<p>El Circulo Cubano de Tampa  is an American historic building constructed in 1917  to serve as a gathering place for Cuban immigrants in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. It was designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott. It is located at Palm Avenue and 14th Street. On November 15, 1972, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed the building on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as Cuban Club, Ybor City.</p><br>
<p>The building has a theater and once included a bowling alley, spa, pharmacy, ballroom, library, and cantina. Decorated with imported tile, stained glass, scraffito spandrels and murals it continues the legacy of the club first established in 1902 as a mutual aid society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early History</h3><br>
<p>El Circulo Cubano can trace its history back to an earlier organization called El Club Nacional Cubano which was founded October 10, 1899. The organization changed its name to El Círculo Cubano in 1902 with the goal of a being a fraternal organization of Cubans in Tampa and to assist each other and help with medical care like other mutual aid societies in the city. Many young Cuban men were attracted to the Cuban Club since they heavily promoted athletics and had a boxing ring and a gym behind the club building. Membership numbers heavily fluctuated throughout the years.</p><br>
<h3>Later History</h3><br>
<p>After years of financial difficulties the Cuban Club building faced foreclosure in 1992, but the Cuban Club Foundation kept the building alive with cash donations, and in 1994 the Foundation received a grant from the state of Florida. Other charity fundraisers were held to raise money to help restore the historic building. Much restoration work was completed in 1995, but on New Year&#39;s Day 1996 part of the ballroom ceiling collapsed due to years of neglect and decay and destroyed part of a 70 year old mural by Juan Aciego.</p><br>
<p>El Centro Español of West Tampa is a historic site in the West Tampa neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 2306 North Howard Avenue . It was designed by Fred J. James. On July 30, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Centro of West Tampa was a branch of El Centro Español de Tampa of Ybor City, and was built using membership dues of cigar workers in Ybor City and West Tampa. Members could use either building for amenities such as a gym, casino (game room), cafe, health clinic, etc. Centro Español de West Tampa also included the Royal Theater where live stage shows were performed; later movies were shown in the Royal Theater.</p><br>
<p>The building was empty for years, and private attempts at restoration have been unsuccessful due to the high costs involved. However, the city of Tampa restored Centro and used it as a temporary home for the Tampa Museum of Art while a new museum building was built downtown.</p><br>
<p>Another chapter opened for El Centro Español of West Tampa with the execution of a 10-year lease between the City of Tampa and the in January 2010. The Hillsborough Education Foundation is a non-profit which has been garnering private resources to support public education since 1988. In 2007 the Foundation added Teaching Tools for Hillsborough Schools to its roster of programs. This is a resource store where teachers from Hillsborough schools with the greatest need may obtain free supplies for their students and classrooms. The store had been operated out of rented space and was in need of a permanent home. With the lease of Centro, now all Foundation programs and staff are housed in this historic building. Renovations continue, but as of June 14, 2010 the Foundation moved its programs into the building.</p><br>
<p>The El Pasaje  is a historic site in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. It was originally built in 1886 to house the offices for Vicente Martinez Ybor&#39;s companies as he planned Ybor City and then ran his cigar factory and other businesses. El Pasaje has been home to many establishments since: a hotel, several restaurants, several bars and speakeasies, a military recruiting station, and newspaper offices, among others. Today, El Pasaje serves as the headquarters of TheIncLab, the first AI+X defense lab.</p><br>
<p>The two-story brick building is located at the corner of 14th Street (Avenida Republica De Cuba) and East 9th Avenue across the street from Ybor&#39;s original cigar factory, what is today Ybor Square. On November 15, 1972, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Ybor Factory Building is a historic site in Tampa, Florida, United States located at 1911 North 13th Street. The main factory and its surrounding support buildings cover an entire city block between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenues and 13th and 14th Streets in the Ybor City Historic District section of the Ybor City neighborhood. C. E. Parcell is credited as the building&#39;s architect.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The factory was built in 1886 by Vicente Martinez-Ybor as he moved the production of his Príncipe de Gales ("Prince of Wales") cigar line from Key West to the new company town he founded just northeast of Tampa in 1885. The headquarters of Ybor&#39;s holding company was directly across 9th Avenue in the El Pasaje building, which was constructed at about the same time.</p><br>
<p>The three-story structure was the first brick cigar factory in Tampa and the largest cigar factory in the world at the time. Over the next few decades, skilled tabaqueros (cigar makers) would roll hundreds of millions of cigars on wooden workbenches set close together in the building&#39;s wide, sunlit rolling rooms.</p><br>
<p>After Ybor died in 1896, the building was owned by a succession of other cigar manufacturers and continued to be a productive cigar factory until after World War II, when the industry (and Ybor City in general) entered a long period of decline.</p><br>
<p>Over the next few decades, the buildings were vacant, then were used as gallery and studio space for artists, then converted to a festival marketplace called Ybor Square in the mid-1970s. The Ybor Factory building was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1972.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the buildings were converted to office space with the exception of a franchise of the Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant, which was located in the former tobacco storage warehouse up to 2016. In 2010, the Church of Scientology bought the building for $7.05 million to consolidate its existing facilities present in Ybor City and West Tampa.</p><br>
<p>The USA Courthouse Building and Downtown Postal Station, also known as USA Post Office, Courthouse and Custom House or the USA Post Office, Courthouse and Custom House, is a historic courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and later for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa, Florida, United States. It is located at 601 Florida Avenue. On June 7, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places as Federal Building, USA Courthouse, Downtown Postal Station.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the building was completed in 1905, under the supervision of James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect `of the United States Department of the Treasury. It served as a courthouse of the Southern District of Florida from then until the creation of the Middle District in 1962, and then served as a courthouse for the Middle District of Florida until 2001. The building is now owned by the city of Tampa.</p><br>
<p>The building is now used as a Le Méridien hotel.</p><br>
<p>Kentucky Camp is a ghost town and former mining camp along the Arizona Trail in Pima County, Arizona, United States, near the community of Sonoita. The Kentucky Camp Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been since 1995. As it is located within Coronado National Forest, the United States Forest Service is responsible for the upkeep of the remaining buildings within the Kentucky Camp Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A freak accident that killed a mining engineer allowed Kentucky Camp to persist as it is today, a scenic canyon dotted with mesquites, oaks, tall grasses and cacti. The plans for the Kentucky Camp area in the realm of gold mining were ambitious but never really came to fruition.</p><br>
<h3>Early days</h3><br>
<p>In 1874 gold was discovered on the eastern slope of the Santa Rita Mountains. The area became known as the Greaterville mining district and proved to be one of the richest placer deposits in southern Arizona. Placer deposits consist of a mixture of gold, sand and gravel; to separate the substances, water is required. Generally, water is readily available to wash the mixture of sand, gravel, and gold. However, the arroyos of the Santa Rita Mountains are dry. Miners were required to haul the sacks of dirt to the few running streams in the area. Sometimes they would carry packed water, in canvas and goatskin bags, on the backs of burros to their claims. By 1886, much of the rich deposits that were worth such an effort were worked out and many miners gave up and moved on.</p><br>
<p>In 1902 a California mining engineer, James Stetson, had an idea to solve the water problem. His scheme involved channeling seasonal runoff from the mountain streams into a reservoir that would hold enough water to last ten months allowing him to keep a mine in operation. Stetson was able to convince a wealthy Californian, George McAneny (not to be confused with New Yorker George McAneny), to invest in his plan and with other investors from Tucson they formed the Santa Rita Water and Mining Company. The pair prospected the area of Greaterville and finally settled on a mining site in Boston Gulch. The headquarters was set up at nearby Kentucky Gulch and from 1902 until 1906, the buildings at Kentucky Camp served as the offices and residences for the mine employees.</p><br>
<p>By mid-1904, the company&#39;s water system was complete and they were doing hydraulic mining at Kentucky Camp.</p><br>
<h3>The fall of a camp and engineer</h3><br>
<p>One day before a meeting with stockholders in 1905 tragedy befell Stetson. He was killed in a fall from a window at the Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson. His partner&#39;s finances and health deteriorated and despite the effort of the other partners to keep the operation going, Kentucky Camp was abandoned by 1912.</p><br>
<h3>The town after 1912</h3><br>
<p>The buildings and land were purchased by an attorney for the McAneny family and until the 1960s the lands were used as a cattle ranch. During the 1960s the land was sold to ANAMAX Mining. The Forest Service acquired the land in 1989 and added it to the Coronado National Forest. The Forest Service is currently working with volunteers and others to preserve and interpret Kentucky Camp as a historic site related to mining in the American west.</p><br>
<h2>Kentucky Camp today</h2><br>
<p>The town was acquired by the USA Forest Service in 1989 through a land exchange. Since that time, it has been part of the Coronado National Forest and is being preserved and interpreted for a look at mining camp life.</p><br>
<h3>Buildings</h3><br>
<p>Today there are five adobe buildings at the town site. They were constructed circa 1904 and the largest building was probably the headquarters for the Santa Rita Water and Mining Company. Later, that same large building became the main ranch house as the land was used for cattle ranching. The small building behind the headquarters building was used to process gold samples, evidenced by liners that came from an assay furnace. Opposite a small house where Stetson may have lived are the remains of a ruined barn and another small adobe house remains at the far end of the site.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>Historic preservation has been underway at Kentucky Camp since 1991. The Forest Service has worked to stabilize the remaining buildings, including repairing roofs and walls in hopes of preventing further deterioration. Much of the work has been done by volunteers under the auspices of the Forest Service&#39;s Passport In Time program and the Friends of Kentucky Camp.</p><br>
<p>When the USFS acquired the property the buildings were in bad shape. The roofs had to be repaired first to keep water run off from contacting the crumbling adobe walls. The project was made possible by a $10,000 donation from the producers of the 1989-1992 TV show The Young Riders, which happened to be shooting in the area.</p><br>
<p>As of 2005 the Forest Service planned to restore the buildings to their original appearance during the mining era.</p><br>
<p>Mcaneny.jpgThis sketch of George McAneny is from a 1905 San Jose newspaper. He lost more than $150,000 investing in Kentucky Camp.</p><br>
<p>Hotel & Office Building Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegThe front of the hotel/office building.</p><br>
<p>Hotel & Office Interior Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegInside the hotel/office building.</p><br>
<p>Assay Office Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegThe assay office, where gold ore was processed.</p><br>
<p>Adobe House Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegThe adobe house believed to have been occupied by James Stetson.</p><br>
<p>Adobe House 2 Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegThe other adobe house.</p><br>
<p>Remains Of Barn & Early Automobile Kentucky Camp Arizona 2014.jpegThe remains of an adobe barn and an early automobile.</p><br>
<p>Ashcroft is an extinct mining town located in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The silver mining camp was founded as Castle Forks City in the spring of 1880. A post office named Ashcroft operated at the site from August 12, 1880, until August 5, 1881, when the name was changed to Chloride. The Chloride post office operated until January 3, 1882 when the name was changed back to Ashcroft. The renamed Ashcroft post office finally closed on November 30, 1912.</p><br>
<p>On May 12, 1975, Ashcroft was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The townsite is located 10 mi south of Aspen, Colorado, at an elevation of 9,521 ft. A few buildings remain standing as a testament to the town&#39;s past.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early years</h3><br>
<p>In the spring of 1880 two prospectors, Charles B. Culver and W.F. Coxhead left the mining boomtown of Leadville in search of silver deposits in the Castle Creek Valley. Silver was found and Coxhead promoted their discovery with zeal back in Leadville. When he returned to "Castle Forks City", as it had been dubbed, he found that 23 other prospectors had joined "Crazy Culver." Together the men formed a Miners Protective Association, built a courthouse and laid out the streets in Ashcroft in just two weeks. Each of their associations members paid $5, or one days work, and $1, to draw for building lots. In all, there were 97 members in the Ashcroft Miners Protective Association.</p><br>
