<p>The Walden Street Cattle Pass, also referred to as the cow path, is an historic site adjacent to the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line right-of-way, under the Walden Street Bridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The site, a tunnel for moving cattle between the railroad and the nearby stockyards of the 19th century, was built in 1857. The cattle yards were closed in 1868 or "about 1871", but the cattle trade continued; "until the 1920s, cows were unloaded here and driven down Massachusetts Avenue, through Harvard Square, and across the river to the Brighton Abattoir".</p><br>
<p>Restoration (re-pointing) of the tunnel&#39;s brickwork was carried out during the 2007–08 replacement of the second-generation bridge dating from 1914. The third-generation bridge opened for traffic in December 2008. The Cambridge City Council discussed creation of a vantage point for viewing the tunnel, ca. 2008, but no action was taken.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Vinal House is a historic house located at 325 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The substantial Greek Revival house was built in 1853–1854 by Albert Vinal, a real estate developer and a dealer in lumber, wood, and coal. In addition to a fully pedimented gable, the house has wide corner pilasters, and several porches and porticos. The main entrance portico is particularly elaborate, and is topped by a bay window with an Italianate extended cornice with brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Valentine Soap Workers Cottages are a pair of adjacent historic houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The cottages are located at 5&ndash;7 Cottage Street and 101 Pearl Street. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The two cottages were built for worker housing in 1835, by local soap manufacturer Charles Valentine. Valentine&#39;s soap factory was located nearby at the corner of Valentine and Pearl Streets. Founded in 1828, it was at the time one of the largest manufacturing operations in the Cambridgeport section of the city. An historic marker for the cottages identifies them as the only examples of factory housing in Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The Reversible Collar Company Building is a historic factory building at 25–27 Mt. Auburn & 10–14 Arrow Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The building has a complex construction history, consisting of several buildings constructed separately between 1862 and 1907, and gradually combined into a single structure. The oldest portions were built by Allen and Farnham, a printing business. The property was sold to the Reversible Collar Company in 1867, which expanded the facility. The company at first manufactured paper shirt collars, but later also produced paper and paper-fabric combinations for use in products like wall charts and maps. The buildings on the site were sold to the Boston Bookbinding Company in 1897. In the late-1960s the building was converted to office and commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The William Saunders House is an historic house at 6 Prentiss Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof. Two-story pilasters separate the bays, and there is an entablature below the fully pedimented gable. A single-story porch extends across the facade. The house was built by housewright William Saunders for his son, also named William. The Saunders family resided at the home for 55 years. Originally located on Massachusetts Avenue, it was moved to its present location in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It served as a nursing home for a time in the 20th century, and is now operated as the Mary Prentiss Inn.</p><br>
<p>The Urban Rowhouse is an historic rowhouse 40–48 Pearl Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The rowhouse was constructed in a Second Empire/Mansard style in 1875, and is a contrasting example to the rowhouse on the adjacent block to providing further construction density in an urban setting. This rowhouse is of wood-frame construction, while the neighboring one is built of brick. The polygonal bays rise to the mansard roof, where the shape of the bay is continued, giving visual texture to the structure.</p><br>
<p>The company Ksplice, Inc. was headquartered at 48 Pearl Street from September 2010 until its acquisition by Oracle in July 2011.</p><br>
<p>The rowhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The University Museum is a historic building that houses several museums belonging to Harvard University. The building is located at 24-28 Oxford Street and 11-25 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It houses both the Harvard Museum of Natural History at 26 Oxford Street, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 11 Divinity Avenue, as well as several departments of Harvard&#39;s Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Mineralogical & Geological Museum.</p><br>
<p>The building is a large U-shaped brick structure, six stories high, whose oldest portion dates to 1859. This section was built to house the Museum of Comparative Zoology; it was added onto in 1876 to provide space for the Peabody Museum, and was expanded several other times between then and 1913. The building is basically Italian Renaissance in its styling.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large brick -story building, with a distinctive round-arch central window and a stepped brick cornice. Its ground floor has been converted to a retail storefront. It was built in 1869 to house the horse-drawn streetcars of the Union Railway Company, founded in 1855. It is the only surviving car barn of three built by the company in Cambridge, and a rare surviving element of the city&#39;s 19th-century transportation infrastructure.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor Square Firehouse is an historic fire station at 113 Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The stylistically eclectic brick building was built in 1904 to a design by local architect Charles R. Greco. Although it has a somewhat standard building plan dictated by its function, the building has exotic architectural details, including a projecting cornice with large wooden brackets, patterned brickwork on the parapet, and Moorish Revival decoration of the truck bay arches. It is the most elaborate of the fire stations built by the city in that period.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Treadwell-Sparks House is an historic house at 21 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1838, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, further notable as the home of historian Jared Sparks. Now owned by Harvard University, it was moved to its present location in 1968, and is used for professor housing. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Treadwell-Sparks House stands on the north side of Kirkland Street, opposite Harvard&#39;s Memorial Hall. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and brick chimneys. It is oriented with a sidewall facing the street, and its main facade to the east. The street-facing facade is characterized by unusually wide plain pilasters and flushboarding, while the formal front is finished in wooden clapboards. It is roughly square in plan, with three bays on each side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built, originally on nearby Quincy Street, in 1838 by housewright William Saunders for Harvard Professor Daniel Treadwell. The house was purchased in 1848 by Nathaniel Silsbee for his daughter, who was married to historian Jared Sparks.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased from Sparks&#39; heirs by the New Church Theological School and served as the New England training center for Swedenborgian ministers. In 1901 Langford Warren, architect and member of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), designed and oversaw the construction of a chapel, rotating the house and moving it a short distance on its lot.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s, the building was sold back to Harvard and the New Church Theological School moved to Newton. The structure was moved in 1968 about 100 yard from its original site at 48 Quincy Street to its current location at 21 Kirkland Street in order to make room for the construction of Gund Hall. The move included moving the property&#39;s carriage house, and carefully preserved its original orientation to the street.</p><br>
<p>The house now serves as the private residence of Harvard University&#39;s Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.</p><br>
