<p>The Fresh Pond Hotel is an historic former hotel at 234 Lakeview Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three-story wood-frame hotel was built in 1796 by Jacob Wyeth. Jacob was a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1792, and on 20 Sept 1796 he bought 8 acre from his father, bordering on Fresh Pond, and erected the "Fresh Pond Hotel", which was a popular resort. He managed the hotel until he accumulated a large estate and retired from active business, and leased the hotel to his nephew, Jonas Wyeth, who also retired with a satisfactory fortune, about 1840. Jacob Wyeth resided on the estate until 14 Jan 1857, when he died at nearly 93 years of age.</p><br>
<p>The building, originally in the Federal style, was updated to the Greek Revival style in 1838, and converted into a convent in 1886. In 1892 the hotel was moved from its original location at Fresh Pond to 234 Lakeview Avenue. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The David Frost House is an historic house at 26 Gray Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with twin interior chimneys and a typical Federal period center-hall plan. It was built in 1815, and was originally located on Massachusetts Avenue, then a relatively rural area. It was relocated to its present site in 1889, when Massachusetts Avenue became a desirable location to build larger, more fashionable houses, after the arrival of public transit.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1815 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Frost Tenanthouse is an historic house at 35 Bowdoin Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two story frame house was built in 1812, and was originally located on Massachusetts Avenue. It was next to the David Frost House, and was moved in the 1840s to its present location to make way for new construction.  The house was used by Elizabeth Frost  as a rental property.</p><br>
<p>The house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Walter Frost House is an historic house at 10 Frost Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story wood-frame house was built in 1807, and was originally located on Massachusetts Avenue. The Federal style house was moved to its present location in 1866 to make way for the North Avenue Congregational Church, which was moved to its site.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Leopold Hotel is a historic hotel structure in Bellingham, Washington. The surviving wings were constructed in 1929 and 1967. It is currently used as a combination apartment building and hotel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first hotel on the site, the Byron House Hotel, was founded in 1899 and named for its builder, Captain Josiah B. Byron. Byron owned the 93-room hotel, later known as the Hotel Byron, until 1910, when Leopold F. Schmidt (founder of the Olympia Brewing Company and owner of the Bellingham Bay Brewery) purchased the Byron for $100,000. The hotel was the occasional home of noted Alaskan artist Sydney Laurence. Unable to pay his bill in cash, Laurence instead traded Schmidt paintings for his room. To this day, the Schmidt family has one of the largest private collections of his work.</p><br>
<p>Schmidt constructed a 200-room addition to the Hotel Byron, which opened in May 1913. He died in the hotel on September 24, 1914. Its name was soon changed to the Hotel Leopold as a token of appreciation by the hotel&#39;s investors.</p><br>
<p>The current 9-story hotel tower was constructed in 1929, on the site of the original 1899 structure, which was demolished. The tower was designed by architects from H.L. Stevens & Company, of San Francisco, and increased the hotel&#39;s room count to 300.</p><br>
<p>In 1930, the Leopold became one of the first to join the new Western Hotels chain, today known as Westin Hotels.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the hotel added a small motel wing (since demolished) directly behind the 1929 tower, with an outdoor pool, and became the Leopold Hotel and Motor Inn.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the 1913 wing was demolished and replaced with a 48-room, 4-story motel wing and the hotel was renamed the Leopold Inn.</p><br>
<p>The hotel left Western International Hotels in 1969.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s, The Leopold was converted to a retirement home and underwent a significant renovation.</p><br>
<p>The Leopold was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982.</p><br>
<p>In December, 2018, the Leopold ceased operation as a retirement home.</p><br>
<p>In April 2019 plans were announced to restore the building, with residential apartments in the historic 1929 wing and a boutique hotel in the adjoining 1967 motel wing, named Hotel Leo.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Leo opened in November in 2019, with 31 rooms in the motel wing and nine rooms in the historic tower. The hotel shares the historic lobby and ballroom and includes a gym, rec room, and library.</p><br>
<p>Montecito Apartments is a large apartment building in Hollywood, California, United States. It was built in 1935 in the zig-zag Art Deco style and was the home for many Hollywood celebrities, including James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Percy Kilbride, and Montgomery Clift. It was also Ronald Reagan’s first home when he moved to Hollywood in 1937. In 1985, the building was converted to a low-income housing project for senior citizens.</p><br>
<h2>Early years</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1935 with 95 units at a cost of $1 million. The building is a classic Art Deco design with Mayan influences and windows arranged in vertical blinds.</p><br>
<h2>Home for Ronald Reagan and other actors</h2><br>
<p>The Montecito was home to several future movie stars, especially New York based actors while working in Hollywood. It was Ronald Reagan’s first residence when he moved to Hollywood; Reagan lived at the Montecito from June 1937 to late 1938. Reagan was said to have been roommates at the Montecito with Mickey Rooney. Other celebrities who have lived at the Montecito include James Cagney, George C. Scott, Montgomery Clift, Geraldine Page, Don Johnson, Sal Mineo, and Ben Vereen. The Montecito was the subject of a two-part TV Guide profile written by Richard Gehman. It referenced many of its familiar character actor residents including Maurice Gosfield.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation and conversion to senior housing</h2><br>
<p>In 1970, rents ranged from $180 to $400 for furnished apartments.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the owners obtained grants and loans from the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (“CRA”) and HUD to rehabilitate the building and convert it into 180 apartments for low income senior citizens. In 1988, the Los Angeles Conservancy presented an award to the Montecito for the redevelopment project.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, the owners defaulted on loans, and Bank of America foreclosed on the building. The foreclosure triggered CRA losses that amount to $8.2 million.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Montecito has been described as “one of the finest examples of the Art Deco style, with Mayan influence detailing.”</p><br>
