<p>The Nallin Farm House and the related Nallin Farm Springhouse and Bank Barn are located on Fort Detrick at Frederick, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The Federal style brick farmhouse was built in stages between the 1780s and the 1830s and formerly served as the residence of the Fort Detrick commanding officer. It is known on post as "Building 1652".</p><br>
<p>The Nallin Farm was incorporated into Fort Detrick upon the post&#39;s expansion in 1955. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Upper East Side Historic District is a landmarked historic district on the Upper East Side of New York City&#39;s borough of Manhattan, first designated by the city in 1981. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Its boundaries were expanded in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The district includes all of the Fifth Avenue properties bordering Central Park from 59th to 78th Street; both sides of Madison Avenue from 61st Street to 77th Street; both sides of Park Avenue from just below 62nd Street to 72nd Street; and portions of both sides of Lexington Avenue from 63rd Street to 75th Street.</p><br>
<p>The district is home to a number of buildings individually listed on the National Register, including the Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion and the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House, as well as edifices that are more recent additions like the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue — a 2003 building designed in an "artful synthesis of the composition, details and material palette of the Beaux-Arts style," to complement the historic buildings that surround it.</p><br>
<p>The Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House is a Neo-Georgian townhouse at 47 and 49 E. 65th St. on the Upper East Side of New York City, designed by Charles A. Platt for Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt in 1907. It originally held "two mirror-image residences with a single facade and entrance. Each first floor had its own front reception room with a welcoming fireplace. Rear parlors could be combined through sliding doors." The house was given to the Roosevelts by Franklin&#39;s mother as a wedding gift for them.</p><br>
<p>The house was used by Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt from its completion in 1908 to her death in 1941, and intermittently by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt from construction to their sale of the house to Hunter College in 1943. After his mother&#39;s death in 1941, President Roosevelt and his wife placed the house up for sale and a non-profit consortium was organized to purchase the house on behalf of Hunter College. The house was closed in 1992 and reopened in 2010 after an $18 million renovation. Leslie E. Robertson Associates were the structural engineers on this renovation. The building is currently used by Hunter College as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College or, simply, Roosevelt House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Highland Heights–Stevens&#39; Subdivision Historic District is a residential historic district located in Highland Park, Michigan along five east-west streets: Farrand Park, McLean Street, Colorado Street, Rhode Island Street, and Massachusetts Street, between Woodward Avenue on the west and Oakland Avenue on the east. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The structures in the neighborhood are primarily single-family homes built in the early twentieth century. The area features an unusually high concentration of high quality, middle class housing stock, built over a short period of time, with much of it still well-preserved.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Highland Heights–Stevens Subdivision Historic District is a neighborhood of primarily single-family detached homes. There are 422 single-family homes, two apartment buildings, five commercial buildings, and the McGregor Library located within the district. Of these, 392 single-family houses, both two apartment buildings, and the library are classified as contributing to the districts historic character.</p><br>
<p>The houses are fine representation of the variety of American residential architecture in the years 1900-1930. Styles represented include foursquares, bungalows, and various revival styles. There are also 393 garages in the district, located along back alleys. Of these, 373 appear to have been constructed in the years of the area&#39;s initial development, and their presence and construction reflects the upwardly mobile, middle-class character of the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Highland Heights-Stevens Subdivision Highland Park 2.jpgHomes on Rhode Island Street</p><br>
<p>Highland Heights-Stevens Subdivision Highland Park 3.jpgHomes on Colorado Street</p><br>
<p>Highland Heights-Stevens Subdivision Highland Park 4.jpgHomes on McLean Street near Woodward Avenue</p><br>
<p>The Nallin Farm Springhouse and Bank Barn are closely associated with the Nallin Farm House on the grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, US. The barn is a good example of a fieldstone-built bank barn with a byre on the lower level and an earth ramp on the opposite side providing access to a haymow.</p><br>
<p>The simple stone springhouse is the source of -acre Nallin Pond. The barn and springhouse were built.</p><br>
<p>The Nallin Farm Springhouse and Bank Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The barn has a hay hood, as can be seen in the 14th of 17 photos included in the nomination.</p><br>
<p>The Medbury&#39;s–Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District is a residential historic district located in Highland Park, Michigan. It runs along three east–west streets: Eason Street, Moss Street, and Puritan Street, from Hamilton Avenue on the west to Woodward Avenue on the east. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Highland Park was a farming community until near the turn of the twentieth century. Soon after 1900, major area manufacturers began building large plants in the area, including Ford, Brush-Maxwell (later Chrysler), and Burroughs Corporation. As a result, the population of Highland Park exploded, increasing by a factor of ten between 1900 and 1910 (from 427 to 4120), and by another factor of ten by 1920 (to 46,499). The residential areas of Highland Park followed suit, including the Medbury&#39;s and Grove Lawn subdivisions, which were platted at some time between 1904 and 1914. Most of the houses within the subdivisions were constructed between 1914 and 1924, with construction continuing, albeit more slowly, through about 1934.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Medburys–Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District is a residential neighborhood of single-family, detached homes. There are 272 homes located within the district, with 251 of them classified as contributing to the districts historic character.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was built up primarily in the 1910s and 1920s, and features a variety of architectural styles that were popular at the time. Bungalows and bungalow-style houses with Craftsman or colonial details predominate, and, in fact, the neighborhood is significant for containing Michigan&#39;s most outstanding collection of single-family bungalows and bungalow-style homes. However, foursquare, colonial revival, and English cottage homes are also present within the neighborhood. The homes in the district are notable for their variety and the level of craftsmanship and detailing, and are excellent examples of the variety found in American suburban domestic architecture of the period 1900–1930.</p><br>
<p>The district also contains 272 garages and sheds, located along alleys behind the homes. Of these, 250 appear to date from the neighborhood&#39;s original development, and reflect the upwardly-mobile, middle-class character of the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Medbury&#39;s-Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District 1.jpgBungalow at Moss and Third</p><br>
<p>Medbury&#39;s-Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District 2.jpgHouse at Moss and Second</p><br>
<p>Medbury&#39;s-Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District 4.jpgStreetscape on Puritan</p><br>
<p>The Alston–Cobb House, now formally known as the Clarke County Historical Museum, is a historic house and local history museum in Grove Hill, Alabama, United States. It was built in 1854 by Dr. Lemuel Lovett Alston as a Greek Revival I-house, a vernacular style also known in the South as Plantation Plain. The Alston–Cobb House was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 1, 1978, and to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lemuel Alston migrated to Grove Hill and began the practice of medicine around 1852. The house was completed in 1854, shortly before his marriage to Sarah French Jackson on November 1, 1854. The house was subsequently owned by the Bettis, Cobb, Bumpers, and Postma families until it was purchased by the Clarke County Historical Society in 1980. The historical society restored the house and opened it as the Clarke County Museum in 1986. The museum features exhibits that cover a broad range of topics from Zeuglodon fossils to the American Civil War and an antebellum kitchen.</p><br>
<h2>The grounds</h2><br>
