<p>The South Carolina State Armory, built in 1905, is an historic National Guard building located at 1219 Assembly Street near the State House in Columbia, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The armory was designed in the Early Commercial style by noted Columbia architect William Augustus Edwards and his partner Frank C. Walter. It was used as an armory until 1964 when the South Carolina National Guard vacated it for a new building. It is now privately owned and is used for office space,</p><br>
<p>On February 5, 1999, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The McMaster School, built in 1911, is an historic building located at 1106 Pickens Street on the corner of Senate Street in Columbia, South Carolina. It was designed by noted Columbia architect William Augustus Edwards of the firm of Edwards and Walter. Edwards and his partner, Frank C. Walter, designed sixteen schools according to standardized guidelines established by the state legislature in 1905. The architects chose a Renaissance Revival style with H-shaped floor plans used as the standard for the state in buildings designed and constructed by other architects. The State newspaper declared it the "handsomest school building in Columbia" when it opened in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The local school administration named the building after Fitz William McMaster (1826-99), honoring his contributions to organizing Columbias public schools, his leadership as a Confederate colonel, and his role in white supremacist resistance to Reconstruction in their dedication. South Carolinas current governor, Henry McMaster, is a descendant of Fitz William McMaster.</p><br>
<p>The building served as a public primary school for white children until 1956, when school districts across the state were consolidated in response to the state&#39;s low literacy rates, gaps between urban and rural schools, and federal mandates to end racial segregation.</p><br>
<p>The University of South Carolina purchased the building in 1960 and renamed it McMaster College. UofSC renovated the building to house the music and art departments and added an auditorium and rehearsal hall. The School of Music moved into its own building in 1993 and the Department of Art took over, replacing the auditorium with a substantial addition that doubled the building&#39;s square footage in 1997–99. The Department of Art rebranded as the School of Visual Art and Design in 2015.</p><br>
<p>On July 25, 1997, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Walhalla Graded School, built in 1901, is an historic building located at 101 E. North Broad Street in Walhalla, South Carolina. It was designed by noted Columbia architect William Augustus Edwards of the firm of Edwards and Walter and built by Grandy & Jordan of Greenville.</p><br>
<p>On February 13, 1992, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. At the time of registration the building housed district offices for the School District of Oconee County. It is currently used as the</p><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Church, Brunswick Town, is a ruined parish church in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The Anglican church was erected in 1768 and destroyed in 1776. The ruins are located beside the Cape Fear River in the Brunswick Town Historic District, along with Fort Anderson, Russelborough, and the nearby Orton Plantation. During the American Revolutionary War, British forces attacked Brunswick Town in 1776 and burned the church. Before its demise, the church was considered one of the finest religious structures in North Carolina. On February 26, 1970, the historic site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1741, the St. Philips Parish was created in Brunswick Town with Rev. James Moir as the first vicar. It was the sister church of St. James Church, Wilmington. Construction of St. Philips Church began in 1754, but was not completed until 1768. The first minister to lead the new church was Rev. John Barnett and Governor Arthur Dobbs designated St. Philip&#39;s as "His Majesty’s Chapel in North Carolina." Barnett was succeeded by J. Cramp and Nicholas Christian. During the American Revolutionary War, British forces attacked Brunswick Town in 1776 and burned the church, Russelborough, and most of the settlement. The church walls were the only parts of the structure not to be destroyed. Brunswick Town was deserted and the church remains were relatively untouched for almost a century.</p><br>
<p>In March 1862, Confederate engineers began to survey the remains of Brunswick Town and St. Philips Church. They built earthworks and trenches throughout the town, covering the remains of several burnt structures except for the church. The fort was constructed to protect the city of Wilmington 18 mi upstream, a vital port during the Civil War. The bastion was named Fort St. Philip, but renamed Fort Anderson in July 1863. During the attack on Fort Anderson in February 1865, cannonballs shot from Union ships hit the walls of the church and are still evident today. Confederate soldiers killed in action (KIA) were initially placed inside the church. When the Confederate forces were defeated, Union soldiers desecrated several graves at St. Philips Church and removed the building&#39;s cornerstone.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, the newly formed Cape Fear Chapter of the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America visited the historic site to pay homage to American Revolutionary War casualties in Brunswick Town. In 1902, Cape Fear Chapter erected a marble plaque inside St. Philip&#39;s to commemorate Brunswick Town co-founder, Maurice Moore. Excavations at Brunswick Town began in 1958 and items such as bullets, buttons, and a cannonball were retrieved from inside the ruins. The building is now part of the Brunswick Town State historic site. Visitors may walk through the church and tour the earthworks of nearby Fort Anderson.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The ruins consist of four brick walls, as well as graves located inside and outside of the church. The bricks used for construction were imported from England and the walls measure three feet (0.91 m) thick. The building is 76 feet, six inches (23.3 m) long, 53 feet, three inches (16.2 m) wide, and 24 feet, four inches (7.4 m) high. The floor and roof were destroyed in the fire, as well as the three doors and eleven windows that measured fifteen by seven feet (4.6 m x 2.1 m). The church floor was made of wood, except for the aisles which featured one-foot-square (0.3 m) brick tiles that formed the shape of a cross. The pews were wooden and the Governor&#39;s pew was raised above the others. Twelve burial sites are located inside the church and there are several graves remaining outside of the structure that were not desecrated by Union troops.</p><br>
<h3>Notable burials</h3><br>
