<p>Paradise Park Historic District is located in Thomasville, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1984 with an increase in 2002. It consists of Thomasville&#39;s Paradise Park, and properties including 15 contributing buildings and one non-contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The area, subdivided from the S. Alexander Smith estate, was known as "Yankee&#39;s Paradise" at the turn of the 20th century, when Northern visitors had winter homes and cottages in the area. Residents included George Forbes, owner of Forbes Furniture and Hardware; W.S. Keefer, president of the Thomasville Cigar Company; Charles Hebard, a Philadelphia-based lumber "magnate&quot and Judge Strawbridge, a clothing distributor.</p><br>
<p>The increase added the property at 502 South Broad Street as a contributing building and provided documentation justifying reclassification to "contributing" of a previously non-contributing building.</p><br>
<p>At the time of National Register listing, "East Hansell" was the name of the street along the southeast side of the park. By 2013 the street was termed "South Hansell". The street continues as West Hansell across Broad Street.</p><br>
<p>Contributing buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Hebard House (1891 or 1899-1900), 711 East Hansell, likely constructed by builder William Miller,</p><br>
<p>Keefer House, 817 South Hansell Street, a large Victorian Eclectic house, bordered by a white picket fence. Built in 1893. Originally owned by William Scott Keefer. William owned an ice plant in Thomasville.</p><br>
<p>701 East Hansell</p><br>
<p>110 East Hansell</p><br>
<p>Buildings on others of the nine properties on East Hansell Street facing the park.</p><br>
<p>Historic carriage house of one of the East Hansell Street properties. Perhaps this is the one property on East Loomis Street.</p><br>
<p>900 South Broad</p><br>
<p>Strawbridge House (1899), 704 South Broad, constructed by builder James Gribben.</p><br>
<p>Tuck House (1940), 701 South Broad Street. One-story ranch house with "applied Greek Revival elements", built for Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Tuck, designed by Roderick Brantley. It serves as McDonald&#39;s area office. Not deemed to be historic in the original historic district, due to its date of construction, but later accepted. The property at 701 South Broad is bordered by an old wrought-iron fence.</p><br>
<p>Neel House (1907), 502 South Broad Street, a two-story Neoclassical house with full-height portico and one-story porch with classical columns. Converted to apartments in 1930, damaged by fire in 1978, became a bed-and-breakfast inn sometime later. Not included in original historic district due to owner objection.</p><br>
<p>Springfield Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Augusta, Georgia was built in 1801 and is a significant historical building for its architecture, religious history, and African American heritage. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA.</p><br>
<p>It was built in the architectural style of a New England meetinghouse, which is rare in Georgia. It is the oldest church building extant in Augusta and is claimed to be one of the oldest Black congregations in the USA The 1801, Springfield Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia in 1982, and the boundary of the National Register of Historic Places-listed site was increased in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>"The simple, two-story rectangular wooden building has two doors at the first floor topped by two arched windows and a smaller arched attic window in the gable of the street facade. The east and west sides of the church boast first and second-floor ranges of seven wooden 12/12 windows. The interior of the church has an assembly-hall plan consisting of a shallow vestibule on the north end and a long narrow meeting hall."</p><br>
<p>In 1844, the Methodists built a new brick church at 736 Greene Street. This old meeting house was rolled on logs to the corner of 12th St and Reynolds to be given to the Springfield Baptist congregation, one of the oldest black Baptist congregations in the nation. During the antebellum years, it had 1,000 members and was the largest congregation of any in the Georgia Baptist Association. Springfield Baptist hosted the 1866 Georgia State Freedmen&#39;s Conventions.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, the congregation built a new church on the site, in the Late Victorian Gothic style. The former building was moved to face Reynolds Street, and they continue to maintain it and use it for special events.</p><br>
<h3>Baptist congregation</h3><br>
<p>The Baptist church congregation predates the building and was founded in 1787, by Reverend Jesse Peters. The congregation claims continuous ties with Silver Bluff Baptist Church, founded 1774–1775 in South Carolina as one of the first black Baptist congregations in the nation. For this reason, the historian Walter Brooks suggested it was the oldest black Baptist congregation. The First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia was organized in 1774 and also contends for this distinction.</p><br>
<p>The Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Locomotive House and Machine Shop was built by the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway in 1889 in Reno, Nevada.</p><br>
<p>The railroad was organized in Reno in June 1880 as the Nevada and Oregon Railroad. It was decided that the best plan was to build north to the Columbia River to serve cattle ranches and farms in northeastern California and eastern Oregon. The company decided to lay narrow-gauge track because it was cheaper than standard gauge construction. It became one of the longest narrow-gauge railroads in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The building consists of the original locomotive house/machine shop and an addition. The locomotive house was built in 1889, and the addition was built in the 1940s. The building is one story, rectangular in shape and is built of brick.</p><br>
<p>The locomotive house was used to store the narrow-gauge steam locomotives. When the railroad built a new roundhouse in the mid-1910s, the locomotive house was converted into a machine shop.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the railroad was sold to the Western Pacific Railroad (WP). Because the WP could not use the narrow-gauge terminal facilities such as the roundhouse and machine shop, it either sold them or leased them. The machine shop was leased to the Crane Plumbing Company for use as a warehouse and plumbing supply. The WP built the addition to the existing machine shop in the 1940s. In 1963, the Crane Company left and the WP leased the building to other tenants. In 1973, the WP sold the building. It has remained in private hands ever since.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places due to its association with the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway and the railroad development in Nevada.</p><br>
<p>Globe Hotel in McDonough, Georgia, USA, also known as Dunn House, was built in 1827 and expanded in the late 1800s. It is a two-story frame building. In the 1930s, the building was moved about one block from its original location facing the courthouse square. It has some elements of Stick/Eastlake architecture in the newer section.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Kuamoo Burials  is an historic Hawaiian burial site for warriors killed during a major battle in 1819. The site is located at Kuamoo Bay in the North Kona District, on the island of Hawaii, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Despite some contact with Europeans, Kamehameha I, after creating a united Kingdom of Hawaii, followed the ancient Hawaiian Religion called the Kapu system.</p><br>
<p>When he died in May 1819, power passed to his wife Queen Kaahumanu and Kamehameha Is son Liholiho (Kamehameha II) who abolished the kapu system, leaving Hawaii religionless; Christian missionaries didnt reach Hawaii until the March 30, 1820.</p><br>
<p>However, Kamehameha I&#39;s nephew Kekuaokalani wanted to keep the kapu system.</p><br>
<p>Kekuaokalani led an armed rebellion to protect the traditions still honored by many of the common people.</p><br>
<p>The traditionalists marched from Kaawaloa at Kealakekua Bay and met the royal army headed by Kalanimoku in an area also known as Lekeleke in December 1819.</p><br>
<p>Both sides in the battle at this site had rifles, but Kalanimoku had a small cannon mounted on a double canoe, so over 300 warriors were killed, including Kekuaokalani and his wife Manono, who were buried under the lava rocks.</p><br>
<p>The rest of the followers of the old religion dispersed, and were pardoned.</p><br>
<p>Within a year, American Christian Protestant missionaries such as Asa Thurston and Hiram Bingham arrived, and the culture was forever changed.</p><br>
<p>There has not been a battle of that size on the island since.</p><br>
<p>The battlefield is listed on the Hawaii register of historic places as site 10-37-1745,</p><br>
<p>and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as site 74000714.</p><br>
<p>The name comes from the Ahupuaa (traditional land division), point, and bay called Kuamoo just to the South where the battle actually took place.</p><br>
<p>It literally means "backbone" in the Hawaiian Language.</p><br>
<p>The burial ground was called Lekeleke, on the border between the Ahupuaa of Keauhou and Honalo.</p><br>
<p>Just to the North of this site is the Keauhou hōlua and historic Keauhou Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Kekua-o-kalani</h2><br>
<p>King David Kalakaua in his book entitled "Hawaiian Legends: Introduction," in 1888 eulogizes the leader Kaiwi-kuamo&#39;o-kekuaokalani as follows:</p><br>
<p>"In the twilight of that misty period looms up a grand defender of the faith of Keawe and Umi and the altars of the Hawaiian gods. The champion was Kekuaokalani, a nephew, perhaps a half-brother of Liholiho (King Kamehameha II). In his veins coursed the royal blood of Hawaii, and his bearing was that of a king. He was above six and one-half feet in height (6 feet 6 inches), with limbs well-proportioned and features strikingly handsome and commanding. He was of the priesthood, and, through the bestowal of some tabu or prerogative, claimed to be the second in authority to Hewahewa, who traced his lineage back to Pa&#39;ao, the Tahitian High Priest of Pili. His wife, Manono, was scarcely less distinguished for her courage, beauty and chiefly status."</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, formally the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in the third oldest Roman Catholic parish in Detroit, Michigan. Designed by German-born Peter Dederichs and built for the formerly ethnic German parish of the 19th century, it is located at 646 Monroe Street in what is now considered the heart of the Greektown Historic District in downtown Detroit. It is often called "Old St. Marys Church" to avoid confusion with other St. Marys parishes: in the Redford neighborhood of Detroit, or in nearby Royal Oak, Monroe, or Wayne.</p><br>
<p>The former church was built in 1841. The school, built in 1868, was the first of the new buildings of the current complex. The rectory (1876); new church (1884–1885), and convent, completed in 1922, comprised the remainder. The convent was demolished in the early 2000s and replaced with a community center designed to resemble the 1841 church building.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Parish has been staffed by the Spiritans or Holy Ghost Fathers since 1893. It was previously administered by the Franciscan Fathers (1872–1893) and the Redemptorist Fathers (1847–1872).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1834 by Father Martin Kundig to serve the German-speaking Catholic immigrants who settled in this part of the city. The first church was constructed in 1841 at this site on land sold to Bishop Peter Paul LeFevere for one dollar by Antoine and Monica Beaubien, two of the area&#39;s early ethnic French settlers. The materials for the church cost an additional $239. The Beaubiens also donated four bells for the new church.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the current structure was laid in 1884 and it was completed in 1885. Its German born and trained architect, Peter Dederichs, was a parishioner of the Church; he also designed nearby Sacred Heart Church.</p><br>
