<p>Juniper Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 24 Sherry Avenue in Bristol, Rhode Island founded by George R.Usher, James D&#39;Wolf Perry, Byron Diman, Ambrose E. Burnside, James H. West, Charles H. R. Doringle, and Lemanuel W. Briggs. The original 22 acre were purchased from the descendants of Levi DeWolf, a local farmer and slave hauler, in 1855, and the cemetery corporation that owns it was chartered in January 1856. It is a fine example of the mid-19th century rural cemetery movement, with winding lanes and paths. The landscape was designed by Niles Bierragaard Schubarth, who had done similar work at other Rhode Island cemeteries. Its main entry is a massive stone gate built in 1876, and there is a gate house just inside, designed by Clifton A. Hall and constructed from granite quarried on site.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Bourne, US Representative, US district and appeals judge</p><br>
<p>William Bradford, Lt. Governor, US Senator</p><br>
<p>Jonathan Russell Bullock, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court</p><br>
<p>Samuel Pomeroy Colt, industrialist</p><br>
<p>LeBaron Bradford Colt, US Senator</p><br>
<p>Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>Francis M. Dimond, Governor of Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dana Greene, Sr., USN, executive officer of the in the US Civil War</p><br>
<p>Ramon Guiteras, surgeon, founder of the American Urological Association</p><br>
<p>Gilbert C. Hoover, rear admiral, USN</p><br>
<p>Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, first bishop of Central Pennsylvania</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Green Herreshoff, engineer and naval architect</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Church House  is a Colonial Revival house at 1014 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA It opened in 1909 as the "Benjamin Church Home for Aged Men" as stipulated by Benjamin Church&#39;s will. Beginning in 1934, during the Great Depression, it admitted women. The house was closed in 1968 and became a National Register of Historic Places listing in 1971. The non-profit Benjamin Church Senior Center was incorporated in June 1972 and opened on September 1, 1972. It continues to operate as a senior center.</p><br>
<h2>Benjamin Church</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Church was born on February 20, 1842, to Elizabeth Luther and Samuel Church, and the old family farm on Poppasquash. In 1900, Benjamin Church drafted a will to provide for the construction of a home for elderly men. It opened in 1909 as the "Benjamin Church Home for Aged Men".</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Church House is a two-story clapboarded Colonial Revival topped with a hipped roof that has four pedimented dormers. Constructed between 1908 and 1909 from designs by Clarke, Howe & Homer, architects, the building cost $21,000. The front of the house faces west towards Hope Street and is 18 by and has an ell on the rear side that measures 18 by. The front facade has a symmetrical five bay facade with the main entrance in the center, the door has sidelights and a semi-elliptical fanlight. The front windows are typical 20th-century windows with six-over-one sash and have splayed wooden lintels and those on the first floor have raised center keystones. Projecting out from the hipped roof are two dormers with shingled sides. The front facade has a one-story porch that runs the length of the face with a half-hipped roof. The porch is supported by six Doric columns that frame the bays and has a wooden frieze with a triglyph above each column. The porch has a simple wooden rail that runs the length of the porch and down the front and side steps, the newel posts are capped by small wooden urns. The corners of the main part of the house have wooden quoins. In the southeast corner of the building is an internal porch covered by a quarter-hipped roof. The rear roof are two pedimented dormers, one on each side of the ell&#39;s roof and the third chimney which rises through the roof of the main building. The house has a stone foundation, which extends to a full story due to the sloping land and has a doorway in the rear. The porch is supported by brick piers.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house is designed around a central hall with a narrow stairway with turned balusters and newel that goes to the third floor. On both sides of the hall are two large front reception rooms, each 14 by and having 9 ft tall ceilings. The rear of the south front room is the former dining room that is connected by a pantry to the kitchen in the ell. Two small rooms are located beyond the northern reception room. The second floor maintains the central hall and extends into the ell, but is bisected by a lateral hallway. Each "quadrant" housed two rooms for the residents with additional rooms in the ell and the third floor has four additional bedrooms with the dormer windows. The third floor of the ell was used as attic storage space. At the time of nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, the alterations that had been made to the house were described as "minor and inconspicuous, consisting mainly of alterations to windows and dormers to provide egress to necessary fire-escapes." The porch is believed to be a part of the original design, but it was noted that if it was a later addition it would likely have been done before 1920. In 1969, the clapboarded outbuilding to the southeast was torn down to construct newer housing for the elderly.</p><br>
<h2>Service</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Church House was ready to open on March 15, 1909, and served as elderly housing for only aged men. In 1934, during the Great Depression, the board of trustees decided to admit women to the house. According to the Benjamin Church Senior Center, the house is used as a senior center and is run by volunteers and board members.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Church House is historically significant as a "very pure example" of the Colonial Revival style by noted local architects Clarke, Howe & Homer. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Bristol Waterfront Historic District is a historic district encompassing the original heart of Bristol, Rhode Island, which was laid out in 1680 by the towns original proprietors. It stretches from Bristol Harbor to the east side of Wood St., as far north as Washington Street, and south to Walker Cove. The districts principal areas of importance are the waterfront area on the west side, and the Town Common, part of the original layout, which forms the civic heart of the town. It is one of the few planned communities in the state, and the only one of such great age. The district features residential, civic, and commercial architecture encompassing most of its more than three centuries of existence. Its 19th-century architecture is particularly strong in examples of the work of native son Russell Warren.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Major buildings in the district which are separately listed on the National Register include the Bristol County Jail, Bristol County Courthouse, and the Bristol Customshouse and Post Office.</p><br>
<p>Old Northside is a residential neighborhood near downtown in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is bordered by 16th Street on the north, Pennsylvania Street on the west, Interstate I-65 on the south, and Bellefontaine Street on the east. The Monon Trail runs along the eastern edge of The Frank and Judy O&#39;Bannon Old Northside Soccer Park.</p><br>
<p>Old Northside was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is home to many residences from the Victorian era.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Old Northside was a prominent residential neighborhood in the late 19th century, when many of Indianapolis&#39; wealthier residents built mansions in the area. Old Northside was home to Benjamin Harrison (23rd President of the United States), Ovid Butler (founder of Butler University) and other notable figures, including magnates of the L.S. Ayres department store. Indiana author Meredith Nicholson was also a resident for many years and wrote his most noted work House of a Thousand Candles while in residence.</p><br>
<p>Old Northside was also the original location of Indianapolis&#39; Butler University, then named North Western Christian University, which was later relocated to the town of Irvington.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood began a slow decline in the early 1910s as architectural tastes changed and families built homes further north in Indianapolis. Over several decades, homes were demolished and others fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 1937, the Homeowner Loan Corporation (HOLC) classified 73 Indianapolis neighborhoods into four categories based on perceived investment risk. The Old Northside was graded "C", or hazardous, and colored yellow, and was surrounded by redlined neighborhoods. In the late 1960s, residents began restoring remaining buildings of architectural significance, and petitioned the city for historic recognition. By the 1990s, the Old Northside was gentrified, with the population of white residents more than doubling between 1970 and 2016.</p><br>
<p>Old Northside received historic designation in late 1978 after adopting a plan for preserving the architecture and history of the neighborhood. Disagreement arose between those seeking National Register designation and lower-income residents of the Old Northside, who were represented by the Citizens Neighborhood Coalition and feared displacement from their homes. A 1979 IUPUI study determined that minimal displacement had taken place due to the historic preservation of the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Preservation of the neighborhood&#39;s history is overseen by the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Residences and museums</h2><br>
<p>The President Benjamin Harrison Home and the Morris-Butler House, both on the National Register of Historic Places, are located in Old Northside and are open to the public for tours and special events. In 2010–2011, the former Central Avenue Methodist Church, later known as the Old Centrum, underwent a multimillion-dollar major restoration as a performance venue and statewide headquarters of Indiana Landmarks and is now known as the Indiana Landmarks Center. The former home of Thomas Taggart is now the national headquarters of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.</p><br>
<h2>Parks</h2><br>
<p>There are three parks related to Old Northside, all created with funding from the Old Northside Foundation. Great Oak Commons is a park created by the neighborhood from several empty lots and is landscaped as a Victorian walking park with a central fountain, gas lighting, a gazebo and a sensory garden filled with fragrant perennial flowers. Shawn Grove Park is a childrens park with play equipment. The Frank and Judy OBannon Soccer Park was created by the city of Indianapolis on the east edge of the neighborhood, with the help of Old Northside Foundation. It is now maintained by Indy Parks. It was reclaimed from abandoned space near the former Monon train tracks and is used by several children&#39;s summer soccer leagues.</p><br>
<h2>Neighborhood organizations</h2><br>
<p>The Old Northside Neighborhood Association was created in 1979, and has been active in preserving the historic architecture of the neighborhood and providing cultural and social activities for the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Old Northside Neighborhood Foundation was created in 1990 to raise funds for neighborhood projects, including funding for the neighborhood parks and conversion of street lights to historically appropriate designs.</p><br>
<p>The Orton Plantation is a historic plantation house in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Located beside the Cape Fear River between Wilmington and Southport, Orton Plantation is considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern antebellum architecture. Built in 1735 by the co-founder of Brunswick Town, Colonel Maurice Moore, the Orton Plantation house is one of the oldest structures in Brunswick County. During its history Orton Plantation has been attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and been home to lawyers, physicians, military leaders, and a Colonial governor.</p><br>
