<p>The Brown House is a 19th-century house in Yuma, Arizona, built of brick in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1893 by F. B. Wightman. It was deemed significant in 1982 as "a well preserved example of a lodging house from the turn of the century. It has been used principally by railroad men as a stopover between Los Angeles and Tucson. In 1907 C. L. Brown acquired the property and used it as a family home until 1943. With the exception of reshingling the roof, and enclosing the breezeway between the kitchen and main building, the structure is little changed from its original appearance. Situated on a rise at the south end of the historic district the house is a prominent landmark."</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It may be a contributing property included within Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites, a USA National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Davis House is a home in Albuquerque, New Mexico that was built in 1927–28. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was built as a model home, and its landscaping was designed by landscape architect A. W. Boehning, who designed landscaping in the entire development.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "one of Albuquerque&#39;s best examples of a Period Revival Style, specifically the English or Ann Hathaway cottage style."</p><br>
<p>Allen House, also known historically as The Terraces, is an historic house at 2 Solomont Way on the South Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. Built about 1854, it is one of the citys finest early examples of Italianate architecture. In the early 20th century, it was the home of Charles Herbert Allen, a prominent local politician. Since 1957, it has been owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell; restored in the 2000s, it houses a gallery and event space used for university programs and is home to the universitys Honors College. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Allen House stands on the UMass Lowell South Campus. It is set on a rise above the Merrimack River, of which it has commanding views. It is an irregularly massed and somewhat rambling brick building, stories in height, with a gabled roof. The gable ends are adorned with cloverleaf windows and there is brick drop ornamentation along the eaves. Some windows are set in round-arch openings. A bracketed Italianate porch is found on the front (east) side, and a Colonial Revival porch extends across part of the west side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the early 1860s as the mansion house of Rollin White, who invented a type of rear-loading revolver. White worked for Samuel Colt in Hartford, Connecticut for many years before moving to Lowell and establishing his own firearms company, later the Lowell Arms Company. The house was later the home of Charles Herbert Allen, a politician prominent in state politics and the first civilian USA governor of Puerto Rico.</p><br>
<p>Mills House is a house in Springer, New Mexico, in Colfax County, New Mexico, that was built in 1877. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The locals have dubbed it the "Clegg Mansion”, after Luke and Myrtle Clegg who owned and lived in the house for several decades beginning in about 1915.</p><br>
<p>The original owner, Melvin Whitson Mills, was an attorney, politician, and businessman who was one of the founders of Springer NM. He needed a home large enough for him and his wife, his parents, and five adopted children. Mills lost the house and land as a result of bankruptcy in 1905.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story 32-room adobe house on a rise near Cimarron Creek on the edge of Springer. It is made of adobe, has a metal mansard roof with four chimneys protruding above.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace-Jagdfeld Octagon House built in 1860 is a historic octagonal house located at 171 Forest Avenue in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The two-story home features clapboard siding, a front porch, and a central chimney.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 2002, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, becoming the second octagon house in Fond du Lac on the National Register along with the Fond du Lac Octagon House. It is located across the street from two other listings on the National Register, Hotel Calumet and the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot.</p><br>
<p>The Claflin-Norrish House is a historic octagonal house located in Hastings, Minnesota, United States; a contributing property to the West Second Street Residential Historic District. The two-story home was built of limestone covered with stucco. Special features include a windowed cupola and wrap-around porch. It still stands at Spring and West 2nd Streets. It is one of scores of eight-sided homes built in the antebellum United States.</p><br>
<p>Originally built for the Clafflin family, John F. Norris purchased the house in the late 19th century. After the mid-1940s, the house was remodeled into 5 unit apartments. It was bought by John and Lorena Phelps and has been going through renovation to make it a single family house.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Josiah E. Chase Octagon House is an historic octagon house on Chase Mill Road in East Limington, Maine. Built about 1858, it is one of twelve houses of the type known to survive in the state from the period of its greatest popularity, and is one of the least-altered. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Its builder, Josiah Chase, was a seafaring ship&#39;s captain.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Chase Octagon House is set amid oak trees on a knoll near the confluence of the Little Ossipee River with the Saco River on the east side of Limington, Maine. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with an octagonal roof that is topped by a cupola. The eight sides are roughly equal in size, and are finished with clapboards. The entrance faces west, away from the rivers, and consists of a heavy door flanked by narrow sidelight windows and pilasters. There is photographic evidence that a more elaborate porch once sheltered the entry. The building corners have paneled pilasters, and fenestration generally consist of paired narrow sash windows; there are several projecting single-story bay windows. The octagonal cupola features small windows with segmented-arch lintels. The interior has had some alteration, principally the removal of several walls to create larger spaces, and the closing off of an entry into the kitchen space. The upstairs originally had seven triangular chambers; one wall was removed to create a larger chamber. A period carriage barn stands near the house.</p><br>
<p>Limingtons Chase family is descended from Deacon Amos Chase, who is reputed to be the towns first white settler. Josiah E. Chase&#39;s father owned a sawmill on the river nearby; he began a life at sea at the age of 18 aboard a whaling ship. He acquired the land for this house in 1858 (from James Madison Chase, of unknown relation), and built the house soon afterward. The house belonged to his descendants until 1971.</p><br>
<p>Estherwood is a late 19th-century mansion located on the campus of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States. It was the home of industrial tycoon James Jennings McComb, who supported Masters financially in its early years when his daughters attended. The houses octagonal library was the first section built. It had been attached to McCombs previous home, but he had felt it deserved a house more in keeping with its style and so had architect Albert Buchman design Estherwood built around it.</p><br>
<p>The interior features lavish decoration and detail, with generous use of marble and gold leaf. As the only significant châteauesque building in Westchester County, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979 as Estherwood and Carriage House.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Estherwood NRHP listing recognizes both the mansion and its carriage house as contributing resources. Both are located on a 10-acre (4 ha) parcel just east of the main Masters buildings.</p><br>
<h3>Mansion exterior</h3><br>
<p>The house is three and a half stories high, with a varying number of bays on each of its sides. It is faced in white pressed brick with granite trim and terra-cotta detailing. Its roof is black and red ceramic tile, with copper cresting and stone filials, from which four red brick chimneys rise. A copper-clad cupola caps the east facades tower. The porte-cochère on the west facade, the houses main entrance, is supported by granite piers and Doric order columns. It has a Guastavino tile ceiling to match the one on the veranda that encircles the rest of the house. The irregular fenestration includes fifteen dormer windows and a second-story oriel window.</p><br>
<h3>Mansion interior</h3><br>
<p>From the entrance, there is a vestibule with mosaic flooring, marble baseboards, classical molding and bronze light fixtures. It leads to 65-foot-long (20 m) Great Hall that rises two stories to a coffered ceiling and skylights. A divided staircase of pink marble rises to a gallery that overlooks the hall. The balcony is supported by Ionic columns on high plinths. The hall also features a green marble fireplace with limestone trim. The oak parquet floor has a carved Greek key-patterned border repeated on the underside of the gallery.</p><br>
<p>Six rooms are located off the Great Hall, also with lavish decoration. The dining room has dark oak walls with carved Northern European motifs such as boars and rams heads, broken by copper and bronze medieval sconces. Built-in service units are supported by caryatids. The north wall is broken by the fireplace, with a mosaic wall and surround. The adjacent plaster wall is painted Pompeii red. The shallow vaulted ceiling is, like that of the Great Hall, coffered.</p><br>