<p>The Stickney-Shepard House is an historic house at 11-13 Remington Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story Greek Revival double house was built 1846-47 by N. Stickney and S. P. Shepard, and is a well-preserved example of the form. It has a heavy cornice, with corner pilasters, and a full-width front porch supported by plain columns on the corners, and fluted Doric columns in the center. The house was built on land originally part of the estate of Francis Dana, which was subdivided and developed in that time.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Stanstead is a historic apartment building located at 19 Ware Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story Richardsonian Romanesque building was built in 1887, and is an uncommon brick rendition of a triple=decker, more typically a wood-frame construction, that was just becoming popular in Cambridge. The architects, J. R. & W. P. Richards, also designed The Jarvis, another early brick apartment house in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Second Waterhouse House is an historic house at 9 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built on 1844, and is the most quintessentially Greek Revival house in the Follen Street Historic District. It was built by Benjamin Waterhouse, and is one of the earliest houses built on the street. Of particular historical interest is the assortment of heating systems that have been installed in the house since 1853, remnants of some of which are still found in the house&#39;s basement.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Salem–Auburn Streets Historic District is a residential historic district at Salem and Auburn Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The district includes a collection of houses that is among the oldest in the Cambridgeport section of the city, and includes most of the houses on two blocks of these streets. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Salem and Auburn Streets are two short residential streets located near the center of Cambridge&#39;s Cambridgeport neighborhood, which is bounded by River Street, Massachusetts Avenue, the Charles River, and the Grand Junction Railroad tracks. Auburn Street runs northwest to southeast across the neighborhood, paralleling Massachusetts Avenue. On the block of Auburn between Pearl Street and Brookline Street, Salem Street is a one-block street extending southwest to Watson Street. The district includes most of the properties on these two blocks.</p><br>
<p>At the beginning of the 19th century Cambridgeport was a relatively small village, with narrow streets. The area did not see significant organized development until the mid-19th century. The houses along Salem Street and this single block of Auburn Street were all built between about 1800 and 1845, before this later development took place, and are the largest cluster of houses from that period that survive. The ten historically significant houses are typically vernacular versions of Late Georgian, Federal period, and Greek Revival architecture. One of the more unusual rarities is a two-story brick Federal style house at 15 Salem Street.</p><br>
<p>The Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building is an historic bank building at 11–21 Dunster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Italian Renaissance masonry building was built in 1897 by the Cambridge Savings Bank. It is a four-story building, with a frieze of fleur-de-lis patterning separating the first floor from the upper floors, and a metal cornice below the roof. The building corners are quoined on the upper levels, and there are a pair of matching entrances. It is one of the finest examples of pre–World War I architecture in Harvard Square.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Sears Tower–Harvard Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory that is part of Harvard Observatory and is located at 60 Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now just a portion of the observatory&#39;s Building A, the Sears Tower is the oldest portion of the complex, designed by Isaiah Rogers and constructed in 1843. This structure is a square brick building, with a projecting cornice and a Greek Revival entrance framed by pilasters. The dome was equipped with a 15-inch telescope, the state of the art at the time.</p><br>
<p>The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Ivory Sands House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof. It was built in 1839, and has transitional Federal-Greek Revival styling. It was the first of four brick houses built by a local family of brickmakers, and is one of the few surviving Federal period brick houses in the city. The Sands family were involved in Cambridge&#39;s brickmaking businesses for most of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Hiram Sands House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof. Its gable ends are fully pedimented in the Greek Revival style, but the heavy brackets and modillions on the cornice are Italianate features, as are the window hoods and front porch. The house was built in 1848 by the second of three generations of Cambridge brickmakers, from clay dug nearby, and incorporates elements of both the Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Sabbath Day House is an historic house located in Billerica, Massachusetts. The main block of the 1.5-story wood-frame house was built in the mid-1760s to provide a place for parishioners to warm themselves in between the morning and afternoon services at the adjacent Congregational Church. The house was in that time maintained by a caretaker, and came into private ownership in 1818, when it was no longer needed for its original purpose.</p><br>
<p>On August 14, 1973, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is named for Julia Bedford Ideson, who served as the system&#39;s first head librarian for 40 years.</p><br>
<p>The Spanish Renaissance-style building is part of the Central Library, and houses its archives, manuscripts, and Texas and Local History departments. It is also the site of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.</p><br>
<p>From 1926 to 1976 it was Houston&#39;s sole main library building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Ralph Adams Cram of Cram and Ferguson, Boston, the Ideson Building opened in 1926 as HPL&#39;s Central Library. Designed in a Spanish Revival style, it replaced the prior Carnegie building. In 1976 the Jesse H. Jones Building (as it was named in 1989) opened, and the main portion of the Central Library moved to it.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The Ideson building reopened in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Lana Berkowitz of the Houston Chronicle described a local legend that the Ideson Building was haunted by the ghosts of library caretaker Jacob Frank Cramer and his dog Petey.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Patchogue, New York is located at 170 East Main Street in the Suffolk County village. It serves the ZIP Code 11772, covering the entire Village of Patchogue, as well as the hamlets of North Patchogue and East Patchogue.</p><br>
<p>Patchogue Post Office was built 1930 to the designs by architect John Vredenburgh Van Pelt of Van Pelt, Hardy & Goubert, and combines Art Deco & Classical Revival architecture. The front building facade is boldly scaled in limestone, and is highlighted with relief sculpture and large monumental windows with decorative aluminum grillage. A matching analog clock sites over the front entrance doors. The rest of the building is made primarily of brick. Long Island-based stamp collectors have often considered the Patchogue Post Office to be one of several sources for stamps with obscure denominations.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1989. Three other post office buildings in Suffolk County were listed on the NRHP on the same day, but neither of them were designed by the same architect, nor were they designed in the same style as the one in Patchogue. In 2005, the United States Congress enacted legislation renaming the building the Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Post Office Building, commemorating the heroism of Medal of Honor recipient Michael P. Murphy.</p><br>
<p>The Verona Apartments is an apartment building located in the Cass Corridor in Detroit, Michigan. The central section is located at 96 W. Ferry. The East and West wings are located at 92 W. Ferry and 100 W. Ferry, respectively. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Verona Apartments are now owned and leased by Cass and Ferry Apartments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Verona Apartments were built in 1896 by the Detroit firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham. The original layout of the apartment building had 16 luxury suites. When home ownership became easier in the 1930s, demand for this type of suite apartment declined, and in 1945 the building was reconfigured to include 26 smaller apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Verona Apartments consist of a five-story central section with flanking three-story wings. The base of the structure is stone; the main body is built of brick, originally orange but now painted gray. The entryway is arched, echoing the arch on the fourth floor, and the building name is embedded in the arche curvature. There are decorative touches throughout the exterior of the building, including the friezework above the first-floor windows, the bowed structures flanking the entrance, and inlays above the first and fifth floors.</p><br>
<p>The Park Shelton is a historic condominium building located at 15 East Kirby Street  in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1926 as The Wardell hotel, the building was therefore listed under this name in the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wardell was designed by Detroit architects Weston and Ellington and built by Bryant and Detwiler in 1926 as a residential hotel, intended for extended stays. Architectural sculpture for the building was created by Corrado Parducci. The name comes from Fred Wardell, who owned the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company. Diego Rivera and his wife (and fellow artist), Frida Kahlo, lived there while working on his mural at the Detroit Institute of Arts.</p><br>
