<p>The F. A. Whitney Carriage Company Complex Historic District encompasses a major 19th-century industrial complex off 124 Water Street in Leominster, Massachusetts. The complex is one of the best-preserved in the city, and was developed by of its most successful businesses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The F. A. Whitney Company, founded in 1858, manufactured baby carriages and related products, and operated here from 1862 to 1952, and was one of the city&#39;s major employers. The oldest surviving buildings of its manufacturing complex date to 1872. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Most of the complex has been converted into residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Whitney Carriage Company was founded in 1858 by cousins Francis A. and Francis W. Whitney, who set out to manufacture an affordable line of baby carriages. Originally located in a piano factory basement on Mechanic Street, that plant was destroyed by fire in 1862. The present factory site on Monoosnock Creek was purchased and first developed in 1868. At its height in the early 1920s, the company produced 200,000 carriages per year, and employed between three and four hundred workers. The company&#39;s fortunes waned during the Great Depression, and it closed its doors in 1952. Francis A. Whitney, in addition to founding this company, opened a business manufacturing shirts, chairs, and thread in Leominster.</p><br>
<p>The historic district occupies 12 acres of land in a bend in Monoosnock Brook, about 0.25 mi east of downtown Leominster, bounded on the south by Water Street and the east by Whitney Street. The complex has more than twenty buildings, many of them interconnected. Most of them are brick, but there are several older wood frame buildings, including its oldest, the 1872 Second Empire office building. Most of the buildings were erected before 1920, and are stylistically similar to textile mills of the period. However, they are laid out organizationally to facilitate the various stages and processes associated with carriage manufacturing.</p><br>
<p>Pisgah Home Historic District is a historic district in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was the site of the Pisgah Home movement begun by faith healer and social reformer, Finis E. Yoakum, in the early 1900s. The site is closely aligned with the founding of the modern Pentecostal church. It has been a mission used for religious and charitable purposes for more than 100 years. The area today is operated as the Christ Faith Mission/Old Pisgah Home.</p><br>
<h2>Finis E. Yoakum</h2><br>
<p>Finis Yoakum (1851-1920), the founder of the Pisgah Home movement, began his career as a medical doctor specializing in mental and neurological disorders and serving as the chair of mental disease on the faculty of Gross Medical College in Denver, Colorado. In July 1894, Yoakum was badly injured when he was struck by a buggy. He moved to Los Angeles in 1895, hoping the mild climate would assist in his recuperation. After attending a Christian Alliance prayer meeting in 1895, Yoakum recovered and considered his healing to be a miracle. He later wrote that he received visions telling him to create a mission for the needy.</p><br>
<h3>Gold mining</h3><br>
<p>Though he began his mission around 1900, he continued to have other business interests as well. One of those interests was gold mining. In 1897, the Los Angeles Times published an article on Yoakum&#39;s claim that he had discovered a new method of "X-Ray Prospecting" for gold. Yoakum reported that he had laid a bit of gold-bearing quartz on the x-ray plate while taking an x-ray of a patient with a tumor. The x-ray showed the location of the gold deposits in the quartz, and Yoakum proposed using x-rays in mine tunnels to "ascertain decisively if gold is present, and if so, exactly where it lies and in what quantities." Following this report, Yoakum became active in gold and copper mining. In 1902, he ran a newspaper advertisement (pictured at left) offering stock at 25 cents a share in his new mining company. Yoakum later claimed that it was while traveling in Mexico, the location of his mining interests, that he spoke for the first time in tongues. He reported: "I was in the heart of Mexico in a church, speaking through an interpreter to the Mexicans and Indians, when suddenly a distinct rush of some might wind came upon me, and when I opened my mouth it was not English, but a beautiful smooth Castilian language, and for 20 or 30 minutes I held that large audience."</p><br>
<h2>Pisgah Home movement</h2><br>
<p>Around 1900, Yoakum formed an institution that was initially known as Yoakums Sanatorium at his house in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles. The home originally had room for only eight persons and was founded "to give free care to drunkards and outcasts who wished to reform." In March 1903, the Los Angeles Times reported that Yoakum was building a cottage to the north of his "Faith home" and had plans for a series of cottages for the use of patients at his sanatorium. In June 1903, the Times reported that proposed additions to Yoakums sanatorium would increase the capacity from 50 to 150 patients. Some patients stayed in the main home, others stayed in the cottages, and others still stayed in tents and wagons on the property.</p><br>
<p>By 1903, Yoakums Sanatorium had become the "Pisgah Faith Home", Among the tasks given to the residents was the construction of a lavish Tudor-style mansion which became Yoakums new home at 140 South Avenue 59, and has itself been designated a historic landmark.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the Los Angeles Times described the origins of the Pisgah Home movement:"He (Yoakum) walked the back streets, among the down-and-outers, calling on them to give themselves to Christ. One by one at first, and then in droves, societys outcasts heeded and followed the fervent doctor with the white hair and trimly clipped white beard. Drunkards and cripples, paupers and habitual criminals—he befriended them all, and to them he preached the love of God." A more recent newspaper account described the origins of Pisgah Home this way:"The property, first known as Yoakums Sanatorium, came to look like a tent city, offering a vegetarian diet and ample portions of the Gospel. Followers erected the tents, bungalows and other buildings next to his Queen Anne-style home, where he and his wife, Mary, continued to live. His barn became a church lined with beds. Yoakum was an early leader in the Pentecostal movement, which began in L.A. in 1906. By then, his home was already a mecca for foot-sore hobos and the downtrodden."</p><br>
<p>By 1913, whole families were living at various Pisgah Home facilities. A newspaper reported on a trip to Redondo Beach by the Pisgah Home residents: "Sweet-faced old women, bent with age and crippled with rheumatism, sat side by side yesterday with tiny tots, all from the Pisgah Home, and enjoyed with them for the first time the thrills of a ride on the Lightning Racer.... The occasion was a picnic given to the inmates of the Pisgah Home which includes the Pisgah Home for Reformed Drunkards, The Ark for Homeless Girls, the Pisgah Orphanage, and the Pisgah Gardens, and a Home for Destitute Consumptives."</p><br>
<h3>Relations with neighbors of the Pisgah Home</h3><br>
<p>Yoakum reportedly had his followers distribute nickels to indigents on skid row, a sum that would permit them to ride the train to the station near Pisgah Home. As the crowds of "down and outs" continued to come to Pisgah Home, the movement drew the enmity of neighbors. Complaints from his Highland Park neighbors were reportedly among the reasons for Yoakum&#39;s development of the remote Pisgah Grande community in the Santa Susana Mountains.</p><br>
<h3>Faith healing</h3><br>
<p>Much of the publicity and funding for the Pisgah Home movement came from Yoakum&#39;s work as a faith healer and an early Pentecostal evangelist, traveling to many locations in California, the Eastern United States and Europe. His work as a healer received praise in many religious publications, and a secular writer noted that some of the lame and blind who came to Pisgah Home "left wheel chairs, crutches, braces, and canes to be hung in impressive testimony along the walls."</p><br>
