<p>Mormon Row is a historic district in Teton County, Wyoming, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district consists of a line of homestead complexes along the Jackson-Moran Road near the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park, in the valley called Jackson Hole. The rural historic landscape&#39;s period of significance includes the construction of the Andy Chambers, T.A. Moulton and John Moulton farms from 1908 to the 1950s. Six building clusters and a separate ruin illustrate Mormon settlement in the area and comprise such features as drainage systems, barns, fields and corrals. Apart from John and T.A. Moulton, other settlers in the area were Joseph Eggleston, Albert Gunther, Henry May, Thomas Murphy and George Riniker.</p><br>
<p>The area is also known as Antelope Flats, situated between the towns of Moose and Kelly. It is a popular destination for tourists and photographers on account of the historic buildings, the herds of bison, and the spectacular Teton Range rising in the background. The alluvial soil to the east of Blacktail Butte was more suitable than most locations in Jackson Hole for farming, somewhat hampered by a lack of readily available water.</p><br>
<p>The Mormon Row district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Menors Ferry was a river ferry that crossed the Snake River near the present-day Moose, Wyoming, United States. The site was homesteaded by Bill Menor in 1892-94, choosing a location where the river flowed in a single channel, rather than the braided stream that characterizes its course in most of Jackson Hole. During the 1890s it was the only homestead west of the river. Menors homestead included a five-room cabin, a barn, a store, sheds and an icehouse on 148 acre, irrigated by a ditch from Cottonwood Creek and at times supplemented by water raised from the Snake River by a waterwheel. Menor operated the ferry until 1918, selling to Maude Noble, who continued operations until 1927, when a bridge was built at Moose.</p><br>
<h2>Menor cabin and store</h2><br>
<p>The Menor house and store are unusual in their application of classical forms to rustic log construction, an effect heightened by the whitewashed walls of the buildings. Menor made his own whitewash using materials from a lime pit on his brother Holiday Menor&#39;s property on the other side of the river. The Menor cabin has three rooms, built individually over a period of time, with a bedroom on the west, a store on the east, and a kitchen and storage room connecting them. The Menor cabin was the point of departure for the first ascent of Grand Teton on August 11, 1898, and it hosted the celebratory party that evening.</p><br>
<p>The Menor brothers were originally from Ohio. Holiday joined Bill in Jackson Hole in 1905, but the brothers did not speak for two years. Bill moved to California after selling to Noble. Holiday, eleven years younger, joined him about 1927.</p><br>
<h2>Noble Cabin</h2><br>
<p>The property also includes the log Maud Noble Cabin, built in 1916 to the northwest of the present site on Cottonwood Creek and relocated to the ferry site when Noble bought the Menor operation in 1918. Maud Noble was originally from Philadelphia; she arrived in Jackson Hole in 1915 on a visit to the Bar B C Dude Ranch and never left. The cabin is a one-story, three room structure that has been repeatedly renovated. The L-shaped building measures about 40 ft by 16 ft. Noble sold the property to the Snake River Land Company in 1929 after a bridge was built just downstream to replace the ferry. A tea room operated in the cabin about 1927 or 1928, and again in 1950-51.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was the site of a meeting on July 23, 1923, where Yellowstone National Park superintendent and future National Park Service director Horace Albright met with local ranchers and businessmen, starting the process of creating Grand Teton National Park. Local attendees were Richard Winger, J. R. Jones, J. L. Enyon, and the Bar B C&#39;s Struthers Burt and Horace Carncross. Noble provided the discreet premises, but did not attend herself.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The property was bought in 1929 by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who restored the structures and the ferry and donated the property to the National Park Service in 1953. The Park Service has also restored Menor&#39;s well. The ferry district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol Park Historic District is a historic district located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is roughly bounded by Grand River, Woodward and Michigan Avenues, and Washington Boulevard. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Capitol Park itself is a triangular plot of land (now a public park) bounded by Shelby Street, Griswold Street, and State Street. The plot is an artifact of Augustus Woodward&#39;s 1805 plan for the city of Detroit. The Historic District includes the park and seventeen surrounding buildings for a block in each direction. Buildings within the district include the Farwell Building, the Griswold Building, the David Stott Building, the Detroit Savings Bank Building and the Industrial Building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1823, the population of Detroit had increased to the point that the US Congress transferred governance of what was then the Territory of Michigan to the governor and legislative council. To house the new government, a courthouse was built in Capitol Park in 1823–28. When Michigan became a state in 1837, the building became the state capitol, and functioned so until 1847 when the governmental seat was moved to Lansing. The building was then used as a public high school until 1893, when it was destroyed by fire. The land was then converted to a park, and it has remained a public space up to the present.</p><br>
<p>The buildings within the Historic District surrounding the park were built primarily during the first three decades of the 20th century for commercial and business purposes. Several famous architects, including Albert Kahn and Gordon W. Lloyd, contributed buildings in a range of styles, from Victorian to Beaux-Arts to Art Deco. The buildings demonstrate the transformation of Detroit from a prospering 19th century commercial center to a modern city.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the present buildings, Capitol Park has a historic connection to the Underground Railroad. In 1850, Seymour Finney purchased a plot of land near the park and erected a tavern with a large barn. Finney was strongly sympathetic to the abolitionist cause, and used his barn to hide escaping slaves before their final trek across the river into Canada. A State of Michigan historical marker has been erected in the park to commemorate Finney&#39;s Barn.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, the remains of Michigan&#39;s first governor Stevens T. Mason were transferred from New York City where he died 1843 and interred in Capitol Park in a ceremony attended by sitting governor Fred M. Warner and mayor George P. Codd among other officials. A statue of Mason by sculptor Albert Weinert was later erected over the grave. When plans were announced in 2009 to reconfigure the park, they included relocating the monument and grave. However, the burial vault was not where earlier plans indicated and crews searched for four days before it was located on June 29, 2010. It was believed the grave was moved from its 1905 location in 1955 to make room for a bus terminal. On the 199th anniversary of his birth, October 27, 2010, Mason was reburied for 4th time in a newly built vault in the pedestal the bronze statue. The current Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, where funeral services were held for Mason in 1843, officiated at the ceremony.</p><br>
