<p>The Hunter House  is located at 3985 Trumbull Avenue in the Woodbridge Neighborhood Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974. It was previously operated as the Woodbridge Star, a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, William Northwood, the co-founder of the Howard–Northwood Malt Manufacturing Company, commissioned architect George F. Depew to design this home. The structure was completed in 1891 at a cost of $13,500. and in 1966, a side porch and conservatory were demolished. In the early 1970s, the home was purchased by the Hunter family, who converted it back to a private residence. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The house was sold at a later date in 2016 to an unknown buyer.</p><br>
<p>The home was recently operated as the Woodbridge Star, a seven-room bed and breakfast. Very few exterior alterations have been made to the home, and the interior remains highly original.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>George F. Depew designed the elaborate three-story house in French Renaissance Châteauesque style with a red brick and rusticated stone exterior. Round and square towers project from the main section of the house, each with a different roof style. The house has 6,500 ft&sup2;. The sides of the house differ in their appearance. Incised brick and colored sandstone add ornamentation to the façade. The roof has red slate shingles with metal cresting; shingle-covered gables facing the front of the home extend from the roof. The transom windows are filled with stained and leaded glass, and the house boasts polished jasper collonettes.</p><br>
<p>The Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, also known as Adobe de Palomares, is a one-story adobe brick structure in Pomona, California, built between 1850 and 1855 as a residence for Don Ygnacio Palomares. It was abandoned in the 1880s and was left to the elements until it was acquired by the City of Pomona in the 1930s. In 1939, the adobe was restored in a joint project of the City of Pomona, the Historical Society of Pomona Valley and the Works Project Administration. Since 1940, it has been open to the public as a museum on life in the Spanish and Mexican ranchos. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Of the more than 400 sites in Los Angeles County that have been listed on the National Register, fewer than ten received the distinction prior to the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Rancho San Jose</h3><br>
<p>The Ygancio Palomares Adobe, built between 1850 and 1855, In 1837, Mexican Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted the land to Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Vejar, both Californio sons of New Spain natives. The Rancho San Jose operated by Dons Palomares and Vejar covered land that now forms the communities of Pomona, LaVerne, San Dimas, Diamond Bar, Azusa, Covina, Walnut, Glendora, and Claremont. Palomares initially lived in "La Casa Primera", an earlier adobe which is also operated by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley.</p><br>
<h3>Construction and architecture</h3><br>
<p>Between 1850 and 1855, Palomares built a new home, which is the present historic site. The 13-room adobe was built in a T-shape with a courtyard. The living room and master bedroom were located at the stem of the T, and the adobe also had four more bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen, storeroom, tienda (or store), and storage chambers. The kitchen was located at the north end of the T, close to the outdoor oven (or "horno"). The house has been said to represent the blending of Mexican adobe construction and American styles, with the use of wood-shake roofing and milled-wood flooring on the adobe structure.</p><br>
<h3>Use by the Palomares family</h3><br>
<p>The Palomares Adobe was used for a time as an overnight stagecoach stop at the midway point between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. The Palomares home was reportedly "the heart of the rancho," with its doors open to travelers and a store that provided goods to settlers. The large living room served for many years as a meeting place and a chapel where padres from the San Gabriel Mission would travel once a month to say mass. Ygnacio Palomares and his wife operated the land as a sheep and cattle ranch, grew their own crops, and raised five children at the adobe. The ranch prospered for many years, but a severe drought devastated the ranch in the early 1860s. Smallpox also claimed the lives of three of the Palomares&#39; children, and Don Ygnacio died in 1864.</p><br>
<p>Don Ygnacios widow, Dona Concepcion Lopez de Palomares (also known as "Dona China"), began selling off the ranch land in 1865. In 1874, another of the Palomares children died, and Dona China sold the remaining 2,000 acre, including the adobe, at $8 an acre, to John R. Loop and Alvin R. Meserve. However, by the mid-1880s, the old adobe had been deserted.</p><br>
<h3>Deterioration</h3><br>
<p>From the 1880s through the 1920s, the adobe was left to the elements and fell into severe disrepair, with whole wings of the house being washed away and the walls and roof crumbling. The dilapidated condition of the adobe is shown in 1938 photographs seen and.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration and museum</h2><br>
<p>In 1934, the City of Pomona purchased the land for a reservoir, and the Historical Society of Pomona Valley began plans for restoration of the adobe and surrounding site. In the spring and summer of 1939, seventy WPA workers began the process of restoring the adobe. Following the traditional method, the workers molded the adobe bricks by hand using dirt from the Ganesha Hills and straw as the only binder, and cured the bricks in the sun. Approximately 25,000 new adobe bricks were used in the restoration process. The cost of the restoration was placed at $54,000. Many of the bricks were also made from the broken original adobe bricks - the new bricks used shorter lengths of straw, while the old bricks showed the use of longer marsh grass.</p><br>
<p>The restoration was completed in December 1939, followed by its furnishing with period furniture typical of the California ranchos, This effort was led by the head of the Furnishing Committee, Mrs. Harry Walker of San Dimas. The original landscaping was also restored with wisteria vines and wild cherry, black walnut, pomegranate, and poplar trees. Charles Gibbs Adams oversaw the landscaping restoration, with tree plantings, shrubs and rosebushes located close to where they had been in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The adobe was dedicated and opened to the public in April 1940 as a museum focusing on life in the early California ranchos. At the dedication ceremony, the keys were presented by Pomona&#39;s mayor to the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, and Ygancio Palomares, grandson of Don Ygnacio, "danced the dances taught him by his grandmother, his granddaughter Hilda Ramirez, being his dancing partner." The restoration was well-received, with commendation from Ed Ainsworth of the Los Angeles Times writing: "The example of this restoration ought to inspire other communities and families to do the same. This adobe has now become an imperishable glorification of early California, and an irresistible lure for modern visitors." Two years later, the Los Angeles Times reported: "The structure has become famous throughout the nation as a permanent museum housing many relics and equipment of the early Spanish days in California." In 1968, it was called "one of the pleasantest and most complete of the rancho restorations."</p><br>
<p>Members of the Palomares family were invited to move into the restored adobe as caretakers. In December 1939, Porfiero R. Palomares (–1942), who was born in the adobe and was the grandson of Don Ygnacio, moved into the restored structure as caretaker with his wife and daughter. Porfiero&#39;s widow, Hortensia Yorba Palomares, continued to live in the adobe until her death in July 1958.</p><br>
<h3>Rebuilding of the Palomares Adobe mural (1941)</h3><br>
<p>Artist and filmmaker Frank Stauffacher created a 16.5-foot long oil-on-fabric mural depicting construction on the Palomares Adobe, which is mounted on the west wall of the former Santa Fe Rail Station, now the Pomona Transit Center, Pomona. The mural&#39;s workers and spectators are depicted in 19th century attire, suggesting a nostalgic perspective.</p><br>
<h2>California Historical Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The California Historical Landmark Marker NO. 372 at the site reads:</p><br>
<p>NO. 372 ADOBE DE PALOMARES - Completed about 1854 and restored in 1939, this was the family home of Don Ygnacio Palomares. Governor Juan B. Alvarado granted Rancho San Jose to Don Ygnacio and Don Ricardo Vejar in 1837.</p><br>
<p>Union Hill is a historic district of Richmond, Virginia. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington streets, and angled on the east by North 25th Street." The neighborhood is on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, and is also one of sixteen designated "Old and Historic Districts" in Richmond.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Street grading in the late 19th and early 20th centuries joined two hills, giving the neighborhood its name.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood is largely working class and has historically been mixed race. A series of white flight and then black flight led to a high proportion of neglected or abandoned properties in the area by the 1990s. City government responded with crime-reduction and blight-removal projects; efforts to demolish abandoned properties in the district were opposed by the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, a historic preservationist group. Redevelopment intensified in the 2010s.</p><br>
<p>The Union Hill Historic District was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register in December 2001 and to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and architecture</h2><br>
<p>Union Hill lies to the north of Church Hill.</p><br>
<p>The architecture of the neighborhood varies, with buildings in the Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Art Deco styles.</p><br>
<p>The Wilbraham is an apartment building at 282–284 Fifth Avenue and 1 West 30th Street in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The nine-story structure was designed by David and John Jardine in the Romanesque Revival style, with elements of the Renaissance Revival style, and occupies the northwestern corner of 30th Street and Fifth Avenue. It was built between 1888 and 1890 as a bachelor apartment hotel. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated the Wilbraham as an official city landmark, and the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building occupies a rectangular site and has a facade that is divided horizontally into three sections. The lowest two stories are clad in rusticated blocks of New Jersey brownstone, with storefronts near the western and eastern ends of the facade. The third through sixth stories are clad in Philadelphia red brick, the seventh story is clad in ashlar, and the eighth story is located within a mansard roof. The Wilbraham retains much of its original layout, which is composed of storefronts and a lobby on the lowest two floors, as well as apartments on the third through eighth floors. The building originally had 42 apartments and five servants&#39; quarters, which by the 2010s had been consolidated into 38 apartments. Its bachelor flats each consisted of a bedroom and parlor, with a bathroom but no kitchen; the communal dining room was on the eighth floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was a speculative development by Scottish-American jeweler William Moir, at a time when clubs, hotels, and the first blocks of "French flats" were being developed in the area. When the Wilbraham opened in May 1890, china and glass importer Davis Collamore & Co. leased two floors of showrooms. John J. Gibbons, the leader of Davis Collamore & Co., bought the building in 1908 and sold it in 1927. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company took over the Wilbraham in 1934 and renovated it over the next year, adding some units with kitchens. By the 21st century, the building was still mostly residential.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The Wilbraham is at the northwestern corner of 30th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, at the northern edge of the NoMad neighborhood. The land lot is rectangular and measures around 5,000 ft2, with a frontage of 40 ft on Fifth Avenue and 125 ft along 30th Street. Other nearby buildings include the Gilsey House to the west, the Grand Hotel on the same block to the northwest, the Hotel Wolcott on the same block to the north, the Colony Club building to the east, and the Church of the Transfiguration to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>During the mid-19th century, the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 23rd Street and 42nd Street had contained brownstones and mansions for some of New York Citys wealthiest residents, as well as churches. Many hotels and social clubs opened in what is now NoMad following the opening of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in the 1850s, followed by apartment hotels, apartment buildings, Broadway theaters, and stores in the 1870s. The areas wealthiest residents moved uptown in the 1880s, Even in the 21st century, the area contained a large number of apartment buildings, scattered among the commercial and office structures of the neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Wilbraham was designed by brothers David and John Jardine. It is eight stories under a verdigris copper-covered mansard roof. The building also has a penthouse and a basement, though this is not included in the floor count.</p><br>
<h3>Facade</h3><br>
<p>The Wilbraham is clad in Philadelphia brick and brownstone from quarries in Belleville, New Jersey, with wrought- and cast iron, and has sash windows with wooden frames.</p><br>
<h4>Lower stories</h4><br>
<p>The base is clad in rusticated blocks of brownstone, with alternating decorative bands and rock-faced stone, above a water table of gray polished granite. There are three pairs of bays (one on Fifth Avenue and two on 30th Street), which contain storefronts. On both elevations, the ground-story storefronts have been modified from their original design and are topped by canopies and sign boards. Some of the ground-story openings are covered with roller shutters.</p><br>
<p>On Fifth Avenue, the two bays are separated vertically by a granite-clad pier on the first story, as well as a half-column in the Composite order on the second story. Rusticated piers are placed on either side of the facade; the capitals of these piers have carved foliate ornamentation and heads. When the Wilbraham was built, each of the ground-floor bays on Fifth Avenue had a door, a transom window above, and a display window beside the door. These have since been replaced with plate-glass display windows and metal-framed doors. Above the first story, each bay has a cast-iron spandrel with ribbons and patterned window sills, which is covered by a storefront sign. On the second story, each bay has two wood-framed windows, topped by a cornice made of stone and cast iron.</p><br>
<p>On the lowest two stories, the two easternmost bays on 30th Street are similar to those on Fifth Avenue, except that the display windows at ground story retain their original iron frames. On the second story, the westernmost bay has a double window.</p><br>
<h4>Upper stories</h4><br>
<p>The third through sixth stories are clad in Philadelphia red brick. On these stories, each bay on Fifth Avenue has three windows per story, while each bay on 30th Street has two windows per story. On 30th Street, there are smaller windows on each story between the third and fourth bays, as well as between the fifth and sixth bays. The third and fourth bays have a fire escape and protrude slightly from the facade. The seventh bay on 30th Street also protrudes slightly from the facade. On the facade&#39;s western elevation, the top two stories are visible above the roof of an adjacent structure and are clad in painted brick.</p><br>
