<p>The Townsend House is a historic house at 290 Paine Hollow Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The -story full Cape style wood-frame house was built in 1804, probably by Doctor James Townsend, whose descendants owned the house well into the 20th century. The most notable resident was Samuel Campbell, an English engineer who worked with Guglielmo Marconi on the transatlantic wireless facilities in Wellfleet. The house is notable as a particularly little-altered example of the style, with details typically only found in houses of wealthier owners. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Townsend house is set on the southwest side of Paine Hollow Road, between it and Blackfish Creek, a tidal waterway on Wellfleets west coast. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney, side-gable roof, and brick foundation. It is clapboarded on two sides and shingled on the other two. Its entrance is centered on the southeaster facade, and is flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and cornice. The interior has a typical center-chimney configuration, with narrow staircases in front of and behind the chimney, chambers to either side, and the kitchen occupying most of the rear, with small chambers in the rear corners. The interior ceilings are higher than those typically found in period Capes, and the front stairs are wider than usual, both signs of the owners wealth and status. A single-story flat-roofed ell, built in 1988 extends to the southwest. The interior has retained much of its original woodwork and hardware. The property includes two 19th-century outbuildings, a privy and a shed that once served as a summer kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1804 by James Townsend, a local doctor who had just married. Townsend died in 1812, and his wife remarried and moved away, but the house remained within the family until the 20th century. In the early 20th century it was purchased by Samuel Campbell, an employee of Guglielmo Marconi who was employed at the Marconi station located in South Wellfleet.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hall Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of Sandwich, Massachusetts. The original 54 acre district was visually centered on Sandwich Town Hall, Shawme Pond, and the reconstructed Dexter Grist Mill. When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, it was roughly bounded by Main, Grove, Water Sts., and Tupper Rd. from Beale Ave. to MA 6A.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hall Square area of Sandwich has been an important civic location since the town was established in 1637. Early in its history the dike was built which impounds Shawme Pond, and a grist mill was established there. It remained an agrarian community, due in part to the lack of a good harbor, until 1825, when glassmaking began to develop as an industry. Two important civic buildings, the town hall, and the First Church of Christ, were built in 1837 and 1847, during this period of prosperity, but many older buildings including several First Period houses from the 17th century, also survive in the area. Most of the properties in the district were built after American independence and before 1850.</p><br>
<p>The expanded district also includes a number of houses from the second half of the 19th century, including several Queen Anne and Shingle style homes. There are four cemeteries in the district, including the original burying ground, whose oldest grave dates to 1663. There are four churches and two schools in the district, including the 1928 Henry T. Wing School at 35 Water Street, which is the largest building in the district.</p><br>
<p>The town of Barnstable, Massachusetts has four surviving stone markers that were used in colonial days to mark the towns boundaries with its neighbors. All four are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, three of them individually, and one as part of the Old Kings Highway Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Race Lane marker</h2><br>
<p>On the south side of Race Lane, just west of Trotter&#39;s Lane, at 41&deg;41&prime;11&Prime;N latitude, 70&deg;26&prime;12&Prime;W longitude, is a granite marker on the town line between Barnstable and Sandwich. The town line between these two towns was first laid out by the council of the Plymouth Colony in 1639, and has remained relatively stable since then. It is unknown when this rough granite marker was placed; on the street face it is marked with a B on the Barnstable side, and an S on the Sandwich side, with a carved vertical line between. This marker was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as "Town Boundary Marker".</p><br>
<h2>High Street marker</h2><br>
<p>The High Street marker is located the north side of High Street (near #410), at 41.722283&deg; latitude, -70.400687&deg; longitude, on the border between Sandwich and Barnstable. Its markings are similar to those on the Race Lane marker. This area of West Barnstable was not purchased by the colonists from the local Indians until 1644; the date of this marker&#39;s placement is also unknown. The marker was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Town Boundary Line Marker" in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Great Hill Road Marker</h2><br>
<p>The Great Hill Road marker was in 1987 located a short way north of the road&#39;s junction with Cedar Street, but these streets no longer meet. Like the High Street marker, it was probably not placed until after the area was purchased in 1644. It is marked similarly to the Race Lane and High Street markers. It was listed on the National Register in 1987 as "Town Line Boundary Marker".</p><br>
<h2>Main Street Marker</h2><br>
<p>The fourth marker is located on the north side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 6A) at the Barnstable-Yarmouth line (41.701435&deg; latitude, -70.260236&deg; longitude). Unlike the others, it is a boulder-shaped marker, on which "Y+B" has been carved, with a wavy line beneath. It is believed to have been placed in the 18th century. The marker is a contributing resource to the Old King&#39;s Highway Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The South Yarmouth/Bass River Historic District is a historic district in the southeastern part of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. It encompasses a predominantly residential area centered on a portion of Old Main Street and South Street between the villages of South Yarmouth and Bass River. The area&#39;s history is one of maritime-related industry from the late 18th to late 19th century, and then its growth as a tourist resort community. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Although Yarmouth was settled in the 17th century, its southern portions did not begin developing until around the time of American independence in the late 18th century, since much of the land had been set aside as an Indian reservation. A major smallpox epidemic crippled the Indian population, and the reservation lands were sold off. The area along the Bass River developed a maritime economy. By the turn of the 19th century it was one of the economic centers of Barnstable County. Although remnants of older buildings survive as parts of others, the oldest buildings in the district date to the 1790s, and the oldest major civic structure in the district is the Friends Meeting House (1809), and its adjacent burial ground.</p><br>
<p>With the growth of the maritime industries, a variety of housing was built between 1800 and the 1850s, in architectural styles (Cape, Federal, and Greek Revival) popular during that time. These forms are those most commonly seen in the district. Other churches joined the Quaker meeting house: the Baptist Church in 1826 and the Methodist Church in 1852. Maritime industry began a decline in the second half of the 19th century, but the arrival of the railroads heralded the beginning of the area&#39;s conversion to a summer resort destination, and the area around Main Street and the bridge across the Bass River took shape as the main village center of South Yarmouth with the construction of a number of retail and commercial buildings. A number of buildings in later 19th century styles, including Gothic, Queen Anne, and Craftsman styles, are included in the district.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century, the development of Route 28 bypassed the section of Main Street (now Old Main Street), while other sections of Main Street which were included in expansions of Route 28 became more heavily developed with modern buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Santuit Historic District encompasses a cluster of historic houses around the junction of Falmouth Road  and Main Street in the Santuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. It includes eight houses, six of which are historically significant for their association with the Crocker family, who were the first settlers of the area in the 18th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house in the district is the Ebenezer Crocker House at 4698 Falmouth Road. It is a fairly typical Georgian house, five bays wide and 2-1/2 stories high, with a large central chimney. This house was supposedly dragged here c. 1739. The Alvan Crocker House at 4701 Falmouth was built c. 1769, and has some of the finest Georgian paneling, as well as surviving fragments of period wallpaper. The Zenas Crocker House at 4676 Falmouth, which is now home to the Cahoon Museum, is the third Georgian house, although it has a Federal style door surround with pilasters and transom window that was added later.</p><br>
<p>The Alvan Crocker Jr. House (4701 Falmouth) and Roland Crocker House (4631 Falmouth) were both built c. 1796, but are significantly different examples of Federal styling. Alvans house is a vernacular -story Cape-style structure with three bays and a windowless extension, while Rolands is one of the finest high-style Federal houses outside Barnstable Village. The sixth house is that of Zenas Crocker III at 4632 Falmouth; it is a -story Italianate house, with round-arch windows and bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Smith Tavern Site is a historic archeological site in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States. It encompasses the remains of a late 17th-century tavern operated by Samuel Smith, owner of Great Island, which shelters Wellfleet Harbor. The tavern site is located within the Cape Cod National Seashore, and is accessible via the Great Island Trail. The site was excavated in 1969–70, recovering thousands of artifacts, including clay pipes, drinking artifacts, a harpoon, and a chopping block fashioned from whale vertebrae.</p><br>
