<p>Humboldt Park is a 207 acre park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue in West Town, on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. To its west is the neighborhood named after it, also called Humboldt Park. It opened in 1877, and is one of the largest parks on the West Side. The park&#39;s designers include William Le Baron Jenney, and Jens Jensen.</p><br>
<p>The park was named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and botanist.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 2018, the Chicago Park District and Chicago Parks Foundation partnered with the Garden Conservancy organization to improve the Jens Jensen Formal Garden. They rehabilitated the natural landscape and repaired deteriorating infrastructure, winning the 2018 Jens Jensen Award from the of the American Society of Landscape Architects.</p><br>
<p>The park played a prominent role in the past for Chicago&#39;s Polish community. The Polish Constitution Day Parade once traditionally terminated here at the Tadeusz Kosciuszko statue that was located here before it was moved to Solidarity Promenade on the lakefront Museum Campus in 1981. Additionally, pianist and Polish statesman Ignace Paderewski delivered a famous address where he rallied Chicagoans to the cause of a free and independent Poland.</p><br>
<p>From 2012 to 2014, Humboldt Park was the home of the punk rock–based music festival Riot Fest and Carnival. For 2015, the three-day music festival was met with opposition from Alderman Roberto Maldonado and local residents over the condition of the grass, lack of accessibility during and after the festival, and gentrification of the surrounding area. This led to the festival&#39;s relocation south to Douglass Park.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, an alligator (a non-native species to the Midwest) was found at the park&#39;s lagoon, capturing much interest and media attention.</p><br>
<h3>Landmark status</h3><br>
<p>The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The boathouse pavilion was named a Chicago Landmark on November 13, 1996. The stables and receptory became a Chicago Landmark on February 6, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Stable and receptory</h2><br>
<p>The stable and receptory is a single building. It was built in 1895–1896 as a half-timbered German country house that combined Queen Anne revival features. The eclectic architecture also incorporated some neo-medieval and neo-romanesque details, like turrets and a Richardsonian courtyard porte-cochere.</p><br>
<p>The Receptory was the visitor center and main building of the park. It included the park superintendent&#39;s office, first occupied by Jens Jensen. Visitors would park their carriages there.</p><br>
<p>The rear portion of the building was the stable, with stalls for 16 horses. It is less ornate, but still features many roof dormers and a spire.</p><br>
<h3>Museum</h3><br>
<p>Chicago&#39;s Puerto Rican community leased the remodeled former receptory and stables – near Paseo Boricua – to house the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, which opened in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Statues</h2><br>
<p>Near the boathouse stands a ten-foot-tall statue of Alexander von Humboldt. Sculpted by Felix Gorling and donated by Francis Dewes, the statue encompasses a globe, a twig in his right hand, a lizard atop a manuscript, and plants at his feet. These inclusions were to symbolize Humboldt&#39;s travels and role in establishing geophysics and physical geography sciences.</p><br>
<p>At the east entrance to the park, a pair of bronze American bison face the gardens. The sculptor, Edward Kemeys, also known for the lions at the entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago, created the Bison for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition. The bronze reproductions of the Bison were created by Jules Bercham. They were placed in Humboldt Parks formal garden since 1915.</p><br>
<p>German American residents of Chicago commissioned to have a monument created of Fritz Reuter, a German novelist and political martyr and located it in the park.</p><br>
<p>The German American sculptor for this monument, Franz Engelsman had also originally created four relief plaques depicting Reuter&#39;s achievements that were placed at the base of the sculpture. However, they were stolen in the 1930s and never salvaged.</p><br>
<p>The Statue of Leif Erikson is a bronze Viking sculpture set atop a granite boulder in Humboldt Park. Some believe Erikson to be the first European to discover North America. The Norwegian American community of Chicago commissioned the monument, which was sculpted by the Norwegian artist Sigvald Asbjørnsen.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the park was once home to the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument by Kazimierz Chodzinski that was built thanks to funds raised by Chicagos Polish community and moved in 1981 to the citys lakefront.</p><br>
<p>Hunt Armory  is a former armory located at 324 Emerson Street in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins Co. Announced on August 29, 1909 and budgeted at $450,000  it was completed by 1916. The armory was named after Spanish–American War hero, metallurgist, and industrialist Captain Alfred E. Hunt , best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world&#39;s largest producer and distributor of aluminum. The Hunt Armory occupies an entire city block covering an area of 56,000 ft&sup2, also reported as 1.84 acres.</p><br>
<p>For many years, it was used (along with the Syria Mosque) as the city&#39;s main auditorium. Until the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was completed in 1961, the Hunt Armory was the largest auditorium in Pittsburgh and was frequently the host for concerts and political events including:</p><br>
<p>October 20, 1944: Presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey.</p><br>
<p>October 23, 1948: President Harry S. Truman with a crowd of over 25,000.</p><br>
<p>September 7 - October 4, 1952: Billy Graham&#39;s Pittsburgh crusade.</p><br>
<p>October 27, 1952: Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower.</p><br>
<p>October 30, 1952: Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.</p><br>
<p>October 9, 1956: President Eisenhower.</p><br>
<p>October 31, 1956: Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson speaks to 12,000.</p><br>
<p>The Armory is closed for military use, but continues to be used for other purposes. In 2008, it hosted the Handmade Arcade.</p><br>
<p>By 2015, historically appropriate redevelopment was being planned under the City&#39;s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). In November 2021, the site opened as a public skating rink, becoming the first indoor community ice rink opened within the city of Pittsburgh in 25 years.</p><br>
<p>Hunt Armory has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since November 14, 1991. It received City of Pittsburgh historic landmark status on February 27, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The David Van Gelder Octagon House, also known as Springside is located at 21 Walnut Street in Catskill, New York. The brick house was built in 1860. It is architecturally significant as an example of an octagon house. The eight-sided plan was made popular in the mid-19th century by phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. He called the floor plan "a superior plan". It includes four large square rooms and four small triangular rooms on each of the two floors. Two corners of each of the triangular rooms are small triangular closets. A central stair rises through the house to the cupola on the roof. A kitchen wing was added, likely in the mid-1870s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Old Indian Cemetery or "Old Cemetery" is a historic cemetery at 50 Cottage Street in West Brookfield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1710 and was an active burial ground until 1849. The cemetery "is the resting place of 16 French and Indian War soldiers, 11 Revolutionary War soldiers, and 6 men who were killed in 1710 by Indians and became known as the Haymakers. It is also the resting place for Jedediah Foster, his wife and daughter, and Diederick Leertouwer." The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Calvinistic Congregational Church is an historic church building located at 820 Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1967, the congregation joined with the First United Methodist Church of Fitchburg to form a cooperative ministry called Faith United Parish. Built in 1896. the church was designed by architect Henry M. Francis, and is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Since 2013 the building has been owned by the Casa De Gracia y Restauración .</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Calvinistic Congregational Church building stands at the southern end of the Fitchburg Upper Common, adjacent to the city&#39;s central business district. It is a rectangular structure, built out of red sandstone and brick. Its gable roof is oriented parallel to Rollstone Street, which runs just north of the building. The front gable is stepped and is topped by a finial; a lower cross gable on the side is also stepped. A tall tower, over 158 ft in height, stands at the corner of the two streets, rising to a clock level, belfry, and octagonal spire. A lower tower stands at the right rear of the sanctuary, the cross gable between them set above a group of four windows with a half-round window above the center two. The interior decoration includes five Tiffany windows.</p><br>
<p>The congregation that had the church built in 1896 was founded in 1802 as a traditional Congregationalist alternative to Fitchburg&#39;s first church, founded in 1768 and converted to Unitarianism at the time of the split. This congregation built its first church in 1806, and a larger one in 1845. The present building was built, its design probably a gift of local architect Henry M. Francis, who was one of its parishioners late in his career. The church is one of his finest examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and one of the finest example of that style in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Calvinist Congregational Church, its enrollment declining, entered a ministry union with the First United Methodist Church (formerly located on Fox Street in Fitchburg) in or about 1967. Although the congregations were separately managed (retaining separate affiliations with the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church), they shared the facilities and the minister. The old Fox Street Methodist Church building was sold off (and was later demolished).</p><br>
<h2>Building sale and dissolution of Faith United</h2><br>
<p>In 2013 a dwindling and aging membership of Faith United was experiencing difficulty in maintaining the property. The building was sold to Casa De Gracia y Restauración, or the House of Grace and Restoration. The three congregations continued to meet in the building until the Faith United members decided to disband in 2017. Faith United held its final worship service on June 24, 2018. As of August 2020 the building continues to be used by Casa De Gracia y Restauración.</p><br>
<p>The Pine Grove Cemetery, also known as the First Meetinghouse Burying Ground, is an historic cemetery on Tremaine and Main Streets in Leominster, Massachusetts. Established in 1742, it is the citys oldest cemetery, and the principal surviving element of the towns early settlement. It was originally located adjacent to the community&#39;s first meeting house, built in 1741 and dismantled in 1774. The cemetery, closed to burials since 1937, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 12, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Leominster was settled in the early 18th century as part of Lancaster, and was separately incorporated in 1740. Its first colonial meeting house was built in 1741, and the cemetery was laid out the following year. The meeting house was torn down in 1774, after a new one was built near the modern city center. The cemetery was enlarged in 1776, and again in the 1820s to reach its present size of 3 acre. It was the citys only cemetery until 1840, when Evergreen Cemetery was opened to its northeast. It is the resting place for most of Leominsters early settlers, and for many of its 18th and 19th century political and business leaders.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is located about 0.5 mi northeast of downtown Leominster, east of Main Street and south of Tremaine Street. It is roughly rectangular in shape, and is generally level, with a steep rise only near its northern entrance. There are entrances (none accessible to public vehicles) on the north, south, and west sides. The western (Main Street) entrance is for pedestrians only, while the other two have normally locked wrought iron gates. Vehicular circulation is by two grassy (formerly cobbled) roads that run roughly north-south, one of them connecting the north and south gates. Burials in the cemetery, in addition to early settlers and business leaders, include a number of American Revolutionary War veterans.</p><br>
