<p>The Coudersport Historic District is a historic district in Coudersport, the county seat of Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The district encompasses 73 contributing buildings. Coudersport is in a narrow valley on the Allegheny River and was a boom town when the lumber industry cut the white pine and hemlock forests in the county. Much of the borough&#39;s Victorian era architecture stems from this time, and when the lumber was exhausted by the early 20th century, the borough declined in population and economically, preserving many of the historic structures. The district is centered on the Courthouse Square and notable buildings include the Park United Methodist Church , Presbyterian Church , Episcopal Church , Old Hickory Tavern, and Coudersport Consistory complex. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>The Coudersport Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985. The Potter County Courthouse added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1975, is within the district.</p><br>
<p>The C. Brewer Building at 827 Fort Street in Honolulu, Hawaii was built in 1930 to be the headquarters of C. Brewer & Co., the smallest of Hawaii&#39;s Big Five corporations. The intimate, almost residential design was begun by Bertram Goodhue and completed by Hardie Phillip. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 2 April 1980.</p><br>
<p>Built of reinforced concrete in a Mediterranean Revival style, with cut sandstone and stucco and plaster finish, a walled garden, and second-floor balconies, it also features a tiled, double-pitched "Dickey roof" with wide eaves to protect against sun and rain. The modest decorations symbolized the business of the C. Brewer Company: wrought iron railings represent sugar cane, and light fixtures were designed to resemble of sugar cubes.</p><br>
<p>After closing down the sugar business and diversifying into other agricultural products and spinning off its real-estate business, the company moved to Hilo, Hawaii on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the statewide headquarters of the Hawaii Community Foundation which moved into the building in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Hōlualoa Bay is a historic area between Kailua-Kona and Keauhou Bay in the Kona District of the Big Island of Hawaii. The community now called Hōlualoa is uphill  from this bay.</p><br>
<p>The name means "long slide" in the Hawaiian Language, from the long trail that went from a forest on the slopes of Hualālai (where the village is now), to a site where the logs were made into canoes (on the grounds of Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens) into this bay where a large royal building complex was built over several centuries.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Keakealaniwahine, one of the first known Alii Aimoku wahine ("Queens") of the entire island of Hawaii, built a large complex of buildings here in the seventeenth century, with the area settled several hundred years before that.</p><br>
<p>The royal complex included residential areas, as well as Heiaus (ancient temples) called Hikapaia (for plentiful food and fish) and Hualani (for teaching about medicinal herbs), and burial areas. Keakamahana, the mother of Keakealaniwahine, was the first named royalty to live here.</p><br>
<p>This area (uphill or mauka of Alii drive) was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2005, as the Holualoa 4 Archeological District with site number 05000542.</p><br>
<p>It is State Archeological site number 50-10-37-23.661.</p><br>
<p>The Kamoa Point Complex, the area West of Alii drive on the south side of the bay, included a temple for surfers, called the Haleaama Heiau,</p><br>
<p>and a large ancient sports complex named after chiefess Keolonāhihi, thought to have lived circa 1300. Here warriors could practice their skills. Some legends say Keolonāhihi was the daughter of Paao, the (perhaps mythical) priest who brought the Hawaiian Religion from a distant land.</p><br>
<p>It was added to over the years, including a terraced grandstand to watch surfing contests.</p><br>
<p>Kamehameha I, the great-great-grandson of Keakealaniwahine, probably learned to surf here in his youth.</p><br>
<p>When he came to power he lived further north in Kamakahonu but continued to maintain a temple here called Hale O Kaili to the war god Kūkailimoku.</p><br>
<p>Although this Hōlualoa was for the practical purpose of building canoes, sliding down the lava rock evolved into a favorite sport of the upper class called hee hōlua. Kamehameha constructed a large ramp purely for the sport a few miles further south known as the Keauhou Holua Slide, some of which is preserved.</p><br>
<p>The complex on the point was originally added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983, as site 83000247. It is state site 10-37-2059, added November 2, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Decline</h2><br>
<p>After the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, the royalty converted to Christianity and deconstructed many of the old temples.</p><br>
<p>William Ellis toured the area in 1823, and recorded ruins with holes that had "idols removed" but were otherwise well preserved.</p><br>
<p>He described one enclosure as two hundred seventy feet by two hundred ten feet.</p><br>
<p>The place at the time was called Kaluaokalani but this name was unknown on later visits.</p><br>
<p>The number of different names used through the years has added to confusion about the site.</p><br>
<p>In the Great Mahele of 1848, the area became privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The small beach trail was widened into a larger highway later in the 19th century, bisecting the complex.</p><br>
<p>Some farming and cattle grazing in the early 20th century damaged some features, and a few private homes were built.</p><br>
<p>A developer bought some of the land in 1956 with plans to build a hotel, but only a few small vacation homes were built due to local opposition.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, a survey was done for a project variously known as "Alii Drive realignment", "Kahului-Keauhou Parkway", or "Alii Parkway", which has been on hold for decades.</p><br>
<p>Another proposed road project through the area, Lako Street has been re-routed slightly to avoid some major sites (also on hold as of 2009).</p><br>
<p>In 2010, a four-story condominium complex was proposed, greeted with local opposition.</p><br>
<p>On the north side of the bay in the 19th century, a small Christian church was built called Hale Halawai O Holualoa.</p><br>
<p>It was restored in the 1990s and now known as the "Living Stones Church".</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The north side of the bay has a lava ridge that produces a popular surf break known as "Banyans", even though no Banyan trees remain. There are small patches of coral sand, but the hazardous waves and currents can be dangerous to all but advanced surfers.</p><br>
<p>Banyans is the site a surf contest, usually in February.</p><br>
<p>The south side of the bay, along Kamoa Point, has a left surf break called "Lyman&#39;s", named for former resident Howard Lyman, favored among all surfers.</p><br>
<p>It was the subject of a song "Laimana" composed by Lei Collins in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The State purchased some land at Kamoa Point in 1990 to develop the area as Keolonāhihi State Historical Park and some clearing work has been done,</p><br>
<p>but as of 2009 it has only a narrow public access trail.</p><br>
<p>An environmental impact statement was filed in 1995, and an additional 16 acre in the Hōlualoa 4 area on the East of Alii Drive was donated in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The property had been foreclosed upon by First Hawaiian Bank, when it was realized a Senior Vice President of the Bank was a descendant of Keakealaniwahine.</p><br>
<p>One more parcel of 1.25 acre was purchased in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Pony Creek Park is a park in Oak Township, Mills County, Iowa, United States, northwest of Glenwood. Centered the 83 acre Pony Creek Lake, it offers boating, picnicking, and fishing areas. Other features of the park include woods, a camping area, virgin prairie, and a viewing area for the local loess topography.</p><br>
<p>The park cover 53 acre, and is administered by Mills County. In 1971, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, because at the time it was known to contain at least two archaeologically important prehistoric Plains Indian earthen lodges, and the only ones in the region that were on public land that might be preserved.</p><br>
<h2>Davis Oriole Earthlodge</h2><br>
<p>One of the lodges at the site, the Davis Oriole Earthlodge Site, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012; it is one of the best-preserved lodges known of this type. It was first discovered in 1991 by D.D. Davis, an amateur archaeologist. Due to mapping errors, it was not relocated until 2008, when it was found under one of the park&#39;s main trails. The lodge measures about 40 x, with its surface between 35 and below the modern surface. The lodge underwent a careful and minimal excavation in 2009 to confirm its integrity, yielding information about its construction, and fragments of pottery used by its inhabitants. When the lodge was abandoned, it was apparently burned, collapsing its roof and charring its walls.</p><br>
<p>The Union Street Historic District in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, is an area of eight blocks  southwest of downtown and just north of the Mid-Hudson Bridge approaches. It is the oldest neighborhood in the city.</p><br>
<p>It dates to 1767 when a path to the Hudson River was developed into a street. In 1971 it was designated a historic district and became the first property in the city to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is roughly rectangular. It is bounded on the north by the rear property lines of lots on the south side of Main Street, on the east by the crest of the slope up from the Hudson River (roughly the rear property lines of the west side of Market Street, 200 ft above the water), on the south by US 44 and NY 55 (the East-West Arterial) and on the east by US 9 (the North-South Arterial). This eight-block area of 42 acres (17 ha) included, at the time of its Register listing, 173 contributing properties. None of them are separately listed.</p><br>
<p>Union Street runs across the district roughly west-southwest to east-northeast. Delano and Grand streets are also included in their entirety, and portions of South Bridge, South Clover and South Perry streets are within the district as well.</p><br>
<p>Topographically, the district slopes down towards the river from east to west. All its streets are developed, with a few vacant lots. Buildings and lots, both the smallest, on average, in any area of the city, are densely clustered, with many having yards in the rear rather than the side. There are many older, taller trees that provide shade and greenery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The street began as a winding footpath connecting the early settlement of Poughkeepsie, around the present-day location of Market Street, to the Union Store on the river. In 1767 it was expanded into the first road from Poughkeepsie to the river.</p><br>
<p>A neighborhood gradually arose around it, becoming the first residence for many immigrant groups in the city: the Germans, Irish, Poles, Italians, other Slavic groups. Descendants of many of them stayed in the neighborhood for years. In the mid-20th century the area became racially integrated when African-Americans began settling in the area.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 19th century builders put up the same general house plan, adapting it only slightly to prevailing architectural styles: a two-and-half-story structure with three-bay facade. This was done first in brick with stone trim, then wood, then in more detailed brickwork. They evolved from having simple steps to the street, to stoops to, at the end of the century, elaborate verandas. Some buildings, usually at the intersections, had businesses at street level.</p><br>
