189 Smith Street; the latter is an Art Deco brick and concrete commercial block two stories in height.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Providence City Hall is the center of the municipal government in Providence, Rhode Island. It is located at the southwest end of Kennedy Plaza at 25 Dorrance Street in Providence. The building was constructed between 1875 and 1878, and designed by Samuel J. F. Thayer in the Second Empire style. In 1975, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing structure to the broader Downtown Providence Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>The Need for a City Hall</h2><br>
<h3>Market House</h3><br>
<p>Upon the citys incorporation in 1832, most city business was conducted at the Market House. The City Council, Mayors Office, and Board of Aldermen were located on the second floor; as the city grew, the city spread to the third floor, and eventually took over the entire building, which became known as the "City Building." Before long, even this wasnt enough space, and in 1845 the City Council resolved to create a permanent municipal building. The community spent the next 30 years searching for a suitable location, because half the Council votes were on the east side of the Providence River, and half the votes were on the west. This resulted in what some historians have referred to as "Providences Thirty Years War," as the council bickered over where to site the new building.</p><br>
<h3>City Hall Theater</h3><br>
<p>The city purchased several lots for the construction of a new City Hall. Construction was delayed, however, and the land was leased to C.N. Harrington, who built a wood frame theater on the site. The theater was notable for lectures, performances and readings that included writer Charles Dickens. In 1869, the building was renamed "Harrington Opera House." In 1874, the structure was closed for demolition.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<h3>"Our Municipal Palace"</h3><br>
<p>An open call for design led to twenty one submissions, and four finalists. Samuel J. F. Thayer&#39;s "Blue Wafer" design was chosen, and he was paid $1000.00USD. The building, modified from its original design, would cost the city $1,000,000.USD. The cornerstone was laid on June 24, 1875. Inaugurated on November 14, 1878, The Providence Journal called the building "Our Municipal Palace."</p><br>
<p>President Teddy Roosevelt spoke on the City Hall steps on August 23, 1902, and John F. Kennedy spoke on November 7, 1960, just before he was elected president. In 2000, Friedrich St. Florian designed outdoor plaques for the building. Haven Brothers Diner, a Rhode Island landmark, is mobile cafe situated east of City Hall every evening.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, after concerns began to grow about possible demolition, Mayor Buddy Cianci instigated a full restoration and rehabilitation of the deteriorating building under the guidance of historian and preservationist Antoinette Downing, Frank Mauran III and Irving B. Haynes. The project was completed in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural details</h2><br>
<p>"The building&#39;s construction is of iron and brick, faced with Westerly granite on the Dorrance and Washington Street sides and New Hampshire granite on the other two sides. The sidewalks are granite blocks, 5 to 6 feet wide and 18 to 20 feet long. The entire structure was built on an artificial foundation set atop 3,128 pilings driven deep into the underlying hardpan."</p><br>
<p>"Four coal-fired boilers of 50 horsepower each provided heat for the building. The boilers also supplied energy to operate a water-powered elevator, capable of carrying up to 50 passengers at one time. The elevator was built with electric bells at each landing so that it could be summoned to the desired floor."</p><br>
<p>In the pre-electricity age, "to keep clocks accurate and uniform, a central control mechanism was installed. It operated in a fashion similar to a grandfather clock, and each morning would be wound up by the janitor. It sent battery powered signals to other clocks in the building. Although the building was wired for electricity shortly after its construction, the clock mechanism remains in place and can be seen in the fifth floor Archives."</p><br>
<p>"The original main floor included a reception room and the office for the City Messenger. His office contained an elaborate array of communication devices, 50 speaking tubes, 50 electric bells and 50 annunciators which connected to all departments. Next to the Messenger&#39;s Office was an ornate reception room, 23 feet by 33 feet, with large mirrors hung at each end of the room. The walls were finished in mahogany and stamped leather."</p><br>
<p>The fifth floor living quarters for the janitor and his family included a kitchen, parlor, two bedrooms and a bath. The remainder of the fifth floor was used by the City Engineer and for storage. The upper levels of the building are within a high, convex, mansard slate roof that rises above the parallel-eaved parapet. Fashioned into the mansard dome are ornamental bulls-eye dormers.The mansard roof area is reached by an iron stairway from the fifth floor where, originally, large batteries were stored to generate electricity for the city-wide fire alarm system and for the operation of the clocks and bells in the building. Another flight of stairs led to a higher area in the mansard dome which was also used for storage."</p><br>
<h2>Notable events</h2><br>
<h3>Famous speeches from the steps</h3><br>
<p>Because of its central location with vast open space before it, City Hall has been the scene of a number of speeches by visiting dignitaries.</p><br>
<p>One of the features of the tremendous industrial development of the last generation has been the very great increase in private, and especially in corporate, fortunes.... It is not true that the poor have grown poorer; but some of the rich have grown so very much richer that, where multitudes of men are herded together in a limited space, the contrast strikes the onlooker as more violent than formerly. On the whole, our people earn more and live better than ever before, and the progress of which we are so proud could not have taken place had it not been for the up building of industrial centers, such as this in which I am speaking. But together with the good there has come a measure of evil.… Under present-day conditions it is as necessary to have corporations in the business world as it is to have organizations, unions, among wage-workers. We have a right to ask in each case only this: that good, and not harm, shall follow.</p><br>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt (Republican President) "Trust" speech from steps of Providence City Hall toward crowd assembled on Kennedy Plaza – August 23, 1902</p><br>
<p>On other occasions, in other years, this country has elected Republican Presidents and Democratic Presidents. They do it when they make a decision that that party and that candidate will serve a great national purpose. In my judgment and the responsibility ultimately is yours, in my judgment the United States will be best served by a candidate and a party who recognizes the basic issues of our time, and that is that this country has to go back to work again.</p><br>
<p>John F. Kennedy (Democratic candidate for President) speech from steps of Providence City Hall toward crowd assembled on Kennedy Plaza</p><br>
<h3>Public wakes</h3><br>
<p>In September 1881, the body of General, Governor, and Senator Ambrose Burnside lay in state before services at First Congregational Church.</p><br>
<p>In June 1886, the body of mayor Thomas Doyle lay in state before services at First Congregational Church.</p><br>
<p>In February 2016, the body of mayor Buddy Cianci lay in state for two days in half-open casket before services at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Lansing Manor House is a historic home located in North Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York, United States, adjacent to the Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center and Mine Kill State Park. It was built in 1819 by John Lansing Jr. for his daughter and son-in-law, Jacob Livingston Sutherland. John Lansing Jr. represented New York as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and the state&#39;s Ratification Convention in 1788.</p><br>
<p>The manor house is a two-story, 46-feet square house with a hipped roof. It has brick-lined, wood-frame construction on the first floor and wood frame on the second. It features a five bay, one story porch along the front facade. Also on the property are: a shed and former summer kitchen, a well and its cover, outhouse, ice house, milk house, barn and silos, a possible guest / tenant house, and several other outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The manor house was restored by the New York Power Authority in 1977, and is filled with authentic furnishings from the first half of the 19th century. The property, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a national historic district, is operated by the Power Authority in cooperation with the Schoharie County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Coventryville Historic District is a historic district and historic village in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States that enjoyed a significant role in the early American metal industry.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Coventryvilles origins lie in the iron forge founded in 1717 by Englishman Samuel Nutt, an early American industrialist and member of Pennsylvanias Assembly in 1723–26. Named for his native home of Coventry, England, Coventry was the first forge in Chester County and was located at the confluence of the north and south branches of French Creek a short distance from rich iron deposits.</p><br>