<p>Several historic structures have been moved to the museum grounds and restored. The Creagh Law Office, built in 1834 by Judge John Gates Creagh, was moved to the site in 1990 and restored. The Turner Corn Crib is a corn crib which is thought to have been partially built from timbers salvaged from Fort Turner, a log fortification that served the area during the Creek War in 1813. It was moved to the grounds in 2001 and restored. The Mathews Cabin was acquired in 2005 and restoration was completed in 2008. It is a log cabin with two large rooms separated by a breezeway, a form often known as a dogtrot house, and dates to the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>Staats Mill Covered Bridge, also known as Tug Fork Covered Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge near Ripley in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1887, the Staats Mill Covered Bridge originally crossed the Tug Fork of Big Mill Creek and was named for Enoch Staats&#39; water-powered mill.</p><br>
<p>The Staats family were early settlers to the area, arriving around 1780. The bridge was built adjacent to Enoch Staats&#39; mill and store and played an important role in the history and development of Jackson County. Construction of the bridge was handled by the Jackson County Court, which paid a total of $1,788.35 to local craftspeople for completion of the structure.</p><br>
<p>Nearly 100 ft long, the Staats Mill Covered Bridge was constructed using the Long system, patented by Stephen Long in 1830. The distinctive feature of Long trusses are the "X"-braced diagonals in each of the panels. This bridge has 11 such panels, each 8 ft long and 14 ft deep. The bridge is an impressive and historically significant example of a late nineteenth century timber-covered bridge building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the old bridge was moved to the FFA-FHA State Camp at Cedar Lakes, 3 mi from the original site and reconstructed across a pond at a cost of $104,000. It is in excellent condition and open to pedestrian traffic only. Central to the project, was the expertise and knowledge of Dr. Emory Kemp of West Virginia University.</p><br>
<p>Washington Terrace is a residential private place in St. Louis, Missouri, laid out circa 1892. The gate is south of Union and Delmar, within the bounds of the Central West End.</p><br>
<p>A private place is a self-governing enclave whose common areas like streets and common gardens are owned by the residents, with services provided by the private sector, an experiment that foreshadowed the gated community in the USA by 100 years. About 50 of these enclaves once stood within the borders of the city of St. Louis. Most were designed by civil engineer Julius Pitzman between 1868 and 1905. Many of these developments, like Washington Terrace, are well-preserved and still gated, patrolled, and functioning as private enclaves.</p><br>
<p>Pitzman laid out Washington Terrace with 50 lots and an imposing entry gate, a "French Norman Clock Tower" designed by Harvey Ellis and the architect George R. Mann. The styles of the mansions, many of them built in anticipation of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and constructed atop substantial pedestals, range from Italian Renaissance, Richardsonian Romanesque and Tudor.</p><br>
<p>Number 25 Washington Terrace, for instance, was the residence of Joseph W. Moon, of St. Louis&#39;s once-successful Moon Motor Car. Number 11 was the home of Julius Adler Baer, of Stix, Baer and Fuller.</p><br>
<p>The Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery was used to raise trout and salmon for release into the McKenzie River in western Oregon in the United States. It is located near the unincorporated community of Vida in Lane County. The hatchery is closed, however, the historic site is now a county park. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On March 6, 1907, the State of Oregon purchased land along the McKenzie River between Leaburg and Vida for a fish hatchery. The state paid $518.07 for the land. The original hatchery building was built by C.J. Buley. The facility was opened on May 11, 1907. The hatchery superintendents house and other support buildings were also constructed at about the same time. The original hatchery building was replaced in 1928, but the superintendents residence and several other original buildings still exist at the site.</p><br>
<p>The hatchery facilities were used by the State of Oregon to grow trout and salmon until the early 1950s. Over the years, it grew to be a large operation. In 1951, the hatchery collected 1,530,560 fish eggs for breeding. The state then decided to replace the old hatchery with a modern production facility. Between 1952 and 1953, the entire hatchery operation was moved to a new facility about a half-mile downstream from the original site adjacent to the Leaburg Dam. The old hatchery was closed in 1953.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, Lane County commissioned a study to determine if the abandoned hatchery site should be developed. The study found that the old McKenzie hatchery had historic and natural value, and recommended that the site be developed as a public park. Because of its unique architecture and importance to the history of the McKenzie River Valley, the Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. In 2007, the Lane County Parks Advisory Committee endorsed a plan to expand the facilities at the site of the historic fish hatchery to include a small museum and an interpretive center.</p><br>
<h2>County park</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery is a 46 acre park operated by Lane County. The historic site has eight main buildings and seven minor structures. The main hatchery buildings have been renovated, and are used as an environmental education center. There are interpretive signs on the grounds that describe hatchery operations and highlight some remaining artifacts. It is also home to the McKenzie River Chamber of Commerce Information Center. Because it is located just off Highway 126 (also known as the McKenzie River Highway), the hatchery is a popular rest stop for travelers. At the site, there are picnic tables, restrooms, drinking water, and parking. In addition, the facilities meet all the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.</p><br>
<p>The Friends of the Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery work with the Lane County Parks Division to develop and maintain the historic site. According to its charter, the group was established to "perpetuate and maintain the Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery to achieve the highest quality for the public benefit; to enhance the historic features of the property…to encourage use of the site for educational purposes, and to provide facilities for the public enjoyment and use of its natural and historic features."</p><br>
<p>Zion Church is a historic Episcopal church building located in Rome, Oneida County, New York. The church was designed by noted national church architect, Richard Upjohn, , built in 1850. It is a three-by-four-bay structure built of bluestone in the Gothic Revival style. Located adjacent is the stone "Clarke Memorial Hall" designed by local designer Frederick Hubbard and built a quarter-century later in 1884–1885.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in 1997 on the National Register of Historic Places which is maintained by the USA Department of the Interior&#39;s National Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The Thomasville Historic District is a historic district in the city of Thomasville, Alabama, United States. Thomasville was founded in 1888, along the then newly constructed railroad between Mobile and Selma. The city&#39;s business district suffered a major fire in 1899, with only one brick building surviving. The historic district features examples of early commercial, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and regional vernacular architecture. The historic district is centered on the old business district and is roughly bounded by USA Highway 43, West Front Street, Wilson Street, and West Third Street. It is a part of the Clarke County Multiple Property Submission and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1999.</p><br>
<p>Rock Creek Station and Stricker Homesite is a historical site operated by the Idaho State Historical Society. It includes the Stricker Store and Farm, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Two previously important roadways  met at this site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At one time, the Rock Creek Station was the largest stage station between Fort Hall and Fort Boise. In 1864, Ben Holladay selected the site for a home station on his Overland Stage Line. In 1865, James Bascom built the Rock Creek Store. In 1876, Herman Stricker purchased the store and remained the proprietor until it closed in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Visitors can see the Rock Creek Store building, Stricker home, reconstructed summer house, and an interpretive center.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Historic Properties is a historical site operated by the Idaho State Historical Society in Franklin, Idaho. The site consists of the L. H. Hatch House, the Relic Hall, and Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Institution, which were separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, 2001, and 1991 respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Hatch House</h2><br>
<p>The L. H. Hatch House is a two-story stone Greek Revival house. Its design features the typical street-facing gable end and three-bay front facade; details include stone quoins at the corners and decorative woodwork. The house was constructed in 1874, after the Greek Revival&#39;s height of popularity in America, and is one of the best-preserved examples of the style in Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Relic Hall</h2><br>
<p>The Relic Hall is a rustic-style building constructed in 1937. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the structure, and its design exhibits the typical log architecture used by the CCC; this design consists of a stone foundation, log walls, and a shingle roof with exposed rafters. The building houses a variety of historical collections; while the Idaho State Historical Society owns the building, the collections are administered by the Idaho Pioneer Association.</p><br>