<p>Notable people buried at St. Philip&#39;s Church include Arthur Dobbs, Governor Benjamin Smith, and Supreme Court Associate Justice Alfred Moore.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Avenue Historic District is a rural historic district in Johnston, Rhode Island, USA. The district encompasses a rural and agricultural landscape centered on a 1 mi stretch in the midsection of Brown Avenue, which runs between Hartford Avenue  and Greenville Avenue . There are five farmsteads, with the Dame Farmstead at its center, whose farmhouses date to the late 18th century. A number of these farms are no longer in production, and part of the district is in Snake Den State Park.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Burlingame–Noon House is a historic house built around 1800 in Cumberland, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The structure was originally a simple, one-and-one-half-story, five-room-plan, centre-chimney Federal style cottage, constructed in the first decades of the 19th century. In the middle of the century, it was enlarged into a two-and-one half-story, flank-gable Greek Revival house. It has panelled corner pilasters and a trabeated central entrance with sidelights and pilasters in a five-bay facade. The house has had few changes since the mid-nineteenth century and is notable for its architecture, including original Federal-period interior trim, which reflects transformations and adaptation in Cumberland&#39;s early history.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter, Lakeside, and Springvale Cemeteries are historic cemeteries located on Newman and Pawtucket Avenues in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The three cemeteries occupy a triangular area bounded by Newman and Pawtucket Avenues to the east and south, and railroad tracks to the west. Carpenter Cemetery, the oldest, was established in 1844. Springvale was established in 1888 and Lakeside in 1895. The area is one of the few remaining undeveloped areas of what was once a "ring of green" around the historic center of Rehoboth, which was near this area.</p><br>
<p>The cemeteries were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Cato Hill Historic District is a residential historic district  in central Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It consists of about 2-1/2 blocks of Church and Cato Streets, as well as the streets crossing them . The area, located on a hill just above Woonsockets downtown area, is a densely populated area built primarily between 1838 and 1875, during Woonsockets growth as a major textile processing center. Cato Hill is named for Cato Aldrich, an African American who purchased the land from the Arnolds who founded Woonsocket. The houses of the district exhibit vernacular forms of the architectural styles popular in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Central Falls Congregational Church is an historic church located in Central Falls, Rhode Island. This Shingle style wood-frame structure was built in 1883 to serve a local Congregationalist congregation which was established in 1820 and had outgrown its previous space. Among the members of this church was wadding mill industrialist and Lieutenant governor of Rhode Island Henry A. Stearns.</p><br>
<p>It used this building until 1973, when declining participation prompted its merger with other congregations, and the sale of this building to the nearby Roman Catholic Parish of St. Joseph for use as a parish center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Central Street School is an historic school building located at 379 Central Street in Central Falls, Rhode Island. This -story wood-frame building was built by the city in 1881 to meet burgeoning demand for education brought about by the success of the local mills. The building is cruciform in shape, with Italianated hooded entrances at opposited ends of the east–west axis of the building. Each floor houses two classrooms.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Clayville Historic District is an 81 acre historic district in Foster and Scituate, Rhode Island. The district encompasses the heart of the village of Clayville, a small 19th-century mill village. It is centered on the junction of Plainfield Pike, Field Hill Road, and Victory Highway near the Clayville Mill pond, and is roughly bisected by the town line between Foster and Scituate. The mill pond is impounded by a c. 1847 dam, which powered mills whose ruins and waterways lie downstream. The village is mainly residential, with vernacular 19th-century construction predominating. Notable buildings include the Clayville Christian Union Church, built 1867–71 with Greek Revival styling, and the c. 1845 Clayville Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The John Cole Farm  is an historic colonial farm on Reservoir Road in the far northeast of Cumberland, Rhode Island. The main farmhouse, a -story Cape style wood-frame structure, was built c. 1770 by John Cole not long after his acquisition of the property. The property, including a half-dozen outbuildings, has had only minimal intrusion of modern 20th-century amenities, and is a well-kept example of vernacular rural architecture of the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel B. Conant House is an historic house in Central Falls, Rhode Island. This -story structure was built in 1895 for Samuel Conant, president of a Pawtucket printing firm, and is one of the city&#39;s finest Colonial Revival houses. Its exterior is brick on the first floor and clapboard above, beneath a gambrel roof punctured by several gable dormers. The main facade has two symmetrical round bays, which rise to the roof and are topped by low balustrades. A single-story porch extends between the center points of these bays, and is also topped by a low balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, Providence architects.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Amos Cooke House is an historic house in Scituate, Rhode Island. Built in 1812, it is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. The center entry is framed by a Greek Revival surround that was a later alteration, and there is a shed-roof porch extending along the southern  facade. The house has retained much of its interior woodwork. The house was built by Augustus and Carver Hopkins, members of Rhode Island&#39;s prominent Hopkins family. It was purchased, along with a number of farm outbuildings, by Amos Cook in 1865, and was converted into a summer residence in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Cornell—Randall—Bailey Roadhouse  is an historic building located at 2737 Hartford Avenue  in western Johnston, Rhode Island. The oldest portion of this -story wood-frame structure was built in the late 18th century by Samuel Steere, and was substantially enlarged for use as a tavern in 1821 by Daniel Cornell. Business at the tavern declined when railroads rendered the highway less important, and the building was adapted for use as a bordello and gambling house in the early 20th century. In the 1970s it was converted for use as a gift shop.</p><br>
<p>The Cornell-Randall-Bailey Roadhouse is significant- to the history of architecture as a fairly well-preserved example of a commercial structure.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 1984.</p><br>
<p>See also Daggett House, Slater Park, Pawtucket RI, built about the same time, by Nathaniel&#39;s father John.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Daggett House (also known as "The House that Never Moved") is an historic building located at 74 Roger Williams Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this saltbox likely dates to before 1700; it is one of the oldest structures in East Providence. The house has been—without moving—in three municipal, two state, and two colonial jurisdictions.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Daggett House is set close to the street on a large lot in a residential neighborhood that was first settled in the early seventeenth century but was largely built up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally a two-story, gable-roofed, timber-framed, end-chimney dwelling, probably with only one room on each floor. A small entry and stair hall with front door opening to the south was squeezed in front of the chimney. A single-story lean-to with its own chimney was later added across the rear north side of the house and the roofline was altered to its present saltbox profile.</p><br>
