<p>Edificio Oliver in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was built in 1914. The building houses government offices for the municipality of Arecibo.</p><br>
<p>A Beaux Arts-style building, it was the first building made of reinforced concrete in the Arecibo area.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the town center on the location of the former "King&#39;s House", the military garrison building built by the Spanish government in 1765. After 1868 that building became a courthouse, a police headquarters, and a public school then was demolished in 1913. The Edificio Oliver was built soon after in the corner location and was used both as a residence and for commercial purposes. It served also served as a foreign consulate.</p><br>
<p>Edificio Oliver was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Bracken County, Kentucky, in Augusta, Kentucky, honors eight unknown Confederate soldiers who were killed attacking Augusta in September 1862. Confederate Colonel Basil W. Duke led a force of Confederate soldiers to raid the town, on September 27, 1862, only to be driven back by a home guard force numbering 100 and backed up by gunboats. Eight Confederate soldiers of the 21 who died were buried in Payne Cemetery. In 1903 the present monument was placed at their burial spot.</p><br>
<p>The monument is a granite tombstone four feet high with a base three feet wide. At the top of the tombstone is the Confederate battle flag. The stone was placed where the unknown soldiers were buried, forty-one years after the skirmish in which they were killed. The John B. Hood Camp of the United Confederate Veterans was responsible for the funding for the monument, which totaled $550.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Augusta was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is the most northerly of the monuments on the list that honor only Confederates; the Veteran&#39;s Monument in Covington to the north honors both sides.</p><br>
<p>The monument is best reached from the parking area by the flagpole on the river side of Kentucky State Road 8 west of town by descending the nearby stairs. The only other route involves walking across private yards and then up a steep 100 foot hill through Payne Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta 2.JPGAlternative view</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta back.JPGBack of monument</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta roadside.JPGRoadside parking for the monument</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Duttons Hill Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Somerset, Kentucky, commemorates the Confederate soldiers who died at the battle of Duttons Hill in 1863.</p><br>
<p>Today the battlefield of Duttons Hill is on private property. It is located about a mile from the intersection of highways 39 and 80. A historical marker is at the entrance to four homes, which are at the forefront of the hill. On July 17, 1997, the Battle of Duttons Hill Monument was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The 6&#39; 2" marble obelisk marks a mass grave of Confederate casualties from the campaign, their names lost to history for 159 years.</p><br>
<p>The inscription on the memorial has been damaged and is barely legible today. The inscription reads:</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Battle of Duttons Hill took place on March 30, 1863. It was the culmination of Confederate General John Pegrams expedition into Kentucky. The 9-day foray into the Commonwealth was for the purpose of gathering beef – cattle to feed the Army of Tennessee. Pegram led approximately 1,550 cavalry supported by a three piece battery of artillery across the Cumberland River at Stigalls Ferry on March 22. Rumors flew as to the actual strength of Pegrams command. While foraging for cattle, Pegrams cavalry encountered Yankees on March 28 at Hickmans Bridge. Then, narrowly evading the closely following 44th and 45th Regiments Ohio Infantry, they continued to rustle cattle until they had rounded up about 750. Braxton Bragg was relying on beef to keep the Army of Tennessee supplied with nourishing food. Pegram&#39;s cavalry had herded 537 of the cattle across the Cumberland River when their luck ran out.</p><br>
<p>On March 30, 1863, about 1 miles from Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, Pegrams cavalry was overtaken by a Union force of 1,250 men under the command of Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore. Pegram was defeated. Confederate casualty reports of the Battle of Duttons Hill vary wildly, as to killed, wounded, or missing. General Pegram reported a rumor of 80 dead. One Union regiment reported 57 Confederates killed; another only 10.</p><br>
<p>The General David Humphreys House is a historic house museum at 37 Elm Street in Ansonia, Connecticut. Built in the 1690s, it was the birthplace of the American Revolutionary War Colonel David Humphreys. It is now owned by the Derby Historical Society and serves as its headquarters. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Humphreys House is located in southern Ansonia, on the east side of Elm Street north of Vose Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around a center entrance. The entrance is slightly recessed, with a shallow projection gabled portico. The interior retains many original early features, include a large fireplace in the rear chamber, and hand-carved wall paneling. The house underwent major restorative work in the late 20th century.</p><br>
