<p>The Wayne County Courthouse is located in Wooster, Ohio and was constructed to Thomas Boyd&#39;s design from 1877 to 1879. The building is designed in classic Second Empire style and is composed of sandstone. The architect originally designed a symmetrical building separate from the old north annex of the previous courthouse. The reluctant county officials cited money issues and ordered the new building to be built connected to the old, thus giving it an offset appearance.</p><br>
<p>The entrances are flanked by the Atlantes supporting a pediment. The first floor consists of smooth stone blocks. The windows are high arched and set back into the wall, above each is a small arch with a decorative keystone.</p><br>
<p>The second and third floor is of a rougher, darker stone than the first. Doric and Corinthian columns flank the windows around the facade. The second floor windows are high arched and recessed. Here the buildings on either side of the tower differ, the northern half ending with a hipped roof, the southern half continuing on above.</p><br>
<p>The third floor of the southern end contains rectangular recessed windows, the roof resting on a decorative moulding above. On the southern side sits a broken pediment with a griffin peering out below. Resting on the pediment are two figures representing Justice, one holding the scales of justice, the other the Ten Commandments. The windows peeking out of the roof are round portholes.</p><br>
<p>A high tower sits, oddly enough, at the end of the roofing detail, but correctly in the middle of the court complex. It rests on a broken pediment containing an urn. The tower rises two levels to become a clock tower, and then curves in to brace a cupola with a weather vane capping it.</p><br>
<p>Weyanoke is a plantation farmstead in Charles City County, Virginia, United States. In 1619, the First Africans in Virginia arrived at the Weyanoke Peninsula. They created the first African community in North America. The Westover Plantation and related archaeological sites were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>On October 30, 1665, Joseph Harwood was granted 422 acres of land on the north side of the James River. This land was known as Weynoke. This tract passed from the Harwood family to the Lewis family when Agnes Harwood married Fielding Lewis. Developed for tobacco culture by slaves, the Weyanoke Plantation includes a formal Georgian style mansion built in the 1790s. The mansion is a two-story frame house sheathed with molded weatherboards and set on a brick foundation. It was built by Fielding Lewis who was named for his uncle Col. Fielding Lewis of Fredericksburg. Some 40 archaeological sites, associated with Native American, African American, and European American activities, have been identified in the 20th and 21st century as part of the historic property.</p><br>
<p>Weyanoke Plantation was passed through marriage to the Douthat family, whose descendants kept ownership through the American Civil War. In June 1864 the Union Army under General Grant crossed from Weyanoke Point to Flowerdew Hundred on the south bank of the James River on a hastily constructed pontoon bridge.</p><br>
<p>The original house was enlarged after 1938. Within the propertys boundaries are the archaeological remains of mans continuous occupation of the site, which spans 10,000 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1972 Weyanoke was acquired by Lawrence Lewis, Jr., a descendant of Fielding Lewis. Lewis, a businessman, philanthropist, benefactor of generations of conservative politicians, and founder of Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, was an heir to a fortune amassed in oil and railroad investments by Henry Morrison Flagler, who in 1870 founded Standard Oil Co. with John D. Rockefeller. Lewis&#39; fortune was estimated at $120 million in the July 1993 issue of Virginia Business magazine.</p><br>
<p>The Middleway Historic District comprises sixty major buildings from the late 18th century and early 19th century in Middleway, West Virginia. Middleway was a crossroads town on the Shepherdstown-Berryville road and the Charles Town turnpike. The town was established by John Smith, Sr. and Jr., along with son and brother Rees Smith, who had established grist and hemp mills by 1734 along Turkey Run. The town was not, however, officially established until 1798. The town never followed up on its original growth, allowing the older stone, brick and log houses to be preserved.</p><br>
<p>Wright Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Groton Road near Lynwood Lane in Westford, Massachusetts. The cemetery was formally established in 1836 as a private cemetery for the locally numerous Wright family, although its earliest documented burial dates to 1819. Maintenance and operation of the cemetery was taken over by the town in 1909. The half-acre plot has approximately 150 marked grave sites, and remains in use. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Wright Cemetery is located in northwestern Westford, just north of the junction of Lynwood Lane and Groton Road (Massachusetts Route 40), a major artery through that part of the town. The cemetery occupies about 0.5 acre of a larger 4.5 acre parcel, the rest of which is wooded. The cemetery is roughly rectangular, with a capstoned fieldstone wall along the road, and a fence of granite posts and wooden rails on the other three sides. A wooden gate in the wall provides the primary access to the grounds, along with a few pedestrian entrances.</p><br>
<p>Family plots are generally demarcated by granite curbing of various heights. The Albion Wright family plot is the most prominent of these, with curbs 2 ft in height, with pyramidal piers at the corners, and granite steps to access the plot. The most common early markers are slate, with a shoulder-arch form at the top. Eighteen of these markers appear, with dates from 1819 to 1854. Later in the 19th century marble markers became more common, with granite predominating in 20th century markers. The largest grave marker is a granite obelisk 10 ft in height; it is for Joel Wright (1782–1834)</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was formally authorized by the town as a private cemetery for the Wright family in 1837, but there are eight markers that predate this formality, including members of the Wright and Wight families. One burial, that of Lieutenant Nahum Wight, is confirmed to be of an American Revolutionary War veteran; there are also several graves of War of 1812 veterans.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church at 131 W. Emerson Street in Melrose, Massachusetts. The main church building was constructed in 1886 to a design by Boston architect Charles Brigham. It is connected to its parish house, built in 1936 with a significant addition in 1956. The main building is English Revival  in styling. Its walls are made of multiple colors of granite, and are topped by a steeply pitched slate roof. There is a large projecting gable section on the southern facade, which, along with the tower in the southeastern corner, has the half-timber styling typical of the Tudor Revival. The eastern facade has a projecting curved section, which houses the apse on the interior; it is from this section that the church is connected to the parish house via the somewhat utilitarian 1956 addition. The parish house was designed in Shingle Style by Boston architect and parish member William H. Smith, although with sympathy to the Tudor styling of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Shirley Shaker Village is a historic former Shaker community in Lancaster and Shirley, Massachusetts. Defined as an historic district, it includes about half of the original buildings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Shirley Shaker Village began in 1793. Hundreds of acres of land was donated by John Warren, Elijah and Ivory Wildes, and Nathan Willard near their properties. At its peak there were 26 buildings; Now there are 13. Within the community there were the North, South and Church families. By 1853 there were 150 believers, or members, and the community continued into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were first made of clapboard and painted yellow and white. After the 1840s and the founding of a brick factory nearby, new buildings were constructed of brick. The brick administration building was styled similarly to one at the Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire. The interiors of the buildings were described by William Dean Howells in 1875 as</p><br>
<p>"the unpapered walls, the scrubbed floors hidden only by rugs and strips of carpeting, and the plain flat finish of the wood-work. Each chamber accommodates two brothers or sisters, and is appointed with two beds, two rocking chairs, two wash stands, and a wood stove with abundance of rugs. There were few tokens of personal taste in the arrangements of the rooms."</p><br>
<p>The Shakers earned income by producing and selling jellies, applesauce, herbs, mops and brooms. When the community dwindled and they were no longer able to be self-supporting, in 1908 "believers" moved to the Hancock Shaker Village.</p><br>
<p>The state purchased the property in 1909 and adapted it for use as an "industrial school" for troubled and delinquent boys. Extensive changes were made to the property, resulting in the movement, alteration, and demolition of buildings.</p><br>
<p>In 1971 the school was closed. New construction was done on site and the total facility was converted into the Massachusetts Correctional Institution complex. A historic district, encompassing the Shaker-related resources on more than 700 acre of land in Shirley and Lancaster, was defined and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The Shirley Historical Society arranges periodic tours of the former Shirley Shaker Village.</p><br>
<p>Several other Shaker village sites operate today as museums. A similar community was founded in nearby Harvard. The meetinghouse of Shirley Shaker Village was moved in 1962 to Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield to replace an identical one which burned and then was razed in 1938.</p><br>
