<p>The Olympic Club Hotel, also known as McMenamins Olympic Club, is a historic hotel owned by McMenamins Pubs & Breweries in Centralia, Washington, United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1908, the Olympic Club Hotel was originally known as the Oxford Hotel and contained a bar and pool hall. The club was severely damaged in a fire in 1913 but was rebuilt. Notorious train robber Roy Gardner, known as the "Gentleman Bandit", was re-captured at the then-Oxford Hotel after escaping federal custody in 1921.</p><br>
<p>The historic location was purchased by the McMenamin brothers, acquiring the property in 1996 and reopening the Olympic Club the following year; McMenamins was added to the Olympic Club moniker to reflect the new ownership. The club was remodeled in 2002 with the addition of a movie theater; the entirety of the venue, including the bar, hotel, and dining area were combined under the McMenamins Olympic Club name.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and features</h2><br>
<p>The Olympic Club accommodates a bar and restaurant within a pool hall setting that contains original, vintage decor. The mahogany bar is decorated with original Tiffany stained glass lamps and is host to two antique cash registers. The mixed use dining and pool hall area contains the original Olympic Club pool tables, restored during the 2002 remodel. The site also hosts a private Green Room, an outdoor patio, and a brewery.</p><br>
<p>The location also includes a brewpub movie house, known as the Olympic Club Theater, which was once a clothing store and billiards room. The theater is decorated with a tin ceiling, velvet couches, and various forms of art including photos of notorious guests. Film showings are free for guests. and food and drink service is provided during screenings.</p><br>
<p>The hotel portion of the Olympic Club, located above the bar and dining area, was once used as a brothel and contains 27 "European-style" rooms, going without such modern amenites as telephones or televisions. Each room is named after historic visitors or prior employees of great contribution. The basement is suspected to have been used for bootlegging and may contain tunnels leading to the nearby historic Centralia Union Depot.</p><br>
<p>The Olympic Club hosts musical acts as part of the McMenamin chain&#39;s "Great Northwest Music Tour," mostly consisting of bands from the Portland, Oregon area.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The original portion of the Olympic Club, as it existed at the time, was added to the NRHP in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Frontier Nursing Service  provides healthcare services to rural, underserved populations since 1925, and educates nurse-midwives since 1939.</p><br>
<p>The Service maintains six rural healthcare clinics in eastern Kentucky, the Mary Breckinridge Hospital (now part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare), the Mary Breckinridge Home Health Agency, the Frontier Nursing University and the Bed and Breakfast Inn at Wendover, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Establishment of FNS and early years</h3><br>
<p>The organization was founded in 1925 in Leslie County, Kentucky by Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965) shortly after she had witnessed the operation of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service which had been founded in Scotland twelve years earlier. In choosing that site, she traveled through Leslie, Knott, and Owsley counties to determine what childbearing women and families needed most in those areas. On her travels, she spoke with midwives, recording data such as age, birthplace, literacy status, number of years in practice, cleanliness, and number of children reared for each midwife she spoke to. Breckinridge, who graduated from St. Luke&#39;s Hospital of Nursing in New York in 1910, chose that area of Kentucky as a site for the school for several reasons: it was a remote region that was difficult to access, suggesting that success there would equate to success anywhere; there were no licensed physicians in Leslie county; Breckinridge was from a well-known family in Kentucky, resulting in a built-in network for monetary support from other parts of the state. Breckinridge served as Director until her death in 1965.</p><br>
<p>Breckinridge intended that the Frontier Nursing Service would provide healthcare for children in remote rural areas, being moved to this work by the deaths of her own two children, Polly, who died four hours after her birth, and Breckie, who died four days after his fourth birthday. Additionally, death rates of infants and mothers were high in the United States during the 1920s: in 1923, the national maternal death rate stood at 6.7 per 1,000 live births; in 1920, the national infant mortality rate was 6 deaths for every 1,000 live births. During this time period, debates among physicians, health officials, and social reformers about the causes of high maternal and infant mortality were frequent and resulted in disagreements about who was best to oversee childbirth: general practitioners, obstetricians, or midwives. Frontier Nursing Service was the first group in the United States to employ nurses who were also qualified midwives. Since there were no midwifery schools in the US, FNS was able to secure qualified staff by offering scholarships to American nurses to study in Great Britain or by hiring qualified midwives from Great Britain. Originally, the organization was known as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies.</p><br>
<p>The Frontier Nursing Service grew rapidly during its first five years. With the help of two nurses, Edna Rockstroh and Freda Caffin, Breckinridge opened the groups first clinic in Hyden, Kentucky in 1925. The demand for the clinic grew rapidly, and within the first month of operation, Breckinridge and two nurse-midwives served 233 patients. By December of that year Breckinridge had raised a log house in Wendover, Kentucky, called the Big House, that became her home and the Frontier Nursing Services headquarters. The Hyden Hospital and Health Center opened its doors in 1928 and was followed by nine outpost nursing centers in Leslie County and the Red Bird River section of Clay County, Kentucky. To center the outposts, Breckinridge did not use the county boundaries, instead, she located the outposts nine to twelve miles away from each other on the waterways and the natural routes of travel and trade. By that time, FNS covered 60 miles of territory.</p><br>
<p>Because of the remote location of the service and the communities it served, nurses had to travel by horseback. During these early years, nurses with equestrian experience had to be recruited from Great Britain, where Breckinridge had learned about modern midwifery, because there were no midwifery schools in the United States. She did send interested American women abroad tor education, paying for all of their expenses, provided they agreed to work for the Frontier Nursing Service for two years. The women who worked for the service traveled to remote locations, many without running water or electricity, providing care to people who were considered wild or even "foreign" to Americans in more populated areas.</p><br>
<h3>Development of the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery</h3><br>
<p>Upon the outbreak of World War II Breckinridge no longer could send American nurses to Britain where they had been going for midwifery training. To prevent this from slowing its operations, the Frontier Nursing Service quickly established the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery. The first class matriculated in November 1939, and the school has operated ever since. The 6-month course was based on the curriculum of the Central Midwives Board of England and Scotland, and every student was required to participate in 20 midwifery cases. The first two classes were paid for by scholarships. Reva Rubin who was one of the first specialists in maternity nursing worked here.FNS trained students and for other agencies. By 1952, 122 graduates worked in the USA and foreign countries such as the Philippines, Japan, Alaska, India, Thailand, Africa, South Africa, and Latin America. By 1966, 285 qualified nurse-midwives worked in the USA and abroad, including The Philippines, New Guinea, Thailand, South Korea, Canada, France and some parts of Africa and South America. In 1970, the school&#39;s name was changed to the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (FSMFN). Now named Frontier Nursing University, it offers distance education to train its students. The Frontier Nursing Service was the subject of the 1931 documentary film, The Forgotten Frontier.</p><br>
<h3>Addition of Family Nursing Education</h3><br>
<p>As the number of births decreased in Leslie County during the 1980s it became difficult to support a traditional midwifery program. During this time period, the Community-based Nurse-midwifery Education Program (CNEP) began as a pilot project funded by the PEW Foundation. The development of the CNEP was originally a cooperative effort of the Maternity Center Association (MCA), the National Association of Childbearing Centers (NACC), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (FPBSON/CWRU) and the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). The goal was to enable nurses to remain in their communities while obtaining graduate education as nurse-midwives and ultimately increase the number of practicing nurse-midwives working in underserved areas. Through an affiliation with FPBSON/CWRU students completed a certificate education with FSMFN and attained a master&#39;s degree in nursing by completing nine credits on the FPBSON/CWRU campus in Cleveland, Ohio. The pilot project was very successful. In 1990, the FSMFN recognized that the CNEP model of education matched its own goals and mission. The President of the School and the Board of Directors voted to adopt the CNEP as its nurse-midwifery education program in 1991. Since then, FSMFN has graduated over 1000 nurse-midwives.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1960s, the Frontier Nursing Service recognized that as health care options became more complex, a broader based education was necessary for nurses to be able to provide comprehensive primary care to all family members. At this time the FSMFN developed the first certificate program to prepare family nurse practitioners. In 1970, the name of the school was changed to the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (FSMFN) to reflect the addition of the FNP program. The last class to graduate from the combined family nurse-midwifery program was in August 1990. The Community-based Family Nurse Practitioner (CFNP) education program was reestablished in 1999 using the CNEP distance education model. With the acceptance of CFNP class 1 in 1999, the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing comes full circle in its mission to educate nurses to provide primary care that is comprehensive, safe, and culturally sensitive.</p><br>
<p>The Frontier Nursing Service Complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h3>Frontier Nursing University</h3><br>
<p>In 2000, recognizing that students desired to complete their entire education at FSMFN using distance education methods, the board of directors approved a plan for FSMFN to pursue full accreditation as an independent graduate school which would grant a Master of Science in nursing. There was much work to be done including a complete curriculum revision and the preparation of the faculty at the doctoral level. On December 6, 2004, the school was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to grant a Master of Science in Nursing Degree. The American College of Nurse-Midwives granted institutional accreditation as well as programmatic accreditation for the nurse-midwifery program in February 2005. National League for Nursing accreditation followed in March 2005. In 2011, the school changed its name to Frontier Nursing University to emphasize its capacity to offer graduate degrees in nursing.</p><br>
<p>Today the university offers several programs geared towards nurses who desire to pursue preparation as a nurse-midwife or nurse practitioner. These include a Master of Science in Nursing degree with tracks as a nurse-midwife, family nurse practitioner and women&#39;s health nurse practitioner. FSMFN also offers post-masters certificates in these specialties. In July 2016, the university added an online program for nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners for post-graduate certification in psychiatric-mental health nursing. FSMFN now has graduates representing every state in the United States and seven foreign countries.</p><br>
<h2>Impact</h2><br>
<p>During its first thirty years of operation, all of the Frontier Nursing Service&#39;s maternal and infant outcome statistics were better than for the country as a whole. For example:</p><br>
<p>The maternal mortality rate for Frontier Nursing Services was 9.1 per 10,000 births, compared with 34 per 10,000 births for the United States as a whole.</p><br>
<p>Only 3.8 percent of babies tended by the Frontier Nursing Service had low birth weight, compared with 7.6 percent for the country overall.</p><br>
<p>From 1938 to 1939, FNS field nurses carried 8,377 people, 4,978 of which were children. There were 25,135 visits at nursing centers.</p><br>
<p>By 1959, Frontier Nursing Service nurse-midwives had attended over 10,000 births</p><br>
<p>From 1964 to 1965, FNS nurses attended 10,446 patients in 12 districts. The nurse-midwives and students provided prenatal, childbirth care during labor and delivery, and postpartum care to 369 women.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the Service opened the forty-bed Mary Breckinridge Hospital and Health Center in Leslie County.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 after years of operating in the red and stopping services, Frontier Nursing Service sold Mary Breckenridge Hospital to Appalachian Regional Healthcare, completed on October 10, 2011.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the Frontier Nursing Service purchased a campus in Versailles, KY. Since then, Frontier Nursing has talked about moving its entire nursing school to Versailles.</p><br>