<h2>Transit hub & redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>The park has also served as a major downtown transit center. Two years after the destruction of the state capitol by fire, multiple streetcar lines were looped around the new park with large boarding platforms constructed on Griswold and Shelby streets, transforming it into a major transfer station. In 1955, the Department of Street Railways (DSR) constructed the $280,000 (~$ in ) Capitol Park Bus Terminal at the north end of the park which facilitated the moving of Stevens T. Mason&#39;s tomb to the south end of the park. The new facility was constructed using steel and reinforced concrete, with plastic skylights throughout the concrete canopy. Not long after the restructuring of the DSR as the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT), the station was demolished in 1979, though the area around the park continued to be used as a major bus terminal.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the area was named as the Capitol Park Transit Center, and was used as a temporary terminal until the completion of the Rosa Parks Transit Center.</p><br>
<p>The Highlands Historic District in Grand Teton National Park is a former private inholding within the park boundary. The inholding began as a 1914 homestead belonging to Harry and Elizabeth Sensenbach, who began in the 1920s to supplement their income by catering to automobile-borne tourists. In 1946 the property was purchased by Charles Byron, Jeanne Jenkins and Gloria Jenkins Wardell, who expanded the accommodations by one or two cabins a year in a U-shaped layout around a central lodge. The lodge and cabins are constructed in a rustic log style, considered compatible with park architecture. The Highlands was neither an auto camp, which encouraged short stays, nor a dude ranch, which provided ranch-style activities. The Highlands encouraged stays of moderate length, providing a variety of relatively sedentary amenities. It was the last private-accommodation camp to be built in the park before the Mission 66 program created concessioner-operated facilities on public lands.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service acquired the property in 1972 and uses it to house seasonal employees. The acquisition allowed the Park Service to demolish most of the nearby Mages Ranch - Elbo Ranch property. The Highlands was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The 4 Lazy F Ranch, also known as the Sun Star Ranch, is a dude ranch and summer residence in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, built by the William Frew family of Pittsburgh in 1927. The existing property was built as a family retreat, not as a cattle ranch, in a rustic style of construction using logs and board-and-batten techniques. The historic district includes seven cabins, a lodge, barn corral and smaller buildings on the west bank of the Snake River north of Moose, Wyoming. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The ranch was first improved by Philadelphian Bryant Mears in 1914, building two log cabins, a small barn, corrals, fencing, a well and a ditch. Mears lived on the 18 acre property, which he called the Sun Star Ranch, during the winter of 1915, and in 1916 he raised oats, barley and hay. The following year he married, then left to join the Army from 1917 to 1919. In 1927 the ranch was sold by Edward Mears to William Frew.</p><br>
<p>Frew was a wealthy dude from Pittsburgh, who renamed the ranch the 4 Lazy F for the "Four Lazy Frews". The family allowed paying guests by invitation only, operating the ranch as both a family retreat and a dude ranch.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The ranch consists of seven cabins, a lodge-dining hall and a laundry-utility building, as well as a barn, garages, sheds and a corral. The ranch is sited on the west bank of the Snake River. All buildings are in the style known as "dude ranch vernacular", characterized by log construction and board-and-batten infill. Logs are generally varnished brown, but roofs are red or green asphalt roll roofing. Cabins are largely original construction with newer toilet additions to the rear. Interiors are intact with exposed logs in the walls and floors.</p><br>
<p>The property was an inholding in Grand Teton National Park until 2006. It was sold as a life estate by Emily Frew Oliver to the National Park Service The 4 Lazy F was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Ponce de Leon Court Historic District consists of a single cul-de-sac located immediately east of downtown Decatur, Georgia. The street is accessed off of East Ponce de Leon Avenue, a historic road that runs east from Atlanta, Georgia through Decatur. Historic Decatur Cemetery is located to the north, and affluent Glynnwood Estates, developed in 1927, and Glenwood school border Ponce de Leon Court on the east.</p><br>
<p>Ponce de Leon Court is a local historic district in the city of Decatur, and was listed in the Georgia Register of Historic Places in June 2010. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 2011. The single-street district includes approximately 26 parcels, and was based on a subdivision plat developed by John L. Womack in the 1920s. Womack reportedly wanted homes on this street to remind him of the tropics, so he planted both palm trees and banana trees. The palm trees flourished, but the banana trees died. In the twenty-first century, residents successfully reintroduced banana trees on the north end of the street thanks to a change in the microclimate. The Womack family still owned property on the court when it was designated a historic district.</p><br>
<p>The closely spaced homes on the narrow street are within walking distance of downtown Decatur, and were constructed in an era when developments did not plan adequately for the automobile. The sense of scale and detail created a strong sense of community, and resulted in this street being recognized as a unique asset in Decatur. Ponce de Leon Court primarily includes 1920s-era American Craftsman bungalows, but also has a few historic multi-family homes. Both the single and multi-family structures, as well as historic palm trees, have remained largely intact from the era when they were built.</p><br>
<p>The street consists entirely of homes. There are no churches, businesses, or apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>The Murie Residence was the home of naturalists and conservationists Olaus and Mardie Murie. Located near Moose, Wyoming in the southern end of Grand Teton National Park, the house and adjoining studio are now part of the Murie Ranch Historic District, a National Historic Landmark encompassing the Murie residence and the former STS Ranch, home to Olaus&#39; brother Adolph.</p><br>
<p>The Murie Residence was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1990,</p><br>