<p>On April 11, 1973, the Orton Plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Orton Plantation Gardens and family-owned chapel were open to the public until 2010, when the plantation was sold to Louis Moore Bacon, a direct decedent of the original builder.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1725, Roger Moore, son of Governor James Moore and grandson of Irish nobleman Sir Rory Moore, and his family moved from the South Carolina to an area of land known as Orton in southeastern North Carolina. Orton was owned by Roger&#39;s brother, Colonel Maurice Moore, father of General James Moore and Maurice Moore Jr., author of a famous essay denouncing the Stamp Act of 1765. The elder Maurice was also the grandfather of Supreme Court Associate Justice Alfred Moore. Maurice sold the land to his brother when Roger moved to the area and together they founded Brunswick Town one mile (1.6 km) south of Orton.</p><br>
<p>The first home Roger built in 1725 was destroyed by local Native Americans. Roger constructed the current Orton Plantation home in 1735 and developed his land into a leading rice plantation with the unpaid labor of hundreds of slaves. Orton remained in the Moore family until it was purchased by Benjamin Smith, who eventually lost ownership and was forced to auction off the home and surrounding 4,975 acre. The property was purchased by a physician, Frederick Jones Hill, in 1826. According to a reward advertisement for runaway slaves in the June 17, 1861 edition of the Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer (Fayeteville, North Carolina), the plantation was owned by Thomas C. Miller during 1861. He had apparently purchased the plantation and the slaves thereon from Dr. Hill. Following the Confederate defeat at Fort Fisher, Union soldiers confiscated Orton Plantation and used the home as a military hospital, thus sparing it from destruction. Orton Plantation was abandoned after the War and the house sat empty for 19 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, Orton Plantation was purchased by a former Confederate military officer, Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison. Murchison restored the plantation to its original appearance and made it his winter home. When Murchison died in 1904, Orton Plantation was purchased by his son-in-law and daughter, James and Luola Sprunt. James, a lawyer, encouraged his wife to remodel the home and in 1910 he and Luola began the development of a flower garden and expansion of the house. The Sprunts constructed a family chapel in 1915, and when his wife died the following year from scarlet fever, James renamed the building to Luola&#39;s Chapel in her honor. At approximately the same time, their son, James Laurence Sprunt, lost his first wife, Amoret Cameron Price giving birth to their first son, James Laurence Sprunt Jr.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, James Laurence Sprunt and his second wife Annie enlarged the garden to its current size of 20 acre, with some of the landscape design done by Robert Sturtevant. After a relative was involved in an automobile accident, the Sprunts opened their garden to the public in hopes of raising money for medical expenses. Charging 25 cents for an entrance fee, the family raised $1,000 in a week. From that point on, the Sprunts decided to keep the garden open to the public. In 1954, the Sprunt family donated 114.5 acre of the Orton Plantation to establish the Brunswick Town State Historic Site. Four years later, James Laurence Sprunt wrote a book about the history of Orton Plantation entitled The Story of Orton Plantation. After the death of Laurence Sprunt in 1973 and Annie Gray Sprunt in 1978, the ownership was shared by their four sons: James Laurence Sprunt Jr., Kenneth Murchison, Samuel Nash, and Laurence Gray Sprunt. Kenneth succeeded Bragaw as manager of the gardens after World War II until 2006 when Laurence bought the gardens from his brothers and continued the management. Ownership of the Orton Plantation was passed down to each generation of the Sprunt family for 126 years.</p><br>
<p>Prior to 2010, the Orton Plantation was a tourist attraction, with the gardens and chapel open to the public. The old rice fields became a wildlife sanctuary and the plantation was a haven for birdwatchers. Weddings, family reunions, corporate events, and school fieldtrips took place at the property.</p><br>
<p>The Laurence Sprunt family sold Orton Plantation for $45 million in May 2010 to Louis Moore Bacon, a hedge fund manager and direct descendant of Roger Moore, builder of the original Orton home in 1725. Since the purchase, the plantation and grounds have been closed to the general public.</p><br>
<p>Bacon reportedly planned to restore the house and renovate the grounds.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Orton Plantation house is an example of Classical Revival and Greek Revival architecture. Originally a -story white brick building, a second floor was added to the house in 1840 along with four fluted Doric columns. Two wings were added to the house in 1904. A corbelled brick chimney is located on each side of the original section of the home.</p><br>
<p>Similar to the house, Luola&#39;s Chapel is a white brick structure with four Doric columns. The chapel is surrounded by gardens and features a small steeple. A pavilion is located near the chapel.</p><br>
<p>Orton Plantation Gardens contains 20 acre of lawns and formal gardens, as well as 60 acre of fountains, statues, forests, lagoons, old rice fields, and a family cemetery. The garden features tree-lined brick paths and rows of camellias, dogwoods, magnolias, crape-myrtles, annuals, and perennials. The front gates of the property are topped with cement eagles which lead to a dirt path driveway lined with large oak trees draped in Spanish moss that were planted in the 18th century.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>In 1983, American movie producer Frank Capra, Jr. searched for a location to film a scene for his movie Firestarter and chose Orton Plantation. Afterwards, Capra Jr. convinced movie producer Dino De Laurentiis to open a studio in nearby Wilmington. Laurentiis founded the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group which brought additional opportunities for movie and television filming at the Orton Plantation.</p><br>
<p>Since 1983, Orton Plantation has been featured in 23 films and 34 television movies and series. Some of the movies that feature scenes from Orton Plantation include Lolita, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Hounddog, and A Walk to Remember. Television series that have filmed scenes at Orton Plantation include One Tree Hill, Dawson&#39;s Creek, Hart of Dixie and Matlock.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Bigelow House is a historic house in the Newton Corner village of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1830, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, important as home to Henry Bigelow, a prominent local educator and philanthropist. On September 4, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Henry Bigelow House is located in a residential area north of the central commercial area of Newton Corner. It is located on the west side of Bigelow Terrace, a dead-end spur extending southward from Boyd Street in neighboring Watertown. The mailing address of this property is in Watertown. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. Its Greek Revival features include corner pilasters and an entablature below the eave. The center entrance is sheltered by a single-story hip-roofed porch, with square posts supporting an entablature and hip roof with balustrade.</p><br>
<p>This house appears to have been built in the 1840s, and was first located on Washington Street, where it is described as being owned by the Pool family. By 1850, it is owned by the family of Henry F. Bigelow. Bigelow is locally prominent as a leading member of the school board, and as a driving force behind the creation of the Newton Free Library and Newton Cemetery. At the time of his tenure, Newtons schools were recognized as among the nations most progressive. Bigelow Terrace and the Bigelow Middle School are named in his honor. The house was moved from Washington Street to this location in 1895, occasioned by the widening of the railroad right-of-way next to that road.</p><br>
<p>The John J. Makinen Bottle House  is a house built of bottle wall construction in 1941 by John J. Makinen, Sr. It is located in Kaleva, Michigan near Manistee. Construction uses over 60,000 bottles laid on their sides with the bottoms toward the exterior.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Makinen was a native of Finland and moved to northwestern Michigan in 1903. He owned and operated the Northwestern Bottling Works Company in Kaleva. He died just before he and his family were to move into the new bottle house.</p><br>
<p>Most of the bottles came from his bottling plant as the bottom of the bottles reveal. There is a large variety of bottles that were used for many products, including drinks, wine, beer, and liqueur. The bottles were not only round, but oblong in shape as well. The bottles are arranged with clear bottles and brown color bottles on the front of the house to spell "HAPPY HOME."</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Kaleva Historical Society bought the house in 1980. The Kaleva Historical Museum then purchased it in 1981 for a museum after it was remodeled. The museum includes 19th- and 20th-century items. It also has information on the local area schools, along with local companies and families. It is listed on the National Register of Historical Sites and the Michigan Register of Historical Sites as the plaques in front of the house show.</p><br>
<h2>Corking</h2><br>
<p>The term "pop", for carbonated soft drinks, originated in northern Michigan. The museum claims that perhaps it came from the Northwestern Bottling Works Company. It turns out in the early bottling techniques the beverage in its bottle with the cork could not withstand the pressure of the carbonation. On occasion then the cork would blow out of the bottle from the pressure and a loud "POP" sound would be produced.</p><br>
<h2>Children</h2><br>
<p>Early in the opening of the Kaleva Bottle House Museum, the children coming through it often just wanted to see the bathroom, as the bathtub had been featured in a Nickelodeon show with a sock puppet.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Farquhar House is an historic Second Empire style building located in the village of Newton Corner in Newton, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1868. Its mansard roof is shingled in slate tiles of varying colors and shapes, arranged in decorative patterns. It has well-preserved decorative porch woodwork, and an octagonal -story turret at one corner. The roof lines are lined with dentil moulding with paired brackets. It is one of the finest Second Empire houses in the city.</p><br>
<p>On September 4, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Poppasquash Farms Historic District is a historic district in Bristol, Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The district is located off Route 114, and encompasses most of Colt State Park and about 50 acre of adjacent private lands on the northern half of Poppasquash Neck.</p><br>
<p>The area was occupied by Wampanoag Indians for hundreds of years and eventually settled by British colonists in the 17th century after King Philip&#39;s War. There is a broad array of architecture in the district including Greek Revival and Colonial houses.</p><br>
