<p>The Garrison Grist Mill Historic District is a 13.4 acre parcel of Highlands Country Club located at the southwest corner of the intersection of NY 9D and Lower Station Road  in Garrison, New York, United States. It contains three buildings, including the titular gristmill (believed to be one of the oldest in the county, and a dam, all dating to the colonial era or the early years of American independence. They are interspersed within the club&#39;s golf course, and actually come under the ownership of the Open Space Institute.</p><br>
<p>Little is known about who built the structures, and when. Their architecture suggests they are among the oldest buildings in Garrison, some of the few extant examples of vernacular architecture in the hamlet. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic district in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and properties</h2><br>
<p>The district is bounded on the east by Route 9D, the north by Lower Station Road, the south by Arden Brook and the west by a dirt path that goes from Lower Station to the brook. Other NRHP-listed properties are nearby: The Birches is across 9D, the Mandeville House across Lower Station and Wilson House a short distance to the west down Lower Station, which leads to the train station and the neighboring Garrison Landing Historic District. Castle Rock is visible to the east atop a nearby mountain. The three buildings and one structure, all contributing resources, are located between the fairways of the golf course.</p><br>
<p>The most noticeable building in the district is the red frame one-and-half-story farmhouse visible from the nearby intersection. It sits on a slight slope to the nearby Hudson River. Its shingle siding was applied later over painted weatherboard. The main block retains more of its original furnishing and layout than the kitchen wing.</p><br>
<p>Five hundred feet (500 ft) south of the farmhouse is a New World Dutch barn, in the traditional wood-frame style with large wagon doors at each end. It is sided in weathered clapboard. To its northwest sits the millpond, and at the other end is the gristmill, where the landscape begins to descend more steeply to the river. It is a -story building that has been converted to an apartment in part. In addition to that there have been other renovations and deterioration to the property over the years.</p><br>
<p>The last property in the district is the dam. It is made of locally quarried stone and begins 50 ft east of the mill, following a natural fall line at the northwest corner of the district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is little, if any, mention of the mill, barn or farmhouse in early histories or maps of the Garrison area. Although the architectural styles and building materials strongly suggest a mid- to late 18th century construction date, similar buildings are known to have been erected in the Hudson Valley as late as 1820. The framing system of the farmhouse is more commonly found in the lower valley, in areas closer to New York City that were settled earlier, and more study is needed, especially given the high integrity of the structure.</p><br>
<p>The earliest landowner known to have developed property in the area was Jacob Mandeville, a New York City businessman who leased 400 acre in the area from Beverley Robinson in 1735 and built his still-extant home just outside the district. It is possible that he could have built the farm and mill before the Revolution, but there is no record that would prove this.</p><br>
<p>His landlord was a Virginian who had married into the Philipse family, whose vast landholdings extended from the Garrison area almost to what is today known as Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx, was like his in-laws a Loyalist during the Revolution who actively fought for the crown. The Robinson and Philipse lands were confiscated during the war, and after the colonists&#39; victory he left for England. Mandeville was allowed to live out his life on the (now subdivided) property he had leased, and after his death in 1784 it was purchased by his son-in-law, Joshua Nelson.</p><br>
<p>Nelson further subdivided the property, and in 1792 sold the 70 acre parcel including the district. From him it passed through several other owners, who appear to have continued to farm and mill. The last of these, Thomas Arden and his family, acquired the property in 1820 and continued to own it for the rest of the century. In 1899, the Ardenia Corporation, a local conservation organization, took title and, shortly afterward, leased it to the newly formed Highlands Country Club for use as part of its golf course.</p><br>
<p>As Garrison became a popular area to build large riverside estates, the properties remained untouched but were also largely ignored by any historians of the area. In 1934, however, Thomas Hotchkiss, a Peekskill man working for the Historic American Buildings Survey, visited what he described as the "Galloway Farmhouse", then in use as a greenskeepers lodge, and wrote a brief report as well as taking photographs and making sketches. Hotchkiss noted the unique historicity of a group of buildings that were so old having survived the later surge of local development, and documented some features of the buildings, particularly the mill wheels exterior gearing, that have since been lost.</p><br>
<p>In 1986 it came under the control of the Open Space Institute (OSI), as part of a 71 acre parcel that became Arden Point State Park. OSI renovated the mill, and has allowed the club to continue its use as a golf course, since that preserves the original agricultural character of the surrounding land.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrews Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic Episcopal Church built in 1871 and located at the corner of Church Street and St. Andrews in Clinton, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the 1958 movie, The Long, Hot Summer, which starred Paul Newman, Lee Remick and Joanne Woodward, were filmed at the church. St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The congregation meets at 9 A.M. each Sunday for Holy Eucharist three Sundays a month and Morning Prayer on the other Sunday(s). Coffee and fellowship follow immediately in the parish hall. All are welcome.</p><br>
<p>The church is located at 11015 Church St., Clinton, LA 70722. The phone number is (225) 683-5498.</p><br>
<p>The Beal–Gaillard House is a historic house located at 111 Myrtlewood Lane in Mobile, Alabama. It is locally significant as an excellent example of a large country home constructed before the widespread use of highly sophisticated moldings and columnar orders.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1836 in a Creole cottage style. It is located at the center of its original 5-acre plot, the northwest corner of which has been sold to a relative. The frame dwelling is raised on a high foundation wall made of about 32 courses of brick, and giving sufficient head room to be able to examine the beautifully mortised and pegged framing. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1984, as a part of the 19th Century Spring Hill Neighborhood Thematic Resource.</p><br>
<p>The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal is a historic train station in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Architect P. Thornton Marye designed the Mission Revival style terminal for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. It was completed in 1907 at a total cost of $575,000. The Mobile and Ohio merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad in 1940 to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Trains in final years</h2><br>
<p>Major trains served:</p><br>
<p>Gulf, Mobile & Ohio:</p><br>
<p>Gulf Coast Rebel: St. Louis, Missouri&ndash;Mobile</p><br>
<p>Southern Railway:</p><br>
<p>Goldenrod: Birmingham, Alabama&ndash;Mobile</p><br>
<h2>Demise</h2><br>
<p>The last GM&O passenger trains into Mobile terminal station were the Gulf Coast Rebels, which made their last runs on October 14, 1958. Louisville & Nashville passenger service in Mobile called at a separate L&N station located about 1 mile distant. Passenger service in the Amtrak era continued at the former L&N passenger station Mobile station. GM&O Terminal Station continued to serve as railroad offices. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1975. It had suffered neglect, extensive interior alteration, and partial removal of the train shed by this time. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad vacated the old terminal building in 1986 and for fifteen years it suffered from demolition-by-neglect. The Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of their "Places in Peril" in 1996. In 2001 the City of Mobile and a private company invested more than $18 million to restore the local landmark with the developer taking advantage of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program. Today the building houses private offices and the city&#39;s The Wave Transit System. The renovated facility was extensively damaged by flooding during Hurricane Katrina.</p><br>
<p>St. Francis Street Methodist Church, officially St. Francis Street United Methodist Church, is a historic former United Methodist Church building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The current structure was built in 1896 by the architectural firm of Watkins and Johnson. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824–1889) met his wife Amelia Townsend (1827–1891) in this church. He later founded Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee thanks to his wife&#39;s cousin, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885), who convinced her second husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man in the United States at the time, to donate US$1 million for its creation.</p><br>
<p>The church closed in 1993, and in 2015 was renovated for use as a concert and events venue known as The Steeple.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Marys Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Marys Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary&#39;s Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival Style Victorian building with Georgian Revival accents currently houses the Grass Valley Museum, at 410 South Church Street between Chapel and Dalton Streets, Grass Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Katherine Russell (sister of Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen and better known as Mother Mary Baptist Russell, or simply "Mother Baptist") arrived in San Francisco with seven other Sisters of Mercy on 1854-12-08 from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland; other Sisters followed. On 1863-08-20, spearheaded by vicar-general Father Thomas Dalton, five Sisters, including Mother Baptist, arrived in Grass Valley to help the California Gold Rush miners orphans. Bishop Eugene OConnell placed the cornerstone for the convent/orphanage building on Sunday, 1865-05-02. The Sisters moved in on 1866-03-20, and the first orphans were taken in on 1866-04-02.</p><br>
