<p>The Bullen–Stratton–Cozzen House is a historic First Period house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Its oldest portion is estimated to date to about 1680, and the building reflects changes in taste and use over the intervening centuries. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bullen–Stratton–Cozzen House is located on the north side of Brush Hill Road, a rural country road in northwestern Sherborn. It is set in bend in the road, and is set facing roughly south, not far from Course Brook, a typical First Period siting. The main block of the house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin interior chimneys and clapboard siding. A leanto section, apparently integral to its early construction, extends to the rear, with a later "Beverly jog" extending the leanto beyond the left side. The central entrance has a Greek Revival surround, that dates to c. 1840. It has narrow sidelights and pilasters with a distinctive Greek key motif that is unusual in the town.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this house was probably built c. 1680 by Deacon Samuel Bullen, and early settler of the area. The main block was extended to its present size c. 1760 by Nathaniel Stratton, who married into the Bullen family, and was probably also responsible for the added Beverly jog. In the 19th century the house belonged to Isaac Cozzen, who operated a sawmill nearby. The house&#39;s Colonial Revival porches were added around 1910, when the property was being used as a vacation house.</p><br>
<p>The Charles D. Lewis House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, set on a brick and rubblestone foundation, and exhibits informal Shingle style massing with elements of formal Colonial Revival detail. The house is built in a wide V-shape opening to the north, its main entrance south-facing with porches, but, within the angled facades to the north, a circular driveway and port-cochere entry, supported by Tuscan columns. It was built as a gentlemans farm and one of the towns earliest summer residences circa 1905, by Charles D. Lewis, a businessman whose family owned Lewis Wharf in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Holbrook House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Built c. 1870–75, this modest house is the town&#39;s finest example of Second Empire styling. It was built for Charles Albert Holbrook , whose family operated a large apple cider mill in town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 3, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the east side of South Main Street, at the northern edge of the rural village of South Sherborn. It is a 1-1/2, timber-framed structure, with a flared slate mansard roof and clapboard siding. A polygonal window bay projects from the right side of the front facade, with a flat-roof that has a bracketed cornice. The main roof line is also studded with paired brackets. The front entrance is shelter by a portico supported by slender square posts. A garage stands to the right of the house.</p><br>
<p>Although modest in its scale, it has high-style decoration unusual for a relatively rural location. A house at 5 Washington Street was a virtual copy of this one, until its mansard roof was destroyed by fire. This house was owned for many years by members of the Holbrook family, a major local producer of apple cider. The cider mill, of Jonathan Holbrook and Sons (Charles and John) operated between 1853 and 1909. It was located nearby in South Sherborn, and was billed as the world&#39;s largest cider-making operation.</p><br>
<p>The Clark–Northrup House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Built c. 1845–55, it is a locally unusual example of a Greek Revival house with a more traditional Georgian side-gable roof. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark–Northrup House is located on the south side of Maple Street, a local through street leading west from Sherborn center. It is screened from the road by trees, and is accessed via a semicircular drive. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The center entry is sheltered by a flat-roof porch, supported by square posts with Doric capitals. Doric pilasters rise at the building corners to a broad entablature. The ground-floor front windows are taller than those of the second floor, and are topped by a shallow projecting cornices.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built c. 1845–55, and was probably around the time of Nathaniel Clark&#39;s marriage in 1844. Clark was the son of Rev. Amos Clark, who lived across the street in a 1729 house. The house is locally unusual, as most Greek Revival houses have a front-facing gable and are three bays wide. Nathaniel Clark sold the house to Isaiah Northrup, a farmer, in the late 1860s or early 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Morse III House is a historic First Period house at 210 Farm Road in Sherborn, Massachusetts. With its oldest portion dating to about 1710, it is one of the town&#39;s oldest surviving buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Morse III House stands in a rural area of eastern Sherborn, on the west side of Farm Road north of its junction with Forest Road. It is a -story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and shingled exterior. At the rear the roof extends to the first floor, giving the house a saltbox profile. The front facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and gabled pediment. An ell extends to the rear of the main block. Other buildings on the property include a barn and chicken coop.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this house was built c. 1710, and is one of a handful of First Period houses in the town. Originally a three-bay structure with off-center chimney, it was extended to its present five-bay configuration with central chimney in the late 18th century. Daniel Morse III, who built the house, was the son of one of Sherborn&#39;s first settlers, who acquired 800 acre of surrounding land in 1656. The house was sold out of the Morse family in the late 18th century. The barn, south of the house, was built in 1900 in the Shingle style.</p><br>
<p>The Deacon William Leland House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It is a -story main dwelling, five bays wide, with a small ell to the west. It has a side gable roof with central chimney, and relatively simple trim. The house was built in 1717 for Deacon William Leland, son of one of the area&#39;s first settlers, and has seen relatively little exterior alteration, unlike other early houses in the town.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Eastern Slope Inn is a historic hotel at 2760 White Mountain Highway  in North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Built in 1926, it is one of the community&#39;s most prominent examples of large-scale Colonial Revival architecture, and is historically important as a major element in the popularization of downhill skiing in the area. The inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Eastern Slope Inn stands at the northern fringe of the commercial downtown area of North Conway, on the west side of White Mountain Highway, the towns principal thoroughfare. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof crowned at its center by an open widows walk. A four-column pedimented gable projects at the center of the main facade, and single-story porches extend from it to either side; that on the left has been enclosed. The interior features richly decorated public spaces.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1926. It was designed by Harold E. Mason of Haynes & Mason, architects of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with apparent inspiration from the Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. It was the third hotel on the site, the first two (dating to 1864) having succumbed to fire. Originally the Hotel Randall, it was purchased in 1937 by Harvey Dow Gibson, a native of North Conway, who was by then president of Manufacturers Trust Company of New York. Gibson added the hotel to the Manufacturers Trust&#39;s National Hotel Management Company (NMH) range of hotels, which was then overseen by hotel pioneer Ralph Hitz. The hotel was renamed the Eastern Slope Inn as part of a larger effort to promote downhill skiing in the area. Gibson developed the nearby Cranmore Mountain Resort into one of the most successful ski areas of the time, and used the Eastern Slope Inn as a year-round facility.</p><br>
<p>In 1977 the inn was purchased by Eastern Mountain Sports and converted into a retail establishment. As part of this conversion many of the public spaces were altered to accommodate retail functions. Around 1982 it was sold to an ownership group, which has rehabilitated the property and converted it back into a hotel.</p><br>
<p>The North Conway 5 and 10 Cent Store is a historic general store at 2683 Main Street in North Conway, New Hampshire. Built about 1840 and significantly modified in 1900, it is one of a small number of surviving dime stores in New Hampshire, and is architecturally unusual in the state for its "boom town" false front facade. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The North Conway 5 and 10 Cent Store occupies a prominent position on the east side of Main Street in downtown North Conway, at its junction with Kearsarge Street. It is a -story wood-frame building, with a gabled roof that is obscured by the western-style false front, which extends a full three stories. The ground floor has a single storefront, with plate glass windows flanking a recessed entrance, and a secondary entrance at the far right. Three sash windows are irregularly spaced on the second floor, and a single sash window appears at the center of the third floor. The interior&#39;s appearance dates to the turn of the 20th century, with a tin ceiling and plaster walls with vertical board wainscoting, counter displays of glass and wood, and maple floors. An ell at the rear of the store has linoleum flooring and acoustic paneling on the walls, with a dropped ceiling above.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building&#39;s original construction date is estimated to be about 1840, but its present appearance dates to a major renovation c. 1900. The rear ell was added about 1940. The false front is the only one of its type in North Conway. The store has been in continuous operation since 1939, under several different owners. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 2004, it was one of only two known 5 and 10 stores in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Prospect Park Boathouse is in the eastern part of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. It is situated on the northeast shore of the Lullwater, a waterway north of Prospect Park&#39;s Lake and southeast of the Ravine.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Helmle, Hudswell and Huberty, protégés of McKim, Mead and White, designed the boathouse. It supplanted an older wooden boathouse further north. The classical design contains an arcade facing the Lullwater, with a canopy supported by columns of the Tuscan order. The entablature at the top of the columns contains triglyphs, and a balustrade runs atop the canopy, surrounding it and forming a second-floor terrace. The interior of the Boathouse had double staircases that ascended to a second floor, merging at a landing in the middle. There was a boat-renting office at ground level, between the staircases. The second floor was composed of a dining room with doors opening outward onto the terrace. The terrace received a shed in 1915.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Boathouse on the Lullwater was built in 1905–07. At one point in September 1964, the Parks Department was within forty-eight hours of demolishing the Boathouse.</p><br>
