<p>Willow Glenn is a historic home located at Barstow, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. It is an impressive, Georgian structure of grand proportions; constructed entirely of brick in Flemish bond with random glazed headers. The home typifies the kind of dwelling erected by Maryland&#39;s wealthiest tobacco planters of the colonial period.</p><br>
<p>Willow Glenn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Preston-on-the-Patuxent is a historic home located at Johnstown, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. It is a modest -story brick house which has had several later additions made to it. While the home has a traditional construction date of about 1651, there is no structural evidence to indicate a date earlier than about 1725. It has been reported by Puritan knowledge that the original Preston home burned down in 1672, to be replaced by the present structure at a later date. Preston-on-the-Patuxent is popularly, if erroneously, known as the seat of the government of Maryland from 1654 to 1657, during the Puritan regime. The belief that the property was the "capital" comes from evidence that the Council, the Assembly, and the Provincial Court met "at Patuxent" in the 1650s. Richard Preston, a participant in each of the three bodies, most probably hosted their meetings in his dwelling located near the Patuxent River.</p><br>
<p>Preston-on-the-Patuxent was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Delaware Breakwater is a set of breakwaters east of Lewes, Delaware on Cape Henlopen that form Lewes Harbor. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The original 1,700 ft and 2,800 ft breakwaters were built in 1828. The breakwaters are now included in the National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The stone for the breakwater were quarried from what later became Bellevue Lake in New Castle County. The breakwaters were the first structure of their kind to be built in the Americas.</p><br>
<p>The Faraway Ranch Historic District is part of the Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona, and preserves an area associated with the final conflicts with the local Apache, one of the last frontier settlements, and in particular, its association with the people who promoted the establishment of the Chiricahua National Monument. Faraway Ranch is located in Bonita Canyon, which lies at an approximate altitude of 5160 feet and opens in a southwesterly direction into the Sulphur Springs Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Settlement of the area was started at the Stafford Homestead in Bonita Canyon in 1879. Ja Hu Stafford was a significant pioneer in the area, and his cabin was incorporated into the later tourist development. In 1885–86, the 10th Cavalry, an African-American enlisted unit commanded by white officers, established a temporary camp at Bonita Canyon. They were part of the last campaign to capture the Apache rebel Geronimo.</p><br>
<p>In 1886 Neil Erickson and Emma Sophia Peterson, both young Swedish immigrants, married and set out for Bonita Canyon to homestead. The Erickson Homestead, established in 1887, soon became the Erickson Ranch as they gradually took over the smaller homesteads in the canyon. They planted fruit trees and vegetables, and raised cattle. The Erickson Ranch period, 1887–1917, was significant in the areas of agriculture, architecture, industry, social history, conservation and the end of the frontier.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1903 Neil became a forest ranger with what soon became the United States Forest Service. He was promoted to District Ranger in 1917. He headquartered at the ranch until he received his promotion which required him to relocate. The senior Ericksons left the ranch in the hands of their oldest child, Lillian, a college graduate and part-time school teacher. She managed the cattle ranching operations and branched out into guest ranching, letting rooms, and providing guests with horses to ride and guided trail tours for a fee. In 1923 she suffered a head injury in a fall from a horse which compromised her vision immediately and took it completely 19 years later. Nevertheless, even into her 80s she continued to run the ranch with the help of series of foremen and hired hands. Guest operations continued into the mid-1960s. In 1974 she moved for a time to a rest home in Willcox, but returned to the ranch and continued to manage it in some capacity until her death in 1977.</p><br>
<p>At about the same time as her accident, 1923, Lillian married a local son of pioneer stock, Ed Riggs. While she managed the operations at home, Ed promoted the "Wonderland of Rocks," an area of rhyolite tuff rock formations just southeast of the ranch) as a tourist attraction and potential national monument. Largely through his efforts, Chiricahua National Monument was established in 1924 and Riggs was hired to supervise construction of new horse and hiking trails throughout the newly established monument. He also managed most of the maintenance around the ranch until his death in 1950.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service acquired furnishings, papers, documents and records associated with the ranch with its purchase. As a most complete and outstanding historical record of both the business and personal affairs of the family that founded, developed, and operated this ranch, the documents are considered contributing to the district.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>Today, the existing buildings at the Faraway Ranch have been carefully restored to their early 20th-century appearance through personal recounts and photographic records. The buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Ranch House: Adobe and board-and-batten structure with a hipped roof and finished in mineral composition shingles over earlier wood shingles. It is nearly square in plan, with exterior walls principally of adobe bricks plastered over both inside and out, with open porches filling its southwest corner on both floors. Additionally, a screened, shed-roofed porch has been added along the ground floor on the east side, and a glazed, shed-roofed porch constituting the guest dining room has been added along most of the north side.</p><br>
<p>Office/small garage: Small frame building with tin roof painted green, originally used by Neil Erickson as an office and a personal garage, now used as an exhibit building</p><br>
<p>Large garage: Frame structure with five stalls, large sliding doors, and a tin gable roof, built for guests</p><br>
<p>Large shed: Frame structure with a tin gable roof, attached on one side to the large garage</p><br>
<p>Stafford Cabin: Log cabin with two frame additions, one of which is a small garage</p><br>
<p>Cowboy House: Wooden L-shaped structure with shallow-pitched gable roof, originally two separate cabins that were joined, used by cowboys and later by guests</p><br>
<p>Bunkhouse: Cabin with stone and board-and-batten walls and a roof finished with brown composition shingles, originally used as three separate guest quarters</p><br>
<p>Martha Riggs House: Wooden structure that burned down in 1963, only concrete foundation remains. The building was purchased by the Ericksons and moved from an unspecified location to the Faraway Ranch as an additional guests quarters.</p><br>
<p>Barn: Frame structure with tin gable roof, includes saddle house and feed room</p><br>
<p>Corral: Typical horse corral with wooden fencing</p><br>
<p>Generator house: Stone building with a tin gable roof, used to house a gasoline-powered generator, now missing</p><br>
<p>Storage shed: Frame structure with a tin gable roof</p><br>
<p>Tool shed: Frame structure with a tin shed roof</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Historic District includes the ranch homesteaded by Mormon pioneer John D. Lee at Lees Ferry, Arizona, and now in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. It is notable for its association with Lee, the ferry and the ranchs extensive irrigation facilities. The district was originally designated the Lonely Dell Ranch Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, but was expanded to include Lee&#39;s Ferry in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Lees Ferry occupies an area on either side of the Colorado River, while Lonely Dell Ranch nearby on the west bank of Paria Canyon, leaving a space of fertile bottomland available for cultivation. The period of significance for the district extends from the 1871 arrival of the Lees to the last run of the ferry in 1928, superseded by the new Navajo Bridge.</p><br>
<h2>John D. Lee</h2><br>