<p>The tavern site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Matthias Smith House is a historic house at 375 Cedar Street in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The -story Cape style wood-frame house was built c. 1760 by Matthias Smith, and was the center of a working farm for two centuries. It is five bays wide, with a central entry and central chimney, with two single-story ells added to its left. The entry is topped by a small transom window with two bullseye lights. The house is a well-preserved example of a mid-18th century farmhouse; the property includes a number of agricultural outbuildings, including a barn, toolshed, and chicken houses.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Teaticket School is a historic former school building at 340 Teaticket Hwy  in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1927, this large Colonial Revival building was the first consolidated elementary school in the town. It has since 1967 served as the Administration Building for the Falmouth Public Schools. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Teaticket School is set on the west side of Massachusetts Route 28, on a roughly triangular lot formed by the junction of that road with Sandwich Road, which forms the western boundary of the property. The southern part of the lot is the former Teaticket Green, a town common established in 1661. The school is a T-shaped masonry structure, oriented to face south, with the projecting section to the north. It is a single-story in height, with an elevated basement, side gable roof, corner quoining, and a projecting entry portico in the center of the south facade. The portico has a fully pedimented and modillioned gable with a round clock face at its center, and is supported by four round columns rising from the entry platform that is accessed by a flight of stairs. The building is crowned by a multi-stage tower that has a square base, octagonal belfry section with louvered sides, and a rounded cupola.</p><br>
<p>The school was designed by Haynes & Mason of Fitchburg and built in 1927, replacing the town&#39;s last one-room school, a portable structure built adjacent to a 1912 schoolhouse elsewhere in Teaticket village. The only large school built prior to this one was the 1919 junior high school building, later the Hall School. This building served as an elementary school and a community meeting space until 1967, when it was adapted to house school administrative offices.</p><br>
<p>The Three Sisters of Nauset are a trio of historic lighthouses off Cable Road in Eastham, Massachusetts. The original three brick towers fell into the sea due to erosion in 1890 and were replaced with wooden towers on brick foundations in 1892. The Sisters were decommissioned in 1911 but one of them, the Beacon, was moved back from the shoreline and attached to the keeper&#39;s house. It continued to operate but was replaced by a new steel tower, the Nauset Light, in 1923.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The first set of lighthouses were commissioned by Congress in 1837 and built for $10,000, to provide for a light halfway along the eastern coast of Cape Cod. Because there was one light (the Cape Cod Light) in Truro, and two lights (the Twin Lights) in Chatham, it was decided that there should be three lights to distinguish between the other lights. Built 150 ft apart in a straight line along the crest of the cliffs, they were brick, 15 ft tall and wide at the base, and 9 ft wide at the lantern deck. Each was painted white with black lantern decks, which lent to their looking like three ladies with white dresses and black bonnets – the birth of the name "Three Sisters."</p><br>
<h3>Replacement lighthouses</h3><br>
<p>By 1890, however, the three lights were dangerously close to the cliff&#39;s edge. Since it was impossible at the time to move the three lights intact, three 22 ft wooden lighthouses with otherwise identical markings were built in 1892 to replace the former lights, each built 30 ft west of their original sites and using the lenses from the originals.</p><br>
<h3>The Beacon</h3><br>
<p>However, erosion continued, and by 1911, with the northernmost light only eight feet from the cliff, it was decided to move the lights back again. At this time only the center light was lit, with a triple flash in homage of her two decommissioned sisters, and became known as The Beacon. In 1918, with both their lanterns removed, the decommissioned north and south lights were purchased and incorporated into a summer cottage along Cable Road. The Beacon, which was now attached to the oil house, was in disrepair.</p><br>
<p>After it was decommissioned, the northern of the two towers of Chatham Light was moved north to Eastham in 1923, to a site near the original lights, becoming the Nauset Light.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation for the National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The Beacon was incorporated into a summer cottage, where it stayed until 1975, when it was purchased by the National Park Service. It was moved to a field to join its sisters, who had been bought ten years earlier, and, following their listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the three were renovated to their current state, less than 400 yd west of their replacement and in their original configuration.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the National Park Service moved the Three Sisters 1,800 feet west of Nauset Light, lined up in their original configuration. A restoration was completed in 1989; tours are operated by National Seashore staff.</p><br>
<p>The Josiah Tobey House is a historic house located at 67 Oxbow Road in Falmouth, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 1-3/4 story wood-frame house was built in 1854 for Sandwich native Josiah Tobey, whose in-laws owned land in the area. The house is a locally distinctive example of Greek Revival styling, with a Doric porch under a wide and steep gable. The entry is located on the right side of the porch, and has been enclosed between two of the four columns. The two windows under the porch extend from floor to ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Saunders–Paine House is a historic house at 260 Paine Hollow Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. This -story Federal style Cape was built c. 1830, and is a well-preserved local example of the style. The first known owner was Charles Saunders who married Mary Cole Paine, whose family gave the area its name. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Saunders–Paine House is set facing south on the north side of Paine Hollow Road, a now-residential street that led to a historically important landing to the west in the 19th century. The house is a -story Cape style wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, wood clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. The front facade is symmetrically arranged, with two sash windows on either side of the center entrance, which is flanked by fluted pilasters and topped by a five-light transom window and an entablature. The windows have simple molded surrounds. A single-story addition extends the kitchen to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house follows a traditional center-chimney plan. A narrow stairwell leads upstairs from the vestibule between the entrance and the chimney, and there are large rooms on either side of the chimney. The kitchen is centered behind the chimney, with small rooms in the rear corners. There are two bedrooms upstairs. The best room is that west of the chimney, which features high-quality carved wood paneling and a fireplace mantel with paneled pilasters. The ceilings are plastered, and floors are wide wooden planking.</p><br>
<p>Charles Saunders married Mary Cole Paine sometime before 1837, and is presumed to have taken up residence here at that time. Mary was the granddaughter of Thomas Paine, who first settled this area in 1809. As a consequence of the large number of Paines who settled in the area, it became known as "Paine Hollow". The house was owned by descendants of the Saunderses into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Santuit Post Office is a historic post office building on Main Street in the Santuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame cottage was built c. 1846, and exhibits simple Gothic Revival styling reminiscent of seaside cottages that were constructed in the area between 1850 and 1875. The building served as a post office for Santuit village until the 1970s, when it was converted into a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Sampson&#39;s Folly  is a historic house in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built in 1807, it is the finest Federal style house in Cotuit and one of the finest in all of Barnstable. The Sampsons, intermarried with the locally prominent Crockers, were major landowners in the area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places September 18, 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sampson House is set on the northwest side of Old Kings Road, just north of its junction with Sampsons House Knob. It is a large two-story wood-frame structure, whose main block has a hip roof topped by a monitor section. That block is five bays wide, symmetrically arranged, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a simple cornice. The buildings corners are trimmed with quoining, a detail repeated on the three-bay ell that extends to the left.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1807 by Josiah Sampson and is Cotuit&#39;s most elaborate Federal style house. Sampson had married the daughter of Captain Joseph Crocker, whose family owned much land in the area. In the 19th century the land was farmed by members of the Sampson and Crocker families. In the 1940s and 1950s the house was used as a clubhouse, but it has since been returned to single-family use. Most of the Crocker family land has been developed, for residential uses and a nearby golf course.</p><br>
<p>The Rowell House is a historic house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. A small 1.5-story Cape-style house, it was probably built around 1713, and is one of the oldest houses in Wellfleet. It has three bays, with a large chimney behind the leftmost bay. The house was owned early in the 19th century by the Rowell sisters. And then passed onto the next generation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Robbins House is a historic house located in the Osterville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The wood-frame Cape style house was built c. 1820-30 by Joseph Robbins, a painter who is also known for painting the figurehead of the USS Constitution. It is a rare local example of Federal styling, with a multi-pane transom window over the main entrance. The house is a -story structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and a central chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Round House is a historic house located at 971 West Main Street in the Centerville village of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The three-story wood-frame round house was built in 1930 by William Boyne, and is the only known round house in Barnstable. The building has two full stories, which are topped by a flat roof and an enlarged cupola section with truncated conical roof. A circular brick chimney rises through the center of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson Rhodehouse House is a historic house located in the Cotuit village of Barnstable, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1858 by Charles Baxter, a housewright, who sold it soon thereafter to Nelson Rhodehouse, a mariner. The house is a fine example of Greek Revival style, with a distinctive side entrance located in a porch that is recessed under the gable. The house is finished in flushboarding, giving the appearance of masonry, with corner pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Photo of Captain Nelson Rhodehouse, c. 1900</p><br>