<p>The Music Room – known as the "Red Room" – features an alcove flanked by red marble columns and pilasters, both with capitals highlighted in gold leaf. Adamesque swags and garlands, also highlighted in gold, are carved into the wall and ceiling along with musical motifs such as lyres, horns and Pan flutes. These motifs recur in the stained glass window transoms. The south wall is of mahogany with brass trim; it features the Music Room&#39;s fireplace, flanked by carved Corinthian pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Reception Room features intricately patterned plaster walls and ceilings. Two of its windows have gold-stained panels, and an original crystal chandelier still hangs. The drawing room at the house&#39;s northwest corner features scrolled brackets and marble Composite columns on high plinths. Its marble fireplace has wood surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The large octagonal library has a central octagonal stained-glass skylight. Stained glass, with a rich floral motif, is also found in the transoms of the two large windows in the north wall. Other ornament includes the plaster molding with gold leaf. The shelving is made of dark Honduran mahogany. Of the six major rooms on the main floor, the Billiards Room is the least decorated, with oak wainscoting and eared windows and doors. The plaster ceiling likewise has a simple molding and a central medallion.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs, the house has been remodeled somewhat by the school, but the bird&#39;s-eye maple and golden oak woodwork have been retained, as well as the frosted glass closet-door panels and sliding doors off the gallery. The attic also features its original arched doorways, water tanks, and unusual floor-to-ceiling diagonal braces in the center.</p><br>
<p>This fine mansion is currently being used as teacher housing for The Masters School. Because of this some of the rooms have been connected and furnished so that it can accommodate their needs.</p><br>
<p>Estherwood houses a Steinway and Sons piano that is often used for student recitals and performances.</p><br>
<h3>Carriage house</h3><br>
<p>The carriage house is located to the east of the main house, downhill from it. It was built to take advantage of the slope, in a massed Queen Anne style with Stick-style porte-cochére. Its interior features wrought-iron columnar supports and sliding doors between every space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ohio native James Jennings McCombs wealth came from his invention of the ties that secured cotton as it emerged from balers. In the 1860s he came to Dobbs Ferry, where he sent his three daughters to the Misses Masters School, named for its founding sisters in 1877. He bought the current property and eventually moved his family to the small Park Cottage (still standing) near the schools Clinton Avenue location to shorten his daughters walk to school.</p><br>
<p>The octagonal library was first built as an addition to Park Cottage, to complement an octagonal library desk McComb had bought in Europe. He was soon dissatisfied with how poorly the new room integrated with the rest of the house, and hired the New York firm of Buchman & Deisler to design a new house connected to the library that would better match it.</p><br>
<p>McComb and his family lived in Estherwood from its completion in 1895 to his death in 1901. He had continued to acquire nearby property and rent it to the school, and in 1910 the school bought it all, including Estherwood and the carriage house, from his heirs. It has made few changes to the building, primarily adding an elevator in 1949. Estherwood was used as a dormitory for many years</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>Estherwood is a rare residential commission for Albert Buchman, better known for commercial and institutional structures such as the New York World Tower and the Student Building at Barnard College. He brought to the commission a breadth of architectural knowledge and an awareness of the ostentatious tastes of the new rich of the Gilded Age. In its lavish use of materials and elements that would be characterized as conspicuous consumption, Estherwood has been compared to Richard Morris Hunt&#39;s The Breakers – the Vanderbilt family summer home in Newport, Rhode Island – that had been completed only three years before, attracting much notice as the most expensive house ever built at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House is an historic octagonal house located at 66425 Eight Mile Road in Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The house is one of only three extant octagonal houses in Washtenaw County, and remains in excellent and near original condition. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This plot of land was originally owned by David F. and Caroline M. Crandal, who constructed a log cabin on the premises. In 1856, the land was purchased by Nathan and Eunice Devereaux; the couple settled into the already extant cabin. At some point in the 1850s, Nathan Bartlet Devereaux travelled to Ann Arbor to attend a lecture by Orson Squire Fowler, the leading proponent of octagonal houses. Inspired, Devereaux purchased a copy of Fowlers book, "A Home for All; or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building. New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior and Adapted to Rich and Poor." In 1864, Devereaux put Fowlers ideas to use and built this house, doing much of the work himself. The resulting building is not a copy of Fowlers plans, but rather Devereauxs own interpretation of Fowler&#39;s ideas.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Bartlet Devereaux died in 1897 Nathan Devereaux&#39;s grandson John Francis Devereaux raised his family in the house, and lived there until his death in 1997. His wife, Laura Vivian Devereaux, continued to live in and care for the home until she died in 2010. As of 2022, the house and property were still owned by descendants of Nathan Bartlet Devereaux.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Devereaux house is a -story, octagonal frame structure with a hipped roof surmounted with an octagonal cupola. The house sits on a fieldstone foundation, and is symmetrically shaped with eight equal sides. A small utility room is attached to the rear of the structure. The house is clad with white asbestos siding and asphalt shingles on the roof, and there is little ornamentation. The basement level is of post-and-beam construction, while the upper sections of the house is of balloon-frame construction.</p><br>
<p>The front door is slightly askew from the road, through a side of the octagon sited diagonally. The entry is Greek Revival in style with paired thin pilasters on either side of the door, and flanking sidelights above simple paneled aprons. A broad frieze and projecting classical cornice are above the door. The adjacent octagon sides are arranged symmetrically around the entry side, with two tall windows on the lower level and much smaller upper story windows.</p><br>
<p>Interior rooms are generally rectangular in shape, with triangular closet space. The first floor has a kitchen, bedroom, and parlor. Stairs to the second floor arise from the kitchen, and end in a central hall, through which three bedrooms can be accessed. A ladder goes up to the cupola.</p><br>
<p>The George F. Lee Octagon Houses were built by farmer and carpenter George F. Lee south of Nebraska City, Nebraska near the Missouri River. The first one constructed was a frame octagon house, whose date of construction is unknown; the second, a brick octagon house, was built in 1872 across the road from the first.</p><br>
<p>On November 23, 1977, they were added to the National Register of Historic Places. Only the wooden house survives.</p><br>
<p>The Rich-Twinn Octagon House built in 1849 is an historic octagonal house located at 145 Main Street in Akron, New York. It is one of three known octagon houses in Erie County, New York and was "meticulously restored" prior to its 1994 nomination to the National Register.</p><br>
<p>On February 10, 1995, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today it is a house museum and is occasionally open for touring.</p><br>
<p>The Avant House, also known as the Timothy Pocknet Homestead is an historic house on Massachusetts Route 130 at Mill Pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts. Built in the late 18th or early 19th century, it is one of the town&#39;s oldest surviving buildings. It is now owned and operated by the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe as the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Avant House stands on the south side of MA 130, just west of the Mashpee River as it exits Mill Pond. It is a small single-story "half Cape", a three-bay wood-frame structure with a gabled roof. The main entrance is in the rightmost bay, and is like the windows framed with simple molding. A single-story ell, slightly smaller than the main block, extends to the left at a setback. The interior, despite adaptation for use as a museum, retains a number of original features, including a Greek Revival fireplace mantel in the parlor.</p><br>
<p>Sources give different dates for the construction of the house. Most sources claim the house was built circa 1793 by the great-grandson of Richard Bourne, a missionary who was one of Mashpees first colonial settlers. The National Register nomination for the property claims that the house was built about 1830, state legislation governing Mashpees status as an Indian reservation preventing much construction prior to 1819. Its builder would have been John Phinney, one of a small number of white residents of Mashpee at the time.</p><br>
<p>In 1863, the house was acquired by Timothy Pocknet, a Wampanoag. Pocknet is important in Wampanoag history of the period as one of the signatories of an 1833 petition for self-government, which resulted in the state granting the tribe a measure of autonomy. Its first director and driving force was Amelia Peters Bingham. However, the museum was soon shut down by the town of Mashpee amid conflict over Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corp., in which the tribe attempted to regain thousands of acres land that had been illegally sold during the nineteenth century. The building was returned to the tribe in 1998. The Museum is open once again to the Mashpee community and its visitors.</p><br>