<p>OBannon Mill  is an historical mill at 90 Bay Spring Avenue in Barrington, Rhode Island. It was one of the first places where artificial leather  was manufactured on a large scale.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1905, George B. Frost founded the Frost Finishing Company and built the original 1905 structure which is part of the current OBannon building. Mr. OBannon, the treasurer, bought Frosts shares and the mill became the largest manufacturer of imitation leather in the world. OBannon went on to acquire other mills arounds Rhode Island and New Jersey. Mr. O&#39;Bannon became incompetent in 1921, died in 1923 and the company went bankrupt in 1926. Cranston Worsted Mills and then Collins & Aikman and finally American Tourister and Piling Chain owned the company until the 1970s. The mill building was converted into elderly apartment housing in the early 1990s, known as the "Barrington Cove Apartments". It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthew&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 5 Chapel Road in Barrington, Rhode Island. It is an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The congregation began as a mission in 1880, and was established as a parish in 1883, under the guidance of Rev. William Merrick Chapin. The church building was designed by William R. Walker & Son, and built in 1891. It is an eclectic mix of Queen Anne and Gothic Revival style. The attached parish hall was built in 1893. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The William Whalley Homestead is an historic farmstead in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The main house is a -story wood-frame structure, probably built sometime between 1815 and 1830. The property includes a late 19th century gabled barn and a stone and wood outbuilding, and is bounded by a low stone wall. The main house is a fairly typical Cape style house, five bays wide, with a central chimney. The property as a whole is a well-preserved example of a typical 19th-century farmstead in the area.</p><br>
<p>The homestead was listed on the National Historic Register in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Waterfront Historic District encompasses the center of Warren, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the west by the Warren River, on the north roughly by Belcher Cove, on the east roughly by Federal and Main Streets, and on the south by Campbell Street. This area is a densely built residential, commercial, and civic area that has been the center of Warren since the mid-18th century. The town prospered in the 19th century, first as a whaling and shipbuilding center and later with industrial development. The district includes the town&#39;s major civic buildings, as well as a wide variety of housing in 19th century revival and Victorian styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and enlarged in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Hamilton Historic District is a historic district including all of Rose Island in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes Rose Island Light and an early U.S. military fortification designed in part by Major Louis de Tousard. The fort was named after Alexander Hamilton, and was part of the first system of US fortifications.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest fortifications on Rose Island were built in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island. Later construction took place from 1798 to 1801 but was left largely unfinished except for a long barracks building used by the U.S. Infantry. The Secretary of War&#39;s report on fortifications for December 1811 describes Fort Hamilton as "a regular unfinished work of masonry of four bastions, two of which are circular. (The fort can house) 300 men". In the 19th century Fort Hamilton was used as a quarantine station for the port of Newport, and the island served as a popular picnic destination. Starting in the late 19th century, the island became part of the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station, and during World War I and World War II the fort was used for munitions storage by the U.S. Navy as it conducted torpedo tests, also using facilities on nearby Goat Island and Gould Island. During World War II anti-aircraft guns were also added to the island, first Navy 5-inch guns and later Army 90 mm guns. The fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Central Falls Mill Historic District is located between Roosevelt Avenue and the Blackstone River in Central Falls, Rhode Island. It encompasses a collection of six mill buildings, as well as a stone dam which impounds the river, representing the finest mill constructions in the city during the 19th century. The layout of the buildings, whose short ends face the river and Roosevelt Avenue, was defined by a series of trenches  which channeled water from the river to power the machinery of the mills. The oldest building dates to 1825, and the most recent to c. 1910; all have been modified to some extent by later industrial tenants.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was enlarged in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Seamens Church Institute is a social service organization and historic building located in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1919, the Institutes mission is to provide men and women of the sea and persons referred from the community a safe haven in which they may find comfort, recreation and benefit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church Institute building was built in 1930 by Edith and Maude Wetmore, daughters of Governor and Senator George Peabody Wetmore (owner of Chateau-sur-Mer). It contains an ornately painted chapel (the work of muralist Durr Freedley), as well as a small library, restaurant, laundry rooms, Wi-Fi and meeting rooms. The building, designed by the architect Frederic Rhinelander King in a Colonial Revival style, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Pahaska Tepee is William "Buffalo Bill" Cody&#39;s old hunting lodge and hotel in the USA state of Wyoming. It is located 50 mi west of the town of Cody and two miles from the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cody built Pahaska Tepee to accommodate tourists traveling up the Cody Road along the North Fork of the Shoshone River to visit Yellowstone. While on a hunting expedition in November 1901, Cody marked the location of the hunting lodge with a hand ax. The artist Abraham Archibald Anderson designed Pahaska for Cody sometime during 1902 or 1903 and construction started soon after. The grand opening of Pahaska Tepee was announced on July 5, 1904 in the Cody newspaper. In November 1904 Cody led a large hunting party from his new lodge for a ten-day hunt. Construction was completed in 1905, and the lodge was opened to guests.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main structure (the "Tepee") is a two-story log structure measuring about 83.5 by. The building faces east, down the valley of the Shoshone River. The main level is surrounded by porches on the north, south and east, with a main entrance centered on the eastern porch. The double doors lead into a hall the extends to the roof, with a stone fireplace at the opposite end. The dining room is behind the fireplace. The hall is surrounded by mezzanine galleries. A small suite of rooms over the east porch was used by Cody. There are an additional six bedrooms over the porches and two baths on this level, and seven more rooms downstairs. A 1920 kitchen-dining room addition lasted until 1962, when it was demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>Pahaska Tepee operates as a mountain resort and the original hunting lodge is open for tours. Pahaska Tepee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Oregon Caves Historic District covers 6 acre in the main visitor area of Oregon Caves National Monument in southern Oregon. The district includes four primary buildings plus two other structures. Because of the unique rustic architecture of these National Park Service buildings and the surrounding park landscape, the area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elijah Davidson discovered the Oregon Caves in 1874 while bear hunting near Sand Mountain (now renamed Mount Elijah after Davidson). While Native Americans may have known of the caves prior to Davidson&#39;s discovery, no evidence of earlier exploration or use has been found. Thus, Davidson is credited with being the first person to enter the caves.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, Joaquin Miller visited the caves. After his visit, he wrote an article that highlighted the cave&#39;s unique beauty. The article gave the caves nationwide exposure. Under authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906, Federal Government ordered a site survey, which was completed in 1908. As a result, of the survey and continued advocacy from Miller and others prominent citizens, the Oregon Caves were designated as a National Monument by President William Howard Taft in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The United States Forest Service was given responsibility for the Oregon Caves National Monument in 1909. Due to the caves remote location the first permanent road to the site was not completed until 1922. In 1934, oversight of the monument passed to the National Park Service. Over the next nine years, the Park Service worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps to develop and landscape the Oregon Caves site to attain the look of a "rustic alpine village" nestled in a mountain canyon. The Park Service&#39;s naturalistic design principles dictated the use of indigenous materials and rustic stone work. Every element was careful set in place to highlight the rugged character of the canyon. Cedar-bark sheathing was used as a unifying design element on all the buildings. While some changes have been made to the original structures, the buildings still retain their unique rustic character which is enhanced by the surrounding park landscape. In 1992, part of the Oregon Caves National Monument was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The buildings in the Oregon Caves Historic District illustrate the National Park Service rustic-style architecture. The historic structures remain generally intact with only a few minor exceptions necessary for general site rehabilitation due to landslide, flood damage, and safety codes. The Oregon Caves Historic District has four primary buildings plus two other structures. The primary buildings are the Chalet, built in 1924 and reconstructed in 1942; the Oregon Caves Chateau built in 1934; the Guide Dormitory, built in 1927 with major additions in 1940 and 1972; and the Ranger Residence, built in 1936. The most noteworthy of these is the Chateau, which is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP # 87001346).</p><br>
<p>Five of the six structures within the historic district, the four primary buildings and an original Checking and Comfort Station, are considered contributing structures with common, distinctive features. All the buildings were built between 1926 and 1942 with rough-cut, Port Orford cedar-bark sheathing, wood-shingled roofs, and rustic stone work.</p><br>
<p>The original Oregon Caves Chalet was built in 1924. It was the first permanent building constructed at the site. The Chalet was completely reconstructed in 1942. This project not only rebuilt the original structure, but also added a third floor and a prominent gabled breezeway entrance. The new structure was covered by the same cedar-bark sheathing use on the other monument buildings. Today, the Chalet retains its original features except the stone steps in front were replaced with concrete steps for safety reasons. The first floor is currently a visitor center, and the upper two floors of the Chalet still serve as a dormitory for seasonal guides.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, a builder from Grants Pass, Oregon named Gust Lium announced plans to construct the large lodge facility to service visitors to the monument. The Oregon Caves Chateau was completed in 1934. Built on a slope, the Chateau is a complex structure, six-stories high with ten sides. It was originally used as the National Park Service headquarters as well as a visitor lodge. Today, the Chateau still provides overnight lodging and guest services for monument visitors. It also houses a coffee shop, a restaurant, and a gift shop. Part of Cave Creek actually passes through the building, appearing as a water feature in the dining room. The original wooden verandas were replaced with steel fire escapes in 1958; nevertheless, the Chateau is considered one of the national park systems best preserved rustic lodges.</p><br>