<p>The John Richardson House is a historic house in the Centerville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame Cape style house was built c. 1795 by John Richardson, member of a locally prominent family and the first teacher at the Phinneys Lane School. It is four bays wide , with the main entrance and chimney in the second bay from the left. The house is one of Centervilles older houses, located near the site of its first meetinghouse and cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Amesbury and Salisbury Mills Village Historic District is a historic district on Market Sq. roughly bounded by Boardman, Water, Main and Pond Streets in Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was the site of significant industrial development between 1800 and 1875, during which time the town developed a significant textile processing industry. Among the buildings in the district is the Salisbury Mill #4, a four-story brick Greek Revival building which features dentil decorations on its eaves and towers.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The American Woolen Mill Housing District is a residential historic district at 300–328 Market Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It consists of nine three story multiunit tenements built in the first decade of the 20th century. They are situated in a roughly oval pattern around a central courtyard, a distinctive pattern designed to provide open space while maximizing housing density. The property was designed by local architect James E. Allen, and had features unusual for tenements, including gas heat and indoor plumbing.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Agawam Diner is an historic diner at 166 Newburyport Turnpike  in Rowley, Massachusetts. It was manufactured in 1954 and moved to this location in 1970 after first being in Ipswich. It is the town&#39;s only diner and one of only six in the state manufactured by the Fodero Dining Car Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Agawam Diner stands in the area of Rowley known as Kent&#39;s Corner, on a lot of 0.75 acre at the southwest corner of Newburyport Turnpike and Haverhill Street (Massachusetts Route 133). It is a single-story building, six bays wide and seven deep. Its exterior is finished with a combination of horizontal and vertical metal banding and has rounded corners. At the center of its main facade is a projecting entry vestibule with entrances at the sides. The stairs leading to the entrances are sheltered by removable canvas awnings. The interior is divided roughly in half, the front half housing the dining and service area and the rear the kitchen. The dining area includes booths along the front wall and stools at the counter separating the dining and service areas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Galanis family opened a diner on this site in 1947, in a structure manufactured by the Worcester Lunch Car Company. It was one of three locations operated by the Galanises; the others were in Ipswich (opened 1940) and Peabody. In 1954, the Galanises purchased two diners from the Fodero Dining Car Company of Bloomfield, New Jersey. One was placed at Ipswich, replacing a Worcester diner the family sold, and the other was placed in Peabody. The Peabody diner closed in 1960, and the Ipswich one in 1970. The Galanises then opted to sell the diner at Rowley and moved the Ipswich diner to its location.</p><br>
<p>The diner is named for a local Indian tribe.</p><br>
<p>The Asa and Sylvester Abbot House is a historic two-family house at 15–17 Porter Road in Andover, Massachusetts. Built in the 1830s, it is a rare local example of the duplex in a rural setting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, where it is incorrectly listed at 15–17 Andover Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Asa and Sylvester Abbot House stands in what is now a residential area, south of downtown Andover and the Phillips Academy campus, on the northwest side of Porter Road, just north of its junction with Karlton Circle. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two central chimneys (one on each side of the roof ridge), and a clapboarded exterior. The front facade is symmetrical and six bays across, with entrances in the outer bays. Each entrance is recessed with sidelight windows, and the recess is framed by pilasters, entablature, and gabled pediment. Period single-story ells extend to either side, with later additions further extending the house in both directions.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the 1830s by Asa Abbot, a farmer and member of the locally prominent Abbot family. He left the house to his sons, Sylvester and Asa Albert Abbot, who farmed the surrounding land until the turn of the 20th century. The house is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, and is particularly rare as a duplex in a setting that was rural at the time of its construction.</p><br>
<p>Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area is a natural reserve in Olympia, Washington, protected under the Washington Natural Areas Program. Once an important processing facility for the logging industry, it has been designated as the Weyerhaeuser South Bay Log Dump Rural Historic Landscape. Today the area is a renowned sanctuary for a variety of birds, harbor seals, river otters, bald eagles, and a colony of bats, as well as serving as an important great blue heron rookery. A recent conservation program in the area between the State of Washington and the Nature Conservancy is the first of its kind in the country.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>American Indians use of the area dates back over 5,000 years when the present coast line stabilised. Euroamerican settlement began in the 1850s with Puget Sound&#39;s logging era. The bay was named after Harvey and Solome Woodard, pioneers who arrived in 1853.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s the site was bought by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, which brought up to 1 million board feet of timber here annually by rail from all over Thurston and Lewis counties until it closed the site in 1984. A former logging railroad crosses Woodard Bay on a wooden trestle and a narrow peninsula. It runs out onto a pier in Henderson Inlet across the mouth of Chapman Bay. Here logs were dumped in the water, gathered into rafts and floated to mills in Everett, Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The Washington Department of Natural Resources natural conservation area program was approved by the Washington State Legislature in 1987 to preserve fish and wildlife habitat while also providing a place for passive recreation, research and education. Woodard Bay was one of the four original conservation areas statewide.</p><br>
<p>A new kind of marine conservation effort began at Woodard Bay when The Nature Conservancy signed a 10-year lease with the Washington Department of Natural Resources to restore 10 acre of sub-tidal land in Henderson Inlet near the mouth of Woodard Bay to bring back the once-abundant Olympia oyster. The lease is the first of its kind in the country.</p><br>
<p>The Conservation Area was expanded by 90 acre in 2008.</p><br>
<h3>Facilities</h3><br>
<p>Facilities include group meeting areas for small school groups, picnic tables, benches and a toilet. A camp car once used as a cookhouse and later an office has been refurbished to represent its former uses, much of the work done by the Washington Conservation Corps as well as labor by prisoners from the Cedar Creek Correctional Center. The site is near the northernmost trailhead of the Chehalis Western Trail. As bicycle riding is prohibited in Woodard Bay NRCAA, a sheltered bike rack is provided for bicyclists.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Abbot House or Abbot Homestead is a historic house at 9 Andover Street in Andover, Massachusetts, USA. The house was built in 1711. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Abbot House is a located southwest of downtown Andover, on the north side of Andover Street, a busy road connecting the center to Interstate 93. The house faces south, and its southeast corner is quite close to the road. The main block is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. A recessed ell extends to the west, joining the house to a barn that serves as a garage. The main block is five bays wide, with 8-over-8 sash windows in the outer bays, and a 6-over-6 sash above the center entrance. The entrance is in a projecting gabled vestibule with small windows on the sides; the door is made of vertical planking attached with iron strap hinges. The interior features exposed main beams (some 15 in thick, and many period features.</p><br>
<p>The house was featured on the PBS program History Detectives in 2004. As part of the investigation, Oxford Dendrochronology Lab determined that the eastern (right) side of the house was built in 1711, and the western portion, to the left of the entryway, was built in 1713.</p><br>
<p>The house was long thought to date to 1685 (which is mounted on a plaque above the door), and is named for Benjamin Abbot, a carpenter by trade and the son of an early settler of Andover. In 1692 Abbot accused Martha Carrier of witchcraft, alleging that she caused his foot to swell, and that his foot healed after her arrest. Benjamin Abbot died in 1703 and, therefore, did not live in this building. The house was owned by generations of the Abbot family until 1933. In 1950 it was offered to the local historical society, which refused to offer on the grounds they could not afford to maintain it properly.</p><br>