<p>David Humphreys was born in this house in 1752, when the area was still part of Derby. Humphreys was a friend of and aide de camp to General George Washington and was nominated by President Washington to become the first ambassador of the United States to a foreign country (Portugal). He was also responsible for introducing merino sheep to Connecticut, brought over when he United States Ambassador to Spain. The historic house museum has been restored to a mid-18th-century appearance, and serves as the headquarters for the Derby Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Both the Cypress Log Cabin and the Cypress Guest house are historic buildings in the Century of Progress Architectural District in Beverly Shores, Indiana. The houses were sponsored by Southern Cypress Manufacturer&#39;s Association, Jacksonville, Florida. The Cypress Cabin was purchased by the Zimmernam Estate represented by Zimmerman, Saxe and MacBride, Chicago architects. It was planned to move the house to St. Joseph, Michigan, where it was to be a summer home near the Bolton exhibit building of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The move included the Cabin, Guest House and other landscape elements. That move never happened and Robert Bartlett trucked the Cabin and Guest House to Beverly Shores. Bartlett owned the property until 1942, when sold it to Ida J. Osterburg. The house changed owners several times, until it was purchased by the National Park Service in October 1970, becoming part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress Log Cabin was built for the 1933–34 exhibition house to demonstrate the many uses of cypress. The house was built using traditional materials rather than the experimental materials used elsewhere in the exhibition. During both seasons of the fair, Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Ellis from the Southern Cypress Association lived in the ell of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Century of Progress</h2><br>
<p>The Guest House was added to the Home and Industrial Arts Group for the 1934 exposition year. It was used as a display building showing historic uses of cypress, such as a 150-year-old Seminole Indian canoe, 200-year-old Spanish prison stock and a 120-year-old French water main from New Orleans. The Guest House was one of several changes in the Home and Industrial Arts Group landscape for the 1934 season.</p><br>
<h2>Move to Indiana</h2><br>
<p>In the winter and spring of 1934, sixteen buildings barged and trucked to Robert Bartlett&#39;s subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. In an attempt to capitalize on the fairs success, Bartlett reestablished a small exhibition of model houses along Lake Front Drive in Beverly Shores. Depression-era America had responded the Chicago Century of Progress exhibition and Bartlett hoped to transfer that positive interest to his development.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress Log Cabin was moved to Lake Front Drive in Beverly Shores along with four other houses from the Home and Industrial Arts Group. The exhibition site had been landscaped by the James W. Owen Nurseries. Robert Bartlett planned "to reconstruct and landscape them for sale exactly as they were on the Fair grounds." Bartlett neither replicated the fair landscape nor did adapted individual themes for each house. The by grouping the house along Lake Front Drive, Bartlett managed to recreate a sense of an "exhibition group". Three of the exhibition homes were lined up on the south side of Lake Front atop a dune. A retaining wall was created to run the length of Lake Front from the Armco-Ferro House, past the House of Tomorrow to the Cypress Log Cabin. A flight of twenty-seven stairs in front of each house leads to the yard in front of each house with a walkway connecting all three.</p><br>
<h2>Log Cabin</h2><br>
<p>The house is an intentionally rustic mountain cabin set in a picturesque, asymmetrical landscape.</p><br>
<p>In contrast to many of the model houses that featured modern building materials, the Cypress House was intended to exhibit the diverse possibilities for building with a traditional material. The house was meant to be a display space rather than a model home arranged to look as if someone lived there. Ironically, the Cypress House was the only building in the Home and Industrial Arts group that actually served as a home; the ell was occupied for both seasons by the house&#39;s sponsor and his wife.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress House had a complex landscape scheme formed from an assemblage of fences, arbors, bridges and decorated cypress knees used to create a mountain lodge atmosphere. For the 1933 season of the fair, the only major outbuilding was a greenhouse built by Lord & Burnham. For the 1934 season, the Southern Cypress Association applied for additional land in the former Dahlia Garden to construct a second greenhouse by Lord & Burnham&#39;s main competitor, the American Moninger Company. This request was denied and most of the Dahlia Garden land was given to the Kohler company. The Lord & Burnham greenhouse was removed for the 1934 season and a new building was built that extended slightly into the Dahlia Garden. This may have been the Guest House, then functioning as a cypress workshop.</p><br>
<h2>Guest House</h2><br>
<p>An outbuilding of the Cypress Log Cabin, the Guest House was originally a part of the Home and Industrial Arts Group at the 1933–34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. The structure was moved to Beverly Shores, Indiana by Robert Bartlett, a real-estate developer who purchased the houses after the close of the fair</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Characterized as a rustic style mountain lodge, the house is 87 by on concrete footings. The walls are made of pecky cypress log siding. The building is of frame construction with log and ship-lap siding. Porches were added when the buildings were moved to Beverly Shores.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The house is a long narrow, single room width rectangle. The living spaces are arranged in a symmetrical pattern around of a central living space. Entering the central living space from the north, the kitchen is to the right or west with a bedroom beyond it. To the left or east are two bedrooms and a bathroom. At the far west end of the structure is a utility room accessible only from the outside</p><br>