<p>The houses were located on narrow lots with no sideyards, only a rear yard. This created a strong sense of community, and a division between public and private space. Within this, the oblique angles of the Union Street intersections, and the slope of the land gave each house its own perspective on and within the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1960s many of the surrounding neighborhoods had been razed for road construction or extensively rebuilt through urban renewal programs. The historic designation made this less likely to happen in the Union Street area, and preserved it as it had been.</p><br>
<p>The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria y San Matías  is a church in the municipality of Manatí, Puerto Rico. It was built originally in 1729 and underwent major repairs in 1864 directed by engineer Ramon Soler.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 31 churches reviewed for listing on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano, also known as Puente Juan José Jiménez and listed as Bridge #321 in Puerto Rico&#39;s bridge inventory, was built in 1905 in Hato Viejo, Ciales, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.</p><br>
<p>It was the first truss bridge built in Puerto Rico under the administration of the United States (1898–1900) after the Spanish–American War.</p><br>
<p>The bridge spans 80 m above the Río Grande de Manatí. For Puerto Rico, the span is high, 44 ft above the river, "above a spectacular curving canyon of vertical walls traversed by the Manati River". It is a rare type of bridge: a steel double intersection Pratt truss, above a concrete substructure, and is the only such highway bridge in Puerto Rico. Its a 3.8 m wide, one-lane road. The bridge is visited by tourists.</p><br>
<p>At least 10 railway bridges used the double intersection Pratt truss design, in the French-owned railway that was built during 1890-93 between San Juan and Ponce. Only Cambalache Bridge, across the Arecibo River, survived, as of 1994. The rest were dismantled and sold to cover a bankruptcy by the railroad company that owned them.</p><br>
<p>It was remodeled in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Residents complain when the bridge is closed because it is the only direct access from Manatí to Ciales when the bridge from Morovis to Ciales is inaccessible.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, $6.8 million dollars were earmarked by the US Federal Highway Administration for repairs to the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Views of the canyon and Río Grande de Manatí from Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano:</p><br>
<p>Río Grande de Manatí from Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano 08.jpg</p><br>
<p>Río Grande de Manatí from Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano 06.jpg</p><br>
<p>Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano, Ciales, Puerto Rico, river and canyon.jpg</p><br>
<p>Manatí Bridge at Mata de Plátano in Ciales, Puerto Rico.jpg</p><br>
<p>One Moody Plaza is a 23 floor skyscraper at 1902 Market Street in Downtown Galveston, Texas, United States. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Neuhaus & Taylor. At its completion in 1972, One Moody Plaza was the tallest building in Galveston County, standing 357.6 feet  tall, but was surpassed by the Palisade Palms Condominiums, built in 2008 with 27 floors and standing at a height of 381 feet. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The American National Insurance Company, one of the top 100 largest companies in the Houston area, is headquartered in this building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h2>American National Insurance Company</h2><br>
<p>One Moody Plaza is also known as the American National Insurance Company Building, named for a company founded by William Lewis Moody in 1905. The insurance company employed 70 people in its Galveston office by in 1912, a number that increased to 500 by 1928, when it had already acquired 27 other insurance companies. American National Insurance Company acquired Commonwealth Life and Accident Insurance of St. Louis in 1950.</p><br>
<h2>1972 building</h2><br>
<p>The building opened in 1972 and remained the tallest building in Galveston until 2007 when two condominium towers were completed nearby. At one time the 20th floor housed an observation deck, open to the general public. However, in the 1990s, it was closed due to security and liability concerns.</p><br>
<p>A total of 395 migratory birds died in a single day after crashing in to the building in 2017 during a lightning storm. An agreement was made with the Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary to turn off building lights at night during the migration season.</p><br>
<p>The Ivory McKusick House is a historic house in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, completed in 1872 for Ivory McKusick . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated as a striking example of Second Empire architecture in the region and for its associations with a notable family in early Stillwater. McKusick had built his wealth via the lumber industry and government contracts during the Civil War. His older brother John had helped establish the first sawmill in the vicinity in 1843, named and platted the community that grew around it after his hometown in Maine, and served as its first mayor.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The official National Register documentation for the Ivory McKusick House gives a construction date of 1868. However more recent research from the Washington County Historical Society states that the house began as a one-story structure in 1866 and was enlarged in 1872 with the two-story wing that now serves as the main façade. Second Empire architectural elements include the mansard roof with round-arched dormers, and numerous ornate brackets. These brackets adorn the window hoods on the dormers and the first floor, while even larger brackets with pendants support the wide eaves and the hood over the front door. The heavy mansard roof was highly fashionable at the time. A patterned frieze wraps under the roofline and is echoed in decoration around a bay window on the side elevation. Decorative elements are simpler on the original rear wing and lacking altogether on a two-story servants&#39; wing added to the northwest corner of the house sometime before 1888.</p><br>
<p>In his book Historic Homes of Minnesota, Roger G. Kennedy critiques the house as an example of a "strenuous and unsuccessful effort toward monumentality". In describing Minnesotas examples of Second Empire architecture, he said, "At its worst, it made small houses look like boys struggling to look out from beneath their fathers hats."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The McKusick family hailed from Maine, and eventually four brothers settled in Stillwater: John, Ivory, Jonathan, and Noah. John arrived first, in 1840, having traveled through Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin Territory seeking opportunities in the lumber industry. Finding a promising location on the west bank of the St. Croix River, he and three business partners opened a sawmill there in 1844. A town soon grew around the mill, heavily populated by other settlers from Maine.</p><br>
<p>Ivory McKusick arrived in 1847, initially working in John&#39;s mill and later independently. In 1854 he married his wife Sofia, with whom he had three children. In 1864 he left Stillwater and helped build Fort Wadsworth in Dakota Territory, returning the following year. In 1867 he was appointed Surveyor General for a section of Minnesota. Around this time he had his house built overlooking the St. Croix River. After 1875 Ivory McKusick had business interests in lumbering, warehousing, and the manufacture of farm implements.</p><br>
<p>Several of the early lumbermen in the valley were motivated to build elaborate, monumental houses to boast of their success in industry. Besides the Ivory McKusick House, other houses of industry pioneers include the Roscoe Hersey House, the Captain Austin Jenks House, and the Albert Lammers House. These houses are also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>El Camino del Diablo , also known as El Camino del Muerto, Sonora Trail, Sonoyta-Yuma Trail, Yuma-Caborca Trail, and Old Yuma Trail, is a historic 250 mi road that passes through some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain of the Sonoran Desert in Pima County and Yuma County, Arizona. The name refers to the harsh, unforgiving conditions on the trail.</p><br>
<p>In use for thousands of years, El Camino del Diablo began as a series of footpaths used by desert-dwelling Native Americans. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the road was used extensively by conquistadores, explorers, missionaries, settlers, miners, and cartographers. Use of the trail declined sharply after the Southern Pacific Railroad reached Yuma in 1877.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of its historic significance, El Camino del Diablo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It has also been designated a Back Country Byway by the Bureau of Land Management.</p><br>
<h2>Original route</h2><br>
<p>The southern terminus of the original route was located in Caborca, in what is today the Mexican state of Sonora. From Caborca, the route passed through Sonoyta, then Quitobaquito Springs, then through the lava fields of the Sierra Pinacate, then through the Tule Desert and the Tule Mountains. After passing just south of Tordillo Mountain, the route ran past the rain-fed tinajas of the Tinajas Altas before crossing the Tinajas Altas Mountains through the nearby Tinajas Altas Pass. From there, the route continued to the northwest, following the western border of the Gila Mountains before finally reaching the Colorado River at Yuma Crossing. From Yuma Crossing, travelers could cross the Colorado Desert to reach the Spanish colonies of California.</p><br>
<h2>History of the trail</h2><br>
<p>El Camino del Diablo is believed to follow Native American footpaths dating to thousands of years ago. In 1540, accompanied by native guides, Captain Melchor Díaz led a detachment of the Coronado Expedition through this vicinity en route to the Californias. The next Europeans known to have transited the route were in the party of Jesuit priest Eusebio Francisco Kino, Commander Juan Matheo Mange, and Father Adamo Gilig, who – along with attendants and Native American guides who knew the location of vital water sources needed along the route – first made the crossing in February 1699. The trail offered a shorter route than sailing around Baja California, while avoiding most of the more hostile Native American tribes.</p><br>
<p>The route was used by the expeditions to Alta California of Juan Bautista de Anza of the 1770s. However, the 1781 uprising of the Quechan tribe at Yuma Crossing on the Colorado River prevented travelers from reaching the Californias via the trail. Although Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Fages managed to rescue captured Spanish survivors of the uprising in December of that year, El Camino del Diablo largely fell into disuse until 1848–1849, when the California Gold Rush brought many new migrants from Mexico, especially from Sonora to the goldfields of California. Afterward, the trail was used by both United States and Mexican Boundary Survey teams, mapping and cataloging the land purchased in the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. A second wave of Sonoran miners used the trail in the 1860s, when placer gold was discovered along the Colorado River.</p><br>