<p>Merchants Square is a 20th-century interpretation of an 18th-century-style retail village in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Conceived in 1927 by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin, Merchants Square is considered to be one of the first planned shopping districts in the United States, if not the first. Small shops throughout Williamsburg would move into a centrally located area that used architecture that was in harmony with the restoration&#39;s character. William G. Perry, chief architect of the Williamsburg Restoration, designed the shopping district.</p><br>
<p>Most of the stores and shops are located on Duke of Gloucester Street (DoG St.) right across from The College of William & Mary’s campus. To keep the area as close to historical accuracy as possible, all telephone wires were placed underground, and modern day technologies such as air-conditioning ducts and garage equipment were hidden with shrubs and plantings.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Today there are over 40 shops and restaurants located in Merchants Square. The area is also used for other purposes, such as seasonal concerts, a farmers&#39; market, and special movie screenings.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Sparrow House is a historic house at 42 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth.</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636. He was granted a 16 acre tract of land in 1636 on which he later built the house. Sparrow moved to Eastham in 1653. The Richard Sparrow House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is now operated as a house museum and art gallery and is part of Plymouth Village Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Bartlett–Russell–Hedge House is a historic house in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1803, it is a fine local example of Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976. It is presently part of a larger building that houses financial services businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bartlett–Russell–Hedge House is located in the center of Plymouth, on the south side of Court Street at its junction with Russell Street. It is a three-story painted brick building, with a hip roof surrounded by a low balustrade and topped by a cupola. It is five bays wide and three deep, with a symmetrically arranged front facade. The outer bays have sash windows set in rectangular openings, with smaller windows on the third floor. The main entrance is in the center bay; it is accessed by a short flight of side-facing stone steps, and is sheltered by a roughly rectangular portico supported by paired paneled square columns in front and pilasters in the back. The center portion of the portico has a slightly rounded projection, and is topped by a balustrade. On the second floor above is a Palladian window, while the third-floor window is a three-part window lacking the Palladian rounded arch at the center.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1803 for Joseph Bartlett, a ships captain. After suffering financial reverses due to the War of 1812, his son William took over the property, converting it to an inn. It was here that his son John was spent his early years; he would later achieve fame as the publisher of Bartletts Familiar Quotations. The next owner, Nathaniel Russell, owned a local iron manufacturing business. His granddaughter married into the family of Barnabas Hedge, one of his business partners, and eventually inherited the property. In 1951, the Hedge family sold the house to a bank, which made additions to the rear to accommodate its business. The modern attachments to the structure have since been extended further, but the house interior still retains many original features.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is an historic church and parsonage at 6 Sever Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The congregation, founded in 1866, is one of a small number of African Methodist Episcopal  congregations in eastern Massachusetts, and is an enduring component of the small African-American community in Plymouth. Its church, built about 1840 as a commercial building and consecrated in 1870, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bethel AME Church is located a short south of Plymouth&#39;s downtown Main Street area, on the south side of Sever Street west of Russell Street. It is located in a densely built residential area. The church is a modest -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It exhibits transitional Greek Revival-Italianate styling, with corner pilasters, paired brackets in the eaves, and gable end returns. The main facade is symmetrical, with paired sash windows flanking the center entrance. The windows are topped by bracketed projecting cornices and are articulated by narrow pilasters. The entrance is simply framed, and is sheltered by a gabled portico with Doric columns. The parsonage house is a vernacular -story wood-frame house located about 20 ft behind the church; it was built in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The church buildings construction date is unknown: the lot was empty in 1830, and the building stood there on an 1858 map. It was apparently built for commercial purposes, housing diverse businesses such as gymnasium, shoe shop, and school, prior to its acquisition by the AME congregation in 1870. Plymouth has historically had a small African-American population, which was in 1850 recorded to number 138. Members of this population organized the AME congregation in 1866, meeting in a small converted house on Billington Street. Seeking a larger space, the congregation purchased this building in 1870. Most of the congregations pastors were either unpaid or little-paid, and many served the congregation only a short time, often supplementing their religious mission with other work.</p><br>