<p>Lee was a practicing polygamist who built cabins for two of his families at Lees Ferry. His wife Emma named the ranch at Lees Ferry "Lonely Dell" due to its austere remoteness. Lees ferry started service on January 11, 1873, ferrying Mormon settlers across the river. Tensions rose between the settlers and the Navajo, whose lands were being occupied by the settlers, resulting in the construction of the Lees Ferry Fort at the crossing in 1874. No conflict arose at the ferry, so the fort became a trading post, then a residence. In 1877 Lee was executed for his role in the Mountain Meadows massacre. In 1879, the LDS Church bought the ferry rights from Emma Lee, granting the ferry service to Warren Marshall Johnson and his families. A number of structures remain in the district from the polygamist period of the Lee and Johnson families.</p><br>
<h2>American Placer Corporation</h2><br>
<p>In 1922 the office building was re-occupied as the Lee&#39;s Ferry Post Office, but was abandoned in 1924. Another brief use came in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Irrigation</h2><br>
<h2>Lead etching</h2><br>
<p>In January 2002 a lead plate, or scroll, was found in the Lees Ferry Fort with an etching purporting to be by John D. Lee in 1872. It was discovered by a National Parks worker while cleaning up inside the structure, which is restricted from public access. The brief writing accused Mormon leaders Brigham Young and George A. Smith of ordering the Mountain Meadows Massacre, for which Lee was convicted and sentenced to die. Despite some evidence suggesting this is a forgery, historian Will Bagley claims it fits with the historical context and Lees writing style. He wrote, "If the scroll is a fake, it is a good one--so good that only a few people could have pulled it off." Forensic investigator George Throckmorton, who helped crack the Mark Hofmann forgeries, examined the plate in 2003 and took samples for chemical analysis in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Taney Place is a historic home located at Adelina, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. It is a simple, two-story, hip-roofed, Georgian-style country house, dating from about 1750. It was the birthplace and childhood home of Roger Brooke Taney , who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1836 to 1864.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Charles H. Spencer was a stern-wheel steamboat that was briefly used on the Colorado River to transport coal for gold refining operations at Lee&#39;s Ferry, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, Charles H. Spencer was a prospector who arrived at Lee&#39;s Ferry in search of gold hidden in shale of the Chinle Formation. His company, American Placer Corporation, processed the shale by creating a mud and then removing the gold deposits by mercury amalgamation, which required a steady source of power. Finding a coal seam up river, Spencer commissioned a San Francisco company, Robertson–Schultz Co., to build the stern-wheel paddle steamer, Charles H. Spencer, for the American Placer Corporation. James Robertson and Herman Rosenfelt built the ship. It was 92.5 feet long, 25 feet abeam and had a draft of 18 to 20 inches. A 110 horse-power marine boiler powered a 12-foot stern paddle. The various parts were manufactured in San Francisco, shipped by rail to Marysvale, Utah, and conveyed by ox-cart to the mouth of Warm Creek, where the boat was assembled. The boat averaged 5–6 tons of coal on each trip. But by the end of the summer the operation was curtailed. The boat was docked and then abandoned in 1914. During a flood in 1921, the boat sank in shallow water. Later the superstructure was stripped of its lumber. Its boiler remains in the river marking the site of its sinking and a historical marker is located above it on the bank, about 1/4 mile east of the end of Lees ferry road.</p><br>
<p>Morgan Hill Farm, also known as Morgans Fresh or Hill Farm, is a historic home located at Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland. It is a -story gable-roofed frame house of a T-shaped plan, with single exterior chimneys on each of the three exposed ends. The original building appears to have been built about 1700, with extensively remodeled in the early 19th century. In 1952 a large rear wing was added to the house. Outbuildings include a one-story log servants quarter, a log smokehouse, and a large tobacco barn.</p><br>
<p>Phillip Morgan received the original land grant in 1651, under the name Morgans Fresh. Morgan, a captain in the Puritan Militia and a locally prominent man, and sold the property in 1670 to Robert Day. In 1836 the property was sold by Days descendants to Richard Breeden, who was probably responsible for the extensive renovations made to the house in the early 19th century and renamed the property Hill Farm.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 100 Lower Marlboro Road , in Sunderland, Calvert County, Maryland. All Saints Parish was one of the thirty original Anglican parishes created in 1692 to encompass the Province of Maryland. In 1693 its first parish church, a log structure, was built on an acre of land called Kemp&#39;s Desire donated by Thomas Hillary. This log church was expanded in 1703-1704 and repaired at least 4 times before being replaced on top of the hill between MD routes 4, 262, and 2 by the present brick building.</p><br>
<p>Built between 1774 and 1777, the present church building is a Georgian structure of Flemish bond brick with random glazed headers. Since All Saint&#39;s Parish was part of the established church of the Province of Maryland, the published volumes of the Archives of Maryland contain pertinent documented source material on the building showing that it was built with county taxes while future bishop Thomas Claggett served as its rector.</p><br>
<p>All Saints&#39; Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>All Saints&#39; Church remains an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Its current rector is the Rev. Andrew Rutledge.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Rear Dec 08.JPGAll Saints&#39; Church - Rear View, December 2008</p><br>
<p>All Saints Labyrinth Dec 08.JPGAll Saints&#39; Church - Labyrinth, December 2008</p><br>
<p>All Saints Labyrinth Sign Dec 08.JPGAll Saints&#39; Church - Labyrinth Sign, December 2008</p><br>
<p>The Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Port Republic, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The church is a three-bay-wide, five bays long, beige stucco covered structure featuring stained glass in most of the tall paired round-arched sash windows. It is the mother Episcopal Church of Calvert County and its oldest continually worshipping congregation. Middleham Chapel was started from this congregation as a Chapel of Ease. Christ Church Parish was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. Burials in the church cemetery include former U. S. Representative Thomas Parran Sr. and United States Coast Guard Admiral Merlin O&#39;Neill.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church South Dec 08.JPGChrist Church - South Side, December 2008</p><br>
<p>Christ Church Door Dec 08.JPGChrist Church - Door Detail, December 2008</p><br>
<p>Christ Church Plaque Dec 08.JPGChrist Church - Historic Marker, December 2008</p><br>
<p>Middleham Chapel is a historic Episcopal church located in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland. It is a one-story, cruciform, Flemish bond brick structure with exposed fieldstone foundations. It was built in 1748, to replace an earlier frame or log structure believed to have been erected as early as 1684, as a Chapel of Ease of Christ Church Parish. The date of construction is worked into the brick on the front of the church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Middleham Chapel is still in use today. In 1900 it joined with nearby St. Peters Chapel to form Middleham and St. Peters Episcopal Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. The parish&#39;s current rector is the Rev. David Showers.</p><br>
<p>The Chesapeake Beach railway station is a historic railway station located at Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. It is composed of two one-story, hip-roofed sections; one part was once an open passenger boarding area that was later enclosed for storage. The station was erected in 1898, for the Chesapeake Beach Railway. It is now operated as a railway museum.</p><br>