<p>The third through fifth stories have wood-framed sash windows with brownstone quoins on either side. The third- and fifth-story windows have flat transoms, while the fourth-story windows have round arches. There are segmental-arched windows on the sixth story, with rubbed-brick piers on either side of each window. Stone cornices run above the fifth and sixth stories. The cornice above the fifth story contains keystones, dentils, and voussoirs, while the cornice above the sixth story has corbels and voussoirs. In the westernmost bay, there is a pediment above the window on the sixth story.</p><br>
<p>On the seventh and eighth stories, the windows are wood-framed sash windows. On the seventh story, each bay on Fifth Avenue has three windows, while each bay on 30th Street has one window. That story is clad in rock-faced ashlar with a band course above it. The eighth story is a mansard roof with paired dormer windows. The lower sections of each dormer are clad with rock facing, while the upper sections have egg-and-dart moldings. The mansard roof was originally made of slate with copper cresting, but it was later re-clad in standing seam copper. There are four brick chimneys above the roof, as well as a metal railing that runs around a roof garden. At the western end of the building is a penthouse that is set back from the street. The original masonry penthouse contained servants&#39; rooms and was not counted as a full story; it was later replaced with a metal-and-masonry penthouse.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The Wilbraham retains much of its original layout, which is composed of storefronts and a lobby on the lowest two floors, as well as apartments on the third through eighth floors. The lobby is at the western side of the ground floor, while the storefronts occupy the eastern side of the ground floor and most of the second floor. An open staircase with a cast-iron balustrade and newel ascend from the western side of the lobby to the top floor and contains pink treads and landings. An elevator, to the north of the stairs, serves all floors. The original elevator by Otis Worldwide was manually operated, but it has since been replaced with a more modern unit. On each story, the rooms are connected by hallways that were originally paved in encaustic tiles.</p><br>
<p>The Wilbraham was intended to be fireproof. The building was originally supposed to have a cast-iron frame. The builders requested that the cast iron be substituted for steel in November 1888, after construction had begun. Despite receiving permission to add steel beams, the Wilbraham still used iron beams, although the party wall next to the building was reinforced. The Wilbraham also had its own power generator in the basement. The buildings mechanical systems, such as plumbing, ventilation, electric and gas lighting, and heating systems, were advanced for their day. In addition, each tenant had housekeeping service, similar to in a short-term hotel, as well as an intercom that allowed them to talk to the buildings superintendent.</p><br>
<h4>Lobby and retail</h4><br>
<p>The main entrance on 30th Street, described by an 1890 Real Estate Record and Guide article as "wide and spacious", leads to the lobby which retains its original layout. There is also an Orientalist mural above the wainscoting in the lobby, which dates from no later than 1935.</p><br>
<p>The retail spaces occupy the eastern two-thirds of the first story and the majority of the second story.</p><br>
<h4>Apartments</h4><br>
<p>There were initially 42 apartments on the third through seventh floors, as well as five servants&#39; quarters (three on the eighth floor and two in the penthouse). Each story had six apartments along the southern and eastern walls. Between 1934 and 1935, six apartments with kitchens were built across the third through seventh floors. In addition, two apartments were built within the penthouse, and an office was created by carving up the second floor. By 2018, the spaces had been combined into 38 apartments.</p><br>
<p>On each of the third through eighth stories, the elevator opens onto a landing with encaustic floor tiles. A corridor, with acoustic carpets and paneled wood wainscoting, runs from each elevator landing to the eastern end of the building; each corridor has two sash windows overlooking a light court. There was also a communal dining room on the eighth floor, as the apartments originally did not have kitchens.</p><br>
<p>The rooms measure as much as 33 by across and have thick walls and 13 ft ceilings. Each "bachelor flat" consisted of a bedroom and parlor, as well as a bathroom. Residents decorated their apartments to their liking, so no two units were exactly the same. Some of the apartments received kitchens as part of a renovation in the 1930s, but the original decorations were largely left alone.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wilbraham was built as a bachelor flat (or bachelor apartment house), a type of multifamily residence that gained popularity in the late 19th century. This type of housing had become popular in New York City during the late 19th century, as the number of unmarried men in the city had grown significantly due to the city&#39;s industrialization and expansion. By 1890, forty-five percent of men older than 15 were unmarried, compared to thirteen percent just two decades prior. The bachelor flats only accepted men, hence their name, and the apartments were leased out to residents for a year at a time. When the Wilbraham was built in 1890, comparatively few bachelor flats existed in the city</p><br>
<h3>Development</h3><br>
<p>The building was commissioned as a speculative development by William Moir, a Scottish-American jeweler who was well known in the surrounding neighborhood in the late 19th century. Moir acquired a row house at the northwest corner of 30th Street and Fifth Avenue in early 1888. The four-story stone house had cost $235,000 to acquire and had previously belonged to John Watson. The Jardine brothers filed plans for a six-story bachelor flat in October; the structure would have a brick-and-brownstone facade with a fireproof frame of iron and cast iron. Work began shortly thereafter, and the cast iron beams in the frame were substituted with steel the next month.</p><br>
<p>Building magazine published a sketch of a six-story building on the site in January 1889; the structure was depicted with a balustrade on a parapet. That June, William Moir applied for a permit to construct two additional stories, including a mansard roof, because he wished to maximize the amount of rentable space that the citys building codes allowed. The penthouse, which contained a kitchen and three servants apartments, was added to the plans the next month. The building opened in May 1890. The Jardine brothers filed plans in October 1890 to build two rooms for servants within the penthouse, after Moir wrote to the New York City Department of Buildings that the rooms "are a positive necessity". The additional servants&#39; rooms were finished in 1891.</p><br>
<h3>Use as residential structure</h3><br>
<p>John J. Gibbons, the leader of Davis Collamore & Co., bought the structure from Emily H. Moir at the beginning of January 1908 for $1 million. At the time, Gibbons believed that the building would continue to attract "high-class retail trade" because of its location on Fifth Avenue, which was easily accessible by public transportation. The Gibbons estate sold the building in 1927, at which point the building was valued at $850,000.</p><br>
<p>Although the building continued to be classified as a "bachelor apartment", a 1929 directory had listings for 15 women and 10 men who lived there. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company took over the building in 1934 after the previous owner failed to pay taxes. Many of the building&#39;s existing residents were forced to relocate. By then, many of the nearby residential structures, such as the Holland House, the Knickerbocker, and the Cambridge, had either been converted to offices or demolished. D. Everett Waid and Emery Roth designed the renovation of the building. The alterations were completed in August 1935 by the firm of Bing & Bing, who divided the nine residential floors into apartments with one or two rooms.</p><br>
<p>Maxwell Handelsman acquired the building in June 1944 from Metropolitan Life; the buyer paid cash and took a mortgage of $242,500. At the time, a management firm and a carpet store occupied the lower stories. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Critical reception</h2><br>
<p>The Real Estate Record and Guide in 1890 called the Wilbraham "certainly the crack apartment house of its kind in New York City...quite an imposing piece of architecture". The New York Times wrote in 1968 that the building was one of "Manhattan&#39;s most romantic and most improbable apartment houses". In 2020, The New York Times characterized the Wilbraham and the nearby Holland House building as "providing texture to the historic fabric" along the southern end of Fifth Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Hall is the center of social activity in the community of Camp Sherman in central Oregon. The hall hosts a variety of public and private events throughout the year. The building is owned and operated by the Camp Sherman Community Association. Because of its unique rustic architecture and importance to the history of the Camp Sherman area the hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Hall is located in the small unincorporated community of Camp Sherman, Oregon. The hall was constructed by local volunteers under the direction of Wayne L. Korish. One of the main builders of the community hall was Luther Metke, known for his hand strewed log cabins and many bridges built in the central Oregon area. It is a simple rustic design. The building is a wood post-and-beam structure with a shingled exterior. The foundation is concrete. The roof is metal and asphalt.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the community hall has a large meeting area downstairs along with kitchen and bathroom facilities. The structural beams are hand-hewn and are exposed on the interior giving the main hall a rustic feel. The interior walls are covered with knotty pine paneling, and the floor boards are straight-grain fir. There is a large stone fireplace located on the north side of the main hall. The upstairs is an attic storage area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Association was formed in 1948 to meet the social and civic needs of the Camp Sherman community. The following year, the association built a community hall facing Camp Sherman Road on property donated by Hays and Roblay McMullin, who owned Lake Creek Lodge at that time. The project was financed by local fund raising. The building was constructed using labor donated by members of the Camp Sherman community.</p><br>
<p>Since 1949, the Camp Sherman Community Hall has been the gathering place for local residents and the venue for countless events. The hall is the site of pancake breakfast events on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. It is also used for the community&#39;s Christmas bazaar, winter potluck dinners, community meetings, and well known quilt fairs held twice a year. Dances, bingo nights, and other social events are held in the hall as well. The building is also available for private events such as weddings and family reunions. During elections years, the hall is the venue for candidate forums.</p><br>
<p>Volunteers remodeled the community hall in 1983, expanding the kitchen and storage areas. Indoor plumbing was also added at the rear of the hall. During the 1990s, other improvements were made to the building including replacing the roof, installing a new propane heating system, and a new stage was built. On the outside, a lawn with picnic tables was added south of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, volunteers from the Camp Sherman community completed a major renovation of the community hall. The project included excavations beneath the building to replace floor beams and sill plates, installation of a new heating system, and restoration and refinishing of the floor in the main hall. The fireplace and chimney were also repaired, and new front doors were installed. The projected was financed by contributions from the local community and a grant from the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Camp Sherman Community Association</h2><br>
<p>Anyone who owns property or rents a home full-time in the Black Butte School District is eligible for membership in the Camp Sherman Community Association. Membership fees are used to preserve, maintain, and operate the Camp Sherman Community Hall. Association members are eligible to rent the hall for private events such as wedding and family reunions. Members also receive a newsletter with community news and upcoming events scheduled at the hall.</p><br>
<p>According to its Articles of Incorporation, the association&#39;s purpose is:</p><br>
<p>... the establishment, maintenance, and management of an association for the promotion of social intercourse among persons living in or owning property in the Camp Sherman community; to construct, operate, and maintain a recreation hall for such purpose; to promote, aid, and assist in the civic betterment of said community; and to do all the things deemed necessary or proper to promote the welfare of said community.</p><br>
<p>Since it was built, the Camp Sherman Community Hall has played an important part in meeting the social and civic goals of the Camp Sherman Community Association.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Rock, also known as Pratts Rock, is a rockface or other landform that includes a series of stone carvings in Prattsville, New York, depicting the life of Zadock Pratt. Pratt was supposed to be buried in a tomb carved into the stone, but work was stopped after only a small recessed chamber was created because water leaked through the rock overhead, and excavating the stone was providing to be too difficult. The rock was originally a monument for Pratts son, George W. Pratt, who was killed in the Civil War. It is considered the first memorial for the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Ripleys Believe it or Not once called it "New Yorks Mt. Rushmore".</p><br>
<p>As Pratt Rock Park, the place was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 1519 Martin Luther King Boulevard in the Woodbridge Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now known as Spirit of Hope.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Epiphany Reformed Episcopal parish was founded in 1878 as a place where Anglicans not pledged to the Episcopal bishop of Michigan might worship. In 1880, the congregation built a small frame church, and in 1889 changed their name to Trinity Episcopal.</p><br>
<p>James E. Scripps, owner of The Detroit News, was a member of the Trinity congregation. Scripps was born in London,</p><br>
<p>In 1896, Trinity members voted to unite their church with the Episcopal diocese of Michigan. However, the declining population of the surrounding area led to a decline in the congregation.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the nearby Jeffries Housing Projects were torn down; the Faith Memorial Lutheran Church, founded in 1956 to serve the community, found itself with a drastically reduced congregation. The congregations of Faith Memorial Lutheran and Trinity Episcopal began exploring the concept of merging, and in April 2006, the two joined to become the Spirit of Hope.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, Kathleen Devlin (Tuka) began the Spirit of Hope Urban Farm which was featured in the September/October 2011 Natural Home & Garden magazine.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>James E. Scripps commissioned architects Mason & Rice to design this English Gothic-style church. The floorplan of Trinity Episcopal Church is laid out in a cruciform pattern. The walls are two feet thick Trenton limestone, and the roof is sheathed with copper. Smooth brown limestone used as trim offsets the white limestone used for the bulk of the walls. The 85 ft central, supported by stone arches and buttresses, tower contains ten bells. The exterior holds over two hundred carvings, including gargoyles that serve as water drains. Inside the sanctuary, ten stone angels supporting the nave beams face inward; several windows contain stained glass, including a Tiffany, a LaFarge, and a window over the altar was created by Franz Mayer & Co. of Germany. A 1200-pipe organ manufactured by the Jardine Company of New York City is also inside.</p><br>