<p>In 1723, Nutt formed a partnership with Mordecai Lincoln (great-great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln), and iron pioneer William Branson and expanded the operation to include two furnaces, Warwick and Reading. It was at Reading Furnace under Branson&#39;s operation that same year that experiments led to the production of early steel.</p><br>
<p>After Nutts death in 1737, Coventry passed to his nephew Samuel Nutt Jr. whose wife, Rebecca Savage inherited the site upon his death. Upon her marriage to Robert Grace, Coventry and Warwick were joined to become Rebecca Nutt and Company. It was Robert Graces close friendship with Benjamin Franklin that led to the popular legend of the Franklin Stove prototyped at Grace&#39;s home, Coventry Hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1757, Coventry and Warwick passed to Thomas Potts, Rebecca&#39;s son-in-law and father of John, founder of nearby Pottstown. By the time of the Revolution Coventry had passed his brother Samuel and Thomas Rutter. It was under the Thomas Potts/Rutter ownership that Coventry and Warwick supplied munitions for the Continental Army.</p><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, Coventry forge was enlarged and re-equipped and much of the present village was constructed. During this time, however, anthracite coal began to replace charcoal as fuel and new techniques for manufacturing iron and steel were developed. Smaller operations like those at Coventry and nearby Hopewell lay far from coal deposits and outside rail transportation centers and declined with only brief peaks in production during the American Civil War. Coventry Forge ceased operations entirely in 1871.</p><br>
<p>The village today consists of structures dating from the early 18th century until the mid 19th including workers housing, the Inn, the ironmaster&#39;s house (Coventry Hall) and the mid 19th century Methodist church. While the realignment of Route 23 to the south of the village in 1959–1960 obliterated a portion of the forge site, the Coventryville Historic District remains an intact concentration of original eighteenth and nineteenth century structures. The community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Musgrove Mill State Historic Site was the site of the Battle of Musgrove Mill, an action in the American Revolutionary War, which occurred on August 19, 1780, near the Enoree River, on what  is the border between Spartanburg, Laurens, and Union Counties in South Carolina, approximately seven miles from Interstate 26.</p><br>
<p>In the August 1780, a group of 200 Patriot militiamen attempted to strike what they thought was an equal number of Loyalists camped near a ford on the Enoree River. The Loyalists, however, had recently been joined by 300 more, two hundred of them provincial regulars from the British post at Ninety Six, South Carolina. Once discovered, the Patriots were unable to either retreat or make a frontal assault. Instead they took up a position behind logs and brush on a nearby ridge and lured the Loyalists into attacking them. A fierce fight ensued and turned into a near rout of the Loyalists. Nevertheless, when the Patriot militia learned that American forces had been defeated three days before at the Battle of Camden, they also retreated.</p><br>
<p>North Carolina Patriot militia leader Col. Isaac Shelby, campaigning to Musgrove Mill from the area of present-day northeast Tennessee, fought at the Battle of Musgrove Mill with a small force of Overmountain Men. After the battle, Shelby and his Overmountain Men returned over the Appalachia Mountains to the Sycamore Shoals (located at present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee). Shelby was one of the Patriot officers mustering weeks later at Sycamore Shoals on September 25, 1780, in advance of the early October 7, 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Musgrove Mill battle site was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The park includes a visitor center with interpretive exhibits, a memorial to the legendary Mary Musgrove (featured in a popular early 19th-century novel), two marked trails, a picnic area, a fishing pond, a canoe launch, and a small waterfall.</p><br>
<p>The Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre & Conservatory is a historic movie theater and concert venue and commercial building at 28 Monument Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The complex consists of two connected sections, one housing the theater, the other offices, both with retail spaces on the ground floor. The theater was designed by Perry and Whipple of Providence and built in 1926.</p><br>
<p>Initial funding came from Mrs. Norbert Champeau, a widow with interest in the theater, but the project was soon taken over by Arthur I. Darman, a local industrialist. Although it lacked the opulence of theaters in larger cities, it was one of the most elaborately decorated performance spaces in Woonsocket.</p><br>
<p>The theatre&#39;s name comes from the "stadium" style of seating, which allowed everyone in the audience a good view of the stage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Stadium opened in 1926 as a vaudeville house. The declining theatre added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The theatre showed x-rated movies in 1980s and closed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building declined and decayed until Mayor Francis Lanctot started a campaign to save the building and raised over $3 million in donations. The renovated venue reopened in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The film There&#39;s Something About Mary by the Farrelly Brothers premiered in the Stadium in 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, Rhode Island voters approved a bond measure to set aside $2 million to renovate the four-story structure adjacent to the theatre, to be used as dedicated space for costuming, sets, props, and performing arts classes.</p><br>
<p>The Woonsocket City Hall,  is located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Edward Harris, a leading Woonsocket industrialist, constructed the earliest part of the building in 1856, and it was known as the Harris Block, with stores on the first floor, and an auditorium hall seating 1,100 on the third floor. This brick structure has elements of Italianate styling, including round-arch windows and a heavily dentilled cornice. A major Richardsonian Romanesque addition, called the Granite Block, was made to the north of this structure in 1891. In 1902 the city purchased the building for use as city hall.</p><br>
<p>The builders of the original building were Albert B. Cole of Woonsocket and a Mr. Slade of Providence, probably Obadiah Slade, carpenter. The 1891 addition was built by Cutting & Bishop of Worcester. The architect of neither section is known.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the first public library in Rhode Island, housed on the second floor, which is now the Woonsocket Harris Public Library.</p><br>
<p>In March 1860 Abraham Lincoln spoke to a packed crowd in Harris Hall, which at the time contained one of the largest assembly rooms in the state.</p><br>
<p>Edward Harris Woonsocket businessman.jpgEdward Harris, founder of the Harris Institute, the first public library in Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>The Clement Weaver–Daniel Howland House is a historic stone-ender timber frame house built in 1679. This rare example of primitive 17th-century architecture is located at 125 Howland Road in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It is the oldest documented dwelling house in Kent County and the second oldest home in Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Clement Weaver was a native of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island, and built the house in 1679 after fighting in King Philips War. His descendants sold the house to Daniel Howland in 1748. Howland was a grandson of Henry Howland who arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1624. Henrys brother was John Howland, one of the original Mayflower Pilgrims of 1620.</p><br>
<p>The house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey, the first national preservation program, begun in 1933 to document America&#39;s architectural heritage. Several years later, Brown University professor Norman Isham began a comprehensive restoration of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Clement III was a grandson of Clement Weaver who moved from Glastonbury, England, to Newport, Rhode Island. Clement Weaver III was one of fifty veterans of the King Philips War of 1675–1677 given large parcels of land in what was then a barren outpost now known as East Greenwich." This made Clement one of the towns original grantees. Clement Weaver and his young wife Rachel Andrews moved in the winter of 1679 to his 107.25 acre of land "by the sea," where he built the house only two years after the official founding of the town of East Greenwich. His home remains a rare and unique architectural showplace.</p><br>
<p>Clement Weaver&#39;s family of eight children grew up in this little farmhouse. His son, Joseph, succeeded him with his own family of four. Up until the mid-19th century, several generations of Weavers had run the old White Horse Tavern (no longer standing) on Division Street in East Greenwich. This tavern may have been related to the White Horse Tavern of the same time period in Newport, Rhode Island. Three descendants of the original Clement Weaver served during World War I.</p><br>
<p>In 1748, Daniel Howland purchased the home from the Weavers. Daniel Howland was a Quaker and chaplain during the Revolutionary War. Daniel willed the house to his son Daniel and his wife, Philadelphia of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The house remained with the Howlands for nearly two centuries.</p><br>
<p>While most of the outbuildings have since disappeared, there remains a building that was originally a horse barn. After the Hurricane of 1938, this barn was converted into a smaller barn with an attached two-car garage. From the street, this building still retains its older look. There is also a modern barn on the property which now serves as a private library.</p><br>