<p>In the early twentieth century, Father Joseph Wuest, Pastor of Old St. Mary&#39;s, had three grottos constructed at the rear of the church. One is the Baptistry on the Epistle side of the building. It depicts the scene described in the Canonical Gospels of the Baptism of Jesus. Next to the Baptistry is a replica of the Shrine of Lourdes. Within this grotto is an altar where weekly mass is celebrated. Older members of the church say that Father Wuest collected the rocks he used in the construction during a trip to Lourdes, France. On the opposite side of the church is the third grotto, which depicts the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before the crucifixion of Jesus.</p><br>
<p>Rev. John A. Lemke, born in Detroit on February 10, 1866, to Polish immigrants from Prussian Poland, was baptized at St. Marys on February 18, 1866. After graduating from Detroit College and studying at St. Marys Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1889 he returned to Detroit and was the first native-born Roman Catholic priest of Polish descent to be ordained in the United States. He died of illness in 1890.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s school opened in 1844 with lay teachers. The Christian Brothers began teaching male upperclassmen in 1852, and the School Sisters of Notre Dame assuming responsibility for teaching the girls and younger boys. The building was replaced in 1855 and the current building, designed by Pius Daubner, was erected in 1868. The school operated until 1966.</p><br>
<p>The church, school and rectory were listed as Michigan Historic Sites in 1979 and markers were erected at all three.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is constructed of red brick in the Romanesque style, with Venetian accents. The west façade is dominated by twin towers which frame a large rose window. The Romanesque-Venetian style was also used for the rectory and former convent. The church is 176 ft long. The nave is 80 ft wide and reaches a height of 90 ft.</p><br>
<p>A striking feature of the church interior are the ten polished granite columns that divide the main and side aisles. The columns are each cut from a single piece of granite. They were originally intended for the Michigan State Capitol building then under construction in Lansing. For unknown reasons, the columns were not used in the Capitol. The church purchased all ten for only $4,625, bringing the total construction cost to $81,210.</p><br>
<p>The Great Northern Depot in Skykomish, Washington, United States, is a former train station and local history museum. It was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1894 to serve the town of Skykomish, which had been founded as a division point on the railroad. Its original location was on the south side of the tracks at 5th Street. In 1922, the depot was moved to its present location on the north side of the tracks at 4th Street.</p><br>
<p>The depot is a one-story rectangular wood-frame building. It consisted of a passenger waiting room, the station agent&#39;s office and a freight room. The adjacent railyard was used by helper locomotives on the grade up to Stevens Pass.</p><br>
<p>Passenger service to Skykomish ended in the 1950s, coinciding with the dismantling of Great Northern&#39;s electrified system through the town. In 1970, the Great Northern was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad. The yard and buildings at Skykomish ceased to be used.</p><br>
<p>The depot was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as one of the last Great Northern depots still remaining in Washington state and for its association with railroad development in the state.</p><br>
<p>The railyard adjacent to the depot had been seeping oil and heavy metals into the ground and nearby Skykomish River for most of the 20th century, requiring extensive environmental remediation. Following the discovery of contaminated soil and groundwater in the 1980s, Burlington Northern and its successor, BNSF Railway, agreed to fund several mitigation and cleanup projects under the supervision of the Washington State Department of Ecology. Most of the buildings in downtown Skykomish, including the depot, were temporarily moved for the cleanup project in the 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The Great Northern depot was moved to a new city park in 2012 and was renovated for use as a visitors center and history museum, opened in 2014 by the Great Northern and Cascade Railway, a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the great history of the Great Northern Railway. The area around the depot was developed into a ridable miniature railway that operates seasonally on a gauge with steam locomotives.</p><br>
<p>The Zabriskie House, also known as the Hohokus Inn, is located in Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, in the USA state of New Jersey. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The home was built in 1796 by Andrew Zabriskie as a home for his son John Zabriskie. The home was later used as a parsonage. In 1890 the home was converted into a tavern. The borough of Ho-Ho-Kus purchased the home in 1941 and began leasing the home as a restaurant in 1953.</p><br>
<h2>Ho-Ho-Kus Inn</h2><br>
<p>The Ho-Ho-Kus Inn is a restaurant that is operated within the Zabriskie House.</p><br>
<p>The Wilson House in Garrison, New York, United States is located at a bend in Lower Station Road  just uphill from Garrison Landing and the train station at the Hudson River, and downhill from Mandeville House and the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It is a wooden cottage in the Carpenter Gothic architectural style, one-and-a-half stories high, sided in a combination of clapboard and board-and-batten. It sits on a stone foundation with a steeply-pitched cross-gabled seamed metal roof. The gable ends have a louvered trefoil vent, and the south (front) elevation has a gabled dormer window with a pointed-arch window, a treatment echoed by the paneled main entrance. The south and west sides have shed-roofed porches with chamfered piers.</p><br>
<p>This level of Gothic detailing is considered the finest Gothic in the Hudson Highlands. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<p>The Mandeville House is located on Lower Station Road  in Garrison, New York, United States, just west of its intersection with NY 9D and 403. It is the oldest extant house in that community, dating to 1735.</p><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War, General Israel Putnam, after whom the county is named, was headquartered there for a while. A later occupant, architect Richard Upjohn, lived there for the last 25 years of his life. He expanded the house and redid its exterior in the Gothic Revival style that characterized much of his own work; most of these were removed in the 1920s by a later owner in order to restore the house to something close to its original appearance. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In the early 2000s it has been the subject of a dispute between the foundation which owns it and local history enthusiasts. The latter claim the head of the foundation is improperly using it as a residence and has not fully complied with Internal Revenue Service requirements that the house be open to the public as a museum. The head of the foundation denies any impropriety.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is situated on a wooded lot of almost 5 acre, just across from the similarly pre-Revolutionary buildings and structures of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District on Highlands Golf Club and uphill from the Wilson House and the train station. It is an eight-bay, one-story structure with three shed-roofed dormer windows on and two chimneys piercing its gabled, shingled roof.</p><br>
<p>Its main facade has six bays with the main entrance in the third from the east. It is surrounded with a shed hood, fluted pilasters and a stoop with two Dutch-style benches. There are several wings, including a cross-gabled rear and a garage connected to the main house by breezeway.</p><br>
<p>The interior has some original paneling and trim, particular around the fireplaces in the main block. Most of the other trim is from the Colonial Revival restoration in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1697 William III granted the property that included the future Mandeville House to Adolphe Philipse, whose family owned much of today&#39;s Putnam County. He is the first European owner of record. Thirty-eight years later, in 1735, Jacob Mandeville, leased 400 acre in the area of present-day Garrison, married and likely built the first part of the house. At that time it consisted of the present-day dining room and the space above. A kitchen wing was added later, and more upstairs rooms came into being sometime before the Revolution.</p><br>
<p>Around that time, the lands were inherited by Beverley Robinson, warden of the nearby St. Philip&#39;s Church in the Highlands, who had married into the Philipse family. His holdings were confiscated by the state of New York when he began working with the British Army due to his Loyalist sympathies during the war. In 1779, Israel Putnam used it as his headquarters. On two occasions that year, George Washington visited Putnam there and spent the night.</p><br>
<p>In 1785, the state sold the lands with the house to Joshua Nelson, a son-in-law of Mandeville&#39;s. His family sold it to a Mrs. Brown in the 1840s. She, in turn, sold it to Richard Upjohn in 1852.</p><br>
<p>At that time the middle-aged architect had established himself and was looking to settle down in the country after retiring from practice in New York City. He had designed the new St. Philips church nearby, and was working on residential commissions in the area like Dicks Castle, The Grove and Rock Lawn. He made many renovations to the Mandeville House, such as the library and north wings. He added a Swiss-Gothic facade to the front, reflecting the tastes of the era.</p><br>
<p>Upjohn lived in the house until his death in 1878. His descendants added some more rooms and remained until they sold the house to a Col. Julian Benjamin, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, in 1922. He and his wife, Nancy Allan, took down Upjohns Gothic exterior treatment and restored it in the Colonial Revival style, using Dutch stylings wherever possible to reflect Mandevilles perceived tastes, such as the shed dormers and stoop. They also added the garage wing and shed dormers on the north side.</p><br>
<p>Allan inherited the property when her husband died in 1953, and passed it along in short order to her daughter, Margaret Allan Gething. When she died 20 years later, her will provided for the establishment of a trust to maintain the house along with another historic house she owned in San Antonio as museums.</p><br>
<p>Robert Perry, a Texas lawyer and friend of the family, named the trust the Perry-Gething Foundation. Local preservationists have filed complaints against Perry with the state and the Internal Revenue Service, angry that he keeps the house closed most of the year and resides in it himself for several weeks in the spring and fall. Perry responds that when he is present, the house is open by appointment. The tax code, he says, requires only that the foundation maintain the property and says nothing about it making the museum open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The New York State Education Building  is a state office building in Albany, New York. It houses offices of the New York State Education Department  and was formerly home to the New York State Museum and New York State Library. Designed by Henry Hornbostel in the Beaux-Arts style and opened in 1912, the building is known for its expansive colonnade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The State Education Building was designed by George Carnegie Palmer and Henry Hornbostel of the New York City firm Palmer & Horbostel, and contracted and built by M. F. Dollard Construction between 1908 and 1911. It was the "first major building constructed in the United States solely as a headquarters for the administration of education."</p><br>
<p>Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper was the first Commissioner of Education of the State of New York and wanted a separate Education Building to provide more space for the growing agency. In 1906, after two years of negotiations with the New York Legislature, Draper secured a site near the New York State Capitol building. However, William Croswell Doane, the first Episcopal Bishop in Albany, was building the Cathedral of All Saints on South Swan Street, on the very block that Commissioner Draper viewed as his.</p><br>
<p>When Doane was out of Albany, Draper used his political influence to snatch up surrounding property and forever obscured the view of Doane&#39;s new building from Washington Avenue and from the skyline as seen from the Hudson River. The Education Building cost approximately $4 million. It was finished on January 1, 1911 but was not dedicated until November 1912 with the state museum and library moving into fireproof wings in the building. In March 1911 a fire in the Capitol destroyed some of the state library collection before it was moved; over 450,000 books and 270,000 manuscripts and journals were lost in this disaster.</p><br>