<p>The orphanage closed in 1932 and the facility was de-sanctified in 1968. The following year, in 1969, the Grass Valley Historic Preservation Committee began repair and preservation of the building and the Sisters rose garden. The Foley Library for Historical Research in nearby Nevada City, California retains historical documents for Mount St. Marys.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Marys Academy is still running as a school.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The building is three stories tall, and was built at a cost of $19,856, including construction and interior furnishings.</p><br>
<p>First floor - Construction: stone. Use: classrooms, dining room, kitchen, laundry, lavatory, store rooms.</p><br>
<p>Second floor - Construction: brick. Use: chapel, classrooms, library, parlors.</p><br>
<p>Third floor - Construction: brick. Use: dormitories, sleeping quarters, infirmary.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark designation</h2><br>
<p>This Nevada County building is honored as on the National Register of Historic Places and as California Historical Landmark No. 855, registered in 1972-04-24. The plaque&#39;s inscription states:</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Mary&#39;s Convent and Academy</p><br>
<p>Built by Reverend Thomas J. Dalton, the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage was dedicated May 2, 1865 by Bishop Eugene O&#39;Connell. Under the Sisters of Mercy, it served from 1866 to 1932 as the first orphanage of the Northern Mines. It functioned as an academy from 1868 to 1965 and as a convent from 1866 to 1968.</p><br>
<p>The plaque was placed on the building on October 28, 1972, by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.</p><br>
<p>Rippavilla Plantation, also known as Meadowbrook and Nathaniel Cheairs House, is a former plantation, historic house and museum, located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This plantation had been worked by enslaved Black people for many years. It is open to visitors as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1996, for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Cheairs family were part of a 1810 land grant awarded by President James Madison. Initially the property included a 1500-acre farm. Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV (1818–1914) resided on the property along with his wife, Susan Peters Cheairs (née McKissack; 1821–1893) until her death. Around 1840, the Cheairs family owned 46 enslaved black people and up to 75 by 1860 (Rippa Villa, Battle of Franklin Trust). Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV served in the Confederate Army, however the Rippavilla Plantation sustained minimal damage during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The plantation house was built in several phases but was extensively remodeled between 1928 and 1932. Its architectural style was antebellum Greek Revival, however modifications to the house were done in a 20th-century Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>His son, William McKissack Cheairs took ownership of the home until he sold it in 1920 to John G. Whitfield, a coal tycoon from Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Clermont is a 355 acre farm and national historic district located near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. The main house was created by Edward Snickers in five parts, beginning in 1756, with additions circa 1770, 1810 and 1840, with a final addition in 1970. The house has an unusual plan with a stair perpendicular to the central hall.</p><br>
<p>The original land grant was made from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron to John Vance in 1751. Vance, born in 1699, was from County Tyrone in Ireland, sailing to America in 1731. In 1753 he sold the property to Thomas Wadlington, who in turn sold to Edward Snickers, who ran a tavern and a ferry on the Shenandoah River near Williams Gap, later called Snickers Gap. His son William inherited the property in 1791. In 1819 William Snickers sold Clermont to Dawson McCormick, whose son Edward inherited the property in 1834. After Edward&#39;s death in 1871, his wife Emma sold a 321 acre of the property to former slaves and other African-Americans in the area, creating the community of Josephine City, now Josephine Street in Berryville.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Park Police Station on York Boulevard in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the city&#39;s oldest surviving police station. Closed in 1983, the station is now operated as the Los Angeles Police Museum. It has been designated as a Historic Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built from 1925 to 1926 at a cost of $100,000, the station opened in April 1926 in a ceremony attended by Chief Edgar Davis and Police Commissioners Birnbaum, Insley and Webster.</p><br>
<p>A number of big cases were handled out of the Highland Park station; it was there that Det. Robert Grogan pursued the "Hillside Stranglers", Angelo Buono, Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi. In the early 1980s, the building was cited for failure to meet seismic safety standards and was described as a "Shake and Bake Hellhole". The radical Symbionese Liberation Army (the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst and engaged in an infamous shootout with the LAPD in 1974) planted a bomb in the Highland Park Station in 1973, but it proved to be a dud.</p><br>
<p>In 1942, future LAPD Chief Daryl Gates was arrested and briefly held at the Highland Park station after punching a police officer; in 1963, Gates returned as a police captain in command of the station. He later wrote, "Never dreaming I would voluntarily return to the station where I&#39;d been brought in for punching a cop, I showed up for work, eager to continue trying out my talents as a boss."</p><br>
<p>The station was closed in 1983 as the Los Angeles Police Department moved its Northeast Division to a new location. With the vacant station threatened by demolition, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission declared the building a Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #274) in January 1984; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places two months later in March 1984. It is the only precinct police station in California listed on the National Register. (The City of San Diego Police Headquarters, Jails and Courts building is also registered.)</p><br>
<p>As late as 1985, the city considered several proposals to convert the building to commercial office and retail space, a live theater and restaurant.</p><br>
<h3>Television production</h3><br>
<p>Because it is Los Angeles last surviving station built in the 1920s, the building has been sought-after as a filming location. The citys motion picture coordination office scheduled reservations by film and TV crews several months in advance.</p><br>
<p>The building has also been used in television as an establishing shot for the Mathnet (1987–88) and Pawnee (2011) police stations, and others.</p><br>
<h2>Los Angeles Police Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Los Angeles Police Museum, including photographs, uniforms, badges, squad cars, a paddy wagon, and bullet-riddled vehicles. The museum chronicles the formation of the LAPD from its beginnings in 1869 to the present day. The original jail cells of the Highland Park Police Station can be viewed along with a reproduction of the first police woman&#39;s uniform in the nation worn by LAPD officer Alice Stebbins Wells in 1910. Records preserved by the Los Angeles Police Historical Society at the museum include LAPD annual reports, LAPD yearbooks, and The Beat magazines. The museum is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building in Scotland, South Dakota, in the United States. The brick Gothic Revival style building was built in 1886, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s is no longer an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. In 2001, Preserve South Dakota, headquartered only a few blocks away at 351 4th Street in Scotland, placed it on its list of threatened historic properties in South Dakota. Its current status according to Preserve South Dakota is threatened with the notation: "building is privately owned, vacant with broken windows and roof leaks."</p><br>
<p>The George Levy House  is a historic house located in Mobile, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The one-story, informally landscaped house was built in 1927 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It stands on 50 by 140 foot lot.</p><br>
<p>The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1991, as a part of the Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>107FlorencePlace.jpgThe house in March 2018</p><br>
<p>The Ernest Megginson House is a historic house located in Mobile, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The one-story, informally landscaped house was built in 1927 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1991. It is a part of the Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission. It is named after Ernest M. Megginson, who served as Mayor of Mobile four times between 1942 and 1951.</p><br>
<p>The Payne-Desha House is a historic house located on land west of Royal Spring Branch near downtown Georgetown, Kentucky, USA that was built in 1814 by Robert Payne, a Kentucky war hero from the Battle of the Thames. Also, the house was the last residence of Joseph Desha, the ninth governor of Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1784, Elijah Craig established the town of Lebanon, Virginia near McClelland&#39;s Station, an abandoned army fort. The name was changed to George Town in 1790 as a tribute to the first President of the United States, George Washington. The town was centered around Royal Spring, a large spring that was reliable source of water for the residents and industry in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Payne-Desha House was built on the west side of Royal Spring Branch on land originally owned by Elijah Craig. After Craigs death in 1808, General Richard Gano and Josiah Pitts purchased the property near Royal Spring Branch from Craigs</p><br>
<p>estate. In 1814 General John Payne bought both pieces of land making a 20 acre estate. Payne&#39;s son Robert and daughter-in-law Maria (Williams) built a large stone house on the property. Financial circumstances forced the sale of the estate in 1821 and Benjamen Smith bought the property.</p><br>
<p>During the later years of his life, former Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha and his wife Margaret relocated to Georgetown. The couple first resided on East Main Street, then in 1841 moved to the property along Royal Spring Branch. Desha lived in the Payne-Desha House until his death on October 11, 1842.</p><br>
