<p>The Dominican Block is an historic multifunction building at 141-145 Lincoln Street in Lewiston, Maine. The Queen Anne style block was built in 1882 to a design by the noted local architect George M. Coombs, and was for many years one of the primary social centers for the city&#39;s burgeoning French-American community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The Dominican Block is set at the southwest corner of Lincoln and Chestnut Streets, not far from Lewiston&#39;s mill complexes. It is a -story structure built out of brick with granite trim. It has two storefronts, separated by piers of alternating brick and granite banding, with an entrance to the upper floors projecting to their left. Above each storefront windows are grouped in threes as the piers continue up to the fourth floor. The half-story at the top consists of a raised central section three bays wide, with an ornate brickwork pediment and round-arch windows in the outer bays.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by local architect George M. Coombs and built in 1882. It is architecturally a well-preserved local example of Queen Anne Revival executed in brick, and is stylistically similar to other buildings Coombs designed in Lewiston and elsewhere. It was built by the local Dominican Order to house a variety of social and community services to the city&#39;s growing French Catholic population. The area it was built in was known as "Little Canada" at the time, and the building was described by a local newspaper as almost a city hall for the local French-speaking population. When opened, the Dominicans operated a school (providing both religious and secular instruction) on the premises, and it was used for worship, community meetings, and theatrical performances. The building has been in private ownership for many years, converted to more typical business and social functions.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Milton Wedgewood House is a historic house at 101 Pine Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1873 for a local doctor, it is a distinctive local example of Second Empire, and an important work of local architect Charles F. Douglas. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Dr. Milton Wedgewood House stands in a predominantly residential area east of Lewistons commercial downtown, at the southeast corner of Pine and Pierce Streets. It consists of a two-story mansard-roofed main section, from which a three-story tower and single-story ell, also with mansard roofs, project toward the Pierce Street side. The towers roof is capped by original iron cresting. The roofs are pierced by gabled dormers with sash windows set in segmented-arch openings on the main roof lines, and with fixed-pane windows set in rounded oblong openings in the towers roof. The buildings main windows are sash, set in segmented-arch surrounds with keystones and ears. The interior retains original moulded woodwork and marble fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1873 for Dr. Milton Wedgewood, a prominent local doctor. It was designed by Charles F. Douglas, known for his large-scale work on Lewiston&#39;s mills. He was also known to tailor his designs to specific needs of his clients, in this case providing a consultation space for the doctor that was separated from his residence.</p><br>
<p>The First Callahan Building is an historic commercial and residential building at 276 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1892 to a design by noted local architect George M. Coombs, the Renaissance Revival brick building was part of a major development on the citys main commercial street by the Callahan brothers, owners of a local gentlemans furnishings store. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The First Callahan Building is located on the east side of Lisbon Street in Lewistons principal downtown commercial district. It is located adjacent to the Second Callahan Block (at number 282), and across from the Lower Lisbon Street Historic District, which encompasses Lewistons earliest commercial development. It is a four-story red brick with a flat roof that has an extended bracketed cornice above a brickwork entablature. The main facade, facing Lisbon Street, is nine bays wide, divided into three groups by metal pilasters at the first floor level, and brick pilasters above. The first floor has three modern storefronts, while the upper floors have sash windows set in flat-topped openings with granite sills. Access to the upper floors is via an entrance on Chestnut Street, whose facade matches in detailing that facing Lisbon Street.</p><br>
<p>This building was designed by noted local architect George M. Coombs (who designed numerous buildings across northern and western Maine), and was built in 1892 for T. F. and Eugene Callahan, brothers who operated a shop providing hats, trunks, and other furnishings for gentlemen. The building originally house retail establishments on the ground floor, and offices and residences above; the upper levels have been rehabilitated for exclusive residential use. The Callahan brothers were apparently financially successful, since they were able to build the adjacent block in 1911; it was designed by Coombs&#39; son-in-law and successor, Eugene Gibbs.</p><br>
<p>The First McGillicuddy Block is an historic commercial building at 133 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The block was built in 1895 by Daniel J. McGillicuddy, and is one of two surviving local examples of the work of local architect Jefferson Coburn. The block, a fine example of late Victorian architecture, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The First MicGillicuddy Block is located at the northwest corner of Lisbon and Ash Streets, occupying a prominent position on Lewiston&#39;s principal downtown street. It is a four-story brick structure, trimmed with metal and stone. Its main facade faces Lisbon Street, and is three bays wide, the corner bay rounded at the upper levels and capped by a conical roof. Windows are varied, including large round-arch and segmented-arch windows, and paired narrow windows, all with arches highlighted by orange brick voussoirs and granite keystones. An orange brick beltcourse lies just below the pressed metal cornice of the roof. The ground floor storefront is modern. The Ash Street facade is less ornate, but has two oriel window bays, two stories in height, at the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Jefferson L. Coburn & Sons, noted local architects who also designed the adjacent Osgood Building. It was built for Daniel J. McGillicuddy, a prominent local lawyer, who had served in the state legislature and as mayor of Lewiston, and later served in the United States Congress.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank is a historic commercial building in Lewiston, Maine. Built about 1903 for the city&#39;s first chartered bank, it is a fine local example of French-inspired Classical Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The First National Bank building is located on the south side of Main Street (United States Route 202) in downtown Lewiston, marking the end of a block of brick and masonry buildings at the junction of Main and Lisbon Streets. It is a three-story building with brick walls and cast stone trim. The main facade is four bays wide, with a first floor of modernized storefronts. The bays of the upper floors are demarcated by fluted Doric pilasters, with th esecond-floor windows having square hooded trim, and the third floor windows having segmented-arch lintels. The pilasters support an entablature, above which a modillioned and dentillated cornice projects. The third floor windows have wrought iron balconies supported by cast stone brackets.</p><br>
<p>The Lewiston Falls Bank, later the First National Bank, was founded in 1852, and was instrumental in financing the growth of Lewistons textile mills in the period before the American Civil War. This building, whose architect is unknown, was built for the institution about 1903. When it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it was occupied by the banks successor, Norstar Bank. The building presently houses other retail and commercial businesses.</p><br>
<p>The James C. Lord House is a historic house in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1885 for a prominent local businessman, it is a high quality blend of late 19th-century architectural styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Lord House stands north of downtown Lewiston, on a slight rise at the southeast corner of Main Street (United States Route 202 and Maine State Route 100). It is a -story masonry structure, built out of red brick with granite trim. The house is roughly T-shaped, with a polychrome slate roof that is gabled in the side ends and hipped at the rear. The roof is pierced on several elevations by gabled dormers, and a three-story tower projects from the front, capped by a pyramidal roof. A single-story porch extends across the full width of the front; it has square posts rising to arched openings, with low balustrades between. Windows have granite sills and lintels, and there are paired brackets in the corners of the eaves. A period carriage house, also built of brick, stands behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1885 to a design by Jefferson L. Coburn, a local architect from whom only a few designs are known. Its massing is typical of the Queen Anne style, but its design includes elements of Gothic, Italianate, and Stick styles. The house was built for James C. Lord, a prominent local business man who operated a dry goods business at 379 Lisbon Street. The house was purchased in 1920 by Timothy Callahan, a prominent local politician.</p><br>
<p>The John D. Clifford House is a historic house in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1926, it is one of a modest number of examples statewide of Mediterranean Revival, and the only one known to have been built as a year-round residence. The building features an eclectic mix of styles, and has a builtin garage, also a rarity for the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