<p>The town was renamed Ashcroft in 1882, after a rich ore strike was uncovered in Montezuma and Tam OShanter Mines. The mines were partially owned by H.A.W. Tabor of Leadville mining fame. Reportedly, Tabor and his second wife visited Ashcroft in 1883 and hosted a grand ball and banquet. Tabor also reportedly bought rounds of drinks for everyone in each of the towns 13 saloons.</p><br>
<p>The same year that Tabor visited Ashcroft the town population had risen to around 2,000. Ashcroft was also home to two newspapers, a school, sawmills, a small smelter and 20 saloons. At this point in its history the town was larger than Aspen and closer to the railroad in Crested Butte.</p><br>
<p>By 1885 the town was home to between 2,000 and 3,500 people, had six hotels and 20 saloons. As quickly as the town went boom it went bust.</p><br>
<h3>Decline</h3><br>
<p>The silver deposits that Culver and Coxhead initially discovered produced 14,000 ounces (400 kg) of silver to the ton (44% silver by weight) at their onset. This production, however, was short-lived as the deposits were shallow. Though there were promises of a rail line to Crested Butte the promises never materialized and investors and workers were lured away to places such as Aspen. In 1884 another rich strike was discovered; this one, however, was in Aspen. This led to the end of the prosperity in Ashcroft, as people began moving to Aspen.</p><br>
<p>By 1885 there were only 100 summer residents and $5.6 in the town coffers. By the turn of the 20th century, only a handful of aging, single men lived in Ashcroft. Though they all owned mining claims they spent most of their time fishing and hunting or reading and drinking in a local bar. The men traded stories for drinks and served as an informal employment agency, matching up men with the sporadic remaining work at the mines. Every four years the remaining citizens would hold municipal elections and choose officers from amongst themselves.</p><br>
<p>The town&#39;s last resident, Jack Leahy, died in 1939, making Ashcroft an official ghost town.</p><br>
<h3>Renewed interest</h3><br>
<p>The 1930s saw a new flurry of interest in the village, with the burgeoning winter Olympics and winter sports that drew attention to Ashcroft. International sportsman Ted Ryan and his partner Billy Fiske, captain of America&#39;s gold medal Olympic bobsled team, built the Highland-Bavarian Lodge north of Ashcroft. They planned to build a European style ski resort complete with an aerial tramway leading up to Hayden Peak. World War II put an end to their plans as Fiske was killed in combat and Ryan ended up leasing Ashcroft to the USA Army for $1 a year.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the Armys 10th Mountain Division used Ashcroft for mountaineering training, mostly during the summer of 1942. Following the war, most of the areas ski development occurred in Aspen and Ryan later deeded the site to the USA Forest Service.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, World War II veteran Stuart Mace, also a well known dog sledder, brought his family and dog sled operation to Ashcroft. In 1955, Mace and his Toklat huskies were featured in the television series Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, and the ghost town was fitted with false fronts to imitate a Canadian set for the filming of the series through 1958. Mace was given the use of 5 acre of land in exchange for caretaking what remaining holdings Highland-Bavarian had in the Ashcroft area. He devoted the remainder of his life to protecting the area from development and restoring the ecology. He was joined in that effort in 1974 by the Aspen Historical Society, which helped Ashcroft make it to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C., is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District of Columbias tallest residential building. Designed by architect Thomas Franklin Schneider and completed in 1894 as the citys first "residential skyscraper", the 164 ft-tall brick building spurred local regulations and federal legislation limiting building height in the city that continue to shape Washington&#39;s skyline.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Cairo is a condominium building, home to renters and owners of apartments ranging in size from small studios to multi-level two- and three-bedroom units.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The Egyptian theme of the building is stamped across its Moorish and Romanesque Revival features. Gargoyles perch high above the front entrance; some are winged griffins staring down from cornices, and others are more lighthearted. Along the first floor are elephant heads, which look left and right from the stone window sills of the front windows and which interlock trunks at the corners of the entrance arch. On the fourth floor are dragon and dwarf crosses. The carved stone façade hints at more exotic Middle Eastern origins.</p><br>
<p>The U-shaped building surrounds a Zen stone garden courtyard. The stone front steps lead up through a glass foyer into a marble-floored lobby with Egyptian columns and a lounge. A large mirror and photographs of the buildings construction and other contemporary scenes adorn the lobbys eastern wall. Two square columns of red-orange marble anchor the space in front of two elevators, which serve the tenants of the 12 floors above. Between the elevators is a stairway that leads down through double glass doors into the central courtyard.</p><br>
<p>At the two interior southern corners are wide staircases of marble and wrought iron that span the height of the building. Some sections of hallways are marble-floored, and each apartments outside door handle is a marble orb. Apartments have exposed red brick walls. The AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. summed up the design: "For all its quirks, the awkward tower reigns as one of Washingtons guilty pleasures."</p><br>
<p>The Cairos rooftop deck provides one of the most expansive views of the Districts northwest skyline. Visible locations include the Washington National Cathedral, Georgetown, the Washington Monument, the Capitol, and The Catholic University of America.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At 12 floors, the Cairo towers above nearby buildings. At its opening in 1894, the buildings height caused a tremendous uproar among local residents, who dubbed it "Schneiders Folly" and lobbied Congress to limit the height of residential buildings in the District of Columbia to prevent more skyscrapers from being built. The resulting Height of Buildings Act of 1899, and subsequent zoning laws, have restricted the heights of buildings in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>Around 1900, the building was renamed the Cairo Hotel and became a center of D.C. society, with its ballroom frequently the center of social and political gatherings. Its guests and tenants have included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Edison, and other powerful political figures.</p><br>
<p>In early 1897, the deposed queen of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, stayed in the Cairo while she lobbied President Grover Cleveland for compensation for the USA overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in January 1893. On February 15, 1905, the Cairo swirled with intrigue when, during a labor union strike, painter J. Frank Hanby fell to his death when the ropes supporting him broke. The ropes were found possibly to have been cut by acid, leading to a grand jury investigation into the cause of death and many high-profile articles in The Washington Post. The high society of Washington often held meetings at the Cairo Hotel, such as that between the Woman&#39;s National Democratic League and a Congressman from New Mexico in 1913.</p><br>
<p>On June 16, 1906, Congressman Rufus E. Lester, Democrat of Georgia, died after an accident in which he fell through a skylight on the roof of the Cairo, where he resided. Lester went to the roof to look for his two young grandchildren and apparently missed his footing, and fell about 30 feet through the skylight, and landed on the building&#39;s eleventh floor. He broke both legs and sustained internal injuries which proved fatal.</p><br>
<p>The December 2, 1923 Washington Post contained an advertisement for the Cairo Hotel that read: In June 1940, a newspaper headline reported "Two Bandits Rob Cairo Hotel, Escape in Chase".</p><br>
<p>A party held on the night of November 30, 1940, featured 500 canaries singing beneath the chandeliers in the grand ballroom. The building also had a bowling alley and a coffee shop.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, the Cairo Hotel hosted Sunday mambo parties, played by Buddy Rowell and promoted by Maurice Gervitsch, known as "Groggy". The dances were featured a 12-piece band, and (in segregated 1950s D.C.) had mainly white and Jewish attendance. These glamorous and sensational days lasted into the late 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The building was sold in 1957 as a 267-room hotel, and on October 12 the new owners announced plans to spend $100,000 refurbishing the structure. In 1958, a fire caused by an electrical short-circuit on the sixth floor led to $25,000 worth of damage, but no structural problems.</p><br>
<p>The Cairo began to decline during the 1960s, when it was inhabited by squatters, prostitutes, drug addicts, student protesters, criminals, and even feral dogs. In June 1964, the FBI tracked a 24-year-old escaped convict to the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, the D.C. Department of Health considered leasing the run-down building for use as a rehabilitation center for alcoholics. After a series of failed attempts at renovation, including a closure on August 7, 1972, the building was restored in 1974 under the leadership of architect Arthur Cotton Moore. It was converted into condominiums in 1979.</p><br>
<p>At the building&#39;s centennial celebration in October 1994, Ross Elementary school students sang "Happy Birthday" to the building in thanks for a $1,000 donation made by the Cairo Condominium Unit Owners Association. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans read a proclamation declaring it "Cairo Day" in DC. Of the building, he said, "It is a real monument in the area."</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>On May 29, 2007, a fire emptied the Cairo of its roughly 400 residents. At least nine emergency vehicles responded to the blaze. The fire heavily damaged one of the central units of the tenth floor. Firewalls prevented its spread, although some other units suffered water damage.</p><br>
<p>The building was repointed between 2007 and 2009, a $2.1 million project funded by the condominium owners, who paid fees ranging from $7,980 to more than $25,000, depending on the size of their apartments.</p><br>
<p>In summer 2010, the lobbys years-old carpet was pulled up, exposing the original terrazzo flooring for restoration. It revealed echoes of the façades middle-eastern theme, with sandy hues and an interlocking tile pattern.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Cabin at White Rock Shoals is a historic fish cabin near St. James City, Florida.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The fish cabin is located at the south end of Pine Island in the Pine Island Sound. It was built before 1930 by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as part of a multiple property submission of fish cabins in Charlotte Harbor.</p><br>
<p>The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens or The Polasek is a historic site in Winter Park, Florida, United States. It is located at 633 Osceola Avenue on three acres overlooking Lake Osceola. On May 2, 2000, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Garden is dedicated to preserving the works of Czech sculptor Albin Polasek, celebrating representational art and exhibiting regional and international artists.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1961, the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens is home to an art collection focusing primarily on American representational sculpture created by Czech-American sculptor Albin Polasek.</p><br>
<p>Born in Moravia, Albin Polasek (1879-1965) immigrated to the United States in 1901 to work as a wood carver. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the American Academy in Rome. For 27 years he was head of the Department of Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. He moved to Winter Park in 1950.</p><br>
<p>The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens is a nonprofit organization whose budget is funded by donations and memberships. All donations and dues go to support the Albin Polasek Foundation, which oversees the preservation, maintenance, and operation of the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Collections</h2><br>
<p>The museum is Polasek&#39;s Mediterranean-style retirement home and studio. A lot of the original furnishings are on display. In 1961, Polasek opened his home and studio to the public. The museum is now a member of The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS), an affiliate program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 36 sites included in HAHS are the living and work spaces of painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, and furniture designers. The Polasek Museum is currently the only one in Florida.</p><br>
<p>The permanent collection of approximately 200 pieces includes sculpture by Polasek and his first wife Ruth Sherwood as well as antiquities from Polaseks collection. The galleries feature changing exhibitions of local artists for viewing and for sale. Special areas to visit in the garden include the butterfly garden, two water gardens, the cycad collection along the museums front drive and the many individual container gardens found throughout the property.</p><br>
<h2>The Capen-Showalter House</h2><br>
<p>Originally scheduled to be demolished back in 2013, The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park History Museum, the Friends of Casa Feliz, and community supporters rescued the historic home by raising $450,000 to relocate it to the Polasek Museum. The home was cut into two halves and floated across Lake Osceola. The project won the 2014 Organizational Achievement Award from Florida Trust for Historic Preservation. The 4,200-square-foot house contains museum offices, exhibits, and artwork. Workshops, meetings, and special events are held at the home.</p><br>
<h2>Events and programs</h2><br>