<p>Today, only one "society" remains in the control of the last Shakers, located at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine.</p><br>
<p>The Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank  is a historic cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts, US. It occupies a roughly rectangular parcel of land 3.3 acre in size, bounded by Medford Street on the north, Green Street on the east, Converse Avenue on the south and the Saugus Branch Railroad  on the west. It is the oldest cemetery in the city, established in 1649. Its earliest probable burial dates to that same year, although the oldest gravestone, that of Alice Brackenbury, bears the date 1670. The Malden Public Library, in its local history collection, has a multi-volume set of binders that contain alphabetically ordered photographs of every grave in the cemetery with the epitaphs on each gravestone transcribed below its picture.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>It is the final resting place of Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705), a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem, "The Day of Doom", was very popular in early New England and remained so for over a century.</p><br>
<p>Hillside Cemetery, also known as the North Burying Ground, is a historic cemetery on Depot and Nutting Roads in Westford, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1753, and is the burial site of a number of people important in local history. It contains approximately 300 burials, and continues in active use. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hillside Cemetery is a rectangular parcel about 1 acre in size, set at the northwest corner of Nutting Road and Depot Street in central northern Westford. Raised above the streets, its street-facing sides are lined with granite retaining walls topped by split capstones, with dry-laid fieldstone walls around the other two sides. A paved drive skirts around the northern and western sides, joining the two principal entrances; pedestrian access is also possible via stairs in the south wall. The cemetery is laid out in a typical colonial-period rectilinear form. Some family plots are bounded by granite curbing, varying in height. There are about 300 burials, the earliest labeled grave dating to 1761.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1753 with a gift to the town of its land by Ebenezer and Thomas Wright (the latter of whom is interred here). The oldest dated grave is that of Jacob and Abigail Wright, a married couple both of whom died in 1761. The earliest markers are typically slate, while granite and marble appear in the markers and memorials of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are several obelisks (including one with a triangular cross-section), all placed in the second half of the 19th century. There are two zinc burial markers, both manufactured by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut for members of the Keyes family.</p><br>
<p>The United Church of Christ, Congregational is a historic Congregational church in Burlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1732, it is one of the oldest religious structures in Massachusetts, and one of a small number of pre-19th century church buildings. It was redesigned in 1846 to bring it into the then-popular Greek Revival style, extending it in length and adding a somewhat Gothic-looking steeple. In 1888, when the Colonial Revival was becoming popular, a number of these changes were in effect reversed, restoring a more Colonial-style steeple.</p><br>
<p>When built, the area that is now Burlington was still part of Woburn, and this church was the second, built to serve what is now Burlington. It was the site in 1775 of some critical meetings, both military and political, of Patriots in the American Revolutionary War. The church served as a parish of Massachusetts&#39; state funded church until the churches were disaffiliated from the state government in the early nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, Martha E. Sewall Curtis published, Ye olde meeting house: addresses and verses relating to the meeting house, Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, built 1732, and other historical addresses.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>The Old Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on King Street near the junction with White Street in Littleton, Massachusetts. Established in 1721, it was the town&#39;s first formal burying ground, and the only one for about one hundred years. The cemetery has 340 grave markers, dating from 1721 to 1909, although documentary evidence exists for more burials. It is a long, narrow strip of land, in which the graves are arrayed in a roughly rectilinear fashion, with older graves near the front and newer ones in the back.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Shawsheen Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Great Road and Shawsheen Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The cemetery is Bedford&#39;s second, opened in 1849 as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The original ten acres, and a number of smaller additions between 1894 and 1959, were laid out in the rural cemetery style made fashionable in the 19th century. The total size of the cemetery is 44 acre, but not all of this has been developed.</p><br>
<p>The older sections of the cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Dorothy Carolin Bacon (1902–1998) — American economist and college professor</p><br>
<p>Ruth Elizabeth Bacon (1908–1985) — American foreign service officer</p><br>
<p>Alexandra Carlisle (1886–1936) — American actress</p><br>
<p>Charles H. Holbrow (1935–2023) — American physicist and college professor</p><br>
<p>Charles Wilson Killam (1871–1961) — American architect, engineer, and professor at Harvard University</p><br>
<p>Herman H. B. Meyer (1864–1937) — American librarian for the Library of Congress</p><br>
<p>The Russian Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Patten Road in Westford, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1918 by the Russian Brotherhood, a social organization that served as a focal point for Belorussian immigrants who had been recruited by agents for the Abbot Worsted Company to work in its Westford mills. These primarily Russian Orthodox Christians were not allowed to have burials in some of the town&#39;s other cemeteries, prompting the creation of this one, which is distinctive in the town as the only cemetery catering to a specific ethnic group. It has approximately 300 burials, with a significant number of early burials marked with gravestones bearing Cyrillic lettering. The cemetery remains open to members of the local Russian-American community.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church is a historic church building at 404 Broadway in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built in 1890–91 to a design by Hartwell and Richardson for a Congregationalist congregation founded in 1865, it is one of the city&#39;s only examples of Shingle style architecture, and one of its finer architect-designed buildings from the 19th century. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is now home to the Vida Real Church.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church stands near the summit of Winter Hill, at the southwest corner of Broadway and Central Street. It is a wood-frame structure, with a gable roof set perpendicular to Broadway. Its exterior is finished in a combination of stone on the ground floor, and shingles on the upper sections. The main gable has a slightly projecting peak section, above a grouping of three stained glass windows topped by transom-like fixed panes. Projecting forward from the gables left end is a circular two-story turret with a conical roof. Projecting left toward Central Street is a tall square tower, whose front houses the main entrance under a shed-roof portico. The tower is somewhat medieval in appearance, with small windows in its stone lower section. The stone section is topped by a wood-frame louvered belfry, the openings adorned by Stick style woodwork. The tower is capped by a pyramidal roof with flared modillioned eave.</p><br>
<p>Congregational church activity began in the Winter Hill area as a Sunday School in 1863, and was formally organized as a congregation two year later. The congregation split over doctrinal issues in 1881, with the Winter Hill Congregational Society building this structure in 1890–91, having used an older Carpenter Gothic church before then. It was designed by Hartwell and Richardson, and is one of only a few institutional Shingle style buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The city of Somerville opens the Cemetery for tours during the spring through early fall, and holds a special event called "Ghosts of Somerville" in concert with the annual Halloween Monster Mash event. Costumed guides accompany visitors through some of the historically relevant graves, which includes one of an unknown British soldier of the Revolutionary War era that was discovered and relocated during nearby street reconstruction.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War monument</h2><br>
<p>The American Civil War monument, erected in 1863, is reputed to be one of the first in the nation. Inscriptions around the base include text to honor the service of the SLI, or Somerville Light Infantry, as well as the names of soldiers fallen in the war. The monument was built under the supervision of a committee of the Somerville Light Infantry, and funded by donations. Names and regiments are engraved on the monument, but the list is incomplete. The lot in the cemetery was a gift of Enoch Robinson, and the monument was manufactured by Power & Hall, manufacturers of marble goods of Boston. That firm&#39;s junior partner, Charles E. Hall, was a Somerville resident. That same firm created a Civil War monument for Hampden, Maine the following year.</p><br>
