<p>The Odd Fellows Hall in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is a historic building that was the meeting place of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fraternal organization, and is now an apartment building. It was built in 1891 and is a five bay structure featuring a central arched entrance with brownstone Romanesque columns and architraves. In the late 1970s, an adaptive reuse project retained most of its exterior architectural character while providing modern office space in the renovated interior.</p><br>
<p>Odd Fellows Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Perkins Square Gazebo is a historic gazebo located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-sided, cast iron, open structure of eclectic Victorian design. It was constructed in 1871 and located in a triangular-shaped park in West Baltimore. It is currently located within the Heritage Crossing townhome community that was constructed on the former site of the Murphy Homes public housing project.</p><br>
<p>Perkins Square Gazebo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Cecil Apartments is a historic apartment building in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a seven-story building constructed of multiple shades of light-colored brick, accented with limestone and cast terra cotta ornament in the Beaux-Arts style. The structure takes the form of a "T". Constructed in 1902, it was one of the first important apartment buildings in Baltimore, built at the edge of the citys most elite downtown neighborhood, Bolton Hill. It was designed by Baltimore architect Edward Hughes Glidden, and it marked the evolution of elite living that had come to characterize the Bolton Hill neighborhood. Despite the apartments location often being referred to as Bolton Hill, it is actually within the boundaries of the adjacent Madison Park neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Cecil Apartments was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Hutzler Brothers Palace Building is a historic flagship department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States and built by Hutzler&#39;s. It was constructed in 1888, with a south bay added in 1924.</p><br>
<p>The original limestone Romanesque eclectic façade is three bays wide and five stories in height. The ground floor façade was redesigned in 1931 in the Art Moderne style. Hutzler&#39;s is believed to hold the record for longevity in an original location among American department stores, having been founded on this site in 1858.</p><br>
<p>Hutzler Brothers Palace Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Pratt Street Power Plant — also known as the Pier Four Power Plant, The Power Plant, and Pratt Street Station — is a historic former power plant located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It has undergone significant repurposing development since retirement and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The building and its active years</h3><br>
<p>The structure is a 132 by complex of three buildings located at Pratt Street and Pier 4 at Baltimore&#39;s Inner Harbor. The structures are brick with terra cotta trim and steel frame construction. It was built between 1900 and 1909 and is a massive industrial structure with Neo-Classical detailing designed by the architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington. It was one of only 11 buildings in the zone of the Baltimore Fire of 1904 to survive that event.</p><br>
<p>It served as the main source of power for the United Railways and Electric Company, a consolidation of smaller street railway systems, that influenced the provision of citywide transportation and opened up suburban areas of Baltimore to power its electric street railway in the city. It later served as a central steam plant for the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, a predecessor of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company.</p><br>
<p>The boilers were coal-fired, and the plant&#39;s location on the harbor allowed easy delivery of coal by ship. The location also provided access to cooling water for the condensers, with intake on one side of the pier and discharge on the other.</p><br>
<p>The plant, with by-then obsolete equipment, was used sparingly until it was returned to service to meet the World War II production demand for electricity. Baltimore Gas & Electric finally ceased use of it in 1973.</p><br>
<h3>Post-retirement life</h3><br>
<p>After the electric plant was retired from service, the building was vacant several years, eventually becoming acquired by the City of Baltimore. It has since been redeveloped and repurposed for a variety of commercial projects.</p><br>
<p>The first two attempts at redevelopment, an indoor Six Flags theme park named Six Flags Power Plant (operating from July 8, 1985 to January 5, 1987) and a dance club called P.T. Flaggs (1986–1990), received little success. Since that time, other projects have had more success. The Power Plants more recent tenants have included the first ESPN Zone in the country (opened July 11, 1998; closed June 2010 and replaced by Phillips Seafood, which moved from nearby Harborplace), Hard Rock Cafe (opened July 4, 1997), Barnes & Noble (opened 1998, closed August 28, 2020), Gold&#39;s Gym (closed early 2010; and replaced by Pandion Performance Center in June 2015), and loft offices. Maryland Art Place, a contemporary art gallery for Maryland artists, is located in the northwest corner. It lends its name to the nearby Power Plant Live! nightlife complex.</p><br>
<p>The Cordish Company has its headquarters on the sixth floor. Cordish also developed the adjacent Pier IV building, whose tenants include Dick&#39;s Last Resort (closed September 2020).</p><br>
<p>Mother Seton House is a historic home located on the grounds of St. Mary’s Seminary at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a -story red brick house, similar to other small homes built in the early 19th century for the predominantly French community nearby. It was built in 1808 as the home of Elizabeth Ann Seton , the first American-born woman beatified and canonized by the Catholic Church. In the 1960s it was restored to its original appearance through the efforts of a committee, which continues to operate the home as a museum. Mother Seton House is located adjacent to the St. Mary&#39;s Seminary Chapel.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, Mother Seton House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Mother Seton’s connection</h2><br>
<p>This home on North Paca Street is most well known for its first owner, Mother Seton. She would arrive to the home in Baltimore on June 16, 1808, and stay until June 21, 1809. During her brief year in Baltimore, Seton would pay rent totaling at $250.00.</p><br>
<h2>House description</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the home’s existence, the land was occupied by French immigrants. They used the land mainly for tobacco and wheat farming. The house was constructed during the Federal Period roughly around 1807.Baltimore American</p><br>
<p>Sept. 30, 1962</p><br>
<p>By Sally Foster Although the architect of the original home is unknown, it is believed that Maximilian Godefroy was the mastermind behind the project. He was responsible for much of the designs in the surrounding buildings. The most notable feature about the home is the 26’ wide and 42’ deep staircase that can be seen from the entrance. The house contains at least three bedrooms on the second floor, but there is no total room count for the entire property.</p><br>
<h2>Reason it was built</h2><br>
<p>Elizabeth Seton told Bishop Carroll she wanted to reunite with her children. He agreed to send her sons down to Baltimore, suggesting that they enroll in school at St. Mary’s College. He himself was the president of the college; therefore he could see that her sons were admitted. The only condition that Seton had to follow was to "establish a school for young girls." This was to be a boarding school which welcomed girls of all ages. The school was funded and developed through the Daughters of Charity.</p><br>
<h2>After Seton</h2><br>
<p>After Seton’s departure to Emmitsburg, Maryland in the summer of 1809 the house was left vacant for some time. In the late 19th century and early 20th century the home was used as a potato bin. and a place of storage and laundry services. After it received negative attention for its lack of upkeep, a local women’s group initiated the restoration of the home. The property is owned by the Sulpician Order, which also controls of St. Mary’s Seminary. In the process of renovation, the house was thoroughly documented by taking photos of both the interior and exterior in order to restore the home to its original condition. It was furnished with Federal decor.</p><br>
<p>Home of the Friendless is a historic orphanage at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three bay wide, five story high Second Empire style brick building constructed in 1870 as an orphanage. The building provided a home for orphaned and deserted children for six decades and was part of a three-building complex that housed from 100 to 200 children each year. By 1922 the Board of Managers and Trustees had decided to sell the property and move to the suburbs. The institution is now known as Woodbourne Center.</p><br>