<p>James Y. Kelly owned the property in the later part of the 19th century when extensive changes were made to the exterior of the house. Another longtime resident of the house was James R. Hamilton, who remodeled the structure in 1955 and 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Originally, the Payne-Desha House was built in the Federal style, and in the late 19th century the structure was updated to the then popular Italianate style. Additionally, the house underwent renovations in 1955 and 1975.</p><br>
<p>As first built, the Payne-Desha house featured "an arch spanned central hall, a winding staircase, ash floors, sunburst design mantels, beaded and fluted woodwork, three basements, and a hipped roof" making the stone building one of the most intricate early stone structures in Scott County, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the house was altered in the late 19th century with the addition of Italianate style porches, hoodmolds, and roofbrackets.</p><br>
<p>The Shropshire House is a Greek Revival Federal style house located in the East Main Street Residential Historic District in Georgetown, Kentucky. The house was the built in 1814 by John and Mary  Buckner.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Shropshire House is a residential dwelling built in 1814 by John and Mary (Gano) Buckner on East Main Street near the downtown area of Georgetown. The house is located in the East Main Street Residential District; an area designated a historically significant location by the USA National Registered of Historic Places because of its importance in the history of the city.</p><br>
<p>Both John and Mary Buckner came from families that were early settler in central Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, the property was sold to Alexander Parker, who resold the home to Elizabeth Lewis as a residence for her daughter Sophia and her husband, John T. Johnson. Johnson lived in the house while he served in the United States Congress.</p><br>
<p>Robert J. Ward purchased the property in 1828 and lived in the home with his family until they moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1833.</p><br>
<p>George W. Johnson, future Confederate governor of Kentucky, bought the property from the Ward&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>John C. Miller purchased the house in 1835. In 1894 Joel Penn bought the house. J. Gano Shropshire and his wife, Nancy "Nannie" (nee Burgess), purchased the house in 1918 and did extensive remodeling of the structure.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Shropshire House is a single story structure built in the Federal style with renovations done in the 1840s in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Harry W. Jones House is a historic house in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in the Tangletown neighborhood. Harry Wild Jones was one of the most notable architects in Minneapolis, with a career spanning nearly 50 years. His designs included the Butler Brothers Warehouse, the chapel in Lakewood Cemetery, and the Washburn Park Water Tower. His own home, built in 1887, was one of the first homes in the Washburn Park area and influenced the design of other homes in the area. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The George Fearn House is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1904 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by local architect George Bigelow Rogers. It was the first Spanish Colonial Revival building to be built in Mobile. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1991. It is a part of the Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>Saint Josephs Roman Catholic Church was a historic Roman Catholic church building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It served as the parish church for St. Josephs Parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Parish was the third oldest in Mobile. It was formed in 1857 to serve Catholics too far removed from the downtown Cathedral and the Church of St. Vincent de Paul in South Mobile.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Parish was approaching its 160th year of service before its closure in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bishop Michael Portier appointed a Jesuit priest, Father Peter Ismand as the first pastor of St.Joseph Parish in the year 1857. Father Peter Ismand was a popular priest who ministered the soldiers of both the Confederacy and the Union Armed Forces. He was also very active during the Yellow Fever epidemic.</p><br>
<p>The Sisters of Mercy came to Mobile in 1884 for service in St. Josephs Parish. Their social works mission included visiting the sick, the destitute and prisoners. They founded St. Josephs School, later to be called the Convent of Mercy Academy. The convent was moved to another location in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Membership of the Parish began to swell and a need arose to plan and construct a larger Church. The present land at Springhill Avenue was purchased from the Prador family. The Jesuits of Spring Hill College were entrusted with the erection of a Church, which they built close to the city hospital in 1858.</p><br>
<p>The new parish was made up primarily of German immigrants. A magnificent church building with its soaring nave and spectacular, stained glass windows was designed in Gothic style. The corner stone was laid by the then Bishop Allen on August 8, 1907. Construction was completed within a year and the present sanctuary was dedicated on August 4, 1908.</p><br>
<p>In 1907 several organizations were established by the church under the leadership of Father Linus Schuler. Among these were: The Altar Society, The Holy Name Society, St. Vincent de Paul Conference, The Society for Propagation of Faith and The Holy Child Association.</p><br>
<p>In September 1908 the Mobile Daily Register wrote a short article about the newly completed church calling it "one of the handsomest churches in the state." The paper noted the lack of interior columns as a "striking feature" resulting in an "entirely open interior." The church has a seating capacity of 800.</p><br>
<p>The Jesuits continued to manage the Church and established an endowment to provide ongoing support for the Parish. In 2009 the Jesuits turned over management to the Archdioceses of Mobile.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Diboll and Owen of New Orleans were the architects and G. A. Chamblin of Mobile was the contractor.</p><br>
<p>The Church itself is an impressive example of the Gothic Revival style. It is sixty by one hundred feet/ brick with a granite water table and a one hundred and twenty foot tower. The building is a classic medieval reproduction with a gable (slate) to the front nave, a 120-foot centered square tower/ transepts and apse.</p><br>
<p>The facade is dominated by the tower, which has a central entrance of paired wooden doors with Tudor arch tops and corbeled in, battlemented parapet over the entrance. The tower features monumental buttresses with a set of tripled stained glass Tudor windows in the second story and tripled louvered vents in the third story.</p><br>
<p>The side elevations feature large Tudor stained glass windows delineated by buttresses. The transepts are buttressed and include each a pair of tall Tudor windows and large stained glass window above. There is a copper cross atop each transept.</p><br>
<p>The church is entered by the tower and double wooden doors and stained glass windows lead into the sanctuary. The interior consists of a large nave with four rows of pews and open transepts. The aisles are covered by low arches and a high arch covers the nave. There are no columns supporting these arches. The walls are clad with marble wainscoting. The stained glass windows (imported from Germany) are interspersed with the Stations of the Cross.</p><br>
<p>Lantern lights are suspended along each side of the nave. The marble chancery rail extends across the west end of the interior. The apse features free standing Corinthian columns with gilded capitals to either side and massive engaged Corinthian pillars behind. The marble altar is carved with a scene of the Last Supper and the high altar is marble as well with intricate carvings and spires.</p><br>
<p>Each transept includes a large round stained glass window with a niche below containing statuary. A small free standing semi-circular balcony over the main entrance includes organ pipes but no seating.</p><br>
<h2>Closure</h2><br>
<p>In 2017, the Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama announced its decision to permanently close St. Joseph Church after 109 years of operation. This decision was met with resistance from members of the church, who claimed that Archbishop Thomas Rodi had sold the church out from under them and made off with their historic artifacts and endowment fund. Financial records show that the endowment fund was over $2 million and that the parish had been financially stable, with almost $80,000 in income over expenses, before the decision to close it was made. Parishioners also alleged that Archbishop Rodi and their pastor, Msgr. Farmer, failed to provide the necessary documentation that would have allowed them to appeal the closure of the church. In 2018, St. Joseph was closed and sold, with the proceeds going to the Archdiocese. Many of the church&#39;s artworks were then removed and placed in the new St. Ignatius Church being built at the time.</p><br>
<h2>National Historic Register Significance</h2><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Roman Catholic Church retains its integrity of location/ materials and design. The original Gothic cupolas atop the tower corners were destroyed by Hurricane Frederic in 1979. There are no other exterior changes of note. Interior integrity is excellent as well.</p><br>
<p>Saint Joseph&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is significant under National Register Criterion as an important high style example of the Second Gothic Revival in Mobile. The high style design, quality materials and workmanship are typical of Catholic architectural endeavors in the city. The property is further significant for the Rectory, contemporary with the church and stylistically compatible through its details. No other rectory in the city is so architecturally similar to its church as this one.</p><br>
<p>The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1991 as part of the Historic Roman Catholic Properties in Mobile Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>Castle Rock, also called Osborn Castle, is the estate of former Illinois Central Railroad president William H. Osborn in Garrison, New York, United States. It sits on the hill of the same name, looking down on the Hudson River 620 ft below. Visible from West Point across the river and traffic on NY 9D passing through Garrison, it has become one of the most recognizable man-made landmarks of the Hudson Highlands.</p><br>