<h2>Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Institution</h2><br>
<p>The Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Institution, which was built in 1869, was a cooperative general store organized as part of a wider Mormon movement. The movement, which was centrally led by Mormon authorities, saw the opening of local general stores which received their goods both from wholesalers and community residents. The store building is a stone Greek Revival structure; while stone was a common building material during the Mormon settlement of Idaho, few of Franklins early stone buildings survive. The cooperative store operated until the 1880s, when the cooperative movement faded and it was bought by a single owner. In 1923, the building became one of Idahos first history museums and was the predecessor of the Relic Hall.</p><br>
<p>Pierce Courthouse, also known as Pierce Historic Site, is a historic wooden building located in Pierce, Idaho. It was built in 1862 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse, and the town of Pierce itself, is named after Elias D. Pierce, a local metal prospector active in the mid-19th century. Later the town of Pierce became the Shoshone County (Washington Territory) seat. The Pierce Courthouse housed governmental functions until 1885.</p><br>
<p>The site is operated by the Idaho State Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Birches is a historic house on Foster Lane in Belgrade Lakes, Maine. Built in 1916 to a design by John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens, it is the best-preserved surviving structure related to The Belgrade Hotel, a large summer resort hotel which burned down in 1955. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Birches stands on the east side of Foster Lane, a short way south of its northern end at Lakeshore Drive, and about 0.15 mi south of that road&#39;s junction with Maine State Route 27. It is a rectangular -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and shingled exterior. Its main facade faces northwest, with an enclosed single-story hip-roofed porch extending across its width. The southwest roof face is adorned with an eyebrow dormer, and a fieldstone chimney rises through the northeast roof face. The interior has a large two-story living room, finished entirely in original varnished tongue-and-groove woodwork. A balcony runs around all four sides, with a stair rising along the wall dividing the room from bedrooms and bathrooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1916, as a satellite cottage to The Belgrade Hotel, built in 1899 and twice enlarged, all to designs by the noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens. The cottage is one of four built, and was probably designed by Stevens in conjunction with his son, John Howard Stevens. The hotel burned down in 1955, and this cottage is the best-preserved of the three that survive. It was sold as a separate property after the fire, and was used as a summer cottage until 1994, when it was weatherized for year-round occupancy.</p><br>
<p>The German Bank Building, known also as Louisville Home Federal Building, is a historic building in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is located on the corner of Fifth and Market streets. The two-story structure was built in 1914 in a Beaux-Arts style with a limestone facade. In 1918, the name of the building was changed to Louisville National Bank. This was during World War I when many institutions changed names to avoid association with Germany.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Depot in Hinckley, Minnesota, United States, is a wood-framed depot built in 1895, the year after the previous depot was destroyed in the Great Hinckley Fire on September 1, 1894. The depot was built from the plans of the previous depot. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building was originally built by the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, which was acquired by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1900. The building had separate mens and womens waiting rooms, a freight room, a restaurant known as the "Beanery", and a stationmaster&#39;s living quarters on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>Passenger train service to Hinckley station ended on January 4, 1967, when trains 65 and 66 were discontinued between the Twin Cities and Duluth.</p><br>
<p>The depot is now known as the Hinckley Fire Museum. The museum interprets the history of the fire that destroyed six towns and burned over 400 square miles. It also explains how the town was rebuilt and how the area shifted to agricultural use after the lumbering era ended.</p><br>
<p>Arcadia is a historic house located between Frederick and Buckeystown, Maryland. Erected about 1790, the house overlooks Monocacy National Battlefield. The house was extensively altered in the late 19th century and now possesses an elaborate balconied tower. The interior was also extensively updated at that time.</p><br>
<p>The house played a role in the Civil War when in the days prior to the Battle of Antietam Confederate Colonel (later General) William Pendleton stayed at Arcadia. It later became General George Meade&#39;s headquarters in the time leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. During the Battle of Monocacy General Jubal Early formed his troops at Arcadia.</p><br>
<p>Arcadia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Bloomsbury, also known as the Roger Johnson House, is a sandstone house in southern Frederick County, Maryland. The house was occupied by Roger Johnson, brother of Maryland governor Thomas Johnson, who established Bloomsbury Forge nearby. The property includes the remains of log slave quarters and a rare example of an early log barn.</p><br>
<p>Bloomsbury was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Brunswick Historic District includes the historic center of the railroad town of Brunswick, Maryland. The district includes the 18th century former town of Berlin, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards along the Potomac River, and the town built between 1890 and 1910 to serve the railroad.</p><br>
<p>Brunswick Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Both the B&O Station and the Red Men Hall are contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway, formerly known as the Russell Sage Memorial Church, is a historic Presbyterian church in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was commissioned by Olivia Slocum Sage as a memorial to her late husband, Russell Sage , as they used to summer in the area. She also commissioned a large, memorial stained glass window of a landscape, designed by Tiffany Studio.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the architect Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942), the church was built between 1908 and 1910 and is a Neo-Gothic-style building laid out in a traditional cruciform plan. It is constructed of brick with concrete trim and a steeply sloping slate-covered roof. Connected to the church are a parish hall and manse. The surrounding landscape, designed by the Olmsted Brothers, is a contributing element to its designation of historic significance.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>St. Monicas Church is a historic former Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located in Jamaica, Queens, New York. It was built in 1856 and is a brick basilica-type building in the Romanesque style. It features a four-story entrance tower in the center of its three-bay-wide front façade. Saint Monicas Church has been refurbished on the Campus of York College as a child care center.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>St. Monica&#39;s Roman Catholic Church was constructed by master mason Anders Peterson under the direction of Reverend Anthony Farley. The Church is marked by its distinctive central campanile, which is reminiscent of the Romanesque architecture. Farley selected Jamaica master mason Anders Peterson, a Dane who also owned a local grist mill, as the contractor. Peterson was prominently familiar with the contemporary building history of the area and was responsible for the fine masonry of the First Reformed Church (1861-1863) and that of Grace Episcopal Church (1861-1863). The cornerstone of the building was laid in 1856 and on August 15, 1857, Bishop Loughlin, the first Bishop of Brooklyn, presided over the dedication of the church.</p><br>
<p>St. Monicas Roman Catholic Church was designed as a red brick Romanesque Revival style building with a tall central campanile and an Italian flavor. The structure was given "an impression of height beyond its actual size" by slender pilasters outlining the brick. Most of the buildings modest decoration was made so by the delicate brick situated on the top of the side walls. The inside of the church is a great open hall, which has been redecorated twice in a much higher style (during 1893 and the 1930s). It was constructed with no interior columns for support; the interior was made spacious and could seat 500 people. During the 1940s, Mario M. Cuomo was an altar boy for this church.</p><br>
<h2>Neglect and preservation</h2><br>
<p>St. Monicas Roman Catholic Church has been destroyed by vandalism and neglect. The churchs leaded-glass windows were broken, the copper gutters were ripped off the roof, holes were chopped into the sides of the building, and all the inside pews were carried away. It held a final Mass of thanksgiving before it closed its doors to make way for the growing multimillion-dollar York College expansion.</p><br>
<p>Henry Ludder Jr., head of a committee within the Friends of Jamaica History, stated that St. Monicas Church was a historic site that "not only could be preserved – it could become an important community resource. St. Monicas Church, the oldest Catholic Church on Long Island, was considered to be a fine and early example of Victorian Italianate public architecture. A final Mass was held in June 1973, and the building has remained empty and slowly deteriorated since then.</p><br>