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<p>The Clifford House is set on the north side of Ware Street, in a small residential area between Main Street (United States Route 202) and the Bates College campus, north of downtown Lewiston. It is a -story, constructed of Italian tile blocks and finished on the exterior in stucco. Its massing and broad hipped roof are suggestive of the Prairie School, but it has French wrought iron railings across the second-floor porch, arched window openings reminiscent of the Art Deco style, and modern steel casement windows. Its front door is set in a projecting vestibule section, and the door itself has a round-arch top in which is set a circular window. The house is set on a sloping lot with an exposed basement, which houses a garage (original to the design).</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the local firm of Gibbs & Pulsifer, and was built in 1926. It is the only known example in the state of a Mediterranean Revival house built for year-round occupancy; all of the others were built along the states coast for summer residents, and most were designed by out-of-state architects. John D. Clifford, Jr., for whom it was built, was an attorney who served briefly in the state legislature and as United States District Attorney, and was active in organizing the states Democratic Party. He was judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Maine from 1947 until his death in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The Lord Block is a historic commercial building in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1865, it is one of downtown Lewistons oldest commercial buildings, and a reminder of the citys early commercial character. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Lord Block is located on the southern half of Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s main business district, at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Cedar Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of load-bearing brick with granite trim, with a front-facing gable roof that has a cross gable on the north side. The front has two virtually identical storefronts, each with a recessed entrance on the left and a plate glass display window to the right. The doors and windows are separated by rusticated granite piers, with a modern awning now extending across both storefronts and on to the adjacent building. Upper floor and side facade windows are sash windows set in rectangular openings, with granite sills and lintels. The north-facing gable is finished in decorative cut shingles, and has two window bays.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1865 for James C. and Rufus Lord, dealers in "provisions", and was probably one of the first commercial businesses on the southern stretch of Lisbon Street, near the mills. Its deed restrictions limited its height, and required masonry construction. The store was apparently successful: James Lord was able to build an elaborate house on Main Street in 1885.</p><br>
<p>The College Block/Lisbon Block is an historic commercial and civic building in Lewiston, Maine, United States. Built in 1855-56, it is the oldest surviving building in the city of the Franklin Company, the citys major early developer. The building has house many local civic groups, and served as Lewistons town hall prior to its incorporation as a city in 1863. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The College Block/Lisbon Block stands on the east side of Lisbon Street, the main street in Lewiston’s commercial downtown, at the northeast corner with Chestnut Street. It is a long four-story brick building, with seventeen bays facing Lisbon Street. It has eight storefronts on the ground floor, each with recessed entries flanked by display windows, and a modest building entrance to the right of the leftmost storefront. The second and third floor windows are rectangular sash, with stone sills and lintels. Eight windows near the center of the second floor are taller, with transom panes above the sashes. The fourth floor bays have a combination of fixed-pane windows and blind brick panels. The building is capped with a flat roof with projecting Italianate cornice.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1855-56 by the Franklin Company, and was one of the first buildings it erected in what is now Lewistons downtown. The buildings upper-level meeting spaces have been used over the decades as the town hall, space for church congregations to worship, and a wide array of fraternal and social civic organizations. The city&#39;s first Franco-American society, the Institute Jacques-Cartier, met here from the 1870s until 1939. Originally called the Lisbon Block, it was renamed the College Block c. 1881 after ownership of the building was taken over by Bates College.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Lisbon Street Historic District encompasses part of the earliest commercial center of Lewiston, Maine. Located on the west side of Lisbon Street, the city&#39;s main commercial area, between Cedar and Chestnut Streets are a collection of commercial buildings representing a cross section of architectural styles, built between 1850 and 1950. When the historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, it included 18 buildings. Eleven of these have since been demolished, and one has a significantly altered facade.</p><br>
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<p>The city of Lewiston was established in 1850 as a center for the manufacture of textiles, and its downtown area developed along Lisbon Street between then and about 1920, when the textile mills began a slow decline. The upper portion of Lisbon Street, between Main and Chestnut Streets, experienced intensive repeated development, and little of the city&#39;s early commercial architecture survives there. The lower part of the street was less intensively developed, resulting in a collection of buildings architecturally representative of the entire period of development. The historic district extends for one city block, including all of the buildings on the west side of Lisbon Street between Chestnut and Cedar Streets. The older buildings on the east side of this block have for the most part been razed and the land redeveloped, with only the First and Second Callahan Buildings (both separately listed on the National Register) at the northern end; they are not included in this district.</p><br>
<p>When listed on the National Register in 1985, the west side of this block was lined with commercial buildings, most of them built of brick and masonry. Of the eighteen buildings then on the block, twelve were judged historically significant, and only seven are still standing. One of the surviving buildings is the district&#39;s oldest, a -story wood frame gable-front building built c. 1850–55. It is flanked by later four-story buildings, one Romanesque and the other Classical Revival, dating to 1914 and 1896 respectively. To the south stand two more buildings, one four stories and the other one, with commercial Italianate style, but a significantly-altered combined ground-floor storefront. Two three-story brick buildings still stand near the northern end of the block, one of which, the Centennial Block, has Gothic Victorian styling.</p><br>
<p>The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank is an historic commercial building at 145 Lisbon Street Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1914, it was the tallest commercial building in Lewiston until 1950, and was one of the last major commercial buildings erected in the city before World War I, and one of the few that exhibits Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank building is located at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Ash Streets in downtown Lewiston. The building is seven stories tall, and presents three bays to Lisbon Street and eight to Ash. Ash Street slopes downhill from Lisbon Street, exposing the basement level. Most of the building is finished in yellow brick, although much of the street level facade on Lisbon Street is in limestone. That facade has three bays articulated by two-story pilasters, with sash windows in the outer bays and the upper five floors. The entrance is recessed in the center bay, with a three-part window on the second floor. A cornice line with decorated entablature extends between the second and third floors on both street-facing facades. The first two floors of the Ash Street facade are dominated by tall round-arch windows, with store fronts in the exposed basement level. A projecting belt course separates the sixth and seventh floors, and the building is capped by a flat roof with a projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1914. It was designed by Hutchins & French of Boston, and it is stylistically similar to large office buildings built in New York City and Chicago at the time. The Manufacturer&#39;s National Bank was founded in 1875, and was originally located in the Pilsbury Block. The building continues to house commercial tenants.</p><br>
<p>The Maine Supply Company Building is an historic commercial building at 415–417 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1911, this Renaissance Revival building is the best-preserved local work of Miller & Mayo, and is also notable as housing the first known automotive service center in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Maine Supply Company Building stands on the west side of lower Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare. It is a four-story masonry structure, built out of brick with wooden trim. Its facade is divided into three sections, articulated on the first two levels by quoined brick piers, topped in pairs by elaborate cornices. On the third level a massive round arch caps the central two piers. Bays within the arch and on the second level are occupied by bands of sash windows; the first floor has commercial plate glass windows in the outer sections, and a glassed entry in the center. The remaining bays are single sash, set in rectangular openings, which are keystoned on the third level and plain on the fourth. An elaborate cornice with large brackets and dentil moulding crowns the structure.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1911 for the Maine Supply Company, a retailer of agricultural implements. From 1919 to 1928 it housed an automobile sales showroom and service center, with garage service bays in a single-story addition (no longer standing) to the south. Two of the building&#39;s ground floor sections once housed garage bay doors to facilitate vehicular access. The building has since seen use as a warehouse and office building.</p><br>