<p>The Southwick–Daniels Farm is a historic farm in Blackstone, Massachusetts. The farmstead was established c. 1750, when the oldest portion of the main farmhouse was built, and has been in the same family since 1797. This house portion is now the ell of the main house, which was built c. 1830. There are three other buildings that date to the 19th century: the barn , the henhouse , and the cider mill . Other important aspects of the farm&#39;s landscape are its stone walls, well houses and a corn crib.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is now a living history museum operated by the Daniels Farmstead Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Blackstone Viaduct, or the New York & New England Railroad Viaduct is a historic viaduct in Blackstone, Massachusetts. The viaduct was built in 1872 by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad and the American Bridge Company. The viaduct is 1,600 ft long structure, consisting of masonry arches and earthen embankments in the Massachusetts portion of the village of Waterford. It runs from the Blackstone River in the east to a still-watered section of the defunct Blackstone Canal to the west. The most prominent portion of the structure is an 800-foot earthen embankment running west from the river that is 25 ft high, and then a 375 ft multiple-arch masonry bridge constructed out of granite which was sheathed in concrete in 1918. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The viaduct was built as part of a project by the Boston, Hartford and Erie (BH&E) to build a complete run between New York City and Boston. The first leg of this route, between Blackstone and Boston, was opened in 1849, and was purchased by the BH&E in 1867. That company completed the connection between Blackstone and New Haven, Connecticut in 1873, part of which included construction of this viaduct, replacing an older wooden trestle. By the early 20th century, some of the viaducts arches were in deteriorating condition, and were reinforced with concrete in 1918. The bridge over Canal Street was replaced in 1917. The viaduct is one of the largest of the states 19th-century masonry bridge structures, second in size only to the Canton Viaduct. In the late 1960s, floodwaters washed away an abutment of the adjoining trestle to the east, ending service over the viaduct.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) purchased a section of the right-of-way, including the viaduct, in the 1980s for possible conversion to a rail trail.</p><br>
<p>Restoration of the viaduct itself began in 2022. On November 22, 2024, the DCR opened 0.44 miles of trail from Canal Street over the viaduct and curving south to the Rhode Island line, connecting to an existing portion of trail in Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District encompasses the "New City" or "High Rocks" area of Blackstone, Massachusetts, an industrial village associated with the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, which began operations in 1809. It includes an area roughly surrounding Butler, Canal, Church, County, Ives, Main, Mendon, Old Mendon, and School Streets. The district includes a wide variety of worker housing, as well as a granite storehouse, the only surviving company structure. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Blackstone Manufacturing Company was founded in 1808 by investors from Providence, Rhode Island, and was one of several such companies that developed the Blackstone River industrially. Its early growth was instrumental in the growth of Blackstone Village in the 19th century. The company owned much of the land in the village, building it out as a company town, providing housing, a school and church, and other services for its workers. Its mill was located at the end of what is now called Old Mendon Street, and included one of the first mills built anywhere in the United States after the Slater Mill in Pawtucket. The complex now survives mainly as archaeological remnants, including filled-in raceways and other features. The company remained in independent operation until 1924, when it was acquired by the Lonsdale Company.</p><br>
<p>The historic district occupies an irregular area roughly bounded on the north by Main Street and the east by Bridge Street. The eastern portion of this area is where the mill complex was located, and to its west lies a small grid of streets that were built out by the company with housing. Most of this housing took the form of tenements housing anywhere from two to six units, built with wood frames and originally finished in clapboards. There were a few single-family residences built by the company, as well as the Blackstone Inn, built about 1920, the 1836 Greek Revival Congregational Church, and two school buildings.</p><br>
<p>The East Blackstone Village Historic District is a historic district roughly along Elm Street at the junction with Summer Street in eastern Blackstone, Massachusetts. It encompasses a small 19th-century mill village center that developed along what was once a major roadway connecting Worcester with Providence, Rhode Island. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>East Blackstone village is centered on the junction of Elm and Summer Streets in Blackstone, a community in southeastern Worcester County and abutting Rhode Island to the south. Elm Street is the historic major route connecting Worcester to the northwest with Providence to the southeast. The Mill River flows roughly parallel to the road to its southwest, and its waters provided the power for the villages early industries, a grist mill (1753) and a saw mill (1760), at a point where the river passes under Elm Street west of Summer on a c. 1850 stone arch bridge known as Kelly&#39;s Bridge. Only archaeological and foundational remnants survive of the mills at this site. Although this area is separated from the center of the village, it is included in the historic district because of its early importance in the later development of the village.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The district includes fourteen residential buildings, a school, and a former retail building, as well as a number of archaeological resources. Most of them are located on the south side of Elm Street, west of the Summer Street junction, or on Summer Street to the south. The oldest building is the c. 1760 Seth Kelly House (174 Elm Street), with most of the other buildings dating to the first half of the 19th century. The majority of the houses are either Greek Revival or Federal style in their architecture, although later Italianate buildings are also present. One house, the Lyman Paine House at 116 Elm, is an 1850s that was modified in the 1870s by the addition of a then-fashionable mansard roof. The school building, a c. 1830 brick building (one of very few in Blackstone), has been converted into a residence. The Stone Store is one of only three 19th-century stone buildings in the town; it is a three-story structure fashioned out of coursed buff-colored stone.</p><br>
<p>The Farnums Gate Historic District is a historic district encompassing a neighborhood of Blackstone, Massachusetts, associated with the locally prominent Farnum family. The area, on Main Street roughly between Austin Street and the St. Pauls Bridge, includes a number of homes built in the 1840s by prominent local industrialists, during a period of prosperity in the Blackstone River valley. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farnums Gate Historic District is linear in nature, extending along Main Street (Massachusetts Route 122), with its western end roughly midway between its two junctions with Austin Street, and its eastern end a few houses east of the St. Paul Bridge, which spans the Blackstone River. Standing just west of the bridge is the 1835 Welcome Farnum House, a large Federal style structure that now houses professional offices. The districts name is derived from Farnum, whose family owned and developed land in the area, and the bridge, which was the gate by which the Farnums reached their mills on the opposite side of the river. Across Main Street stands the house of Welcome&#39;s brother Moses, a Greek Revival house with a Greek Revival entry porch. To its right stands the Queen Anne Victorian house of Joseph Southwick, with the Greek temple-fronted Estus Lamb House beyond. The only non-residential buildings in the district are the Federated Church (1928 brick Gothic Revival), and the former Blackstone High School (1920), now housing the public library.</p><br>
<p>Welcome and Darius Farnum arrived in this area (from their native Uxbridge in 1825, and established a textile mill on the south side of the river, and expanded their business along the river over the next ten years. Welcome Farnum was a dominating figure in the local economy, investing in the Blackstone Canal and the local railroad, as well as funding numerous civic improvements, including churches and schools. The cluster of houses located near the bridge were built and owned by either Farnum relatives or business associates, on land originally held by Welcome Farnum. Houses further to the west were typically owned by merchants and other local businessmen.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic late 19th and early 20th-century commercial heart of Webster, Massachusetts. It consists of fourteen buildings on Main Street in downtown Webster, between High and Church Streets. This area contains the highest concentration of period commercial buildings in the town. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Webster was settled in 1713 as part of Dudley, from which it was separated in 1832. The densely built portion of its downtown is located south and east of a bend in the French River, on an east-west stretch of Main Street. Originally residential in character, the first commercial block was built here 1888. By 1905 the area had acquired a more distinctly commercial character, with several commercial or mixed residential-commercial buildings on both sides of the street. Development between 1912 and 1925 solidified the area&#39;s commercial character. Business declined in the downtown after World War II, when suburban shopping centers began to draw economic activity away.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of fourteen buildings, of which eight are on the north side of Main Street between High and Church Streets. When the district was listed on the National Register in 1982, there were ten in this area; two have since been demolished. On the south side of the street there are six buildings, clustered opposite Tracy Court. All are between two and four stories in height, and of masonry construction, generally brick with stone trim. Stylistically they are in a diversity of styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and Renaissance Revival. One of the buildings includes within it the structure of an 1875 Italianate house.</p><br>
<p>The Angle Tree Stone is a historic boundary marker astride the border of North Attleboro, Massachusetts and Plainville, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The slate marker was built in 1790 by a father and son team of gravestone makers. The stone was added to the National Historic Register in 1976. The stone replaced the "Angle Tree" from the 17th century, which was a surveying landmark for the boundary between Bristol and Norfolk counties, and also between North Attleborough and Plainville, Massachusetts. The county border is a straight east–west line coming from Cumberland, Rhode Island to the site of the tree (now the stone) and then turning at an angle (hence the "angle tree" designation) and running in a straight line from there almost to Massachusetts Bay near Cohasset.</p><br>
<p>The Angle Tree Stone has been encased in a brick and plexiglass structure since 1985 to protect it from graffiti. It is set back 1/4 mile down a dirt access road and footpath.</p><br>
<p>In 1640, the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had agreed that a line from Accord Pond, in Hingham, to Wrentham, Massachusetts, should be the dividing line between the colonies. It was an extremely important point because at that time the grant to Massachusetts extended to the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The line was often the subject of disputes and not finally settled until two USA Supreme Court decisions were handed down two centuries later in Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, 37 USA 12 Pet. 657 (1838) and 45 USA 591 (1846).</p><br>
<p>In the 6th Volume booklet of The Stetson Kindred of American, Inc. "Sketch of Cornet Robert Stetson" written by Nelson M. Stetson, (Robert Stetson being one of the commissioners who set the boundary line and Angletree on behalf of the Plymouth Colony), states the following: "...in the old tree died and was replaced by act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1790 with a rude stone monument since known as the ‘Angletree stone.’ The stone is marked on the north side ‘Massachusetts Colony’ and on the south side ‘Plymouth Colony’ and the following inscription is cut on both sides. ‘This monument, erected by order of the government to perpetuate the place on which the late station or angle tree formerly stood. The commissioners appointed by the old colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts to run out and establish this line in 1664 were Robert Studson, Constant Southworth, Josias Winslow, Jos. Fisher, Roger Clapp and Eleazer Lusher. They began this work on the 10th day of May, the same year, and marked a tree then standing on this spot, it being (3) miles south of the southerly most part of Charles River. Lemuel Kollock, Esq., was appointed agent to cause this monument to be erected. By an order of the General Court of Selectmen of the towns of Wrentham and Attleborough were present, viz.: Samuel Fisher, John Whiting, Nathan Hawes, Nathan Comstock and Nathaniel Ware, Esquires of Wrentham. From this stone the line runs due west the extent of the Commonwealth. Done at Wrentham the 29th day of Nov., 1790 by Samuel Fisher and Son."</p><br>