<p>The Guide Dormitory was constructed in 1927. It is located north of the Chateau and northwest of the Chalet. The dormitory is a wood-frame structure with peaked dormers above the second story windows. Additions made in 1940 and 1972 nearly tripled the buildings footprint; however, the original portion of the building is the oldest structure in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Ranger Residence was begun in late 1935 and completed in early 1936. The structure was built on a steep slope south and upslope from the Chalet. The building was designed by Francis Lange, resident landscape architect at Crater Lake National Park. It is a one-story structure with a living room, combined kitchen-dining room, and two bedrooms. In 1974, the building was converted to office space.</p><br>
<p>The Checking and Comfort Station was built in 1941. It is a wood-frame building with cedar-bark sheathing near the monument&#39;s day-use parking area. Rustic stone masonry was added to the north side of the building in the 1960s. The building was made handicapped accessible in 1979. Today, the facility is used as a visitor contact center and restrooms.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the existing structures in the historic district, there were seven rustic duplex-cottages built on a step slope south of the Chalet behind the Ranger Residence. These cottages were constructed in 1926, as rental units for park guests. After 1935, some were also used as ranger residences. Each cottage was slightly different due to unique site topography. However, all of the cottages had cedar-bark sheathing and gabled roofs that matched the features of the nearby Chateau and Chalet. They were removed in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The natural environment surrounding the Oregon Caves Historic District has not changes significantly since the historic structures were built. The overall site design and landscaping successfully blended the historic structures into the natural setting. The Chalet and Chateau are located on the canyon bench near the cave entrance with the Ranger Residence and Guide Dormitory sited along opposite sides of the canyon. A plaza area is located between the Chalet and Chateau. The Plaza landscaping and stone masonry walls provide shade and rustic accent that highlight the historic districts primary buildings. In addition, the surrounding forest is dense and hides the service road, adding to the districts rustic feeling.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Oregon Cave Historic District is within the boundaries of the Oregon Caves National Monument. The monument is located in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon, seven miles (11 km) north of the Oregon-California border. It is 20 mi east of Cave Junction, Oregon on Oregon Highway 46 which terminates at the monument&#39;s day-use parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The weather in the Oregon Caves area is generally moderate. However, storms can occur without warning and are sometimes very intense. In addition, fog is common in the winter and early spring. The average rainfall is approximately 50 in per year, and the average annual snowfall is 160 in. During the winter, the access highway is often closed temporarily during heavy snow storms.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Gilmore site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 22CC28, is a prehistoric archaeological site near Murray, Nebraska. First formally investigated in 1915, it is the type site for the Sterns Creek focus, the first Woodland period culture identified in Nebraska. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Gilmore site is a deeply stratified archaeological site on a terrace above Sterns Creek in eastern Cass County. The area consists of repeated habitation layers, interspersed with materials washed down from the hillside above. Finds at the site include evidence of dwelling lodges using poles as support and finished in wattle and daub or bark, as well as a diversity of tools, tool-making artifacts, pottery, and remnants of dietary plants and animals. Radiocarbon dating has yielded occupation dates as late as 1100 CE. One particular set of post-holes are unusually small, and have been interpreted as possibly supporting a rack-like structure for drying meat.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Gilmore site was found in 1915 by Walker Gilmore, the son of a local physician, who then informed archaeologist Frederick Sterns, then doing graduate field research in Nebraska. It was the first site in the state where evidence of a pre-village culture was identified. In the 1930s, William Duncan Strong investigated the site further, and connected its inhabitants to Woodland cultures of the northeastern United States.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital, also known as Walthill Hospital or Dr. Susan Picotte Memorial Hospital, is a former hospital building at 505 Matthewson Street in Walthill, Nebraska, on the Omaha Indian Reservation. The hospital was developed by Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte , the first female Native American medical doctor. Built with money raised by Picotte from various sources, it was the first hospital for any Indian reservation not funded by government money. It served the community as a hospital until the 1940s, and has had a variety of other uses since. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Picotte Hospital building is located on the western fringe of Walthill, on the north side of Matthewson Street near its junction with Sawyer Street. The building was designed by architect William L. Steele in 1912 and built in 1912–1913. Set on a concrete foundation on a hill overlooking Walthill, the one-and-one-half-story hospital was built in the American Craftsman style of architecture. Typical of Craftsman style, it features a low-pitched, shingled (originally wood-shingled) roof, wide eaves with large braces beneath, exposed roof rafter tails, and a centered gabled dormer. A prominent screened porch runs the entire length of the front (east side) of the structure, bounded by columns that support the roof.</p><br>
<p>Susan LaFlesche Picotte was born into the Omaha tribe in 1865. Her father, Joseph LaFlesche, was the tribes last recognized chief, and saw to it that his children were well educated and could integrate into white society. Trained in medicine at the Womens Medical College of Pennsylvania, she returned to the reservation, where she eventually became its primary medical provider. The hospital was built through her fundraising efforts, which yielded the $8,000 needed from a variety of private philanthropic sources. The building was a working hospital until the late 1940s, after which it served a variety of functions since, including a museum. As of 2013, it housed MiJhuWi Ministries, a nonprofit providing services to the people of the Omaha Reservation. In 2017, Judi M. gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, set up a committee of Picotte&#39;s descendants and community leaders from the Omaha tribe, to help plan the restoration of hospital. Using funding raised from the United States Department of Agriculture and private donations, the hospital was renovated and redesigned to house a medical clinic, museum, and cultural center.</p><br>
<p>The American Federation of Labor Building is a seven-story brick and limestone building located along Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. It housed the American Federation of Labor for 40 years.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The facade of the former American Federation of Labor Building forms a corner portion of the Washington Marriott Marquis hotel, set at the northwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street NW. It is seven stories in height, built out of brick with limestone trim. It presents five bays, including its original main entrance, to Massachusetts Avenue, and eight bays to 9th Street. The front facade is characterized by four brick piers, which separate window bays in a 1-3-1 pattern. In between the windows within each group are decorative limestone panels. The building is crowned by a projecting modillioned cornice. The ground floor is faced in limestone.</p><br>
<p>The building was completed in 1916 to a design by Miburn, Heister & Company for the American Federation of Labor, which was then at a high point in its power and influence. Samuel Gompers, the organizations leader, characterized it as a monument to the power of labor, and its dedication include a speech by President Woodrow Wilson. The AFL continued to occupy the building until 1955, when its merger with the CIO prompted a need for additional office space. The building was then purchased by the Pipefitters Union, which used it as its headquarters. During its ownership the interior was modernized. The union sold the building in 2005 to the developers of the Washington Marriott Marquis, which serves as the main hotel for the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, which is located across the street. The interior spaces of the AFL building now house a lounge space, the hotels fitness center, and four high-end suites.</p><br>
<p>Cedarcroft is a distinctive residential neighborhood in the North district of Baltimore, bordered by Gittings, East Lake and Bellona Avenue avenues and York Road. According to Baltimore City&#39;s Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation , the houses in Cedarcroft are in the Dutch Colonial Revival, Federal Revival, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival, Cape Cod Revival, Bungalow, and Italianate styles of architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Most of the homes in Cedarcroft were built between 1910 and 1939 by the Cedarcroft Land Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, Philip E. Lamb purchased 25 acre fronting York Road north of the rural village of Govanstown. On the property was a house that had been built in 1846. A few years later, he bought an additional 20 acre. He called his estate Cedarcroft, and in 1886 built a substantial addition to the 1846 house which still stands at 6204 Sycamore Road.</p><br>
<p>The Cedarcroft Land Company was formed about 1910 by Philip and George Lamb, along with George Van Hollen, William McGeen and C.L. Applegarth. Later they were joined by Frank A. Warner, Jr., and Edward L. Palmer, the architect credited with the design of the development, which was between York and Bellona, Lake and Gittings.</p><br>
<p>Episcopalians living nearby met in makeshift quarters and were anxious to build a church. In 1911, the diocese bought land on the southwest corner of Cedarcroft and York roads for $5,000. The church was dedicated in 1913. Ten years later, it was moved a few hundred feet, from the center of the lot, on soaped beams so that a parish house could be added.</p><br>
<p>After the lots had been sold, the Cedarcroft Land Company was liquidated in the early 1920s, and its successor, the Cedarcroft Maintenance Corporation was chartered and the Cedarcroft Improvement Association formed. All of the covenants, restrictions and regulations made by the Land Company were incorporated in the Maintenance Corporation, the latter remaining the governing body of Cedarcroft. All restrictions and requirements set by the Land Company were preserved.</p><br>
<p>The records of the corporation and improvement association are maintained in a loose leaf binder entitled, "Beginning 1926", although, the records date from 1929. The 1929 treasurer&#39;s report shows payments of $13 for cutting grass on vacant lots and $112.50 for top soil, hauling leaves and operating the snow plow. These traditional codes governed the construction of single-family houses cost not less than $6000; most of the homes sold between 2012 and 2018 between $300,000 and $850,000 price range. They are all built according to the neighborhood plan and color scheme regulations. In 2016 the final unbuilt lot was built upon.</p><br>
<p>By 1921 thirty houses had been constructed on the association lots. Corner lots sold for $2000 and interior block lots sold for $1800. The rapid surge of immigrants and Baltimore residents moving north initiated the creation of Cedarcroft&#39;s Maintenance Corporation and Improvement Association.</p><br>
<p>Cedarcroft Maintenance Corporations covenants remain in place; however, they are subject to homeowners approval and vote periodically to renew and approve changes. Plans, color schemes and renovations are submitted to the group for approval. Due to the larger size and higher values of Cedarcroft houses, the neighborhood saw a sizable number of young family groups moving in. Prior to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, racially restrictive covenants were used in Cedarcroft. A 1919 advertisement in the Baltimore Sun described houses sold by Philip E. Lamb as "Properly Restricted" and located at "ideal building sites".</p><br>