<p>Home of the Friendless was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Mero Mound Group or Diamond Bluff Site is an archeological site near Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, in Pierce County, Wisconsin. It consists of at least two village sites surrounded by hundreds of mounds, including three effigy mounds. All were constructed from around 1000 AD to 1300 AD.</p><br>
<p>It is also known as 47-Pi-2. As Mero Archeological District, its boundaries were increased in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Oneida County Courthouse in Malad, Idaho is an Art Deco building built as a Works Project Administration  project in 1939. It serves Oneida County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architects Sundberg & Sundberg, who also designed the Jefferson County Courthouse in Rigby and the Jerome County Courthouse in Jerome for WPA construction in 1938.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse replaced an 1882 Italianate courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Anthony Zemaitis Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1914, the house is a well-preserved local example of Colonial Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Anthony Zemaitis Three-Decker is located east of downtown Worcester, on the north side of Dartmouth Street in the city&#39;s Bloomingdale neighborhood. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and exterior finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingling. The main facade is asymmetrical, with a full-height polygonal window bay on the right, and a stack of three porches on the left, supported by square posts and topped by a gable. It has bands of decorative shingling between the levels and brackets in the extended eaves. Some windows have lights with stained glass.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1914, during a major eastward expansion of residential three-decker construction. The house&#39;s early tenants were ethnically diverse, drawn from other immigrant neighborhoods of the city. Anthony Zemaitis, the first owner, was a machinist; his tenants were a patternmaker and traffic manager.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin Wesson House is an historic house at 8 Claremont Street in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. It is one of the finest High Gothic Victorian houses in the city. It was designed by architect Amos Porter Cutting.</p><br>
<p>The -story brick structure was built in 1874 for Franklin Wesson, one of the founders of Harrington & Richardson, a major Worcester arms manufacturer. It is roughly rectangular in form, but has a number of protrusions, most notably a three-story tower over its entrance that is capped by a steeply pitched slate hip roof. The body of the house is also topped by a hip roof with a major bay on the right side whose steeply pitched roof rises to its own peak. The windows of the house are predominantly narrower with rounded tops, and there are horizontal bands of decorative brickwork at several levels.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Vendome and the St. Ives are a pair of historic residential apartment houses in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Vendome  was built in 1898 by Judson W. Hall to a design by the noted local architectural firm of Barker & Nourse, on property where Hall previously had a house. The five-story building is primarily faced in Roman brick, with pressed-metal bay windows, sandstone lintels, and decorative sandstone panels. The St. Ives  was built c. 1913, also for Hall. It is stylistically similar to its neighbor, but is slightly wider, possessing two central window bays where The Vendome has one.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Elwood Adams Store was an historic hardware store at 156 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. At the time of its closing in October 2017, it had been the longest operating hardware store in the United States, having begun business in 1782. The building that the store resided in was built about 1831, and is one of Worcester&#39;s oldest commercial buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Elwood Adams Store building is located on the west side of Main Street in the northern part of Worcester&#39;s downtown area. It is a four-story masonry structure, its facade crowned by an Italianate wooden cornice. The ground floor consists of two storefronts separate by a brick pier, although these have for many years functioned as a single establishment. Windows are set in rectangular openings with stone sills and lintels.</p><br>
<p>The hardware store that became the Elwood Adams Store was established in 1782 by Daniel Waldo Sr. on this site, erecting the citys first brick building. Waldos son Daniel Jr. took over the business in 1791, and later partnered with Henry Miller, who purchased it in partnership with George Rice in 1821. Miller took full ownership of the business in 1831, and purchased the building from Waldo&#39;s heirs in 1865. Around that time, it was raised from its original 2-1/2 stories to four stories, and its front facade was refaced with new brick. Miller sold the business to Elwood Adams and a partner in 1886. First known as Smith & Adams, it became known as the Elwood Adams Store in 1891, the name it retained until its closing in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The Catherine Ahern Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a well-preserved example of a triple-decker that predates the popularity of that building type. Built in 1888, it has Italianate design details, including a low pitch hipped roof, and a decorated porch sheltering the front door. It is unusual in that its long side faces the street. Its first documented owner was Catherine Ahern.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Arad Alexander House is a historic house at 53 Waverly Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1845 and moved in the 1860s, it is one of the city&#39;s most elaborate Greek Revival residences, and may have been designed by prominent local architect Elias Carter. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arad Alexander House stands in a densely built residential area southeast of downtown Worcester, on the north side of Waverly Street between Providence and Coral Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front gable roof. Its main block follows a side hall plan, and the front facade is a full temple front, with Corinthian columns supporting a full entablature and triangular pediment adorned with modillion blocks. The front windows are topped by moulding with consoles and hoods. The main entrance has an elaborate Corinthian surround with sidelight and transom windows beneath a corniced entablature.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1845, and is one of Worcesters most elaborate Greek Revival houses. Its original location and builder are unknown (although the later may be the locally prominent Elias Carter, based on stylistic evidence) but believed to be closer to the downtown area. The house was moved to its present location in the 1860s by Arad Alexander. Later owners subdivided the house into multiple units. One of its prominent 20th-century residents was Samuel Fine, who adjudicated disputes within the citys Jewish community.</p><br>
<p>The Walter Hand House is located on Angola Road in Cornwall, New York, United States. It is the main building of a five-acre  former farm, built around 1870, to serve as both a farmhouse and summer boardinghouse, in response to Cornwall&#39;s growing popularity as a summer resort town.</p><br>
<p>Today it is known as Shadow Mountain Farm, a bed and breakfast. Both properties were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The house sits on a gentle rise with a view to the west highlighting Schunemunk Mountain. The lot is the remainder of a much larger farm that has been subdivided since the house was built. There are six other buildings besides the house, all considered contributing resources to the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-bay two-and-a-half-story clapboard-sided structure with Gothic detailing and a molded cornice and plain frieze at the roofline. The wooden-shingled roof, pierced by brick chimneys at either end, is cross-gabled by a two-story rear wing projecting from the south side, itself with a one-story pent-roofed bay on its own west.</p><br>
<p>A one-story porch fronts the entire east elevation, with a flat roof, bracketed cornice, piers with decorated capitals and a plain frieze similar to the roofline. Elaborate cutouts form the guardrail between piers.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the house follows a center hall plan. Many of the original finishings, hardware and trim remain. The attic, used as lodging for summer boarders, is completely finished as well.</p><br>
<p>The six other buildings, all contemporary with the house&#39;s original construction, are located slightly downhill and to the rear. There are a small complex of two two-story wooden barns, a kitchen building since converted into a home, a carriage house with its original doors and hardware, and a shed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built some time around 1870 by Hand, descended from one of Cornwalls oldest families. A successful apple farmer, he saw the growing interest of New York City residents in spending their summers amid the fresh air of Cornwall, and had the houses attic finished to take some in during that season. It was effectively built to be both a farmhouse and a summer boardinghouse.</p><br>