<h2>Structure description</h2><br>
<p>The house was first built as a one-room plan, one-and-a-half stories high. The walls of the house were constructed using wide vertical boards over a post and beam structure. There are indications that four additions were made to the house prior to 1712. About a year after it was originally built, the first addition was a one-story lean-to along the northern side of the house. This was to become the original kitchen. This lean-to was brought up to the height of the original house in 1681 to create two garrets above with a center chimney and entry. The chimney of stone and homemade brick was never exposed on the outside end of the house. Another lean-to was built along the back (western side) of the house to create the traditional salt-box shape remaining today.</p><br>
<p>Brown professor Norman Isham, well known for his work preserving and restoring Colonial-era homes and structures in Rhode Island, was commissioned by the Howlands to restore the Weaver farm house in the 1930s. The Howlands donated the restored home to the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England) as a memorial to Daniel Howland. During Isham&#39;s restoration, workers found the original builder had used seaweed for insulation.</p><br>
<p>The first lean-to addition was the first room restored during Ishams 1930s restoration. The entirely restored room, known as the "museum room," presents an excellent picture of a 17th-century residential interior in Rhode Island. This room contains two of the original square-shaped, single casement, leaded glass windows. These windows were carefully restored and re-hung where originally located to provide some of the best evidence available of 17th-century windows. The room retains the huge fireplace surrounded by many of the original hand-planed, feather-edged, vertical pine boards, along with batten doors with wooden latches and strap hinges. The ceiling is exposed oak beam and both the floor and ceiling above are wideboard.</p><br>
<p>The last original addition of a single-story kitchen ell with a stone-end chimney of its own was made about 1712. These particularly constructed chimneys were later referred to as "Rhode Island stone-enders." Only a couple of these chimneys survive. The ell was built off of the southern wall of the keeping room. This latest kitchen has an enormous fireplace with a small oven. There is outside evidence of an original beehive oven which may have either fallen or been removed.</p><br>
<p>The keeping room of the original house is its largest room and has an impressive system of framing with its original posts, girts, and exposed summer beams of solid oak and chestnut. The ceiling is exposed beam. The wide board wall sheathing was at some point covered with plaster as it remains today. There is also a very early corner cupboard opposite the enormous fireplace. It has what appears to be the original, planed, single plank, batten door along with two hand-wrought, butterfly hinges. The oak chimney trees (fireplace lintels) throughout the home are enormous as well as completely petrified. This author&#39;s own observation, far less than scientific, would indicate that based on the size of the trees used in construction as well as when they were installed, would make much of the wood in the house close to a millennium old.</p><br>
<p>The sheathed entry hall between the keeping room and the older kitchen contains a rare "split" staircase. To one side the staircase contains six steps while the other contains seven. These staircases were built at different times to reach the garret above the older kitchen, now the museum room. Stairway sheathing was carefully cut on a diagonal to facilitate the moving of furniture. All of what appear to be the original vertical boards are still there.</p><br>
<p>The Howlands willed the home to SPNEA to be restored and opened as a museum. Correspondence maintained by (formerly-named) SPNEA, indicates the home was returned to Mrs. Howland when it became too expensive for the organization to maintain. It is believed that the rest of the house was then restored by Isham for its new owners in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The home contains six fireplaces. The kitchen, keeping room and museum room all have fireplaces almost ten feet wide and five feet tall. The museum room fireplace has a round top oven built into the back wall. Both garrets (bedrooms) above each possess a fireplace. The room currently being used as a dining room has a smaller fireplace believed to have been appropriated for the heating system exhaust.</p><br>
<p>The southern wall of the main house retains several original clapboards preserved when the 1712 kitchen ell was added on. These original hand-riven clapboards appear to be made of oak and have been feathered and lapped while being fastened to the vertical sheathing with large, hand-wrought nails. One must go into the eaves behind the garrets and walk into the attic space above the kitchen ell to view these clapboards.</p><br>
<p>An addition was built off the back of the kitchen which sits perpendicular to the main house. This addition follows guidelines of the USA Department of the Interior Restoration Standards and the local historical board of review. While modern in design, the room was built in such a way that it could be "unzipped" from the original house. The guidelines specify additions constructed on a historically significant house must be done in such a way as to reflect the present period style to avoid confusing future historians as to when the addition was actually built.</p><br>
<p>Pictures of the house before its restoration in the 1930s can be found on the Library of Congress website.</p><br>
<p>The recent non-fiction book Killed Strangely by Elaine Crane indicates Clement Weaver served as a juror in the murder trial of Rebecca Cornell from the family of Cornell University fame. The book includes information from Jane Fiske&#39;s edition of Rhode Island Court Records, and a photograph of the "museum room" fireplace as a comparison to the home Cornell was murdered in.</p><br>
<p>The Stanton–Davis Homestead Museum  is a historic house on Greenhaven Road in Stonington, Connecticut. It was built around 1700. The property has been a working farm for over 350 years, most by members of the Davis family. The property is currently in the process of being restored by the Stanton-Davis Society into a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stanton-Davis Homestead is located in southeastern Stonington, at the junction of Green Haven Road with Osbrook Point Road. The principal feature of the homestead is the main house, a -story timber-framed structure with a gabled roof, central chimney, and shingled exterior. It is distinguished by its overhanging side gables, a sign of its great age, and its eaves, which are longer than typical for houses of the period. The interior follows a typical center chimney plan, with a narrow vestibule staircase featuring fine carved woodwork posts and balusters thought to originate in England. Interior woodwork also includes finely carved panels and a built-in cabinet dating to the 18th century. The house has never been fitted for a number of modern conveniences, including heating systems beyond its fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>On October 24, 1764, Robert Stanton, great-grandson of Thomas Stanton, the Indian interpreter, put up the farm as collateral on a debt. Thomas Fanning of Groton, Connecticut and Ezra LHommedieu of Long Island held the note and ended up owning the farm when Stanton could not repay the note by 1765. Not wanting to own a farm, Fanning and LHommedieu rented the property to John Davis of Long Island, and he bought the land outright in 1772. The property remained in the Davis family until the late 20th century, when it was passed to a family foundation, which was formed to preserve the homestead as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Winsor House is a historic house in Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1710 by Stephen Winsor, whose family had long lived in the Smithfield area and owned extensive lands there. The house is a high-quality and well-preserved example of Italianate styling, with corner pilasters, deep bracketed eaves, and pointed-arch windows in the gables. The house remained in the Winsor family until c. 1970; it is set on a handsomely landscaped property , down a winding driveway on the north side of Austin Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The William Mowry House is an historic farm house on Farnum Pike in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States. It is a -story plank-framed house, five bays wide, with a gable roof and a large central chimney. The main entrance is centered on the main  entry, and is enclosed within a single-story hip-roof vestibule of 20th-century construction. A small single-story ell extends to the west of the main block. The interior follows a typical center-chimney plan, with the kitchen and parlor in the front of the house, and the dining room flanked by a small pantry and bathroom in the rear. The house was built c. 1802–05 by William Mowry, whose family has owned land in the area since the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Signal Butte is a major prehistoric archaeological site in rural western Nebraska, United States. Designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 25SF1, it was one of the first pre-contact Native American sites to be formally investigated in the central plains. The archaeological sites are located atop the eponymous butte west of Robidoux Pass and Gering, Nebraska. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. The site is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The eponymous Signal Butte rises about 120 ft above the plains in the watershed of the North Platte River in westernmost Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>The butte first came to the notice of professional archaeologists in 1931, when a local amateur notified William Duncan Strong of materials found there. Strong led investigations of the butte in 1931 and 1932, during which numerous artifacts were found, as well as features such as storage pits, fireplace hearths, and other signs of repeated habitation. The site was investigated further in the 1940s and 1950s, at which time it was established that the sites probably represented seasonal hunting camps.</p><br>