<p>On September 26, 2019, a post on social media from a board of directors meeting created a major public backlash when the meeting minutes showed the board was considering moving the cabin where Breckenridge used to practice nursing and live, the Breckenridge House.</p><br>
<h2>Relocation of Frontier Nursing University</h2><br>
<p>In 2018, the Frontier Nursing University (FNU) fully moved out of Leslie County and to Versailles, Kentucky, despite its founder&#39;s mission to serve the mountain people of rural Kentucky. Their institutional mission statement reads, "Our mission is to provide accessible nurse-midwifery and nurse practitioner education that integrates the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We transform healthcare by preparing innovative, ethical, compassionate, and entrepreneurial leaders to work with all people with an emphasis on rural and underserved communities."</p><br>
<p>In a statement about the move, FNU claimed "the new 67-acre campus in that FNU purchased in Versailles will continue to keep the University in a rural county but is also less than ten minutes from the Lexington Bluegrass Airport and accessible from major highways." Woodford County, Kentucky, the county where Versailles resides, is classified as a metro area according to the USDA Economic Research Service, not rural.</p><br>
<p>In addition to moving all FNU operations to metro Versailles, Kentucky, FNU attempted to remove a stained glass window belonging to the St. Christopher&#39;s Chapel in Hyden, Kentucky to be installed at their new campus in Central Kentucky leading to Congressman Hal Rogers to make this statement, "Quite frankly, the action taken by this board to quietly remove the stained-glass window, as well as the educational operations from Leslie County, does not align with Mary Breckinridge’s legendary heart of service and courageous action for the Appalachian people." A petition on change.org called for the return of the stained glass window to the chapel and had garnered over 3,700 signatures. Return of the stained glass window to the original chapel in Hyden, Kentucky has not been confirmed.</p><br>
<h2>Kentucky Law</h2><br>
<p>In 2019, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky passed Senate Bill 84 to provide certification and regulation for midwives, as well as creating a new public council to implement new licensure requirements. Kentucky stopped certifying midwives in 1975, and there have been no clear regulations on the practice for more than thirty years. The advisory council is set up under the Board of, which will promulgate regulations to establish standards for training programs, licensing, transfer of care from a midwife to a hospital, disciplinary actions, and more, as well as define a list of conditions that require the collaboration, consultation or referral of a client to a physician or other appropriate healthcare provider.</p><br>
<p>The law also criminalizes unlicensed midwife services, although it does provide exceptions for traditional birth attendants for religious or cultural purposes and for family members and friends providing uncompensated care. It is unclear how these statutory terms will be interpreted and enforced.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Roe Blacker House, often referred to as the Blacker House or Robert R. Blacker House, is a residence in Pasadena, California, United States, which is now on the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1907 for Robert Roe Blacker and Nellie Canfield Blacker. It was designed by Henry and Charles Greene of the renowned Pasadena firm of Greene and Greene. This house was a lavish project for the Greene brothers, costing in excess of US$100,000.00 . Everything for the house was custom designed, down to the teak escutcheon plates of the upstairs mahogany panel doors to the linen closets with their ebony cloud adorned keys.</p><br>
<h2>Robert & Nellie Canfield Blacker</h2><br>
<p>Robert R. Blacker (1845–1931) was a retired Michigan lumberman. Nellie Canfield Blacker was the daughter of John Canfield, owner-operator of Canfield & Wheeler, a lumber mill based in Manistee, Michigan. Blacker was a member of several lumbering firms in Manistee, including R.R. Blacker & Company; Davies, Blacker & Company and the State Lumber Company. Among other interests, he was also president of the Michigan Steamship Company, original owners of the ill-fated SS Eastland.</p><br>
<p>Robert Blacker preceded his wife in death in 1931. Upon Nellie&#39;s death in 1946, the property went into probate as the Blackers did not identify any heirs. In her Last Will and Testament, Nellie specified the house, land, and its furnishings were to be sold as a whole and not parceled off.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, the representative of Nellie Blackers estate decided to maximize the value of the assets instead. As a result, the seven acre (2.8 hectare) estate was sold without its furnishings, then subdivided by the purchaser into smaller parcels, destroying the gardens in the process. The main residence ended up on just one acre (0.4 hectare). The garage became a separate residence, as did the caretakers cottage. The remainder of the gardens were subdivided into separate lots.</p><br>
<p>More notable, though, was the infamous "yard sale" conducted shortly after the sale in probate where the furnishing were sold off, in a yard sale fashion. Furniture built for the Blacker House is now in museums and in the hands of wealthy collectors and Hollywood luminaries. One family, the Andersons, lived down the street and were able to buy a large lot of furniture. In 1990, an Anderson family member offered the then-owners of the Blacker House the ability to purchase the breakfast room table for the remarkable sum of $390,000.00; the table was later sold at auction for approximately $70,000. On 19 June 2007, the following Greene and Greene items; living room chair, bedroom chair, and bedroom andirons were sold at Sothebys fetching prices, including Buyers premium and New York sales tax, of $913,600, $396,000, and $66,000 respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Partial dismantling</h2><br>
<p>The house was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Max Hill in the 1950s. In 1985, recently widowed, Mrs. Hill sold the property to Barton English, a Princeton graduate and rancher from Texas, and Michael Carey, a prominent dealer of Arts and Crafts era antiques from New York City. Shortly after the close of escrow, Mr. English hired a well known local antique dealer to remove more than forty-eight original lighting fixtures for him. Later, he also removed some of the leaded art glass doors, windows, and transom panels, after commissioning a well known local studio to produce exact reproductions of the doors and windows that were to be removed. Many of the original pieces were sold on the art market. This incident has been referred to as the "Rape of the Blacker House".</p><br>
<p>National media attention to this sequence of events was facilitated through the efforts of Pasadena Heritage executive director Claire Bogaard. Articles appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Pasadena enacted an emergency ordinance, known as the Blacker Ordinance, which attempted to limit the ability of people owning homes designed by Greene and Greene to dismantle or otherwise destroy artifacts therein. Although not a direct prohibition, the ordinance delayed for up to one year any changes or alterations, subject to review of a committee of the Planning Commission. Conservation-minded citizens guarded the Blacker house day and night to keep further fixtures from being removed.</p><br>
<p>Several of the chandeliers sold for approximately $250,000 and many of the lamps fetched $100,000 each. As Mr. English paid only $1 million for the home, he quickly recouped his investment on the sale of the fixtures. He sold the home in 1988, for $1.2 million, having never lived in it.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>When the home was offered for sale in 1994 it was purchased by Harvey and Ellen Knell. At the time the couple were in escrow on another Greene and Greene house, however, they backed out of that purchase in order to obtain the Blacker house.</p><br>
<p>The Knells worked with Randall Makinson, a restoration architect with a specialty in Greene and Greene, and James Ipekjian, a master craftsman, along with an entire team of like minded mastercraftsmen that were specialists in their fields. The building was restored inside and out. Ipekjian was responsible for re-creating the wood work of the lamps and other fixtures; he even traveled to see one of the original pieces in order to make a correct copy. The house was entirely re-wired and re-plumbed, the structure upgraded to withstand earthquakes, and discreet ventilation ducts were installed. Every shingle was removed and either restored or replaced, all timbers were stripped and refinished, and nearly all the tail rafters cantilevering beyond the roof line needed to be replaced. After four years of restoration, a benefit dinner hosted by actor Brad Pitt celebrated the completion of the project.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>In the movie Back to the Future, interior shots of Dr. Browns house were taken inside the Blacker House; the exterior shots were of the Blacker Houses "smaller brother", the Gamble House.</p><br>
<p>It is briefly seen in the 2005 film Rumor Has It.</p><br>
<p>The Old St. Luke&#39;s Hospital is a historic USA hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at 314 North Palmetto Street. The hospital was originally built in 1878 at a cost of about $6,000. On July 24, 1972, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building currently houses the archives of the Jacksonville Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Martha Reed Mitchell (1818-1902), philanthropist</p><br>
<p>The Pensacola Hospital  was a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, United States, located at 1010 North 12th Avenue. On February 16, 1982, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Pensacola Hospital, now known as the historic Sacred Heart Hospital, opened in September 1915 as the first and oldest Catholic hospital in Florida. The Daughters of Charity, a religious order dating back to 1633 also dedicated to care for the poor and the sick, invested over $400,000 into building and opening this facility. The Daughters community was started originally in France by St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac.</p><br>
<p>Evans Brothers Construction, of Birmingham, Alabama, took one year to build this late Gothic Revival building for the Daughters to provide the residents of Pensacola with better health care.</p><br>
<p>This structure is both a medical and architectural landmark. Before this hospital, Pensacola had only a scattering of local clinics in converted houses. Doctors would send patients with serious cases as far away as New Orleans for complicated procedures not available in Pensacola. With this facility, Pensacola had the first surgical, radiological, bacterial, and therapeutical facilities in Florida. Following the Daughters of Charity motto of "service to all", the third level of the east wing was dedicated entirely to the Creole and Colored population so that they could also receive hospital care. A.O. Von Herbulis, a native of Austria who immigrated to the United States, designed the hospital. Using the vocabulary of English Gothic architecture, with elements such as the Tudor arches on the ends, the stone work around the front entrance, and the embattlement at the parapet, Von Herbulis created a lasting monument to health care.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, following the original desire of Mother Margaret OKeefe, Pensacola Hospitals name changed to Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola. In 1965,50 years in its original stone structure on 12th Avenue, the hospital relocated in 1965 to a new hospital off to Ninth Avenue to continue its operations. Since then, Sacred Heart has continued to advance its technology and expand its services. After the hospital left, a private school for Liberal Arts used the building from 1969 through 1978, but lack of maintenance forced the school to abandon the building. In 1980, Tower East Group Inc. purchased the property to preserve the historic hospital for the future.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building has several restaurants and a local theater company, as well as many private offices. Tower East Group Inc., a private enterprise, has been restoring and renovating this Late Gothic Revival landmark since March 1980. National Park Guidelines for historic preservation are followed voluntarily; however, no Federal or State funding has ever been received. Structurally, the building has received very few alterations in its history. The exterior stonework retains its Gothic appearance to this day and other original architectural details, such as the elaborate oak entrance doors, remain.</p><br>
<p>It is currently home to a and a pizza restaurant.</p><br>