<p>It has passed through a variety of owners since then. Recently it has returned to its original use as lodging, with the owners of Cromwell Manor operating it as Shadow Mountain Farm Cottage, a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Allen House is an historic house at 65 Elm Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built in 1870, it is notable as an unusual and well-preserved Second Empire house, and for its association with Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and jurist Charles Allen. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Allen House is set on the north side of Elm Street, at its corner with West Street, several blocks west of Worcester&#39;s Main Street and downtown. The three-story mansard-roofed building is basically square in plan, with an ell projecting from its rear, and a central pavilion slightly projecting from its front facade. The pavilion rises two stories, and is topped by a pedimented gable. The main roof cornice is studded with modillions, as is that of the porch that shelters the front entry.</p><br>
<p>The house was apparently the idea of Charles Allen, and occupies a lot which previously belonged to Governor Levi Lincoln Jr., who had built a house there which Allen had moved a short distance to make way for this house. Allen was a high-profile Worcester native, working in law practice with John Davis, another Massachusetts governor. He served in the state legislature and as a local judge before being appointed the first chief justice of the newly organized Massachusetts Superior Court. He turned down an offer of a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Allen died in 1869, and the house may have been completed by his heirs, who owned the property into the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Ludwig Anderson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built c. 1896, it was a good example of a vernacular Italianate triple decker, whose exterior decoration has since been removed or covered over. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ludwig Anderson Three-Decker is located on Vernon Hill south of downtown Worcester, at the western corner of Fairbanks and Stockton Streets. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a shallow hip roof. Its main facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, sheltered by a gabled portico with round columns. The interior follows a typical side hall plan, with a stairwell on the right providing access to the building&#39;s three units. Its historic exterior features have been compromised by the application of synthetic siding. These features included a modillioned cornice, window surrounds with rope moulding on the caps, and an early 20th-century portico with paired square columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1896, and was typical of early triple-deckers built to house workers in the factories of South Worcester and Quinsigamond Village. Its first owners, and a number of its early tenants, were Swedish immigrants. Ludwig Anderson, whose family owned it into the 1930s, was a grocer who also lived here, while early tenants were machinists, factory workers, and others engaged in lower-paid jobs.</p><br>
<p>The Fifth Regiment Armory is a historic National Guard armory built in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1901. The Armory is a fortress-type structure situated in midtown Baltimore. It consists of a full basement, a first floor containing a 200 foot by 300 foot drill hall, a mezzanine or "balcony" level, and a newer second level  housing the trussed steel drill hall roof. The façade features buttresses, parapets, casement windows, and a crenellated roofline, giving the appearance of a medieval fortification. It was the site of the 1912 Democratic National Convention.</p><br>
<p>The Fifth Regiment Armory was designed by architects Wyatt & Nolting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>On October 31, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered a televised speech from the Fifth Regiment Armory. The event, promoting Republican Party candidates in that year&#39;s midterm elections, was attended by Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin, Senator John Glenn Beall, Jr., Senator John Marshall Butler, and Congressman James Devereux.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Maryland Museum of Military History, housed at the Armory, collects artifacts and runs programming related to Maryland&#39;s militias, dating back to Colonial times, and present-day branches of the military.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Kernan, also known as the Congress Hotel, is a historic hotel located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a six-story plus mansard roof, French Renaissance Revival-style structure detailed in brick and terra cotta. It is constructed of steel and reinforced concrete and is U-shaped in plan. It was designed in 1903 by Philadelphia architect John Allen for theatrical impresario James Lawrence Kernan , who lived at the hotel until his death in 1912.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Kernan was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Willow Prairie Cabin is a rustic one-room cabin located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in western Oregon, United States. It was built by a road construction crew in 1924. When the road was finished the United States Forest Service began using it to house fire crews assigned to patrol the surrounding National Forest. The Forest Service now rents the cabin to recreational visitors. The Willow Prairie Cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Willow Prairie Cabin was built in 1924 by a Forest Service road crew that was constructing a highway from Butte Falls to Fish Lake. Because the forest roads were not well developed, it was impractical for workers to make a daily round-trip from Butte Falls to the remote Willow Prairie construction site. To facilitate work at the sites, the road crew used the Willow Prairie Cabin as their base-camp from 1924 until the highway was finished in 1926.</p><br>
<p>When the road was completed, the Forest Service began using the cabin as a barracks to house fire crews assigned to patrol the Willow Prairie area. In the 1950s, the Forest Service built the Willow Prairie Campground adjacent to the cabin. In the early 1990s, the Forest Service built 19 miles of interconnecting horse trails in the Willow Prairie area. In 1991, the Willow Prairie Campground was converted into a horse camp and the cabin was opened to the public as a rental unit.</p><br>
<p>The simple log structure is an excellent example of an early Forest Service wilderness crew cabin. Because of the cabin&#39;s rustic architecture and its unique historic value as an early Forest Service guard station, the Willow Prairie Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Willow Prairie Cabin is located in a remote area of the Butte Falls Ranger District in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. It sits on the western slope of the Cascade Mountains, at about 4,300 ft elevation. The cabin is surrounded by a mature conifer forest just southwest of Mount McLoughlin. It is adjacent to Willow Prairie meadow, a large high country wetland with several beaver ponds.</p><br>
<p>The Willow Prairie Cabin is a one-room log structure with a wooden shake roof. There are two shutter-style windows without glass. Heat is provided by a wood-burning stove. The cabin&#39;s rustic furnishings include a table and chairs along with two simple sleeping cots. The cabin has built-in counter-space for preparing meals and places to hang lanterns. However, visitors must bring their own lanterns or lights as well as a portable camp stove, cookware, utensils, and bedding. The Willow Prairie Cabin has a maximum capacity is four people, and is available to rent throughout the year. The $15 per night rental fee is used to preserve and maintain the cabin.</p><br>
<p>There is a picnic table and a rock fire-ring outside the cabin. Firewood is usually available at the site; however, visitors are encouraged to bring firewood or an alternate heating source just in case the wood bin is empty. A vault-toilet is located near the cabin. During the summer, potable water is available from a hand pump approximately 400 feet from the cabin.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>In addition to horseback riding, visitor can enjoy camping or hunting in season. Bird watching is also a popular summer pastime. Among the bird common to Willow Prairie meadow and the surrounding forest are sandhill cranes, great blue herons, Canada geese, red-tailed hawks, and a wide variety of ducks. Deer and elk are also common near the meadow. During the winter, the area offers the opportunity for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Willow Prairie Cabin is located 17 mi southeast of Butte Falls, Oregon and 40 mi east of Medford, Oregon. It is accessible via County Road 821 (the Butte Falls-Fish Lake Highway) to Forest Service Road 3738 and Forest Road 3735.</p><br>