<p>The Old Congregational Church is an historic church building on Greenville Road  in the Smithville-North Scituate village of Scituate, Rhode Island. The wood-frame shingled church was designed by Clark Sayles  and complete in 1831. The church was regularly used in the 19th century, but attendance declined in the later years, and it was only occasional used until 1940, when it was given to the town. In 1974, the building was listed on National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Scituate Art Festival has been held on the church grounds every autumn since 1967. The art festival was founded to raise funds to restore the church interior.</p><br>
<p>Freedom Park is an outdoor park and museum at the Greater Omaha Marina on the bank of the Missouri River at 2497 Freedom Park Road in the East Omaha section of Omaha, Nebraska. It displays numerous military aircraft and artillery pieces along with its two major exhibits, the World War II minesweeper and Cold War-era training submarine. The park closed as a result of flooding along the Missouri River in 2011, but reopened on October 7, 2015 after four years of restoration and cleanup work.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibits</h2><br>
<p>USS Towers (DDG-9) (Gig)</p><br>
<p>Douglas A-4C Skyhawk (marked with US Navy BuNo 149618)</p><br>
<p>LTV A-7D Corsair II (AF serial no. 69-6191)</p><br>
<p>Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard (USCG 1370)</p><br>
<h3>Nameplates</h3><br>
<p>USS Huntington (CL-107)</p><br>
<p>USS Dayton (CL-105)</p><br>
<p>USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90)</p><br>
<p>USS Houston (CL-81)</p><br>
<p>USS Conger (SS-477)</p><br>
<p>USS William T. Powell (DE-213)</p><br>
<p>USS Spangenberg (DE-223)</p><br>
<p>USS Sarda (SS-488)</p><br>
<p>USS Toro (SS-422)</p><br>
<p>USS Corsair (SS-435)</p><br>
<h3>Anchors</h3><br>
<p>USS Decatur (DD-341)</p><br>
<p>USS Wasp (CV-18)</p><br>
<p>USS General A. W. Brewster (AP-155)</p><br>
<p>Previously the medium landing ship was anchored at the park, but she was moved to North Carolina in the spring of 2004, and was later scrapped</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Drowne Road Historic District of Barrington, Rhode Island, encompasses a suburban area developed between about 1860 and 1910, a period of significant suburban growth in Barrington spurred by the connection of the town by rail to Providence in 1855. This 27 acre residential area was before that time farmland owned by Alfred Drown, whose c. 1830 farmhouse still stands at 13 Alfred Drowne Road. The house of his son Benjamin, built c. 1856, is at number 27. The district includes properties along Alfred Drowne Road, as well as a few properties on Washington Street and Annawamscutt Road which are immediately adjacent.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Central High School, also known as High School of Columbus and High School of Commerce, was a four-year secondary school  located in Franklinton, Columbus, Ohio. It was a part of Columbus City Schools . On March 7, 1985, the 1924 school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered part of the Columbus Civic Center Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Central High School dates to the earliest high school education in Columbus. In its 1862 building and in prior homes, it was known as Columbus High School, and was the only high school in the city.</p><br>
<p>From 1862 to c. 1928, North High School was located at East Broad and Sixth Street, current site of the Capital University Law School. It was considered an architectural ornament for Columbus, and featured a 150-ft.-tall tower. The site was purchased in 1859 and construction was underway from 1860 to 1861, with a cost of $23,400. The school opened in the following fall term. It was originally able to house 300 students, increased as expansions opened in following years. The building was designed by architect Nathan B. Kelley. It closed in 1924 and was demolished in 1928.</p><br>
<p>The last building for the school was located at 75 South Washington Boulevard and opened in 1924. Because of declining enrollment in the school district and deterioration of the building, Central High School permanently closed following the 1981–1982 school year, in June 1982. After the closure, Central High School was used as a shooting location for scenes in the 1984 film Teachers, depicting the fictional "John F. Kennedy High School".</p><br>
<p>Columbus Public Schools sold the building to the City of Columbus for $15 million in 1988. In July 1994, Columbus City Council granted the science museum the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) a 28-year lease on the building. COSI remodeled portions of it for the new site of a museum, incorporating the buildings historic facade into the structure, designed by architect Arata Isozaki. Isozaki used the high schools 1924 exterior facing downtown as its east entrance; a balance to the facility&#39;s progressively futuristic west entrance. On November 6, 1999 COSI moved into the old Central High School building.</p><br>
<h2>Athletics</h2><br>
<p>Ohio High School Athletic Association team state championships:</p><br>
<p>Baseball – 1929</p><br>
<p>Boys&#39; Golf – 1937</p><br>
<p>Boys&#39; Track and Field – 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930</p><br>
<p>Boys&#39; Gymnastics - 1929</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>George Bellows, American realist painter, known for his depictions of urban life in New York City</p><br>
<p>Howard Cassady, Heisman Trophy winner of 1955 for the Ohio State University; professional football player for the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles and baseball coach for the Columbus Clippers.</p><br>
<p>Harold Cooper, Franklin County Commissioner, President of the Columbus Jets and the International League</p><br>
<p>Fred Cornell, author of Carmen Ohio</p><br>
<p>Bob Kline, former MLB player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators)</p><br>
<p>Perry L. Miles, USA Army brigadier general</p><br>
<p>Dave Roberts, Major League Baseball pitcher</p><br>
<p>Dom Sigillo, American football player</p><br>
<p>Mose Solomon, the "Rabbi of Swat," Major League Baseball player</p><br>
<p>Ernie Wheelwright, American football player and actor</p><br>
<p>Barrington Civic Center Historic District is a historic district in Barrington, Rhode Island on County Road. The district, which consists of the Barrington Town Hall, Leander R. Peck School and Princes Hill Cemetery, is located on Princes Hill near the center of Barrington. In 1728, Princes Hill Cemetery was purchased and later expanded to its present size by 1898. The -story Barrington Town Hall was completed in 1888 and originally served as the seat of the towns government, library and high school. With the completion of the Leander R. Peck School in 1917, the high school moved into the adjacent building and the library used its space. The two-story Elizabethan Revival style Peck School is designed with a T-shaped plan and features a stairway to access the main entrance on the second story. The Peck School was later used by the fifth and sixth-grade elementary students before becoming the public library. Also located within the district is Wood&#39;s Pond. The Barrington Civic Center Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and serves as a historically significant example of civic and natural environment planning of the late nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Located in Barrington, Rhode Island on County Road, the Barrington Civic Center Historic District includes the Barrington Town Hall, the Peck School, sports field and tennis court, Woods pond and Princes Hill Cemetery. The cemetery dates to the early 18th century, with stones dating from 1728. The town hall was completed in 1888 and was originally used as the town&#39;s government offices, library and school. In 1917, the high school students transferred to the newly completed and adjacent Peck School.</p><br>
<h2>Barrington Town Hall</h2><br>
<p>The -story Barrington Town Hall was designed and constructed between 1887 and 1888 by Stone, Carpenter & Willson of Providence, Rhode Island with an appropriation of $15,000. The town hall was officially dedicated on December 12, 1888. Constructed on the north-south axis of a ridge Princes Hill, the town halls design was self-described as medieval by the architects. Morgan describes the town hall as having "three flank gable units of varying height and depth" and has two circular towers on the front facade of varying height. Morgan notes that " institutional functions are given something of a domestic architectural character, for the building suggests an expansive house in a half-timbered manorial style." The basement, first and portions of the second story of the Town Hall are constructed of fieldstone. Some of the stones are inscribed as memorials and one stone is claimed to have originated from Plymouth Rock. The second story, below the eaves, is half-timbered. The center of the building features planned irregularity with two large projecting dormer-gables, a chimney to the left of a projecting entrance porch. The southern gable, facing the front, also has two projecting dormers. The southern tower is topped by a copper weather vane with an elaborate three-mast ship.</p><br>
