<p>Llandaff House is a historic home in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story irregular plan frame house built in 1877–78, in a combined Queen Anne and Eastlake style. It features an asymmetrical front facade with a central entrance incorporated in a projecting two-story, two-bay pavilion distinguished by an open porch on the first floor. Also on the property are a late-19th-century three-story combination water tower and windmill and an early-20th-century frame boathouse. The grounds were professionally designed and executed by New York landscape architect Thomas Hogan.</p><br>
<p>Llandaff House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Myrtle Grove is a historic home in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland. It consists of a frame section dating from the first half of the 18th century, a 1790 Flemish bond brick section, and a 1927 frame wing. The oldest section is five bays wide and one and a half stories tall on a brick foundation laid in English bond.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Wye Town Farm House is a historic home in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is of brick construction, one and one-half stories high and two rooms deep with a small one-story brick kitchen. A two-story addition was made in the 20th century. The original section of the house dates from about 1800.</p><br>
<p>The Wye Town Farm House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Tidewater Inn is a historic hotel in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is a Colonial Revival brick, hip-roofed, four-story hotel with flanking three-story wings and an addition on the north wing. The original section was completed in 1949, with an addition to the north constructed in 1953. The floor plan of the original building is a flattened chevron shape. It served as the preeminent hostelry and community gathering place on the Maryland Eastern Shore during the time when new automobile-oriented transportation routes intensified the volume of visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Tidewater Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Troths Fortune, also known as Troths Farm, is a historic home in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, two-room deep, gambrel-roofed dwelling with a medieval style stair tower and a richly detailed interior. The house has two 20th century frame wings. It was probably built between the years 1686 and 1710, and is a well-preserved example of late 17th century Maryland vernacular architecture.</p><br>
<p>Troth&#39;s Fortune was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Sherwood Manor, also known as Sherwoods Neck, is a historic home about four miles west of Saint Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland. It is a post-Revolutionary War brick structure located on a small point of land in Hemmersley Creek. The house is a five bay, two story brick structure, with an unusual pair of inset panels, the size of windows, on both stories of the west gable end. It was acquired in 1771 by Matthew Tilghman, a Maryland statesman and onetime member of the Continental Congress, to augment his own large property holdings in the area, which included his home at Rich Neck Manor. Matthew Tilghmans son, Lloyd Tilghman, occupied the Sherwood property and built Sherwood Manor some time before 1798.</p><br>
<p>Sherwood Manor was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Old Bloomfield is a historic home at Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is a large and sprawling structure constructed in three major sections: a -story, three bay brick section with a steeply pitched roof built about 1720; a -story frame addition on the southwest gable built about 1840; and a 2-story frame wing on the southwest end of this earlier addition. Also on the property is a small frame dairy, a heavy timber-frame crib, and a barn. It has remained in the same family as a working farm continuously since the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>Old Bloomfield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Orem&#39;s Delight is a historic home at Bellevue, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. The house, which was built about 1725, is a 20-by-25-foot, -story brick structure with an interior chimney. It is one of the few small 18th-century structures to have survived without incorporation into a larger dwelling.</p><br>
<p>Orem&#39;s Delight was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Otwell is a historic home at Oxford, Talbot County, Maryland. It is a brick house composed of two major parts, the first constructed around 1720–1730, and the other part around 1800–1810. The earliest portion of the building consists of the westerly gambrel roofed structure with a T-shaped plan. At the base of the "T" are appended three small sections with varying roof lines, constructed in the first decade of the 19th century. The interior retains the original floor plan but the decorative detailing was extensively restored following a fire in 1958.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Wilderness, or High Banks, is a historic home at Matthews, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It overlooks the Choptank River and was constructed in two periods. The smaller -story, four-bay-long brick structure is attributed to the 1780-90 period, and the larger portion is in Flemish bond brick and dates to around 1815. Also on the property are two early outbuildings, a smokehouse, and dairy. It was the home of Daniel Martin, the 20th Governor of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The Wilderness was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Standard Building is a 374 ft  skyscraper in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was completed in 1923 as the headquarters for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.  and has 18 floors. Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina  and the tallest building between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>A 20-story addition first known as the Jefferson-Pilot Building and later the Lincoln Financial Building was finished in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Julian Price, president of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, asked New York City architect Charles C. Hartmann to design his company&#39;s new headquarters. Price paid for the building in full because he did not believe in debt. The corridors used "23 carloads of marble".</p><br>