<p>Marcotte Nursing Home is an historic elder care facility at 102 Campus Avenue in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1927 and opened the following year, it was the largest facility of its type in New England, representing a major step forward in the regions elder care. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is now part of the dYouville Pavilion of Saint Mary&#39;s Regional Medical Center.</p><br>
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<p>The former Marcotte Nursing Home building is located on the north side of Campus Avenue, just east of the Bates College campus, and across the street from the main medical facilities of Saint Marys Regional Medical Center. It is a five-story masonry structure, built of brick with cast stone trim in the Tudor Revival style. In addition to load-bearing brick walls, it has iron beams for added support. Its stairwells are built with steel framing clad in brick. The interior floor framing is wood, and the walls are plaster on lath. There are three (former) principal entrances on the street facade, sheltered by round-arch porticos. The modern dYouville Pavilion extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Marcotte Nursing Home was founded through the efforts of Francois Marcotte, a prominent local French-American businessman, and the local Society of the Sisters of Charity, a Roman Catholic aid organization. Marcotte began fundraising for its construction in 1926, and the building, designed by the Portland firm Miller, Mayo & Beal, was opened in 1928. The facility included nursing care facilities, an orphanage, and, uniquely for the time, 22 small apartments for indigent elderly. The latter were supported by an endowment from Marcotte. Marcotte himself later occupied one of the units, and died there in 1942.</p><br>
<p>The Dingley Building, formerly the Oak Street School, is a historic municipal building at 36 Oak Street in Lewiston, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1890, it is a distinctive local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, designed by local architect George M. Coombs.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It now houses the Lewiston school system&#39;s administrative offices.</p><br>
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<p>The Dingley Building stands near the eastern edge of Lewiston&#39;s commercial downtown area, on a lot bounded by Middle, Oak, and Bates Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built of red brick with stone trim. It is covered by a tall hip roof, and is set on a raised basement, from which it is separated by a stone beltcourse. The main entrance is recessed in a large round-arch opening, which shelters the stairs providing access. The entrance is set in a projecting gabled section, from which a turret rises at the left corner, topped by an open belvedere and a convex circular roof. Windows in the projecting section above the entrance are set in round-arch openings, in a group of four on the second level, and in a Palladian-style group of three in the gable.</p><br>
<p>The school building was designed by architect George M. Coombs and was built in 1890. The name was changed to the Dingley Building in 1899 in honor of Nelson Dingley, Jr., a former governor of Maine and longtime congressman from Maine&#39;s second district. It was later used as an elementary school, then the headquarters for the Lewiston Board of Education. It remains the central office for the school district today. The Lewiston Historical Commission also meets in the building.</p><br>
<p>A lightning bolt struck the Dingley Building in June 2008, causing no injuries, but resulting in moderate damage to the wooden tower as well as utilities.</p><br>
<p>The Osgood Building is an historic commercial building at 129 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1893, it is one of few known surviving commercial works by local architect Jefferson L. Coburn, and the only known use of imported English white brick in the state. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Osgood Building is located on the west side of Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare, just north of its junction with Ash Street. It is a four-story masonry structure, built principally out of white brick imported from Leeds in the United Kingdom. Its main facade is symmetrical, with groups of three bays flanking a central bay. These groupings are articulated by pilasters that rise the full height of the building, with decorative capitals between the first and second levels (where they form part of a band of decorative stone), and the cornice. The main entrance is recessed in the central bay in an archway built of red glazed brick. The storefronts to either side consist of a central larger window with smaller flanking windows, each set in segmented-arch openings, with cast frame elements that include a keystone above the larger window. This form is repeated, with slightly different styling, on the second and third levels. The fourth level is nine bays across, with smaller round-arch windows.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1893 for H.A. Osgood, a jeweler with a long-established business at this site. It was designed by Jefferson L. Coburn & Sons, noted local architects who also designed the First McGillicuddy Block, just south of this one. Coburn was particularly noted for his eclectic designs. The builder was E.R. Desjardins, an immigrant from Quebec.</p><br>
<p>The Pilsbury Block is an historic commercial building at 200-210 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The block was built in 1870, and is a late example of Italianate architecture, exhibiting some Romanesque details. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Pilsbury Block is located on Lisbon Street, Lewiston&#39;s principal commercial thoroughfare, at the northeast corner with Pine Street. It is a three-story masonry structure with a narrow rounded bay at the street corner. The upper floors are divided into large bays, five facing Pine Street and six facing Lisbon, each set in a recessed arched panel. There are paired windows in each panel, set in round-arch openings on the third floor and segmented-arch openings on the second. The ground floor storefronts are set in groups of segmented-arch or flat-topped segments of stone, with either display windows or entrances topped by transom windows. The building is capped by a corbelled brickwork cornice.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the building, the corner section, was built in 1870 for George H. Pilsbury by Jesse T. Stevens, a local engineer. The architect may have been William H. Stevens, who was closely associated with Pilsbury in the Franklin Company and the Lewiston Institution for Savings (later the Peoples Savings Bank). In 1873 it was enlarged by the addition of three bays on Lisbon Street. The addition is known to have been designed by Stevens, now practicing as Fassett & Stevens. The building is one of Lewistons oldest surviving commercial buildings, and a rare example of transitional Italianate-Romanesque architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Pilsbury Block is now part of Lewiston Public Library.</p><br>
<p>The Lewiston Main Post Office of Lewiston, Maine is located at 49 Ash Street in downtown Lewiston. Built in 1933 and enlarged in 1975, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as USA Post Office–Lewiston Main.</p><br>
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<p>The Lewiston Main Post Office is located one block east of the citys central Lisbon Street business district. The original 1933 portion of the building faces north onto Ash Street. It is two stories in height, with a frame of steel and concrete, and an exterior of stone brick. The central portion is nine bays wide, articulated by brick pilasters with stone bases and capitals. The first-floor bays have rounded-arch openings, the central three housing entrances, and the outer six windows. A stone entablature is topped by a dentillated cornice and a parapet with stone balusters and brick piers. The central main section is flanked by matching single-story sections, with a modern service wing to the rear. The interior of the central block is houses the main lobby in the front half and a work area to the rear, with the postmasters office to one side, and is richly decorated.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, then under the guidance of James A. Wetmore, and was constructed in 1934-35. Its elaborate detailing probably benefited from an increase of the staff of that office pursuant to the Federal Employment Stabilzation Act of 1931. The modern service wing was added to the rear in 1975.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic former church building at 257 Main Street in Lewiston, Maine. Built 1864–67, it was the first Roman Catholic church in the city, and is one of only two surviving buildings in the state designed by Patrick C. Keely. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The church closed in 2009, and was in 2013 threatened with demolition. Alternative uses for the structure are still being sought.</p><br>
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<p>The former St. Josephs Church stands on the northeastern fringe of Lewistons downtown area, at the eastern corner of Main Street (Maine State Route 100) and Blake Street. It is a brick building with Gothic Revival style, and a projecting central tower. The main roof is gabled, with a level of clerestory windows. The tower has one of the three main entrances on the ground floor, a Gothic lancet-arch window on the second, and a belfry with lancet-arched openings on the third level. It is topped by an octagonal spire with cross finial.</p><br>
<p>Roman Catholic services began in Lewiston in the late 1840s, provided by traveling priests. St. Josephs was organized 1857, with services held in a former Baptist church. This church was constructed in 1864–67, and was the third church commissioned by the Diocese of Portland from Patrick C. Keely. Keely went on to design several more, as well as the bishops residence in Portland, but of the churches, only this one and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland survive.</p><br>