<p>The resulting historic preservation movement generated public pressure to save the Boathouse, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Restorations were deferred for several years.</p><br>
<p>The interior renovations began in 1971, under Commissioner August Heckscher. The Boathouse reopened to the public in 1974, but the exterior terracotta was not renovated until 1979. Further restorations were required in the 1980s under Commissioner Gordon Davis to repair damage from a leaking roof. After twenty years as a visitors center and park ranger headquarters, the Boathouse was restored for a third time in the late 1990s because of deterioration in the terracotta. It now houses the Audubon Center, the Audubon Society&#39;s only urban interpretive center in the United States.</p><br>
<p>In May 2024, Oberon Group agreed to operate a cafe at the boathouse, which opened that July.</p><br>
<h2>Educational programs</h2><br>
<p>Each September since 2019, the Brooklyn Public Library sponsors an Open Air University with free non-accredited courses on the Boathouse grounds, hosting immigrant professors, academics, and teachers who were trained outside of the USA</p><br>
<p>The Grecian Shelter, designated a Croquet Shelter on the original plans of Prospect Park, is also referred to as the Prospect Park Peristyle or Peristyle. The building, a peristyle with Corinthian columns, is situated near the southern edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. Constructed by McKim, Mead and White in 1905, this peristyle was built on the site of the 1860s-era Promenade Drive Shelter along the southwest shore of the Prospect Park Lake. The Prospect Park Peristyle is designed in the Renaissance architectural style. It consists of a raised platform located two steps above ground level; the platform is covered by a rectangular colonnade with 28 Corinthian marble columns, each with square piers. An entablature of terracotta runs atop the structure. The building was constructed as a temporary refuge from rain and sun.</p><br>
<p>Grecian Shelter was rehabilitated in 1966 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The peristyle is also a New York City designated landmark, having been declared as such on December 10, 1968.</p><br>
<p>The Farwell Building is a commercial building and residential building located at 1249 Griswold Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Farwell Building is an eight-story rectangular building built of brick, and designed in the Chicago school architectural style. The front façade makes extensive use of glass, and includes both horizontal and vertical elements. A horizontal frieze crosses the façade at the entrance level, and a second frieze decorated with triglyphs and metopes adorns the second story. Ionic pilasters stand at the corners of the building and flanking the central entrance. Iron grillwork decorates the entrance transom, and the interior features a Tiffany mosaic ceiling, brass elevator doors, and marble walls.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Farwell Building is named for the estate of Jesse H. and Emmer J. Farwell. The building was completed in 1915 from plans made by architect Harrie W. Bonnah. The decorative (and structural) ironwork was made by the Russell Wheel and Foundry Company of Detroit.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, the Farwell was significantly altered: the original terra cotta cornice with Pewabic tiles was removed, and significant changes were made to the ground level façade. Higgins Management Company purchased the Farwell during the 1970s and renovated the building for retail office space. However, since 1984, the building has been completely vacant.</p><br>
<p>In October 2009, the State of Michigan announced it was in negotiations to buy the building from the current owners through the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program with a final sale price expected to be over US$3 million, less past-due property taxes owed on the building. In April 2012, Lansing-based Karp and Associates submitted a successful bid to restore the building and the nearby Detroit Savings Bank Building to house residential units, offices and retail space. Part of the renovations will include recreating the cornice removed in 1957.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson Falls National Register Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Jackson, New Hampshire. It consists of a cluster of buildings centered on the crossing of Jackson Village Road over the Wildcat River, extending on both sides of the river along Five Mile Circuit Road  and Carter Notch Road, both of which are part of New Hampshire Route 16B. Most of the properties in the district were built between the 1860s and the 1930s, and are reflective of the community&#39;s growth as a summer resort area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Jackson was first settled in the 1770s, and was incorporated as "Adams" in 1800; it was renamed Jackson in 1828, after President Andrew Jackson. At first agricultural in nature, the area&#39;s scenic beauty began to draw artists and tourists. By the late 1840s a small tourist industry had arisen. Larger hotels began to be built in Jackson in the 1860s, with further growth spurred by completion of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad in the 1870s. The village center of Jackson Falls experienced its largest period of growth between 1880 and the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The village of Jackson Falls consists of a mix of civic, religious, commercial, and private residential buildings. The most prominent building is probably the Wentworth Castle, which is on the hillside above the Wentworth Hall resort hotel complex. Completed in 1891, it was designed by New York architect William Bates. The district also includes Jackson&#39;s 1901 library building, old (1897) town hall, and a community church built in 1846–47.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn Cemetery, located in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States, is an example of the rural cemetery. It was laid out by Tell W. Nicolet of the firm of Morris and Knowles of Pittsburgh, PA. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. Today, the cemetery covers 42 acre and has over 15,000 burials.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in the early spring of 1875. Joseph R. Hamilton was climbing the fence between his fathers farm and that of Norval Barns. The loaded rifle he was carrying accidentally discharged, killing him. His fathers decision to "bury him where he lay" led to the families establishing a small burying ground. They opened the fence line between their properties and enclosed about a quarter of an acre to use for family burials.</p><br>
<p>Ten years later, in December 1885, the Woodlawn Cemetery Company was incorporated and plots were offered for sale to the larger community. 5 acre were purchased from each of the land owners, Elmus Hamilton and Norval Barns. Many of the early leaders of the Fairmont community were laid to rest here. Among them is Francis Harrison Pierpont, the Governor of the Restored State of Virginia from 1861 to 1868, his wife Julia and three of their four children.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Boaz Fleming, the founder of Fairmont, is here with his wife, Elizabeth. Other members of his family are here as well, including Clarissa Fleming Hamilton, his grandson Elmus Hamilton, owner of the Hamilton farm, and great-grandson, Joseph R. Hamilton. Another descendant is Aretas B. Fleming, eighth governor of West Virginia. A lawyer, Aretas Fleming was among the men who created the Fairmont Development Company and worked to develop Fairmont, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>James Otis Watson is considered the father of the bituminous coal industry in north central West Virginia. He and Pierpont owned the first coal mine to be commercially viable following the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad linking Fairmont with the eastern seaboard markets. One of his daughters married Aretas B. Fleming. His sons, James Edwin Watson, Sylvanus Lamb Watson and Clarence Wayland Watson are also buried here.</p><br>
<p>Matthew Mansfield Neely was a governor, a Congressman and USA Senator.</p><br>
<p>Other notable burials include:</p><br>
<p>Alpheus F. Haymond, judge and member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals</p><br>
<p>Sam Jones, Major League Baseball pitcher</p><br>
<p>Benjamin F. Martin, member of the USA House of Representatives</p><br>
<p>Clarence Wayland Watson, coal baron, World War One officer and member of the United States Senate.</p><br>
<p>The Edwards Plain–Dowses Corner Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district encompassing an area where light industrial activity took place from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. It extends along North Main Street between Eliot and Everett Streets in Sherborn, Massachusetts, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Sherborn was a sparsely populated town until the time of the American Revolutionary War. The Edwards Plain area, in the south of the district, was probably named for Edward West, who was appointed the local schoolmaster in 1694. Dowses Corner, at the north end of the district, is named for Ebenezer Dowse, who settled in Sherborn after fleeing Charlestown before the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Dowse became a significant figure in the local industrial pursuits, establishing an early tannery in the buggy lowlands behind his house. Members of the Dowse family built a number of the houses in the area, predominantly Greek Revival houses built c. 1840-60. Dowse&#39;s efforts were the beginning of a cottage industry in shoe-making which persisted into the early 20th century. Most of the buildings associated with this and other small industry have either been lost to fire, been converted to residential uses, or moved out of the area.</p><br>
<p>One of the more notable industrial buildings to survive is the only stone building in the district. Nathaniel Partridge in 1796 built a stone structure to house a factory for manufacturing edged tools, which still stands at 53-55 North Main Street, adjacent to the Federal-style Harvey Partridge House at 51 North Main. The Plain School (built 1834) at 60 North Street, is the only building in the district that is not now residential in use.</p><br>