<p>According to an article, St. Monicas Church became vacant and was in a deteriorating state in the 1970s; it was marked for demolition by the citys Housing Preservation and Developing Department. However, the demolition order was "placed on hold" pending efforts by the Friends of Jamaica History and the Queens Borough President&#39;s Office to preserve the building as a historic site. Both argued that the church could be restored and repaired for public use and be protected if funded with $300,000 to $500,000.</p><br>
<p>It was listed by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1979 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Usage as day care center</h2><br>
<p>St. Monicas Roman Catholic Church, after years of neglect and partial collapse, has been re-purposed as a childs day care center. According to Robert Hampton, president of York College which is part of the City University System, St. Monica "symbolizes in many respects what York College symbolizes to its community. A place for people to transform their lives as St. Monica had to transform her life. Its important to have a sense of history." In December 2003, ground was broken and acquired for the York College Child Care Center, cost a state-funded $4.7 million; this projects architecture represented "a fashion of something old and something new". This two-story, 10,000-square-foot (929-square-meter) steel and glass day care center incorporated the two-story brick facade and bell tower, which were all that remained of the 1856 Roman Catholic Church. The Church&#39;s walls and roof collapsed in 1999, following 12 days of torrential rain fall. However, the relic was saved on the recommendation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.</p><br>
<p>This 10,000-square-foot red brick, steel and glass building was made to accommodate up to 100 kids; the ages of the children ranged from infants under six months of age to pre-schoolers. The facility included learning spaces and eight playrooms; its hours of service then were from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for both day and night students. According to York student and psychology major, Rita Kalu, "It will be really nice, and help the students stay in school and finish in four years&#39; time."</p><br>
<p>The Newtown–Stephensburg Historic District is located in the central section of Stephens City, Virginia along USA Route 11 from the far northern to the far southern boundaries of the town and from just east of Green Hill Cemetery to just west of the interchange of State Route 277 and Interstate 81.</p><br>
<p>It is a 65 acre historic district that includes 143 contributing buildings and 4 additional contributing sites.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area that makes up the Newtown–Stephensburg Historic District was originally settled in 1734 by German settler Peter Stephens. Stephens travelled from Pennsylvania with Joist Hite in 1732. Hite&#39;s grandson, Issac Hite, Jr. would later build the Belle Grove Plantation in nearby Middletown, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Peter Stephens son, Lewis Stephens, was the owner of the original 900 acre that made up the town of Stephensburgh, as it was called when chartered and founded in September 1758.</p><br>
<p>Stephensburgh would become the second oldest town in the Shenandoah Valley (behind nearby Winchester, Virginia). Since its beginnings, the town would be a commercial hub along the "Great Philadelphia Wagon Road" (what is now today USA Route 11) and the "Old Dutch Wagon Road" (what is today State Route 277). Because Routes 11 and 277 were two very heavily traveled arteries through the 19th and 20th centuries, the town&#39;s businesses oriented towards transportation from the nationally known "Newtown Wagon" companies for the 1800s to today numerous service centers and eateries.</p><br>
<p>The historical integrity of the individual buildings and the general townscape that make up this historic area is impressive; little to no new construction has taken place in this area since the early 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Buckeystown Historic District includes the majority of the small town of Buckeystown, Maryland, an unincorporated community located in Frederick County, Maryland, USA. It is named for George Buckey, a tanner, and his brother, John Buckey, a blacksmith and tavern owner. Buckeystown is on the U.S National Register of Historic Places and the Maryland Civil War Trail due to its rich history and beautiful examples of Queen Anne and Victorian style houses, along with a small commercial center. Each historic home has a plaque indicating the year built, the earliest being circa 1780. There are also several historical information plaques installed along the main street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land Buckeystown now sits on was once called "Good Luck." It began as a 400 acre parcel given to Meredith Davis by the King of England in 1731. Over time, more land was added to the original tract. A road that stretched from Pennsylvania to Florida bisected the town and sealed the area&#39;s fate: it was the perfect place for enterprising families to settle. The town grew due to the prosperity of several businesses which took advantage of the natural resources the location provided. Two mills were located along the Monocacy River, which runs behind the southside of town, the tannery and an ice creamery utilized a natural spring, and a brickworks used the naturally occurring lime.</p><br>
<p>Buckeystown enjoyed 100 years of prosperity from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Several wealthy families began to dominate the towns social scene. These families built the lavish mansions and proud stone homes which still grace the main streets today. Buckeystowns early industrial center gradually faded, leaving a well-preserved residential district with a particular emphasis on the 1870-1910 period.</p><br>
<p>The main thoroughfare, currently known as Buckeystown Pike or Maryland State Highway 85, was used during both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Soldiers marched through town towards decisive battles, following leaders including Stonewall Jackson and General Robert E. Lee.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>The small community of Buckeystown has several businesses including Hedgeapple Farm, the Buckeystown Market (a pub), the Frederick Inn Bed and Breakfast (formally known as The Inn at Buckeystown), Bodmers Stoves and Pottery, Maynes Farm, a convenience store and gas station, an antique store, two car clinics, a law firm and a veterinary hospital. Buckeystown Park, by the river on Michael&#39;s Mill Road, provides residents with grills, horseshoe pits, picnic shelters and a jungle gym. Four books have been written about Buckeystown history and architecture by resident, Nancy Bodmer. Until recently the town held Victorian House Tours.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>The median age for Buckeystown residents is 42.0. There are 39 men and 29 women. Buckeystown is located at 39.334N and -77.431W. Average town elevation is 334 feet.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Seraphic Seminary is a former Roman Catholic minor seminary in Callicoon , New York, located on the west side of Seminary Road in that town. A Romanesque part of the seminary was built in 1904. A historic district including church and agricultural buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1904, the school was dedicated by Cardinal John Farley, the Archbishop of New York, in 1911. It served as the minor seminary of the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor. This province covers the eastern United States from Maine to Florida. Students entered St. Joseph&#39;s in the 9th grade and remained until the completion of two years of college. The curriculum was classical, with Greek and Latin as core subjects. Upon completion of the six-year program at Callicoon, the seminarians would advance to the novitiate of the Order, where they prepared to be received as members of the Order.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 1972, and the property was sold to the federal government in 1977. Universities operated by the Franciscan friars of Holy Name Province include St. Bonaventure University and Siena College.</p><br>
<p>Since June 1979, the site has served as the Delaware Valley Job Corps Center, a residential vocational training facility for low-income students.</p><br>
<p>The Buckingham House and Industrial School Complex is a historic trade school complex located near Buckeystown, Frederick County, Maryland. It consists of thirteen buildings associated with a trade school for boys from poor families that operated from 1898 to 1944. The complex centers on a 3-story dormitory building built for the school, but also includes the late 18th-century Federal style Buckingham House. The surrounding farm was, uniquely for the area, irrigated. Bordering the Monocacy River, the grounds include several significant late Woodland period archeological sites.</p><br>