<p>Other secular writers questioned Yoakums faith healing practices. As early as 1903, Yoakum claimed his movement had performed some 800 healings, and the Los Angeles Times described Yoakum as the "leading apostle of the faith-healing movement in this city." In 1909, the Los Angeles Times published a lengthy article criticizing Yoakums tactics. The article, titled "No Miracles Without Cash: Services Halt While Money Is Collected," described events at one of the healing services held at Pisgah Home. The Times opened by quoting the Pisgah Home motto: "God loves a cheerful giver." It then described a "Healing and Testimony of the Healed" service:"Collection boxes were placed on the grounds about the home and in the tabernacle, and an extra large one was on the platform, where Dr. Yoakum and his assistants perform their miracles. A large audience was present, but the sight alone of the collection boxes did not draw the dollars quite fast enough for the doctor, so the testimony service was stopped long enough for him to tell how necessary it is for one to give away all his money before entering the kingdom of heaven. Dr. Yoakum said that he performs such miracles as mentioned in the Bible, but that the one-tenth of a persons income for the purposes of the Lord was entirely too small, and that every one should give all their money to Gods servants, or rather servant. After his talk the large box was placed on the front of the platform with the simple statement that there were several more at hand should one not prove large enough to hold all. This admonition opened the persons of many and soon the space around the platform was crowded with cheerful givers, many of whom looked as though they needed the money at home.... Dr. Yoakum said: If you have a debt to pay, do not hoard your money in trying to pay it and be a tight-wad, but give it for Gods work and he will find a way for you to get along.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>The Times article also raised questions about the validity of Yoakums "healings." They reported that, when an aged blind man began hobbling toward the platform, Yoakum hurriedly had the man seated with a statement that he "had not time during the meeting, but would see the patient privately." Yoakum also sold blessed handkerchiefs for $5. A newspaper account of Yoakums 1909 healing event in Pomona, California noted: "A special feature of the meeting was the praying over handkerchiefs to be sent to the sick and laid upon their persons." The healing power of the handkerchiefs was reported in the Pisgah newsletter, and soon believers across the country were sending in $5 for a healing handkerchief.</p><br>
<p>Controversy over Yoakums healings continued even after his death. In the late 1920s, a man sued Yoakums estate to collect a $3,300 loan made to Yoakum as consideration for driving a demon from the man&#39;s invalid daughter. The litigation resulted in two published cases, including a decision of the California Supreme Court, Mix v. Yoakum, 200 Cal. 681 (1927), and Mix v. Yoakum, 138 Cal. App. 290 (1934).</p><br>
<h3>Pisgah Home expands</h3><br>
<p>As the Pisgah Home movement became successful, Yoakum built other facilities. Pisgah Ark was built in Arroyo Seco where "wayward girls" and prostitutes were sheltered and taught midwifery under the direction of Sister Nell. Pisgah Gardens was built in North Hollywood, where beds were maintained for 100 patients who had tuberculosis, cancer, and mental disorders. Yoakum also built the Pisgah Store in Arroyo Seco where donated clothing and other goods were distributed free of charge. There was also a gospel mission in West Los Angeles. In the late 1910s, a local newspaper described the breadth of services provided by Pisgah Home:By 1914, Pisgah Home had outgrown its facilities, and Yoakum bought a 3,300 ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains north of Simi Valley, California. Yoakum paid $50,000 for the property, and there he built Pisgah Grande, a residential and religious utopian community that has since been reclaimed by nature.</p><br>
<h2>Later uses of the property</h2><br>
<p>Fifteen days before his death in August 1920, Yoakum executed deeds to his two sons of all his real property and also executed a will leaving his estate in trust for the Pisgah Home movement. In 1936, the home was taken over by Arglee F. Green, known as Mother Green, of Christ Faith Mission; Mother Green used it as a shelter for homeless women and children. From 1950 to 1993, Pisgah Home was operated by the Rev. Harold James Smith; Smith published the "Herald of Hope" newspaper (with a reported circulation of 60,000) from the Pisgah Home and his "Prayer Tower" radio broadcasts also emanated from the Pisgah Home property. Since 1993, the property, known as Christ Faith Mission/Old Pisgah Home, has been directed by Richard A. Kim as its Administrator and chief executive officer.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1994, the City of Los Angeles adopted a historic preservation overlay zone around Pisgah Home. In 2000, the Pisgah Home received a preservation grant from the Getty Trust, and in December 2007, the Pisgah Home Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Sea Call Farm is a historic farm in Orleans, Massachusetts United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 2008.</p><br>
<p>The property was actively farmed by William A. and Bertha Fiske during 1931–1950, after William&#39;s retirement from railway employment. It was one of many small market-garden farms in the Barnstable County, but now is "the only surviving agricultural ensemble in Orleans and one of the few in the Cape Cod region. Its significance is enhanced by the extensive collection of diaries, account books, and other papers that detail life on the farm...."</p><br>
<p>It was acquired from the Fiske family by the Town of Orleans in 1987, for conservation.</p><br>
<p>The Old Custom House  is the oldest surviving government building in California, built in 1827 by Mexican authorities in Monterey, then the capital of Alta California. The former custom house is the first designated California Historical Landmark, marking the site where USA Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag and declared California part of the United States in 1846 during the American Conquest of California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1821 New Spain—Mexico won independence from Spain, in the Mexican War of Independence, and for nearly 25 years Monterey was in the Mexican Territory of Alta California. Under Mexican rule the trade restrictions were lifted and coastal ports were opened to foreign trade. This drew in trade from British, American, and South American traders.</p><br>
<p>To collect customs duties (tax monies) at the Monterey Bay port, the Mexican government built the Custom House, making it the oldest government building in present-day California.</p><br>
<p>On July 7, 1846, during the Mexican–American War, USA Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the American flag, declaring California part of the United States during the American Conquest of California.</p><br>
<h2>Historic preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Monterey Custom House was a landmark that the Native Sons of the Golden West determined should not disappear if within their power to prevent it. The property belonged to the United States Government, but the Native Sons obtained a lease of the buildings and grounds and restored them in the early 1900s. The lease was ultimately transferred to a State Commission appointed under a legislative act passed in 1901, which act also carried an appropriation for further restoration of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Custom House became the first California Historical Landmark on June 1, 1932, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. It is part of the larger Monterey State Historic Park, itself a National Historic Landmark District along with the nearby Larkin House.</p><br>
<p>Old Mission Dam is a historic water impoundment structure in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California. It was built in 1803 to impound the San Diego River to provide water for irrigation of the fields associated with Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Spanish mission in what is now the US state of California. It was the first major colonial-era irrigation project on the Pacific coast of the United States. The surviving remnant of the dam was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Old Mission Dam is located about 5 mi northeast of the site of Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in the hills northeast of San Diego. It spans the San Diego River, which was historically a seasonal body of water which dried out in the summer. The dam is built out of stone and cement, and was 220 ft, 13 ft at its base and 12 ft as originally built. The dam created a body of water behind it, which would undergo controlled releases when the river otherwise ran dry. A tile channel to the mission fields was also built, in order to minimize water loss in the sandy soil, but only fragments of this work still survive.</p><br>
<p>Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded in 1769 by Father Junipero Serra, and was moved to its present surviving site in 1774. By 1800, the mission was a thriving community with 1,500 Christianized Native Americans. The mission suffered three years of drought in 1800-1802, which likely prompted construction of the irrigation project. The works probably reached their greatest extent in 1817, including the tiled aqueduct and other features lost to time and vandalism. The dam and aqueduct were reported to be in ruins in 1867, but the dam was repaired in 1874 and again put to use for a time.</p><br>
<p>The dam is now part of Mission Trails Regional Park, the largest municipal park in California. Old Mission Dam is also a registered state historic landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Rehoboth Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic rural village center of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The village grew around an industrial site located on the Palmer River, whose waters powered several mills nearby. A modest rural village grew in the area between about 1750 and 1850, with the current church being built in 1839. Later in the 19th century institutional buildings, including Goff Hall and Blanding Library, were added. The village is centered at the junction of Bay State Road and Locust Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Goff Memorial Hall and Blanding Library</h2><br>
<h3>Current Uses</h3><br>
<p>Located on Baystate Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Goff Memorial Hall, and Blanding Library can be easily accessed from both Routes 44 and 118 North. Currently, a member of the Sails Library Network, this library provides services both to the members of the Rehoboth community and to card-carrying members of other libraries within this network. The building now acts as one of the major cultural heritage institutions found within the historic district.</p><br>