<p>Many of these migrants, not used to travel in the desert, would die from thirst and heat exhaustion en route. As a later traveler noted, "frequent graves and bleaching skulls of animals are painful reminders of unfortunate travelers who died from thirst on the road." The most difficult stretch of the trail was the 130 mi stretch from Sonoyta, Mexico, to what is now Yuma, Arizona. An estimated 400 – 2000 travelers have lost their lives on the trail,</p><br>
<p>primarily from dehydration, heat stroke, and sunburn, but also from hyperthermia. In summer, temperatures here soar to 120 &deg;F, and people require 2 usgal of water a day just to survive. Most of the graves line the last 30 mi of the trail to Yuma; by one count, there are 65 graves near Tinajas Altas.</p><br>
<p>Use of the trail declined sharply after the Southern Pacific Railroad reached Yuma in 1870. While prospectors and transient visitors continued to visit the area, El Camino del Diablo never regained its status as a major migration route. Occasionally the route was used by cartographers and boundary survey parties, who documented numerous remains of both humans and domesticated animals.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of its historic significance, El Camino del Diablo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It can still be transited by visitors to the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1939 to protect desert wildlife. With the exception of one United States Border Patrol station (Camp Grip), the section of the original trail between Las Playas and Tinajas Altas remains virtually unchanged.</p><br>
<h2>Tinajas Altas</h2><br>
<p>The historic campground at Tinajas Altas ("high tanks") features nine cup-like pools (tinajas) perched one above the other on a steep granite slope, that are replenished solely by rainwater. When full, these tinajas may hold up to 20,000 gal, but due to the lack of rainfall and arid atmosphere, one or more are frequently empty. In the days before motor vehicle transport, some travelers perished after finding one or more pools dry. During the 1891–1896 USA Boundary Survey expedition, the surveying party related the story of three dead prospectors found just above the empty first tank. The men&#39;s fingers were worn raw from climbing the rock to the second tank, which held water, and it was apparent the men had died just yards from their salvation.</p><br>
<h2>El Camino del Diablo today</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Camino del Diablo remains a dirt road, suitable for four-wheel drive and high-clearance vehicles carrying extra water and emergency equipment. No emergency or tow services are available, and visitors use the trail at their own risk.</p><br>
<p>South of the Mexico–United States border, the original sections of the Camino del Diablo have largely disappeared. In its place, the Mexican government has constructed a paved highway, Mexican Federal Highway 2, which roughly parallels the border for 120 mi.</p><br>
<p>The current route begins 21 mi southwest of Ajo, Arizona, at the boundary between Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. From there, it continues west past San Cristobal Wash, following the northern edge of the Agua Dulce Mountains to reach Papago Well. From there, the road passes Camp Grip, then runs south of the Sierra Pinta as it passes through the Pinta Sand Dunes and then the Pinacate Volcanic Field. From there, the road passes through the Tule Desert and Tule Mountains, and into Tule Tank Canyon to reach Tule Well, where the road intersects with Christmas Pass Road. The road then passes through the Lechuguilla Desert, just south of Tordillo Mountain, before finally reaching the Tinajas Altas Mountains. At Tinajas Altas, the road forks, and the traveler can take a shorter route which heads north through the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, passing east of Raven Butte and Cipriano Pass and following the eastern border of the Gila Mountains, before finally reaching Interstate 8 and the Gila River at Wellton, Arizona. Alternatively, the traveler may choose a longer route that more closely follows the original route. This route crosses the Tinajas Altas Mountains and continues in a northwest direction, passing west of Raven Butte and Cipriano Pass. It then follows the western border of the Gila Mountains, passing by the abandoned Fortuna Mine, before finally reaching the small community of Fortuna Foothills, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The trail follows the Mexico–United States border very closely for most of its length. To transit the entire trail, a permit is required from the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge office in Ajo.</p><br>
<p>Mission San Francisco de Potano was a Spanish mission near Alachua and Gainesville, Florida, United States. The mission of San Francisco de Potano was founded in 1606 by the Franciscans Father Martín Prieto and Father Alonso Serrano. It was the first doctrina  in Florida west of the St. Johns River. The mission was at the south edge of present-day San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park .</p><br>
<p>In 2007, evidence of Spanish-built post remnants provided structural evidence of the former mission&#39;s location. On April 30, 2009, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Potano Indians were enemies of the Spanish for some 30 years after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565. In 1597 the chiefs of the Potano and other Western Timucuan tribes had pledged allegiance to the governor of la Florida, Gonzalo Méndez de Canço, in St. Augustine. Franciscan missionaries began visiting Western Timucuan villages that year, but a rebellion in Guale Province disrupted missionary efforts in Florida for a decade; missionaries continued to make occasional visits, but permanent missions were not established, even though chiefs requested them and returned to St. Augustine to renew their vows of allegiance to the Spanish authorities. The arrival of additional Franciscan missionaries in 1605 allowed the establishment of permanent missions in Western Timucua to proceed, beginning with the mission of San Francisco de Potano in 1606.</p><br>
<p>Soon after Father Prieto and Serrano established the mission of San Francisco, Father Prieto established the nearby missions of Santa Ana de Potano and San Miguel de Potano. Opposition from the villagers at San Francisco de Potano forced Father Prieto to return to St. Augustine, and the mission became a visita (mission without a resident priest) served by Father Serrano, who resided at the mission of San Miguel de Potano. A fourth mission in the area, San Buenaventura de Potano was established a short time later. Initially, the four Potano missions served about 1,200 Indians, about 400 of whom were at San Francisco. The rapid decline of the Potano population due to repeated epidemics led to the abandonment of the San Miguel and San Buenaventura missions within a few years, with the survivors relocated to San Francisco and Santa Ana.</p><br>
<p>At least one of the cattle ranches operated by the Spanish in Florida in the later part of the 17th century was located near San Francisco de Potano. Gabriel Diaz Vara Calderón, Bishop of Cuba, who visited the Florida missions in 1674–5, noted that the San Francisco mission was abandoned. However, a mission at San Francisco did exist at the beginning of the 18th century. Starting the 1680s and accelerating after 1700 during Queen Anne&#39;s War, English settlers from the Province of Carolina and various Indian tribes allied with them repeatedly attacked Spanish missions in Florida. After the destruction of the mission buildings at Santa Fé de Toloca (a few miles from San Francisco de Potano) in 1702, that mission was merged into the mission at San Francisco in 1703. By 1704 San Francisco was fortified, one of the few Spanish outposts left west of the St. Johns River. The remaining Indians at San Francisco de Potano moved east of the St. Johns River in 1706, abandoning the mission 100 years after it was established.</p><br>
<p>The Riddle Brothers Ranch is a pioneer ranch complex located in the in Harney County in eastern Oregon, United States. It is a rare extant example of the small family ranch. The ranch is located on both sides of the Little Blitzen River on public land and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.</p><br>
<p>The Riddle family patriarchs were pioneers, first settling the town of Riddle in Douglas County, Oregon. The second generation, Tobias "Stilly" Riddle and his wife, Sarah Smyth Riddle, then moved to Eastern Oregon, eventually settling with Smyth kin in Happy Valley. (Riddle Mountain also takes its name from the family.) Frederick Riddle was one of the first white children born in Harney County.</p><br>
<p>In 1878 the Riddle Ranch in Happy Valley was burned out during the Native American wars. Peter French, manager of the vast P Ranch, bought the Riddles&#39; Happy Valley property for $30,000, and the family returned to Douglas County. Benjamin Riddle was the first member of the third generation to return to the area, followed by his elder brothers Fred and Walter, sister Carrie, and uncle George. Each of them acquired adjacent land and contributed labor to expand and run the ranch. Fred and Walter remained on the ranch for some fifty years, Fred managing the homestead while Walt handled the cattle and the annual herd drive to Winnemucca. Today, the ranch is maintained as an open-air museum with original artifacts displayed where they were used. Visitors can explore the ranch buildings, hike, or fish; however, camping is not permitted. There are a number of Native American archeological sites on the ranch property. These sites are not open to the public. The Riddle Brothers Ranch is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Native Americans inhabited the Steens Mountain area around the Riddle Brothers Ranch for 10,000 years prior to the arrival of European explorers in the early 19th century. The first recorded exploration of the area was by fur traders between 1826 and 1829. Peter Skene Ogden also explored the area a few years later. In 1845, Steven Meeks led a wagon train through the area, mistaking the snow-covered Steens for the Cascade Mountains.</p><br>
<p>In 1860, the United States Army sent Major Enoch Steen to protect settlers in the area and determine the feasibility of building a road from the Willamette Valley to southeastern Oregon. His party named many topographic features including Steens Mountain. In 1864, Captain George B. Curry led a unit of the 1st Oregon Cavalry through the area. The cavalrymen crossed a river on the west slope of Steens during a violent thunderstorm. Curry named the river Donder und Blitzen, which in German means thunder and lightning. Over time, it became known as the Donner und Blitzen River.</p><br>
<p>The Riddle brothers lived on their ranch for fifty years. None of the brothers ever married. In 1952, Fred Riddle, the last of the brothers, sold the ranch to Rex Clemens, a lumberman and philanthropist from Philomath, Or. Clemens continued to raise livestock on the property for more than thirty years, and carefully preserved the historic buildings. In 1986, the Bureau of Land Management purchased the property from Rexs widow, Ethel Clemens, with the stipulation that the site be preserved. Since then, the Bureau of Land Managements Burns District has maintained the ranch as an historic site. In 1991, the Riddle Brothers Ranch was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, Bureau of Land Management archaeologists identified the first of 48 prehistoric sites on the Riddle property. These archeological sites are collectively known as the Mortar Riddle Site.</p><br>
<h2>Ranch environment</h2><br>