<p>The Inn at 97 Winder is a luxurious historic Inn located at 97 Winder Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. Originally known as the John Harvey House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The Detroit hotel is two blocks from Comerica Park and three blocks from Ford Field.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Harvey was a successful pharmacist in Detroit, Harvey established Detroit&#39;s Industrial School and later the Sabbath Mission School to educate indigent children.</p><br>
<p>John Harvey died in 1905, but his widow lived in the house into the 1920s. In the 1920s, Jesse Hobbs, an automobile worker, purchased the home. In 1938, the structure was converted into a rooming house; some of the larger rooms were partitioned.</p><br>
<p>Developers purchased the John Harvey House in 1986, renovated the structure, and, in 2005, opened it as the historic Inn at 97 Winder with 10-room guest rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>John Harvey employed John V. Smith to design this house with its Second Empire, Queen Anne architecture, located in the prestigious Brush Park neighborhood. Originally completed in 1887, the John Harvey House is constructed of red brick atop an ashlar foundation with a mansard roof. The façade features a center entrance and wooden brackets supporting the sills of the multi-storied towers and window bays. The house has 11,000 ft&sup2, eight marble fireplaces, and three-story staircase.</p><br>
<p>Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969. In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th. Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered into partnership with Kaufman. In 1887, the Kaufman-Straus store moved to South 4th Street in space leased from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky. The new flagship store opened in 1903, at 533-49 South 4th Street, designed by local architect Mason Maury. In 1924, Kaufman-Straus was acquired by City Stores Company and the following year the flagship store underwent extensive renovations. City Stores rebranded the company as Kaufmans in 1960. It operated two stores in suburban Louisville at The Mall and Dixie Manor. In 1969, Kaufmans was acquired by L. S. Ayres, and the downtown Louisville store was subsequently closed in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The flagship store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Mead Johnson River-Rail-Truck Terminal and Warehouse is a historic terminal / warehouse at the Port of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. The complex was built in 1931 and consists of the terminal building and warehouse. The terminal building is a rectangular canopied structure measuring 285 feet long, 110 feet wide, and 62 feet high. The building is cantilevered 45 feet over the Ohio River. The terminal is serviced by two electric cranes that each measure 54 feet long. The original warehouse is 585 feet long and 150 feet wide. It was enlarged by a 310-foot addition in 1957. The terminal is operated by Kinder Morgan and is served by CSX Transportation.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Floyd B. Olson House is a historic house located at 1914 West 49th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was originally the residence of Floyd B. Olson, who was Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party governor from 1931 to 1936. It is a bungalow with an unusual ornamental feature: it has two classically inspired pillars that support an arched roof over the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Shaw House, also known as the Shaw House Inn, is a historic Carpenter Gothic Victorian style house located at 703 Main Street in Ferndale, Humboldt County, California. It served historically as a courthouse, a post office, and a single-family dwelling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was owned by the family, vacant for several years at the end, until sold in 1967. Fully restored by two owners, the Shaw House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1984.</p><br>
<p>It remains the oldest house in Ferndale and functions as a bed and breakfast under the Shaw House Inn name. It still features the marble fireplace that Isabella Shaw, Seths bride, chose from Gumps department store in San Francisco.</p><br>
<p>Portage Point Inn Complex is a resort hotel located at the western end of Portage Lake at Portage Point, Michigan. In October 1985, this 1902 resort hotel and its associated buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It operates today as the Portage Point Resort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Portage Lake was originally settled in the late 1800s during the lumber boom. A water-powered sawmill was constructed at the original outlet of Portage Lake, located a short distance from the inn, in 1845. The adjoining property on Portage Point, where the inn now stands, was purchased in 1869 by Lucius S. Marvin. By 1880, the mill and its associated buildings was moved a few miles away to Onekama.</p><br>
<p>As timberlands were exhausted and lumbering slowed in the 1890s, the potential of the lakeshore for recreational uses began to be exploited. Marvin sold the property on the Point to two associates, and in 1902 they turn they sold the property to a private development corporation, the Sunnyside Assembly. Sunnyside shortly changed their name to Portage Point Assembly, and construction of the Inn was started July 12, 1902. The building was opened for tourists in June 1903. Additional buildings, including a large Main Hotel, the Beech Lodge (Hotel Annex), a Casino / dancing pavilion, and twenty cottages were added during the next ten years. In addition, the channel leading to the complex was dredged, allowing larger steamers to dock directly at the hotel.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, the Northern Michigan Transportation Company, a steamship company, became involved as an investing and operating partner of the Inn, and in 1914 the company took over the management completely. The resort complex continued to expand rapidly. In 1932, the Inn was sold to J.J. Smith, who moved his clientele from the Pine</p><br>
<p>Ridge Resort complex at Hamlin Lake near Ludington, after that resort burned. Smith owned the Inn until his death in 1960.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Portage Point Inn Complex is located on Portage Point, a peninsula which separates Lake Michigan from Portage Lake. The complex contains fifteen buildings constructed between 1902 and 1954; all but the last 1954 building contribute to the historic character of the complex. The buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Original Inn (1901-02, 1913-14) The original inn is a three-story Colonial Revival structure with a gambrel roof, clad with white clapboards. Originally constructed in 1901/02, the veranda was enclosed in 1913/14.</p><br>
<p>New Inn (Main Hotel) (1911-1912) The main hotel is a -story structure with a gambrel roof, fronted by a two-story portico with Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>Casino/Dance Pavilion (1908) The casino is a rectangular, one-and-one-half-story structure with a high, gable roof surrounded by verandas.</p><br>
<p>Beech Lodge (1906) The Beech Lodge is an H-shaped, two-and-one-half-story cross-gable Craftsman structure with a steeply pitched roof supported by open triangular brackets. A wood beltcourse accents the structure.</p><br>
<p>Hull House Cottage (1900-1901) The Hull House Cottage is a two-story, gable-roofed, structure clad with white clapboards. It has a Queen Anne style wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>Rexwood Cottage (1917) The Rexwood Cottage is single story T-shaped Colonial structure with a gable roof and a wooden square-post porch.</p><br>
<p>Lakeview Cottage (c.1910) The Lakeview Cottage is single story L-shaped Colonial structure with a gable roof and a wooden square-post porch.</p><br>
<p>Avalon Cottage (1911) The Avalon Cottage is single story L-shaped Craftsman structure clad with clapboards. It has a curved pergola-porch entry portico, and triangular stick brackets supporting broad eaves.</p><br>
<p>Dollhouse Cottages 1-6 (190 and 1918). the Dollhouse Cottages are six identical single story end-gable structures with shed-roof porches.</p><br>
<p>Terrace Building (1954) The Terrace building, designed by Cincinnati architect Jarres Nordloh, is a two-story Neo-Colonial structure with a gable roof and clad with white-painted shingle. Double-decker verandas face the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion is a Second Empire style historic house in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California. It was built in 1875 by Louis Phillips, who by the 1890s had become the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Situated along the Butterfield Stage route, the Phillips Mansion became a center of community activity in the Pomona and Spadra area. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, making it among the first 25 sites in Los Angeles County to be so designated .</p><br>
<h2>Louis Phillips</h2><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was built in 1875 by Louis Phillips (c. 1830 - 1900). Phillips was born Louis Galefsky to a Jewish family in Prussia (now Kempen, Poland) and moved to California in the early 1850s, changing his name to Phillips. He moved to Spadra (now part of Pomona) in 1862 and began engaging in sheep herding and cattle raising. In 1864, he purchased 12,000 acre of the old Rancho San Jose for $30,000. The Times noted that Phillips was worth "not a dollar less than $3,000,000" and stated that, in addition to his land holdings in Los Angeles, he had a ranch that produced wool, honey and wheat.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture of the house</h2><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was built in 1875 at a cost of over $20,000. It was built with 16 ft ceilings and six fireplaces. The interior of the mansion is finished in cherry and maple wood that was hauled by horse and wagon from San Pedro. The mansion represented a number of firsts in the Pomona Valley, including the following:</p><br>
<p>The first home built with fired bricks</p><br>
<p>The first home fitted with gas lighting; and</p><br>
<p>The first example of mansard roof architecture.</p><br>
<p>Other than two Mexican-era adobe structures (the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe and the La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose), the Phillips Mansion is also the oldest surviving house in the Pomona Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Rancho San Jose</h3><br>
<p>The property on which the Phillips Mansion was built is part of the 22,000 acre Rancho San Jose land grant awarded in 1837 by Gov. Juan B. Alvarado to Ricardo Vejar and Ygnacio Palomares. The Phillips Mansion was preceded by an adobe built in the 1860s, when the property was still part of the Rancho San Jose. Even before the construction of the Phillips Mansion, it was said that "the cluster of buildings by San Jose Creek at the foot of the Spadra Hills" was the center of life on the rancho.</p><br>
<h3>Use by Louis Phillips</h3><br>
<p>In 1864, Schlesinger and Tischler acquired the ranch in a foreclosure, and Phillips, who had previously been a manager on the ranch, Phillips was one of the local land promoters (along with Garey, Holt and Towne) who laid out the town of Pomona in the summer of 1875. The new community was named after the goddess of fruit trees. However, Phillips preferred Spadra to Pomona, and retained 2,241 acre surrounding his mansion, which he operated as a cattle and sheep ranch.</p><br>
<p>It has been said that the Phillips Mansion "heralded the Yankee period" in the Pomona Valley. Phillips also became postmaster for the Spadra area, and the mansion became both the post office and a center of social activities for the scattered settlers of the Pomona Valley in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<h3>Changes in ownership</h3><br>
<p>Phillips died from pneumonia at the mansion in 1900. At that time, the property consisted of the house and 40 acre with 4,000 ft of frontage on Pomona Boulevard. George, who then lived in Hollywood, retained 200 acre of walnut groves.</p><br>
<p>In 1942 the house was sold to C.H. Brandmyer, of Glendale, California. At that time, the property consisted of the house and 21 acre of citrus, and the Los Angeles Times reported that the home had never been remodeled.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the house was converted into an apartment house. At one time, the house was cut up like a rooming house into four apartments, and the dark interior woodwork was painted over. By 1959, ownership of the property had passed to Earl Isbil.</p><br>
<h3>Acquisition and operation by Historical Society</h3><br>
<p>During the 1960s, the area surrounding the Phillips Mansion had become largely industrial. In 1966, the mansion was heavily vandalized, At that time, the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, led by Fred W. Sharp, began a campaign to save the old mansion. The Historical Society ultimately purchased the mansion and restored it as a Yankee period museum to complement the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, which was operated by the Historical Society as a museum focusing on the Mexican period. Pomona architect Amos W. Randall was in charge of the renovation master plan, and the restored mansion was opened for its first public viewings in 1978. Title to the mansion was later transferred to the City of Pomona, and the city and Historical Society now operate the mansion jointly.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the house was used as a location in the movie, Lemora: A Child&#39;s Tale of the Supernatural, which also used the small jail structure on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, a time capsule containing handmade bricks and squared nails from the Phillips Mansion was buried at the entrance to a master-planned community called "Phillips Ranch." The community consists of 3,000 new single-family homes and was built on the site of Louis Phillips&#39; ranch.</p><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was damaged in the February 1990 Upland earthquake and the June 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake. The earthquakes caused the mansion&#39;s chimney to topple and resulted in cracks throughout the structure. The house was reopened on a limited basis for tours in October 1991, though visitors were required to wear hard hats.</p><br>
<p>Between 2002 and 2008, the Historical Society and the City of Pomona undertook extensive renovation work on the house, which was closed during this time. In July 2008, the mansion suffered a further setback when it was damaged in the Chino Hills earthquake. Though the house had been scheduled to reopen to the public in the fall of 2008, visible cracks in the front of the building and back porch pushed back the date of its reopening, but the Mansion is now open for events and tours.</p><br>