<p>According to Morgan, the town hall was designed for multiple uses and this is evident from the plans and the exterior of the building. The largest section, the center section, serves as the government function and has municipal offices on the first floor. A stairwell to the right leads to the second floor, which functions as a town meeting room. A secondary entrance on the western facade accesses the northern section of the building, previously a library. The southern section of the building was previously a high school with separate entrances for boys and girls. The second floor of the southern section was used by the Antiquarian Society for meetings and its collections. In 1917, the original library was moved to the southern section following the completion of the Leander R. Peck School. Two additions to the town hall were made to expand the library. The two additions consisted of two parallel gable units that matched the original material and form of the town hall, the first addition was made in 1938 by Howe & Church and the second in 1963 by Michael Traficante.</p><br>
<h2>School and library</h2><br>
<p>The Leander R. Peck School was donated to the Town of Barrington by Sarah Gould Peck in memory of her husband, Leander Remington Peck. A committee was formed to oversee the project and construction began in the spring of 1916. It was designed by Martin & Hall of Providence, Rhode Island, and constructed by Wilmarth and Mackillop of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The two-story Elizabethan Revival school is made of red Barrington brick with Indiana limestone trim and topped with a gable roof. Designed with a T-shaped plan, the main entrance at the top of the "T" is accessed on a second-story terrace reached via a large double stairway. The flanks have large projecting gable pavilions which include offices for the principal and superintendent. The central hallway is 14 ft in width and is lined with classrooms on the first floor and the second floor has an assembly room and two recitation rooms. The full basement of the school includes the gymnasium and locker rooms. The building was opened on September 14, 1917. Additions to the school were made in 1924 and 1935 on the east. In the 1970s, these additions were used as a cafeteria and stage. By 1976, the Peck School was used as an elementary school for fifth and sixth graders. Later the school was renamed and re-purposed as the Barrington Public Library. The Barrington Preservation Society uses the lower level as a museum and for the storage of records.</p><br>
<h2>Prince&#39;s Hill Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>Located in the northwest half of the historic district is the Princes Hill Cemetery. According to Morgan, "t a town meeting on January 18, 1728–29, a committee of Timothy Wadsworth, Lieutenant Peck, Zachariah Bicknell, and James Smith was empowered to purchase land on Princes Hill from Ebenezer Allen to lay out a burying ground for the recently erected Congregational Church..." The earliest stones are located in the narrow northern end of the cemetery and date to 1728. The cemetery was first expanded on December 31, 1729, with the purchase of a half-acre for five pounds sterling. It would expand four more times by 1898 to encompass more than four acres. In 1849, the cemetery was fenced in and Morgan describes it as "presently exemplifies the "rural cemetery" tradition of the nineteenth century with meandering drives and natural landscape planting." Markers of note include the Ward family marker, consisting of a "large rugged cross and an ethereal angel", a 1903 stone marker dedicated to the slaves of the Barrington families and a Classical Revival crypt dating to 1909.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>According to the National Register of Historic Places, the Barrington Civic Center Historic District is significant as it represents the "historical concentration of public and governmental functions in the Prince&#39;s Hill area of Barrington... a unit,</p><br>
<p>the cemetery, town hall and school, and Woods Pond, epitomize the late nineteenth-century interest in a planned natural environment." Barrington was transformed by a tripling of its population from 1840 to 1900, going from a rural to a suburban environment. From 1881, the development of the land was regulated by the Barrington Rural Improvement Society, and the historic district serves as evidence of its planning. Morgan notes that a train station just south of Princes Hill influenced the decision for the construction of civic buildings. The historic district still "show the imprint of early civic pride and planning". It was added to the register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Belton Court  is a historic estate on Middle Highway in Barrington, Rhode Island. The mansion was built for Frederick Stanhope Peck, a businessman, socialite, and Rhode Island political figure. Later in the twentieth century, the mansion and surrounding property served as the campus for Barrington College and the Zion Bible Institute.</p><br>
<p>At its peak, Belton Court served as the mansion for the 800-acre Peck estate. Encompassing roughly 55,000 square feet, the mansion was constructed over the course of thirty years from 1905 to 1928. The initial 1905 segment (the current eastern wing) was designed by Martin & Hall, an esteemed Providence architectural firm. The expansive 1927–1928 north and west additions were designed by George Frederic Hall, that firm&#39;s successor.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Since 2011, Belton Court and the surrounding structures have been predominantly vacant.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Frederick Pecks first American ancestor was Joseph Peck who immigrated to Hingham, Massachusetts in 1636. With captain Myles Standish, Governor William Bradford and others, Joseph Peck purchased a tract of land located between Narragansett Bay and the Taunton River in 1641 from Massasoit (or Ousamequin Sachem). Nathaniel Peck, Josephs son, settled on part of this land in Barrington which he called Ousamequin Farm. This property remained in the family homestead into the twentieth century. Before Ousamequin Farm descended to Frederick Peck on his father&#39;s death, he purchased an adjacent piece of land with the intention to erect a stone residence for which he would name Belton Court for the early home of the Pecks in England.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<h3>Art and collections</h3><br>
<p>Belton Court was as much of a museum as it was a private residence. Peck devoted as much energy to his avocation of book and manuscript collecting as to his business and political career; he was deeply interested in New England history. When sold at auction in 1944, his book collection numbered 8,000 volumes, expensively bound and in excellent condition. Representative high points were the first four folios of Shakespeares plays and a first edition of Shakespeares sonnets.Peck&#39;s manuscript library was one of the finest private collections in the country at the time, it included multiple sets of signers of the Declaration of Independence, two complete sets of letters signed by presidents while in office, and a more unusual collection of letters by the wives of multiple presidents. His collection also notably included a collection of the letters and papers of George Washington and documents relating to Rhode Island, including letters of Roger Williams and an undated order from President Tyler to authorize the use of federal troops in the Dorr Rebellion. Other areas of collecting interest included Roman and Phoenician glass, Native American artifacts, and eighteenth-century English portraiture.</p><br>
<p>The following list is of notable artists whose original and attributed artwork once hung within the halls of Belton Court; a majority of these paintings were hung in the limestone and marble gallery corridors connecting the 1905-06 section to the 1927-28 section while other paintings were hung in the ballroom, reception hall, and foyer:</p><br>
<h3>Grounds and staffing</h3><br>
<p>The 800-acre estate of Belton Court featured several other structures that serviced daily life at the mansion. A fully functioning farm was located on-site, complete with cows, oxen, horses, and pigs. Not much is known about the farming aspect towards the end of the estates life; however, a large 20,000 square-foot stable complex was formerly located at the end of Primrose Road near the bank of the Hundred Acre Cove. Belton Court&#39;s greenhouse complex consisted of a central 130-foot greenhouse with three 70-foot greenhouses branching off, dedicated to orchids, chrysanthemums, and succulents. The outdoor flower beds from the cutting garden had rows of roses and gladiolus.</p><br>
<p>Over the years Frederick Peck had two superintendents to manage the estate, including one by the name of John S. Doig. Close to fifteen full-time staff lived on the third floor of the mansion while three maids and one cook lived on the second floor above the kitchen. A mechanic by the name of Axel Paulson was one of Belton Courts full time mechanics that serviced farming equipment and Frederick Pecks automobiles.</p><br>
<h3>Life at Belton Court</h3><br>
<p>Large and small intimate parties were held on a regular basis at Belton Court from its construction in 1905-06 through the early 1940s. The formal dining room table could be set for thirty guests; formal china and silver services were custom made bearing the Peck family crest (a cubit arm grasping three roses). Notable guests were Charles Curtis (Vice President of the United States), Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (sister of Theodore Roosevelt), Robert Livingston Beeckman (RI Governor and close acquaintance of the Peck family), Mrs. Edward E. Gann (sister of Vice President Charles Curtis ), William Henry Vanderbilt III (Governor of Rhode Island), Aram J. Pothier (Governor of Rhode Island), and Henry F. Lippitt (Governor of Rhode Island) Nicholas Longworth, (38th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives). Most notably, it is rumored that Calvin Coolidge (president of the United States) stayed at Belton Court in the late 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Institutional use</h2><br>