<p>The Peter and Oliver Tufts House  is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built about 1714, it is one of the oldest houses in the citys Winter Hill neighborhood, and was owned in the 19th century by members of the Tufts family responsible for developing the citys brickyards. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tufts House is located on the west side of Sycamore Street, a residential street running north–south between Medford Street and Highland Avenue on the southwest side of Winter Hill. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged, with a center entrance sheltered by an Italianate hood with heavy brackets.</p><br>
<p>The oldest part of the house was built around 1714. The house "was originally built on Barberry Lane (Highland Ave.)" From 1775 to 1776, the house served as headquarters for General Charles Lee of the Continental Army during the siege of Boston.</p><br>
<p>Peter Tufts eventually acquired a large parcel of farmland on the south side of Winter Hill. What is now Sycamore Street was originally the drive leading to the house. Peter and Oliver Tufts were, in addition to the farm, involved in establishing some brickyards that were an important business in Somerville in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church is a historic Universalist Church building at 125 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Romanesque church building was built between 1916 and 1923 to a design by Ralph Adams Cram, and is the only example of his work in Somerville. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is currently owned by the Highland Masonic Building Association, and is the home of King Solomon&#39;s Lodge AF & AM, the builders of the Bunker Hill Monument.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church is located on the north side of Highland Avenue, opposite Trull Lane and the First Unitarian Church. It has a roughly cruciform shape, with a long body oriented parallel to the street, with a square tower projecting at the right end of the front and a gabled projection at the left end. The exterior is primarily plain stucco, with trim details in brick and terra cotta. The front facade has round-arch windows in pairs, framed by brick trim with a white pilaster in between. These window bays are set apart by buttresses with brick caps. The main entrance is set recessed in a round-arch opening at the base of the tower. The tower has four stages, demarcated by string courses of terra cotta. The lower stages have round-arch windows in similar style to the body, and the top stage has an open belfry with similar round-arch openings. It is capped by a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The congregation acquired this site in 1915, and the church was built from 1916 to 1923 to a design by the noted ecclesiastical architect Ralph Adams Cram, who produced a somewhat more Romanesque plan than the typical Gothical Revival work he is best known for. It was the last of several churches to be built along the stretch of Highland Avenue northwest of Somerville&#39;s civic area.</p><br>
<h2>Former buildings</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1854 as the First Universalist Society of Somerville. That same year local businessman and philanthropist Charles Tufts donated to the new society a lot in East Somerville, at what is now Cross and Tufts Streets, two years after his larger land donation to what is now Tufts University. Money was raised for a chapel, and this building was completed in 1855. It was replaced by a larger building constructed in 1859-60. This in turn was destroyed in a fire in January 1868.</p><br>
<p>The congregation rebuilt the church, this time in brick, in 1869. They remained there until 1915. After the move, the former building was remodeled into a theatre, the Orpheum, by Nathan Hoffman. After the theatre closed in the 1950s, the building was used for warehouse purposes for many years. In 2001 the former church was renovated into a residential development now known as the Sanctuary Lofts.</p><br>
<p>The former First Unitarian Church is a historic church building at 130 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The stone church was built in 1894 for a Unitarian congregation. It was designed by Hartwell & Richardson and is a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque design. The building presently  houses the Mission Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The congregation that built this church was established in 1844 and built its first church in Central Hill Park in the same year. The new building was designed by architect Richard Bond of Boston and built by Louis C. Edgerly of Somerville. It was completed in 1845 and in 1846 the congregation called its first pastor, John Turner Sargent, an associate and defender of Theodore Parker, the transcendentalist. The building was destroyed by fire in 1852 and replaced in 1853-54 with a new church designed by architect Thomas W. Silloway, which burned in 1867. The third and last church in Central Hill Park was completed in 1869. In 1893 the City purchased the building as part of the site for the new Somerville High School, which was begun the same year. The fourth church, a block up Highland Avenue, was begun in 1894 to a design by Hartwell & Richardson, who also designed the new high school and the Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church. They designed the building in the then-popular Richardsonian Romanesque style, named for Henry Hobson Richardson, who was not related to the architect of the Somerville church. A Gothic Revival design was also proposed by Cram, Wentworth & Goodhue but was rejected. The new church was completed in 1895, after which the old building was demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 1930 the Second Unitarian Church of Somerville, organized in 1891, merged with the First Unitarian Church. In 1975 the congregation was dissolved and in 1976 the building was purchased by the Mission Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, an Apostolic Pentacostalist church, which continues to occupy it in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The First Unitarian Church building is located on the south side of Highland Avenue, at its western corner with Trull Lane, about one block west of Somerville&#39;s cluster of civic buildings on Central Hill. The church is a handsome stone structure, with a tall and steeply pitched gable roof, and a square tower at its right front corner. Entrances are located on the north-facing front facade at either end of the gable, which has a bank of five rectangular stained-glass windows below three tall round-arch stained glass windows in the gable. The tower rises through two levels to a belfry which has tripled round-arch louvered openings on each side, with a fourth stage housing a multi-faced clock with stone piers at the corners rising to pyramidal caps. The tower is capped by a slate pyramidal roof. The building is a fine local example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style for which its architects were well known.</p><br>
<h3>Stained glass</h3><br>
<p>The church features extensive stained glass, including several memorial windows. The largest of these, in the center of the Highland Avenue facade, depicts Christ healing the sick and was dedicated in memory of Columbus Tyler (1805-1881) and Mary Elizabeth (Sawyer) Tyler (1806-1889), long-time supporters of the church. This is flanked by windows representing the Angel of Charity and the Angel of Faith, dedicated to Rufus B. Stickney and Nathan and Sally Tufts, respectively.</p><br>
<p>The A. L. Lovejoy House is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. The three-story wood-frame Second Empire house was built in the early 1870s for Alvan Lovejoy, a Boston "fancy goods" dealer who probably commuted using either the street car or steam rail that served Union Square. The house has a typical Second Empire mansard roof clad in polychrome slate. Windows are decorated with hoods, and there are decorative brackets on the front entry porch, the roof cornice, and the roof of the projecting front bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Central Library is the main branch of the Somerville, Massachusetts, public library system. It is an architecturally distinguished Renaissance Revival brick building designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton and was built in 1914 with funding assistance from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Services</h2><br>
<p>The library is a member of the Minuteman Library Network and has a lending collection of books, CDs, and video media. It also provides access to a number of online databases, either in-branch or through the Internet, to city residents. It runs a variety of programs for adults, children, and immigrants, and has a conference room and other facilities available for community use.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Somervilles Central Library is located at the eastern end of Central Hill, a cluster of civic buildings that includes the citys high school and City Hall. It is located at the northwest corner of Highland Avenue and Walnut Street, on a parcel that first contained the city&#39;s first fire station. Noted library architect Edward Lippincott Tilton designed the two story Renaissance Revival building, which was completed in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The city&#39;s first library, also a Romanesque structure, was built on the west side of Central Hill, near City Hill, and was designed by George F. Loring. The present building was funded in part by a grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.</p><br>