<p>Crocker Field is an outdoor sports and recreation facility for the children of the Fitchburg Public School System in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The complex consists of a number of athletic facilities on a 5.5 acre plot of land near the Nashua River. There are indoor and outdoor playing areas, an outdoor stadium, a field house, and a ticket booth and concession stand. The site is enclosed on three sides by a wrought iron fence resting on a concrete base, with periodic square concrete pillars. Most of the complex was built in 1918, with landscaping designed by the Olmsted Brothers. The facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as the Crocker Field Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Crocker Field was created as a gift to the city in 1916 by Alvah Crocker II, the president of Crocker, Burbank & Co., then a major paper manufacturer in Fitchburg. Crockers stated purpose for the gift was to encourage the engagement of the citys youth in outdoor recreational athletic activities. At the time, the city&#39;s public schools did not have organized athletics programs, but these were soon started in order to capitalize on the gift. Crocker hired the noted Olmsted Brothers firm to design an athletic campus that would provide facilities for baseball, football, and tennis, as well as a running track and a field house. Its features were designed by Olmsted employee Percival Gallagher to be as durable as possible, using stone, brick, and concrete, so that maintenance costs would be low. Crocker also provided a $38,000 endowment to fund its maintenance. In 1921, Crocker funded additional features of the park, including a hockey field and a sprinting track.</p><br>
<p>Since its construction, the field as served as the principal playing ground for high school athletic teams, hosting popular events such as rivalry football games with neighboring Leominster. It is also the normal location for high school graduation ceremonies, and often hosts regional athletic events.</p><br>
<p>The Duck Mill is an historic mill complex at 60 Duck Mill Road in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. With a construction history dating to the 1840s, it is one of the city&#39;s oldest surviving textile mills, now readapted to residential use. The complex, long used to produce cotton duck, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Duck Mill complex is located southwest of downtown Fitchburg, at the junction of Duck Mill Road and Bemis Street. The complex consists of a series of mostly interconnected brick buildings, ranging in height from one to 3-1/2 stories. The main building is oriented at an angle to Duck Mill Road, and has a central projecting tower with a bell-shaped cupola that was added in 1887.</p><br>
<p>This particular site, set not far from the Nashua River, has a documented history of industrial use as far back as 1832, when George Blackburn began producing cotton fabric. His first mill was destroyed by fire in 1843, and he rebuilt, opening the oldest portion of the complex the following year. The mills success was enhanced by the arrival of the railroad nearby in 1845, and it was repeatedly enlarged. Of the citys many textile mills, it was the only one to produce heavy cotton duck fabric, which was used by the Union Army during the American Civil War. In later years of the 19th century it produced sailcloth. It was originally powered by water from the river that was delivered by a now-filled raceway, which was in the 20th century supplemented by electricity. Manufacture of textiles ceased in 1947, and the mill saw a variety of industrial tenants before its conversion to apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Fitchburg Historical Society is a historical society whose mission is to collect, preserve, and present the history of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The society was founded in 1892, and is now headquartered in the historic Phoenix Building at 781 Main Street. The society&#39;s original 1912 headquarters building, designed  by architect H. M. Francis, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The society operates three days a week and is open from 10am to 4pm Mondays and Tuesdays with a longer day on Wednesday from 10am to 6pm. They offer genealogical research, a library of local history, and numerous volunteer opportunities.</p><br>
<h2>Original building architecture</h2><br>
<p>The society&#39;s 1912 headquarters is located on the west side of Grove Street, separate from its junction with Elm Street by a society-owned triangular pocket park. The building is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick, with terra cotta trim and a slate hip roof. It is five bays wide and three deep, with ground-floor windows set in round-arch openings capped by terra cotta keystones. The building corners are quoined, and the roof line is adorned with modillions and dentil moulding. The main entrance, located at the center of the Grove Street facade, has an elaborate surround, with engaged columns rising to an entablature and shallow balcony with iron railing.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1912 to a design by Henry Francis, at the time one of Fitchburgs leading architects. The building is one of the citys finest examples of Georgian Revival architecture, and has been relatively little-altered during the society&#39;s ownership. The principal alterations include the addition of storm windows, air conditioning, and the adaption of the attic space for additional storage.</p><br>
<p>The Monument Park Historic District is a historic district centered on Monument Park in downtown Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The district has one of the city&#39;s finest assemblages of high-quality architecture, including a number of civic, religious, and commercial buildings near the park. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Fitchburgs Monument Park is located near the center of its downtown Main Street commercial area, flanked by Wallace Avenue (west), Elm Street (north), Hartwell Street (east), and Main Street (south). It is 2/3 acre in size, and is a basically flat and rectangular parcel, with grass and mature maple trees encircled by shrubs and a low iron fence. At its center is a statue of a winged figure depicting Victory, which was created by sculptor Martin Milmore and is dedicated to the citys American Civil War military. The park was established by the city in 1874.</p><br>
<p>The west side of the park is flanked by two buildings. The southern building is a modern construction whose facade faces Main Street; when the district was created, a heavily altered Greek Revival church building stood here. The northern building is Fitchburg&#39;s state armory, designed by Wait & Cutter and completed in 1891, with an addition by noted Fitchburg architects Henry M. Francis & Sons in 1914. It is a brick building with Gothic towers and parapets. At the northwest corner of the park stands the old post office, a large Classical Revival building completed in 1903 and enlarged in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The north side of the square is faced by the High Victorian Gothic district courthouse, designed by Worcester architect Elbridge Boyden, and completed in 1871. To its right stands the district&#39;s only (formerly) residential property, a fashionable Queen Anne Victorian designed by Henry M. Francis. The east side of the square is completely taken up by the Gothic Christ Church, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1868 with numerous later sympathetic additions. To its east, facing Main Street one block away from the square, is the former 1894 YMCA building, another H. M. Francis design.</p><br>
<p>The original submission for the district included several buildings on the south side of Main Street, including the Modernist library designed by Carl Koch and several non-contributing commercial buildings; these elements were rejected by the National Park Service because they were out of character with the rest of the district.</p><br>
<p>The Fay Club is a private social club located at 658 Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. It has operated since 1910. The club&#39;s building was designed in 1883 by Richard M. Upjohn as the private home of George Fay and his daughter Lucy, and was constructed in 1884. The clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Clubhouse</h2><br>
<p>The former Fay Club building stands in downtown Fitchburg, on the south side of Main Street, between Wood Place and Newton Place next to the public library. It is a large and distinctive red brick building with sandstone trim, 2-1/2 stories in height, with asymmetrical massing and trim typical of the Late Victorian Gothic period. It is covered by a hip roof with a gabled peak, and has projecting gabled sections to the north and east, along with two chimney stacks with decorative corbelling. The interior of the ground floor is largely intact, with original woodwork carving and panels, as well as painted frescoes.</p><br>
<h2>Club history</h2><br>
<p>George Flagg Fay was a prominent businessman in Fitchburg, and was a charter member of the Park Club, founded in 1881 and housed in a building at the corner of Main Street and Wallace Street. He built the house at 658 Main in 1883-4; its position allowed him to walk across the street to the Clubs facility. When he died, his daughter Lucy inherited the property, and continued to reside there until 1910, when she moved to another part of the country. She decided to donate the house to her fathers club; the donation was gratefully received, and to mark its significance, the club voted to change its name to the Fay Club.</p><br>
<p>At the time located at the center of a thriving business community, the club served both as a meetingplace, dining facility, and a networking spot. Later, as families of members moved through its auspices, it became a center for weddings, showers, and reunions. However, as the city grew and transferred its vibrant core toward its suburbs, the Club membership dwindled. For the last 30 years of its existence the facility was closed during the summer months, re-opening in September. Then in June 2015, the Board determined that that year&#39;s closure would be permanent.</p><br>
<p>As of January 2016, the building was being offered for sale to the public. However, as of October 2016, the club had reopened following a groundswell of support and fundraising by a small group of active members.</p><br>