<p>Peterson Avenue Hill is one of the few remaining brick streets in Louisville, Kentucky. It is Louisville&#39;s most infamous brick street or alley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The brick portion of the street covers a steep hill with a mean slope of approximately 15 degrees. The brick portion originally extended for approximately 740 feet but asphalt paving has already been applied to about 137 feet at the top of the hill, leaving an area, of brick paving 603 feet by 30 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>The hill is paved with vitrified bricks which are laid at angles in a sand base. The angling is not found in any other remaining brick alley street in the city. This method helps to create traction on the surface in wet weather. The hill is edged by a stone curb.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peterson Avenue was created when the Peterson-Dumesnil House&#39;s estate was carved up in the late 19th century and Crescent Hill became a subdivided residential neighborhood. The Peterson-Dumesnil estate was carved into property for Barrett Middle School and four residences, all on the east side of the hill. In 1902, Louisville passed an ordinance calling for the avenue to be paved.</p><br>
<p>Bricks were a popular choice at the time, as Louisville had several brickyards and bricks were cheap and an improvement over previous paving surfaces such as clay, clay-sand, and gravel or macadam.</p><br>
<p>There is an oral tradition associating the hill with the early history of the automobile in Louisville. Car dealers would boast that their cars could pull Peterson Hill in high gear,</p><br>
<p>and many cars were put to just such a test. The fire department also used Peterson Hill to test its new fire engines.</p><br>
<p>In June 1979, Peterson Avenue Hill was designated a local landmark.</p><br>
<p>American Ice Company Baltimore Plant No. 2 is a historic ice manufacturing plant located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It consists of two industrial buildings: an original two story stone ice manufacturing building built in 1905 and a brick ice storage addition, built in 1919, is an immense, nearly windowless structure with the height of a six-story building.</p><br>
<p>American Ice Company Baltimore Plant No. 2 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>H.F. Miller & Son Tin Box and Can Manufacturing Plant, or the American Can Company, Miller Factory, and now Miller Court is a historic can manufacturing plant located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was erected in three stages between 1890 and about 1910. It is a four-story brick manufacturing plant. The exterior features decorative brickwork, multiple window forms, and substantial construction typical of the period. The interior features chamfered posts, closely spaced joists, and fire doors.</p><br>
<p>The building has been redeveloped as Miller&#39;s Court with 40 apartments, as well as office and project space for public and charitable agencies. Apartments in the $20 million project were marketed to Baltimore public school teachers. The first tenants moved in during July 2009.</p><br>
<p>H.F. Miller & Son Tin Box and Can Manufacturing Plant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Mount Vernon Mill No. 1 is a historic cotton mill complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was constructed between 1873 and 1918 and consists of four buildings situated along Jones Falls. The complex consists of three closely associated 19th-century buildings and a 20th-century warehouse. There is a large, three-story brick Mill Building ; a two-story, brick, L-shaped Picker House ; a two-story, brick Store House ; and a later, reinforced-concrete warehouse . It served as headquarters for Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills, one of the world&#39;s largest producers of cotton duck.</p><br>
<p>Mount Vernon Mill No. 1 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The mill complex, now referred to generally as Mill No. 1, was purchased by Terra Nova Ventures, LLC and began renovations in 2012 to create a mixed-use project of apartments, offices and restaurants. boasts, "The architecture team, Alexander Design Studio has figured out how to make this complicated project work, while keeping the integrity and character of the historic buildings... The structures’ overall historic significance and fabric in their beautiful setting location have been maintained, while adapting the structures to incorporate new uses..." Anyone interested in commercial or residential space in the building may contact Thornhill Properties, Inc. who now manage the building.</p><br>
<p>Londontown Manufacturing Company, Inc., also known earlier as the Meadow Mill of the old Woodberry Manufacturing Company is a historic cotton mill industrial complex located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a four-story, Italianate red brick structure that features a square tower structure with a truncated spire-like roof having an open bell tower cupola. It sits on the west bank of the Jones Falls stream which runs north to south, parallel to the elevated Jones Falls Expressway .</p><br>
<p>It is sited between the Woodberry neighborhood on the western heights with historic Druid Hill Park perched above (one of the nation&#39;s oldest and largest urban parks). To the east is the Hampden residential community. Both twin neighborhoods are on steep valley slopes with many original thick-walled stone and brick millworkers houses with pitched roofs and dormer windows for second floor or attics of the 1800s, along with later versions of typical early 20th century Baltimore style rowhouses, plus some century-and-half old wood-frame or shingled cottages with tiny front yards.</p><br>
<p>It is surrounded by numerous other massive stone and brick large mills and factory complexes (similar to New England typical mill towns) up and down the often frequently flooding stream, dating to the early 19th century and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution for making flour, cotton canvas duck cloth and various foundries and machine shops which were active into the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>The distinctive Victorian era Meadow Mill with its tall cupola tower is a well-known scenic landmark, which was erected in 1877 as one of five mills which comprised the old Woodberry Manufacturing Company. It was originally intended for the manufacture of seine twines.</p><br>
<p>It was home for three decades to the Londontown Manufacturing Company, Inc., founded 1922–1923 by Israel Myers for making what became the world-famous London Fog outerwear / all-weather rain coats. The headquarters offices were located here since the early 1950s with a small modern single-story brick annex for company offices built wrapping around the first floor northwest corner of the original 1870s mill factory structure. Londontown and President Israel Myers offices were located here along with the older four-stories tall factory building. An additional gray concrete walled two-stories high warehouse annex was added in the 1960s on the south side of the mill factory with loading trucks/trailer bays on its east and west sides for shipping plus an additional parking lot further south alongside the Jones Falls stream. The complex was heavily damaged again during the floods resulting from Hurricane/Tropical Storm "Agnes" in June 1972 which devastated the Middle Atlantic states / Chesapeake Bay region. This complex remained the center of "London Fog" production up until 1976, prior to its move 15 miles further northwest to then rural (now suburban) southern Carroll County, Maryland in Eldersburg, Maryland on newly laid-out Londontowne Boulevard. However some industrial manufacturing work remained here at Meadow Mill along the Jones Falls stream for another decade until 1988.</p><br>
<p>Londontown Manufacturing Company, Inc. in its old Meadow Mill buildings / campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, three years before its move to Eldersburg, Carroll County.</p><br>
<p>Stieff Silver Company Factory is a historic silver factory located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story nine-bay rectangular brick factory building, designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch and built in two stages in 1925 and 1929. The exterior features a lighted sign flanking a central clock that rises above a parapeted roof. The Stieff Silver Company was the last of the Baltimore silverware manufacturers, operating between 1892 and 1999.</p><br>
<p>Stieff Silver Company Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Lincliff is a Georgian Revival house in Glenview near Louisville, Kentucky, United States, built in the early 1910s by William Richardson Belknap.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lincliff was built in 1911-12 for William Richardson Belknap, president of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, one of the largest wholesale hardware firms in the United States at that time. The hardware company, founded by Belknaps father, William Burke Belknap, is no longer extant, but some of its former buildings have been adapted for other uses. The William Richardson Belknap family was long active in civic, cultural, and philanthropic affairs in Louisville. Lincliff was the childhood home of genealogist Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey, Land O Goshen Farms horse breeder William Burke Belknap, and their siblings. The Lincliff estate was sold out of the Belknap family in 1922 according to the Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: JF-531 in the Jefferson County Office of Historic Preservation and Archives.</p><br>