<p>The Eleazer Goulding House is a historic house at 137 Western Avenue in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1825 by Capt. Ebenezer Mann, a local master builder. The -story wood-frame house is a finely-detailed and well-preserved example of Federal style, with a side gable roof, twin interior chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main entrance is flanked by Doric pilasters, and topped by a dentillated cornice and fanlight. Possibly due to its country setting, Mann built it with simpler styling than houses he built in the village center around the same time.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The H. G. Vaughn House is a historic summer estate house at 5 Sparhawk Road in Sherborn, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The stucco-clad Dutch Colonial Revival house was designed by the Boston firm of Little & Browne and built in 1915. The L-shaped building has a marble courtyard in the crook of the L. It has four Dutch-inspired gables rising on the red tile roof, with sweeping curves and angular edges. The interior is decorated with 18th- and 19th-century New England architectural elements salvaged from other buildings, and some of its walls are decorated with murals showing Roman ruins and Dutch street scenes. Henry G. Vaughn, the owner, was a prominent Boston lawyer.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 3, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Cleale House is a historic house located in Sherborn, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame house, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and twin interior chimneys. A two-story hip-roofed ell extends to the rear of the main block. The house was built c. 1820–25, and is one of the town&#39;s best-preserved transitional Federal/Greek Revival houses. Its twin recessed porches are a distinctive feature not found in any older houses, as are the Gothic-looking window caps on the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Twitchell House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It was built circa 1710, or possibly 1690, with a north wing dating from the early 1800s. It is one of a small number of houses in Sherborn that have elements that may date to the 17th century. It is a -story wood-frame saltbox house, 3 wide bays, with a massive central chimney, side-gable roof, and clapboard siding. Inside it is laid out as a central hall, one room on either side, and lean-to at the rear. The Georgian front door is flanked by Doric pilasters and topped by a multi-pane transom and entablature.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Morse–Barber House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Architectural evidence suggests that this -story frame house has at its core a First Period structure that may date to the early 1670s, making it the oldest building in Sherborn. The property also has a barn dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Morse–Barber House is located on the southeast side of Forest Street in southeaster Sherborn, just west of the Rocky Narrows Reservation and the railroad tracks. The house and accompanying barn are set close to the street, the house sheltered from the road by a fringe of trees. The main house is a -story wood-frame structure, five symmetrically placed bays in width, with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney. The western portion of the structure, a three-bay two-story section that is one room deep, may have been built around 1670 by Joseph Morse, the son of one of Sherborns first land grant recipients. Morses home is known to have been the site of the community&#39;s first religious services, until a proper meeting house was built in the 1680s. The house, which now has Federal and Greek Revival exterior styling, was in the Barber family from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The barn is set northeast of the house and is oriented parallel to the road. It is a large structure, measuring about 40 x, with a gable roof and a large sliding door at the center of its main facade. Above this door is an extended multi-light rectangular transom window, with a sash window to the left of the door and another above in the gable. Attached to the building to the right of the door is a single-story equipment shed with two vehicle doors. The main barn matches in rough dimension a barn described in a 1798 inventory of the property; the attached shed is present in photographs from later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Morse–Tay–Leland–Hawes House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built about 1700 by James Morse (born 1686), and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It consists of a -story main house in 4 bays, with single story rear wing. Surface treatments are late Georgian in style, probably added by Dr. Jonathan Tay in the 1770s or 1780s, and include a semicircular fanlight and narrow Doric pilasters framing the front door.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Edmund Dowse House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival house was built in 1838 for the Rev. Edmund Dowse, the first pastor of the Evangelical Society , whose sone, William Bradford Homer Dowse, was a major benefactor of the town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dowse House is set on the north side of Farm Road, an east–west through road leading east from Sherborn center. Facing east, it is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-facing gable roof and claobpard siding. The main entrance is in the rightmost bay, sheltered by a flat-roof portico with square Doric columns and Italianate brackets. A -story ell extends to the north side, and a two-story polygonal bay window projects on the south side.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1838, during a significant period of growth in the town. It was built for Rev. Edmund Dowse, who was the first pastor of the Evangelical Society (now Pilgrim Church), and served in that position for 67 years. He was also politically active, serving in the state legislature and on town civic bodies. His son, William Bradford Homer Dowse, was a successful lawyer and businessman, educated at Harvard and practicing patent law. He was a major benefactor to the town, funding construction of Dowse Memorial Library (now town hall, built 1914), and the Memory Statue, built 1924.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Sanger III House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It is a -story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The windows of the front facade are symmetrically placed, but the door is slightly off-center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1734, with a rear leanto added around 1775. It is unusual in the town as an 18th-century gambrel-roofed house with leanto. Sanger was the son of a Boston merchant, and one of the few people on the town documented to own slaves.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sawin–Bullen–Bullard House is a historic First Period house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Of the towns early houses, this one shows its First Period origins the best. It is a -story timber-frame house, was built with an integral leanto section. It is five bays wide, with a central chimney, and a central doorway that has a 19th-century Greek Revival surround. The houses date of construction, however, is uncertain: it may have been built by Thomas Sawin, who established a sawmill on nearby Course Brook in 1679, or it may have been built by the Bullen family, who were the next owners of the land early in the 18th century. It was occupied in the 19th century by Galem Bullard, a stonemason.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sewall–Ware House was a historic house at 100 S. Main Street in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The house stood on land once belonging to Massachusetts judge Samuel Sewall . The house may have been constructed by Sewall&#39;s instructions for a tenant farmer. In the mid-18th century it was the boyhood home of Harvard College divinity professor Henry Ware, and remained in the Ware family well into the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The house no longer stands at the location described in the listing papers, and has probably been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Sherborn Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the civic heart and traditional center of Sherborn, Massachusetts. Its borders consist of Farm, Sawin, Washington, and North Main streets, Zions Lane, and the CSX railroad tracks. The district, while predominantly residential in character, also contains an important cluster of civic and religious buildings. Notable among these are the Dowse Memorial Building, a Tudor Revival structure built in 1914 to house the town library; it now houses town offices. It was donated by William Bradford Home Dowse, who also funded the construction of the 1924 Memory Statue, the towns memorial to its war dead. </p><br>
<p>Two churches stand in the district, both with original construction dates around 1930. The Pilgrim Church at 25 South Main Street was given an Italianate updating in the 1850s, while the First Parish Church at 11 Washington Street has Greek Revival styling. The Town Hall, located at 3 Sanger Street, is a rare unaltered example of the work of Worcester architects Boyden & Ball. It has classic Italianate styling, with deep, bracketed eaves, boldly quoined corners, and a cupola.</p><br>
<p>Only two things in the district survive from the early days of Sherborn, which was incorporated in 1674. Its first cemetery was laid out in 1689, and the older portion of the Flagg House (c. 1740) at 22 Washington Street is the only building in the center that predates 1750.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Fleming House is a historic house located in Sherborn, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1850 by Thomas Fleming. It is a well-preserved modest Greek Revival house with a simple door surround. Fleming and his brothers practiced one of the town&#39;s cottage industries, willow weaving for the making of baskets and trinket boxes, that proliferated in Sherborn in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 3, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Wares Tavern is a historic tavern  in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame structure was built c. 1780 by Benjamin Ware as a house for his family. It has a centered entry that is now sheltered by a Colonial Revival  surround. Wares son Eleazer converted the building into a tavern; it was greatly enlarged with an ell to the rear c. 1840. The building ceased to be used as a tavern by 1889; an ell was removed sometime in the 19th century, and now stands at 109 S. Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Woodland Farm–Leland House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house, a three-bay section with chimney, was built c. 1705 by Hopestill Leland, and enlarged by the addition of a leanto to the rear c. 1715. About 1760 it was widened to a full five bay width, and ells were added to either side c. 1820 and 1950. The exterior has exhibits a variety of styles, with Federal and Italianate elements. The house&#39;s original clapboards have been shingled over.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Lowell Historic Preservation District is a historic district created by the legislation establishing Lowell National Historic Park. The district encompasses an area of more than 500 acre, including virtually all of the historically significant resources associated with the industrial history of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. It includes the industrial mill complexes, worker housing areas, central business district, and civic heart of the city, as well as the water power infrastructure that powered the mills.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The City Hall Historic District is a historic district in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, bound roughly by Broadway, Colburn, and Kirk streets. The centerpiece of the district is the Richardsonian Romanesque City Hall, built in 1893 to a design by Merrill & Cutler, with its 180 ft clock tower.</p><br>