<p>The J. T. Abbot House is a historic house at 34 Essex Street in Andover, Massachusetts. The Gothic Revival house was built in the late 1840s for Joseph Thompson Abbot by Jacob Chickering, a leading local real estate developer and builder of the mid 19th century. The ornamental detailing is among the most elaborate of the time in the town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Abbot House is set on the south side of Essex Street, a through street lined by a mix of commercial and residential buildings, not far from the center of Andover, Massachusetts. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a steeply-pitched front gable roof and two side-facing cross gables on its main block, and another two on an addition that extends to the rear. The side-facing gables of the main block, along with its main gable, are ornamented with jigsawn bargeboard trim. The main gable has a short lancet-arched window at the attic level. The front facade is two bays wide, with a projecting polygonal bay window in the left bay and the front door in the right bay, sheltered by a portico. Both the portico and bay window are topped by scroll-sawn decorative woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was purchased by Jacob Chickering, one of Andover&#39;s leading mid-19th century developers, in 1844. Chickering sold the lot, with the house on it, in 1850 to Joseph Thompson Abbot. In 1878 Chickering was contracted to construct a picket fence for the property. The house has had a number of owners, and may have been rented by the local Baptist church as a parsonage for a time. It presently houses a law office.</p><br>
<p>The Abbot-Stinson House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts. The house is estimated to have been built in the early 1720s, in the transitional period between First Period and Georgian styles of construction. It was originally one room deep with a central chimney, but was extended by additions to the rear in the 20th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Abbot-Stinson House is set at the northern corner of the junction of Stinson and Holt Roads in a rural section of eastern Andover. The main block of the house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, wooden clapboard siding, and a large central chimney. The house which faces Stinson Road, has a five-bay main facade, with the outer bays more closely spaced than that in the center. The entrance has a projecting vestibule with Federal styling. A series of 20th-century additions enlarge the original structure to the rear, and there is a detached modern garage to the right.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built c. 1720-26 for a member of the locally-prominent Abbot family. In its original form it consisted of one room on each side of the central chimney, with a narrow winding staircase between the entrance vestibule and the chimney. This staircase has retained one of its original newel posts; the railings are modern replacements. Architectural evidence of its early construction date include quirk-beaded main beams and gunstock-shaped posts at the corners on the second floor. The chamber on the west side was likely the kitchen, with a large fireplace that has since been closed off. This space was later subdivided to form a closet, bathroom, and hallway leading to the modern addition to the rear. Both the parlor (to the east of the chimney) and the parlor chamber above it feature high-quality wood paneling, and the framing members (exposed in the kitchen chamber) are boxed.</p><br>
<p>The house, representing a well-preserved example of an early transitional First Period-Georgian house, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Abbot-Baker House is a historic house at 5 Argilla Road in Andover, Massachusetts. Estimated to have been built about 1685, it is one of Andover&#39;s oldest houses, supposedly built by a third-generation colonist. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Abbot-Baker House is located southwest of downtown Andover, on the north side of Argilla Road, just west of its junction with Andover Street, a major northeast–southwest artery in the town. The house is a -story colonial saltbox style construction with a large central chimney. It is five window bays wide, with a central entrance in a projecting gable-roofed vestibule. The door is set in a simple surround with cornice. The rear saltbox section is an integral element of its original construction. An ell has been attached to the rear of the house.</p><br>
<p>This First Period house estimated to have been built around 1685, although it is possible it contains portions of an earlier house that stood on the site. It was built for Thomas Abbot, son of one of Andover&#39;s first settlers, possibly by his brother Benjamin, whose supposed house stands on adjacent property facing Andover Street. It remained in his family until 1797, when it was sold to Symonds Baker, a doctor. The house has remained in the hands of his descendants at least into the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Abbot-Battles House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts. Built about 1809 as a farmhouse for a member of the locally prominent Abbot family, it is a good example of Federal period architecture, with later Victorian additions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Abbot-Battles House is located north of downtown Andover, on the north side of Lowell Street (Massachusetts Route 133), a busy east–west through street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a Victorian-era porch. Ionic columns rise to an entablature adorned with triglyphs, and the porch roof is bounded by a balustrade with urns on the posts.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1809 for Jeduthan Abbot, a farmer who had married in 1805 and by then had two children. The house was built in part around the core of an older house, built c. 1700, which the previous owner of the property had removed part of. The Federalist facade of the house dates to Abbots ownership. In 1838 Abbot sold the property to his son, from whom it quickly passed to Winslow Battles, who is identified by trade as a machinist. The house remained in the Battles family until 1950. The houses ownership history is indicative of the town&#39;s transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy.</p><br>
<p>The Academy Hill Historic District is a historic district on Massachusetts Route 28 in Andover, Massachusetts. It encompasses the historic campuses of three important 18th and 19th century academic institutions, which shaped not only town but the nation&#39;s educational systems.</p><br>
<p>The first school established in Andover was the Phillips Academy, established in 1778. Its campus includes a number of notable buildings, from two important building phases. The first, between about 1810 and 1830, resulted in the construction of Bulfinch Hall (1819, named for, but not designed by, Charles Bulfinch), Samaritan Hall (1824, at first an infirmary, but later used for other purposes), and the Stowe House (1828, remodeled by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the 1850s, and later used as an inn). The second building phase was in the early decades of the 20th century, when Bell Tower, Morse Hall, and Addison Gallery were built.</p><br>
<p>The campus of the Andover Theological Seminary (founded 1807) includes the oldest building in the district, Foxcroft Hall, which was built in 1808. Along with Pearson Hall (1818) and Bartlet Hall (1820), it is a fine example of Federalist academic architecture. The latter two buildings underwent some changes, most notably being reduced from four to three stories to better fit the scale of the campus, in the 20th century. The campus also includes the 1809 Phelps House, which housed the first president of the academy, and later Professor Austin Phelps.</p><br>
<p>The third school in the district is the Abbot Academy, which was founded in 1828 as a women&#39;s school. It merged with the Phillips Academy in 1973, but its former central campus retains definition, with three buildings surrounding the "Abbot Circle": Abbot Hall, the original academy building (1829), Draper Hall, a dormitory (1890), and McKeen Hall.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham Adams House is a historic First Period house in Newbury, Massachusetts. Its oldest portion dates to between 1705 and 1707, and its interior retains a number of First and Second Period colonial features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Abraham Adams House stands in a residential subdivision in the Byfield area of Newbury. It is set on the north side of Pearson Drive, on a 5 acre parcel. It is a story wood-frame house, whose main block, its oldest portion, has a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Later additions include a two-story ell projecting from the rear of the house, to which is connected a single story modern addition, giving the whole house an "I" shape.</p><br>
<p>The main part of the house was probably built between 1705 and 1707, based on an analysis of the construction methods used. It was built by Abraham Adams, a farmer and sea captain who was married to the granddaughter of jurist Samuel Sewall. Three of the four chambers in the oldest portion have exposed oak timbers with chamfered corners, while the fourth chamber and the first ell have Second Period fireplace surrounds. The house was surrounded by hayfields until the construction of the surrounding subdivision in the 1980s; as a consequence, it was known for many years as "High Fields".</p><br>
<p>The Adams–Clarke House is a historic late First Period house in Georgetown, Massachusetts. Built about 1725, it retains a number of features transitional between the First and Second periods of colonial architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Adams–Clarke House is located northwest of Georgetown center, on the north side of West Main Street (Massachusetts Route 97) between Pentucket and Weston Avenues. It is oriented facing nearly directly south, placing it at an unusual angle to the street, which runs roughly northwest. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a Federal-style central entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom and corniced entablature. Windows are 9-over-6 sash, with simple framing. An ell extends to the east side of the building. On the interior, the right side parlor has exposed unchamfered beams, while the left parlor has a Second Period fireplace mantel. The lobby, set between the chimney and the door, includes a winding staircase with feathered sheathing similar to that seen in the right parlor. The addition&#39;s interior is Federal in style.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built by Isaac Davis sometime after he bought the land in 1716. Its oldest section is the chimney and right side rooms, with the left side rooms added not long afterward. The house exterior was refashioned in Federal style c. 1800, about the time the right-side addition was built. A later 18th-century resident was Benjamin Adams, a militia officer who served in the American Revolutionary War, and represented Rowley in the state legislature.</p><br>