<p>The Chesapeake Beach Railway Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station was originally opened as a stop along the railway when Otto Mears sought to create a resort town at the Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Mears and his business associates established hotels, beaches, casinos and a boardwalk. On June 9, 1900, the first train arrived at the station. However, 35 years later, the Great Depression and the growing popularity of cars led to a decline in business. The last train left the station on April 15, 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The station was dedicated as a museum to the Calvert County Board of Commissioners by Gerald and Fred Donovan in 1979. The Calvert County Historical Society is responsible for maintaining the building and its exhibits. The museum features artifacts, exhibits and programs commemorating the Chesapeake Beach Railway and local history.</p><br>
<p>The Grandview Mine, also known as the Last Chance Mine, was operated by Pete Berry from 1892 until 1901 in what later became Grand Canyon National Park. The Grandview Mine Historic District includes what remains of the mine workings and machinery as well as the ruins of a stone house and sleeping shanty. Physical evidence, including low stone walls and construction debris, suggests that several wood structures were also originally present on the site.</p><br>
<p>Pete Berry established Last Chance Mine on Horseshoe Mesa in 1892. He constructed the four-mile Grandview Trail down to the copper mine, and in 1893 began hauling ore out by mule. Although the ore was over 70% pure copper and won a prize at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the mine did not prove profitable, and in 1901 Berry and his partners sold it to the Canyon Copper Company, who operated it until 1907. The mine was then acquired by William Randolph Hearst, who sold it to the National Park Service in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The mineralization at the mine is secondary copper minerals in a breccia zone along a monocline flexure in the Redwall Limestone, which is bleached, brecciated and marbleized below the overlying Supai Group.</p><br>
<p>Grandview is the type locality for grandviewite, a copper aluminium silicate. Grandview produced exceptionally fine mineral specimens of cyanotrichite, brochantite, chalcoalumite, and many other copper and uranium minerals. These specimens are now rare, as mineral collecting is not permitted in the National Park.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the mines were gated to protect bat roosts, support on-going bat research, preserve historic mine resources, and promote visitor safety. The gating project was done by Mine Gates, Inc., with support from Grand Canyon National Park, Bat Conservational International, and Freeport-McMoRan. Details of the mine site, as well as manufacturing and installation of each bat gate are documented on the MineGates site.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Canyon National Park Superintendents Residence is an early National Park Service Rustic style building, designed in 1921 by Daniel Ray Hull of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs as the parks first headquarters building. The visitor information room was financed by a donation from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper. The building was altered in 1931 by Thomas Chalmers Vint to be the park superintendent&#39;s residence, superseded as headquarters by the Grand Canyon Park Operations Building It is included in the Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>As originally built the structure was a relatively small two-story, L-shaped administrative building with a stone first floor and a frame second floor. When it was converted to a residence in 1931 it was enlarged in a sympathetic manner, retaining its original design vocabulary. The main living quarters are on the upper level, with eight rooms including the living room, dining room, kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms, with stone fireplaces in the dining and living rooms. The main entrance is from a porch off the living room. The downstairs features a family room with another stone fireplace, formerly the visitor information office. There remainder of the lower level is occupied by a variety of rooms and winding corridors that connect to a two-car garage. The building is currently used for administrative offices for one of the park&#39;s concessionaires.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Superintendent&#39;s Residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Buckey ONeill Cabin was built in 1890 by William "Buckey" ONeill in what would become Grand Canyon National Park. ONeill was, among many other things, a member of Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders, who had previously been an author, sheriff, and a judge in his native Arizona. He was killed in action in Cuba in 1898, but was instrumental in establishing what would eventually become the Grand Canyon Railroad and Grand Canyon National Park.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is the oldest extant structure on the South Rim. It was used as an office for tourist accommodations in the area during the 1890s, which eventually evolved into the Bright Angel Hotel. After the hotel was sold to the Fred Harvey Company it remained much as it was when built. It was incorporated into the rebuilt Bright Angel Lodge complex by Mary Jane Colter in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The one-story cabin is a wood-frame structure on a low stone foundation, right on the edge of the Grand Canyon. The shallow-pitched roof is covered with wood shingles. The cabin is connected to other lodge buildings using compatible, unobtrusive materials, and has been cited as an early example of an adaptive reuse of a historic structure. The cabin is one of the guest accommodations of the Bright Angel lodge.</p><br>
<p>The Buckey O&#39;Neill Cabin was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Canyon North Rim Headquarters is a historic district on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Established from 1926 through the 1930s, the district includes examples of rustic architecture as applied to employee residences, administrative facilities and service structures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The North Rim experienced very little development until 1926, in part due to the intervention of Senator Ralph Cameron, who held commercial interests in the park area prior to its establishment, and who prevented funding of North Rim improvements.</p><br>
<p>Starting in 1926, the first structures included the Ranger Residence and the accompanying wood shed and horse barn. Additional structures were added during the late 1920s and 1930s, including various equipment storage areas, warehouses, and residences. The last structure to be constructed as part of the North Rim Headquarters was an equipment shed in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the use of these buildings has changed considerably, however, in most instances, these changes do not affect the exterior of the structure. The most significant architectural qualities are limited to the exterior facades, the fireplace in Residence No. 102, and to the wrought iron door hinges on several of the maintenance buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district comprises two sections, each with residences. The eastern portion includes a garage and a ranger station, while the western group includes an office, a barn and maintenance buildings.</p><br>
<p>The oldest structure, a residence, is a one-story gable-roofed structure, built in frame on a stone foundation with lap siding in 1926. Other houses, sheds and a dormitory were built in 1931. The dormitory is particularly notable for its expression of the rustic style. A ranger station, also known as the old administration building, was built in 1931 and moved in the mid-1930s, but was destroyed by fire on March 5, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings include a machine shop (1932), gas and oil station (1933) and a variety of residences.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Grand Canyon North Rim Headquarters District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Rangers Dormitory at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park was built in 1920–21. Originally built as a workers dormitory, it was converted for use by rangers in 1927. The stone building was designed by Daniel Ray Hull of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs, and is a precursor of the later National Park Service Rustic style.</p><br>