<h2>Restoration efforts</h2><br>
<p>Restoration efforts on the Cyprus Log Cabin were started in 1997. The home is now fully restored and occupied by long-term renters who obtained a 30-year lease from the park service in exchange for restoration and maintenance of the home.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>"A Century of Progress Paradox: Whose meat and whose Poison?", Architectural Forum 61; November 1934; pgs 374–379.</p><br>
<p>Boyce, Robert; Keck & Kock; New York; Princeton Architectural Press, Inc. 1993</p><br>
<p>Cahan, Cathy and Richard; "The Lost City of the Depression." Chicago History, Winter 1976–77; pg 233-242</p><br>
<p>"Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exposition." Introduction p 1–5; Special Collections, Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago; Chicago</p><br>
<p>"Cypress Cabin at World&#39;s Fair Sold for Home." Chicago Daily News; November 3, 1934</p><br>
<p>Horrigan, Brian; "The Home of Tomorrow, 1927-1946" Imaging Tomorrow, ed. Corn, Joseph J. pg 137-163 Cambridge, MA; MIT Press; 1986</p><br>
<p>Lohy, Lenox R. Fair Management: the Story of A Century of Progress Exposition; Chicago; Cuneo Press, Inc., 1952</p><br>
<p>Pecky Cypress: Its Nature and Uses.&quot Jacksonville, FL: Miller Press, 1933. Chicago Century of Press Exposition; Special Collection, Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago.</p><br>
<p>Raley, Doroty, Ed. A Century of Progress: Homes and Furnishings; Chicago; M.A. Ring Company, 1`934</p><br>
<p>The USA Department of Agriculture South Building is an office building located at 14th Street and Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built beginning in 1930, to house the expanded offices of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Construction was completed on the USA Department of Agriculture Administration Building to the north of Independence Avenue in 1930, but Depression-era agriculture programs demanded far more office space than the main building could provide. The phased construction was completed in 1936. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1936, the South Building was the largest office building in the world until the completion of the Pentagon, with dimensions of 458 ft by 944 ft in seven stories with 4500 rooms. The building&#39;s design is credited to Louis A. Simon of the Federal Office of the Supervising Architect. The South Building was joined to the Administration Building by two enclosed pedestrian bridges spanning Independence Avenue, thus consolidating USDA operations into one complex. The new building contained laboratory space as well as offices. It was originally referred to as the "Extensible Building", which could be expanded in a phased fashion.</p><br>
<p>The architecture of the South Building is a stripped-down example of Classicism, with plain detailing that borrows from Classical form and proportion without using a great deal of expensive and time-consuming detail. The style became popular for government buildings until the advent of the Modern style in government architecture, reaching its apex at the Pentagon. In the case of the South Building, the lesser level of detail indicated its subordinate position vis-à-vis the Administration Building. The interior is based on a rigidly-enforced network of corridors; only the departmental auditorium and library deviate from the corridor grid. Interiors are even more plain than the exterior.</p><br>
<p>The building is arranged in seven north–south wings, connected at the ends by the Headhouse (facing Independence Avenue) and Tailhouse (facing C Street).</p><br>
<p>Since the relocation of laboratory space to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the South Building has been occupied exclusively by offices.</p><br>
<p>Halifax County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by architects Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909–1910. It is a three-story, tan brick, Classical Revival-style building. It has a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico flanked by two-story flat roofed wings and a two-stage cupola atop a shallow mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759. In 1847, the first courthouse was replaced by a second, which itself was replaced in 1910 by a third courthouse erected on the site of the second courthouse. The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938, the same year the famed 1938 photo of the drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn was taken. A stone marker currently stands on the courthouse lawn where the photographed drinking fountain resided.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.jpgDrinking fountain on the Halifax County Courthouse lawn, April 1938 (Farm Security Administration photograph by John Vachon)</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lee House is a historic house at the junction of Giant&#39;s Neck Road and Connecticut Route 156 in the Niantic section of East Lyme, Connecticut, United States. Built about 1660, it is one of the oldest wood-frame houses in Connecticut. Restored in the early 20th century by Norman Isham, it is now maintained by the East Lyme Historical Society as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Lee House is located in southwestern East Lyme, on the south side of CT 156 just east of Rocky Neck State Park. It is a -story structure, with a post-and-beam timber frame erected on six 2-story wall posts, and covered by a steeply pitched roof with a large brick central chimney. Its exterior clapboards appear to be original. The main facade is five bays wide, with a regular arrangement that is offset to the right. The entrance is in the central bay, with flanking pilasters rising to a transom window and corniced entablature.</p><br>