<p>The district features Greek Revival and Romanesque Revival architecture, including work by Kirk Boott. City Hall Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and expanded in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Street Historic District is a linear residential historic district in the Belvidere neighborhood of eastern Lowell, Massachusetts. The district encompasses large, fashionable houses and estates that were built between the 1860s and the 1930s. It includes properties at 245—834 Andover Street, and at 569 and 579 East Merrimack Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Andover Street, designated Massachusetts Route 133, is the major roadway extending eastward from downtown Lowell toward Andover in a roughly straight line. To its north, East Merrimack Street also runs east–west, but follows the contours of the Merrimack River, which lies to its north, until it bends south and ends at a junction with Andover Street in far eastern Lowell. At one stretch the two roads are sufficiently close to one another that there are single properties abutting both of them. The district extends along this piece of road, from Andover Street&#39;s junction with Nesmith Street to the Tewksbury line. It is lined with generously sized lots, with house often set back 20 to 30 ft. Lot size tend to increase in size further east, reflecting grander properties that were developed later.</p><br>
<p>In the first major phase of the area&#39;s growth, between the 1860s and 1890s, Italianate and Queen Anne Victorian houses were built. These were followed from the 1890s the 1930s by a series of high quality Colonial Revival homes. Most of the later properties are of smaller size than the earlier buildings, although the quality of workmanship remained high. The oldest properties in the district are the Federal-style Harry F. Worcester House (658 Andover Street, built 1802) and The Manse at 282 Andover Street, a stone Gothic Revival structure built c. 1847. The Elijah Read House at 578 Andover Street is said to be the finest Italianate house in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Belvidere Hill Historic District encompasses a residential area on the east side of Lowell, Massachusetts known for its fine 19th-century houses. The area, roughly bounded by Wyman, Belmont, Fairview, and Nesmith Streets, was developed beginning in the 1850s, and was one of the finest neighborhoods in the city, home to many of its business and civic leaders. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Belvidere Hill is the highest point in the city of Lowell. Located on the citys east side, it is one of several glacial drumlin that characterize the citys geography east of the Concord River and south of the Merrimack River. Prior to its residential development, Belvidere Hill was farmland. In 1849, the Proprietors of Locks and Canals purchased land at the top of what was then called Lyndes Hill, and built a reservoir in order to provide water pressure to the citys industries when the power canals were drained for maintenance. Fairmount Road, built to facilitate construction of the reservoir, also became a spur to the hills residential development. The citys businessmen and political leaders found the hill a desirable place to live, in part because it provided views away from the heavily urbanized parts of the city.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly bounded by Wyman, Belmont, Fairview, and Nesmith Streets. Fairmount Street is the principal spine of the district, running between Mansur Street and Evergreen Road. It also includes portions of Belmont and Nesmith Streets, which parallel Fairmount, and all of Talbot, Fairview, and Summit Streets, which are short streets between Fairmount and Belmont. The earliest houses built in the area are generally Italianate and Second Empire in their styling, and the area&#39;s development ended around the turn of the 20th century, when Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles were fashionable. Lot sizes are generally large (1/2 to 1 acre), and the houses often included a front drive and carriage house in the rear. The land switched hands between Billerica, then Tewksbury which broke away from Billerica, then being sold to Lowell. The former Tewksbury lands can be seen in the lands Lowell has on the Merrimack River and Concord River on the east side.</p><br>
<p>The Jerathmell Bowers House is believed to have built circa 1673, at 150 Wood Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is the oldest known home in Lowell. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jerathmell Bowers House stands in western Lowell, on the east side of Wood Street north of its junction with Westford Street. It is a -story Cape style house, with a gabled roof, central brick chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It is oriented with the gable end facing the street and the main facade facing south. The facade is five bays wide, with two windows on either side of a central entrance. All of these elements are placed asymmetrically, with the entrance slightly right of center. To the left of the main block is an early 19th-century three-season sunroom, and older ells (of 18th and 19th-century construction) extend to the right and back. The interior of the main block has a typical colonial-era four-room center-chimney layout, with the doorway leading into a narrow vestibule with a winding staircase providing access to the attic level.</p><br>
<p>Jerathmell Bowers, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, purchased land in what was then Chelmsford in 1670 or 1671. His son&#39;s birth was recorded in Chelmsford in 1673, suggesting that at least part of this house was standing then. The National Register of Historic Places form states that "It appears likely that its ca. 1673 date is correct, but the extensive interior changes that have concealed original fabric make it impossible to confirm this positively." During the early colonial period of Chelmsford, it was one of 19 garrison houses used for refuge by citizens during attacks by Native American tribes.</p><br>
<p>The area where the house stands became part of Lowell in the late 1820s, following the early development of mills on the Merrimack River. The house remained in the hands of Bowers descendants at least until the property was listed on the National Register in 1994. After advocating to keep the house, by the Lowell Heritage Partnership and Lowell Historical Society, the decision was made to save and stabilize the house. In November 2015 it was reported that the developers of the neighboring shopping center are going to start restoring the home in spring 2016.</p><br>
<p>The 1895 Lowell Post Office is an historic post office building at 89 Appleton Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The imposing two-story granite building was completed in 1895 to a design by W. J. Edbrooke. The building has an H shape, and has a profusion of typical Richardsonian Romanesque features, included rounded arches over windows and a recessed entry. The focal point of the building is its five-story square clock tower, which is topped by a pyramidal roof supported by tripled round arches on each face.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as a post office until 1936, when a new building on Kearney Square (now the F. Bradford Morse Federal Building) was put in service. The building continued to house federal offices until the 1970s, by which time its ownership had been transferred to the city. The city then used it for offices until the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It now houses a division of the Middlesex County juvenile court system.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Bowers House is an historic house in Lowell, Massachusetts. Built in 1872 for a local businessman, it is one of the most unusual houses in Massachusetts, being a circular masonry building with Second Empire styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jonathan Bowers House stands on the east side of Wannalancit Street, a residential street just east of the Pawtucket Canal west of downtown Lowell. It is set at the top of a low rise traversed by the north–south road. It is stories in height, and is built out of locally quarried granite. It is circular in shape, and is topped by a mansard roof with fish-scale slate shingles. At the center of the roof is a circular cupola with belvedere. The roof is pierced by pedimented gable dormers in a classic Second Empire style, and by a circular chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was built on land long owned by the Bowers family, but was subdivided for development around 1850. It was built in 1872 by Jonathan Bowers, a local industrialist who owned a sawmill and a granite quarry, as well as an amusement park in nearby Tyngsborough. The materials to build the house (its exterior stonework and interior woodwork) came from Bowers businesses. Bowers occupied the house until 1879, after which it was owned by a dealer in plumbing and metals. From 1919 to 1924 it was owned by a French-American social club, the Club Lafayette. Returned to private ownership, it has since served mainly as a residence, also housing a small law office for a time. It is one of Lowells most unusual architectural landmarks.</p><br>
<p>The Brown–Maynard House is a historic house in Lowell, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof topped by a cupola, clapboard siding, and a porch that wraps around the front and side of the house. The cupola is distinguished by tripled narrow round-arch windows on each side, and a bracketed roofline matching that of the main roof. The building&#39;s corners have paneled pilasters, and the windows are topped by decorative woodwork. The house was built c. 1852, probably for Samuel Brown, a supervisor at the Boott Mills, and is a fine local example of Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Butler School was a historic school building at 812 Gorham Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was used by the Lowell Public Schools.</p><br>
<p>The school, named after Benjamin F. Butler, a longtime Lowell resident, Massachusetts Governor, and Civil War general, was built in 1882 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Vacant since 1994, the building deteriorated. In May 2013, demolition began on the vacant building, and two new business buildings will be constructed on the lot.</p><br>
<p>A new Butler School facility was built further up Gorham Street in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Chelmsford Glass Works&#39; Long House is a historic tenement house at 139–141 Baldwin Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The building, built in 1802 by the Chelmsford Glass Works to house some of its workers, is a series of 1–1/2 story Cape style wood-frame houses joined into a single structure. The building is one of the earliest industrial tenement structures built in the country. The glass works was established after the Middlesex Canal was opened, and needed to provide housing for its workers in what was then a somewhat rural location.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Colburn School is a historic former school building at 136 Lawrence Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1848, it is a fine example of institutional Greek Revival architecture, and is one of the citys older surviving school buildings, built during the rapid population growth that followed the citys industrialization. Now converted to apartments, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Colburn School is located on the east side of Lawrence Street, between it and the Concord River, in a densely-built residential area south of Lowell&#39;s downtown and industrial area. It is a large two story brick structure, rectangular in footprint, with a gable roof with the end facing the street. The gable end is fully pedimented, with modillions in the gable and main cornice. Windows are uniformly spaced, with simple granite sills and lintels. The buildings main entrances were historically on the north and south facades; they are sheltered by late 19th-century porticos, and the northern one is now the primary access.</p><br>