<p>The dormitory is one of the earliest National Park Service-built structures at the South Rim. Measuring about 55 ft by 25 ft, the single-story structure&#39;s exterior walls are constructed of rubble sandstone with a long gabled roof. The gable ends are sheathed in wood. The ground falls away from front to back, so that the back door has a stone stairway. The interior features an entrance hall and a large communal room with a stone fireplace at the western end, with a central hall running down the center to the rear door with individual rooms on either side.</p><br>
<p>The dormitory was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Trans-Canyon Telephone line crossed the Grand Canyon from the South Rim to the North Rim via the Inner Canyon. On the south side of the Canyon, the phone line left the South Rim developed area near Bright Angel Lodge, went down Pipe Creek, and crossed the Colorado River. On the north side, the phone line followed Bright Angel Creek up to the rim to the Wylie Way Tourist Camp before the construction of the Grand Canyon Inn. The line was in place by 1924 and was altered in 1935 and again in 1938-39 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It has been unchanged since then. Telephone lines were supported using 592 assemblies of 2 in galvanized pipes and fittings, which could be easily transported and assembled with minimal impact to the canyon environment. It was a rare surviving example of open-wire copper-weld technology. The line extended for 18 mi, paralleling the Bright Angel Trail and the North Kaibab Trail, providing a direct link between the North and South Rims, as well as the Inner Canyon. A spur line ran along the Tonto Trail to the Tipoff.</p><br>
<p>The line was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Only small portions of the cable are currently in use after a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) circuit to Havasupai Garden was disconnected and the signal moved to a Starlink connection.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service awarded US Park Ranger Elizabeth "Betsy" Aurnou the 2023 NPS Wright Brothers Aviation Award for her efforts in removing this historic telephone line from the Grand Canyon.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant in Grand Canyon National Park was one of the first water reclamation plants in the United States, pioneering operating principles that are in use in modern facilities. It is located on the South Rim in Grand Canyon Village, the center of tourist development in the park.</p><br>
<p>The scarcity of water and the high demand for fresh water in the developed areas of the park encouraged the development of a system to treat wastewater so that it could be used for non-potable purposes such as flushing toilets, supplying steam locomotive boilers, irrigation and similar uses. The Grand Canyon water plant was completed in May 1926, producing water that was claimed to be potable (but never used for drinking) at a cost that was one-sixth of the cost for new water. The plant was expanded in 1934 to serve the Bright Angel Lodge.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The treatment plant consists of a set of bar-screen boxes, a sedimentation tank, three aeration tanks, two clarifiers, one secondary tank, two filters, an approximately 300,000 USgal holding tank, and a water tank for backwashing filters. The mechanical systems are housed in a two-story frame structure on a concrete base that contains filters, aeration generators and the chlorination system, as well as an office, laboratory and shop.</p><br>
<p>The treatment process passed wastewater through the bar screen, which filtered out large solids, then to a measuring followed by a finer bar screen flume. Solids from the bar screens went to a sludge pond, while coarsely filtered water went to a pre-sedimentation tank, which separated grease and additional solids. An aeration stage allowed aerobic bacteria to work, followed by a pass through clarifier tanks. Filters used anthracite coal to give final clarity, followed by chlorination and storage. The plant operated with its original equipment until it closed. Most of the equipment is original.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The historic land embraced in this site is a rectangle formed by using the aeration tanks as a center and extending lines 100 yards to the north, 200 yards to the east, 200 yards to the west, and 400 yards to the south.</p><br>
<p>The treatment plant was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Players is a clubhouse and theatre located at 3321 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1985 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Players Club of Detroit was founded in 1911 by a group of local Detroit businessmen as an institution to encourage amateur theater. From the beginning, it was a strictly male club. For the first 15 years of the club&#39;s existence, they were forced to perform in different venues each month, including the Detroit Athletic Club, the University Club and the Twentieth Century Club.</p><br>
<p>A number of the financial elite of early 20th century Detroit were members of the Players, including Henry Joy, Truman Newberry, James Couzens, and Lawrence Fisher. The club continued as a successful and popular gentleman&#39;s club until the 1970s, when membership began to drop. However, the club experienced a renaissance in the 1990s, and as of 2005 there were 174 members.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>In 1925, Players Club member William E. Kapp designed a building to permanently house the club. at a cost of $75,000. Ten sculpted gargoyles were created by Corrado Parducci for the façade. Below the west entrance pavilion the legend "The Players" is traced in limestone.</p><br>
<p>The building includes a four-story high stage, as well as a kitchen, dressing rooms, basement storage and prop rooms, and a formal meeting room on the upper floor.</p><br>
<p>The interior is notable for the Art Deco murals. Six murals on the auditorium walls, painted by Paul Honoré, depict a traveling troupe of troubadours. Eight smaller banners represent skills and trades needed to stage a theatrical production.</p><br>
<h2>Plays</h2><br>
<p>Members of the Players put on three one-act plays each "Frolic." Frolics take place on the first Saturday evening of the month, October through April, with the following exceptions: November, where a full three-act play is presented, and January, where the frolic is replaced with an annual fund raising event such as a "Millionaire&#39;s Party." All roles, as well as direction, costuming, set construction, and the like, are taken by members. In the Shakespearean tradition, all roles on stage are played by men.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The bed of Parents Creek lies underneath one corner of the building. A state of Michigan historical marker commemorating this battle sits in front of this building.</p><br>
<p>The Bates Well Ranch , also known as the Bates Well, Growler Well, Gray Ranch and El Veit, was one of the fifteen ranches and line camps in the Gray family cattle business in the Sonoran Desert country north of the US-Mexico border in Pima County, Arizona. Operating for nearly 60 years, the ranch is now part of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.</p><br>
<p>The main ranch house was moved from Growler Mine to Bates Well in 1942, re-used in traditional frontier and Gray family practice. Probably originating as a miners cabin, the northern portion was presumably added after its relocation at Bates Well. The original well may have been dug by W.B. Bates about 1870, with a later well dug by Reuben Daniels circa 1913. An arrastra, a simple ore-milling operation, existed in the early 20th century. The property was developed by Robert Louis Grays son, Henry from 1935 on. Henry lived there until his death in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Bates Well property represents a very complete and intact example of the frontier ranching pattern in Arizona typical of the Sonoran Desert during the first third of the twentieth century. The Gray family controlled essentially all ranching operations in the Organ Pipe National Monument area, including Aguajita Spring, Alamo Canyon Ranch, Bonita Well Line Camp, Bull Pasture, Cement Tank, Dos Lomitas Ranch, Dowling Ranch, Gachado Line Camp, Hocker Well, Pozo Nuevo Line Camp, Pozo Salado or Salt Well, Red Tanks Well, Wild Horse Tank and Williams Spring. Ranching operations ceased in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The West End Collegiate Church is a church on West End Avenue at 77th Street on Manhattan&#39;s Upper West Side. It is part of The Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York, the oldest Protestant church with a continuing organization in America. The Collegiate Church of New York is dually affiliated with the United Church of Christ  and the Reformed Church in America . The West End Collegiate Church is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building is also used as a Meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who signed a temporary lease to use it due to the remodel of the Manhattan New York Temple and Stake Center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>West End Collegiate was built as part of the rapid development of the Upper West Side in the late nineteenth century—from country estates to an urban neighborhood of town houses and, later, apartment buildings. On October 16, 1890, the Consistory of the Collegiate Church instructed the "Committee on a new church site west of Central Park" to price several plots of land of a minimum size of seven lots. The Committee purchased four lots on West End Avenue and three lots on 77th Street for $89,000. A building committee was formed and construction began in 1891. The building stood complete in the fall of 1892 and dedicated on November 20, 1892. On November 19, 1892, The Reverend Henry Evertson Cobb of West Troy, New York was called to become the first minister of the Church.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the church was a center for the Dutch refugee and relief effort; Princess Juliana of the Netherlands visited twice during the war.</p><br>
<p>The church buildings were designated a New York City Landmark in 1967 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints signed a lease in January 2024 to share use of the facility with the West End Collegiate congregation while the Manhattan New York Temple and Stake Center are under remodel.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architect Robert W. Gibson designed the church in Dutch Colonial style, following the design of the 1606 Vleeshal in Haarlem, the Netherlands. This building has the picturesque qualities of the Gothic, highly valued in the late nineteenth century and deemed especially appropriate to church architecture. Authenticity is enhanced by the choice of long, thin, brown bricks laid in Roman pattern, and by the generous use of quoins and blockings of buff terra cotta. The architect further enhanced the antique effect by inserting several handsome, terra cotta panels carved with the coats-of-arms of the church and of past benefactors. The large, octagonal pulpit is carved from oak. Its panels show the coat-of-arms of the Dutch Reformed Church and the great seal of the Church. The pulpit chairs are carved of oak in Old Dutch style. The stained glass windows were donated and created over the course of several decades; three are by Tiffany Studios and one, the east transept window titled The morning cometh and the shadows flee away, was designed by Clara Miller Burd. In the early 2000s, all the stained glass windows of the church were removed, repaired and reinstalled.</p><br>
<p>The Dos Lomitas Ranch, also known as the Rattlesnake Ranch, Blankenship Well and the Gray Ranch, was the first of fifteen ranches and line camps in the Gray family cattle business in the Sonoran Desert country north of the US-Mexico border in Arizona. The ranch is now part of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The period of significance begins for the district with the purchase of the water rights for the ranch in 1919 and ends with the death with the last of the three Gray sons, Robert, Jr., in 1976, and the subsequent removal of the last of the Gray&#39;s cattle from the monument.</p><br>
<p>The main ranch house, is regarded as a rare example of the earlier "Sonoran traditional ranch style," characterized by thick adobe walls, weather exposed or stuccoed, beamed ceiling, flat roof and floor of packed earth, often laid out in an L-form. An outbuilding is built of railroad ties covered with corrugated roofing.</p><br>
<p>The Abington Farm, or Abbington Manor & Farm, is a historic home and stables at Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The main house is a -story frame, side-passage, double-pile house with additions on both gable ends. The main block dates from about 1840. On the property are several outbuildings, including a frame summer kitchen; a stone and frame ice house; a frame, brick, and stone springhouse/dairy; a frame privy, chicken house, tool shed, and corncrib; a large, elaborate frame stable; and a frame tenant house.</p><br>
<p>The Abbington Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick Stearns Building is a manufacturing plant located at 6533 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Frederick Stearns & Company, established in 1855, was a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in 19th century Detroit. In the late 1890s, Frederick K. Stearns (son of the firms founder, Frederick A. Stearns) commissioned William B. Stratton to design this building Construction was completed in 1899 at a cost of $85,000. It originally contained Stearnss production facilities, as well as warehouses and white-collar offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was converted into condominiums in 1989, and is now known as the Lofts at Rivertown.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally three stories in height; a fourth floor was added later. The original building, with its upper story addition, is constructed from brick. The façade is symmetric, with projecting pavilions at each end and another in the center; this front section, which housed the company offices, is 13 bays wide and five bays deep. The center pavilion contains an arched stone entryway and a clock on the third floor. Each window in the Jefferson façade is trimmed with limestone. Fourth-floor gables above the end pavilions add to the appeal of the building.</p><br>
<p>A taller concrete addition, the top of which can be seen from Jefferson,</p><br>
<p>The Captain Avery Museum is a historic home and museum at Shady Side, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story frame building, located on a 0.75 acre rectangular lot. The house overlooks the West River and Chesapeake Bay. The two-story historic structure originally was the residence of the Chesapeake Bay waterman, Capt. Salem Avery, and was constructed about 1860. It was expanded in the nineteenth century and further expanded in the 1920s by the National Masonic Fishing and Country Club. The property consists of the main house with additions, three sheds formerly used as bath houses, and a modern boathouse built in 1993 that features the Edna Florence, a locally-built 1937 Chesapeake Bay deadrise workboat.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The museum, originally called the Captain Salem Avery House Museum, was founded in 1984 by the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society as a local history museum. The names of the Society and the museum were changed in 2015. Currently, the Captain Avery Museum is owned and operated by a nonprofit organization, Captain Avery Museum, Inc.</p><br>
<p>Belvoir is a historic house at Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a two-story, T-shaped building, constructed of brick, stone, and wood. The home is a product of building evolution spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The earliest portion was probably built about 1736, but could date to the 17th century. It was the home of the grandmother of Francis Scott Key, who composed the United States&#39; national anthem, Star Spangled Banner. Key visited in the summer in 1789.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological research is being performed on the plantation site to document the lives of slaves during the 18th and 19th centuries. A foundation from the slave quarters made of stone from the last quarter of the 18th century was found, with many artifacts from the period when slaves lived in the building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Benson–Hammond House is a historic house located on Poplar Avenue in Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story, six-by-two-bay brick farmhouse constructed in the Greek Revival style in several stages at various times between about 1820 and 1870.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work on the community began in 1961 and was completed by 1965. The complex contrasts with earlier Park Service architecture that sought to blend with the environment. The Painted Desert community used straight manufactured materials that deliberately draw a contrast with the natural environment.</p><br>