<p>In 2015, 10 units within Cedarcroft were sold; the average price of these sales was $427,830, the median being $439,750. Aside from renovations to the houses of the neighborhood and the growth of trees and landscaping, Cedarcroft looks much as it did in the mid-1900s. The distinguishing features of the area are its traditional Revival style houses, and narrow streets lined with arched trees, "reminiscent of medieval arches." In 2012, Cedarcroft is a diverse community, attracting traditional and non-traditional families from a variety of backgrounds. While the historical character remains intact through neighborhood efforts, Cedarcroft exists and thrives without constrictive and intrusive rules. Owners wishing to renovate are encouraged to have neighbor buy-in of plans before they are presented to the Cedarcroft Improvement Corporation. This process allows for individuality, yet builds cooperation between neighbors. In 2016, the first new house in the neighborhood since 1953 was added on the final unbuilt lot.</p><br>
<p>Located in City Council District Four, Cedarcroft has been listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2000 Demographic profile, 97.8% of the houses in Cedarcroft are occupied, more than 91% by owners. 75.6% of the houses are family households.</p><br>
<p>Cedarcroft remains the calm and beautiful neighborhood envisioned by the Lamb&#39;s despite its increasingly urban surrounding. The tight-knit community comes together naturally, celebrating October block parties, Halloween parades, and Christmas decoration contests together. This historic district is quite simply a "diamond in the rough" of an evolving and progressing city.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>According to the last census, 91.5% of the residents are white, 5.1% are black, 1.7% Asian and 2.5% are Hispanic. 21.9% of the white residents are reported as of Irish ancestry, another 16.7% English, 34.2% German and 14.9% Italian. The median family income is $99,389 with 0% of those in the workforce unemployed. 100% of the residents are high school graduates and 34.1% report having a graduate or professional degree.</p><br>
<h2>Government representation</h2><br>
<h2>Buildings of interest</h2><br>
<p>Nativity Episcopalian Church</p><br>
<p>During the early years of the Cedarcroft development, the new community did not have a church. In 1910, Reverend Charles Hensel began a new mission by holding services in the newly constructed houses in the community. The structure of what is now known as the Church of the Nativity was originally built in Garrett County, Maryland. In 1913, the Tudor Revival style edifice was dismantled and transported to what is now 419 Cedarcroft Road. The first official church service was held on Christmas of the same year. The construction of the Parish House in 1923 required the entire church structure to be moved 100 ft toward the York Road extremity of the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, the Cedarcroft School was established within the church as a preschool and kindergarten. As the population in the community of Cedarcroft grew in the 1950s, structural additions were made to the church including a passageway to the Parish House, now used by the Cedarcroft School.</p><br>
<p>Cedarcroft School</p><br>
<p>Edith Gentry, a graduate of the nearby College of Notre Dame, established the Cedarcroft School in 1947. Using the west wing of the Church of Nativity in Cedarcroft as their venue, teachers place exceptional emphasis on proper manners and the "philosophy that every child learns differently". The establishment is coed, nonsectarian, and is the school to many young children of the Cedarcroft community and surrounding neighborhoods.</p><br>
<p>The Lamb Estate</p><br>
<p>6204 Sycamore Road is the site of the original house built by Philip Lamb in 1886. The mansion was the first constructed on Lamb&#39;s 45 acre estate, which is now the Cedarcroft neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The house is symmetrical, featuring a cross-gable roof, sash windows with shutters, a porch elevated by Doric columns, and a simple bracketed cornice. This Eastlake style, closely associated with the Victorian Revival, was very prominent in the 1880s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural styles</h2><br>
<p>Cedarcroft&#39;s architectural styles are varied, and include Federal Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Gothic Revival, Cape Cod Revival, Colonial Revival, English Cottage, Split-Level, and Ranch variants. Federal Revival is the style most prevalent; however, the degree in which any particular house is an homage to any "high style" elements was a matter for the architect and client to decide. Many houses incorporate attributes that can "bleed" between more highly defined styles. The houses pictured in this gallery are a sampling of the type of homes in the area.</p><br>
<p>Georgian Revival houses of the early 1900s-The symmetrical sash windows, the tall chimneys, and triangular pediments, held above the front entrances by Doric columns, distinguish the Georgian style. Also, the simple cornices and dormer windows built into the gable roofs distinguish these houses as Georgian Revival.</p><br>
<p>Dutch Colonial Revival style of the early 1900s is also prominent. The pictured house features a shingled gambrel roof with 6 by 6 paneled sash windows. On the first floor is a pediment entryway and 8 by 8 paneled sash windows, surrounded with shutters.</p><br>
<p>American Four-Square style is also present in Cedarcroft. The house is essentially a cube with a pyramidal roof set on top. On each side of the pyramid is a centered dormer window for the attic of the house. Bay windows that extend through both stories of the house are another common feature of the American Four-Square style, which was most common between 1910 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>Bungaloid-The term Bungalow applies strictly to one-story cottage style houses with front porches dominating the street facade. The Bungaloid is cousin of the bungalow, and the term is applied to houses of "one and a half" to two-story dwellings popular from the early 1900s through the 1940s. In this example, a steep gable roof includes a large multi-sash window triangular dormer. The shallower gable covers an open porch that is held up by Doric columns. Also, the entire structure is supported by a large stone foundation that is exposed as part of the architecture. These houses often are noted for their fumed interior oak woodwork, built-in cabinets and other factors popularized by Gustave Stickley who championed the American Arts and Crafts movement.</p><br>
<p>Lastly, houses of the Tudor Revival style, such as the building above on the right, are found across Cedarcroft. Houses such as these contained elements from a variety of styles popular throughout the 1920s and 30s. In this stucco-exterior finished sample the slate roof, and half-round hood over the front door, are an homage to cottages found in Great Britain.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Chris Van Hollen - USA Senator</p><br>
<p>Newton D. Baker House, also known as Jacqueline Kennedy House, is a historic house at 3017 N Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built in 1794, it was home of Newton D. Baker, who was Secretary of War, during 1916–1920, while "he presided over America&#39;s mass mobilization of men and material in World War I. After the assassination of president John F. Kennedy in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy purchased the house and lived here for about a year.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1794 by Thomas Beall. During its early years, the house was situated on a large plot of land and was said to have had a servants wing attached to the east side. At that time N Street was known as Gay Street and was situated higher than today.</p><br>
<p>In 1796, John Laird, a wealthy merchant, lived in the house, and later Maj. George Peter, a War of 1812 commander and Maryland Congressman, purchased the house who lived there until 1827, when the same Laird bought the house for his son. In 1834, William Redin, the first auditor of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, purchased it.</p><br>
<p>In 1868, Redin&#39;s unmarried daughter inherited and sold the dwelling, which became the Georgetown Female Seminary. The Seminary had a student body of boarders and day students totaling 105. In approximately 1890, John H. Smoot bought the building and converted it back to a private residence again.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, Col. William E. Pattison French purchased the house, and began renting it to Newton D. Baker in 1916. When Baker returned to Cleveland in 1920, French either leased or lived in the house himself for more than two decades. During the World War II, the British military attache occupied the house and rented rooms to British officers.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, Vice Admiral Alan Kirk, later Ambassador to Belgium and to the Soviet Union, purchased the property. Three years later, Dr. E. H. Gushing bought the home along with his wife. They sold the attached servants wing as a separate residence to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Woodward who built a new front entrance and lived in the home. The Gushings updated the main houses electrical wiring and plumbing and removed some of the interior walls therefore enlarging the living room.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, James McMillan Gibson bought the dwelling, added a small rear wing, and installed an elevator and lived there with his wife.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy purchased the house and lived in it shortly after the assassination of her husband, president John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family lived here for about a year.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, Michael Whitney Straight purchased the home for $200,000, from Kennedy when she moved to New York City. While living in the home, Straight married his second wife, Nina G. Auchincloss Steers in 1974. Nina was the daughter of Nina Gore and Hugh D. Auchincloss. She was the half-sister of writer Gore Vidal and coincidentally, a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Straight and his wife spent $125,000 renovating the home and decided to move to Bethesda, Maryland in 1976 when he was vice chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Straight and his wife lived in the home until 1976.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, Yolande Bebeze Fox, the former Miss America 1951, bought the home from Straight. Fox lived in the home with her granddaughter, Paris Campbell, until her death in February 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural details</h2><br>
<p>The home is considered more representative of New England architecture than other contemporary Georgetown homes. The house has many architectural details including "a wide limestone stairway", "pink-painted lintels with keystones", "brick voussoirs", "Doric pilasters", and a "semi-elliptical fanlight".</p><br>
<h2>Resident timeline</h2><br>
<p>1794-1796 - Thomas Beall</p><br>
<p>1796-? - John Laird</p><br>
<p>?-1827 - George Peter</p><br>
<p>?-1834 - John Laird&#39;s son</p><br>
<p>1834-1868 - William Redin</p><br>
<p>1868-1890 - Georgetown Female Seminary</p><br>
<p>1890-1915 - John H. Smoot</p><br>
<p>1915-1916 - Col. William E. Pattison French</p><br>
<p>1916-1920 - Newton D. Baker</p><br>
<p>1920-1941 - Col. William E. Pattison French</p><br>
<p>1941-1945 - British military attache</p><br>
<p>1945-1948 - Vice Admiral Alan Kirk</p><br>
<p>1948-1954 - Dr. E. H. Gushing (who sold the old servant&#39;s wing to Stanley Woodward)</p><br>
<p>1954-1964 - James McMillan Gibson</p><br>
<p>1964-1965 - Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr.</p><br>
<p>1965-1976 - Michael Whitney Straight and Nina G. Auchincloss Steers</p><br>
<p>1974-2016 - Yolande Bebeze Fox</p><br>
<p>2017–2021 - David W. Hudgens performed extensive renovations</p><br>
<p>2021-2022 - The Al Nahyans, UAE’s Royal Family</p><br>
<p>2023-Present - David W. Hudgens</p><br>