<p>The city of Lowell was incorporated in 1826, originally part of Chelmsford, and was rapidly industrialized, with construction of mills and industrial infrastructure begun in 1822. In the following decades the population grew rapidly, and the city built schools in the neighborhoods to serve the population. The Colburn School was built in 1848, named for Warren Colburn, a superintendent of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, and originally provided single classrooms for grades 1-3 on the ground floor, and 4-8 on the upper floor. In 1863 it was converted to a fully graded school, and its interior was reconfigured to house eight classrooms. In the 1890s it was also used as a teacher training facility. Lowell&#39;s school population began to decline in the 1920s, but the Colburn School remained in use as an elementary school until it was closed in 1992. The building has since been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building, commonly called the Federal Reserve Building, is a bank building located at 160 West Fort Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1913 the United States Congress created the Federal Reserve System, which established twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Detroit was included in the Chicago region. Regional banks had the authority to create branch offices, and in 1917 the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago authorized the establishment of a Detroit Branch. In March 1918, the Detroit Branch opened, operating out of three local institutions. However, Detroit operations soon outgrew this operation, and in 1921 a site was chosen for a new building.</p><br>
<p>This site was within the Detroit Financial District, at a location that had once been part of Fort Shelby. After the fort was demolished, the land associated with it was divided into lots. Hiram Walker purchased several lots and constructed a house there. After Walker&#39;s death, the University Club purchased the house, and in 1916 the property was purchased by James Couzens. Couzens sold the land this building is located on to the Federal Reserve in 1921. In 1926, Congress authorized the construction of this building. The Federal Reserve hired the Chicago firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White to design it, and construction began in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building officially opened in December 1927. However, by the early 1940s, the branch office had outgrown the buildings capacity. In 1945, the Federal Reserve purchased lots adjacent to the building, and hired the firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls to design an annex. The firms head designer, Minoru Yamasaki, planned the building. Construction began in 1949, and by 1951, the eight-story glass-and-marble annex, opened. The Modern annex is clearly designed not to mimic the original building, but to make a statement all its own. After completion of the annex, the original building was gutted and renovated, and the entire complex opened in 1953.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Federal Reserve Bank moved to a new building at 1600 East Warren Avenue, leaving the building on Fort empty. A developer purchased the building with the intention of creating loft space. However, Dan Gilbert purchased the building on January 30, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert began a $12 million renovation which was completed in 2013 and included a revamped mixed-use approach by Detroit-based architectural firm Rossetti.</p><br>
<p>In February 2014, the Detroit Media Partnership, parent of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, announced all three organizations would occupy six floors in both the old and new sections of the building. The partnership expected to place signs on the exterior similar to those on the former headquarters. The move took place October 24–27, 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch Building consists of a 1927 three-and-one-half-story marble-faced Classical Revival bank building and a 1951 eight-story International Style Annex. The Annex is set back 30 feet from the front of the original building, and a small raised plaza is sited in front of the Annex and beside the original building. The floor levels of the two buildings are aligned, and the original building was gutted with the Annex was constructed, providing a seamless transition between the structures. The fourth floor of the original building was demolished to provide space for a penthouse projecting from the Annex, and a terrace for outdoor seating.</p><br>
<p>The original 1927 building measures 75 x, and has a black marble base approximately four feet high, with the upper section sheathed in white marble. A heavy stringcourse above the second-story windows separates the lower floors from the third (attic) story. The first-floor windows are multi-paned six-over-six windows with a cast-iron spandrel between each pair. The second and third floors originally had one-over-one double-hung windows, but these have been replaced with a single pane. The original main entrance of the building was eliminated in the 1951 renovation.</p><br>
<p>The 1951 Annex measures 115 x. The curtain walls are constructed from a grid of stainless steel from which 1-1/2" marble slabs are suspended. The ground floor is divided into seven bays by marble piers. The curtain walls on the upper floors extend three feet beyond the recessed ground floor piers. The white marble used in this structure was carefully chosen to match the color of the original building, and the glass was tinted green to reduce glare.</p><br>
<p>The Monroe Avenue Commercial Buildings, also known as the Monroe Block, is a historic district located along a block-and-a-half stretch at 16-118 Monroe Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, just off Woodward Avenue at the northern end of Campus Martius. The district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 The National Theatre, built in 1911, was the oldest surviving theatre in Detroit, a part of the city&#39;s original theatre district of the late 19th century, and the sole surviving structure from the original Monroe Avenue Commercial Buildings historic period.</p><br>
<h2>History and significance</h2><br>
<p>The early buildings on the block were constructed in Victorian commercial style, designed by architects such as Sheldon and Mortimer Smith during the mid-to-late 19th century. The Johnson block, in particular, constituted what was at the time one of the last remaining blocks of pre-Civil War buildings in Detroit. In the nearby Randolph Street Commercial Buildings Historic District, the building at 1244 Randolph St. is a rare survivor from the 1840s. The Victorian styled Odd Fellows Building (1874) is located at the corner of Randolph and Monroe.</p><br>
<p>The Monroe buildings were occupied by numerous short-term tenants through the years, including grocers, confectioners, and saloons. In the early 20th century, a wave of European immigration brought jewelry shops, pawn shops, and tailors to the area.</p><br>
<p>At around the same time, the Campus Martius area was developing into the entertainment center of Detroit. The Detroit Opera House, then located on the north side of the Campus across Monroe Avenue from the buildings in this district, anchored the area, and, in 1901, the Wonderland vaudeville theatre moved next door.</p><br>
<p>The early 20th century was the dawn of the movie age, and in Detroit it began on Monroe Avenue. The first movie theater in Detroit, the Casino, was opened on Monroe Avenue in 1906 by John H. Kunsky. In addition, the Family Theater opened in 1914 in an older building in the district.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, the Detroit cinema hub centered around Grand Circus Park, with nearby Monroe Avenue receiving less attention.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. In early 1990, most of the aging structures were cleared away, leaving only the National Theater as a reminder of the history of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The buildings that once stood in this site were a mix of pre- and post-Civil War architecture, along with a group of movie theaters from the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h3>Second Williams Block (16-30 Monroe Avenue)</h3><br>
<p>John Constantine Williams, a member of one of Detroit&#39;s wealthiest mid-19th-century families and son of John R. Williams, Architect Mortimer L. Smith designed the building. The building originally served as an office building, with storefronts on the ground floor. In 1880, the upper floors of the building were converted into the Kirkwood Hotel, which survived for a decade under various management. The lower floors remained commercial space. The building reverted to office space in the 1890s, then reopened as the Hotel Campus (later the Hotel Fowler) in 1901.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, most of the building was completely gutted and converted into the 934-seat Family Theater; the Family was converted to show movies in 1914. The Family stayed open through much of the century, and was renamed the Follies in 1967. Six years later, in 1973, the Follies burned to the ground. The Follies section of the building (including four of the seven bay Williams Block) was demolished soon thereafter, leaving only the three westernmost commercial and retail spaces. In the late 1970s the city vacated the property, and the remainder was demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>The second Williams Block was five stories tall, divided into bays containing three windows per floor; each floor had slightly different window shapes. The building was constructed of brick, sheathed on the front with sandstone. A cast iron cornice and flat roof topped the structure. Belt courses were located above and below windows, and additional decoration consisted of bas relief carvings and cast iron entablatures.</p><br>
<h3>First Williams Block (32-42 Monroe Avenue)</h3><br>
<p>The first Williams block was built by John Constantine Williams in 1859, and was designed by architect Sheldon Smith. The building was originally used as an office building with commercial space on the first floor. In the late 1880s, the building was converted into a 52-room hotel, known first as the Stanwix, then as Gies&#39; European hotel, with a restaurant on the first floor. In 1909, the hotel and restaurant was renamed the Berghoff, then the Tuxedo, and, in 1919, the Frontenac. The Hotel Berghoff was owned by Wm. D. C. Moebs & Co. who were also the proprietors of the adjoining Berghoff Cafe. In December 1913 Wm. D.C. Moebs opened the Cafe Frontenac next to the Hotel Berghoff. In 1918 the name of the hotel was changed to the Tuxedo Hotel and Grill still under the same owners. The name change was short lived because in 1919 the businesses were called the Frontenac Restaurant and the Frontenac Hotel Company still under the ownership of Wm. D.C. Moebs, President. The Frontenac Hotel remained in business through 1960. Wm. D.C. Moebs died November 16, 1921, and the once grand Frontenac Restaurant was sold to pay back taxes in 1923. By 1940, the restaurant had been replaced again with retail space, which remained in the building until the city of Detroit vacated the property in 1978. The building was demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>The first Williams block was five stories tall, constructed of red brick with a flat roof, and measured 60 feet by 100 feet. The Monroe Avenue façade was separated into three bays, each with three windows. Brick was used decoratively on the façade, and cast iron crowns over the windows and column capitals accented the elevation. The original cast iron cornice was removed in 1942.</p><br>