<p>After the school closed, the property was donated to the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. It became a youth camp and then a conference center named after the first bishop ordained in Maryland, the Rev. Claggett.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1908 and is a modest Late Gothic Revival style building. It is built of iron spot brick with limestone and terra cotta trim. It features a gable roofed nave with and engaged side entrance tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Kirk House is a historic home located at Narrowsburg in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The original section was built in the 1840s as a one-story frame schoolhouse. It was moved to its present site in 1875 and a second story was added the following year. It measures 32 by, three bays in length and two bays wide. It was coated with stucco in the 1920s. It features a center entrance and foll width, one story porch with Italianate style detailing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Burkittsville Historic District comprises the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland. Located at a crossroads in western Frederick County, the town is a consistent collection of early 19th-century Federal style houses mixed with a few Victorian style houses that has remained virtually unchanged since 1900. The town is surrounded on three sides by an open, farmed landscape, and nestles against South Mountain on its western side.</p><br>
<p>The town was involved in a number of Civil War actions, including the Battle of Crampton&#39;s Gap in 1862.</p><br>
<p>The Burkittsville Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Vieux Carré Property Owners, Residents, and Associates , organized in the 1920s, is a pioneer organization in the historic preservation movement that grew out of several grass roots efforts to protect the 200-year-old Vieux Carré from decay and demolition. In 1936 the Louisiana state legislature passed a constitutional amendment authorizing the historic preservation of the Vieux Carré. Two years later on June 8, 1938 the neighborhood organization incorporated as a non-profit dedicated to the preservation, restoration, beautification and general betterment of the Vieux Carré.</p><br>
<p>The Vieux Carré is commonly known as the New Orleans, Louisiana&#39;s French Quarter district and is the site of the French Colony established in 1718.</p><br>
<p>VCPORA&#39;s affiliate memberships include the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Louisiana Landmarks Society, and the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans</p><br>
<p>Rooney Ranch is an historic ranch near Morrison, unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The ranch is one of Colorado&#39;s oldest centennial farms and is the oldest property continuously operated by the same family in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alexander Rooney came west in 1859 seeking an opportunity. He did a variety of work to earn his keep from stone masonry (Central City, the Masonic Lodge), cartage of lumber and other supplies to the mining camps around Denver and South Park, to a dairy farm. He found the high altitude uncomfortable, so he sought out winter pasture at lower elevations for his cattle. In the fall of 1861 he found what he was looking for along the eastern edge of the Dakota Hogback, between the mountains and the plains. He brought his wife, Emeline, and his family west from Anamosa, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>While family lore recounts that Alexander Rooney formed an agreement with Colorow to use the land, the family used homesteading to acquire 160 acres for each qualified member of the family. Subsequent land acquisitions came through the purchase of military patents, state land grant college lands, Union pacific lands, and property from other homesteaders. The ranch ran from the Hogback on the west to the South Platte River on the east, from Bear Creek on the south to Table Mountain near Golden on the north,</p><br>
<p>Alexander Rooney&#39;s main earnings were from the cattle and horses he raised. He introduced Galloway cattle from Scotland. Shipped from Scotland to Missouri, he drove them overland to his ranch. The Galloway cattle provided both meat and heavy coats from their hides. He also bred Morgan horses which were sold to the United States Cavalry and the British Army. About two-thirds of the ranch was sold following the Panic of 1893, yet remained the largest ranch in the county at the time.</p><br>
<p>A coal seam under the property was developed as a coal mine and was worked until August 1932. In 1933, a mine gas explosion destroyed much of the machinery and improvements to the mine, caving the ground in for about 40 ft around the mine shaft.</p><br>
<p>140 acres of the ranch property was sold in 2006, leaving members of the Rooney family holding two parcels of land that include the original ranch house. The company that purchased the property continues the ranching legacy with Black Angus cattle.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ranch buildings appear, externally, much as they did in 1865 when they were built. Internally, the buildings have been updated with plumbing and electricity. The buildings are in the valley between a hogback range on the west and Green Mountain on the east. A creek runs the length of Rooney Gulch, and there are a mineral spring, clay pits, lime deposits, and coal deposits nearby. The original buildings were constructed by Alexander. Over the years, additional buildings were added by other family members, who have maintained the masonry skills.</p><br>
<p>The original ranch house is a two story, vernacular style structure built by Alexander Rooney and Thomas Littlefield circa 1865. The 36 by house is built of coursed sandstone ashlar laid in lime mortar, supported by a limestone foundation. The walls are 18 inches thick. The mortar used to bind the stones was made from lime mined on the ranch, burned in the ranch kilns, and mixed with horsehair and sand from the creek. A spring house, 10 by, has the same appearance as the house and was constructed at the same time. It houses a spring which kept dairy products at 51 &deg;F.</p><br>
<p>The current barn was originally built in 1890 on the site of the ranch&#39;s original log barn and used timbers from its predecessor in the rear (northeast) elevation. An addition was built in 1936 and sandstone veneer was applied to the first story at that time. An arched rock mosaic sign reading "Rooney Ranch 1860", is found above the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Additional structures in the historic property listing include Garage No. 1 (1936), Granary (1936), Blacksmith Shop (1940; constructed as a house for ranch hands, named for its location on the site of the ranchs original blacksmith shop), Basement House (1942), Duplex (1946), Garage No. 2 (1946), Grandma Rooneys House (1946), Garage No. 3 (1946), James Vesey House (1950), a spring house (c. 1950), Inspiration Tree Picnic Area (1954), Eileen Rooney House (1955), Garage and Apartment (1955), Alex Rooney House (1959), and a spring house (c. 1980).</p><br>
<p>The Wynkoop House is located on New York Route 32 just north of an offramp from the New York State Thruway and its junction with NY 212 in the town of Saugerties, New York, United States. It is a linear stone house built in two sections by the descendants of Dutch settlers around 1740, and renovated in later years.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, it has many well-preserved features of the type of Dutch stone house common in 18th-century Ulster County, with some others suggesting later efforts to distance its residents from the original idea. It remained in the hands of the Wynkoop descendants until the early 20th century. In 1984 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is a rectangular -story, seven-bay stone house with gabled roof, front dormer windows and chimneys at both ends. The earliest portion of the house is marked by a small entrance and window near the north end on the front (east) facade; the later addition, constituting the bulk of the house, has a transomed door symmetrically placed between two windows on either side. The west facade has a matching door and window placement, now covered by an enclosed porch.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the original square block on the north end is a one-room space with exposed rafters and floorboards above. Much of the original wooden trim is still present, including some rare crown molding over the west door and south passageway to the later addition.</p><br>
<p>That wide passageway runs the length of the house, with smaller rooms of various purposes on either side. The fireplaces at either end of the addition have retained their original mantels, including the dentilled molding on the south one. Similar original woodwork is found elsewhere in the first story. The upper story has been subvidided into bedrooms and remodeled considerably.</p><br>
<p>The house has two outbuildings, a modern metal barn and detached garage, on its 3 acre lot. Neither are considered contributing resources to the NRHP listing. A late-19th-century photograph shows a carriage house near the property. No evidence of any other historic outbuildings has been found.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cornelius Wynkoop brought his family name to the New World when he settled in present-day Hurley in 1667. His descendants had reached Saugerties by the middle of the following century. The land on which the house is built was originally granted to Richard Hays and George Mealls by James II in 1688. A Wynkoop is known to have built the house; however which one in unclear as unlike most other Ulster County stone houses, there is no stone with the builder&#39;s initials.</p><br>
<p>There is a date stone in the wall near the back door reading "1740", but they are not considered reliable sources for the true construction date of Ulster County stone houses, and other evidence suggests the larger portion of the house was added near the end of the century. It is likely that the smaller northern block was built around then. A 1763 map of Saugerties shows the house, the earliest known record.</p><br>
<p>The longer wing was added sometime in the later 18th century. Its symmetrical stylings and dormer windows suggest a strong Georgian influence, and masons&#39; marks on the bluestone window lintels bear dates in the 1790s.</p><br>