<p>The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens hosts the annual Winter Park Paint Out. Twenty-five artists have seven days to publicly create works throughout the streets of Winter Park. Once completed the paintings are hung in the gallery&#39;s ‘Wet Room’ and offered for sale to benefit the museum. During this week long event in April, the museum is free to the public.</p><br>
<p>Daily tours of the permanent collection and the Capen-Showalter House are available as part of regular admission.</p><br>
<p>The Palm Cottage Gardens, also known as the Henry Nehrling Estate, is a historic site in Gotha, Florida. On November 7, 2000, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Palm Cottage Gardens is the former home of famed horticulturalist Dr. Henry Nehrling, who purchased the property in 1885 to establish a garden where he could experiment with tropical and subtropical plants year round. As such, it was Florida&#39;s first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the USA Department of Agriculture.</p><br>
<p>By the early 20th century, Palm Cottage Gardens was a popular destination for thousands of tourists, nature lovers, and new Florida settlers. It was visited by many prominent people of the era, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Theodore Luqueer Mead, and Dr. David Fairchild.</p><br>
<p>Of the 60 plus acres purchased by Henry Nehrling between 1885 and 1897, only the 6-acre homestead site remains; a portion of this extends into Lake Nally. The 1880s frame vernacular style home and semi-detached kitchen were moved by ox-cart to the site in the early 20th century. Remnants of the original 100-year-old tree canopy and many of his plantings still exist.</p><br>
<p>Between 1885 and 1896, Dr. Henry Nehrling, one of Florida’s pioneer horticulturists and naturalists, purchased 65 acres in central Florida in the newly settled German-American town of Gotha. 25 acres of the best land was selected to develop one of Florida’s first tropical gardens, which he named “Palm Cottage Gardens”. The gardens quickly became a popular tourist destination, attracting thousands of visitors each year. In the early years Nehrling visited his garden annually from his home in Wisconsin, then in 1902 he moved his family to Gotha and at that time moved the 1880s Florida vernacular wood-frame home and semi-detached kitchen/dining wing from its original site a mile away.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s Palm Cottage Gardens became one of Floridas first USDA horticultural experimental stations where Dr. Nehrling tested more than 3000 plants. Over 300 of these became essential to the states ornamental horticulture, including caladiums, palms, bamboos, magnolias, amaryllis, Indian Hawthorne, and crinum lilies. He had acres of lath shade houses where he grew shade-loving plants such as the caladiums for which he is renowned. His detailed descriptions and observations of tropical and subtropical plants, written for a variety of magazines and scholarly journals, established him as a highly esteemed writer on the early development of ornamental horticulture in Florida.</p><br>
<p>After Nehrling&#39;s death in 1929 the garden lay fallow until Julian Nally purchased the property in 1935. He and his wife Maggie successfully commercialized several species of bamboo and bromeliads, as well as Gloriosa lilies and orchids. They added several greenhouses to the property, which became well known as the Nally Bromeliad and Bamboo Plantation until their deaths in 1977. The property then was purchased and subdivided by developers, who preserved the original home on 6 acres in the middle of the development. The home site suffered from vandalism and many plants were taken.</p><br>
<p>In 1981 this remaining piece was rescued by Barbara and Howard Bochiardy, who worked to restore the home and gardens and added an architecturally compatible garage and workshop wing. But after Howard&#39;s death in 1990 it became increasingly difficult for Barbara to maintain the home and garden.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, after years of disconnect with the gardens original history, the Henry Nehrling Society was organized as a non-profit corporation with the express mission of saving this important piece of Floridas pioneer history. The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 2000.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the Society succeeded in purchasing the property to preserve the home and remaining historic genome in the gardens, and to create an education center and community resource focusing on historic preservation, horticultural education and environmental conservation.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the official Florida Heritage Landmark marker was installed. Today the all-volunteer organization is working hard to rehabilitate Nehrling Gardens and raise the money needed to develop its full potential.</p><br>
<p>The Clune Building  is a historic site in Miami Springs, Florida. It is located at 45 Curtiss Parkway. On November 1, 1985, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was a work of Curtiss & Bright.</p><br>
<p>The Miami Springs Historical Museum was formerly located in the building, above Stadnik&#39;s Miami Springs Pharmacy, but moved to another location in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Maitland Art Center  is a historic site in Maitland, Florida. It was founded and designed by architect and artist J. Andre Smith  in 1937 as an artist colony, dedicated to experimental art. Funded by philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the colony hosted artists such as Ralston Crawford, Milton Avery, and Consuelo Kanaga. It is located at 231 West Packwood Avenue. On November 17, 1982, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Maitland Art Center is one of the five museums encompassed by the Art & History Museums – Maitland (A&H). The A&H&#39;s Maitland Art Center offers artist residency programs, a variety of art classes for adults and children, professional development for artists, and dynamic programming for art appreciation. The A&H is a non-profit organization funded by earned income and contributions by the City of Maitland, the State of Florida, United Arts of Central Florida, grants, and individual donations.</p><br>
<p>The A&H&#39;s Maitland Art Center is one of the few examples of Mayan Revival architecture, also known as Fantasy Architecture in the southeast. The grounds are a common location for outdoor weddings. The art center offers three areas for weddings: the Main Garden, the Chapel, and the Mayan Courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The Center (as The Research Studio (Maitland Art Center)) was designated a National Historic Landmark in August 2014. sometimes referred to as Mayan Revival.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Winter Park is a historic womans club in Winter Park, Florida. It is located at 419 Interlachen Avenue. On May 4, 1995, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>The original planners of the club were Lucy Blackman, Alice Knox, and Lucy Meriwether in 1914. However, these women were not the official founders of the club. That honor goes to Mrs. Helen Morse who officially held the Women&#39;s Club first meeting in ‘Osceola Lodge’ on January 15, 1915. Mrs. Morse was the first president of the club with Mrs. Blackman as her vice President and Mrs. Hiram Power as secretary/treasurer.</p><br>
<p>The Coral Gables City Hall is a historic site in Coral Gables, Florida. It is located at 405 Biltmore Way. On July 24, 1974, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The city hall was built in the Mediterranean Revival architectural style. It was completed in 1928. Phineas Paist and Harold Steward were the architects; Denman Fink was the artistic advisor. It is three stories tall, built of local limestone, has a stuccoed exterior, tile roof, central 3-stage clock tower, and a Corinthian colonnade. It was major element in the plan of George E. Merrick, founder of Coral Gables, to create a Spanish-Mediterranean city.</p><br>
<p>The William Anderson General Merchandise Store  is a historic site in Redland, Florida, United States. Built in 1911 by William “Popp” Anderson, who worked for railroad magnate Henry Flagler, the wood-frame structure is located at 15700 Southwest 232nd Street. It served as a general store for the thriving Redlands agricultural community until the 1930s, when it was converted into apartments. Condemned in 1975, it was granted a reprieve for rehabilitation, and was eventually converted into the successful Harvest House restaurant. After being ravaged by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the building was partially restored, although it has remained vacant since.</p><br>
<p>On October 18, 1977, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>forsimilarly named synagoguesCongregation Beth Jacob </p><br>
<p>The Beth Jacob Social Hall and Congregation (also known as the Beth Jacob Synagogue) was the first synagogue in Miami Beach, Florida. It is located at 301 and 311 Washington Avenue. The building at 311 was built in 1929 and designed by H Fraser Rose. The building at 301 was built in 1936 and was designed by Henry Hohauser. On October 16, 1980, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It is no longer a synagogue, but houses the Jewish Museum of Florida.</p><br>
<p>The Old Lake Worth City Hall, also known as the Lake Worth City Hall Annex, is a historic site in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. It is located at 414 Lake Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The building originally served as an elementary school until June 1928. North Grade and South Grade Elementary Schools opened the following fall. The building was subsequently remodeled to provide for the Commission Chamber and administrative offices. On May 18, 1989, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Worth Historical Museum is located on the second floor, and features antiques, tools, clothing, photographs, and other local and historic artifacts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>With a quickly growing population in the 1910s, the city of Lake Worth recognized the need for a school. After the Palm</p><br>
<p>Beach Farms Company donated land to the Palm Beach County Board of Public Instruction, a small, wood-frame schoolhouse was built in 1912, with Lucerne Avenue located to the north, Lake Avenue to the south, and Federal Highway to the east. Upon opening on October 20, 1912, 24 students were enrolled, which nearly doubled by the end of the school year. The expanding population soon necessitated the need for a larger schoolhouse, with the school board commissioning design plans and construction in 1914, to be funded by an approved $25,000 bond. The new, two story schoolhouse included 12 classrooms, each of which contained either 36 large desks or 45 small desks. After the construction of other schools, such as Lake Worth Community High School in 1922, the city government purchased the building in August 1926 due to its need for space for administrative functions.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated after being sold to the city government, with classrooms being converted into offices and a telephone being installed. In July 1927, the former schoolhouse was rededicated as city hall. Lake Worth was devastated by the effects of the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, including city hall. Along the northwest corner of the building, the exterior wall in its entirety collapsed, while the north tower was destroyed and the bay at the northeastern side of the building was removed. The roof suffered complete destruction. As a result, Lake Worth was without a functional center for city government. City hall operations were temporarily moved to the Lauriston Building, then located at the corner of Lake Avenue and Dixie Highway. In late 1928, architect Floyd King drew up plans for restoring city hall. Upon completion of restoration in 1929, the building featured a Mission&ndash;Spanish Revival design, a radical change from the previous architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Administrative functions for the city government resumed after the building reopened in 1929. The building continued to be used for city hall operations until April 1973, when nearly all local government departments &ndash; with the exception of the electrical and water utilities &ndash; moved to the civic center building along Dixie Highway between Lake Avenue and Lucerne Avenue. In 1980, the Lake Worth Historical Museum opened on the second floor; it features antiques, tools, clothing, photographs, and other local artifacts relating to the history of Lake Worth. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Via Mizner is a historic site in Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 337&ndash;339 Worth Avenue. On April 1, 1993, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>A “via” is derived from the Latin word meaning “way” or “path” and is defined by the World English Dictionary as a “way, road, channel, course of uncertain origin.”</p><br>
<p>Via Mizner meanders approximately 85 yards and connects Palm Beachs premier shopping street, Worth Avenue, to Peruvian Avenue, one city block to the north. The Via was created by the eccentric, visionary architect, Addison Mizner in 1923 after he had completed the Everglades Club (1918), his first major project in Palm Beach, Florida. Via Mizner is located across Worth Avenue from the-still exclusive club. Caroline Seebohm, author of Boca Rococo, How Addison Mizner Invented Floridas Gold Coast, explains a via as follows: "Medieval Spanish castles had contained within their fortified walls what might be called inner cities, where the soldiers and castle employees lived and worked. These walled urban areas were later transformed into commercial spaces." Addison Mizner added: "They (the commercial spaces) usually faced on small winding streets and were entirely open to the people who traversed the narrow pathways."</p><br>
<p>It was in this spirit that Mizner set out to create Via Mizner. The result is a European-type, pedestrian village with complex, charming and irregular buildings that house shops, offices and residences. Via Mizner (and adjacent Via Parigi) is an interesting combination of Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture mixed with a touch of old Venice, adapted to South Florida&#39;s tropical climate. The roofs are terracotta barrel tiles while the white stucco walls are punctuated with numerous, irregular shaped windows, wooden balconies, pecky-cypress accents and balustrades, many with decorative ironwork details. The staircases leading up to the residential units have risers made of colorful ceramic tiles while occasional palm trees reminds us of the tropical setting.</p><br>
<p>In a pre-mall era, Via Mizner became a unique experience in America, where one could get fresh air while walking and shopping in small stores and galleries that were welcoming in a non-commercial atmosphere.</p><br>