<p>In 1959, work was finished on a ten-story addition to the northeastern side of the building along Hawk and Elk streets. The addition is called the New York State Education Building Annex.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The building housed the New York State Museum from 1912 until as late as 1976, when the museum was relocated to the Cultural Education Center (part of the Empire State Plaza). The New York State Library, also housed in the Education Building, was moved to the Cultural Education Center as well.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The State Education Building is notable for its massive colonnade. Its NRHP application claimed that the colonnade is "one of the longest in the world." The colonnade is 590 feet long and was believed to be the largest in the world at the time of its construction. While at 590 feet, it may be the longest colonnade in the United States, the USA Treasury Department Building designed by architect Robert Mills features a length of 45 columns, but only measures 350 feet.</p><br>
<p>The building has a T-shaped layout, with the colonnade forming the top bar of the T. Its Neoclassical design reflects the renewed interest in this style that followed the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Flanking the entrance are two sculptures of seated children; these sculptures serve as lampposts. Important interior features of the building include the 94 ft rotunda, with its glass-and steel-dome, and the 50 ft reading room, with its large arched windows. The rotunda also contains barrel-vaulted glass skylights and a mural depicting "man&#39;s quest for education."</p><br>
<p>The Standard Theatre, now known as the Folly Theater and also known as the Century Theater and Shubert&#39;s Missouri, is a former vaudeville hall in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1900, it was designed by Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtiss. The theater was associated with the adjoining Edward Hotel , which was also designed by Curtiss; the hotel was demolished in 1965.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Standard Theatre opened with 2,400 seats on September 23, 1900, featuring burlesque and vaudeville. It was built by Colonel Edward Butler of St. Louis, Missouri, at a cost of $250,000, for his son to present shows on the Empire vaudeville circuit. In 1901, a fire at the nearby Coates Opera House caused opera and comic opera performances to be moved to the Standard, featuring such performers as Sarah Bernhardt, Richard Mansfield, and Maude Adams. The theaters name changed to the "Century" in 1902. The Century featured acts from the Empire burlesque circuit, including Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, and Eddie Foy. In addition to theater acts, the Century featured prizefighting and wrestling, with appearances by Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey. Johnson stayed in the managers apartment, as hotels refused to rent him a room.</p><br>
<p>The Shubert brothers bought the Century in 1923 and renamed it "Shuberts Missouri" after extensive renovations by Shubert architect Herbert J. Krapp. The Shuberts booked dramatic productions including Shakespeare and ONeill plays. The Marx Brothers performed I&#39;ll Say She Is for three weeks in 1923-24, the long run convincing the Shuberts to continue operating the theater.</p><br>
<p>In 1974 the theater&#39;s then owners, Annbar Associates and Elk Realty of New York announced that if a new buyer could not be identified by the end of the year, the theater would be demolished to make way for a parking lot. A group of local historic preservation activists, including Joan Dillon and William N. Deramus III, formed a nonprofit, the Performing Arts Foundation, to raise the money to purchase and restore the theater. The theater was offered for sale for $950,000. Performing Arts Foundation raised $350,000 in contributions and through negotiation convinced Annbar Associates to offer the remaining $600,000 of the purchase price as a donation.</p><br>
<p>In the Follys centennial year of 2000, a new lobby, restrooms, and second-floor Shareholders Room were added. In 2005, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Follys reopening, the auditoriums original color scheme was restored. Plans are now under way, and approval has been granted by the Kansas City Landmarks Commission, to install a marquee sign that closely mimics the original Folly signage.</p><br>
<p>The Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City, d.b.a. The Folly Theater, is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is "to preserve Kansas Citys oldest historic theater as a premier performance venue by presenting, producing, and hosting a wide range of quality events for the community". The Folly produces a Jazz Series, a Kids Series, and "Cyprus Avenue Live!" performances by artists ranging from blues to rock and country. It hosts the Harriman-Jewell Series of classical performers, the Friends of Chamber Music series, the Heartland Mens Chorus, and &#39;s Kansas City Burlesque Festival, the first burlesque performance revival of The Folly Theater.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Neo-Palladian facade uses Carthage limestone and red pressed brick, with an adapted Palladian window centered in the facade. Rather than a fully glazed infill within the limestone Palladian framework, the lower portion of the unit uses three arched windows with an entablature over the center window dividing it from the lunette under the principal arch. The street level is heavily rusticated limestone with three arched entrances and wrapping a short way around the right (east) side to form an additional arch. The east wall contains small limestone-framed ventilation openings near the top, as well as emergency exits and a 19 ft high opening for stage scenery. The building is 125 ft deep, 70 ft wide and 65 ft high.</p><br>
<p>The interior structure mixes steel and wood construction. There is a basement under the stage, housing mechanical systems and backstage service spaces. The main floor is entered through a lobby and a box office area. The house contains three sections of seats facing a highly decorated proscenium arch. The house is flanked by balcony-level boxes, with the main balcony to the rear. The stage is provided with a fly loft, fly balconies, a scenery workshop, and ten dressing rooms. Interior decoration is predominantly red and gold.</p><br>
<p>The exterior is largely unaltered, but the interior has been substantially renovated. In 1923, the lobby was reduced in size, moving the box office and eliminating a secondary box office for the balcony, while the balcony itself and a gallery level were replaced by a single larger balcony, reducing seating capacity. Plasterwork in the upper levels was replaced at this time, and a manager&#39;s apartment was removed.</p><br>
<p>Current seating capacity is 1,078 seats.</p><br>
<p>The José Serrano Adobe is a historic 1863 adobe house in Lake Forest, Orange County, California. The property is one of four historic buildings in the Heritage Hill Historic Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The adobe was built by José Serrano in 1863, on the 10,688 acre Rancho Canada de los Alisos granted by Governor Juan B. Alvarado in 1842 and Governor Pio Pico in 1846. It is the second of five adobe structures built by the Serranos on the rancho. Serrano and his family lived in the adobe raising longhorn cattle until a series of droughts, beginning in 1863 and continuing intermittently through 1883, forced the family to divide the ranch and mortgage several sections.</p><br>
<p>Dwight Whiting, who played a major role in the development of El Toro (Lake Forest), purchased the Serrano Adobe and a significant area of the rancho in 1884. His son, George Whiting, made extensive additions to the dwelling in 1932, adding a dining room, bedroom, and kitchen. Shortly after George Whiting&#39;s restoration effort, the Serrano Adobe was nominated and accepted as California State Landmark #199. The extensive gardens include two pepper trees, both over a hundred years old.</p><br>
<p>The last private owner, V.P. Baker, used the home from 1958 to 1969, restoring and refurnishing the house as a vacation home and a meeting place for the Aliso Water Company. The Bakers sold the 5,000 acre Baker Ranch to Occidental Petroleum in 1969 for $11 million with the requirement that the new owners donate the Serrano Adobe to a public agency for preservation. In 1974, Deane Brothers, a development subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, proceeded to donate 55.9 acre round the Serrano Adobe and Serrano Creek to the County of Orange.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage Hill Historical Park</h2><br>
<p>Orange County set aside 4.1 acre surrounding the Serrano Adobe for the development of a historical park, now dedicated to interpreting the early history of the Saddleback Valley and El Toro area.</p><br>
<p>The Saddleback Area Historical Society formed in 1973 and supported the preservation of El Toros first church, St. Georges Episcopal Mission, and the first schoolhouse, the El Toro Grammar School, by moving these buildings to the Serrano Adobe site in 1976. The Harvey Bennett Ranch House, built in 1908, was moved to the site in 1978 with the cooperation of the developers of the Bennett Ranch subdivision, the William Lyon Company.</p><br>
<p>The José Serrano Adobe site opened as Orange County&#39;s first historical park under the name Heritage Hill Historical Park in May 1981. After the completion of the Bennett House restoration, the County rededicated the park in September 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Marker</h2><br>
<p>State of California Historic Landmark No. 199, La Casa de Adobe de Jose Serrano, Home of Jose Serrano, original grantee of Rancho Canada de los Alisos Restored A.D. 1932 (Marker Number 199.)</p><br>
<p>The Barney Flat Historic Railroad Logging Landscape is the historic remains of railroad logging on the South Kaibab Plateau in the early 20th century. Barney Flat is the only stump field on the US National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Railroad logging (1897–1936)</h2><br>
<p>The Saginaw and Manistee logging company used temporary logging railroads to clearcut the South Kaibab</p><br>
<p>of ponderosa pines between 1897 and 1936. When the Williams mill ran out of timber in 1928,</p><br>
<p>operations turned north to the Tusayan Ranger District, south of Grand Canyon National Park. The Saginaw and Manistee used the Grand Canyon Railway line between 1928 and 1936. To access the timber stands loggers simply</p><br>
<p>laid ties and set down rail. As almost all rail was reused until it was worn out, then sold for scrap iron, only the wooden cross ties remain as evidence of this historic logging practice.</p><br>
<h2>Barney Flat stump field</h2><br>
<p>Many foresters believe that pre-settlement Southwestern ponderosa pine forests</p><br>
<p>contained 20–40 trees per acre. However, detailed mapping of the Barney Flat Stump Field counted 300 stumps in a 40 acre area. This is less than 10 trees per acre.</p><br>
<h2>Historic logging railroad grades</h2><br>
<p>Kaibab National Forest archaeologists have now mapped the locations and conditions of over 100</p><br>
<p>miles of logging railroad grades. These maps provide information about when and</p><br>
<p>how the forests were logged. Based on the condition of these historic features,</p><br>
<p>archaeologists determine their eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Railroad Logging, South Kaibab.jpgRailroad Logging in the South Kaibab, circa 1900</p><br>
<p>Aberdeen Historic District in Aberdeen, South Dakota is a 29 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It includes three whole blocks and 13 partial blocks.</p><br>
<p>It includes part of Hagerty and Lloyd Historic District. It includes 62 contributing buildings, mostly residences but also six churches, five businesses, a public library, a public school and a private school. These include works by E.W. Van Meter, George Fossum, and Ursa Louis Freed, and includes Colonial Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Aberdeen Highlands Historic District and the Aberdeen Commercial Historic District, in the same town, are also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Building, also called the Burrows Block, Bank Block, and Masonic Temple stands on the public square</p><br>