<p>The Osborn family, including paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn and his son, conservationist Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr, owned and lived in it since it was built by J. Morgan Slade in 1881 as a summer residence, although the original acreage has been subdivided considerably since then. In 1977 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Castle Rock was bought in 2021 by George Carroll Whipple III, a third generation, Putnam county resident and philanthropist. He has begun a 10 year restoration of this national historic landmark. Restoring it to high original standards “as built“. This historic restoration is the fifth property in Putnam county Mr. Whipple has restored. Castle Rock is a private family home and it’s not open to the public. Mr. Whipple lives there with his daughter Elizabeth Marie Whipple who was designated “Princess Putnan County of Castle Rock and Pine View Farm” by Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell on her fourth birthday April 20, 2021. Whipple family asks at the public respect their privacy. Most of the remaining land is now open to the public for hiking.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The rough-cut stone castle-like main house is built around a main block with a conical-roofed round tower. Porches and verandas project from many sides of the home to take advantage of the views of the river and mountains in the area. The roof is consistent red slate, with dormers of differing shapes and sizes scattered throughout. One gable to the east uses dressed stone, in contrast with the rest of the building. A north wing with library and extra bedrooms were added later. Four interior chimneys are within the mansion. In 2010, extensive historic restoration work was completed to repair the entire slate roof, tower, dormers, and chimneys.</p><br>
<p>There are several outbuildings and other structures on the original property that are included as contributing resources. To the northeast, on the mountains summit, is Woodsome Lodge, a rustic log cabin with its own views of the Highlands. The estates spring-fed wooden water tank is also nearby. A stone arch bridge was added at the same time as the library wing. Stone was also used for a -story gatehouse along the winding driveway leading up to the house from Cat Rock Road (NY 403).</p><br>
<p>Buildings that predate the estate are also included. A -story farmhouse known locally as Wing & Wing, built some years before it was expanded into a contemporary cottage in 1858, is near Route 9D on the open meadows between the road and the hill. Also there is a barn-and-farmhouse complex, with nearby shingled home, built by other landowners at the end of the 19th century. A small guest cottage was later built on a separate 2.4 acre property.</p><br>
<p>Another Osborn-estate–related property, The Birches, is at the very corner of Routes 9D and 403. It was used by Osborn&#39;s sons after their weddings, and is listed separately on the National Register, but was not formally part of the estate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1855 Osborn, who had been one of the charter officers of the Illinois Central two years earlier, visited the Highlands to take in the fresh air and scenic beauty of the area. He enjoyed his visit so much that he decided to buy the property where Castle Rock and its associated properties now stands. He and his family spent summers in Wing and Wing until the castle was completed the year before he retired from the railroad industry as president of the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad. He lived there until his death in 1894, devoting his time and money to philanthropic activities in New York.</p><br>
<p>It was inherited by his son Henry Fairfield Osborn. Since it was intended as a retirement house, it needed to be expanded to accommodate the younger Osborns wife and family. The library wing was added in 1906; most of Osborns paleontological papers were written at Castle Rock.</p><br>
<p>Osborn also made other improvements to the property, including Woodsome Lodge, and other wings that doubled the size of the original castle. Most of these were architecturally sympathetic to Slades original design, and there has been little change to it since then. In the late 1970s, after the property was listed on the Register, New Yorks Department of Environmental Conservation bought 129 acre of the former estate,</p><br>
<p>Ashworth Brothers Mill is an historic mill complex located on Globe Mills Avenue in Fall River, Massachusetts. The mill was constructed for the manufacture of textile carding machinery. The site was determined eligible for the National Historic Register in 1983, but omitted due to owner&#39;s objection. It was listed in 2023 following a subsequent owner rescinding the objection and seeking listing to qualify for Federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credits.</p><br>
<p>Laurel Lake Mills is an historic textile mill site located at 951 Broadway in Fall River, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The company was organized in 1881 for the manufacture of cotton yarns, with John P. Slade its first president. Mill No. 1 was built soon after.</p><br>
<p>The attached Mill No. 2 was later added. The mills were steam powered and are constructed of native Fall River granite.</p><br>
<p>Production of textiles ceased in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The site was determined eligible for the National Historic Register in 1983, but omitted due to owner&#39;s objection.</p><br>
<p>Border City Mills is an historic textile mill site located at the corner of West Street and Weaver Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The company was established in 1873 for the manufacture of cotton textiles. The company&#39;s first president was S. Angier Chace and George T. Hathaway was treasurer.</p><br>
<p>The first Mill No.1 was erected in 1873 but was destroyed by fire in 1877. The current Mill No.1, located on West Street was constructed in 1880, from red brick, but of less ornate construction than the original 1873 mill.</p><br>
<p>During the financial crisis of 1879, the company was re-organized with John S. Brayton as president.</p><br>
<p>Mill No. 3 was later built 1888, on Weaver Street. The company was still operating in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The site was determined eligible for the National Historic Register in 1983, but omitted due to owner&#39;s objection.</p><br>
<p>However, Border City Mill No. 2, nearby was later added in 1990, under a separate NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>On February 20, 2016, an early morning fire destroyed Mill No. 3.</p><br>
<p>Wyoming Mills is an historic textile mill site located at 110 Chace Avenue in Fall River, Massachusetts. It is also known as the former Marshall Hat Factory site.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming Mills company was established in 1845 by Augustus Chace and William B. Trafford for the manufacture of cotton twine.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, the site was acquired by the James Marshall & Brothers hat company, which added a large red brick mill on the site. By 1911, the company employed 1,500 people and made more than 7,200 derby hats per day.</p><br>
<p>The site was determined eligible for the National Historic Register in 1983, but was not listed due to the owner&#39;s objection. It was eventually listed on the National Register in 2024.</p><br>
<p>The site is currently owned by Duro Industries, a textile dyeing and finishing company.</p><br>
<p>The William Lampman House is located at 147 Grandview Avenue, in Catskill, New York. The 2.6 acre site is located on the west side of Catskill Creek, which bisects the town. Contractor, builder and lumberdealer William E. Lampman built the house around 1891. It is significant as an excellent example of the Second Empire style of architecture in Catskill. It is a three-story, brick L-shaped house on a stone foundation. Its characteristic mansard roof is topped with slate shingles. The house was constructed with a traditional center hall plan. In the 1940s, it was converted to apartments but still retains many characteristic architectural features in the interior. Also on the property is a contributing two story carriagehouse, which has fallen into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>The house was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The South Serrano Avenue Historic District is a historic district of early 20th Century homes along the 400 block of South Serrano Avenue in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles, California. The block of well-preserved homes was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is the sole intact block of single family homes in an area having many large apartment buildings.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 17 houses counted as contributing buildings, one non-contributing residence, and two vacant lots. All of the houses were built during the period from 1912 to 1921.</p><br>
<p>Several of the buildings were designed by architect Frank M. Tyler:</p><br>
<p>William & Mary Glascock House (1914), 451 S. Serrano Avenue</p><br>
<p>Ellen and John Bolieu House (194), 414 S. Serrano Avenue</p><br>
<p>Jose & Concepcion A. de Samaniego House (1914), 420 S. Serrano Avenue</p><br>
<p>Architect Harry Hayden Whiteley, who had worked in Tyler&#39;s office from 1907 to 1910, also designed some works in the district, and architect Henry J. Knauer designed one: the house at 403 S. Serrano Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of homes in South Serrano Historic District</h2><br>
<p>Ralphs Grocery Store is a historic building in the Westwood Village section of Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Built in 1929 as a Ralphs Grocery Store, it was one of the original six buildings in the Westwood Village development. The building was noted for its cylindrical rotunda capped by a low saucer dome, with a pediment over the entrance and arcaded wings extending north and east. It was photographed by Ansel Adams in 1940, declared a Historic-Cultural Monument in 1988, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Origins of Westwood Village</h2><br>
<p>The history of Westwood Village began in 1925, when the Regents of the University of California purchased a large block of land from the Janss Investment Company for the construction of the new UCLA campus. The Janss family retained ownership of the land south of the campus and there developed Westwood Village — a carefully planned commercial center that was to be "a model college town."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and opening of Ralphs Grocery Store</h2><br>