<p>The Capron House is an historic house on 42 North Avenue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. It is one of the town&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, built about 1740 by the son of one of its first settlers. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Capron House stands in what is now a mixed residential-commercial area north of downtown Attleboro, on the west side of North Avenue north of its junction with Deanville Road. It is now set close to the road; it originally had a larger front lawn, much of which was taken in the late 19th century when a streetcar line was laid. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two asymmetrically placed interior chimneys, and an exterior of wooden shingles laid over original wooden clapboards. It is five bays wide and two deep, with single story ells extending its left side. Its main entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and a full pedimented gable. Interior features include original wide pine flooring and horizontal wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>One of the early settlers of the area that is now Attleboro was Banfield Capron, whose family would continue to be prominent in town affairs for many years. He gave each of his seven children 200 acre of farmland. This house was built about 1740 by one of those children. The property is now much reduced in size, only 1/3 acre. One of the house&#39;s 19th-century residents, Joseph Capron, kept a detailed journal about events and conditions of the property.</p><br>
<p>The East Attleborough Academy is an historic former school building at 28 Sanford Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Built in 1843, it is the towns only example of a Greek Revival temple front building. It originally served as a private academy, and has since served as the towns first high school, and as an office building. It is now home to the town&#39;s historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former East Attleborough Academy building is located on the north side of the Attleboro&#39;s town center, on the north side of Sanford Street, where it shares a lot with a municipal parking lot. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its prominent feature is the Greek Revival temple facade, in which four fluted Doric columns rise to an entablature and fully pedimented gable. It is set on a brick foundation that was built on top of its original stone foundation, the building having been moved twice. The main entrance is at the center of the facade behind this portico, which is otherwise unadorned; it is flanked by fluted pilasters. The building corners sport paneled pilasters, and the sides each have four regularly spaced windows. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1843 as a private academy, a role it served until 1864. In 1867, the town leased the building from its private owners to house its first public high school. It was moved a short distance (records are unclear on exactly where) in 1874, and was moved back to its original location in 1889, albeit on a new brick foundation. The high school vacated the premises in 1882. In 1900 it housed the offices of the town&#39;s school superintendent, and in 1920 the town finally purchased the building.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the local historical society. Architecturally, it is the only example of a Greek Revival temple front in the town, either institutional or residential.</p><br>
<p>The Falls Fire Barn Museum, also known as the Fire Barn or Falls Fire Station No. 2 is a historic fire station on Commonwealth Avenue in the village of Attleboro Falls in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Fire Barn" in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Italianate two story structure was built in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was an active fire station until 1976 and housed Engines 1 and 2, when it was replaced by a station built on Kelly Blvd (Rte 152). It has since been made into a museum for the local fire dept as well as the town history in general, and has many artifacts of local interest. The first curator was the late George Cunningham, who was active there until his late 90s.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting information</h2><br>
<p>It is supported by admission fees and by fundraisers sponsored by the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church meeting house in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival building was constructed in 1829, and has been a prominent landmark of the city ever since. Its tower appears on the city seal.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and included in the County Street Historic District in 1976. In 2015 the landmark was declared a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1863 Major Henry M. Robert attended the annual general meeting at the First Baptist Church in New Bedford and on the spot was elected the chairman pro tem of the meeting. He was embarrassed because he knew nothing of how to run a meeting. It was that meeting that caused him to begin studying parliamentary law, which culminated in the publication of the first edition of his book, Robert&#39;s Rules of Order, in 1876.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 the Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE), a local historic preservation non-profit, undertook a feasibility study focused on restoring the church for use as a theater venue. That same year, a partnership between theater company Your Theatre and WHALE was formed and an agreement reached with the First Baptist congregation to move their operations into the building’s annex. Over the course of the next decade, WHALE, funded by a combination of grants, state historic tax credit, city funds and direct donations from organizations and individuals, would work to revitalize the building.</p><br>
<p>In November of 2023 the First Baptist Church&#39;s doors reopened as the Steeple Playhouse.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic church at located 200-228 N. Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1850 and was a work of local architect Josiah Brown. It is built of wood with brick trim in the Gothic Revival style. The tower originally contained a tall spire and corner finials that were destroyed during Hurricane Carol in 1954. In 1871, extensive repairs were made and the Meeting House was enlarged.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church and Society is a historic Baptist church in Swansea, Massachusetts. The congregation, founded in 1663, is the oldest Baptist congregation in Massachusetts and one of the oldest in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1663 by John Myles as the first Baptist congregation in Massachusetts, and Myles brought the Ilston Book with him from Swansea in Wales. The congregation in Swansea, Massachusetts was located relatively nearby the First Baptist Church in America in Providence.</p><br>
<p>The current Greek Revival meeting house was constructed in 1848 and is the fifth building occupied by the congregation. The adjacent cemetery dates to 1731. The building and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The First Parsonage for Second East Parish Church was an historic church parsonage at 41 S. Main Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Built in 1822, it was a good local example of Federal period architecture. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it was the oldest documented building in the town center. It was demolished in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Parsonage of the Second East Parish Church was located in the central village of Attleboro, on the west side of South Main Street. Its location is approximately that of a parking lot between a row of commercial buildings and a senior living center. It was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The hip roof included a feature rarely seen in period houses: a rectangular monitor at its center. Its main facade was five bays wide, with sash windows set in simple surrounds, and those on the upper level butting against the cornice moulding, also a Federal period feature. The main entrance was in the center of the facade, sheltered by a late 19th-century Italianate hood. A single-story ell extended to the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1822 to serve as the parsonage for the towns east parish (the first parish now is in North Attleborough). It only served as home to the parishs third pastor, Rev. John Ferguson, from 1822 to 1835. It then passed through a succession of owners, the locally most notable being Joseph Capron. He was active in town affairs, serving as the town surveyor and in numerous other capacities. He was also president of a local mutual fire insurance company, and of the Attleboro Gaslight Company, an important utility that furthered the town&#39;s economic development. In its later years it had been subdivided into apartments. It was demolished in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Fort Taber District or the Fort at Clarks Point is a historic American Civil War-era military fort on Wharf Road within the former Fort Rodman Military Reservation in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The fort is now part of Fort Taber Park, a 47-acre town park located at Clarks Point. Fort Taber was an earthwork built nearby with city resources and garrisoned 1861-1863 until Fort Rodman was ready for service.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Taber</h2><br>
<p>After the Civil War began in April 1861, it was apparent that the Fort at Clarks Point was still years from completion. Fort Taber, a small earthwork with six cannons, was built nearby with city resources, and named after New Bedfords mayor during that period. The Fort Taber name was unofficially used to refer to the Fort at Clark&#39;s Point for many years, even by the garrison in letters home, and is used to refer to the stone fort in some recent references.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Rodman</h2><br>
<h3>Civil War era</h3><br>
<p>Also known as the Old Stone Fort, Fort Rodman (known as "Fort at Clarks Point" until 1898) began construction in 1857 under the third system of US fortifications, and in 1862 construction became overseen by Henry Robert, author of Roberts Rules of Order and an Army Corps of Engineers officer. The fort, as built, had emplacements for 72 cannon in three tiers; a fourth tier was originally planned, but this was removed from the design to allow more timely completion. Construction was halted in 1871, and the fort as planned was never completed.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Rodman/Fort Taber Military Museum is open Wednesdays through Sundays between 1:00pm and 4:00pm. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.</p><br>
<h3>Endicott period</h3><br>
<p>With new batteries being constructed under the Endicott program in 1898, the USA Army officially named the military reservation at the site and the fort as Fort Rodman Military Reservation, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Logan Rodman, a New Bedford native with the 38th Massachusetts Infantry who died in the assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863. It was the primary fort of the Coast Defenses of New Bedford, and was garrisoned by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. Along with gun batteries, facilities for planting and controlling an underwater minefield were built. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Endicott period batteries at Fort Rodman were built 1898-1902, with other batteries added later as follows:</p><br>
<p>Battery Walcott was named for William H. Walcott of the 17th USA Infantry in the Civil War. Battery Barton was named for William Barton of the Revolutionary War. Battery Cross was named for Charles E. Cross, an engineer officer killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in the Civil War. Battery Craig was named for Presley O. Craig, 2nd USA Artillery, killed at the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. Battery Gaston was named for William Gaston, 1st USA Dragoons, killed in 1858 fighting Native Americans. Battery Milliken was named for Alfred S. Milliken, an engineer officer killed in World War I.</p><br>
<h3>World War I through World War II</h3><br>
<p>After the American entry into World War I many 5-inch guns were withdrawn from forts for potential service on field carriages on the Western Front. However, Battery Cross&#39;s two guns were removed in 1917 and installed on the Army transport ship USAT Kilpatrick. They were returned to Fort Rodman in March 1919, and scrapped in 1921 under a general removal from Coast Artillery service of 5-inch guns. The 8-inch guns of Batteries Walcott and Barton were dismounted for potential service as railway artillery in June 1918, but were remounted later without leaving the fort.</p><br>
<p>In 1920 the Driggs-Seabury M1898 3-inch guns of Batteries Craig and Gaston were removed due to a general removal from service of this type of gun; they were not replaced.</p><br>
<p>Battery Milliken was built 1917-1921 as part of a general upgrade of the Coast Artillery with existing 12-inch M1895 guns on new long-range carriages, initially in open mounts. Compared with disappearing carriages, this increased the range of this type of gun from 18,400 yd to 30,100 yd. This effectively replaced the forts previous 8-inch guns, but those were not removed until World War II. Battery Milliken housed the post switchboard, and during World War II this was operated by the Womens Army Corps, for which the latrines were re-arranged.</p><br>
<p>In 1925 the Coast Defenses of New Bedford were renamed the Harbor Defenses of New Bedford, as were all similar commands.</p><br>
<p>In 1938 a battery of two 155 mm guns on "Panama mounts" (circular concrete platforms) was built at Fort Rodman. In 1940-1941 numerous temporary buildings were constructed on site to accommodate newly mobilized units. In 1942 the two 8-inch guns of Batteries Walcott and Barton were scrapped, leaving only the 12-inch Battery Milliken and the 155 mm battery active. Battery Milliken was casemated for protection against air attack during the war. HD New Bedford was garrisoned by the 23rd Coast Artillery from February 1940 through October 1944. This unit was a battalion for most of the war, but was redesignated as a regiment September 1943 through February 1944.</p><br>
<p>In 1946, with the war over, Fort Rodman was disarmed and subsequently turned over to the Commonwealth.</p><br>
<h3>Associated batteries</h3><br>