<p>In 1944, Frederick Peck arranged to leave Belton Court to the Providence Homeopathic Hospital (now known as the Roger Williams Medical Center), of which he served as president for many years. Peck would die in Providence on January 20, 1947. The Belton Court property had been given to the Providence Homeopathic Hospital in 1944; however, the structures was considered unusable for hospital purposes and was sold to a developer. During the mid to late twentieth century, large portions of the former estate grounds that surrounded Belton Court were sold off for the development of single-family housing. The mansion complex was first used by the Edgewood School and then acquired by the Providence Bible Institute in 1950.</p><br>
<h3>Barrington College</h3><br>
<p>The Providence Bible Institute operated both Providence and Barrington campuses during the 1950s. In 1960, the Providence campus was sold and integrated with the Barrington campus to form Barrington College. Student housing and academic buildings were constructed on the surrounding property; the mansion was used for administrative offices and the library. Due to financial and enrollment issues, Barrington College merged with Gordon College of Wenham, Massachusetts; the campus was subsequently put up for sale in 1985.</p><br>
<h3>Zion Bible Institute</h3><br>
<p>The Zion Bible Institute, a Pentecostal ministry college, bought the campus for $5 million in 1985. The Zion Bible Institute would occupy the campus until moving to Bradford, Massachusetts in 2008; Zion would be the last tenant to occupy Belton Court. In 2007, the former campus was listed for sale at $13 million.</p><br>
<h2>Abandonment and future uncertainty</h2><br>
<p>In 2011 a Massachusetts-based investor, ShineHarmony Holdings LLC, won a bid for Belton Court at auction for about $3.5 million and proposed to preserve the property as adaptive reuse for elderly housing, assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care. Despite this, development on the project was never initialized, with ShineHarmony officially abandoning the plan in 2017 and listing the property for sale. During this time, Belton Court and the campus structures had since been vacated.</p><br>
<p>Amenities were cut off to the mansion and campus structures; vandalism and neglect further damaged the buildings. With no active development on the site, many locals viewed the former campus site as a safety hazard, while preservationists called for the town of Barrington to hold the property owners accountable for the mansion&#39;s dilapidation. In 2020, many town officials expressed interest in rezoning the property for academic purposes or corporate offices.</p><br>
<p>In the Spring of 2021, demolition of a porch attached to the 1905 section took place alongside the demolition of several heavily deteriorated campus structures. ShineHarmony reinstated their development plan for the property, albeit highly altered from the initial 2011 plan. In 2022, it was estimated that restoring Belton Court would cost over $10 million. The 2021 master plan approval for the Belton Court property expired in July 2022.</p><br>
<p>In September 2022, ShineHarmony indicated plans to pursue the demolition of Belton Court; many town officials and locals expressed major concern for the future preservation of the mansion. While Belton Court is a listed structure, it does not have protections against demolition by private owners; it does not reside in a historic district. In accordance with permit filings, ShineHarmony had intended to commence demolition by late September or early October. In early October, town officials announced that the mansion would not be demolished; rather, extensive stakeholder engagement and negotiations with the owners would occur over the coming months in regard to the mansion&#39;s future preservation.</p><br>
<p>In January 2023, ShineHarmony released an updated plan that called for a large scale residential development be constructed on the 36.9-acre parcel. The plan calls for the demolition of 85% of the mansion and the construction of over 350 housing units on the property. The development- referred to as “Belton Court Village"- would also contain pocket parks, civic buildings, and small commercial spaces. The plan received overwhelming backlash from Barrington residents and town officials; preservation advocates blasted the plan for its proposed demolition of Belton Court.</p><br>
<p>In March 2023, the town of Barrington unanimously approved a proposition to sell town property at the former Carmelite Monastery and use the proceeds to offset the acquisition of the former Barrington College property. As proposed, the grounds surrounding Belton Court would be converted into new athletic fields and a recreation center; however, this would not be pursued.</p><br>
<p>On January 19, 2024, Belton Court has been abated and is being prepared for demolition; demolition would commence once the proper permits are approved by the town of Barrington. On March 5, 2024, Shine Harmony Holdings presented a revised master plan that reiterated prior proposals; this plan was once again criticized by town officials and residents. Approval of a master plan is a requisite before any demolition can take place.</p><br>
<p>Bristol Ferry Light is a historic lighthouse in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. It is located on the shores of Narragansett Bay at Bristol Point, the northern land point of Mount Hope Bay at the base of the Mount Hope Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The two-story square brick lighthouse was built in 1855, along with an attached -story brick keeper&#39;s house. Its use was discontinued in 1927 with the construction of the Mount Hope Bridge, and a replacement automated beacon across Ferry Road. Prior to the construction of the bridge, a ferry operated between Bristol and Aquidneck Island, and the light assisted the ferry service. The Bristol Ferry Lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, at which time it was a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Nayatt Point Light is a historic lighthouse in Barrington, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The current light was built of brick in 1856 and contains an 1828 keeper&#39;s house. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>First light</h2><br>
<p>On May 23, 1828, the United States Congress appropriated $3,500 for a lighthouse to mark the</p><br>
<p>narrow passage between Nayatt Point and a shoal extending from Conimicut Point."</p><br>
<h2>List of keepers</h2><br>
<p>This list includes known keepers, but may not be exhaustive.</p><br>
<p>Bristol County Jail is a historic jail at 48 Court Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, and home to the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society.</p><br>
<p>The jail was built on the site of a previous jail house dating to 1792 and salvaged materials were used extensively in the new construction. The present Bristol County Jail consists of a 36.5 ft by 46.4 ft center hallway in a -story stone structure topped with a gable roof. The jail accommodated both the inmates and the jailers family. The first floor is believed to have been the familys parlor, dining room and kitchen on the west side and the east side the jailers reception room, office and storage room. The second floor housed the familys bedrooms and the inmates&#39; cells, with low, medium and maximum security cells. The maximum security cells in the southeast portion of the jail had no heat, light or sanitary facilities and were enclosed by 2 ft exterior stone walls and built atop thick floor timbers supported by 2 ft solid brick wall and further supported by a fieldstone wall from the cellar.</p><br>
<p>In 1859, a rectangular 20 ft by 43.2 ft two-story rear addition was added to common southeast wall of the jail. Made of cut granite blocks and topped with a flat roof, the addition added five cells on each of its two levels. The jail was discontinued by the State of Rhode Island in June 1957 and the Bristol Historical Society (later the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society) leased the property following a fire at the Rogers Free Library. The Bristol Historical Society removed partitions in the first floor and added new access points as part of its renovations, including the removal of the internal east chimney. However, the building retains much of its unaltered interior features, and the jail cells are used by the Society as a public exhibit. The Bristol County Jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and currently serves as the Historical Society headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The current Bristol County Jail was constructed in 1828 to replace a previous jail erected on the same site in 1792. The new structure was a 36.5 ft by 46.4 ft -story stone structure topped with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The 1828 construction features a central hall with three rooms on the east and west sides of roughly symmetrical construction with chimneys at the intersection of the front and middle rooms. The first floor chimneys were flanked by doors allowing access to the other rooms and storage on the other side. The layout and usage of the jail is not known for certain, but it is believed that the rooms to the west were used by the jailer and his family. The first room as a parlor, the middle as the dining room and the rear room as the kitchen. As part of the renovations in 1959, the Society changed the parlor to a research room, the dining room into a library and added a door to the stairway from the kitchen. The front research room and library retain the original fireplaces, pine floorboards and closets, but the connecting passage between the two rooms were changed to a bathroom. The east side of the jail is believed to have been used by the jailer for his occupational duties, with the front room as a public reception room and the middle room as his office. The rear room in the back may have been used for record or other storage. After leasing the property, the Society removed the partitions in the rooms that separated the rooms from each other.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is arranged differently from the first floor, with the rooms above the front parlor and reception room believed to have been the bedroom for the jailer and his family. The west room is described as "quite elegant in its simplicity with its original wainscot and cornice of run mouldings". The middle room may have been a low-security cell; evidence of this comes from the two windows which have iron bar markings in the granite sills. Also, the NRHP nomination states that the room, 13.2 ft wide by 20.6 ft long, may have been divided into two cells. The rear allows access to a small hallway and to the attic, but this was described as being a later modification.</p><br>