<p>in Osceola, Iowa, United States. It was constructed by banker A.H. Burrows in 1872. The upper stories of this Italianate building were used by Osceola Lodge No. 77 of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, and the main floor was a bank and hardware store. This building has been placed on Preservation Iowa’s Most Endangered list because of its poor repair and lack of preservation plan.</p><br>
<p>It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. In 2018 it was included as a contributing property in the Osceola Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Midtown Historic District in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly contiguous with what the Midtown Alliance organization calls the "Midtown Neighborhood", which is only part of the much larger Midtown neighborhood. The Midtown Local Historic District organization seeks to designate most of the current historic district as a "local historic district", which unlike simply being listed on the National Register, provides tools for preservation of the historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 722 contributing buildings and a contributing structure on 360 acre.</p><br>
<p>It includes works by Haralson Bleckley, W.A. Brightwell & Sons, Mitchell & Conklin, Lewis E. Crook, Willis F. Denny, Walter T. Downing, C.E. Frazier, Bruce and Morgan, Gottfried Norrman, Benjamin R. Padgett, Emil Seiz, Hentz, Adler & Shutze, Bleckley & Tyler, Harry L.Walker, and Lelia Ross Wilburn.</p><br>
<p>Glenfields, the former Archibald Gracie King House, is located on Old Manitou Road, a short distance from NY 9D, south of Garrison in the town of Philipstown, New York, United States. It is a simple late 19th-century frame house with some unusual windows.</p><br>
<p>King was a descendant of Rufus King and other early New York power brokers who had married a descendant of the area&#39;s pre-Revolutionary landowners. He built the house, from a design by a local architectural firm, as a summer residence overlooking the nearby Hudson River. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Glenfields is a two-story structure with clapboard siding, a partially exposed granite basement and a gabled roof with boxed cornice. Two granite chimneys, slightly offset, rise from the center.</p><br>
<p>Windows on the east (front) facade are double-hung sash with an unusual 6-over-2 design, framed by molded lintels and plain sills. The central porch is supported by Doric columns, with a pedimented entablature. A double-tiered veranda on the west (rear) side has a shed roof supported by simples posts with a plain railing. The basement on that side has windows with brick surrounds.</p><br>
<p>A two-story wing projects from the south elevation. It has the same window treatment as the main block, but has a hipped roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>King, son of Congressman James G. King, owned along with his son Frederick Gore King much of the area around the house when he bought the land it stands on in 1868. Most of his holdings were commercial interests, such as the nearby quarry where Russel Wright and his wife built Manitogain the mid-20th century. He also owned a copper mine and apple orchard in the area, and shipped these products to New York City via his private docks on the Hudson River near where the Manitou train station is today.</p><br>
<p>He contracted the Cornwall firm of Mead and Taft, which would become a major designer of summer residences in the area like Amelia Barr&#39;s Cherry Croft, to design a house. It was finished around 1870. The south wing was added 20 years later. There have been no other major alterations to the house since.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Young Hotel was one of the first hotels in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, opened in 1903. The hotel closed and was converted to offices in 1964. The structure was demolished in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Alexander Young Hotel was constructed from 1900 to 1903, at a cost of $2 million, by Scottish-born Honolulu sugar and iron works magnate Alexander Young. The 192-room hotel was designed by California architect George W. Percy. It was his last major commission before he died on December 14, 1900.</p><br>
<p>The hotel opened on July 31, 1903, with a gala reception attended by 2000 people. It quickly became a social center for the city. Young expanded his hotel empire, the Territorial Hotel Company, by purchasing the Moana Hotel on Waikiki Beach in 1905 and later the first Royal Hawaiian Hotel in downtown Honolulu. After his death, in 1910, the company also purchased the Honolulu Seaside Hotel, adjacent to the Moana. Young "became known as the father of the hotel industry in Hawaii."</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the United States Army used the second floor of the Alexander Young Hotel, while Fort Shafter was completed. Later that year, the Army & Navy YMCA purchased the first Royal Hawaiian Hotel from the Territorial Hotel Company. The interwar years saw the hotels Roof Garden become one of Honolulus most fashionable social venues. Hawaiis first post-Prohibition cocktail lounge license was issued to the hotel in 1933, and the hotel opened Hawaiis first air-conditioned dining room in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Matson Navigation Company and Castle & Cooke bought a controlling interest in the Territorial Hotel Company in 1925, in order to demolish their Honolulu Seaside Hotel and construct the modern Royal Hawaiian Hotel on the site. Matson also acquired the Moana with this purchase, but the Alexander Young Hotel&#39;s ownership was transferred to the Alexander Young Building Co.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the military occupied most of the hotel. The Alexander Young Hotel closed and was converted to offices in 1964. The site was removed from the National Register in October 2009.</p><br>
<p>The BMA Tower is a building in Kansas City, Missouri. Also known as One Park Place, it was built as a 19-story Modern style office building. Located on a prominent height 3 mi south of downtown Kansas City, the 280 ft building is uniquely visible. The building was planned for the Business Mens Assurance Company of America, an insurance company, on the site of the former St. Josephs Orphanage. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with steel-frame construction and clad in a contrasting grid of deeply inset black glass and white marble. It was the first high-rise structure in Kansas City since the building of City Hall in 1936, and opened in 1963.</p><br>
<p>Designed by SOM project manager Bruce Graham, who later was lead architect for the John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower, the BMA tower is completely devoid of ornament, using only the contrast between the white cladding on the columns and beams with the black glazing as expression. In design it is closely related to the First City National Bank Building in Houston, designed by Gordon Bunshaft, another SOM partner. Even more than the upper-floor windows, the ground floor is deeply inset, with glass surrounding just the central building core to function as a lobby. The structure encloses 384,000 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s original marble cladding was replaced after several panels fell from the building in 1985 and 1986. The problem was traced to the thinness of the panels (1.25 in and the method of anchorage to the frame. As a result of extensive investigation, the panels were replaced with neoparium, a glass product that appeared indistinguishable from marble at more than 100 ft. This failure mode was not uncommon in buildings of this era that employed thin marble cladding. Several buildings, most notably the Aon Center in Chicago were re-clad with materials other than marble.</p><br>
<p>The BMA Building won an Architectural Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Steel Construction and a First Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.</p><br>
<p>The building was sold by the BMA in 2002 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places the same year. Renamed One Park Place, it was extensively renovated, stripped of asbestos and converted to residential condominiums. Renovation was completed in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District is a nationally recognized historic district located near Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. At the time of its nomination it contained 27 resources, which included 15 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, three contributing structures, and six non-contributing buildings. The contributing buildings include the farm house , the main barn , a stable , a privy, engine house, smokehouse, chicken house, and hog house all from the early 1900s, a shop/crib , a second barn , an apple packing shed , an apple cold storage shed or cooler with loading dock , a truck shed , a garage  and a machine shed . The contributing structures include a pond that was used for spraying apples , a spray tank/house , and an old section of road. The contributing sites are the three historic orchards. The East Orchard was established before 1874 and it still has remnant older trees. The Old North Orchard was established around the turn of the 20th century, but the trees were primarily planted in the 1970s and the 1980s. The North Orchard was established in 1940-1941 and includes some remnant older trees and replacement trees from the 1970s to the 1990s. The non-contributing buildings are more recently built, or moved here in recent years.</p><br>
<p>The farm was founded by German immigrants Jacob and Elizabeth Faeth in 1842. Mormons encamped near the farm after fleeing Nauvoo, Illinois. Adam Faeth built the existing house and barn. Herb Faeth expanded the orchard; he was close friends with the naturalist Aldo Leopold. Faeth Farm was self-supporting, sustainable farm for decades, and is believed to have the oldest orchard west of the Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>In November, 2008, the farm was divided among four different parties, and much of it is likely to be developed. The core of the farmstead might remain orchard, but the property is still considered one of Iowa&#39;s most endangered historic sites.</p><br>
<p>The Central Library is the main library of the Kansas City Public Library system, which is located in the Library District of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is situated at 14 West 10th Street, at the corner of West 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue, across Baltimore Avenue from the Kansas City Club and up from the New York Life Building. It contains the administration of Kansas City&#39;s library system.</p><br>
<p>Within the Central Library, the Missouri Valley Room contains a wide collection of items related to Kansas City local history, including original and published materials, news articles, postcards, photographs, maps, and directories dating from the citys earliest history. The Librarys Ramos Collection includes books, pamphlets, journal articles, and other materials relating to African-American history and culture.</p><br>
<p>The Walker House is a Queen Anne Revival private residence located in Garrison, New York that is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It was built in 1885 by Samuel Sloan, a prominent 19th century railroad magnate, on the grounds of his own Garrison estate, Oulagisket. In 1894, Sloan gave the Walker House to his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Joseph Walker, Jr., although it had been initially used by one of his sons, William S. Sloan. Sloan built it next to Wyndune, the house that he had built and given in 1883 to Elizabeth&#39;s older sister, Margaret, and her husband, Rev. Joseph Rankin Duryee. The Walker House, Oulagisket, and Wyndune all remain today as privately owned homes, monuments to a long-ago era in the history of the Hudson Valley.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Sloan, a regular business partner and ally of J.P. Morgan, was a well-known railroad executive, developer, and builder during the second half of the nineteenth century, best known for his 32-year tenure as president and a director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. As a prominent New York businessman, he also served as a director of a variety of other corporations, including Western Union Telegraph Company, United States Trust Company, Consolidated Gas Company, Farmers Loan and Trust Company, and the predecessor of what is today Citibank. His name is engraved in stone on the wall in the former Citibank headquarters at 55 Wall Street, and a large statue of him is located the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey. His obituary in The New York Times said of him, "Samuel Sloan, Builder of Railroads: No name in the financial and railroad world is more closely identified with building of the great railroad systems which serve New York than that of Samuel Sloan" (obituary of Samuel Sloan, The New York Times, September 23, 1907).</p><br>