<p>The new Westwood Village began to open in 1929, and one of its original buildings was the Ralphs Grocery Store located on Westwood Boulevard, one block north of Wilshire Boulevard. The stores most prominent feature was its low rotunda, at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive. The buildings exterior walls were built with imitation stone, but were later covered with stucco. The buildings style has been described as having Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival elements, and is said to have served as a model for other low-rise commercial structures in the village. Early advertising materials for the Westwood Village development featured images of the Ralphs tower and the Janss dome, which became area landmarks. The opening of the store in the fall of 1929 was timed to coincide with the opening of the UCLA campus, and the Los Angeles Times proclaimed the store "one of the most beautiful exclusive grocery marts in the West." The opening was celebrated with a free food show, as Ralphs boasted a new feature at their Westwood store &mdash; "the employment of uniformed boys to wrap each purchase of merchandise while it is being paid for at the cashiers stand, and then carry it to the customer&#39;s car."</p><br>
<p>In 1940, Ansel Adams took a series of photographs of Westwood Village, some featuring the Ralphs building. The photographs are part of the collections of the Los Angeles Public Library and can be viewed, and.</p><br>
<h2>Businesses operating in the building</h2><br>
<p>Ralphs operated a grocery store on the site until the mid-1960s, when it left Westwood Village. Ralphs returned to Westwood Village nearly 40 years later, converting the old Bullocks department store into a grocery store (formerly sharing the space with a Best Buy and an Expo Home Design Center). Since Ralphs vacated the building in the mid-1960s, it has housed a number of different businesses. In 1970 a large portion of the space facing Lindbrook Drive was converted into a movie theater, which was known over the years as the United Artists Theater, (where The Rocky Horror Picture Show made its US debut on September 26, 1975) the UA Egyptian, the Odeon Cinema, and finally as the Mann Festival which closed on July 30, 2009. The Bratskeller restaurant, popular with UCLA students, also operated at the building from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the prime corner space at the base of the tower was split between Daphnes Greek Cafe and Togos Sandwich Restaurant. In late 2008, they were replaced with a Peets Coffee & Tea, which remains currently. In early 2012, part of the shuttered movie theater was converted into 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria.</p><br>
<h2>Historic preservation and designation</h2><br>
<p>Since the 1970s, the demand for office and residential space around the UCLA campus has resulted in much of the original Mediterranean architecture giving way to large modern high rises, as depicted in the photograph to the right. Preservationists sought to preserve what could be saved of the original Westwood architecture, and in 1988 the Ralphs-Bratskeller-Egyptian Theater building was designated as a Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #360) by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. In 1992, the Ralphs building was also added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Bagley Memorial Fountain is a historic fountain in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It has recently been moved from its long-time location in Campus Martius Park to a new location just down the street in Cadillac Square Park. The fountain was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971. The John N. Bagley House  at 2921 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit was constructed for Governor Bagley&#39;s son, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>John J. Bagley</h2><br>
<p>John J. Bagley was the 16th governor of Michigan, serving from 1873 to 1877. Bagley also served as a Detroit Alderman from 1860 to 1861 and as Police Commissioner from 1865 to 1872. He was instrumental in the creation of the Detroit Metropolitan Police Commission and the construction of the first Detroit House of Corrections. When Bagley died in 1881, his will contained $5,000 for the construction of a drinking fountain for the people of Detroit, having "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream."</p><br>
<h2>Fountain</h2><br>
<p>In 1885, the Bagley family chose Henry Hobson Richardson to design the fountain. In 1887, the Bagley Memorial Fountain was dedicated at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Fort Street. Richardson constructed the fountain entirely out of pink Bragville granite, modeled after a ciborium located in St. Mark&#39;s Basilica in Venice. The Bagley Memorial Fountain stands 21 feet high with a basin 7 feet across. At the center of the fountain, four lion heads distribute water. In the original design, two of the heads produced "normal" temperature water and the other two produced cold water, chilled by ice packed around the fountain pipes. The inscription on the four sides of the cornice reads: TESTAMENTARY GIFTFOR THE PEOPLE FROMJOHN JVDSON BAGLEYA.D. MDCCCLXXXVII.</p><br>
<h2>Later moves</h2><br>
<p>In 1926 the fountain was moved from its original home at Woodward and Fort to Campus Martius, because of the increase of automobile traffic. In 2007, the fountain was installed in its current location in Cadillac Square; a new lion fountainhead replaced the original, which was stolen. It is the only remaining work by Richardson in the Detroit area.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church located at 642 Telfair Street in Augusta, Georgia in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was established in 1804, and the building was completed in 1812. In 1808, while the congregation was still holding services at St. Pauls Episcopal Church, members helped start a church in Smyrna in Wilkes County. In 1925 the Ladies Foreign Missionary Society already was collecting donations, making it the first such ministry in the world, according to the statistics of the church.</p><br>
<p>During his childhood, United States president Woodrow Wilsons father, Joseph R. Wilson, was minister at First Presbyterian from 1858 to 1870. The Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home is a historic site nearby. In 1861 the Church hosted the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States and the first minister in this new denomination was President Wilsons father.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War the building was used as a hospital for men wounded, and the churchyard was a detention camp for Union prisoners in the Battle of Chickamauga. Men who died were buried in the Magnolia Cemetery. During this time Joseph Wilson was called to the chaplain ministry in the army, and in 1870 Wilson was called to serve at a seminary in South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Westminster Day School was started in 1972. The campus of Westminster Schools, located on Wheeler Road, now has more than 500 pupils, grades K–4 through 12.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church started a missions conference, and the annual event is a combination retreat and workshop for missionaries and their families. It also is an opportunity for the people of Augusta to hear about work in the field.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, First Presbyterian dropped its affiliation with the Southern Presbyterian Church over issues such as the authority of scripture and the role of women in the church, and became independent. It aligned itself with the Presbyterian Church in America in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Church building</h2><br>
<p>Later the church served as a center of social and religious activities during World War I and World War II.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Robert Mills in the Romanesque style. Mills was also Presbyterian, and was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC. The church sanctuary was built in 1809–12. The church was finished and dedicated in 1812 in Classical style. The church was significantly changed in 1847 to incorporate Romanesque round-arched windows and doors and crenellated parapet walls. Mills&#39; design, however, is still evident in the shape and scale of the historic building. A plaque marks the Wilson pew in the sanctuary. A letter signed by President Wilson and some furniture used by his family when they lived in the manse were installed in a classroom. Four halls on the sides and rear of the sanctuary were added to the building from 1951 to 1978. On February 21, 1997, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as First Presbyterian Church of Augusta. The church celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2004</p><br>
<h2>Doctrine</h2><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a member congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America.</p><br>
<p>It adheres to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Westminster Shorter Cathechism and Westminster Larger Catechism.</p><br>
<p>The church has about 1,900 members.</p><br>
<p>The lead pastor is Rev. Michael K. Hearon.</p><br>
<p>The Exposition Park Rose Garden is a historic 7 acre sunken garden located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California. It has been called "one of the city&#39;s best-kept secrets". It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Establishment of the rose garden</h2><br>
<p>From 1871 to 1911, the site of the rose garden was part of the citys Agricultural Park. The rose garden area was then used for horse, camel, dog, and later automobile racing; it also reportedly housed the citys longest bar and "one of its most stylish brothels." In 1914, the city announced plans to construct a wildflower garden at the park, but the rose garden was not built until 1927 with the planting of 15,000 bushes of more than 100 varieties. When the garden was announced, the Los Angeles Times applauded the project: "No more fitting tribute could be paid to the spirit of Southern California than to erect in the center of her largest city the greatest rose garden in the world." During the Great Depression, the lack of funding threatened the closure of the rose garden, then described as "the largest rose garden in the world."</p><br>
<h2>Boldsen statues</h2><br>
<p>In 1936, four large marble statues by Danish sculptor Thyra Boldsen were installed on pedestals at the four corners of the garden. The statues were titled "Nymph Finding Pipes of Pan," "The Blessing" (dedicated to the mothers of the world), "The Start" (awarded first prize by the Danish Academy of Fine Arts), and "Terpsichore" (or "Melody of Life"). The sculptor explained her intent with the statues this way: "In conceiving and executing these four figures dedicated to womanhood and motherhood, I have had in mind that men for centuries have erected statues symbolizing bravery—these symbolize love, life and joy."</p><br>
<h2>Popularity of the Rose Garden</h2><br>
<p>In the 1950s, the annual pruning demonstration drew thousands of rose enthusiasts to the park. By the mid-1980s, the garden had more than 20,000 rose bushes and more than 200 varieties of roses. The All-America Rose Selection, a rose growers organization, began donating its Rose of the Year to the garden in 1940. The garden is reportedly visited by more than a million people a year and is a popular location for weddings, reflection, and other events. The garden also has four gazebos, several statues, and a central fountain. The garden is located adjacent to the University of Southern California campus, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the California Science Center.</p><br>