<p>The Clifford–Warren House is an historic First Period house at 3 Clifford Road in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The -story gambrel-roofed Cape style house was built c. 1695. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney. The house is believed to be the third on the property, which was granted to Richard Warren in 1627. Its most notable resident was probably James Warren, a noted political opponent of British rule and a Major General in the Continental Army.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Harlow Old Fort House is a First Period historic house at 119 Sandwich Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, Sergeant William Harlow built the house in 1677 using timbers from the Pilgrims original fort on Burial Hill, which they had built in 1621–1622. Harlow received permission to use the timbers after the fort was torn down at the end of King Philips War in 1677. The house was surveyed by an architectural historian in 1996, who determined a construction date of 1700 or later. The Harlow family owned the house for nearly 250 years until the Plymouth Antiquarian Society acquired it and hired Joseph Everett Chandler to restore the house. The Antiquarian Society opened it to the public in 1921. In 1974, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is still open to the public and features seventeenth-century re-enactors.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Burial Hill Fort in Plymouth MA.jpgBurial Hill Fort, where some of the home&#39;s timbers may have come from</p><br>
<p>Plimoth Plantation fort and meeting house.jpgFort recreation at Plimoth Plantation</p><br>
<p>William Harlow House in Plymouth MA.jpgHarlow House</p><br>
<p>The Bradford–Union Street Historic District encompasses a waterfront residential area of Plymouth, Massachusetts, developed in the mid-19th for workers in local maritime and other industries. It is centered at the junction of Bradford and Union Streets, across Town Brook from downtown Plymouth. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Plymouth was settled in 1620, and developed in the 18th century as a maritime center. In the 19th century, it expanded as services for this activity grew. In 1812 the first wharf southeast of the mouth of Town Brook was built by Samuel Doten; it is now the site of a yacht club. Residences were built on the roads facing the waterfront, and on the roads rising up the hill to the south. Union Street parallels the shore, providing access to the waterfront properties, and Bradford Street and Water Streets rise southwest to join it to Sandwich Street, for many years the principal through coast road. The Bradford Street area was developed in part as a speculative venture by Alden Harlow in the 1840s, giving the area most of its character. Harlow built a number of vernacular 1-1/2 story cottages with three-bay fronts, which are the single most numerous housing type in the district.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered on the junction of Bradford and Union Streets. It extends southeastward along Union Street for a short distance, and northwest to the junction with Water Street. In addition to including the entirety of Bradford Street, it includes houses located on the adjacent roads: Emerald, Freedom, and Watercure Streets. The district is about 7 acre in size, and is now almost entirely residential in character, the industries on which its growth was based having either been demolished or severely altered. The principal surviving element of industry is visible in the brick structure of the Plymouth Marine Company at Union and Water Streets.</p><br>
<p>The Jabez Howland House is a historic house at 33 Sandwich Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this two-story wood-frame house was built by Jacob Mitchell (son of Pilgrim Experience Mitchell) in 1667, and purchased by Jabez Howland, son of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, two of the original Pilgrims. The Jabez Howland House was owned as a private residence until 1915. Extensive restoration of the property took place in the 1940s to return it to its 17th-century appearance. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Pilgrim John Howland Society owns and operates the house as a historic house museum that has been restored and decorated with 17th-century period furnishings. The house is open for tours from mid-June through the end of October.</p><br>
<p>The Old County Courthouse  is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in the Town Square of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1749, the two-story wood-frame building is believed to be the oldest wooden courthouse in the United States; it stands on the site of the first courthouse built by Plymouth Colony settlers, and may incorporate elements of a 1670 building. The site was originally the site of Edward Winslow&#39;s first house in Plymouth.</p><br>
<p>It is five bays wide and three deep, with a center entry flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a gabled pediment. It was built by Peter Oliver, and initially served as both a courthouse and as town offices. It was converted to solely municipal use in 1821, and had a myriad of municipal functions since then. In the 1970s it was converted into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is now known as the 1749 Court House and Museum, and is open from June to September with exhibits of early Plymouth history.</p><br>
<p>The Plymouth Antiquarian House  is an historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts owned by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1809 for William Hammatt, a New England sea captain. The Hedges, a family of entrepreneurs, purchased the house in 1830 and lived there until 1919. The house was originally located on Court Street but was moved to Water Street by the Antiquarian Society in 1919. It is open during the summer months. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Sgt. Harlow William Family Homestead  is a historic house at 8 Winter Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this -story gambrel-roofed Cape house is believed to have been built by Sergeant William Harlow, before he built the nearby Old Harlow Fort House, and is believed to be one of Plymouth&#39;s oldest surviving buildings. It is unclear from the architectural evidence whether the original structure was a single cell  or full width ; the asymmetry of the front facade suggests it was built in stages. The house has a large addition, which was added to the rear in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Plymouth Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing part of the area of earliest settlement of the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It includes properties in an area roughly bounded on the west by North Street, on the north by Water Street on the east by Town Brook, and on the south by Court Street and Main Street. The area includes Leyden Street and streets that were laid out as early as 1633, and nearby are some of Plymouth&#39;s oldest surviving houses , Harlow Old Fort House , Samuel Lucius-Thomas Howland House  and Jabez Howland House ). The site is near Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrims landed in 1620 and the Pilgrim Hall Museum containing many of their surviving artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Town Brook Historic and Archeological District is a historic district encompassing much of the length of Town Brook and its surrounding landscape in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This area has an industrial history that extends to 1620, when the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower and established Plymouth Colony. It extends roughly from the crossing of Billington Street , to the mouth of the brook in Plymouth Harbor. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The district includes historical and archaeological resources that span more than three centuries. Included in these resources are four mill ponds, dams, herring runs, mill privileges (sites where mill operators were authorized to divert water, where industrial archaeological remains may be found), and a variety of housing from nearly every significant period in that time. The oldest house in the district is the Richard Sparrow House built in 1640; it is also the oldest building standing in Plymouth.</p><br>