<p>The church served the diocese until it was closed in 2009; its stained glass windows and frescoes were then removed from the building. It was purchased in 2013 by Central Maine Healthcare (CMHC), which announced plans to raze the church and the adjacent rectory. Demolition of the church was delayed to allow alternative uses for the building to be identified, but the rectory was demolished in April 2015. CMHC placed the property back on the market in August 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Savings Bank Block is an historic commercial building at 215 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1870, it is a fine local example of commercial Second Empire architecture, and is representative of the city&#39;s early development as an industrial center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Savings Bank Block is located in downtown Lewiston, at the southwest corner of Lisbon and Pine Streets. It is a three-story brick building, topped by a mansard roof that provides a full fourth floor. The ground floor consists of three storefronts, which have modernized finishes. The building corners have stone quoining, rising to an entablature and modillioned cornice. The roof is pierced by dormers with steeply pitched gable roofs with bracketed eaves. On the second floor the Lisbon Street windows are set in rectangular openings with bracketed cornices, while those facing Pine Street are set in segmented-arch openings. Third-floor windows on both facades are set in round-arch openings with stone hoods.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the block was begun in 1868 and completed in 1870. Built as the home of the Lewiston Institution for Savings, it may have been designed by local architect William H. Stevens, who was closely associated with the bank&#39;s officers. The building originally housed retail spaces on the ground floor, offices on the second, and a Masonic lodge hall above.</p><br>
<p>The Old Uptown Historic District is a historic district in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The district stretches from Reily to Maclay between Second and Third street. It consists of large Queen Anne and Italianate architecture built in the late 19th century and very early 20th century. The northern part of the historic district is currently being aggressively renovated by real estate investors.</p><br>
<h2>Places of Note</h2><br>
<p>Simon Cameron School</p><br>
<p>William Donaldson House</p><br>
<p>The Second Callahan Block is an historic commercial building at 282 Lisbon Street in downtown Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1909 to a design by Coombs & Gibbs, it was part of a major development by brothers Timothy and Eugene Callahan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Although initially developed as a commercial property, it is presently used as housing.</p><br>
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<p>The Second Callahan Block is located on the east side of Lisbon Street, between Chestnut and Spruce Streets. It is just south of the First Callahan Building, which stands at the corner of Chestnut Street. It is a four-story masonry structure, with a facade of yellow brick topped by a gabled cornice with projecting bracketed pediment. The ground floor originally had two storefronts flanking the building entrance, with fluted pilasters articulating the sections. The upper floors have ten window bays, organized in a 3-4-3 pattern. Windows are set in keystoned square openings on the second and third floors, and in rounded-arch openings on the fourth. A stone beltcourse separates the second and third floors, also acting as a sill for the windows. Brick pilasters separate and flank the grouped sections on the upper two floors. The scale, materials, and style of the building is considered to be consistent with other commercial buildings on Lisbon Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by Timothy F. and Eugene A. Callahan, dealers in men&#39;s accessories. Prior to the construction of this building, the Callahan brothers had built the neighboring building in 1892. The 1892 building was designed by George M. Coombs, and the new building was designed by his office, Coombs & Gibbs, now led by his son Harry S. Coombs.</p><br>
<p>William A. Robinson House is a historic house at 11 Forest Avenue in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1874, it is one of the regions finest examples of Late Gothic Revival architecture, and is the states only surviving work of local architects Herbert and Balston Kenway. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Robinson House stands in a residential area west of Auburns downtown, on the west side of Forest Avenue, and is set on a hill overlooking the downtown. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a busy roofline featuring several gables and corbelled brick chimneys. The gables are decorated in Gothic vergeboard, with the gable ends topped by small finials. The walls are clad in vertical board siding. A three-story square tower rises on the left side, topped by a flared pyramidal roof. A hip-roofed porch extends from the towers left and around to the side, supported by turned posts with brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1874 to a design by local architects Herbert and Balston Kenway. The Kenway brothers were Welsh immigrants, and the designed this house for William A. Robinson, a druggist from whom they received their first known commission, for his retail store. After three years of work (1873–75) the brothers both left the state. This commission represents a success translation of English ideas about Gothic architecture from the more traditional brick or stone into wood.</p><br>
<p>The Roak Block is an historic commercial-industrial building at 144-170 Main Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1871-72 as a combined commercial and industrial space, this Second Empire style block was at that time the largest commercial building in the entire state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Roak Block stands on the east side of Auburn&#39;s commercial Main Street, near its junction with Mechanics Row. It is a long 3-1/2 story masonry building, built of brick and stone, with a mansard roof, studded with dormers, providing a full fourth floor in the attic level. The building is 36 bays long, divided into nine sections of four bays. On the ground floor, each section houses a retail storefront except the center one, which provides access to the main building lobby. The storefronts typically consist of display windows flanking a recessed entry. Second floor windows are set in round-arch openings with stone keystones and shoulders, with a narrow stringcourse acting as a sill. The third floor windows have segmented-arch openings, but are otherwise similar. The dormers on the steep roof section have shallow gabled roofs, with drip moulding around the windows.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1871-72 to a design by the Lewiston firm of Stevens and Coombs, for Jacob Roak, a shoe manufacturer and leading businessman in the city. At the time of its construction, it was the largest building of its type erected in the state. The upper levels of the building were designed as spaces for incubating businesses related to shoe manufacturing, where small businesses could work until they were successful enough to require larger quarters. The building was used in this fashion for 90 years. Its upper floors have been converted for use as senior housing.</p><br>
<p>The Horatio G. Foss House is a historic house at 19 Elm Street in Auburn, Maine within the Main Street Historic District. It was built in 1914 to a design by Gibbs & Pulsifer for Horatio Gates Foss, owner of a major local shoe factory, and is also notable for its well-preserved Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Foss House is a three-story wood-frame house with a stuccoed exterior, quoined corners, and a red ceramic tile hip roof. The main facade, facing south, is a symmetrical three bays, with a central entry flanked by rounded bays that are two stories in height. The entry is sheltered by a portico topped by a segmented-arch pediment and supported by paired Corinthian columns. The doorway is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a triangular pediment The cornices of the portico, doorway pediment, and roof are all modillioned, as are the roof lines of the hip-roof dormers piercing the roof. A sunporch extends along the eastern facade, and a flat-roofed porch on the west side is connected to a porte-cochere. A period garage stands on the northwest corner of the property; it features styling similar to that found on the main house.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Gibbs & Pulsifer, an architectural firm based in Lewiston, and built for Horace G. Foss. Foss was the owner the Dingley-Foss Company, a manufacturer of footwear employing 500-600 workers, and served in the Maine House of Representatives in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The Horace Munroe House is an historic house at 123 Pleasant Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1899–1900 to a design by William R. Miller, it is one of Auburn&#39;s finest examples of Queen Anne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now the Munroe Inn, a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Munroe House is located in a residential area just southwest of downtown Auburn, at the northwest corner of Pleasant and Drummond Streets. It is a rambling -story wood-frame structure, with a roughly rectangular shape that is somewhat obscured by the number of gables, porches, and projecting sections that characterize the Queen Anne style of architecture. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the front, supported by groups of Doric columns. A gabled section projects slightly above the stairs leading up to it from Pleasant Street. Two turret-like sections project from the left side of the house (facing Drummond), one with an open second floor porch, with Doric columns supporting a garlanded entablature.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Lewiston architect William R. Miller, and was built in 1899-1900 for the mother of Horace Munroe, and was the latters home for much of his life. Munroes father Noble was one of the founders of the shoe manufacturing industry in Auburn, one of its dominant businesses of the period.</p><br>