<h3>Construction & Design</h3><br>
<p>The Goff Memorial Hall and Blanding Library structure are one of the major cultural heritage sites located in the small, agricultural town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts on the states south shore. First constructed in 1886, the original wooden structure stood as an impressive feat of Victorian age architecture within the heart of the towns Historic District. The idea and funding for this project came from Thomas W. Bicknell who donated several hundred dollars to the town in memory of his wife Amelia&#39;s parents, Chloe and Christopher Blanding. For 25 years, Goff Hall acted as almost a proto-community building for Rehoboth with the building including spaces for educational and recreational use.</p><br>
<h3>Destruction & Rebuilding Efforts</h3><br>
<p>During the summer of 1911, while a storm passed over the town, the original structure was struck by lightning. Since Goff Hall at this time was primarily constructed out of wood, the building was completely lost in the disaster. Subsequently, there was an immediate push by members of the community to rebuild the original site. This resulted in a 4 year-long construction project whose result is the Goff Memorial and Blanding Library building still in use today.</p><br>
<p>The Old South Union Church is a congregational church in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded church is a replica of an 1853–54 building that was destroyed by fire in 1989. The building has a strong Greek Revival, with paneled pilasters on the front facade, but also has Italianate bracketed eaves and dentillated cornice and pediment. The church building was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation was established in 1721, and is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The current senior pastor is the Reverend Jennifer Barrett Siegal.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Auburn Road in Millis, Massachusetts. Founded in 1714, it is the town&#39;s only cemetery. Covering more than 18 acre, it has more than 2,800 burials. Among those buried in the cemetery are politician Christian Herter, who served as USA Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts, and two Medal of Honor recipients, Charles Church Roberts and William D. Newland. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 with the help of a short documentary film by a Millis High School Freshman Dustin Fresh.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Prospect Hill Cemetery is located on the west side of the village center of Mills, bounded on the east by Auburn Road, and access via Ridge Road at its northeast corner. It is over 18 acre in size, with wooded terrain that is sometimes steeply sloping. The outer boundaries retain a wooded character, while some slopes on the interior have been terraced to increase burial space. It is divided into an old and a new section, the older section lying to the east of the main access road. The very oldest portion, with burials dating to 1714, is at the top of Prospect Hill, where the site of the first meeting house in Millis is also located, marked by a series of original granite stone steps and a commemorative boulder.</p><br>
<p>Other portions of the older section were laid out in the 19th century, when the rural cemetery movement was popular. This area features winding lanes and mature tree plantings, and is set partly in a horseshoe-shaped bowl, giving a fine vista over the terrain. Set on a promontory in this section is the grave of Charles Wesley Emerson, founder of Boston&#39;s Emerson College.</p><br>
<p>The newer portion of the cemetery, about 10 acre in size, was added in 1932, when the older portion was filling up. It was given to the town by the Richardson farmers who owned the land. The layout of this area is less forested, and its markers are more uniform in size and shape, with granite predominant. The northeastern section of it is reserved to military veterans.</p><br>
<p>In 2006 to prospect Hill cemetery became a national historic site with the years long work of Robert Russo and the help of a Freshman Millis High School student named Dustin Fresh who made a short documentary film that helped lead to the signing and documenting of this site as a national historic site.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of Medfield is a historic Baptist church building at 438 Main Street in Medfield, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<p>The church building, the second for the congregation, was constructed in 1838, and originally had Greek Revival styling. In 1874 it was significantly renovated, and given its present Gothic Revival appearance. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1752. It was formally incorporated and given recognition in 1776 under Thomas Gair, its first pastor. Today it is a member of the American Baptists churches, and it theologically aligns with a Reformed Theology and movements such as The Gospel Coalition. Its worship today is a blend of Biblically founded, Gospel Centered preaching, and heartfelt praise. The music style is a blend of contemporary and traditional music. Worship starts at 10:00 a.m.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Unitarian Church, now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Medfield, is a historic church on North Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. The white clapboarded church was built in 1789, as the third for a congregation established c. 1652. In 1839 it was rotated on its site ninety degrees. It lost its steeple in the New England Hurricane of 1938. The steeple was replaced in 1988, and the building&#39;s many layers of paint were stripped off in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Vine Lake Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Main Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. First established in 1651, this 32 acre cemetery has grown and evolved over the centuries, and remains the town&#39;s only public cemetery. Its sections include the original colonial burying ground, a section in the rural cemetery style fashionable in the 19th century, and modern sections laid out in the 20th century. The oldest dated marker is from 1661.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Cohasset Central Cemetery is a historic cemetery on North Main Street and Joy Place in Cohasset, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The first burial was that of Margaret Tower in 1705. However, the gravestones design suggests it was carved in the 1740s, along with that of her husband, Cohassets first settler, Ibrook Tower. The oldest gravestone is believed to be that of Sarah Pratt (d. 1706).</p><br>
<p>Other notable graves include that of Levi B. Gaylord (1840–1900), the town&#39;s only recipient of the Medal of Honor, Civil War general Zealous Bates Tower (1819–1900), and the Celtic Cross erected in 1914 on the gravesite of about 45 of 99 Irish immigrants lost in an 1849 shipwreck off Cohasset.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Foxboro Grange Hall is a historic Grange building at 11–15 Bird Street in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide at the upper levels and three storefronts wide on the first level, with a hip roof and clapboard siding. Built in 1897, it is one of few wood-frame commercial buildings in the town, and is a reminder of the town&#39;s agricultural past for its historic use as a Grange hall. The first floor has been adapted for retail use.</p><br>
<p>The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church on Woodside Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a member of the National African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church denomination, which is historically African American and began in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The history of the Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church in Amherst, Massachusetts is an important part of the broader context of African American history. The A.M.E. Zion denomination was created in conjunction with growing African American identities. Locally, the Goodwin Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church is one of the few physical structures that speaks to the rich African American history and heritage in the town of Amherst and surrounding areas.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>After the American Civil War, many African Americans migrated north to escape the discriminatory laws and violence of the South. Despite improved social conditions in northern states, African Americans largely remained second-class citizens. Houses of worship aided African American individuals struggling to build a sense of community, identity, and autonomy. This process occurred in Amherst with the creation of the Zion Chapel, built on Amherst College property in 1869. The African American congregation was primarily drawn from the area of Amherst now known as the Westside Historic District, encompassing sections of Baker and Snell streets, Northampton Road, and Hazel Avenue.</p><br>