<p>The upper floor was remodeled in the 1920s with contemporary interior decorations such as wainscoting. Up until that time, descendants of the Wynkoops had continued to live in the house and preserve it. Later owners also kept it in its original form.</p><br>
<p>In the early 2000s one owner threatened to demolish it, claiming it was in advanced state of disrepair, and began plans to do so and develop the property as an office complex, clearing the surrounding trees. Local preservationists were able to stop the town from issuing the necessary permit. The Ulster County Genealogical Society expressed interest in using the house as its library.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The fact that the house is built of stone to begin with is culturally significant. Dutch colonists in the Province of New York had lived under English rule since the end of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1674, but they resisted assimilation by the newly dominant culture, often speaking Dutch as their first language and building stone houses in accordance with their native building traditions throughout much of the 18th century, including a period after American independence.</p><br>
<p>The Wynkoop House is a well-preserved example of a stone house that is not only Dutch but has stylistic touches distinctive to Ulster County as well, most notably in the gabled roof ends (elsewhere, gambrel roofs were preferred). On the outside, locally quarried limestone was used as the facing, as opposed to the cut sandstone seen in houses further south in the region. Inside, the crown molding and exposed floorboards are another regional hallmark.</p><br>
<p>The symmetry the house retained even after being tripled in size later in the century suggests that it was originally built with the expectation that it would eventually be expanded in that fashion. Similarly, the nearly identical facades suggest that Kings Highway, the predecessor to Route 32 on which the house was built, at one point ran to the west of the house and was later relocated to the east.</p><br>
<p>In the later years of the century, younger descendants of the Dutch began to see the stone houses their parents and grandparents had raised as archaic, and often modified them along more contemporary lines. The Georgian stylings and dormer windows of the later addition suggest an attempt to do this.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill is a Georgian style farmhouse near Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland, built in 1783. The house is substantially similar in plan to nearby Pennterra, but lacks Pennterra&#39;s later Victorian additions. The locally quarried stone includes an unusual diamond pattern on the southeast side of the house.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Sam Houston Schoolhouse State Historic Site is a single-room log cabin-style schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee, built in 1794. Sam Houston taught at the school as a young man, before the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>Open to the public, the schoolhouse is a Tennessee state historic site operated under an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The school house was originally built by a Revolutionary War veteran, Andrew Kennedy along with Henry McCulloch and other neighbors.</p><br>
<p>The National Heritage Area Program and Blount County Tennessee: A Feasibility Study says “Sometime after his arrival in Tennessee, probably in 1794, Kennedy and Henry McCulloch joined with some neighbors to construct a small log schoolhouse in a clearing less than a mile from the Kennedy home. No definitive explanation can now be given for the decision to locate the schoolhouse at the somewhat unusual site more than a half-mile from Little River. Presumably its proximity to the refreshing spring which flows nearby and perhaps its central position in relation to the original builders&#39; homes were factors in the selection of the site.”</p><br>
<p>The Shaw Mansion is an Italianate style house in the George&#39;s Creek Valley of Allegany County, Maryland, built in 1872. The house is significant as an unusually large and well-preserved example of the style for its area, with stone trim, detailed brick bonding, cast-iron mantels and much of the original interior woodwork.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>16 Altamont Terrace is a historic home in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, United States. Built circa 1851, it is an example of Greek Revival architecture, with an Ionic portico above a stone foundation and cast iron balconies. The house served as the Allegany County hospital from 1889 to 1890. The building was converted into apartments in about 1905.</p><br>
<p>16 Altamont Terrace was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Crest, also known as Cedar Crest Farms, is a Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1993, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>Kimbrough Dubose&#39;s son John Witherspoon Dubose, author of "Chronicles of the Canebrake," resided at "Cedar Grove" as he referred to it from February 1850 until December 1876.</p><br>
<p>Altwood is a historic plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. and began as a log dogtrot house. It was then expanded until it came to superficially resemble a Tidewater-type cottage. Brought to the early Alabama frontier by settlers from the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of Virginia, this vernacular house-type is usually a story-and-a-half in height, displays strict symmetry, and is characterized by prominent end chimneys flanking a steeply pitched longitudinal gable roof that is often pierced by dormer windows.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 19, 1988, and to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1993, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The Sparta Rock House State Historic Site is a stone building near Sparta, Tennessee, United States, that once served as a rest stop and tollhouse. Built in the late 1830s, the Rock House catered to traffic along an important wagon road between Knoxville and Nashville, offering badly needed lodging and supplies to travellers who had just crossed  the rugged Cumberland Plateau. The Rock House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its architecture and its historical role as an important rest stop.</p><br>
<p>The Rock House was probably built by either Samuel Denton or brothers Barlow and Madison Fiske, and initially operated by the latter two. Early guests at the Rock House included presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, and Governor Sam Houston. It was home to a tollhouse and supply store until at least the 1850s, and was used as a school at various times between 1880 and 1921. Due primarily to the efforts of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the state purchased and began restoring the Rock House in the 1940s. The Rock House is currently operated as a State Historic Site under an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Sparta Rock House is located at the junction of USA Route 70 and White County Highway 2220 (Country Club Road). The Rock House property sits on a shelf-like slope that lies along the physiographic boundary between the Cumberland Plateau to the east and the Highland Rim to west. The elevation of US-70 is approximately 900 ft at Sparta (on the Highland Rim), 1,300 ft as it passes the Rock House, and just over 1,800 ft as it tops out at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The Rock House State Historic Site property includes a large plot of woodland that extends east from the Rock House to Old Bon Air Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Walton Road, an early wagon road connecting Knoxville and Nashville, forked at Crossville atop the Cumberland Plateau. The main branch (roughly following the modern US-70N) continued northwestward to what is now Monterey, while a second branch (roughly following the modern US-70) proceeded westward to what is now Sparta. To provide a rest stop for travellers along the latter branch, the Rock House was built on the property of local farmer Samuel Denton sometime between 1835 and 1839. While sources are unclear as to whether Denton or the Fiske brothers, Barlow and Madison, built the Rock House, the Fiske brothers were nevertheless in possession of the structure by 1839. There is no definitive evidence that Barlow and Madison Fiske were brothers. Along with providing a nightly stopover, the Rock House was used as a tollhouse until the late 1850s, as wagon roads during this period were often contracted out to local operators. The construction of the Bon Air Hotel atop the Plateau a few miles to the east in the 1840s no doubt brought increased traffic to the Rock House, although the hotel was destroyed during the USA Civil War.</p><br>
<p>In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the Rock House was used variously as a residence and a school, known simply as the "Rock House School." In 1941, the Daughters of the American Revolution obtained appropriations from the Tennessee state government to purchase and restore the Rock House, which it operated as a public museum and meeting place for its local chapter. A local craftsman named Clifton Broyle completed numerous renovations at the Rock House in the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Rock House was originally a rectangular structure built of native sandstone quarried in the vicinity. A partition once divided the structure into two rooms, but that partition has been removed, and the original section of the structure now consists of one large room. A 1909 photograph shows a partially enclosed front porch spanning the front wall, but by the 1940s the porch had been torn down. In the mid-20th century, a new rear section was added to the structure, built of the same type of stone, but containing modern conveniences. The interior of the Rock House has large fireplaces at both ends of the original structure, and the wooden doors, window frames, ceiling, floor, and mantels are all original.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Haven was a historic Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. Weaver was the paternal grandfather of the artist Clara Weaver Parrish.</p><br>