<p>The Holman Day House is a historic house at 2 Goff Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1895, it is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of Queen Anne architecture, and is further notable as the home of Maine author Holman Day. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Day House is set at the northeast corner of Court and Goff Streets, overlooking Auburn&#39;s downtown area. It is a -story wood-frame structure, roughly rectangular in plan, with three-story tower at the corner and a two-story wall connecting the main house to a carriage barn. It has a hip roof, with a two-story projecting gable section to the left, and a smaller gable at the front, to the right of the tower. The tower is capped by a conical roof, with swag panels between the levels. The front-facing gable has a small Palladian window, while the left projection has a wide two-story bay window, with an oculus window in the gable. A porch extends across the front and around the side, and is ornately decorated, with a turned balustrade and posts, and a decorative trellis-like valance. The interior is similarly richly decorated in high quality materials.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1895 for Holman Day and his wife, Helen Rowell Gerald, by his father-in-law. At the time, Day was working primarily as a journalist for newspapers in Auburn and Lewiston. It was here that he wrote much of his poetry and fiction, building a reputation for his colorful depictions of life in Maine.</p><br>
<p>For 44 years (1975–2019) the Holman Day House had been used by (then owner) Dr. Thomas Johnson as a psychological services center providing support in the areas of health, family and school psychology. In 2019 the Holman Day House was transitioned back into the single family residence for its new owners. The authors of Maines Maines Historic Places refer to 2 Goff as follows " The Holman Day House is unquestionably one of the finest Queen Anne Style wooden residences in the state.This is so not only in terms of the quality of the construction, but also in terms of the architectural detail. The interior is of similar high style."</p><br>
<p>The National Park service approved the modification of the Carriage House hayloft into a hayloft library and conference center. The house has been featured on the cover of Victorian Homes.It is also featured as an example of the Queen Anne tower House in Historic Maine Homes: 300 Years of Great Homes by Christopher Glass and Brian Vanden Brink.</p><br>
<p>The Gay-Munroe House is an historic house located at 64 Highland Avenue in Auburn, in the USA state of Maine. Built in 1878 for Charles Gay, a local shoe manufacturer, it features an architecturally eclectic mix of Late Victorian decorations. It is also notable as the home for many years of Willard Noble Munroe, another leading shoe manufacturer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gay-Munroe House stands on the west side of Highland Avenue, in a residential area northwest of Auburn&#39;s central business district. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a roughly T-shaped plan that has a hip roof and cross gable projecting section, with a hip-roof ell extending to the rear. A square cupola with pyramidal roof stands atop the roof between brick chimneys. The building is clad predominantly in vinyl siding, but most of its 19th-century decorative trim elements have been preserved. The front facade consists of a single projecting bay, two stories in height, with a narrow gable-roof dormer projecting from the roof. The dormer is decorated with Stick style woodwork, a detail repeated in the larger projecting side gable section. A single-story porch stands in the corner made by that section, supported by turned posts and balustrade. String courses of trim band the building at the lintel and sill levels of the windows on both levels.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by the Lewiston firm of Stevens & Coombs, and was built in 1878 for Charles Gay, who was involved in Auburns shoe industry, its major economic force. In 1894 the house was purchased by Willard Noble Munroe, founder and first president of the Auburn Shoe Manufacturers Association. He also served as treasurer of Quebecs Brompton Pulp and Paper Company, one of Canadas largest paper companies at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Old Midtown Historic District is a historic district that is located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It stretches from Forster to Verbeke and from Front to Third street, and represents the first urbanized neighborhood in the city of Harrisburg.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Historic Harrisburg Association first lobbied for this district&#39;s creation in 1974. The area of Third street near Verbeke is known as the Historic Midtown Market District and is home to many unique boutiques, galleries and shops.</p><br>
<p>Before 1950, Midtown was a seamless northern extension of the residential neighborhood located south of Forster Street, which today marks the northern boundary of the city&#39;s downtown residential area. At that time, Forster Street functioned as a typical cross street, similar to Briggs Street to the south and Boas Street to the north. However, as the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex grew, better access from the West Shore became necessary to accommodate increasing commuter traffic. In 1950, the M. Harvey Taylor Bridge was built, and Forster Street was expanded into a six-lane thoroughfare, physically dividing the once unified neighborhood. This division created a clear separation, both physically and psychologically, between Midtown and the area south of Forster Street.</p><br>
<p>Midtown’s historical importance, recognized through its designation as a municipal historic district, is rooted in its cohesive and intact block fronts, preserved architectural character, period of construction, proximity to the Susquehanna River and Riverfront Park, and its relationship to the Broad Street Market. As one of Harrisburg&#39;s earliest subdivided neighborhoods with substantial building stock, it represents a significant example of late 19th-century urban America.</p><br>
<p>Former Harrisburg Mayor William K. Verbeke is the namesake for Verbeke Street (formerly Broad Street) and first bought and developed the area.</p><br>
<h2>Places of Note</h2><br>
<p>Broad Street Market</p><br>
<p>Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center</p><br>
<p>Historic Harrisburg Resource Center</p><br>
<p>Holocaust Memorial</p><br>
<p>Sunken Gardens at Riverfront Park</p><br>
<p>The Hans Hanson House, also known as the Hans-Lindfors House or Hans-Lindfors Mansion is a historic house in Marquette, Kansas.</p><br>
<p>The 16-room Italianate house was built in 1888 by Hans Hanson, one of the founders of Town of Marquette who helped organize the Fremont Lutheran Church (1869), the first church in the Smoky Valley, and the Elim Lutheran Church in Marquette (1878). Hanson was also an early promoter and grower of broom corn.</p><br>
<p>The house also exhibits a Carpenter Gothic style, influenced by Swedish architecture. In the backyard of the home is Hanson&#39;s original 1871 wood-frame cabin, where the Marquette city charter was signed. The wood-frame cabin was originally attached to his 1869 log cabin. The houses were owned by the Hanson family for over 100 years. The Hans Hanson House has been restored to its original appearance and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Canton Township Carnegie Library is an historic Carnegie library at 203 North Main Street in Canton, Kansas, United States.</p><br>
<p>The library was built in 1921. It was the last Carnegie library built in the United States with Carnegie Foundation funding. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The community received $6,000 Carnegie Foundation funding in 1916; the library was completed in 1921.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson House is a historic house located at 226 West Lincoln Street in Lindsborg, Kansas.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The brick, two-story, Second Empire style house was built from the spring to the summer of 1887, and was originally built as the residence of Dan Johnson. It sits on a plot of 0.39 acres of land. The D. Johnson house was a source of community pride and its construction seemed at times to be viewed almost as an obligation of the merchant to his community. It was added to the National Historic Register on March 19, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The McPherson County Courthouse in McPherson, Kansas is a historic three-story courthouse that was built in 1893. It was added to the National Historic Register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect John G. Haskell. The building was built in 1893.</p><br>
<p>It is Richardsonian Romanesque in style and is built of Cottonwood Limestone from quarries near Strong City in Chase County. It is 104 ft by 71 ft in plan. It has a square central bell and clock tower which rises to 105 ft. The main entrance of the courthouse is in the base of the tower and features a Syrian arch.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St. Wenceslaus is a Catholic church in New Prague, Minnesota, United States, constructed in 1907. The church is flanked by a 1908 rectory and a 1914 parochial school, and the three-building complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the Czech American settlement of south-central Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The group of immigrants who settled New Prague had originally settled around Dubuque, Iowa, but many of them died of cholera. Four men from the community traveled up the Mississippi River to Saint Paul, in search of a healthier climate. They met with Catholics in the area who advised them that Benedictines from Saint John&#39;s Abbey near Saint Cloud, Minnesota, were helping settlers find land. The explorers from the Czech community got lost, though, and ended up following the Minnesota River to Shakopee instead. They found that there was ample land to the south, so the four men purchased land and brought their families north from Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The parish of St. Wenceslaus was organized in 1856, and a log church was built the following year. The log church was destroyed by fire in 1864, so a more permanent building was erected in 1866, built of brick and stone. As the parish grew, though, more room was needed. Father Francis Tichy directed the building of the new church, which was designed by St. Paul architect Hermann Kretz. The building was originally slated to cost $53,000, but cost overruns raised the cost to $85,000. As a result of dissatisfaction over the costs, Father Tichy resigned from the parish in 1906, and his successor Father Jaroslav Cermak oversaw the completion of the building. Archbishop John Ireland dedicated the new building on July 7, 1907.</p><br>