<p>The interior is indicative of the building&#39;s evolutionary construction history. Its oldest portion, probably built between 1660 and 1664, was a single-pile two-story structure with a side chimney. This was later altered by the addition of another pile on the opposite side of the chimney, and by the addition of a leanto to what had been its front, after a new road was cut to the north of the house. A small, stone-walled partial cellar pit under part of the hall was reached through a trap door. A massive fireplace with timber lintel spanned most of the west wall. Around 1700, the West Parlor and West Chamber were added as a free standing structure framed on its own four corner posts. About 1765, the lean-to with the Kitchen and its adjoining rooms were added. by Thomas Lee II. The West Parlor was plastered, the summer beam and chimney girt were sheathed, and the paneling formerly on the plastered walls was reused in the lean-to. New paneling, with four flute pilasters was added on the fireplace wall.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Thomas Lee, the second of that name to own the land, and remained in the Lee family until the mid-19th century, when it was sold to a neighbor. It was used as a chicken house and for storage until 1914, when Lee family descendant banded together with the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities to repurchase the house. The house was given a painstaking restoration to its believed 17th-century appearance under the guidance of early preservationist Norman Isham, and was opened as a museum in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Today the house is a historic house museum operated by the East Lyme Historical Society, and furnished as it would have been in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Tobacco Barn is a flue-cured tobacco barn in Dillon County, South Carolina. It is on the east side of a dirt road, 0.25 mi south of South Carolina State Highway 17-34, 0.5 mi north of South Carolina State Highway 17-155, and about 1 mi east of the intersection of South Carolina State Highway 17-22 and South Carolina State Highway 155. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bright tobacco was introduced in South Carolina in the 1880s and 1890s. This grows well in the sandy, loamy soils of the Pee Dee and is flue-cured. The traditional barns had one or two fireboxes using wood or coal. In the 1950s, many barns were changed to gas or oil heat for better temperature regulation.</p><br>
<p>Tobacco leaves were strung onto tobacco poles that were laid across horizontal tier poles in the barn. There were three drying stages. The first stage at 95 &deg;F to 110 &deg;F yellowed the leaves. In the second stage, the temperature was raised to 130 &deg;F to 135 &deg;F to dry the leaves. The final stage was at 160 &deg;F to 170 &deg;F to dry the stems.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The barn is rectangular with a metal gable roof and a brick foundation. The walls up to the eaves are sawn timber. The timbers are notched at the corners and have mortar chinking. The gable ends are covered with horizontal weatherboarding. There are small rectangular doors in the gables that can be opened for ventilation. On the south and east sides, there are metal shed roofs supported by posts. These sheds provided shade for stringing leaves. The east and west sides have small doors at ground level. The name "J. L. King" and the date "1942" are scratched into the chinking. The barn was divided into five "rooms" or "bents" by wooden tier poles.</p><br>
<p>On the south end, there is a brick, double-arched firebox that has been bricked in. the fuel was later changed to gas.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its nomination, it was said to be no longer used as a tobacco barn, but was considered the most intact tobacco barn in Dillon and Marion counties built between 1895 and the 1950s. It was also described as an "extremely fragile resource."</p><br>
<p>Pikes Peak Grange No. 163 is an historic Grange hall located at 3093 N. State Highway 83 in Franktown, Colorado. Pikes Peak Grange No. 163 was organized in 1908 and its meeting hall was built the next year. It was the successor to Fonder Grange founded in Franktown in 1875.</p><br>
<p>On October 1, 1990, Pike&#39;s Peak Grange No. 163 was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Hawaii Shingon Mission or Shingon Shu Hawaii  located at 915 Sheridan Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is one of the most elaborate displays of Japanese Buddhist temple architecture in Hawaii. It was first built in 1915-1918 by Nakagawa Katsutaro, a master builder of Japanese-style temples, then renovated in 1929 by Hego Fuchino, a self-taught man who was the first person of Japanese ancestry to become a licensed architect in the Islands. The building underwent further changes in 1978, and was considerably augmented in 1992. However, its most distinctive features remain: the steep, hipped-gable roof  with rounded-gable projection, both with elaborate carvings on the ends, and the glittering altar and interior furnishings from Japan that signify its ties to esoteric Shingon Buddhism.</p><br>
<p>The temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 26 April 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The round tomoe at the top of the entrance roof represents the cycle of life. It is also the traditional symbol of the Koyasan Shingon sect, though the temple has been independent of sectarian affiliations since 2004. The carved phoenix represents death and rebirth, and the carved dragons represent both power and good fortune. The obelisk at the front edge of the property commemorates the first Shingon pilgrimage to Japan by immigrants in Hawaii in 1929. The more recently added statue in front depicts Kōbō Daishi (Kūkai, 774-835 CE), the founder of Shingon. An oil painting of the Daishi by a member, Mrs. Helen Nakagawa Abe, of the local congregation also graces the altar inside the temple. The temple is congregational, and reflects the diversity of Hawaii in its membership.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the temple added a worship service in English, and planned on a slow transition to primarily English services.</p><br>