<p>The Riddle Brothers Ranch National Historic District covers 1,120 acre, including 850 acre that also falls within the Donner und Blitzen Wild and Scenic River system. The ranch is mostly meadow land, which is irrigated by a series of ditches. The meadow vegetation includes both native and non-native plant species. Native species include redtop, tufted hairgrass, Nebraska sedge, and Cusick&#39;s bluegrass. The non-native species include Timothy-grass and Kentucky bluegrass. The riparian area along the Little Blitzen River and seasonal drainages are dominated by black cottonwood, alder, and willow trees. It is considered to be one of the best preserved riparian zones in the Great Basin. Sagebrush and Western juniper are common on upland slopes and undeveloped parts of the ranch.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>There are eight historic buildings and a number of other historic structures located in the national historic district. The historic buildings are in two groupings. The main ranch complex includes a house, bunkhouse, barn, root cellar, chicken coop (now derelict), bath house, blacksmith shop with adjoining tack room, and several corrals built of willow and juniper. Another group of structures, site of the Ben Riddle homestead, includes a cabin, root cellar, and stone storage building. All of the structures on the ranch were built using logs, weatherboard, hand-cut shingles, and local stone. The original homestead cabin, now a toolshed, had a stone fireplace at one end; the stone was removed and used elsewhere in the 1960s-1970s. The ranch house began as a single-story cabin of cottonwood logs. After Fred purchased the property, neighbors helped him put on a second story. A tent kitchen was later converted to an interior kitchen, and a large sleeping porch was built across the front of the house. The bathhouse also began as a tent and acquired walls during the Clemens years. The current barn is the second on the property; the Riddles built it in the 1930s using wood salvaged from the former town of Blitzen Crossing. Walter Riddles homesteading cabin was destroyed by a wildfire in 1996; the chimney remains at the mouth of the Little Blitzen Canyon. The site of Carrie Riddle Parsleys cabin, further up the Little Blitzen, is recognizable from the rhubarb she planted.</p><br>
<p>The Bureau of Land Management has preserved the ranch complex in order to give visitors a feel for the living conditions experienced by pioneer ranch families in eastern Oregon. The Bureau of Land Management has stabilized and restored the main buildings and many of the other structures. The repair work added structural support and replaced deteriorating elements of the buildings; however, the BLM was careful not to alter the character of the historic structures during the restoration and preservation process.</p><br>
<p>There are several modern buildings at the ranch. The Bureau of Land Management maintains an administrative building (the former Rex Clemens house) and several corrals adjacent to the main ranch complex. There is also a small caretaker cabin located on the west side of the Little Blitzen River and a public vault toilet.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Several thousand people visit the Riddle Brothers Ranch each year. Visitors enjoy exploring the historic ranch buildings, hiking, fishing, horseback riding, and photography. The historic structures scattered across the ranch property offer the opportunity to see how pioneer ranchers lived. However, visitors must be careful not to disturb any historical artifacts or structures. The Frederick Riddle house, Benjamin Riddle house, the bunkhouse, and ranch barn were all built or modified by the Riddle brothers using locally available materials, and are popular subjects for photographers. Hikers can access the Steens Mountain Wilderness from the Cold Spring Road north of the ranch, or can trek cross-country to the Little Blitzen Gorge east of the ranch. The Levi Brinkley Memorial Trail provides access to the confluence of the Little Blitzen and the Donner und Blitzen rivers. It is an easy hike and a popular spot for fishing. The Desert Meadow Trail loops up above the ranch to a waterhole and the Riddles&#39; reservoir, where wild horses and antelope may be seen. Built in 2017, the very rough Fred Riddle Trail provides access between the Little Blitzen Trail and Cold Springs Road. The Little Blitzen River is popular for catch-and-release fishing for Redband trout. The river, along with 850 acre of the ranch property, fall within the system. This expands the recreational opportunities along the river beyond the ranch itself.</p><br>
<h2>Mortar Riddle archeological site</h2><br>
<p>In prehistoric times, the Riddle Brothers Ranch area was an ideal location for Native American people to live. It is located near a dependable water supply. There is ample firewood, game is plentiful, and a number of edible plants grow in the vicinity. Because of these conditions, this area may have been in continuous use as a base camp for as much as 14,000 years.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 2003, Bureau of Land Management archaeologists began exploring the Riddle Brothers Ranch for signs of prehistoric sites. During the first season, archaeologists unearthed 42 arrowheads and spear points and 89 stone tools including a large number of mortars. Mortars are a common find at archeological sites, but it is rare to find a large number in one location. As a result, the site was named the Mortar Riddle Site.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee joined the Bureau of Land Management team expanding the excavations to new areas. By the end of that season, 65 mortars and over 200 arrow and spear points had been found. The oldest points may be as much as 6,000 years old. In the second season, archaeologists also found United States Army buttons. This shows that the inhabitants of this site had contact with the United States military before it was abandoned, probably sometime between the 1840s and 1880s.</p><br>
<p>As of 2005, archaeologists had identified 48 prehistoric sites on the Riddle property. Volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society have joined the Bureau of Land Management and the University Wisconsin–Milwaukee archeologists working on the site. Because the excavation sites are fragile, they are not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>To get to the Riddle Brothers Ranch from Burns, Oregon take State Highway 78. Travel southeast for approximately two miles. Turn right onto State Highway 205, and travel south for 60 mi to Frenchglen, Oregon. Continue on State Highway 205 through Frenchglen nine miles (14 km) to "P" Hill; then turn left on the Steens Mountain Loop Road. The turnoff to the Riddle brothers&#39; ranch is approximately 18 mi from the State Highway 205 junction.</p><br>
<p>Because of its remote location, travelers should call the Bureau of Land Management&#39;s Burns Office to ensure the ranch is open before departing. The one-lane road to the Riddle Brothers Ranch is rough, especially during wet conditions but was significantly improved in 2016. The ranch access road is not recommended for travel trailers. The Bureau of Land Management recommends a high clearance vehicle be used when traveling to the ranch. Also, it is worth noting that cell phone service does not reach the Riddle Brothers Ranch area. However, local law enforcement officers visit the ranch periodically.</p><br>
<p>Caretakers are on site and the ranch is typically open for vehicle access from June - September, Wednesday-Sunday, 9am-5 pm, weather permitting. When closed to vehicle access, visitors can park their vehicles at the ranch gate and walk approximately 1.25 miles to the main cluster of buildings around the Fred Riddle house. Access by foot, bicycle, or horseback is always permitted. There is a public vault toilet at the ranch, and potable water from the hose spigots. Camping is not allowed on the property so visitors must leave in the evening before the caretaker locks the entrance gate at 5pm. For those who want to camp in the area, the is only three miles away.</p><br>
<p>The Roseberry Homestead, also known as the Walter Gess House, is a classic Georgian house, erected of rough-cut quarry stone between 1765 and 1783 located at 540 Warren Street in the town of Phillipsburg in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1973, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story, five-bay plan house, two rooms deep, with a center through hall. There is an attached -story stone kitchen, probably built before the main house. There are three chimneys—two rising from the gable ends of the main block, and the third from the gable end of the kitchen. There is a large cooking fireplace in the kitchen, with a removed brick oven. A winder stair on the fireplace wall leads to the loft above. The front of the house is on the downhill side, allowing for a walk-in cellar. A porch extended across the entire front, permitting access to the higher level first floor, but that has long since disappeared. John Roseberry, Sr. was one of the original settlers in Phillipsburg. It is very likely the oldest existing structure in town.</p><br>
<p>The Roseberry Homestead has fallen into considerable disrepair, and has been boarded up for at least 15 years. The exterior remains in relatively good condition, and the interior walls and wide board floors appear to be in safe condition. Ceilings are partially collapsed and lath is showing. There are no remaining windows, and most of the doors and staircase baluster are gone. Several of the eight fireplace mantels appear to be late eighteenth century, but much of the interior woodwork is nineteenth century, and there appears to be none of the original hardware.</p><br>
<p>The Blaine County Courthouse in Watonga, Oklahoma was built in 1906, the year before Oklahoma received statehood. It has been asserted to be "one of the most imposing structures in Watonga" and it "serves as a landmark for both the town and the county," Blaine County. It has a large central dome, a pedimented entrance, and a pediment above its cornice whose tympanum is painted with spirals and the date "1906". Its front facade also features an arcade of three arched windows on the third and fourth story levels.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a four-story tan brick building on a concrete foundation. It was deemed significant for its architecture and for its association with county history. The architect and builder(s) were unknown at the date of National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>A breezeway connects the historic building to a two-story addition on the south side.</p><br>
<p>It was one of a group of Oklahoma courthouses studied together and listed on the National Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh House in Benton Harbor, Michigan was built in Queen Anne style by the House of David Colony. It was built in 1910 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The House of David was founded in 1903 by Benjamin Purnell. Believers came to this site in Benton Harbor to join the commune. To accommodate the growing number of converts, a number of buildings were erected around this site. One of the members of the commune built a machine to construct cement blocks, which were then used to construct the buildings. Shiloh House, constructed in 1910, was the first building to use blocks from the commune itself.</p><br>
<p>Reportedly, Purnell&#39;s favorite girls were kept in this building, until the details were revealed in the 1920s. Afterward, it has been used for office and dormitory space.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Shiloh House is a -story Queen Anne building constructed of cement blocks. It is composed of a main section in the front and two equally sized sections to the rear, connected to the main section with covered archways. It has a hip roof, round turrets, and a center porch able topped with a dome and finial. Balconies on the second and third floor have curved archways between the</p><br>