<p>Garrison is located in the Hudson Valley approximately 40 miles north of New York City and sits in the middle of the Hudson Highlands, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, directly across from West Point. As rail service increasingly developed north of New York City, some of its wealthiest and most prominent families began to build large, luxurious estates in and around Garrison and throughout the Hudson Valley, with the most affluent utilizing their own private rail cars to travel back and forth. Family names such as Morgan, Vanderbilt, Gould, Roosevelt, Osborn, Fish, Livingston, Cornish, Mills, and others increasingly proliferated throughout the Hudson Valley and surrounding Hudson Highlands.</p><br>
<p>Sloan was noted for having been deeply devout, and one son-in-law, Joseph Rankin Duryee, was a prominent minister in New York City during the last quarter of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th. From 1879 through 1920 he served as pastor of what was initially called the Seventh Avenue Chapel of the Dutch Collegiate Reformed Church, located at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 54th Street. It later became independent and was renamed the Grace Reformed Church, with Duryee continuing as its pastor (The Century Association Biographical Archives Foundation, entry for Joseph R. Duryee;see also, "A Daytonian in Manhattan," May 7, 2018, "The Lost Grace Reformed Church").</p><br>
<p>In 1927 Duryee wrote and published a 175-page-long biography of Sloan and his wife, Margaret Elmendorf Sloan, covering their lives and family, time in the Hudson Valley, and Sloan&#39;s business career (Duryee, Joseph Rankin: The Story of Samuel and Margaret Sloan; Published Privately for Family Circulation Only, 1927, 100 copies; reprinted, 2013, ISHI Press International). The biography states that, because of the deaths of two of their children in 1861, the Sloans began looking for a location where they could build a summer estate outside of New York City. It was common at the time to believe that summering outside of crowded metropolitan areas improved health generally and particularly for children. The Sloans began buying land in Garrison during the Civil War and, according to the Duryee biography, were encouraged to do so by Governor Hamilton Fish and also by William H. Osborn, both of whom had recently built extensive summer estates in Garrison. The Sloans built their own Garrison summer estate, Oulagisket (later renamed Lisburne Grange by his son) in 1864, immediately adjacent to the Osborn estate.</p><br>
<p>Sloan and his wife built the Walker House near Oulagisket and adjacent to Wyndune in 1885. It was originally occupied by their son, William, but was given to their daughter, Elizabeth La Grange Sloan (1862 - 1960), and her husband, Joseph Walker, Jr.(1858-1927). The Walkers had been married on April 27, 1887, at the South Reformed Church on Fifth Avenue. In its report of the wedding, the next day&#39;s New York Times described it in the headline as "FIFTH AVENUE THE SCENE OF AN UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT WEDDING." Guests included the recently elected reform mayor of New York City, Abram Hewitt, and his wife, Sarah Cooper Hewitt, and the paper reported that the Walkers left on an afternoon train up the Hudson, to be followed by a three-month tour abroad. Walker became a senior partner and president of the investment banking firm of Joseph Walker & Sons and member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1982 both the Walker House and Oulagisket were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Queen Anne Revival architectural style flourished in the United States during the last quarter of the 19th century. It followed the Second Empire style, which became popular beginning in the second quarter of the 19th century and reached its peak during the third quarter. The Walker House contains many elements of the Queen Anne Revival style of architecture, including an asymmetrical facade; dominant front-facing and side-facing gables; a wrap-around covered porch; spindle work; a polygonal bay; and a slate roof. It is situated on a four-acre (1.6 ha) lot. It is surrounded by tall trees; the deep ravine created by Arden Brook as well as the steep slope of Fort Hill elevate the house above the road and, together, partially obstruct the view of the house from it. A driveway curves up the slope from the east to the front facade.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-story frame home on a brick foundation with several nested roofs shingled in slate, together with a copper porch roof. The wraparound porch extends across the front of the house and around most of the west side and part of the east side. The steeply-pitched main roof is done in a chateau style with eyebrow vents on three sides of the house; the existing badly-deteriorated vents were replaced with custom-fitted copper vents in 2015, while the original crockets on the gable ridges were removed when the original slate roof was replaced with new slates in 2001–2002.</p><br>
<p>Three large brick chimneys pierce the extensions to the north and south, and a polygonal bay extends further from the north. A veranda with turned posts and corner brackets extends around three sides of the structure.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1891, the New York City firm of Watson & Co. published its monumental atlas of the Hudson River in 35 separate sheets (Beers, Frederick W.: Atlas of the Hudson River Valley from New York City to Troy, Watson & Co., 1891). This great work of cartography was issued in 35 separate sheets, each approximately 30" x 20". Each sheet shows a different section of the Hudson River measuring from four to five miles north to south, together with a view of approximately four miles east to west on either side of the Hudson. Each sheet identifies the owners of the various estates and properties and outlines their approximate dimensions.</p><br>
<p>Garrison is shown on Sheet 12, and it identifies Oulagiskat, Wyndune, and the Walker House, except that the Walker House is listed as that of W. S. Sloan, which is consistent with the Duryee biography&#39;s use of 1894 as the date of transfer of the house by Sloan to the Walkers. Section 12 also shows the Osborn estate immediately south of the Sloan estate, with the Fish estate below that and Cragston, the great 700 acre J.P. Morgan estate across the river and to the south. When built, the Walker House was located on the large Sloan family summer estate, together with Oulagisket, Wyndune, and numerous supporting buildings. The original Sloan estate has been divided over the years; its various out-buildings have all been converted to residential use; and all are now under separate ownership. According to the Duryee biography, Sloan had built the first summer house on his estate for his daughter, Maria, in 1872, following her marriage to Edgar Stirling Auchincloss. Its location on the Sloan estate is not otherwise described by Duryee, and he refers to it only as the "Auchincloss Cottage."</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Walker family until 1956, when it was sold to Walker O. and Abby H. Cain. Walker O. Cain (no known relation of Joseph Walker), a prominent twentieth-century architect, practiced at McKim, Meade & White, which firm was ultimately succeeded by his own firm, Walker O. Cain Associates. Since the house had been a summer residence when owned by the Walkers, modern mechanical services were added to the house after the 1956 sale to make it usable year-round. The house was later sold again in 2000 and then in 2005. Following both the sale in 2000 and that in 2005, the house was extensively renovated and updated. In 1978, the railing from the widows walk on top of the roof was removed because of its general deterioration, but kept in storage for possible future restoration. The widows walk was completely rebuilt and reinstalled in 2012. Because only two families (the Walkers and then the Cains) successively owned the house for over 100 years, many original period details remained intact and were preserved in later restorations.</p><br>
<p>Quinta Vendrell, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is believed to have been designed by architect Alfredo B. Wiechers Pieretti. It is a two-story balloon framed country house that was built in 1918. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The home sustained damages as a result of Hurricane María on September 20, 2017, and in 2019, the owners were in talks with community representatives about how to raise funds to repair it.</p><br>
<p>The Mott House was a historic residence constructed in 1839 in Columbus, Georgia. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Mott House was constructed in 1839.</p><br>
<h3>Final years</h3><br>
<p>Following the construction of the TSYS campus in 1999, the Mott House was deemed to remain in its original location, between the newly constructed main TSYS office building and its parking garage (designed to look like the cotton mill that once stood in the same location) along the banks of the Chattahoochee River. In 2013, a renovation of the Mott House began, consisting of many added facilities. During the early morning of September 7, 2014, the Mott House caught fire; it was later determined to be a total loss.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, a memorial opened at the site of the Mott House, showcasing a replica of its Antebellum facade, along with many plaques describing its history.</p><br>
<p>Normandy Grange is located along NY 9D north of Garrison, New York, United States. It is a Norman-style house and farm complex built in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was intended to be the gatehouse for Evans Dicks nearby Dicks Castle estate, which was never completed. He and his family lived there during construction of the castle, and found they liked it. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<p>The Grange is today on two lots: a four-acre (1.6 ha) parcel with the west-facing gatehouse on Route 9D, and the farm buildings on the back 44 acre. Trees screen most of the front of the gatehouse from the highway. A driveway curves around through an open area past some of the farm buildings, and then uphill. There are five contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The gatehouse is a three-story stucco-sided building with a steeply pitched jerkin roof and exposed rafters. It has sixteen steep hipped dormer windows and three shed-roofed porches. The chimneys have arched brick covers on top. Garage and greenhouse wings have been added.</p><br>
<p>Behind it, to the east, is the barn, built into the slope. It is two stories high, with a similarly steep slate gable roof topped with a cupola and randomly placed hipped dormers. Inside are horse stalls and a hayloft on the upper level and a calf barn on the lower. A one-story stucco-sided slate-covered gable-roofed pigeon and dove roost is attached to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>Further to the east, up the hill, is the combined carriage house and servants&#39; quarters. It is an H-shaped one-and-a-half-story stone building. Its gabled roof has a similar treatment as the gatehouse, with exposed rafters and stucco chimneys with arched caps. Next to it is a small building known as the Turkey House. Dick liked to play card games there, but it is not known if turkeys were ever actually raised in it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dick had begun acquiring the property, part of the former Gouverneur estate, as early as 1880 with the intent of building an estate there. He named the support structures for the hilltop castle Normandy Grange, after their Norman architectural style, rarely used in the USA During construction, he and his family lived in the Grange houses themselves and found they liked them.</p><br>
<p>Later the properties were split into the two lots found today. Some additions were made, such as the greenhouse and garage on the gatehouse, and one of the carriage bays in that house was closed off. The property left the Dick family but has remained private residences, with minimal alteration since those modifications.</p><br>