<h3>Subsequent owners</h3><br>
<p>In 1945, it was purchased by the C. Edwin Gheens family. Mr. Gheens owned the Bradas and Gheens Candy Company. His widow, later Mrs. Richard H. Hill, was involved in many civic and philanthropic causes and lived at Lincliff until her death in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Since 2000, Lincliff was one of the principal residences of the late writer Sue Grafton and her husband Steven F. Humphrey. Grafton, a Kentucky native, thought she had left Kentucky behind for California until her husband found Lincliff, a "crumbling estate begging to be saved." Humphrey is the "driving force behind the restoration of the estate doing the work himself of returning many of the garden&#39;s elements to their original splendor."</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Lincliff was recorded in the Courthouse Deed Book 5344, p. JF-531 in 1911 as a property and residence on approximately 29.6 acres on Louisville&#39;s River Road along the Ohio River.</p><br>
<p>Oxford Historic District in Georgetown, Kentucky is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It includes Greek Revival and Late Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>It is the site of a historic crossroads community dating from 1836, when Reuben Anderson built a tavern/residence at the northeast corner of what is now the Georgetown-to-Cynthiana Road and the Newtown Pike. Opposite was the Robert Barkley family&#39;s log and frame house. Early other buildings which survived until the NRHP listing were another tavern, the William Gray House, the Charles Hamilton House, and the Ward-Hendricks house.</p><br>
<p>The 32 acre district contained 36 structures, 31 of which were contributing resources.</p><br>
<p>The Rochelle Park–Rochelle Heights Historic District is a historic residential district located in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. The district is historically and architecturally significant as an intact and distinctive example of residential park development at the turn of the Twentieth Century. It includes the historic Rochelle Park development, and the later Rochelle Heights subdivision. Within the district are 555 contributing properties, including 513 buildings, 38 structures, and 4 sites. Only 24 buildings and 1 site separately identified within its area are non-contributing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on July 6, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The two neighborhoods, combined into one historic district in 1986, reflect the history of suburban design from 1885 when the phenomenon first took hold in Westchester, the first large suburban area in the world to develop, to the 1920s when the automobile and Progressive Era ideas of planning and architecture were coming into favor. The landscape and house architecture of the area remains remarkably intact and provide valuable information about the range of innovative planning principles that were applied there.</p><br>
<h2>Rochelle Park</h2><br>
<p>Laid out in 1885, Rochelle Park is particularly distinguished as the America&#39;s third planned residential community, preceded only by Tuxedo Park in New York and Llewellyn Park in Pennsylvania. Its overall landscape plan was designed by the architect Nathan Franklin Barrett for the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Rochelle Park epitomizes the suburban development design principles that Frederick Law Olmsted advocated with the creation of Central Park in New York City: a landscape that provides urban dwellers with the restorative benefits of a picturesque natural environment. Incorporating open space, recreational areas, naturalistic settings, and broad boulevards for public interaction. The architecture of the homes is equally impressive, with many fashionable Queen Anne, shingle, and colonial revival style "cottages" designed with tall towers and attic porches to take advantage of the views towards Long Island Sound located a mile away.</p><br>
<p>Rochelle Park is essentially rectangular in dimension, with the southeast corner having been clipped from it by the construction of the New York & New Haven Railroad in the 1850s. In the original plan, the parcel was diagonally divided by a wide boulevard ("The Boulevard") that entered the park at a stone gateway and ended at a circle ("The Court"). The Boulevard was intended to continue east through a tunnel under the railroad tracks and south to Long Island Sound. This planned connection gave the park the cachet of water access even though the development was a good distance away. This amenity lasted a very short time due to additional subdivisions of the property and the elimination of right-of-way.</p><br>
<p>Despite the setbacks from Barretts original designs, The Boulevard continued to remain one of the most unusual aspects of the communitys landscape. At 100 feet wide, The Boulevard allowed for an abundance of green space and deep setbacks for the houses. The scale and design of the Boulevard reflected Barrett&#39;s taste for formal landscape elements that anticipated the City Beautiful Movement. The broad vista created by the Boulevard is intersected in two places by the Serpentine, a roadway that meanders within a rough, rocky section of the landscape. The terrain made a continuous grid plan difficult, thus presenting Barrett with an opportunity to design a more interesting landscape.</p><br>
<h2>Rochelle Heights</h2><br>
<p>The plan for Rochelle Heights is organized around a promontory in the northeastern part of the subdivision that was set aside for large houses with the status of water views. As the plan descended from this highpoint, a hierarchy of lots and architecture is shown in a secondary group encircling the hill. The properties at the outer limits of the development are more closely arranged in a tight pattern with detached houses intended for a middle-class clientele. The latter properties provided a buffer against the more random development outside the district and protected the neighborhood&#39;s exclusive environment within.</p><br>
<p>Rochelle Heights was laid out in a number of phases beginning in 1905 by New York architects Mann, MacNellie and Lindeberg. Its landscape design is more efficient than Rochelle Park, reflecting its later period of development. The architecture of Rochelle Heights does not have the same uniformity as Rochelle Park but rather, reflects the diversity of scale and style found in suburban architecture in the early twentieth century, including Queen Anne, shingle, tudor revival, and colonial revival. The planners laid out large expansive lots on the southerly side of Cortlandt Avenue where buyers would have views of Long Island Sound. Realizing this, naming the subdivision the "heights" had a certain legitimacy. Tudor Revival, Italian Renaissance and Colonial Revival designs were popular in this collection of homes which was viewed as the highest echelon of the development.</p><br>
<p>The streets at the outer boundaries of Rochelle Heights contain smaller lots. These streets frame the core of the development and buffer the interior properties. Although these tertiary streets were lesser properties in the context of the Rochelle Heights development, they were still above the mean and intended for a middle-class clientele.</p><br>
<p>These two neighborhoods, combined into one historic district in 1986, reflect the history of suburban design since 1885 when the phenomenon first took hold in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Park Historic District is located in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, New York, adjacent to the Syracuse University campus. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Walnut Park</h2><br>
<p>The park was deeded to the city in 1870 by prominent citizen George F. Comstock. Walnut Park is itself a three-block long park. The long sides of the park are bordered on the west by Walnut Place, on the east by Walnut Avenue. Cross streets are Harrison Street, Adams Street, Marshall Street, and Waverly Avenue from north to south. The park was originally landscaped with shade trees, but the Dutch Elm disease wiped out that overall effect in the 1950s. In 1972, new trees were planted. These trees have reached maturity and restored some of the original atmosphere to the park.</p><br>
<h2>Establishment of the neighborhood</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood surrounding Walnut Park was originally established by some of the social elite of Syracuse. Community leader and banker George Comstock, after donating the property for the park, chose carefully the people to whom he sold building lots.</p><br>
<p>George H. Bond had the house at 304 Walnut Place built in 1899. He was Onondaga County District Attorney, and founder of the still existent law firm of Bond, Schoeneck and King. The house reflects elements of both the Queen Anne style popular up to that time and the Georgian Revival style becoming popular. The house was later owned by Syracuse University and known as "Blackwell Cottage". It is now the home of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.</p><br>