<p>The Wardell was sold to Sheraton Hotels in October 1941, and renamed The Wardell Sheraton Hotel in 1943, then the Sheraton Hotel, and finally the Park Sheraton Hotel in December 1951. In September 1952, it was sold to New Yorker Louis Schleiffer. As he could no longer use the Sheraton name, he changed the spelling just slightly, renaming it the Park Shelton Hotel. It was the Detroit hotel of choice for such celebrities as Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Raymond Burr. In the 1970s, the Park Shelton Hotel was converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Park Shelton was redeveloped into condominiums, creating 227 luxury units in the building. The newly refurbished building was opened in August 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Ōpaekaa Road Bridge is a steel truss bridge listed on the National Register of Historic Places located along Ōpaekaa Road in the Wailua Homesteads neighborhood of Kapaa, on the island of Kauai, in the state of Hawaii, United States. The one-lane bridge spans Ōpaekaa Stream. With steel beams forged in 1890 by the Alexander Findlay & Company in Motherwell, Scotland, this is touted as possibly the only British-built bridge located in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The steel supports for this bridge were originally forged in 1890 and utilized as part of the Wailua River Bridge. Constructed as a three span, steel truss bridge, its construction was delayed through 1894 due to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the establishment of the Republic of Hawaii. When this span was replaced in 1919, the steel was reused in the construction of the present-day bridge over Opaekaa Stream. Its relocation was carried out by then County Engineer Joseph Moragne.</p><br>
<p>Today, the largest span has a length of 33.1 ft, a total length of 74.2 ft and a deck width of 12.5 ft. Having an average daily traffic of 382 vehicles as of 1986, the bridge is maintained by the Kauai County Division of Roads. With a sufficiency rating of only 14.7 percent and substandard safety railing, this span is listed as structurally deficient and past the point of rehabilitation, necessitating the need for a replacement span for the crossing.</p><br>
<p>As a result of its age and exposure, many of its steel beams are rusted through, with much of its concrete deck cracked in multiple locations. Due to its deteriorating state its rated load was reduced to 5 tons in 2007, then to 3 tons, and is listed to be replaced as part of the Hawaii Department of Transportation&#39;s current statewide transportation improvement program.</p><br>
<p>The Chatham Windmill is a historic windmill at Chase Park in Chatham, Massachusetts. Built in 1797, it is one of the state&#39;s few surviving wooden windmills, and also one of the few still in working condition. The windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Chatham Windmill is located southwest of downtown Chatham, in the southern section of Chase Park, between Shattuck and Gristmill Lanes. It is a wood-frame structure, set on a rise overlooking the Mill Pond on Chathams south shore. It is about three stories in height, with an octagonal shape that tapers to a gabled cap and is covered in wooden shingles. The caps side faces are slightly bowed. The wind vanes are attached to one of the gabled ends of the cap. Entrances are located at the northern and southern sides of the structures, and there are small windows on the second level.</p><br>
<p>The mill was built in 1797 by Benjamin Godfrey and was used to grind corn. It was originally located on Stage Harbor Road and was moved to its present location in 1955, the year it was given to the town. The methods used in its construction suggest that the builder was from the southeast of England. The mill remained in commercial use until 1907 when it was significantly damaged in a storm. Although it was repaired, it was again damaged by severe weather in 1929. The mill has undergone several phases of rehabilitation, during which worn and rotted parts have been replaced.</p><br>
<p>The mill is operated seasonally as a museum, and the town employs a miller to occasionally use it to grind grain.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown is an historic church at 236 Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival building was built in 1847 based on a design by Benjamin Hallett, for a congregation that had been established in 1829. It is a massive post and beam timber-frame construction, and was originally built without the tower. The tower, which is telescopic in form, with Greek ornamentation, is the only surviving steeple in Provincetown, and is a landmark for seafarers.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and included in the Provincetown Historic District in 1989. It is now called the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>The Adams-Crocker-Fish House is an historic house in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built about 1830, this half-Cape is a rare surviving example of a small farmstead with period outbuildings. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Adams-Crocker-Fish House stands in a rural residential area of northwestern Barnstable, on the west side of Willow Street a short way south of its junction with Cedar Street. The property includes a Greek Revival Cape-style cottage and two outbuildings. The cottage is a -story "half-Cape" (three bays wide), with a gabled roof and wooden clapboard and shingle siding. A modern two-story ell extends to the left at a recess from the main block, and another ell projects to the rear. Across the driveway further to the left are two small rectangular utility buildings that are former farm outbuildings. The main entrance, in the left bay of the main block, has a Greek Revival surround with sidelight windows, simple pilasters, and a corniced entablature.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was built before 1830 by Obadiah Adams, and is said by longtime residents to have originally stood at a location now occupied by the Mid-Cape Highway. It was moved to this location in 1831 by John Blossom, who had acquired the Adams estate. He sold the property the following year to Lemuel Crocker, whose widow sold it to Isaac Fish in 1856. It remained in the Fish family until 1903, and has since passed through a number of other private hands. It is historically significant for both the well-preserved form of the original half-Cape, and for the surviving outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The Allen Hotel is an historic hotel building in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1915 and first operated as the Park Hotel, it is a significant local example of Renaissance Revival architecture, designed by the prominent local architect Joseph McArthur Vance. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and included in an expansion of Pittsfield&#39;s Park Square Historic District in 1991. It no longer houses a hotel, and has been repurposed for other uses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Allen Hotel building stands in downtown Pittsfield on the west side of Wendell Avenue Extension, just north of East Street (United States Route 7). It is a five-story steel and masonry structure, its exterior finished in buff yellow brick with marble trim. It is crowned by a flat roof with an extended cornice decorated with modillions and dentil moulding. The front facade is divided into three sections. The ground floor functions as a raised basement, with wide segmented-arch housing multipart windows flanking a deeply recessed entrance. A narrow trim string course runs at the base of the windows, with a wider one separating the first and second levels. The second through fourth levels each have paired sash windows in the center, sharing a common lintel, while the side bays have rectangular windows in an inverted Palladian form. Another string course separates the fourth and fifth floors, with three-part windows flanking central paired windows.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1915 by Louis Larouche to a design by Joseph McArthur Vance, a prominent local architect. The site was originally the home of Pittsfield&#39;s first minister, Rev. Thomas Allen, and had remained in his family until 1913. Originally called the Park Hotel, it was renamed the Allen Hotel by new owners in the 1930s, and that name remained with it for some time. In 1991 it was operating as the Wendell House Hotel; it has since been repurposed for other uses.</p><br>
<p>Academy Building  is a historic building in Fall River, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in 1875 as a memorial to Nathaniel Briggs Borden by his family. It opened its doors on January 6, 1876. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on land once owned by Nathaniel Briggs Borden, an early Fall River businessman and politician who died in 1865. The building was designed as a memorial to him by his widow Lydia and his three adult children, Simeon, Nathaniel, Jr. and Louisa Borden Aldrich. The family obtained the services of noted Boston architects H.W. Hartwell and A.E. Swasey, who had previously designed several notable buildings in Fall River, including the Central Congregational Church on Rock Street and Simeon&#39;s mansion on Highland Avenue. Like these other structures, the Borden Block was also designed in the Ruskinian Gothic Revival style, featuring polychrome brick and carved stone details.</p><br>