<p>The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site is a former cotton plantation and state historic site in Juliette, Georgia, United States. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by John Jarrell and the African American people he enslaved, the site stands today as one of the best-preserved examples of a "middle class" Southern plantation. The Jarrell Plantation&#39;s buildings and artifacts all came from the Jarrell family, who farmed the land for over 140 years. Located in the red clay hills of the Georgia piedmont, It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a Georgia state park in Jones County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the Civil War, John Jarrells farm was one of the half-million cotton farms in the South that collectively produced two-thirds of the worlds cotton. Like many small planters, John Jarrell benefited from the development of the cotton gin in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which made it practical to cultivate heavily seeded, short-staple cotton even in hilly, inland areas of Georgia.</p><br>
<p>John Fitz Jarrell built the first permanent structure on the site in 1847. Typical of antebellum cotton plantations, John Jarrell ran the farm with his family and the forced labor of enslaved Africans. By 1860, Jarrell was enslaving 39 people to work his 660 acre farm. Although primarily a cotton plantation, the farm also provided food crops and grazing for livestock. During the turbulent decade of the 1860s, the farm survived a typhoid fever outbreak, Shermans March to the Sea, emancipation, and Reconstruction. After the Civil War, John Jarrell continued to farm with the help of formerly enslaved people and he increased the farm to nearly 766 acre. The formerly enslaved people began leaving the farm in John Jarrells final years.</p><br>
<p>After Johns death in 1884 one of Johns sons, Benjamin Richard "Dick" Jarrell, gave up a teaching career to return home and build his family home in 1895. Although the farm had been processing sugarcane since 1864, Dick Jarrell expanded the industrialization of the farm by adding a mill complex that eventually included a steam-driven sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill, and planer. In 1920, with the labor of his five sons and two nephews, Dick Jarrell completed a second home, fit for his large family. This house is a 5,000 ft&sup2, 1850s-style home built of heart pine.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Dick Jarrells nine surviving adult children donated the plantation site to the State of Georgia for the preservation of the farm and the education of future generations about their heritage. The State of Georgias Department of Natural Resources operates the now 200 acre historic site and opens it to the public Thursday through Sunday. The site&#39;s buildings and structures include the farmhouse, a sawmill, cotton gin, gristmill, shingle mill, planer, sugar cane press, syrup evaporator, workshop, barn and outbuildings.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Paramount Theatre Building is a historic movie palace and theater and now church, located at 145 North County Road and Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed in the Moorish Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles by Joseph Urban in 1926. Urban also designed the nearby Mar-a-Lago and the Palm Beach Bath and Tennis Club.</p><br>
<p>By contrast to the Ziegfeld Theatre (1927), which Urban designed to bathe the audience in warmth and a general atmosphere of colorful gaiety, the Paramount Theatre employs simple lines and a cool, leisured palette of silver and green. "The theatre," Urban explained, "is not an escape from the life around, but a part of it, fitting into the rhythm of the community. The architecture of the Paramount Theatre … is accordingly simple, spacious, Southern."</p><br>
<p>On December 12, 1973, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Church</h2><br>
<p>The Paramount Theatre Building now houses the Paramount Church, a non-denominational Christian church in Palm Beach. The Senior Pastor and Founder of Paramount Church is Rev. Dwight Stevens. The church sold the building in March 2021 to Woerners.</p><br>
<p>The Vero Theatre  is a historic theater in Vero Beach, Florida. Located at 2036 14th Avenue, the Vero Theatre was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by architect F.H. Trimble. It opened on October 14, 1924, as the city&#39;s first motion picture theater with its first feature film being the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The theatre became the center of the fight to remove Indian River from St. Lucie County as a result of local blue laws prohibiting Sunday film viewing. Governor John W. Martin created Indian River County in the theatre in May 1925. On April 28, 1992, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The Theatre closed in 1985 when other multiplex theatres opened nearby. The last film shown was Desperately Seeking Susan.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of the few remaining structures of the original downtown. It is currently vacant, though there have been numerous attempts made to renovate the structure. The last attempt at renovation was done by developer Robert L. Brackett. His attempts were halted by the storms of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.</p><br>
<p>The Sunrise Theatre  is a historic theater in Fort Pierce, Florida. It is located at 117 South 2nd Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1923 by builder C.E. Cahow, the Sunrise Theatre was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style by architect John N. Sherwood. Opening day was August 1, 1923 as a vaudeville house. The theatre earned its reputation for becoming the cultural center of the city of Fort Pierce as well as being the greatest and biggest cultural institution in Florida at the time. At the time it had the largest stage between Jacksonville and Miami. It was designed for plays, movies and variety shows. In 1930 the young A.E. Backus became resident artist for the theater. Backus created displays and posters for the theatre&#39;s films and celebrity appearances.</p><br>
<h3>Closure & renaissance</h3><br>
<p>The theater closed in 1983 after it had fallen into disrepair. In 1997, the St. Lucie Preservation Association Inc. bought the building. It later partially reopened in 1999 after a $750,000 grant was awarded to renovate and restore the structure to its former condition. After a complete renovation including adding additional support areas in 2005, the venue opened on January 6, 2006.</p><br>
<p>On December 7, 2001, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It now presents a wide variety of entertainment events from local groups to world-famous artists such as Willie Nelson, Itzhak Perlman, Diana Ross, 3 Dog Night, Lindsey Buckingham, Bryan Adams, Vince Gill, Tony Bennett, Ziggy Marley, the late Dave Brubeck plus world renowned Operas, Broadway Shows, Ballet performances, and various Rock and Jazz concerts.</p><br>
<p>On February 5, 2020 Kris Kristofferson made his last full performance at the Sunrise Theatre as he was backed by the Strangers.</p><br>
<p>The theater received $1 million grant in 2021 from the Small Business Administration to help keep it afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant came through the Shuttered Venues Operator program, a part of the American Rescue Plan.</p><br>
<p>Thomas and Walter Monteith House, also known as the Monteith House Museum was the first frame house built in Albany, Oregon, United States. It was built by Walter and Thomas Monteith in 1848–1850. All the houses original boards are hand-hewn due to lack of availability of steam-powered buzzsaws at that time. Originally the home served as a combination dwelling and store, but soon became the residence of Thomas and Christine  Monteith. Described architecturally as "Rural Vernacular / Pre-Classic Revival," the house was extensively remodeled in 1855 and 1880, moved 50 feet west in 1901, and in 1922 again remodeled, such that the structure little resembled the original construction. Beginning in 1982 the house has been a museum highlighting the Monteiths contributions to the area&#39;s community. "Living history" events are periodically given at the museum.</p><br>
<p>The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is located on 206-208 Hill Street, Hannibal, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States. It was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, from 1844 to 1853. Clemens found the inspiration for many of his stories, including the white picket fence, while living here. It has been open to the public as a museum since 1912, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962. It is located in the Mark Twain Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Boyhood Home is one of nine properties that comprise the present Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum complex. The legendary whitewashed fence of Tom Sawyer borders the property. There are seven additional museum buildings as part of the complex - the Interpretive Center, Becky Thatcher House, Huck Finn House, J.M Clemens Justice of the Peace Office, Grants Drug Store, the stone Works Progress Administration (WPA) building that houses a gift shop, and the Museum Gallery, located at 120 N. Main St. The museum has acquired the "Becky Thatcher" house, home of Clemens childhood sweetheart, Laura Hawkins. Its exterior was renovated and restored in 2010; while the interior re-opened in 2016.</p><br>
<p>During the summer of 2006, the museum completed work on a replica of the "Huck Finn" house, being the home of Tom Blankenship, the boy upon whom Twain based the character of Huckleberry Finn. Exhibits in the Huck Finn House delve into Hannibal&#39;s history with slavery.</p><br>
<p>The museum also owns and maintains the Tom and Huck Statue at the foot of Cardiff Hill. Erected in 1926, it is one of the earliest known statues erected to honor fictional characters. Other highlights of the museum properties include the Boyhood Home garden area, bordered by a high stone wall built by the WPA. The close proximity of the Mississippi River, the Mark Twain Cave, and other settings found in Twain&#39;s novel lure thousands of visitors to the museum each year.</p><br>
<h2>Collections</h2><br>
<p>The museums collection includes many first editions by Mark Twain, numerous personal items (including his Oxford gown), the only known surviving white suit coat, and a vast array of Twain memorabilia, such as the death mask of his baby son Langdon, and a jewelry box Twain had hand-carved in Italy to his specifications as a gift to his wife, Olivia. There are many interactive exhibits including a replica stagecoach and river raft. These serve to highlight specific books by Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Visitors can even sound a real steamboat whistle as they look out upon the Mississippi River. The museum also houses the second largest collection of original Norman Rockwell paintings. These paintings were commissioned as illustrations for a special edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The museum also hosts regional art and touring exhibits.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The museum sponsors many events throughout the year including children&#39;s events. Their educational outreach programs include teacher workshops, young author workshops, writers workshops, scholarly conferences, and a creative teaching award. On May 15, 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the museum, a spokesperson announced the establishment of the "Mark Twain Lifetime Achievement Award" with Hal Holbrook named as the first recipient.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the museum released Mark Twain: Words & Music, a double-CD benefit telling Twain&#39;s life in spoken word and song. The project was produced by Grammy award-winner Carl Jackson and released on Mailboat Records. It features Jimmy Buffett as Huckleberry Finn, Garrison Keillor as narrator, Clint Eastwood as Mark Twain, and Angela Lovell as Susy Clemens. Singers include Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, The Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Cindy Lovell, the executive director of the museum at that time, wrote the narrative, and several new songs were written for the project.</p><br>
<p>In the summer, the museum is the destination of thousands of visitors. The town of Hannibal celebrates National Tom Sawyer Days over the 4th of July each year complete with whitewashing and frog jumping contests. The boyhood home is a focal point in these events.</p><br>
<p>The Old Petaluma Opera House  is a historic building located in downtown Petaluma, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1870 as a theater, lecture hall, and dance hall. In 1901, the upper floors were converted to office and meeting space and the street level was remodeled for retail space, and a new prefabricated cast iron facade, manufactured by the Mesker Brothers company of St. Louis, Missouri was installed.</p><br>
<p>The Nielsen Furniture Company occupied the building from 1944 to 1960. As of June 2010, the building houses law offices and an Irish-style pub. It features Stick/Eastlake architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Central State Hospital is a 192-bed adult psychiatric hospital located in the Lakeland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1869, 200 acres were purchased by the Kentucky State Legislature from the descendants of renown frontiersman Issac Hite to establish a "State House of Reform for Juvenile Delinquents." This was located on the outskirts of what would become Anchorage, Kentucky. In 1873, due to overcrowding at both of Kentucky&#39;s mental hospitals, the House of Reform was converted into the Fourth Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, with Dr. C.C. Forbes as its first Superintendent. The following year an act of the legislature renamed it the Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. In late 1887, it received its own post office, called simply "Asylum". The following year its name was changed to "Lakeland", and the institution was commonly referred to as "Lakeland Hospital" or "Lakeland Asylum". By 1900, its official name had been changed to the Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. By 1912 it was known as Central State Hospital. Comparable institutions are Eastern State Hospital at Lexington in Fayette County and Western State Hospital at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. All three were administered by the Board of Charitable Organizations.</p><br>