<p>The Murie Residence Today</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the Murie Center was established in partnership with Grand Teton National Park, as a non-profit organization dedicated to stewardship of the Murie Ranch and the continuation of the Murie legacy. In 2001, the center launched a campaign to restore the buildings and improve the Ranch infrastructure, reawakening the Ranch as the Muries envisioned it, a center for study, discussion and debate on behalf of nature. In 2006, the Murie Ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark, commemorating its national significance to the history of the United States as home to the Murie family and their legacy of conservation.</p><br>
<p>The Death Canyon Barn is a combination barn and ranger patrol cabin in Grand Teton National Park. The barn was built in Death Canyon on the Death Canyon Trail at its junction with the Alaska Basin Trail by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 in the National Park Service rustic style. Located with a clear view of Prospector Mountain, it shares a common style and purpose with the Cascade Canyon Barn to the north in the park, with minor differences attributable to available materials and the preferences of the work crews building the barns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 1 story log building was designed by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Design. Built as a barn, it became a patrol cabin in 1945. It was built by workers from CCC Hot Springs Camp #NP-3 or Jenny Lake Camp #NP-4, working out of the Phelps Lake Spike Camp. A proposed cabin to house trail maintenance tools and personnel was never completed, so the barn was converted to that purpose shortly after the CCC was dissolved. In the 1950s it briefly housed a seasonal ranger station.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The rustic log cabin features saddle-notched log corners on a stone foundation. The foundation is buttressed at the corners to support the projecting log ends, a feature typical of Park Service designs of the era. The original wide barn door has been filled in with windows and a personnel door. The interior consists of a large main room with a small tack room in the southwest corner, now used for tool storage. The partition uses vertical poles faced with 4-1/2: wide tongue and groove planks. A loft is framed with logs and 8" rough-cut decking, reached by a milled-lumber stairway. The loft deck is covered with 6" wide flooring planks. The roof structure is open to the underside of the roof, with exposed log trusses.The hayloft was converted to a sleeping loft. The furnishings include a rodent-proof food storage bock and a propane stove. The adjoining corral enclosure is listed as a contributing feature, with standing trees supporting most of the fence enclosure.</p><br>
<p>The Death Canyon Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Ginn Carriage House is a historic carriage house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The building, which has been converted to a residence, is one of two surviving outbuildings  of the extensive "Terrace of Oaks" estate of publisher Edwin Ginn, whose main house was demolished in 1946. The U-shaped brick carriage house, built in 1900, exhibits high quality construction details, and has touches of Georgian Revival styling. The original doors to the carriage area are still attached to the building, sheltered by a copper shed roof.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Ginn Gardeners House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. It is one of two surviving outbuildings  of the extensive "Terrace of Oaks" estate of publisher Edwin Ginn, whose main house was demolished in 1946. The two-story brick gardeners house, built in 1900, shows the high quality of the estate and its Georgian Revival character. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond, with a water table and trim elements of marble. The five-bay facade has a center entry, which is sheltered by a square portico, supported by Tuscan columns and topped by a low railing with turned balusters. Above the entry is a shallow gable, below which is a large round-arch window.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison Parker Sr. House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1843 by Harrison Parker Sr., the owner of a local lumber mill. It is also one of the finer examples of Italianate style in the town, with a low-pitch hip roof with wide eaves decorated with brackets, and small attic windows set in the architrave. The second story windows have round-arch tops, and there are decorated porches on three sides. The interior includes well-preserved period details.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Grover House is a historic house at 223–225 Cambridge Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The wood-frame -story double house was built in the 1880s by Henry Grover, who farmed 25 acre of surrounding land. In the late 20th century, the Purcell family operated a flower stand on the property known as "Purcell&#39;s Pansy Patch". When the site was developed for housing beginning in 2009, the house was rehabilitated as part of the development.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1885 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Horace Hatch House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Originally located on Lloyd Street, this c. 1835 Greek Revival cottage was moved to its present location on Grove Street c. 1843. It is a locally rare example of a side gable Greek Revival cottage whose roof overhangs its full-width front porch. The house is similar to the nearby Hovey-Winn House, and may have been built by the same housewright, John Coats.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hovey-Winn House is a historic house at 384 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story Greek Revival cottage was built c. 1841 by John Coats, a local housewright who built a number of houses along Main Street. It is one of a small number of local houses  with a side gable roof that overhangs a full-width Doric porch. The house in the 19th century had a number of locally prominent individuals, include Reverend William Eustis, druggist Josiah Hovey, and Hoveys son-in-law Denis Winn, who owned the towns first livery stable.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson-Blood House is a historic house at 394-396 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built around 1840 by John Coats, a local housewright. The Greek Revival house was built by Coats for his in-laws, Samuel and Lucetta Hutchinson. It is basically Federal in styling, although it has a Greek Revival entry surround. The main house has had a two-story addition added to the rear, as well as a side porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Stanton House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. It is a -story wood-frame house with a gabled front portico supported by two-story smooth columns. The main facade and the gable end are finished in flushboarding, and the second-story balcony features an ironwork railing. The house was built c. 1840 by Deacon Nathan Brooks Johnson, a local blacksmith who may have made the balcony railings. It is Winchesters only high-style temple-front Greek Revival house. After Johnsons death it was purchased by Jacob Stanton, who built the Brown & Stanton Block in downtown Winchester.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The James H. Mann House is a historic house at 23 Hancock Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built by James H. Mann for his own use. Mann was a prominent local builder who also built the Carr-Jeeves House, another picturesque house with a mixture of architectural elements. This house is predominantly Gothic Revival in character, with its main body topped by a double roof roughly looking like a monitor. There is a three-story tower topped by a jerkin-headed roof, whose gable lines are decorated by Stick-style vergeboard.