<p>The mills erected by the early settlers were used to saw wood and grind grain. As Plymouth prospered and grew, smaller industrial operations harnessed the brooks water power to perform other functions. During the 19th century, the nations industrialization reached Town Brook, and mill complexes of larger size were also built. Around the turn of the 20th century, mills were established for processing iron in a variety of ways, some of whose buildings still survive today. A significant number of industrial properties from the 19th century were lost in the 20th century, often to fire. Interest in the area&#39;s rich history led to the establishment in the 1920s of Brewster Gardens, a public park near the mouth of the brook. Near the park is the Jenney Grist Mill, a 1970 reconstruction of an early grist mill which burned in 1837.</p><br>
<p>The Plymouth Post Office Building is a historic former post office building in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The building was designed by Oscar Wenderoth and built in 1914-15 by the Hanold-O&#39;Brien Company for the federal government. The two story brick Colonial Revival building, in addition to housing the main post office branch for the town, also housed other federal government offices on the upper floor. In the 1960s the building was relegated to a branch post office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Formerly owned by Flamingo Realty Trust, the building was purchased by 1620 Capital, LLC, in September 2013.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church is a historic Unitarian Universalist  church at Tremont and Depot Streets in Duxbury, Massachusetts. First Parish Church is currently a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Duxbury congregation was founded in 1632 by Elder William Brewster as a Christian Separatist church with early members coming from the First Parish Church in Plymouth, the oldest church in New England. In the beginning, the church likely met in congregants homes until the first meeting house was built near what is today known as Miles Standish Burial Ground. The Duxbury congregation became a parish church of Massachusetts Congregationalist state church. A schism developed at the turn of the 19th century, when much of the congregation adopted Unitarianism along with many of the other state churches in Massachusetts. State churches were officially disaffiliated with the Massachusetts government in 1834. The current church building was constructed in 1840. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>First parish church in Duxbury MA.JPGFirst Parish Church in 2010</p><br>
<p>First Parish Church marker in Miles Standish Burying ground in Duxbury Massachusetts.JPGSite of the original First Parish Church meeting house within Myles Standish Burial Ground</p><br>
<p>The Captain Daniel Bradford House is a historic house in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1808 by Captaian Daniel Bradford, on land belonging to his father, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford. It is five bays wide and three deep, with a hip roof and large central chimney. The front entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, above which are a fanlight and a gable. A two-story ell is attached to the right side of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Standish House is a historic house at 341 Standish Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts. It has been claimed that this house was built in 1666 by Alexander Standish , son of Mayflower Pilgrim, Capt. Myles Standish, but architectural analysis of the building suggests a mid-18th century construction date. Documentary evidence is also weak, suggesting that when the property passed to Alexander Standish&#39;s grandson in 1739, the house standing on it did not resemble this one. The house is a -story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, with five bays on the front facade and a central chimney, on which the date "1666" has been painted. It has been relatively little-altered since c. 1879, when a lithograph was made.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Gamaliel Bradford House is a historic house in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1807, the house is locally distinctive for its brick side walls and monitor section above the hip roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Captain Gamaliel Bradford House stands in the central eastern part of Duxbury, on the west side of Tremont Street (Massachusetts Route 3A), south of Harrison Street and north of Duxbury Town Hall. It is a -story frame structure, roughly square in plan, with a hip roof topped by a square monitor section. It is finished in clapboards, except for the sidewalls, which are brick, and is set with a side facing the street. The main facade, facing north, is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a Doric porch. A similar but simpler entry is located on the south-facing rear facade. The interior of the house follows a typical central hall plan, and retains original period wood paneling. A two-story addition projects west of the main block, behind the rear entry. The property also includes a 19th-century barn and a small cottage, built about 1840 out of materials salvaged from a nearby church.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1807 for Gamaliel Bradford, member of a prominent local family. A ship&#39;s captain, he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and later served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The United States Navy destroyer USS Bradford is named in his honor.