<p>Trunk Line Bridge No. 1, also known as Peshekee River Bridge, is a bridge adjacent to US Highway 41/M-28 . It was the first of many trunkline bridges designed by the Michigan State Highway Department. It was built in 1914, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Trunk Line Bridge No. 1 is a multiple-span concrete bridge which is located 5 mi east of Michigamme. The bridge used to carry US 41/M-28 across the Pesheskee River near the river&#39;s mouth at Lake Michigamme. It is located between a Soo Line Railroad (ex-Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway) bridge to the south and the modern replacement bridge to the north.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 240 ft in length, composed of six 40 ft concrete through girders. This carries a concrete deck and full-height abutments over solid concrete piers with bullnosed cutwaters. In total, it used some 600 cubic yards of concrete in the design. The girder walls feature rectangular recessed panels capped by concrete copings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Today, drivers cannot use the Peshekee River Bridge south of US 41/M-28 in western Marquette County&#39;s Michigamme Township, although access can be had on foot from the eastern side. The bridge is under the supervision of the Michigan State Parks with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and is part of the Van Riper State Park. The bridge was built in 1914 in response to the 1913 State Trunk Line Act passed by the Michigan Legislature. This act created the State Trunkline Highway System comprising nearly 3,000 mi. The act further said that the Michigan State Highway Department would design, build and maintain trunkline bridges spanning 30 ft or more so long as the local governments improved an adjacent 3 mi of roads. Marquette County built a mainline road from Marquette west to Michigamme near the county line, including an improved 3 mi section in 1913 to encourage the state to build the bridge. The bridge was designed by C.V. Dewart for the department and built by the local firm of Powell and Mitchell in Marquette. The Peshekee River Bridge would later be incorporated into the routing of US 41 in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as "Trunk Line Bridge No. 1" for its engineering and architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The Peterboro Land Office is located in the hamlet of Peterboro, in the Town of Smithfield in Madison County, New York. The small, Federal style building was built in 1804. It was constructed of locally produced brick laid in Flemish bond on the facade and common bond elsewhere. The main room is 24 by. The interior has plaster walls and ceiling and a brick over plank floor. The entrance vestibule is in the center of the south wall between two windows. There is a window each on the east and west walls. The north walls has built in shelves and drawers on the east side and a 4 ft iron vault door on the west side.</p><br>
<p>Peter Smith arrived in Utica, New York, then called Fort Schuyler, in 1784, and over the next ten years formed close ties with the local Native American tribe, the Oneidas. In 1794, Peter Smith leased, and subsequently acquired full title to, 50,000 acre of land from the Oneidas under Chief Skenadoah. The tract comprised the central portion of modern-day Madison County and parts of the current Oneida County. Over 100,000 acre of land in the northeastern part of the country were transferred in thousands of transactions at the land office, which was used for that purpose until the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Gerrit Smith, Peters son, continued in the land business after his father. He also established the Peterboro Academy in 1853 and an orphanage in 1871. He was an active abolitionist. His grandson, Gerrit Smith Miller, was a noted philanthropist and active in the womens suffrage movement.</p><br>
<p>The land office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,</p><br>
<p>The Tripp Family Homestead, also known as the "Tripp House", is an historic, American house that is located at 1101 N. Main Avenue in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house was built circa 1771 by Isaac Tripp, Scranton&#39;s first settler. Isaac Tripp II began later modification circa 1778; Isaac Tripp III further renovated the home in 1812, which left the building in a Federal style. The building stayed in the Tripp family until 1900 and is the oldest building in Lackawanna County. It is open as a special events facility.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Frying Pan Meetinghouse  or Frying Pan Spring Meeting House) is a historic church building within Frying Pan Farm Park in Floris, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1791 as a church building. In 1984 the last remaining trustee deeded the building to the Fairfax County Park Authority to preserve and maintain the property. The building and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>West Main Street Historic District in Oconto, Wisconsin is a historic district.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It includes multiple buildings built during the heyday of the town&#39;s lumbering industry. Two included properties were already listed on the National Register, the First Church of Christ, Scientist (Oconto, Wisconsin) at 102 Chicago Street, and the Gov. Edward Scofield House at 610 West Main.</p><br>
<p>Mountain Fire Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<p>It is the eighth property featured in a program of the National Park Service that began in July, 2008.</p><br>
<p>It is located on Forest Service Rd. 2335 (Tower Rd.), Lakewood Ranger District, Nicolet National Forest, in Riverview, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 2008.</p><br>
<p>Tompkins Street–Main Street Historic District, formerly known as Tompkins Street Historic District, is a historic district in Cortland, New York. It encompasses 109 contributing buildings and one contributing site in the central business district of Cortland and the surrounding residential areas. It includes about 60 commercial buildings built between 1860 and 1910, public buildings such as the separately listed USA Post Office, and the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Residences date as early as the 1830s and include mansions from the 1890-1916 period. Most residences are stories and of frame construction.</p><br>
<p>Under the Tompkins Street name, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Its boundaries were increased to include Main Street from Tompkins to Clinton Streets in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District in Medina, New York, United States, is the downtown commercial core of the village. It is a 12 acre area stretching south along Main Street from the Erie Canal to the railroad tracks.</p><br>
<p>Its buildings, all but three of which contribute to its historic character, reflect the development of Medina from the early days of the canal, where a bend in the route made it a natural harbor, in the 1830s to the 1920s. They are brick or stone buildings in a variety of architectural styles from the 19th century, primarily Italianate. Many of them have been renovated after a period of decline in the mid-20th century. In 1995 it was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two years later, a rail freight depot at the south end was added when further research established that it was historically related to other buildings in the district.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped area whose axis is Main Street for a block and a half north and south of East and West Center Street (NY 31 and 31E/63 respectively. South of the Main-Center intersection, Main Street is also itself part of routes 31 and 63). Its boundaries are defined by lot lines and streets. The terrain is level with a slight descent to the canal and creek at the northeast.</p><br>
<p>At the north, the district includes the properties on the east side of Main north of Pearl Street that back on the canal just north of the bend it takes after crossing the Oak Orchard River to the immediate east. Its boundary continues along the rear property line of the east side of Main, excluding the parking lot at the canal basin, then expanding westward at East Center to include some properties on both sides of the street east of Manilla Place, stopping just short of St. Johns Episcopal Church, the "Church in the Middle of the Street" and one of Medinas oldest public buildings. It then returns to the rear lines of the east side of Main, following the CSX railroad tracks back to the street.</p><br>
<p>On the west side of Main it includes all the properties down to North Avenue. The district takes in the large railroad complex, excluding the hardware store on the corner with West Avenue, which it follows north to just past the tracks. The 1997 boundary increase added the Medina Railroad Museum across the street, extending the southwest corner of the district to Gwinn Street. After that the boundary crosses the street again and takes in the old train station building, then turns north at the back of City Hall to follow rear property lines on the east side of Main, including the buildings with frontage on the east side of Proctor Place. One lot south of Pearl Street, it turns east to exclude a house and vacant lot along that back to Main, which it then follows back up to the north end of the district.</p><br>
<p>This tightly drawn boundary encloses an area of 12 acre. Of the 52 buildings within it, only three are too modern to be considered contributing properties. There are no houses; most are multistory commercial buildings with a few having apartments above street level. The railroad-related properties, First Presbyterian Church and City Hall and its fire station are the few exceptions. It excludes Medinas Register-listed post office and St. Johns, found eligible.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement of what became Medina began with the announcement of the canals construction in 1817. Within a few years some houses had sprung up for canal workers near the bend, and by 1825 the area in the northeastern portion of the district known as the docks, had been well developed, with a general store. At the time what is now Main Street was known as Shelby Street. None of those buildings are extant, mostly wood frame structures, are extant, having been demolished to make way for the current buildings. The foundation of the former Arcade at 343–347 Main Street is the only remnant of the villages early years still extant.</p><br>
<p>In 1823 the Holland Land Company, the original European owners of much of Western New York, sent Ebenezer Mix to survey and lay out a village at the Ridgeway-Shelby town line. He completed this by 1826. This, combined with the settlement around the docks, became Medina. At that time, it was a way station along the canal for barges and an overnighting point for passengers. Many of its early buildings were hotels.</p><br>
<p>Medina grew quickly. In addition to the canal it had good waterpower on Oak Orchard Creek (two mill races, one of which is reportedly still intact underground, ran along today&#39;s Main Street) and fertile land surrounding it. The settlement incorporated as a village in 1832, just seven years after its establishment. The 1840 census recorded 700 inhabitants. By the middle of the century the southwest portion of the village was being developed as a residential area.</p><br>
<p>In 1855 the villages oldest extant hotel, the Paddock at 500–506 Main Street, was built. Around that time the Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad, the "Falls Road", was built through the village, at the southern end of the district. It took some, but not all, of the canals traffic. By providing easier access to raw materials and markets for finished goods the railroad, which eventually became part of the New York Central Railroad, spurred industrial development along Main Street. The former main station, at 615 Main Street, built early in the 20th century, is one of the district buildings using locally quarried Medina sandstone, enjoying its peak usage as a building material at the time. At the same time the Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad offered electric trolley service that passed through Medina on tracks running along East Center, up Main and then to Commercial Street and east along a private right-of-way to Salt Works Road and then to West Center.</p><br>
<p>A series of fires in the 1860s and 1870s led to the construction of most of the districts extant buildings between 1870 and 1900. As a result, they are visually cohesive and uniformly scaled. The most architecturally distinguished building in the district, Bents Opera House at the northwest corner of Main and Center, is an early product of this period.</p><br>
<p>The village had a diverse group of industries and retailers in the first decades of the 20th century. The fruit orchards in the farms around the village created a need for cold storage facilities near the railroad tracks. Three buildings, the warehouse at 630 Main Street that is now a carpet store, the 613-615 Main Street building and the railway museum building on West Street, reflect the importance of fruit growing at that time. So prosperous was Medina during this period that residents named the new municipal building in 1908 City Hall, out of the expectation that the village, now with a population of 5,000, would eventually become one.</p><br>
<p>Most of those industries declined and eventually closed down over the next few decades. The canal, by then carrying a small fraction of its former traffic, was widened and incorporated into the New York State Barge Canal system in the late 1910s. It continued to decline. The railroads were affected as well. In 1931 the trolley service was discontinued; the tracks themselves remained for another 30 years. After World War II the market for Medina sandstone dwindled as well. Freight and passenger traffic across the state began using the New York State Thruway, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, and eventually the Central discontinued passenger service along the route before going bankrupt itself.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of downtown Medina have remained. Many were restored and renovated with state and federal grant programs. The village has continued to benefit from the canal, which is now mainly a recreational resource but still carries some freight.</p><br>
<h2>Significant contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The district&#39;s boundaries contain 54 buildings, one structure (the railroad tracks) and one site (Rotary Park, at the southeast corner of Main and Center). The park and three nearby buildings, as well as one near the train station, are the only non-contributing properties in the district. Among the others, some are notable within the context of the district. None have been listed individually on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Austin and Dye Cold Storage Warehouse, 613–615 Main Street. A 1901 three-story Medina sandstone vernacular building that occupies the southeast corner of the district.</p><br>
<p>Bancroft Hotel, 343–347 Main Street. Its foundation dates to 1835, making it the oldest building element in the district. The rest of the building was replaced after a 1927 fire. Today it houses an auto-parts store.</p><br>
<p>Bent Block, 444 Main Street. Built in 1865, this Medina sandstone building once housed an opera house and was the center of Medina&#39;s cultural life.</p><br>
<p>Building at 415 Proctor Place. Records show that a public right-of-way once went through this former wagon shop with a bricked-over tunnel.</p><br>
<p>Building at 435 Main Street. The district&#39;s oldest building is a stone structure with brick facade built in 1846.</p><br>
<p>Building at 512 Main Street. This brick Italianate building has some excellent Art Deco storefronts with red and black Carrara glass.</p><br>
<p>Central Bank of Medina, 514 Main Street. The district&#39;s only neoclassical building dates to 1890, with a facade remodeled in 1926.</p><br>
<p>City Hall, 600 Main Street. The only government building in the district, built in 1908, is also its only Richardsonian Romanesque, with rockfaced Medina sandstone and round-headed arch moldings. Its name reflects the village&#39;s ambitions at the time of its construction. Modern rear addition is home to the fire department.</p><br>
<p>S.A. Cook Building, 526–540 Main Street. A long, horizontal brick building that was seen as very modern when it was built in 1911.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church, 520 Main Street. The district&#39;s only church is an 1872 brick Romanesque Revival structure set back slightly more from the street than its neighbors.</p><br>
<p>Fuller Block, 428 Main Street. Decoration on this 1875 Italianate commercial building includes drip molding on the round-arched windows, intricate brick corbelling and a bracketed cornice. Housed the local G. C. Murphy store for many years.</p><br>
<p>Hart House, 111–115 West Center Street. Built in 1876 as a hotel, this five-bay brick structure is one of the most accomplished of the Italianate buildings in the district, with full-height brick pilasters, segmentally arched windows, stone crowns and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>Maher Brothers Block, 116–120 East Center Street. This 1873 building is the only one with a neo-Renaissance facade, added 30 years after construction.</p><br>