<h3>Columbia Theater (50 Monroe)</h3><br>
<p>The Columbia Theater was built in 1911 for John H. Kunsky, and designed by C. Howard Crane to seat over 1000 people. When built, the theater had its own pipe organ and house orchestra. The Columbia was closed in 1956, and has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h3>Johnson Block (52-54, 58, 62, 66-68, and 70-72 Monroe Avenue)</h3><br>
<p>Hiram R. Johnson purchased land along Monroe in 1852 and constructed a series of commercial buildings collectively known as the "Johnson Block." These buildings are the five located at 52–54, 58, 62, 66–68, and 70–72 Monroe Avenue.</p><br>
<p>All five buildings were constructed of brick and stood four stories tall, and were designed in a similar fashion. The first four (52–54, 58, 62, 66-68 Monroe) measured 20 feet wide and 100 feet deep, with three windows per story on the upper levels. The last building (70-72 Monroe) measured 30 feet wide and 100 feet deep, and was divided into two bays with two windows per bay on each story. Windows in all buildings were rectangular in shape with cast iron lintels featuring a scroll and urn motif. The buildings originally had a cornice at the top; these were removed in the 20th century, most in 1958. The buildings were demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>Two of these five buildings were instrumental in the establishment of the movie theater business in Detroit. In 1905, William H Klatt opened a cent-odeon (similar to the nickelodeon) in a former furniture store at 62 Monroe. The next year, John H. Kunsky opened the first true movie house in Detroit, the Casino Theater, two doors away at 70-72 Monroe. Klatt quickly converted the Bijou into Detroits second movie house and reopened it later in 1906 as "The Bijou." The building remained a movie house for the next seventy years, changing its name to "The New Bijou" in 1918. In 1966, the New Bijou became "The Cinex," an adult movie venue; it closed in 1978. Kunskys Casino Theater, however, closed in 1915; later tenants in the space at 70-72 Monroe included the Famous Barrel Bar and Father and Son Shoes.</p><br>
<p>Tenants of the other Johnson Block buildings were primarily small commercial establishments and eateries. The tenants of 52-54 Monroe included a series of saloons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a soft drink shop/restaurant from 1913 to 1928, and a series of clothing and shoe stores until the 1970s, when the building was vacated. The building at 66-68 Monroe housed an umbrella factory from 1888 to 1912, then a pawnbroker, shoe repair shop, men&#39;s clothiers, and a bookstore.</p><br>
<h3>74-78 Monroe Avenue</h3><br>
<p>The building at 74-78 Monroe was constructed in approximately 1852, fronting on both Monroe Avenue and Farmer Street. At the turn of the 20th century, a restaurant and saloon inhabited the first floor. Later tenants included a tailor, cigar store, and shoe stores. A barber shop operated continuously in the building from 1915 until the late 1970s, and a second-floor dentist&#39;s office existed from the 1920s through the late 1970s. The building was demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally virtually identical to the structure next door at 70-72 Monroe, including the cast iron lintels featuring an urn and scroll. The building was, however, set back four additional feet from Monroe Avenue. The building was four stories tall and constructed of red brick. Both the Monroe Avenue and Farmer Street facades had tall narrow windows with a combination of segmental and fully arched window tops, decorated with projecting brick.</p><br>
<h3>Star (Royal) Theater (100-102 Monroe Avenue)</h3><br>
<p>This structure was built in 1907 as the Star Theater; it was designed by Frank G. Baxter and Henry A. O&#39;Dell. The Star operated for only a year; in 1908 the theater changed into the Theatre Royale, and in 1912 it changed to the Royal Theater. The Royal closed in 1922. Afterward, a variety of retail establishments were housed in the building, including a cigar store, jewelers, shoe store, tailor, and barber. The building was demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Star was a four-story building, measuring 20 feet wide and 100 feet deep, constructed of red brick, with yellow brick veneer. A large arched window on the Monroe facade fills the third and fourth stories. This facade originally had a thick cornice supported by scrolled brackets, and a decorative arch above the entrance. Seven rectangular windows per story are on the Farmer elevation. The theater space originally took up both the first and most of the second stories, and thus there was only a single window on the second floor at the rear. However, in 1922 after the closure of the Royal, the second story was extended all the way forward to the Monroe facade, adding windows along the Farmer elevation.</p><br>
<h3>104-106 Monroe Avenue</h3><br>
<p>The building at 104-106 Monroe was constructed in approximately 1900. A saloon was the first tenant, followed by a tea store. For most of the life of the building, until it was vacated in the 1970s, ground-floor tenants included a lunch room and a clothing or shoe store. The building was demolished in early 1990.</p><br>
<p>The structure was four stories tall, 20 feet wide and 60 feet deep. The building originally had modest Italianate elements. However, the front facade was reworked in 1923, with the addition of white brick facing and alteration of the windows to large plates of glass.</p><br>
<h3>National Theatre (118 Monroe Avenue)</h3><br>
<p>The 800-seat National Theater, built in 1911, was the only known theatre designed by Albert Kahn and had been oldest surviving theatre from the city&#39;s original theatre district of the 19th century. It operated as a movie theater until the 1920s, when competition from larger movie houses forced a change to a vaudeville venue. The National survived as a burlesque and adult entertainment theater until it closed in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The front façade of the National was dominated by an enormous arch flanked with twin towers and covered with white and blue terra cotta tiles. The façade had hundreds of lightbulbs built in, which accentuate the architectural features when lit. The National Theater was an outstanding example of Modernistic design, boasting a pair of terra cotta latticework towers, arched art glass windows, and colored Pewabic tiles on the façade.</p><br>
<p>The National Theatre was demolished in January 2024 to make way for a future development. Its historic facade was dismantled and is being preserved for reuse in that development, while the rest of Kahn&#39;s only surviving theater was destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The Camp Five Museum is a living history museum located in Laona, Wisconsin that interprets the forest industry and transportation history of Wisconsin. It includes part or all of the Camp Five Farmstead, also known as Camp Five Logging Camp, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The museum was established in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The R Connor Company established a logging camp at this site in the late 1890s, their fifth camp near Laona. By 1914, the timber within reach of the camp was exhausted, so it was converted into a company farm, to supply meat, vegetables, and work horses to Connors other camps in the area. The site worked well because it was near town, the land in the immediate vicinity was good for farming, and it lay on a rail line. The farm continued to supply Connors logging camps for decades. In 1969, the farm opened to the public as a history museum.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum site encompasses 4 acre and includes a logging and forestry museum, static displays of historic logging equipment and bateaux used in log drives, a slaughterhouse, a petting zoo, a nature center, a small cafeteria, and a museum shop. Two tours run from the site into the surrounding countryside: a forestry tour and a riverboat tour. Each tour takes about twenty minutes. Visitors reach the museum by taking the Lumberjack Steam Train, which runs on the Laona and Northern Railway.</p><br>
<p>The museum&#39;s steam train and blacksmithy are part of its daily living history displays. In addition the museum periodically hosts re-enactors of the fur-trade era, cowboys, the Civil War, and World War I.</p><br>
<p>Awards:</p><br>
<p>1996 - Camp Five was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the US Department of the Interior</p><br>
<p>1987 - Presidential Environmental Youth Award, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its education and ecology program for Boy Scouts</p><br>
<p>1978 - Forest History Association of Wisconsin award</p><br>
<p>1975 - Arbor Day Foundation National Award in Education for the Green Treasure Forest Tour</p><br>
<p>1970 - Wisconsin Historical Society Award of Merit</p><br>
<p>The Cherryfield Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Cherryfield, Maine. This area is distinctive for its collection of high-quality 19th century architecture, which is unique in rural contexts in the state. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The Cherryfield Historic District is an area of approximately 75 acre lying on both sides of the Narraguagus River. The historic district comprises a collection of substantially intact residential and commercial buildings that clearly depict the nineteenth century development of a riverside community. There are 52 contributing and 10 non contributing buildings in the district.</p><br>
<p>Cherryfield was approved as a historic district because of its depiction of community development and association with commerce, through its association with significant persons, and for architectural history.</p><br>
<p>Although the 52 contributing buildings in the district and those outside the district are framed with wood, the district architecturally holds representative examples of the most popular nineteenth century residential styles with an especially impressive concentration of Second Empire dwellings. Included in the styles are: Second Empire; Federal; Greek Revival; Italianate; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>The Second Empire Style houses are Cherryfields unique contribution to the inventory of Maines historic patterns of building. While the design of these houses may be equalled and surpassed in urban areas such as Bangor and Portland; given their small town context, integrity and relative number they are truly remarkable.</p><br>
<h2>List of structures</h2><br>
<p>Peter Smith Store, 1858: Vernacular Italianate</p><br>
<p>Freeman Nash House, 1840: Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>Arthur Willey House, 1876: Second Empire (Willey was a justice and his family included lumber manufacturers and merchants)</p><br>
<p>O. Ward House, 1870: Italianate</p><br>
<p>Uriah N. Small, 1840: Greek Revival (Small was a merchant, his store was in what was the old post office)</p><br>
<p>(First) Amaziah Ricker House, 1803: Federal (Second oldest house in the district, Ricker was the first blacksmith in the area, and his shop was in the adjacent building. The Masonic Lodge organized and met in this house)</p><br>
<p>W.D. Ricker House, 1835: Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>J.T. Campbell House, 1860: Italianate</p><br>
<p>Harland Schoppee House, built after 1881: Late 19th Century Vernacular</p><br>
<p>Nugent/Smith House, 1870: Vernacular Greek Revival (by 1881 local merchant Peter Smith had acquired this property)</p><br>