<p>The Salem YMCA is a historic YMCA building at 284-296 Essex Street in the Downtown Salem District in Salem, Massachusetts. Its large building is an anchor of the western end of Salem&#39;s business district, of which Essex Street is a major component, and is one of the finest Classical Revival buildings in Salem. The Salem YMCA was first organized in 1858, and it commissioned the construction of this building in 1898. The three-story brick-and-limestone building was designed by Walter J. Paine, and has retained most of its exterior styling. The ground floor was designed to house primarily retail establishments, with the YMCA entrance highlighted by an ornate entablature supported by twin columns on either side. Entrances to the retail establishments are also indicated by building bays that project out less prominently than the main entrance. The ground floor is built in limestone, while the upper floors are predominantly brick. The building originally had a loggia on top of the roof, but that was removed in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Faced with declining enrollments through the 1970s, the YMCA sold part of the second and third floors to the Salem Housing Authority, which converted that area to senior housing. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Woodbridge House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts. It was built for George Woodbridge, a cordwainer, sometime between 1847 and 1852. The financially troubled Woodbridge sold the property in 1853, and has been through a succession of owners since. The house is notable for Greek Revival styling that is comparatively elaborate for a rural setting and a house of modest means.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as "Woodridge House") in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Woodbury House  is a historic First Period house in Beverly, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, large central chimney, and clapboard siding. Like most surviving First Period houses, this one was built in stages. The earliest part, dating to c. 1696, was the right front section and chimney. The left side was built in the 18th century, as was the rear leanto, which was later raised to a full second story.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Thomas March Woodbridge House is a historic house at 48 Bridge Street in Salem, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The three-story brick house was built in 1809 for Thomas March Woodbridge, owner of a local tannery. Its construction has been attributed to noted Salem builder Samuel McIntire, based on its similarity to other McIntire works. It is square, with five bays on each side. The front door is centered on the main facade topped by a semi-elliptical fanlight and flanked by sidelight windows. Entrances on the side elevations are sheltered by broken pediments supported by Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>Woodbridge died in 1822, after which the house went through a succession of owners. It was briefly owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England) before it was bought by Children&#39;s Friend and Family Service Society of the North Shore, Inc. in 1955.</p><br>
<p>The Lawrence Street Cemetery, or more commonly known as "the Village Burying Ground", is a historic cemetery on Lawrence Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Methuen&#39;s third oldest cemetery, it was founded in 1832 when the center of town was shifted west from Meeting House Hill to Gaunt Square. Late in the 19th century, wealthy industrialist Edward Searles built the 8 foot granite wall on the sides facing his estate. In the cemetery rests Searles siblings, parents and wife Mary Hopkins Searles.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street Cemetery Gate.jpgSign Lawrence Street Cemetery Front Gate, no longer in use</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street Cemetery2.jpgLawrence Street Cemetery</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Street Cemetery Sign.jpgSign Lawrence Street Cemetery</p><br>
<p>The Elbridge Gerry House is a historic house at 44 Washington Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Local lore holds that this house is a c. 1730 house that was the home of merchant Thomas Gerry, and the place where statesman and Founding Father Elbridge Gerry was born in 1744. Stylistic analysis of the house, however, suggests that it is instead a late Georgian or early Federalist construction dating to c. 1790.</p><br>
<p>The house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and included in the Marblehead Historic District in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Bellevue Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. Established in 1847 and owned by the city of Lawrence, it is the first and principal cemetery of the city and a notable example of a rural cemetery. In conjunction with adjacent cemeteries and Lawrences High Service Water Tower and Reservoir, it provides part of the small citys largest area of open space. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
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<p>Bellevue Cemetery is located in northwestern Lawrence, with a small strip of land in southern Methuen. It is bounded on the east by May Street, and on the north by Barker Street and St. Marys Cemetery. To the west and south are residential areas, with the park containing the High Service Water Tower and Reservoir also to the south. The cemetery is just over 96 acre in size, and is roughly U-shaped, with St. Marys Cemetery and the center of the U. The oldest portion of the cemetery is a 33 acre section between May Street and Reservoir Street, and was established in 1847. The area west of Reservoir Street and south of Barker was acquired in 1893. The "Old Yard" was laid out in the park-like landscape setting of winding lanes amid terraced hillsides in the then-popular rural cemetery style, while "New Bellevue" has a slightly less formal feel.</p><br>
<p>Major buildings and structures in the cemetery include the c. 1922 main gates, built of brick and iron, and the "Hearse House" in the Old Yard, which now houses the cemetery offices. Near the Hearse House is the now-unused Cremation Tomb, built into a hillside with a plain granite facade and bronze cremation urns above the door. In the New Bellevue section, the 1893 Brick Stable is an imposing Classical Revival structure with Queen Anne details, which anchors the cemetery&#39;s main maintenance yard. Other buildings in the yard are a garage, gasoline house, and tool house, all built before 1940.</p><br>
<h2>Noted burials</h2><br>
<p>It is the final resting place of many victims of the Pemberton Mill disaster of January 10, 1860. It is also the burial place of comedic movie actress Thelma Todd, whose performance in title role in Laurel and Hardy&#39;s movie The Bohemian Girl was truncated due to her death, believed by some to have been a murder. It is the burial place of USA Congressmen William Shadrach Knox, William A. Russell, John K. Tarbox, and Fenner Ferguson.</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Society of Tyringham  is a historic church at 128-130 Main Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts, and is presently the only church standing in the community. The property includes a Greek Revival church building built in 1844, and a parsonage house next door. Between 1844 and 1907, the church was also used for town meetings. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Society of Tyringham is located in Tyringhams small main village, on the west side of Main Road at Church Road, with the parsonage across Church Road to the south. The church is a rectangular wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and mostly clapboarded exterior. The front facade is finished flushboarding, and is sheltered by a projecting four-column Ionic portico. The columns support a fully pedimented gable, which houses a series of recessed panels. The main facade is blank except for the main entrance and wide corner pilasters. The entrance opening is framed by pilasters and topped by a broad corniced entablature; the doorway within the opening is framed by paneling matching that of the door. The churchs tower rises to a height of 70 ft in square tiered stages.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1844, when the community was at the height of its prosperity, and is one of Berkshire County&#39;s finest examples of Greek Revival church architecture. It was built by a Reformed Methodist congregation as its second sanctuary, the first having been destroyed by fire. The house was built around the same time as the church as a private residence, and was only acquired for use as a parsonage in 1903. The parsonage is a modest -story gable-front structure, with a single-story ell (a 20th-century addition) extending to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Leavitt–Hovey House is an historic house located at 402 Main Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1797, it is a prominent work of local architect Asher Benjamin, and a good local example of Federal period architecture. From 1909 to June 17, 2023, it served as the home of the Greenfield Public Library. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983,</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Leavitt–Hovey House stands in downtown Greenfield, on the north side of Main Street east of the main business district and opposite Hope Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with numerous additions to its sides and rear. The main block is topped by a hip roof, with two interior chimneys. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards. The front facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled porch supported by clustered columns. Front-gabled wings are attached to each side at a recess, with similar styling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed architect Asher Benjamin in 1797 for Judge Jonathan Leavitt. Leavitt was a graduate of Yale College. He began his career as an attorney in Greenfield. He later served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1812, and Judge of Probate from 1814 to 1821, as well as the first president of the Franklin Bank of Greenfield. He used the west wing of this house as an office for his business activities. Judge Leavitt married the daughter of Yale President Ezra Stiles.</p><br>
<p>Some original architectural elements of the Leavitt–Hovey House are in the collection of Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, where they may be seen by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The town of Greenfield took the home by eminent domain in 1907, and in 1909 moved the Greenfield Public Library into the building until June 2023, when the library moved to its new home at 412 Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Weldon Hotel is a historic former hotel at 54 High Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1905 and enlarged several times, it was one of the first poured concrete buildings in the United States, and was one of Greenfield&#39;s grandest hotels of the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Weldon Hotel stands in what is a mainly residential area northeast of downtown Greenfield, on the west side of High Street. It is a five-story structure, built out of poured and block concrete on a raised basement. It is framed in iron, with floors and walls of poured concrete finished in blocks of varying texture. The lower levels have rusticated finish, and the upper levels have a smooth finish. Bowed window bays project at the building corners, and there are balconies in some side-facing units.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was designed by William B. Reid, an architect from Holyoke. The first part of the building was built in 1905 as an apartment house, but was converted into a hotel in 1907. F. O. Wells, the proprietor, was thought to be overly ambitious in operating such a large hotel, but his business eventually improved in the 1910s with the opening of the Mohawk Trail. It is said the name "Weldon" comes as a contraction of "Well Done". In 1914 Wells added a dining room on the north side of the building, and in 1927 added sixty rooms above that addition. When traffic on the Mohawk Trail went into decline, the hotel also declined, and closed in 1977. The building has since been converted into a senior living facility.</p><br>