<p>Medina Cold Storage Warehouse, 630 Main Street. Built in 1907, it is similar to the Austin and Dye building across the street. A wood frame packing house was added to the south elevation in the early 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Medina Railroad Museum, 530 West Street. A 300 by timber frame clapboard-sided structure built in 1905 that is believed to be the largest extant wooden freight depot in the country. It was converted to its present purpose in 1991.</p><br>
<p>New York Central Railroad Station, 615 West Street. A hip roofed structure presently used as a senior center, it was built in 1908 of mixed materials and remains mostly intact.</p><br>
<p>Paddock&#39;s Hotel, 500–506 Main Street. The oldest hotel building in the district dates to 1855.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Medina has made the district part of a historic overlay district in its zoning code. The villages district includes some areas outside of the Register-listed one, such as an extension north to Eagle Street and more of East Center Street along the canal basin. It is meant to protect the districts historic character within the context of Medina&#39;s commercial zoning.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Commission, with the cooperation of the village and representatives of its downtown business community, drafted a revitalization plan for the district. Business and consumers were surveyed to get data as to what they thought downtown&#39;s issues were. Consumers were also asked where they came from and how they used downtown.</p><br>
<p>Businesses, many of which were independent and owned the space they operated from, represented a diverse group of activities, primarily retail goods and services. They employed about 222 people. Most indicated that what they would be most interested in to improve downtown was grant or loan programs to assist with business improvements. Half of them thought parking was an issue for their customers.</p><br>
<p>The customers surveyed were primarily older women. Most were residents of the area who drove downtown to shop (usually at the grocery or drugstore) and attend to personal care needs. They came to downtown a few times a month and were most likely otherwise to go to a big box retailer, shops in nearby towns like Albion or Middleport or malls in the Buffalo area to the southwest. They liked the small-town feel of downtown, but felt it could use more parking and more attention to the appearance of vacant buildings.</p><br>
<p>The plan recommended that the village add a section to its comprehensive plan dealing with downtown. Specific measures that were suggested to address the issues were several measures to instill pride in the historic downtown, such as the redistribution of sections of the Register application to promote awareness of the district&#39;s historic qualities, a window display program in vacant storefronts, making property owners aware of the tax credits available to them for renovating income-producing property, and the creation of a Business Improvement District. A separate parking overlay was suggested, based on recalculated demand, to address that issue.</p><br>
<p>The H. H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton is a National Historic Landmark District in the village of North Easton in Easton, Massachusetts. It consists of five buildings designed by noted 19th-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson, and The Rockery, a war memorial designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The landmark district is contained within the larger North Easton Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1972. It also contains the Old Colony Railroad Station which was individually listed on the NRHP on April 11, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Easton was first settled in 1694 and was officially incorporated in 1725. In 1694, the first settler, Clement Briggs established his home near the Easton Green. In 1711, the Taunton North Purchase area became Norton, and in 1713, the twenty-six families settled in Easton and hired Elder William Pratt as their first minister. There was no legal parish in Easton until 1722 when the East Precinct of Norton was recognized. In 1725, the area was incorporated as the Town of Easton; it was so named because it was formerly called the "East End" of the Taunton North Purchase and was shortened by pronunciation to Easton.</p><br>
<p>In 1803, the Ames Shovel Company was established and became nationally known as having provided the shovels which laid the Union Pacific Railroad and opened the west. In 1875, the shovel production of the Ames plant was worth 1.5 million. The most notable of the Ames family were Oakes Ames, a key figure in the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, and Oliver Ames, governor of Massachusetts from 1887 to 1890.</p><br>
<p>The Ames family shaped the town&#39;s economy and was responsible for the presence of a number of landmark buildings in the town designed by H. H. Richardson, originator of the Richardsonian Romanesque style and designer of Trinity Church in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The five Richardson buildings in the Historic Landmark District include:</p><br>
<p>Ames Free Library</p><br>
<p>Oakes Ames Memorial Hall</p><br>
<p>Old Colony Railroad Station (houses the Easton Historical Society; original NRHP designation, April 1972)</p><br>
<p>Ames Gate Lodge (located on Elm Street; privately owned by the Ames family)</p><br>
<p>F. L. Ames Gardener&#39;s Cottage</p><br>
<h2>Other associated buildings</h2><br>
<p>Though this school complex was not made by Richardson himself, it was dedicated to him and made in his style:</p><br>
<p>H. H. Richardson/F. L. Olmsted Intermediate School</p><br>
<p>Although intended to be the town hall, the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall was never accepted by the town and never used for that purpose.</p><br>
<p>In addition, there is a commercial building at 66 Main Street which was designed and built in the nineteenth century by Richardson&#39;s office in a Richardsonian style. The Richardson buildings are all located within a compact area designated as the H. H. Richardson Historic District. The area also includes The Rockery, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also landscaped grounds of Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and the Ames Free Library.</p><br>
<p>Plattsburgh City Hall is an historic government building located at City Hall Place in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. It was designed by architect John Russell Pope and constructed in 1917. It is a three-story, steel frame, limestone clad building in the Classical Revival style. It features a projecting entrance portico with six Doric order columns and a low central dome.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton County Courthouse Complex is a historic county government and courthouse site located at 135 Margaret Street in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. The main courthouse was constructed in 1889. It is a two-story, ashlar stone and brick Richardsonian Romanesque style building. It has a hipped roof and rock-faced arched openings. It features a large, square central tower with an open campanile and pyramidal roof. The associated Surrogate&#39;s Building was built in 1884–1885, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick building with a bracketed cornice with Renaissance style detail.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Point is a national historic district located at Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. It encompasses 33 contributing buildings and contains a collection of historic homes dating from about 1815. The district is adjacent to the historic D & H Railroad Complex and also Plattsburgh Bay, an arm of Lake Champlain. It is bounded by the railroad from the north, by Plattsburgh Bay from the east, and by the Saranac River, which separates it from downtown Plattsburgh, from the west.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Easley High School Auditorium is a historic building built in 1909 in Easley, South Carolina and now on the National Register of Historic Places. It is historically significant for its long association with education and civic life in Easley in the first half of the 20th century. The building served as Easley&#39;s first and only high school from 1909 to 1940 and was central to the early experience and training of almost every local resident of that period.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architecturally, the load-bearing masonry building in the Renaissance Revival style is significant for its early efforts to introduce steel trusses into traditional masonry-bearing wall and heavy timber construction. It has also been noted as an outstanding early example of the work of architects Frank H. and Joseph G. Cunningham. At the time of construction, use of steel trusses was still in the experimental phase. The design of the building is an early example of “the gradual replacement of load-bearing masonry and heavy timber structures with steel frame construction.” The building has 86 tall windows with segmental arches, laid out like those in many textile mills in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Later Use</h2><br>
<p>When the building opened in the fall of 1909, its classrooms allowed the seventh through tenth grades to have their own rooms for the first time (an eleventh grade was added in the 1920-21 school year.</p><br>
<p>The school had outgrown the facility by 1938 and a new building was constructed on a different site in 1939-40. Following completion of the new school building, the auditorium was occupied by a shirt manufacturer until 1964.</p><br>
<p>From that time until its listing on the National Register, the building went through various periods of vacancy and occupation by a local furniture store for limited storage use.</p><br>
<h2>Recent Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The building had fallen into disrepair when the Easley Chamber of Commerce applied for its recognition as one of the most-endangered properties in the state.</p><br>
<p>Occupants of the building following its use as a school had torn out interior classroom walls, a portion of the roof had been destroyed as the result of wind damage from a 1998 storm (this was replaced with temporary corrugated metal sheets), and metal panels had been installed over many windows to prevent water damage. All but one original chimney as well as an entry porch on the building&#39;s south side had been removed, "virtually all windows and doors" and much of the plaster work were "severely deteriorated".</p><br>
<p>Following a 1997 study that identified the building as a key ingredient in downtown Easley&#39;s revitalization, the town engaged in a period of planning on how to return it to a place of prominence within the community. In the early 2000s the building was rehabilitated and restored to private use as residential condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The building stands at 112 Russell Street and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has additional pictures and information, as well as the NRHP nomination document.</p><br>
<p>The Bardstown Historic District, comprising the center of Bardstown, Kentucky, is a registered historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Prominent architecture located within the district include the Cobblestone Path, Nelson County Jail, Old L & N Station, Old Talbott Tavern, and Spalding Hall, all individually on the National Register, and the historic old Nelson County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The district consists of twenty-six blocks with a total of 279 properties. Over one third of the buildings in the district are Federal or Georgian architecture dating from the 1780s to 1850, reflecting Bardstowns status as one of the first towns in Kentucky, first settled in 1780 and formally established in 1788. Twenty-four of the blocks are in the initial grid pattern used to lay out the towns lots in 1797.</p><br>
<p>The town was originally to be called Salem when it was first settled in 1780 by 33 people, on land given as 1,000 acre grant to John Owings and David Bard by Virginia governor Patrick Henry. Bard sent his brother William Bard to manage the holdings, and with William donating 2 acre for a courthouse, the town was renamed Bardstown. In 1789 alone 150 log houses were built in the district. In the antebellum area the district became a cultural center for nearby localities, especially for Catholics; Bardstown had the largest concentration of Catholics of any town in Kentucky for a time. Its decline began when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad decided to initially bypass Bardstown, not building a railroad for the town until 1860, and not extending the line from Bardstown until 1887, after which Bardstown&#39;s population remained steady until it became the center of bourbon production.</p><br>
<p>At different times during the Civil War, commanders from both armies held their headquarters within the district.</p><br>
<p>The Old Courthouse, which lies in the center of the district surrounded by US 31E and US 150, was constructed in 1892 at the cost of $30,000. It now serves as the Visitor Center for Bardstown, with the new courthouse being built where the original Wal-Mart in Bardstown was located.</p><br>
<p>Thanks to the Nelson County Historical Society and the 1965 Historical District Zoning laws, much of the district retains its historical nature, save for a few commercial buildings along Third Street, also known locally as Louisville Road (which eventually reaches Louisville, where it is called Bardstown Road). By the 1980s over 200,000 tourists visited the town, which has steadily increased due to the continuing attractions of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival and My Old Kentucky Home State Park, located on the next hill to the east of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>United States President Jimmy Carter held a town hall meeting in the district in 1979.</p><br>
<p>File:Old Talbott Tavern — Bardstown, Kentucky.jpgOld Talbott Tavern</p><br>
<p>File:Downtown Bardstown.jpgShops along 3rd Street</p><br>
<p>File:Old Nelson County Jail.JPGHistoric old stone jail</p><br>
<p>File:Bardstown Farmers Bank Trust.JPGFarmer&#39;s Bank & Trust</p><br>
<p>File:Cobblestone Path 2.JPGCobblestone Path</p><br>
<p>File:Old L & N Station Bardstown.JPGOld L & N Station</p><br>
<p>File:Old Nelson County Courthouse KY back.JPGBackview of old Court House</p><br>
<p>The Pomona City Stables, also known as the Pomona City Yards Brick Building, is a stables building completed in 1909 to house horses owned by the City of Pomona, California.</p><br>
<p>Built at a cost of $6,000, the Pomona City Stables building was designed by Pomona architect Ferdinand Davis from the firm of Davis and Higgs. Upon its opening, the building was occupied by twenty-two head of horses owned by the city and a caretaker.</p><br>
<p>The building is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings extant in California. In 2003, the Pomona Historic Preservation Commission recommended recognition of the stables building as a historic landmark, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2004. However, the listing of the building has not led to any cessation of the building&#39;s deterioration. Located in the middle of a fenced-off yard used by the City of Pomona for storage of municipal vehicles, fuel, and other materials, the building has fallen into a serious state of disrepair and dilapidation. After the July 2008 Chino Hills earthquake, city officials posted a sign (pictured at left) on the entrance to the stables restricting access due to its dilapidated condition. After severe winter rains, the stable walls partially collapsed in 2017. The stables were fully demolished by the city of Pomona in Fall of 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Old Talbott Tavern, also known as the Old Stone Tavern, a historic tavern built in 1779, is located in the Bardstown Historic District of Bardstown, Kentucky, across from the historic Nelson County Courthouse. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1973.</p><br>