<p>Via Mizners combination of architectural styles and decorative detail quickly became Palm Beachs signature look. As the decades passed, countless architects, city planners and designers have copied Mizner&#39;s unique design, which can be identified throughout Florida today.</p><br>
<p>Via Mizner houses twenty well-known shops and businesses as well as a small number of residential apartments. The most famed address is 1, Via Mizner, the architects own majestic, five-story, tower-like residence called Villa Mizner. The history of this residence is chronicled in Richard René Silvins book Villa Mizner: The House that Changed Palm Beach (2014). The architect designed the top floor as a single room, which he used as his office. Sixteen windows span the four sides of his office-floor and overlook the entire island of Palm Beach. Mizners pet monkey, Johnny Brown, is buried at the foot of the homes 35-by-40 foot living room.</p><br>
<p>Via Mizner remains today exactly as Addison Mizner envisioned it to be.</p><br>
<p>The Boynton Womans Club is a historic womans club in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their 1925 building, located at 1010 South Federal Highway, was designed by South Florida architect Addison Mizner and constructed as a memorial to Major Nathan Smith Boynton through a $35,000 donation from the founders family. The building provided numerous community services throughout its history. Shortly after construction finished, the building was used as a shelter for residents during the 1926 hurricane. It was also utilized by the Red Cross as a USO center throughout World War II for dances and fundraisers. In the 1950s, the Boynton Womans Club also initiated the first full-service public library in Boynton Beach, though African American residents were not allowed in the Womans Club during this time. In 1961, the city purchased a residential building at 116 S. Seacrest Boulevard to serve as the municipal library, officially moving the collections out of the Womans Club building.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 1979, the 1925 building was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places and underwent a significant renovation in 1986, funded, in part, by the Mizner Foundation. This renovation repaired and/or replaced the roof, downstairs flooring, air conditioning system, and plumbing, as well as installed an elevator. The building was sold to the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in 2017 but was officially transferred to the CRA in 2021. In the interim, the CRA led several renovation efforts, most notably “substantial work on a roof damaged by Hurricane Irma.”</p><br>
<p>The Cleveland Mall is a landscaped public park in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. One of the most complete examples of City Beautiful design in the United States, the park is a historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Mall was conceived as part of the 1903 Group Plan by Daniel Burnham, John Carrère, and Arnold Brunner as a vast public space flanked by the city&#39;s major civic and governmental buildings, all built in the neoclassical style. Many of those buildings were built over the following three decades, including the Metzenbaum Courthouse (1910), Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912), Cleveland City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library main building (1925), and the Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education building (1931). Other buildings include Key Tower, the Global Center for Health Innovation, the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.</p><br>
<p>In the spirit of the City Beautiful movement, formerly seedy areas were transformed into a "magnificent civic center", which was supposed to be crowned by the Union Terminal at the north end of the mall, on the shores of Lake Erie. However, the location of the station was eventually moved south and west, to Public Square, where it was finally born as the Terminal Tower. Even though the plan was never fully carried out, it was one of the few City Beautiful plans to be realized to a large extent, and remains one of the most complete examples in the country. The Mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Mall is divided into three sections, known as Malls A, B, and C. Mall A, the southernmost, is officially named Veterans Memorial Plaza, and Mall C was dedicated as Strawbridge Plaza in 2003. The Memorial Plaza, between Rockwell and St. Clair Avenues, is the site of Marshall Fredericks Fountain of Eternal Life, also known as the War Memorial Fountain. The Cleveland Convention Center was built underneath Malls B and C in 1964. In 2010 the county purchased the underground convention center from the city as part of a project to completely rebuild it in conjunction with constructing the Global Center for Health Innovation and the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel on the former site of the Cuyahoga County Administration Building across from Mall B. The new Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland opened in 2013 and has underground connections to Public Auditorium and the Global Center for Health Innovation. The Hilton officially opened in June 2016. Mall B and Mall C reopened after construction as predominantly grassy areas, with Mall B reaching 27 ft above sidewalk level over the entrance to the Cleveland Convention Center along Lakeside Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>Public art</h2><br>
<p>Cleveland Public Art sponsored a series of temporary public art installations on Mall B. In 2004, New York artist Brian Tolle installed For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. The work featured eight nine-foot-tall styrofoam neoclassical urns standing atop pedestals, warped to reflect actual wind data collected from Lake Erie. The sculptures were taken down in 2006. In May 2008, Peter North and Alissa North of North Design Office in Toronto installed a work titled The Verdant Walk. It featured plantings of native grasses and seven fabric-covered sculptures. The sculptures were illuminated at night via a solar-powered LED system. They remained in place until 2010.</p><br>
<p>After the reconstruction of the Mall, Stephen Manka&#39;s sculpture City of Light was installed on Mall B. The illuminated steel sculpture was created for the 2013 National Senior Games. Manka described it as intended to "simulate the flames of the classic games with a wash</p><br>
<p>of programmable light" and "part petal of a flower, part heavy duty turbine".</p><br>
<p>The Mary Washington House, at 1200 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the house in which George Washington&#39;s mother, Mary Ball Washington, resided towards the end of her life. It is now operated as an 18th-century period historic house museum, one of several museums in Fredericksburg operated by Washington Heritage Museums. Today it displays 18th-century furniture, and her personal possessions, such as her "best dressing glass” .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Washington purchased this house for his mother from Micheal Robinson in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1772 for 275 pounds. Mary Ball Washington spent her last few years in the white frame house that sites on the corner of Charles and Lewis Street. The house is located on 1200 Charles St Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was located close to her daughter Elizabeth Washington Lewis home, Kenmore Plantation, and close to a town home owned by her younger son Charles Washington. In 1780, Charles moved to western Virginia (present day Charles Town, West Virginia) from Fredericksburg. At that point, the house—on the towns main street—was converted into a tavern. Today, as the Rising Sun Tavern, it is open as a building museum managed by the local Washington Heritage Museums group.</p><br>
<p>Later in his life, on his visits to Fredericksburg, George Washington was a frequent visitor to his mother&#39;s home, and, in April, 1789, came to this house to receive a blessing from his mother before his inauguration. A visit to Mrs. Washington in her home became a regular stop for distinguished visitors to Fredericksburg. Among those stopping by to pay their respects were John Marshall, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, and members of the Lee family. She lived in this home until her death later in 1789.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Washington House is located near the college named for her, the University of Mary Washington.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently a museum for tourists to visit and view. Within the house itself, Marys bedroom, and parlor room from a later addition can be found on the first floor. The second floor contains two bedrooms and a small room dedicated to the history of its preservation. The gardens are available for self-guided tours. Tourists are able to visit a kitchen building built in 1804, several decades after Marys death, and can look at, but not enter several other replica buildings; a wellhouse, and an interpretation of the original kitchen from the 18th century (In reality, it would have been farther north than its current location). Tourists are able to go in the Mary Washington House Gift Shop, which is believed to have originally been a dining room from a period of the late 18th century when it was used as a boys&#39; school, due to its proximity to where the original kitchen would have been.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1891, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities acquired the house, which was scheduled to be disassembled for travel to the Chicago World&#39;s Fair for display. It was their second property acquisition, and the location where the Fredericksburg Branch was chartered.</p><br>
<p>The Boca Raton Old City Hall  is a historic site in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. It is located at 71 North Federal Highway. The former city hall now houses the Boca Raton Welcome Center and the Boca Raton History Museum. On October 16, 1980, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The original design was by Addison Mizner. On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed it on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as Boca Raton Town Hall.</p><br>
<p>The building housed Boca Raton&#39;s police station, fire department, and library. The bay for the fire engine is currently (2018) the gift shop.</p><br>
<h2>Boca Raton History Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Boca Raton History Museum is located in downtown Boca Raton, Florida. Sponsored by the Boca Raton Historical Society, whose offices and library are located there, it is also the welcome center for Boca Raton. The building it is housed in was Boca Ratons original town hall, which began as a commission in 1926 to well-known architect Addison Mizner, designated by the Boca Raton Council as town planner; some of his elegant details have been preserved, together with antiques, some of them Spanish, from his collection. (Because of Mizners bankruptcy later that year, the building was completed by architect William E. Alsmeyer.) It also housed Bocas first fire bay (fire station), which now houses the museums gift shop, Boca Raton&#39;s police station, and its first library. A small second floor, not currently (2016) open to the public, provided housing for the fire chief. The Boca Express Train Museum, a few blocks away, is also operated by the Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Milton-Myers American Legion Post No. 65 is a historic site in Delray Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 263 Northeast 5th Avenue. On April 20, 1995, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Milton-Meyers Post was chartered by the American Legion in 1920. The post was named in honor of two Delray Beach residents who died while in service during World War I. The post building was constructed the next year, and was dedicated at 11:00, November 11, 1922, four years to the hour after the end of World War I., the building remained in use by the post, making it the oldest post in Florida that has always used the same building.</p><br>
<p>The Hibiscus Apartments  was a historic site in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was a 3-story Mediterranean style apartment building built in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The building was destroyed in the early 2000s for the development of City Place shopping district in downtown West Palm Beach. Macy&#39;s currently occupies the space where the Hibiscus Apartments once existed. It was located at 619 Hibiscus Street and on May 10, 1984, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The West Palm Beach Armory Art Center  is a historic site in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 1703 South Lake Avenue. On June 11, 1992, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Armory building was constructed in 1939 in Art Deco style by architect William Manley King with Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds. It was occupied by the National Guard Armory from 1939 to 1982. During the 1950s and 1960s, the building was used for Palm Beach High School dances and other community events. In 1987, the Norton School of Art closed their doors, leaving 250 students and 40 faculty members without a location to hold art classes. Robert and Mary Montgomery heard about the lack of space for an art center and made a $100,000 donation to open the Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Art Center. The Center opened in 1987 and has rented the building from Palm Beach County for $1 a year for the last 20 years. In 2002, Robert and Mary Montgomery donated $1 million to transfer their name to the historic building and remove it from the name of the organization which became simply Armory Art Center.</p><br>
<p>The Louis Johnson Building  is a historic site in Largo, Florida. It is located at 161 1st Street, Southwest. On December 3, 1987, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally built as a hotel by Louis Steele Johnson in 1911. In the 1950s, the hotel was converted to the Johnson Brothers Auto Machine and Supply Company. Today the first floor of the building is vacant while the second floor is the residence of Johnson&#39;s granddaughter, Joyce Siegel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Captain Charles Wharton Johnson (1829–1907)</h3><br>
<p>Charles Johnson was from Pennsylvania, but moved to Key West, Florida, and then to Cedar Key in the late 1860s. He was married to Catherine Johnson (née Kurtz, 1831–1911), and had six children (including Louis Johnson). Charles was owner and captain of the eight ton sailing ship Evening Star, which carried mail between Cedar Key and Fort Myers in the Gulf of Mexico.</p><br>