<p>The Parkhill Mill is an historic mill complex at 1 Oak Hill Road in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Built between 1885 and 1915, it was one of three mill complexes of the Parkill Company, one of the city&#39;s largest employers of the period. The mill complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The complex has been restored and is used by a variety of public and private businesses, and as residential space.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parkhill Mill complex is located west of downtown Fitchburg, on the south bank of the Nashua River east of Oak Hill Road and north of Cleghorn Street. The complex consists of four buildings, three of which are joined in a U shape open to the south; the fourth, the mill&#39;s former boiler house, is located just east of these three, oriented north–south and parallel to the eastern leg of the U. Other features of the complex include its original brick chimney stack, and a former railroad bridge spanning the Nashua River. The main mill buildings are four stories in height, and are built out of red brick. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings, and the roof is of low pitch, with a projecting eave adorned with exposed rafters.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the complex, part of the U&#39;s base, was built in 1885 by Andrew Cleghorn, a Scottish immigrant who operated it as a textile mill. He sold the mill to John Parkhill, his brother-in-law, in 1889. Parkhill was also a Scottish immigrant who had worked for many years in the mills of Adams, Massachusetts. Parkhill had begun his business in a former chair factory in 1879, and expanded into a second complex in Fitchburg in 1887 before buying this one. The Parkhill Manufacturing Company principally produced gingham fabrics, and at its peak employed more than 1,000 people. This mill complex originally include two other buildings, which were located in the central space of the U, which is now occupied by a parking lot for the building tenants, clients and visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Wellington Piano Case Company Building is an historic building at 54 Green Street in Leominster, Massachusetts. The four-story brick building was built in 1895 by Frank E. Wellington, who manufactured piano cases for upright and grand pianos. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was converted to condominium residences in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Wellington Piano Case Company Building is located on the west side of Green Street, a short way north of the junction of Massachusetts Routes 12 and 13, north of downtown Leominster. The building consists of three large sections, all of brick construction. The original central block is a four-story structure, finished in pressed red brick with granite sills, and a corbelled cornice. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings, and a six-story square tower with crenellated top projects near its center. To the left (south) it is connected to what is now a five-story structure with similar styling, and to the right is an attached two-story section.</p><br>
<p>The Wellington Piano Case Company was founded in 1895 by Frank E. Wellington, who had risen through the ranks of other piano case manufacturers in Leominster. The main block, built in 1895, was lauded into the 1930s as one of the citys finest and most modern factory facilities. The southern addition was made in 1906, and was originally six stories in height; the top floor was damaged in the New England Hurricane of 1938 and removed. The northern addition, originally used as a dry kiln, was made in 1919. Wellingtons company was the last piano case maker to be established in the city. His company was later acquired by the Cable Piano Company. The building, after standing vacant for some years, was converted into condominium residences in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Frances H. and Jonathan Drake House is an historic house at 21 Franklin Street in Leominster, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1848, this typical Greek Revival worker&#39;s cottage is notable as a stop on the Underground Railroad during the pre-Civil War years. Frances and Jonathan Drake are documented as having hosted Shadrach Minkins after he was successfully extracted from custody at a Boston court hearing. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Drake House is located southwest of downtown Leominster, on the north side of Franklin Street, on a lot that extends between the street and Monoosnoc Brook, the principal source of water power for the citys 19th-century industries. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The front facade is three bays wide on the ground floor, with the entrance in the left bay. It is set in a recess with sidelight windows; the outside of the recess is framed by post and lintel moulding. The front-facing gable has frieze bands along the raking edges, and corner returns. The interior of the house retains a number of original features, while others have been restored. The most unusual feature is a trapdoor in the front parlor, which provides access to the houses full basement. This trapdoor was apparently built at the same time as the floor, and is thus an original feature created by the house builder, Jonathan Drake. A Victorian porch, probably added in the late 19th century, has been removed during restoration of the property. The house, now owned by the city, underwent a major rehabilition in the 2010s, to return it to its appearance in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1848 by Jonathan Drake, and is a fairly typical Greek Revival worker&#39;s cottage. Jonathan and his wife Frances were ardent abolitionists, and their house has been documented as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It was in particular associated with the flight of Shadrach Minkins, one of the first fugitive slaves taken after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Minkins was spirited out of a Boston courtroom by abolitionist activists, and was hidden at the Drake house to avoid authorities known to be hunting him in Fitchburg. He was later spirited to Canada.</p><br>
<p>The Wachusett Shirt Company is an historic industrial complex at 97-106 Water Street in Leominster, Massachusetts, United States. The five-building complex was developed between 1887 and 1910, and was home to one of the city&#39;s leading employers until the 1930s. Most of the complex converted into a residential complex known as Riverway Apartments in 1981. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Wachusett Shirt Company complex is located northeast of downtown Leominsters Monument Square, flanking Water Street just southwest of Monoosnuc Brook, which was historically the source of the mills power. The complex consists of five buildings: four buildings on the west side of Water Street, three of which are adjacent, and one building on the east side. Four are of brick construction, and range in height from two to four stories. A wood-frame bridge passes over Water Street, connecting two of the buildings. The original main mill is the east side building: it is a T-shaped four-story structure, with an elaborately decorated Renaissance Revival projecting stem. The three-building structure across the street includes a wood-frame structure, and is more simply decorated. Adjacent to it stands the two-story office building, whose most prominent feature is its main entrance, which is recessed in a large round-headed arch.</p><br>
<p>The shirt industry was a major employer in Leominster between about 1880 and 1930. Its genesis was with a company founded in 1880 by G.F. Morse, one of whose employees, George Gane, founded the Wachusett Shirt Company in 1882. He eventually took on as a partner F.A. Whitney, who had an established mill complex (northeast of this one) where carriages and chairs were made. The company worked in those premises until 1887, when the first of this complex&#39;s buildings was built. The success of the company and the concentration of experienced shirtmakers brought Cluett Peabody & Company, maker of the Arrow brand of shirts, to Leominster. The shirtmaking industry peaked in the city in 1902, with 3,000 workers, and had declined to 1,500 by 1915. Wachusett Shirt went out of business in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. once headquartered in Troy, New York, was a longtime manufacturer of shirts, detachable shirt cuffs and collars, and related apparel. It is best known for its Arrow brand collars and shirts and the related Arrow Collar Man advertisements . It dates, with a different name, from the mid-19th century and was absorbed by Westpoint Pepperell in the 1980s. The Arrow name is still licensed to brand men&#39;s shirts and ties.</p><br>
<p>The company manufactured shirts and collars in a historic building at 123 First Street in Leominster, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in 1902 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1851, Maullin & Blanchard, manufacturers of collars, began operations at 282 River Street in Troy, NY. This company was succeeded in 1856 by Maullin & Bigelow, and in 1861 by Maullin, Bigelow, & Co., when Mr. George B. Cluett, a clerk in the company since 1854, became a partner. Upon the dissolution of the partnership in 1862, Joseph Maullin and George B. Cluett formed the firm Maullin & Cluett. On the death of Mr. Maullin in 1863, the firm Geo. B. Cluett, Bros., & Co. was formed.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, Geo. B. Cluett, Bros., & Co merged with Coon & Co., also of Troy, NY, to form Cluett, Coon & Co., bringing Frederick F. Peabody into the firm. The Cluett, Coon & Co soon became the Cluett, Peabody & Co. in 1899.</p><br>
<p>Prior to 1919, the principal business for Cluett, Peabody & Co. was manufacturing men&#39;s shirt collars. Beginning in the 1920s the demand for collar-attached shirts grew considerably, while the detached collar business experienced a decline. In 1929 Cluett, Peabody & Co. established a national menswear business under the Arrow brand name. The "Arrow" name gradually grew into a product line that included shirts, collars, handkerchiefs, cravats, pajamas, and underwear for men and boys.</p><br>