<p>Brick and Kasota limestone were used for constructing the spacious building. It dominates the skyline of the small city of New Prague, measuring 165 by, with two towers that rise 110 ft. The architectural style combines neoclassical and Romanesque architectural styles, and it is based on a church in Prague, Czech Republic. The church&#39;s namesake, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia was born near Prague circa 907 CE. A statue of King Wenceslaus is located in a niche above the main entrance. A large pipe organ at the rear of the church was operational until the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The church, rectory, and school were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for their local significance in the themes of education, exploration/settlement, and religion. The three-building complex was nominated for its association with the Czech American settlement of south-central Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, there were about 1,440 member families in the St. Wenceslaus parish, making it the largest parish in the local area. A consolidation plan announced in October 2010 by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis called for five much smaller parishes in the area to be merged into St. Wenceslaus parish. The St. Benedict and St. Joseph churches were closed, while the St. John the Evangelist and St. Scholastica churches are still being used for worship as parts of the "greater St. Wenceslaus community".</p><br>
<p>St. Wenceslaus parish operates an elementary school that enrolls children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.</p><br>
<p>John R. Wright House is a historic Queen Anne-style house at 322 West Marlin Street in McPherson, Kansas, United States. The house was built in 1887 and added to the National Historic Register in 2002.</p><br>
<p>John R. Wright (1841-1926) was born in New Jersey, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and served in the American Civil War, losing his left arm in the battle of Fayetteville, West Virginia. He later became a homesteader and businessman in Kansas, and eventually served as County Clerk and also as a Postmaster.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed notable "for its historical association with John R. Wright and for its architectural significance as a Queen Anne Revival residence."</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office-Lindsborg is a Classical Revival building at 125 East Lincoln Street in Lindsborg, Kansas. The post office building was constructed in 1938 and added to the National Historic Register in 1989. It is 68x55 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>A depression-era WPA mural titled Smoky River by Swedish-born painter Birger Sandzen is in the lobby. The artist was paid $390 for the mural. Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.</p><br>
<p>Swedish Pavilion is a historic 1904 exposition building in Lindsborg, Kansas, United States. This building is contained on the grounds of the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum at 120 Mill Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg, the Pavilion was built as an international exposition building for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World&#39;s Fair. After the fair, the Pavilion was moved to Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where it was used for classroom, library, museum and department facilities for the art department.</p><br>
<p>The Swedish Pavilion was moved to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, - now the - also in Lindsborg, in 1969. The facility is used for cultural heritage events at the museum.</p><br>
<p>The Pavilion was added to the National Historic Register in 1973.</p><br>
<p>During the royal visit of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf to the United States in 1976, he toured the Swedish Pavilion as part of festivities in Lindsborg.</p><br>
<p>Smoky Valley Roller Mills, now known as the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum, is an historic mill and museum on Mill Street in Lindsborg, Kansas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Smoky Valley Roller Mills was built in 1898 to make flour from wheat. The roller mill was operated by several different owners. It was closed temporarily 1927–1934, until closing for the last time as an active business in 1955. It was originally water powered, but converted to electricity in the 1930s. The building was given to McPherson County in 1962. Malcolm Esping of Lindsborg and George Tesarek, a retired Quaker Oats miller from St. Joseph, Mo. led the restoration of the building from 1974 to 1981.</p><br>
<p>The building is now part of a museum owned by a nonprofit organization formed in 2021. The museum grounds also include the 1904 World&#39;s Fair Swedish Pavilion and other buildings with local history exhibits, especially pertaining to Swedish-American history. The museum is open Monday-Saturday, year round, except for specific holidays. The mill building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. During Millfest, held annually in May, the machines in the mill are operated using line shafts powered by a large electric motor located outside the building.</p><br>
<p>Old Mill - Lindsborg KS.jpgTurbine power house of Smoky Valley Roller Mills</p><br>
<p>Old mill - Lindsborg KS - 2.jpgTurbine power house of Smoky Valley Roller Mills</p><br>
<p>Log cabin at McPherson County Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg Kansas KS USA.jpgLog cabin at Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum</p><br>
<p>The North End Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in northwestern Westerly, Rhode Island. The area traces the industrial development of Westerly, with proximity to both its central business district as well as water-based textile mills, and stone quarries further inland. Most of the district&#39;s architecture was built between 1832 and 1955. The district is bounded on the east by High Street; on the south by properties on Friendship, West, Pleasant Streets, Marriott Avenue and Industrial Drive; on the west by properties on Pleasant, Canal, Pierce and Pond Streets; and on the north by properties on Pond, Pierce, Pearl, and High Streets, and Turano Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Early Shakopee Houses are a pair of houses located at 411 and 419 East 2nd Avenue, Shakopee, Minnesota, United States. They are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The houses are built mainly of brick, which was quite common in Scott County, even for modest residential dwellings. These two houses, as with other structures in Scott County, were designed by local builders, not by well-known architects, but they show the influence of major architectural styles as interpreted by area residents and builders. The houses date back to about 1865, when the county was experiencing a phase of growth associated with the construction of railroads. The Minnesota Valley Railroad, later part of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, built its line through Shakopee in 1865. Shakopee had been established as a river town in 1854, but the growth of railroad lines in the county accelerated Shakopee&#39;s growth. The Merchants Hotel and these two houses in Shakopee, along with the Hooper–Bowler–Hillstrom House and the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Belle Plaine and several buildings in the Jordan Historic District in Jordan, were nominated to the National Register as examples of the development in the railroad boom era in Scott County.</p><br>
<p>Early Shakopee Houses 411.jpg411 East 2nd Avenue</p><br>
<p>Early Shakopee Houses 419.jpg419 East 2nd Avenue</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, an Episcopal church building in Belle Plaine, Minnesota is a Carpenter Gothic style building with wooden buttresses. Sometimes referred to as a "prairie Gothic" church, it was built in 1868 for English-speaking parishioners, but most of the rural residents at the time were German and Irish immigrants who brought their own languages and religious practices with them. The result was a church building that struggled to attract worshipers for 80 years before it was abandoned. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Hooper–Bowler–Hillstrom House was built in 1871 in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States, by Sandford A. Hooper, a local businessman and promoter of the town. In 1886 it conveyed to Samuel Bowler, a founder of the State Bank of Belle Plaine and lumber-yard owner. Bowler added a new kitchen, buttery, and a five-hole, two-story outhouse that is connected to the house via a skyway. He also added a copper-lined bathtub. When the Bowlers moved to Denver, Colorado in 1901, the clapboard frame house was sold to Alfred Hillstrom whose family lived in the house until it was purchased in 1975 by the town&#39;s Historical Society. It is now owned by the city of Belle Plaine and is open to the public. Current furnishings include three periods-1850s and 1860s, Victorian, and early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>Additional features include a well-pump in the kitchen, a wood stove, and a large carriage stone on the front lawn, which acted as a step for ascending into or descending from carriages. Surviving outbuildings include a wood shed used to store coal and wood to fuel the stoves in the house and a brick smoke house. Furnishing include a "courting chair" in which young couples would sit back-to-back.</p><br>
<p>The home has a low-pitched roof and central chimneys; it is adorned with a long, covered front porch and is specially decorated for Christmas. In addition to the winter holiday, the home is open to the public in the summer. Visitors may see the distinctive outhouse, but may not use it. Similar to other two-story outhouses, the waste from the upper level flows behind a false wall in the lower level.</p><br>