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The John Mason House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built sometime in the 1860s, probably for Joshua Stone, who sold it to John Mason sometime before 1875. Mason was one of the first Boston businessmen to establish a suburban residence in Winchester. The house has a variety of high-style Italianate features, including a characteristic low-pitch hip roof with decorative brackets, and a three-bay front facade in which paired narrow windows are topped by decorative framing. The front entry is sheltered by a portico supported by multiple columns and pilasters, with a bracketed roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson-Thompson House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1750, this two story Georgian house is the oldest structure in Winchester. The house contains evidence it once had a large central chimney, a typical Georgian feature, which was later removed and replaced by the narrower chimneys on the rear wall. The house was probably built by William Johnson, a prominent figure in the history of Woburn, when this area was part of that town. In 1858 Timothy Thompson, who had married Caroline Johnson, inherited the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, at which time it was still in the hands of Thompson descendants.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Remick House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The two story stucco-clad house was built in 1909 by Joseph Remick, and is sometimes called the "Baby Sanborn House" for its resemblance to the much larger Sanborn House just down the road. The house has a central five-bay section, which is flanked by wings that are one story in front and two in back. The main section is five bays wide, with French windows on both floors. The center three on the first floor are topped by triangular pediments, while those on the second floor have keystones set just below a Greek key frieze. A balustrade rings the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Kenelum Baker House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built in 1856 by a local master builder, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Italianate styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kenelum Baker House stands in a residential area southwest of downtown Winchester, on the northeast side of Norwood Street opposite its junction with Lagrange Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, oriented facing southeast, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its roof has a shallow pitch and a broad overhanging cornice. The center entry is flanked by rectangular window bays, and is framed by a portico with a projecting gable roof, beneath which are a pair of narrow round-arch windows. The walls of the projection consist of detailed latticework, with Palladian-style round-headed cutouts for the entry and window above. A projecting bay also appears on the side of the house, which faces the street.</p><br>
<p>This small house was built in 1856 by builder Kenelum Baker as his own home. Baker was locally prominent, overseeing construction of the town&#39;s 1857 Adams Street School (since demolished), and the Parker House, a particularly elaborate example of Italianate architecture. Later owners of this house include a local cemetery superintendent, and the first president of the Winchester Electric Light Company.</p><br>
<p>The Louis N. Maxwell House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1890 for Louis N. Maxwell, and is one of the finest examples of Shingle style architecture in Winchester. Although the main roof ridge is parallel to the street, the front facade presents a cross gable with roof line that sweeps down to the first floor. The entry is recessed behind a porch area underneath this gable, and there is a turret with conical roof to the gable&#39;s left.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Symmes House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1817, it is a rare local example of Federal period brick-end house, and is further notable for its association with the Symmes family, who were among Winchester&#39;s earliest settlers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marshall Symmes House stands at the southwest corner of Symmes Street and Main Street (Massachusetts Route 38) in southern Winchester. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding on the front and rear, and brick side walls. The house corner boards are pilastered, and the central front door is framed by sidelight and fanlight windows. It is sheltered by a gabled portico supported by round columns.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Zechariah Symmes, pastor of the Charlestown church, was granted land in this area that was settled by his sons about 1650. Marshall Symmes, a grandson who was a blacksmith with a shop that stood near Bacon and Main Streets, built this house about 1817, around the time of his marriage to Relief Stowell. It stands not far from the house of his brother John. Both Marshall and Symmes Streets are named for Marshall Symmes. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 1989, it remained in the hands of Symmes descendants.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Symmes Tenant House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA. Built in the 1870s as a rental property on land owned by Marshall Symmes , this Italianate house is notable for its association with the Symmes family, who were among Winchester&#39;s first settlers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marshall Symmes Tenant House is located on the east side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 38), across the street from the Marshall Symmes House. It is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. The entrance is centered on the west-facing front facade, sheltered by a hip roof supported by tapered square columns. A two-story polygonal bay projects from the south side, and a two-story ell in the rear joins the house to a carriage barn.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Zachariah Symmes, pastor of the Charlestown church, was granted land in this area that was settled by his sons about 1650. Marshall Symmes, a grandson who was a blacksmith with a shop that stood near Bacon and Main Streets, built this house in the 1870s (based on stylistic analysis), apparently as a rental property. It is one of three houses in the area associated with the Symmes family, whose names (including those of relations) are found on nearby Symmes Street, Stowell Street, and Marshall Street.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall W. Jones House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. A 2.5-story wood-frame Colonial Revival structure, it was built c. 1901 for Marshall W. Jones, a local businessman and active member of the local Board of Health. The house is sited near the Middlesex Fells Reservation, which had recently been established, making the area attractive to wealthy businessmen. The house has an asymmetrical facade dominated by differently-sized cross gables, which are decorated with half-timbering and vergeboard. There is a port cochere between the gables, supported by Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Moore House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story Gothic Revival house was probably built sometime in the 1840s, possibly by George Moore, a local builder whose family was listed as resident there 1865–1931.</p><br>