<p>By 1935 Cluett Peabody operated eleven plants, mostly in the Northeast, including a plant at 123 First Street in Leominster, MA. In 1945 sales for Cluett Peabody were $31.3 million, and by 1955 sales had nearly tripled, to $87.4 million. At their heyday, the owned plants numbered 13 with an additional two in a wholly owned subsidiary and the weekly production approximated 67,700 dozen. In addition in the mid 70&#39;s the company arranged production from contractors of an additional weekly 31,000 dz. for a total 98,700 dozen. At this time additional shirt production lines were being contracted from Korea.</p><br>
<p>Cluett, Peabody & Co. was acquired by WestPoint Pepperell, Inc in 1985. Bidermann Industries purchased Cluett, Peabody & Co. from WestPoint Pepperell in 1990. Cluett American Group (Vestar Capital Partners) bought the company in 1998. In 2004, Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (parent company of longtime archrival Van Heusen) acquired the Arrow brand and the related licensing business from Cluett American Group for approximately $70 million. The remaining elements of the Cluett American Group now operate as Gold Toe Brands (GTB Holding Corp). GTB Holding Corp still holds the trademark licensing rights to the Sanforization process of pre-shrinking fabric, named for its inventor, Sanford L. Cluett, who developed the process for Cluett, Peabody & Co, which he joined in 1919. On August 2, 2021 the Arrow, Van Heusen, Izod, and Geoffrey Beene brands were sold to Authentic Brands Group (ABG). Under ABG, United Legwear & Apparel Co. was named as the licensee for the Arrow brand.</p><br>
<p>The Jenkins Octagon House is an historic octagon house located on NY 395 in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1855 by noted master carpenter Alexander Delos "Boss" Jones. It is a two-story, clapboard-sided farmhouse with Greek Revival style features. It features innovative stacked plank construction, a low-pitched polygonal roof with a central chimney, a full entablature circling the structure, and a one-story porch with a hipped roof. Also on the property are two contributing barns, a shed, and a gazebo.</p><br>
<p>The property was covered in a 1984 study of Duanesburg historical resources.</p><br>
<p>The property was also covered in a study of Boss Jones TR</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Ted&#39;s Diner was a historic diner at 67 Main Street in Milford, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ted&#39;s Diner was manufactured by the Tierney Diner company in the 1920s and was, until its demise, the oldest of its make in the country. It was also unusual in the state as a double-width diner, and was grafted onto an adjacent late 19th-century house, which provided additional seating capacity.</p><br>
<p>Teds was removed to make way for the expansion of Milfords firehouse. After sitting in a parking lot for almost a year, vandals and weather had taken their toll, and Ted&#39;s was finally demolished.</p><br>
<p>The diner was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Chestnut Hill Meetinghouse  is an historic meeting house at the corner of Chestnut and Thayer Streets in Millville, Massachusetts. The -story wood frame meetinghouse was built in 1769. It is very plainly decorated, with only its door surrounds of architectural interest. They consist of pilasters flanking the door, which is topped by a full triangular pediment. The interior consists of a large meeting chamber, in which stand 26 box pews. The building served as the meeting place of South Parish into the nineteenth century, and is one of a small number of surviving 18th-century meetinghouses whose main entrance is on the long side of the building.</p><br>
<p>It is purported to be the first place of worship that the first utterance for the independence of this country was announced</p><br>
<p>publicly</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan C. Aldrich House and Resthaven Chapel are a historic house and chapel at 111 Providence Street in Mendon, Massachusetts. The house, built c. 1830, is an example of Greek Revival architecture in stone, while the chapel is a Late Gothic structure completed in 1900. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nathan C. Aldrich House is located in a rural-residential area southeast of the center of Mendon, on the west side of Providence Street just south of its crossing of Spring Brook. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of locally quarried granite that has been formed into dressed blocks. It is capped by a gabled roof, and has a series of ells that telescope in size. Its main facade faces south, and is five bays wide, with a transomed entrance at the center. The interior has retained a significant number of original finishes, despite its adaptation for institutional use. The chapel, also built of stone, is located near the rear of the property, overlooking Spring Brook.</p><br>
<p>The date of construction of Nathan Aldrichs stone house is not known; it is estimated to have been built c. 1830 based on its Greek Revival details. Stone farmhouses of the period are rare in Mendon, and are predominantly associated with Quakers like Aldrich. The property was acquired in 1891 by Catherine Regina Seabury, who established a rural retreat for women on the property, including the construction of a chapel on the grounds in 1899–1900. The retreat was transformed into a boarding school in 1912, but it did not survive Seaburys death in 1929. The next owner, Doctor Joseph Ashkins, transformed the property into a country estate, removing many of the trappings and alterations made to accommodate the institutional needs.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Heights Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Prospect Heights, Prospect, and Water Streets in Milford, Massachusetts. It encompasses a neighborhood that was created by the Draper Corporation of Hopedale, Massachusetts for its immigrant workers. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The community has a mix of different nationalities. Every year a new mayor is chosen to represent the community. There has been a mayor for every year starting in 1962, with a different background being represented each year: Portuguese, Irish, Italian, Greek, Armenian or Polish.</p><br>
<p>The Heights contains a World War II Memorial honoring local veterans who served in the war. The monument contains 184 names including one female, a nurse.</p><br>
<p>There is also the Portuguese Club, a soccer field, basketball courts, and a playground for children.</p><br>
<p>Every year the annual Portuguese Picnic is held drawing thousands every year. The new mayor also starts on the same day.</p><br>
<p>The motto of the heights is "No matter where you roam, Prospect Heights is still your home."</p><br>
<p>LIST OF MAYORS:</p><br>
<p>1961-1962 - Oracio Moreira - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1962-1963 - John Milan - Irish †</p><br>
<p>1963-1964 - Ardashes Krikorian - Armenian †</p><br>
<p>1964-1965 - Fred Crescenzi - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1965-1966 - John Chappel - Polish †</p><br>
<p>1966-1967 - George Alves - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1967-1968 - Jim Donlan - Irish †</p><br>
<p>1968-1969 - Hagop Papelian - Armenian †</p><br>
<p>1969-1970 - Joe Recchia - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1970-1971 - Thomas Tominsky - Polish †</p><br>
<p>1971-1972 - Joseph Lopes - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1972-1973 - Joseph McAuliffe - Irish †</p><br>
<p>1973-1974 - Joseph Derderian - Armenian †</p><br>
<p>1974-1975 - Dominik D&#39;Amico - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1975-1976 - Joseph Oneschuk - Polish †</p><br>
<p>1976-1977 - Domenic Dias - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1977-1978 - John Coniaris - Greek †</p><br>
<p>1978-1979 - George Marashian - Armenian †</p><br>
<p>1979-1980 - Dante Viallani - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1980-1981 - Theodore Kosciak - Polish †</p><br>
<p>1981-1982 - Fernando Rodrigues - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1982-1983 - Joseph Evans - Irish †</p><br>
<p>1983-1984 - Carlos doCurral - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>1984-1985 - John Villani - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1985-1986 - Nicholas Coniaris - Greek †</p><br>
<p>1986-1987 - Diego Chaves - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>1987-1988 - Alfred Andreola Jr. - Greek</p><br>
<p>1988-1989 - Daniel Ruggerio - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1989-1990 - Bento G. doCurral Jr. - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>1990-1991 - Edward Bertorelli - Irish</p><br>
<p>1991-1992 - Manoog Manoogian - Armenian</p><br>
<p>1992-1993 - Agostina Lancia - Italian †</p><br>
<p>1993-1994 - Domingoes Pereira - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>1994-1995 - John Wylie - Irish</p><br>
<p>1995-1996 - Jeffrey Varteresian - Armenian</p><br>
<p>1996-1997 - R. Allen Alves - Italian</p><br>
<p>1997-1998 - David Soares - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>1998-1999 - Albert Azevedo - Irish</p><br>
<p>1999-2000 - Walter Costa - Armenian</p><br>
<p>2000-2001 - Michael Tebeau - Italian</p><br>
<p>2001-2002 - John Perry - Polish</p><br>
<p>2002-2003 - John Fernandes - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>2003-2004 - Gary Matos - Irish</p><br>
<p>2004-2005 - John Derderian - Armenian</p><br>
<p>2005-2006 - David A. Consigli - Italian</p><br>
<p>2006-2007 - Joseph Batista - Portuguese †</p><br>
<p>2007-2008 - Thomas Cullen - Irish</p><br>
<p>2008-2009 - Anthony C. Gonsalves - Italian</p><br>
<p>2009-2010 - Alberto A. Correia - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>2011-2012 - Paul Sharp - Irish</p><br>
<p>2012-2013 - Steven Gulino - Italian</p><br>
<p>2013-2014 - Manny Borges - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>2014 -2015 - Will Kinkade - Irish</p><br>
<p>2015-2016 - Paul Mazzuchelli - Italian</p><br>
<p>2016-2017 - Ed Ross - Polish</p><br>
<p>2017-2018 - Domingos Roda - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>2018-2019 - John Laronga - Armenian</p><br>
<p>2019-2020 - Jamie Luchini - Italian</p><br>
<p>2021-2022 - Paul Braza - Portuguese</p><br>
<p>2022-2023 - Christopher DiGellonardo - Irish</p><br>
<p>2023-2024 - Edward Varteresian - Armenian</p><br>