<p>The Albree-Hall-Lawrence House is a historic house located at 353 Lawrence Road in Medford, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 2.5-story wood-frame house has a somewhat complex construction history, which may date to the early years of the 18th century. Its foundations give evidence of at least three periods of construction prior to 1850, and it is known that a house was standing at this one&#39;s approximate site in 1720, when John Albree purchased the farm and house. In the early decades of the 19th century the house was owned by Peter Chardon Brooks, who gave it his sister and son-in-law, Joanna Brooks Hall and Nathaniel Hall. During the 1830s, Francis Parkman, then a child, lived in this house for several years. The farm was later purchased by Samuel C. Lawrence, the first mayor of Medford, and incorporated into his estate.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford and The Osgood House are a historic Unitarian Universalist church building and parsonage house at 141 and 147 High Street in Medford, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1690 as a Puritan parish church that was an official branch of the Massachusetts state church. In 1696 the first meeting house was constructed. In the early 1820s the congregation split and was restructured with the orthodox Trinitarian members leaving to form a separate congregation. The current and fifth building of the congregation was constructed in 1894 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. William Ellery Channing gave his first sermon at 1st Parish Medford, on August 8, 1802 "Silver and gold have I none, but such I give to you." The Rev. Thomas Starr King did his student ministry under Hosea Ballou II at 1st Universalist before Ballou moved to become the first president of Tufts College in 1852.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church and the Hillside Universalist consolidated with the First Parish Church (Unitarian) in 1961 to form The Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford (or UU Medford) a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and has been a Welcoming Congregation since 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church, built in 1893-94, is one of Medford&#39;s finest examples of Late Gothic Revival architecture. It was designed by J. Merrill Brown, a Boston architect who had worked in the practices of H.H. Richardson and Peabody and Stearns. The builders were the Dodge Brothers, a regionally prominent building firm specializing in religious buildings. The former parsonage, now housing other church facilities, was built in 1785 for the Reverend David Osgood, and is a fine example of Federal period architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Famous members</h2><br>
<p>George Luther Stearns</p><br>
<p>Lydia Maria Child</p><br>
<p>Fannie Farmer</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Pierpont</p><br>
<p>James Pierpont</p><br>
<p>Robert D. Richardson</p><br>
<p>Samuel C. Lawrence</p><br>
<p>Gov. John Brooks</p><br>
<p>Rev. Hosea Ballou II</p><br>
<p>Rev. Clarence Skinner</p><br>
<h2>List of ministers</h2><br>
<p>The Ace Art Company is a historic commercial and industrial building in Reading, Massachusetts. Built in 1924, the single-story brick building is the only Art Deco building in Reading. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ace Art Company building is set on the south side of Gould Street, a relatively short street on the southwest side of Reading&#39;s central business district. It is a single-story brick structure with a flat roof, and restrained Art Deco styling. Its main facade is divided into three bays by brick buttresses, which have concrete caps with ceramic tile detailing. A stepped parapet rises above the central bay, where the main entrance is located. The brick surrounding the entrance is larger and of more varied color than that used in the buttresses. The outer bays each have two windows separated by brick piers fashioned of bricks smaller than those of the buttresses, with concrete sill set on several courses of the larger bricks of the central section.</p><br>
<p>The Ace Art Company manufactured mounting corners for photographs, using patented technology to produce them in large numbers. This building was built for the company in 1924. The building was enlarged to the rear in 1931, 1941, and 1966; the main entrance was redesigned with the last addition.</p><br>
<p>The Parker Tavern is a historic house museum in Reading, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1694, it is the oldest extant structure in Reading. The saltbox was built by Abraham Bryant, a farmer and blacksmith, and Ephraim Parker operated a tavern on the premises in the 18th century. It has been a local history museum since 1923, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parker Tavern is located on the south side of Washington Street, west of Main Street and a short way south of the Reading MBTA station. It is set near the back of a level, grassy lot, and faces west. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, wooden-shingle siding, and a granite foundation. The front facade is four bays wide, with two windows to the left of the entrance and one to the right. The door and window surrounds are plain. The building has an integral leanto at the rear, giving it a classic New England saltbox appearance.</p><br>
<p>In 1693 Abraham Bryant, a blacksmith, acquired the land on which the house stands, and was taxed a substantially larger amount the following year, suggesting the house was built by 1694. His heirs remained in the house until the 1730s, after which it was owned by Ebenezer Nichols, a tanner prominent in the civic affairs of the town. Ephraim Parker, the great-grandson of Thomas Parker, who was one of the founders of Reading, was the next owner, living here until his death in 1804. Parker was licensed to operate a tavern on the premises between 1770 and 1785. He served in the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolutionary War, and hosted as a prisoner of war Colonel Archibald Campbell, whose regiment had been captured aboard ship in Boston Harbor in 1776. Campbell remained at the tavern until 1778, when he was exchanged for Ethan Allen.</p><br>
<p>For most of the 19th century the house was owned by the Sweetser family. It was acquired by the town in 1916, and sold to the Reading Antiquarian Society in 1923 for a nominal sum. The society has since operated the property as a historic house museum, generally open on Sundays from 2 to 5 pm between May and October.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson County Courthouse is a historic building in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA. The building is historically notable as the site of two trials for treason: that of John Brown in 1859 , and those of unionizing coal miners from Mingo County, West Virginia , a consequence of the Battle of Blair Mountain, whose trials were moved from the southern part of the state in 1922 as a result of a change of venue. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2023 for its role in the mining wars.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is a red brick building in the Georgian style with a prominent Doric pedimented porch. It has an unusual clock tower with a square dome that resembles Second Empire structures. The courthouse is set on a high stone foundation, facing onto a small yard enclosed by a metal fence. The porch has four Doric columns, with small copies of the portico&#39;s pediment over the main floor windows and front door, and a projecting central iron balcony on the upper level. The first Mullett addition largely matches the main building, while the second addition features significant stone trim detailing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first courthouse on the site was built in 1803 on a lot donated by Charles Washington, but was destroyed in a fire. Its replacement, the core of the present courthouse, was built in 1836–37 with its present Doric pedimented porch. During the American Civil War the courthouse was heavily damaged by cannon fire and was salvaged for metal. From 1865 to 1872 the courthouse was vacant, and court was held in Shepherdstown at McMurran Hall. In 1871–72 the building was reconstructed to a design by Phillips and Cockrill, keeping the façade, but little else. A disproportionately large cupola was added for the town clock on top of the porch at this time. In 1910 Alfred B. Mullett designed an extension to the rear, with a later Georgian Revival addition comprising a jail and sheriff&#39;s offices.</p><br>
<p>Two famous trials have taken place in the courthouse. The first was Virginia v. John Brown, John Browns 1859 trial for treason against Virginia, fomenting a slave insurrection, and murder. Browns captured associates, facing the same charges, were tried at the same time. All were found guilty and executed. The second was the trial of coal miners from Mingo County who had fought in the Battle of Blair Mountain, whose trial had changed venue to Jefferson County. The trials eventually moved to Morgan County, and then Greenbrier County.</p><br>
<p>A former plaque at the entrance to the courthouse "in honor and memory of the Confederate soldiers of Jefferson County", placed in 1986 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, was removed in 2018, as part of the wave of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials that followed Dylann Roof&#39;s massacre.</p><br>
<p>The Harpers Ferry Historic District comprises about one hundred historic structures in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The historic district includes the portions of the central town not included in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, including large numbers of early 19th-century houses built by the United States Government for the workers at the Harpers Ferry Armory. Significant buildings and sites include the site of the Armory, the U.S Armory Potomac Canal, the Harpers Ferry Train Station, and Shenandoah Street, Potomac Street, and High or Washington Street. The National Historic Park essentially comprises the lower, flood-prone areas of the town, while the Historic District comprises the upper town.</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century a number of Victorian and Federalist-style houses were built on the high ground and received guests who included Mark Twain, Alexander Graham Bell and Woodrow Wilson. "Stonewall" Jackson also made the town his base of command during part of the Civil War and Thomas Jefferson said of the ferry area that: "The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature."</p><br>