<p>In 1930, Jefferson Standard gained a controlling interest in Pilot Life Insurance Co. In 1967, Pilot Life Insurance Co. and Jefferson Standard became Jefferson-Pilot Corporation, and 800 Pilot Life employees moved from the Pilot Life buildings, which were built in Sedgefield, North Carolina in the 1920s, into the Jefferson Standard Building and its 20-story addition in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson-Pilot merged with Lincoln Financial Group in 2006. The buildings remain the headquarters for the company&#39;s life insurance operations, though the company headquarters moved to Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>In October 2009, a limited edition cover of Acme Comics G-Man Cape Crisis #2 showed the 1990 Lincoln Financial insurance division headquarters (formerly the Jefferson-Pilot Building), with G-Man fighting the Acme Bat. Chris Giarusso drew the cover, which recalled Superman fighting Spider-Man in 1976. A special appearance by Giarusso at the Greensboro Acme Comics store marked the cover&#39;s release on October 24. Also present were Gregg Schigiel (whose work includes SpongeBob SquarePants), Jacob Chabot (Mighty Skullboy Army), Brian Smith (Stuff of Legend) and Art Baltazar (Tiny Titans).</p><br>
<h2>Lincoln Financial Building</h2><br>
<p>A 20-story addition to the Jefferson Standard Building, officially known as the Lincoln Financial Building, opened in 1990. Originally known as the Jefferson-Pilot Building, the 384,993 ft² building was designed by the architectural firm Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart and constructed by the Hardin Construction Group. The Lincoln Financial Building, which is the tallest building in Greensboro, was constructed in a Gothic Revival architecture style to match the existing Jefferson Standard Building, a rarity for buildings constructed at the end of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Ogden Apartment Hotel is an apartment building in the Downtown West neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The building was designed for middle class worker housing when demand for such housing was increasing around the beginning of the 20th century. It was billed as an "apartment hotel", a design briefly popular in Minneapolis. The individual units did not have their own separate kitchens; instead, residents ate from a common restaurant in the building. The building was designed primarily to appeal to single men and women, as well as married couples without children. It included modern conveniences  such as private bathrooms, Murphy beds, and electric appliances.</p><br>
<p>The building changed its name to the Continental Hotel in 1948. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as the last remaining single room occupancy residential structure in Minneapolis. The building was purchased by the Central Community Housing Trust, now known as Aeon, in 1992. At the time, it had only a few residents, some who had lived there as long as 34 years, and the roof was deteriorating. Aeon rehabilitated the building, which now houses 70 residents who were formerly homeless. The staff provides support services, classes, and workshops for its residents. The renovation earned two awards: the "Neighborhood Environment Award" in 1993 from the City of Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environment (CUE), and the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission Award in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history. The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England. The first Dungeness house was the legacy of Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene, who had acquired 11,000 acre of island land in 1783 in exchange for a bad debt. In 1800, his widow Catharine Miller  built a four-story tabby mansion over a Timucuan shell mound. During the War of 1812 the island was occupied by the British, who used the house as a headquarters.</p><br>
<p>In 1818, Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a cavalry commander during the Revolutionary War and father of Robert E. Lee, stayed at the house until his death on March 25, 1818, cared for by Greene&#39;s daughter Louisa, and was laid to rest in a nearby cemetery with full military honors provided by an American fleet stationed at St. Marys, Georgia. The house was abandoned during the USA Civil War and burned in 1866.</p><br>
<p>In the 1880s the property was purchased by Thomas M. Carnegie, brother of Andrew Carnegie, who began to build a new mansion on the site. The 59-room Queen Anne style mansion and grounds were completed after Carnegie&#39;s death in 1886. His wife Lucy continued to live at Dungeness and built other estates for her children, including Greyfield for Margaret Carnegie Ricketson, Plum Orchard for George Lauder Carnegie, and Stafford Plantation. By this time, the Carnegies owned 90% of the island.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegies moved out of Dungeness in 1925. In 1959 the Dungeness mansion was destroyed by fire, alleged to be arson.</p><br>
<p>The main house comprises a portion of the larger historic district, which includes servants quarters, utility buildings, laundries, cisterns, and a variety of other structures. The district forms a planned, landscaped ensemble. The most significant supporting structure is the Tabby House or Nathanael Greene Cottage, which dates to the Greene familys tenure.</p><br>
<p>Victorian Corn Cribs are historic agricultural buildings at St. Michael&#39;s, Talbot County, Maryland. The two structures feature elaborate tracery along the eaves and bargeboards, and are connected by a low, rough shed. They were moved from their original site on the north side of USA Route 13, about two miles east of Westover, in Somerset County, to their present Talbot County site in June 1975.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>All Saints&#39; Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church at Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. It is a small rectangular frame church constructed in 1900–1901. The exterior features of the church include a three-stage bell tower with a shingled spire. The interior features imported stained glass windows from Munich, Germany, along with decorative tile floors, a darkly stained exposed timber roof structure, and intricately carved church furniture. The church was designed by New York architect, Henry Martyn Congdon.</p><br>