<p>Fort Kent, located at the confluence of the Fish and Saint John rivers in the town of Fort Kent, Maine, United States, is the only surviving American fortification built during the border tensions with neighboring New Brunswick known as the Aroostook War. It is preserved as the Fort Kent State Historic Site, which features an original log blockhouse that is open for visits in the summer. The fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Fort Kent stands on a slight rise overlooking the Saint John River, just west of the mouth of the Fish River. The Saint John is in this area part of the Canada–United States border, and the region on both sides of the river was until the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty territory disputed by both the United States and the United Kingdom, of which New Brunswick was then a colonial province.</p><br>
<p>All that remains of Fort Kent is a blockhouse, two stories in height, measuring 23 ft square. It is built out of hand-hewn cedar timbers, and has an overhanging second story and a pyramidal roof. Each side of the roof is pierced by a gabled dormer. The main entrance faces west, and is flanked by four rifle ports on the first floor, and there are twelve rifle ports on the first floor of each of the other three sides. On the second floor, which hangs 15 in over the first, there are eleven rifle ports on the east and west sides, and fifteen on the north and south sides. There are two cannon ports on the first floor north and south sides. The interior has been modestly disturbed to install heating and plumbing, and to provide for museum displays.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The boundary between Maine and New Brunswick was a recurring subject of disagreement following the 1783 Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the United States. Part of the eastern border was fixed after the Jay Treaty of 1797, but the upper Saint John River area remained disputed. Both Maine and New Brunswick pressed development of the area to solidify their claims, but this consequently raised tensions beginning in the 1820s, with authorities from each government acting against the other&#39;s settlers and agents.</p><br>
<p>Construction of Fort Kent, named for Governor Edward Kent, was begun 1838 as tensions reached their height. It was one of a series of forts built by the state along the southern banks of the Saint John River, and is the only one surviving. (The blockhouse at Fort Fairfield is a 20th-century reconstruction.)</p><br>
<p>In 1839 the arrest of a US government agent in New Brunswick prompted Congress to authorize 50,000 federal troops for assignment to northern Maine. At this time the fort was enlarged to include barracks officers&#39; quarters, and other buildings. General Winfield Scott was sent to the area with power to negotiate a settlement. Scott and New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor John Harvey, who had a long-established friendship, were able to successfully reduce tensions until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty was negotiated in 1842.</p><br>
<p>United States troops remained at the fort to 1845. After the crisis passed, the fort was sold into private hands. In 1891 the property was sold to the state of Maine for the purpose of establishing a park. The state did no substantive work on the site until 1959, when the historic site was formally established. The museum is now maintained by the Fort Kent Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Vandalism</h2><br>
<p>Fort Kent has been subject to numerous incidents of vandalism in recent history. Most notably in 1977 when the fort was almost burned down when an unidentified individual etched the phrase "Jeano was Here" into the exterior of the upper terrace using a portable torch. Although no arrests were made, officials believed it was a resident of the nearby town of Fort Kent. In 2010 the National Park Service removed over 500 lbs of shredded paper that vandals used to fill the interior of the Fort. This resulted in the fort being closed to the public for almost a month. Recently, Stafford Academy of Technology students have been trying to uncover the vandal using camera and audio equipment surrounding the fortress.</p><br>
<p>The Cushnoc Archeological Site, also known as Cushnoc  or Koussinoc or Coussinoc, is an archaeological site in Augusta, Maine that was the location of a 17th-century trading post operated by English colonists from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. The trading post was built in 1628 and lies on the Kennebec River. The English primarily traded with bands of the Abenaki nation.</p><br>
<p>Later the British colonists developed Fort Western, an 18th-century stockade fort, adjacent to this site. It became the center of development for the city of Augusta. The Cushnoc site is significant as it provides a window into trading, living, and construction practices in the early period of colonial settlement in New England. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The English Plymouth Colony was established at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 by religious dissidents and English adventurers. In order to repay the investors in the colonization effort, the colonists engaged in a number of ventures, one of which was trading for furs with the local Native American population. Pursuant to this business, the colonists in 1628 established a trading post on the Kennebec River at the site of what is now Augusta, Maine, which the Plymouth colonists called "Cushnoc". The Plymouth colonists were not the only colonists trading on that river, and the Plymouth colonists are known to have operated at at least one other site in the area. They are known to have abandoned their trading on the Kennebec in 1661.</p><br>
<p>In 1754 the British built Fort Western (now also designated as a National Historic Landmark) "at a place called Cushenoc Near The Spot where one hundred years ago the late Plymouth Colony had a Garrison."</p><br>
<p>Between 1984 and 1987, the Cushnoc site was identified and excavated. It is located on the eastern bank of the Kennebec River, just south of Fort Western, on land that is partly owned by a local church. The excavation outlined the boundaries of the trading post&#39;s palisaded wall, as well as postholes of earthfast buildings erected at the site. These and other finds at the site were found beneath the surface level plow zone in sandy soil. Artifacts found were consistent with those found at other sites dating to the mid-17th century, including tobacco pipes, glass beads, utilitarian ceramics, French and Spanish earthenwares, and many hand-forged nails. The data uncovered thus far and new excavations are expected to shed light on the relationships between (and among) the English traders, the Native populations, and the nearby French Acadian settlements.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Elson-Dudley House is a historic home located at 1101 29th Avenue, Meridian, Mississippi. Built in 1894 by Julius and Dora Neubauer Elson, some of Meridian&#39;s earliest settlers, the home is a Victorian Eastlake movement home with Queen Anne influence. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979, under the Meridian Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The "pink house", as it is known locally, prominently features pedimented gables, a front veranda with a corner, conical-roofed turret, and a conical roofed tower. The front porch features turned balusters with center beads and the multi-panel entrance door is headed by a stained glass transom.</p><br>
<p>The 5,000 ft&sup2, 16-room mansion sits on a 29,620.8 ft&sup2; lot and takes up half of a city block. The Elson-Dudley house contains four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. The house holds ten fireplaces, five chimneys, a grand staircase, and sports an asymmetrical facade.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership history</h2><br>
<p>LaWanda Burke, a retired florist, and her son Barry of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, purchased the home in 1989 from long-time owners, the Dudley family. A two-year renovation of the home was completed by the Burkes at this time which included installation of commercial grade central heat and air system, removal of old roof and installation of new roof shingles, structural foundation restoration, automatic driveway gate, construction of a carriage house for storage and car parking behind the home, storm windows, interior paint, historically correct exterior lighting fixtures and historically Victorian correct pink and rose accent paint (the house was previously green). A National Register of Historic Places marker was also added near the front door by the Burkes. A tapestry custom sewn by LaWanda Burke is visible in the front window of the parlor room. LaWanda Burke also filled the home with period correct antiques and resided in the home.</p><br>
<p>LaWanda Burke died of complications of cancer in the home in 1992. The home became owned solely by Barry Burke. He was re-married to Karen Keith of Meridian in the home on March 28, 1992. Barry Burke sold the home in 1993 upon moving to Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Massachusetts Hall is the oldest building on the campus of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. It was built 1798–1802, and has seen a number of uses during the school&#39;s long history. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Massachusetts Hall is located at the northern end of the Bowdoin Campus, just south of Bath Street and east of Memorial Hall, home to the Pickard Theatre. It is a three-story red-brick structure, with a hip roof and granite trim elements, and a 2-1/2 story ell extending to one side. The main block measures 50.5 x, and is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a half-round transom and cornice. The building&#39;s third-floor windows are smaller, a typical Federal period feature.</p><br>
<p>Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794, and its leadership authorized construction of its first building in 1798. Construction began that year, but was brought to a halt by a lack of funding. The college trustees sold off land elsewhere in Maine to fund its completion, and it was dedicated in 1802.</p><br>