<p>The east front bedroom is divided in two with a partition, giving the eastern side of the building four rooms on the second floor, with the two middle rooms being used as medium-security cells. The maximum security cells were located in the back of the building, in the south-east corner. These cells are constructed of wood and walled in by stone walls and iron doors. The maximum security cells had no heat, light or bathrooms; air was only able to flow into the room through a slit in the stone wall and a peep hole in the iron door. Underneath the cells were two courses of 8 in by 8 in timbers superimposed on top of one another. These timbers are believed to have been sourced from the original 1792 jail. The timbers are supported by a 24 inch brick wall and by a fieldstone wall in the cellar. The exterior stone walls are 21 inch thick on the front and west exterior, but are 24 inch for the walls that support the maximum security cells. As part of the alterations made by the Society, the solid brick wall was removed and is now supported by steel beams.</p><br>
<p>The third floor is a single, unpartitioned room that was likely used for storage. The cellar of the jail has a chimney on the west that has several ovens, including a beehive oven, and was not partitioned except for the fieldstone foundation required to support the cells in the southeast corner.</p><br>
<p>In 1859, a rectangular 20 ft by 43.2 ft two-story rear addition was added to the jail. Made of cut granite blocks and topped with a flat roof, the addition added five cells on each level and two hallways with a cast iron staircase on the left hand side. The addition was not in perfect alignment with the original common wall, and protrudes east. Access is gained from the original center hallway and heading outside to the additions&#39; front door, a second access point from within the original building is a steel door on the common wall. The inside of the new cell block has a wood plank corridor and iron railings with tall windows, opposite the cells, that face south.</p><br>
<h2>Bristol Historical and Preservation Society</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1936, the Bristol Historical Society is committed to saving, collecting, and promoting historical research and interest in southern New England, with a specific focus on the town of Bristol. Originally, the Bristol Historical Society was located in the Rogers Free Library, but a fire destroyed a part of the collections on July 27, 1957. The jail, which had been abandoned by the state in June of the same year, was selected by the Society as its new home and leased from the state.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Bristol County Jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The jail is significant as a relatively unaltered historic jail that was important to the 18th-century Bristol County. It is also significant in that it currently serves as the home of the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society. The Society also houses its library and collections in the jail and runs a small museum shop from the building.</p><br>
<p>Bristol Customshouse and Post Office is a historic two-story rectangular Italian palazzo style brick building that was used as a post office and customshouse in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. The land for the site was acquired for $4,400. The building was designed by Ammi B. Young and completed in 1858 for a cost of $22,135.75. The building roughly measures 46 ft by 32 ft and is constructed of deep red brick and has three arched openings on each of its sides and stories that are lined with sandstone moldings. The archways protrude from the side of the building and the center archway serves as the first floor with the adjacent archways housing large windows that are barred with iron. As it typical of the style, the second floor is more elaborate with a shallow balcony of iron supported by iron brackets and the paneling of the upper facade&#39;s surmounting entablature is elaborately decorative. The sides and rear are similar to the front facade, but include blind recesses and the molding is of a browner sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The building was abandoned in 1962 and acquired by the Young Men&#39;s Christian Association (YMCA) in 1964. The YMCA has an adjacent structure and used the building as an ante-space until 1990. Currently, the building is used as offices. The Bristol Customshouse and Post Office is historically significant as it is an example of the Italian palazzo mode of architecture. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The land for the site was acquired on April 19, 1856 for $4,400 and constructed in 1857 for a cost of $22,135.75. The front facade is made of deep red brick that has three large arched openings on both stories and a "greyish sandstone molding outlines the arches on both floors and caps the piers which separate the first-floor arches and a decisive molding of the same material forms a belt between the two stories." The archways protrude from the side of the building and the center archway serves as the first floor with the adjacent archways housing large windows that are barred with iron. As it typical of the style, the second floor is more elaborate with a shallow balcony of iron supported by iron brackets and the paneling of the upper facade is "understated, but the surmounting entablature is heavy and elaborately decorated." The cornice as the visual top of the building and conceals the low hipped roof that is only visible from a distance. The sides and rear are similar to the front facade, but include blind recesses and the molding is of a browner sandstone.</p><br>
<p>Alterations to the building are evident in an old photograph, dated to circa 1860–1869, which shows pedimented dormers in the center of the roof, that is believed to have been an addition that has since been removed, but at an unknown time. According to Bristol, Rhode Island: The Bristol renaissance, a photo of the building dated to circa 1900 shows the pedimented dormers. A postcard that was postmarked in 1920 also shows the dormers and the adjacent YMCA building. Also present in the photograph are two chimneys on the front facade and it is evidenced that the side chimney probably arose near the front, however, only one chimney is extant in the rear. The two front chimneys were absent in a circa 1907–1913 post card. The rear chimney was described as "apparently altered" without future explanation in the National Register of Historic Places nomination.</p><br>
<p>The 1971 nomination form noted that the then-current state of the building was in a state of neglect. After passing through the vestibule, the front area served as the postal sorting rooms, office and mail boxes. In this area, the original iron columns are visible between the wood panels of the clerks&#39; windows. The tile floors were noted to be an alteration, but the second floor stair landing likely had its original tiling remain. The second floor was accessible via cast-iron stairs with iron railings, that lead up the customs quarters that had a large room with "seven sets of iron-framed windows, with heavy iron sills and interior</p><br>
<p>shutters". This room was described as "impressively large" because of its 17 ft high ceilings and 8 ft paneled door, the floor is made of hard wood and a "very plain marble fireplace is in one corner of the large room". The supports of the building stem from the cellar where granite piers support horizontal iron beams that hold up iron columns on the first floor.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>The Bristol Customshouse and Post Office was used as a Post Office and Customs House, as its name implies, until it was abandoned in 1962. Records show that $1,071.75 in repairs and $68.36 for "mechanical equipment" was spent by the United States government between July 1908 and June 1909. The Young Men&#39;s Christian Association (YMCA) acquired the building in 1964, the building was attached to a YMCA swimming pool structure and was used as an ante-space until 1990. It was remodeled and currently is used as restaurants and apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Bristol Customshouse and Post Office is historically significant as "an example of the rediscovery of the Italian palazzo mode of architecture after the long proliferation-of the Greek Revival."</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Thomas H. Avera House  is a historic house located at 6600 Robertson Pond Road near Wendell, Wake County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built about 1874, and is a two-story, T-shaped, Italianate style frame dwelling with Gothic design elements. Also on the property are the contributing privy, smokehouse, and dairy, all built about 1874. The house, facing north, is sited close to the road that has been cut deeply forming a steep slope up to the house lot.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Harmony Plantation, also known as Montague-Jones Farm, is a historic plantation house located at 5104 Riley Hill Road near Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. It was built in 1833, and is a two-story, three-bay, single-pile, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard, has a hipped roof, and a gabled rear ell. The front facade features a centered, double-tier pedimented, front-gabled portico with bracketed cornice and unfluted Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing one-story, rectangular, beaded weatherboard building that once housed a doctor&#39;s office .</p><br>