<p>The US Post Office-Greenfield Main is a historic post office at 442 Main Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1915 and enlarged in 1939, it is a good example of a post office with Beaux Arts and Classical Revival features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and included in the Main Street Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Greenfield&#39;s main post office occupies a prominent location in downtown Greenfield, on the north side of Main Street opposite the Franklin County Courthouse. It consists of a two-story main block, with virtually identical single-story wings extending to either side. Broad steps, flanked on either side by original light fixtures on iron stands, lead to the main entrance. It features restrained Colonial Revival decorations, including a two-story pilastered pediment surrounding a recessed arched entrance with ornate features. Windows are tall sash, set in slightly recessed arched blinds. The interior lobby spaces has terrazzo marble floors, granite wainscoting, and stained woodwork. A bronze sculpture stands in the lobby; it was placed in 1941, and is the work of Hélène Sardeau.</p><br>
<p>The central two-story portion of the building was built in 1915 to a design by Oscar Wenderoth, then the head of the Office of the Supervising Architect at the United States Treasury Department. The building was expanded in 1939, adding single story wings on each side. It is one of the city&#39;s most architecturally sophisticated buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Johnston–Jacobs House is a Greek Revival style brick house located near downtown Georgetown, Kentucky. The original structure was built in approximately 1795 by Adam Johnston for use as a tavern-inn.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adam Johnston and his son Thomas were among the first permanent settlers in Georgetown, Kentucky. Around 1795, Adam Johnston established an ordinary; a place where travelers could have lodging, meals, whiskey, and stable their horses.</p><br>
<p>Adam Johnston died in 1810 and Thomas owned the building until 1830 when his daughter Mary Ann and her husband James M. Shelton acquired the property. William Jacobs, a blacksmith, bought the building and several pieces of property around it. In 1860, Nathan Payne purchased the house and renovated the structure with stylish Greek Revival additions. After Payne&#39;s death, the dwelling was sold J. C. Cravens, and soon resold to James Rawlins, and then Virginia W. Hamilton, wife of Dr. John A. Hamilton.</p><br>
<p>The Spring Hill College Quadrangle is a grouping of historic structures on the campus of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The original main building was constructed in 1831 in the Greek Revival style, but burned in 1869. It was replaced within the year by a new main building on the same site in a Neo-Renaissance style. St. Joseph&#39;s Chapel was built c.1910 in the Gothic Revival style on the northern side of the quadrangle, with the main building on the southern side. The perimeter of the quadrangle is enclosed by an open arched arcade, topped by crenellation. The grouping was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, known as The Kate, is a performing arts center in Old Saybrook, Connecticut that opened in 2009. It is named for Katharine Hepburn, the 4-time Academy Award winning actress and Old Saybrook&#39;s most celebrated resident.</p><br>
<p>The Kate is a non-profit performing arts organization located in a historic theater/town hall on Main Street in Old Saybrook. Originally opened in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Center has been renovated with public funds from the Town of Old Saybrook and donations raised by the Trustees of the Kate. It includes a 285-seat theater and the Katharine Hepburn Museum. As befits an organization born of such a public/private partnership, programming is eclectic, offering something for all ages and attracts patrons from throughout Connecticut and the region. The Kate presents more than 250 performances and events each year, including music, theater, comedy, film, simulcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, and dance, as well as hosts arts education programs for children and youth.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Hepburn Museum presents an authentic view of the cultural and historical impact of Miss Hepburn and her family. In addition to many photographs from Katharine Hepburn’s life and career, the exhibit features her 1975 Primetime Emmy Award, examples of letters written to her family during the early years of her career, costume and personal wardrobe pieces, and two of her paintings, including a self-portrait. Kate frequently entertains offers for donations to add to the collection.</p><br>
<p>The building in which the venue is housed dates from circa 1910 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as Old Saybrook Town Hall and Theater. The property is also known as The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center and Theater.</p><br>
<p>The 285-seat theater had the blessing of the Hepburn Estate and the actresss family. Cynthia McFadden of ABC News, an executor of the Hepburn Estate, was an honorary capital campaign committee member. Hepburns brother-in-law, Ellsworth Grant, was instrumental in helping the Board of Trustees honor the actress with his knowledge of Hepburn and her family. Grant was an author and former Mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>Former Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell said the following about the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center:</p><br>
<p>"It is my pleasure to recognize that one of Connecticut&#39;s own is being honored in the naming of an historic building that will perpetuate her legacy. Katharine Hepburn contributed much in her long career in film and theater, not only to Connecticut, but throughout the world. To remember her in this manner is most fitting and I salute the efforts of all those involved."</p><br>
<p>Connecticut USA Senator Christopher Dodd had also recognized the theater in saying:</p><br>
<p>"I commend everyone participating in this grand effort to restore the old Town Hall building in Old Saybrook to create in its place the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, I&#39;m honored that I can lend my name in support of what will be a meaningful and inspiring tribute to our Connecticut treasure, Katharine Hepburn."</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by New London architect James Sweeney, and "is a fine example of the Colonial Revival Style." The general contractor was William L. Roe Jr., also of New London. and</p><br>
<p>Municipal Warehouse No. 1 is a six-story warehouse built in 1917 on the outermost point of land on the main channel at the Port of Los Angeles. It played an important part in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the development of the region&#39;s international trade and commerce.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and early years</h2><br>
<p>The development of the Panama Canal led Los Angeles business leaders to believe that, if modern port facilities could be built, the worlds commercial fleet would descend on Los Angeles. When the canal opened in August 1914, World War I had postponed the citys plans. However, the city&#39;s Municipal Wharf No. 1 was nearly complete in 1914, and harbor officials next turned their attention the construction of a large bonded warehouse to handle the "sea caravans" that were expected to crowd the harbor at the end of the war.</p><br>
<p>By late 1914, foundation tests and paving activities were underway for a six-story warehouse to be built on Municipal Dock No. 1. And in December 1914, the Harbor Commission unveiled the structural plans (pictured to the left) prepared by Chief Harbor Engineer S.A. Jubb for the "mammoth new warehouse." The Los Angeles Times reported at the time on the proposed design as follows:"The massiveness and character of the structure, of course, preclude the idea of architectural beauty and make any considerable degree of ornamentation undesirable. Both commissions, however, are desirous that the warehouse shall be more than merely a gigantic fireproof box with four walls, a roof and various openings. Considerable study, therefore, has been given to the treatment of cornice and wall panels, to the end that as pleasing and symmetrical an effect may be obtained as is consistent with the purposes and proportions of the building.The warehouse will be of reinforced concrete construction and six stories in height. It will be 480 ft in length and 150 ft wide, being the largest structure of its kind ever erected west of Chicago.... The warehouse is to stand at the seaward end of the city&#39;s present great outer harbor dock..."</p><br>
<p>The original projected cost of the structure was $200,000 for the structural work and another $50,000 for equipment,</p><br>
<p>When Municipal Warehouse No. 1 opened in April 1917, nearly 100 members of the citys Merchants and Manufacturers&#39; Association toured the warehouse and were told of its potential to assist them in their business. The Times described the operations at the warehouse as follows:"Freight received by steamers will be sorted in the transit freight shed and taken into the warehouse on electric trucks. Sixteen electric hoists have been provided to convey the freight to the various lofts in the warehouse. There are nearly twelve acres of floor space in the warehouse, which will be leased by the city merchants and manufacturers. Here goods may be readied for shipment and send direct from the warehouse by rail. Tracks run into the warehouse and elevators are provided to take the goods from the lofts to the loading platforms in the basement."</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was the Port&#39;s only bonded warehouse for many years and played a significant role in the establishment of the Port of Los Angeles as an international trade hub. The 475,000 ft&sup2; structure was built with an interior arcade with room for 24 freight cars.</p><br>