<p>The most significant building is the Painted Desert Visitor Center, designed as a severely modernist structure that includes administrative offices., a visitor center, an auditorium, a clinic and staff apartments. Other structures include a community center, school and a Fred Harvey Company concession building.</p><br>
<p>Neutra and Alexander paid particular attention to the division of the complex into public and private areas, using low walls to divide the Park Service service area from the central zone, and setting the inward-facing residential areas at a distance. Pedestrian circulation paths are used as defining organizing elements.</p><br>
<p>The original landscape design used non-native plants that required regular watering. Removal of irrigation caused these plants to die, altering the landscape.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Biltmore Forest School was the first school of forestry in North America. Carl A. Schenck founded this school of "practical forestry" in 1896 on George W. Vanderbilt&#39;s Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina. The school grounds are now part of Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina, as the Cradle of Forestry in America, a 6,500 acre historic site which features exhibits about forestry and forest conservation history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1895, George W. Vanderbilt brought Carl A. Schenck from Germany to the Biltmore Estate in western North Carolina to manage the vast expanses of forest lands on the estates property. Schenck replaced Gifford Pinchot as Vanderbilts estate forester. Because of the growing interest in forestry, Schenck decided to formalize his forestry education program.</p><br>
<p>With the permission of Vanderbilt, Schenck established the Biltmore Forest School in 1896 using abandoned farm buildings on the estate grounds near Asheville, North Carolina. He taught students in his spare time. Steven Anderson, president of the Forest History Society, notes this was just a few weeks before the opening of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University, making it the first school of forestry in North America.</p><br>
<p>Although 1898 was the first year the school published a catalog, Schenck operated the school "on a voluntary basis and highly informal" in 1896 and 1897 for a small group of students, including Alfred Gaskill, Edward Merriam Griffith, Frederick E. Olmsted, Overton W. Price, and George H. Wirt. Schenck countered the 1898 opening date, writing, "There was never a formal opening. The first catalog was issued in 1898. … Entrance conditions were lenient—graduation from high school―but once in, strict requirements were enforced. Those who could not make the grades were dropped." The purpose of the school was "to provide foresters for lumber companies." Later, the Biltmore Forest School had so many applicants that Schenck had to create a waiting list.</p><br>
<p>The Biltmore Forest School offered a one-year course of study, and the curriculum focused on providing traditional classroom lectures in silvicultural theory supplemented with extensive hands-on, practical forest management field training. The school lacked academic standing and was instead modeled on the German "Master Schools."</p><br>
<p>Schenck&#39;s students spent most afternoons in the forest doing hands-on work and directly applying the theories they had learned in the classroom. This made Biltmore Forest Schools more like the last year of traditional German training and contrasts strongly with the newly formed American college programs which took place indoors.</p><br>
<p>Schenck proudly said, “My boys worked continuously in the woods, while those at other schools saw wood only on their desks.” The students learned felling, logging, sawing, operating machinery, transplanting seedlings, and caring for tree nurseries. In addition, their studies included botany, dendrology, fish and game, and forest economics. Schenck also took students with him on his annual vacation to Europe.</p><br>
<p>However, student residences were less than desirable; students were told to "find yourself a place to stay" amongst the abandoned farmhouses and cabins in the area. When the students were at their summer camp at Pink Beds in Transylvania County, five of the buildings they lived in were called Hell Hole, Little Bohemia, Little Hell Hole, The Palace, and Rest for the Wicked. Some students were lucky and found a place to stay with the rangers. Despite this, tuition for the school was expensive at $200 a year, meaning that its students mostly came from wealthier families. In contrast, tuition was $175 a year for Harvard University in the same year. By 1906, the school&#39;s brochure indicated that a year at Biltmore Forest School cost closer to $750, with a horse, food, boarding, travel, and the $200 in tuition. During a national financial crisis, Schenck was forced to raise tuition to $250, and again in January 1909, to $300.</p><br>
<p>Geographically, the schools students came mostly from the South and Midwest. Many were the children of lumbermen who wanted to increase profits in their family business. However, there were also students from the Northeast who were interested in conservation. These students tended to be from upper-middle-class families and lack a background in forestry or lumber. Regardless of background, the graduates of the Biltmore Forest School were hired into the new United States Division of Forestry which was under the leadership of Biltmore Estates former forester, Pinchot. This mutually beneficial relationship was short-lived; Pinchot helped establish the forestry school at Yale University with a $150,000 endowment from his father. These students were being taught Pinchot&#39;s view of forestry and were, therefore, more likely to be hired by him.</p><br>
<p>After a disagreement with Schenck in 1903, Pinchot wrote Vanderbilt requesting that he end Schencks ability to award a masters degree and that he also close the Biltmore Forest School altogether. Like Schenck, Howe had also studied with Sir Dietrich Brandis. Other faculty throughout the school&#39;s fifteen years included H. O. Allison (farming), Edgar D. Broadhurst (principals of law), Clement Samuel Brimley (zoology), George Lemon Clothier (prairie planting), Collier Cobb (geology and mineralogy), F. D. Couden (entomology), Dr. Bernhard E. Fernow (forestery), Dr. Andrew D. Hopkins (entomology), R. S. Kellogg (American forest statistics), Frederick Haynes Newell (irrigation), Dr. Harry C. Oberholzer (zoology), Malcolm Ross (farming), Franklin Sherman (zoology), Dr. St. George L. Sioussat (principals of economics), Dr. Hermann von Schrenk (fungus diseases), and Dr. Raphael Zon (activities of the National Forestry Service)., Germany, circa 1912</p><br>
<p>In 1908, Schenck had a heated disagreement with Vanderbilt who wanted to sell off part of the estates&#39; forests to ease his financial crisis.</p><br>
<p>Although the Biltmore Forest School was financially self-sustaining, Schenck could no longer operate it on Vanderbilt&#39;s property. Students spent winters in Darmstadt, Germany, and Mimizan-les-Bains, France, and the rest of the year in forests in upstate New York; North Carolina; Cadillac, Michigan; and Coos Bay, Oregon. In 1910, Schenck tried to take his students on a tour of the pine plantations on Biltmore Estate—because they were barred at the door, they jumped a fence in an isolated spot.</p><br>
<p>House estimated that there were 300 graduates from Biltmore Forest School; 100 entered the field of forestry. However, there may have been as many as 350 students. The school closed in 1913. Schenck noted, "It could not compete with the many state schools of forestry which had by then been set up." In addition, Biltmore Forest School "lacked support from lumbermen."</p><br>
<p>In 1914, Schenck was called back to Germany for World War I. Although he lectured in both Europe and the United States after the war, he did not try to reestablish his forestry school. He wrote, “Retrospectively, let me assert that the Biltmore Forest School died at the right time. It died when it had reached the apex of its career. Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.”</p><br>
<h2>Biltmore Forest Fair</h2><br>
<p>In November 1908, Schenck hosted the Biltmore Forest Fair which was designed to "demonstrate the accomplishments and possibilities of scientific management and practical forestry techniques." Schenck wrote personal letters to nearly 400 people, inviting them to attend the fair. Along with these letters of invitation, he enclosed a 55-page illustrated booklet, A Forest Fair in the Biltmore Forest, which provided information about the forest and conservation. The 50 to 100 attendees included botanists, foresters, furniture manufacturers, lumbermen, and university professors.</p><br>