<p>The historic district preserves what is essentially an intact 19th-century town that occupied a pivotal role in the American Civil War, and later as a transportation center. Thousands of tourists visit the town every year, however, parking in town is scarce. In order to better manage traffic in the small streets and enhance the feel of this historic town visitors are asked to park at the nearby Visitors Center and take the Park Service bus into the town itself. Taking the bus gives visitors a view of the traditional infrastructure that made Harpers Ferry so important prior to the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>A commuter train line stops at Harpers Ferry&#39;s historic train station and links the town with Washington, D.C., with many intermediate stops.</p><br>
<p>The town was severely damaged during the Civil War, and the Armory, the only large employer, was destroyed; the only surviving building is the fire engine house, called John Browns Fort, which is not at its original location (it traveled to Chicago and back). In addition, there was repetitive flooding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. in the inadvertent preservation of much of the original town fabric. Two National Register properties adjoin the Harpers Ferry Historic District—the B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing and St. Peters Roman Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The Carroll County Courthouse is located in Carrollton, Ohio, and is the second for the county. It was designed by architect Frank Weary in the Second Empire style. The courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 1974-10-22.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carroll County was established in 1833 and carved from Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Stark and Tuscarawas counties. The first courthouse was built in Carrollton in 1834 and was a simple two-story brick building with a cupola topping off the structure. The first courthouse was designed by Peter Herold and James McMullin was contracted as the builder. When McMullin failed to meet expectations and the contract was awarded to John Lacey who also failed to honor his contract. The county wished to finish the construction and in desperation placed the contract with John Rankin. Unfortunately for the county, Rankin too failed to meet the obligations of the contract and George Hampson was selected instead. Hampson remained at this post and saw the courthouse into completion in 1837.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was determined to be too small and a new courthouse was selected from the architect Frank Weary. The design submitted was in the Second Empire style popular for courthouses.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1884–1885, it consists of rough sandstone blocks. The main entrance is reached by stairs and a small portico, with Corinthian columns supporting the balcony above. The first and second floors once were large rectangular panel windows, but have shrunk to conserve power and energy. The third floor windows were once large arched windows but they too have been shrunk.</p><br>
<p>A projecting cornice rises over the roof above the entrance with the name "Carroll" inscribed in white and the year "1885" above it. a large fanlight rests below the nameplate and allows more light to infiltrate the building. On the other sides a gable rises with bracing from projecting Tudor style chimneys. A mansard roof rises to a central tower supporting a dome and four cardinal point clock faces. A small spire rises from the top. A statue of Justice once adorned this point but was taken down during renovations.</p><br>
<p>Writing shortly after the courthouse was completed, Henry Howe noted: "...costing with jail in the rear about $150,000. It is built mainly from Navarre sandstone, with some from Berea. It is just to the left of the old courthouse shown in the old view. The old courthouse was sold on the 11th of June for $196 and the bell for $138."</p><br>
<p>A two-story rear wing was added in 1976 to provide more room for the county jail and an annex for the county officials.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The interior hosts smooth mosaic tiled floors, recently lowered ceilings and ornate steel staircases. The interior hosts four levels, one of which is underground. A renovation updated many features in the courthouse, such as wiring, heating and cooling and several decorative pieces.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is connected to the county jail and court annex located in the back of the complex. The annex was built in 1976 and is a simple red brick structure with no adornment and large rectangular windows. A solid balustrade runs along the building and hides the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel McCook House is a historic antebellum house in Carrollton, Ohio, that was home to several of the "Fighting McCooks" who rose to fame during the American Civil War. The patriarch, Daniel McCook Sr., was a major in the Union Army as well as a paymaster, and his sons rose to military prominence during the war.</p><br>
<p>The building is on the southwest corner of the Carrollton Public Square. Built in 1837, it is a perfect example of the popular Federal architecture. Its central door is framed by white side windows and a fan window above. A light sandstone arch surmounts the frame. The hipped roof is framed on both sides by two large chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The building became a National Historic Place in 1970, and is now a historic house museum operated by the Carroll County Historical Society. The house is owned by the Ohio History Connection. There are several period rooms and exhibits about the McCook family and the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Chardon Courthouse Square District is located in Chardon, Ohio, and contains the Geauga County Courthouse as well as the several buildings serving as the courthouse annexes. The district was added to the National Register on 1974-10-18.</p><br>
<p>The Chardon Courthouses Square District is a group of late 19th century buildings, most in a High Victorian Italianate Style. The district covers the public green, the county courthouse and two blocks of commercial buildings on the west side of the public green. The green is divided into a north unit and a south unit with the Geauga County Courthouse in the north unit.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church building on United States Route 7 in Lanesborough, Massachusetts. It is an early example of a stone Gothic Revival church, and only one of two surviving 19th century Gothic Revival church buildings in Berkshire County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, it is currently used as a bed and breakfast and event space.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Lukes is located on the west side of North Main Street (US 7), north of the present village center of Lanesborough. The area where it stands was historically the towns center. The church is a single-story masonry structure, built out of coursed rubble stone. It has a gable roof, with a square tower projecting at the center of the front (east-facing) facade. The base section of the tower is also stone, to a point above the roof ridge, after which it is wooden. The stone section has a surrounding balustrade with wooden spires at the corners, and the wooden stage houses a belfry with paired rectangular openings on each side, topped by lancet-arch panels. The wooden section is also surmounted by a balustrade and wooden spires. The main entrance is at the base of the tower, recessed in a marble lancet-arch opening. Windows are generally lancet-arched, with a quatrefoil window set high on front facade of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The St. Luke&#39;s Episcopalian congregation was established in 1767, and is the oldest Episcopal parish in western Massachusetts. The present church was built in 1836 on land given to the parish in 1785, and is one of two surviving Gothic Revival churches (of four built) in Berkshire County. Its tower was struck by lightning in 1856, and its bell dates to 1891. The eight wooden finial spires were replaced in 1981. At the time of its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, it retained virtually all of its interior 19th century fixtures, but had not been used as a church in some time, the congregation having relocated to a Shingle-style wood-frame church built in the town center in 1898.</p><br>
<p>The Church Green is a town common in Taunton, Massachusetts. It is a triangular-shaped parcel of land located at the intersection of Summer Street  and Dean Street . It has distinctive Veterans Memorials dedicated to both Vietnam Veterans and Global War on Terrorism Veterans. These memorials feature seven flags that are in a V shape, a fountain, a brick garden, reflection benches, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Global War on Terrorism Memorial.</p><br>
<p>The green was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, as part of a district which includes the First Parish Church, the Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton City Hall, and several other historic homes and commercial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Church Green National Historic District overlaps the local Taunton Historic District, administered by the Taunton Historic District Commission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally known as Meetinghouse Common, Church Green is the site of Taunton&#39;s first town center, and the location of its first meetinghouse (ca. 1647), used for both religious and governmental purposes.</p><br>
<p>On November 13, 2011, The City of Taunton, MA raised seven new flag poles. The flags form a V on the point of Church Green, with the American Flag in the center, each flag pole has the distinctive flag for each branch of the United States Military. The flags were raised as phase 1 of the Taunton Global War on Terrorism Memorial. On June 10, 2012, The City of Taunton dedicated the Taunton Global War on Terrorism Memorial on Church Green.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<p>Non-residential</p><br>
<p>First Parish Church (1830)</p><br>
<p>Taunton City Hall (1848 & 1896)</p><br>
<p>Morton Block (c.1840)</p><br>
<p>Old Colony Historical Society/Bristol Academy (1852)</p><br>