<p>All Saints&#39; Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Old Wye Church is a historic Episcopal church at Wye Mills, Talbot County, Maryland. It is a one-story, gable-roofed, rectangular brick structure originally constructed in 1717–21. It was extensively renovated in 1854 and restored to its 18th-century appearance in 1947–49. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of Georgian Anglican architecture in its brick construction, semicircular-arched window openings, shouldered buttresses, rectangular plan, and simple massing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Goodales Cutoff formed a spur of the Oregon Trail beginning in Idaho, United States. The cutoff left the trail near Fort Hall, crossed the Snake River Plain to the Lost River, and then turned west to the area of Boise, crossing Camas Prairie. It rejoined the main trail from Ditto Creek to Boise, then ran to the north of the main trail, crossing the Snake River into Oregon at Brownlees Ferry. In Oregon travelers could now reach the Eagle Valley and Pine Valley areas, and the gold mines in Auburn. The cutoff rejoined the main Oregon Trail at the Powder River, near Baker City.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, John Jeffrey began promoting a trail following traditional Shoshoni paths in order to generate business for his ferry on the Blackfoot River. The cutoff received limited use from 1852–54. By 1862, the Northern Shoshone and Bannock tribes were beginning to resist the intrusion of settlers into their homeland, and that year Shoshone Indians ambushed a wagon train at Massacre Rock, killing 10 people. During 1862 Tim Goodale led a group of 1,095 people, 338 wagons, and 2,900 head of stock safely from Fort Hall to Old Fort Boise on the cutoff pioneered by Jeffrey. By 1863, seven out of every ten wagons en route from Fort Hall to Boise took Goodales Cutoff instead of the main Oregon Trail. Goodales Cutoff is visible at many points along USA Highway 20, USA Highway 26, and USA Highway 93 between Craters of the Moon National Monument and Carey</p><br>
<p>The Silversmith Hotel is a boutique hotel located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It occupies the historic Silversmith Building, designed in 1896 by Peter J. Weber of the architectural firm of D.H. Burnham and Company, who also designed the Fisher Building. The building&#39;s architecture reflects the transition from Romanesque Revival architecture to Chicago school architecture. The Silversmith Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It became a member of the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Nissen Building is a 283 ft  18-story skyscraper in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, built in 1927. It was the largest building in the city, succeeding the Hotel Robert E. Lee, and the tallest building in North Carolina from 1927 to 1929, when it was succeeded by the Reynolds Building; all three buildings were in Winston-Salem. The Nissen Building was named to the National Register of Historic Places March 17, 1983, with a boundary increase in 2004 to include a one-story addition built in 1969. With the spire on top, its height is 102.1m.</p><br>
<p>It has a steel frame, with buff brick and pre-cast concrete for the exterior, along with details in granite, marble and limestone.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>W.M. Nissen and new leasee Coach Kolstad, the owner of Nissen Wagon Works, built the Nissen Building on the site of a former YMCA between 1926 and 1927. William Lee Stoddart of New York City, known for the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, was the architect. The building opened with a Bob-a-Link miniature golf course in the basement. The first tenants included the Civil Service Administration, Veterans Administration and the Office of Flying Safety. In 1931 the street level shops included The Vogue clothing shop, the Bland Piano Company, Gladys Lingerie Shop, the Belcher-Forlaw Shoe Company and Bobbitts Nissen Drug. William and Ida Nissen lived on the 18th floor until 1954.</p><br>
<p>The United States Air Force later became a major tenant.</p><br>
<p>The Nissen Building was the first air-conditioned building in the Southeast.</p><br>
<p>In May 1999, BB&T bought what was then called the First Union Building for $2.5 million from Aon Consulting Inc., which moved about 400 employees to University Corporate Center. BB&T planned to be the primary tenant by 2003, but the bank instead sold the building for $2 million in August 2000 to Prime Residential LLC of Chicago, which planned to convert the building to 132 apartments at a cost of $26 million.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the building was in the process of being converted into 145 luxury apartments. A plan for condominiums was considered but dropped. Nissen Risk Capital LLC and HRI, using Holder Construction Co. as general contractor, began work in Summer 2004. Little Diversified Architectural Consulting and Acanthus Architecture Group provided architectural expertise. The lobby was being restored to the way it looked when the building was new, including a granite floor and brass on steel elevator doors. A pool has been added to the roof.</p><br>
<p>When the project was completed, the Nissen Building had 14,000 ft&sup2; of commercial space and nearly 128,000 ft&sup2; of residential space.</p><br>
<p>The Marshall Field Garden Apartments is a large non-governmental subsidized housing project in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The project occupies two square city blocks and was the largest moderate-income housing development in the USA at the time of construction in 1929. Marshall Field Garden Apartments has 628 units within 10 buildings. Polo G lived in the project in his youth.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The project was developed by the estate of Marshall Field, entrepreneur and founder of the Chicago Marshall Field&#39;s department store chain. The project was directed by Marshall Field III. Its aim was not only to provide housing at a reasonable cost but also to provide a catalyst for renewal of the surrounding area. Marshall Field Garden Apartments was at the time of construction one of two large philanthropic housing developments in Chicago. The other was Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, at 47th and Michigan. Both were built in 1929 and both were modeled after the Dunbar Apartments built by John D. Rockefeller Jr., in 1926 in Harlem, New York City.</p><br>
<p>Marshall Field Garden Apartments was meant to be the first of three or four similar projects, but the Great Depression kept those plans from coming to fruition. Marshall had hoped to provide low cost housing but land acquisition and construction cost overruns pushed the rent into the moderate range.</p><br>