<p>Several additional small-caliber batteries defended New Bedford and Buzzards Bay during World War II. Chief among these was Battery 210 at Mishaum Point Military Reservation in Dartmouth. It had two 6-inch M1 guns in long-range shielded mounts with a large bunker for ammunition and fire control between them. It currently has a private residence built on it. A two-gun 155 mm battery was at the location until the 6-inch battery was completed in 1945, along with the harbor entrance control post for New Bedford.</p><br>
<p>Defending the passage to New Bedford between Dartmouth and Cuttyhunk Island were two batteries of 90 mm guns, one at Barneys Joy Point Military Reservation and one on Cuttyhunk Island, part of the Elizabeth Islands Military Reservation. These were called Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Batteries (AMTB) 931 and 932, respectively. The AMTB batteries had an authorized strength of four 90 mm guns, two on fixed mounts and two on towed mounts. An additional 90 mm battery, AMTB 933, was on Nashawena Island, just east of Cuttyhunk Island.</p><br>
<p>Protecting the southern entrance to the Cape Cod Canal was a two-gun 155 mm battery on Panama mounts, replaced in 1943 by AMTB 934, at Butler Point Military Reservation in Marion.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>The forts guns were all scrapped by 1948. The fort grounds and garrison buildings became a military reserve center, and eventually a wastewater treatment plant was built on part of the site. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Southeastern Massachusetts University prior to 1991) occupies some of the forts buildings. The reserve center closed in the 1970s. Today most of the former fort is a public park, but as of 2016 the stone fort and gun batteries are fenced off, and the Endicott batteries are overgrown. The stone fort has occasionally been opened for special events.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Clarks Point Light stands on the parapet of the fort. Originally established as a freestanding tower, it was moved to the fort in 1869 because the fort&#39;s walls obscured the beacon from some angles. it was deactivated in 1898, but was relit in 2001 by the city as a private aid to navigation.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Taber Historical Association Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Fort Taber Historical Association Museum is located at Fort Taber Park, and features a miniature model of the fort, uniforms from different eras during the fort&#39;s active use, photos and military memorabilia. It is operated by the Fort Taber/Fort Rodman Historical Association and opened in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Park amenities</h2><br>
<p>The park includes several gun batteries, and American Revolution, American Civil War, and World War II re-enactments are held in the park. The stone fort and 20th-century batteries are fenced off but can be viewed.</p><br>
<p>A World War II M-4 Sherman tank recovered from the debris of Exercise Tiger is on display in the park, and serves as the US memorial for the dead of the Exercise. A commemoration ceremony is held annually.</p><br>
<p>Brayton Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic former Methodist church building located at 264 Griffin Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The wooden Gothic Revival church building was constructed in 1897 through the generosity of John Summerfield Brayton and his sister Mary Brayton Young. It was designed by local architect Charles H. Farnham.</p><br>
<p>The church was unique in that it was built by and named for the Braytons, a prominent local family, yet it was a "mill-workers&#39;" church, located in the southern section of the city near several mills. The church, a handsome vernacular example of Late Victorian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building is now owned by Citizens for Citizens, a non-profit social agency.</p><br>
<p>B.M.C. Durfee High School is an historic former high school building at 289 Rock Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 1978, it was replaced by the current B.M.C. Durfee High School building. The old building was restored in the early 1990s and is now operated as a probate and family courthouse by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>The building was built as a donation from Mrs. Mary B. Young to the people of the city of Fall River, in memory of her son Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee, who had died at a young age in 1872, leaving a sizable inheritance.</p><br>
<p>George A. Clough, a Boston architect was chosen to design the building. Ground was broken in August 1883. The first story of the school is constructed of native Fall River Granite, while the stone of the upper portions is from Mason, New Hampshire. The new high school was formally dedicated to the city on June 15, 1887.</p><br>
<p>The building occupies a commanding position atop a hill in the citys Highlands neighborhood, and is visible from miles around. Even today, the schools sports teams are known as the "Durfee Hilltoppers".</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the city opened a new, much larger high school in the north end, also named "B.M.C. Durfee High School". The old high school remained vacant until the early 1990s when it was taken over by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for use as a Probate Court House. The restoration was completed in the mid-1990s. The Southeast branch of the Massachusetts Housing Court is located in the building as well.</p><br>
<h2>Telescope</h2><br>
<p>The building features a rare 4-foot telescope with an 8-inch lens, built by the Warner & Swasey Company in 1887. The observatory sat idle for decades, until volunteers began work restoring the telescope and clock mechanism in 2009. The telescope opened for public viewing for select nights in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Winslow Congregational Church was a historic church building located at 61 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1897 and added to the National Historic Register in 1984. At that time, it was considered one of the city&#39;s "most impressive" 19th century churches, with its sandstone construction and Gothic detailing.</p><br>
<p>In 1969, the historic church building was sold to the First Portuguese Baptist Church, founded in 1932 for bi-lingual worship services in English and Portuguese. The congregation was renamed the Baptist Church of All Nations in 1977. The historic 1897 church was later demolished and replaced with a new building.</p><br>
<p>The Long Plain Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 1341 N. Main Street in Acushnet, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and two chimneys. A single-story hip-roof vestibule projects from the front, with a pair of entrances flanking a window. Built in 1759, it is the oldest ecclesiastical building to survive in southeastern Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The building served as Quaker meeting house until 1985, when it was taken over by the Long Plain Museum. It is open for tours on weekends, and features original artifacts, pews from three centuries, and a small museum with exhibits about Quakers.</p><br>
<p>The Borden–Winslow House is a historic house located at 3063 North Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1740 in the Steep Brook area, then still part of Freetown, making it possibly the oldest extant house in Fall River. Of particular interest is the fine Georgian pediment doorway, which includes a six-light transom within its entablature. The survival of this doorway makes the house unusually important.</p><br>
<p>It is one of six houses in the Steep Brook area considered to be the best representatives of the pre-industrial period of the city&#39;s history, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The San Jose de Gracia Church, also known as Church of Santo Tomas Del Rio de Las Trampas, is a historic church on the main plaza of Las Trampas, New Mexico. Built between 1760 and 1776, it is one of the least-altered examples of a Spanish Colonial Pueblo mission church, with adobe walls rising 34 ft in height. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Las Trampas is located on New Mexico State Road 76, the "high road" between Santa Fe and Taos. Its main plaza is an open dirt expanse on the east side of that road, with the church on the plaza&#39;s north side. The church has a cruciform plan, and is built out of adobe finished in mud plaster. Its nave is 100 ft long and 52 ft wide (as measured on the outside), with transepts and an apse extending the structure to the north, east, and west. The walls vary in thickness from 4 to 6 ft, and rise to a height of 34 ft. The adobe roof is supported by vigas overlaid by planking, the vigas mounted into specially shaped corbels. An unusual and distinctive feature of this church is a clerestory window above the nave that is oriented to allow sunlight to fall into the apse area. The main entrance is at the southern end of the nave, between a pair of buttresses, which also support a wooden balcony at the gallery level.</p><br>
<p>The community of Las Trampas was founded in 1751 by twelve Spanish families. Originally sheltered by an adobe wall that encircled the plaza, the community grew to 63 families in 1776, when the church was completed. The church escaped significant alteration due to the economic isolation of the community until the 20th century. The church ceiling is painted with 18th and 19th century designs, and the interior is decorated with notable artworks of 18th and 19th century santeros. The annual feast day is March 19.</p><br>
<p>The Kennedy Farm is a National Historic Landmark property on Chestnut Grove Road in rural southern Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as the place where the radical abolitionist John Brown planned and began his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia , in 1859. Also known as the John Brown Raid Headquarters and Kennedy Farmhouse, the log, stone, and brick building has been restored to its appearance at the time of the raid. The farm is now owned by a preservation nonprofit.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The Kennedy Farm is a parcel of under 2 acre of land on the west side of Chestnut Grove Road, a few miles north of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in a rural part of southern Washington County, Maryland. It is part of a much larger farm property that was purchased in 1852 by Dr. Robert Kennedy. Kennedy took the small log cabin on the property, and mounted it on a tall (one-story in height) stone foundation, added a frame addition to one side, and covered both with a gabled roof. Kennedy died in 1858.</p><br>
<p>John Brown arrived in Maryland in 1859 and rented the house. For three months Brown and his co-conspirators lived here, pretending to be exploring mining opportunities. Supporters arrived, weapons arrived, and they planned an attack on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in a bid to incite a slave rebellion.</p><br>
<p>Conditions at the Kennedy farmhouse, described as "flea-infested", were spartan. The men slept upstairs on the floor. Browns daughter Anne and Martha, Olivers wife, who were there doing cooking and serving as look-outs, until Brown sent them home to New York on September 30, slept on crudely-stuffed mattresses. The wooden crates with weapons were covered and used for seats. Brown had to buy a stove in Harpers Ferry, as Anne failed at cooking potatoes in the fireplace.</p><br>
<p>On the day of the raid, October 16, 1859, 19 of the 22 at the farm left to carry out the raid. Three remained at the farmhouse to guard and manage the weapons: Owen Brown, Barclay Coppock, and Francis Jackson Meriam, When it became clear the raid was failing, all three escaped to the north, Owen to his brother John Jr.&#39;s house in northeastern Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was searched immediately, and a trove of Johns correspondence and many copies of his provisional constitution were found. These were much reported on in the press and played an important role in trying to find who Browns financial supporters were.</p><br>
<p>Except for the engine house at the arsenal, which the raiders held for less than a day, the Kennedy Farm is the location most associated with John Brown&#39;s raid. It has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Post-raid history</h2><br>
<p>The house underwent a number of ownership changes, and significant alterations, over the next 100+ years. In 1950, the IBPOEW (Black Elks) purchased the property as a memorial to John Brown and operated it as their National Shrine. During the years leading up to their selling of the property in 1966, the Elks built several buildings on the then-235 acre property, including a 50 ft by 124 ft auditorium that was used as a meeting place for Elks gatherings of up to three thousand persons on Fourth of July and Labor Day weekends.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium was rented on summer weekends by a local black entrepreneur, John Bishop, who booked into that venue dozens of the biggest stars of rhythm and blues on the Chitlin&#39; Circuit, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, B. B. King, Eartha Kitt, Otis Redding, Etta James, The Coasters, and The Drifters.</p><br>
<p>When it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974, it was described as a -story house that used stone, brick and log construction with a stucco overlay. It had four bays, with a double-tiered porch running outside three rooms on the first and second floors. There were two rooms in the attic, and a small shed addition to the rear. An interior stair links the central rooms inside, and an exterior stair links the porch&#39;s two levels.</p><br>