<p>The Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral is located at 12375 Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan. It was built in 1929 as the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was originally a mission on the west side of Detroit, known as the Detroit Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation originally worshipped in built a frame Victorian Gothic chapel (built for the Highland Park Presbyterian congregation) one block south of the current site. The present cathedral was built from 1929 to 1930, and was used by the congregation until 1979, when the Grace Evangelical congregation sold their church building to an Apostolic African-American congregation. The building is now known as the Prayer Temple of Love Cathedral.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a relatively small, random ashlar, limestone, Neo-Gothic-style structure. It has a tall, gabled nave with lower side aisles extending back to gabled transepts. The entrance is flanked by shallow buttresses, and a large traceried Gothic window dominates the facade. A square, flat-roofed tower with louvered belfry is above the crossing where the nave meets the transepts. The roof is dark slate, contrasting with the masonry of the walls. At the rear of the church is the cross-gabled, Victorian Gothic structure which served the congregation until the present building was erected. A two-story, hip-roofed brick parsonage is also on the property.</p><br>
<p>The National Bank of Rolla Building was opened in March 1931 at 8th and Pine Streets in Rolla, Missouri, midway between St. Louis and Springfield. Because of its architectural character and its importance in the life of the city and history of USA Route 66, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The National Bank of Rolla (1870s-1933) occupied the northwest corner of the first floor and the Edwin Long Hotel (1931-1970s) had the remainder of the building. The basement level served as the College Inn banquet hall, with a capacity of 350. The hotel had 75 guest rooms and the Edwin Long Coffee Shop for daily dining. The hotel was located adjacent to the historic USA Route 66, which ran directly through Rolla, MO on 8th Street.</p><br>
<p>Daily room rates were $2.00 for a single bed and $3.00 for a double bed, with each rooms having a tub shower and radiant heat. The Edwin Long Hotel operated from 1931 until the early 1970s, when the building was purchased by the Phelps County Bank for the headquarters of its banking operation. The hotels business slowly declined after USA Route 66 (now I-44) was rerouted in the late 1950s from downtown to the northern outskirts of Rolla.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank of Rolla was liquidated in 1933 during the Great Depression. Rolla State Bank, which took over the bank space, occupied the northwest corner of the first floor of the building until 1963. Phelps County Bank then took over the entire building. It has continued to operate in the same location.</p><br>
<p>Phelps County Bank restored the building&#39;s exterior in 2001. It occupies the entire building, using the first floor for the bank service lobby, the second floor for the loan department, third floor for bookkeeping, and fourth floor for executive offices. The bank uses the former banquet hall on the lower level for a large board room and meeting room for bank functions. The First National Bank building has served as a centerpiece for downtown commerce in Rolla, MO since the 1930s. With Phelps County Bank, the building is still a source of regional financial services.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, many famous people stayed at the Edwin Long Hotel, including President Harry Truman, actress Marilyn Monroe, and actor Victor Mature. The hotel served as the premier facility for travelers using Route 66 or the Frisco Railroad from the 1930s through the early 1960s, when passenger railroad service stopped. Motels built on the rerouted Route 66 (I-44) during the 1950s and 1960s drew away travelers from downtown.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Meridian is a historic church in Meridian, Mississippi, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>From 1856 to 1867, the church met in the second floor of a store owned by one of the members. In 1867, the church had grown enough to construct a building on the corner of 25th Avenue and 7th Street in which to hold its services. After a fire on January 27, 1883, the building was destroyed; members of the church later rebuilt the structure using brick instead of wood. The church remained at its location on 25th Avenue and 7th Street until September 25, 1911, when it was sold to the city of Meridian. The city currently uses the building to house the Meridian Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>After selling the old building, the church bought a lot at the corner of 23rd Avenue and 10th Street. The building, designed by architect Penn Jeffries Krouse, was built in 1913 and dedicated on March 29, 1914. In 1951, an educational building addition used for Sunday School was completed under the leadership of pastor Dr. J. Kelly Unger.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The sanctuary was renovated in 1982. In October 1996, the church bought an adjacent building which became the Administration & Education Building and is used for staff offices as well as both Adult Sunday School and committee meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Jordan Brewery Ruins comprise a former brewery complex in Jordan, Minnesota, United States. It operated from 1861 to 1948. A fire in 1954 gutted the building, which then stood vacant for decades. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its significance in the themes of architecture and industry. It was nominated for being one of the few surviving 19th-century industrial buildings in Scott County, Minnesota, and one associated with its significant brewing industry.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jordan Brewery stands just south of downtown Jordan at the foot of a bluff that defines the edge of the Minnesota River Valley. The main building was constructed in two sections. Both are constructed of limestone ashlars. The northern section was built around 1861 and is 150 ft long and 38 ft deep. It rises three stories and has decorative brickwork around the windows and doors and along the roofline. The ground floor of the southern section was also built around 1861 and then given a second story around the beginning of the 20th century. This section has a tall brick chimney and simpler decoration.</p><br>
<p>The main building backs against the river bluff, into which caves were dug to provide natural refrigeration while the beer aged. A freestanding, one-story, brick building was constructed around 1934 just south of the main building to serve as a bottling plant, but is no longer extant.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jordan was an early industrial center in Scott County, and two breweries were established in the town in the 1860s. The Jordan Brewery was established in 1861 by Frank Nicolin and his sons. They sold the business to new owners before the end of the decade, and its products were better known under the name Schutz and Kaiser. In 1902 this partnership changed to Schutz and Hilgers.</p><br>
<p>A microbrewery was planned to open in the complex in 2014, but a mudslide triggered by heavy rains damaged the complex and temporarily left its future use in doubt. As of 2021, a medical cannabis dispensary operates in the former brewery.</p><br>
<p>The Strunk–Nyssen House is a historic property in Jackson Township, Minnesota, United States, just outside the city of Shakopee. The original wing of the house was built around 1856 for Herman H. Strunk, who established the area&#39;s first brewery on the site. The brewery went by several names over the course of its existence, but is commonly referred to as the Shakopee Brewery. The residence was enlarged around 1880 by Hubert and Mary Nyssen, who used the second floor as a boarding house. The Nyssens continued operating the brewery until 1920.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its significance in the themes of architecture, commerce, exploration/settlement, and industry. It was nominated for its long association with the important brewing industry of early Scott County and as an example of 19th-century vernacular architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Strunk–Nyssen House is located a short distance south of the Minnesota River, in what is now an industrial area on the west edge of Shakopee. The house was built in two sections. The older west section is a simple two-story brick building. The larger east section is built of mortared ashlars with brick quoins, with its main entrance facing north. The two-over-two windows are tall with shallow arches. The gable roof has a brick chimney at either end. A wall dormer with an oculus is centered on the east façade. This face originally had a porch and staircase providing exterior access to the second-story boarding house, which has four small rooms off a central hallway. That porch was replaced shortly before 1980 and a two-car garage was added to the west end of the house.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of the brewery, separated from the house by railroad tracks, are still visible from the Minnesota Valley State Trail. Also on the property are a wood-frame barn and a brick smokehouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>German immigrant Herman H. Strunk homesteaded the site in 1855. The following year he opened the first brewery in the Minnesota River Valley, adjacent to the original section of the house where he and his family lived. Strunk was soon operating a distillery, a hunting lodge, and a drug store, and sold off this property in 1860. Andrew and Mary Winkler took over the business in 1863. Andrew Winkler died in 1870 and Mary ran the brewery herself for five years before marrying Hubert Nyssen, an experienced German brewer.</p><br>
<p>The Nyssens had the house enlarged around 1880. They lived on the first floor and used the second floor as a boarding house for the farmers and salesmen who came great distances to deliver barley or brewing supplies. The Nyssens grew some of their own barley and kept livestock on an adjacent 80 acre farm. On October 28, 1897, the brewery was badly damaged in a fire. A $3,925 insurance settlement funded enough repairs to stay in business. The Shakopee Brewery remained a prominent local business until the passage of Prohibition in 1920 led to its closure. Hubert Nyssen continued to live in the house until his death in 1930.</p><br>