<p>As the African American community expanded and the white congregation diminished, Zion members organized in the early 1900s to construct a new church with no affiliation to the college. The Zion members were initially denied independence by a regional conference of Congregational churches; however, members of Zion Chapel, including Moses and Anna Goodwin, refused to wait for approval. They formed a congregation of their own, calling themselves Union Church. They found a space to worship in the Amherst Town Hall. During their time in the town hall, community members solicited the support of local citizens and sympathetic members of the college community to secure funds for a building of their own. Booker T. Washington visited in 1904 to help raise additional funds.</p><br>
<p>Fundraising efforts produced a total of $611.10, which the Union Church used to buy a parcel of land in 1907. In the same year, the Union Church became officially affiliated with the national African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Organization, whose theological beliefs challenged the notion that African Americans were second-class citizens. In 1909, the parcel transferred to Moses Goodwin who owned it during the time of construction of the church in 1910. Construction was completed in the summer of 1910 and the cornerstone was laid during a dedication ceremony on July 10, 1910, celebrating the African American community&#39;s successful efforts to gain independence.</p><br>
<h2>The Goodwin family</h2><br>
<p>Moses Goodwin (1854–1923) was a local African American community leader who owned a bicycle repair and locksmith shop in Amherst town center. He was born in South Carolina and moved to Amherst after the Civil War along with many other African Americans. In 1891, Moses married Anna Reed (1869–1943), affectionately known throughout town as “Ma” Goodwin. She ran the “Colonial Inn,” a boarding house for Amherst College students and gained local fame for her cooking, especially apple pie. Moses and Anna had three daughters: Olive, Amy, and Ruth.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, Moses Goodwin transferred ownership of the land and building to the trustees of the church. He remained extremely active in the church, serving as a trustee, treasurer, and benefactor of the A.M.E. Zion Church.</p><br>
<p>The Goodwin family were regular attendees and active members of the church community. Anna Goodwin was also a core member of the church community, serving on the musical committee of Zion Chapel before joining the A.M.E. Zion Church. According to Moses’ daughter, Ruth, the church was a core element of African American community life in Amherst. Often Sundays at the church were filled with social and religious activities that lasted all day. Amy directed the choir of the A.M.E. Zion Church for a time, thus perpetuating the musical tradition in the family. Ruth regularly attended the church until her death in 1993.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the church was renamed Moses Goodwin Memorial A.M.E. Zion church in honor of Moses Goodwin and his family for their long-time service to the church and to the African American community of Amherst.</p><br>
<h2>The church today</h2><br>
<p>Goodin Memorial Church continues to be a valuable religious and cultural institution in the Amherst community. In addition to regularly scheduled services and bible study sessions, the church hosts community events, such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals. As such, the church itself functions as a unifying force among the Goodwin congregation, creating a strong sense of community.</p><br>
<p>As Ruth Goodwin described in an interview on WGBY-TV in 1994, the church was a core element of African American community life in Amherst and was often a whole day affair on Sundays with both religious and social activities taking place. The church gained local fame for the fried chicken dinners prepared by members of the congregation in the church&#39;s basement kitchen. These meals were part of an annual fundraiser on the Town Common, and they would sell out every year.</p><br>
<p>Families - and specifically children - are an integral part of the church community and its history. Sunday school, vacation bible school, and children&#39;s services all foster a family-oriented ethic that continues to characterize Goodwin Memorial.</p><br>
<p>Music was, and continues to be, a central feature of these activities with the church choir as a vital aspect of the community. The church choir is a vital and dynamic part of the Goodwin community. Many in the present Goodwin congregation have fond memories related to the musical activities of the church which include a gospel and a bell choir.</p><br>
<p>Goodwin was visited by an A.M.E. Zion Church Bishop for the first time in over one hundred years on Sunday, September 21, 2014. Bishop Mildred B. Hines is the first woman elected as bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She spoke at the service to an enthusiastic and appreciative crowd of Goodwin members and guests. The event was covered by a local news station and, following the service, community members and Bishop Hines gathered together at a reception to commemorate the occasion.</p><br>
<h2>Historic building</h2><br>
<p>The Goodwin Memorial chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The foundation is made of rubble stone, and contains a cornerstone engraved with “1910 A.M.E. Church.”</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church contains a stained glass window with a diamond pattern and the initials, “PH,” commemorating the life of Pearl Hawkins, a well-known parishioner who was very active in the church in the 1970s. The church is a good example of religious vernacular architectural design and construction, as opposed to some of the more formal religious structures in the Amherst area. The structure has remained largely unchanged since its construction.</p><br>
<p>On November 1, 2014, Goodwin church became the first chapel to be included in the Amherst Historical Society&#39;s annual Tour of Historic Homes. During the event, visitors were greeted by Reverend Margaret Lawson and members of the congregation and treated to a selection of hymns performed by the church choir.</p><br>
<p>North Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Worthington, Massachusetts. The 3.5 acre municipal cemetery is located at the corner of Cold and North Streets not far from Worthington Corners; it is the towns largest cemetery. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, for its funerary architecture and its role as the burial ground for the towns early settlers.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>North Cemetery is located about 1 mi north of the Worthington Corners, the towns main village center, on the north side of Cold Street just west of North Street. About 2.5 acre have been formally laid out in a roughly rectangular shape. Three of the cemeterys four sides are lined with stone walls, setting it off from the surrounding woods and fields. Access is through three breaks in the wall, two of which provide vehicular access. The eastern two breaks are marked by granite posts about four feet high that bear evidence of having had gates mounted on them. In the southeaster corner of the cemetery is the remnant of a storage vault, which was used until the 1950s to hold caskets when winter conditions made interment impossible. The cemetery has over 700 markers, mostly of granite or marble. The most prominent grave is that of the Horace Cole family, which features a zinc obelisk erected in 1877. A number of the grave markers are made out of Goshen granite, quarried in neighboring Goshen. A small number of the grave markers bear marks of regionally known stone carvers.</p><br>
<p>The cemeterys date of establishment is uncertain; its earliest grave marker dates to 1790. A number of the towns founders and early leading citizens are buried there. Graves are laid out generally with older burials in the lower (eastern) end, proceeding up the slope to the west, where 21st-century burials have been made.</p><br>
<p>The John Wornall House Museum is a historic house museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The museum, located at 6115 Wornall Road in the Brookside area of Kansas City, is furnished to represent the daily life of a prosperous, pre-Civil War family.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1858 by John B. Wornall in the Greek Revival style of architecture, with bricks hand-fired on the Wornalls&#39; property. It is one of the four remaining Civil War-period homes in the Kansas City area.</p><br>
<p>John Wornalls father, Richard Wornall, had owned a mule- and horse-trading business in Shelbyville, Kentucky, which ran into financial difficulties. In 1843 Richard Wornall sold 640 acre of Shelby County land, thirteen slaves, and most of his livestock and possessions to settle debts totaling almost $25,000. With the rest of his money, Richard Wornall, his wife Judith, and their two sons George Thomas and John Bristow moved to Westport, Missouri. Upon arrival there in October 1843, Richard Wornall purchased five slaves and a 500 acre farm from the towns father, John Calvin McCoy. The land, for which Wornall paid $5 per acre, stretched between present-day 59th and 67th streets, State Line, and Main Street in what is now Kansas City.</p><br>
<p>Richard and Judith&#39;s second son, John B. Wornall, eventually inherited the property and built the present house for his second wife, Eliza S. Johnson Wornall.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the Wornalls&#39; home was used as a field hospital for both the Union and Confederate forces after the Battle of Westport.</p><br>