<p>columns and decorative wooden railings.</p><br>
<p>The Vassar Institute building is located at Main and Vassar streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, across from the architecturally similar Vassar Home for Aged Men. It is a late-19th century building combining the Italianate and Second Empire architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was established by Matthew Vassar&#39;s nephews on the site of the brewery which established the family fortune. It has served as a museum and art studio in the past, and has a 300-seat auditorium in the rear. In 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Later it also became a contributing property to the Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District. Both it and the Home for Aged Men are now used by the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building is a two-story, three-bay building in running bond with granite trim. The masonry walls with balloon framing inside are faced in brick in running bond. It is topped with a mansard roof, with four round-arched dormer windows and projecting Italianate tower. At the roofline is a carved wooden cornice with alternating large and small brackets, above a frieze with applied moldings in geometric patterns.</p><br>
<p>A large portico projects from the middle of the east (front) facade. It is supported by two pairs of columns with granite capitals on an iron plinth base. Atop them is a broken arch pediment.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s heavy and ornate exterior is a direct contrast to its spacious, open interior. The main entrance opens onto a hall which leads to the auditorium at the rear. The approximately 200 original cast-iron seats are arranged on four descending, curving levels, with leatherette upholstery. On either side is a balcony with circular box, supported by wooden columns with brackets and ball drops, and two tall, round-arched stained glass windows. The proscenium has vestiges of the original valances.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>An eclectic combination of Victorian styles can be seen in the Vassar Institute building: the decorative cornices of Italianate buildings, the heaviness of the mansard roof common on Second Empire buildings. Many features are similar to designs by James Renwick Jr., for the early buildings of Vassar College in the 1860s. The colorful exterior recalls the polychrome brick buildings of the preceding decades as well.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Vassars spent $30,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to put up the Institute on the site of their uncles brewery, furthering the familys interest in education and culture. J.A. Wood, whose work included major hotel such as the Tampa Bay Hotel, had his design completed in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Its first floor was a natural history museum and the second story a library, also providing home offices to the Poughkeepsie Literary Society and Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Sciences. The third floor was, and still is, an art studio. The auditorium hosted a lecture series on winter Tuesdays.</p><br>
<p>Later, the Eastman Business College used some of the rooms. During the 1930s, the Community Theater put on its plays in the auditorium. By the late 1960s the building was little-used and neglected, in need of new heating and plumbing. Many community groups showed interest in renovating it, and eventually the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center was able to do so. It has since renovated the theater and turned some of the space into a 1,200 ft&sup2; dance studio, artists&#39; lofts and a music-instruction studio in addition to art galleries.</p><br>
<p>Iglesia de San Carlos Borromeo  is a historic church built in 1783, located on the main plaza of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984,</p><br>
<p>It is one of five churches with architecture designed by State Architect Pedro Cobreros.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The original church was built in 1783. An octagonal tower at the north was added in 1862, and another to the south in 1874. The facade was revised in 1887 according to plans designed by Cobreros. After the 1918 San Fermín earthquake the south tower was rebuilt, lower than before, and the facade was somewhat changed.</p><br>
<p>The church includes two aisles, and a nave covered with a flat roof. It is reportedly the only church in Puerto Rico with an apse covered by a groin vault rather than a dome or a barrel vault.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 31 churches reviewed for listing on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The church was last remodeled in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Aguadilla Cathedral San Carlos.jpgThe church in 2006</p><br>
<p>Iglesia de San Carlos Borromeo - Aguadilla Puerto Rico.jpgThe church in 2017</p><br>
<p>Aguadilla Plaza, Puerto Rico, 1910.JPGThe Aguadilla town plaza, with the church in the rear at right</p><br>
<p>The E. M. Fulton House, also known as Glay Williams House and Vernoy Tate House, is a historic home in Wise, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1905–1906, and is a -story, six-bay, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling clad in a red brick veneer. It sits on a sandstone foundation and has a hipped and gable roof with dormers. The front facade features a one-story three-bay porch with paired Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Farmacia Serra is a building close to the plaza of Bayamón, Puerto Rico which was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989,</p><br>
<p>It was the first in a chain of Serra drugstores eventually opened by Luis Serra. He and his family lived upstairs.</p><br>
<p>It was the site of tertulias, meetings "of the town&#39;s politicians and intellectuals to discuss the latest events and decide what action could be taken."</p><br>
<p>It has " ornamentation" in its "modernismo" or Romantic Eclectic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Bridge No. 122, spanning the Santiago River near Naguabo, Puerto Rico, is significant as "one of the earliest and most elegant examples of concrete beam bridges in Puerto Rico". Built in 1918, it was "futuristic" for its time and has noteworthy architectural detail relative to others.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was modified in 1967 but remains the best-preserved example of its type in Puerto Rico.</p><br>
<p>The bridge has a 7.1 m span, a total length of 64 m, and a roadway width of 8.5 m.</p><br>
<p>It was identified as historically important in a review of Puerto Rico&#39;s 640 pre-1945 bridges in 1994,</p><br>
<p>The Parroquia del Espíritu Santo y San Patricio , constructed in 1645, is one of Puerto Ricos oldest Catholic parish churches. It is located in the main plaza of the municipality of Loíza, Puerto Rico. The church represents an ethnically distinct community characterized by a rich Afro-Hispanic cultural and folk craft tradition. The structures massive walls and buttresses helped the building withstand flood and hurricanes and likewise provided the people of Loíza with shelter from such natural disasters. The church, named after Saint Patrick, was enlarged to its present size in 1729.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Paseo Víctor Rojas, also known as El Fuerte or Paseo de Damas , in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,</p><br>
<p>It is a rectangular promenade that was built over the ruins of San Miguel Fort, in part using stone from the ruins.</p><br>
<p>The original paseo was damaged in the Hurricane of San Ciriaco in 1899.</p><br>
<p>It is unique as a place constructed for the "Isabellan", i.e. equivalent to "Victorian" pastime of promenading. It acquired the name "Victor Rojas" for the location of a memorial to this person, a fisherman, who undertook rescues starting from near this location, to save persons from boats foundering.</p><br>
<p>Hacienda La Sabana near Camuy, Puerto Rico, was built in c. 1773 for Don Gregorio Rodriguez. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building that served both as a residence and for storage. It is located in the middle of a "sabana" between the Camuy River and the Guajataca River. Its north side faces the old main road, the Camino Real.</p><br>
<p>It was in deteriorated condition in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Arctic Club Building is a ten-story hotel in Seattle, Washington located at the Northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. Built in 1914 for the Arctic Club, a social group established by wealthy individuals who experienced Alaskas gold rush , it was occupied by them from construction until the clubs dissolution in 1971. It is entirely faced with cream white terra cotta with submarine blue and orange-brown accents. The building is recognizable by the terra cotta walrus head sculptures lining the third floor of the building and its iconic polar bear in the Polar Bar, the hotel&#39;s bar and cocktail lounge. It is one of the finest examples of multi-colored matte glaze terra cotta work in the city. A rooftop garden used by the social club was replaced with a penthouse office suite.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect A. Warren Gould. In 1978 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of the Arctic building was originally owned by Joseph R. Lewis, the Chief Justice of Washington Territory and a direct descendant of George Washington&#39;s sister Elizabeth "Betty" Lewis. The home he built on the site in 1875 was considered one of the finest in Seattle at the time. The house was replaced in 1892 by the three-story, brick Seattle Theatre, designed by the firm of Saunders and Lawton. The newly formed Rainier Club occupied the office portion of the building until it and the theater were replaced by the Arctic Club Building in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The Arctic Club was formed in 1908 by successful veterans of the Klondike Gold Rush. The existing Alaska Club was merged that year into the Arctic Club. In Seattle, it was a fraternal men&#39;s club for businessmen with Gold Rush or Alaska connections. Another Arctic Club was established in New York City, with membership based on exploration of wilderness areas in the Arctic. The Arctic Club in Seattle was initially located in 1909 on 3rd Avenue and Jefferson Street in the Morrison Hotel, also known as the Arctic Club Building.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, after a dispute with the owner of that building, the Arctic Construction Company, the club board decided to relocate. In 1916, the members commissioned noted Seattle architect A. Warren Gould to design the Arctic Building in downtown Seattle at Third and Cherry as the groups headquarters. James Moses was the builder. During the move, members surreptitiously removed the bar from the original location by hoisting it out one of the windows. The 128 ft. Arctic Club building is in the Beaux-Arts style; it is known for its terra cotta walrus head sculptures, indicative of the clubs name, which adorn the third floor façade. The terra cotta was sourced from nearby manufacturer Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company, which provided terra cotta for many local buildings of the same period.</p><br>
<p>USA Congressman Marion Zioncheck committed suicide on August 7, 1936, by jumping from the window of his campaign office on the Arctic Building&#39;s fifth floor. His body struck the pavement directly in front of a car occupied by his wife.</p><br>