<p>The Esek Hopkins House is an historic home on 97 Admiral Street  on the north side of Providence, Rhode Island, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is a 2½-story gable-roof block, three bays wide, with an entry in the rightmost bay. To the right of this section is a 1½-story gambrel-roofed addition, dating to the early 19th century. A single-story gable-roof ell extends from the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dating to 1754, the house was the home of Esek Hopkins, the first commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. After Hopkins died, his daughters inherited the property, and it remained in the family for the next century. Accounts of the time recounted that the property was being restored to its original condition.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Over the years, various plans were put forward over the years to convert the house into a museum. They all failed for lack of resources. Most recently, in 2011 the Providence Parks department put forward a plan to convert the house into a part-time museum; this has not yet come to pass.</p><br>
<p>The building has suffered from inadequate maintenance by the citys parks department, and was placed on the Providence Preservation Societys "Most Endangered Properties" list in 1995, 2011 and again in 2015.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the Esek Hopkins house partnered with a local artist collective and a local dance company to serve as an outdoor space for dance performance and classes. In September 2021, the house was the site of an original dance opera titled "The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins."</p><br>
<p>The Mary Ann Shadd Cary House is a historic residence located at 1421 W Street, Northwest in Washington, D.C. From 1881 to 1885, it was the home of Mary Ann Shadd Cary , a writer and abolitionist who was one of the first African American female journalists in North America,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mary Ann Shadd Cary House is located on the southern fringe of Washington&#39;s Columbia Heights, on the north side of W Street between 14th Street and Florida Avenue. It is one of a series of brick row houses, probably built in the 1860s. It is three stories in height and three bays wide, with a corbelled cornice, and projecting brick hoods around its windows. It was from 1881 to 1885 the home of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.</p><br>
<p>Mary Ann Shadd was born a free black in the slave state of Delaware, and was educated in Pennsylvania. Her father was active in anti-slavery circles, sheltering fugitive slaves in the family home. At first a school teacher for African American children, she and other family members left for Canada following passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Settling in Ontario, she began publishing works to inform American blacks about conditions in Canada, so that they could judge whether migration there was in their interests. This effort resulted in the founding of the Provincial Freeman, the first newspaper published by a black woman in North America, and the first by a woman in what is now Canada. After the American Civil War, she returned to the United States, where she returned to teaching and continued to be active in civil rights. She acquired a law degree in 1883.</p><br>
<p>The Ezra Stiles House is an historic house at 14 Clarke Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof and two large interior brick chimneys, built in 1756. Originally built facing south, the house was rotated on its lot to face west in 1834, at which time its entry was given a Greek Revival surround.</p><br>
<p>The house was home from the time of its construction to Rev. Ezra Stiles, later president of Yale University. Stiles lived in the house while serving as a minister for 20 years at the Second Congregational Church on Clarke Street. Stiles owned a slave boy that he acquired through an investment in a slaving expedition. Stiles freed his slave when he left Newport to serve at Yale in 1777. Stiles House is currently a private residence and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Army and Navy YMCA is a historic YMCA building at 50 Washington Square in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a five-story concrete, masonry, and brick building, designed by Louis E. Jallade and erected in 1911 by the Norcross Brothers. It occupies a small, irregularly-shaped city block at the upper end of Washington Square, Newport&#39;s historic civic center. The building was constructed in a Beaux Arts style, with limestone finish predominating on the main facades, with some terra cotta paneling. Mrs. Thomas Emery, a philanthropist from Cincinnati, Ohio, funded its construction to provide services for Navy members when Newport was a major center of the United States Navy. YMCA closed after the Navy significantly reduced its presence in Newport in 1973. The building now serves as low income  housing.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Although it is within the boundaries of the Newport Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, it does not contribute to its significance, which has a cutoff date of 1820.</p><br>
<p>The Artillery Park  is a historic cemetery at North Road and Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is located at a high point on the southern part of Conanicut Island. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was originally laid out in 1656 as a burying ground and militia training ground, but appears to have been used as a burying ground only since the 1740s. When British forces occupied the island in 1776, there was a brief skirmish there, and the British afterward used the area as a military staging ground.</p><br>
<p>The Bailey Farm is an historic farm at 373 Wyatt Road in Middletown, Rhode Island. Now reduced from more than 100 acre to about 45 acre, the farm is a well-preserved example of a 19th-century island farm. It was owned by members of the Bailey family, possibly as early as the late 17th century, into the 19th century. The original main house appears to be a mid-18th century structure that was given a significant Greek Revival treatment in the 19th century. It is a 1-1/2 story Cape style house, three bays wide, with a central chimney. The main entrance is centered on the northern facade, and is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, with an entablature above. The corners of the building are pilastered. A series of outbuildings stand nearby. There is a second complex of buildings on the northwest part of the property, built in the 1930s near the location of the Bailey family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Barker House was a historic house on Main Road in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Built c. 1850, it was a two-story wood-frame structure with an impressive Greek Temple front, with full-height fluted Ionic columns supporting a full triangular pediment. The pediment  had an astylistic triple window in it. The roof was topped by an octagonal cupola with belvedere, with two narrow chimneys piercing the ridge line. It is possible the house was designed by Russell Warren, who is documented to have designed a number of other high-style Greek Revival houses in the region. The purchaser is believed to be Benjamin Barker, a lumber merchant operating in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, after it was extensively destroyed by fire. It was demolished in 1981. The property it stood on, at the northwest corner of the junction of Main Road and Rhode Island Route 24, was associated with The Coachman, a restaurant, and is now the site of an assisted living facility.</p><br>
<p>Charles H. Baldwin House is a historic house on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, that is part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, but is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story wood-frame structure, finished on the exterior in brick, clapboards, and shingles. It was designed by William Appleton Potter and Robert Anderson and built in 1877–78, and is an excellent example of a transitional style between the Queen Anne and Shingle styles. The building features the asymmetrical and busy massing, with many gables, an extended porch with turned columns, and brick chimneys with decorative tops. The house was built for United States Navy Admiral Charles H. Baldwin as a summer house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the NRHP December 8, 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Clarke Street Meeting House  is a historic meeting house and Reformed Christian church building at 13–17 Clarke Street in Newport, Rhode Island, built in 1735. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1735 and served as a worship place for the Second Congregational Church, originally a Calvinist congregation. From 1755 to 1786, Ezra Stiles pastored the church and lived in the Ezra Stiles House across the street. He later became the president of Yale College. During the American Revolutionary War, British forces occupied the meeting house and the ministers house for use as a barracks and hospital from 1776 to 1779. After the war, a committee of Second Church members wrote to John Adams in Europe requesting that he contact Reformed congregations there for assistance in repairing the church due to the British armys damage to the building. Adams responded that he would be unable to help because of differences in European attitudes toward soliciting for funds. Regardless of the difficulties, the building was extensively repaired in 1785.</p><br>
<p>The congregation later left the building and merged with Newports First Congregational Church to become United Congregational Church to which the building was sold in 1835. In 1847, the Central Baptist Society purchased and extensively modified the building. The churchs original steeple blew down in the 1938 hurricane.</p><br>
<p>In 1950, St. Joseph&#39;s Church of Newport purchased the meeting house and further renovated the structure. The Clarke Street Meeting House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Around the 1980s, the structure was converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>Notable congregants</h2><br>
<p>William Vernon, merchant</p><br>
<p>Henry Marchant, USA District Judge</p><br>
<p>William Ellery, signer of Declaration of Independence</p><br>
<p>The DePauw Avenue Historic District is a national historic district just northeast of downtown New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. The district consists mostly of Depauw Avenue from Vincennes Street in the west to Aebersold Drive to the east, and includes portions of the 1200 block of Beechwood Avenue and two residences on Vance Street. New Albany High School is located on the southern edge of the district.</p><br>
<p>Depauw Avenue is named for New Albany&#39;s Depauw family. Washington C. DePauw, a wealthy New Albany banker, was the original owner of the land. He made the bulk of his money from the American Glass Works, which by 1890 produced two thirds of the plate glass in the United States. His summer estate was what became Depauw Avenue. His son Charles Depauw started developing the land, but the first buildings were constructed after Charles died, leaving it to his widow Letitia. The district began as a neighborhood for upper-class residents, and quickly became a preferred place to live in New Albany. The initial four properties were built between 1906 and 1908, an additional four in 1911, and the bulk of the remainder built in the 1920s. Construction slowed during the Great Depression, and then concluded in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>Of the seventy-one primary buildings in the district, sixty-eight are considered to contribute to the historic integrity of the district, with fifteen contributing outbuildings. Architectural styles are a mix of Colonial Revival, Craftsman/Bungalow (of which 39 of the district&#39;s 68 domiciles are), Dutch Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and Tudor Revival. Residences on the eastern side of the district are long and are affected by the creekbed that runs by the district.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 an architectural study determined that DePauw Avenue could eventually achieve National Register status. In 2006 the Indiana Department of Natural Resources gave a grant of $6,150 to the city of New Albany to prepare DePauw Avenue, Cedar Bough Place Historic District, and the Shelby Place Historic District for registration on the National Register of Historic Places. (Depauw Avenue has an architectural style similar to Shelby Place&#39;s, but contains mostly larger domiciles, showing more architectural diversity.) All three neighborhoods were placed on the National Register on March 19, 2008.</p><br>