<p>The N.S. Williams House is a historic house located at 1150 Middleboro Avenue in East Taunton part of Taunton, Massachusetts. The -story cross-gabled Italianate style house was built circa 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Nathan Sumner Williams as a gift to his wife Caroline Thompson Richard. Williams ran a boxboard and sawmill located across the street at "Kings Furnace" in what is currently the Massasoit State Park. The location of the house was not to her liking since it stood so far outside the Green of Taunton where most of the wealthy lived. Mr Williams built another home on Summer Street and the family moved to the new location shortly thereafter. He retained the home on Middleboro Avenue as a place to stop and rest on his long journey to and from work daily. The house boasts 4,200 square feet of living space and is over 7,000 square feet overall. It is a post and beam framed structure with a granite foundation. The wrap around front porch and built up window and door pediments define the Victorian Italianate distinction.</p><br>
<p>In November 1903 Mr Williams died and the house was sold to Ed Whitney, an antique dealer. The house became known as the "Maples Inn". Because the home overlooked the major road leading into Taunton from Cape Cod, it was an ideal location for stage coaches to stop for the night.</p><br>
<p>From 1950 until the middle of the 1960s a family by the name of Simmons had acquired the home. The Simmons ran an upscale nursing home at the location for fifteen years. In the mid-1960s it was sold to Francis and Jonathan Blye. A substantial fire occurred during this period that nearly destroyed the house and all of its history. For several years, the house remained open and exposed to the elements until it was purchased in 1971 by Nina and Bernard Stanton. They made the repairs needed to make the house habitable once again, and took the steps needed to place the home on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007 the property was purchased by Michael and Heather Woodby.</p><br>
<p>The Francis D. Williams House is a historic brick house located at 3 Plain Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Built in about 1830, it is a prominent and rare example of Federal period architecture in the city&#39;s Weir Village neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francis D. Williams House is prominently sited, standing just beyond the eastern end of Tauntons Plain Street Bridge across the Taunton River, on a triangular parcel bounded by Plain, Water, and Berkley Streets. It is a large -story brick building, with a side-gable roof pierced by two gabled dormers and a central brick chimney stack. The facade facing toward the bridge is eight bays wide, evenly spaced and all filled with sash windows that have granite sills and lintels. The entrances are on the side facades, facing toward Berkley and Plain Streets; these are five bays wide, with the entrances at the centers, framed by paneled surrounds. A five-bay two-story brick ell extends to the main blocks rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built circa 1830, when the Weir Village area where it stands was a thriving seaport and industrial area. It is one of Taunton&#39;s only brick Greek Revival houses, was probably built by Francis Williams, member of a prominent local family involved in sea trade. Its size suggest that it may have been used by the Williams family to board sailors involved in the coasting trade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Enoch Williams House is a historic house located in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1850, the -story, Greek Revival style farm house is set on a side hall plan, with a front gable with a recessed wing and attached barn. The entrance features side lights with a pilaster and entablature surround. The house was built by Enoch Williams, member of a prominent East Taunton family, and is located on what is one of East Taunton&#39;s largest surviving farm properties.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Whittenton Mills Complex is a historic textile mill site located on Whittenton Street in Taunton, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Mill River. The site has been used for industrial purposes since 1670, when James Leonard built an iron forge on the west bank of the river. The first textile mill was built in 1805 and expanded throughout the 19th century. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and now contains various small businesses.</p><br>
<p>In October 2005, the site gained national attention when the mill&#39;s 1832 wooden dam threatened to collapse after heavy rains. More than 2,000 people were evacuated for several days while officials and work crews could shore up the dam with boulders. As of 2012, there is an effort underway to have the dam removed entirely, and allow for restoration of the river bed.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, scenes from the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, portraying the Dachau concentration camp were filmed here.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Between 1670 and 1805, the Leonard family operated a forge on the west bank of the Mill River, at was originally called Whittington. In 1805, Crocker, Bush and Richmond established a nail mill on the site. In 1807, a second story was added to the mill for the manufacture of cotton yarn. This mill was destroyed by fire on November 9, 1811, but soon rebuilt at 70 feet long by 30 feet wide, with three stories. Thomas Bush retired from the firm in 1812, which was renamed Crocker and Richmond. The first power looms were introduced in 1818.</p><br>
<p>In early 1823, Samuel Crocker and Charles Richmond organized the Taunton Manufacturing Company, along with several wealthy Boston investors. The new company operated a variety of businesses, including the manufacture of copper, iron, machinery, cotton and woolen textiles, at several sites throughout Taunton. In 1824, a new mill was built at Whittenton, on the east bank of the river, under the management of James K. Mills & Company of Boston.</p><br>
<p>A second mill was added in 1831-32. Constructed in stone, the mill contained seventy looms for the manufacture of fine cotton goods. James K. Mills & Company assumed full ownership of the property in 1835. A year later, Willard Lovering joined the new venture, and made improvements to the manufacturing facilities. The original 1811 mill was destroyed by fire in January, 1839. A new mill was soon erected, and the 1832 mill was enlarged in 1840. Lovering and his sons purchased the property after the financial Panic of 1857 in which James K. Mills & Company was ruined.</p><br>
<p>Lovering retired in 1864 and turned control of the mills over to his three sons, Charles L., William Croad, and Henry Morton Lovering. By 1883, when the company was incorporated as the Whittenton Manufacturing Company, the factory covered a site of about 15 acres, and contained over 400,000 square feet of manufacturing space, producing a variety of cotton goods, including ginghams, dress goods, fancy tickings, shirtings, flannels, and denims. The facility was powered by five Corliss engines with a total of 1,200 horsepower, and water wheels providing an additional 250 horsepower.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, the Old Colony Railroad opened the Whittenton Branch to Whittenton Mills from Whittenton Junction. The following year, the line was extended to the mainline at Raynham. A weaving shop was added to the mills in 1884.</p><br>
<p>By 1917, the Whittenton Manufacturing Company was capitalized at $600,000, with Arthur Lyman as president. It contained 45,040 spindles and 1,640 looms, and produced ginghams and blankets.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Several scenes from the movie Shutter Island were filmed here in February and March 2008. A cast of hundreds was needed to shoot the scenes, which portrayed a Nazi concentration camp.</p><br>
<p>A flea market was established on the site in 2009. It operated until January, 2012. On January 31, 2012, current owner David Murphy of Jefferson Development Partners announced plans for a Chinese firm to invest $25 Million into the complex, as part of a proposed project to convert the 42-acre site into residences and businesses.</p><br>
<p>The Whitman Mills are a historic mill complex on the banks of the Acushnet River north of central New Bedford, Massachusetts. The mill yard is bounded by Riverside Street, Manomnet Street, Coffin Street, and the river. It is just one of a group of mill complexes developed by William Whitman in the area around the turn of the 20th century. This particular grouping, including two large mills, an office, and several outbuildings, was built between 1896 and 1917, with most of those original buildings still standing. The mills operated until 1932, when the Whitman Company went bankrupt. The complex was nearly demolished in the 1950s, but has since been subdivided and occupied by a succession of smaller businesses.</p><br>
<p>Renovations at the historic Victoria Riverside mill are now complete and tenants began occupying units in the winter of 2011. Because of the 18’ ceilings, the architect has created a unique design with living space on two floors within the unit with a balcony on the second floor overlooking open space on the first floor. Traditional loft units are also available with living space on one floor. Of the 101 units, traditional loft units are also available with living space on one floor. New Bedford has teamed with Community Rowing of Boston to bring rowing to the Acushnet River. The plan is to create a top level rowing course on the river with amenities such as a boathouse, launch deck and observation areas. Victoria Riverside will overlook the course.</p><br>