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Gershom Bradford House is an historic house in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1807 by Captain Gershom Bradford, who lived there with his family, included his daughter Charlotte Bradford, a nurse in the American Civil War. The main block has a side-gable roof, and is five bays wide and two deep. A two-story ell attached to the right rear connects the house to another addition, a replacement for a barn torn down c. 1900. The house is now owned and operated by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society as a historic house museum, and has been decorated with original Bradford family furnishings to appear as it did during the 1840s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Old Shipbuilders Historic District is a 287 acre historic district in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The district includes both sides of Washington Street extending from South Duxbury  to Powder Point Avenue, including several side streets off of Washington and a small portion of St. George Street and Powder Point Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In 1986, the district included 143 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The district was selected for inclusion in the National Register because it embodies the distinctive characteristics of Duxbury, Massachusetts during the community&#39;s heyday as a center of shipbuilding and maritime commerce. Within the district are scores of houses which are well-preserved examples of early 19th century architecture. The great majority of the structures are of the Federal style and were constructed between 1800 and 1820. There are also some examples of Greek Revival and Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>Washington Street, which makes up the bulk of the district, runs two miles along the shore of Duxbury Bay from Halls Corner to the Bluefish River and slightly beyond. First laid out in 1798, the street was, at the time, a controversial scheme concocted by several up-and-coming shipbuilders. These men, including Ezra Weston I, Ezra Weston II, Seth Sprague and Joshua Winsor, were among the first in the community to take advantage of the post-Revolution economic boom and each built substantial fleets of fishing schooners. Their new wealth commanded attention and respect in the community, however they met with opposition from the bulk of residents when they proposed the construction of a north-south avenue along the shore. Prior to 1798, Duxburys shore was only accessible by crude cart paths. In order for maritime commerce to thrive, the shipbuilders required an avenue running along the water which would allow convenient placement of shipyards, warehouses, stores, wharves, and boarding houses. Although the proposal caused uproar at Duxbury Town Meetings for several years, even ending up in court with the shipbuilders suing the Town for refusing to construct the avenue, the project, including a wooden drawbridge over the Bluefish River, was eventually completed in 1803.</p><br>
<p>Immediately after its construction, sea captains, shipwrights and merchants began building attractive homes on Washington Street. The shipyards and wharves are now gone, but the houses remain and collectively provide a sense of the character of early 19th century Duxbury. The avenue that at first caused so much consternation is now one of Duxbury most treasured historic resources.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House, built 1807</p><br>
<p>The Pillsbury Summer House is a historic house at 45 Old Cove Road in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1938, and is a locally distinctive early example of Modern architecture, as the first major work of architect Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, and as a rare regional example of a Modern summer house. The house was designed by Harkness for her parents, in collaboration with Eleanor Raymond. The house was built in the same year that Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius built his house in Lincoln, Massachusetts; this house differs from his in that it draws more organically on New England traditional architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Wright Memorial Library, more commonly known as the "Wright Building," is a historic library at 147 St. George Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The Wright Building was donated to the Town of Duxbury by Georgianna Wright (1837–1919), an influential citizen of Duxbury and philanthropist. In 1890, Wright had donated her guest house to serve as the first Duxbury Free Library. The wooden building soon grew too cramped and by 1906, Wright decided to fund the construction of a new building. Sparing no expense, she hired a well-known architect, Joseph Everett Chandler, to design a brick library in the colonial revival style. Other projects by Chandler include the Frederic Adams Library in Kingston, Massachusetts and the restoration of the Paul Revere House in Boston, Massachusetts. The cornerstone was laid in 1907 and the building completed in 1909. A newspaper reporter present at the dedication noted some of the library&#39;s impressive features, including electric lighting and a reading room paneled in black cypress with gilded accents.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, the Duxbury Free Library moved to new quarters, leaving the Wright Building empty. Used sporadically by various organizations for a few years, by 2004 the Wright Building was vacant and suffering decay. By a vote of Duxbury Town Meeting, Community Preservation Funds were appropriated and the Town of Duxbury undertook the extensive restoration of the building. The 1909 portion of the library was outfitted for use by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society for their Drew Archival Library where historic documents are preserved. The 1968 addition was refurbished for use by the Duxbury Student Union Association. The Wright Building was re-dedicated on September 22, 2007, just slightly over one hundred years after the cornerstone was laid. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2007.</p><br>
<p>The George Gale House is a historic double house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story frame house was built in 1858 by father and son, George T. Gale and George ?. Gale. They owned a lumberyard together in Kendall Square. The building at 14-16 Clinton Street is unusual as a double house in the Italianate style. It has typical Italianate features, including a central gable on the front facade, an elaborately decorated front porch and deep eaves with brackets all around. It is distinctively sheathed in flushboarding, giving the appearance of stone.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 to preserve the existing structure and in recognition of the innovative practices of the Gales. Their lumberyard, located in Kendall Square was the first to bring a spur of the rail system into the lumberyard to facilitate delivery of lumber at a time when Cambridge was growing.</p><br>