<p>The four-story building was constructed by the Hull Brothers of Providence. Their initial cost estimate was $260,000. However, the cost of the building escalated during construction, largely attributed to foundation problems. Large mortgages were obtained by the Borden family from local banks. Shares in the building were also sold to several local businessmen. By July 1882, the three Borden siblings no longer owned the building.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its 1876 opening, the building&#39;s theatre boasted the second largest theatre in Massachusetts. The first program, on January 6, 1876, featured the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Later, the theatre hosted the Boston Symphony Orchestra numerous times during the 1880s. The theatre also hosted various drama and comedy stage acts from the time that it opened well into the early 20th century, the motion pictures began to be shown. The building was also used for grand balls, political rallies and other events.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the theatre, the building&#39;s original design included commercial shops at street level and numerous offices in its upper levels.</p><br>
<p>The Borden Block contained the city&#39;s first telephone exchange from 1879 to 1890, when it was relocated to its own building.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, William J. Dunn became the sole owner of the building. In 1946, the Dunn heirs leased the building to Zeitz Theatre Company. It reopened in November 1946 after extensive renovations. During the 1960s and 1970s, the building fell into disrepair. It was acquired by the Fall River Redevelopment Authority in 1973, which had planned to demolish the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Academy Building was photographed as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey. During the 1980s, the building was restored. The theatre portion of the building was removed. Today the building is primarily occupied by senior apartments, with retail spaces at street level along South Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Arcade is an historic building at 31 Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1870s, it is one of the best preserved buildings on Circuit Ave, and is further locally significant as housing the offices of the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company, which was responsible for much of the early development of the town of Oak Bluffs. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, located on the northeastern part of the island of Marthas Vineyard, was originally settled as part of Edgartown in the 17th century. In 1835 the Methodist camp known as Wesleyan Grove (now a National Historic Landmark) was established in the area. Development of the area as a summer resort became more formally organized with the establishment of the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company in 1866. The company developed what was then one of the earliest planned communities, guiding the communitys growth over the following years.</p><br>
<p>In about 1871 the company constructed what is known as The Arcade. The building, designed by the locally prominent architect Samuel Pratt, is a three-story wood frame construction, originally with gingerbread-decorated balconies in front and back. The lower two floors are both the full width of the building, although the first floor is punctured by a passage connecting Circuit Ave. to Wesleyan Grove. The third floor is significantly smaller than the lower floors.</p><br>
<p>The building has historically served a variety of purposes. At one time it housed the Oak Bluffs post office, and in 1886 it is known to have housed the town&#39;s public library. It now occupies a place in the heart of the Oak Bluffs commercial and retail district on Circuit Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Simeon Alexander Jr. House  is an historic house on Millers Falls Road south of Pine Meadow Road in Northfield, Massachusetts. Built about 1780, it is one of the town&#39;s best surviving examples of an early Federal period farmhouse, built by a prosperous local farmer. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Simeon Alexander Jr. House is located in a rural setting south of the town center of Northfield, on the west side of Millers Falls Road (Massachusetts Route 63) about 0.75 mi south of Pine Meadow Road. It is a rambling -story wood-frame structure, with an east-facing main block and a series of ells extending to the west. The main block is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a Victorian-era gabled portico. Joined to the main block and extending west is another -story section, with a south-facing entrance sheltered by a shed-roof portico. The interior of the main block has largely original finishes, including paintings executed on the walls of the north parlor. Although its central chimney has been removed, its base survives in the basement.</p><br>
<p>The house, which has both Georgian and Federal features, is said to have been built in 1744 by Simeon Alexander, a military officer, but is more likely to have been built c. 1774 by his son, Simeon Alexander Jr. The younger man was an American Revolutionary War soldier; the property remained in the Alexander family until 1941. The Alexanders were among the town&#39;s first settlers, with George Alexander, their progenitor, arriving in 1673. The artwork on the parlor walls has tentatively been attributed to Noah Graves, an itinerant painter from nearby Sunderland, whose definitely attributed works in other buildings of the region it resembles.</p><br>
<p>The Amherst Central Business District is a historic district encompassing the heart of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts. Centered on the northern section of the long town common, the area has been the civic and commercial heart of the town since the 18th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and slightly enlarged in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Amherst was originally part of Hadley, settled in 1661, and was itself known to have colonial settlements by 1728. It was incorporated in 1768. Its earliest focal point of settlement was in what is now its commercial business district, at the junction of Main and Pleasant Streets. No buildings surviving from this early date; the oldest house in the area is the Strong House, built in 1774 by Simeon Strong. Only a few buildings predate 1838, when a major fire devastated the downtown area. As a consequence of that and later fires, the character of the commercial buildings in the district is largely that of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially an agricultural area, Amherst flourished with the rise of both Amherst College and the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst) as major institutions.</p><br>
<p>When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, it consisted of a group of mostly brick commercial buildings, built between 1836 and 1930, centered on the junction of South Pleasant, North Pleasant, Amity, and Main Streets, and Boltwood Avenue. The notable non-commercial buildings in the district include the Strong House (separately listed in 1984), the Grace Episcopal Church, the First Baptist Church, and Amherst Town Hall. The district includes the northernmost third of the town common, including a fountain. The district was enlarged in 2011 to include the Lord Jeffery Inn at 30 Boltwood Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Hills Reservation Parkways are a network of historic parkways in and around the Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park south of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of six roadways  that provide circulation within the park, and that join the park to two connecting parkways, the Blue Hills Parkway and the Furnace Brook Parkway. The roadway network was designed by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, except for Green Street, which was added to the network in the 1940s. The parkways were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Blue Hill River Road, Segment One, and Hillside Street</h2><br>
<p>The first segment of Blue Hill River Road begins at a four-way junction with Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 138) and Royall Street (its western continuation) in Canton. It is about 1/2 mile in length, becoming Hillside Street at the Milton line. Its north side is dense forest with stone outcrops, and rising elevation into the hills. On the south side are a concrete sidewalk and a stone wall. The section of road provides access to Brookwood Farm, like the reservation administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).</p><br>
<p>Hillside Street is the major east-west roadway through the western portion of the park, and is where most of its administrative functions are located. It winds for 1.65 mi through the heart of the park, passing the park police headquarters among other facilities. Its first major junction is with the second segment of Blue Hill River Road, which exits to the south, just west of Houghtons Pond. After passing the headquarters area, it has junctions with Unquity Road and Chickatawbut Roads before crossing Pine Tree Brook near the reservations northern border. The parkway ends there, but the roadway continues as a Milton municipal roadway, traveling roughly northeast in a straight line until it meets Randolph Avenue (Massachusetts Route 28).</p><br>
<h2>Blue Hill River Road, Segment Two</h2><br>
<p>This segment of road consists of two sections, which are roughly at right angles to each other but were historically a single roadway. From its northern junction with Hillside Street, Blue Hill River Road runs south, bordering the reservation to the east and private lands on the west. It soon reaches a three-way junction, where Ponkapoag Trail continues south to an interchange with Interstate 93, and Blue Hill River Road continues east, into the reservation. It ends at a small circular turnaround at the southeastern corner of Houghton&#39;s Pond. A nearby parking area provides access to a picnic area and recreational fields. The total length of this segment is 0.87 mi.</p><br>