<p>Leonard Block (1870, demolished 2014)</p><br>
<p>Winthrop Club (c.1900)</p><br>
<p>Robert Treat Paine Statue (1904)</p><br>
<p>Vietnam Memorial Fountain (1968)</p><br>
<p>Global War on Terrorism Memorial (2012)</p><br>
<p>Residential</p><br>
<p>Anselm Bassett House (1825)</p><br>
<p>Carleton Brabrook House (c.1873)</p><br>
<p>George Crocker House (1858)</p><br>
<p>Barney Deane House (c.1829)</p><br>
<p>Charles Foster House (c.1845)</p><br>
<p>Charles T. Hubbard House (1884)</p><br>
<p>Charles T. Newbury House (1905)</p><br>
<p>Maurice Mason House (c.1902)</p><br>
<p>Abner Pitts House (1836)</p><br>
<p>Frank Smeardon House (1919)</p><br>
<p>Richard Warner House (1919)</p><br>
<p>Alfred B. Williams House (1899)</p><br>
<p>Non-contributing property</p><br>
<p>31 Church Green (1970), modern apartment building</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church building at 30 Park Street in Methuen, Massachusetts. Built in 1869 for a congregation established in 1815, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Carpenter Gothic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church stands a short way south of Methuens central business district, at the northeast corner of Park Road and Lawrence Street. It is a tall 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof oriented facing Lawrence Street. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, and the roof has deep eaves adorned with jigsawn brackets. A square tower rises from the left side, through three stages to a roof and open belfry. The roof sections below the belfry have small steeply pitched triangular dormers, and the belfry openings are in the shape of Gothic arches, matching that of most of the buildings windows. On the main facade, a central entry section projects, with a double-leaf entry set in a pointed-arch opening, with a three-part Gothic-arched window above.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church was formed on March 1, 1815 with thirteen members and services were held in the Daniel Frye house and in an old meeting house which was enlarged twice. In 1840 they built a church on this site which burned in 1869. The present church was built in 1869 and dedicated in January 1870. The architect was Rufus Sargent of Newburyport. The bell, which was cast in Baltimore and weighed 1600 lb was installed in 1878. The steeple was removed in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The First Religious Society Church and Parish Hall is a historic church building at 26 Pleasant Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Originally a Reformed congregation, the congregation is currently affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist denomination. The current Minister is Reverend Rebecca M. Bryan. The church&#39;s steeple is currently the tallest point in downtown Newburyport, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The church building was constructed in 1801 by the First Religious Society, which was founded in 1725. The designer is unknown, but the names of Samuel McIntire of Salem and Timothy Palmer of Newburyport have been suggested. Like so many churches in the United States, the design of the church was based on the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.</p><br>
<p>A stylistically complementary parish hall was added to the east side of the church in 1873. The space is utilized as a center for social and educational activities.</p><br>
<p>Barbara Owen served the congregation as organist from 1963 until 2002.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in the Newburyport Historic District in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The First Unitarian Church is a historic church in Peabody, Massachusetts. The wood-frame church was built in 1826, when the area was known as South Danvers. The front facade has a projecting rounded entrance hall decorated with pilasters and a heavily bracketed cornice. The main part of the facade also has pilasters rising to a pedimented gable that has large-scale dentil molding. The side walls have six lancet-style windows. The tower, which lacks a steeple, has quoined corners, and molding on the cornice of its roofline that matches that of the main roof.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It has been converted to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Society of Salem is a historic Universalist former church building at 211 Bridge Street in Salem, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1805 after seven local people with an interest in Universalism attended a lecture by Rev. John Murray, a founder of Universalism. The current church building was constructed in 1808 with Rev. Hosea Ballou, a founder of the Universalist Church, laying the cornerstone of the Federal style building. Inside the building, the Hutchings organ was constructed in 1888 with 1,200 pipes. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The church closed in 2016, merging with First Parish, UU, in Beverly, MA.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Foster House is a historic house in a rural area of Topsfield, Massachusetts. It is a rare instance of a First Period house  in which its original footprint is still readily discernible, and has not been obscured by subsequent modifications. The only immediately overt exterior indication of the house&#39;s great age is the steep pitch of its roof. It is a -story wooden house framed with massive oak timbers. It is a "single cell" house, only three asymmetrically placed window bays wide and one room deep, with a chimney on the left side. Its exterior was complete restyled in a 19th-century vernacular style.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephen&#39;s Memorial Episcopal Church is parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Lynn, Massachusetts founded in 1844. It is noted for its historic church at 74 South Common Street.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1881, the church is of a Romanesque Revival design by Ware & Van Brunt. It was built as a memorial to the children of Enoch Reddington Mudge of Swampscott, member of a leading Lynn family. It was built of granite quarried from Mudge&#39;s Swampscott estate, and trimmed with red brick and stone. The interior is richly decorated, with parquet and mosaic floors, carved timber ends, and a number of stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Stephen&#39;s Memorial Church on September 7, 1979,</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building at Common and Jackson Streets in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The site on which it as built has been used for religious facilities since 1846, around the time of Lawrence&#39;s founding. This simple Gothic Revival stone structure was built in 1852, replacing an earlier wooden chapel, and was enlarged in 1892. The church is also notable for its association with the Lawrence family: William Lawrence, grandson of founder Abbott Lawrence, became its minister in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Huron County Courthouse and Jail is located by a busy downtown intersection in Norwalk, Ohio, United States. The ground floor is composed of rusticated blocks and recessed arched windows. The entrance is reached by a flight of stairs and a protruding portico. Two small windows frame either side of the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The countys first courthouse and jail were completed in 1819, occupying the site of the present buildings; two later courthouses and one later jail were constructed on the same site before giving way to its present occupants. Both buildings are masonry, the courthouse being a stone Neo-Renaissance structure, and the sheriffs-residence-and-jail being a brick Queen Anne building. A central tower distinguishes the courthouse from the surrounding commercial district, while smaller architectural features include columns in the form known as distyle in antis. Typical of its style, the jail lacks a uniform shape, its roof reflecting the asymmetrical floor plan. Pilasters divide the facade of the courthouse into five bays, and the side into ten, while a prominent belt course divides the first and second stories. A large clock is set into the tower, with a pillared cupola set above. Behind the courthouse, the jail is distinguished by the steep conical roof covering its two-story tower; while the base of the roof sits at the same level as the middle of the courthouse&#39;s second-story windows, the conical roof rises well above the courthouse roof.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the courthouse and jail were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, one of six National Register-listed locations in the city of Norwalk and one of seventeen countywide.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Charles Town Historic District comprises the commercial center of Charles Town, West Virginia. The district centers on Washington Street and includes the Jefferson County Courthouse and the New Opera House, themselves on the National Register of Historic Places. Other structures include the Market House, the Independent Fire Company building and the Post Office. A few very early buildings are included, such as the Sheetz House, dating to 1797.</p><br>
<p>The town is significant as the scene of the trial of John Brown and as a contested town during the American Civil War. Charles Town is closely associated with the Washington family, as it was laid out by George Washington&#39;s brother Charles Washington.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, there was fighting in the town itself on several occasions. In 1864, General Philip Sheridan used the Rutherford House at 417 East Washington Street as a headquarters for the Valley Campaign, meeting General Ulysses S. Grant there.</p><br>