<p>The Garfield Street Historic District is a historic district on Garfield Street between Massachusetts Ave. and Oxford Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The district encompasses a unified residential area developed between 1885 and 1891. Garfield Street was laid out in 1883, and all but three of the houses built before 1891 still stand on the street. The houses were built by different developers, and most were architect designed, and thus vary stylistically. The streetview, however, is unified by uniform lot sizes, house heights, and setbacks. Queen Anne styling predominates, with a variety of massing and roof lines; many houses have turrets and/or wraparound porches typical of that style.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Gray Gardens East and West Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 20th century residential subdivision in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The subdivision includes all of the properties on Gray Gardens , as well as the adjacent 91 Garden Street and 60 Raymond Street. The subdivision was created by a group of interested individuals who sought to control development of one of the last estates in the area to be developed. They subdivided the land themselves, and imposed architectural restrictions on what could be built. Most of the houses were built between 1922 and 1930 and are neo-Georgian in style; the principal exception is the Hall Tavern, a Federal style tavern built in the 1790s and moved to the area from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The other unusual house is at 16 Gray Gardens East; it is a Tudor Revival house.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel J. Wright House, also known as the Greek Revival Cottage, is an historic house at 59 Rice Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This modest 1.5-story Greek Revival cottage is one of the finest of its type in northwestern Cambridge. It was built in 1847 by housewright Samuel J. Wright. It features a fully pedimented gable end, original pedimented gable dormers on the left side, and fluted columns supporting an entablature. The side-hall front door is flanked by full-length sidelight windows and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hall Tavern is an historic tavern at 20 Gray Gardens West Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now converted to residential use, this two story Federal style wood-frame building was built in sometime in the late 1790s in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and was moved to this location in 1930. The building is one of a number that were moved in order to preserve them in the early decades of the 20th century, and it is now one of the centerpieces of the Gray Gardens subdivision.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Hapgood House is an historic multiunit house at 382-392 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The six-unit wood-frame building was built in 1889, and represents an unusual instance of Queen Anne styling applied to such a large structure. It was built at a time when housing stock was transitioning from small types of multiunit housing  to larger formats such as tenements and apartment houses.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Harvard Houses Historic District is a historic district encompassing seven of Harvard College&#39;s residential houses. The district is roughly bounded by Mt. Auburn, Grant, and Cowperwaite Streets, Banks Street and Putman Avenue, Memorial Drive, and JFK Street  in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The contributing buildings to the district are predominantly residential dormitory buildings which were constructed between 1913 and 1930, and are Georgian Revival in style. There are three small residential buildings which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a number of non-contributing later buildings, including among others the towers of Leverett House and the modern portion of Quincy House at 58 Plympton Street. The buildings are an imposing presence in the streetview of Memorial Drive between Western Avenue and the Anderson Memorial Bridge, but their massing is interrupted by mature tree plantings, and they are organized to provide courtyards and quadrangles in the interior of the district.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Harvard Street Historic District is a historic district on Harvard Street between Ellery and Hancock Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It includes houses on both sides of the street, numbered from 335 to 344 inclusive, an area that marks the summit of Dana Hill. Harvard Street was laid out as a direct route from "Old Cambridge"  to Boston in the early 1800s, and was run over Dana Hill over the objection of Judge Francis Dana, whose estate sat on top of the hill. The street was developed over the 19th century with a succession of high-quality houses.</p><br>
<p>This cluster of seven well-preserved houses was built primarily in the 1850s; two Colonial Revival houses, one at #337 built in 1887, the other at #340 built in 1897, were the only ones built later. Stylistically the other five are a diverse representation of revival styles popular in the mid-19th century, with only the Italianate style represented twice (by #341–43 and #336). One of the more notable residents in the district was Samuel B. Rindge, a merchant and banker who was father to Frederick H. Rindge, a major benefactor of the city. The Rindges lived at #342–44, a Second Empire house.</p><br>
<p>Several houses were designed by architects, and the design for at least one, the Gothic Revival house at #338, came from a pattern book. The Colonial Revival house at #337 was designed by James T. Kelley, and #340 was designed by Arthur H. Vinal.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Harvard Union, now known as the Barker Center and once known as the Freshman Union, is a historic building on Quincy and Harvard Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The union was designed McKim, Mead & White and built in 1900; it was their first commission on the Harvard University campus. It is a large 2-1/2 story brick building, with neo-Georgian styling that is more reminiscent of English Georgian architecture than that found in North America. The building was sensitively enlarged in 1911 (to design by Thomas Mott Shaw) to include the Varsity Club.</p><br>
<p>The concept of the union was to provide a social space to students otherwise not members of the universitys more exclusive final clubs. It was "made possible by the gift of Mr. Henry Lee Higginson, who was the donor also of Soldiers Field, and is a club which every member of the university may join; the annual dues are ten dollars. It has a very large and fine building, with a magnificent hall, comfortable reading-rooms, pleasant dining-rooms, and a good library. But its very size and comprehensiveness prevent it from fulfilling one of the most important functions of a club, the promotion of friendships. It serves many useful purposes, it makes a convenient rallying-point, but there is in it no club feeling or life."</p><br>