<h2>Chickatawbut Road</h2><br>
<p>Chickatawbut Road is the longest road in the reservation, running for nearly 3.75 mi through Milton, Quincy, and Braintree. It winds through the hills, generally providing only views of dense woods, from its western terminus at Unquity Road and Hillside Street to its eastern end at Granite Street (Massachusetts Route 37) in Braintree. It provides access, however, to the Chickatawbut Observation Tower, which affords some of the best views in the reservation.</p><br>
<h2>Green Street</h2><br>
<p>Green Street is a road discontinuous from the others, on the western side of the reservation in Milton and Canton. It runs from Royall Street in Canton northeast to a junction with Washington Street in Milton, skirting the westernmost edge of the reservation. This section of the reservation was acquired in the 1940s; the road was originally a municipal street.</p><br>
<h2>Unquity Road</h2><br>
<p>Unquity Road extends north from its junction with Hillside Street and Chickatawbut Road in the north-central section of the park, running in a curvilinear manner very roughly parallel to Pine Tree Brook, for 2.28 mi until it ends at a fourway junction with Canton Street (east-west) and the Blue Hills Parkway (north). It was originally planned as a southern continuation of the Blue Hills Parkway.</p><br>
<h2>Wampatuck Road</h2><br>
<p>Wampatuck Road runs for about 1 mi through the far easternmost portion of the park in Quincy. Its western terminus is with Chickawbut Road at a point where the latter turns more southeast, and its eastern terminus is with the Furnace Brook Parkway at a large rotary that spans (and provides ramps on and off from) Interstate 93. The road provides access to the Granite Railway, another DCR property.</p><br>
<p>The Gen. Sylvanus Thayer House, also known as the Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace, is an historic house at 786 Washington Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. It is operated by the Braintree Historical Society as the Thayer House Museum, which is open year-round.</p><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1720 by Nathaniel Thayer and was subsequently expanded in the 1760s and again in the 19th century. General Sylvanus Thayer, known as the "father of West Point," was born in the house in 1785 and resided there until 1793. In 1958, the parcel of land on which the house sat was purchased by the Walworth Steel Company; rather than tearing the old house down, it was dismantled and moved approximately one mile down Washington Street to its present location. Roughly 60% of the timbers in the house are original, while the others have been replaced during restoration with materials appropriate to the late 18th century. The house is furnished to represent a middle-class agricultural household, like the Thayer family, in 1785–1793.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The Braintree Historical Society constructed a reproduction post-and-beam dairy barn to complement the Thayer House Museum in that same year. Both contain exhibit galleries and are open to the public.</p><br>
<p>A cannon that was a gift from the United States Military Academy at West Point, is on the front lawn of the House.</p><br>
<p>The cannon and carriage have been completely restored. Both wheels were reconstructed by a wheelwright and a blacksmith, one for the wood and one for the iron tires, working together in Colonial Williamsburg, using only tools and techniques consistent with the period. The wheels were reinstalled and the cannon was rededicated in a formal commemoration ceremony on the front lawn of the Thayer House with the Williamsburg craftsmen present, on June 21, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Island Grove Park is a municipal park of the town of Abington, Massachusetts, United States. It consists of a 17 acre parcel of land whose principal feature is a peninsula jutting into Island Grove Pond, a 35 acre body of water which was created by impounding the Shumatuscacant River in. The area has a significant history, first as land inhabited by Native Americans, then as an industrial site, a cemetery , an amusement park, as well as a site of social reform activism before it became the wooded park it is now. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the Island Grove Park National Register District.</p><br>
<h2>Abolitionist History</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-ninetheenth century, Island Grove was a center of abolitionist organizing and activism. The first open air anti-slavery picnic (or rally) happened on August 1, 1846 and was led by William Lloyd Garrison. The opening of the Old Colony Line to Plymouth in November 1845 in what is now North Abington enabled supporters to attend picnics at Island Grove. "Frequently, though not always, the railroads ran special trains at excursion rates, often as low as fifty cents for the round trip adults and twenty-five cents for children, from Boston or Worcester to Framingham and from Boston or Plymouth to Abington." While these picnics were well attended, many Abington residents vehemently opposed anti-slavery activities and would attempt to disrupt these gatherings. The Liberator reports one instance where William Lloyd Garrison hid in a load of hay to escape a violent mob.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and other anti-slavery groups organized these picnics on August 1 in honor of Emancipation Day. Picnics were also held on the Fourth of July, which Garrison denounced "as a hypocritical celebration of universal liberty that did not, and never had existed." Crowds at Island Grove heard from White</p><br>
<p>and Black American abolitionists, including those who had escaped enslavement. “The final abolition-related meeting at Island Grove was held on July 27, 1865, when well over 1,000 citizens gathered to welcome and honor Abington’s returning Civil War soldiers.”</p><br>
<p>The following Black American male and female abolitionists spoke at Island Grove between 1846–1865:</p><br>
<p>Henry “Box” Brown</p><br>
<p>William Wells Brown</p><br>
<p>Ellen Craft</p><br>
<p>William Craft</p><br>
<p>Hezekiah Ford Douglas</p><br>
<p>Francis Ellen Watkins Harper</p><br>
<p>William A. Jackson</p><br>
<p>Charles Lenox Remond</p><br>
<p>John S. Rock.</p><br>
<p>On Memorial Day 1909, a large granitie boulder with a bronze plaque engraving was laid at Island Grove to honor the historic anti-slavery efforts that transpired there between 1846–1865. Only White male and female abolitionists are acknowledged by name on the memorial, concealing the role of Black abolitionists at Island Grove and anti-slavery efforts more broadly. The engraving reads:</p><br>
<p>Captain Moses N. Arnold, who had attended abolitionist gatherings in Abington as a child with his father, is the American soldier referred to on the engraving. He was instrumental in ensuring that the abolitionist history of Island Grove was honored, albeit a partial history, and had the granite memorial placed near the site of the podium where so many luminaries of the anti-slavery efforts had spoken."</p><br>
<p>William Lloyd Garrison Jr. spoke at the dedication of the Island Grove abolitionist memorial on Memorial Day 1909. He reminded the audience that abolitoinists during the time of the Island Grove anti-slavery picnics were described as "traitors, infadels, and aetheists." He went on to give an account of the many abolitionists who spoke at Island Grove, citing Black and White activists. In addition to the above mentioned individuals, he stated that Sojourner Truth spoke at Island Grove in 1850, although no evidence of this has been found in the 1850 August and July publications of The Liberator. In addition, he mentioned that the following individuals spoke or where present at Island Grove anti-slavery picnics: Oliver Johnson, James N. Buffum, John Murray Spear, Moncure D. Conway, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Joseph May, Henry C. Wright, and Andrew T. Foss. At the time of speaking, he warned that "Again race prejudice and hatred rear their ugly heads, and under new guises oppression seeks to reimpose caste lines throughout the land." He called on attendees to show their appreciation for the abolitionists&#39; efforts "by equal fidelity to truth and justice in this hour of need."</p><br>
<p>The Cambridge Grant Historic District is a 322 acre historic district located on Russell Hill Road and Wilker Road in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, at an elevation of 1240–1300 feet above sea level. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The 1,000 acre district was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1734 as compensation for that town&#39;s responsibility in maintaining the first bridge across the Charles River connecting Boston to towns to the north, built in 1662. Known as the Cambridge Bridge Farm, it remained unsettled until 1770, when John Adams of Menotomy (West Cambridge Parish) became the first settler with his new bride, Joanna Munroe. He was soon followed by other family members, including his father, Thomas Adams, Sr., a brother, Thomas Adams, Jr., a sister, Lucretia Adams Wetherbee, and a nephew, Thomas Russell. A community of interrelated settlers from the Adams and Russell families of Menotomy evolved. The principal occupation of many of the early settlers was the tanning of goat or sheep skins into Morocco leather. This Adams family had been early settlers in West Cambridge and were not related to the Presidential Adams family of Braintree.</p><br>
<h2>Revolutionary period</h2><br>