<p>By 1991, the apartments had deteriorated, and were sold to private investors in 1992 with a clause that specified that they would remain available only to low income tenants for 25 years.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, the apartments were sold to Related Midwest, and in a public-private partnership agreement plan to keep the units affordable until 2045. Shortly after purchasing the apartments, Related Midwest hired, local architecture firm, Nia Architects to renovate and update the historic buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Marshall Field Garden Apartments is located on 1450 North Sedgwick in Chicago, Illinois 60610. Marshall Field Gardens Apartments is a populated place located in Cook County at a latitude of 41.908 and longitude -87.639. The elevation is 594 feet. Marshall Field Garden Apartments appears on the Chicago Loop USA Geological Survey Map. Cook County is the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours) which Marshall Fields Gardens Apartments have.</p><br>
<h2>Security and Maintenance</h2><br>
<p>A controversial security system was installed in 1999 to control access and provide valuable investigative information, using biometric devices. The apartments are the scene of frequent shootings.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, an electrified copper rod attached to the building killed a dog that a man was walking by the building and electrocuted the man.</p><br>
<p>Auburn House is a historic home located on the grounds of Towson University in Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1790 by Charles Ridgely III and stayed in the family until it became part of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital property in 1944. Towson University  acquired it in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The building currently serves as the home of the executive offices of the Department of Athletics.</p><br>
<p>The National Register listing shows it having been built in 1849, but it also says that Rebecca Dorsey Ridgely, wife of Charles Ridgely III, lived there from 1791 to 1812. The listing calls it Greek Revival, but 1791 is well before the Greek Revival period in the United States. Towson University calls it "an important example of Italianate–Federal architecture".</p><br>
<p>It is a rectangular three story stone structure faced with scored stucco. The front is three bays, with ground floor windows, six over nine, the full height of the front door. The next story is also six over nine, but not as tall, and the top floor windows are the same size as the upper sash of the floor below. The interior is elegant, including acanthus pattern cornices, Italian marble mantels, graceful chandeliers, and a carved mahogany balustrade. The two story addition on the southwest side was built in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Auburn House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1975, reference number 75000869.</p><br>
<p>The Ballestone-Stansbury House, once misidentified as the Ballestone Mansion, is a historic plantation home located on Cedar Point between Back and Middle Rivers in Essex, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a part of the Rocky Point Park and is owned by Baltimore County. It was built during the late 18th or early 19th century and has been enlarged twice. The original portion was built about 1800.</p><br>
<p>A one-story addition added 506 square feet to the house. A second floor was added to the addition c. 1870–1880.</p><br>
<p>Ballestone Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Bare Hills House is a historic home built about 1856 in the Mount Washington area of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story frame dwelling with steep gables and board-and batten siding. The house is an example of the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1980. It is located at 6222 Falls Road in the Bare Hills Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Brooklandville House, or the Valley Inn, is a historic restaurant and tavern building, and a former inn, located in Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a -story stone structure facing the former railroad and dating from about 1832. It is associated with the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, which crossed the property just to the south.</p><br>
<p>Brooklandville House (the Valley Inn), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Brooklandwood, or Brookland Wood, is a historic home located in Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. Its grounds became developed for the St. Paul&#39;s School for Boys.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story, five-bay dwelling. The central block and two later wings are brick, painted white. The central-block section is original and built about 1790, with porches and Palladian-style windows forming a symmetrical, functional unit. It was owned by Captain John Cockey and then sold to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and several of his descendants: Carroll&#39;s daughter and son-in-law Mary and Richard Caton, parents of Emily Caton, who married John MacTavish, the British Consul to Baltimore in the early 1800s. It was also owned by Isaac E. Emerson, the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Cloisters, also known as Cloisters Castle, is a historic home in Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The building was completed in 1932, after three years of construction. The house is 4 story house, irregular in elevation and plan with much architectural ornament. It is built of large, random-sized blocks of a native gray and gold colored rock known as Butler stone, with details principally of sandstone, wood from the site, plaster, and wrought iron. Many structural elements were salvaged from other buildings in the US and Europe, including several items from the Glen Ellen Mansion, which had been near Loch Raven Reservoir. The main façade is dominated by two asymmetrically placed, projecting sections topped by massive half-timbered gables that were originally part of a Medieval house in Domrémy, France. It also has a massive stone octagonal stair tower, which contains a stone and wrought-iron spiral staircase and is crowned by a crenellated parapet and a small, round, stone-roofed structure from which one can exit onto the roof of the main tower. The house&#39;s roof is constructed of overlapping flagstones secured by iron pins, the only roof of this kind in America.</p><br>