<p>In 1870, on his was to Ft. Myers, his ship wrecked in a storm, and he was rescued by fishermen from Clearwater (near present-day Largo). Johnson was impressed by the area, and ended up purchasing a homestead overlooking Clearwater Harbor in 1872. This is sight of the Belleview-Biltmore Hotel, which would later be built in 1897 by Henry B. Plant.</p><br>
<p>After unsuccessful attempts to grow citrus groves, he moved his family to a new homestead in Largo in 1877, with additional land purchased in 1882 and 1883. Johnson became Largo&#39;s second postmaster. In 1888, the Orange Belt Railway was built in Pinellas County and crosswed the southwest section of the Johnson citrus grove. A depot was constructed about 100 yards from the Johnson House, and the town of Largo grew around it. Charles Johnson would also build the first school in Largo.</p><br>
<h3>Louis Steele Johnson (1870–1946)</h3><br>
<p>Son of Charles Johnson, Louis was born in 1870. He attended the school in Largo that his father had built, and entered the citrus business, as well as truck farming, specializing in cabbages. In 1896, Louis Johnson married Elizabeth McMullen, the daughter of another Largo pioneer. Their first child, Louis C. Johnson, was born in 1897 but died in infancy. Another child, a daughter named Noreen, was born in 1900.</p><br>
<p>The town of Largo was incorporated in 1905, and Johnson became the communitys second mayor in 1907. Louis father, Charles, died in 1907, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1908. Two years later, Johnson married Janie Kilgore. Their first child was Charles E. Johnson, born in 1911. The same year, Johnson&#39;s mother, Catherine, died.</p><br>
<p>From 1910 to 1911, he built the Louis Johnson Building right next to the railroad. He also built a 178-foot-deep well and a 75-foot-high 60,000-gallon water tower, the city&#39;s first municipal water system.</p><br>
<p>In late 1911, the Louis Johnson Building was ready for occupancy. The ground floor was occupied by the Largo Hardware Company, owned by Walter Geiselman, and by Louis Johnsons Drug Store and Ice Cream Parlor. The upper floor contained the Pinellas Hotel, managed by Johnsons wife. The second floor became apartments in the late 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Louise S. Johnson died in 1946, and the ownership of the building was passed to his son, Charles. The ground floor became the Johnson Brothers Auto Machine & Supply Co., while Charles and his wife Frances M. Johnson lived upstairs in the former hotel. Charles died in 1982, and the ground floor has since been vacant. As of 1986, Frances was still living on the second floor. The building was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1915, the Old Tarpon Springs City Hall is a historic site in Tarpon Springs, Florida. It is located at 101 South Pinellas Avenue. On August 10, 1990, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by renowned architect Ernest Ivey Cook in the neoclassical style.</p><br>
<h2>Tarpon Springs Cultural Center</h2><br>
<p>The Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, located in the Old Tarpon Springs City Hall, features changing exhibits of art and sculpture.</p><br>
<p>The Andrews Memorial Chapel is a historic Carpenter Gothic-style former Presbyterian church building now located in Dunedin, Florida. It was built in 1888 as the Andrews Memorial Church on the corner of Scotland Street and Highland Avenue. Its name was carried over from an 1871 Presbyterian church located where the Dunedin Cemetery is now and commemorates William Andrews, son of John G. Andrews, who "died while riding a horse in a violent storm." The church is located next to Hammock Park .</p><br>
<p>In 1926 the building was renamed Andrews Memorial Chapel and moved south on Scotland Street to make way for what is now the First Presbyterian Church of Dunedin. In 1970 it was bought by the Dunedin Historical Society, which had it cut in half and moved to its present location. Restoration work began in 1974. Today it is open for visits on Sundays from 2 to 4 PM, and is maintained by the society as a popular venue for weddings, concerts and other events.</p><br>
<p>On July 31, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Narthex, Andrews Memorial Chapel.jpgNarthex with cathedral style windows</p><br>
<p>Rose Window, Andrews Memorial Chapel.jpgRose window located on the West side of the chapel with cathedral style windows along the sanctuary</p><br>
<p>Rose Window Bbove The Chancel, Andrews Memorial Chapel.jpgRose window above the chancel on the south side of the chapel</p><br>
<p>Detail, Andrews Memorial Chapel.jpgDetail of cathedral-style windows and scroll work</p><br>
<p>Alternate view, Andrews Memorial Chapel.jpgAndrews Memorial Chapel</p><br>
<p>The South Florida Military and Educational Institute was established in 1895 by Evander M. Law in Bartow, Florida, United States, and is considered one of several predecessors of the University of Florida.</p><br>
<p>It was renamed the South Florida Military College in 1903 and was granted the authority to confer degrees. The school stressed scientific and technological studies. The college was abolished in 1905 by the Buckman Act and some of its civil engineering equipment was transferred to the University of Florida at Gainesville.</p><br>
<p>The colleges remaining building is a historic site located at 1100 South Broadway which served as a dormitory, and after the colleges closure as a private home. On July 24, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Lemon Bay Womans Club is a historic womans club in Englewood, Florida, United States. It is located at 51 North Maple Street. On August 11, 1988, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Lemon Bay Womans club was organized by Dr. Mary Green who was a school teacher in Englewood. Originally named the Lemon Bay Mothers Club, a name retained until April 1924, the club played an important role in the development of the religious, educational, civic and political life of Englewood. Construction on the prairie style clubhouse was begun in September 1925 on two lots donated in Lampp subdivision by A. Stanley and Winifred E. Lampp. Englewood, incorporated in 1925, and the surrounding area then boasted 300 residents.</p><br>
<p>Sarasota architects Thomas Reed Martin and Clare C, Hosmer, formerly of Chicago, donated their design services for the building. Carpenters Pat Lampp, Fred Clark, and Leroy Bastedo were responsible for the clubhouse construction. The building originally consisted of a screened veranda and one large meeting room featuring a brick fireplace and a semi-circular stage, for which total construction cost was 3,120. A housewarming held on February 19, 1926, attracted 200 persons. Official incorporation, a year later, occurred under the direction of Charlotte Wellington, president.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, under the leadership of Mrs. Hallie Green, members started a school library and maintained a lending library at the club until 1962. Surviving the depression and the loss of its $37 treasury when banks failed, the club continued to hold fish fries, nature study classes, dances, card parties, plays, musical programs, travelogues and lectures. The club retired its mortgage on February 24, 1938. The note was burned at a gala meeting on March 4, 1938</p><br>
<p>Between 1926 and 1970, the club served as a sanctuary for many Englewood churches and as a meeting place for various organizations. The Englewood Community Church was the first congregation to meet at the club. Others included the Community Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, St. Raphaels Catholic Church, St. Davids Episcopal Church, Evangelical Free Church, Church of God, Church of Christ, First Methodist Church, and Calvary Baptist Church. During World War II the building was turned over to the American Red Cross. The club was the first building in Englewood to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Little Salt Spring is an archaeological and paleontological site in North Port, Florida. The site has been owned by the University of Miami since 1980 with research performed there by the university&#39;s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Little Salt Spring is a feature of the karst topography of Florida, specifically an example of a sinkhole. It is classified as a third magnitude spring. The numerous deep vents at the bottom of the sinkhole feed oxygen-depleted groundwater into it, producing an anoxic environment below a depth of about 5 m. This fosters the preservation of Paleo-Indian and early Archaic artifacts and ecofacts, as well as fossil bones of the extinct megafauna once found in Florida.</p><br>
<p>Little Salt Spring was considered a shallow freshwater pond, but in 1959 SCUBA divers William Royal and Eugenie Clark discovered that it was a true sinkhole extending downward over 200 ft, similar to the cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula (another karst region). The actual depth of the surface pond is 40 ft with a central shaft dropping vertically to an inverted cone with a maximum determined depth at the outer edges of 245 ft. There are ledges around the wall of the cenote at 16 and below the present water level.</p><br>
<p>The water level in the spring has varied over time. Twelve to thirteen thousand years ago the ocean level was about 100 meters (more than 300 feet) lower than at present, drawing down the water table in Florida, and the water level in Little Salt Spring was 27 m lower than at present. The basin around the spring and a slough extending away from it are filled with moist, soft peat.</p><br>
<p>On July 10, 1979, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2013, the University of Miami began considering selling the site to Sarasota County Government, due to funding being cut towards maintaining the site and its facilities.</p><br>
<h3>Prehistoric human use</h3><br>
<p>Hundreds of burials dating from 5,200 to 6,800 years ago have been found in the slough. As has happened in other wetland burials in Florida, such as at the Windover Archaeological Site, brain matter survived in many of the skulls. In the 1970s the overturned shell of an extinct giant land tortoise was found on the 27 m ledge. A wooden stake had been driven between the carapace and the plastron, and there is evidence of a fire under the tortoise. It appears that the tortoise had been cooked in its shell. The radiocarbon date for the wooden stake was 12,030 years ago; a bone from the tortoise was dated to 13,450 years ago. Large numbers of human bones have been recovered from the spring, but were not collected under controlled conditions.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson Schoolcraft Building  is a historic site in Venice, Florida. It is located at 201-203 West Venice Avenue. On December 27, 1996, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Johnson-Schoolcraft Building, also known as the Venice Pharmacy, is a historic building located in Venice, Florida. The Johnson-Schoolcraft Building was constructed in 1926 by William D. Schoolcraft and C. Paul Johnson, the principals of Johnson-Schoolcraft, Inc.</p><br>
<p>Designed with a Mission/Spanish Revival architectural style, it was originally intended to have five apartments on the second floor and retail space on the first floor, with Venice Pharmacy, Inc. as its first tenant. The retail space was originally adorned with a pink onyx soda fountain and had store fixtures made of solid mahogany, with a black walnut finish.</p><br>
<p>By 1928, the Peninsula Telephone Company was operating its switchboard from the building. In case of an emergency, residents would reach out to the switchboard operator who would then turn on a red light on the roof of the building to signal the Venice police to get in touch with the operator.</p><br>
<p>Although the interior has undergone significant changes over time, the exterior of the building remains largely unchanged from its original 1926 appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Whitewater Canal, which was built between and , spanned a distance of 76 mi and stretched from Lawrenceburg, Indiana on the Ohio River to Hagerstown, Indiana near the West Fork of the White River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Birth of a canal</h3><br>
<p>As with most transportation improvements during the early nineteenth century, industry paved the way within individual states. After successful canal development projects further east in the United States, it was not long until canals were dug across the Midwest. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 paved the way for improvement projects across the United States and changed the course of American transportation history. The Erie Canal was an immediate financial success. This set the precedent for future canals and proved canals could provide a viable contribution to local economies.</p><br>
<p>There was the need for a high-speed transportation system that could link the Whitewater Valley to the Ohio River. Before the canal, farmers had to transport their goods and livestock to Cincinnati, Ohio on badly rutted and often impassable roads. The journey to Cincinnati could take several days.</p><br>
<p>In 1836 the Indiana State Legislature approved the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, which allowed for the development of the Whitewater Canal and a host of other improvements throughout Indiana.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The Whitewater Canal was built based on an 1834 survey conducted by Charles Hutchens. The design called for a canal seventy six miles long starting at Nettle Creek near Hagerstown and following the river valley through Connersville, Brookville and into Harrison, Ohio, then back into Indiana to finish at Lawrenceburg. In the 76 mi the canal dropped 491 ft. This a very ambitious route as it was quite steep and required the crossing of the Whitewater over an aqueduct at Laurel as well as several other streams of lesser size. The 491 ft drop compares to the Erie Canal that dropped 500 ft but did so in 300 mi. The Wabash & Erie Canal dropped 450 ft in 460 mi while the Chesapeake & Ohio dropped 538 ft in 184 mi. That meant that the Whitewater descended 6.4 feet per mile compared to the Chesapeake & Ohio at 2.9 feet per mile, the Erie at 1.7 feet per mile and the Wabash & Erie at 1 foot per mile. The steepness became a problem whenever heavy rains came.</p><br>
<p>Because of the steep grade, the canal required 56 locks and seven dams.</p><br>
<p>The canal was started as a state project and ground was broken on September 13, 1836. The first boat arrived in Brookville from Lawrenceburg on June 8, 1839. Because of budget problems construction was suspended in August 1839 not to be resumed until 1842.</p><br>