<p>The plantation was the home of Dr. Henry W. Montague, his wife Anne Jones Montague and as many as 46 people who they enslaved people and forced to work the farm.</p><br>
<p>In January 2008, the Harmony Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Riley Hill School is a historic Rosenwald School building located in Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. It was built in 1928, and is a one-story, brick building with an H-shaped plan. The five-bay original section has a one-story porch with simple Doric order columns in the Colonial Revival style. The school closed its doors in 1970, but was purchased in 1991 by the Riley Hill Baptist Church. It caught fire on September 25, 2020. Much of the structure was damaged.</p><br>
<p>In April 2001, Riley Hill School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyside, also known as the R.B. Whitley House, is a historic home located in Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. The Craftsman house was built in 1918 by R. B. Whitley, a prominent Wendell businessman who founded the Bank of Wendell in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The brick home features car shelters on the front and side, a modern detail during the 1910s. In addition to the home, a wash house, smokehouse, garage, and four entrance pillars are located on the property. According to family tradition, Sunnyside was used as a hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyside was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Wendell Commercial Historic District is a national historic district encompassing the historic central business district of Wendell, North Carolina, a town in eastern Wake County. The district is notable for its intact collection of one- and two-story brick masonry commercial buildings executed in the vernacular style typical of eastern North Carolina communities in the first half of the twentieth century. The roughly three-block district is bounded on the north by the 1906 Raleigh-Pamlico Railroad tracks, on the east by Pine Street, on the south by the rear property lines of the structures fronting Third Street, and on the west by the rear property lines of the buildings fronting Main Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Port Republic Historic District is a 100 acre historic district located in the city of Port Republic in Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1991, for its significance in architecture, engineering, industry, and maritime history.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The oldest part of the Franklin Inn and Store was constructed around 1750. The inn might be named after the New Jersey colonial governor, William Franklin, a frequent visitor. It was later owned by Sea Captain Micajah Smith in the late 18th century. The larger brick section was built around 1815 by Jonas Miller. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The Amanda Blake Store was built in 1884 and served as a general store and post office. St. Paul&#39;s Methodist Church was completed in 1871 and features Gothic architecture and Romanesque architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Rogers-Whitaker-Haywood House, also known as the Fabius Haywood House, is a historic home located near Wake Crossroads , Wake County, North Carolina, an unincorporated community northeast of the state capital Raleigh. The original -story house, now the west end, was built in 1771. It has a stone exterior chimney on the west end. Now one large room, it may originally have been arranged as a hall-parlor plan; it formerly had a door between the two south windows and a straight stair with winders in the northeast corner.</p><br>
<p>About 1812 the house was enlarged by the addition of a free-standing second room to the east of the first building. Either soon or immediately, the space between the two buildings was enclosed to form a central passage, with two shed rooms on the north side, and the stair was rebuilt approximately in its original location, but opening into the passage. There is no visible interior woodwork from the 1771 period; the entire interior is finished with vernacular Federal woodwork. Although both main chimneys are built of stone, doubled shouldered, and with later brick stacks, the stonework of the east chimney consists of larger and finer cut stone, suggesting a later construction date than the west chimney.</p><br>
<p>The northeast shed room is heated by a fireplace with an exterior chimney. To the east, between the two chimneys, is a pair of lighted pent closets with early shelving. The southeast room has a door to the exterior sheltered by a shed porch with thick turned early 19th century columns. The side door, typical of North Carolina vernacular design, suggests that the exterior kitchen was to the east of the main house. Between the unheated northwest shed room, which opens only into the southwest room, and the passage is a lighted closet with a built-in beaufat consisting of glazed doors over drawers over a lower cupboard section. There is a similar beaufat, with arch-top lights, in the large southwest room. The closet opens only into the passage. The three principal rooms have flat paneled wainscot; the passage wainscot is a double range of panels with the stiles "breaking joint" like brickwork. All doors in the house are raised paneled on the "good" side and flat paneled on the back and are hung on their original butt hinges.</p><br>
<p>In the garret, the stair rises into an unheated central space the width of the passage below. To the east and west are heated chambers with simple transitional Georgian / Federal chimney pieces. The central space is lighted by one dormer window on the north wall. This gabled dormer was reconstructed in the 1970s within the original framed opening. The reconstruction is probably inaccurate; the original probably had a shed roof. The chambers are lighted only by pairs of casement windows with their original hinges on either side of the chimneys.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s the house retained all of its Federal period interior paint colors. The passage and southeast room had dark olive green trim with doors grain-painted as yellow pine; the southwest room had white trim, light blue plaster, and grain-painted pine doors; the pent closets had blue trim and shelves with white-painted wood sheathed walls; the passage closet beaufat was blue with the glazed doors painted red; the northeast room had white trim; the garret chambers had green trim; the center room in the garret had blue trim, with white-painted wood sheathing above the wainscot and a balustrade with a red newel and yellow square pickets.</p><br>
<p>In the yard in the 1970s, a late 19th-century kitchen survived northwest of the house. It had been moved in the 20th century from a position southeast of the house and its chimney demolished. Northwest of the house, an early unlined well was embellished in the 1970s by an early 19th-century combination well shelter and storage building which formerly stood on the original site of the 1775 Lane-Bennett house near Macedonia in Wake County.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1970s, other interesting features on the place included, west of the house, the original roadbed of the Oxford-Smithfield Stage Road; the "cook&#39;s house" (now collapsed/demolished), a late 19th-century replacement of an earlier stone chimneyed structure which burned; a 19th-century packhouse; a late 19th-century outhouse; and a crude 20th-century shelter for an automobile.</p><br>
<p>In September 1985, the Rogers-Whitaker-Haywood House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Lawrence Branch Young House is a historic home located in Rolesville, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. Built in 1903, the Young house is the only example of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architecture in Rolesville. The two-story white house features a wraparound porch, tall brick chimneys, and steep pyramidal roofs.</p><br>
<p>In September 2003, the Dr. Lawrence Branch Young House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Green-Hartsfield House, also known as the Hartsfield House, is a historic home located near Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town northeast of the state capital Raleigh. Built in 1805, the house is an example of Late Georgian / Early Federal style architecture. It is a two-story, three-bay, single pile, frame dwelling sheathed in weatherboard, with a two-story gable-roofed rear ell. A one-story rear shed addition was added in the 1940s. The house was restored between 1985 and 1987. Also on the property is a contributing frame barn.</p><br>
<p>In December 1989, the Green-Hartsfield House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Heartsfield–Perry Farm is a historic home and farm located at Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina, a satellite town of the state capital Raleigh. The original one-room house was built in the 1790s, with a Greek Revival style update made about 1840. It is a two-story house with two-story rear ell and one-story rear shed addition. It features a double-tier Greek-Revival-style—porch and low hipped roof. The interior of the house retains some Federal style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing detached kitchen , smokehouse / woodshed , privy , doctor&#39;s office , mule barn , pack house , horse barn , feed barn , two tobacco barns , the family cemetery, and the agricultural landscape.</p><br>
<p>In January 2003, the Heartsfield–Perry Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