<p>The house at 701 Walnut Place is now owned by Syracuse University and utilized as the Chancellor&#39;s residence. It was built for attorney William Nottingham in 1901. The house was designed in the Jacobethan Revival style by architects Brockway and Benson of New York City. Leather lines the library walls. The living room ceiling is decorated with Gothic tracery. The central staircase is carved. A ballroom graces the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The chateauesque house next door at 703 Walnut Avenue was built for Crucible Steel owner and president Horace Wilkinson in 1905. Gaggin and Gaggin architects of Syracuse designed it. The interior woodworking is various and impressive. Theodore Roosevelt, while engaged in the Barnes-Roosevelt libel case, stayed there as a guest of the family for a month. The house belonged to Phi Delta Theta Fraternity for many years and now belongs to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, of which American radio and television personality Dick Clark was a member.</p><br>
<p>Other notable Syracusans who built their homes in the neighborhood included clergyman and archbishop the Reverend Huntington, A. E. Nettleton, of the Nettleton Shoe Company and Paragon Plaster, and the Denison family.</p><br>
<h2>Fraternity-sorority row</h2><br>
<p>In 1915 the Alpha Phi sorority bought the house at 308 Walnut Place. Around 1921 the houses at 208 and 210 Walnut Place and the one at 901 Walnut Avenue all became sorority or fraternity houses. In 1923 house at 300 Walnut Place was sold to the Delta Delta Delta sorority. The house at 310 Walnut Place was built around 1925 for the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the house at 803 Walnut Avenue was built for Gamma Phi Beta sorority. In 1928, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority had local architect Marjorie Wright design their Tudor style house at 306 Walnut Place. In 1937 the house at 907 Walnut Avenue also became the Kappa Delta sorority house. Over the following decades, more fraternities and sororities moved in, making the area the Fraternity/Sorority Row of Syracuse University.</p><br>
<h2>Block party</h2><br>
<p>Walnut Park was the traditional home of Syracuse University&#39;s "block party", an event celebrating the coming of spring with live entertainment in an outdoor setting. In 1993, amid concerns of over-crowding and excessive drinking, the University moved the event to a more readily controllable indoor venue.</p><br>
<h2>Walnut Park Historic District contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Jonathan Green House is a historic first period Colonial American house, built c. 1700–1720. It is located at 63 Perkins Street, Stoneham, Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is one of the oldest structures in Stoneham, and one of only two structures in Stoneham preserving a nearly intact early eighteenth century form.</p><br>
<h2>Construction history</h2><br>
<p>Typical of the early architecture of the colonial period, the construction of the Jonathan Green House is functional and straightforward. When originally built, the house would have been located near the seventeenth century borders of Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts, in what is now Stoneham. It was a single cell: a single room of two structural bays, plus an end chimney bay with the primary entrance and staircase located in front of the chimney stack. Pairs of pin holes in the front girt indicate the use of single-story studs and earlier, possibly asymmetrical, window placement. The area to the east of the chimney was used as a stable. Currently, the main block is two and a half stories high, five bays wide, and one room deep, with a central chimney, a granite foundation and clapboard sheathing. However, cedar shingle evidence survives under the added lean-to on the North side. The centered entrance had been framed by simple pilasters and topped by a modest entablature (no longer extant). Single story ells project from the northeast and northwest corners.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>Home to several generations of the Green family throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, its most notable resident was Capt. Jonathan Green, a prominent citizen of Stoneham, who served as town clerk and treasurer, and represented the town at a Constitutional Convention to consider a constitution reported in the summer of 1787 by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>In 1825 and 1826 the house served as the Stoneham school house. In 1853 following the annexation of land in Stoneham to become the Melrose Highlands, this house and several others near the town line were granted the privilege of sending children occupants to school within the town of Melrose.</p><br>
<p>The Elisha Knight  Homestead is a historic house at 170 Franklin Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1750, it is the only property of that period in Stoneham that retains a rural setting. The two-story wood-frame house has relatively modest decorations; its decorated entry hood dates to a c. 1870 renovation that probably also removed a central chimney, replacing it with one at the east end.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as the "Elisha Wright Homestead&quot a name correction to "Elisha Knight Homestead" was recorded by the state in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Oddfellows Building is a historic mixed-use commercial building at Central Square in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1868, it is one of three Second Empire buildings that give downtown Stoneham its character, despite some exterior alterations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Stonehams Oddfellows Building stands prominently facing the towns main square, at the northeast corner of the square with Franklin Street. It is a -story wood-frame building, with a dormered mansard roof providing a full third floor. Its square-facing facade originally had two storefronts, now combined into one, with entrances at angled corners. Another commercial space occupies a ground-floor space facing Franklin Street near the rear of the block. The exterior of the building is finished in stucco, possibly over original clapboards. The roof is finished in patterned slate, and has an embellished cornice. The roof dormers are generally topped by gables with partial returns and brackets; that at center of the main facade is more elaborate, including the carved date 1878.</p><br>
<p>The Second Empire style building was constructed in 1868 by Isaac Hersam, and is one of three such buildings dating to the mid-19th century that give the town&#39;s Central Square its character. It was acquired by a consortium of related Oddfellows organizations in 1878, and housed retail operations on the ground floor, and the Oddfellows meeting space above.</p><br>
<p>The Padilla Beard House is a historic house at 18 Maple Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its association with Padilla Beard, the first operator the stagecoach line on the route between Boston and Reading. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Padilla Beard House stands in a residential area one block west of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, at the southwest corner of Maple and Wright Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in synthetic siding. At the time of its National Register listing in 1984, it exhibited modest Greek Revival features, including corner pilasters, which have been lost or obscured by the siding. The front facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the rightmost bay under a simple porch with square posts. A secondary entrance is located in a two-story rear ell, facing Wright Street, which is sheltered by an Italianate hood.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1850 for Padilla Beard, the first coach driver on the stagecoach line connecting Boston and Reading. Beard stabled the horses in a separate building (now 26 Wright Street). The stagecoach began operations in 1833, and was replaced in 1859 by a horsecar line, and by a full railroad line in 1861. Beard became a conductor of the railroad when it began service. The house is not significant for its architecture, but its relationship to the town&#39;s transportation history.</p><br>
<p>The John Bottume House is a historic house at 4 Woodland Road in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1849, this stone house was one of several built along the shore of Spot Pond by a Boston businessman as a retreat, and is the only one to survive. It is owned by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and houses the visitors center for the Middlesex Fells Reservation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Botume House is located in southern Stoneham, set on the eastern shore of Spot Pond, the largest body of water in the Middlesex Fells Reservation. It is a T-shaped stone structure, stories in height, built out of uncoursed granite stone. Its Italianate features in a bracketed roof line and gable ends, with round-arch windows at the gable ends. Its setting also has original landscaping elements, including a pair of entrance posts and a granite wall separating it from Woodland Road.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1859 by John Botume, a Boston merchant, and was one of a half dozen houses built as summer houses along Spot Pond to capitalize on the setting. It is the only one to survive, the last of the rest, the Lang House, being demolished in 1986. The property was acquired in 1895 by the Metropolitan District Commission, predecessor to todays Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, which continues to own it. The MDC was using the house as a supervisors residence at the time the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It has since been converted for use as a visitors center for the Middlesex Fells Reservation.</p><br>