<p>Frank Shoppe House, 1900: Vernacular Italianate</p><br>
<p>James Campbell House, 1860: Greek Revival (Campbell was a carpenter and a ship joiner)</p><br>
<p>Godfrey/Patten House, 1860: Greek Revival/Italianate (Godfrey was a blacksmith & ship smith, Patten a merchant & shoe manufacturer - his store still stands)</p><br>
<p>M. Coffin House, 1860: Greek Revival/Italianate</p><br>
<p>J.Strout House, 1855: Greek Revival/Italianate</p><br>
<p>Frank Campbell House, 1875: Second Empire</p><br>
<p>General Alexander Campbell House, 1790: Federal (oldest home in the village. Campbell was the most prominent of Cherryfield&#39;s early settlers. He developed a substantial lumber business and was a Massachusetts State Senator from 1791 to 1798. His descendants still live in the house)</p><br>
<p>Samuel N. Campbell House, 1883: Queen Anne (A grandson of Alexander Campbell, Samuel was engaged in the lumber business and active in State politics)</p><br>
<p>Corner in Celebrities Historic District is a neighborhood located in the north section of Frankfort, Kentucky, that is designated an historic district because of the high concentration of structures that previously belonged to notable residents. The area contains the historic homes of George M. Bibb, Benjamin G. Brown, James Brown, John Brown, John J. Crittenden, Thomas Crittenden, James Harlan, John Marshall Harlan, Robert P. Letcher, William Lindsay, Thomas Metcalfe, Charles Slaughter Morehead, William Owsley, Hugh Rodman, Charles S. Todd, Thomas Todd, George G. Vest, John C. Watson, and Simeon Willis. The area was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The district is entirely included in the Central Frankfort Historic District, listed on the National Register in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Founding of Frankfort</h2><br>
<p>The town of Frankfort, Kentucky was founded in 1786 on 100 acre of land on the north side of the Kentucky River on property owned by General James Wilkinson. After Kentucky became the fifteenth American state in 1792, Frankfort was named the state capital.</p><br>
<h2>Wapping Street</h2><br>
<p>Wapping Street is a public thoroughfare located in northern Frankfort that runs east and west parallel to the Kentucky River through the Corner in Celebrities historic district. The street was named for the "Old Wapping Stairs" in London by homesick Englishman, John Instone, a friend of the town&#39;s founder.</p><br>
<h3>Thomas Todd House</h3><br>
<p>The Thomas Todd House is located at 320 Wapping Street. The Federal style structure was built in 1812 by either Hayden Edwards or William Walker with the Victorian style features added later.</p><br>
<p>After serving in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Thomas Todd studied law and land surveying under his cousin Harry Innes. In 1784 Todd move to Kentucky when Judge Harry Innes was appointed to begin the federal court in Danville, Kentucky. During his time in Danville, Todd served as a clerk for five Constitutional Conventions regarding Kentucky&#39;s statehood. After being admitted to the bar in 1788, Todd was a clerk to federal Judge Innes and served as the clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives until 1799 when the Kentucky Supreme Court was created and Todd was appointed its chief clerk. Kentucky Governor James Garrard appointed Todd to fill the a newly added seat to the Court, and five years later he was named Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court. In 1807, United States President Thomas Jefferson appointed Todd, then age forty-one, to United States Supreme Court where he served until his death in 1826. After his appointment to the Supreme Court, Todd remained active in local and state affairs.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, while serving on the USA Supreme Court, Todd purchased the house on Wapping Street and lived there with his second wife Lucy (Payne) Washington, sister of Dolley Madison. Todd died on February 7, 1826, and was buried in the Innes family cemetery. Later Todd and his wife were reinterred at the Frankfort Cemetery.</p><br>
<h3>Vest-Lindsey House</h3><br>
<p>The Vest-Lindsey House is located at 401 Wapping Street. The building, a twelve-room Federal style house, was constructed in approximately 1798 making the structure one of the oldest houses in Frankfort. The House was the childhood home of United States Senator George Graham Vest. Vest served in the Senate for 25 years until his death in 1903. Vest is best remembered for his closing trial remarks where he coined the line "Dog is man&#39;s best friend."</p><br>
<p>Daniel Lindsey, a Union Army General during the American Civil War and Adjutant General and Inspector General of Kentucky&#39;s military forces, bought the building from Vest in 1846. The Lindsey family owned the property until it was purchased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1965.</p><br>
<h3>Bibb-Burnley House</h3><br>
<p>The Bibb-Burnley House, also called Gray Gables, is located at 411 Wapping Street.</p><br>
<p>In 1856, John Bibb relocated to Frankfort from Logan County after being elected to the Kentucky Legislature. Bibb bought the property on Wapping Street that had a home built by John Instone, one of the first houses built in the town. Bibb built a new twenty-one room Gothic Revival house on the site using material from the original structure.</p><br>
<p>Mary Anne Burnley, a niece of Bibb, lived in the house. Burnley&#39;s interest in culture and the arts associates the house with several prominent writers and musicians including John Fox, Jr. and Robert Burns Wilson.</p><br>
<h3>Other Wapping Street properties</h3><br>
<p>Some of the other structures on Wapping Street that are part of this historic district include:</p><br>
<p>Rodman-Hewitt House (c.1817) — Two story brick Federal style residence named for two previous owners Hugh Rodman and ex-CSA officer Fayette Hewitt who served for ten years as State auditor and president of the State National Bank of Frankfort.</p><br>
<p>Carneal-Watson House (c.1855) — Brick Greek Revival residence named for Thomas Carneal and John C. Watson</p><br>
<p>Graham Vreeland House (c.1913) — Also called "Vauxhall" and "Garden Hall", this Georgian architecture mansion was built with all the latest technical amenities of the day, including a bell-call system and a built-in vacuum. Built for Anne Graves Crutcher Vreeland, second wife of Graham Vreeland, founder and editor of the longest-running local newspaper.</p><br>
<p>South-Willis House (c.1875) — Named for original owner John Glover South and later owner Governor Simeon Willis.</p><br>
<p>Pruett House (c.1928) — Residence of Pruett family. In 1966, daughter Rebecca Pruett authored The Browns of Liberty Hall for National Society of the Colonial Dames of America</p><br>
<p>The Old Post Office (c.1887) — A large Victorian and French Empire building</p><br>
<p>Good Shepherd Parish (1850) — A Gothic Revival architecture church building</p><br>
<h2>Wilkinson Street</h2><br>
<p>Wilkinson Street is a public thoroughfare named for town founder, General Wilkinson, who ran a ferry on the northern bank of the Kentucky River where the street started. The street runs north through the Corner in Celebrities historic district.</p><br>
<h3>Crittenden-Garrard House</h3><br>
<p>The Crittenden-Garrad House, also called the Hoge House, is located at 302 Wilkinson Street. The Federal style structure was constructed in approximately 1810. Property records show that Frankfort Judge Jacob Swigert and his wife Rebecca were early owner of the house. In 1855, the Swigert&#39;s sold the property to Thomas Crittenden. Crittenden, the son of John J. Crittenden, was a Major General for the Union Army in the American Civil War. Additionally, Crittenden was USA Consul to Liverpool and later Kentucky State Treasurer.</p><br>
<p>In 1859, James H. Garrard, the grandson of Kentucky&#39;s second Governor, purchased the property. Garrard served as a General for the Union Army in the American Civil War. Garrard represented Clay, Letcher, and Perry Counties in the Kentucky Constitutional Convention Later, Garrard was the Kentucky State Treasurer from 1857 to 1865.</p><br>
<p>After James&#39; death, his wife Letitia continued to live in the home. The Garrard family retained the property until 1902 when the house was sold to Callaway Hoge, wife of Will H. Hoge. The Hoge family keep the home until after 1944.</p><br>
<h2>Liberty Hall Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>Liberty Hall Historic Site is located at 202 and 218 Wilkinson Streets and encompasses a full city block of two historic homes and 4 acres of gardens. Liberty Hall, built in 1796, was the home of John Brown, one of Kentucky&#39;s first Senators. The Orlando Brown House was built in 1835 for his son. Today Liberty Hall Historic Site serves as a learning center that engages the public in exploring the history, politics, social and cultural life in early Kentucky through the homes, gardens, documents, and artifacts of Senator John Brown and his family. Owned and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the site and museums are seasonally open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The American Seating Company Factory Complex is a historic manufacturing plant located at 801 Broadway Avenue NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan, used by the American Seating company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In late 1885, local Grand Rapids businessmen Gaius Perkins, William T. Hess and Seymour W. Peregrine founded the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company to manufacture school and office furniture. They began manufacture in a small factory in 1886. Business boomed, and in 1887 they began constructing a new factory. This was completed the next year, but an increase in orders soon forced to company to double its factory size. By 1888 the company was selling over 65,000 school desks per year. In 1899, the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company merged with eighteen other similar companies located around the nation to form the American School Furniture Company, with Gaius Perkin as its first president. In 1905 the name was changed to American Seating Company, and it was soon the largest employer in Grand Rapids.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, the company began work on a power plant and warehouse addition to the factory, which was completed in 1927. The company lasted through the Great Depression, and converted to wartime production during World War II. In the 1980s, the company faced financial hardships, and was eventually sold to Fuqua Industries of Atlanta, Georgia. It returned to local control in 1987.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the original factory building was demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The American Seating Company factory complex consists fourteen contributing buildings and two non-contributing buildings, ranging in date from 1888 to 1978, located in a parcel about twenty acres in size. The site runs along Broadway from Seventh to Eleventh Street. The 1888 factory building was located along the northern side of Ninth Street. This was a four-story cream brick building. The 1923 power plant and warehouse are located along Seventh Street. These buildings are four-story brick structures. Additional buildings, dating from the early 1900s through the 1970s, are located along Eleventh Street and south toward Ninth.</p><br>