<p>About 1900, the house was acquired by the American Electrical Works at nearby Phillipsdale and was renovated to provide housing for workers. The facade was extended two bays by an addition to the west side of the house; the staircase was rebuilt and the front entrance shifted to the east wall of the entry hall, facing the street; eighteenth-century nine-over-nine sash were replaced with newer windows; and gable windows and dormers were added to permit use of the garret as living space - More recent changes include the addition of a single-car garage connected by a short ell to the south of the house and the demolition of the lean-to fireplace and chimney.</p><br>
<p>In spite of these changes, the house retains a number of original features. Except for the rebuilt staircase and relocated front entrance, the original plan is intact and can be clearly read amid the accretions of later periods. Cased posts can be seen in older portions of the house and many two-panel doors remain. The original walk-in fireplace still exists, though a smaller modern fireplace has been constructed within, and slightly in front of it. For the most part the older sections of the house retain a sense of their original character; further restoration could make the structure&#39;s antiquity even more evident.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Daggett House, one of the oldest extant dwellings in East Providence, is a rare surviving example of early colonial domestic architecture. It is particularly noteworthy because the method utilized to enlarge the original end-chimney house—the addition of a rear lean-to with end fireplace in line with the original chimney—is more similar to northern Rhode Island building practice than to the mode customarily employed in Massachusetts, where houses were expanded by adding to the opposite side of the chimney, converting the structure into a center-chimney dwelling. This exhibits the close tie between Providence and western Rehoboth, a tie that developed and flourished even though the two communities were located in different colonies and, later, states.</p><br>
<p>The Daggett House has long been recognized as a historical site and is known to local residents as "the house that never moved," a designation referring to the fact that the house has stood in three towns and two states while remaining on its original site. It is thus a significant folk artifact reflecting a popular view of local history.</p><br>
<p>The rather sentimental, nostalgic association of the house with the regions early history, particularly with the settlement planted by Roger Williams a short distance to the north, made the structure the focus of an early historical-preservation campaign. In the 1890s the Daggett House was threatened with demolition to permit realignment of Roger Williams Avenue to accommodate a streetcar line. The scheme caused such consternation that the Rhode Island Historical Society formed a committee of prominent area scholars and businessmen to work for preservation of the structure. The house was saved, but underwent extensive changes to adapt it for use as a workers’ tenement. Today, the Daggett houses status as a historical and cultural artifact and architectural relic make it one of East Providence&#39;s more important historical resources.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership</h2><br>
<p>In December 1632, Roger Williams, then in Salem, wrote a lengthy tract that openly condemned the King&#39;s charters and questioned the right of Plymouth (or Massachusetts) to the land without first buying it from the Indians. In October 1635, he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his teachings and recalcitrance. This at a time "when men were burned at the stake for the good of their souls." In the spring of 1636, Roger Williams obtained a grant from the Wampanoag sachem, Massasoit, the northeast shore of Seekonk Cove where he was joined by his family and followers. "To this day are to be seen on the Dagget Farm, on the north side of Seekonk Cove openings in the ground, which tradition says are the cellar holes" of the Williams settlement.</p><br>
<p>However, Plymouth authorities asserted that Williams was within their land grant and warned that they might still arrest him. With his crops already planted, he decided to cross the Seekonk River to present-day Providence, as that territory lay beyond any charter.</p><br>
<p>In 1687, 26-year-old Nathaniel Daggett, of Rehoboth (see the Daggett House, in present-day Pawtucket) married neighbor Rebecca Miller. At some point he bought a large parcel of land near the Seekonk and Ten Mile Rivers, and built the two-room house for his wife and 5 children who survived infancy. The home stayed in the family for about 200 years.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1800s, the area around the house had been developed into a major industrial area, with extensive factories, surrounded by worker and tenement housing. The Ten Mile River was dammed to create Omega Pond for industrial uses. The pond and Ten Mile River were, for a few years, a popular local recreational attraction. In the late 1890s, a proposed straightening of Roger Williams Avenue, and addition of a streetcar line, would have required demolition of the Nathaniel Daggett house. An outcry erupted, local academics and businessmen were mobilized, and the historic house was saved.</p><br>
<p>American Electrical Works, a major local employer, bought the Daggett house and much of the surrounding neighborhood for worker housing, modernizing and expanding the modest saltbox in 1900. In 1927, the company sold off its worker housing and adjoining land. Deeds included a (now un-enforcible) clause that the "premises shall never be used or occupied by nor conveyed to any person of the negro race".</p><br>
<p>For almost 90 years, the Nathaniel Daggett House has been in the hands of three owners, who have been acutely aware of their responsibilities as stewards; the only significant change has been the addition of a garage and breezeway.</p><br>
<p>The James Dennis House is an historic house located at 3120 Pawtucket Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island. This two-story wood-frame house was built sometime in the 1870s, and is a fine local example of Queen Anne Victorian style. Its most prominent features are a square tower with pyramidal roof, and a decorated porch that wraps around three sides. Although Pawtucket Avenue once had a significant number of such houses lining it, most have been demolished or significantly altered.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The District 6 Schoolhouse is an historic school building located at 347 Willett Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a pair of entry doors and a low-pitch gable roof. The interior has been extensively altered to meet its modern usage as a meeting space. The school was built between 1864 and 1874, and is the oldest surviving school building in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Captain George Dorrance House is an historic house in Foster, Rhode Island. It is located on the west side of the road, a short way south of its junctions with Plain Woods Road, not far from the Connecticut border. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof and a large central chimney. The main block was built c. 1720, and a leanto was added c. 1750. It is one of the best-preserved early 18th-century houses in the state.