<p>The Adams and Russell families were closely connected to Revolutionary figures in Menotomy and Lexington. Joanna Munroe, wife of first settler John Adams (later known as the Centenarian), was the sister of Ebenezer Munroe, a Minuteman who may have fired the first shot on the British on Lexington green, April 19, 1775, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. and of Isaac Munroe, who was slain by the British that day. Ebenezer Munroe later removed to Ashburnham. Early settler Thomas Russell (a nephew of John Adams) was a second cousin of Jason Russell, owner of the Jason Russell House, who was killed in his kitchen in Menotomy by enraged British regulars on their return to Boston following their engagement at Concord.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first settlers were joined by Ethan Wetherbee and his wife, Lucretia Adams, a sister of John Adams the Centenarian. Wetherbee had been keeper of the Black Horse Tavern in Menotomy, where the Massachusetts Committee of Safety and Committee of Supplies had met; by locking the tavern door he had saved Charles Lee, Azor Orne and Elbridge Gerry from capture by British troops passing through on their way to Concord on the night of April 18–19, 1775.</p><br>
<h2>Twentieth century</h2><br>
<p>In the early twentieth century, the district became an active summer arts community. Home to writers and artists, it was noted for popular outdoor theatrical performances sponsored by the successful stage actor, Aldrich Bowker (1875&ndash;1947), one of its summer residents. Bowker succeeded Henry Travers in the role of Grandpa in George S. Kaufmans You Cant Take It with You on Broadway, and played it for over 500 consecutive performances in New York and Chicago. When Kaufman won the Pulitzer Prize for the play in 1937, Bowker was the presenter. He went on to play character roles in 25 motion pictures between 1939 and 1942, including The Major and the Minor and Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Aldrich Bowker&#39;s brother, Frank Bowker, also a district resident, was the author of Ashby Four Corners, a play about life in a small New England town whose setting is Russell Hill. Clara Burbank (1862–1927), a successful still life artist, was a neighbor in the district, as was Amy L. Burbank (1875–1948), a popular New England landscape painter.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Such one-or-two family neighborhoods constituted a familiar settlement pattern in Massachusetts and Maine land grants in the eighteenth century, but most are no longer recognizable due to building loss and subsequent development. Cambridge Grant is nearly unique in retaining a significant number of early homes and outbuildings in their original settings, with almost no encroachment from later building episodes. Today the Cambridge Grant Historic District contains seven Federal Architecture period homes dating from 1787/88 to 1834, together with barns and outbuildings, plus the Russell-Burbank family cemetery (1848). In addition, the Walter Russell House contains two of the earliest known murals by an itinerant wall painter of the Rufus Porter school.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Isaac Hill (1788–1851), a grandson of John Adams the Centenarian, New Hampshire State Representative, New Hampshire State Senator, Comptroller of the United States Treasury in the Andrew Jackson administration, USA Senator from NH, and Governor of New Hampshire</p><br>
<p>Ivers Adams (1808–1890), Massachusetts State Representative, 1851</p><br>
<p>Samuel G. Adams (1825–1886), Superintendent of Police for the City of Boston</p><br>
<p>Ivers Whitney Adams (born 1838), founder of the Boston Red Stockings, first professional baseball team in Boston</p><br>
<p>Melvin Ohio Adams (1847–1920), lawyer for Lizzie Borden</p><br>
<p>Luther B. Adams (born 1829) and Andrew Jackson Adams (1828–1911), officers of the Boston Chair Manufacturing Company of Ashburnham, an aggressive innovator in mass production techniques and one of the three largest chair manufacturers in the United States in the third quarter of the nineteenth century</p><br>
<p>The Pequoig Hotel is an historic former hotel building at 416 Main Street in Athol, Massachusetts. Built in 1894 by a leading local developer, it is downtown Athol&#39;s largest and most prominent building. After serving as a hotel into the 1950s, it was converted into a senior living facility in 1982. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Pequoig Hotel stands in on the north side of Main Street in downtown Athol, at the northeast corner with Exchange Street. It is a tall four-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with granite and terra cotta trim. Its Main Street facade is eleven bays wide; the outer four bays on each end are articulated by paneled pilasters, and have paired windows topped by granite lintels. The top-floor windows have round-arch tops, and the roof line above has a deep projecting cornice. The center three bays have tripled windows around a central projecting oriel bay, rising to a terra cotta parapet. The Exchange Street facade continues the detailing of the adjacent Main Street bays. The ground floor storefronts have undergone alterations over the years in response to changing commercial needs.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1894 by Lucien Lord, a major local real estate developer, and is the best-preserved of the town&#39;s late 19th-century commercial buildings. It was at the time of its construction the largest non-industrial building in the town, and it served as a hotel until the 1950s. Its ground floor spaces continued to serve commercial purposes into the 1970s. After a period of vacancy, it was converted into a senior living center.</p><br>
<p>The South Harwich Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building in South Harwich, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1836, it is a well-preserved example of a typical Cape Cod church of the first half of the 19th century. It was the town&#39;s second Methodist meeting house, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Harwich Methodist Church is locate on the north side of Chatham Road, at its junction with Old Country Road. It stands on a parcel of land that includes a cemetery established in 1829. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, set on a brick foundation and covered by a gabled roof. Its exterior is clad in wooden clapboards, and has a combination of modest Greek Revival and Gothic Revival features. The corners of the building have pilasters, which rise to an entablature and gable returns at the roof edge. The main facade is symmetrically arranged, with two entrances flanking a central double window. Each of these elements is topped bya lancet-arched louver. The side walls each have three windows, also topped by lancet-arched louvers. A round-arch bay projects from the building rear. The interior is notable for its trompe-l&#39;œil paintings and generally intact original features; the only major modification has been the removal of a balcony at the rear. Oil lamps originally used for lighting have been electrified.</p><br>
<p>Methodism was introduced to Cape Cod in the 1790s by Reverend Jesse Lee. The first Methodist church was built in East Harwich in 1799, and this, the towns second, was built in 1836 on land given to the congregation by John Paine Eldredge. The congregation was initially termed reform Methodist in belief, but underwent a schism over slavery and the nature of its services, and the building was retained by a more conservative faction. In 1878 it was united with the East Harwich Methodist Church, sharing a minister. By the time of the churchs listing on the National Register, its congregation had dwindled in size to less than two dozen.</p><br>
<p>The Osterville Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church building at 824 Main Street in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded wood-frame structure was built in 1837 for a congregation formed two years earlier. It is one of the older buildings in Osterville, and is a fine example of the Greek Revival with Gothic Revival elements. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Osterville Baptist Church is set prominently in the center of Osterville on the north side of the junction of Main Street and Wianno Avenue. It is a rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, vinyl siding, and a brick foundation. Its exterior features a mix of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styling, with corner paneled pilasters rising to entablatures running along the sides of the building, and lancet-arched panels above its windows. Its facade is symmetrically arranged, with a pair of entrances, each framed by sidelight windows and pilasters, with an entablature and cornice on top, and sash windows above. A single lancet-arch panel adorns the center of the gable end. The church has a two-stage square tower, with a plain first stage topped by a belfry with lancet-arched louvered openings, and a steeple above.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was organized in 1835 as the Second Barnstable Baptist Church, and this church was dedicated in 1838, having been built on land given by Captain George Lovell. Its steeple is a reconstruction of the original, which was lost in a hurricane in 1945. The church interior was remodeled in 1889, at which time a heating system was added. Further additions have been made to the rear of the building, adding classroom, meeting, and office spaces.</p><br>