<h2>Rooftop operations</h2><br>
<p>Because of its commanding view of the harbor, the roof of the warehouse has long been the site of various operations. Starting in the early 1920s, the Marine Exchange operated on its roof, providing lookout reports on ships entering and leaving the port. In 1925, the Radio Corporation of America located its harbor receiving station to the top of the massive warehouse. A new four-room lookout station for use by the Marine Exchange was built in 1928 atop the warehouse. The new station had a large circular window giving telescopes a commanding view of the harbor and ocean, and also included a neon red beacon which shed a red glow over the building at night. In 1939, the Los Angeles Times described the Exchange as "a world all its own up there on Warehouse No. 1." In eight-hour shifts, three men manned the Exchange, climbing seven flights of stairs to reach the lookout station. The Times described the station as follows: "In one room with big windows commanding every approach from the sea, there is a large telescope on wheels. It can be pointed in any direction with the touch of a finger. At a little desk looking out over the channel and the harbor sits one of the three men who are on duty as lookouts..." The roof was also the site of a weather observation and signal facility for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Navy depot, Foreign Trade Zone 4, and historic designation</h2><br>
<p>During World War II, the warehouse was turned over to the USA Navy for use as a supply depot. From 1949 to 1956 (when the foreign trade zone was terminated), the warehouse became "in effect a foreign island" or "free city" where important goods could be manipulated, sorted, graded, inspected, and re-exported without payment of duties unless and until they were taken from the warehouse for distribution within the United States. By 1950, more than 100,000 local citizens were employed directly in foreign trade grossing $530 million, and the Los Angeles Foreign Trade Zone at Municipal Warehouse No. 1 was credited with helping Los Angeles become a major center of world trade.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, as items were held for various customs or other reasons, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 became the home for a number of unusual items. In 1949, a group of camels being imported from Australia for a Shriners convention were held at the warehouse while quarantine requirements were met. And when an American museum imported the railroad car that carried Winston Churchill&#39;s body to burial, the railcar got no further than the port and was stored for many years in the Municipal Warehouse No. 1.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s, the introduction of cargo containerization eliminated the need for break-bulk warehousing, but Municipal Warehouse No. 1 has continued to be used as a bonded warehouse at the Port. It also serves as a visual landmark for ships entering the Port. In 2000, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places based on its contributions to international trade and commerce along the Pacific Coast.</p><br>
<p>The historic village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, rises on a hill above the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The village was named by Captain Benjamin Ledyard, who settled there in 1793, in the post-Revolutionary development of the Finger Lakes region. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, Aurora played an important part in the history of Central New York.</p><br>
<p>County seat for first Onondaga County and later Cayuga County, the village was also a leading market town in the region. A steam-powered flour mill was built in 1817, the first of its kind west of Albany and contributed to Auroras role as a commercial point. Aurora was a major shipping point for goods bound up the Lake and through the Erie Canal, until the canals role was replaced by railroads in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>Its notable business entrepreneurs included Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose express mail and banking services spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California. Having earned capital in shipping and trade, Edwin Barber Morgan invested with Wells and served as a director for Wells Fargo for years. In addition, Morgan founded the United States Express Company, which provided express mail to the South, and he was an early investor in The New York Times. Wells and Morgan are also responsible for two of the historic houses that make up the district. Wells founded Wells Seminary, later Wells College, in 1868, which Morgan also supported.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District was entered on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Aurora Village properties</h2><br>
<p>The contributing properties in the village of Aurora are of varied architectural styles and periods. They include commercial buildings, the Masonic temple, three churches, residential homes, barns and two cemeteries.</p><br>
<h3>Commercial properties</h3><br>
<p>The vernacular-design Patrick Tavern was built in 1793 and is the oldest building in the village. Built in 1898 through funds from Louise Morgan Zabriskie, the Tudor Revival style Aurora Free Library/Morgan Opera House served until 1996 as the public library and town hall. The brick, Greek Revival style Aurora Inn was built in 1833. A complete renovation was completed in 2003. The Shakelton Funeral Home is a large, white, neo-classical wooden structure built in 1903-1904.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Myers, a mason, built The Bank of local limestone circa 1840 for use as his home. In 1864 the second owner sold the building to a consortium forming the First National Bank of Aurora. At that time, several physical improvements were made and the Italianate features were added before the bank opened. Edwin Barber Morgan had the E. B. Morgan House built in 1857-1858. It was designed by New York City architect Joseph C. Wells, who also designed the Presbyterian Church in Aurora. The stone mansion on the shore of Cayuga Lake now operates as a bed and breakfast. Other commercial properties that contribute to the district include: the Shakelton Hardware Store, the Aurora Office Building, Mack&#39;s Drug Store, the Aurora Village Hall, the White Elephant Shop, the Aurora IGA, and the Thompson Block.</p><br>
<h3>Masonic Lodge</h3><br>
<p>Robert Livingston, who administered George Washington&#39;s oath of office and was Grand Master of the Masons, signed the charter for the Masonic Lodge in Aurora, received in 1797. It is known as the Scipio Lodge #110. New York State Governor DeWitt Clinton, also Grand Master of the Masons, laid the cornerstone for the existing structure in 1819. The Masonic emblems incorporated in the design of the structure survive to this day.</p><br>
<h3>Churches</h3><br>
<p>Three churches contribute to the historic district. The Presbyterian Church, built in 1860, is of Romanesque design, with a Gothic steeple. It was designed by New York City architect Joseph C. Wells, who also designed the E. B. Morgan House. St. Pauls Episcopal Church is Greek Revival in style and was built in 1870-1871. It is located on the east side of Main Street. Across the street is St. Patricks Catholic Church, built in 1873 of Italianate design. Both were designed by local architect Samuel Mandell.</p><br>
<h3>Homes</h3><br>
<p>Over fifty homes contribute to the historic district, too many to enumerate. The imposing Taylor House on the east side of Main Street was built around 1838 and was the site of many village celebrations. Mandell House was built by local architect Samuel Mandell for his own use. It is designed in a combination of Queen Anne and Stick styles. The romantic Queen Anne-style Abbott House is at the northern end of town. The Leffingwell House was the first house built of brick in Aurora, circa 1826.</p><br>
<p>The Cuyler House is the birthplace of Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Presbyterian clergyman and writer, according to the historical marker in the front yard. The Federal-style Peter Fort House was built in 1819-1820.</p><br>
<h2>Wells College</h2><br>
<p>In 1868, Wells Seminary, later Wells College, was founded by Henry Wells, founder of American Express (1850) and Wells Fargo (1852). The campus includes fourteen properties contributing to the historic district. Glen Park, built in 1852, was originally the home of Henry Wells and later donated to the college. The house was designed in two sections, the original portion by architect Calvin N. Otis, and the second by Samuel Mandell, architect of the original Wells College Main Building (Dieckman, 1995).</p><br>
<p>Another event in the life of Henry Wells happened in 1850 &mdash; he moved with his family from New York City to Aurora to a large house that stood on the east side of Court Street in the middle of what is now Cherry Avenue. This house burned May 18, 1851, and he began planning his new home immediately. His choice of a location for his home could scarcely have turned out better either for him or for Wells College. It was part of a farm, just south of Aurora, formerly owned by John Morgan, one of the six sons of Christopher Morgan. Henry Wells purchased thirty-eight acres of this farm, a strip of land beginning at Cayuga Lake and running eastward north of the ravine. He named his estate Glen Park and located his residence on the north side of Glen Park Ravine.</p><br>
<p>The following description of Glen Park is taken from a prospectus written in 1875. "The house is of Tuscan villa architecture &mdash; the outer walls are of blue limestone, the inner of brick with a chamber between, rendering them impervious to dampness and making the rooms cool in summer and warm in winter. The partitions of the main building are of brick from the foundations upward. The halls and rooms are spacious and sunny, commanding charming views from each window."</p><br>
<p>On the newel at the bottom of the circular staircase in Glen Park is a silver plate engraved as follows: "C. N. Otis, Architect; N. H. McGrath, Builder. Erected A.D., 1852." This circular staircase is one of Glen Park&#39;s unique features.</p><br>
<p>Miss Annie MeGreevey, Mr. Mandell&#39;s housekeeper for many years, tells the story of its building. Samuel D. Mandell (1829-1917), educated as an architect, began his career away from Aurora. Early in 1852 his father wrote him that there would be plenty of work in Aurora and that he should come home. Mandell arrived just before Glen Park was completed. The architect had left the well for the circular staircase, but had postponed building it because he was not sure how best to do it. When he heard that Mandell had returned, he asked him to construct the staircase. The circular staircase in Glen Park, therefore, was the first work that Mandell did in Aurora. Afterward he was the architect of the first Wells College building, the three churches, and several residences including that of Edwin B. Morgan.</p><br>