<p>According to tradition, the tavern has never closed since its opening in 1779. It is rumored as well to have guests that have never checked out. Each room is named after a historical person who is said to haunt the corresponding room. It is likely the oldest surviving building in the state of Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Talbott Tavern was built in 1779, a year before the settlement of Salem (later renamed Bardstown) began, making it the "oldest western stagecoach stop" still in operation. According to an old map of Bardstown, the lot was originally purchased by a man named Hynes; the tavern was called the Hynes Hotel. It was strategically located near the end of the stagecoach road that once led east to Philadelphia and Virginia. George Rogers Clark used it as a resource base during the end of the American Revolutionary War; Daniel Boone stayed here, and the exiled Louis-Philippe of France, stayed at the tavern on October 17, 1797, with a member of his entourage painting murals that were rediscovered in the 20th century and were on display until the 1998 fire.</p><br>
<p>Visitors in the 19th century included future presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln&#39;s parents stayed at the tavern when a court ruling went against them, leading the family to move to Indiana when Lincoln was only seven years old. Other prominent figures who visited the tavern were Henry Clay, the inventor of steamboats John Fitch, environmentalist John James Audubon, songwriter Stephen Foster, and Jesse James, who is said to have been the cause of the bullet holes in the murals as he was drunk and shooting at the birds in the tree on the mural.</p><br>
<p>George Talbott purchased the tavern in 1886. Within two years, six of his children died in the tavern.</p><br>
<p>Queen Marie of Romania is known to have lunched at the tavern in 1926. Likewise, World War II general George Patton once visited the tavern.</p><br>
<p>Throughout its history, the tavern has been called different names: Hynes House, Bardstown Hotel, Chapman&#39;s House, Shady Bower Hotel, the Newman House, Talbott Hotel, Talbott Tavern, and the Old Stone Tavern. The Talbott Tavern was the official name from 1885 to 1968.</p><br>
<p>On March 7, 1998, a fire damaged the tavern, severely damaging the roof and second floor. The fire also damaged the Louis-Philippe murals, which have still not been restored. The renovations to repair the fire damage were described as "generic". The Old Talbott Tavern reopened on November 8, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Old Talbott Tavern currently serves as both a restaurant and a five-room bed and breakfast. A writer for Travel and Leisure magazine described it as having "slightly spooky charm". It has been featured on Food Network and Travel Channel, and was once ranked the 13th most haunted inn in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The inn&#39;s most famous ghost is the outlaw Jesse James. Legend has it that even now he haunts the inn. Another legend is that of a mysterious woman who continues her haunting of the hotel.</p><br>
<p>It is next to the historic Nelson County Jail.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The original tavern consisted of the present eastern section, built of stone walls two feet thick and heavy ceiling timbers, with two separate fireplaces to cook the food. It originally had two guest rooms on the second floor: one for men and one for women, as individual rooms for guests did not become widespread in the United States until the early 19th century. The brick western section was built a century later.</p><br>
<p>The Azusa Civic Center is the center of city government in Azusa, California, a city located to the northeast of Los Angeles. The Mission/Spanish Revival buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and history</h2><br>
<p>The City of Azusa started work on its civic center in 1904 when the citys public library was moved to the area that is now the civic center. In 1928, the City completed construction of the two main wings of the civic center, with City Hall on one side and the municipal auditorium on the other. The Civic Center was completed in 1945 with the completion of the fire departments headquarters. At the time of the centers completion, the Los Angeles Times reported that the addition of the Fire Department to "Azusas carefully designed Civic Center" added another section to the double-winged, one-story building that then housed the City Hall, Mayors office, Chamber of Commerce, Public Library, Police Department, Water and Light Department, City Clerk, Treasurer, engineer and building inspector. All of the structures in the Civic Center were designed with a common Mission/Spanish Revival style of architecture. Since 1949, the Civic Center has been the location for musical events, a carnival, a parade, and other events associated with Azusas annual "Golden Days" celebration conducted each fall.</p><br>
<h2>Celebration of a running gag: "Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"</h2><br>
<p>A popular running gag on the long-running radio comedy The Jack Benny Program involved a train caller, voiced by Mel Blanc, calling out, "Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga." The gag, which also continued on Jack Bennys television program, brought national attention to the three cities. The celebration included a parade around Azusas city hall with marching bands, drum majorettes and Benny seated on the tailgate of a small red wagon pulled by four Liliputian horses. Benny was given gold keys to the cities on Hawaiian leis presented by the queens of the three cities. Benny explained the origin of the gag as follows:</p><br>
<p>About 25 years ago on radio, we were looking for the names of three suburban cities that would rhyme for a railroad scene featuring Mel Blanc. We didnt look for sustaining gags, you cant create them artificially. We used it once, twice, three times. Each time the audience laughed louder. We were not about to give up a good thing.</p><br>
<p>The gag was so popular that, when Benny died in 1974, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read: "Last Call for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga..."</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Azusa Civic Center was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 2002. It is the only site in Azusa to be listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>American Hotel is a historic hotel located at Sharon Springs in Schoharie County, New York. It is a large, -story wood-frame structure built between 1847 and 1851 in the Greek Revival style. It features a recessed 2-story porch with a colonnade of eight pillars with Doric order capitals supporting the roof. It is located within the Sharon Springs Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The hotel and owners Doug Plummer and Garth Roberts appear in the reality television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys, which takes place in Sharon Springs. The series debuted in June 2010.</p><br>
<p>Rock Ledge is a historic estate and national historic district located at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. The district encompasses five contributing buildings and five contributing structures on an estate developed between about 1904 and 1906. The manor house is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style stone dwelling. It consists of a central section with three-story projecting pavilions and a two-story wing. It has multi-level, tile hipped roofs with overhanging eaves. Also on the property are the contributing stone barn, stone carriage house, a stone stable, guest cottage, three stone pump houses, a stone foot bridge, and a cistern. It was a private estate until 1945, after which it housed a vegetarian resort, and after 1961 a novitiate for the Marist Fathers and home to Rhinebeck Country School.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Bernard Ginsburg House is a single-family private residence located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Bernard Ginsburg House is significant for both the original owner and the architect. Owner Bernard Ginsburg was an important figure in philanthropy, civic service, and the Jewish community in Detroit during the late 19th and early 20th century. Architect Albert Kahn went on to become well known in industrial and commercial architecture; the Ginsburg house and its English Renaissance style exhibited is typical of Kahn&#39;s early work.</p><br>
<h2>Bernard Ginsburg</h2><br>
<p>Bernard Ginsburg was born in Columbus, Indiana, in 1864; his parents were Polish immigrants who had arrived in America in the mid-1850s. The family moved to New York and then to Detroit, where Bernard graduated from high school in 1881. Than same year, Bernard and his father began in business as iron merchants under the name, "R. L. Ginsburg". The business was successful, and Bernard became very well-to-do.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bernard Ginsburg House is a two-and-one-half-story structure made of red brick and stone. The openings for windows and doors have frames and quoins constructed of limestone.</p><br>
<p>The Fort is a historic restaurant in Morrison, Colorado. Construction of the structure started in 1961 and was inspired by Bent&#39;s Fort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The adobe structure was built between 1961 and 1963 for Denver advertising executive Sam Arnold. A replica of Bent&#39;s Fort, the structure incorporates over 80,000 handmade adobe bricks and beams hewn with drawknives, foot adzes and hand planes. Originally planned as a living history museum that would also be a home for the Arnold family, the Arnolds pivoted to finishing the first floor as a restaurant to secure Small Business Administration funding to complete the interior of the building.</p><br>
<p>The 300-seat, Western-themed restaurant opened in the buildings first floor on February 1, 1963. Arnold developed menu items based on ingredients available in Colorado at the time of Bents Fort and promoted frontier cookery with the public television series Frying Pans West. After marrying for the second time, Arnold sold the restaurant in 1973. The restaurant was returned to him in foreclosure in 1986. The restaurant hosted President Bill Clinton’s state dinner for the 23rd G8 summit in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Following the death of his second wife in 1998, Arnold&#39;s daughter Holly Arnold Kinney returned to run the restaurant with him until his death in 2006. Kinney also founded the Tesoro Cultural Center, a nonprofit that sponsors an Indian Market and Powwow and other cultural events at the Fort.</p><br>
<h2>Cuisine</h2><br>
<p>The Forts menu features local ingredients and regional game, particularly bison, elk, and quail. Recipes are inspired by a 3,000-volume rare and historic cookbook library amassed by Sam Arnold, with additions made through a semi-annual process that considers new ideas from the restaurants kitchen staff.</p><br>
<p>The Athenæum, originally named Das Deutsche Haus , is the most ornate and best-preserved building affiliated with the German American community of Indianapolis. Once used as a German American Turnverein and clubhouse, it currently houses many groups, organizations, and businesses. The Athenæum is located across Massachusetts Avenue from the Old National Centre. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1973. On October 31, 2016, it was named the 41st National Historic Landmark in Indiana.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 19th century, many German immigrants made their home in Indiana. A majority of these immigrants, called Forty-Eighters, relocated to the United States following the failed Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. These immigrants quickly formed musical, political, and social clubs after the German idea of club life, including the Männerchor, Turnverein, and Liederkranz. Many of these immigrants believed in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. In 1892, to preserve their German heritage, the German clubs formed the Sozialer Turnverein Aktiengesellschaft (German: Social Gymnastics Association Inc.), an association to finance the building of a clubhouse. The clubhouse was built as a house of culture for the mind and body. All the German clubs would be united under a single roof.</p><br>
<p>For a cost of $32,000, two lots were purchased at the corner of Michigan and New Jersey streets. A German neighborhood called Lockerbie Square, also known as Germantown, surrounded the clubhouse. Construction of the East Wing began in May 1893, and was finished in 1894. The West Wing construction started in 1897 and was completed in 1898. German American architects Bernard Vonnegut Sr. (grandfather of Indianapolis novelist Kurt Vonnegut) and Arthur Bohn designed both wings. It was called Das Deutsche Haus and hosted many organizations, including the German-American Veterans Society, the German-American School Society, the Socialer Turnverein Womens Club, the German Ladies Aid Society, and the Turner Building and Savings Association. There were 500 members by 1896.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, the Musikverein (Music Society) was founded at Das Deutsche Haus; it included a 60-piece orchestra, a male choir, and a mixed choir. The Athenaeum Orchestra is now the oldest orchestra in Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, Das Deutsche Haus agreed to house the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union in its east wing. The normal school trained physical education teachers for schools across the country. Indiana University incorporated the school in 1941 as a department of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. It claims to be the oldest school of physical education in the United States.</p><br>
<p>With the anti-German sentiments of World War I, the clubhouse renamed itself the Athenæum. Today, the Athenaeum is operated by the nonprofit Athenaeum Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The front part of the building is the East Wing. It is built in the German Renaissance Revival. The wing has a gable roof. There is a three storied brick tower with a conical slate roof. The entrance is flanked by two Roman Doric columns, and is arched with a semicircle of limestone. The upper windows are arched and the gymnasium has bullseye-shaped windows.</p><br>
<p>The West Wing is done in the German Renaissance Revival style and incorporates German architecture with Renaissance elements. It has a steep pitched hip roof. This wing also has a three storied brick tower but it has a curved mansard roof and spire. The wing has various window styles and some windows have stained glass. Roman Doric columns are placed beside the arched entrance. At each end of the main roof there are copper covered cupolas. The wing has a baroque pediment above its cornice. The faces of the stone voussoirs of the arches are projected outward. The facade is decorated with terra cotta grotesques. One figure in particular is Athena, the building&#39;s namesake, who is placed in the top arch.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>The Athenæum Foundation nonprofit organization is dedicated to preserving the historical Athenæum and serving the Indianapolis community. The foundation sponsors events and programs throughout the year. Free tours of the Athenæum are offered twice a month between March and December. Group tours can also be scheduled.</p><br>
<p>In the Athenaeum is the Rathskeller Restaurant, which is the oldest restaurant in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>In October 2009, the Athenaeum held its first annual GermanFest. The event, held outside on New Jersey Street, featured the Männerchor, the Saenger Chor, Meisterwinds, dachshund races, dancing, children&#39;s activities, and a visit from Mayor Greg Ballard.</p><br>
<p>The Hudson–Evans House  is the private, single-family house located at 79 Alfred Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hudson–Evans House was built near 1872–73 for Philo Wright, a Detroit-based ship owner. In 1882, the house was given as a wedding present to Grace Whitney Evans, daughter of the lumber baron David Whitney Jr. (builder of the David Whitney House).</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The structure is now used for the law offices of VanOverbeke, Michaud, & Timmony, P. C.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hudson–Evans House is a three-story house built of red brick on a rough-cut stone foundation, designed in a French Second Empire architectural style with Italianate influences. The floor-plan is basically rectangular, but the elaborate two-story bay windows that grace both sides of the house minimize the severity of the design. Arched moldings top the windows in the home, and the mansard roof includes colored slate laid in a decorative pattern. The porch on the home was apparently added after the original construction.</p><br>