<p>The secluded, rural setting was typical of such facilities in the late 19th century, as such an environment was thought to be beneficial for recovery from mental illness. However, not all patients had mental disorders - some suffered from brain damage, mental retardation or were simply poor or elderly. The early years of the 1880s were marked by repeated allegations of patient abuse. In 1879, Dr. Robert H. Gale was appointed superintendent. In 1882, conduct was investigated in the "ducking" or near drowning death of a patient. He was later exonerated of the charges. Gale was followed by H. K. Pusey in 1884.</p><br>
<p>Throughout Central States history, the institution suffered from improper funding, understaffing, and overcrowding. Though built to accommodate 1,600 patients, by 1940 there were in excess of 2,400 patients and again various accusations of patient mistreatment began to arise. However, starting in the 1950s, changing community perception of the mentally disturbed led to fewer patients staying permanently in mental hospitals. In 1962, $3,000,000 was allowed by the state to construct more modern facilities on LaGrange Road. Many of these are still standing.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, a new modern administration facility was completed on property adjacent to the 1960s buildings. The original hospital and surviving structures on what was called "the North Campus" were subsequently abandoned and demolished in the late 1990s.</p><br>
<p>It is unknown how many deceased patients are buried on the hospital grounds, though over 900 death certificates exist denoting burial in both of the hospitals cemeteries.</p><br>
<p>Begun in 1898 in rural Frederick County, Maryland, the LeGore Bridge was completed and opened to the public in 1900. It was built and maintained by the owners of the LeGore Lime Company, including local businessman James William LeGore and his company advisor, Eugene Hammond. It is 340 ft in length, 27 ft wide and 64 ft high. The bridge is situated at 39°35N 77°19W. The five arch limestone bridge was restored in 1981 and 2009.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built for three purposes:</p><br>
<p>as part of a hydroelectric dam for an electric railway going from the Nation&#39;s Capital to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,</p><br>
<p>for transport of limestone from the LeGore Quarry to sales companies in Pennsylvania, and</p><br>
<p>to accommodate the state-owned road for public travel across the Monocacy River.</p><br>
<p>Several decades have passed and the LeGore Bridge is still used for everyday automobile traffic.</p><br>
<p>The structure was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Spalding Hall is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bardstown, Kentucky. It was built in conjunction with the Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral. The hall was originally built in 1826 and named for Bishop Martin John Spalding.</p><br>
<p>It was the main building of St. Joseph&#39;s College, a Catholic college in the 19th century, which was the first Catholic college in Kentucky. The current building was built in 1839 to replace the previous building, which had been destroyed in a fire. The college was closed during the American Civil War and the building briefly served as a hospital for Union soldiers.</p><br>
<p>It served as St. Joseph&#39;s Preparatory School from about 1911 until 1968.</p><br>
<p>The building houses the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History and the Bardstown Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Ben Johnson House is in the northern outskirts of Bardstown, Kentucky. It was built in 1851 in a Greek Revival style for state senator and lieutenant governor William Johnson. The houses name comes from Williams son Ben Johnson, who was a congressman for two decades, speaker of the state House, state senator and collector of internal revenue for Kentucky in the second term of Grover Cleveland.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>When the Confederacy was deciding on a national flag, Williams wife and Bens mother Nancy was part of the committee that chose the Stars and Bars, and was first revealed to the public at the Johnson House in 1861 in front of 5,000 people.</p><br>
<p>When John Hunt Morgan and Thomas Hines escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary in 1863, they spent a night at the House before continuing to Confederate lines.</p><br>
<p>For some time it was "The Mansion" bed and breakfast, but it has since stopped being a hostelry.</p><br>
<p>The grounds are decorated with apple, dogwood, maple, mimosa, and pear trees.</p><br>
<p>The Egyptian Theatre is a theatre and concert venue in the western United States, located in Boise, Idaho. It has also been known as the Ada Theater . Inaugurated after its erection in 1927, it is the oldest theatre in the city. When it opened, the local press wrote that it "embodies the characteristic features of the land of the Nile, from the truncated pyramids which form the great pylons, to the lotus bud pillars with their ornate frescoes." The great lotus pillars flanking the screen are based on those of Karnak. The theatre has been renovated by Conrad Schmitt Studios.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Egyptian Theatre was designed by Frederick C. Hummel of the architectural firm Tourtellotte & Hummel.</p><br>
<p>The theater&#39;s architecture is of the Egyptian revival style, inspired by the newly discovered tomb of King Tut. Over time, the structure underwent various changes. In 1999, it was remodeled once again after the original building.</p><br>
<p>The Egyptian Theater opened in 1927. In 1930 it became the Fox Egyptian Theater and about a year later just the Fox. From 1937 to 1979 it was the Ada Theater, and in 1979 it became the Egyptian again.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The theater is architecturally significant as one of the few surviving theaters from the grand cinema and movie palace era in Boise.</p><br>
<p>The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum film premieres were all hosted at The Egyptian Theatre.</p><br>
<p>Actor Aaron Paul rented out the Egyptian theater in downtown Boise to live stream the 14th episode of Breaking Bad.</p><br>
<p>The Egyptian Theatre is home to performances by Opera Idaho.</p><br>
<p>The Hines House was a historic building in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was written into the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979. It was built by the Reverend James Davis Hines around 1840. Hines eventually sold the building to N.E. Goodsall, whose heirs sold the house in 1859 to Doctor Albert Covington.</p><br>
<p>When it was added to the National Register, it was one of few houses left in Bowling Green of that age and structure. The house was destroyed by an intentionally set fire on February 12, 1995.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Church is a parish in the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast of the Episcopal Church based in Milton, Florida. It is noted for its historic Carpenter Gothic-style church and its adjacent rectory, also known as the McDougall House, located at 300 Oak Street, now 6841 Oak Street. On May 6, 1982, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places as "St. Marys Episcopal Church and Rectory."</p><br>
<p>The congregation first met for worship on August 4, 1867. The current church opened for services in 1878. As with other Carpenter Gothic churches, features of the Gothic Revival style have been executed in wood, such as its lancet windows, decorative bargeboards, and finials.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, St. Marys Episcopal Church was listed in A Guide to Floridas Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press. The listing quotes from Frank Lloyd Wrights book, The Aesthetics of American Architecture, in which he wrote: "Saint Marys is a jewel created in the purest tradition of the Gothic Revival. It survives today with its pure lines intact, its muted colors untouched. Purity, it is without a blemish."</p><br>
<p>The church celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church was founded in 1867 by a group led by Dr. Charles McDougall. The first services were held in the Milton Masonic Lodge. James Jarett served briefly as the rector before he was replaced by McDougall, who served for over thirty years until his death in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The church building was constructed by Alex Zelius, a sailor who fell ill while stationed in Milton. Zelius used hints of shipbuilding in the design for St. Mary&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>The Ollinger-Cobb House is a historic residential building located at 302 Pine Street in Milton, Santa Rosa County, Florida. On January 11, 1983, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, the house was listed in A Guide to Florida&#39;s Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The home was built in 1871 by Joseph Ollinger, a Luxembourgish shipbuilder who also owned a grocery store and saloon. The appearance of the original home is unknown, as it underwent large-scale renovations in 1896. It is theorized to have originally resembled the St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church Rectory.</p><br>
<p>After Ollinger sold the house in 1907, it passed through three different owners, seemingly of the same family. It was bought by F.H. Cobb, a lumber grader who owned the home for six decades.</p><br>
<p>The First American Road in Florida  is a historic road near Gulf Breeze, Florida. It is located in the Naval Live Oaks Area of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the Adams–Onís Treaty went into effect in 1821, Pensacola, along with the rest of the Florida Territory was officially transferred from Spain to the United States. In 1824, the US Congress provided funding to build the Pensacola-St. Augustine Road, known as Bellamy Road, in order to connect East Florida with West Florida. On September 28, 1998, the Andrew Jackson Trail was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. Michaels Church is a historic Episcopal church at 225 West 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattans Upper West Side in New York City. The parish was founded on the present site in January 1807, at that time in the rural Bloomingdale District. The present limestone Romanesque building, the third on the site, was built in 1890–91 to designs by Robert W. Gibson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The church building also is noted for its Tiffany stained glass and its two tracker-action pipe organs built in 1967 by the Rudolph von Beckerath Organ Company (Hamburg, Germany); the church has fine acoustics.</p><br>
<p>In addition to traditional Anglican services, St. Michael&#39;s has services and prayer groups influenced by the emerging church movement.</p><br>
<p>Sale of air rights that enabled the building of The Ariel allowed St. Michael&#39;s to finance a major building restoration.</p><br>
<p>On April 12, 2016, the church, parish house and rectory were designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, it reported 568 members, average attendance of 100, and $743,546 in plate and pledge income.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Almost uniquely among upper Manhattans houses of worship, St. Michaels Church has been located on exactly the same site for two centuries.</p><br>
<p>The first building was a simple white frame structure with a belfry, built for pewholders of Trinity Church, Wall Street, who sought a more convenient place to worship near their summer homes overlooking the Hudson River amid the farms on what is now Manhattans Upper West Side. At that time the City of New York was confined to the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the congregation was Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton. A second, larger, Carpenter Gothic building was in use from 1854 to 1891. In the 1840s and 50s Rev. Thomas McClure Peters extended a missionary church in the racially integrated settlement of Seneca Village, demolished to make way for Central Park. In the 1850s the Rectors wife Mrs. William Richmond transformed the John McVickar house, formerly the center of a sixty-acre estate south of St. Michaels, for a Protestant Episcopal "home for abandoned women who found no hand outstretched to help them". Subsequently, the church was served by Rev. Peters son and grandson, John Punnett Peters. Altogether, the three generations of Peters led the parish for 99 years.</p><br>
<p>The third and current building, influenced by the Romanesque and Byzantine styles and designed to seat 1,500 people, was dedicated in December, 1891. The church stands on ground formerly used as a cemetery. In building the church it was decided not to disturb it. Among those still buried there are the Rev. Mr. Richmond, the first rector of the church. The last interment took place in 1872. The present church was erected after an elevated railroad was built on Columbus Avenue absorbing the rural district into the growing city.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was commissioned to design and install the seven great lancet windows representing St. Michaels Victory in Heaven, along with a marble altar. Twenty-five years later, Tiffanys overall design scheme was completed with the Chapel of the Angels reredos mosaic depicting the Witnesses of the Redemption. From the 1890s through the 1920s, parishioners donated stained glass windows of eclectic styles.</p><br>