<p>The building was owned for a time by the City of Seattle and was sold to a Spokane company, which redeveloped the property as a hotel, opening in 2008.</p><br>
<p>El Fortín Conde de Mirasol, also known as Fuerte de Vieques, is a fort built in 1845 located in the town of Isabel Segunda in Vieques, an island municipality of Puerto Rico. In 1991, the fort was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. The structure houses the Vieques Museum of Art and History and the Vieques Historic Archives, an extensive collection of documents related to the history of Vieques. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977,</p><br>
<p>The 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker marks the initial point for the 1872 survey delineation of the state line between California and Nevada. The boundary marker is a small cast iron obelisk near Verdi, Nevada. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 1850 California Constitution set the 120th meridian west between the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo line at the 42nd parallel north and the 39th parallel north as an eastern border of the state.</p><br>
<p>Measurements as early as 1855 only gave a rough approximation of the line or were done piecemeal, and a fuller survey was done for private purposes and not shared publicly. As the Nevada Territory became established, it had set its statute boundary as the western ridge line of the Sierra Nevada. The Governor of California and acting Governor of Nevada Territory called for a joint survey in 1863 to settle upon the full border, the Houghton–Ives Survey, with John F. Kidder hired to do field work. Kiddler marked a line north of Lake Tahoe between about May and July, though lack of funds kept him from completing the survey. A 1867 survey led by astronomer and surveyor Daniel Major established the intersection of the 42nd parallel north and the 120th meridian west, though it did not agree with the earlier Houghton–Ives Survey as to its location.</p><br>
<p>The survey which would eventually establish the longitudinal California–Nevada border was conducted by Alexey W. Von Schmidt working under General Land Office Commissioner Willis Drummond starting in 1872. He observed Professor George Davidson of the USA Coast Survey using telegraph to coordinate time signals and get a location of the 120th meridian. Von Schmidt accepted these measurements and headed to lay out the route north to Oregon,</p><br>
<p>The Houghton-Ives line had been accepted as the border, despite being poorly mapped and landmarked, along the 120th meridian until 1977 when California brought suit to Nevada in the United States Supreme Court to establish the true boundary. A ruling in 1980 established the border between Oregon and Lake Tahoe to be the Von Schmidt line, ending the dispute.</p><br>
<h3>Marker</h3><br>
<p>The 1872 marker near Verdi, Nevada is a four-sided cast iron pylon eight feet tall. It includes the words "CALIFORNIA" on the west face of the pylon, "NEVADA" on the east face, "1872, LONGITUDE 120 WEST OF GREENWICH, A.W. VON SCHMIDT, USA" on the south face, and "170 MILES 47 CHAINS TO OREGON" on the north face. (170 miles 47 chains is equivalent to 170 mi or 170 mi.)</p><br>
<p>The marker was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 because it represents the initial point of survey for the California–Nevada border, and is a remnant of this survey. By 2009, the marker had been enclosed in a crude chain link fence, though there was no other indication of its presence. The fence was subsequently upgraded to wrought iron bars and the surrounding grounds were landscaped into a park.</p><br>
<p>Google maps shows that the Verdi California–Nevada boundary marker is approximately 525 ft west of 120 degrees longitude. NGS gives current for another 1872 marker that may still exist at the northeast corner of California.</p><br>
<p>The Hacienda Casa del Francés , near Esperanza on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, also known as Sportsmens House, was a plantation house built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977,</p><br>
<p>It was the home of French sugar plantation owner Henri Muraille. It is notable as the only historic plantation residence on the island of Vieques, and one of few surviving in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It later became a "parador" or inn. The house was destroyed by fire in 2005, and a lack of detailed historic documentation has prevented any faithful reconstruction.</p><br>
<p>The Filardi House , also known as Casa Muñoz , is a historic house with ground-level commercial space in Yauco, Puerto Rico. It is notable for the extensive use of concrete sculptural ornamentation on its facade. Italian immigrant Vicente Filardi, a contractor with business in Ponce and Yauco, designed and built the house in 1916 with his sons Juan Bautista and Domingo. The younger Filardis were responsible for the integration of the elaborate decorative features with the overall Beaux-Arts plan, and later came to be recognized as experts in production of ornamental elements of cast concrete.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Casa Roig Museum is a historic house museum and gallery in Humacao, Puerto Rico. It was designed as a residence for the wealthy sugar planter Antonio Roig by the prominent Czech architect and Puerto Rico resident Antonin Nechodoma  and built in 1920.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Casa Roig was built in the Prairie School style in 1920. The house has a cruciform plan, has two floors and a basement. It is made of concrete and wood and decorated lavishly with stained glass and mosaics. The design follows the Prairie House School style of the architect Louis Sullivan, but especially the unique style of the renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959).</p><br>
<p>The house was inhabited until 1956. From then on it remained closed until August 13, 1977, when the heirs of Antonio Roig donated the residence to the University of Puerto Rico who adopted the mission to restore and preserve the structure. The work of restoration was carried out by the architects Otto Reyes and Tom Marvel over a period of 10 years. Casa Roig opened its doors to the public in 1989 and since then has served as a physical footprint and testimony of the Prairie School style adapted to the Caribbean, and as a center for cultural diffusion. Casa Roig is considered among the best works of Nechodoma and is the only residential structure built by Nechodoma which still remains complete.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones on May 16, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The museum&#39;s roof sustained damages when Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.</p><br>
<p>Casa Roig 2 - Humacao Puerto Rico.jpgCasa Roig in 2010</p><br>
<p>The Front Street Historic District in Exeter, New Hampshire, encompasses a portion of the towns historic center. The district extends from Swasey Pavilion, at the junction of Front and Water streets, southwesterly along Front Street to Gale Park, about five blocks. Front Street is one of Exeters oldest roads, and is lined with a series of 18th and 19th-century civic, religious, and residential structures, many of which are well preserved. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Exeter was founded in 1638 by Rev. John Wheelwright and his followers, who had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the south over religious differences. Its location on the Squamscott River soon developed as a shipbuilding and lumber shipment center, with the community center on the south bank. Front Street, now designated New Hampshire Route 111, developed as a major westbound road. It was where the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy was established in 1783, and the lower portion of Front Street near its junction with the commercial Water Street area is where its civic center developed. Between the academy and the civic center is where The Congregational Church in Exeter was built in 1798, along with a cluster of mainly early 19th-century residences. West of the academy campus residential development continued with slightly wider spacing, becoming more rural after passing Gale Park, a triangular park at the junction of Front and Linden streets.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers about 45 acre of central Exeter to the southwest of its commercial waterfront district. It extends for about five blocks along Front Street, from the pavilion near the junction of Front and Water streets, to Gale Park. It also includes a few densely-built blocks between the Phillips Exeter campus and Water Street, an area that includes the Ladd-Gilman House, a National Historic Landmark that is now a history museum. Architecturally prominent buildings include the Dudley House on the south side of Front Street, which is a fine Federal style house, and the Moses-Kent House at its far western end, which is a good example of Second Empire architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin B. Jenkins House is a historic house at 9 Middle Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, at which time its address was listed as 2 Middle Street. Subsequent residing of the house has obscured or eliminated most of these details .</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Franklin B. Jenkins, partner in the shoe manufacturer Jenkins and Vinton. He later built a more elaborate house (also National Register-listed) on Chestnut Street.</p><br>
<p>The USA Department of Agriculture Administration Building, also known as the Jamie L. Whitten Building, houses the administrative offices of the USA Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. The Administration Building projects into the National Mall from the larger USA Department of Agriculture South Building, and is the only building on the Mall that is not intended for use by the general public. It was the first large Beaux-Arts style building in Washington and set the prototype for the later buildings of the Federal Triangle. The east and west wings were the first Federal office buildings to be built of reinforced concrete. The Whitten Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The placement of the new building on the Mall was at odds with the proposed McMillan Plan, which envisioned a Mall free of intrusive buildings. The Agriculture Department&#39;s proposed placement was opposed by Commission members Daniel Burnham and Charles McKim. After a series of intercessions by President Theodore Roosevelt the building was moved to be in accordance with the Plan, but only after foundations were in place for a building 106 ft to the east of the final location.</p><br>
<p>As the public face of the Department of Agriculture, the Beaux-Arts style Administration Building was designed by architects Rankin, Kellogg and Crane to a higher standard than the South Building. However, a limited budget enforced a comparative plainness when set against other buildings on the Mall. The L-shaped wings were completed between 1904 and 1908, but the central block was not finished until 1930. The prototype for the design was Ange-Jacques Gabriel&#39;s 1774 Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The pediment features sculpture by Adolph Alexander Weinman, while interior murals are by Gilbert White. While the earlier east and west wings featured reinforced concrete construction, the central portion was built in steel.</p><br>
<p>The building was named the Jamie L. Whitten building in 1995 in honor of Mississippi Congressman Jamie L. Whitten, former chairman of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.</p><br>
<h3>Linking bridges</h3><br>
<p>In 1936 bridges were built across Independence Avenue to link the wings to the South Building. The single-span stone arches form a dramatic accent on Independence Avenue. The soffits of the bridges are faced with Guastavino tile. The east bridge is dedicated to Seaman A. Knapp, while the west bridge commemorates Agriculture Secretary James Wilson.</p><br>