<p>Old Higgins Farm Windmill is a historic Smock windmill off of Old King&#39;s Highway at Drummer Boy Park in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The windmill was built in 1795, it last ground grain around 1900. The windmill was moved a number of times the last from Ellis Landing in Brewster to its current location in 1974. In 1975 it was added to the National Historic Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The windmill was donated its then owner, Mrs. Samuel Nickerson, in memory of her husband, to the which continues to maintain it at its current location.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist Society Meetinghouse is an historic Greek Revival meetinghouse at 3 River Road in Orleans, Massachusetts. Built in 1834, it was the only Universalist church built in Orleans, and is architecturally a well-preserved local example of Greek Revival architecture. The Meeting House is now the home of the Orleans Historical Society and is known as the Meeting House Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The meetinghouse is set on a short piece of River Road, between Main and School Streets, in the village center of Orleans not far from the town offices. The building is a two-story rectangular wood-frame structure, set on a granite foundation, with a gable roof. The roof ridge runs parallel to River Road, which lies to the north, and the main gable-end facade faces roughly east. The walls are finished with painted wooden shingles, with broad paneled pilasters rising at the corners to an entablature that encircles the building below the roof line. The main facade is symmetrically arranged, with two entrances each flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. Above each entrance at the second level is a sash window. The gable end is fully pedimented, with a small lancet-shaped window at the center.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building has a single large space, with a balcony gallery on three sides (excepting the west end). The original box pews were removed from the main floor, probably before 1900, with congregants apparently using folding chairs; box pews remain in the gallery. A 19th-century pressed metal ceiling obscures the original domed ceiling. The building now houses museum displays.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist congregation of Orleans took form as early as 1832, when a number of congregants left the local Congregational Church over their theological differences. The new congregation was formally organized in 1833, and its new meetinghouse was built by David Taylor Jr. on land donated by David Taylor Sr., a former ship&#39;s captain and the local postmaster. The building was enlarged sometime in the 19th century by the addition of about 15 ft to the west end; this probably took place between the 1840s and 1860s, when the congregation was at its largest.</p><br>
<p>Faced with declining participation, the Universalists and Congregationalists reunited their congregations in 1939, holding services in the Congregational church and using this meetinghouse as a Sunday school. The building was sold to the Orleans Historical Society in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Poor House and Methodist Cemetery  is an historic poor house and cemetery on 744 Main Street in Falmouth, Massachusetts. It was established in 1809 and served the poor and mentally ill from 1812 until 1963. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, along with the Methodist Burial Ground next door where many Poor House residents were subsequently buried.</p><br>
<p>The building is owned by the Town of Falmouth, and is called the Edward Marks Jr. Building. Since 1963, at different points it housed the Falmouth Retirement System and the Falmouth Historical Commission. The building used to be the home of the Falmouth Artists Guild prior to the construction of the Falmouth Art Center. At present it is vacant.</p><br>
<p>The Cove Burying Ground is an historic cemetery located just south of MA 6 and Corliss Way in Eastham, Massachusetts, US. It is Easthams oldest cemetery, dating to c. 1646. It was laid out not long after the towns first meeting house was built nearby. Although there are no graves marked with 17th-century markers, it is virtually certain that some of Easthams early settlers are buried here. It was the towns only burying ground until the establishment in 1720 of the Bridge Road Cemetery. The cemetery remained in active use until about 1770. Families placed memorial markers in there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Three of the Mayflowers 1620 original passengers have marked headstones here. They are:</p><br>
<p>Giles Hopkins (1607–1690)</p><br>
<p>Lt. Joseph Rogers (1608–1678)</p><br>
<p>Constance Hopkins (1605–1677)</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge Road Cemetery is an historic cemetery on Bridge Road in Eastham, Massachusetts. It is a roughly 1.4 acre rectangular parcel on the west side of Bridge Road. The cemetery was established in 1720, and marks the location of the town&#39;s second meeting house. It was the second cemetery established in the town, after the Cove Burying Ground. The cemetery was in use from 1720 until the late 1880s; its earliest dated grave is marked 1754. Most of the burials took place between 1770  and about 1830, when a new cemetery was laid out further north. There is a single 20th-century burial, dated 1933.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Edgartown Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the traditional center of Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Marthas Vineyard. The district is roughly bounded by Water St.  and Peases Point Way , and encompasses some 500 acre. The buildings within the district primarily represent the period of Edgartown&#39;s growth in the 19th century, featuring the elaborate houses of wealthy ship captains, as well as significant public buildings such as the Dukes County Courthouse and Jail, the Federated Church, and the Whaling Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Edgartown was settled after the area was granted in 1641 to Thomas Mayhew, having previously been occupied by the Wampanoag people, and was incorporated in 1671, when Martha&#39;s Vineyard was part of New York. Only portions of First Period construction have survived in Edgartown; one example is the Captain D. Fisher House on North Water Street (c. 1704). Most of the 18th century houses that survive are vernacular in their construction methods; the Thomas Cooke House (c. 1765) is a typical Georgian five-bay house with a central chimney.</p><br>
<p>Edgartown&#39;s heyday during the 19th century was roughly during the second quarter of the 19th century, when the whaling industry dominated its economy. As a result, a large portion of its architecture is in the most popular style from that time, the Greek Revival. However, side-hall plans that were typical of this time in other parts of Massachusetts were uncommon here, Most of the buildings from this period were cottages of one and a half stories, with modest styling such as corner pilasters. The Fisher House on Morse Street is probably the most elaborate Greek Revival house in the village. Because of the decline in the whaling industry and the village economy, there are comparatively few Victorian period buildings. Between 1895 and about 1930 a number of summer houses were built, predominantly in Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The Gay Head–Aquinnah Town Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of the American town of Aquinnah, Massachusetts. The district includes six contributing buildings and two monuments, based around the intersection of South and Church Streets in Aquinnah.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the arrival of English colonists, the island of Martha&#39;s Vineyard was occupied by Wampanoag Indians. English settlement began in the 1640s in the eastern part of the island, and the Gay Head area in the far west remained reserved to the natives. Following American independence in 1783, the Wampanoags became de facto wards of the state, but their lands at Gay Head remained under their control.</p><br>
<p>By the first decades of the 19th century, there were two church congregations, and a school in the area. The church congregations declined in size, and were eventually absorbed into that of nearby Holmes Hole (present-day Vineyard Haven).</p><br>
<p>In the early 1830s, a town center began to take shape along Old South Road. The Gay Head congregants organized a new church in 1832, which met in the schoolhouse. It is unclear whether this refers to the schoolhouse in the district, whose existence is only definitely dated to 1844. The small congregation received a donation for the construction of a new church, which was dedicated in December 1850.</p><br>
<p>The town of Gay Head was incorporated in 1870; it was renamed Aquinnah in 1998.</p><br>
<p>A new town center began to take shape following incorporation, and the surveying and construction of what is now South Road. By 1907, the church, school and parsonage house had all been relocated to their present setting near the intersection of South and Church Roads.s To these were added the present town hall, and a post office with residence for the postmaster.</p><br>
<h2>District elements</h2><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It includes the following six contributing buildings:</p><br>
<p>a schoolhouse, known to exist in 1844; this building now serves as the Aquinnah town library</p><br>
<p>the Gay Head Community Baptist church, constructed 1850; it is the only church in town</p><br>
<p>the minister&#39;s parsonage house, constructed 1856</p><br>
<p>the town hall, constructed 1929</p><br>