<p>2024-2025 - Dennis Maietta - Italian</p><br>
<p>LIST OF HONORARY MAYORS:</p><br>
<p>Scott Anderson</p><br>
<p>David Azevedo</p><br>
<p>Jose Batista</p><br>
<p>Manuel Chaves</p><br>
<p>Mike Consoletti</p><br>
<p>Antonio Coelho</p><br>
<p>Jose Coelho</p><br>
<p>Manuel Esteves</p><br>
<p>Manuel Gonsalves</p><br>
<p>Louis Hellmuth</p><br>
<p>Anthony Imbruno</p><br>
<p>Anthony Matheus</p><br>
<p>Manuel Matheus</p><br>
<p>Aurelio Matos</p><br>
<p>Frank Matos</p><br>
<p>Maurice Panagian</p><br>
<p>Rico Pisaro</p><br>
<p>John Silva</p><br>
<p>Sidney Smith</p><br>
<p>Joseph Soares</p><br>
<p>Dominic Alfonso</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall is an historic hall located at 30 School Street in Milford, Massachusetts. It was built as a Civil War tribute.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Milford architect Frederick Swasey in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the hall was built in 1884 from local Milford granite and Longmeadow brownstone. The building features carved brownstone figures and panels inscribed "Grant" and "Farragut". On the front of the hall, there is a bronze plaque inscribed with Lincoln&#39;s Gettysburg Address.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It underwent a restoration in 2001–2002. It is now home to the Milford Historical Commission, whose museum is open to visitors Thursdays from 1-4 pm or by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Shute Octagon House is a historic octagon house located on McGuire School Road in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York. It was built about 1855 by noted master carpenter Alexander Delos "Boss" Jones. It is a 2-story, clapboard-sided farmhouse with a -story wing in the Greek Revival style. It features innovative stacked plank construction, a low-pitched polygonal roof surmounted by a widow&#39;s walk, a full entablature circling the structure. A 1-story porch with porte cochere was added about 1906. Also on the property are four contributing barns, a shed, and a smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>The property was covered in a 1984 study of Duanesburg historical resources.</p><br>
<p>The property was also-covered in a study of Boss Jones TR</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Azariah Newton House is a historic house at 44 Silver Hill Road in Milford, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame Cape style house, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and large central chimney. The interior has retained substantial interior finishing, including floors, fireplaces, and room layout. The house was built in 1747 by Azariah Newton, one of the areas early settlers, and is one of Milfords oldest houses.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the 19th century industrial village center of Millville, Massachusetts. This district covers a large portion of the village, along Main Street south of Central Street, and along Lincoln Street and Chestnut Hill Road radiating away from Central Street. Other historical portions of the village are contained within the Central Street Historic District. This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Central Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the historic village center of Millville, Massachusetts. Its spine is Central Street, the main north–south artery through the town, running from Main Street in the north to just south of Quaker Street in the south. The district includes adjoining properties on a number of side streets. The northern end is discontiguous with Millvilles Main Street Historic District, on the north side of the Blackstone River, because of the demolition of historic buildings and alterations to the junction of Main and Central Streets. Millvilles town offices are located in the former Longfellow School, built in 1850 and located at 8 Central Street. South of the river there is more of a commercial center, and as Central Street climbs the hillside above the river, it becomes more residential. This last area was where the fashionable homes of Millville&#39;s wealthier residents were built. The oldest portions of the district are the remnant sites of the mills which prompted the growth of the town. These were built on an island in the river, although later mills  were built on its northern and southern banks.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Waters Mansion is an historic mansion at 123 Elm Street in Millbury, Massachusetts. Designed by architect Asher Benjamin for Asa Waters and Susan Holman Waters, the mansion was built between 1826 and 1832, It is a three-story wood-frame house, with a hip roof ringed by a low balustrade. Its front facade is distinguished by colonnade of fluted two-story pillars with composite capitals, with pilasters at the building corners. The Millbury Historical Society is headquartered there, and the Mansion is used as an event space for public and private organizations and individuals.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The US Post Office-Millbury Main is an historic building on 119 Elm Street in Millbury, Massachusetts. The single-story brick building was built in 1941, and has styling with Art Deco features. It has a cupola with diamond-glass windows and a copper roof; the diamond window pattern also appears in the windows that flank and top the building&#39;s entrance. The interior retains much of its original woodwork and styling, and includes a mural painted by Joe Lasker depicting a battle between Native Americans and English colonists.</p><br>
<p>The post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Huguenot Fort is a historic fortification site on Fort Hill Road in Oxford, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original fort was built in 1694 by Huguenots, Protestant immigrants who were fleeing state church persecution in France. Oxford was originally settled by Huguenots in two waves, the original settlement having been abandoned after four residents (John Johnson and his three children, Peter, Andrew and Mary) were killed in a violent confrontation with local Native Americans. This event, the Johnson Massacre, is commemorated near the center of town. The remains of the Huguenots&#39; Fort (built in 1686–1694) to protect from Indian attack still exist off of Huguenot Road commemorated by a nineteenth-century monument. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>In Literature</h2><br>
<p>This is the subject of Lydia Sigourney&#39;s poem Huguenot Fort, published in her Scenes in my Native Land, 1845.</p><br>
<p>The Thom Block is an historic mixed-used commercial and residential building at 83-89 Main Street in Milford, Massachusetts. It is distinctive as being Milford&#39;s only building to be built out of locally quarried granite. The four-story building was built in 1891; its interior was gutted by fire shortly before its construction was completed. It originally housed three retail spaces on the ground floors, and two residential units on each of the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Milford Town Hall is the historic town hall at 52 Main Street in Milford, Massachusetts. The two story wood frame building was completed in 1854; in addition to its role in housing town offices for over a century, it is a distinctive local example of Italianate architecture, with pilasters articulating the building bays above a quoined basement level, a modillioned cornice, and alternating gabled and segmented-arch pediments above its windows. It is unusual among Milford&#39;s public buildings in not being built out of locally quarried granite.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Gillon Block is an historic commercial building at 189 Main Street in Milford, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was built in 1888 by Patrick Gillon, the owner of a bottle manufacturing company. It has a complex facade, divided into seven sections, with a central projecting section topped by a tower with a coppered onion dome. Matching sections at the center sections of the three on either side are articulated by piers and topped by gabled parapets. The building houses stores on the first floor and offices on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The North Avenue Rural Historic District is a rural historic district in northern Mendon, Massachusetts. It covers 345 acre, and extends predominantly along North Street, between Esty Road and Powers Road, and eastward along Hopedale Street and Trask Road. The area has been a rural agricultural area since the early days of Mendon&#39;s history in the 17th century. The present landscape retains boundaries and land-use patterns that were established in the 18th and 19th centuries, although some features  have been lost or obscured to accommodate modern farming practices. The architecture of the area is predominantly 19th century; the oldest building in the district appears to be the Federal style house of the Seth Davenport Farm at 133 North Avenue, built c. 1780.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Mendon Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the village center of Mendon, Massachusetts, and some of its surrounding rural areas. It is roughly bounded by Main, Hastings, Maple, North, Washington & George Streets. The village is centered on the triangle defined by Main, Hastings, and Maple Streets, with dwellings built up on the roads that radiate away from this area. Founders&#39; Park, located at the junction of Main, Hastings, North and Milford Streets, is the site of the original town center, where the first meeting house was located. The district has residential buildings dating from the 18th to the mid-20th centuries, in a wide variety of styles. The focal point of the town center is the Second Unitarian Church, an 1820 building designed by Worcester architect Elias Carter.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Marlborough Brook Filter Beds are a series of water filtration beds near the mouth of Marlborough Brook, where it enters Sudbury Reservoir near the town line between Marlborough and Southborough, Massachusetts. The filter beds were constructed in 1895 as part of the reservoir construction to improve the water quality of Marlborough and Walker Brooks, and are the best-preserved of two such facilities built as part of the public water supply serving Boston and surrounding communities. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The filter beds are located on a 16 acre straddling the border between Marlborough and Southborough on the west side of the Sudbury Reservoir, and are now largely overgrown with vegetation. They are roughly bounded by three roadways: Walker Street to the north, Massachusetts Route 85 to the west (which is Maple Street in Marlborough and Marlboro Street in Southborough), and Acre Bridge Road in Southborough, which becomes Framingham Road in Marlborough. The northernmost portion, where Marlborough Brook enters after crossing under Walker Street, is a 1.5 acre settling reservoir. From this, water was diverted over a stone and concrete weir into a channel running along the eastern edge of the beds. Sluiceways controlled the channeling of water into a series of 17 beds to the west, which consist of shallow basins with about 2 ft of sand set at the bottom on top of a tile bed. The water would filter through these beds by gravity. Further down the main channel another sluiceway channeled water into a larger holding bed, or into a second series of 10 "natural" beds, which fashioned out of already-extant gravel.</p><br>