<p>In 1997 St. Michael&#39;s Church became a Designated Historical Building on the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Its rectory stands at the head of the former St. Michaels Lane: the ghostly presence of St. Michaels Lane may still be traced in mid-block back alleys and service access between apartment buildings for several blocks south of 91st Street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed by architect Robert W. Gibson. The square, Romanesque bell tower rises 160 feet.</p><br>
<p>Tiffany studios created many works of art for the congregation. After the church building was completed, seven windows were commissioned and installed showing "St. Michael&#39;s Victory in Heaven." Louis Comfort Tiffany designed the windows which were made in his studios with the assistance of artists Clara W. Parrish, Edward P. Sperry, Louis J. Lederle and Joseph Lauber. Two additional Tiffany stained glass windows were later installed in the Chapel of the Angels, in addition to a large Tiffany mosaic behind the altar. Tiffany decorations in the main sanctuary include a white Vermont marble altar, altar rail, and pulpit and the dome of the apse. The many Tiffany features were installed between 1891 and 1920. The windows were restored in 1990. After the windows were restored, the church had the entire interior painted by Fine Art Decoration of New York with the architectural details picked out in an array of colors drawn from the windows and mosaics.</p><br>
<h2>Organ</h2><br>
<p>A Rudolf von Beckerath organ was installed in 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Impact</h2><br>
<p>For most of its existence, and continuing today, St. Michaels has influenced the physical and social development of New York City. St. Michaels founded at least six New York churches, including All Angels Church, located first in Seneca Village, in what is now Central Park, and later on West End Avenue. After the Civil War, St. Michaels provided space and financial support for the free Bloomingdale Clinic, District Nurse Association, Day Nursery and Circulating Library.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s the congregation had dwindled to thirty, but by 1987 it was up to three hundred, thanks in large part to the energies of Rev. Frederick Hill, who retired in 1992 and died in 1997. St. Michaels is known for its wide range of programs and for its congregations wide ethnic, socio-economic, and sexual orientation diversity. The church draws people from all areas of New York City and its surroundings.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the church had five choirs and more than 100 children involved in the Christian Formation Program. Social ministries included work for the hungry and the homeless, the ill and their caregivers, the unemployed and their dependents. Both church and parish house provide space for extensive parish activities and major not-for-profit community organizations.</p><br>
<p>Since the early 1990s, St. Michaels has been partnered with St. Michaels, Promosa, in Matlosane, South Africa and, most recently, with the Diocese of Madras in the Church of South India.</p><br>
<p>Maple Leaf is a United States National Historic Landmark in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Maple Leaf, a side paddlewheel steamship, was first launched as a freight and passenger vessel from the Marine Railway Yard in Kingston, Upper Canada in 1851. The 181 ft sidewheel paddle steamer measured 24.7 ft at the beam.</p><br>
<h2>Sinking</h2><br>
<p>Maple Leaf was a civilian merchant steamship, chartered as a transport by the Union Army during American Civil War, that struck a Confederate torpedo - what we would now call a mine - as she was crossing the St. Johns River near Jacksonville on April 1, 1864. The screw steamer was dispatched to assess the condition of the wreck on April 2, and Captain Henry W. Dale concluded his ship and cargo as a total loss.</p><br>
<h2>Wreck</h2><br>
<p>Maple Leaf′s wreck site is located in the St. Johns River, to the west of the adjacent Mandarin neighborhood, in southeastern Duval County. The wreck was deemed a threat to river navigation so the USA Army Corps of Engineers had all structural components above the ship&#39;s main deck removed to clear the channel in the 1880s. The shipwreck site has been given the Smithsonial trinomial 8DU8032.</p><br>
<p>Because of the wreck&#39;s remarkable state of preservation (down to the line cleared in the 1880s), it is the most significant Civil War-era shipwrecks yet discovered, and a good example of a mid-19th century Great Lakes steamer. On October 12, 1994, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. National Historic Landmark plaque located at 30° 19.461′ N, 81° 39.683′ W.</p><br>
<p>The Emanuel Point Shipwreck Site is a historic site near Pensacola, Florida, United States. It is located off Emanuel Point. It has been identified as the galleon San Juan, of the fleet that carried conquistador Tristan de Luna and his army to La Florida in 1559. It sank along with most of the fleet during a hurricane that struck the coast shortly after Luna&#39;s arrival. On March 4, 1996, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The San Jose Y Las Animas is a shipwreck with historical significance near Plantation Key, Florida, United States. It sank in a hurricane in 1733 and is located approximately 4 miles southeast of Plantation Key. On March 18, 1975, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The San Jose y Las Animas was a merchant ship built in England in 1728 for Spain. Being part of the 1733 fleet that consisted of four warships, and eighteen merchant ships. San Jose y Las Animas was a 327-ton merchant ship carrying twenty-six guns and captained by Cristobal Fernando Franco. Leaving the port of Cuba and heading back to Spain, the ship was hit by a hurricane On July 15, 1733, and sinking off the coast of Florida. All crew were accounted for.</p><br>
<h2>Location of the wreck</h2><br>
<p>San Jose y Las Animas ran aground off Tavenier Key. The San Jose quickly filled with water as the crew was under the haul of the ship seeking shelter from the storm. The crew had abandoned the ship and made their way to shore on rafts. The San Jose sank in twenty-eight-foot waters making it hard for the crew to recover the items on the ship.</p><br>
<p>The San Jose was detected by treasure hunters in 1968, buried in the sand. The exact location was 24 degrees North 80 degrees 29.334 W. The treasure hunters used a magnetometer to find the 135 long ballast and roughly 40 wide. They Also found twenty-three cannons and two anchors that were scattered around 200&#39; from the site.</p><br>
<h2>Recovery of items</h2><br>
<p>The registered cargo of San Jose carried 30,435 pesos in silver and bullion, porcelain from China, brazilwood, cocoa, and vanilla. The wreck was found by treasure hunter Tom Gurr and backed by the Smithsonian under Mendel Peterson. They used 8-inch airlifts to bring the wreckage up from the sea. Because San Jose y Las Animas was within three miles of the coast, Florida wanted to enforce a 25 percent finders fee on the treasure that Tom Gurr and his crew had found. Florida stated that the wreck was a historic site state in the Florida Constitution of 1865. The case went on for years until the court sided with the state. Gurr was ordered to return what he had recovered from the wreck. Tom Gurr stated that he threw back 50,000 to 100,000 dollars worth of bullion back at the site of the wreck making the state of Florida press charges of grand larceny on Gurr since a percentage of the wreck was theirs. The state eventually found the coins that were still marked as registered by the state and the overseers of the project.</p><br>
<h2>Further resource</h2><br>
<p>African Queen  was the name of two boats used in the 1951 movie The African Queen starring Humprey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It was filmed in the Belgian Congo on a tributary of the Congo River, and on the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. Two boats were used, one in each location. One of the boats is now located in Key Largo, Florida, and on February 18, 1992, was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The other is located in Jinja, Uganda.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Congo boat</h3><br>
<p>This African Queen was a 30-foot steam boat built of riveted sheet iron in 1912 in the United Kingdom for service in Africa on the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert where the movie was filmed in 1950. Originally named Livingstone, she was built for the British East Africa Railway and used from 1912 to 1968. She spent most of her first 50 years in the waters of the Ruki River in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo where she was used to transport hunters, mercenaries, and cargo.</p><br>
<p>According to an article on its 2012 restoration, the boat was built by Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., as evidenced by the boiler plate and Lancashire records.</p><br>
<p>The boat was found in Cairo, Egypt in the 1970s, with coal still in its bilges. Purchased and shipped to the United States, she has had a succession of owners and is currently held in trust. The boat was refurbished in 2012, including installation of an interior steel hull frame and new boiler, and restored to service as a tourist boat.</p><br>
<h3>The Nile boat</h3><br>
<p>The other African Queen was built in 1950 for the film and was discovered by Yank Evans, a Patagonian mechanical engineer who had come across what was left of the vessel while working on the roads in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda in 1984. "Yank came across a carcass of a steel boat, in the bushes there just left to rot. He asked the locals what this was and they said well that&#39;s the African Queen. So he bought it off the National Parks for $1." Evans, who had worked on the boat with his son Billy and gave her a steam engine then stored the boat when he moved to Kenya in 1997 and her new home became a trailer in the garden.</p><br>
<p>Cam McLeay purchased the Nile African Queen after hearing her story and set to finishing the restorations and getting the boats original steam engine functioning and in the water. McLeay and his team rebuilt the African Queens century-old Brady steam engine and replating the hull and replacing over 100 pipes, sourcing parts mostly from the UK but also from within Uganda.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument of Bardstown, in Bardstown, Kentucky was erected in 1903 in the Bardstown St. Joseph&#39;s Cemetery to honor the sacrifice of 67 Confederate States Army soldiers, who died during the American Civil War. Some 17 of the soldiers are still unknown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Most of the soldiers were under the command of Major General Braxton Bragg who died in 1862 in conflicts around Bardstown.</p><br>
<p>The monument was dedicated by the J. Crepps Wickliffe Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The base is made of limestone, and the statue of the Confederate soldier was made of zinc. A relief portrait of General Robert E. Lee is located directly beneath the statue.</p><br>
<p>The inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>THIS MONUMENT</p><br>
<p>IS ERECTED</p><br>
<p>TO THE MEMORY OF</p><br>
<p>THE 67 BRAVE MEN</p><br>
<p>BURIED HERE, WHO</p><br>
<p>LOST THEIR LIVES IN</p><br>
<p>THE SERVICE OF THE</p><br>
<p>CONFEDERATE</p><br>
<p>GOVERNMENT.</p><br>
<p>___________</p><br>
<p>"LORD GOD OF HOSTS BE</p><br>
<p>WITH US YET,</p><br>
<p>LEST WE FORGET,</p><br>
<p>LEST WE FORGET."</p><br>
<p>MARBLE TELLS NOT OF THEIR VALORS&#39; WORTH,</p><br>
<p>NAMELESS THEY REST IN THE QUIET EARTH.</p><br>
<p>WE CARE NOT WHENCE THEY CAME,</p><br>
<p>DEAR IN THEIR LIFELESS CLAY</p><br>
<p>WHETHER UNKNOWN OR KNOWN TO FAME,</p><br>
<p>THEIR CAUSE AND COUNTRY STILL THE SAME,</p><br>
<p>THEY DIED AND WORE THE GRAY.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, one of sixty monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky so honored on the same day. Starting in early autumn of 1999 the Sons of Confederate Veterans endeavored to restore and erect the individual gravemarkers.</p><br>
<p>The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, also known as Kirkbride&#39;s Hospital or the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, was a psychiatric hospital located at 48th and Haverford Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It operated from its founding in 1841 until 1997. The remaining building, now called the Kirkbride Center is now part of the Blackwell Human Services Campus.</p><br>
<p>Two large hospital structures and an elaborate pleasure ground were built on a campus that stretched along the north side of Market Street, from 45th to 49th Streets. Thomas Story Kirkbride, the hospitals first superintendent and physician-in-chief, developed a more humane method of treatment for the mentally ill there, that became widely influential. The hospitals plan became a prototype for a generation of institutions for the treatment of the mentally ill nationwide. The surviving 1859 building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>In the late 1830s, the managers of Pennsylvania Hospital began erecting a large asylum to replace the hospitals crowded insane wards at 8th and Spruce Streets. The 101 acre site chosen was a former farm in the as-yet unincorporated district of West Philadelphia. The first structure for the Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane was designed by Isaac Holden and was located near what is now 46th and Market Streets. Completed in 1841, the facility offered comforts and a "humane treatment" philosophy that set a standard for its day. Unlike other asylums where patients were often kept chained in crowded, unsanitary wards with little if any treatment, patients at the Pennsylvania Asylum resided in private rooms, received medical treatment, worked outdoors and enjoyed recreational activities including lectures and a use of the hospital library. The facility came to be called "Kirkbrides Hospital."</p><br>