<p>The house then underwent a major restoration effort, funded by public and private sources, to return it to its 1850s appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Rachel Carson House is a historic house in Colesville, Maryland, an unincorporated area near Silver Spring, Maryland. Built in 1956, this typical suburban ranch-style house was where writer Rachel Carson wrote her classic work Silent Spring in 1962. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its association with Carson.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The one-story house is typical of its era, finished in brick with an asphalt shingle roof. The interior, virtually unchanged since Carson lived there, contains a living room to the right of the entry, with Carson&#39;s study to one side, on the corner of the house. A kitchen and dining room are at the rear, behind the living room. Bedrooms are to the left of the entry. A basement contains a bedroom and bathroom and a multi-purpose room, as well as unfinished space.</p><br>
<p>Carson&#39;s original landscaping is largely intact, with only a small area of lawn. The wooded landscape of evergreens, azaleas and daffodils is in keeping with her desire to keep a "woody section" of the yard.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Carson and built for her use, the new home provided "all the special things that I need." She began writing Silent Spring at the house in 1958, rarely using the Maine cottage where she wrote The Edge of the Sea published in 1955. As Carson continued work on the book, the nature of the research, involving public documents and correspondence with scholars, and her own health encouraged her to spend more and more of her time at home in Silver Spring. After the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, Carson spent most of the next two years in Silver Spring before her death on April 14, 1964. Prior to her residence at this house, Carson lived in other houses in Montgomery County, including in the Woodmoor neighborhood of Silver Spring, where she wrote the National Book Award winning The Sea Around Us</p><br>
<p>The Chase–Lloyd House is a historic house at 22 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland. Built in 1769–1774, it is one of the first brick three-story Georgian mansions to be built in the Thirteen Colonies, and is one of the finest examples of the style. Its interiors were designed by William Buckland.</p><br>
<p>Its construction was started for Samuel Chase, who would later be a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, but Chase sold the building unfinished to Edward Lloyd IV in 1771. Lloyd completed the house in 1774 with assistance from Buckland and another architect, William Noke. The house remained in the Lloyd family until 1847, when it was sold to a relation of Chase. Hester Anne Chase was the daughter of Jeremiah Townley Chase who was Samuel Chase&#39;s cousin. When she died, she left the house to her 3 orphan nieces, Francis, Matilda, and Hester. In 1888 the house was bequeathed for use as a home for elderly women by the will of the last living niece, Hester. It continues in this use today. While the upper floors are off limits to visitors, the main floor and the extensive gardens are open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The three-story brick house stands over a tall basement and measures 54 ft wide and 43 ft deep. The 18 in thick walls are laid in Flemish bond with belt courses of rubbed brick at the second and third floor lines. The front is accented by a central three-bay wide projecting pavilion. The three-part central door with pediment, entablature, fanlight and sidelights is unusual for pre-Revolutionary times. Above the door a triple window on the second floor is followed by an arched window on the third floor. Windows are capped by flat arches of rubbed brick. First and second floor windows are six-over-six, while third floor windows are six-over-three. The rear pavilion features a large Palladian window that relates to the main stair landing on the interior.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s plan is of the four room, center hall type, but on a very large scale. The entrance hall contains a screen of free-standing Ionic order Ionic columns, beyond which a central stair rises to the large Palladian window at the landing. The ascending stair flights split at the landing, rising in parallel runs to flank the first run on either side. The flights were originally unsupported, but supports have since been inserted to correct sagging.</p><br>
<p>Interior ceilings feature plaster moldings in the manner of Robert Adam. The woodwork, and particularly the door frames of the first floor, is extensively carved. Interior doors are six-panel mahogany with wrought-silver handles. The most elaborate woodwork is in the dining room; this room has, however, lost its original plaster ceiling. On the second floor the bedrooms are accessed through arched openings with panels in the reveals. The house&#39;s original kitchen was located in the basement.</p><br>
<p>A separate structure to the rear, called the Chase Annex, is a 19th-century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Kings County Courthouse was erected after Kings County, California was formed; it opened in 1896. Constructed in an eclectic mix of styles in a park in the center of Hanford, it was expanded in 1914. The building served as the county&#39;s courthouse until 1976 when it was replaced by the new Kings County Government Center on West Lacey Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The old courthouse was remodeled in the early 1980s and now houses offices, small shops and restaurants.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Museum of Kings County, is a museum in Hanford, Kings County, central California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1905 in the Romanesque Revival style with Richardson Romanesque elements. It was one of the many Carnegie libraries that were funded by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who awarded the city $12,500 to construct it.</p><br>
<p>The Hanford Library was open in the Carnegie building until 1968, when the city and Kings County libraries were combined and moved into a new building. Local citizens raised the money to save the old library building from destruction and to renovate it.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Hanford Carnegie Museum opened in the restored Carnegie Library building in 1974. In 2021, the Museum name was changed to The Carnegie Museum of Kings County, to reflect the Museum intent to present a larger community history. The history museum has displays of Kings Countys people and institutions, to illustrate and explain the history of Kings County and the area in the western San Joaquin Valley.</p><br>
<p>The Edna E. Lockwood is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye, the last working oyster boat of her kind. She is located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland. She was built in 1889 at Tilghman Island, Maryland by John B. Harrison and is of nine-log construction, similar to the smaller log canoe, and was launched on October 5, 1889, for Daniel Haddaway, at a cost of $2,200. She worked for at least seven sets of owners from 1899 until 1967, and was then sailed as a yacht until donated to the museum in 1973. The museum undertook an extensive restoration of the Lockwood from 1975 through 1979, which restored the bugeye to its 1910 appearance with the "patent stern" that had been added sometime prior to that year. She is the last bugeye retaining the sailing rig and working appearance of the type. Her length is 53.5 ft, with a 15.25 ft beam and a draft of 2.58 ft with the centerboard up, and a maximum sail area of approximately 1700 square feet.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lockwood was boatbuilder John B. Harrison&#39;s seventh bugeye, of the 18 he would build. Harrison was 24 years old when he built the Lockwood for Daniel W. Haddaway. Haddaway dredged for oysters from Tilghman Island with the Lockwood until 1892, when he sold the boat to James A. Roe and Richard T. Richardson. In 1895 Roe bought out Richardson, then sold Lockwood to John F. Tall, who operated from Cambridge, Maryland on the Choptank River. Tall installed the patent stern, wheel steering gear and powered dredge gear. Tall sold Lockwood to William H. Warfield in 1910, who in turn sold her to J. Hilleary Wingate in 1912, but the next year Warfield re-acquired a partial interest in the boat. Wingate eventually became sole owner and retained ownership until 1955, when he sold Lockwood to Nettie Wingate. From 1910 the Lockwood was homeported in Baltimore, but returned to Cambridge in 1923. From 1910 she oystered in the winter and hauled produce to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the summer.</p><br>
<p>Nettie Wingate sold the Lockwood to William Jones Jr. in 1956, who in turn sold her to John Robin Kimberly. Kimberly used the Lockwood for dredging in 1966 and 1967. He donated the boat to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lockwood&#39;s nine-log bottom is original, using locally harvested pitch pine timbers. The keel log is 6 in thick, with four outer logs on each side tapering to 2.5 in. The logs are connected with wrought iron bolts. The hull form is round-bottomed with a sharp entry and stern making her double-ended, and derives its shape from the original log canoe prototype. A "patent stern" is framed above the sternpost to widen the rear deck area. Framing and planking is used above the logs to add freeboard, with oak transverse frames 24 in apart from the keel log to the top sheer strake supporting 1.5 in oak planking. The sheer strake is oak, 2.5 in by 8 in. Planking is fastened with galvanized bolts. The centerboard, which allows better performance to windward while retailing a shallow draft, is located in a pine trunk fastened to the keel log. Decking is 2¼" × 4" fir laid fore-and-aft, supported on beams joining the frames. A king plank, composed of two 3½" × 4" boards, runs beneath the deck from the stem to the hatch abaft the foremast. A main hatch is located amidships between the masts, and a small cabin is abaft the mainmast. A small box for the steering gear is at the extreme stern.</p><br>
<p>The Lockwood is rigged with two pole masts, made from trimmed pine trees. The foremast is 50 ft high and 12 in in diameter, while the shorter mainmast is 46 ft high and 9 in in diameter. Masts are raked at a traditionally extreme 15 degrees, facilitating sail reefing and maintaining a steady center of force under most rigging conditions. The rake also permitted the mast to be used as a crane for unloading the hold. The fore and main masts carried baggy triangular leg of mutton sails, with a jib on the foremast to the bowsprit.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum acquired the Lockwood in 1973 in near-sinking condition. Restoration began in 1975 and was completed by 1979 under the supervision of Maynard Lowery to naval architect John Lord&#39;s plans. Changes from the original construction included stronger full frames instead of the original partial frames, and some heavier framing members.</p><br>
<p>The Lockwood was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. The identity of her namesake is known to be Edna Elizabeth Lockwood, born 31 January 1889 in Washington D. C. She died on 8 July 1974 in Washington D. C. Why the boat was named for her is not clear. Her father was Edward Jones Lockwood, a passenger agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway. The boat is maintained in sailing condition and sails the Chesapeake Bay for special events.</p><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Taylor&#39;s Island, Maryland. She is homeported at Tilghman Island, Maryland. Built in 1896, she is the oldest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is a typical sloop-rigged skipjack, built for the shallow draft, low freeboard and high stability needed to work the Chesapeake Bay oyster beds. She has a rounded chine with a sharp, convex clipper bow on a sloop hull. The Ruark is fore-and-aft planked. Her wood plug rudder is carried well forward beneath the transom, astern of the centerboard. As part of her 2000 USA Coast Guard certification to carry passengers for hire she received a watertight bulkhead ahead of the mast. An aluminum hatch provides access into the new space, which is used for sail and line storage. The deck is 2 in fir forward of the main hatch and pressure-treated pine aft. Deck beams are oak, with two 11.5 in king planks running from the bow to the main hatch. A central hatch measures 55 in long by 64.75 in wide. Behind the hatch is a small trunk cabin with a three-sided doghouse aft, with double doors leading from the doghouse to the hold. A fuel tank for the push boat is on the starboard side of the cabin. Pipe rails have been added for passenger carriage.</p><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark carries a standard skipjack rig of jib-headed mainsail and a large jib. The present mast is new from 2000 and is 12 in in diameter and 69 ft high. The Dacron mainsail is laced at the bottom and carried by hoops on the mast. The jib is clubbed along its foot. For dredging work the Ruark carries a powered pushboat from davits over her stern.</p><br>
<p>The Ruark has been extensively rebuilt, with her keel, keelson, some ribs and portions of the centerboard trunk believed to be original. She does, however, retain her original appearance, with some concessions to the passenger excursion trade.</p><br>