<p>For some fifty years it was the freshman dining hall. Its interior was mostly demolished when it was converted into the Barker Center for Humanities in the 1990s. The Union was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Hastings Square Historic District is a historic district that encompasses Hastings Square, a small city park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the residential properties that abut it. The houses that line the streets across from the park are among the finest Queen Anne houses in the city. These properties were built between 1869 and 1892, and include two houses known to be designed by architects. The Queen Anne/Shingle style house at 302 Brookline Avenue was built in 1887 to a design by Rand & Taylor, and the 1892 Queen Anne house at 75 Henry Street was designed by Hartwell and Richardson.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named after author, minister, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who had it built and lived there for a time.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was the first home that Higginson ever owned. As he wrote to his sister shortly after moving in, "It is such inexpressible happiness to have at last a permanent home."</p><br>
<p>The Henderson Carriage Repository is a historic building at 2067-2089 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located just outside Porter Square, the five story brick building was built in 1892 by the Henderson family of carriage makers, to a design by Charles Park. The building was primarily used as a storage facility for carriages, with its upper floors holding as many as 2000. It has since been converted for use as offices and retail businesses.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Hill House is a historic house at 17 Brown Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1754, and was originally a two-story structure with a steeply pitched roof. It was moved c. 1867 from its original location at 99 Brattle Street, at which time the third story was added, giving the roof a gambrel shape. The house was built for Deacon Aaron Hill, a prominent local politician, and is one of only seven houses from that period that still stands in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Blackwater Draw is an intermittent stream channel about 140 km long, with headwaters in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, about 18 km southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, and flows southeastward across the Llano Estacado toward the city of Lubbock, Texas, where it joins Yellow House Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River. It stretches across eastern Roosevelt County, New Mexico, and Bailey, Lamb, Hale, and Lubbock Counties of West Texas and drains an area of 4,040 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>Blackwater Draw contains an important archaeological site, called, first recognized in 1929 by Ridgley Whiteman of Clovis, New Mexico. Blackwater Locality No. 1 (29RV2; LA3324) is the type-site of the Clovis culture. The first large-scale excavation occurred in 1932, though local residents had been collecting bone and lithic materials for decades.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s Frank J. Brolio excavated a camp site just to the northwest of the main site, known colloquially as "Franks Folsom Site". Finds included an especially large chert bi-face. In this period (1952 to 1970) Blackwater Draw was being commercially mined for gravel with a number of mammoth and bison kill stations being uncovered.</p><br>
<p>In another part of Blackwater draw known as the Mitchell Locality a large Folsom period campsite was excavated in the 1980s. A number of lithics were recovered including some with bison and pronghorn blood residue.</p><br>
<p>Evidence of "fluted" points, spearheads now known as Clovis points (a New World invention) and other stone and bone weapons, tools, and processing implements were found at the archaeological site. The Clovis points were lanceolate and often, though not always, longer than Folsom points.</p><br>
<p>The Clovis-age artifacts are in association with the remains of extinct Late Pleistocene megafauna, including mammoth, camel, horse, bison, saber-toothed cat, sloths, and dire wolf that were hunted by the early peoples who visited the site. Generations of some of the earliest New World inhabitants hunted and camped at Blackwater Draw, creating stratified levels of archaeological remains from many different time periods, including Clovis, Folsom, Midland, Agate Basin, and various Archaic period occupants.</p><br>
<p>Clovis chipped stone technology is currently one of the oldest and most widespread chipped stone technologies recognized in the New World; radiocarbon dates on sediment from the Clovis layers at Blackwater Draw average around 11,290 years before the present. Two of the projectile points from Blackwater Draw were used as the type specimens to define Clovis chipped stone technology in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The archaeological site is known for its well-defined and dated stratigraphic horizons that exhibit numerous cultural sequences. The sequences begin with some of the earlier New World peoples and continue through the southwestern archaic, and into the historic period. Investigations at Blackwater Draw have recovered protein residue on Clovis weapons, indicating their use as hunting and possibly butchering tools on extinct Pleistocene animals.</p><br>
<p>Towards the end of the Pleistocene period, the climate began to change, which brought warmer and drier weather, causing the water flow in the region to dramatically decrease. This decrease caused small seasonal lake basins called playas to form. These areas became popular hunting locations for early North Americans. In that period the site had a number of active springs. A number of lithics were found in the sandy spring drains. The usual assumption is that they were discarded into the springs though it has been suggested there was a ritual component.</p><br>
<p>Since its discovery, the Blackwater Locality No. 1 site has been a focal point for scientific investigations by academic institutions and organizations from across the country. The Carnegie Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Academy of Natural Sciences, National Science Foundation, United States National Museum, National Geographic Society, and more than a dozen major universities either have funded or participated in research at Blackwater Draw. Eastern New Mexico University owns and manages the excavations and visitations at the site.</p><br>
<p>The 3,200 acre Anderson Basin district around Blackwater Draw in Roosevelt County, near Clovis and Portales was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and incorporated into the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.</p><br>
<h2>Blackwater Draw Museum</h2><br>