<p>The Shingon Shu Hawaii temple commissioned the creation of a ceiling panel (tenjo-e) that depicts the Taizokai mandala which measures 600 ft&sup2;. Done in original pigments mixed by Japanese artisans and suspended in animal fat, the pigments were applied to individually lacquered (urushi) panels, then placed by hand into a grid suspended from the ceiling.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 the arrival of Fujin (Wind God) and Raijin (Thunder God) statues, completed the second phase of the temple&#39;s artistic additions. The statues which can be seen at the immediate entrance of the main hall were chosen to depict the Hawaiian prevailing trade winds with Fujin, and an appreciation for the power and force of nature in Raijin. Each stand over ten feet in height, and weigh over 2800 pounds a piece. Constructed of Japanese Cypress, they are the largest depictions of the Wind and Thunder Gods outside Japan.</p><br>
<p>The Idlewild Farm Complex is a 26 acre plot of land in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It was originally part of the Welsh Tract and is now a portion of the Bridlewild Trails Association.</p><br>
<h2>Early Times</h2><br>
<p>In 1698, Welsh farmer Robert Lloyd was deeded 400 acre of land near "the road leading through the Black Rocks" now known as Black Rock Road. In 1700, Lloyd built a one room with loft house on the property, complete with beehive oven and walk-in fireplace for help with cooking. Over the next 14 years, Lloyd had eight kids and tended to the farm. However, in 1714, Robert Lloyd died.</p><br>
<p>Lloyd&#39;s wife, Lowry Lloyd, soon remarried. Her new husband added a new portion to the house in 1717 and a wooden barn was built.</p><br>
<p>The Farm changed hands a few times over the next century. Along with the change of ownership, the barn was rebuilt to stone in 1825, the two portions of the farmhouse were connected in 1825, and a wagon house was added (1827). Eventually the farm was bought by John Williamson (for whom Williamson Road, where the farm currently sits, is named.) He added a springhouse (1860) at the base of the hill, used both as a cool place to store food and a water source. Upon his death in 1864, the farm was partitioned between his two sons, Garret and Samuel Williamson. Garret sold his share back to Samuel, who over the next few years added a carriage house, milkhouse, bull pen, and horse stable.</p><br>
<h2>Saunders Times</h2><br>
<p>In 1897, Frances Saunders (wife of medical publisher Walter Saunders) bought what was Idylwild Farm from Samuel Williamson. She bought only 87 of the remaining 104 acre of the farm. Around 1900, the farm was changed from a crop and horse farm to a dairy farm, using Ayrshire cows. Although they had a house in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, the Saunders wanted a place to work and play during the summer months, for example, they dug a pool in 1924, which is still there today. Mrs. Saunders bought neighboring properties, increasing the size of the farm to 167 acre, and tried to keep most of the buildings as original as possible. Although going deaf, she continued to work the farm until Walter deeded it over to his children, Lawrence and Emily, in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence Saunders, who had married Dorothy Love in 1924, moved onto the farm and began to work the dairy produce. In 1927, Lawrence began the Bridlewild Trails Association on the property. He also formed in 1951 the Saunders Foundation to maintain a plot called Saunders Woods, which he had bought in 1922. In 1968, Lawrence Saunders died, leaving the farm to his estate. Dorothy Saunders, his widow, bought the farm from his estate, along with 26 acre. She wrote poetry, worked the farm, and enjoyed farm life. A book of poetry, titled "Unbroken Time" was written at Idlewild and published in 1982.</p><br>
<h3>Natural Lands</h3><br>
<p>In 1983 Idlewild Farm was entered on the National Register of Historic Places for Pennsylvania. In 1992 Mrs. Saunders gave both Saunders Woods and 21 acre of Idlewild to Natural Lands, a nonprofit organization dedicated to land preservation and stewardship in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lyon House, at 1 Byram Road, was built ca. 1739 and is considered to be the oldest unaltered structure in Greenwich, Connecticut. The restoration of the house, a Colonial saltbox, is the primary project of the Greenwich Preservation Trust, a not-for-profit organization that grew out of the Thomas Lyon House Committee formed by the Byram Neighborhood Association. Its heritage dates back to the family of Thomas Lyon , one of the earliest settlers of Fairfield County, and particularly his son, Thomas Lyon  who, with his wife Abigail and their children, were the initial occupants. The house stayed in the family line of Abigail and Thomas Lyon in to the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas Lyon (1621–1690)</h2><br>
<p>The first Thomas Lyon was born in England about 1621. He is reported to have come first to the Massachusetts Colony, and thence to have gone to seek his fortune in the far west of Fairfield County, CT.</p><br>