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Eddy Homestead is a historic house at 2543 Hartford Avenue  in rural western Johnston, Rhode Island. This -story vernacular wood-frame house is estimated to have been built in the late 18th or early 19th century, and is a well-preserved example of a period farmhouse. It is a floor plan distinctive to western Rhode Island, where the cooking fireplace is located in one of the front rooms, rather than the more typical placement at the rear of the house. The house was in the Eddy family for most of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Edgewood Historic District–Taft Estate Plat is a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island that is bounded by Windsor Road, Narragansett Bay, Circuit Drive and Broad Street. The district represents the final subdivision of a country estate amassed by industrialist Orray Taft . It was laid out in 1904 and most of its residential stock was built between 1905 and 1930. The average size of the lots was 5400 square feet, although there was some variance in size, and a one-acre plot was reserved for the Taft mansion . The houses are architecturally heterogeneous, reflecting all of the major styles of the period; some properties were designed by Norman Isham.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 2003, The district abuts the Pawtuxet Village Historic District to the south, whose northernmost properties on Ocean Avenue were also laid out on the former Taft estate.</p><br>
<p>The Elliot–Harris–Miner House is an historic house located at 1406 Old Louisquisset Pike in Lincoln, Rhode Island. It is a rambling three-section structure, whose main block is stories tall with a cross-gable roof with bracketed eaves. The oldest portion of the house, however, was at its rear: it was originally a -story Cape style structure built c. 1710, but this has been torn down and replaced by a garage with a cross-gable roof matching that of the main block. These two sections are joined by a third section with a gable roof. The rear section was believed to be the oldest surviving Cape in Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The David G. Fales House is a historic house located at 476 High Street in Central Falls, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story, wood-framed house was built in about 1858 and remodeled in a Second Empire style to a design by Clifton A. Hall in 1867. It has a mansard roof with flared eaves studded with brackets, and bracketed bay windows on two sides. The interior was gutted when the house caught fire in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 6, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin H. Farnum House is an historic house at the junction of Putnam Pike  and Collins Street in Johnston, Rhode Island. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. It was built c. 1765, either by Stephen Angell or his son Daniel, and enlarged about 1795 by Edwin Farnum. The main entry exhibits Federal styling probably added by Farnum, with 3/4 length sidelight windows and a segmented fanlight above. The right-side bays on the first floor have been replaced by a 20th-century bay window.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Fenner House or the "Sam Joy Place" is a historic stone-ender house in Cranston, Rhode Island. It the oldest surviving house in the Providence Plantations portion of Rhode Island. The only older structure in the state is the White Horse Tavern in Newport. The house was built as a farmhouse in 1677 after King Philip&#39;s War by Captain Arthur Fenner for his son Major Thomas Fenner . The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The House is available for short stays by those interested in the historical and architectural significance of the property. It also is made available to educational groups to visit and study.</p><br>
<p>Captain Arthur Fenners original homestead, which was known as "Fenner Castle" (circa 1652) was burnt to the ground in King Philips War. Captain Arthur was appointed Captain of the militia and his son Thomas was appointed Major. They were among a small handful of men "one who staid and went not away" in the defense of Providence. After the war, in 1677, Arthur rebuilt his home also built, for his son, the Major Thomas Fenner house. The "Fenner Castle" stood until 1896 when the chimney was demolished. Arthurs great grandson, Thomass grandson) was Governor Arthur Fenner who donated a piece of wood from Captain Arthur&#39;s "Fenner Castle" for what is now the RI Mace. He did so to honor his grandfather, Captain Arthur Fenner who so bravely defended Providence from the Indians.</p><br>
<p>El Cortez is a condominium building in San Diego, California. Built from 1926 to 1927, El Cortez was the tallest building in San Diego when it opened. It sits atop a hill at the north end of downtown San Diego, where it dominated the city skyline for many years and became a landmark hotel. The building is the 40th tallest building in San Diego, based on its height of 310 ft .</p><br>
<p>From its opening in 1927 through the 1950s, it was a renowned apartment-hotel in San Diego. The large "El Cortez" sign, which is illuminated at night, was added in 1937 and could be seen for miles. In the 1950s, the world&#39;s first outside glass elevator was built at El Cortez. During the late 1960s and 1970s, El Cortez fell on harder times.</p><br>
<p>El Cortez closed as a hotel in 1978 when it was purchased by evangelist Morris Cerullo to serve as an evangelism school. Cerullo sold the property in 1981, and El Cortez was threatened with demolition until the San Diego Historic Site Board designated it as a historic site in 1990. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Many of the original elements remain in place, though substantial interior modifications have been made.</p><br>
<h2>Early history (1927–1949)</h2><br>
<h3>Construction and architecture</h3><br>
<p>Construction of El Cortez began in 1926 and was completed the next year at a cost of $2.5 million. The 14-story hotel was built by Richard T. Robinson, Jr., and designed by architects Albert R. Walker and Percy Eisen in a Spanish Churrigueresque style. The building is named for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.</p><br>
<p>El Cortez Hotel opened on Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1927. A crowd of 50,000 people were present at the opening&mdash;a third of the San Diego population. When the building was first opened, it had 117 rooms, 85 of these used for apartments, and 32 for hotel rooms. At the time of the opening, the Los Angeles Times reported: "The building is Spanish Renaissance in design. In keeping with the architecture, approach to the building is made through a Spanish garden of flowers, cool green lawns and fountains. Just above the entrance is an open-air garden retreat."</p><br>
<p>More than sixty years later, the Times noted that El Cortez&#39;s "graceful proportions and unique layout, with angular side wings embracing the main entrance, make it especially inviting."</p><br>
<p>The hotels main ballroom, the Don Room, was known as one of the most beautiful rooms in the city with an ornately carved sandalwood ceiling supported by large pillars, and an inlaid maple floor. The 200-seat Aztec Dining Room also reflected the hotels opulence. Critics dubbed it "the outstanding eating rendezvous of the community... because of its vast windows, brilliant ceiling and handsome equipment." The art deco style Sky Room, added in 1940, became renowned for its glass walls and 360-degree view of the city. At a height of 310 feet (94 m), penthouse guests could see up to 30 miles (48 km) away.</p><br>
<p>The top of the building includes a red neon sign with the words "El Cortez", which was first added in 1937. Each letter is 12 feet (3.6 m) high.</p><br>