<p>The Argo Gold Mine and Mill is a former gold mining and milling property in Idaho Springs, Colorado, featuring an intact gold mill built at the entrance of the Argo Tunnel. The tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch, Quartz Hill, Nevadaville, and Central City and allow easier ore removal. The success of the tunnel as an access route meant that a large volume of ore began exiting at the Idaho Springs entrance and a large mill was built to process it. At the time it was one of the largest such tunnels and milling operations in the world, directly recovering nearly $100 million in gold  valued in 2023 at $10.1 trillion. They also sent another $200 million of high-value ores to smelters in Denver.</p><br>
<p>The property was closed in January 1943 after a major hydraulic accident in the tunnel, and never reopened after a federal moratorium was placed on gold mining during World War II. In 1976 it was purchased by a local investment group led by James N. Maxwell, who wanted to preserve an example of the Colorado gold rush mines. It was renovated and reopened as a tourist attraction and mining museum, and presently continues to offer daily tours. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in January 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>The Argo Mill is open all year for tours, weather permitting. Visitors are provided with a brief history movie, an ore sample and mining equipment demonstration, a tour of the now-reopened tunnel entrance, and a descending tour of the mill structure and extant equipment including gravity separators, amalgamation trays, and froth flotation cells. An indoor museum on the bottom level includes many mining artifacts. An outdoor museum, partly visible from the street, includes larger period equipment used in various stages of extraction, separation, and smelting. A gold panning experience is provided to tour visitors. The outdoor museum and gold panning can also be experienced as a stand-alone attraction.</p><br>
<p>Selleck  is a former company town in Washington, located at {{coord|47|22|33|N|121|52|0|W|display=title,inline|name=Selleck Historical District}}. As the sole surviving company mill town in King County, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a King County landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>Located on the plain abutting the mountains of southeast King County, Selleck was the company town of Pacific States Lumber, under the direction of lumberman Frank Selleck. It was completed in 1916, accessed by the world&#39;s highest railway trestle, 204 feet above the Cedar River. The mill played a role in the rebuilding of Tokyo after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. At that time many Japanese workers and their families came to Selleck. This was not the first time Japanese workmen were brought to the mill.</p><br>
<h2>Japanese immigrant community</h2><br>
<p>The Japanese area outside the main town was officially known as Lavender Town (after the owner of a local saloon and general store), but was better known as Jap Town. Children of the Japanese workers attended the Selleck School, and also attended a Japanese-language school on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. However, few traces remain of Lavender Town today, not even grave markers (which are believed to have been made of wood). The only visible indication of the former Japanese presence is a pond landscaped with bamboo. Hence, Selleck&#39;s landmark designations do not include the former Lavender Town, because so few traces remain. It is possible that future archaeological excavations might lead to such a designation.</p><br>
<h2>Decline</h2><br>
<p>At its peak, Selleck had a population of 900 and had a hospital, two hotels, a community hall with weekly dances, a school, a number of stores and several mill buildings. Pacific States Lumber declared bankruptcy in 1939, bringing an end to Selleck&#39;s prosperity. The town of Selleck went through a series of owners—the first purchased it for a mere $3,000—before Robert Schaefer, a general contractor from Renton, Washington, formed an investor group to buy the town in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Schaefer&#39;s vision for the town was not fully achieved. He hoped to restore the millpond, with paddleboats, a train around the pond, and a logging theme park. However, this proved impossible due to a combination of wetlands regulation and lack of sufficient funding.</p><br>
<p>There were serious problems with the town&#39;s water system in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Selleck today</h2><br>
<p>As of 2007, the town is owned by Robert Schaefer&#39;s son Tim Schaefer. The former two-story schoolhouse and former community hall remains. About half of the original single-story company houses remain, and people live in 50 bungalows. A four-bedroom house in Selleck rents for about what a two-bedroom apartment costs in more accessible parts of the county.</p><br>
<p>Spears House is a historic house at 1235 United States Route 65 in Greenbrier, Arkansas. It is a single-story frame structure, faced in rock veneer with cream-colored brick trim. Built about 1946, it is basically Craftsman in style, with the stylistic of the regionally prominent African-American mason Silas Owens, Sr. seen in the use of cream-colored brick, arched openings, and herringbone stone patterns on the walls.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Rutherford County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury and built in 1925–1926. It is a two-story, Renaissance Revival style building faced with a smooth stone veneer. The front facade features an octopus style portico in antis.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeview Historic District is a residential historic district in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The neighborhood was one of Cheyennes original neighborhoods when the city was platted in 1870; most of the homes in the district were built between 1880 and 1930. Most of the neighborhoods residents were working-class, and many of them worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. Before 1900, most homes built in the district had simple Italianate, Queen Anne, or vernacular designs. American Foursquare and bungalow houses became popular in the 20th century as those styles gained prominence nationally.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1996. It includes the Moreton Frewen House, which is separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Mountain View, also known as the Fishburn Mansion, is a historic home in the Mountain View neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. It is a -story, rectangular Georgian Revival-style house that was built in 1907. It features a colossal portico consisting of two clusters of three fluted Ionic order columns supporting an Ionic entablature topped by a pediment containing a lunette. It also has a series of one-story porches, a conservatory, and a porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Chapel is a parochial chapel of ease in the lower part of St. Johns, Berkeley Parish in Berkeley County, South Carolina that was built in 1725. It is on Strawberry Chapel Road between South Carolina State Highway 8-44 and the West Branch of the Cooper River. Bordering Strawberrys property is the South Carolina State owned historic site of the "Town of Childsbury." It was a planned community that was settled in 1707. The town no longer exists. They were named to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Chapel, graveyard and lands are private property and only open to the public on special occasions and annual church services.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Child, an English settler, was granted a tract of 1,200 acre on Strawberry Bluff overlooking the Cooper River. This location was the furthest upstream that ships could travel. He established a ferry across the river.</p><br>
<p>The town of Childsbury was planned for the bluff. Due to the growth of nearby plantations, the town withered. By 1750, the chapel and tavern continued to be used. Fairs were held until the mid-1750s.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was a parochial chapel of ease of the Parish of St. John&#39;s, Berkeley. The parish church at the time was Biggin Church, which is about 10 mi away. The designation of "parochial" meant that it had the authority to baptize and bury the dead.</p><br>
<p>By 1825, Strawberry Chapel replaced Biggin Church as the parish church.</p><br>
<p>The town is now a South Carolina Heritage Preserve.</p><br>
<h2>Town plan</h2><br>
<p>The town was planned to have twenty-four blocks on Strawberry Bluff. At its center was a market square. Two other squares were named Childs Square and Dixes Square. The streets were 66 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>Property was assigned for a college, a free school, a church, and a minister&#39;s house. Child designated 600 acre for farms and pastures and 100 acre on the bluff for a future citadel. A sketch of the plan for the town has been published.</p><br>
<h2>Chapel architecture</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is a simple, rectangular brick building covered in stucco. It has a jerkin-head roof. The south-facing facade has a double three-paneled door with a flush fanlight. There are shuttered windows on either side of this door. The west end has a single door flanked by a pair of windows. There is decorative rosette window above. The east end has two windows with the rosette window above. Extending from the north wall is a small anteroom for the vestry.</p><br>
<p>A mural tablet in memory of an early rector of the parish was moved from Biggin Church to Strawberry Chapel. The silver Communion service from Biggin Church, which had been hidden at the end of the Civil War, was found buried in a barn at the Comingtee Plantation in 1947. It is not used at services at Strawberry Chapel but it is on loan to the Charleston Museum.</p><br>
<p>Additional pictures of the chapel are available.</p><br>
<p>In preparation for the Chapel&#39;s 300th Anniversary, its once-in-a-century restoration project should be completed by 2025.</p><br>
<h2>Management</h2><br>
<p>Strawberry Chapel has Ball, Harleston, Waring and Stoney descendants actively working to protect its historic 1725 structure and graves. A major renovation should be completed by the Chapel&#39;s 300th Anniversary in 2025. Steps began in 2018 to dry-out the Chapel walls from years of water intrusion. Four communion services are held annually which visitors may attend.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Chapel and its burial grounds are on private property and not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Although the chapel and graveyard property share a property line with the Childbury Township land, the two are completely separate entities.</p><br>