<p>She is assigned Maryland dredge number 29.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is the oldest skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. Her rounded chines went out of style in favor of simpler-to-build sharp chines, at the cost of favorable sailing qualities in the newer flat-bottomed boats. She was built by Moses Geoghegan in 1896 at Taylors Island, Maryland for William T. Ruark, and named for Ruarks wife. She is stated to have originally been rigged as a two-masted schooner and converted to a sloop. The saddle for a mainmast was claimed to have existed until a 1986 rebuild, however, she is known to have carried a sloop rig since 1896. She was homeported in Baltimore, Maryland until 1899, then moved to Crisfield, Maryland before moving back to Baltimore in 1902. In 1923 W. Alvin Cook of Cambridge, Maryland bought her and moved her to Cambridge. He sold her to Herman B. Cook in 1939 for $5.00. In 1951 Emerson G. Todd and his wife Linda bought her, again for $5.00, and sold one-third shares to Donald S. Todd and Emerson Todd, Jr. for $5.00 each. In 1979, following an accident in which two crew members drowned, she was placed in a corporation, Rebecca T. Ruark, Inc., for $30,000. The Todds continued to own her until 1984 when Wade H. Murphy of Tilghman Island, Maryland bought her and kept her at Tilghman.</p><br>
<p>Murphy took Ruark to Deltaville, Virginia and had her rebuilt in 1986 at a cost of $80,000. Afterwards he continued to use her as she was intended, to dredge oysters. On November 3, 1999 she was caught in a gale at the mouth of the Choptank River and sank in 20 ft of water, despite attempts to tow her to shelter. A $12,000 grant from the Maryland Port Authority raised her, and she was rehabilitated at a cost of $60,000 in 2000. At that time, her original, damaged mast was cut up and distributed to wood carvers who lived along the Chesapeake Bay. Charles Jobes, of Havre de Grace, Maryland, carved a duck decoy from one of these pieces. It is now on display in the On the Water exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington, DC.</p><br>
<p>On December 30, 2022, the Ruark was struck and damaged by a car while docked at Tilghman Island.</p><br>
<p>The Kathryn, a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, was built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901. Ported at Chance, Maryland, she is reputedly one of the fastest skipjacks on the Bay. She was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 19, 1994. She is one a small number of older skipjacks to survive in working condition.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Kathryn is 50 ft long, 15.67 ft wide and draws 4.17 ft of water. She is somewhat unusual in having a "soft" chine rather than a "hard", sharply angled chine. Kathryn otherwise follows the pattern of a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, with a clipper bow-style cutwater, a sharp convex bow, beamy middle, and a flat transom stern. Like all present-day skipjacks she has a stern-mounted push plate to allow operation with a pushboat. She is fore-and-aft-planked, unlike most skipjacks, which are cross-planked. Her flush deck follows the standard skipjack plan, with a main hatch abaft the mast, followed by dredging gear, a smaller hatch, a doghouse over a very low cabin, the steering gear and a set of davits for the pushboat. The cabin is finished with varnished tongue-and-groove paneling, and has a bunk on each side under the deck. Steering gear is hydraulic.</p><br>
<p>The Kathryn carries the standard skipjack rig with a raked mast, 64 ft tall and 12 in in diameter, carrying a clubbed jib and a jib-headed mainsail. The mainsail is laced to the boom and is carried on wooden hoops on the mast. Unusually, the mast is topped with a gold-leafed wood ball. She has been altered from her original appearance by the features necessary to carry the pushboat. The rear of the cabin has been extended to provide better protection to the helmsman.</p><br>
<p>She is assigned Maryland dredge number 21.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kathryn was built at Crisfield in 1901, using fore-and-aft planking characteristic of early skipjacks, and may have been the first to use the herring-bone technique. Her early history is unknown, as the Reedville, Virginia custom office records were destroyed by fire. She was homeported in Crisfield until 1907, when she was moved to Tappahannock, Virginia. In 1914 she moved to Reedville. In 1925 Kathryn was purchased by John E. Spriggs of Ewell, Maryland and John C. Marshall for $1800 from J.A. Dodson of Fairport, Virginia. Kathryn was moved back to Crisfield at this time. Wells W. Evans bought Kathryn in 1938 for $608, then sold her for "$5.00 etc." in 1945 to Irving F. Cannon, who changed her homeport to Cambridge, Maryland. Malcolm "Mac" Wheatley bought a half interest, again for "$5.00 etc." and served as her captain. She received a major rebuild in 1954 at the Krentz Marine Railway in Harryhogan, Virginia, which was published in Chesapeake Sailing Craft. In 1963 Wheatley became Kathryn&#39;s full owner.</p><br>
<p>Johnnie R. Parkinson, Jr. bought Kathryn in 1975 for $18,000 and moved her to Crisfield. She was sold in 1981 to Herman Russell Dize (whose father had worked aboard Kathryn 70 years before) and William James Roe, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Harold "Stoney" Whitelock of Dames Quarter, Maryland purchased Kathryn in 2008 and is currently working to restore her.</p><br>
<p>Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus or IIT Main Campus is one of five campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology. It is located in the Douglas community area and has an official address of 3300 South Federal Street and is roughly bounded by 31st Street, State Street, 35th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway. Its Main Building and Machinery Hall were designated a Chicago Landmark on May 26, 2004. The entire Academic Campus was designated as a National Register of Historic Places listing on August 12, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Machinery Hall (built in 1901) The original cost of the Main Building (3300 South Federal Street) in 1892 was $500,000 ($ million today), and Machinery Hall (100 West 33rd Street) cost $150,000 ($ million) in 1901.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall is a colonial home that was built beginning in 1764 near Annapolis in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland by Horatio Sharpe, then the provincial governor of the British colony of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The house is located about 7.5 mi to the east of Annapolis on a peninsula between Whitehall Creek and Meredith Creek, opposite Sharpe&#39;s Point on a branch of Chesapeake Bay. The site, originally comprised about 1,000 acre. The house is a five-part Georgian mansion of great length, only one room deep in the main section. It features elaborate original interior woodwork, attributed to William Buckland, and is one of only two pre-Revolutionary houses in the Thirteen Colonies to have a temple portico. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1763, Governor Sharpe purchased 814 acres of Homewoods Lott. The following year, he bid for the Whitehall tract, the money going directly to the vestry of St. Margarets Church. Sharpe commissioned the design and construction of a pavilion, gardens, parks, and entrance court of this 1,000 acre estate and a house for his intended bride, Mary Ogle.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately for Sharpe, the daughter of Samuel Ogle shattered his plans and married his secretary and close friend, John Ridout. The central portion of the house is believed to have been completed in 1765 as a pavilion for entertaining guests brought by boat from Annapolis. Work continued to add wings on either side until 1769, when it became Sharpe&#39;s residence following his unexpected relief as governor after 16 years by Robert Eden, a relative of Lord Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>According to a 1912 biography by Matilda Ridout Edgar, Sharpe "spent as much of his time as was possible at Whitehall, amusing himself with his favourite pursuit of farming... His Garden was his passion, and seeds and scions of trees and rare shrubs and flowers to beautify it were sent for from Holland and England and France." Although Whitehall is not considered a plantation as it did not specialize in commercial sale of cash crops, It is noted that most of the labor on the farm and gardens was provided by "his large retinue of negro slaves and indentured white servants."</p><br>
<p>Sharpe left Maryland for England in 1773 on family business and did not return before his death in London in 1790.</p><br>
<p>The American Revolution prevented Sharpe&#39;s return and so he instructed his friend and former secretary John Ridout to sell Whitehall. Benjamin Ogle purchased the house from Ridout and two days later resold the house to Ridout for the same sum. Whitehall remained in the Ridout family for 116 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, Caroline Sherman Story, the widow of Maj. Gen. John Patten Story, acquired Whitehall. Upon her death in 1923, the house passed to her son, John P. Story, Jr. He sold Whitehall to St. Johns College of Annapolis. From St. Johns, ownership of the house passed to the Henderson family and then to the Scarlett family. The home is still privately owned.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall was restored by Charles Scarlett, Jr. in the early 20th century down to its 1787 appearance and has remained preserved in that manner to this day. While the home was built originally by provincial Governor Sharpe as a retreat and entertainment pavilion; it was later enlarged and became his residence from his retirement in 1769 until his return to England in 1773.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Whitehall is an unusually long one-story five-part Flemish bond brick building, about 200 ft in length, with a two-story elevation on the north side. It was designed by Joseph Horatio Anderson, who designed the third (and present) Maryland State House. The "full temple portico" on the central portion of the house, with its Corinthian columns, is one of two in the American colonies built prior to the American Revolutionary War (the other being the Jumel Mansion built by Roger Morris in New York City). From the north, the house has a seven-part elevation, with arcaded extensions comprising to the west a privy, and to the east a kitchen and well, both mostly underground, which were added in the 1950s restoration.</p><br>
<p>The main house comprises a main pavilion of three rooms, flanked by narrow relatively long hyphens that connect to the east and west end pavilions, giving a five-part elevation facing south. On the north side the ground falls away, revealing a full basement story beneath the main house, with additional extensions running beyond the end pavilions. The central house features a square main hall with a coved ceiling rising to 20 ft, flanked by drawing rooms on either side. The south portico faces the Severn River, while a small balcony on the north side of the main hall leads to a pair of stairs to grade level. The hyphens feature lunette windows lighting the narrow gallery to the end pavilions on the south side. Round stucco blind openings decorate the north sides of the hyphens, with an arcade on the lower level open to the north. The end pavilions are two rooms deep. The pavilions were augmented during restoration by the kitchen and privy extensions, both mostly underground. These were designed to Anderson&#39;s original plans; no trace of their existence prior to the restoration was discovered. If extensions had been built the privy would have included one of the first water closets in the United States.</p><br>
<p>A second floor was added by John Ridout in 1793, with bedrooms directly above the drawing rooms in the main pavilion, with a gabled roof whose ridge coincided with the portico roof. The second story was removed during the comprehensive restoration that began in the 1950s under Charles Scarlett, Jr.</p><br>
<p>The site immediately to the north of the house is surrounded by earth mounds in the form of a bastioned breastwork. These features were added during the 1950s restoration, stated to have been built in accordance with original plans by Anderson and Sharpe, and are not of historical origin.</p><br>
<h2>National Historic Landmark</h2><br>
<p>Whitehall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall has been nominated as one of the components of the proposed Chesapeake National Recreation Area in legislation introduced in Congress in 2022.</p><br>
<p>Tulip Hill is a plantation house located about one mile from Galesville in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland. Built between 1755 and 1756, it is a particularly fine example of an early Georgian mansion, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house sits atop a ridge and overlooks the West River. The house was built by Samuel Galloway for his wife, Ann (Chew) Galloway. They married in 1742.</p><br>
<h2>The land</h2><br>
<p>The land for Tulip Hill originally was patented to Richard Talbot in 1659 as "Poplar Knowl." The house sits on a ridge from which terraces paralleling the river lead down to the meadow.</p><br>
<h2>The house</h2><br>
<p>According to an entry in the builders account book, all of the bricks used to build the house were made on the site. The curious gambrel or double-hipped roof is set off by a pediment with a bulls-eye window and dormers on the rear. A well defined cornice and a small white pedimented porch with four columns shading the front door add dignity to the facade. The central block is two stories high and 52 ft wide by 42 ft deep. Windows are nine-over-nine sashes, with the second floor windows somewhat smaller than the first. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. Two unusual fireplaces brick chimneys, with multiple flues, project through either end of the central portion of the house and tower over the one story wings.</p><br>
<p>A spacious hall runs the depth of the house with a large double arch dividing it equally. The front half has a chair rail and corner cupboard while the other half contains the staircase. The hall, while in the middle of the house, is not centered, being offset to the right and lit by the window to the right of the entrance door. The hall narrows at the stair hall, which contains an unusually fine curved walnut staircase. To the right of the hall, in front, is a small reception room with a larger dining room behind, connected by a narrow hall with a service stair. On the left side of the hall are two paneled drawing rooms. The second floor is similarly arranged, except that a small chamber occupies the end of the hall opposite the stairs. The two large eastern bedrooms are paneled.</p><br>