<p>For 36 years, El Cortez was San Diego&#39;s tallest building, and its exterior glass elevator, Travolator, and Starlight restaurant made it a San Diego landmark.</p><br>
<h3>World War II</h3><br>
<p>On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an anti-aircraft battery and radar station were installed on the El Cortez roof. The anti-aircraft battery remained atop El Cortez for the duration of the war. One of the soldiers who manned the battery later recalled: "Since I was the search light battery commander, I would observe the action of the search lights at night. So some times I had to go on the roof of the El Cortez and there was no way of getting up there except through this bar that was on top. It was a beautiful bar. the people sitting at the table, I had to excuse me and there I am in my uniform stepping on their table and getting out the window, walking up the fire escape to the top of the El Cortez to look at the mission."</p><br>
<h2>Handlery years (1950–1978)</h2><br>
<h3>Harry Handlery</h3><br>
<p>In 1951, hotelier Harry Handlery purchased El Cortez from the El Cortez Company for $1.5 million. Handlery reportedly fell in love with the hotel and made it his permanent residence. Handlery made numerous changes both to the interior and exterior in his effort to make it "the finest hotel on the Pacific Coast," promising that "the hammers will never be still as long as I own the Cortez." To attract visitors, Handlery added a swimming pool in 1952, the Caribbean wing (an eight-story addition with a grand ballroom) in 1954, the Starlight Room (located on the twelfth floor and known for its views and chic experience) in 1956, an exterior glass elevator, and a motel and moving sidewalk known as the Travolator in 1959.</p><br>
<h3>Glass elevator and Travolator</h3><br>
<p>Handlerys most remembered changes were the addition of the worlds first outside hydraulic glass elevator and the first moving sidewalk in the 1950s. The outdoor glass elevator, reportedly a bellboys idea, was "the worlds first in 1956." Grosvenor announced plans to remove some of the non-original elements, including the glass elevator and rooftop sign and neon stars, leading to a split among preservationists. Grosvenor was concerned about structural problems with the elevator and the unavailability of spare parts. Some preservationists approved of Grosvenors plan, opining that Handlerys additions were "fifties kitsch" that detracted from the original Spanish architecture. Others regarded the elevator as a key element in the hotels historic significance. One member of the local historic site board noted, "It was the elevator that made a night at the El Cortez so thrilling. Any restoration that doesnt include the elevator is incomplete." The federal government ultimately endorsed proposals to remove the 1950s alterations and restore the original appearance.</p><br>
<p>Handerly also built the Travolator bridge in 1959 to connect El Cortez with his new motel across the street. Designed by architect Clarence J. Paderewski for the Otis Elevator Company, the Travolator was essentially a flat escalator. The same design was later used at airports in London, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Some objected to the Travolators garish orange exterior, but in its early years, San Diegos elite used the moving walkway to attend events at El Cortez. The Travolator ceased operating in 1981 and San Diego&#39;s homeless started sleeping on the bridge. In 1986, the owners sold the motel for $4.5 million, and there was no longer a need for a connecting bridge between the two properties. Accordingly, the Travolator bridge was demolished in June 1986.</p><br>
<h3>Paul Handlery</h3><br>
<p>In 1965, Harry Handlery died of a heart attack. His younger son, Paul Handlery, took over management of the hotel. Some contend that the transition from father to son signaled the decline of El Cortez as a center of the downtown social world. Harry Handlery had frequently made rounds throughout the hotel checking on every detail of service and quality. Some employees complained that Paul Handlery did not spend enough money for renovations and repairs on the hotel.</p><br>
<h3>Pueblo incident</h3><br>
<p>During the 1968 Pueblo incident, family members of the Pueblo crew were lodged at El Cortez.</p><br>
<h2>Cerullo&#39;s evangelism center (1978–1981)</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, Paul Handlery sold El Cortez to evangelist and faith healer Morris Cerullo for $7.5 million. Facing the prospect of layoffs if the acquisition went through, a veteran front desk clerk who watched Cerullos television special offered these comments: "The second time he (Cerullo) said the Lord spoke to him and told him to buy that beautiful old hotel,&#39; the lord spoke to me too. And the Lord told me to turn that guy off. So I switched the channel."</p><br>
<p>Upon taking over the hotel, Cerullo reportedly spent $4 million to convert the hotel into his evangelism center. The work included gutting the major meeting rooms, including the International Room, Cotillion Room, Starlight Room, Caribbean Room and kitchen. The living quarters were converted into dormitory-style accommodations, and the hotels luxury furnishings were sold. He was also criticized for installing individual air conditioning units that altered the hotels exterior and ripping out the ornate interiors to accommodate cafeterias rather than fine dining.</p><br>
<p>In the end, Cerullo needed only half of the hotel&#39;s 550 rooms to house students of his three-month $1,400 evangelism school. The balance of the rooms were kept open for public use. Cerullo also made an attempt at reopening the Don Room, without liquor, but it was closed after a short time.</p><br>
<p>In early 1981, after a little more than two years after acquiring El Cortez, Cerullo put the hotel back on the market for $20.8 million. The building was resold again several times to various owners in the 1980s and 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Later years</h2><br>
<h3>Considine years and convention center proposal</h3><br>
<p>El Cortez Associates, led by Denver developer Terry Considine, bought the property and proposed the site in 1983 as a location for the planned San Diego Convention Center. However, the city ultimately chose to build the convention center on the bayfront. At the time, the hotels furnishings had been stripped and auctioned by Cerullo, and El Cortezs 250 guest rooms were empty. Considine subsequently sold the landmark to the Grosvenor family. In 1984 and 1985 a community theater, Tom Rusch Productions, operated out of the Don Room. Productions included Godspell and Pirates of Penzance.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation efforts</h3><br>
<p>After a decade of decline, the Los Angeles Times reported in 1989 as follows:"Once the crown jewel of downtown San Diego, the 61-year-old El Cortez Hotel has been mostly empty and off-limits to the public for nearly a decade. The neon stars on the western face no longer shine.... Its hand-carved wooden doors, well-worn bar stools and polished brass fixtures have been auctioned off. Starting with its purchase in 1978 by Morris Cerullo, the El Cortez began a slippery slide to its current sad state."</p><br>
<p>In 1989, Grosvenor sold the hotel to Minami Corp. of Japan. Grosvenor remained involved as the developer and announced plans to renovate El Cortez as the centerpiece of a $250 million project that would include four new mixed-use towers, 362 residential units and 400 hotels rooms. However, in 1990, Minami lost interest in the ambitious project and announced that it was instead considering demolishing the hotel. Preservationists stepped in and succeeded in having El Cortez declared a San Diego historic site in 1990. In the late 1990s, the new owners embraced the building&#39;s historic designation and successfully had it listed on the National Register of Historic Places in order to qualify for renovation tax credits.</p><br>