<p>The C.H. Brown Cottage is a historic house at 34 Wright Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Probably built in the 1830s, it is a well-preserved example of worker housing built for employees of local shoe factories. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The C.H. Brown Cottage stands in a residential area one block west of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, on the west side of Wright Street midway between Maple and Lincoln Streets. It is a small -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is two bays wide, with pilastered corners and a narrow entablature on the sides. The main entrance is in the right bay, flanked by full-length sidelight windows and pilasters, which support an entablature and cornice. A single-story ell of modern construction extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was probably built in sometime in the 1830s, based on stylistic analysis; its original owner is unknown. A later owner, C.H. Brown, was one of the proprietors of a local tannery; he lived in a mansion at Chestnut and Maple Streets. It is one of a modest number of worker housing units to survive from Stoneham&#39;s early industrial period as shoemaking center.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Buck House is a historic house at 68 Pleasant Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built about 1880 for a dealer in hide, this modest Italianate house occupies the site of Stoneham&#39;s first meetinghouse and school. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Buck House stands on a rise overlooking the junction of Summer and Pleasant Streets, a few blocks east of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square. This area was in the 18th century the town center, established after Stoneham was separated from Charlestown in 1725. The first meetinghouse (church), built in 1726, stood on this lot, roughly in front of where the house now stands, and the lot also held the town school (c. 1718). The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a three-bay facade with bay windows flanking a center entry covered by an open porch. Its upper-story windows are headed by projecting lintels. Most of the windows are single sash, but some are paired sash windows set in a shared opening.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1880 for Charles Buck, owner of a wholesale hide business. His main business was in Boston, but he also maintained a shop in Central Square. Buck&#39;s carriage barn also survives, but is standing on an adjacent lot.</p><br>
<p>The Clara Buswell House is a historic house at 481 Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is one a few surviving Italianate houses on Main Street south of Central Square, which was once lined with elegant houses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house stands on the west side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28), between Linden and Gerry Street. Just to its north stands the nearly identical Onslow Gilmore House. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped floorplan that includes a porch in the crook of the L. The porch originally sheltered a double door, but part of the porch has been enclosed, and the original door replaced by a single smaller one. The house has also been clad in aluminum, but much of the Italianate detailing, including bracketed cornices, ornate window lintels, and ornately boxed bay windows, has been retained. The house lot also retains original stone curbing and posts at the sidewalk edges on both Main and Gerry Streets.</p><br>
<p>The house may have been built by Onslow Gilmore, a prominent local businessman, banker, and real estate developer, as a speculative venture. Its first documented owner was Clara Buswell, in 1889. Houses similar to these were built in large numbers on Main Street after the American Civil War; these two are among the few that survive.</p><br>
<p>The Central Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing much of the central business district of Stoneham, Massachusetts. It includes the town&#39;s largest concentration of 19th and early-20th century commercial architecture, in an area that developed in importance as a commercial center after the construction of the Andover-Medford Turnpike . The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Stoneham is located north of the city of Boston, and is now predominantly a commuter suburb. In the mid-19th century the town developed as a major center of shoemaking in the area, and was served by the Boston and Lowell Railroad and the turnpike heading north to Andover. The shoemaking enterprises began as small-scale enterprises, which gradually became centralized into larger operations. One factory remains from this period, the large 1858 Italianate building at 426 Main Street, which was built by John Hill and was the town&#39;s first major industrial building. The triangular junction of Main Street and Center Street became the commercial hub of the town, its character defined by three Second Empire buildings erected between 1868 and 1890: the Dow Block, the Oddfellows Building, and the Chase Block.</p><br>
<p>The southern end of the district is anchored by the Hill factory building and the 1904 Stoneham Public Library, just across Main Street. Just north of the square stand other municipal buildings, including the 1918 Central Firestation, and town hall, built in 1939 on the east side of Center Street. North of these buildings are a cluster of churches, marking the northern edge of the district at Common Street. These include the First Congregational Church (1840) and the First Unitarian Church (1869).</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Chamberlain House is a historic house at 3 Winthrop Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1864, it is one of three well preserved Italianate side-hall style houses in Stoneham. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Chamberlain House stands in a residential area southwest of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, on the north side of Winthrop Street between Wright and Lincoln Streets. It is a -story wood-frame house, set on a small lot lined at the sidewalk with granite, including original posts at the sidewalk and driveway. It is capped with a dormered gable roof and its exterior is finished in vinyl siding. It was listed on the National Register in part for its architectural merit, but many of its exterior features, including corner pilasters, first floor window projecting caps, and paneling beneath windows in its polygonal bays, have been lost or obscured, and the Italianate carriage house has been demolished. The entry has a decorative projecting hood.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1864, and represents a type of house, the side-hall entry plan, of which only three survive in the town. The house was built for Samuel W. Chamberlain, a manufacturer, inventor and patent-holder on machinery related to the manufacture of shoes. His most notable work was a machine for burnishing shoe heels.</p><br>
<p>The Bernard Cogan House is a historic house at 10 Flint Avenue in Stoneham, Massachusetts, United States. Built about 1885, it is a good local example of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States. It was built for Bernard Cogan, the son of a local shoe factory owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bernard Cogan House stands north of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, on the south side of Flint Street, near its junction with Main Street (from which it is separated by a two-level parking garage). It is a -story wood-frame structure, set on a lot lined at the sidewalk by a low fieldstone retaining wall. The house is a basically rectangular plan with off-center entry, and a cross-gable roof section near the back of the house, where there is a projecting section. There is a porch that wraps around the front of the house to the left side where it runs to the projection. The porch has turned pillars, a decorative valance, and decorative railings. The walls are covered in sections of clapboard, decorative cut shingles, and vertical paneling.</p><br>
<p>It was built about 1885 for Bernard Cogan, son of Patrick Cogan, the owner of a local shoe factory. Patrick Cogan founded P. Cogan & Son in 1876, and was one of three major local shoe manufacturers to survive into the 20th century. This house was typical in size and scale for the more successful of Stonehams businessmen, and is similar to the house of Bernards brother James, who was his business partner in the firm.</p><br>