<h2>Threat to the Rose Garden and historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, plans to dig up the garden to build an underground parking garage led to protests in the media. The Los Angeles Times ran an editorial opposing the plan: "There are times when the leaders of Los Angeles seem perversely intent on living up to the image that many outsiders have of them—insensitive and uncouth rabbits who would, say, dig up a garden to put in a parking lot." The garden had also been threatened by an earlier proposal by the Los Angeles Raiders football team to convert the garden into a practice field for the team. In order to protect the garden from such threats, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Film and television</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the Old Armory Building, abutting the eastern edge of the Rose Garden, is used in establishing shots of the fictional Jeffersonian Institute, in the TV series Bones.</p><br>
<p>The gardens were used also for The TV show “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” in the Season two episode “Inca Mummy Girl”.</p><br>
<p>The garden can also be seen at the end of the Barbra Streisand film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.</p><br>
<p>Jane Fonda and Don Johnson characters, in the 2018 film, Book Club frolic in the rose garden fountain during a date scene.</p><br>
<p>The garden was featured in Visiting... with Huell Howser Episode 908.</p><br>
<p>The B. C. Calvert House is a historic Late Victorian style house located in Union, Kentucky. It was built in 1875, and on February 6, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-bay, central passage plan house with a three-bay porch with turned posts and a bracketed cornice. It was deemed notable as "a good example of Folk Victorian architecture significant to Boone County in the period 1875-1900."</p><br>
<p>The property includes two outbuildings and a brick smokehouse which are contemporary with the house.</p><br>
<p>The John Andrew Miller House is a stone house built by an early Kentucky settler in the eastern area of Scott County, Kentucky when it was still a part of Virginia. The house is located off of Paris Pike between the city of Georgetown and the town of Newtown. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The central area of Kentucky was settled by frontiersmen that received land grants as payment for their military service. In the early days in Kentucky, the area was dangerous because the settlers were frequently attacked by Native Americans that used the land as a buffalo hunting ground.</p><br>
<p>In 1775, John Andrew Miller settled in Kentucky and by 1785 had built a sturdy house on 1,000 acre of land in an area now called Scott County, Kentucky. Miller sold the house and 550 acre of land in 1809 to Jeremiah Tarleton, a new settler from Maryland. William C. Graves bought the property from Tarleton&#39;s estate in 1833.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The John Andrew Miller House was constructed with strong materials to provide protection from attacks by Native Americans that occurred in the frontier areas of Virginia. The rugged doors were made of "6 panels on the outside and bias batten on the inside".</p><br>
<p>Halifax Apartments, originally known as the Cross Arms Apartments, is a historic apartment building on Yucca Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Designed by Walker and Eisen, the building was completed in 1923. The building was originally owned by Leach Cross, who named it the "Cross Arms Apartments." At the time of its opening, it was considered one of the largest and most beautiful apartment houses in Hollywood. In October 1924, the building sold for $750,000, and the new owner renamed the building the "Halifax Apartments." In its early years, the Halifax was a popular residence for entertainers, including silent film star Ned Sparks, and opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink. It was also the site of important gatherings, including a 1937 reception hosted by Joseph Laemmle for Mayor Shaw which was also attended by the chief of police and district attorney. In 1981, the Halifax was converted to Section 8 housing for senior citizens. In 1997, ONE Company, headed by Ena Dubnoff, and the Thai Community Development Center rehabilitated the building, converting 72 single units into 46 units of affordable multi-family housing. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Twentieth Street Historic District in Los Angeles, California, consists of a row of bungalow and Craftsman style houses in the 900 block on the south side of 20th Street, within the West Adams neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Twentieth Street Historic District is located in Central Los Angeles, southwest of the Downtown Los Angeles, in the West Adams neighborhood. It borders are: Washington Boulevard on the north, and Toberman and Oak Streets, on the west and east, respectively. It is approximately three-quarters of a mile north of the University of Southern California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The homes were built by W.Wayman Watts in a partnership with George Steckel and built between 1900 and 1908. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The district includes:</p><br>
<p>Rogers-Lott House (1903), 912 West 20th Street, a rare Prairie-style bungalow.</p><br>
<p>James Marsh House (1904), 916 West 20th Street, a two-story Craftsman house.</p><br>
<p>Arthur C. Thorpe House (1905), 920 West 20th Street, a two-story Chalet Style Craftsman house.</p><br>
<p>George Steckel House (1905), 924 West 20th Street, a two-story Chalet Style Craftsman.</p><br>
<p>Ellen I. Lacy House (1905), 928 West 20th Street, a two-story Chalet Style Craftsman.</p><br>
<p>Stevens-Brown House (1903), 936 West 20th Street, atwo story frame/overlap board Transitional Victorianhouse with a hip roof and tent-roofed turret.</p><br>
<p>Bergen County, the most populous county in the USA state of New Jersey, has had a series of courthouses. The current one stands in Hackensack.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current Bergen County Courthouse is not the first courthouse but actually the sixth courthouse built for Bergen County. In 1683, four counties were created in East Jersey&mdash;Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth. In 1710, Hackensack became the county seat of Bergen. In 1715, the first courthouse was built three blocks from the current courthouse. The courthouse also housed a jail. The second courthouse was built in 1734 near the “Green”, but was burned by the British in 1780 during the Revolutionary War. The third courthouse, a log building, was then built in Oakland. This was considered a temporary location and the courthouse later moved to the home of John Hopper in Ho-Ho-Kus. After the war, the courthouse was moved to the house of Archibald Campbell of Hackensack.</p><br>
<p>Freeholder Peter Zabriskie later donated land near his Hackensack home located at the northeast corner of Main and Bridge Streets, and in 1786, a new courthouse and jail opened. Peter Zabriskie&#39;s home, called “The Mansion” was also called “Washington’s Headquarters” because George Washington frequently was a guest there. Years later the Mansion became a hotel. The Mansion was then torn down in 1945. In 1822, due to space limitations, a new courthouse was built at the location of the current courthouse and it was utilized for over 90 years.</p><br>
<p>The current courthouse is the sixth Bergen County courthouse. James Riely Gordon, a civil engineer, born in Winchester, Virginia, won a competition to design the Bergen County courthouse. The style of the courthouse building is known as American Renaissance. Construction began in 1910 and was completed in 1912 at a cost of one million dollars. The jail was also completed in 1912, the style of the jail being Medieval Revival. The courthouse was placed on both the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1982 and 1983, respectively.</p><br>
<p>The Green is a public square located across the street from the courthouse at the corner of Main Street and Court Street. On the west side of the green is a marker showing where the second courthouse stood before it was burned by the British in 1780. A bronze statue is located at the intersection of Court Street and Washington Place. This statue is of General Enoch Poor. General Poor, a New Hampshire native, was a hero at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. General Poor served under General Washington. He was in New Jersey organizing an army to raid New York City. General Poor died in 1780 and is buried across the street from the Green at the Dutch Reformed Church. General Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette attended General Poor&#39;s funeral.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The interior dome of the rotunda area of the courthouse is modeled after the Pantheon in Rome. On the first floor of the rotunda building there was a fountain. The fountain was removed in 1930. In the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), murals were painted in courtrooms 253 and 352. In the early 1940s an additional mural was added in courtroom 357. All three murals were designed by Teaneck resident William Winter. The murals in room 352 (formerly known as the Supreme Court Room) represent the roots of American Law. The murals in room 253 (formerly known as the Freeholder Chambers) represent local historical sights. The murals in room 357 (formerly known as the Circuit Court Chamber) represent Roman Law. There are four stained glass skylights in the rotunda building. The first is located in the rotunda dome and it measures eight feet in diameter. Eight trapezoidal sections carry the name of a historically significant English or American jurist. The three remaining skylights contain the Bergen County seal. The glass utilized for these skylights was made by M.J. Lamb. The interior of the rotunda and its courtrooms were treated with marble, scagliola, bronze and cast iron.</p><br>
<p>The exterior walls of the courthouse rotunda building were made from Vermont marble. On top of the dome is a copper figure entitled “Enlightenment Giving Power” by Johannes Gelert. Around the drum of the dome is a relief consisting of forty panels that represent twelve tablets of the first Roman Law. Five bronze eagles adorn the balustrades on the corners of the building. The eagles and “Enlightenment” were resurfaced with gold leaf in 1994. There are four sculptures on the front of the rotunda building that faces Court Street. Two of the sculptures each contain three figures. The left group consists of Truth holding a mirror flanked by Justice and Integrity. The right group consists of Honor flanked by Law and Order. There are two statues located on the walls of the main steps. The left statue represents History and the right statue represents Law.</p><br>