<p>In 1842, the state of Indiana transferred its ownership in the canal to the White Water Valley Canal Company which was required to complete the canal to Cambridge City in five years. By 1843 boats were arriving in Laurel. 1845 saw the canal operating into Connersville. The canal company was running out of money and borrowed from Henry Valette of Cincinnati to finish the canal into Cambridge City from Connersville. From Cambridge City to Hagerstown the Canal was built by the Hagerstown Canal Company and was finished in 1847.</p><br>
<h3>Canal decline</h3><br>
<p>The Whitewater Canal was a short venture, but it left a lasting mark on the communities it traveled through. The canal development project was funded under the Act of 1836 and was allotted $1,400,000 to build the canal through the Whitewater Valley. This was a huge sum at the time and investors did not take out many loans due to the prediction that they stood to make considerable profit. It was the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act of 1836 that ended up straining the coffers of the State of Indiana. Indiana went bankrupt during the summer of 1839, and canal construction was halted until 1842.</p><br>
<p>In November 1847 the Whitewater Valley flooded and many sections of the canal were washed out. The section between Harrison and Lawrenceburg was never rebuilt. This effectively ended the canal era in Lawrenceburg after only eight years of service, and only a few months after the canal was finished to Hagerstown. It was ten months before the canal was again operational north of Harrison. Debt incurred to finance repairs in 1847 were a serious problem for the rest of the canals active history.</p><br>
<h4>White Water Valley Canal Company</h4><br>
<p>The White Water Valley Canal Company was granted a charter by the Indiana General Assembly of 1825–26. The company was set up after the State of Indiana could no longer afford to finish the Whitewater Canal system. The White Water Valley Canal Company finished the canal through Cambridge City, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>It constructed the Canal House at Connersville in 1842. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h4>Hagerstown Canal Company</h4><br>
<p>Hagerstown was supposed to be the northernmost terminus of the Whitewater Canal, but after the state went bankrupt, Hagerstown was forced to finance and construct its own canal to Cambridge City. The Hagerstown Canal Company completed an eight-mile (13 km) long canal between Hagerstown and Cambridge City in 1847.</p><br>
<h4>Cincinnati And Whitewater Canal</h4><br>
<p>A connecting canal built to reach Cincinnati was known as the Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal. This canal was built by Ohio interests and went from Harrison to Cincinnati. It was completed in 1843 and replaced Lawrenceburg as the end of the line after the 1847 November flood. This stretch of canal closed in 1862 and was used as a railroad right-of-way at that time. A canal tunnel constructed to obviate a ridgeline at Cleves still exists, although badly silted up.</p><br>
<h2>The Whitewater Canal today</h2><br>
<p>Little is left of the Whitewater Canal today. Some towpath was bought by the Whitewater Valley Railroad Company and has been used in various train operations over the years. A section of the rail line is still in use as a tourist railroad. The Whitewater Valley Railroad operates between Connersville, Indiana and Metamora, Indiana. The remains of many of the canal locks on this section of the canal can still be seen as well as the diversion dam near Laurel, Indiana that was rebuilt in the 1940s and provides water for the restored canal section in Metamora as well as the mill. The restored grain mill in Metamora which runs on water provided by the canal shows that transportation was not the only use of the canal. Hydro power was in use for many decades after the canal was closed as a transportation route and even was used to generate electricity in Connersville in the early part of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The most visible area of the Whitewater Canal that exists today is in Metamora. This section from the Laurel Feeder Dam to Brookville was listed on listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as the Whitewater Canal Historic District. Here the Canal Era is recreated and tourists can stroll through a nineteenth-century town. There are museums, shopping, eateries, and you can even take a horse drawn ride on the canal.</p><br>
<h3>Civil Engineering Landmark status</h3><br>
<p>An aqueduct carries the canal over Duck Creek at Metamora. It is a twentieth-century reconstruction of the wooden aqueduct built in 1846 to replace an earlier one that was washed out by a flood, and was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1992.</p><br>
<h3>Cities along the canal</h3><br>
<p>Cincinnati, Ohio - by way of Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal and Ohio River</p><br>
<p>Harrison, Ohio</p><br>
<p>Lawrenceburg, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Brookville, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Metamora, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Laurel, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Connersville, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Milton, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Cambridge City, Indiana</p><br>
<p>Hagerstown, Indiana</p><br>
<p>The Adam Keeling House is a historic house in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.</p><br>
<p>Dendrochronology undertaken by the Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory revealed that house was constructed of timbers felled in 1734–1735, pointing to a construction date of circa 1735. It is among the oldest surviving houses in Virginia Beach. Situated on Adam Keeling Road in Great Neck Point on the Lynnhaven River, The Keeling House is known for decorative glazed headers and a center hall design, which is common in Tidewater Virginia British colonial architecture.</p><br>
<p>When built, the house was in rural Princess Anne County, but today the house sits in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. The house is privately owned, though it can be seen from the street. It is the oldest continuously occupied house in Virginia. A cemetery of family graves is north of the intersection of Adam Keeling Road and Lynn Cove Lane.</p><br>
<p>Through much of the 20th century, the house was known as Ye Dudlies. Other houses from the Virginia colony in Virginia Beach still extant include the Adam Thoroughgood House, Broad Bay Manor, Lynnhaven House, Pembroke Manor, Upper Wolfsnare, and Francis Land House.</p><br>
<p>The Daytona Beach Bandshell is an amphitheatre in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at Ocean Avenue, north of the junction of Main Street and Atlantic Avenue. On March 5, 1999, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. On April 18, 2012, the AIA&#39;s Florida Chapter placed the Daytona Beach Bandshell on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.</p><br>
<p>This property is part of the Daytona Beach Multiple Property Submission to the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1920s, residents of Daytona Beach considered this area to be run-down and held discussions on ways to improve it.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, WPA workers began construction on this community-use project that was to cost Daytona Beach $84,000, the federal government $184,000, and be completed in 1938. Originally known as "Broadwalk", common usage gradually changed the name to the boardwalk.</p><br>
<p>The first facility constructed was the 48 foot by 114 foot natural coquina rock bandshell which seats 4,500. This was begun in September, 1936, and was completed in time for the first program to be presented on July 4, 1937. Open air concerts, as well as other programs, are still presented in the bandshell. The other structures in the boardwalk area are a clock tower, kiosk, concession facilities, restrooms, subway entrances (now closed), and an elevated walk from Earl to Ora Streets.</p><br>
<p>A local city orchestra, under Everett Allyn Moses, began in 1947. They gave summer concerts in the Bandshell and winter concerts at the city recreation hall. Moses also organized a Junior Orchestra. William P. Schueler became the director of both orchestras after Moses retired in 1952.</p><br>
<p>The bandshell, with the ocean for a backdrop, served as the site of an Oct. 5, 1992, campaign rally attended by presidential candidate Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore and their wives, one of several stops during their cross-state bus tour through Florida a month before the 1992 election. The capacity is 5,000.</p><br>
<p>MTV Spring Break used to hold concerts at the Bandshell in Daytona. In 1987, Crowded House, The Fixx, and Blink-182 are among the acts to have played at the venue as part of the events.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The James W. Marshall House, located at 60 Bridge Street in the city of Lambertville in Hunterdon County, United States, was the boyhood home of James W. Marshall. Marshall&#39;s discovery of gold in the American River in California in January 1848 set the stage for the California Gold Rush. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1970, for its significance in architecture and history. It now serves as the headquarters for the Lambertville Historical Society, and is open to the public as an historic house museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1816, Philip Marshall (James&#39;s father) moved his family from Hopewell, New Jersey to nearby Lambertville. He purchased 44 perches (approximately five acres) of land from Joseph Lambert for $300 and built a Federal-style brick home. The Marshall family resided in the house until 1834, when Philip died and his wife could no longer afford to live in it.</p><br>
<p>In 1882, the property was sold to nearby St. Johns Roman Catholic Church for use as a convent for the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters lived in the house and taught in a school that had been built as an addition. In 1964, the congregation of St. Johns decided to build a new convent and school, and plans were made to demolish the house.</p><br>
<p>In an effort to save the house, Lambertville resident Alice Narducci reached an agreement with St. Johns to deed the building to the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic Development. The state, in turn, leased the property to the Lambertville Historical Society. The kitchen and schoolhouse addition were removed, and a major restoration followed. The entire back wall of the house was rebuilt using material that matched the original as closely as possible. A similar restoration occurred within the houses interior. The house is decorated in the same time period as when the Marshalls resided in it.</p><br>
<p>The John Anderson Lodge was an historic home built around 1886 at 71 Orchard Lane in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. It was built for Ormond Beach promoter John Anderson , who was one of the first owners of the Ormond Hotel. The lodge was originally used by employees of the hotel and to host parties. In its later years it became a single family residence. The lodge was built on pilings and featured vertical palm tree wall construction.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The John Anderson Lodge was added onto the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>State of Disrepair</h2><br>
<p>By 2017, the structure was in a bad state of disrepair as termites infested much of the buildings wood, the original floors were missing in much of the building, and there were several holes in the walls and roof that were allowing water to continue to damage the interior. The most significant damage was related to the pilings which sank and jeopardized the structures stability. To fix the pilings the structure would have had to be lifted up and suspended in the air during repairs. It was determined that the weakened walls and roof were not strong enough and would have most likely crumbled apart.</p><br>
<p>In October 2018, a non-destructive inspection of the foundation by EMS Forensic Associates, LLC. determined that the structure was most likely beyond economic repair.</p><br>
<h2>Demolition</h2><br>
<p>On August 6, 2019, the City of Ormond Beach, Florida issued Demolition Permit number 19-00005662. The John Anderson Lodge was demolished in September 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Delisting from the National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>In July 2022, a petition to delist the John Anderson Lodge from the National Register of Historic Places was sent to the Florida Department of Historic Resources.</p><br>
<p>Rowallan is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 253 John Anderson Highway. On October 6, 1988, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>The Lindsay family</h2><br>
<p>The following is from memories of descendants of Alexander Millar Lindsay (1841–1920), builder and first owner of Rowallan, and from a book for which this descendant did research, "Alexander Millar Lindsay," by relative David C. Sargent. More information about Alexander Millar Lindsay and the store he co-founded, Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Co. is available at The Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.</p><br>
<p>You may also consult the City of Rochester website for Mt. Hope Cemetery. Lindsay and his wife and many of their children are buried in Mt. Hope. It is one of the nations&#39; finest Victorian Park Cemeteries.</p><br>
<p>Also architecturally significant is Lindsays home in Rochester, New York. It was designed by J. G. Cutler, who invented the mail chute. Currently doctors offices, it is located at 973 East Avenue across the street from the home of Eastman Kodak founder, George Eastman (now the International Museum of Photography). Lindsay served as a board member at Kodak.</p><br>
<p>Through the apprentice system, Lindsay became expert in piece goods. In 1865, he and countryman John Curr sailed from Glasgow to Boston to an apprenticeship with wholesaler Hogg, Brown and Taylor. There, Lindsay met James M. Thomson who would co-found Hartford, Connecticuts premier department store, Brown Thomson Co. Lindsays youngest child, Adelaide, would later marry Thomson&#39;s eldest son.</p><br>
<p>Also at Hogg, Brown and Taylor, Lindsay and Curr also met Yankee farmer Rufus Sibley, a fellow clerk. Hogg, Brown and Taylor encouraged its more talented and ambitious employees to start their own businesses and so encouraged the founding of Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Co. at Rochester, NY in 1868. It grew to become the largest department store between New York and Cincinnati. The store initiated a policy of charging the same price for all customers.</p><br>