<p>La Casa Alvarado, also known as the Alvarado Adobe, is a historic adobe structure built in 1840 and located on Old Settlers Lane in Pomona, California. It was declared a historic landmark in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Casa Alvarado is located on a portion of the 22,000 acre Rancho San Jose granted to Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Vejas in 1837. In 1840, Palomares invited his close friend, Ygnacio Alvarado, to live on the ranch and gave him a plot of land near Palomares own home, La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose. The land was given to Alvarado with the stipulation that Alvarado would build a chapel in his home to be used for church services when padres visited from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. The Alvarados adobe living room was also the site of the first public school classes in the Pomona Valley, starting in 1870 or 1871.</p><br>
<p>For more than 120 years, the house had only three owners. It remained in the Alvardo family from 1840 to 1886, when it was purchased and occupied by Dr. Benjamin S. Nichols and his family. Prior to 1900, Dr. Nichols added redwood frame additions to the house; of the 14 rooms in the house, five are part of the original adobe. The house remained in the Nichols family for 65 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, Alphonse and Isabel Fages purchased the home. Alphonse was born in Pomona and a descendant of Ricardo Vejar, who in 1837 was the co-grantee of the Rancho San Jose along with Ygnacio Palomares. Isabel was also the descendant of Spanish settlers and had served as the president of the Historical Society of Pomona Valley and the editor of the official publication of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. The Fages bought the adobe with plans to restore and preserve it. The house originally included two-and-a-half acres of land, but the Fages sold several lots reducing it to approximately one acre.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1954, the Native Daughters of the Golden West declared the Casa Alvarado to be a historic landmark and dedicated a historical marker on the site. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Though designated as a historic site, the Casa Alvarado remains a private home and is not open to the public. It is currently for sale (November 2009).</p><br>
<p>La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose is a historic adobe structure built in 1837 in Pomona, California. It is the oldest home located in the Pomona Valley and in the old Rancho San Jose land grant. It was declared a historic landmark in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rancho San Jose was created out of land seized from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in 1834 as part of the Mexican government&#39;s decree of secularization. In 1837, Mexican Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted the land to Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Vejar. The Rancho, covering 15,000 acre to 22,000 acre and much of eastern Los Angeles County, was operated by Palomares and Vejar as a sheep and cattle ranch.</p><br>
<p>After receiving the land grant, Palomares built his initial adobe homestead in 1837 on land that is now part of Pomona. The simple five-room adobe, which is known as the Casa Primera, was the first home in the Pomona Valley and was built in the Mexican adobe style with thick walls made of adobe brick. Palomares and his family lived at the Casa Primera for approximately seventeen years. Between 1850 and 1855, Palomares built a much larger adobe home for himself, known as the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe.</p><br>
<p>In 1867, Palomares son, Francisco Palomares, moved into the Casa Primera with his wife, Lujardo Alvarado. Francisco discovered an artesian well on the grounds of the adobe, the first such well discovered in the Pomona Valley. The well provided an ample supply of water, allowing Francisco to plant the area with orange trees, some of which were still thriving in the 1970s. Taking advantage of the areas water resources, Francisco and his partners also formed the Old Settlement Water Company in 1874. Portions of an old stone-lined canal built by the water company can still be seen in the area. Francisco Palomares lived in the Casa Primera until he died in 1882.</p><br>
<p>After Francisco&#39;s death, the Casa Primera was purchased by Dr. Benjamin S. Nichols, who also acquired the nearby La Casa Alvarado. Nichols, who had moved to Pomona from New York, became the President of the Pomona Land and Water Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, Roscoe Hart purchased the property and remained the owner until 1972. Hoping to preserve the Casa Primera, the Historical Society of Pomona Valley raised funds to purchase the property for a price up to $80,000. Another bidder said afterward she had been prepared to go to $100,000 but agreed not to raise the bid on learning she was bidding against the Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>After acquiring the Casa Primera, the Historical Society restored it with period furniture and opened it to the public as a historic museum. Since 1973, it has been a frequent location for traditional Mexican and Spanish folklorico celebrations, including Spanish shawl displays, music and dancing. In 1987, a celebration was held at the Casa Primera celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Rancho San Jose land grant. The celebration included Mexican dancers, strolling musicians, a parade of the descendants of early Mexican families, and a staged wedding ceremony with the principals and guests dressed in period costume.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The building is operated as a museum by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley.</p><br>
<p>The William Miller Farm is a historic farm property on County Road 11 in Hampton, New York. It is a historic district that encompasses the home of William Miller, who was a Baptist preacher credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement that was known as the Millerites. After his prophetic interpretations did not happen as he expected, new heirs of his message emerged, including Seventh-day Adventists and Advent Christians. Later movements found inspiration in Millers emphasis on Bible prophecy. The property includes Millers farmhouse, a chapel he built for Adventist worship, and Ascension Rock, the place where some of his followers gathered to await the Second Advent on October 22, 1844.</p><br>
<p>The chapel and Ascension Rock were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 as William Miller Chapel and Ascension Rock. The historic districts boundaries were increased in 1994 to include Millers farmhouse and a portion of his agricultural properties.</p><br>
<p>The Adamson House and its associated land, which was known as Vaquero Hill in the 19th century, is a historic house built by Rhoda Adamson and gardens in Malibu, California. The residence and estate is on the coast, within Malibu Lagoon State Beach park.</p><br>
<p>It has been called the "Taj Mahal of Tile" due to its extensive use of decorative ceramic tiles created by Rufus Keeler of Malibu Potteries. The house was built in 1929 for Rhoda Rindge Adamson and Merritt Huntley Adamson, based on a Mediterranean Revival design by Stiles O. Clements of the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls & Clements. The Adamson House was designated as California Historical Landmark No. 966 around 1977, and added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Rindge-Adamson family</h3><br>
<p>Frederick Hastings Rindge was a wealthy Boston businessman who relocated to Los Angeles, and owned the "Rindge Ranch", which included the historic Spanish land concession Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, enlarged by subsequent land purchases surrounding the ranch. The Rindge Ranch thus encompassed present day Malibu, California, and small portions of the Santa Monica Mountains. His daughter was Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson.</p><br>
<p>Merritt Adamson (1888–1949) was a graduate of the University of Southern California Law School and was the captain of the 1912 football team, the first USC team to be known as the "Trojans". Adamson met Rhoda Rindge while he was employed as the foreman of the Rindge Ranch. Rhoda Rindge reportedly became interested in him when she helped to nurse him back to good health after he was injured in an accident. The couple was married in 1915. In 1916 Adamson established a dairy business in the San Fernando Valley, in Tarzana known as Adohr Farms, the name representing his wifes name spelled backwards. The business became one of the countrys largest dairies, operating one of the largest herds of Guernsey cows in the world.</p><br>
<h3>Construction and architecture</h3><br>
<p>The two-story, ten-room Adamson House was designed by Stiles O. Clements and built of steel-reinforced concrete. Completed in 1930, Stiles called the house an outstanding example of modified Mediterranean Revival-style architecture. Architectural historians refer to the style as a synthesis of Spanish Colonial Revival and Moorish Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house features teak woodworking, fireplaces in several interior and outdoor patio rooms, handpainted ceilings, lead-framed bottle glass windows, and "wrought-iron filigrees fitting over the windows like intricate jewelry." The main floor is dominated by a large living room with windows on three sides. The room is still furnished as it was when the Adamsons lived there, including the large radio on which the family received news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Other rooms on the main floor include a guest bedroom with a bathroom that is tiled literally from floor to ceiling, a dining room with an old convent table overlooking the ocean, a kitchen with an early version of a dishwasher and a colorful tiled clock, and the main entrance with its imposing wood door and tiled entrance table.</p><br>
<p>There are four bedrooms and a small kitchenette upstairs. The master bedroom, where Mr. and Mrs. Adamson slept, is on the southwest corner of the house. It has a large tiled bathroom, and Mrs. Adamsons clothes and hat collection remain in her closet. Next to the master bedroom is the one designed for the Adamsons son; its bathroom has detailed tiles depicting ships and nautical scenes. The girls bedroom in the center facing the ocean has a tremendous view of the ocean and coast. These three bedrooms open onto a large upstairs patio with the homes most spectacular panoramic view of the ocean, the Malibu lagoon and the coast in both directions. The fourth bedroom upstairs is at the eastern end of the second floor and looks out of a large Dombeya tree that blooms with spectacular bright red flowers in the spring.</p><br>
<p>Another striking feature of the house is the tiled swimming pool set into the sand that was equipped with a special filtering and heating apparatus that permitted the pool to be filled with either salt or freshwater. The Los Angeles Times in 1930 noted that the unusual features made the "plunge one of the finest in the southland."</p><br>
<h3>A tile showcase</h3><br>
<p>Adamson House is best known for its extensive use of locally produced Malibu tile. In 1926, May K. Rindge (Rhonda Rindge Adamsons mother) established a tileworks east of the Malibu Pier. The factory was run by Rufus Keeler, an innovative ceramic engineer, who worked with local artisans to design decorative art tile, employing more than 100 persons in the late 1920s and creating "some of the most colorful and inventive glazed tiles in the country." Hand-crafted art tile fired from local clay was specially designed for each room of the Adamson House. Even the ceiling of one of the bathrooms was tiled. In 1930, the Los Angeles Times reported: "Striking tile effects have been obtained from original designs of the craftsmen and artists of the pottery and floors, walls and patios." Sixty-seven years later, the Los Angeles Times was still writing about the homes extraordinary tilework: "This huge Spanish-style mansion, built in 1929 (sic), might as well be called the house that tile built. Tile is everywhere — from the ceramic wall clock above the tile-topped oak table in the kitchen to the floor-to-ceiling tiled bathrooms."</p><br>
<p>One of the homes most popular examples of tilework is a 60 ft imitation Persian carpet made of tile, including small pieces designed to look like rug fringes. The Malibu Potteries only operated for six years from 1926 to 1932, and the Adamson House has many of the potteries most significant remaining works.</p><br>
<h3>Early use</h3><br>
<p>The house was originally a vacation beach cottage, but the Adamsons eventually made it their permanent home. In December 1932, a fire started in the electrical wiring of the garage. One of the bedrooms was badly damaged, and the entire house was threatened by intense flames. The fire was extinguished by pumping crews from the forestry stations at Fernwood and Las Flores, aided by the Malibu Beach colony fire department. During World War II, the bathhouse was used by the United States Coast Guard as a local headquarters to watch out over the Malibu coast.</p><br>
<h3>Eminent domain and plans for beach parking</h3><br>
<p>After the death of her husband, Rhoda Rindge Adamson continued to live in the house until her own death in April 1962. After her death, her heirs announced plans to build a $10–12 million "deluxe Waikiki-type beach resort" on the 13 acre site, while preserving the house as an art and history museum. The State of California, however, filed an eminent domain lawsuit in 1966, seeking to raze the house and turn it into beach parking. The state won its eminent domain lawsuit and purchased the property from the Adamson estate at the $2.69 million valuation set by the court.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation as a museum</h3><br>
<p>Despite the states victory in the eminent domain proceeding, the Malibu Historical Society, supported by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation and the Adamson family, together with other leading Malibu citizens, fought over the next ten years to have the Adamson House preserved. In addition to its extensive use of Malibu tile, preservationists touted the house as "a prime example of California Moorish-Spanish architecture." In 1976, preservationists won a victory when Herbert Rhodes, the director of the states Department of Parks and Recreation, overruled staff recommendations to use the land for beach parking and recommended preservation of the entire property.</p><br>
<p>Sylvia Rindge Adamson Neville, a granddaughter of Frederick Rindge, donated money to help restore the house, and additional funds were raised by the Malibu Historical Society. The house is open to the public for tours.</p><br>
<h2>Pop culture</h2><br>
<p>In 1975, the home was featured in the Mannix episode "A Word Called Courage".</p><br>
<p>From 1987 through 1989, the home was featured in seasons eight and ten of Knots Landing, serving as Abby Ewing&#39;s house.</p><br>
<p>In 2020, the Adamson House was featured in the Netflix show Ratched.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designations</h2><br>
<p>In October 1977, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And in November 1985, it was also designated as a California Historical Landmark by the California Historic Resources Commission.</p><br>
<p>The California Historical Landmark Marker NO. 966 at the site reads:</p><br>
<p>NO. 966 ADAMSON HOUSE AT MALIBU LAGOON STATE BEACH - Designed by Stiles O. Clements in 1929, this Spanish Colonial Revival home contains the best surviving examples of decorative ceramic tile produced by Malibu Potteries. During its short existence from 1926 to 1932, Malibu Potteries made an outstanding contribution to ceramic art in California through its development and production of a wide range of artistic and colorful decorative tile. The home was built for Merritt Huntley Adamson and Rhoda Rindge Adamson, daughter of Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, last owners of the Rancho Malibu Spanish grant.</p><br>