<p>Construction for the Administration Building started in 1929 and was completed in 1933. The style of this building is called neoclassical. The exterior walls of the Administration Building were made from Arkansas limestone. The Annex building that joins the Administration Building with the rotunda building was completed in 1958.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The historical charm of the courthouse has even caught the eye of Hollywood. Scenes from the following television shows and movies feature the courthouse:</p><br>
<h3>Film</h3><br>
<p>Hackers</p><br>
<p>Before and After</p><br>
<p>The Devil&#39;s Advocate</p><br>
<p>Changing Lanes</p><br>
<h3>Television</h3><br>
<p>Law & Order</p><br>
<p>The Fielding Bradford House is an historic house built on a tract of land near North Elkhorn and Cane Run Creeks in Scott County, Kentucky. The house was originally owned by Fielding Bradford and is an example of an early Kentucky weatherboarded log house. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Fielding Bradford was the brother of printer and early Kentucky settler John Bradford. He left working on the Kentucky Gazette in the spring of 1788 when he married Eleanor Smith Barbee and moved to Scott County where he became a political and military leader. He served in the Kentucky General Assembly as a State Representative in 1802, 1803, 1808, 1809 and 1811. During the War of 1812 he was quartermaster for George Trotter&#39;s Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Militia. He was also a county court judge.</p><br>
<p>Audubon is one of a pair of Greek Revival houses built across from each other on Moore&#39;s Mill Pike in Scott County, Kentucky. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1829, Charles B. Lewis bought farm land on Moore&#39;s Mill Pike from James Stephenson and built a Greek Revival style house on the property.</p><br>
<p>Casa del Herrero  is a historic house museum and botanical garden located in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. It was designed by George Washington Smith, and is considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States of America. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009. Today, the entire 11 acre site is owned and operated as a historic house museum and botanical garden by the 501 non-profit organization, Casa del Herrero. The Casa del Herrero organization&#39;s mission is to restore and preserve the house and grounds for the benefit of the visiting public.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Casa del Herrero (Spanish for "House of the Blacksmith") was designed for George Fox Steedman and his wife, who were moved west from St. Louis, by architect George Washington Smith. The residence was completed in 1925, and the Steedmans moved into it the same day as the Santa Barbara earthquake. Steedman - an industrialist, engineer, and amateur architect - assembled a team of architects, landscape architects, antiquarians, and horticulturists to produce the Casa del Herrero estate — an example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Steedman participated in every detail of the property&#39;s buildings, furnishings, and gardens. In the 1930s, architect Lutah Maria Riggs designed the octagonal library addition.</p><br>
<p>Steedman died in 1940, and his widow continued to live there until her death in 1962. Their daughter Medora Bass then lived at the Casa until her death in 1987. The organization that now operates the estate was created in 1993 by her son.</p><br>
<h2>Tours and garden access</h2><br>
<p>Docent-led tours of the Casa del Herrero house, gardens and blacksmith workshop are available by reservation only. The Casa del Herrero organization offers tours on Wednesdays and Saturdays, by reservation only. Private tours are available through special arrangement. The garden spaces are available for commercial and non-commercial photo shoots. The address is 1387 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108.</p><br>
<p>The Ezra Carpenter House is a historic house at 168 South Street in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The -story Cape style house was built in 1800 by Ezra Carpenter, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Later generations of Carpenters also played significant roles in the civic life of the town. The main block of the house is five bays wide, with a centered entry, and an original central chimney. The ell to the right is a later 19th century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Foxborough Pumping Station is a historic water pumping station at 25 Pumping Station Road in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Its main pumphouse was designed by Ernest N. Boyden, a regionally known architect of water supply systems, and was built in 1891; it is a brick structure with Queen Anne styling. The station also includes several historic wells, a period garage, and the man-made Fales Pond, a once-dammed section of the Neponset Reservoir near the pumphouse. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Foxborough Pumping Station is located at the end of Pumping Station Road in northern Foxborough. It is located on 26.6 acre, which include Fales Pond, now a section of the Neponset Reservoir, which impounds the headwaters of the Neponset River. The principal visible features of the station are its 1891 pumphouse, a Late Victorian brick building designed by Ernest N. Boyden, and a 1953 storage garage. Other features include several drilled wells dating to 1948, and a now-abandoned well field dating to the pumphouse&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>The town of Foxborough, initial an agricultural town, grew as an industrial center in the 19th century, specializing in the manufacture of straw hats. The town&#39;s industrial owners and the rise in population led to the need for a reliable public water supply for improved public health and the fire protection of important industrial assets. After a report on the matter was issued in 1879, it lay dormant until 1889, when proposals were made after the construction of the Foxborough State Hospital renewed calls for improved fire protection. A proposal for the present siting of the station was approved by the town in 1891. Ernest N. Boyden, then already known for his designs of other public water supply pumping stations, was retained to design the new facility. Twenty-four shallow wells were dug to draw groundwater, which the main pump then distributed. In 1948 these were replaced by three deep wells, which draw from the aquifer underlying the Neponset Reservoir. A fourth well was drilled in 1972, replacing the #2 well, whose casing had cracked.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Boyden House is a historic house at 135 Oak Street in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It is also known as "OAKWUD", after 500-year-old oak tree that stands on the northeast side of the main house. The two story brick house is claimed to have been built as early as 1728, although stylistic architectural evidence suggests a later  date. The house is notable as the home of inventor Seth Boyden, who was cited as a significant influence by Thomas Alva Edison.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Otis Cary House is a historic house in Foxboro, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin end chimneys, and a central entrance with flanking sidelights. It was built in 1837 by Otis Cary, a leading businessman and politician in the town. Cary owned the foundry on Mill Street, and was active in town and state politics. Cary&#39;s grandson, the noted educator Frank Boyden, was born in this house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is now home to Bright Start Child Care.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall is a historic Grand Army of the Republic hall at 22 South Street in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States. It is a single-story granite Gothic Revival structure, octagonal in shape, with four projecting wings and a turret capped by a statue of a Union Army soldier .</p><br>
<p>The hall was built in 1868, and for many years housed Foxborough&#39;s public library.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Aurora, Illinois is very closely based on this structure.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin Common Historic District is a historic district encompassing the traditional village center of Franklin, Massachusetts. The primary focus of the district is the town common, a roughly triangular green which took shape in the mid-18th century. The district includes the buildings that abut the green, and extends northward along Main Street to its junction with Lincoln Street, where the Red Brick School is located. The Dean Junior College Historic District abuts this district to the south. The district is predominantly residential in character, with several civic and religious institutional buildings facing the common. The latter group are dominated by the Federated Church , and the Roman Catholic St. Mary&#39;s Church complex, which includes three buildings from the 1920s to 1955.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Red Brick School is a historic school in Franklin, Massachusetts. It was one of the oldest active one-room schools in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school building on this site was a wooden one constructed after the Rev. Nathanael Emmons took a 900-year lease on the land. The school was built at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street, although the latter is now called Lincoln Street and the school building is number two. The "Meeting House School" building and the 900-year lease were taken over by the town authorities. At this time it was known as the "school at the crossroads", although it was also used by the Congregational church for their childrens Sunday-school classes. The schools early association with religion was strong. In 1792 it was agreed that no school master should be appointed who did not "promise to pray in the school each day.</p><br>
<h2>The red bricks</h2><br>
<p>The bricks that gave their name to this school building were shipped via oxen from Boston. This school was built on the foundation of the older, wooden schoolhouse in 1833. By 1835 Mortimer Blake was running a high school in the building that was proving so popular that it was overflowing despite the charges of 25 to 35 cents per week. They had to move the lessons to larger premises.</p><br>
<p>In 1852 the church stopped having Sunday school at the same building.</p><br>
<p>The administration attempted to shut down the school during the Great Depression, due to its costs, but the townspeople rallied behind it. The school again almost closed in 1959, when it was declared unsafe, but the town of Franklin&#39;s residents paid to have it refurbished. The proceeds from selling six-inch square ceramic tiles with a depiction of the school on the front and a history of the school on the back supported this. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Public school tradition continues</h2><br>