<p>His first wife was Martha Johanna Winthrop, the only child of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop and her husband Henry Winthrop, second son of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Martha had been born May 9, 1630 at Groton Manor, the Winthrop home in England, and as an infant sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her mother, arriving November 2, 1631. In the early 1640s, the young Martha moved with her parents to their newly acquired property encompassing the area known now as Old Greenwich in Fairfield County, CT. Martha married Thomas Lyon circa 1647, and they had one child, Mary Lyon, born August 1649. Having battled frail health for some years, Martha (Winthrop) Lyon died in her early twenties, likely in 1653. Thomas Lyon remarried in 1654 to Mary Hoyt, daughter of Simon Hoyt of Stamford, CT. This Thomas Lyon died in Greenwich in 1690, and was buried in the old Lyon family burying ground at Byram Neck. His will left extensive land holdings in the area to his children, including his son Thomas Lyon.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas Lyon (1673–1739)</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Lyon was born in 1673 to Thomas Lyon and his second wife, Mary Hoyt. This younger Thomas Lyon married Abigail Ogden, daughter of Judith (Budd) and John Ogden. This Thomas Lyon "built the house near Byram Bridge, which is still standing, having been occupied until the present time by his descendants." In 1711, Thomas Lyon was called into short-term military service on the Canada–US border as a member of Col. Robert Hunter&#39;s Company of Fusiliers. This Thomas Lyon died in April, 1739, with his will proven May 1 of that year. His wife, Abigail (Ogden) Lyon, lived until 1760; ownership of the house went to the next generation in their family.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>It is to two sources that we are indebted for much of the knowledge we have of the life and descendants of Thomas Lyon (1621–1690): 1) Robert Charles Winthrop, a lineal descendant of Governor John Winthrop, who in 1891 published a number of letters found among the papers of Governor Winthrop, written by Thomas Lyon, his wife Martha (Winthrop) Lyon, and other members of the family. and 2) Robert B. Miller, who edited the 1907 book Lyon Memorial which gives additional background on Thomas Lyon (#1) as well as detailed genealogical information on his descendants, including is son, Thomas Lyon, of the Thomas Lyon House.</p><br>
<p>The Central Heating Plant is a power station located at 325 13th Street, SW in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C. which serves most of the United States federal government buildings near the National Mall.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Operated by the General Services Administration, it was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret in 1933. At the time of its construction it was the largest such heating facility in the United States and served 22 federal buildings. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Cret used Art Deco styling for the essentially industrial building, a departure from the prevailing Washington classicism, but was able to integrate it with its surroundings through careful massing and detailing. Pilasters and vertical ribbons of windows stand in for classical colonnades. Cret designed the roof profile so that the plants smokestacks did not project above the equipment screen, satisfying the concerns of the District of Columbia Commission on Fine Arts, which had jurisdiction over the design. The three octagonal smokestacks rise only 42 ft. Limestone relief panels illustrate the buildings purpose with depictions of a boiler, safety valve, generator, fan and heat exchanger. The building is noteworthy as an early example of Modernism-influenced architecture, and as a notably attractive building in its own right.</p><br>
<p>Originally designed to burn coal, the Central Heating Plant has been converted to use oil and natural gas. A central refrigeration plant constructed in 1957 obscures the east elevation.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Hawley House at 514 Purdy Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut, is a historic Colonial American wooden post-and-beam saltbox farm house built in 1730. Hawley was the great grandson of Joseph Hawley  of Stratford, Connecticut, through Samuel. A drawing and description of the house was included in J. Frederick Kelly&#39;s book, The Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut first published in 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas and Sarah Hawley</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Hawley house is a rare survivor from the earliest era of Stepneys settlement. It is also a reminder that until the mid-20th century, most residents made their living by farming. Present day Stepney or Monroe, was originally the northern part of Stratford, which had been settled in 1639. In the early 18th century, descendants of Stratfords original settlers, Thomas Hawley among them, carved out farms out of the wilderness. Thomas Hawley was the great grandson of Joseph Hawley, one of the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, who purchased most of the present town of Monroe from the Paugusset Indians in 1671. Thomas was born on September 8, 1734, in present-day Trumbull, Connecticut, married Sarah Olcott on November 16, 1760, and raised ten children.</p><br>
<h2>New Stratford</h2><br>
<p>In 1761, 48 men from North Stratford, including Thomas Hawley, submitted a petition to the Connecticut General Court for permission to form their own religious parish. The nearest meetinghouse, as Congregationalists called their house of worship, was more than three miles (5 km) away. This made it difficult for residents of North Stratford to comply with the Connecticut law requiring everyone to attend all-day worship services on the Sabbath. The Connecticut General Court granted their request, and in 1762 created the New Stratford Ecclesiastical Society. In 1823, this society incorporated as the Town of Monroe.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house, a pre-revolutionary saltbox dwelling, is two and one-half stories high and three bays wide with a side gable roof; center entrance, and center fieldstone chimney. Its dimensions are approximately 37 by 40 ft. The roof pitch is 45 degrees in the main portion, lessening to 30 degrees in the kitchen appendage, a probable indication that this was added at later date. The exterior is clapboard, painted a dark red color. The roof is a natural wood shingle. Window sash is 9-over-6 on the first floor and 6-over-6 on the second, and 9-panel single hung in the attic. None of the early farm outbuildings survive. There are no surface remnants of a barn and slave house mentioned in an early 19th-century estate inventory.</p><br>