<p>When The Sudbury Reservoir was built in 1893-95, it was predominantly fed by the Sudbury River, but also received water from a number of smaller surrounding streams. Marlborough and Walker Brooks were two of these, and were identified from an early date as having substandard water quality. The engineering staff of the Metropolitan Water Board, predecessor to todays Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), designed these structures in order to improve the quality of the water entering the reservoir from these two streams, and were completed by 1899. Only one other location in the Boston water supply had similar structures, which were later storm-damaged and partially filled in. These filter beds are no longer in service, and the Sudbury Reservoir is part of the MWRAs backup facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Lunenburg Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic center of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. The district is centered on a stretch of Main Street which connects two triangular intersections. It includes many of the towns oldest buildings, including the c. 1724 Cushing House, and the c. 1730 Stillman Stone House. Three of the towns most significant institutional buildings were built before 1850: the town hall , the Congregational church, and the Methodist church. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lunenburg was settled in 1718 and incorporated in 1728. For most of its history before World War I, it was a rural agrarian community, bypassed by industrialization due to a lack of good water power, and by improved transportation methods such as the railroad. The town center was laid out on a piece of high ground near its geographic center known as Turkey Hill, and is now defined mainly by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue (Massachusetts Route 2A) with Leominster Road and Lancaster Avenue. The town green, where its early colonial meeting house was the focus of civic life, is located just south of this junction, bounded by Leominster Road, Lancaster Avenue, and Whiting Avenue. Small cottage industries contributed to the town centers development most notably an early bookbinding business (producing Bibles despite the banning of their printing in British colonies) and barrel making. The town centers place as the focus of civic life was cemented in the mid-19th century by the construction of several churches, one of which (a former Greek Revival Unitarian Church) now serves as town hall.</p><br>
<p>The district is 102 acre in size, and includes 77 historically significant buildings. It extends for some distance along the roads radiating away from the common, as well as Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west, and Main and Highland Streets to the north. Most of the buildings in it are residential and of wood-frame construction. Historic brick buildings include an 1835 district schoolhouse. Most of the buildings are in vernacular styles popular at the time of their construction, with the Greek Revival and Federal period particularly well-represented.</p><br>
<p>The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts. It includes Washburn Square, as the town common is called; the buildings along its perimeter; and the properties along Main Street extending east along Main Street to its junction with Henshaw Street. It includes the 1939 Leicester Town Hall, Becker College&#39;s 1962 Swan Library, a Victorian Gothic Revival First Congregational Church  and the 1834 Leicester Unitarian Church . The south side of Washburn Square  is lined with stately homes that now are almost all owned by Becker College.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Mount Wollaston Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery at 20 Sea Street in the Merrymount neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1854 when Hancock Cemetery in the center of the town had been filled to near capacity, a committee was formed at a town meeting to determine the site of a new burial ground. The committee chose a plot of land in the town farm, which had been donated by William Coddington and was located just west of the site of Quincy&#39;s founding spot, Mount Wollaston. Through the year the cemetery committee surveyed several cemeteries in the surrounding area for landscaping and architecture ideas, including Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. After consulting with Superintendent Brims of Forest Hills, Luther Briggs of Dorchester was hired to design and build the cemetery. Briggs chose a gothic revival style for the architecture, and used the plot dimensions adopted by Mount Auburn as a template for Mount Wollaston. The first two plots were ceremoniously purchased on May 5, 1856 by Charles Francis Adams, Sr., prominent attorney and son of the late former President of the United States, John Quincy Adams.</p><br>
<h2>Monuments</h2><br>
<p>An area known as the Veterans Section, located at the main Sea Street entrance to the cemetery, features several monuments honoring members of the military. The Civil War Monument, dedicated June 25, 1868, features a large granite monument surrounded by four period cannons. Other memorials include a Spanish–American War Memorial, World War I, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials and statuary monuments dedicated to the city&#39;s firemen and policemen.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Brooks Adams (1848–1897), historian</p><br>
<p>Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), attorney, USA Congressman and ambassador to Great Britain</p><br>
<p>Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915), a Union commander in the American Civil War, railroad executive and historian</p><br>
<p>Charles Francis Adams, III (1866–1954), yachtsman and Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover</p><br>
<p>John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894), a politician, soldier, and lawyer</p><br>
<p>Billy De Wolfe (1907–1974) actor</p><br>
<p>Bob Gallagher (1928–1977), sportscaster</p><br>
<p>Ralph Talbot (1897–1918), first United States Marine Corps aviator to be awarded the Medal of Honor</p><br>
<p>Rufus Tobey, (1849–1920), founder of Tufts Childrens Hospital</p><br>
<p>Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), considered the first female African-American novelist</p><br>
<p>The Estabrook Octagon House, built in 1853 by Ezra Robinson Estabrook, is a historic octagonal house located at 8 River Street  in Hoosick Falls, New York. It was constructed in strict accordance with the theories of Orson Squire Fowler, author of A Home for All.</p><br>
<p>It is preserved intact, and is one of the few remaining octagon houses that was built exactly as Fowler advocated. On February 8, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house has been altered slightly, however. It was a pleasing feature of the house that the balustrade design, which appears on the roof of the house, had been repeated in different scales also on the roof of the porch and on the cupola.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a two-acre (8,000 m) lot at the corner of River Street and the tracks laid down by the Boston and Maine Railroad. The neighborhood is residential, with most other houses dating to the 19th century as well.</p><br>
<p>It is two stories high, faced in stucco over walls built of a mixture of grout and Rosendale cement. A small square porch projects from the east side. The facets have an alternating fenestration of one and two windows. The roofline is decorated with a dentiled bargeboard. Above it is an intricate wood crest, and behind it several small dormer windows with trim similar to the roofline. Two chimneys rise from the similarly trimmed cupola in the center of the hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The interior plan has four large rooms on each level with the staircase around the central post. The smaller rooms serve support functions, such as bathrooms and closets.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ezra Estabrook was inspired to build the house by Orson Squire Fowler&#39;s A Home for All, or a Cheap, Convenient and Superior Mode of Building, which came out in a revised edition in 1853. Fowler, a phrenologist who dabbled in architecture, was intrigued by polygonal forms found in nature and adapted for use by man. In his book he advocated the octagonal form since it could be built by the homeowner at a low cost.</p><br>
<p>Estabrook followed Fowlers advice and did most of the building work himself. He followed Fowlers plan exactly, including the cupola and alternating one-two fenestration. His only change was the material. Fowler had called for the wall to be made of a mixture of water, lime and an aggregate, since they were widely available around the country. The Estabrooks chose the Rosendale cement-grout mixture along with coarse local gravel since it was locally available and had proven more durable. Ezra Estabrook kept a diary during construction, in which he records pouring as much as one foot (25 cm) a day of the mixture between wooden forms.</p><br>