<p>The house is distinctive for having three steeply pitched gable dormers in front, decorated with vergeboard, and for a small mansard-roofed tower added to the rear in the 1870s. The single-story front porch has a flat roof, with a decorative jigsawn valance.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Mystic Dam  are a historic dam and gatehouse between Lower and Upper Mystic Lakes in the suburbs north of Boston, Massachusetts. The dam was built in 1864–65 by the Charlestown Water Commission  as part of a water supply system. It was located at a narrow point between the Lower and Upper Mystic Lakes, with its west end in Arlington and its east end in Medford. The water system it was a part of eventually merged into the Metropolitan District Commission , predecessor to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority  and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation .</p><br>
<p>As built, the dam was over 1,500 ft long and 16 ft high, with most of that length (about 1,000 ft) consisting of earthen embankments lined with riprap and puddle clay. Near its center is a spillway area consisting of a series of square columns constructed of granite blocks and a masonry apron. These columns are grooved on their inner faces to facilitate the installation of stop logs. A wooden walkway with a plank railing ran across the top of the dam. A wooden fish ladder was built, but removed at a later date. A gatehouse on the Medford side was used to connect the upper lake to a brick-lined aqueduct that delivered the water to Charlestown. The lake area impounded by the dam is 186 acre.</p><br>
<p>The dam and gatehouse were each listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. By the early 2000s, the dam was known to not be in very good condition, with failing spillway masonry, erosion, and other damage to the dams stonework. A major storm in 2006 flooded portions of the surrounding area, and highlighted the potential inability of the dam to handle a significant high-water event, leading to catastrophic flooding of downstream areas. Between 2010 and 2012 major work was undertaken to improve the dams condition. A new spillway was constructed to the east of the old spillway, which received a new spillway apron. Work was done on the embankments and the shores near the upper areas of the dam, and a new fish ladder and bridge were built. The historic gatehouse was also rehabilitated, and modern controls were added, enabling improved control over the water levels behind the dam.</p><br>
<p>The O. W. Gardner House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1840 by Oliver W. Gardner, and was originally one of a pair built in the area . It is one of Winchester&#39;s finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture, with elaborate scroll-sawn vergeboard in its steep gables, which also occurs in miniature on the gable-roofed portico that shelters the door. It has windows topped by label mouldings, and some windows are topped by a Gothic pointed-arch. The corner boards have elaborately grooved pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Oak Knoll is a historic estate house in Winchester, Massachusetts. This large Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house was built in the early 1890s by Lewis Parkhurst, a partner in the publishing house of Winchester resident Edwin Ginn. Parkhurst&#39;s mansion is the last surviving late 19th-century mansion house in Winchester. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Oak Knoll is set on a large lot at the center of a rough circle formed by Brooks Street and Grove Street in a residential area of southern Winchester. It has a setting at the top of a low hill, whose drama has been reduced somewhat by encroaching development. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and busy slate roof typical of the Queen Anne style. The roof is pierced by four brick chimneys with corbelled tops, another Queen Anne hallmark. The main entrance is located on the eastern side in a corner between cross-gable sections, sheltered by a porch with Colonial Revival detailing.</p><br>
<p>The house stands on land that once belonged to the locally prominent Symmes family. The land was purchased in 1891 by Lewis Parkhurst, who served as Winchester High School principal before joining the publishing firm of Edwin Ginn. He was active in civic affairs, representing the town in the state senate, and serving as president of Middlesex National Bank, the town&#39;s first commercial bank. Parkhurst School, built in 1949, was named in his honor.</p><br>
<p>The Parker House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. This two story wood-frame house was probably built in the 1850s by Kenelum Baker, a local builder, and is an elaborately styled Italianate house. It has wide eaves studded with paired brackets, and the porch, eave, and cupola all have a simple scalloped molding. The square cupola has round-arch windows, and the porch wraps around three sides of the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Patience and Sarah Gardner House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1830 on land that had been in the Gardner family since the mid-17th century. Patience and Sarah Gardner were sisters who purchased the property in 1825, and lived there until their deaths in 1857 and 1864. The house is an excellent local example of vernacular Federal styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Pressey-Eustis House is a historic residence located in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was constructed in the early 1850s and is notable for its Gothic Victorian decorative elements. The house features an L-shaped layout typical of the period, with a porch situated at the crook of the L. Distinctive architectural features include vergeboard with an unusual acorn pattern and finials atop the gables.</p><br>
<p>George Eustis, who served as town treasurer from 1910 to 1924, resided in the house from around 1870 until 1940. The house was recognized for its historical and architectural significance and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Bacon House is a historic house at 6 Mystic Valley Parkway in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built about 1830, it is one of the town&#39;s only surviving examples of high-style transitional Federal/Greek Revival styling. It was built for a local businessman whose nearby mills  were major employers of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Bacon House stands in southern Winchester, on the west side of Mystic Valley Parkway near the point where the Aberjona River empties into the Upper Mystic Lake. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded front and back. The side walls are built out of brick, rising to a parapet and two end chimneys. Its front facade is five bays wide and symmetrical, with the center entrance sheltered by a portico supported by fluted Doric columns and topped by a balustrade. The entry is framed by sidelight and transom windows with tracery. The interior also retains high quality wood work from its period of construction.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1830 to a design by John Kutts, a prominent Boston-based architect. The house is of particular note because its original architectural drawings survive, as do contractor bills and other documents related to its construction. It was built for Robert Bacon, who had been using the water privilege on the Aberjona River since 1824 for the manufacture of felt hats. He purchased the land on the west side of the river in 1825, and had this house placed with a view toward his mill and worker village. The mills supposedly burned down in 1843, but were rebuilt and leased to other industrial operations by the Bacons. Winchester&#39;s Bacon Street is named for him, and the area of the mill village was known for many years as Baconville.</p><br>