<p>the former post office and residence, constructed in the 1920s</p><br>
<p>a small outhouse on the church property, not used in living memory</p><br>
<p>Two monuments, commemorating the town&#39;s contributions to World War I, are also contributing elements to the district. Non-contributing elements include the modern town office building and the Gay Head Fire Station.</p><br>
<p>The William Street Historic District is a historic district in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha&#39;s Vineyard. The district includes houses on William Street from Woodlawn Avenue in the north to several houses south of Camp Street. It represents the single best preserved area of mid 19th century houses in Vineyard Haven.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of the earliest English settlements on the island of Marthas Vineyard (now in Massachusetts) was a place called Holmes Hole. Eventually incorporated as part of the larger town of Tisbury, Holmes Hole was eventually renamed Vineyard Haven, reflecting its status as the islands major port.</p><br>
<p>Williams Street was the second street of note laid out in the town, running parallel to Main Street. The street was developed by Thomas Bradley, who also counted a mill in West Tisbury among his businesses. Laid out in 1831, a series of houses were constructed along the road between 1830 and 1860, most in the Greek Revival style. These houses were all built by local builders, apparently without the benefit of architectural guidance. Most of the houses have not had significant alterations, and some continue to be owned by descendants of the original purchasers. The first houses built were typically -story structures with 4 windows.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses all of the properties from Woodlawn Avenue in the north to Camp Street, extending about three houses south of the latter. There are only a few modern houses in this stretch, as well as an old schoolhouse. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead, is an historic house at 35 South Road, Aquinnah, Massachusetts, United States. The c. 1890s house is the first built by a member of the Vanderhoop family, which is prominent in the town politics of Aquinnah and in the tribal organization of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It is now operated as a museum called the Aquinnah Cultural Center and features exhibits on tribal history and culture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Adrian Vanderhoop (b. 1816) was the first member of the Vanderhoop family to move to what is now Aquinnah, Massachusetts on the island of Martha&#39;s Vineyard, but was then a reservation of the Wampanoags of Gay Head. In 1837, he married a Wampanoag woman and raised a large family, whose descendants continue to be prominent in the affairs of the town and tribe. In 1869, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts began the process of incorporating the town of Gay Head (as Aquinnah was called before 1998) by dividing the tribal lands among its members. Vanderhoop purchased one of the tracts defined by the state from a tribal member in 1890 for $40, and immediately signed it over to his son, Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop. He was a whaling captain, and the first Wampanoag to sit in the state legislature.</p><br>
<p>Sometime between 1890 and 1897 the younger Vanderhoop constructed a house on the property. With only modest changes to its structure, and the addition and loss of outbuildings on the property, it has retained its original character. The house was acquired by the Town of Aquinnah and is the home of the non-profit Aquinnah Cultural Center, and has been converted into a cultural center and museum. Most of the land owned by Vanderhoops was acquired by the Martha&#39;s Vineyard Land Bank at the same time.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a windswept tract on the far west side of Gay Head, about one mile (1.6 km) west of the town center of Aquinnah. It marks the western end of South Road, the main road connecting Aquinnah to the rest of Martha&#39;s Vineyard. There are currently no outbuildings, although there had been in the past. The historic tract extends down to Rhode Island Sound, with expansive views of the ocean.</p><br>
<p>The house sits near the road at a location that begins to drop off sharply toward the coast. The main body of the house consists of two large Cape style sections whose ridge lines run east–west, but at an offset from each other. Each section has a central chimney. The two sections appear to have been constructed relatively near each other in time, since the construction methods appear to be similar. It is possible that one of the two sections was built before 1890 and moved to the site.</p><br>
<p>The north block of the house measures 24 by 16, with three window bays on the long dimension and two on the short. A two-story entry block projects from the center of the north elevation, and is flanked by porches. The main north block is offset by 5 ft from the south block, which measures 22 by 16, and has a single-story block protruding from the center of its south elevation.</p><br>
<p>Inside the house, the northern section contains a living room and parlor, while the southern section houses the kitchen, pantry, and dining room. Four bedrooms and a bathroom occupy the second floor. The walls and ceilings are plaster throughout the house, and the floors are painted pine. Modifications to the first floor have been limited: a fireplace was added to the living room, and doorways have been widened between the entry and living room, and between the living and dining rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Old Mill is an historic mill building at 690 Edgartown-West Tisbury Road in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on the island of Marthas Vineyard. The current structure was built c. 1848, and occupies a site that has seen industrial use since the 17th century. The property is currently owned by the Marthas Vineyard Garden Club.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Mill is located just outside the center of West Tisbury, Massachusetts, in the central-western portion of Martha&#39;s Vineyard. The site has seen industrial uses since the 1650s, not long after English settlers arrived on the island. The property was purchased in 1845 by Captain Thomas Bradley for $1,800, at which time it included a "dilapidated... mill". Bradley constructed a new, -story mill building on the site. It was used as a woolen mill until about 1873. After that, the property went through a succession of owners and uses, including a tea room, art gallery, and auction house.</p><br>
<p>The building has been the headquarters of the Martha&#39;s Vineyard Garden Club since 1937. The club purchased the property in 1942, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Setting and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The mill building is a modest -story brick and wood-frame structure on 26 acre of land, most of which is south of the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road. The building sites near the road, just to its south, and is set into a south-facing hill. The mill pond is the only major part of the property that is on the north side of the road. A parking area near the mill is screened by trees, and most of the land is naturally landscaped.</p><br>
<p>The mill itself consists of a rectangular main block, 7 bays wide and 4 deep, with an ell of 1.5 stories extending from its eastern elevation. Each floor of the building consists of a single open room. A stairway provides access between the first and second floors, and a modern pulldown ladder provides access to the top floor. A deck, a variant of an earlier one, adorns the east side of the building, as does a small modern addition providing modern plumbing facilities. The building is built on a foundation of rubble, with brick on the lower levels that are exposed from the hillside. The mill&#39;s power supply, Red Brook, flows through a conduit under the mill, although there are no visible signs remaining of how its power was harnessed.</p><br>
<p>Union Chapel  is an historic octagon-shaped church building in Oak Bluffs, on Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1870 as a non-sectarian worship space in an area dominated by the Methodist summer camp meeting known as Wesleyan Grove. Acquired in 2002 by the nonprofit Marthas Vineyard Preservation Trust, the building continues to be used for nonsectarian religious services, and also serves as a community center and performing arts space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area now called Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on the island of Martha&#39;s Vineyard began to develop in the 1830s with the establishment of a Methodist summer camp meeting which became known as Wesleyan Grove. The popularity of the camp prompted the formation of the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company to develop areas adjacent to the camp as a resort area.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1870 as a non-denominational house of worship for vacationers who were not Methodist. The church, an eight-sided structure with an open internal plan, was designed by local architect Samuel Freeman Pratt, whose work for the Company included its headquarters building.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 1990. In 2002 the building was acquired by the Martha&#39;s Vineyard Preservation Trust. The building continues to be used for services on a seasonal basis, and is also used for community events and as a performing arts space.</p><br>