<p>Superintendent Thomas Kirkbride developed his treatment philosophy based on research he conducted at other progressive asylums of the day, including the one in Worcester, as well as his deep-seated personal opinions regarding mental health and his experience at the Pennsylvania Asylum. Out of his philosophy emerged the Kirkbride Plan, which created a model design for psychiatric hospital buildings that was used across the United States throughout the 19th century. He described his system in great detail in his influential work, On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane with Some Remarks on Insanity and Its Treatment (1854).</p><br>
<p>Overcrowding had become a problem in the original Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane by the 1850s, so Kirkbride lobbied the Pennsylvania Hospital managers for an additional building. The situation offered him a unique opportunity to place his standardized concepts for mental hospital design and construction into effect at a facility under his control. The Pennsylvania Hospitals Department for Males building was soon constructed along 49th Street, a short distance west from the original asylum. Completed in 1859, this huge structure consisted of several wings extending from a main central building. It introduced many innovations in terms of spaciousness, airiness and light, that were subsequently widely reproduced in other facilities. Young architect Samuel Sloan, Kirkbrides friend and collaborator, designed the Neoclassical style building.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>Mental health services at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital continued to expand throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. But by the mid-20th century, the 1841 hospital building proved unusable for this purpose and was demolished in 1959. All treatment moved to the Department for Males building in 1959. That structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 15, 1966.</p><br>
<p>The institute was located in what is now the Mill Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia. It continued operations until 1997 when, in the face of shrinking revenues from insurance providers, Pennsylvania Hospital sold the property and moved its mental health services back to the main hospital campus at 8th and Spruce Streets. Three tall housing projects and a multi-purpose social-service facility were built near the site of the 1841 hospital. Other parts of the property were sold for commercial and residential development in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>21st century</h2><br>
<p>The remaining Department for Males building is now the Kirkbride Center, a part of the Blackwell Human Services Campus. It houses the West Philadelphia ACES Charter School, Pennsylvania Hospitals Mill Creek School, Philadelphia Health Management Corporations Adolescent Residential Treatment Center, and a Travelers Aids emergency family shelter.</p><br>
<p>Scottsburg is a historic railroad depot located at Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana. It was built in 1872 by the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, costing almost $1,492. It is a one-story, Stick Style frame building with board and batten siding and a projecting agents window. Its presence influenced the location of Scottsburg in 1874, as the town was named for the railroads General Superintendent, Horace Scott. It was built specifically for both passenger and freight cargo. Inside there was separate waiting rooms for men and women. Passenger service to the station ended in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Scottsburg Depot, but was moved one block north to its present location to help preserve it. With federal transportation funds, it was restored. In 1996 it became the Scottsburg Heritage Station.</p><br>
<p>The Scott County Home is a historic county home located one mile south of Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana. The original County Home was built in 1872 to replace the previous County Home located in Lexington, Indiana. Also known as the "Poor Farm", the County Home was originally a frame house, but was replaced with the current brick structure in 1892. The County Home was used to house the poor, indigent and physically and mentally handicapped. In 1973 the Home was no longer in use, though various agencies maintained offices there. Vacated by Scott County in 1997 when the Scott County Courthouse addition and renovation was completed, the property was given to Preservation Alliance, Inc. for the purpose of establishing a county museum. In 2001 it became the Scott County Heritage Center and Museum. Today the Museum hosts local exhibits related to Scott County history, such as the Pigeon Roost Massacre, General John Hunt Morgan&#39;s Raid, and the Marshfield train robbery by the Reno Brothers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Assinins  is a historic district consisting of several buildings that were originally a school and orphanage, located in Assinins, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Assinins was founded in 1843 by Bishop Frederic Baraga, who came to the area at the invitation of Chief Edward Assinins. Assinins was the first person to be baptized at the site. Baraga built the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School on the site in 1860; wings were added to the building in 1866 and 1877. After the Civil War, Baraga gave the complex&#39;s land and buildings to Chief Assinins and the Keweenaw band of the Chippewa Native Americans. The orphanage housed both Native American and European children; a larger orphanage was built on the site in 1929. In 1957, the complex was rededicated as the Sacred Heart Friary by the Capuchin Fathers as their novitiate until the late 1960s. The site was then used as the KBIC tribal Center and was later torn down.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The complex at Assinins is one of the earliest Catholic missions in the Upper Peninsula associated with Bishop Frederic Baraga, and served as an important link for establishing rapport between the local Ottawa and Chippewa tribes and settlers arriving from the east. Baraga helped the local tribes to establish recognized self-governance, and to purchase land in their own names, establishing the tribe&#39;s members as local citizens. The site holds some of the oldest structures in the area, and Bishop Baraga wrote some of his best-known works, including a book on Chippewa grammar and a Chippewa dictionary, while staying in Assinins.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site at Assinins originally consisted of multiple buildings, including over 15 log cabins, spread over approximately 500 acre. It currently consists of a school building (now used as a warehouse) and several orphanage buildings. The largest structure is the Old St. Joseph Orphanage and School, which stands three stories tall, and is built of rubble with a dormered gable roof. Nearby is a cemetery holding the graves of missionaries Father Gerhard Terhorst, Monsignor Melchior Faust, Father John Henn, and Father Anthony Vermare.</p><br>
<p>The Scottsburg Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana. The district encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 8 contributing objects in the central business district of Scottsburg centered on the Scott County Courthouse. It developed between about 1873 and 1952, and includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, and Stick Style / Eastlake movement style architecture. The courthouse was built in 1873-1874 after the decision was made to finally locate the county seat of Scott County into a central location within the county, which caused the founding of Scottsburg. Located in the district is the separately listed Scottsburg Depot. Other notable contributing resources include the Town Tavern , A&P Grocery , Corner Drugstore , Harmon Building , City Hall , Nappers Hospital , Scott Theatre , Scott County Public  Library , Scott County Bank , Prossers Hardware , and a statue of William Hayden English .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Escambe  was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the 17th century in the Florida Panhandle, three miles northwest of the present-day town of Tallahassee, Florida. It was part of Spain&#39;s effort to colonize the region, and convert the Timucuan and Apalachee Indians to Christianity. The mission lasted until 1704, when it was destroyed by a group of Creek Indians and South Carolinians.</p><br>
<p>The site where the original mission stood was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1971.</p><br>
<p>San Damián de Cupaica was founded in 1639, the third Spanish mission in Apalachee Province. San Damián survived James Moore&#39;s invasion of Apalachee Province in January 1704, but was captured by Creek warriors in June 1704. When the Spanish abandoned their headquarters in San Luis de Talimali later that year, leaving all of the Apalachee Province unprotected, residents of Cupaica joined other Apalachees, Chatatos and Yemassees in migrating to the area of Pensacola, Florida.</p><br>
<p>A later mission named San Joseph de Escambe was established in 1741 at the present-day community of Molino, Florida along the Escambia River north of Pensacola, lending its name both to the river and later to Escambia County, Florida.</p><br>
<p>The Turner River Site  is an archaeological site in the Ten Thousand Islands region of Everglades National Park, in Florida. It is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Turner River Site is a large shell works site.5 mi from the mouth of the Turner River, near Chokoloskee Island. The site covers 30 acre and is.25 mi long. It has at least 30 closely spaced mounds. The site was the first in the Ten Thousand Islands area to be excavated by professional archaeologists.</p><br>
<p>The Turner River Site came to the attention of archaeologists in 1900. Aleš Hrdlička visited the site in 1918. He declared it to be "important to science", and urged that it be made a "national reservation." William H. Sears conducted the first excavation by a professional archaeologist in 1955. He noted structural features similar to those found at Key Marco and Chokoloskee Island, and concluded that the region was an "important prehistoric population center." Sears found muck with midden materials between the mounds and on the lower slopes of the mounds, but the bulk of the mounds were clean shell deposits, almost entirely made up of small oyster shells, which had been placed on submerged mud flats. Based on dating of potsherds found at the site, Sears concluded that the residents of the site had lived on the edge of the river, moving the village towards the water as the mounds built up behind them. All of the potsherds collected at the site were assigned to the Glades I and II periods, placing occupation of the site in the period from about 200 or 100 BCE to 800 or 900 CE.</p><br>
<p>The Turner River Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Citations</h2><br>
<p>The Arcadia Sawmill and Arcadia Cotton Mill  is a historic site a mile southwest of Milton, Florida, United States. On August 3, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the 19th century industrial water-powered mill complex are now part of the Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site, which is managed by the West Florida Historic Preservation. There is a visitor center and museum with exhibits about the site, and an elevated boardwalk through the archaeological remains of the complex and adjacent swamp.</p><br>
<p>The West Florida Historic Preservation, part of the University of West Florida, also manages Historic Pensacola Village, the Pensacola Museum of History, and the Pensacola Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land encompassing Arcadia Mill was originally owned by Juan de la Rua, the Spanish mayor of Pensacola. Joseph Forsyth, founder of the Bagdad Community, purchased de la Rua&#39;s land in 1828, building a sawmill and expanding upon the small dam that de la Rua had built. Forsyth partnered with brothers Andrew and Ezekiel Simpson to establish the mill. Manufacturing tycoon Timothy Twitchell established a large complex near Arcadia, including production of shingles, silk, and buckets.</p><br>
<p>The lumber was transferred via mule railroad or log flume to the nearby Blackwater River. The mule railroad was operated by the Arcadia Railroad Company. The company was founded by Forsyth, the Simpsons, and Twitchell in 1838.</p><br>
<p>Forsyth and the Simpsons moved their lumber mills to Bagdad in 1840 due to transportation issues. The mills at Arcadia were replaced with a cotton mill (operated by the Forsyth and Simpson Firm) ran by slave labor. The Arcadia Mill was the largest cotton mill in the newly-incorporated state of Florida by the early 1850s. Arcadia functioned as a small community, including shops, a quarry, living quarters, tannery, blacksmith, and a well. Furthermore, along with the cotton mill, Arcadia included a gristmill.</p><br>