<p>Eisenhower House, formerly known as the Commandant&#39;s Residence or Quarters Number One of Fort Adams, is a historic house that is part of Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built by George C. Mason & Son in 1873. Its first inhabitant was General Henry Jackson Hunt. Dwight D. Eisenhower used the house as his summer residence during his presidency in 1958 and 1960. Initially, in 1958, the President was living at the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island. However, with his passion for golf, he moved to this location as it was close to the Newport Country Club. It then became the "Eisenhower House" and the Summer White House.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The Eisenhower House became part of Fort Adams State Park after the USA Navy transferred Fort Adams to the State of Rhode Island in 1964. The residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is used for weddings and other social events.</p><br>
<p>Conanicut Island Light , built in 1886, is an inactive lighthouse in Jamestown, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The light was built primarily to assist the ferry between Jamestown and Newport, Rhode Island. The lighthouse lies on the northern tip of Conanicut Island in Jamestown. The light was deactivated in 1933 and its lantern was removed. In 1934 it was sold as government surplus and is now a private residence. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was featured in Wes Anderson&#39;s 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom.</p><br>
<p>Conanicut Point Light in 2007.jpgConanicut Lighthouse</p><br>
<p>Conimicut Light, built in 1883, is a historic sparkplug lighthouse in Warwick, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The lighthouse is said to be in "relatively good condition."</p><br>
<p>The lighthouse was built in 1883 using pneumatic caisson engineering. The light replaced an earlier 1868 light. Conimicut Lighthouse was automated in the 1960s and was one of the last acetylene gas powered lights to switch to electricity. The City of Warwick acquired the light in 2004. Initially the city planned to restore the lighthouse, but a federal grant for this purpose failed to come through. Subsequently, the city is considering various plans, including leasing it to a tourism company to be converted into a bed-and-breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>This location marks the mouth of the Providence River as it empties into Narragansett Bay.</p><br>
<p>The Windmill Hill Historic District is a historic district encompassing a large rural landscape in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the north by Eldred Avenue, on the east by East Shore Road, on the south by Great Creek, and on the west by Narragansett Bay. The areas historical resources included six farmsteads, as well as the Quaker Meetinghouse, the Jamestown Windmill, and its associated millers house and barn. The area is predominantly rolling hills with open pastureland and forest. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The area is also rich in prehistoric evidence of Native American occupation, which is the subject of the Jamestown Archeological District listing on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Jamestown Rhode Island Friends Meeting House 2.jpgFriends Meeting House with Jamestown Windmill in background</p><br>
<p>Jamestown Rhode Island Friends.jpgrear view of the Friends Meeting House (Quaker)</p><br>
<p>JamestownRI WatsonFarm.jpgView of Watson Farm down to the shore of Narragansett Bay</p><br>
<p>The Presidents House  is the home of the President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The house is a wooden, three-story building in Colonial Revival style located on a hill on Coasters Harbor Island, overlooking Coaster&#39;s Harbor, Dewey Field, and Narragansett Bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1896 by local Newport, Rhode Island, architect and builder Creighton Withers at the cost of $16,226. Built originally as "Quarters B" for the commandant of the Naval Training Station, Newport, the first president of the Naval War College to occupy it was Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, in June 1903.</p><br>
<p>Every Naval War College president except for Charles Stillman Sperry (1903–1906) has lived in the house since that time. Among the most famous residents of the house have been Admirals William Sims, Raymond A. Spruance, Stansfield Turner, and James Stockdale.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>List of occupants</h2><br>
<p>Rear Adm. French Ensor Chadwick June 1903 - Nov 16, 1903</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. John Porter Merrell May 24, 1906 - Oct 06, 1909</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Raymond Perry Rodgers Oct 6, 1909 - Nov 20, 1911</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Austin Melvin Knight Dec 15, 1913 - Feb 16, 1917</p><br>
<p>Captain William S. Sims Feb 16, 1917 - Apr 28, 1917</p><br>
<p>From April 28, 1917, to April 11, 1919, the academic activities of the Naval War College were discontinued due to United States participation in World War I. During this period, the reserve force of the Second Naval District used the college buildings and a series of three acting presidents maintained the administrative side of the college.</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. William S. Sims Apr 11, 1919 - Oct 14, 1922</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Clarence Stewart Williams Nov 3, 1922 - Sept 5, 1925</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. William Veazie Pratt Sept 5, 1925 - Sept 17, 1927</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle Sept 19. 1927 - May 30, 1930</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Harris Laning June 16, 1930 - May 13, 1933</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Luke McNamee Jun 3, 1933 - May 29, 1934</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Edward Clifford Kalbfus June 18, 1934 - Dec 15, 1936</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Charles Philip Snyder Jan 2, 1937 - May 27, 1939</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Edward Clifford Kalbfus June 30, 1939 - June 16, 1942</p><br>
<p>Admiral Edward Clifford Kalbfus (Ret.) June 16, 1942 - November 2, 1942</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. William Satterlee Pye Nov 2, 1942 - July 1, 1944</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. William Satterlee Pye (Ret.) July 1, 1944 - Mar 1, 1946</p><br>
<p>Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance Mar 1, 1946 - July 1, 1948</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Donald Bradford Beary Nov 1, 1948 - May 28, 1950</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Richard L. Conolly Dec 1, 1950 - Nov 2, 1953</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Lynde D. McCormick May 3, 1954 - Aug 16, 1956</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Thomas H. Robbins, Jr. Sept 5, 1956 - Aug 1, 1957</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Stuart H. Ingersoll Aug 13, 1957 - June 30, 1960</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin June 30, 1960 - July 31, 1964</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Charles L. Melson July 31, 1964 - Jan 25, 1966</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. John T. Hayward Feb 15, 1966 - Aug 30, 1968</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Richard G. Colbert Aug 30, 1968 - Aug 17, 1971</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Benedict J. Semmes, Jr. Aug 17, 1971 - Jun 30, 1972</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Stansfield Turner June 30, 1972 - August 9, 1974</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Julien J. LeBourgeois Aug 9, 1974 - April 1, 1977</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Huntington Hardesty April 1, 1977 - Oct 13, 1977</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale Oct 13, 1977 - Aug 22, 1979</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Edward F. Welch, Jr. Aug 22, 1979 - Aug 17, 1982</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. James E. Service Oct 14, 1982 - Jul 12, 1985</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Ronald F. Marryott August 8, 1985 - Aug 12, 1986</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. John A. Baldwin Sept 2, 1986 - Aug 11, 1987</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Ronald J. Kurth August 11, 1987 - July 17, 1990</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Joseph C. Strasser July 17, 1990 - June 29, 1995</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. James R. Stark June 29, 1995 - July 24, 1998</p><br>
<p>Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski July 24, 1998 - Aug 22, 2001</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Rodney P. Rempt Aug 22, 2001 - July 9, 2003</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Ronald A. Route July 9, 2003 - August 12, 2004</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Jacob Shuford October 2004 - Nov 6, 2008</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. James P. Wisecup July 6, 2010 - March 30, 2011</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. John N. Christenson March 30, 2011 - July 14, 2013</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Walter E. Carter Jr. July 15, 2013 - ca. July 2014</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. P. Gardner Howe, III ca. July 2014 - ca. July 2016</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley ca. July 2016 - ca. June 2019</p><br>
<p>Rear Adm. Shoshana S. Chatfield ca. August 2019 -</p><br>
<p>The United Congregational Church  is a historic former church building in Newport, Rhode Island. The congregation was formerly affiliated with the United Church of Christ . Built in 1857, the church was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012, in recognition for the unique interior decorations executed in 1880–81 by John La Farge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was gathered as Newports First Congregational Church in 1695 by Rev. Nathaniel Clap, a Harvard College graduate who ministered to the Newport congregation until his death in 1745. The Second Congregational Church of Newport started another congregation in 1735, but the two later reunited. The congregation was active during the American Revolution and both churches meeting houses were used as barracks and hospitals by the British and French troops in Newport. Dr. Samuel Hopkins was the minister of the church in the late eighteenth century.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, the church was pastored by the Reverends Mary Beth Hayes and Nan L. Baker. The church has since closed, and the has undergone renovation to become an events center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The current building is a Romanesque Revival structure, designed by Joseph C. Wells of New York City and completed in 1857. It is a basically rectangular building, built out of Connecticut brownstone, with two ornately decorated towers. In the 1880s the congregation retained the artist John LaFarge to redecorate its interior. LaFarge had recently completed work on Trinity Church, Boston, and sought to provide a more elaborate interior than he was able to in Boston. He produced twenty stained glass windows and a series of murals, which represent the only fully integrated ecclesiastical interior he produced. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Bird&#39;s Nest is a historic house at 526 Broadway at the One Mile Corner junction in Newport, Rhode Island, not far from the city line with Middletown. It is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide and two deep, with a gable roof and a large central chimney. A two-story ell extends from the rear of the house, and there are smaller additions which further enlarge the house by small amounts. An early 20th-century garage stands behind the house. The oldest portion of the house is estimated to have been built between 1725 and 1750, with most of the alterations coming in the 19th century, giving the house a vernacular mix of Federal, Greek Revival, and Gothic Revival elements. It was given its name by Dr. Rowland Hazard, who bought the property in the 1840s and used it as a summer retreat.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Bourne Mill is an historic textile mill on the border between Tiverton, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The various buildings in the cotton mill complex were completed from 1881 to 1951 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The Bourne corporation had a unique profit sharing arrangement based upon Jonathan Bourne&#39;s experience in the whaling industry. The company treasurer, George A. Chace, designed the original mill building.</p><br>