<p>The Kimlin Cider Mill is located on the east side of Cedar Avenue in the Town of Poughkeepsie, on approximately two acres of land. A mid-19th century barn forms the core of the cider mill. The Mill was part of a larger agricultural property owned and operated by the Kimlin family since the family first came to this country from Ireland in the early 1850s. A commercial cider business at this site in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>During the period of 1925–1935, Ralph R. Kimlin began the work of expanding the old barn to include not only the cider mill but also a public attraction including a cafe and a museum room. Mr. Kimlin greatly altered the original form and composition of the old barn. He filled the museum room with old farm tools, wildlife taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and other curiosities.</p><br>
<p>For most of the 20th century, the Kimlin Cider Mill operated as a producer and retail outlet for apple cider. Its popularity with local residents, particularly the area&#39;s schoolchildren and students from nearby Vassar College, prompted Ralph R. Kimlin to embellish the exterior of the building and to create indoor spaces for the enjoyment of his customers.</p><br>
<p>The property surrounding the Mill soon became a park. Mr. Kimlin also raised a sizable flock of sheep in the pasture behind the mill with the hopes of preserving the traditional farm life that was once an integral part of life in the area, but which was already beginning to disappear at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Kimlin Cider Mill closed its doors in 1990. A developer purchased much of the Kimlin family property in order to redevelop it with houses.</p><br>
<p>In order to save the building and preserve its history, a grassroots citizens&#39; group formed in May 2000 called Cider Mill Friends of Open Space & Historic Preservation, Inc., which became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in January 2001. On February 20, 2008, the cider mill building and surrounding 2 acre of the farm were purchased by Cider Mill Friends. Cider Mill Friends then, in 2018, purchased an additional 1 acre of undeveloped former Kimlin land land immediately to the north. The 2018 land acquisition was made possible through the Dutchess County Partnership for Manageable Growth Program in partnership with the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust and Cider Mill Friends.</p><br>
<p>The mission of the Cider Mill Friends is to protect open space and the historic resources in the Town of Poughkeepsie through restoration and advocacy programs and land acquisition. Through the efforts of the Cider Mill Friends, the Kimlin Cider Mill has been listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places and designated as a Town of Poughkeepsie Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Cider Mill Friends can be contacted through their. They are an all-volunteer non-profit organization. Volunteers are welcome to help with the preservation and restoration efforts.</p><br>
<p>The Kimlin Cider Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Elisha Taylor House is a historic private house located at 59 Alfred Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. The house was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Elisha Taylor House was built in 1871 for William H. Craig, a local lawyer, land speculator, and president of the Detroit Board of Trade. The architects were Koch & Hess of Milwaukee and Detroit. In 1875, Craig sold the house to attorney Elisha Taylor. Taylor was a Detroit attorney who held many offices during his career, including City Attorney, assistant Michigan Attorney General from 1837 to 1841, and Circuit Court Commissioner from 1846 to 1854.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Elisha Taylor House is two-and-a-half stories tall, made of red brick on a rough stone foundation. The structure is an eclectic mix of Gothic and Tudor Revival with elements of other styles, including Queen Anne and Italianate.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Since 1981, the structure has been used as a center for art and architectural study. The interior has been well preserved, boasting original fireplaces, mirrors, woodwork, decorative plaster, stenciling, Mintons floor tiles, parquet floors, and etched glass.</p><br>
<p>The Wieboldt-Rostone House is a historic building in the Century of Progress Architectural District in Beverly Shores, Indiana. The home was built in 1933, framed in steel, and clad with an artificial stone called Rostone . Billed as never needing repairs, it only lasted without renovations until the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Intended to showcase a new building material of limestone waste and shale, the Rostone House was the product of Rostone, Inc., of Lafayette, Indiana, and the Indiana Bridge Company. Construction was simplified by the completion of most design and fabrication work at a factory. The panels would be precast to the correct sizes needed for a specific project. Each panel came with pre-set nuts that would be used to bolt the panel onto the steel frame. Both the interior and exterior walls were designed this way. The house was designed by Indiana architect Walter Scholer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rostone Inc. and Indiana Bridge Co. rented Lot 7 in the Home and Industrial Arts group from the 1933 Century of Progress season for $2100.</p><br>
<p>Thomas E. Smith and B.R. Graham contracted with Century of Progress for the interior decoration of the house on March 1, 1933. Failure to provide a contract, and design plan lead to the contract cancellation on July 17, 1933. Tobey Furniture Co. took over as interior decorators on June 24, 1933.</p><br>
<p>Correspondence between Harrison and Smith-Graham indicated that the upstairs room, shown as a solarium in 1933 and a bedroom in 1934 was originally designed as a bedroom. Because of time constraints caused by the controversy, the room was exhibited as a solarium in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>Rostone</h2><br>
<p>It is a synthetic product composed of shale, alkaline earths, and limestone quarry waste. It has a variety of colors and can be produced in slabs, panels and other forms to exact dimensions. It was advertised as having the properties resembling limestone. The advantages to rostone was that it could be produced in any dimension and in several colors. The material, was much less durable than initial tests indicated. The sheathing on the Rostone House began to fail approximately ten years after it was installed; the house was reclad with Permastone in 1950.</p><br>
<h2>Move to Beverly Shores</h2><br>
<p>Robert Bartlett&#39;s purchased the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition houses in 1935 and hired Civil Engineers, Ltd of Chicago to move them to Beverly Shores. The Rostone House was placed on the lakefront with its expansive windows facing the lake.</p><br>
<p>In the winter and spring of 1934, sixteen buildings were brought by barge and by truck from the site of the 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition to Robert Bartletts subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. In an attempt to capitalize on the fairs success, Bartlett reestablished a small exhibition of model houses along Lake Front Drive in Beverly Shores. Understanding the importance of the fair to Chicago and to Depression-era America is crucial for comprehending the significance of the houses for Bartlett and for those who purchased land at Beverly Shores.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration efforts</h2><br>
<p>Restoration efforts on the Wiebolt-Rostone House were started in 1997, with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana searching for potential lessees to restore the building.</p><br>
<p>Delaware and Hudson Railroad Bridge is a pair of historic Warren Steel Truss bridges over the Ausable River at AuSable and Peru in Clinton County, New York. Also known as the Delaware and Hudson Ausable River Bridge, they were built by the American Bridge Company for the Delaware and Hudson Railway in 1913. The North Bridge is 156 feet in length and the South Bridge 173 feet. They are both 16 feet wide and 25 feet in height.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Maple Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Addison in Steuben County, New York. The district contains 42 contributing buildings , two contributing structures , 23 contributing outbuildings , and four contributing objects . The district encompasses Addison&#39;s most prestigious residential enclave whose buildings face inward toward Curtis Square, Maple Street, and Wombough Square. It includes Church of the Redeemer, also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Redeemer is an historic Episcopal church and parsonage located at 1 Wombaugh Square in Addison, Steuben County, New York. The complex includes a Carpenter Gothic style board and batten church constructed in 1859. It is included in the Maple Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The Church of the Redeemer is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester. The Rev. Michael Hopkins is the current priest-in-charge.</p><br>
<p>Southside Historic District is a national historic district located at Corning, Steuben County, New York. The district encompasses 624 contributing buildings, one contributing site and four contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Corning. The district developed after 1835 and includes notable examples of Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed World War Memorial Library. Other notable buildings include the Steuben County Courthouse designed by J. Foster Warner, the "Voting Booth" , Corning Free Academy , the First United Methodist Church of Corning and Christ Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It contains 76 commercial, residential, ecclesiastical, and civic structures in the historic core of the village. The southern part of the district is centered on Pulteney Square, a three-acre village green containing landscaped gardens, walkways, benches, fountains and a gazebo. It was one of two village greens laid out in 1793. A broad range of building types, styles, and uses dating from about 1819 to 1930 characterize the district. It is covered in. See also.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Cabin Lake Guard Station is a Forest Service compound consisting of six simple rustic buildings located in the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon. It was originally built as a district ranger station for the Fort Rock Ranger District. It was later converted to a summer guard station. The guard station is now closed, but the adjacent campground is open. While still very remote, it is a popular location for bird watching and nature photography. The Cabin Lake Guard Station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1920s and 1930s, forest road networks were not well developed. To facilitate work in National Forests, the Forest Service built district ranger stations at strategic locations within the forest to house full-time employees and provide logistics support to fire patrols and project crews working at remote forest sites. After World War II, the Forest Service greatly expanded its road network, allowing employees to get to most forest areas within a few hours. As a result, many of the more isolated ranger stations were closed or converted to summer guard station.</p><br>
<p>The Cabin Lake Guard Station is located in the Deschutes National Forest forty miles southeast of Bend, Oregon. It was originally built as a district ranger station, and served as the headquarters for the Fort Rock Ranger District from 1921 until 1945. Throughout most of that time, there were five full-time rangers living and working at the site.</p><br>
<p>From 1934 to 1938, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was located adjacent to the ranger station. The existing guard station buildings were constructed by Civilian Conservation Corps work crews during that time. The Civilian Conservation Corps built a total of seven buildings for the ranger station compound including ranger residences, a warehouse, maintenance shop, and a gas station. Six of the seven structures remain today. The seventh building was moved to another guard station after the ranger station was closed.</p><br>
<p>In 1945, the district headquarters was moved to Bend, and the ranger station was converted to a guard station. It was used as a bunkhouse and supply station for Forest Service fire crews that patrolled the surrounding forest during summer fire season. The Forest Service closed the guard station in 2002. Today, the guard station site is unoccupied. However, Forest Service archaeologists are working with volunteers to renovate the guard station facilities. Once the buildings are restored, the Forest Service may open two of the ranger residences for use as recreation rental cabins.</p><br>
<p>Because of the rustic architecture of the remaining six buildings and the site&#39;s unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the Cabin Lake Guard Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Cabin Lake Guard Station is located in a very remote area of the Deschutes National Forest near the forests boundary with high desert public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Managements Lakeview District. The guard station is made up of six main buildings and several minor structures surrounded by relatively open forest land. The elevation at the site is 4,510 feet. The forest around the guard station is Ponderosa pine and western juniper with sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, Idaho fescue, and bluebunch wheatgrass as the primary ground cover.</p><br>
<p>The guard station buildings are wood-frame structures with concrete foundations. The exteriors are covered with weatherboard. Wooden shingles are used for roofing. All the buildings except one are painted light green with dark brown trim so they blend into the surrounding forest landscape. One residence is painted a cream color with brown trim. The interior rooms of the ranger residences have pine paneling with a brick fireplace in the living room. Several of the residences still have simple furnishings, including wooden chairs and tables. In addition to the ranger residences, there is a warehouse, maintenance shop, gas station, and several other minor structures that make up the guard station compound.</p><br>
<p>There is a Forest Service campground next to the historic guard station. The campground has 14 primitive camp sites. However, there is no water or toilet facilities available at the site. The dirt road leading the guard station can be rough. Two-wheel-drive vehicles can usually make the trip from April through November. A four-wheel-drive vehicle is recommended the rest of the year.</p><br>
<h2>Bird watching</h2><br>
<p>Because Cabin Lake Guard Station is located on the border between the eastern Cascade pine forests and the high desert eco-systems, the guzzlers water attracts an unusually wide range of birds typical of both environments. Among the birds common to the site are Lewiss woodpecker, white-headed woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, northern flicker, gray flycatcher, loggerhead shrike, Clarks nutcracker, mourning dove, pygmy nuthatch, Stellers jay, pinyon jay, Canada jay, common poorwill, green-tailed towhee, mountain chickadee, Brewers sparrow, chipping sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, Cassins finch, red crossbill, mountain bluebird, western bluebird, yellow-rumped warbler, and Townsend&#39;s solitaire. Many bird photographs used in Wikipedia articles were taken at the Cabin Lake viewing blind.</p><br>
<p>Thirsty mammals also use the guzzlers. During the day, the most common wildlife seen from the blinds are least chipmunk, yellow-pine chipmunk, golden-mantled ground squirrel, and American badger. In evening, mule deer, bushy-tailed woodrats, deer mice, and several species of bats coming to drink at the guzzlers.</p><br>