<p>The honesty of the partners was critical to their future success. When their newest building burned in 1904, although all store records were destroyed, loyal customers paid their bills and their local insurance agent made funds available to them immediately so that they could begin anew. The "Great Sibley Fire" remains Rochesters largest. In 1871, he married Adelaide Hatch (1841–1927). Adelaides father, Jesse W. Hatch automated the production of shoes, invented baby shoes and hired the first female clerk in Rochester&#39;s history to work in his store.</p><br>
<h2>Rowallan&#39;s origins</h2><br>
<p>Rowallan in Ormond Beach was built in 1913 to serve as the winter residence for Alexander Millar Lindsay. Born in Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, this residence was named Rowallan after a castle in his native Ayrshire.</p><br>
<p>Lindsays daughter, Jean, designed Rowallan. According to the correspondence between his son-in-law, attorney Daniel M. Beach, and the appraiser of Rowallan following Lindsays death, the appraiser wrote: “Miss Lindsay would have it that she could walk out of the house without going down steps.” This of course led to problems with the water table. During certain times of the year, water would reach the lower part of the ground floor windows. Sills had to be replaced frequently because of this.</p><br>
<p>As for the orchard that was on the grounds, the appraiser noted that it was not productive, that it would cost at least $1.00 to produce a single orange. Also on the property was a cottage known as Sun Patch named for a favorite Lindsay granddaughter, Sunny Kame. It was the winter residence of Lindsay&#39;s eldest daughter, Harriet.</p><br>
<p>Other residences on John Anderson Highway near Rowallan were built by Scotsmen with similar histories to that of Lindsay. They referred to themselves as the "Scotch Syndicate2. When Lindsay died in 1920, his widow caused a memorial fountain to be constructed on the river side of the road. It was later destroyed by vandals.</p><br>
<p>Rowallan served as the winter home for the entire extended Lindsay family. Nannies and children were everywhere. There are pictures and movies of them in their goat carts, pony carts and swimming at Daytona Beach. Adults attended functions at the old Ormond Beach Hotel, went shooting and rode horseback. They drove in horse driven buggies and later in their beach wagon. They were among the first to drive cars on Ormond Beach.</p><br>
<p>As of 2008, the extended family of Alexander Millar Lindsay is spread throughout the United States and Europe. However, all remain interested in Rowallan and closely follow its unfolding story.</p><br>
<h2>Rowallan&#39;s later history</h2><br>
<p>According to content about the Ormond Beach Historical Trail written by Orlando historian Steve Rajtar, Rowallen was later owned by Englishman Leonard Martin, and then Harold and Eileen Butts. The Butts renamed the house Linsaroe, which means "by the water" in Celtic. Eileen Butts was added to the state list of prominent Floridians for her work in the area including the creation of Tomoka State Park, the building of the Ormond Memorial Art Gallery and the preservation of John D. Rockefellers Ormond Beach home The Casements. The plaque listing her as a great Floridian form the states 2000 program is on the front of Rowallen.</p><br>
<h2>Rowallan&#39;s Joy Postle murals</h2><br>
<p>Rowallan also features murals by the noted Florida artist, Joy Postle. Postle, a former WPA artist, is known for her paintings of Florida wildlife scenes and in particular birds. In addition, she was a published poet, author, musician and entertainer. She resided in Orlando, Florida.</p><br>
<p>DeBary Hall is a historic site in DeBary, Florida, United States. It is located at 198 Sunrise Boulevard. On July 24, 1972, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. Frederick DeBary was a wine importer for Mumms Champagne and built DeBary Hall in 1871 as his hunting retreat along the St. John’s River in central Florida. The area offered various leisure activities such as swimming in the local springs, fishing, and hunting quail, deer, and alligator.</p><br>
<p>DeBary turned his leisure site into a profitable enterprise when he planted over 600 acre of citrus trees and began a steamboat company for trade up the St. John’s River to Jacksonville. The DeBarys used the hall as their family winter retreat until 1941, when the last American DeBary, Leonie deBary Lyon Brewster, died suddenly without an heir.</p><br>
<p>The area attracted many guests, and those that stayed at DeBary Hall required a personal invitation. Several additions and renovations were made to the house to accommodate the numerous guests. The additions included a second dining room, a wrap-around porch, two extra bathrooms, and three extra guest bedrooms. The Florida springs, hunting, and warm climate appealed to people across the nation and internationally. Guests to DeBary Hall may have included Presidents Grant and Cleveland, European Royalty, and General William Tecumseh Sherman.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed during Reconstruction. It features several advanced attributes atypical of Southern homes during this meager time period. The 8,000 ft&sup2; hunting lodge included an elevator for guests’ luggage, running water through a 500-gallon tank in the ceiling, wall-fed electricity made onsite by natural gas, a wired call system throughout the entire house, and a lightning protection system that covered the roof of this amazingly advanced home. The site also included a water tower and Florida’s first spring-fed swimming pool, which used a pump to fill and drain the pool each day. These unique features kept the residents self-sufficient at the mostly remote estate. The unique architectural features of the home serve as the main significance for the National Register of Historic Places designation.</p><br>
<h2>Frederick DeBary</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Frederick deBary was born January 12, 1815, at Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. As a young man, Frederick befriended G. H. Mumm, whose family produced brands of champagne in Rheims. Mumms proposed that deBary go to New York City and introduce the familys champagne to America. At 25, deBary sailed to New York in 1840 to introduce Mumms Champagne to the new wealthy class of merchants, manufacturers, financiers and professional men profiting from New York&#39;s growing port.</p><br>
<p>Once in New York, deBary organized an importing firm, Frederick deBary Company, strictly for Mumm&#39;s Champagne. Because luxury items were not yet predominately produced in America, deBary found much success. In 1844, deBary returned to Europe and married Julie Scherpenhauser. The couple permanently moved to New York and had two children, Adolphe and Eugenie. Eugenie later married a German and returned to Europe. Her children created the only descendants of Frederick deBary, where the family is now again solely European.</p><br>
<h2>The DeBarys in Florida</h2><br>
<p>Frederick DeBarys wife Julie died in 1868. After her death, the widower ventured on a steamboat ride down the St. Johns River in Florida. The quiet natural setting appealed to deBary. In January 1871, Frederick deBary bought three parcels of land from Oliver and Amanda Arnett. The property abutted Lake Monroe with a grove of live oaks and green pines. The large home soon became the Winter retreat of deBary and his relatives and friends. Hunting parties left the house very early in the morning with breakfast for the hunters served at four-thirty in the morning. deBary arrived in Florida each year at the end of December or early January. He typically came with a crowd of guests. DeBary Hall served as an active hunting and fishing preserve during the mild Florida winters.</p><br>
<p>As an always eager entrepreneur, Frederick DeBary turned his winter retreat into a profitable venture. He amassed over 10,000 acre and planted orange groves. He built a packing house beside the lake pier and was one of the first citrus growers to sort oranges by size by rolling them down an inclined trough with variously sized holes. deBary also joined the profitable steamboat trade developing the DeBary Merchants Line. The steamboats ran from Jacksonville to Enterprise along the St. Johns River. Until 1889, most of the steamers along the St. Johns would be deBary boats.</p><br>
<p>Frederick deBary died on December 23, 1898. His citrus trees had been decimated by hard freezes and the steamboat industry was gradually being taken over by the faster railroad industry. His son, Adolphe and daughter, Eugenie inherited DeBary Hall and the other five estates deBary accumulated through the years. DeBary Hall is thought to be the smallest of all six homes owned by Frederick deBary. Eugenie moved to Germany with her husband Baron Hugo Von Mauch before her ninetieth birthday. Adolphe deBary was fifty-three years old at the time of his fathers death and ascended to his fathers place in the importing firm and the DeBary Merchant Line. Adolphe also inherited his father&#39;s love for horses and hunting. Adolphe kept no less than six horses in the stable. He also kept a collection of vehicles including a brougham, a surrey, a phaeton, a brake cart, and pony carts for children. Adolphe DeBary outlived all four of his children. Upon his death in 1928, DeBary Hall passed to his grandchildren Leonie deBary Lyon and Adolphe deBary Lyon.</p><br>
<p>Leonie and Adolphe were minors when their grandfather died, and the deBary estate was placed in a trust for them guarded by their father Cecil Lyon. Leonie and Adolphe became the last American deBary heirs as both died early. Adolphe deBary Lyon graduated in 1935 from Harvard College. On September 19, 1937, Adolphe went to a party with a group of friends. As the party left, a young woman began to cross a street and did not notice a car driving towards her. Adolphe saw it and rushed in front of the car, pushing the young woman out of the way and was struck. He died at twenty-three years old. His sister Leonie became the sole owner of DeBary Hall with her husband, Benjamin Brewster, a childhood friend. Leonie made more renovations to the family home than any previous owner including putting in a tennis court, new flooring, and a larger bathroom in the Master Suite. The biggest change however was transportation to DeBary Hall. Leonie and her husband were flight enthuasists and constructed a runway and an airplane hangar on the property.</p><br>
<p>On May 9, 1941, Leonie and Benjamin planned to fly from Long Island to Philadelphia. The weather conditions were not suitable for flight but the couple insisted and did not heed to the warnings. In the blinding rain the plane crashed into the side of a mountain killing the young couple instantly. Leonie was thirty-one and had no children.</p><br>
<h2>1942–1990</h2><br>
<p>Leonie deBary Lyon Brewster&#39;s sudden death left confusion to the ownership of DeBary Hall and her other inherited properties. Her will stipulated that her properties be split between her Lyon family cousins and her deBary German relatives. There was little interest from either family to acquire Debary Hall and a Lyon family member began selling off the 6,000 acre property. According to a Volusia County deed, a P. V. Proctor purchased all the deBary land in 1942. Mr. Proctor moved out most of the deBary furnishing, leaving few original pieces. Proctor sold most of the deBary land to the Paco Land Company. The Paco Land Company in turn sold a portion of the property to George Stedronsky, a Northerner with hopes of creating a retirement community in Florida. He lived in the Hall for about a year. In late 1947, Mr. Stedronsky sold his plans to Plantation Estates, Incorporated, a land developing firm. DeBary Hall became part of "Plantation Estates" and much of the surrounding land became individual lots with small houses. DeBary Hall became the club house to the Plantation Estates.</p><br>
<p>DeBary Hall then passed to the senior citizens of the community. At seventy years old, the house was in disrepair. The new owners were in search of an owner who could restore the Hall. In 1959, the Florida Federation of Art accepted an offer to turn DeBary Hall into their art and cultural center, as the State Headquarters of the Florida Federation of Art, Incorporated. For one dollar the Hall and a 5 acre portion including the swimming pool and tennis courts were transferred.</p><br>
<p>The State of Florida purchased DeBary Hall in 1967 and began leasing the Hall to the Florida Federation of Art. The Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials acquired the Hall and erected a bronze plaque on the front lawn. Within time, the Florida Federation moved their headquarters and DeBary Hall was once again abandoned.</p><br>
<p>In the 1990s, after years of abandonment, the efforts of many people resulted in a massive restoration project. The State of Florida now leases the historic site to the County of Volusia as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<h2>Awards and Designations</h2><br>
<p>In 1971, DeBary Hall Historic Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The site continues to win preservation, educational, and interpretive awards at the local, state, and national level. These awards include two from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, the “Outstanding Achievement Award: Interpretive Media” and the “Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Adaptive Reuse”. DeBary Hall Historic Site’s interactive computer exhibit received several awards in 2001 by the American Association for State and Local History, the Florida Historical Society, the Historical Confederation’s Outstanding Educational Program Award, and finally the Dunn Electronic Media Award. In 2008, DeBary Hall Historic Site received the National Association of Counties Achievement Award.</p><br>
<h2>DeBary Hall Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>Today, the DeBary Hall Historic Site encompasses only 10 acre of the original 10,000 acre owned by Frederick DeBary. The former estate now makes up a town named in his honor, DeBary, and a portion of Volusia County. The 10 acre is owned by the State of Florida and managed by the County of Volusia. The site contains several original structures including the Hall, an icehouse, two servant quarters, and the stables. In 2007, the stable restoration was completed and acknowledged with a Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Outstanding Achievement in Adaptive Reuse award. Modern structures added to the site include a Visitor’s Center with a gift shop, trail-head pavilions, and an Imagidome Theater. The design and construction of the pavilion and theater follow former outbuildings on the site based on historic photographs.</p><br>