<p>The property is owned by Baltimore City and operated by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts, although it is located in Baltimore County. The city ran a children&#39;s museum in the building until 1996, when it moved to the Inner Harbor area and was renamed Port Discovery. The Cloisters is currently operated as a rental facility, hosting over 250 weddings, parties, bar/bat mitzvahs, and gatherings per year.</p><br>
<p>The Cloisters was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>On December 31, 1997, about 100 guests attended the wedding of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith at The Cloisters.</p><br>
<p>The Musical Fund Hall is a landmark building of both architectural and historic significance located at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The hall has hosted many notable speakers and events, including the first Republican National Convention from June 17 to 19, 1856.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, in recognition of the building&#39;s historical notability, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building initially housed the First Presbyterian Church; it was converted into the largest musical auditorium in Philadelphia by William Strickland and opened in December 1824.</p><br>
<p>Noted for its fine acoustics, the Hall was described in a newspaper review of the first concert: "The room is exceedingly neat, and its decoration does honor to the taste of Mr. Strickland, an architect of whom Philadelphia may be justly proud. It is one hundred and six feet long, sixty feet wide, and twenty-six feet high, and is admirably calculated for the conveyance of sound..." As it continued to serve as the leading concert hall in the city, the building was renovated in 1847 by Napoleon LeBrun and expanded by architect Addison Hutton in 1891.</p><br>
<p>Internationally notable musical artists, authors, and lecturers have appeared at Musical Fund Hall, including:</p><br>
<p>1825: Marquis de Lafayette, who aided George Washington and the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was honored at a reception</p><br>
<p>1827: Maria Malibran, a Spanish opera singer</p><br>
<p>1848: Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist</p><br>
<p>1842: Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities</p><br>
<p>1850 and 1851: Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale", and Ede Reményi</p><br>
<p>1852: Henriette Sontag and Adelina Patti</p><br>
<p>1853 and 1856: William Makepeace Thackeray, lectures on the "English Humorists" (1853) and "Charity and Humor" (1856)</p><br>
<p>1897: poet Paul Laurence Dunbar read selections of his own works</p><br>
<p>Renowned pianists such as Louis Gottschalk, Kossowski, Sigismond Thalberg, and Wolfsohn also appeared at the Hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1856, the first National Republican Convention was held at the Musical Fund Hall. John C. Frémont was nominated on the second ballot. William L. Dayton of New Jersey was the vice-presidential nominee.</p><br>
<p>With its busy and notable schedule of events, 1856 was the banner year for the Musical Fund Hall. By the end of the year, the 3,000-seat Philadelphia Academy of Music opened and immediately supplanted the Musical Fund Hall as the premier venue for concerts and lectures in the city. The Musical Fund Society moved its concerts to the Academy of Music in 1868.</p><br>
<p>After seeing use as (among other things) a boxing arena and a tobacco warehouse, the Hall was abandoned, then was converted into condominiums. As a result of the conversion, the auditorium no longer exists. The building was removed from the list of National Historic Landmarks but it retains a position on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Around 1900, the society was a main proponent in creating the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1982, The Musical Fund Society&#39;s document collection including manuscripts of European music as well as music by Pennsylvania composers, went to the library of the University of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The Eagles Nest is a historic home located at Phoenix, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a large fieldstone dwelling begun, it is believed, in the 1690s and completed in 1802 on part of a 2500-acre tract named "The Valley of Jehosaphat" by Richard Smith, Jr., who was granted the land by Lord Baltimore in 1684 in recognition of Smiths service as the first attorney general of Maryland. Smith&#39;s descendants owned the tract until Walter Dulany bought half of it in the 1720s and the other half about 20 years later.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>While the origin of the name, "Eagles Nest", is unknown, one possible explanation has to do with the fact that a Mr. FitzHugh of Virginia married one of famed lawyer Daniel Dulanys sisters and lived with her at "Fitzhugh Farm", adjoining the original "Eagles Nest" to the north. The FitzHughs owned, among other properties, a plantation north of the James River named, "Eagles Nest".</p><br>
<h2>Dulany family</h2><br>
<p>The Dulany family was a prosperous mercantile and land-owning family with an extensive trading relationship with England. Their loyalties lay with the Mother Country throughout the American Revolution, the outcome of which left them out of favor. The Eagles Nest was confiscated, and the house with some acreage was sold at a sheriffs sale to Thomas Marsh, the propertys overseer who lived in the house as it was then. Since the Marshes were Quakers, they had no interest in owning slaves, instead producing 10 or more children in each generation. Thomass son, Joshua, served as a captain in the Revolution and afterward became financially successful in his management of raising and selling crops and livestock. It was he who built the main portion of the house a decade and a half after Hampton Mansion was built. A copy of his portrait still hangs in the house.</p><br>
<h2>Modern day</h2><br>
<p>The three-part house consists of a tall, -story 5-bay Georgian portion and two long -story portions. The newest portion, the garage wing, incorporates timbers salvaged from the old slave quarters before the flooding of the valley in order to create Loch Raven Reservoir. The house features a profusion of original detail including the fine main entrance, the interior woodwork, the original arcade, period outbuildings including the smokehouse, icehouse, springhouse, and root cellar. Foundation ruins of the barn, tenant farmer&#39;s house, and tollbooth still stand, though now on neighboring properties.</p><br>