<h3>Redevelopment into condominiums</h3><br>
<p>By the late 1990s, El Cortez had become an eyesore. In 1999, developers Peter Janopaul and Anthony Block obtained a loan from San Diego&#39;s redevelopment agency to renovate the building, including restoration of some historic elements.</p><br>
<p>By 2007, maintenance problems, including bursting pipes and backed-up plumbing, and declining values resulted in contentious litigation between the condominium homeowners and the developers. Several units were repossessed by lenders and were listed at prices less than half their original purchase prices. The homeowners sought $13 million in damages for construction defects, underfunding of the homeowners association reserves, and the developers’ plans to build another tower next door.</p><br>
<h3>Intellectual property</h3><br>
<p>In order to protect the name and image of El Cortez, the El Cortez Owners Association obtained the federal trademark rights to the El Cortez name and image from the United States Patent and Trademark Office under registration number 3422531. The trademark was cancelled in 2018. They also obtained the same state protection from the Secretary of State of California under registration number 64167.</p><br>
<h2>Impact</h2><br>
<p>Guests who have visited the hotel include USA Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Gerald Ford, and singers Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and Roy Rogers, actress Jane Wyatt and bandleader Skitch Henderson.</p><br>
<p>On July 25, 1990, the City of San Diego&#39;s Historic Site Board declared the building to be "historic", thus preventing its demolition.</p><br>
<p>Horton Grand Hotel is a restoration of two historic hotels, the Grand Horton and the Brooklyn Kahle Saddlery, in downtown San Diego, California. The Horton-Grand was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1887 by Comstock & Trotsche, the Grand Horton was a luxury hotel with a design based on the Innsbruck Inn in Vienna, Austria. The Grand Horton was part of a building boom following the opening of the city&#39;s first transcontinental railroad connection in 1885. It is in the Italianate Victorian architecture style.</p><br>
<p>The Brooklyn-Kahle Saddlery Hotel was a less formal hotel that combined Western/Cowboy and Victorian styles. Built around the same time as the Grand Horton, it was originally known as the Brooklyn Hotel, but was later renamed the Kahle Saddlery due to the presence of a prominent saddle and harness shop on the building&#39;s first floor starting in 1912.</p><br>
<h2>Dismantled</h2><br>
<p>Both hotels were scheduled for demolition in the 1970s when the City of San Diego purchased them to build the Horton Plaza shopping center on the site. The hotels were dismantled brick by brick, with each brick numbered, catalogued, and stored. In 1986 the hotels were rebuilt into an entirely new hotel at the present location at Fourth Avenue and Island Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Alphonse Gaulin Jr. House is an historic house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1885 by Alphonse Gaulin Jr., one of the citys first wealthy French-Canadian residents and its mayor 1903–05. The house is one of the citys finest Queen Anne Victorians, exhibiting the asymmetrical massing, varying projections, and a square tower projecting diagonally from one corner.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Glenark Mills or Glenark Landing is a historic textile mill complex on 64 East Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The original stone section of this mill was constructed 1865 by William Norton and was enlarged with a brick addition in 1885. Originally a cotton mill, the building was converted for use as a knitting mill and then as a worsted mill. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The building has now been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin F. Greene House is an historic house at 85 Cross Street in Central Falls, Rhode Island, USA. The Second Empire house was designed by Clifton A. Hall and built by Wheeler & Marchant in 1868. The house is one of a small number of high-style mid-19th century houses in the city. It was built for Benjamin Franklin Greene, a second-generation mill owner in the Central Falls/Pawtucket area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Grove Street Elementary School is a historic school in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The two-story brick Stick/Eastlake style school was designed by Edward L. Angell of Providence and built in 1876. In c. 1885 it was enlarged by adding a matching addition to its rear, joined by a small hyphen. This addition is more Queen Anne in its styling.</p><br>
<p>The building, a well-preserved example of modern schools of the 1870s, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Hanora Mills  are a historic textile mill complex the center of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The oldest part of the mill complex was constructed in brick around 1827 by the Ballou family, and it was named Harrison Mills. The mill was a water powered facility with a specially dug trench. In the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Lippitt&#39;s company purchased the mill from the Ballous, and it became known as Lippitt Mills. There are various other buildings which were gradually constructed as the site expanded with the latest dating to the turn of the twentieth century. The mill was renamed Hanora Mills in the twentieth century after the Lippitts sold the site. The mills produced woolen textiles until 1975 when the facility was closed. Several of the buildings feature a Greek Revival style, and the whole site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The historic mill buildings were renovated into apartments for the elderly in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Harris Warehouse is an historic storage facility on 61 Railroad Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The 3-1/2 story stone structure, built in 1855, by Edward Harris, a leading Woonsocket industrialist, rises abruptly from the street opposite the railroad tracks. The building is distinctive for its rubble stone construction, and its curved facade, designed to match the layout of the railroad spur on which it is located.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Trinity Church Complex is an historic church complex on 134 Fuller Avenue in Central Falls, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church was a red brick structure built in 1889 to a design by James Murphy in a Gothic Revival style. The campus also includes other Murphy designs, including a rectory (1893), convent (1905), and school (1905), and a parish house designed by Irving Gorman and built in 1925. The complex was built by the Roman Catholic Church within the Diocese of Providence to serve the area&#39;s growing Irish immigrant community.</p><br>
<p>The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The church has since been demolished, and its location is now occupied by Veterans Memorial Elementary School. The former parish school still stands at 325 Cowden Street as the Segue Institute for Learning.</p><br>