<p>The mill complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Wheeler–Ingalls House is a historic house at 51 Summer Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this -story saltbox house may have been built between 1710 and 1750 by Samuel Millard. In 1760 it was purchased by Dr. John Wheeler, and by the American Revolutionary War it had passed into the Ingalls family. Starting around this time a rear lean-to and dog leg ell were added and completed by 1800. Federal style modernizations have since been made to the left parlor which include the mantel and field paneled dado. The "excellently preserved" side entry barn was a later addition and dates to at least 1840. Original early-mid 18th century elements including "Chamfered posts, girts, and summer beams were apparently never covered in the right hall." The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Wheeler House is a historic colonial house located at 371 Fairview Avenue in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two-story gambrel-roofed wood-frame house was built c. 1745, and is one of the town&#39;s best-preserved examples of the style. It is also notable for its detailed deed history, which is also rare in Rehoboth. Aaron Wheeler, its builder, was a farmer, part owner of local industrial sites, and was an active participant in the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Westport Point Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early coastal village in Westport, Massachusetts. Set at the confluence of two branches of the tidal Westport River, the village has a rich architectural history from the late 18th century to the early 20th. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Westport, Massachusetts was originally part of neighboring Dartmouth, separating in 1787. One of the areas earliest settlements was on the barrier island at the mouth of the Westport River, with the point between its two branches developed as an agricultural area, with a ferry between the two established in 1712. The points potential for additional housing and maritime services resulted in significant development beginning around 1770. Over the next 100 or so years, the area developed as a center of coastal shipping and the outfitting of ships that were typically built at shipyards further upriver. Little of the maritime infrastructure associated with these activities has survived. After the American Civil War, and with the decline in demand for wooden ships, the area&#39;s economic focus changed to one as a seaside resort and vacation area.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Main Road, the principal historic thoroughfare on the point prior to the construction of Massachusetts Route 88 in the 1960s. The district extends linearly along Main Road for about a mile, ending roughly at Charles Street. Although a number of side streets emanate from this spine, only properties on Valentine&#39;s Lane and Cape Bial Lane are also included in the district. The district is 86 acre in size, with 173 historically significant buildings. Most of these are one and two-story wood frame houses; there is only one commercial building, the c. 1840 Cory Store, and one church, the Westport Point Methodist Church (1884, Gothic Revival). The most common architectural style found is the Greek Revival, whose height of fashion in the area was between 1835 and 1860.</p><br>
<p>The Weir Engine House is a historic fire station located at 530 Weir Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is one of two stations in the city, along with the Whittenton Fire and Police Station designed by Taunton&#39;s second fire chief, Abner Coleman. It was built by contractor James T. Bassett.</p><br>
<p>The building is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a rear ell and a hose-drying tower. It is covered by a hip roof with large central gabled wall dormer at the front. The station has three equipment bays with segmented-arch granite lintels. Above the outer bays are single sash windows with granite sills and lintels. The second-story central bay has a group of three sash windows, above which, in the gable, are three similar but truncated windows, with a field of scalloped wood shingles above. The building&#39;s design is similar to that of the Whittenton Station, which was built at the same time.</p><br>
<p>The station houses the city&#39;s Engine 3, weir police precinct, and a community police substation. In addition to both the fire and police quarters, the station formerly included a neighborhood library. The Weir Engine house is one of four 19th century fire stations still in use by the City of Taunton Fire Department, along with Central, Whittenton and East Taunton.</p><br>
<p>The Washington School is a historic school building at 40 Vernon Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. The two story brick building was designed Gustavus L. Smith, and built in 1897 during a period of burgeoning growth in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Washington School building is located at the eastern corner of Vernon and East Vernon Streets, west of the city&#39;s downtown area. It is a two-story brick building, roughly T-shaped, with a hip roof and a square tower at one of its inner corners. It is architecturally eclectic, having a somewhat typical Colonial Revival massing, with Italianate rounded windows on the upper level. The tower has Renaissance Revival details at its belfry level, with round-arch colonnades supported by round columns, and a modillioned cornice below a bellcast pyramidal roof. The main entrance, set in the base of the tower, is recessed within a round-arch opening, with a half-round fanlight above.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1897 to relieve overcrowding at a number of other schools in central Taunton, and was named for George Washington. It is one of three schools designed for the city by local architect Gustavus L. Smith, and is the fifth oldest surviving school building in the city. It has been converted to residential use, and is now known as "Washington House".</p><br>
<p>The Salmon Washburn House is a historic house located at 68 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1860 for prosperous local businessman Salmon Washburn, who ran a furniture, housewares and hardware business on Main Street. The two-story house is built on a square plan with a low-pitch hipped roof and very broad cornice. Dominating the stucco façade is a bold, semi-circular-arched doorway inset with an elaborate cast-iron screen, cast in foliate pattern, in the transom area. The windows are capped by large decorative drip moldings.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Historical Commission Form B was incorrectly marked as "Samuel Washburn House".</p><br>
<p>The Capt. David Vickery House is an historic house at 33 Plain Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick structure, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof. It has Federal style framing around its front windows, with granite lintels beneath windows on the side elevation. The house was built c. 1795 by David Vickery, a captain of seafaring ships who traveled as far as the West Indies. It is a rare surviving brick gambrel from the Federal period, and also rare for its connection to the city&#39;s maritime trade.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Walker House is a historic colonial house located at 1679 Somerset Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in about 1727, this -story, Georgian style, wood-framed house is the oldest documented house in the city. It is five bays wide and two bays deep, with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney. Its main entry is framed by pilasters, and topped by a fanlight and gabled pediment. Peter Walker purchased the land, and is said to have built the house soon afterward as a wedding present for his new bride.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Union Street Railway Carbarn, Repair Shop is a historic transit maintenance facility of the Union Street Railway Company at 1959 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Built in 1910, the carbarn was the center of the New Bedford&#39;s streetcar network, which operated from 1872 to 1947. The carbarn is a large single-story brick building, occupying nearly half of a city block. The adjacent repair shop building, a single-story brick-and-wood building, was built in 1897; it was demolished sometime between 1978 and 2003.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Walker School is a historic elementary school building on Berkley Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick Georgian Revival building, with a hip roof. Its main facade is 11 bays wide, organized in a 4-3-4 pattern. The main entrance is in the center bay, set in a round-arch opening, with the flanking bays having small oval windows; the remaining fenestration is sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by E. A. Crane, a local architect, and was built in 1895 in land donated by William Ellery Walker, a local businessman. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>A plan to demolish the school was circulated in 2005, but the plan was postponed for approval.</p><br>
<p>Walker School was closed by the city in June 2010. At the time, it held classes for grades K through 4.</p><br>