<h2>Neighborhoods</h2><br>
<p>The late-20th-century neighborhoods built on the eastern portion of the original property, including Golden Eagle, Eagle&#39;s View, Stone Eagle, and Eagle’s Nest Country Club (formerly Towson Golf & Country Club) derive their names from the name of the original tract.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and is listed on the Maryland and Baltimore County historical registers.</p><br>
<p>Glencoe is a historic home and resort complex located at Glencoe, Baltimore County, Maryland. It consists if a complex of Italianate-influenced domestic buildings and structures, clustered around a square, two-story frame dwelling. The house features a broad porch, which wraps around two sides with an iron-railed deck atop the porch. Four interior brick chimneys rise around a central observation deck. The property also includes a two-story, mansard roofed stable / carriage house, a smokehouse, ice house, sheep shed, garden house , and a latticed frame gazebo. It was built in 1851-1856 as a private residence, but was subsequently developed as a summer resort.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Half-Way House, also known as The Wiseburg Inn, is a historic inn and toll house located on York Road at Parkton, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a large, -story Flemish bond brick structure. The main part, built as an inn about 1810, was placed in front of an earlier log structure which has since been used as a kitchen. The property includes three of the original outbuildings, a stone dairy, a stone laundry, and a board-and-batten shed / ice house. It was built to serve travelers on the newly opened turnpike from Baltimore to York.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A boundary increase took place in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Hill House, also known as Cool Spring, is a historic home located on York Road at Parkton, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, -story brick mansard-roofed dwelling constructed about 1879. It features a four-paneled central entrance door flanked by round-arched sidelights and surmounted by a rectangular transom. The house presents a rural interpretation of the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>Hill House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Rockland is a historic home located on Falls Road in Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a -story Greek Revival-influenced house consisting of a three-bay-wide main block, constructed in 1837, with two telescoping additions, a two-bay-wide stage completed in 1852, and a three-bay-wide section built after 1890. The brick structure has been stuccoed and scored to resemble ashlar masonry. Also on the property are a smokehouse, bake oven, a large bank barn, and a late-19th-century frame shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Rockland Brooklandville MD Bank Barn Dec 09.JPGRockland Bank Barn, December 2009</p><br>
<p>Hilton is a historic home located on the campus of The Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is an early-20th-century Georgian Revival–style mansion created from a stone farmhouse built about 1825, overlooking the Patapsco River valley. The reconstruction was designed by Baltimore architect Edward L. Palmer Jr. in 1917. The main house is five bays in length, two and a half stories above a high ground floor, with a gambrel roof. The house has a -story wing, five bays in length, with a gabled roof, extending from the east end; and a two-story, one-bay west wing. The roof is covered with Vermont slate. The house features a small enclosed porch of the Tuscan order that was probably originally considered a porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>Hilton is situated on the 5000-acre "Taylors Forest" surveyed in 1678. The first construction at the 511-acre site was a stone farmhouse built between 1818 and 1825 for James W. McCulloh. After defending several charges of conspiracy, the property was sold to John Lewis Buchanan in 1825. In 1827 Dr. Lennox Birckhead, son of McCollohs business partner Soloman Birkhead purchased the property. Birkhead named his home "Hilton" for its high elevation.</p><br>
<p>William Carson Glenn purchased the property in 1837, selling to his politician brother John Glenn in 1842. Guests during this period included Robert E. Lee. In 1852, Glenn added several stone outbuildings. The property passed to Marrietta Glen and was managed by newspaper publisher William Wilkens Glenn. William Glenn managed the farm with 26 slaves, sympathizing with the South during the Civil War. Hilton was used as a stopping location for Southerners fleeing Union troops for home. Glenn died in 1876, with the farm falling into disuse. In 1905 the estate was subdivided into 25 lots. In 1907 43 acres were donated by Russell Sage Foundation director John Mark Glenn (1858–1950) to create the first section of Patapsco Valley State Park. Hilton was purchased in 1917 by National Enameling and Stamping Company owner George Worth Knapp as a summer home and dairy farm reassembling 105 acres of the estate. In 1962 Baltimore County Public Schools purchased the property to establish a Community College of Baltimore County branch. In the 1970s lecture halls occupied the mansion. In 2011, a grant was awarded to renovate the building as the Center for Global Education.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Hilton Mansion, several other slavery-era outbuildings are on the property: two Tudor style stone houses built in 1852, of which one is in ruins; an 1852 stone bowling alley in ruins; and a stone gardeners building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Jericho Farm is a historic home located near Kingsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, near historic Jerusalem Mill Village. It is a large -story gable-roofed stone 25 by 30-foot dwelling house.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed in two periods: the original dwelling, built circa 1771 consisting of a 2+1⁄2-story, side-passage, double pile house; additions were made in 1780; about 1820, a five-bay, 2+1⁄2-story, center-passage, single pile house was constructed against the south gable of the earlier building.</p><br>
<p>Jericho Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Meadows is a historic home and farm compound located at Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The house is an L-shaped -story stone house built in the 18th century and occupied for approximately 80 years by various members of the Owings family, for whom Owings Mills was named. Also on the property is a -story stone slave house, an 18th-century stone and timber stable, and a 2-story log and clapboard tenant house.</p><br>