<p>The S. B. White House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in the early 1850s, and is one of the finest local examples of Gothic Revival architecture. Its exterior is finished in clapboards, and its steeply-pitched gables are decorated with icicle-like vergeboard. Its entry is flanked by sidelight windows and sheltered by porch added later. The house was built and owned by Samuel B. White, Jr., who served as Winchester&#39;s first town treasurer.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The historic house at 38 Rangeley Road in Winchester, Massachusetts is one of three Panel Brick in an exclusive late 19th century subdivision. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the Samuel Elder House, on the incorrect belief that it was the home of Samuel Elder, a prominent Boston lawyer.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rangeley Estate subdivision was a high-end residential development, located southwest of Winchester center on the west side of the railroad tracks. The land was purchased by David Skillings, a lumber businessman from Maine, and developed by him into an exclusive gated development known as Rangeley Park (its wall and pillars that supported a gate are still visible on Church Street, at the northern end of the development). This house was built by Skillings in 1875–76 as a rental property. The house has incorrectly been described as the residence of Samuel J. Elder, one of the founding editors of The Yale Record, the world&#39;s oldest humor magazine. This error occurred because the street number of the house is 38, but the number 38 had earlier been associated with a different house in the Rangeley neighborhood where Samuel Elder lived.</p><br>
<p>The house is set on a sweeping curve of Rangeley Road in the southern part of the Skillings development, opposite Meadowcroft Road. It is a -story brick structure, built in a Ruskinian Gothic style to a design by George Dutton Rand. It is faced in polychrome (red and black) brick, with additional trim elements in brownstone. The main facade is asymmetrical, with the entrance set in a segmented-arch opening. A single-story porch extends across the facade, supported by bracketed posts, with a balustrade with a jigsawn trefoil pattern.</p><br>
<p>The Sanborn House is one of the few surviving country house models in Winchester, Massachusetts. Nine and one-half acres of property was purchased in 1904 by Oren Sanborn, younger son of James Sanborn, the co-founder of Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Oren Sanborn and his wife Lorena (Rena) had lived in Winchester since 1901. The Sanborn House, designed in the beaux-arts style by architects Clinton M. Hill and Thomas M. James, was erected in 1906–07 at a cost of $250,000.</p><br>
<p>Their new home, which they called Aigremont, with its understated exterior and ornamented interior, set the stage for their role as prominent Winchester citizens. Oren was a member of the Winchester Country Club and the Calumet Social Club. Rena, active in Winchester Society, helped found the Winchester Hospital and led fundraising efforts for the hospital for many years.</p><br>
<p>The family fortune declined in the early 1920s and the house was sold. The Downes family, founders of Downes Lumber of Boston, used it as a family home for the next two decades. Their decision to sell the house and surrounding land to the Religious of Christian Education, an order of nuns, was significant in the ongoing preservation of the house during the years after World War II when so many large homes of the Victorian and Edwardian period were destroyed. The nuns built a grade school, the Marycliff Academy, on what had been the western paddock and used the house as their residence.</p><br>
<p>In 1969, the Town of Winchester purchased the Marycliff Academy and the adjacent Sanborn house. The school became the present Ambrose Elementary School (rebuilt in 2005), and the Sanborn House became home to a variety of occupants, most recently the town Recreation Department. In 1981, the Sanborn House was one of the first properties in Winchester to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Sanborn House was vacated in 2003 to facilitate construction of the new Ambrose School. In 2005 the Massachusetts Historical Commission recognized the Sanborn House as a significant and endangered property, awarding the Winchester Historical Society a Preservation Project Funds grant to begin the planning process for restoring the house.</p><br>
<h2>Sanborn House Historical & Cultural Center</h2><br>
<p>In March 2006 the Winchester Historical Society signed a long-term lease for the Sanborn House with the Town of Winchester. The Society took on the stewardship for the restoration of the property and its conversion into the Sanborn House Historical and Cultural Center for the use of the community as well as a home for the Society.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the Society appointed its first executive director of the Sanborn House. The Society now has a</p><br>
<p>Site Manager, in place of an executive director, who handles the operations/maintenance of the house along with overseeing event rentals.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the restoration project of the exterior facade, funded in part by a matching grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission was started and completed.</p><br>
<p>The Sharon House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1835, and has basic Greek Revival styling. It is most notable as including a rare surviving remnant of the shoe manufacturing industry, which was a cottage industry in the area in the first half of the 19th century. The building&#39;s rear ell, a two-story structure, is believed to have originally been used for that purpose. It is not known if it  was built in place or moved to that location and attached to the house. The house also stands adjacent to the site of the Black Horse Tavern, and early 18th century landmark.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Skillings Estate House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built about 1880 by a Maine lumber magnate David Skillings, it is one of four houses he built as part of his exclusive Rangeley Estate. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rangeley Estate subdivision was a high-end residential development, located southwest of Winchester center on the west side of the railroad tracks. The land was purchased by David Skilling, a lumber businessman from Maine, and developed by him into an exclusive gated development (its wall and a gate are still visible on Church Street, at the northern end of the development). This house was built by Skilling, but it is not known for whom he built it. (Skillings&#39; own house, built in the 1870s, has not survived.)</p><br>