<p>The James Cogan House is a historic house at 48 Elm Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It was built about 1890 for James Cogan, son of a prominent local shoe manufacturer, and is a prominent local example of Queen Anne architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The James Cogan House stands east of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, at the northeast corner of Waverly Street with Elm Street, the latter being a major east–west road from the center. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and synthetic sided exterior. The house follows a basic rectangular plan, which is disguised by a wraparound porch on the first floor, and a projecting bay window with gable top above the entrance on the right, and a multi-sided turret above on the left. The house was listed on the National Register in part for its architectural style, but many of those features have been lost by the application of vinyl siding. Surviving features include the round porch columns, and finials at the peaks of the gables.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1890 for James Cogan, son of Patrick Cogan, owner of a local shoe factory. P. Cogan and Son, founded in 1876, was one of Stoneham&#39;s successful shoe manufacturers that survived into the 20th century. James Cogan and his brother Bernard (whose house stands on Flint Street) carried on the business after their father; both of their houses typify the improved social standing attending the success of the business.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Beacon Gas Station was a historic gas station at 474 Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1922 by the Beacon Oil Company to be a flagship station in their Colonial chain of filling stations. The concrete and stucco building was designed by the Boston firm of Coolidge & Carlson. It had two main sections: an octagonal section that once served as a drive-through filling area, and a rectangular service area to its left. Corinthian columns originally supported the octagonal section; these were later covered over or replaced. The octagonal section was topped by a round dome, at whose apex was a small pillared section that was once topped by a grillwork globe that housed a light. This light, when illuminated, became the beacon which gave the station its name. The service area and pumping bay had a band of starburst panels that ran along the top of the flat roofed service area and around the base of the pumping area dome. The structure was one of about 10 Colonial Oil stations built with a golden dome to resemble the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill.</p><br>
<p>The building served as a filling station until after World War II. Later, it served a variety of retail services, for example as a flower and produce shop in 1984. None of these uses significantly affected the integrity of the building. The pumping bay was enclosed in glass, making it into an integral part of the interior space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, at which time it was one of four surviving Colonial Oil filling stations. The structure was demolished on December 18, 2018, for construction of an apartment building. Three other domed former Colonial Oil stations remain in Woburn, Malden, and Boston.</p><br>
<p>The George Cowdrey House is a historic house at 42 High Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It was built about 1865 for George Cowdrey, a local shoe manufacturer and state legislator, and is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of residential Second Empire architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The George Cowdrey House stands near the crest of a hill northeast of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square, on the west side of High Street north of its junction with Cowdrey Street (which is also named for George Cowdrey). It is a modest two-story building, set on a large lot with a low stone retaining wall at the sidewalk. The house is covered with a mansard roof and has a clapboarded exterior. A porch wraps around to the left side, with a gazebo section at the corner. The porch is supported by round Tuscan columns and has dentil moulding at the eave. The mansard roof dormers are topped by segmented arches and have scrollwork framing around their windows. Stylistically sympathetic ells extend to the side and rear of the main block, which exhibits high quality craftsmanship both outside and inside.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1865, and is one a few well preserved Second Empire residence in Stoneham. It was built for George Cowdrey, a Stoneham native, shoe manufacturer, and state legislator. The most significant alterations to the house after its construction are the porch and gazebo (added about 1900), and the leaded sidelights flanking the front entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Blake Daniels Cottage is a historic house at 111–113 Elm Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1860, it is a good example of a Greek Revival worker&#39;s residence, with an older wing that may have housed the manufactory of shoe lasts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The Blake Daniels Cottage stands in a residential area of eastern Stoneham, at the southwest corner of Elm Street and Duncklee Avenue. It is a tall -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A single-story ell, possibly of earlier construction than the main house, extends to the west. The main block has a three bay facade, with the main entrance in the right bay, flanked on one side by a sidelight window, and framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature. The ell has a second entrance, sheltered by an Italianate hood. A brick chimney is set at the center of the eastern facade (facing Duncklee), with the roof on either side pierced by shed-roof dormers.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1860, and is among the better preserved of Stonehams Greek Revival houses, as well as being an important site preserving part of Stonehams early home-based shoe manufacturing businesses. Its owner, Blake Daniels, operated a small manufactory of shoe lasts at this location up to the 1870s. The manufacture of shoe parts and tools for shoe manufacture was a common cottage industry in the town at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Silas Dean House is a historic house at 8 Pine Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1840, it is a stylistically rare form of a Greek Revival cottage. The front of the house is a front porch sheltered by the slope of the roof, rather than a more traditional gable-end orientation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Period detailing present on the porch at the time of its listing, including turned posts and a bracketed frieze, has been lost by subsequent alterations (see photo).</p><br>
<p>The Dow Block is a historic commercial building on Central Square in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built in 1864, it is the first of three mid-19th century buildings that define Central Square, and is a fine example of Second Empire architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in the Central Square Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Central Square in the heart of Stoneham is a triangular square defined by Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28), which runs north-south, and Central Street, which extends northeast from a junction that also includes Franklin Street. The Dow Block stands just north of a small plaza at the corner. It is a -story brick building with a mansard roof, and presenting a symmetrical facade south to the square. The roof is made of patterned slate tiles, and has a central projecting and raised section. Three dormers with hip roofs and small central gables are arranged across, the central one with a three-part window and the outer ones with paired sash windows. The facade is divided into three portions demarcated by sandstone quoins at the corners and similar piers between. Windows on the second and third floors are separated by Stick style panels.</p><br>
<p>The Dow Block was built in 1864 by Moses Dow, a real estate investor from Charlestown. Early uses of the building included housing the town post office and library. Along with the Oddfellows Building (c. 1870) and Chase Block (1874), the building is one of the defining elements of Stoneham&#39;s Central Square.</p><br>
<p>The E. A. Durgin House is a historic house at 113 Summer Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame Second Empire style house was built c. 1870 for E. A. Durgin, a local shoe dealer, and is one of Stoneham&#39;s most elaborately styled 19th century houses. Its main feature is a square tower with a steeply pitched gable roof that stands over the entrance. The gable of the tower is clad in scalloped wood shingles, and includes a small window that is topped by its own gable. The house has a typical mansard roof, although the original slate has been replaced with asphalt shingling, with a cornice that is decorated with dentil molding and studded by paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Amasa Farrier Boardinghouse is a historic house at 280 Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The large wood-frame house was built c. 1865 by Amasa Farrier, the town surveyor. The building served as a boarding house for workers in Stoneham&#39;s shoe factories, and is the only boarding house of the period to survive in the town. It is a -story wood-frame structure with modest Italianate styling, including bracketed eaves and gable, and broad corner boards. A period porch with bracketed turned posts has been replaced by an enclosed porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