<p>Our Lady of Good Voyage Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 136-144 Prospect Street and 2-4 Taylor Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The first church on the site was built in 1892 to serve a large Portuguese immigrant population that came to Gloucester to work in the fishery. That church burned in 1914, and this Spanish Revival building, designed to resemble the Santa Maria Madalena church in the Azorean community of Madalena on the island of Pico. The church also includes one of the oldest sets of full carillon bells in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas Orthodox Church and Rectory is a historic church at 64-66 Forrester Street in Salem, Massachusetts. The parish now is under Diocese of New England of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1908 for a congregation of immigrants from Galicia in Eastern Europe (now part of Western Ukraine and Poland) that had been established in 1901. The wood-frame building was designed by local architect William Devereaux Dennis. Its main facade is finished with flushboard siding, while the other elevations are sheathed in clapboards. The center of main facade is dominated by a tower that is initially square, but is topped by an octagonal belfry section and an onion dome with a cross-shaped spire. The facade is flanked by small square towers topped by onion domes. Behind the church stands a Colonial Revival rectory building that was built several years after the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Puritan House is a historic hotel building at 3 Washington Street and 2 Main Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was the first brick building to be built in the city. It was built in 1810 form James Tappan, a schoolteacher from New Hampshire who once had Daniel Webster as a student. Tappan operated Tappan&#39;s Hotel on the premises, and it served as a major social center for the community. Later owners also operated it as a hotel space, including one who gave it the name "Puritan House". It now houses other businesses.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was included in the Central Gloucester Historic District in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Peabody Institute Library is the public library serving Peabody, Massachusetts. It was established in 1852 by a bequest from philanthropist and Peabody native George Peabody, and now has its main facility at 82 Main Street, with the South Branch at 78 Lynn Street and West Branch at 603 Lowell Street. The main library is housed in a two-story brick building built in 1853 which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The library is claimed to be the oldest public library in the United States to operate continuously from the same location.</p><br>
<h2>Main Library</h2><br>
<p>In 1852 the Town of Danvers was celebrating its centennial and separation from the City of Salem. In the spring of 1852, the Danvers Centennial Committee wrote to George Peabody, who was living in London at the time, an invitation to come back to and celebrate with the Danvers residents. George Peabody&#39;s response that was sent on May 26, 1852, stated that he would be unable to attend the events.</p><br>
<p>Yet he made a donation of $20,000 for the creation of a library in Danvers. George Peabody made two stipulations, one that it be free to everyone and the second was that it have a lyceum.</p><br>
<p>At a Danvers Selectmen meeting that was held in June 1852 the town voted that the library be named the Peabody Institute after George Peabody. In order to ensure the future generations to know about George Peabodys donation the town voted to have the librarys name inscribed on the front of the building to remind everyone of the library&#39;s benefactor.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone was placed on August 20, 1853 by the Honorable Abbott Lawrence, who was a friend of George Peabody and served as the ambassador to England.</p><br>
<p>The main Peabody Institute Library is located in Peabody&#39;s downtown, on the north side of Main Street. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick and brownstone trim and set on a high granite foundation. The architect was Richard Bond who was a well known New England architect, and Franklin Merrill, who was from Danvers, and Russell & White of Salem were the contractors for the library. It is covered by a gabled roof, with extended eaves studded with Italianate brackets, and a round louvered opening at the center of the gable. The ground floor level has brownstone quoining, rising to a shallow cornice that extends across the facade even with the portico sheltering the main entrance. The entrance portico has Ionic columns supporting an entablature and balustrade. Flanking it are round-arch windows with bracketed brownstone sills and lintels. The second level has three taller windows with similar surrounds, with interior round-arch windows topped by circular pane. The Library was dedicated on September 29, 1854, and Rufus Choate was one of the speakers. The Library officially opened on October 18, 1854.</p><br>
<p>The buildings construction was funded by a gift of $200,000 from George Peabody, and it was formally dedicated in 1854. The first librarian was Fitch Poole, a noted writer and humorist of the period. Although Fitch Poole was the first librarian he resigned just before the librarys opening. Eugene B. Hinckley served last as the librarian when the library officially opened. Hinckley served as the librarian until May 1856 and Fitch Poole served as the librarian. Fitch Poole worked as the librarian until his death in 1873.</p><br>
<h3>Eben Dale Sutton Reference Room</h3><br>
<p>In 1866 George Peabody was visiting South Danvers and met with Eliza Sutton. At that meeting Eliza discussed making a donation of $20,000 to the library to build a reference room that would be named after her late son, Eben Dale Sutton, who had died in 1862 at the age of 14. George Peabody approved of the idea. Eliza Sutton sent a letter dated April 7, 1869 to the Peabody Institute Trustees stating her intention to donate $20,000 to build a reference room and a tower, and was to be named the Eben Dale Sutton Reference Room. In addition, the room was to hold "books of enduring value." The tower and reference room was completed in 1869. The architect was Gridley James Fox Bryant. The room was built by Messrs, Clark and Giddings, who were both form Peabody. The wood is black walnut and the room was made to look like the reading room at Oxford University. The red velvet and wood chairs and tables were purchased from H.A. Turner & Co. of Boston. The room officially opened on June 14, 1869.</p><br>
<p>Books were chosen with the assistance of Ezra Abbott the assistant librarian of Harvard University and had agreed to help the Trustees select the appropriate books. Both George Peabody and Eliza Sutton both donated books to the new reference room. Eliza Sutton donated the three volume set of John James Audubon&#39;s book Birds of America. Eliza also donated a bust of her husband Eben Sutton that was sculpted by Thomas Ball and given before her death in 1888; the bust sits in a corner of the Sutton Room. Shortly after the room opened two brass statuettes were used as gas burners, which were to represent Boston and New York.</p><br>
<p>The room its self has been renovated and changed over the years. The walls and woodwork and shelves were cleaned in 1911, and later on that same year the floor refinished. The floors and cleaning was done again in 1933, and the ceiling was replastered in 1953. The room was restored in 1976 from a bicentennial grant, and in 2003 the ceiling was restored to its original state.</p><br>
<p>Reference librarians were hired to oversee the room. Between 1869 and 1973 there were six librarians that oversaw the room. They were:</p><br>
<p>Mary J. Floyd, Librarian from 1869 to June 1881. (12-13 years)</p><br>
<p>Sarah E. Perkins, Librarian from March to October 1882.</p><br>
<p>Augusta F. Daniels, October 1882 to Jan. 25, 1908. (26 years)</p><br>
<p>Frances M. Carroll from Jan. 1908 to March 3, 1945. (37 years)</p><br>
<p>Louise H. Teague, from March 1945 to 1958. (13 years)</p><br>
<p>Dorothy Cooper, Librarian from 1958 to June 1973. (15 years)</p><br>
<p>When Dorothy Cooper retired in 1973 the Sutton Room was closed to the public, and would remain so until 2002 when Martha Holden, the director at the time, hired Nancy C. Barthelemy as the first archivist. Nancy Barthelemy served as the archivist until 2012. Erik Bauer would serve as the second archivist from January 2013 until September of 2020.</p><br>
<h3>George Peabody Lying in Repose</h3><br>
<p>On November 4, 1869 George Peabody died in London. He was briefly buried at Westminster Abbey until his will was found.</p><br>
<p>George Peabodys body would lie in repose at the Peabody Institute for a week. The front portico of the librarys entrance was draped in black with the American and the flag of Great Britain. Four federal soldiers stood guard at all hours and they set up camp in the Sutton Room. Thousand people paid their respects to George Peabody. On February 8, 1870 his body was taken from the library to be buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem.</p><br>
<h2>Branch Libraries</h2><br>
<h3>South Branch Library</h3><br>
<p>The Peabody Institute opened the South Branch Library on November 27, 1967, and is located at 78 Lynn Street. The City of Peabody purchased the building, which was originally an insurance company, for $62,000. The South Branch would share building space with two other city departments the Office of Veteran Affairs until 1975 when those city departments moved to the Wallis School. The dedication of the South Branch would be attended by Mayor Edward Meaney and Nicholas Mavroules mayor-elect. The library opened with 4,000 books.</p><br>
<p>With the passage of Proposition. 2 1/2 in 1980 led to the South Branch hours being reduced. Over the next decade, the original building was becoming outdated, and the need for a new building to better serve the community was planned. A ground breaking ceremony was held in November of 1999 and a new building was constructed. In March of 2001 a $300,000 renovation was completed. The renovation allowed the South Branch to have a new community room, expanded children&#39;s area, and new interiors. The current South Branch Library currently has over 25,000 volumes that can be checked out by the public.</p><br>
<h3>West Branch Library</h3><br>