<p>This house is located on a broad lot at the corner of Central Street and Rangeley Road. It is stories in height, and has irregular Queen Anne massing and an asymmetrical facade that has a projecting gable section with decorative shingles. The projection is supported by shingled brackets and arches framing a double sash window. A porch, partially enclosed, extends across the front. The roof gables have Stick style woodwork, and the Central Street facade features a floral brick panel between the floors.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Ayer House is a historic house at 8 Grove Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built about 1864, it is a conservative but detailed example of early Italianate architecture. It was built for a prominent local businessman and politician. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Ayer House stands in a residential area of southeastern Winchester, on the east side of Grove Street, a feeder road through the neighborhood. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. It has pilastered corner boards, bracketed eaves, and tall windows with projecting sills and lintels. The main facade is five bays wide, with the entrance at the center, sheltered by a portico. The front portico has simple round columns supporting a roof with a low balcony, while the entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and is topped by a fanlight window.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1864 by Thomas Ayer, a local businessman and politician. It was built at a time when Winchester was just beginning to undergo a transition from an agricultural to a residential suburban area. Ayer was prominent in civic affairs, raising funds and materials for the American Civil War effort, and serving on various town committees. He served for two years on the board of selectmen, and served one term in the state legislature. Ayer&#39;s brother Albert, also prominent in local affairs, lived in a house that was originally adjacent to this one on Brooks Street, but has since been separated from it by infill construction.</p><br>
<p>The Trowbridge-Badger House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The large 2.5-story house was built c. 1886, and is an excellent local representative of predominantly Queen Anne styling with Colonial Revival features. The house&#39;s irregular roof line, with many gables and projecting sections, is typically Queen Anne, while the shingled porch with Tuscan columns is Colonial Revival. Little is known of its early owners beyond their names.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The US Post Office—Winchester Main is a historic post office at 48 Waterfield Road in Winchester, Massachusetts. The single-story Classical Revival brick building was built in 1927 and 1928 by John P. Curley for the United States Postal Service. The building features neo-Classical temple fronts on its three principal facades, with a more elaborate projecting instance on the long south-facing facade, where the main entrance is located. The cornice has a simple dentil moulding in limestone; the roof is flat, but there is a raised clerestory section in the center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and included in the Winchester Center Historic District in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Webster Childs House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built about 1876 by a Maine lumber magnate as part of the exclusive Rangeley Estate, it is one three examples of Panel Brick Queen Anne architecture in the town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rangeley Estate subdivision was a high-end residential development, located southwest of Winchester center on the west side of the railroad tracks. The land was purchased by David Skilling, a lumber businessman from Maine, and developed by him into an exclusive gated development (its wall and a gate are still visible on Church Street, at the northern end of the development). This house was built by Skilling as a rental property, and was purchased in 1889 by Webster Child, a piano manufacturer.</p><br>
<p>The Childs House is set well back from Meadowcroft Road, on the southern edge of Skilling&#39;s development. It is a -story brick structure, with a mansard roof and Stick style decoration in projecting gable sections. The walls are polychrome brick (mainly red and black), and windows are set in segmented-arch openings with sawtooth brickwork. The main facade is symmetrically arranged, with a central projecting pavilion topped by a gable with a trefoil and a pointed-arch window. The entrance is set in a segmented-arch opening in the pavilion, sheltered by a single-story porch.</p><br>
<p>The Wedgemere Historic District encompasses the largest single 19th-century residential development of Winchester, Massachusetts. It is one of the town&#39;s largest surviving 19th-century residential subdivisions, with a concentration of high-quality residences built between about 1890 and 1920. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wedgemere Historic District is located west of Winchester&#39;s town center, and just east of Cambridge Street (Massachusetts Route 3), a major north–south artery in the town. It is bounded on the north by Warren Street, on the east by Wildwood and Fletcher Streets, and on the south by Church Street. It is bounded on the west by Cambridge Street, but excludes properties located there. The area is characterized by large houses set back on large grassy lots, with a high level of quality and architectural character. The styles that predominate in its buildings are Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival. Almost all of the houses were built between 1890 and 1920, with only outbuildings such as garages intruding on the landscape.</p><br>
<p>The subdivision was created by a syndicate established by Frank Forsyth, a local resident, and syndicate of Boston-based investors, who acquired 75 acre of land in 1891. Development was slowed by the Panic of 1893, which resulted in the dissolution of the syndicate. Over the following decades, a variety of houses were built on the land platted out by the syndicate. Early houses in the district were typically Colonial Revival with some Queen Anne styling, such as the Rice House (10 Oxford Street, c. 1893) and the Davis House (6 Calumet Road, c. 1893). By the 1910s the Craftsman style began to come into vogue, with houses like the Nickerson House (25 Calumet, built 1912). One of the most unusual houses in the district is the Spanish Revival Lombard House at 105 Church Street, built in 1908.</p><br>