<p>The Meadows was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Plinlimmon Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is an early 19th-century farmhouse of log construction clad in novelty siding. It is composed of six irregularly spaced bays, one room deep, and two and a half stories high with a gable roof. Also on the property is a stone building with a gable roof built about 1850, a frame two-bay garage, a small rectangular smokehouse built about 1850, a large mid-19th century cornhouse, and an early 20th-century frame barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Ravenshurst, or Ravenhurst, was a historic home located at Glen Arm, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was a -story Carpenter Gothic-style board-and batten house built about 1854–1857. It was an addition to an earlier stone building thought to have been built about 1800. The home burned on October 31, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Ravenshurst was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Rodney Square is the public square and historic district in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, United States, named after American Revolutionary leader Caesar Rodney. A large equestrian statue of Rodney by James E. Kelly formerly stood in the front of the square until it was removed in 2020. The square was created in the early 20th century by John Jacob Raskob, who worked for Pierre S. du Pont. The City Beautiful movement served as the inspiration for the effort.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, to make room for the Wilmington Public Library in the square, the 18th-century First Presbyterian Church was moved to Park Drive and the remains in the cemetery were reinterred in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, as the Rodney Square Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Clifford Brown Jazz Festival</p><br>
<p>First Night Wilmington</p><br>
<p>Saint Patrick&#39;s Day Parade</p><br>
<p>Citizens Bank Caesar Rodney Half Marathon</p><br>
<h2>Surrounding architecture</h2><br>
<p>The eight blocks surrounding the square contain a number of downtown buildings:</p><br>
<h2>Corporate headquarters</h2><br>
<h3>Current</h3><br>
<p>Chemours</p><br>
<p>Wilmington Trust</p><br>
<p>Bank of America Credit Card Division</p><br>
<h3>Former</h3><br>
<p>American Viscose Company</p><br>
<p>Atlas Powder Company</p><br>
<p>Barnsdall Oil</p><br>
<p>Delaware Trust</p><br>
<p>DuPont</p><br>
<p>Hercules Inc.</p><br>
<p>MBNA</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Rodney Square serves as a bus stop for several DART First State bus routes including 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 25, and 301. From 1992 to December 2017, Rodney Square served as the main hub for DART First State buses in Wilmington. In December 2017, the state of Delaware under the direction of Governor John Carney eliminated the bus hub at Rodney Square by scattering stops throughout downtown Wilmington, removing 13 routes from stopping at the square. The decision to eliminate the hub was made in order to reduce congestion and overcrowding at Rodney Square. This action resulted in many riders having to walk multiple blocks to make transfers, and many of the new bus stops do not have shelters or benches. The Wilmington Transit Center was built as a new hub for DART First State buses adjacent to the Wilmington Train Station, opening in May 2020.</p><br>
<p>Stone Hall is a historic home located at Cockeysville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a manor house set on a 248 acre estate that was originally part of a 4,200 acre tract called Nicholson&#39;s Manor. It was patented by William Nicholson of Kent County, Maryland in 1719. The property in what is now known as the Worthington Valley was split up in 1754 and sold in 1050-acre lots to Roger Boyce, Corbin Lee, Brian Philpot, and Thinsey Johns.</p><br>
<p>The house known as Stone Hall was built on the 360-acre plantation bought by Thomas Gent, in 1775 from Philpot. Gent served as a colonel in the Baltimore Militia during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in four sections beginning in the late eighteenth century: the initial stage consisted of a -story fieldstone structure built before 1783; the north and south wings were added between 1783 and 1798; and the -story, gable-roofed, fieldstone main block at the north end. During the later years as a working plantation in the antebellum period, the -story structure was likely used as a separate kitchen. Other outbuildings would have included slave quarters. Many of these were likely kept after emancipation to be used by sharecroppers.</p><br>
<p>The last section of the mansion, a -story fieldstone addition, was built about 1930, probably after the property was bought by Garnet and Salina Hulings. Also on the property is a barn, carriage house, and a blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Summit is a historic home located in Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It a large brick house, once part of a country estate owned by James Albert Gary. It features a three-story Italianate tower and large wing extending to the rear. The main façade is three stories and five bays wide, with the tower located on the east side. A one-story porch with square columns and railings runs across the full façade. The mansion was built originally as a summer home and later converted to apartments after its sale to the Summit Park Company in 1919.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Wilderness is a historic home located near Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a large stone and frame house located in a wooded setting west of Catonsville. The original home was built about 1800, and it attained its current appearance following a major expansion in 1899–1900, when it was a summer residence of Francis Cumberland Dugan II . It features multiple roof and dormer shapes and a wraparound porch reminiscent of the Queen Anne style. The third story is located within a tall mansard roof. Also on the property are a stone springhouse / smokehouse, a summer kitchen, log tenant house, and a large frame barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Todd Farmhouse is a historic home located at Fort Howard, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, brick dwelling that is three bays in width. Although initially of a Federal architecture inspired plan, later Italianate alterations dominate its present exterior appearance. It features a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property are several farm buildings and a family cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1664, Thomas Todd made the first purchase of land in what would become over 1000 acres of Baltimore County, MD. During the War of 1812, the house, which overlooks Shallow Creek and the Chesapeake Bay, was used by the Todd family as a lookout point to observe the approaching British Fleet. When troops were spotted coming ashore, family members would sound an alarm. As they withdrew from Baltimore on September 14, 1814, following the Battle of North Point, the British burned the house in retaliation. The Todd farmhouse was one of the few private properties burned by the British.</p><br>