<p>Although only a very small part of the property is located in Fall River, Massachusetts the complex is generally grouped and referenced with the mills of that city.</p><br>
<p>After lying dormant for decades, the Bourne Mill was converted into 166 apartments, which were completed in early 2009. In September 2009, an arsonist set fire to the former detached picker house near the main mill, which had also been scheduled to be redeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The Clambake Club of Newport is a historic private club at 353 Tuckerman Avenue in Middletown, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The club&#39;s main building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Members</h2><br>
<p>Notable former members include:</p><br>
<p>Oliver Belmont, American congressman</p><br>
<p>Perry Belmont, American politician and diplomat</p><br>
<p>Edward H. Bulkeley, American clubman</p><br>
<p>William Astor Chanler, American poltiican, soldier and explorer</p><br>
<p>Winthrop Astor Chanler, American sportsman and soldier</p><br>
<p>William Bayard Cutting Jr., American diplomat</p><br>
<p>Elisha Dyer Jr., American politician</p><br>
<p>Edwin St. John Greble, United States Army general</p><br>
<p>Theodore Havemeyer, American businessman</p><br>
<p>H. H. Hunnewell, American banker</p><br>
<p>Woodbury Kane, American yacht racer</p><br>
<p>James Powell Kernochan, American businessman and clubman</p><br>
<p>David H. King Jr., American gilded age constructor</p><br>
<p>Louis Lasher Lorillard, American clubman</p><br>
<p>Ogden Mills, American businessman</p><br>
<p>Charles May Oelrichs, American broker and clubman</p><br>
<p>Herbert Pell, American politician</p><br>
<p>R. G. Harper Pennington, American painter</p><br>
<p>Lispenard Stewart, American politician</p><br>
<p>William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder</p><br>
<p>Whitney Warren, American architect</p><br>
<p>The Conanicut Battery is a colonial and 20th century military battery in Jamestown, Rhode Island, west of Beaver Tail Road. The site offers a commanding view of the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, local militia constructed an earthen battery on the site. The British occupied Jamestown later that year and took over the site, occupying the space until August 1778 when the French fleet arrived. Its principal surviving feature is an earthworks measuring about 150 ft long and 75 ft wide. The site is marked by a plaque placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1931. During the early 20th century, the USA military built large partially underground defensive batteries in the area, notably Fort Getty and Fort Burnside.</p><br>
<p>The 22-acre site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is now owned by the town. The Friends of Conanicut Battery and the Jamestown Historical Society are active in preserving the fort.</p><br>
<p>The Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark are located in the waters of Narragansett Bay on the west side of Aquidneck Island near South Portsmouth, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>HMS Cerberus was a frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1758 and carrying 28 guns. HMS Lark, also a frigate, was built in 1762 and carried 32 guns. Cerberus had been stationed off Rhode Island as part of a blockade of its ports since April 1776 and was joined by Lark in February 1777. Upon the arrival of a large French fleet off Narragansett Bay in late July 1778, the two ships were among the twenty British vessels in the bay which were then tasked to defend British-occupied Newport. Stationed in the northern stretch of the East Passage (separating Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands), the two ships were ordered to Newport, with instructions to not surrender to the enemy. While en route to Newport on August 5, the two ships were sighted by French ships of the line. On 8, the 64-gun Fantasque and the frigates Aimable, Chimère and Engageante, under Pierre André de Suffren, entered the Bay. Rather than engage on a lopsided battle that would have ended in their surrender, the two captains decided to scuttle their ships. Captain Symonds ran Cerberus aground, put the crew ashore, and set fire to the ship, while Captain White did the same with Lark. Two other British frigates, Orpheus and Juno, suffered the same fate. When Larks gunpowder magazine was reached by the flames, it exploded, sending debris flying for miles around.</p><br>
<p>The wrecks of all four ships lay essentially undisturbed until the 1970s, when an archaeological team located portions of Lark, Cerberus, and Orpheus. As of 2008, the full extent of the wreck sites has not been established, and only fragmentary evidence of the ships has been recovered.</p><br>
<p>The site of the wrecks of Cerberus and Lark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Witherbee School is a school house on Green End Avenue in Middletown, Rhode Island. It is a small -story gable-roofed structure, with a projecting section topped by a two-story tower. There are two entrances , leading to separate vestibules, which then lead into the single classroom. The vestibule areas were altered to accommodate indoor plumbing facilities sometime before 1940. The school was built in 1907 for the town by John Coggeshall. It closed in the 1940s, and is now run by the Middletown Historical Society as an educational center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jamestown Windmill is a smock mill in Jamestown, Rhode Island within the Windmill Hill Historic District on North Road north of Weeden Lane.</p><br>
<p>The 30 ft high windmill was built in 1787 to coarse grind flint corn to feed to animals and finer corn meal for farmer families to eat. It was built after the British occupational forces destroyed the previous mill around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island on a half acre of Col. Joseph Wanton&#39;s farm, which was confiscated because he was a tory. It operated until 1896. Several renovations were done in the 20th century, and it is maintained by the Jamestown Historical Society. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Charles Cotton House is an historic house at 5 Cotton Court in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the city&#39;s oldest houses.</p><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a hipped roof. The original portion of the house was built around 1720 with large Georgian style additions in the 18th century and modifications in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Charles Cotton, a great-grandson of Josiah Cotton and surgeon aboard the USS Constitution, owned the house in the early 19th century and gave the house its current name. The Cotton House was taken by eminent domain by the Newport Restoration Foundation in 1974 from the Cotton family who owned the house for 157 years. The Foundation moved the house in 1977 from its original location across the adjoining parking lot. The house was restored from 1979 to 1980. The site added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The William King Covell III House, originally Villa Edna but now known as the Sanford-Covell Villa Marina, is historic house at 72 Washington Street in Newport, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof and restrained Second Empire styling. It was designed by Emerson & Fehmer of Boston, and built in 1870 for M. H. Sanford as a summer residence. Its interior, in marked contrast to its exterior, is lavishly decorated with woodwork and stencilwork.</p><br>
<p>William King Covell II bought the house in 1896 and it has remained in his family until this day. It is currently owned by Anne Ramsey Cuvelier, the great granddaughter of William King Covell II, who uses it for a bed and breakfast business.</p><br>
<p>Lizzie Borden, a family friend who stood trial for murder, stayed with the Covell family after her acquittal in the summer of 1893. She stayed at the winter home of the Covell family on Farewell Street where the famous photo of her on the porch was taken. It is assumed that she also spent some time at 72 Washington Street.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The, also known as the Miles Mansion, is located in Washington, D.C. Built as a private residence in 1875, it has served as the headquarters of GFWC since 1922. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its association with the federation, which serves as an umbrella organization for womens clubs, dating to the mid-19th century. Tours of the headquarters, available by appointment, provide information about the activities of the GFWC and several historic rooms, including the 1734 entryway, the Julia Ward Howe Drawing Room, the dining room, music room and the GFWC International President&#39;s office. The headquarters also features changing exhibits of art, photographs and artifacts from its collections.</p><br>
<h2>Description and building history</h2><br>
<p>The GFWC headquarters is located southeast of Dupont Circle, on the south side of N Street between St. Matthews Court and 17th Street. It is a four-story masonry structure, built out of ashlar stone in a Renaissance Revival style. The entrance is in a slightly raised basement level, sheltered by a splayed glass and iron marquee with supporting ironwork brackets. The main floor windows are elongated, with paired casement windows topped by transoms, and keystoned lintels. A polygonal bay projects from the first two floors on the left, and a shallower rectangular one projects to the right of the entrance; both are topped by lower balustrades. The interior has been adapted for the GFWCs use, but retains some original finishes.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1875 by Rear Admiral William Radford, at a time when the Dupont Circle area was being developed as a fashionable residential neighborhood. In 1895 he sold the house to the state of Massachusetts, which gave it to General Nelson A. Miles in recognition for his military service. It was next owned by John Jay White, a big-game hunter who traveled with Theodore Roosevelt, and who commissioned the murals by Albert Herter that adorn some of its walls. In 1922 the house was purchased by the GFWC for use as its headquarters, a role it continues to play today.</p><br>
<p>GFWC, founded in 1890, represents approximately 60,000 GFWC Womans/Womens/Juniors/Juniorettes clubs nationwide and internationally. Club members are community leaders who work locally to create global change by advocating for women, children, and families on issues such as domestic violence and sexual assault, food insecurity/hunger, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Additionally, GFWC supports the arts, works to preserve natural resources, advances education, encourages civic involvement, and works toward world peace and understanding.</p><br>
<p>The Farnham Farm is historic farm at 113 Mount Pleasant Avenue on Prudence Island in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The farm was started by the Dennis family after the original farms on Prudence Island were burned and destroyed by the British during the American Revolution around the time of the Battle of Rhode Island. The farm contains several extant structures including a house (ca. 1805), barn (ca. 1850), milk house, fields, garden, woodland, orchard, and stone walls. The Dennis family sold the house to the Farnhams in 1867. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The farm is now owned by the Prudence Conservancy, a local preservation organization.</p><br>