<p>Pettibone House is a Gothic Revival structure built of stone in 1858. The Main Building was built in 1890. The Wells College Boathouse, on Cayuga Lake, was built in 1898. The science building, Zabriskie Hall, was built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The remaining nine contributing properties on campus are Fritt House, Power House, Boyer Cottage, Macmillan Hall, South Hall, Bellinjou, Dining Hall, Cleveland Hall, and Morgan Hall.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the noted architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the Louis Jefferson Long Library according to the "Field Theory" in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The William Russell Allen House is a historic house at 359 East Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1886, it was the first local design of H. Neill Wilson, and is an important example of Shingle style architecture in Berkshire. It is also a rare surviving reminder of East Street&#39;s residential past. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Russell House stands east of the downtown Pittsfield, in a builtup area on the north side of East Street between 2nd and 4th Streets. It is closely sandwiched by a tall government office building to its left, and the Providence Court housing complex to its right. It is a -story structure, with a cross-gabled roof configuration and an exterior finished in a variety of materials. Its foundation is rusticated granite, the first floor is finished in rusticated bluestone, and the second floor is finished in terra cotta tiled. The upper gable ends are finished in a combination of stucco and terra cotta tile. The porch extending along one side is decorated in marble and brownstone. The interior has very high quality woodwork and tile.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by H. Neill Wilson, and built in 1886 as a town house for William Russell Allen, a wealthy member of a locally prominent family. The house was the first major commission in the region by Wilson, who went on to a long a successful career as an architect in the county and elsewhere. The house is an early example of the Shingle style of design, influenced by the work of H.H. Richardson, which Wilson was known to have studied.</p><br>
<p>The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is a historic house museum at 67 East Road in Adams, Massachusetts. It is notable as the birthplace of suffragist Susan B. Anthony in 1820 and for its association with early educators and industrialists in Adams. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The house is now a learning center and museum dedicated to showcasing Susan B. Anthonys early years. One room is dedicated to Anthonys later activist life.</p><br>
<h2>House architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1817, the house is a conventional, center hall, 2.5-story colonial in the Federalist style. Twin chimneys rise from the buildings center line. A modest 1.5-story ell was added onto the rear of the house, and a porch, added onto the side of the rear ell in the 1950s, was enclosed in the 1960s. A barn on the property was replaced by a modern garage, which houses the museums gift shop. Inside the house, the original floorplan has been retained, with a central hall flanked by large public rooms in front of the house and smaller service rooms in the rear. The rear ell contains two small rooms. Most of the original woodwork has been retained, although one fireplace has been bricked up.</p><br>
<h3>Museum displays</h3><br>
<p>The museum shows Susan B. Anthonys daily family life and influences, such as her Quaker background, in the early 19th century and how the house was restored in 2006-2009 and museum consists of permanent and changing exhibits. The rooms include Kitchen and Heath, Daniel Anthonys store, the Birthing Room, the Portrait Gallery and the Legacy Room.</p><br>
<p>Kitchen and Hearth depicts the main gathering space for the Anthony family and their dependents, approximately 23 girls who worked in Daniel Anthony&#39;s 26-loom mill on Tophet Brook, across East Road.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Anthonys store, which Susans father ran out of the northeast room of the family home to supply the needs of his textile workers and neighbors, has been recreated the way it may have been in 1817.</p><br>
<p>The Birthing Room is where the first five of the Anthony children were born.</p><br>
<p>The Portrait Gallery holds reproductions of Anthony family members and friends.</p><br>
<p>The Legacy Room contains a timeline from 1820 to 1906 with the major events of Anthony&#39;s life and important world events; an artifacts collection with period pieces; and ephemera, including suffrage postcards and meeting notices, which provide insight into the issues for which early feminists advocated, such as:</p><br>
<p>Abolitionism. Anthony was raised by anti-slavery Quakers. Slavery was among the most pressing moral question of the mid-19th century, and the Civil War resulting from disputes around it, tore the nation apart. Anthony fought against slavery in her early adult years.</p><br>
<p>The Temperance movement. Anthony became deeply involved in temperance, one of the great reform movements of the 19th century. In her temperance work, she experienced the relative voicelessness of women in the political process. She began advocating for suffrage as a means to influence moral and social reforms.</p><br>
<p>Suffrage. After the Civil War, Anthony devoted her life to women&#39;s suffrage. Others continued the work after her death, and the 19th amendment was passed in 1920, giving women the right to vote.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first of the Anthonys to arrive in Adams, Massachusetts, was David Anthony, the great-grandfather of Susan B. Anthony, in the years before the American Revolutionary War. He came as part of a more general migration of Quakers to the area from Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. He established a cider mill that remains in the Anthony family to this day. His grandson, David Anthony, built this house in 1817 as a gift to his son, Daniel Anthony, the father of Susan B. Anthony. David was a strong proponent of education, teaching at the East Road School, and joining with others in the tightly knit Quaker community to found the Adams Academy in 1825 on land owned by his father. Daniel Anthony also continued the family interest in mills, establishing a cotton yarn-producing mill, known as the Pump Log Mill, in 1822.</p><br>
<p>It is in this house that his second child, Susan Anthony, was born on February 15, 1820. In 1827 he was lured by financial interests to Battenville, New York.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in Anthony family hands until 1895, after which it went through a succession of owners. The Society of Friends Descendants acquired the property in 1926, and established a museum. The building was returned to private hands in 1949.</p><br>
<p>On October 9, 2019, The Berkshire Eagle reported that Colleen Janz, the director of the museum from 2012 to 2018, was fired on July 23, 2018, for allegedly stealing $31,000 from the museum through falsified transactions.</p><br>
<h2>Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute</h2><br>
<p>One of the exhibits is about Restellism, a name for abortion that was first heard in a popular lecture, portions of which were reprinted on March 4, 1869, by editors Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury in the pages of Anthonys newspaper The Revolution. The display describes how suffragists took a stance opposing the practice of restellism, the term used at the time for abortion. It shows 122 references taken from Anthonys newspaper—mentions of Restellism which offer insight into how the women&#39;s rights activists came to oppose this practice.</p><br>
<p>The owner of the museum is Carol Crossed who is an anti-abortion feminist. The museums initial mission statement included "raising public awareness" of Anthonys "wide-ranging legacy" including her being "a pioneering feminist and suffragist as well as a noteworthy figure in the abolitionist, opposition to restellism and temperance movements of the 19th century" (emphasis added.)</p><br>
<p>A local paper reported that the exhibit about Restellism implies that the rejection of advertisements shows Anthonys personal views about abortion. Three opening day protesters said the museums leadership was "inferring upon an unproven historical stance." They also said that the directors were pushing an anti-abortion agenda.</p><br>
<p>The Armory Block is a historic commercial building at 39-45 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1894-95, it is a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and one of the town&#39;s most architecturally sophisticated commercial buildings. It served as the local National Guard armory until 1914, and now houses commercial businesses. It was listed on the National Historic Register in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Armory Block is located in downtown Adams, on the east side of Park Street almost opposite the First Congregational Church. It is one of the four large brick buildings on Park Street along with the P. J. Barrett Block, Jones Block, and the Mausert Block. It is a three-story masonry structure, finished in yellow brick on the main facade, and red brick on the sides. The ground floor has three storefronts with recessed entries and glass display windows, with the building entrance to the right of the middle storefront in an arched surround. The upper floors are divided into three sections, with paired round-arch windows above the entrance. To its right is a slightly recessed panel with bands of three round-arch windows on each level, and on its left is a larger panel with two pairs of similar windows on each level. The building is crowned by a modillioned cornice and low parapet.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1894 by A.J. Daniel, a developer from a locally prominent family. It was built to serve as an armory for the Massachusetts National Guard, a role it fulfilled until new facilities were built in 1914. After it was decommissioned from military use in 1914 it was converted into retail space on the first floor, office space on the second and a bowling alley on the third floor. Alterations to the Armory Block have been relatively minor and its original use, and design remains essentially unaltered since the early twentieth century. In 2008, a $2 million investment was proposed but not completed and a subsequent uncompleted proposal made in 2016. In March 2023 the building was vacated due to a broken boiler that was prohibitively expensive to replace. The estimated time to replacement was between a few months and two years.</p><br>