<p>The Metal Office Furniture Company  Plants No. 2 and 3 are historic manufacturing plants located at 401 Hall Street SW in Grand Rapids, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grand Rapids had a history of furniture manufacturing. One such company was the Terrell Manufacturing Company, which was organized in 1908 to produce metal storage cabinets, shelving and lockers. Terrell constructed their plant on Hall Street, and began producing furniture in 1908. Another company, The Metal Office Furniture Company, was organized in 1912 to supply metal office furniture to the Fred Macey Furniture Company, a mail-order firm. The Metal Office Furniture Company constructed a plant on South Division (plant no. 1) and began producing in 1912. In 1918, Metal Office Furniture ended its agreement with Macey and entered into a partnership with Terrell. By the 1920s, both companies were doing well, and in 1925 Metal Office Furniture began building a new plant for the production of desks and tables connected to the Terrell plant. The new building became Metal Office Furniture Plant No. 2. In 1930, the building was expanded by adding two-floors to the top. That same year, Metal Office Furniture and Terrell formally merged, and the 1908 Terrell plant became Metal Office Furniture Company Plant No. 3.</p><br>
<p>Metal Office Furniture lasted through the Great Depression, and continued making furniture after World War II. In 1954, they changed their name to Steelcase, reflecting a popular tradename used by the company. The next year, they began building a new plant on a larger plot of land, and in 1958, the operations in Plants No. 2 and 3 were transferred to the new facility. Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 remained vacant for two years, and were sold in 1960. Since that time, they have used by small manufacturers and for storage.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 complex contains four buildings: a single-story brick factory building with a monitor roof constructed in 1908, a four-story brick industrial loft-type factory building constructed between 1926 and 1930, a brick power plant also constructed in 1926, and a single-story concrete block building constructed in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The single-story 1908 factory, designated Plant No. 3, is a brick structure 23 bays long with a monitor roof running the full length of the building. Each bays contains three nine-over-nine double hung windows, and is separated from neighboring bays by brick piers. The 1926/1930 factory is a large, flat-roof, brick structure that is 21 bays long and eight bays wide. The bays on the long sides are separated by brick piers with concrete caps. The bays contain steel multi-pane windows.</p><br>
<p>Grand Rapids Cycle Company Factory was a historic manufacturing plant located at 514 Butterworth Street SW in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. In 2007 the building was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>For a short period, from about 1890 to 1903, Grand Rapids was one of the largest bicycle manufacturing cities in the nation, with up to six separate manufacturers. The first of these was the Grand Rapids Cycle Company, which was founded in about 1890 by a group of local Grand Rapids businessmen. They were in production by 1891. At the beginning, sales doubled every year, and by 1895 the company had outgrown its original factory space. Construction began on a new factory on Butterworth, and the company quickly moved production to the new location. However, in 1897, sales began declining as the market was satiated, and in 1899 the company was absorbed into the American Bicycle Company along with 35 other companies. However, bicycle production ceased in Grand Rapids in 1900, and American itself went bankrupt in 1903.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, the C. S. Paine Company, Ltd., a manufacturer of lacquered furniture, purchased the factory building. They used the factory building until 1924, when they were absorbed into Williams-Kimp Furniture Company, a manufacturer of mahogany reproduction furniture. In 1951, the Baker Furniture Company purchased Williams-Kimp and furniture manufacture at the plant ceased. Beginning in 1952, the American Seating Company used the building as a warehouse. They ceased in 1957 and in the mid-1960s the building was briefly occupied by the Star Mist Foam Rubber Company. Beginning in 1970, the Kent Foundry operated in the building, and continued until 1994. The building was vacant afterward.</p><br>
<p>In the early 2000s, plans were being made to renovate the factory into lofts. However, in 2007 the building was destroyed by fire. The site is now occupied by Grand Valley State University.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Rapids Cycle Company Factory consisted of three parts. The original two parts were constructed in 1895 as two separate buildings. The first was a two-story building at the corner of Butterworth Street and Front Avenue, with an 80-foot frontage on Butterworth Street and a 100-foot frontage on Front. The second was originally separated from the first by a ten-foot alley, and was a three-story building with a 50-foot frontage on Butterworth running 100 feet in depth. The third portion of construction was a 1912 building connected to the original along the Front Avenue facade; this structure additionally connected the previously separate 1895 buildings and filled in the alley. All three portions of the factory were constructed of cream-colored brick, with wood framed floors and flat roofs. The windows were 12/12 double-hung units, primarily in segmental arched window openings. The original office portion of the facade, located on the ground floor corner of the second building, contained semicircular arched openings.</p><br>
<p>Bungalow Heaven is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California, named for the more than 800 small craftsman homes built there from 1900 to 1930, most of which still stand. Much of the area became a landmark district in 1989 and annual historic home tours have been conducted in Bungalow Heaven every year since then.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>The rough borders of the landmark district are Washington Boulevard to the north, Orange Grove Boulevard to the south, Mentor Avenue to the west, and N. Chester Avenue to the east. The entire neighborhood is typically extended to Lake Avenue to the west and Hill Avenue to the east.</p><br>
<p>All commercial development lies just outside the landmark area, on Lake Avenue and Washington Boulevard. McDonald Park is at the center of the neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Bungalow Heaven is served by Longfellow and Jefferson Elementary Schools, Eliot Middle School, and Pasadena High School.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Bungalow Heaven is served by Metro Local lines 256 and 662, as well as Pasadena Transit routes 20, 31, and 32.</p><br>
<p>The Minnesota Home School for Girls was a reformatory in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was Minnesotas first single-sex reformatory for girls from its establishment in 1911 to 1967, when it switched to a coeducational model and shortened its name to the Minnesota Home School. The facility closed in 1999. The campus was designed on the Cottage Plan, with dispersed buildings in a bucolic setting, by Minnesota state architect Clarence H. Johnston Sr. The site has been converted to a veteran care center called Eagles Healing Nest.</p><br>
<p>The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the Minnesota Home School for Girls Historic District for its state-level significance in the themes of architecture and social history. It was nominated for being the first Minnesota state facility designed to treat female juvenile delinquents, for embodying the Cottage Plan theory of institutional design, and for Johnston Sr.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Each of the buildings on the campus is described as either contributing or non-contributing, with the contributing buildings perceived as having historical significance. The contributing buildings include the Alcott Cottage; the Richard Cottage; the Stowe Cottage; the Sullivan Cottage; Morse Hall; the chapel; Lind Cottage; Sinclair Lewis Hall; Evers Cottage; the equipment garage; the horse barn; the machine shed; Mary Lyon Annex; Mary Lyon School; Pettit Cottage; the maintenance building; the chapel garage; the lake cottage; and the root cellar. Conversely, the non-contributing buildings include the fine arts building; the Tekakitha Cottage; the DuBois Cottage; Senator Popp Building; the bungalow garage; and the storage garage.</p><br>
<p>The subject property is further described as significant as it represents the Cottage Plan of state institutional design, as well as the work of Clarence H. Johnston Sr., a prolific Saint Paul architect in the first 30 years of the 20th century. The buildings of the Home School were constructed according to the Cottage System of Institutional Care, which was a design theory used by state hospitals and mental asylums in the late 19th century. The system called for the institutions to be built away from the populace in a rural area to create a private, tranquil atmosphere, with farm operations often becoming an integral part of the property. The original property was gradually expanded so that by 1936 it consisted of 512 acre of land, which exceeds the current land area.</p><br>
<p>The Harmonie Club is a club located at 267 East Grand River Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Augustus Woodwards plan for Detroits streets created uniquely-shaped triangular blocks, including Capitol Park on the west and Harmonie Park on the east. Starting in the 1830s and 1940s, this area was home to a growing number of German immigrants to Detroit. In 1849, to preserve their ethnic traditions, a group of Detroit Germans founded a singing group, the Gesang-Verein Harmonie. The club built a frame clubhouse at the corner of Lafayette and Beaubien in 1874. This frame Harmonie Club structure burned in 1893, and the club almost immediately organized a competition, open to German architects, to design a new building. Richard Raseman (the architect of the Grand Army of the Republic Building) won the competition; the resulting building sits across from Harmonie Park.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Harmonie Club is a four-story, hipped-roof building with a basement, built of buff-colored brick and stone. The curved corner is particularly shaped to the geometry of the site. The first two stories are embellished with stonework, and the top two stories feature additional banding and arched windows on the top floor. Corinthian columns and a balustraded balcony over the entry add a classical feel. The interior of the club features classical plasterwork, dark oak paneling and Pewabic tile. The club also offered fine dining, a tavern, card rooms, bowling alley and lounges.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Over time, membership in the Harmonie Club dwindled, and the club was sold in 1974. The club was recognized as an historical property by the state of Michigan in 1975, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was recognized by the city of Detroit in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 2024 it was the venue for the Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball, an event that went viral online for issues resulting from its poor planning and high cost. Responding to this, the owners of the Harmonie Club made a statement that "the historic Harmonie Club is a new venue", that they were "in no way affiliated with the promoters and/or organisations that rent our venue", which in this case was Uncle & Me LLC, and that "the planning, programming, and execution of the actual events are handled by the venue lessees, promoters, and their teams".</p><br>