<p>Walkden Farm is a historic farmhouse in Swansea, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1800, and is a well-preserved example of a vernacular Federal style farmhouse. It has the typical five-bay center-entry layout with a large central chimney, with corner pilasters and a frieze below the roofline. The entry is in a single-story hip-roofed projection, with full-length sidelights. The property includes a c. 1885 barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Vickery-Baylies House is a historic house located at 56 Summer Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story, wood-framed house was built in 1830, most likely by one of the citys local mill owners. The house is one of only two large-scale Greek Revival houses (the other is the Tisdale-Morse House) to survive from that period. Charles Vickery, whose family owned it for much of the second half of the 19th century, was the son of a ships captain, and a merchant and banker in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Valentine–French House is a historic house located at 5105 North Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It built in 1769 on the 13th lot of Freemen&#39;s Purchase by William Valentine for his bride, Sybil Winslow. The massive center chimney had six outlets & the fireplace used for cooking is quite large. The house still has Georgian wood paneling & sliding window shutters. The property was later owned by the Horace French family from roughly c.1850 to 1928.</p><br>
<p>The house is one of six in the Steep Brook area considered to be the best representatives of the pre-industrial period of the city&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1983.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Taunton Main is the main post office facility in the city center of Taunton, Massachusetts. Built in 1930 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, it is a fine example of Classical Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987; it was included in the Taunton Green Historic District in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The main Taunton Post Office is located on the west side of Taunton Green, bounded on the south by Cohannet Street. It is a single-story limestone-faced Classical Revival building with a truncated hip roof. The prominent features of its main facade are a series of monumental Tuscan columns, behind which the recessed entry is located. The columns, along with paired square pilasters at the outside of the recessed area, support an entablature, above which a dentillated cornice surrounds the building. The interior has a narrow but wide public lobby space, with terrazzo marble flooring and a high marble wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore, and was built in 1931-32 with funding from the Works Progress Administration. It replaced a Richardsonian Romanesque building dating to the late 19th century, and was built on land once belonging to Samuel Crocker, one of Taunton&#39;s leading businessmen.</p><br>
<p>The Old Attleboro Post Office is a historic post office building at 75 Park Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts. It is a Classical Revival two story stone structure, faced in Indiana limestone, with granite steps leading to a monumental multi-column facade. The interior lobby features a patterned marble floor. The building was constructed in 1916 at a cost of $85,000. Today it is no longer a post office. Instead it is divided between the city of Attleboro and Bristol County, which use it as office space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Viall House is a historic house at 85 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house has an unusual construction history: it was originally built c. 1800 as an outbuilding, probably by either Peter or Thomas Carpenter. It was acquired in 1850 by Samuel Viall, who made extensive alterations, transforming it into a Greek Revival side-hall house, a type which is rare in Rehoboth. The additions on the east side of the house date to the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Santa Fe Freight Depot is a quarter-mile-long building in the industrial area to the east of Downtown Los Angeles, now known as the Arts District. The Southern California Institute of Architecture converted the structure into its campus in 2000. The building&#39;s use as a school has helped revitalize a neighborhood previously considered "a gritty corner of downtown".</p><br>
<h2>Use as a freight depot</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1907, the depot was designed by Harrison Albright, a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete, as a railroad freight depot. The Santa Fe Coast lines secured the property along the Los Angeles River and spent approximately $300,000 building the enormous concrete building.</p><br>
<p>The depot was built to replace a freight center that had burned to the ground, and the narrow steel-reinforced concrete structure became a local landmark. For half its length, the building is only 37 ft in width but, at 1,250 ft in length, it is as long as the Empire State Building is tall.</p><br>
<h2>Conversion to SCI-Arc&#39;s campus</h2><br>
<p>By the 1990s, the depot was a vacant building covered in graffiti. The building had been stripped to the concrete, with a single room as long as four football fields. Over the next two years, SCI-Arc renovated and converted the building, considered an "industrial leftover," into a 61,000 ft&sup2; state-of-the-art architecture school.</p><br>
<p>The renovation was designed by SCI-Arc graduate and faculty member Gary Paige who described the building as a "found object -- one with ceilings up to 20 ft high and broad views of the downtown skyline." One reviewer noted that the structure was a mixed blessing: "Time had been generous to it, giving the interior surfaces a seasoned patina akin to character lines on a wise face. The problem was typology: Being as long as the Empire State Building is tall, the shotgun building was unremittingly linear, with only one jog breaking the monotony of its quarter-mile length." Another review called wrote:</p><br>
<p>The recombinant building is a lesson in engineering and architecture. Thirty thousand square feet of studios and seminar spaces, a workshop, a thesis pit and a bridge to the library have been stacked, cantilevered and suspended to form an open-ended, permissive, flexible space. It seems that anything can happen within these walls. Enter a studio through its doorway (which has no door), and you are standing on what is more like a stage, looking out through a proscenium framed by new steel posts and girders set parallel to and in tandem with the old concrete columns and beams.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the opening of the SCI-Arc campus, the neighborhood around the depot was referred to as a "gritty corner of downtown." Since 2000, SCI-Arcs presence has helped revitalize the neighborhood. However, the areas revitalization has driven up the property&#39;s value and resulted in an expensive legal battle that ended with a determination in June 2005 that SCI-Arc did not have the right to purchase the depot building and land in which its campus is located. A developer also purchased the vacant land to the west of Sci-Arc, announcing plans in 2004 to construct a pair of 40-story towers, each with 384 luxury apartments.</p><br>
<p>Pritzker Prize-winner and SCI-Arc co-founder Thom Mayne wrote an editorial in 2005 urging the city to step in to make sure that SCI-Arc was encouraged and preserved as an important urban catalyst for Downtown Los Angeles. Mayne noted that SCI-Arc had taken root in the neighborhood bringing hundreds of young people into the once-abandoned area, and noted that SCI-Arc&#39;s move to the former freight depot was "the prototype of an institution that resonates with energy and creativity." SCI-Arc succeeded in a second attempt to purchase the building in 2011, paying $23.1 million.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The John Mace Smith House is a historic house at 399 N. Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1844 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is a small Greek Revival "temple front" house. Deeds show that the land, part of the Rodman Farm was surveyed in 1837 and sold by Samuel Rodman to John M. Smith for $1200 on 11/6/1843. Not much is known about Smith - he was associated with the American Print Works in 1859. The house was passed on the Lydia P. Fellows, the daughter of Smith, and wife of the Rev. H. S. Fellows. In the 1890s John Coughlin, a physician lived here: he may be responsible for the building of the ell, as he kept his office and home here.</p><br>
<p>One of a cluster of outstanding Greek Revival houses on North Main Street, built by early mill-owners and prosperous merchants in the downtown area after the 1843 fire. This building, like the majority of the others has certain signature elements reminiscent of Russell Warren&#39;s work, most notably the cantilevered "flying staircase", floor plan and moulding details. The high quality of design and workmanship may be attributable to Russell Warren, a prominent Rhode Island architect and proponent of the Greek Revival. The high architectural quality, the relative scarcity of buildings of this age and type, and their association with figures important in the industrial and commercial development of Fall River.Information provided by Fall River Historical Society</p><br>