<p>The west wing contained a kitchen, while the east wing contained plantation offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Located at the edge of a high plateau, with the land falling rapidly away on three sides, Tulip Hill is a five-part composition with a full stone basement under the entire structure. The central block, two full stories, with a high unfinished attic and double hipped roof, is 52 feet wide and 42 feet deep. The two brick end wings, built at right angles to the main axis and measuring 20 x 24 feet, are two stories of lower height than the main house. Both have gabled roofs with a single chimney located in the center of the outer side walls. The two brick connecting hyphens or curtains, each 19 x 19 feet, are of one story with very low attic space and are covered with gable roofs that have small dormers. The walls are decorated with brick pilasters which extend to the height of the windows where they visibly support the brick stringcourse. The roof of the central unit is dormered on the rear, or river elevation and on the ends. The brick walls of the main house are laid in Flemish bond and the walls of the wings and hyphens are laid in running bond. The central unit has a rolled brick water table and a belt course at the second floor level. Over this unit rises two high, arched and vaulted chimneys, somewhat reminiscent of the more massive stacks at Stafford, Virginia (1725–1730). The north or land façade of Tulip Hill is particularly interesting because of its somewhat experimental approach to late Georgian formality. There is a central pediment but no projecting pavilion beneath it. A round window with unusual flanking decorative panels adorns the pediment, and the main cornice is modillion in front only. The center door is topped by a rectangular transom, sheltered by a one-story portico that was probably added about 1787–1790. The pediment of the porch, supported by four columns, contains a carved figure of Cupid. The brick wall between the end pilasters of the portico is plastered and painted. Over the rear center door is an interesting cantilevered hood carried on boldly projecting carved consoles, plastered inside its arched head and adorned by curious crockets on its raking cornices. It has a carved conventionalized tulip as its finial. This recalls, in a more elaborate form, the plainer town pents used over many doorways in Philadelphia. Windows on both floors of the central block have nine over nine light sashes, but those on the second floor are reduced in height.</p><br>
<p>In plan, a broad un-paneled off-center front hall is lighted from the window to the right of the front (north) door. The fully paneled stair hall at the rear is narrower on axis. In this rear hall is an exceptionally fine carved walnut staircase, with scrolled step ends and handrail, winding around an offset newel post in the bottom. Paneling on the wall echoes the contour of its gracefully curved banister and fluted end posts. A visual separation between front and rear hall is achieved by an unusual double arch without a supporting post in the middle. The free hanging impost of the arches is adorned by a tulip ornament and hanging candle light, not unlike the carved pendant in a similar position in Gunston Hall, Virginia, designed b William Buckland at this sale time. To the right of the stair is a very fine corner cupboard with a large carved shell ornament. To the right of the front hall is a small un-paneled reception room and in the rear, also to the right of the stair hall, is a larger un-paneled dining room. These two rooms are connected by a small passage from which, against the interior chimney, arises an extremely narrow service stair, as at Stenton.</p><br>
<p>Tulip Hill and Stenton seem to be the only houses of their time and dimensions in which this feature is found. Galloway spent much time in Philadelphia with his relatives, the Chews of Cliveden, and friends, the Logans of Stenton. On the left side of the center hall ase two large and fully paneled drawing rooms, each about 20 by 17 feet in size.</p><br>
<p>The first floor plan is repeated on the second floor, except that an additional room, a small chamber, is located at the end of the hall. The two large bedrooms on the east side of the hall are fully paneled. The fireplaces in the central block are faced with either Dutch tile or marble and are framed with wood paneling. The windows have jeep paneled jambs and soffits, with architraves to the floor. The jambs are splayed and there are deep window seats. The doors, paneling, floorboards, and stair treads are of pine. Most of the hardware is original. The west (right) wing contained the kitchen and service rooms, and the east wing, the plantation office. Before construction of the wings, kitchen and other services areas were located in outbuildings as confirmed in Galloway&#39;s papers. Today only the foundations of the old ice house, which is partly supporting the garage, exist. The house was little altered during the nineteenth century and has never undergone extensive restoration.</p><br>
<p>The boundary of Tulip Hill has been drawn to include all of the remaining land, about 54 ½ acres. This includes both the original river approach from the house and terraced gardens to the West River and the original land approach through a gateway on the old Muddy Creek Road, now State Route 468 and part of a system of roads established around 1695 as Annapolis developed. The curving drive still winds through many original poplar, fir, and beechwood trees to the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Galloway bought Poplar Knowle in 1755, renaming it "Tulip Hill" after a grove of tulip poplars. The central portion of the house was built in 1755–56, supervised by John Devour. The house resembles "Stenton" in Germantown, Pennsylvania, built by Galloways friend James Logan. Samuels son John enlarged the house in 1787-1790 by adding the end wings, hyphens and portico. The house remained in the Galloway family until 1866.</p><br>
<p>In 1771, a thirty-nine-year-old George Washington "dined and supped" at Tulip Hill twice.</p><br>
<p>One of the young Galloway children is reputed to have ridden his horse up the central staircase.</p><br>
<h3>Inheritance</h3><br>
<p>In 1786, Samual Galloway died and left Tulip Hill to his son, John Galloway. Upon Johns death, the house passed to his only child, Mary (Galloway) Maxcy. Her husband was Virgil Maxcy, the Minister to Belgium under President Martin Van Buren. Mary Maxcy left Tulip Hill to her only daughter, Ann Sarah Hughes. In 1886, Hughes sold the house to Henry M. Murray. Murrays wife, Mary H. (Morris) Murray, was a descendant of the builder of the house. The Murrays lived in Tulip Hill for thirty years before selling it to A. du Pont Parker, of Denver, Colorado. Ultimately the house passed on to Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Flather of Washington, DC, and it was the Flathers who spent a great deal of time and money restoring Tulip Hill and the surrounding grounds to the former level of magnificence.</p><br>
<h3>Sale history</h3><br>
<p>In 2011, Tulip Hill was sold at auction by Concierge Auctions and Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. The sale price was $2.5 million.</p><br>
<p>The Redick Tower, operated since 2011 as The Hotel Deco, is an 11-story building located at 1504 Harney Street in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Art Deco style by an Omaha architect, Joseph G. McArthur. It was named after the Redick family, who had been among Omaha&#39;s pioneer settlers, arriving in 1856, and who had owned the land on which the building was constructed. As designed, it housed commercial storefront space on the first floor, indoor parking and garage facilities for up to 500 cars on the lower seven floors, and office space in the tower above the parking levels.&gt</p><br>
<p>The Redick Tower was built for Garrett and Agor, Inc., which managed it until the mid-1930s, when it was purchased by the Redick Tower Corporation. In 1943, it was bought by Walter Duda, an Omaha investor, who owned it until 1973, when it was acquired by the Denver-based Parking Corporation of America. It was subsequently operated as a Radisson Hotel, "considered among Omaha&#39;s best", and then as the Best Western Redick Plaza Hotel until it closed in 2009.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, it was purchased by the White Lotus Group, which opened it in the following year as the Hotel Deco.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Its historic significance was attributed to its original multifunctional urban design - combining retail, office and parking space in a single building - and to its being "one of Nebraska&#39;s premier examples" of the Art Deco style.</p><br>
<p>Saint Aidans Church and Rectory is a historic Catholic church complex in Brookline, Massachusetts. The stuccoed church, located at 224-210 Freeman Street, was designed by Maginnis & Walsh, a noted designer of ecclesiastical buildings, in the Medieval  Revival style, and was built in 1911. It was Brooklines third Catholic parish, after Saint Mary&#39;s and Saint Lawrence. The church is notable as the parish which was attended by Joseph P. Kennedy and his family when they were living on Beals Street; it was the site of the baptism of both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The rectory, located at 158 Pleasant Street, was built c. 1850-55 by Edward G. Parker, a Boston lawyer. It was acquired by the church in 1911, and restyled to match the church in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The church was closed in 1999, and converted to housing.</p><br>
<p>Emmett Cottage is a historic cottage in Brookline, Massachusetts, directly behind Saint Aidan&#39;s Church and Rectory. Of uncertain construction date but stylistically dated to the 1840s, it is a little-altered example of a small Gothic Revival cottage. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Emmett Cottage is set well back from the north side of Freeman Street, accessed via a drive shared with 219 Freeman Street and immediately west of Saint Aidan&#39;s Church. It is a -story wood frame Gothic Revival structure, with bargeboard decoration in the gables.</p><br>
<p>The exact location and construction date of this building is not known, since it does not appear on any early maps; its Gothic Revival styling suggests a construction date in the 1840s. It bears some resemblance to extant Gothic Revival gatehouses (more extensively altered than this one) that survive in the area. The lot stood vacant until 1871, when it was reported that an "unfinished house" (possibly just the foundation for this structure) was located here. The lot was originally part of a larger country estate, which was subdivided and first sold in 1855, and was then sold to John Mahoney in 1870. Its name is traditional, but the reason for its name is unknown.</p><br>
<p>Richmond Court is a historic apartment complex at 1209–1217 Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Designed by Ralph Adams Cram and built in 1898, this was probably the first apartment house built in the northeastern United States that resembled an English Tudor manor house. This attractive design made the building a fashionable alternative to more utilitarian apartment complex designs.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and included later that year in the Beacon Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The William Murphy House is a historic house located in Brookline, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This -story wood-frame house was built in 1886 by Waldo Stearns, and is a well-preserved local example of a Queen Anne Victorian. It was purchased in 1930 by Doctor William Parry Murphy, who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a cure for pernicious anemia. (The home of one of Murphy&#39;s corecipients, Dr. George Minot, is also located in Brookline, and is a National Historic Landmark.)</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Methodist Church is a historic church building at 90 Park Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The church cornerstone was laid on April 9, 1892. The building was designed by Brookline architect George A. Clough in a Romanesque style. The building, vacated by its dwindling congregation in 1968, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It has since been converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former St. Marks Methodist Church building is located in a residential area just southwest of Coolidge Corner, at the southwest corner of Vernon and Park Streets. It is set just south of the triangular Judge Henry Crowley Park at Saint Marks Square. The church is laid out in a cruciform shape, characteristic of Romanesque architectural tradition, with the nave running north-south, and the transept in an east-west orientation. The walls are constructed of locally quarried variegated Brighton ledge stone, with trimmings of gray Nova Scotia sandstone and heavy columns of Indiana limestone. The north facade faces the park, flanked by a square tower on the left, and a square projection on the right. Set in the main roof gable in between is a large rose window. The square tower and right-side projection each have a rounded corner tower topped by a conical roof. The original main entrance is through the base of the tower. The long sides of the church each have five round-arch windows, leading to the transept area, where there are gabled projections on either side.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1891-96 for the Methodist Society of Brookline, which retained Brookline architect George A. Clough for its design. The St. Marks was dedicated on October 14, 15, and 18, 1896. The original design of the church called for a carillon tower to be constructed on top of the left side tower, but the areas landfill geology was insufficiently stable to support it. The church was used by this congregation until 1968, when it moved to facilities shared with two other Brookline congregations. The building has since been converted to residential use</p><br>