<p>In 2008, after 175 years of regular use, the Red Brick School, which was serving as a kindergarten for Franklin&#39;s Public School System, was deemed to be "surplus" by the Franklin School Department. The school committee voted to close the school and turned the Red Brick School over to the control of the Town Of Franklin. The town, with community support, worked closely with the Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School to incorporate the little Brick School into their educational offerings. Today the tradition of public education continues in this one room classroom, viewed by many as a town treasure. The school remains a large tourist attraction and is rarely used by the town of Franklin in an effort to let the school remain in clean shape.</p><br>
<h2>Dispute over record</h2><br>
<p>The Town of Franklin claimed that the Red Brick School was the longest continuously-running one-room brick school house providing public education in the nation. That record was disputed by several members of Franklins community when the decision on whether or not to close the school was being weighed by Franklins School Committee. A town employee and public school parent discovered that the town of Croydon, New Hampshire also had a "one-room school house" whose building is fifty years older than the Red Brick School. The ensuing discussion focused on whether the term "one room" meant class space or actual rooms. The Croydon schoolhouse actually had two rooms, one used today as a classroom and the other used as extra space, holding a table, a counter, cabinets, and a copy machine.</p><br>
<p>The school department established a task force to study all the issues surrounding the school and to answer the questions raised by the debate. The task force report addresses the Croydon School House and can be found on the town of.</p><br>
<p>The Holbrook Square Historic District encompasses the historic institutional center of Holbrook, Massachusetts. It includes three buildings: the Gothic Revival town hall, built 1878-79, the Stick style Winthrop Congregational Church , and the 1881 Central Fire Station. These three buildings are arrayed along Mary Wales Holbrook Park, aka Holbrook Square. The square is located north and west of the junction of North Franklin Street  and Union Street . The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Holbrook was originally part of Randolph, and began to achieve a separate identity with the formation of the Second Randolph Church (or East Parish) in 1818. A schism within the East Parish led to the formation of the Winthrop Congregational Church, whose first sanctuary was built in 1857-58. The town was incorporated in 1872, at which time its first town hall was built adjacent to the church. Both buildings were destroyed in a fire in December 1877. In its aftermath, a new town hall, church, and fire station were built in the town&#39;s central square.</p><br>
<p>The town hall is the communitys only significant example of High Victorian Gothic architecture. It is a substantial two story brick structure, with granite and sandstone trim elements. It was designed by John Lyman Faxon and built in 1878 and 1879 by the Norcross Brothers construction firm. The Winthrop Congregational Church was designed by the Boston firm of Hartwell and Tilden, and was built, also by the Norcross Brothers, from 1878 to 1880. It is the towns best preserved 19th-century church and an example of Stick style architecture The fire station, built in 1881, is the town&#39;s only example of Panel Brick architecture. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof, and two equipment bays.</p><br>
<p>The Roberts School is a historic school building at 320 Union Street  in Holbrook, Massachusetts. The one-room schoolhouse was built in 1873; it is a -story wood-frame structure, with two doorways providing access to separate vestibules, as well as the singular classroom. It was the first school building the town built after incorporating, and was used as a schoolhouse until 1979. It has since 1980 been home to the Holbrook Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Inness–Fitts House and Studio is a historic house at 406 Main Street in Medfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1836, it is a modest transitional Federal-Greek Revival structure. Southeast of the house stands a barn, probably built in the mid-18th century, which was adapted c. 1860 by artist George Inness for use as a studio. Inness lived here from 1860 to 1864. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Inness–Fitts property stands on the south side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 109) in the Medfield&#39;s village center. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof clapboard siding, granite foundation, and a single off-center chimney. The front (north-facing) facade is symmetrically arranged, with a recessed central entrance flanked by sidelight windows. The sides of the recess are framed by simple pilasters, and topped by a cornice. Sash windows fill the remaining bays, with slightly gabled lintels. Behind the house stands a small barn, stories in height, with a gable roof. The north facade is finished in clapboards, with the gable decorated by vergeboard. Based on architectural analysis, it was built in about 1850.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1830, during a period of early industrial development in what was then an otherwise agrarian community. Its first notable owner was Daniel Clark Sanders, who lived in the house next door and owned this as one of several rental properties. Sanders, a minister, is notable as the first president of the University of Vermont, and was active locally in politics, serving as town selectman and in the state legislature. In 1860 the property was purchased by George Inness, an artist who became well known for his landscape paintings, based in part on his work done at his Medfield studio, which was located in the barn. Inness made a number of alterations to the barn for this purpose, plastering walls and adding skylights on the north side. The house was owned from 1874 to 1944 by Julius Fitts, owner of the local general store.</p><br>
<p>Peak House Heritage Center is a historic site located in Medfield, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>According to tradition, the original house was built in 1651 by Benjamin Clark, was burned during the King Philip&#39;s War on February 21, 1676, and was rebuilt ca. 1677–1680 by Benjamin Clark, the owner of the original house. The current Peak House, however, was built in 1711 as an ell to the rebuilt house, and was moved to its current location in 1762 when the rebuilt house began to deteriorate. It is one of the oldest houses in Medfield and one of the earliest surviving examples of post-medieval English (Elizabethan) architecture in the United States. Some of the original panes of imported English glass in the windows can still be seen today. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and has the highest pitched roof on record in Massachusetts for a colonial American house.</p><br>
<p>On October 18, 1924, the Peak House was deeded to the Medfield Historical Society by its then-owners, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mason Smith, after which the house received a down-to-the-frame restoration. The house has served both as a dwelling and an historical site, as well as an artist&#39;s studio and workshop.</p><br>
<p>On January 1, 2019, a ten-year Property Management Agreement was signed by the Medfield Historical Society and the Peak House Heritage Center which now has complete autonomy for facilities, operations, and programs. For the Heritage Center&#39;s hours of operation and visitor appeal, go to.</p><br>
<p>The Rabbit Hill Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Highland, Main, Franklin, and Milford Streets in Medway, Massachusetts. It encompasses about 40 acre and much of a 19th-century village that developed around the Second Congregation Church , and industrial facilities that developed along the Charles River just outside the district. Most of the residential properties in the district are Federal or Greek Revival in character.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The John Partridge House is a historic house in Millis, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Partridge, Sr. was granted land to build a house sometime in 1659. While this year of build date is traditionally used, the house may have been built in the 18th century to its Georgian style architecture. The structure consists of a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, and large central chimney. The enclosed front porch featuring Greek Revival architecture was later added round 1840. Subsequent additions during the 19th century include the rear southeast kitchen ell, and side shed porch. In the 1930&#39;s the house was turned on its foundation to face its current position, and the last and latest addition includes a rear library ell added c. 1940. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Millis Center Historic District is an historic district on Curve, Daniels, Exchange, Irving, Lavender, Main, and Union Streets in Millis, Massachusetts. It encompasses the historic mid-to-late-19th century village center of the town, including the residential area north of Main Street, two 19th-century industrial complexes, and civic and institutional buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Millis was settled by the English in the 1640s, and was for many years part of Medway before being separately incorporated in 1885. Its town center developed around a north-south route, now Massachusetts Route 115 (partly Exchange Street and partly Plain Street); and an east-west route now designated in sections as Exchange Street, Curve Street and Union Street. The much straighter Main Street, now Massachusetts Route 109, was built in 1809 as the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike, and the railroad was built through the area between the east-west routes in the 1850s. The town was predominantly agrarian until the 1880s, when reliable rail service was introduced. Lansing Millis, for whom the town is named, opened a shoe factory, steel factory, and bottling plant there, and was responsible for the town&#39;s growth as an industrial center.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Main Street from Exchange to Plain Street, and along the curving route of Exchange, Curve and Union Streets, from Main Street in the west to its eastern railroad junction. It also extends northward along Exchange Street from its junction with Curve. The district, 110 acre in size, includes civic, commercial, industrial and residential properties. Most of its buildings were erected after 1850, with only four houses and one church (the First Parish Church at 142 Exchange Street) constructed earlier. The oldest house, dating from the mid-18th century, is that of John Richardson, a typical Georgian colonial at 191 Curve Street.</p><br>