<p>As West Peabody was become more populated there was a need for the library to reach these residents. The original building was located within the Peabody Fire Department. Next door to the fire station was a small building that belonged to the West Peabody Community Club. The City of Peabody would purchase the building that was built in 1961 at 603 Lowell Street.</p><br>
<p>The original building was small would need to be torn down in order to construct a new building. In 1989 the City of Peabody would begin to construct a new West Branch Library. The new West Branch would be able to have more books and include a large programming/community space and have room for patrons to sit and browse. The dedication of the West Branch took place on March 11, 1990 speakers include Mayor Peter Torigian; Peabody Institute library director Dr. Mary Ann Tricarico; and trustee Albert Cohen among others.</p><br>
<p>The Peabody Institute is the public library of Danvers, Massachusetts, established in 1854. The current building at 15 Sylvan Street was constructed for the Peabody Institute in 1891 by Little & Browne. The historic structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Philanthropist and native son George Peabody donated $50,000 for the construction of a library for Danvers, after previously endowing the Peabody Institute in South Danvers (now Peabody). The first building was designed by Gridley J. F. Bryant and built in 1868–69; this Gothic Revival structure was destroyed by fire in 1890. The library&#39;s trustees elected to rebuild on the same site, retaining Little & Browne (whose chief draftsman was a Danvers resident) to design the replacement. The present Classical Revival structure was completed in 1892. The building was transferred from the trustees to the town in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The library is located in a residential area south of the Danvers central business district. It is set in a park of over 4 acre on a low knoll. It is a two-story wood-frame building, whose exterior is flushboarding treated to look like masonry. It has a low-pitch gabled roof, which is surrounded by a low balustrade, and is set on a granite foundation. Its main facade faces north, and is distinguished by a semicircular portico projecting over the center of five bays, supported by smooth Doric columns. This portico shelters the main entrance, which is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a round arch. The round arch is repeated in the immediately flanking bays over sash windows. A semicircular portico is also located on the south side, but has no entrance. The interior of the building originally included an auditorium space on the upper level, but has been altered and now houses only library facilities. This auditorium was used for many years for a variety of functions, including lectures and high school graduation ceremonies. The building interior was extensively altered and expanded in 1981, including the addition of the Danvers Archival Center, with only minimal impact to the exterior.</p><br>
<h2>Finance</h2><br>
<p>In fiscal year 2008, the town of Danvers spent 1.54% ($1,087,991) of its budget on its public library—some $40 per person.</p><br>
<p>The Turnpike House was a historic house in Methuen, Massachusetts. It was a -story wood-frame structure with a side-gable roof and a granite foundation, with two interior chimneys. The main entrance was flanked by full-length sidelight windows, and a two-story wing was added to its rear early in the 20th century. It was built, probably in 1806, after the construction of Essex Turnpike through Methuen, and was one of the city&#39;s oldest buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and demolished the same year.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Grove and Railroads Streets in Methuen, Massachusetts. The still active cemetery sits on 14 acre and is privately funded with a board of directors. The cemetery was established in 1853, and was laid out in the then-popular rural cemetery style. The Tenney Memorial Chapel given by the Daniel G. Tenney in 1927 as a memorial to his parents Charles H. Tenney and Fannie Haseltine  Tenney. The chapel was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The earliest burial is estimated to be about 1850; whereas the number of burials before 1960 is unknown, there have been 896 burials since 1960.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Old Charles Town Historic District comprises more than three hundred structures, primarily residences, in Charles Town, West Virginia. In contrast to the mainly commercial Downtown Charles Town Historic District, the Old Charles Town Historic District includes many early houses, some of log construction. Later houses are in the Federal style, with Italianate and Greek Revival buildings. A number of Second Empire and Victorian homes are present.</p><br>
<p>The most notable house in the district is Hunter Hill, the house of Andrew Hunter, chief prosecutor of John Brown. Built in 1820, the house was destroyed during the American Civil War by his Unionist cousin David Hunter, and was rebuilt in 1865.</p><br>
<p>The Old Garrison House is a First Period house in Rockport, Massachusetts that has been dated through dendrochronology to at least 1711. This house is primarily constructed of tamarack  logs.</p><br>
<p>Dating the house through dendrochronology was only able to produce one usable core sample which was extracted from a log to the left-hand end of the building. Efforts to obtain more samples for dates were unsuccessful due to where the logs are placed and their condition. Local histories suggest that the house may in fact be older than attested. Possibilities include the house being built as early as 1675, and at one point belonging to Elizabeth Proctor. The latter of the two is better known today as having been accused in the Salem witch trials. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>High Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 45 High Street in Danvers, Massachusetts. The 0.6 acre cemetery is one of the older cemeteries in town, and occupies a prominent location in the town center.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was first used sometime in the 18th century; the oldest dated gravestone bears the date 1758, for the wife of Amos Putnam. The parcel was formally deeded for use as a private burying ground in 1805. Its early documented burials include a number of American Revolutionary War veterans, the most notable of which was Samuel Page, a Continental Army captain who later became a local businessman, politician and merchant shipowner.</p><br>
<p>Although the cemetery was at laid out in a fairly rural area, it developed in the first half of the 19th century to become the town center, and the cemetery was soon hemmed in by development on all sides. In 1870 the town voted to acquire the cemetery, and closed it to further use except to those who (according to the 1805) had customarily used it. The last new burial took place in 1875; several graves (particularly some of those of Revolutionary War veterans) were relocated here from other burial grounds in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The protective wall around the cemetery has its own distinctive history. According to the 1805 deed, the cemetery was supposed to be surrounded by a fence at least 5 ft high, and was documented as having recently been so enclosed. The cemetery was described in 1848 as being surrounded by a mortared stone wall, but it did not meet the required height. There is some evidence that the wall was once topped by iron fencing, but whether this predates to the town&#39;s purchase or not is unknown. Early 20th-century images of the cemetery show a picket fence on High Street. The wrought iron gate carries a date of 1843, but was not described in the 1848 history.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Because of the number of veterans&#39; graves in the cemetery, it is a focal point of local Memorial Day commemorations.</p><br>
<p>Greenlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 195 Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts. Development of the 5.7 acre cemetery was one of the first civic projects of the town of Nahant after its separation from adjacent Lynn in 1853. The cemetery was established in 1856 on 2 acres of land, and has been extended several times to its present size. Its dominant feature is the Ellingwood Chapel, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1920. A 3.9 acre portion of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Nahant occupies a narrow peninsula that juts south of Cape Ann from the city of Lynn, to which it is connected by a natural sand causeway. Greenlawn Cemetery is located in western Nahant, on the south side of Nahant Road, the major east-west road through the town. It is bordered on the road by a stone wall, with the Francis H. Johnson Gate at its center providing the principal access. The lane runs southerly, bisecting the cemetery to a circle near the southern boundary where the Veterans Memorial Obelisk is located; from here a lane runs east to the Louise Beal Memorial Gateway at its southeast corner. The cemetery is bisected east-west by a tree-lined lane extending west from the main lane, and by the Ellingwood Chapel to the east.</p><br>
<p>Nahant was originally settled as part of Lynn, and was largely agrarian until the mid-19th century, when summer resort development began to take place in its eastern half. The town was separated from Lynn in 1853, and the creation of a town cemetery was an early subject of discussion at town meetings. The oldest portion of Greenlawn Cemetery, a 2 acre parcel roughly encompassing the present cemeterys southern half, was acquired in 1856. A receiving tomb was built the same year, and the first burial took place in 1857. The Soldiers Memorial was dedicated in 1866 to the communitys American Civil War dead. By 1918 further land acquisitions had given the cemetery most of its present configuration, and Ellingwood Chapel was built in 1920, to a design by the architectural firm of Cram and Ferguson. It was funded by Mary Johnson, in honor of her late husband&#39;s parents, Joseph Johnson, Jr. and Joanna Ellingwood Johnson.</p><br>