<p>The William Simonds House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1877 by William Simonds and is a good local example of Second Empire styling. It has the classic mansard roof, and a symmetrical three bay front facade. On the first floor, projecting bay windows flank the entry; their bracketed roof lines are joined to that of the wide porch that shelters the front entry. The mansard roof is pierced by dormers with rounded windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Winchester Center Historic District encompasses the commercial and civic heart of Winchester, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded Mt. Vernon and Washington Streets, Waterfield Road, Church and Main Streets. The district includes a number of Romanesque Revival buildings, including Winchester Town Hall and the Winchester Savings Bank building on Mount Vernon Street. Noted architects who contributed to the district include Robert Coit and Asa Fletcher. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Winchester was first settled beginning in the 1640s, and was known as South Woburn. What is now the town center began as the site of a grist mill and bridge on the Aberjona River. The community remained largely agrarian until the Boston and Lowell Railroad was built through the area in 1835. This spurred immediate growth and prompted the growth of a village center. When Winchester was separated from Woburn in 1850, it became the town&#39;s civic and religious center, with the construction of the First Congregational Church (first church burned 1853, present church built 1854) on the west side of the center.</p><br>
<p>Commercial and civic buildings from the early period of growth, and of a second spurt of growth after the American Civil War survive in the center, including the Romanesque Winchester Town Hall (1887), and the 1879 Brown and Stanton Block at Main and Mount Vernon Streets. Growth continued in the early 20th century, with the Beaux Arts Lincoln School (1903), the Colonial Revival Police and Fire Station (1914), and the Gothic Revival library (1931), designed by local architect Robert Coit. The most significant ahistorical modification to the district is the elevation of the Boston and Lowell line, effectively bisecting the district.</p><br>
<p>The Zachariah Richardson House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house has an irregular six-bay facade, a side gable roof, and clapboard siding. It was built in 1818, but may incorporate elements of a schoolhouse built in 1794, which previously stood on that site. The house is significant for its association with the Richardson family, the first colonial settlers of the area .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Philemon Wright/Asa Locke Farm, better known as "Wright-Locke Farm," is a historic farm at 78 Ridge Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The organic farm grows and sells produce and offers educational programs for children and adults on land now owned by the Wright-Locke Land Trust.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property was owned around the turn of the 19th century by Philemon Wright, a noted explorer of Canada, and was developed by the family of Josiah Locke, to whom he sold the property in 1800 before embarking on his explorations. The Greek Revival farmhouse was probably built around 1828 by Asa Locke. The farm remained in the Locke family into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the Town of Winchester purchased the farm, then 20 acres, for $14 million to prevent the construction of a 300-unit housing development. The intention at the time was to sell 12.5 acres to a developer who planned to build fewer homes. However, the developer defaulted on payments in 2010 and forfeited a deposit on the land, leaving the town in the hole.</p><br>
<p>Advocates then launched a fund-raising campaign to prevent any residential development on the land. In May 2015, Town Meeting members voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell the 12.5 acres to the Wright-Locke Land Trust for $8.6 million.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is one of a few working farms in Winchester.</p><br>
<h2>The Farm Today</h2><br>
<p>Wright-Locke Farm draws visitors to its farm stand, outdoor concerts, lectures, workshops, educational camps for children, and pick-your-own raspberries. It also is a popular spot for weddings. Walking paths are open to public year-round.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the farm kicked off a capital campaign to raise $4.8 million to build an Education Center with a kitchen and classroom. Such a building would allow the farm to run its educational programming year-round.</p><br>
<p>Winchester Town Hall is a historic town hall at 71 Mount Vernon Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The -story brick building was built in 1887 to a design by Rand and Taylor. It was funded in part by a bequest from William Parsons Winchester, for whom the town is named. Stylistically the building has Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styling. Its most prominent feature is the clock tower, a four-plus story square tower topped by a pointed roof with gables.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and included in the Winchester Center Historic District in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Winchester Savings Bank is a bank headquartered at 661 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The bank is an independent, mutual, state-chartered institution with a mission of meeting the financial needs of the communities which it serves. The bank is directed by a board of trustees elected by the bank&#39;s corporators, a group of civic-minded, local individuals. Since the Bank is mutual, all profits from operations are reinvested in the bank.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Winchester Savings Bank was established by the Massachusetts Legislature and incorporated on March 3, 1871. The first meeting of the Corporators was held in Lyceum Hall (the building at the corner of Main and Mt. Vernon Streets in Winchester) on July 11, 1871. The Bank first opened its doors for business on August 26, 1871, in a banking room on the north side of Main Street. It was generally predicted that the Bank would not be a success, but on opening day, $11,058 was deposited, with most of this total coming from the bank&#39;s trustees and corporators.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, the bank moved to the second floor of the Brown and Stanton Block on Main Street, and remained there until 1892 when it moved into its newly constructed building at 26 Mt. Vernon Street. The bank&#39;s main office was moved on December 10, 1979, to its present location at 661 Main Street. Since its founding in 1871, the bank has grown into a full-service financial institution.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The bank&#39;s first purpose-built headquarters is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure was built in 1892 by William Blaikie and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Moran Bay Patrol Cabin was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps about 1932. The log structure was located in the northern backcountry of Grand Teton National Park, and was built to a standard design for such structures, in the National Park Service Rustic style, but for the USA Forest Service, which administered much of the area prior to the expansion of the park in 1943. The Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin is similar.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was a days hike from the Leigh Lake Ranger Patrol Cabin to the south and the Colter Canyon cabin to the north. Located in a remote portion of the park, the cabin was used for winter ranger patrols. The one story cabin was built on a stone foundation. The log walls were saddle-notched at the corners. The roof was sheathed with cedar shingles and had exposed log purlin structure on the interior, which is a single room. The site features a view of Jackson Lakes Moran Bay, and is at present usually accessed by boat from the lake. The cabin was reconstructed in 1995,</p><br>
<p>The Moran Bay Patrol Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1998</p><br>