<p>When the community of Woodville, near Cedar Haven, applied for a post office, the name Woodville was already in use by another Alabama community. Weaver suggested the name Uniontown and his suggestion remains as the name of the town until this day. Phillip J. Weaver was killed in Selma in 1865, purportedly by a Union soldier, several months after Wilson&#39;s Raid on Selma. The next owner of the plantation was John Davidson Alexander, born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1820. He died in 1901. Cedar Haven was inherited by his son, Houston Alexander, following his death.</p><br>
<p>The house featured a two-story Doric tetrastyle portico. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1993, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The house, already badly deteriorated in 1995, was razed in the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The Clement Railroad Hotel Museum, housed in the Tennessee Historical Commission’s Hotel Halbrook State Historic Site and operated by the Governor Frank G. Clement Railroad Hotel and Historical Museum Corporation, Inc. The building is one of the few remaining examples of a railroad hotel in the State of Tennessee. It is located in historic downtown Dickson, Tennessee and since opening on June 2, 2009, the museum has hosted thousands of visitors.</p><br>
<p>Originally constructed in 1913 the Hotel Halbrook operated as a working hotel until economic factors forced its closure in 1954. Today, museum features exhibits and programming involving the history of Dickson County, Tennessee, the American Civil War, the history of the Hotel Halbrook, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the life and career of Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, who was born in the hotel on June 02, 1920.</p><br>
<p>Owned by the State of Tennessee, the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission&#39;s State Historic Sites, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The museum receives a partial annual operating grant from the Tennessee Historical Commission. The museum is located at 100 Clement Place, or 100 Frank G. Clement Place, in Dickson, Tennessee. It was restored and opened to the public in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Museum exhibitions</h2><br>
<h3>Railroading</h3><br>
<p>Artifacts include an oilcan, brake wheel, whistle marker, lantern, maps, postcards, and books. A folk art model of an engine and tender are almost miniature examples of an NC&St.L engine and Vanderbilt tender captured in a 1920s photograph in Dickson. This exhibit has been expanded to include a touch-screen panel of the Dickson rail-yard and downtown area. A hands-on display of a steam engine cabin, and a NC&St.L engine headlight are also showcased.</p><br>
<h3>The Clement family</h3><br>
<p>The Clement family rooms are furnished to represent the early 1920s when Belle Goad and Maybelle and Robert Clement lived in the managerial suite of rooms on the first floor. Room #5, where Governor Frank Clement was born, is furnished with several pieces of furniture from the Clement family including a bed, trunk, and cradle.</p><br>
<h3>Dickson County industries</h3><br>
<p>The Dickson County Commerce exhibit has interpretive panels on several early businesses and industries. This exhibit includes the display of a Dixie Swatter baseball bat which was used by major league teams during the 1920s and a Commodore youth bat, a 1930s Coca-Cola bottle impressed with Dickson Tenn. on the bottom, and the 50-millionth shirt made by Red Kap.</p><br>
<p>The Dickson County History exhibit tells the story of the iron ore industry in the county as well as highlighting each of the incorporated communities: Burns, Charlotte, Slayden, Vanleer, White Bluff, and Dickson. Interpretive panels introduce visitors to the utopian community of Ruskin and Promise Land, a community founded by freed blacks.</p><br>
<h3>Dickson Model Railroad display</h3><br>
<p>The Dickson Model Railroad Club has partnered with the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum to establish a permanent display of model trains, landscaping, and buildings. The display is staffed by volunteer "engineers" who maintain the trains as well as both entertain and educate visitors in the art of model railroading. This exhibit recreates the Dickson Rail-yard during the 1920s and 1930s.</p><br>
<h3>Governor Clement</h3><br>
<p>On the second floor of the museum, three exhibits on Governor Clement can be found. Visitors will follow Clement from his early days in Dickson to his gubernatorial campaigns in the 1952, 1954, and 1962. Guests will learn about Clements many accomplishments; including his actions desegregating Tennessee, supporting the Civil Rights Movement, providing free textbooks for Tennessee school children and the establishment of the Souths first community college system, establishment of the state&#39;s first department of mental health, and the expansion of roads through the Interstate system in Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as Halbrook Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site, known also as Tipton-Haynes House, is a Tennessee State Historic Site located at 2620 South Roan Street in Johnson City, Tennessee. It includes a house originally built in 1784 by Colonel John Tipton, and 10 other buildings, including a smokehouse, pigsty, loom house, still house, springhouse, log barn and corncrib. There is also the home of George Haynes, a Haynes family slave.</p><br>
<p>Tipton led the opposition to the State of Franklin, an unsuccessful attempt by the Tennessee Valley residents to form a state in the mid-1780s. In late February 1788, the so-called "Battle of Franklin" took place when a militia led by John Sevier, who had been elected governor of the proposed state, surrounded the Tipton farm and demanded the return of several slaves Tipton had confiscated from Sevier upon court order from the State of North Carolina. When Tipton refused, gunfire was exchanged, followed by a two-day standoff. Sevier&#39;s forces were finally scattered by the Sullivan County militia. The Franklin movement largely collapsed following this engagement.</p><br>
<p>Following Tiptons death in 1813, the farm passed to his son, John Tipton, Jr. After John Tipton, Jr. died in 1831, his heirs sold the property to a local land speculator, David Haynes, in 1837. In 1839, Haynes gave the farm to his son, Landon Carter Haynes, as a wedding present. This younger Haynes enlarged the house and added weatherboarding. A Confederate senator during the Civil War, Landon Carter Haynes faced death threats from East Tennessee Unionists and was forced to flee the region in 1865. He sold the farm to his brother-in-law, Jonesborough publisher Lawson Gifford. In 1945, Giffords grandson, David Simmerly, sold the farm to the Tennessee Historical Commission, though he continued living there until his death.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 18 State Historic Sites and is operated by the Tipton-Haynes Association under an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Demopolis Public School also known as Demopolis Junior High School is a historic public school building in the city of Demopolis, Alabama. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1983. The building now houses a theater group, the Canebrake Players.</p><br>
<p>The site was previously occupied by Marengo Military Academy building, which was destroyed by fire in 1913.</p><br>
<p>200, 202, 204, 206 and 208 Decatur Street are adjoining rowhouses in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. The houses were built in the 1840s or early 1850s. The houses are of a type that, while common elsewhere in Maryland, were not extensively built in Cumberland, in which individual and semi-detached houses were more common. The houses exhibit plain but consistent detailing of a neoclassical nature.</p><br>
<p>The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, was built in 1892 to replace a previous church which the congregation had outgrown. The congregation was founded in 1847 by a group of African-American Methodists who had previously worshiped from the balcony of the Centre Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The first church was built in 1848, then rebuilt and enlarged in 1871 and again in 1875.</p><br>
<p>The church follows Methodist practice by placing Sunday school and meeting space on the street level, with the sanctuary above.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia&#39;s prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The main house, called Belvoir Manor or Belvoir Mansion, burned in 1783 and was destroyed during the War of 1812. The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973 as "Belvoir Mansion Ruins and the Fairfax Grave."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>William Greens 1669 patent for 1,150 acre encompassed most of the peninsula between Dogue Creek and Accotink Creek, along the Potomac River. Although this property was sub-divided and sold in the early 18th century, it was reassembled during the 1730s to create the central portion of Col. William Fairfaxs 2,200 acre plantation of Belvoir Manor.</p><br>
<h4>Plantation house built</h4><br>
<p>Fairfax&#39;s elegant new home was completed in 1741. The mansion was described in a 1774 rental notice as spacious and well-appointed. Its furnishings consisted of "tables, chairs, and every other necessary article...very elegant." The family imported ceramics from Europe and the Orient to grace its tables.</p><br>