<h2>Revolutionary War</h2><br>
<p>Captain Thomas Hawley played a role on the home front in the war for American independence. He is believed to have served on the Committee of Inspection appointed in 1776 to “keep watch and ward” in Stratford, of which Monroe was then still part, and which bordered the vulnerable Long Island coast.</p><br>
<h2>Later years</h2><br>
<p>Records show that as late as 1800, two enslaved people lived on the property. Slavery had existed in Connecticut since the 17th century. By 1800 the vast majority of the states black residents were freed. They had been manumitted (or freed) by their owners, bought their own freedom, or been liberated by a law designed to gradually eliminate slavery in Connecticut. By 1810 Thomas Hawley no longer owned slaves. Thomas Hawley died in 1817 at the age of 83, leaving nearly 150 acre of land. An inventory of Thomas Hawleys estate at the time of his death shows a house valued at $160.00, a slave house at $10.00, and a barn at $130.00. David Hawley was the beneficiary of his father&#39;s estate. His descendants lived in his house for another century. In the 1920s, F. William Behrens, mayor of Bridgeport from 1923 to 1929, purchased the Thomas Hawley house as a summer home.</p><br>
<p>The Alibi Club is a traditional gentlemen&#39;s private club in Washington, D.C. Its members consist of the Washington elite, including presidents, senators, and diplomats, among other prominent figures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1884, seven Washingtonians founded the Alibi Club, a private social club of prominent political and social figures. Its name derived from the club practice of providing an alibi when the members family questioned the whereabouts of a member. The clubs founding purpose was to foster "mutual improvement, education, and enlightenment" among members of Washington society. Membership also extended to out-of-town figures from New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, most likely to share information between communities and help in the development of strategies to address civic issues. Throughout its history, it has hosted numerous world leaders, including King Leopold of Belgium, Prince Albert of Belgium, Prince Henry of Prussia, and Viceroy Li Hongzhang.</p><br>
<h3>Clubhouse</h3><br>
<p>The first clubhouse was situated at 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Since 1886, the club has occupied a three-story, brick townhouse blocks away from the White House. The clubhouse is furnished with donated memorabilia and artifacts covering nearly every available wall section on the first two floors. The clubhouse is also notable as a well-preserved example of residential architecture in a commercial district and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Membership</h2><br>
<p>Membership is limited to fifty, with new members admitted upon unanimous vote after the death of a previous member. Membership is not revealed to outsiders, and the first public notice of membership is often in a member&#39;s obituary.</p><br>
<p>Some of the Alibi Club&#39;s most prominent members have included: President George H. W. Bush, his father, Senator Prescott Bush, Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Stanley F. Reed, Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, and General George C. Marshall.</p><br>
<p>David M. Abshire</p><br>
<p>David Acheson</p><br>
<p>Dean Acheson</p><br>
<p>Theodore Achilles</p><br>
<p>Lamar Alexander</p><br>
<p>Chandler Anderson</p><br>
<p>Larz Anderson</p><br>
<p>Warren R. Austin</p><br>
<p>Truxtun Beale</p><br>
<p>Gist Blair</p><br>
<p>Robert Woods Bliss</p><br>
<p>Frederick N. Brooke</p><br>
<p>David K.E. Bruce</p><br>
<p>George H. W. Bush</p><br>
<p>Prescott Bush</p><br>
<p>George E. Corcoran</p><br>
<p>Thomas Gardiner Corcoran</p><br>
<p>Dwight F. Davis</p><br>
<p>Allen Dulles</p><br>
<p>John Foster Dulles</p><br>
<p>James Dunn</p><br>
<p>Walter Edge</p><br>
<p>George A. Garrett</p><br>
<p>Charles C. Glover III</p><br>
<p>Gordon Gray</p><br>
<p>Cary Grayson</p><br>
<p>Joseph Grew</p><br>
<p>Alfred Gruenther</p><br>
<p>Frederick Hale</p><br>
<p>George Hamilton, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Nelson Hartson</p><br>
<p>Christian Herter</p><br>
<p>William Hibbs</p><br>
<p>Archibald Hopkins</p><br>
<p>Walter Bruce Howe</p><br>
<p>David B. Karrick</p><br>
<p>Samuel Kaufman</p><br>
<p>John Kean</p><br>
<p>Emory S. Land</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Longworth</p><br>
<p>Robert A. Lovett</p><br>
<p>George C. Marshall</p><br>
<p>Clarence Moore</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Mosby McKelway</p><br>
<p>John Lord O&#39;Brian</p><br>
<p>Thomas Nelson Page</p><br>
<p>Stanley F. Reed</p><br>
<p>Henry Roosevelt</p><br>
<p>Jules Henri de Sibour</p><br>
<p>Potter Stewart</p><br>
<p>James W. Symington</p><br>
<p>Maxwell Taylor</p><br>
<p>J.W. Wadsworth</p><br>
<p>John F. Wilkins</p><br>
<p>Clarence R. Wilson</p><br>
<p>Blanton Winship</p><br>
<p>Jerauld Wright</p><br>
<p>William M. Wright</p><br>
<p>John Adams Bross</p><br>
<p>C. Boyden Gray</p><br>
<p>Appin near Bennettsville, South Carolina dates from 1875. The boundaries of the listed property were increased to include more, perhaps outbuildings or secondary structures, dating from 1870, in 2007 It is a two-story farmhouse associated with its second owner, Charles Spencer McCall. He was a veteran of the Civil War, a local business man, mayor of Bennettsville, and member of the South Carolina Senate.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Bennettsville Historic District is a historic district in Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The original area includes the Magnolia and Jennings-Brown houses, which are separately NRHP-listed. The NRHP-listed area was increased in 1993 to include the Playhouse Theater and other property along Clyde Street.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Downtown Historic District in Anderson, South Carolina, originally built in the late 19th century, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The district was increased in 1987 to include a hotel building at 402 N. Main Street, and again in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>National Register Properties</h2><br>