<p>His descendants lived in the house for almost a century, until 1943. There have been very few alterations to the interior. It is one of the few surviving octagon houses built as Fowler had originally intended.</p><br>
<p>Today the home has been converted from residential to the home of Marker&#39;s Octagon Realty, which caterers to the Hoosick Falls area.</p><br>
<p>The Dubois-Sarles Octagon is an octagon house located on South Street in Marlboro, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. As of 2018 it was only one of 15 eight-sided houses left in New York State.</p><br>
<p>First built around 1850 by Hudson Dubois and his family, it was renovated in 1872 by Alton and Helen Sarles. As a result, it reflects two different architectural styles: Italianate and Second Empire. Unlike most other American octagon houses of the period, its interior follows a sidehall plan, rather than the radial center plan advocated by Orson Squire Fowler.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house sits on a stone foundation. It is sided in asphalt, with overhanging bracketed eaves and a decorated frieze at the roofline. Above it is amansard roof, covered in fish-scale slate shingles.</p><br>
<p>The main entry is located at the southeast facet of the house. Unusually for an octagon house, it is recessed to create a porch, extending outside of the house, overlooking the Hudson River roughly a mile to the east. A two-story rectangular kitchen wing projects from the west facet, with a sympathetic contemporary octagonal hip-roofed porch wing attached to it. The remains of an earlier porch project from the east facet.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the house follows a sidehall plan not seen in most octagon houses. Instead of being located in the center, the stairs are off to the side, allowing the eastern side of the first floor to be used as a large parlor with a fireplace on the west wall. This is echoed upstairs, with the master bedroom occupying the large eastern space and the other bedrooms to the west. Most finishings and trim are original, many representing the Greek Revival era in American architecture, which was winding down around the time the house was built.</p><br>
<p>There is also a garage on the property, but it is of modern construction and not considered a contributing resource.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Dubois family bought the property where the house now sits in the mid-19th century. Shortly afterwards they began building the house. The original had no projections, and was a pure octagon in keeping with Fowler&#39;s theories, save for the sidehall interior and recessed entrance. In 1872 they sold it to the Sarleses, who renovated the house extensively, adding a mansard roof then popular from the Second Empire style, and the kitchen wing.</p><br>
<p>It remained in their descendants&#39; ownership until the late 20th century. At some point during that time, the original small eastern porch was removed and a bay window put into the wall on that facet. A Colonial Revival porch was then built out from the entrance recess. Other than that, there have been no major changes to the house.</p><br>
<p>Forthe V-2 rocket launches that began in 1946 at this site, e.g., filmed from the rocket in November 1947,</p><br>
<p>The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army Launch Area Number 1, is an historic rocket launch complex at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. It was here that the United States first performed test launches of German V-2 rockets captured toward the end of World War II. These tests were the first step in both military advances in rocketry, and in the development of the United States space exploration programs. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Nazi German V-2 rocket was one of the most advanced weapons produced in World War II, and hundreds of them were launched at Allied targets in the last two years of the war. In the aftermath of the war, the United States launched Operation Paperclip, a secret program that successfully recruited German scientists and engineers (most prominently Wernher von Braun) to work for the American military, and transported 100 captured V-2 rockets to the recently established White Sands Missile Range. Between 1946 and 1951, the Army fired 67 V-2 sounding rockets from this site. These launches, and the training of a class of scientists and engineers, led directly to the further development of new rocket launch programs, including ultimately the launch of humans into space.</p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>Launch Complex 33 is located near the far southern end of the White Sands Missile Range, east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. On the range grounds, it is located on 10 acre east of the White Sands Range Museum. There are two principal surviving elements of the launch complex. One is the steel gantry, a steel structure 75 ft in height and 25 ft wide, from which the V-2s and later classes of rockets were launched. It has four platforms at different heights, which can be swung into position to accommodate rockets of different sizes, and a network of block-and-tackle systems to assist in rocket placement. The other structure is a concrete observation tower with walls 10 ft thick, and a pyramidal roof cap that consists of 27 ft of solid concrete. It has observation portals with specialized glass windows allowing for close observation of the launches.</p><br>
<p>The Hubert H. Bancroft Ranch House is a historic house museum at 9050 Memory Lane in Spring Valley, California. Built in 1856, it is the oldest Anglo-American building in the town. From 1885 until his death in 1918, it was home to Hubert Howe Bancroft, a pioneering historian of the western United States, Mexico, and Central America. Now managed by the local historical society as a museum, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with Bancroft, and was registered as a California Historical Landmark in 1958.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bancroft Ranch House is located in western Spring Valley, just northwest of Bancroft County Park. It is accessed via Memory Lane, a short lane off Bancroft Drive. The house is a single-story adobe structure, to which a frame addition has been made. Each of these sections is covered by a gabled roof with wooden shingles. The roof of the adobe section extends over an open veranda area, where it is supported by square posts. The oldest portion of the adobe has embedded in it curved timbers, which were salvaged from the Clarissa Andrews, a coal freighter and packet ship wrecked in San Diego Bay. The property also contains a natural spring, named El aguaje de San Jorge (St. George&#39;s Spring) by the Spanish, after which the community of Spring Valley is named.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1856 by Augustus Ensworth. Upon Enworths death, the property was sold in 1865 to Rufus King Porter, son of the founder of Scientific American. Porter added a kitchen, a dining room, and two bedrooms. He later sold the property to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1885. Bancroft expanded the property, eventually owning more than 500 acre, which he operated as a gentlemans farm. After Bancroft&#39;s death in 1918, his heirs divided the estate. The portion including the house was acquired in 1940 by the Spring Valley Chamber of Commerce. The house was rehabilitated in 1962, and was opened as a museum the following year. Now located in the adjacent park is a rock structure which Bancroft built in the 1880s as a schoolhouse and fireproof storage house for his historical materials.</p><br>
<p>Bancroft is best known for a massive 39-volume history, published between 1882 and 1890. The history covers the entire area of western North America, from coastal Alaska to Mexico and Central America. The library Bancroft amassed in pursuit of his research contains more than 60,000 volumes, and is now located at the University of California, Berkeley.</p><br>
<p>The Chickasaw Octagon House  is a historic octagonal house located on Court Street in Chickasaw, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the house is attributed to Cyrus (Johnny)</p><br>
<p>Stocks. The first floor was completed in 1871 and the second floor was completed three years later. The house is built of limestone quarried locally, and set in a random ashlar pattern. It is located in a rural area that was platted as the town of Chickasaw.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The James Beauchamp Clark House, also known as "Champ" Clark House or Honey Shuck, is a historic house museum at 207 East Champ Clark Drive in Bowling Green, Missouri, the seat of Pike County. Designated as a National Historic Landmark, it is the only known surviving home of James Beauchamp Clark , a leading US Congressman of the early 20th century. It is regularly open for tours in the summer, and otherwise by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark House is located in a residential area on Bowling Greens east side, on the north side of East Champ Clark Drive between Charles and Penn streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1888 by Ezra Kirkland, with ells projecting north off the northeast and northwest corners. A porch wraps around the front and sides, its flat roof supported by turned columns and jigsawn brackets, with a spindled valance between the posts. The interior has been restored to an appearance consistent with the time of Clarks occupancy.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 1898 by James Beauchamp Clark, several years after he had been elected to the United States Congress. Rising in the Democratic Party, Clark became first the minority leader of the House of Representatives (1908), and Speaker of the House in 1911, when the Democrats gained control of the body. He was a leading contender for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1912 but did not get it. Clark served as Speaker of the House until 1919. The next year, he was voted out of office in a Republican landslide in 1920.</p><br>
<p>After Clark&#39;s ownership, the house was converted into multiple residences. In the late 20th century, it was acquired by a local non-profit and restored as a museum.</p><br>