<p>The Hope Street School is an historic school building at 46 Hope Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The -story brick school building was designed by Willard Kent and built in 1899 by Norton & Kennedy. Its western entrance has a wooden portico supported by Doric columns; a similar portico on its eastern entrance was removed. The building was used as a public school until 1978.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Alumni</h2><br>
<p>Leah B. Allen, astronomer</p><br>
<p>The Thomas H. Hughes House is a historic house in Johnston, Rhode Island. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1845 by Zacharias French, and exhibits simple but well-proportioned Greek Revival style. The house is most notable as the residence for some years of Thomas H. Hughes, owner of a local dye processing factory and for whom the Hughesdale neighborhood of Johnston is named. He apparently lived in this house until 1877, when he had a larger house  built.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Island Place Historic District is a historic district at Island Place and South Main Street at Market Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The district includes six historic buildings, three of which are part of the Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill, dating from c. 1857 to c. 1919. The other buildings in the district are the Island Machine Company , the Barnai Worsted Company Dyeworks , and a wood-frame structure , that is the last surviving elements of the Wilkins Manufacturing Company. The district is bounded by Market Square, Bernon Street, and a bend in the Blackstone River. The site is now home to the Museum of Work & Culture, a project of the Rhode Island Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990; the Woonsocket Rubbert Company property was also listed separately in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jenckes House is a historic house at 1730 Old Louisquisset Pike in Lincoln, Rhode Island, United States. It is a -story timber-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and heavy molded cap. Additions extend the house to the south and northwest. The main block is estimated to have been built around 1760, by a member of the locally prominent Jenckes family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Elliott Coues House is a historic house at 1726 N Street NW, in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built about 1880, it was the home of 19th-century historian and ornithologist Elliott Coues  from about 1887 until his death. Coues helped found the American Ornithologists&#39; Union in 1883 and edited about 15 volumes of journals, memoirs, and diaries by famous Western explorers and fur traders. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Elliott Coues House is located in Washingtons Dupont Circle neighborhood, on the south side of N Street, west of Scott Circle between 17th and 18th Streets. It is the left one of two similar painted brick row houses, which were probably built around 1880. Coues house is the simpler of the two; it is stories in height with a dormered gable roof and a tall basement. Its facade is three bays wide, the left two taken up by a projecting rectangular bay. The entrance is in the right bay of the basement level, framed by pilasters and entablature that rise to also enclose the first-floor window. The building is not architecturally distinguished.</p><br>
<p>Elliott Coues moved into this house in about 1887, and it remained his principal residence for the rest of his life. A native of New Hampshire, Coues served in the United States Army from 1862 until 1881, pursuing a scientific interest in birds as an avocation. From 1873 to 1876 he served in the Pacific Northwest as a surveyor and naturalist for the USA Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1880 he became secretary and naturalist for the predecessor to the United States Geological Survey. In the latter role he edited and published a great deal of material documenting the days of the "Old West". In 1883 he helped found the American Ornithologists&#39; Union, also holding a chair in the anatomy department at Columbia University.</p><br>
<p>The Jenckes Mansion is an historic house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This three-story brick double house was built in 1828 by the Jenckes family, owners of the mills around which this area of Woonsocket, known as Jenckesville, grew. The building exhibits late Federal styling, and is distinctive as a rare example of a period private residence with ballroom. This space, located on the building&#39;s attic space, was divided into residential spaces c. 1900, when the building was converted into a tenement house.</p><br>
<p>The designer of the house is not known, but the authors of the 1976 historical survey of Woonsocket architecture opine that it is comparable to the work of architect John Holden Greene in Providence.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Jenks Park is a city park of Central Falls, Rhode Island. The citys only large park, its development began in 1890 on land donated by Alvin Jenks. Its centerpiece is Cogswell Tower, designed by Pawtucket architect Albert H. Humes and built in 1904. A gift of Caroline Cogswell, the tower stands 18 ft square and 70 ft tall. It has been the symbol of the City of Central Falls since its construction. The tower is supported by a brick barrel vault resting atop the historic Dexters Ledge, from which, during King Philips War in 1676, Native American scouts saw the approach of Captain Michael Pierce, and a company of Plymouth soldiers from the heights. Pierces forces were ambushed and nearly annihilated by the Native Americans in "Pierce&#39;s Fight" at a site along the Blackstone River on March 26, 1676, where Pierce Park now stands.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Luke Jillson House, also known as the Fisk House, is a historic house in Cumberland, Rhode Island. The wood-frame house is an excellent local example of Georgian style. Although a common date given for its construction is 1752, it was more likely built c. 1776 or in 1792, based on stylistic evidence.</p><br>
<p>The house is two and one-half stories tall with a flank gable roof and two interior brick chimneys, reflecting a central hall plan. The entrance, centered in a five-bay facade, has fluted pilasters supporting a cushion frieze surmounted by a modillion-trimmed cornice and pediment. A four-story, square, Italianate tower, constructed in the 19th century and connecting to a long, one-story addition, is attached to the rear elevation.</p><br>
<p>The dwelling is noted primarily for its architecture, which attests to the reputed affluence and prominence of Luke Jillson, about whom little is known. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Joy Homestead, also known as the Job Joy House, is a historic house on Old Scituate Avenue in Cranston, Rhode Island. This -story gambrel-roof wood-framed house was built between 1764 and 1778. It was occupied by members of the Joy family until 1884, and was acquired by the Cranston Historical Society in 1959. It was a stopping point on the first day&#39;s march in 1781 of the French Army troops marching from Providence to Yorktown, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The Historical Society offers tours.</p><br>