<p>The original was first opened to the public in 1969, at 42987 Highway 70, Portales, New Mexico primarily to display artifacts uncovered at the Blackwater Locality No. 1 site. The artifacts and displays illustrated life at the site during the Clovis period (over 13,000 years ago) through the recent historic period.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the museum moved onto the Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) campus, and expanded its focus to incorporate local history, as well as archaeology on a broad scale. Exhibits now include descriptions of archaeological work, different archaeological sites, cultural complexes, and scientific methods, among other topics. Visitors can learn more information about Blackwater Draw, archaeology, and see materials from the greater Southwest obtained from private collections. Currently, the Miles Collection displays Southwestern pottery, basketry, and textiles. As of August 2017, Blackwater Draw is under the direction of Dr. Brendon Asher of ENMU in Portales. The museum hired its first Collections Manager in 2020, Samantha Bomkamp.</p><br>
<p>The museum and site operate under the supervision of the Eastern New Mexico Universitys. ENMU students are able to work at the museum and site as student employees, interns, or volunteers. Anthropology students regularly use museum collections for class projects, research, and masters theses. Both facilities host class visits from ENMU and K-12 year round.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Holmes House is an historic house at 144 Coolidge Hill Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1801 by John Holmes, father of Joseph Holmes. It was originally located on Appian Way in Harvard Square, and was moved to its present location in 1929, at which time an ell was also added. It is a well-preserved yet unpretentious Federal-style house, a rarity in "Old Cambridge", where such houses were once quite common. This house is not particularly pretentious, with a five-bay facade and center entrance, and is set sideways on its narrow lot.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Homer-Lovell House is an historic house at 11 Forest Street, just outside Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame house was built in two sections: the main block, a fine Second Empire house, was built in 1867, when the Porter Square area was growing as a residential area because of its train station. In the 1920s the house was extended to the rear and converted into a two-family. Many houses in the area underwent this sort of conversion, most losing their historical integrity. The main block has well-preserved Second Empire features, including extended eaves with brackets, and heavily decorated front portico and projecting bay window.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Hooper-Eliot House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story Stick-style house was built in 1872 for E.W. Hooper to a design by Sturgis & Brigham. The building&#39;s five-bay facade and gambrel roof form an early part of the effort by Sturgis to popularize the Georgian Revival. Its original main facade oriented to the north, a new south-facing entry was designed in 1902 by Lois Lilley Howe, featuring a broken scrolled pediment above the porch. The house was purchased by Samuel Atkins Eliot in that same year.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Howe House is an historic house at 6 Appleton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1887 for Lois Lillie  Howe, the mother of Lois Lilley Howe. Howe had the house built following the death of her husband, Dr. Estes Howe. At the time of the house&#39;s construction the younger Howe had not yet begun her education at MIT, and it was designed by the noted firm of Cabot & Chandler. After Howe had established herself as an architect she altered the house at least four times, in 1907, 1910 and 1916 and 1935. Architecturally, the house was designed in the Shingle style, but also features elements of the Queen Anne style.</p><br>
<p>The house is principally significant for its association with Howe, one of the first female graduates of the architectural program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first woman made fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She then lived alone in the house until 1963, the year before her death.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery is a historic bakery at 129 Franklin Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts that first produced the Fig Newton in 1891.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1875. The well-known baked good that originated at the Kennedy Steam Bakery was the Fig Newtons. The bakery was purchased by Nabisco and later converted into an apartment building that is part of the University Park at MIT development. The Bakery building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence Soule House is an historic house at 11 Russell Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick building, with asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period. Surface texture is varied by different types of brick patterning, and there are a variety of gables, projections, and irregularly placed chimneys. It was built in 1879 for Lawrence Porter Soule to a design by Frank Maynard Howe, an apprentice at the firm of Ware & Van Brunt. The building received immediate notice in the architectural press, and is a rare architect-designed house in North Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Wyeth Brickyard Superintendents House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built c. 1848, this modest brick -story workers house is one of the few reminders of the once-thriving 19th century brick industry of North Cambridge. It was built by Nathaniel Wyeth for the superintendent of operations at his brickmaking yard, established in 1840. The house has retained many of its internal and external Greek Revival features.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The H. Langford Warren House is an historic house at 6 Garden Terrace in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a three-story structure, with a stuccoed exterior and a brick foundation. Its entry is sheltered by a Renaissance Revival hood supported by columns, and is flanked by sidelight windows. The windows are generally uniform in size and shape, but the number of lights varies, and they are grouped in places  to provide additional lighting. The house was designed by and for H. Langford Warren, organizer and first department head of Harvard University&#39;s architecture department.</p><br>
<p>Herbert Langford Warren (1857–1917), both client and architect for this house, was an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in Boston, and one of the 24 founding members of the Society of Arts and Crafts in June 1897. (Some sources erroneously refer to him as "Lanford H. Warren".)</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1904 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 (as "Langford H. Warren House").</p><br>