<p>In 1993 the pictured "gatehouse" and contiguous property was purchased by S.T.B. Jablonski, a New York City S.E.C. registered investment advisor; from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trost, through McCaffrey Realty of Cold Spring, N.Y. In 1994, it was discovered that the residence had been infested for decades with a substantial colonization of bats; which had not been disclosed and intentionally hidden by the sellers and their real estate agents, in order to accomplish sale of the property. In 1996 Jablonski filed suit against the sellers and their agents, for rescission of the purchase. Although terms of the settlement cannot be disclosed, the property was transferred in 2005 to the ownership of the wife of the attorney who represented the real estate agents. Prior to this lawsuit, New York had been a</p><br>
<p>caveat emptor (buyer beware) state with respect to real estate transactions. The lawsuit "Jablonski versus Trost, McCaffrey, Piermarini</p><br>
<p>et al", has resulted in significant changes protecting buyers from fraudulent concealment by sellers and their agents.</p><br>
<p>The Cardona Residence  is a historic house in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It was built in 1913. It is "one of the most interesting and best preserved" houses in Aguadilla from its era.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000. In 2005 it was acquired as the new home of the Museum of Art of Aguadilla and the Caribbean. It remains in use by the museum as of 2016.</p><br>
<p>Residencia Cardona en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.jpgResidencia Cardona, 2014</p><br>
<p>Interior de Residencia Cardona en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.jpgInterior view of Residencia Cardona</p><br>
<p>Sign indicates 1913 in back of Residencia Cardona in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.jpgYear when residence was built indicated on back of house</p><br>
<p>Casa de Piedra, also known as Residencia Amparo Roldán, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is a Spanish Colonial-style home that was erected in 1875. It is the only surviving residence of its era in Aguadilla; most similar ones were damaged in the 1918 San Fermín earthquake and eventually demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places of Puerto Rico in 1986 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It was built on stone foundations of an even older building that has been suggested to be the home of Ponce de Leon.</p><br>
<p>The Wynne House is a historic house on 4th Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1914, and is the city&#39;s best example of residential Classical Revival architecture. It is Foursquare in plan, with a hip roof with large gable dormers projecting. A porch wraps around two sides, featuring elaborate spindled balusters and Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>El Parterre is a landscaped park in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, that was built in 1851. The park encloses the Ojo de Agua , also referred to as Manantial Ojo de Agua, a natural spring which was a source of water for Spanish soldiers, and the source of a small rivulet locally called Chico River  which empties into the Aguadilla Bay.</p><br>
<p>The park is located in downtown Aguadilla and, in addition to the Ojo de Agua, it commemorates historic figures from the history of Aguadilla such as poet José de Diego.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the establishment of El Parterre, the Ojo de Agua served as a water source for the first European settlers of modern-day Aguadilla. Before the founding of Aguadilla, the site around the water source was used by Sir Francis Drake as a resupplying base in 1595. The spring kept being used as a primary water source for Spanish soldiers and later on by the first European settlers of the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, who named the new town San Carlos de La Aguadilla partially after the Ojo de Agua (Aguadilla is also the diminutive of Aguada, the name of the older town located directly to the south). The site was also visited and mentioned by the Benedictine monk and historian Fray Inigo Abad y La Sierra, who described it as a site of great beauty.</p><br>
<p>The first foundations of El Parterre were established by German engineer Enrique Hau (Heinrich Hau) who built a mortar and stone enclosure around the spring and a shallow brick pool and stone channel along the stream in 1852. The Puente de la Reina (the Queens Bridge&#39;) was added to the plaza by orders of Spanish magistrate Adolfo Ruiz in 1865, and the rest of the park was completed in 1882, by then mayor Don Ramón Méndez de Arcay.</p><br>
<p>The park and spring were listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Columbus Historic District in Columbus, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The expanded district included 343 contributing buildings, one other structure, three sites, and one object (an 1879 Confederate war memorial).</p><br>
<p>Fifteen of the historic houses had been moved but were still deemed to contribute to the historic character of the district.</p><br>
<p>It includes the antebellum octagon house at 527 1st Avenue, a National Historic Landmark, named Octagon House or May&#39;s Folly.</p><br>
<p>Seabreeze is a beachside neighborhood in Daytona Beach, Florida, which existed as an independent city from May 24, 1901, until January 1, 1926, when it merged with Daytona and Daytona Beach to become one consolidated city.</p><br>
<p>Seabreeze has been memorialized as the Seabreeze Historic District, a USA Historic District (designated as such on September 3, 1998). The district is bounded by University Boulevard, Halifax Road, Auditorium Boulevard, and North Atlantic Avenue. It contains 596 historic buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1884 David D. Rogers bought 47 acre of land on the beach peninsula, east of Daytona, stretching from present-day Main Street on the north to Harvey Street on the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to Pinewood Cemetery on the west. Rogers divided the property into lots for sale and named the development Seabreeze.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, Charles A. Ballough built a homestead north of the Rogers development, roughly from the present-day Oakridge Boulevard, stretching north to the present University Boulevard. In 1886, Charles H. Brush built a homestead on 60 acre of land between the Rogers and Ballough properties, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the east and about halfway across the peninsula. In 1888, Brush sold half of his property, which was developed into a subdivision.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, a post office named Halifax was established on the peninsula, located on the riverfront near present-day Main Street. In 1890, the Post Office Department changed the name of this post office to Seabreeze to match the name of Rogers&#39; development.</p><br>
<p>In 1887, the first bridge was opened across the Halifax River from Daytona to the peninsula. It was called the Central Bridge (named the Main Street Bridge today, carrying CR 4040) and connected Fairview Ave. in Daytona to Seabreeze Ave. (named Main St. today), in old Daytona Beach.</p><br>
<p>In 1892, Col. C. C. Post and his wife, Helen Wilmans Post, bought half of Ballough&#39;s property, which they turned into another development, and would later become the core of the town of Seabreeze. They opened Ocean Boulevard (today named Seabreeze Blvd.) from Valley St. (today named Halifax Ave.) to the ocean and paved it with marl. Col. Post built a store, an opera house, a printing office, and a residence for his family. Mrs. Post founded a school of "Mental Science" and began publishing a paper named "Freedom," on the subject.</p><br>
<p>The volume of mail connected with the "Mental Science" activities had grown so much, that by 1897, the Post Office Department decided to move the Seabreeze post office north to Ocean Blvd. The moving of "their" post office greatly upset the residents living around Seabreeze Ave., who petitioned the Post Office Department for a new post office. The request was granted in 1898, and a new post office was granted with the name of Goodall (named after Congressman Ernest Goodall of Maine), also located at the corner of Valley St. (Halifax Ave.) and Seabreeze Ave. (Main St.).</p><br>
<h3>Incorporation</h3><br>
<p>On May 24, 1901, the citizens living in the Seabreeze post office area voted to incorporate the development. They elected Col. C. C. Post as the first mayor, chose five town council members and other officials. Mrs. Post promoted the new town as "City Beautiful."</p><br>
<p>In 1902, a bridge was constructed from Ocean Blvd. in Seabreeze to Mason Ave. on the mainland, at the northern border of Daytona. Originally called the North Bridge, it later became known as the Seabreeze Bridge.</p><br>
<p>On January 28, 1905, the residents around the Goodall post office assembled to discuss the matter of incorporation. Several meetings followed, until on March 23, 1905, and election meeting was held where 41 votes were cast for incorporation as Daytona Beach. The first mayor was E. E. Johnson. The dividing line between Daytona Beach and Seabreeze was located roughly at today&#39;s Auditorium Blvd.</p><br>
<h3>Consolidation</h3><br>
<p>In 1925, representatives of Daytona, Daytona Beach, and Seabreeze met to discuss merger of the three cities. On January 1, 1926, a consolidated City of Daytona Beach replaced the three smaller municipalities. This made Daytona the seventh largest city in Florida by population.</p><br>
<p>The George H. Gallup House is an historic octagonal house built in 1901 that is located at 703 South Chestnut Street in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. It was the birthplace and boyhood home of Dr. George Horace Gallup, the pioneer of public opinion polling. On July 18, 1985, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>George H. Gallup was committed to the octagon house, having built three of them. The first was built in 1893 on North Elm Street in Jefferson. It featured Queen Anne detailing, and it was somewhat asymmetrical because of its porch and bay placement. He sold this house in 1899 and began building a second one. Gallup began building his third and final octagon house in 1901 and completed it the following year. It was in this house that his son George was born and raised. The 2-story frame house is built on a rubble coursed stone foundation. Its eight sides are 16 ft wide and covered with clapboard siding. The house is capped with a truncated octagonal roof.</p><br>
<p>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The congregation was established in either 1870 or 1871, which makes this the oldest historically African American church in the city. It had 23 pastors from its inception to 1928, which followed the African Methodist Episcopal Churchs practice of itinerant pastors. The congregation grew slowly over this same period. Many African Americans came to Cedar Rapids after the coal industry in Southern Iowa began to collapse. The Rev. Benjamin Horace Lucas, who became pastor here in 1928, was also a catalyst for growth in the congregation. Completed in 1931, this brick Colonial Revival structure replaced a wood-frame structure from 1876. Since its completion, it has served the social and religious needs of the community. It is one of the few surviving links to Cedar Rapids early African American community as this neighborhood has been nearly obliterated by the development of Mercy Medical Center. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Linden Depot is a historic train station located at Linden, Montgomery County, Indiana. In 1852 the New Albany and Salem Railroad  Railroad cut through Montgomery County, Indiana. The old stage road between Crawfordsville and Linden was given to the railroad as an inducement to get them to build through Linden. 1852 also saw the building of the first Linden depot, on a site behind the present day Post Office. The building was moved to the current location in 1881 when the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad was built through Linden, crossing the Monon at this location.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Located in the disused Monon Railroad Station, the Linden Museum is run by the Linden-Madison Twp. Historical Society. The museum is a joint venture between the Linden-Madison Twp. Historical Society and the Monon Railroad Historical/Technical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Indian Brook Road Historic District is located on both sides of that street&#39;s intersection with US 9 east of Garrison, New York, United States. Its 30 acre contain 15 buildings, all but two of which are considered contributing properties to its historic character.</p><br>