<p>Arcadia Mill&#39;s downfall began in the mid-1850s. Joseph Forsyth died on March 10, 1855. The cotton mill was abandoned in later that year after it was largely destroyed in a fire. Twitchell relocated his mills to Bagdad. The civil war destroyed a large portion of what remained of the abandoned industrial complex, as the Confederate army blew it up to prevent the Union from revitalizing it. Arcadia remained abandoned for 109 years until it was rediscovered by Warren Weekes in 1964.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Bell House is a historic house and National Historic Landmark at 70 Perry Street  in Newport, Rhode Island. Also known as Edna Villa, it is one of the outstanding examples of Shingle Style architecture in the United States. It was designed by McKim, Mead, and White, and built during the Gilded Age, when Newport was the summer resort of choice for some of America&#39;s wealthiest families.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Isaac Bell Jr. was a successful cotton broker and investor, and the brother-in-law of James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the New York Herald. Bell hired the New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White (Charles Follen McKim, William R. Mead, and Stanford White) to design his summer cottage. Known in Newport for designing Newport Casino, and later in Boston for designing Boston Public Library, they also designed Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Construction took place between 1881 and 1883.</p><br>
<p>Shingle Style was pioneered by Henry Hobson Richardson in his design for the William Watts Sherman House, also in Newport. This style of Victorian architecture, featuring the extensive use of wooden shingles on the exterior, acquired some popularity in the late nineteenth century. The Isaac Bell House exemplifies this through its unpainted wood shingles, simple window and trim detail, and multiple porches. It combines elements of the English Arts and Crafts movement philosophy, colonial American detailing, and features a Japanese-inspired open floor plan and bamboo-style porch columns. Interior features include inglenook fireplaces, natural rattan wall coverings, wall paneling and narrow-band wooden floors.</p><br>
<p>During its life, the house has variously been divided into apartments and served as a nursing home. With the help of Carol Chiles Ballard, the house was bought in 1994 by the Preservation Society of Newport County, which won awards for its restoration, and now operates it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Bell House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Anhinga Trail is a short trail  in the Everglades National Park. Located 4 miles from the park entrance, it starts at the Royal Palm Visitor Center. The trail is a paved walkway and a boardwalk over Taylor Slough, a freshwater sawgrass marsh. Abundant wildlife is visible from the trail, including alligators, turtles, anhingas, herons, and egrets. It is one of the most popular trails in the park. On November 5, 1996, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, tourists witnessed a fight between an alligator and a Burmese python which went on for 24 hours, until a larger alligator joined the fight and the snake escaped. Video and news coverage of the fight was widespread and brought attention to the spread of the python, an invasive species, in the Everglades.</p><br>
<p>The Sweeting Homestead  is a historic site in Elliott Key . On September 19, 1997, it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The story of the Sweeting family, English Bahamian settlers, is central to the Homestead&#39;s narrative. Their journey to Elliott Key came through Key West, a bustling maritime hub during the late 19th century. In April 1882, Asa Sweeting, along with his sons George and Thomas, embarked on a journey to Elliott Key, where they filed a homestead claim for 154.4 acres under the provisions of The Homestead Act of 1862.</p><br>
<p>The Sweeting familys endeavors on Elliott Key primarily revolved around agriculture. They delved into pineapple, key lime, and tomato cultivation, capitalizing on the favorable, frost-free climate of the Florida Keys. Notably, George Sweeting, one of Asas sons, owned and operated a fleet of schooners, facilitating the transport of their produce to northern markets.</p><br>
<p>The year 1906 marked a significant turning point for the Sweeting family when a devastating hurricane struck Elliott Key. The hurricane&#39;s storm surge inundated the island, causing extensive damage to homes and pineapple plantations. In response, the family shifted their focus to commercial fishing, which offered a stable year-round income source. The challenges posed by the Great Depression prompted many families, including the Sweetings, to leave the island in search of better opportunities on the mainland.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, Biscayne National Monument was established, encompassing Elliott Key. Later, in 1980, it became Biscayne National Park, preserving the island and the homestead site.</p><br>
<p>Demere Key is an archaeological site west of Pine Island, Florida. On June 13, 1972, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The island is named for its early owner, Lewis Deméré (1813 – c.1880), who was born at St. Simons Island, Georgia. He and his wife, Virginia Clancy Barnard Deméré (1821–1900) and son, Raymond Barnard Deméré (1843–1905) lived on the island until about 1880.</p><br>
<p>The Josslyn Island Site is an archaeological site composed of a shell mound in Lee County, Florida, United States.</p><br>
<p>In mid-1983, the shell mound was cleared and mapped by archaeologists from the Southwest Florida Archaeological Society, operating with funds donated by Don Randell, the owner. It was revealed to cover an area of approximately 4 hectare, and some parts of the mound reached a height of more than 5 m. Most of the shells in the mound are those of whelks and conchs; noticeably absent are oyster and clam shells. Although the dates of the shells are unknown, they are believed to have been deposited by Calusa peoples during or soon before European contact.</p><br>
<p>The mound has only rarely been visited since the beginning of the twentieth century; except for a few non-archaeologists who attempted to excavate the site, the 1983 survey was the first known human visit since the site was recorded in 1896. Seeing the high state of preservation in which the Josslyn Island Shell Mound exists, researchers have proposed that it may hold significant stores of knowledge about its creators. In recognition of its archaeological value, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is one of eight Lee County archaeological sites to be included on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The Benham House is a historic house located at 280-282 South Main Street in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1876, and is a two-story, three-bay wide, Italianate-style brick dwelling. It features a low hipped roof topped by a cupola with cast iron cresting, full-width front porch, and two-story projecting bay window. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Fletcher Place is a historic district and neighborhood in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana named after Calvin Fletcher, a prominent local banker, farmer and state senator.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood is clearly defined by I-70/I-65 to the south and East Street to the west. The northern border of the neighborhood is along South Street, Lord Street, Fletcher Avenue, and Bates Street, depending on specific location. The eastern border of the neighborhood is Virginia Avenue in some places, while it is I-65 in a few spots, and Calvary Street in a few areas.</p><br>
<p>Fletcher Place is surrounded by the Wholesale District to the north, Eli Lilly and Company to the west, Bates-Hendricks neighborhood to the south, and Fountain Square to the east and southeast.</p><br>
<p>Fletcher Place is the home to a few of Indianapolis keynote restaurants: Milktooth, Bluebeard, Iarias Italian, Bosphorus Istanbul Cafe, and Dugout Bar. Additionally, Eli Lilly and Company and Anthem have their world headquarters bordering Fletcher Place, making it a magnet neighborhood for Indianapolis&#39; health-care industry professionals.</p><br>
<h2>Fletcher Place Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Fletcher Place Historic District is a 40.5 acre national historic district in the neighborhood that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Paul W. Dillon Home, often referred to as the Dillon Home, is located in Sterling, Illinois. It was home to businessman P.W. Dillon, who was the president of Northwestern Steel & Wire Company for many of its most successful years. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>While the land itself had dozens of owners, once built, the home with the land had seven owners with only six residing within its walls. The Victorian home less its East wing, was constructed in 1858 and is cast in the Italianate style. The home was eventually purchased by Washington M. Dillon, and ultimately conveyed to his son, P.W., following his death.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, P.W. married Lucretia (Crete) Blackman Dillon, of Dixon. The couple raised their three children in P.W.s boyhood home. To accommodate their growing family, P.W. replaced the existing small, open porch on the south with a much larger enclosed two-story porch. The northeast porch was also enclosed. Since then, the only major structural change has been the installation of an elevator in 1972. The homes grandeur is a remarkable sight, as P.W.&#39;s wife Crete, was an avid traveler, and collector of eclectic pieces and period furniture.</p><br>
<p>P.W. and Crete lived in the home for 50 years when Crete died in 1970. Ten years later, P.W. died in the same home where he was born. Unique from most historic home museums, The Dillon Home retains all of the original furnishings and belongings, since the home and land was conveyed to the Sterling Park District after PW.’s passing in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The home opened to the public as a museum on November 18, 1980. The following year, Baldwin Steam Engine #73 was retired and moved to the south lawn along with a tender and caboose. Until its retirement, the engine was operational at Northwestern Steel & Wire, and was the last working steam engine in the United States used in an industrial application.</p><br>
<p>The Appanoose County Courthouse is located in the county seat of Centerville, Iowa, United States. The courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 1997 it was included as a contributing property in the Courthouse Square Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first structure used for court purposes in Appanoose County was also used as a storeroom and a blacksmith&#39;s shop. The first true courthouse was a 24 by structure built in 1848 for $160 in Centerville. After the county outgrew this building, court sessions were held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches while another courthouse was built. It was a two-story, brick building built for $23,000. In 1891 it was declared unsafe and condemned.</p><br>
<p>The architects for the present courthouse was the Des Moines architectural firm of Wetherell and Gage. In February 1903 the contract, exclusive of heating and plumbing, was awarded to William Peatman, the amount of his bid being $69,900. The cornerstone was laid on May 21, 1903. The courthouse was dedicated on September 12, 1904, and rededicated in a festive ceremony on September 12, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story rusticated limestone structure is built on a high foundation. Its eclectic appearance combines large polygonal bays and rock-faced stone from the medieval revivals with classical details found in the pediments and the pilastered main entrance. A large round arch window is located over the main entrance, and the building is capped with a two-stage central clock tower.</p><br>
<p>The Courthouse Square Historic District in Centerville, Iowa, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 through the efforts of the Centerville Historic Preservation Commission. The district consists of an area centered on the town square and bounded by Van Buren Street, Haynes Avenue, Maple Street and 10th Street. The Appanoose County Courthouse is located in the center of the Courthouse Square District.</p><br>
<p>Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his familys older house. John Ariss is the attributed designer while William Buckland  was the builder/architect. Tayloes daughter, Rebecca and her husband Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence  are buried on the estate, as are many other Tayloes. Before the American Civil War, Mount Airy was a prominent racing horse stud farm, as well as the headquarters of about 10-12 separate but interdependent slave plantations along the Rappahannock River . Mount Airy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark as well as on the Virginia Landmarks Register and is still privately owned by Tayloe&#39;s descendants.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Mount Airy is composed of a massive two-story central block above a high basement, 69 ft long and 47 ft deep, two curving one-story passageways, and two 36 ft-square two-story end dependencies set forward. The five-part unit, 128 ft long, encloses three sides of a semi-circular forecourt. This court is raised by a low terrace above the entrance drive and is reached by cut and molded stone steps, flanked by elaborate carved stone vases on pedestals. Set on a ridge, the house commands a wide view of the Rappahannock River Valley. The 3 ft walls of the central unit are made of dark-brown sandstone, carefully hewn and laid in courses of random height, with architectural trim in light-colored limestone. It is possible that the exterior may originally have been stuccoed though no trace remains. The north or entrance façade is approached from the forecourt by a flight of steps leading to a recessed loggia, whose square columns, faced with four Roman Doric pilasters, define three rectilinear openings. The projecting central pavilion is of rusticated limestone, with three windows in the second story and a crowning pediment. The south or garden facade is almost identical in composition except that the three entrances in the pavilion are spanned by round arches with heavily marked voussoirs and keystones, and the upper windows are unframed. The other windows are framed by stone architraves and sills, and the limestone belt course and rusticated angle quoins are very prominent. The existing broad hip roof, pierced by four interior chimneys located near the ridge, is a replacement of the original roof, possibly a hip-on-hip that was destroyed by fire in 1844. It "is the most architecturally sophisticated of Virginia&#39;s surviving colonial mansions."</p><br>