<p>The historic home is open Tuesday-Sunday for docent-guided tours. The surrounding property is open daily from sunrise to sunset for self-guided grounds walks. DeBary Hall is a part of Volusia County&#39;s rails to trails program. The bike trails run over 10 mi to Gemini Springs and Lake Monroe Park.</p><br>
<p>Quarai, also known historically as Quarai State Monument, is a prehistoric and historic unit of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument located north of Mountainair, New Mexico. A National Historic Landmark District, it encompasses the archaeological remains of prehistoric Native American settlements, historic remains of a pueblo that was abandoned in the 1670s during the Spanish colonial period, the ruins of a 17th-century Spanish mission compound, and 19th-century Spanish ranching artifacts. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and was added to the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Quarai ruins are located in central New Mexico, in a rural desert setting about 8 mi north of Mountainair, where the main visitors center for the Salinas Pueblos National Monument is located. The largest features of the ruins are the main pueblo and the walls of the mission church, which was probably one of the largest wall and beam structures in North America. Also present are mounds representing the archaeological sites of earlier buildings, and two extremely rare examples of fortified plazuela sites, Spanish colonial-style ranch sites developed in the 1820s and 1830s.</p><br>
<p>The Quarai were a Tiguex (Southern Tiwa) Pueblo band of American Indians. They were one of several bands of Tiwa speakers that populated the Salinas basin when it was first documented by Spanish explorers in the late 16th century, and were referred to in Spanish documents as the "Cuarac". Based on the archaeology of the site, they are estimated to have settled here around 1300 AD. By the early 17th century the large pueblo compound had been built. Spanish missionaries were received by the Quarai in 1626, and granted permission to build a mission. Named Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Quarai, it was completed in 1632. Although the community did well, a severe drought afflicted the region beginning in the late 1660s, which combined with attacks from hostile Apaches to lead to its abandonment in 1675. The Quarai survivors eventually migrated to the Rio Grande valley south of what is now Albuquerque.</p><br>
<p>The site was not reoccupied until the 19th century, when Spanish ranchers Miguel and Juan Lucero arrived in the 1820s. The Luceros used the ruined convento as a sheep pen, and built an irrigation system using elements of stone and brick salvaged from the ruins. Both the church and one their houses were built on top of mounds of prehistoric construction ruins. The Luceros and other local ranchers used the church (which at the time still had its roof) for services led by itinerant preachers. In 1829 they petitioned the Mexican governor for the construction of a new church building. This was granted, but disagreements among the residents and with the authorities led its construction to be halted at an early date; it was built at Manzano instead. The Lucero settlement was abandoned after a major Apache raid in 1830, one of whose effects was the collapse of the church roof.</p><br>
<p>The ruins were acquired by the state in the 1930s and stabilized. They were operated by the state as a monument until they were taken over by the National Park Service in the 1980s, when the Casa Quiveras National Monument was expanded and renamed the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.</p><br>
<p>For the Rogers Building in Toronto Canada see, Rogers Building </p><br>
<p>The Rogers Building (also known as the English Club) is a historic site in Orlando, Florida. It is located at 37-39 South Magnolia Avenue. Originally an English Gentlemens Club built in the Queen Anne style, is the oldest building in downtown Orlando and now is home the Downtown Arts District.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Arts District provides funding support, manages and operates CityArts -- a multi-use arts and cultural destination where visual and performing arts co-exist inside the Roger&#39;s Building. Visited by more than 100,000 people annually, CityArts showcases an infusion of local and international works of art, and is home to six independently operated art galleries as well as art collective, Red Tape.</p><br>
<p>On July 7, 1983, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Chalet Suzanne  is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida. It is located at 3800 Chalet Suzanne Drive. On July 24, 1990, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Originally envisioned as a magnificent residential resort appealing to people who enjoyed golf and tennis, the Carleton Club was a vision of cheese baron James L. Kraft and Carl and Bertha Hinshaw. Kraft soon bowed out of the enterprise. When Carl Hinshaw died in 1931, Bertha Hinshaw opened her home as a restaurant and inn to travelers, serving exotic recipes on fine china that she had gathered around the world. Among those who visited and helped to publicize the restaurant and inn was Duncan Hines. Other famous guests have included Burt Reynolds, Dinah Shore, Robert Redford, Johnny Carson, Kevin Costner and Don Johnson.</p><br>
<p>In 1943 the Chalet was largely destroyed by fire. Hinshaw quickly rebuilt it using salvaged parts from the horse stables, a game room, servants’ quarters and a chicken house. This unusual design had 14 different levels.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, Carl Hinshaw Jr. opened a cannery on the property for the restaurant&#39;s famous soups, including their signature romaine. The soups became very popular, selling worldwide. Chalet Suzanne soup went with the astronauts to the moon during the Apollo 15 and 16 flights.</p><br>
<p>The Chalet has been featured in many publications, among them The New Yorker, Vogue, Life, Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Forbes and Time magazines. Bertha Louise Hinshaw died in 1973 at the age of 90; the Chalet continues under the ownership and management of the Hinshaw family.</p><br>
<p>On July 10, 2014, it was announced that with the retirement of the Hinshaw family, the Chalet would close on or about August 4. The business and property are up for sale as a result. In May 2016, current owners Eric and Dee Hinshaw stated they had turned down offers from property developers who wanted to build houses in the hopes that someone with a "grand vision for the property" would purchase it. It currently serves as a faith-based addiction rehabilitation center for men called Refuge on the Ridge. The Hinshaws, who still live on the property, were inspired to put the property to this use after their own son&#39;s successful addiction rehabilitation through a similar program in south Florida.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Wales City Hall is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida. It is located at 152 East Central Avenue. On August 31, 1990, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, began a $3.6 million renovation of the historic structure, converting it into a modern academic center. When complete in 2009 the building will be outfitted with a 50-seat Student Success Center, one 30-seat computer classroom, four 30-seat general classrooms and a 30-seat classroom/community room, which could be used as a meeting room for local civic groups. The center will initially serve 125 students.</p><br>
<p>At the groundbreaking on May 14, 2007, PCC President Eileen Holden announced that the new 16,000 ft&sup2; facility will be called the JD Alexander Center after State Senator Alexander, who was instrumental in securing Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) monies that will fund the renovation of the historic building.</p><br>
<p>PCC plans to partner with the Lake Wales Charter High School to create a "Bridge to College" program and with the Lake Wales Literacy Coalition.</p><br>
<p>The Mediterranean Revival style building opened in 1927. It served as the Lake Wales City Hall until 1998 when offices moved to a new administrative building. A new section was added to the building in 1970, which included a fire station. The old City Hall suffered severe water and wind damage from the 2004 hurricanes. The fire station addition received the most damage.</p><br>
<p>The following year, State Senator J D Alexander was instrumental in securing funds that paved the way for the City to donate the historic building to PCC for use as an academic center.</p><br>
<p>PCC officials have said the remodeling of the building&#39;s exterior (windows, roof and brick work) will honor the architectural history to the greatest extent possible.</p><br>
<p>During the final days of 2007, demolition of the interior and exterior of the building was completed. PCC has rented a store across from the Alexander Center. During 2008 it will serve as both a construction office and a welcome center. It will be staffed during normal weekday hours, so residents can visit and receive information about PCC classes and registration.</p><br>
<p>The Lake of the Hills Community Club is a historic site in Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It is located at 47 East Starr Avenue. On March 24, 2000, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1914, a plot of land (approx 2 acres) was set aside by an early land developer in Polk county, by the name of W. J. Howey, who through his land company purchased several hundred acres around Starr Lake and beyond, which he platted for home-site development. The railroad was well established and utilized by many wealth patrons who established a winter community known as Mountain Lake estates, upon which the famous Bok Tower carillon was built. Howey visualised that many wealthy northerners would likewise purchase his platted acreage (most were platted as 6-acre sites). He was mindful that this community would need common acreage for a recreational community site.</p><br>
<p>Located on the northwestern-most corner of Starr lake the "Club" was officially designated in 1904, and in 1927 the Club House was constructed by the local residents, using their talents and money. Coincidentally, the construction and dedication coincided that of Bok Tower and Gardens which was presided over by then President Calvin Coolidge. Originally, the Club was only for the use of owners of a Howey land plot, but as a precursor to National Registration participation, membership was thrown open to the general public. Over 400 persons, including most local dignitaries and public officials, attended the "100th Centennial Celebration" held in 2014 where the name of the "Club" was changed to Lake Of The Hills Community Center.</p><br>
<p>Lake of the Hills C. C. is a Florida Not-For-Profit Corporation administered by an Executive Committee and a Board of Directors. The land and the structures on it are held by a Board of Trustees. While events are open to the public, members pay nominal, annual dues. Two major fundraisers are held annually to aid in support of those free public events, which occur several times annually. The first is the "Ice Cream Social" held in early October, and, the second, participation in the annual "39 Mile Ridge Scenic Highway Yard Sale". Members participate in "Monthly" (in season) Pot-Luck dinners, which are open to the public for a door fee of $3.00 per person. Free Movie night occurs monthly on a Friday. The clubhouse, surrounded on three sides by windows and backing onto Starr Lake, may be rented for events.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain Lake Colony House  is a historic site within the Mountain Lake Estates Historic District in Lake Wales, Florida. This three-story Mediterranean Revival clubhouse and inn was originally designed in 1916 by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and features pergolas, loggias, and a barrel-tile roof. It is located east of State Road 17, on the north shore of Mountain Lake. On February 22, 1991, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Frances Langford Promenade  is a historic site in Lakeland, Florida. It is located between Lemon Street and Lake Mirror Drive. On January 27, 1983, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places. The project was built in two phases and completed in 1928. Charles Wellford Leavitt of New York was the designer.</p><br>
<p>In 1946, the city of Lakeland dedicated the promenade to Lakeland native Frances Langford for her work with the United Service Organizations and her music and acting career. In 2013, the city re-dedicated the promenade and installed a new marker.</p><br>
<p>The Old City Waterworks is a historic site in Tallahassee, Florida. It is located at East Gaines and South Gadsden Streets. On January 31, 1979, it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the Old City Waterworks, water was obtained from springs. By 1890 public works for water was needed for firefighting and the health of Tallahassee&#39;s citizens and the Old City Waterworks was built in 1904 on Gaines Street. The current building was remodeled in the 1920s to 1930s and closed in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Currently the building is under construction and planned for adaptive reuse as Amicus Brewing Ventures, a craft beer taproom and brewery.</p><br>
<p>Ruge Hall is an historic site located at 655 West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee, Florida. It serves as the Episcopal Diocese of Florida&#39;s center for ministry to Florida State University. On August 1, 1997, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ruge Hall Episcopal Student Center was built by John G. Ruge of Apalachicola as a memorial to his wife, Fannie Ruge, in 1931. It was built to serve as the Episcopal Chapel of the Resurrection on the campus of Florida State College for Women. Ruge Hall served as a place for worship and fellowship, as well as a residence for the Episcopal Chaplain. A new Chapel of the Resurrection was built in the 1950s adjacent to Ruge Hall and the old building became known as Ruge Hall. Ruge Hall then began to be used as a social hall and for offices. Ruge Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the last remaining buildings in Tallahassee designed by the architect Edward D. Fitchner. Today Ruge serves students at Florida State University and the wider Tallahassee community.</p><br>
<p>San Pedro y San Pablo de Patale was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the early 17th century in the Florida Panhandle, six miles east of Tallahassee, Florida. It was part of Spain&#39;s effort to colonize the region, and convert the Timucuan and Apalachee Indians to Christianity. The mission lasted until 1704, when it was captured by a militia of Creek Indians and South Carolinians.</p><br>
<p>The site where the mission stood was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 1972.</p><br>