<p>The house was rebuilt in 1816 and remodeled in 1867. The Todd family owned the property until the early 1970s, when it was purchased by Mr. Elmer H. Cook, a teacher and historian who grew up in the Fort Howard area. It underwent further renovations in 2009, and was opened to the public as part of the annual Defenders Day celebrations held in September.</p><br>
<p>The Todd House is owned by the State of Maryland and overseen by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. An all-volunteer group, is responsible for daily operations.</p><br>
<p>The Todd Farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Tyrconnell is a historic home located in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story stone house set on 27 acre which contain several significant gardens by the landscape architect Arthur Folsom Paul. The house was designed by the Baltimore firm of Mottu and White in 1919, in Colonial Revival style. Also on the property is a frame gardeners’ house, a grouping of four barns and a shed, a garage, and two stone spring houses.</p><br>
<p>Tyrconnell was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is protected by conservation easements held by Maryland Environmental Trust.</p><br>
<p>Villa Anneslie is a historic home located at Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1855 as a summer home. Designed by architect John Rudolph Niernsee, it is an Italianate two-story villa built in brick and covered in clapboard. It features an asymmetrical design with a central three story tower over the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Villa Anneslie was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Wester Ogle is a historic home located at Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, Federal-influenced house constructed about 1842. It is constructed of stucco-covered stone, and stands three stories high over an excavated basement, three bays wide by one room deep. Also on the property are a -story stone-and-frame tenant house and the stone foundations of a 19th-century barn and a stable. The property upon which Wester Ogle is located has remained in the Lyon family since approximately 1745.</p><br>
<p>Wester Ogle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Baltimore County School No. 7, also known as Ashland School, is a historic school building located at Cockeysville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1882 at the entrance to the village of Ashland, associated with the Ashland Iron Works. It is built of rough cut marble ashlar a nearby quarry. The exterior reflects the influence of the Queen Anne style with gabled windows, elaborate cornice work, fan-shaped attic vents at the roof peak, and numerous large banks of multi-paned windows. Originally a two-room schoolhouse, it was converted to a private residence in 1930.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Old Catonsville High School, also known as St. Mark&#39;s School, is a historic school building located at Catonsville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a masonry schoolhouse which consists of a one-story, single bay structure  and a three-story, four bay addition . In 1885 the school was designated a high school and in 1910 the property was sold to the Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Towson Academy is a historic National Guard armory building located at Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a two-story brick structure constructed in 1933 with full basement, faced with a smooth light-colored, marble-like stone veneer. It features a T-shaped plan with a two-story front "head house" section and a one-story perpendicular "drill hall" extending to the rear and its façade is detailed to recall Medieval fortifications, with towers flanking the central entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Fort Garrison, also known as Oultons Garrison, Risteaus Garrison, and Olton&#39;s Garrison, is a historic fortification building located at Stevenson, Baltimore County, Maryland on Garrison Farms Court. It is a rectangular fieldstone building built about 1695. The fort was built to serve as a stronghold against attacks by Native Americans and was used during the French and Indian War. It is approximately 48 feet long and 18 feet wide with one large stone fireplace. Modifications in the early-19th century raised the height of the fort building adding a second story loft and a wood shingle roof. It was constructed following a 1693 order from Governor Francis Nicholson and his Council. The property was acquired in 1965 by the Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, the Maryland Historical Trust removed a sign at Fort Garrison after officials received complaints over the use of the term "hostile Indians". The language, dating back to 1934, was removed on the basis of bias against Native Americans.</p><br>
<p>Montrose Mansion and Chapel, originally known as Montrose Mansion, is a historic home located on the campus of Camp Fretterd Military Reservation of the Maryland Army National Guard in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a two-story neoclassical stone house constructed originally about 1826 by William Patterson who gave it to his grandson, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte as a wedding present. By the middle of the 19th century, a large two-story wing was added, then a mansard roof with round-top dormers, a cupola, and a bracketed cornice with pendants was added about 1880. The chapel was completed in 1855 and is a rectangular structure of stone with Greek Revival decorative detailing. It features a three-story bell and entrance tower.</p><br>
<p>The mansion and tower are separated by about a quarter of a mile.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