<p>The three-day festival ran from November 26–29, exhibiting forestry practices taught at the school and providing lessons in logging operations, planting techniques, seed regeneration, and soil composition. Schenck guided attendees on forest plantation tours. Guests also toured Biltmore Estates nurseries. The fair showcased Schencks forestry and conservation practices and resulted in various newspaper articles. American Lumberman magazine wrote that the festival was the beginning of a new “epic in American forestry.”</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>Despite the schools short existence, it laid the foundation for American forestry education. Schencks theories of sustainable forestry greatly influenced the field, remaining important long after he died in 1955. Graduates of the Biltmore Forest School became the first generation of American professional foresters. Instructor Homer D. House estimated that 25 of its students became well known in American forestry.</p><br>
<p>The Biltmore Forest Schools first reunion was in Wilmington, Delaware, after World War I. This was followed by several reunions in New York City, the last one taking place in the 1930s In May 1950, the alumni of Biltmore Forest School had a reunion at the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. They toured Schencks pine plantations on the Biltmore Estate, a had a barbecue at Pink Beds and held an event at Lake Logan clubhouse of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company. They also placed a commemorative tablet called "The Plymouth Rock of Forestry" at the site of the former schoolhouse and planted three pine trees in memory of Schenck. The plaque reads: “In memory of Carl Alwin Schenck, 1867-1955. This memorial forest is dedicated to honor a great teacher and founder of the Biltmore Forest School, the first school of forestry in the New World. His ashes have been spread here among the trees he loved." The event drew 36 alumni from seventeen states. Dr. Hans Schenck, Schenck&#39;s nephew from Germany, brought hand-carved reunion emblems for each alumnus.</p><br>
<p>Today, the school continues to be celebrated as the Cradle of Forestry in America heritage site on Vanderbilts former lands in Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina. There are two guided trails that include several of the schools original buildings, a 1914 Climax logging locomotive, and a portable sawmill. The center offers special programs, crafts demonstrations, nature education programs, and special events.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Hall, home of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University, was named in honor of the school. Schenck considered the forestry program there the successor to the Biltmore School.</p><br>
<p>Released in 2015, the Emmy Award–winning film America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment tells the story of Schenck and his work at Biltmore.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Swift Berry (1907)</p><br>
<p>Joseph S. Illick (1913)</p><br>
<p>Frederick E. Olmsted (1897)</p><br>
<h2>Notable faculty</h2><br>
<p>Clement Samuel Brimley</p><br>
<p>Bernhard E. Fernow</p><br>
<p>Andrew D. Hopkins</p><br>
<p>Homer D. House</p><br>
<p>C. D. Howe</p><br>
<p>Frederick Haynes Newell</p><br>
<p>Harry C. Oberholzer</p><br>
<p>Carl A. Schenck</p><br>
<p>Raphael Zon</p><br>
<p>Bunker Hill is a historic home at Millersville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, eclectic, frame dwelling which reflects several periods of growth. The final composition embodies the late-19th century Victorian Picturesque, A.J. Downing "cottage" style of architecture. The main block, which contains the principal entrance, was constructed about 1820 and a large two story wing was added to the rear about 1870. Later additions occurred throughout the 20th Century. Several 19th century frame outbuildings and a caretaker&#39;s house are on the site, including a smokehouse/dairy, root cellar, tool house, chicken house, slave quarters, carriage house, ice house, pumphouse, barn, and corncrib.</p><br>
<p>Bunker Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Burrages End is a historic home near Lothian, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a small -story frame house with gambrel roof. The site is noteworthy for containing a number of buildings from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The house was constructed c. 1780, replacing an earlier house on the site, according to a 1982 study by the Architectural Research Department of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, presumably by Col. John Weems who purchased the property in 1764. Weems was the construction contractor for the 1762-65 St. James Church 3/4 mile to the south. At Weems death in 1794, Burrages End was sold to Thomas Sellman and remained in that family&#39;s hands until 1946. A Weems-Sellman cemetery is on site.</p><br>
<p>Historic outbuildings include a slave quarter and a tobacco barn. In the late 1700s, Major John Welsh built a hall-and-parlor plan house with a "new hall" addition, both replaced c. 1780. "Although often assigned a late 17th century date, the present dwelling is a later house, built c. 1780."</p><br>
<p>The property was patented in 1665 to John Burrage, who sold it to Welsh in 1668.</p><br>
<p>Burrages End was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Park is a historic home at Galesville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was originally constructed in 1702 as a -story post-in-the-ground structure, with hand-hewn timbers and riven clapboards and chimneys at either end, the earliest surviving earthfast constructed dwelling in Maryland and Virginia. Later additions and modifications, in 1736 and in the early 19th century, resulted in the brick structure of today. Also on the property is a frame tenant house or slave quarters of the mid-19th century. It was the birthplace and home of Founding Father John Francis Mercer, and between 1825 and 1834 it was an academy for young women operated by his daughter, Margaret Mercer, as "Miss Mercer&#39;s School."</p><br>
<p>Cedar Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Childs Residence, also known as the George Miller Residence and Millersville Store and Post Office, is a historic home and associated buildings at Millersville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The home is a c. 1840 -story frame dwelling with a large 2-story frame addition built about 1852. Also on the property are a frame smokehouse/dairy built about 1840, and a c. 1920 frame store. It served as the dwelling of the first Postmaster in Millersville, and is noteworthy for having continuously served as the Post Office and community store for 130 years. It is now home to the Anne Arundel County Trails program.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Creagh House is a historic house located at 160 Prince George Street in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a single-pile, -story brick house with a steeply pitched gambrel roof. The house was originally built between 1735 and 1747 by local craftsman Patrick Creagh, and enlarged during the late 18th or early 19th centuries. In the early 19th century, the property was purchased by free African-American John Smith, whose wife operated Aunt Lucy&#39;s Bakeshop at the corner of Main and Greene Streets. Some walls of the house show scars from gunfire during the Civil War. The backyard of the house has been used in a number of remodeling advertisements.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The property was at one point owned by Martin and Eileen Friend (2006 - 2013). Their children are Joseph Friend (owner of the business Friend Commercial Real Estate), Sarah Friend, Daniel Friend, and Elizabeth Friend.</p><br>
<p>The House by the "Town Gates" is a historic home in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a large and imposing brick building, 2½ stories high and five bays wide. It was originally constructed in the second quarter of the 19th century as a single-family dwelling, later converted into commercial spaces by the latter part of that century. The alley along the west side of the building is the only undisturbed example of original cobblestone paving known in Annapolis.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Howard&#39;s Inheritance is a historic home near Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story gambrel-roofed brick house with a hall-parlor plan. The building appears to have been constructed as early as 1760, with interior finishes renewed about 1840. Also on the property is a 19th-century frame corn crib.</p><br>