<p>The historic Childsbury Township property is open to the public and owned by the State of South Carolina. It section is not part of Strawberry Chapel&#39;s private property.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Harrison House is a historic house at 23 North Harbor Street in Branford, Connecticut. Probably built before 1723, it is one of the town&#39;s small number of surviving 18th-century houses, that is further distinctive because of its gambrel roof. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Harrison House is located west of Branford Center, in the Canoe Brook residential area. It is located at the northwestern corner of Bradley and North Harbor Streets, and is angled to face the junction. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, and the front roof face is pierced by three gabled dormers. The house originally had a large central chimney, which (at least above the roof) has been replaced by a modern metal stovepipe. The main facade is symmetrical, with sash windows arranged around the main entrance, which is simply framed. An ell extends to the west of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built sometime before 1723, when a recently built house frame is mentioned in a real estate transaction granting the property to Thomas Harrison from his father&#39;s estate. It is one of a small number of 18th-century houses in Branford, and is unusual for the gambrel-roofed center chimney form, where most other period houses in the town are two full stories and have end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison House, also known as Harrison–Linsley House and incorrectly as the Swain-Harrison House, is a historic house museum at 124 Main Street in Branford, Connecticut. Built in 1724 by a descendant of Branford&#39;s founders, it is a good example of a Connecticut saltbox structure. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is a contributing property to the Canoe Brook Historic District. Since 2016 it has been operated as a house museum by the Branford Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Harrison House is located a short way west of the center of Branford, on the north side of Main Street (Connecticut Route 146) roughly midway between Cherry Hill Road and United States Route 1. It is a -story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof, large central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the main entrance. The second story projects slightly in front of the ground floor, and a rear single-story extension gives the building its characteristic saltbox appearance. The house interior has been fitted with period furnishings, local historical items and archives, and the property includes a barn and a herb garden.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1724 by Nathaniel Harrison II. Its original construction date was estimated to be 1680, based on the acquisition of land and construction of a house by Daniel Swain in that year.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold out of the Harrison family to the Linsleys in 1800. It was acquired in 1938 by architectural historian J. Frederick Kelly, who gave it a complete restoration. He bequeathed the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England). The Society leased the property to the Branford Historical Society in 1974, and sold it to that organization in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Biggin Church Ruins are the ruins of a church in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Biggin Church is its name in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. The ruins are about 2 mi from Moncks Corner, South Carolina, near the intersection of South Carolina Highway 402 and State Highway 8-376. The church has been burned three times since it was first constructed in about 1711. It was the church of the parish of St. John&#39;s, Berkeley  The ruins are from the church built in 1761 and its reconstruction in 1781. It was included in the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1977.</p><br>
<p>UPDATE 11/2019: Biggin Church Ruins remain part of Strawberry Chapel’s land.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site for the church, Biggin Hill, is probably named for Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley. The Parish of St. Johns, Berkeley was created in the South Carolina Assembly Act of 1704 and the Church Act of 1706. St. Johns, Berkeley had the largest area of the original ten parishes of the Province. These parishes served both religious and civil functions in the colony. The land for the church was donated by the Landgrave John Colleton.</p><br>
<p>The first church was built around 1711 to replace a wooden building that had been used for religious services. This church burned in a forest fire around 1755.</p><br>
<p>The church was replaced with a new building in 1761. In this period, parishioners included Henry Laurens and William Moultrie. During the Revolutionary War, British troops used the church as a depot. As they retreated, the church and stores were burned in 1781.</p><br>
<p>The church was used up to the Civil War. During the war, the furniture was removed and the church building was damaged. 1890, or the 1890s. the church was burned in a forest fire. After the fire, its bricks were scavenged for other construction projects.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was a rectangular brick building about 30 ft by 60 ft. It was originally done in English bond. Currently, only two walls remain. One wall was probably the main entrance. It has a large portal with Gibbs surround that is flanked by two windows on the left and on the right. The windows are arched with brick voussoirs. The other wall is the end of the church with a door flanked by windows on the left and right. There are quoins at the corner and a water table, which is horizontal projecting band, made with rounded bricks near the base of the wall.</p><br>
<p>A mural tablet in memory of an early rector of the parish was moved from Biggin Church to its former chapel of ease, Strawberry Chapel, which is about 10 mi away. The silver Communion service from Biggin Church, which had been hidden at the end of the Civil War, was found buried in a barn at the Combahee Plantation in 1947. The silver was returned to Strawberry Chapel&#39;s vestry and is currently (2019) on display at the Charleston Museum.</p><br>
<p>There is a cemetery nearby that is still used. It includes the grave of Sir John Colleton III, the great grandson of the Lord Proprietor.</p><br>
<p>Additional photographs of the ruins are available.</p><br>
<p>Forest Hills Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It encompasses 173 contributing buildings and 7 contributing structures in a planned residential section of Indianapolis. It developed between about 1911 and 1935, and includes representative examples of Tudor Revival and English Cottage style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The former Vassar Home for Aged Men is located at Main and Vassar streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is just across the street from the architecturally similar Vassar Institute, and both buildings are credited to architect J.A. Wood. In the 1970s it became the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>It was established in the 1880s by the nephews of Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, as a home for elderly men but was not fully occupied until the early 20th century. It continued in that use for most of the century, and was among the first buildings in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Later that year it also became a contributing property to the Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District. Today it, like the Institute building, is owned by a local arts group, which rents some of the space in the building to other local non-profit organizations.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Home is a three-story building nine bays wide on its western (front) facade, where the basement is also exposed. It is faced in brick laid in running bond with granite trim, over masonry walls on a balloon frame. The sheet metal roof has a wide cornice with large, vertically elongated brackets at the corners and smaller ones in between.</p><br>
<p>A five-bay pavilion projects from the east, with a veranda running its full length. It is enclosed by a baluster railing, which continues down the steps, and supported by freestanding columns at the front and engaged ones at the rear. Similar, smaller verandas can be found on the other sides.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the rear stairway has a large carved newel post. Both parlors have Neoclassical black marble mantels that were preserved from an earlier building. Two later black marble mantels are in the reception room, which has a carved Louis XVI-style wooden screen supported by four Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Home was built by Vassar&#39;s nephews on the site of his old house, incorporating some of the original interior trim, such as the black marble mantels. It cost $45,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to build and was completed in 1880. The following year it was officially opened.</p><br>
<p>Designed for 50 men, it was initially home to six who met the criteria of being at least 65 years old, Protestant and residents of New York State. It continued to operate below capacity until 1903, when the death of Matthew Vassar&#39;s widow made enough money available.</p><br>
<p>It remained a senior citizen&#39;s home throughout much of the 20th century. In the 1970s, it became the property of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, which has used the lower floor for galleries, public and private events, and rented out the upper floors as office space for other local non-profit organizations.</p><br>
<p>Mecklenburg County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. It was designed by architect Louis H. Asbury and built between 1925 and 1928. It is four-story, rectangular, Neoclassical building sheathed in limestone. The structure is a three-part composition with a decastyle Corinthian order portico on the front facade. The rear elevation has a tetrastyle portico sheltering the three-center bays and Corinthian pilasters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West</p><br>
<p>Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures. Las Vegas was established in 1835 as a land grant from the Mexican government to a group of twenty-nine families.</p><br>
<p>South Union Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 69 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Concord. The district developed after 1880 and includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residences.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Greenville Commercial Historic District in Greenville, Mississippi is a 7.3 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>List of properties</h2><br>
<p>Old Delta Democrat Times Building, 201–203 Main Street</p><br>
<p>217, 219 and 221 Main Street</p><br>
<p>Fire Station No.2 (later Greenville Fire Museum; built ), 218 Main Street</p><br>
<p>Citizen&#39;s Bank Building, 239B–241 Main Street</p><br>
<p>First National Bank of Greenville, 302 Main Street</p><br>
<p>First National Bank Building (Warehouse for the Mississippi Board of Levee Commissioners; ), 211 Walnut Street</p><br>
<p>Fort Nicholson Armory Building, 224 South Walnut Street</p><br>
<p>Headquarters for the Mississippi Board of Levee Commissioners, 229 Walnut Street</p><br>
<p>Antiguo Casino Camuyano is a building in downtown Camuy, Puerto Rico, which dates from 1910. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building was the center of political and social life in Camuy. It was the first reinforced concrete building in Camuy and its relatively fireproof construction was tested in 1910 and 1927 with fires that consumed much of downtown Camuy.</p><br>
<p>The Iglesia de San Juan Bautista  in Maricao, Puerto Rico is a church built during 1890-c.1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,</p><br>
<p>Its facade, facing onto the plaza of Maricao, is dominated by a three-level square bell tower, whose first level is a portico and which is capped by a pyramidal concrete roof. Its exterior has Gothic-style pointed arches; its interior has more traditional rounded arches. It has a nave and two aisles. The church&#39;s original roof was replaced in 1965 by a metal joist structure supporting corrugated asbestos sheets.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by engineer Jeronimo Jiminez Coranado.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 31 churches reviewed for listing on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