<p>Planters such as William Fairfax comprised a small elite of Fairfax Countys population; most of their neighbors were smaller farmers who sometimes barely managed to make a living. After William Fairfaxs death in 1757, the plantation and his slaves passed to his eldest son George William Fairfax (1729–87).</p><br>
<h4>Lord Fairfax and Washington visit</h4><br>
<p>Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, moved to Virginia between 1735 and 1737 to inspect and protect his lands. Lord Fairfax came to Belvoir, to help oversee his family estates in Virginia&#39;s Northern Neck Proprietary between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, inherited from his mother, Catharine, daughter of Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway; and a great portion of the Shenandoah and South Branch Potomac valleys. The northwestern boundary of his Northern Neck Proprietary was marked by the Fairfax Stone at the headwaters of the North Branch Potomac River.</p><br>
<p>Fairfaxs sister Anne married Lawrence Washington in 1743. A young George Washington, Lawrences half-brother, began to visit Belvoir frequently. Wishing to advance his brothers fortunes, Lawrence introduced George to George William. A friendship grew between the two men, despite the fact that George William was seven years older. A relationship blossomed between Sally Fairfax and Washington. Washington and Bryan Fairfax, George Williams younger half-brother, also became friends.</p><br>
<p>In 1752, Lord Fairfax moved to Greenway Court in the valley of Virginia closer to his undeveloped land. He hired George Washington to survey land at Belvoir.</p><br>
<h4>Abandonment</h4><br>
<p>When Fairfax left Belvoir for England in 1773, he had the estate rented to Rev. Andrew Morton for seven years. Its furnishings were sold at auction in 1774. It was confiscated during the American Revolutionary War by the Virginia Act of 1779. In 1783, the mansion and several of its outbuildings were destroyed by fire, and the plantation complex gradually deteriorated into ruins. Ferdinando Fairfax, who inherited the property, apparently did not live there. The bluffs below the former mansion site were quarried for building stone, but the house site was not developed.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Belvoir Plantation suffered further damage during the War of 1812. In August 1814, as British land forces attacked and burned the city of Washington, a British naval squadron sailed up the Potomac River and forced the surrender of Alexandria. The fleet began the 180 mi return trip down river. On September 1, the British attempted to run the deep-water channel below the Belvoir house site, a position that previously had been identified as a strategic defensive location on the river. A hastily assembled American force, composed of Virginia and Alexandria militia under the command of USA Navy Captain David Porter, hurriedly began to mount a battery on the bluff above the river. For four days, British and American forces exchanged cannon and musket fire. The British fleet eventually passed the American positions, and British shells demolished what little was left of the old Belvoir Manor.</p><br>
<p>The association of Belvoir Plantation with the Fairfax family ended with the death of Ferdinando Fairfax in 1820. During the next decade, William Herbert of Alexandria acquired the property, which he quickly used as collateral for a loan. During the 1830s, Thomas Irwin, Herberts creditor, operated the shad fisheries at White House Point. Herberts continued inability to pay his debts eventually led to the sale of Belvoir at public auction in 1838.</p><br>
<p>All of the great 18th-century plantations in the Belvoir area changed considerably in the years before the Civil War. Soil exhaustion and inheritance prompted the sale and sub-division of these formerly expansive tracts of land. As a new generation of landowners took up residence in southeastern Fairfax County, patterns of land use and ownership were altered.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1917, the Belvoir property was consolidated and ceded to the USA Army by Virginia, eventually lending its name to the modern military installation of Fort Belvoir.</p><br>
<p>The Belvoir ruins are on the National Register of Historic Places (1973), but access is restricted since they are on the military post.</p><br>
<p>Roseland Plantation is a historic plantation complex site in Faunsdale, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roseland Plantation originally was the home of "Judge" James Harris Fitts and his wife Rebecca Emily Alston - both of them were born in Warren County NC. Following Mr. Fitts&#39; death (by an employee) the eldest son occupied the home, Samuel Alston Fitts. He was born on May 15, 1815, in Alabama. "Judge" James Fitts and his wife Rebecca had a total of ten children, with at least three dying before reaching 20 years of age.</p><br>
<p>The ninth child, named James Harris Fitts (married to Mary Elizabeth Burges) matured to Tuscaloosa where he founded J.H. Fitts Banking House in 1862. He also was on the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama and the Treasurer for the U.A. for forty years. He was an vigorous advocate for the UA his entire adult life. James Fitts (the father) had established Roseland as a 1,200 acre plantation in the Canebrake region of Marengo County during the late 1820s, but was murdered by a discharged overseer on July 16, 1832. His death left Samuel, at the age of eighteen, in charge of caring for his mother and eight brothers and sisters.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Fitts married Sarah Elizabeth Alston of neighboring Clarke County on November 29, 1838. Her parents were William Williams Alston and Mary Haywood Burges, also originally from North Carolina. Fitts had made the plantation a success by 1860, with property valued at $95,000. By this point Roseland was worked by at least 67 slaves.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The plantation house at Roseland Plantation began as a dogtrot house in 1835. A large two-story Greek Revival-style frame addition was added to the front of the dogtrot in the mid-1850s. The former front porch of the dogtrot became a cross-hall and the breezeway of the dogtrot was extended into a very long center-hall in the new construction. The upper floor was accessed from the central hallway via a reverse staircase.</p><br>
<p>The main house and most of the outbuildings have been demolished by neglect, but the largely undisturbed site remains important for archaeological reasons. A dairy cooler and the original log kitchen do remain at the site. A survey done in 1993, prior to its nomination to the National Register, indicated that the main house was in ruins with only a few walls remaining.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the survey a small Greek Revival plantation office had already been removed to another location. The property owners gave it to the Sturdivant Museum Association and it was moved to the grounds of Sturdivant Hall in Selma in order to ensure its preservation. A large seven-seat privy at Roseland, dating from the 1850s, was also donated to the Sturdivant Museum Association in 1979, but was not relocated to Sturdivant Hall until 2005.</p><br>
<p>The William Poole House, also known as the William Cade Thompson House, is a historic plantation house and historic district in Dayton, Alabama. The Greek Revival style house was completed in 1848. It and the surrounding grounds were added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by John D. Catlin for his ward, Sarah Altona Terrell, and her husband, William Cade Thompson. He had it built as a wedding gift and to serve as their residence following their marriage on August 10, 1847. Catlin was one of Alabama&#39;s first millionaires, owning three plantations, a townhouse, and 179 slaves in 1850. The house remained in the Thompson family for less than a decade, with William Thompson dying on May 25, 1854, and Sarah following him on July 6, 1856. The house was then purchased by the Browning family, who held it until it was sold to the Watlington family in September 1882. They, in turn, sold it to David Miller Prowell on July 14, 1917. It remained in that family until 1959. The house was then acquired by Robert and Sarah Billings of Birmingham, wno called it "Magnolia Mound" and used it as a country retreat. It was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. William Poole in 1978. The Pooles completed an extensive restoration of the home. In overall form the house is a typical two-story "I" house of the Deep South, bisected by high-ceilinged hallways above and below. A single-story, two-room ell extends to the rear, separated from the main block by a breezeway-like hallway terminated at each end by wide double doors opening onto flanking rear galleries. This original arrangement has been modified by later renovations. An unusual architectural feature of the house is the striking height of the windows above and below. Second-floor windows, reaching nearly to the floor, are fitted inside with curved "baby-catcher" railings to prevent a fatal fall from one of the two upstairs bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Albert S. Potter Octagon House  is an historic octagonal house located at 4 Carolina Main Street  on the corner of Shannock Hill Road in the village of Carolina in Richmond, Rhode Island. It was built by watchmaker Albert S. Potter in 1857. Potter reportedly did his watchmaking in the octagonal cupola atop the two-story house. The building is now covered with asbestos siding and is owned by the Carolina Preservation and Band Society.</p><br>
<p>The Albert S. Potter Octagon House is a contributing property in the Carolina Village Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1974.</p><br>