<p>From the late 18th to mid-20th century, the area was a rural hamlet known first as Warrens and later as Nelson&#39;s Corner. Unlike most other such small country settlements, it has survived industrialization and the automobile era with its basic plan, and most of its buildings, relatively intact. In 1993, the area was designated a historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district consists of two irregularly shaped areas along unpaved Indian Brook Road joined by a narrow corridor along the brief, paved section of Route 9 that connects them. These boundaries reflect the extent of Nelson&#39;s Corner during its peak period of growth in the late 19th century. They include all of ten separate lots.</p><br>
<p>The land in the district is heavily wooded, with tall trees shading the buildings within, mostly frame houses and supporting structures no higher than two stories. Indian Brook, the tributary of the Hudson River that lends its name to the district, closely parallels the road and is even partially included as a contributing property, due to an early mill pond&#39;s location along it. The entire area is amid the lesser hills of the Hudson Highlands.</p><br>
<p>On the east side of US 9, the district takes in a small portion of Old Albany Post Road, the only contributing property separately listed on the Register as an important early local transportation route and one of the oldest dirt roads still in use in the United States. At this junction is the Bird and Bottle Inn, a surviving tavern from the early days of Nelson&#39;s Corner that incorporates a small portion of the original building. The west goes as far as a former intersection known as "The Bend" and includes a large lot that climbs the slopes of Cat Hill to the northwest.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Around the time of the Revolution, Samuel Warrens home in the area became well known enough as a rest stop along the Albany Post Road for "Warrens" to appear on maps. In the early 19th century, his son John leased, and built a farm on, 411 acre that include the entire current historic district. His house, on the future site of the Bird and Bottle, was also open as a tavern for travelers. Johns brother Samuel Jr. also built a house for his family on the property, just west of the highway. Both are prominent features of the district, built in the vernacular style common among Americans of English descent at that time.</p><br>
<p>In 1804, the Highlands Turnpike, a more level alternative route to the Post Road currently followed by US 9, was opened. At the hamlet, it deviated slightly from the current alignment, following Indian Brook down to a four-way junction known as the Bend, where a now-abandoned roadway went south over the brook to rejoin the road still in use.</p><br>
<p>Warren was not able to buy his land outright until 1821, when a compensation claim by the heirs of Frederick Philipse, the local landowner whose holdings had been confiscated by the state for his Loyalist sympathies during the war, was settled on the condition that all leaseholds be abolished.</p><br>
<p>Sometime in the early 19th century (the exact date is not known), John Warren dammed Indian Brook to create a mill and pond as a way of increasing the economic worth of his property. This began to make the farm into a settlement rather than just a rest stop on a long highway, as the other three houses in the district were built during this period. They show the influence of the Federal style popular in the new nation at the time. Samuel Warren&#39;s house was also enlarged during this period, and the sections of the brook nearby were channelized to control flooding</p><br>
<p>The Warren brothers both died in the mid-1830s. After a series of transactions that briefly took Johns property out of the family, by 1854 it was back in the family, owned by his son-in-law John Nelson. Samuels home remained in his descendants&#39; hands for another four decades.</p><br>
<p>John Nelson closed the tavern, since the rise of the railroads had diverted much of the traffic once handled by the Post Road to the riverside, and used the building as his family residence. Maps now named the area Nelson&#39;s Corner. He continued to operate the mill. A school was built in 1844, but other than that there were few changes to the hamlet in the late 19th century, as the focus of the economy had moved elsewhere with the rise of industry.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, another transportation shift brought travelers back to the hamlet. Automobiles became more common, and adventurous drivers ventured down long-neglected rural roads in search of interesting places like Nelsons Corner. Route 9 was designated and paved in 1912, and once again Nelsons Corner was a stop on a long road between New York City and Albany. The state cut a new section of Route 9 that bypassed the Bend, making passage through the hamlet easier for travelers and also helping to preserve the hamlet buildings on that side of the new highway.</p><br>
<p>Roadside businesses flourished on the new road for a time. In 1939, John Warren&#39;s old tavern was expanded in the Colonial Revival style that had already been applied to other buildings in the hamlet, and reopened as the Bird and Bottle. After World War II, the state built limited-access roads like the Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway that made the trip up the Hudson Valley faster and took much of the traffic off Route 9 again.</p><br>
<p>Many of those who had visited the area were city residents, and some were drawn to move to the area at least part-time, a trend that had begun with the large estates built in the area during the late 19th century. In the late 20th century, with easier auto and rail access, this led to the suburbanization of eastern Putnam County. Some of this development has occurred near the district, but not in it. It remains very similar to the place it was in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Woodburn or the Woodburn Plantation is an antebellum house near Pendleton in Anderson County, South Carolina. It is at 130 History Lane just off of USA 76. It was built as a summer home by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Woodburn was named to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1970. It also is part of the Pendleton Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although some indicate that Woodburn was built in the early 19th century, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1789–1865) was a son of Thomas Pinckney. He was named for his uncle Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The younger Pinckney was lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1832 to 1834.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Pinckney, a brother of Charles, built his summer home "Altamont" in Pendleton. This house no longer exists. In 1828, Charles Pinckney purchased land in the Pendleton area. He constructed Woodburn around 1830.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, Charles Pinckney sold Woodburn to David S. Taylor, who resold it to John Bailey Adger. Dr. Adger had been a Presbyterian missionary in Smyrna and Constantinople. Adger sold Woodburn to his brother Joseph E. Adger in 1858. It was bought by Augustine T. Smythe in 1881, who developed it into a model livestock farm with purebred cattle and race horses.</p><br>
<p>William Frederick Calhoun Owen purchased the land in 1911, but he lost it through mortgage foreclosure in 1930. It was later sold to John Frank. Later it was acquired by the USA government and then by Clemson College. It is currently owned by the Pendleton Historic Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Jane Edna Hunter, an African-American social worker, was born in 1882 to sharecropper parents on the Woodburn Plantation. She went on to establish the Phillis Wheatley Association in Cleveland, which was named to honor Phillis Wheatley, a Revolutionary era African-American poet.</p><br>
<p>Woodburn is now a museum home run by the Pendleton Historic Foundation. It is open Sunday and Saturday afternoons from April to October. Eighteen furnished rooms on three floors can be viewed. Adjacent to Woodburn is the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original house was constructed around 1830 and enlarged in 1850. A widow&#39;s walk at the top of the house was removed in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story frame house on a full, raised basement. The house was covered in clapboards. The house is a "Charleston-type" house built to take advantage of summer breezes. It has two-story porch or veranda that wraps around three sides of the house. There are two sets of stairs leading from ground level to the first floor. These lead through French doors to either the parlor or the drawing room. Some of the second floor windows have hinged panels below to allow access to the veranda.</p><br>
<p>The rooms have high ceilings. Most of the interior walls are covered with 10 in horizontal boards. The full basement has a warming kitchen and a dining room that is relatively cool on hot summer days.</p><br>
<p>Exterior and interior pictures and floor plans prior to its restoration are available.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Theater is a theater located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Completed in July 1927, the Missouri Theater was built as a cinema in the atmospheric style, using a combination of Art Deco and Moorish detailing.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Theater was designed by noted theater architects Boller Brothers of Kansas City, Missouri, with sculpture by Waylande Gregory. It was constructed by the Capital Building Company of Lincoln, Nebraska for local attorney and promoter Joseph Goldman. The theater has a single balcony that looks over a house designed to resemble an open tented courtyard, decorated with details borrowed from Assyrian and Persian architecture. While the theater was principally designed for movies, it could also be used for live performances, with dressing rooms, a fly loft and an orchestra pit. It also featured a Wurlitzer theater organ.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Theater operated as a cinema until 1970. For the next few years it operated as a community theater, and was purchased by a community group in 1976. In 1978 the city of St. Joseph bought the theater for use as a performing arts center. The theater and office building were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the St. Joseph&#39;s Commerce and Banking Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The theater was renovated in 2002. A 1960s canopy was removed and the marquee was restored.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Theater was an inspiration for the Isauro Martinez theater located in Torreón, a city in northern Mexico. This theater began its construction in 1928 and to date still remains in operation.</p><br>
<p>The Urban Rowhouse is a historic rowhouse located at 30–38 Pearl Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1874, this was one of the earliest masonry rowhouses to be built in Cambridge. Stylistically, the three-story brick buildings are in a Ruskinian Gothic style, with horizontal bands of colored brick, hooded window lintels, a corbelled cornice, and a steeply pitched mansard roof with gabled dormers.</p><br>
<p>The rowhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Urban Rowhouse is an historic residential rowhouse located at 26–32 River Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These rowhouses were built in 1860 by Frederick Clapp, and are among the earliest surviving examples of the type in the city. They feature a combination of brick and brownstone masonry, but also with some trim made out of wood that has been treated to appear like brownstone. They bear some resemblance to rowhouses built at the same time in Boston&#39;s South End.</p><br>
<p>The rowhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Old Urban Cemetery, also known as Cementerio Municipal, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is a cemetery with burials dating back to 1813 or 1814. Near the town of Aguadilla&#39;s north entrance, it spreads between the beach and the foot of the mountain and is enclosed by mortar and stone walls. It is located at the foot of Cuesta Vieja, a sector of Aguadilla barrio-pueblo. Many of its older tombs, made of brick, stone and mortar, were damaged in a 1918 earthquake .</p><br>
<p>Use of the cemetery began when burials were no longer allowed in the churchyard. Graves include that of poet-laureat José de Jesús Esteves, painter Rafael Arroyo Gely, and Luis R. Esteves (the first Puerto Rican graduate of West Point).</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was originally divided into sections for Catholics and non-Catholics.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985,</p><br>