<p>The south or rear elevation was undoubtedly taken directly from Plate LVIII of James Gibbs Book of Architecture and the north elevation was less directly derived from a plate of Haddo House in Scotland, shown in William Adams Vitruvius Scoticus. The two stone two-story dependencies have hipped roofs and central chimneys and their corners are given the same quoin treatment as the main house. The connecting passageways, also of stone, are quadrants covered with shed roofs that are concealed from the north or front. At the junction with the central block, the roofs of the connections are stepped up to allow entrances to the main floor of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The shaped terraced levels of its gardens are still clearly visible beneath its modern covering of lawn. Mount Airy has the earliest surviving Orangery in North America. A sustainable, owner-operated, flower farm in Virginia&#39;s Northern Neck and part of historic Mount Airy Farm occupies the space today. The gardens produce a variety of blooms, herbs, woody ornamentals, & cold season vegetables, for weddings, events, flower bouquets, and floral design.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Fauntleroy</h3><br>
<p>Prior to the purchase by Col. William Tayloe, John Tayloe II&#39;s grandfather, the land on which Mount Airy stands was originally purchased by Colonel Moore Fauntleroy in 1651, to add to his existing plantation on the north shore of the Rappahannock River in old Rappahannock County.</p><br>
<h3>The Old House</h3><br>
<p>In 1682 Col. William Tayloe purchased 3,000 acres from Col. Moore Fauntleroys son William, and built a 20-room brick dwelling called "The Old House." Williams son, Col. John Tayloe I inherited the house upon his father&#39;s death in 1710.</p><br>
<h3>John Tayloe II</h3><br>
<p>The Tayloe family had owned the land around Mount Airy for over a century before Colonel John Tayloe II, a fourth-generation tobacco planter, began building a manor house with a commanding view of the Rappahannock River valley as well as westward towards the town of Tappahannock on a ridge above the broad bottomlands and marshes of the Rappahannock River. The project began around 1748 and finished in 1758. Tayloe used reference books of the day to incorporate then-modern and now-classical architectural themes. As discussed below, John Tayloe II also became a distinguished breeder of racehorses at this plantation. The original stable and a few outbuildings (including a smokehouse and dairy/ice-house) survive to this day.</p><br>
<p>Col. Tayloes son-in-law Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived nearby, at Menokin a gift from JTII to his son-in-law and daughter on the occasion of their marriage. Tayloes daughter and her famous husband are buried in the Tayloe family cemetery, approximately 300 yd from the manor house.</p><br>
<p>John Tayloe II, who established the familys turf-racing business, imported Jenny Cameron, Jolly Roger and Childers to Virginia, three of the most important colonial racing imports. He also owned the winning racehorses Hero, Juniper, Single Peeper, Yorick, Traveller and Nonpareil. The first noteworthy colonial horse race was won by Col. Taskers 6 year old imported mare Selima at Annapolis, Maryland in May 1752. That December, Selima raced in Gloucester, Virginia and beat Col William Byrds "Trial", as well as this Col. Tayloes "Jenny Cameron" & "Childers" and Col. Thorntons "Unnamed". That sweepstakes, in four mile heats and with a purse of 500 pistoles, marks the beginning of the competition between Maryland and Virginia in horseracing. In April, 1766, Col. Tayloes "Traveller" won with ease, beating Col Lewis Burwell III of Kingsmill Plantations "John Dismal" and Francis Whitings "Janus." In October Col. Tayloes "Hero" won the purse, beating Col William Byrds "Trial" & "Valiant," and Richard Henry Lees "Mark Anthony." In November, at Chestertown, Maryland, a purse of 100 pistoles was run for by the two most celebrated horses of the era, Col. Tayloes "Yorick" and Sam Galloways (of Tulip Hill in Maryland) horse "Selim" (son of Selima). In May, 1767, Col. Tayloe won the "50 Pistoles Purse" near Annapolis as his horse "Traveller" outraced: "Trial" Bullens, Benedict Calverts "Regulus" and Dr. Hamiltons "Ranger". In the spring of 1769, Capt Littleberry Hardyman again won the purse with "Mark Anthony," beating John Tayloes "Nonpareil" and Nathaniel Withoes "Fanny Murray." In the fall of 1774, at Fredericksburg John Tayloes "Single Peeper" won the "50 Pound Purse" beating Benjamin Grymes "Miss Spot," Walker Taliaferros "Valiant," Spotswoods "Fearnaught," Charles Jones "Regulus," Procters "Jenny Bottom," Robert Slaughters "Ariel" and Peter Presley Thornton&#39;s "Ariel." on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art</p><br>
<h3>John Tayloe III</h3><br>
<p>The son of John Tayloe II also continued his father&#39;s horse racing legacy at Mount Airy importing Diomed who sired Sir Archie, arguably the most important thoroughbred racehorse of his era. Upon completion of his townhouse, The Octagon he cofounded founded the Washington Jockey Club in the new federal city, Washington, D.C. (which became his winter residence). He also operated an ironworks and shipbuilding facility near Neabsco, Virginia, Neabsco Iron Works, led a company of dragoons into Pennsylvania to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion, and held various local political offices.</p><br>
<h3>William Henry Tayloe</h3><br>
<p>The son of John Tayloe III, took over Mount Airy in 1828. Its enslaved population continued to increase, even as depleted soil led to crop shortfalls and declining profits. He and his brothers responded in part by acquiring cotton fields in west-central or Black Belt region of Alabama. Between 1833 and 1862, William Henry Tayloe moved a total of 218 slaves (many teenagers) about 800 miles from Virginia to Alabama. Because the trans-Atlantic slave trade nominally closed because Britain ended slavery and because the USA Constitution&#39;s provisions against slave imports took effect in 1808, Virginia became a net exporter of enslaved people within the USA Although the USA had fewer than a million enslaved people as the 19th century began (mostly concentrated in the coastal and piedmont South), with the invention of the cotton gin and development of internal slave trading, there were four times as many enslaved people four decades later, working from Charleston to Texas.</p><br>
<p>A fire started by a maid in 1844 gutted the house and destroyed most of the woodwork of master carpenter William Buckland. It was rebuilt within its shell of brown sandstone with limestone quoins and using the original floor plan.</p><br>
<h3>Henry Augustine "Harry" Tayloe II</h3><br>
<h3>Henry Gwynne Tayloe</h3><br>
<h3>Henry Gwynne Tayloe Jr. and Grand Polly</h3><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>Mount Airy is a private home and is still in possession of the Tayloe family, currently, Mr. John Tayloe Emery, Sr., and his family, a media and entertainment professional, and is not generally open to the public. The Tayloe family papers are at the Virginia Historical Society.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial Rehab</h3><br>
<p>Mount Airy was featured in a HGTV show based on the restoration work done to the West Wing of the manor house. The show, called American Rehab Virginia (née Colonial Rehab), was written by Mr. Emery and produced by Magnetic Productions and began airing in 2015, reruns can be found on HGTV and DIY Network.</p><br>
<h3>Mount Airy Bluegrass Festival</h3><br>
<p>The inaugural Mount Airy Bluegrass Festival billed as "Bluegrass Under The Stars," was held in June 2017 and featured John Starling of The Seldom Scene, his son Jay Starling a member of the band Love Canon on dobro; with guitarist Jesse Harper (Love Canon), bassist Cameron Ralston (Spacebomb), cellist Nat Smith and Courtney Hartman (Della Mae) on vocals and guitar. Staged and produced by John Tayloe Emery Sr. and cousin Robert Tayloe Cook VII, it would turn out to be the Bluegrass Hall of Fame member John Starling&#39;s final show.</p><br>
<p>In its second year it was held on June 30, 2018, the lineup included The Seldom Scene, Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys, The Trailblazers w/ Ivy Phillips and special guests The Waterview Bluegrass Assembly. In 2019 it featured Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice, Josh Grigsby and County Line, and Carolina Blue, on June 28 and 29. Hubs Peanuts has been a sponsor since the inaugural "Bluegrass Under the Stars," while both Alewerks Brewing, Williamsburg, VA, and Champion Brewing Co., Richmond & Charlottesville, have provided beer for the event.</p><br>
<h3>Mount Airy Water Fowl</h3><br>
<p>Mr. Emery has enhanced the property around the western boundary, on Catpoint Creek, as a waterfowl destination, building new blinds and banking impoundments for flooding along the Atlantic Flyway. The estate holds duck, geese, turkey, and whitetail hunts.</p><br>
<h3>Mount Airy Gardens</h3><br>
<p>The gracious Mrs. Catherine Emery has painstakingly reinvigorated the gardens around the Manor House, including converting a root cellar into a florist building. The operation is based on sustainability and produces a variety of blooms, herbs, woody ornamentals & cold season vegetables for weddings, events, flower bouquets, and floral design.</p><br>
<h2>Listing on National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>Mount Airy was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. It was identified as a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960.</p><br>
<p>The Keewaydin Club is a historic site in Naples, Florida. The Inn, which opened in 1934 and closed in 1999, is located at the north</p><br>
<p>end of Keewaydin Island.</p><br>
<p>On December 22, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places, becoming the second site in Florida to do so.</p><br>
<p>The island remained basically natural with no cars or vehicles other than a golf cart at the club on the few southern hundred yards of the 7 mile long island where the club and its guest cottages were located.</p><br>
<p>Ferry access to the Inn was aboard the Kokomis, a 21-footer now part of the Collier County Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Monroe Station was a historic gas station, restaurant and bar in Ochopee, Florida. It was located at the junction of Tamiami Trail and Loop Road. On May 11, 2000, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. As of July 29, 2007, it was boarded up and abandoned.</p><br>
<p>Monroe Station burned to the ground April 9, 2016. It was delisted from the National Register on May 15, 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Ted Smallwood Store  is a historic store in Chokoloskee, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>C.S. "Ted" Smallwood came to Chokoloskee Island as a permanent settler in 1897 and became postmaster in 1906, operating the post office from his home. In 1917, Smallwood built the general store that also served as post office for the residents of Chokoloskee Island. It is located at SR 29 in Everglades National Park. On July 24, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. Today, the store has been preserved as a museum with many original goods and fixtures. However, it is at risk from property developers.</p><br>
<h2>In the media</h2><br>
<p>The Smallwood Store was featured as one of the haunted locations on the paranormal TV series Most Terrifying Places in America in an episode titled "Restless Dead", which aired on the Travel Channel in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The episode told the story of "Bloody" Ed Watson, an outlaw who allegedly fled Oklahoma after killing a member of Butch and Sundance&#39;s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and wound up in the Everglades. When hired laborers to help with his sugarcane plantation in the area. But when they wanted to move on, Watson would take them to the Smallwood Store so they could catch a boat to Fort Myers or Key West.</p><br>
<p>However, they never made it. Watson killed them and buried the bodies in the swamp. He did this horrible deed for 15 years, until he was caught in 1910 when someone found the body of a woman named Hannah Smith. The townsfolk rounded up a posse of men and they came after Watson who they knew visited the store for supplies every Tuesday. After the men told Watson they were going to arrest him for their Hannah&#39;s death, he came out of the store and aimed his double-barrel shotgun at the men. Since the shotgun shells were wet, the gun misfired. The men then unloaded on Watson; the first shot was right between his eyes, while 30 rounds went into his body. When the town did an autopsy, they pulled a "coffee can" filled with lead out of his body.</p><br>
<p>The Everglades Laundry is a historic site at 105 West Broadway in Everglades City, Florida.</p><br>
<p>On September 22, 2001, the site was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The wayside marker describes it as the Old Laundry Building, and it was completed in 1928, serving in the capacity as a community laundry building. It became the clubhouse for the "Everglades Women&#39;s Club" in 1965, when it was purchased from the Colliers.</p><br>
<h2>Museum of the Everglades</h2><br>
<p>The site is now the home of the Museum of the Everglades, opened in 1998 by the Collier County Museum. Exhibits display the history and culture of the southwest Everglades area, including the ancient Calusa, Seminole, pioneers and entrepreneurs, such as Barron Collier.</p><br>