<p>The Knightsville Meetinghouse  was a historic church and meeting hall building at 67 Phenix Avenue within the village of Knightsville in Cranston, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was built in 1807 for the Benevolent Baptist Society. Town meetings were held in the building in the nineteenth century. Various Christian denominations also met in the building until 1864 when the Knightsville Mission Sabbath School, a large Sunday school began meeting in the building and desired to begin a formal church. A church was officially organized in the building in 1878 as a branch of the Union Congregational Church of Providence. The Providence and Knightsville churches remained affiliated until 1928 when the Knightsville branch broke off after Union merged with Plymouth. In 1967 Knightsville merged with the smaller Franklin Congregational Church. The Kinghtsville Meeting House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ, but in 2006 the handful of remaining members voted to leave the United Church of Christ and join the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches. After several decades declining funding and dwindling membership, the church closed in October 2009 and was subsequently demolished in 2015.</p><br>
<p>L&#39;Église du Précieux Sang  is a historic Roman Catholic church complex at 94 Carrington Avenue and 61 Park Avenue in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, within the Diocese of Providence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church, a High Victorian Gothic polychrome (but predominantly red) brick structure, was designed by the Worcester, Massachusetts architects E. Boyden & Son. Construction began in 1873 and halted in 1875. It quickly resumed under a new pastor, but much of the building was destroyed in a severe storm in 1876. Rebuilding began soon after, and the building was finally dedicated in 1881. A rectory was built along with the church. Originally a Second Empire style wooden building, it was remodeled in brick to designs by local architect Walter F. Fontaine in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The church tower was originally only completed up to the third stage, and it remained so until around 1910, when it was completed to designs by Fontaine.</p><br>
<p>In 1894–95, a convent and school, the Jesus-Marie Convent and Academy, was built at the corner of Park and Carrington. The architect is unknown, but the building is similar to other late designs by Boyden. The school was tripled in size in 1911. In 1927, a large chapel addition was built onto the convent, designed by Fontaine. At the same time, he designed a high school for the church on Greene Street. The site is now a parking lot. The complex had since been sold, and is now a senior housing development called Chateau Clare.</p><br>
<p>The church complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Aram J. Pothier, Governor of Rhode Island</p><br>
<p>The Linton Block was a historic site in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>It was a 4-storey office and domestic accommodation block built by Robert Linton in 1888 to house his drug store. Built in a Queen Anne/Romanesque style, the brick facade was ornamented with brickwork patterning and terra cotta panels and the side elevations embellished with cut shingles.</p><br>
<p>It was badly damaged by fire in 1890. It was added to the National Historic Register in 1982. It was destroyed by fire on March 22, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Gompers House is a historic house at 2122 1st Street NW, in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built around the turn of the 20th century, it was from 1902 until 1917 home to Samuel Gompers , who was founder and president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Gompers House is one of a series of row houses on the west side of 1st Street NW between V and W Streets in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Northwest Washington. It is a narrow brick building, three stories in height and two bays wide. The left bay has a projecting hexagonal bay, which rises the full height to a polygonal roof capped by a finial. The entrance, in the right bay, is approached by stone steps with a low stone railing, and is topped by a carved stone lintel. The building is not otherwise of architectural interest. Its construction date is unknown; it is stylistically typical of row houses built in Washington during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The house was from 1902 until 1917 home to Samuel Gompers. Gompers, a native of England, came to the United States as a young man and worked as a cigar maker. He organized a union of cigar makers that became one of the most powerful of the early 1870s. He was involved with other union leaders in laying the foundations for the American Federation of Labor (AFL), whose first president he became in 1886. His house, in addition to being his home, was often the scene of meetings related to the organization, which was in the first quarter of the 20th century the nation&#39;s most influential labor organizations. Gompers vigorously pursued its three goals of higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions for American workers.</p><br>
<p>The Lippitt Hill Historic District is a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island along Hope Road between Laten Knight Road and Hope Road&#39;s junction with Burlingame Road and Lippitt Avenue. This area was settled by Moses Lippitt, who in 1735 built a Georgian farmhouse for his son Christopher. Christopher later  built a Federal style house for his son William. These two farmhouses are the anchors of this rural district, which also includes a historical cemetery in which many generations of Lippitts are buried, and which features a unique heart-shaped planting of pine trees.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Little Neck Cemetery is a historic cemetery off Read Street in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was founded in 1655, when the area was part of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Famous and historical burials</h2><br>
<p>Little Neck Cemetery is a historical and cultural resource of much importance. It contains the gravestones of people who have played an important part in the history of East Providence and other American societies.</p><br>
<p>The oldest recorded burial is that of John Brown, Jr. (who died 1662), son of the man who purchased Wannamoisett from the Wampanoag Indians. The gravestone of Elizabeth Tilley Howland (died 1687) is also there. Howland was a passenger on the Mayflower ship and was one of the original settlers of the Plymouth Colony. She died at the Swansea, Massachusetts farm of her daughter and son-in-law and was buried near there at Little Neck. Today her grave is marked by a finely carved slate marker put up in 1946 by the Howland Family Association.</p><br>
<p>The most renowned person buried at Little Neck, however, is Captain Thomas Willett (died 1674). Willett, son-in-law of John Brown of Wannamoisett, settled in what is currently East Providence in a house that was located on Willett Avenue (now the site of the Willett Arms Apartments). He is noted for serving as the first English mayor of New York. The Willett plot, surrounded by a stone-post and iron rail fence, is now marked by a large boulder put down by the City Club of New York and that also contains the original stones marking the graves of Willett and his wife, Mary, who died in 1669.</p><br>
<p>The Logee House is a historic house on 225 Logee Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Built in 1729 by a French Huguenot family, this two-story wood-frame house is a rare early-18th-century house in the city, and one of its best-preserved. The main block follows a plan more typical of colonial Massachusetts houses, unsurprising given the land it stands on was once disputed between the two colonies. The main block has a central chimney, with single rooms on either side on both floors. An ell, probably 18th century in origin, extends from the rear, and a 20th-century porch adorns the front of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