<p>The López Residence  is a historic house in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Built in 1914, this one-story, Neoclassical structure is architecturally significant as a typical urban residence for a well-to-do Puerto Rican family in the early 20th century, and as one of the most important remaining works by architect Manuel Gómez Tejera. Notable architectural elements of the house include its five slender, octagonal Corinthian columns, recessed ceiling panels on the balcony, ornate cast-iron balcony ornamentation, native ceramic tile floors, rooftop balcony, four louvered wooden doors with scrollwork frames facing the street, and filigreed interior arches supported by turned and octagonal columns. It faces the 1925 District Courthouse across Progreso Street, forming a historic Neoclassical set.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000 under the name Herreras López Family Residence (residencia de los Herreras López).</p><br>
<p>The Villarán Bridge , also known as the Canóvanas Bridge, is a historic bridge over the Canóvanas River in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Built in 1892 on the highway between Río Piedras and Río Grande, its iron superstructure was imported from Europe and set on masonry abutments. It is the best-preserved example of an Eiffel pony truss bridge in Puerto Rico or the United States. By 1994, the bridge had been replaced by an adjacent span for vehicular use, but it remained open for pedestrian use.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and to the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Columbus Ironworks  was built in 1853. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1969. During the Civil War, the industrial plant produced weapons for the Confederate army. These weapons included cannons, pistols, rifles, and swords.</p><br>
<p>Today, it is used as an event center. Recurring events include local high school dances or dinners, Christmas in the South (a three-day Christmas sale), NerdaCon and concerts. In addition to hosting events, the center displays artifacts and factoids from its days as a factory.</p><br>
<p>Winnebago County Courthouse in Forest City, Iowa, United States, is a historic building and active courthouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Because early county records were destroyed in an 1861 fire it is difficult to determine where court proceedings were held in Winnebago County&#39;s early years. County voters petitioned for a $20,000 courthouse to be built, but little work was done on the building. The county Board of Supervisors eventually decided the courthouse plans were too extravagant, and a smaller, less expensive structure was built. The courts determined that the Board of Supervisors had acted inappropriately and was still responsible for the bonds. They settled for $3,500 in compensation for the construction. It was built by contractor Martin Bumgardner and F.A. Gross. Funds were raised through local subscriptions. An addition was added on the west side in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is a two-story buff-colored brick structure. The basement level is composed of coarse stone. The main entrance is in a recessed area behind three arches, which is possibly the most interesting feature of the building. A large square clock tower rising five stories on the northeast corner of the building. The building is capped with a hipped roof, however, there are pyramid shaped roofs on the projecting pavilions on three corners. The tower roof has been shortened. The significance of the courthouse is derived from its association with county government, and the political power and prestige of Forest City as the county seat.</p><br>
<p>Wells County Courthouse in Fessenden, North Dakota is a two-story Queen Anne style courthouse built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by John W. Ross (1848-1914).</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, the building "is stylistically significant for its Queen Anne design, and particularly so as an uncommon example in the state of the "urban" expression of that mode: brick fabric, with soaring, parapeted chimneys."</p><br>
<p>Alston-DeGraffenried Plantation or Alston-DeGraffenried House is a historic property located in Chatham County, North Carolina, near Pittsboro, North Carolina. It includes a plantation house built through the forced labor of at least 11 enslaved people between about 1810 and 1825, and its surrounding agricultural fields. The property was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and the listed area was increased in 1993. The house and the surrounding land are identified as a national historic district.</p><br>
<p>The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. They include the main house, kitchen, pig boiling pit, four-seat privy, smokehouse, two-seat privy, corn crib, small barn, well shelter, and the surrounding landscape. The main house is a two-story, five-bay, Georgian/ Federal style dwelling. It sits on a raised brick basement and has a tall hipped roof. It has a full-width Victorian porch and a number of one-story rear additions.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Delia Alston by her father, Joseph John "Chatham Jack" Alston, at the time of Delia&#39;s marriage to John Baker DeGraffenried. It was one of six homes that Alston, one of the largest landowners and enslavers in the area, built for his children. He also built nearby Aspen Hall.</p><br>
<p>John Blue House in Laurinburg, North Carolina was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1978.</p><br>
<p>A unique example of Steamboat Gothic architecture, the John Blue House provides a glimpse into the past of the rural Carolinas. The home features 12 exterior doors, each with its own stained glass light above. The house has nine fireplaces and rare double circular porches.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding grounds include a grove of pecan trees and a collection of structures that tell the story of a different time in the region. These structures include, three authentic log cabins, a restored pre-Civil War cotton gin, and a restored country store.</p><br>
<p>The grounds are always open and are used to host numerous festivals throughout the year; most notably the Storytelling Festival of Carolina, the Scotland County Highland Games and the John Blue Cotton Festival.</p><br>
<p>John Blue Cotton Festival -- The John Blue Cotton Festival is held the second weekend of October. It traditionally draws over 10,000 visitors. This "old timey" event features crafts, antique collections, "hit and miss" engines, entertainment, food, and demonstrations of 19th century games and farming practices.</p><br>
<p>Farmville Historic District is a national historic district located at Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It encompasses 246 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object  in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Farmville. It includes a variety of commercial, residential, institutional, and industrial buildings dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Paulett-Gill house , Farmville Presbyterian Church , Johns Memorial Episcopal Church , Farmville Methodist Church , Hotel Weyanoke , the warehouses of the Dunnington Tobacco Company and Central Virginia Processing, Inc., the former Craddock-Terry Shoe Company, the former Cunningham and Company tobacco prizery, Norfolk and Western Railroad passenger station , Doyne Building , the Watkins M. Abbitt Federal Building , Prince Edward County Courthouse, and the former Farmville High School . Located in the district is the separately listed First Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Station  is a railroad station in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was built by the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad in 1899 and opened in January 1900 during the lumber industry boom in Potter County. When the lumber ran out, the railroad&#39;s business decreased and in 1964 the line and station were purchased by the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad. The station was abandoned in 1970 and was unoccupied until 1975, when the borough of Coudersport purchased it. The borough restored it and put a new roof on, then used the building for office space. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The structure is red brick and sandstone, with a central portion and two wings. The center is stories tall, each wing is stories. The depot has a bellcast gable roof all the way around on the ground floor and a second on much of the second story. it serves as the office building for the borough government of Coudersport, and is the only remaining structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Potter County was formed from part of Lycoming County on March 26, 1804. Coudersport was settled in 1807 and incorporated as a borough from Eulalia Township in 1848. Coudersport has served as the county seat of Potter County since 1835. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>The original plan for a railroad along the Allegheny River between Coudersport and Port Allegany was as a part of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway (JSPC&B), which was incorporated on February 17, 1870. The JSPC&B was originally planned to run from the vicinity of Williamsport west to Jersey Shore, then north up Pine Creek and down the Allegheny River past Coudersport and west to Port Allegany, as part of a larger route to Buffalo, New York. The Panic of 1873 stopped work, although some grading of the proposed line was performed in 1874 and 1875.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1880s the route along the Allegheny River was sold and in October 1882 the narrow gauge Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad opened on the 17 mi line between Coudersport and Port Allegany. The railroad was converted to standard gauge in 1889 and six years later the line was extended east to Newfield Junction (where it connected with the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad) and then on to a new eastern terminus at Ulysses, where it linked with the Fall Brook Railway. This became part of the New York Central Railroad system in 1899, and a year later the western terminus at Port Allegany connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad, so the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad connected the two major rail lines in that part of Pennsylvania. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad began construction on a new station in 1899 and opened it in January 1900. The basic station building cost $6,000, with another $2,000 to $4,000 spent on plumbing and other amenities. Coudersport&#39;s population grew from 1,525 in 1890 to 3,217 in 1900, and this was also when the lumber industry was at its height. The lumber industry declined soon after, and in 1924 the line to Ulysses was abandoned. The western 9 mi of the line to Port Allegany were destroyed in a 1942 flood and the railroad connected to other lines only through Newfield Junction. In 1964 the railroad was purchased by the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad, which finally abandoned it and the station on December 8, 1970. The borough of Coudersport bought the station in 1975 and restored it, adding a new roof. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976. As of 2009 it serves as the police station and office building for the borough government of Coudersport, and is the only remaining structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Station is built of red brick and local sandstone. The walls are made with a course of sandstone 3 ft tall at the base, with the rest brick; there are two brick chimneys on either end of the central section. The building has a center section which is two and a half stories tall and two wings, one on each end, each one and half stories tall. The station is 100 ft long, with a width of 30 ft in the main section and 20 ft in each wing. The first story windows and doors have semi-circular arches at the top, while the second story windows are rectangular. There is a bellcast gable roof that goes all the way around the center section and both wings of the first story, and a second bellcast gable roof goes most of the way around the second story.</p><br>
<p>Originally the first story of the central section was the ticket office and waiting area, with a waiting room for women in one wing, and a room for baggage in the other wing. The second story had a two small private offices, a large office "for the superintendent and his assistants", and two small storage rooms. The third story of the center section was for storage. The building was built with both electric and gas lighting, and gas heat.</p><br>