<p>The Bradford Smith Building was a historic building at 1927–1941 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a double-gabled roof and a stone-and-brick foundation. It was built in 1887 by Bradford Smith, a retired employee of the Taunton-New Bedford Copper Company, and housed retail space on the first floor and apartments above.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in the Acushnet Heights Historic District in 1989. It underwent a certified rehabilitation for use as senior housing in 1985. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Simcock House is a historic house in Swansea, Massachusetts. Construction of this -story vernacular Georgian house is estimated to have been around 1765; little is known of its history before the 19th century. It is architecturally unusual, with three asymmetrically placed bays and a large central chimney. The door is in the center bay, with a window above that is slightly narrower than the flanking windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Short&#39;s Tavern is a historic building in Swansea, Massachusetts. In form it is a three-quarter Georgian house, stories in height and four bays across, with a side gable roof and a central chimney. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1742 as a farm house, and was acquired 1851 by James Short, who operated a tavern on the premises, capitalizing on its location along what was then a major county road.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The School Street School is an historic school building at School and Fruit Streets in Taunton, Massachusetts. The school was designed by Gustavus L. Smith and built in 1896–97. The schools design is similar to that of two other Smith-designed schools in Taunton, Leonard School and Washington School; these schools are all two-story brick buildings with hip roofs. The School Street School was designed in the Georgian Revival style, which can be seen in its windows and corner quoins. The school served Tauntons large Portuguese immigrant population and was the only school in the city to offer instruction in the immigrants&#39; native Portuguese.</p><br>
<p>The School Street School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Ezekiel Sawin House is a historic house located in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.</p><br>
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<p>The two-story, wood-framed house was built between 1840 and 1844 by Ezekiel Sawin, president of the Fairhaven Bank. It is an elaborate and distinctive expression of Greek Revival styling, with a wraparound porch supported by Ionic columns, and wide corner pilasters. The house also has some Federal elements including a balustrade at the edge of the roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Joel Robinson House is a historic house at 111 Rocklawn Avenue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built by Joel Robinson in 1790, and has remained in the hands of at least ten generations of descendants. The Federal style house is five bays wide and two deep, with a central chimney. Its main entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by a fanlight window and broken gable pediment. An ell extends to the right, joining the main house to a garage added in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Herbert A. Sadler House is a historic house located at 574 Newport Avenue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Built in 1906, it is one of the citys most elaborate examples of Colonial Revival architecture. It was built for Herbert Sadler, the owner of Sadler Brothers, one of the citys leading jewelry firms of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1982. It now houses an assisted living facility.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Herbert A. Sadler House is located in the western part of Attleboro, on the south side of Newport Avenue (Massachusetts Route 123) at its junction with Park Place. It is a large -story wood-frame structure with Colonial Revival. It is covered by a hip roof with extended eaves, and is distinguished by its front porch and side porte cochere. The porch has a central two-story section with monumental Ionic columns rising to a segmented-arch pediment. The porch extends as a single story across the front and wraps around to the left side, with a balustrade on the second level on the left portion. Its supports are clusters of narrow Ionic columns, which also support the porte cochere. The interior retains many original features, including period woodwork, tile fireplace surround, and stained glass windows. Two of the downstairs chambers have original early electric chandeliers.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Samuel B. Fuller of Pawtucket, Rhode Island and built in 1906. Fuller also designed houses for Henry Cole in Providence) in 1910 and Bernard T. Lennon in Pawtucket in 1917. This house remained in Sadler&#39;s family until 1953. It is now a rest home called the Victorian House.</p><br>
<p>The Sacred Heart School is a historic former school building in Fall River, Massachusetts. It is a large two-story brick Georgian Revival building, with stone beltcourses above and below the main floors. The Pine Street facade has a slightly bowed entrance pavilion with three entrances, each set in a round arch. The building was designed by the Boston firm of Maginnis and Walsh, known for its ecclesiastical designs.</p><br>
<p>The school building was constructed in 1931-32 as the second home for the Catholic school which was founded in 1887. The school was closed in 1982 and the school building was sold to a private developer for housing. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Russells Mills Village Historic District is a historic district on Russells Mills, Rock O&#39; Dundee, Slades Corner, Horseneck and Fisher Roads in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It encompasses an area that was an early industrial center, flourishing from the 18th century into the early 19th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Russells Mills Village is approximately 4.5 mi south of US Route 6, on the western bank of the Paskamanset River. The village is mainly stretched along Russells Mills and Horseneck Roads, and radiates along several other roads that extend from the village center. Just south of the village is a former mill pond that is one of the surviving elements of the villages industrial past. The village has about forty buildings, most of them wood-frame residences built in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It includes one house estimated to have been built in 1670, making it Dartmouths oldest surviving structure, and the town&#39;s historic animal pound, a stone enclosure built in 1831. Non-residential buildings include Davolls General Store, a Federal-period general store building, a (former) church built in 1830, and two schools.</p><br>
<p>Although Dartmouth was settled as early as the 1650s, the Russells Mills area was not settled until the 1670s, when members of the Russell family arrived at the mouth of Destruction Brook at the Paskamanset River. The river was soon dammed, and the Russells began industrial activity with mills for grinding grain and sawing lumber. The area flourished economically, with a number of other milling operations taking advantage of the water power provided by both the river and Destruction Brook. In the mid-18th century a modest shipyard was established in the area. The village flourished into the 1850s, by which time its mills were eclipsed by more substantial works at Padanaram and New Bedford. As a result, most of the architecture in the village is either Georgian, Federal, or Greek Revival, reflecting the styles popular at the height of its prosperity.</p><br>
<p>Ruggles Park is a park in Fall River, Massachusetts. It covers about 9 acres within a densely populated working-class neighborhood bounded by Seabury, Robeson, Pine, and Locust Streets, just north of the Granite Mills.</p><br>
<p>The land for park was originally part of the Rodman Farm. In 1868, the city purchased 15 acre that included a fine natural plantation known as Ruggles Grove. It was redesigned in 1903 by the Olmsted Brothers.</p><br>
<p>It is one of three Olmsted parks in the city, along with Kennedy Park (originally known as South Park) and North Park (part of the Highlands Historic District).</p><br>
<p>Ruggles Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Notre Dame School is a historic former school building located at 34 St. Josephs Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Located in the Flint neighborhood, it was built in 1899, and designed by local architect and parish member Louis G. Destremps, who also designed the nearby St. Josephs Orphanage and Notre Dame de Lourdes Church.</p><br>
<p>The large three story brick parochial school was built in the Colonial Revival style. Its full entablature is enhanced by small brackets and dentils. The central entrance is recessed with a covered entry supported by fluted Doric columns. The base is constructed from locally quarried Fall River granite The school opened in the fall of 1900 and was known at the time as Notre Dame College.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Notre Dame School opened in 1876, with the final building opening in 1890.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Its enrollment declined from 1,616 in 1920, its peak enrollment; to 432 in 2001; 149, or to 145 in 2008. The final graduating class had eight students. In addition to the enrollment decline, the overall percentage of Catholic people in Fall River declined, and the archdiocese deemed the facilities to be antiquated. The school closed on June 16, 2008. 109 of the remaining Notre Dame students were to attend the other Catholic schools in fall River, while 24 were to go to public schools and some others, as of June 2008, had not yet selected their next school.</p><br>
<p>Brian Dias, a parent of a student, made a brick memorial to the school with a cost of $3,700, giving it to the community for no cost. Bill Carpenter, a mason from Westport, put the bricks in place for no cost.</p><br>