<p>Howard&#39;s Inheritance was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Primrose Hill is a historic home at 3 Milkshake Lane in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a -story, four-bay, double-pile brick house with interior end chimneys. It is of mid-18th-century Georgian design and construction, and the property is historically important with its direct association to the American portraitist, John Hesselius , who resided in this house between about 1763 and his death.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Over the course of time and many owners, and notably with the dedication of Truxtun Park, the once 656-acre property associated with the historic home decreased to approximately 4.5 acres in size. The remaining plot was sold in 2014 to a private developer, after which the historic home was restored to architectural period-correctness. The residence, with a new address of 50 Primrose Hill Lane, was resold in May 2018 and is part of a newly formed Homeowners Association, along with 25 new homes; Craftmark Homes is building the new community, called simply Primrose Hill.</p><br>
<p>The Upton Scott House is a historic home in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, rectangular brick house. The interior is lavish, and the house has sustained only minor alterations in the 20th century. The house was built for Dr. Upton Scott, the personal physician to the Royal Governor of the Province of Maryland, and is of the transitional Georgian style. The house was built by William Brown, and closely resembles Brown&#39;s house on the South River, now known as the London Town Publik House.</p><br>
<p>The Upton Scott House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Sunnyfields is a historic home at Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is partially brick, two and a half stories tall and three bays wide, and was built in 1810. The east portion is of frame construction, six bays long, and two stories high and dates from about 1785. It has characteristics from several periods of Maryland architecture: pre-Federal vernacular , high style Federal , and early-20th century mass-produced Classical Revival .</p><br>
<p>Sunnyfields was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Turkey Hill is a historic home at Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1822 by William Linthicum. Originally the house consisted of a -story frame section and a three-story field stone section linked together by an open porch. As the family increased in size, Linthicum added another story to the frame portion, making it two and a half stories high. Also on the property is a birdhouse, modeled after Camden Station in Baltimore City; a late-19th-century carriage house; a late-19th-century meathouse; and an early-20th-century garage also stand on the property.</p><br>
<p>Turkey Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Twin Oaks is a historic home at Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The house is a -story brick Greek Revival–influenced dwelling constructed in 1857, with additions and Neo-Classical embellishments made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The final composition is an eclectic, Georgian Revival–influenced dwelling. Twin Oaks was the home of USA Congressman John Charles Linthicum, who is noted for sponsoring the legislation which established The Star-Spangled Banner as the United States national anthem. He entertained many dignitaries at Twin Oaks, including William Jennings Bryan and General Douglas MacArthur. Also on the property are a Victorian birdhouse, an aviary, a columned grape arbor, two freestanding concrete-cast columns, and a few pieces of statuary.</p><br>
<p>Twin Oaks was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Evergreen is a historic home at Owensville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story white frame house composed of several sections, the earliest of which was built about 1760, and constructed by George Neall in the Federal style. The house reflects building evolution from the third quarter of the 18th century to the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Evergreen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Grassland is a historic house at Annapolis Junction, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was built in 1853, and is a three-part brick structure constructed in a telescoping manner. Other structures on the property were erected between 1852 and 1854 by enslaved people: the one-story frame slave house with brick-nogged walls; a small stone smokehouse; the remains of a summer kitchen; and a frame harness shed, storage shed, and the ruins of a bank barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>As of January 2023, the property is overgrown with weeds and tall grass. The buildings located here at this site also appear to be in total disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Agate House is a partially reconstructed Puebloan building in Petrified Forest National Park, built almost entirely of petrified wood. The eight-room pueblo has been dated to approximately the year 900 and occupied through 1200, of the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods. The agatized wood was laid in a clay mortar, in lieu of the more usual sandstone-and-mortar masonry of the area.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of Agate House were reconstructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933-34 under the direction of C.B. Cosgrove Jr. of the New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology. Room 7 was fully reconstructed with a new roof. Room 2&#39;s walls were rebuilt to a height of five feet, but not roofed, and the remaining walls were rebuilt to a height of two or three feet.</p><br>
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<p>The Manning Cabin was the first vacation cabin built in what is now Saguaro National Park. The log structure was built by Levi H. Manning, Surveyor General of the Arizona Territory and later mayor of Tucson, in 1905. From 1922 to 1939 it was used by the USA Forest Service to house fire and trail crews, and for the same purpose by the National Park Service from the park&#39;s establishment in 1940.</p><br>
<p>Oakwood is a historic house at Harwood, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was built in the 1850s and is a -story, frame vernacular farmhouse with Greek Revival influenced details. It is a highly intact, mid-19th-century tobacco plantation dwelling and is associated with Sprigg Harwood, a leader in the failed initiative to have Maryland leave the Union and align with the newly formed Confederate States of America.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Obligation is a historic home at Harwood, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was begun in 1743 and later enlarged in 1827, to two and one-half stories. The house was built for Thomas Stockett III, and was enlarged to its present configuration during the ownership of his grandson, Joseph Noble Stockett . Dr. Thomas Noble Stockett  was the son of Thomas III, and became a prominent citizen and served as a surgeon for the Maryland Line during the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>Obligation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Parkhurst is a historic home at Harwood, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a large two-story frame house with a complex floor plan, reflecting the evolution of the dwelling. The original Gothic Revival vernacular, center-passage, double-pile plan house was constructed about 1848-1850 by Richard S. Mercer. Alterations and additions were made in the early 20th century, giving the house a Neoclassical appearance. Also on the property are a timber framed mid-19th century smokehouse and an early-20th century frame tobacco barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Tobacco barn was replaced in 2014</p><br>
<p>Summer Hill is a historic home at Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a -story frame dwelling, five bays wide and two deep. It represents a typical Maryland farmhouse of the mid 19th century. The exterior is in transition between mid-19th-century style, broadly derived from Greek Revival architecture, and an earlier style derived from Federal-Georgian sources.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