<p>His Lordships Kindness, also known as Poplar Hill, is a historic plantation estate on Woodyard Road east of Clinton, Maryland. It was built in the 1780s for Prince Georges County planter Robert Darnall. The five-part Georgian mansion retains a number of subsidiary buildings including a slave&#39;s hospital and a dovecote. The property is now operated as a museum by a local nonprofit preservation group. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Colonel Henry Darnall was granted 7,000 acre of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1703 by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, which Darnall named in recognition of Lord Baltimores gesture. Darnall built a house for his family on a nearby property, known as The Woodyard, between 1683 and 1711.</p><br>
<p>On Henry Darnalls death in 1711, the properties passed to his son, Henry Darnall II, who was forced to dispose of much of his fathers accumulated 35,000 acre of property to clear his debts before leaving the country. His son, Henry Darnall III received the remaining 1,300 acre from his father, including 300 acre of the original grant with a mansion, which became known as Poplar Hill by the 1740s. Henry III, however, was found in 1761 to be embezzling money from one of his appointed positions, causing a bond to be forfeited and for fines to be paid by Henry&#39;s guarantors, his brother John Darnall, and Charles Carroll of Annapolis.</p><br>
<p>Henry III&#39;s brother Robert Darnall found the means to buy back the original grant and replaced the original house with the present structure, completed in 1786. Darnall, who died childless in 1803, left the property to his nephew Robert Sewall. Sewall in turn left the property to his son Robert Darnall Sewall. The son in turn left the property to two nieces, Susan and Ellen Daingerfield of Alexandria, Virginia, in 1853. In 1865 Susan Daingerfield married future US Senator John Strode Barbour.</p><br>
<p>Through the next hundred years, the property passed through a number of hands, including David K.E. Bruce, Chandler Hale, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>His Lordships Kindness is a five-part ensemble with a hipped-roof central block measuring 56 ft wide by 48 ft deep. The central block is 2½ stories tall, with dormers in the rear elevation. It is connected to two -1/2 story end pavilions by single-story hyphens. The eastern pavilion contained the kitchen, while a chapel was located in the west pavilion. The kitchen was renovated as a study in the 1920s but retained an interior balcony. The main block features a projecting bay containing the recessed entry door with fanlight, pilasters and pediment, and a large Palladian window on the second story. The facades other windows have stone sills and flat arch lintels. The rear, or garden elevation is similarly composed, but lacks the projecting bay, and the door is less elaborately detailed.</p><br>
<p>A center hall extends from the front to the garden doors. Narrow lateral halls run out to the wings, and with the center hall, subdivide the first floor into four rooms. The center hall is bisected by a wide arch, with the main stairway to the rear on the east side. The plan of the first floor is repeated on the second, with four bedrooms.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>The John M. and Sara R. Walton Foundation own and operate the property as a historic house museum. Guided tours of the historic house are offered from March through December. The facilities are available for rental.</p><br>
<p>The Ira Remsen House is a historic house at 214 West Monument Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in the 1880s, this nondescript row house was the home of Ira Remsen , a noted chemist and educator who served as president of Johns Hopkins University from 1901 to 1913, and influenced a generation of chemists and chemistry researches with his textbooks and pedagogical methods. This house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ira Remsen House stands on the west side of Baltimore&#39;s Mount Vernon neighborhood, on the north side of West Monument Street at its junction with Tyson Street. The house is a typical row house of no particular architectural distinction. It is a three-story brick row house with a gabled roof. Its facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the leftmost bay, set in a rounded-arch opening. Windows are in unadorned rectangular openings with stone sills, and a wood-frame shed-roof dormer extends across the roof. The house was renovated in 1945, when the cornice was replaced, the front sandblasted, and the interior divided into three apartments.</p><br>
<p>The house is notable as the residence between 1901 and 1925 of Ira Remsen. Educated in Germany as a chemist, Remsen came to Johns Hopkins University in 1876 to help build its chemistry department. His most notable research discovery was saccharine, but he was much more widely influential in his teaching methods and textbooks, which influenced a generation of students and teachers. In 1901, the year he moved into this house, he was named president of the university, succeeding Daniel Coit Gilman. He served as president until 1913, and remained active in the chemistry department until 1925. His ashes are buried on the Johns Hopkins campus, at Remsen Hall, named in his honor.</p><br>
<p>The William B. Tennison is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye built in 1899 and converted to an oyster buy-boat in 1906–07. With the conversion her sail rig was removed and an engine inserted, and is the only surviving example of this conversion. Her construction marks a transition between log construction and plank construction. She is homeported at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland. The Tennison is reputed to be the second oldest licensed passenger vessel in the United States.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and as a National Historic Landmark in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William B. Tennison was built as a nine-log sailing bugeye, using pitch pine logs, 9 in thick at the keel and tapering to 6 in at the outer edges. She is 60.5 ft long on deck and has a beam of 17.5 ft with a draft of 4.5 ft. The hull form is flat-bottomed with rounded chines, and is sharp at each end. Framing and planking are built up above the logs for freeboard, using oak frames at approximate 30 in centers. A bulkhead separates the foc&#39;sle from the hold. A second bulkhead was added when she was converted to power between the hold and the engine compartment. At the same time the centerboard trunk was removed. A "patent stern" was added to square the deck above the sharp stern and add working space. A portion of the rudder has been cut away to allow for a propeller.</p><br>
<p>For her conversion to a buy-boat the Tennisons mainmast and the running rigging to the foremast, necessary for sailing, were removed. The foremast was then used to hoist bushel-sized oyster baskets from other vessels to the hold using two gaff-rigged booms. A pilothouse with a rounded from was added, as is typical in Chesapeake Bay buy-boats. Three windows occupy the front, with one window and a door on each side. The pilothouse is covered with vertical tongue and groove cypress siding. Two bunks are on the port side aft, along with an enclosed head aft. A floor hatch gives access to the engine compartment. The foc&#39;sle once housed three bunks, a table and a cookstove.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The William B. Tennison was built in 1899 by Frank Laird of Monie, Maryland at Crabb Island, near Oriole, Maryland. She was built relatively late for a bugeye, as the type was going out of style in favor of the smaller, cheaper skipjack. Benjamin P. and Rufus L. Miles of Monie used her as an oyster dredge until 1908-09 when she was converted to power. In 1910 the Tennison was sold to Alphonse Lafayette Hazelwood of Eclipse, Virginia who used her to haul produce in the Norfolk and Albemarle Sound area until 1930. During the oyster season she was used as a buy-boat. Her original 37 horsepower engine was replaced with a 60-horsepower engine during this time. She was sold to Barney B. Winnal of Carrollton, Virginia in 1933 for $2050. After her sale to O.A. Bloxom of the Battery Park Fish and Oyster Company near Smithfield, Virginia, she was sold in 1944 to J.C Lore and Sons of Solomons, Maryland. The Lores used Tennison to dredge oysters on their private beds, where power could be used, and as a buy-boat.</p><br>
<p>The Tennison was partially rebuilt at the H. Krentz Railway in Harryhogan, Virginia in 1952. The pilot house was rebuilt during this time. She was beached by Hurricane Hazel in 1952, and the scar from being dragged over an obstruction to refloat her is reputedly still visible when she is hauled out of the water. In 1955 a Gray Marine 155-horsepower diesel engine was installed, possibly having been taken from a naval landing craft. She was converted to a passenger boat in 1977, with nearly all of the structural frames replaced at that time.</p><br>
<p>The identity of her namesake, William B. Tennison, remains unknown.</p><br>
<p>The David Gordon House and Collins Log Cabin were two historic homes located at Columbia, Missouri. The David Gordon House is a two-story, frame I-house. The 13-room structure incorporated original construction from about 1823 and several additions from the 1830s, 1890s and 1930s. The Collins Log Cabin was built in 1818, and is a single pen log house of the story and a loft design. They represent some of the first permanent dwellings in Columbia. The house, located in what is now Stephens Lake Park burned after arson in the early 1990s. The log cabin survived has been relocated from Stephens Lake Park to the campus of the Boone County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Guitar House, previously known as Confederate Hill, is a historic home located in Columbia, Missouri. It was built between 1859 and 1862 and is a two-story, Italianate style dwelling. It has a low-pitched hipped roof, tall slender windows with segmented arches, decorative eave brackets, and a single-story front porch with square supports. The house was constructed by David Guitar, an officer in the Union forces  during the American Civil War. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Property name</h2><br>
<p>It is commonly thought David Guitar served in the Confederate forces, but this is a myth perhaps started by a previous owner of the house, Ward Dorrance, who renamed the property Confederate Hill while he owned it from 1940 to 1953. Dorrance was a fiction writer and teacher. He left his papers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p><br>
<p>Other documentation of Guitars Union service includes the front-page obituary published on Jan. 2, 1912, in the University Missourian. The National Register of Historic Places document cites the correct source and page but concludes incorrectly that the Enrolled Missouri Militia is a Confederate force. Further, Switizlers History of Boone County contains no records of Confederate service records, because "There are no official records accessible of the Confederate soldiers, and but few of the Federals."</p><br>
<p>Hampton Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Although the oldest existing home of the neighborhood dates to 1885, the majority of the homes in the neighborhood are from the 1900s to the 1930s. It is the oldest residential neighborhood in the city and one of the closest to Morgan Square, the historical center of Spartanburg. Although the neighborhood suffered from neglect and changing economics during the 1960s and 1970s, today it is a vibrant area undergoing restoration and improvement.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the mid to late nineteenth century, most of the neighborhood was farmland owned by the Kirby family, whose home was located at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Spartanburg, the current site of Bethel Methodist Church. During Reconstruction, the Union Army was encamped in this area.</p><br>
<p>As Spartanburg&#39;s economy grew during the 1890s, upper-middle class residents looked for homes adjacent to, but not within, the urban core. Many chose to locate along Spring Street and the newly opened Hampton Avenue, which also featured a small dairy farm owned by the Irwin family and a Methodist mission. By the turn of the century, homes were lining many of the other streets in the neighborhood, which include Hydrick Street, Lee Street, Carlisle Street, Brookwood Terrace, Hampton Drive, Perroneau Street, Irwin Avenue, Pinckney Court, Timothy Street, South Hampton Drive and Cecil Court. Architectural styles in the neighborhood include Queen Anne, Dutch Colonial, Arts and Crafts, and Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<h2>Recent developments</h2><br>
<p>In 1983, the neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places after a campaign by several neighborhood activists. In 1998, the neighborhood was listed as a local historic district. That same year, the Preservation Trust of Spartanburg was established to increase home ownership in the neighborhood and promote its preservation.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood also has an active neighborhood association, which coordinates home tours, picnics, clean-up days, and other activities throughout the year. Two public parks are located in the neighborhood, Willow Oaks Park and Irwin Park.</p><br>