<p>National Register properties within the district include:</p><br>
<p>Palmetto Building circa 1909, 201 S. Murray Avenue (formerly Sullivan Hardware Company Warehouse)</p><br>
<p>Sullivan Building circa 1881, 208 S. Main St. (former Sullivan Hardware Store, now Sullivan&#39;s Metropolitan Grill)</p><br>
<p>Chiquola Condominiums circa 1888, 100 W. Whitner St. (formerly Chiquola Hotel and Plaza Hotel) Courthouse Square/Plaza</p><br>
<p>Historic Anderson County Courthouse, circa 1898, 101 S. Main St., Courthouse Square/Plaza</p><br>
<p>Robert Anderson Fountain, 202 E. Greenville St. (Anderson County Museum, formerly located in the Courthouse Square/Plaza)</p><br>
<p>Anderson City Hall/Police Department, 401 S. Main St.</p><br>
<p>First Federal Post Office Building circa 1909, 401 N. Main St.</p><br>
<p>Anderson County Arts Center circa 1905, 405 N. Main St. (former Carnegie Library Building)</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun Historic Lofts circa early 1920s, 402 N. Main St. (former John C. Calhoun Hotel)</p><br>
<h2>Chiquola Hotel</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Chiquola was built in 1888 in Anderson, South Carolina. By the 1930s the Hotel Chiquola had been renamed Plaza Hotel and had suffered many setbacks largely due to the lack of parking and private restrooms. By the 1960s the Plaza was scarcely used and began to decline even further. In the 1980s the building was home to a few ground level businesses and a few retirement tenants. The Chiquola faced demolition several times in the 1990s but was revived in 2006 by a group of investors that restored the architectural elements long since removed and restored the Chiquola to luxury condominiums, and a private club with restaurant and bar.</p><br>
<p>The South Main Street Commercial Historic District of Little Rock, Arkansas is a historic district encompassing a five-block stretch of South Main Street, just south of the citys downtown area. Developed between about 1905 and 1950, the section of South Main between 12th and 17th streets represents an architectural cross-section of the commercial development that took place in the city during that time. Early buildings, such as the 1905 Lincoln Building, were Classical Revival in style, while generational changes in style are exemplified by the presence of Craftsman and Art Deco buildings. One residential building, the First Hotze House, predates the areas commercial development, and stands as a reminder of its residential past.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>South Main Street Residential Historic District in Statesboro, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant architecturally as collection of early 20th-century bungalows that make up an intact neighborhood of single-family homes. The houses were built during 1910 to 1930. The majority of the houses are 1- or -story houses with wide porches, broad roofs, and Craftsman woodwork details. The neighborhood includes an American Foursquare house and a few with Victorian Eclectic details.</p><br>
<p>The South Main and Washington Streets Historic District &mdash; 68-139 Washington St. and 2-24 South Main St. is a historic district in South Norwalk, Connecticut. The 110 acre district encompasses 35 buildings and two other structures . Varied architectural styles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries include Romanesque Revival, Second Empire, and Italianate architecture. Half  of the area first became part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 . The district was increased in 1985 with the addition of nine buildings on 2.5 acre  and again in 1999, with another 10 buildings on 3 acre, roughly along North Main Street from Washington Street to Ann Street.</p><br>
<p>The original district included 26 contributing buildings and 2 other contributing structures over a 5.5 acre area. The district was first increased to add 9 contributing buildings over a 2.5 acre area. The second increase added 10 contributing buildings over a 3 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The Joshua Hempsted House is a historic house museum at 11 Hempstead Street in New London, Connecticut. Built about 1678 and altered several times during the 18th century, it is one of the state&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, and provides a virtual catalog of early construction methods due to its state of preservation. The house was acquired by Connecticut Landmarks in 1937, which operates it and the adjacent 1759 Nathaniel Hempstead House as a historic house museum complex known as the Hempsted Houses. The houses have been restored to reflect a late 17th to mid 18th-century appearance, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hempsted House is located west of downtown New London, on the east side of Hempstead Street between Hope and Truman Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof that has two front-facing gables. The left gable, in an unusual departure for houses of its age, projects forward of the main block, providing an enclosed vestibule on the first floor. Window openings are generally narrow, and filled with diamond-pane casement windows. The interior has exposed framing members that show the building&#39;s great age.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house was three bays wide, and was a typical one-room structure with a chimney on one end. Although there is some disagreement by architectural historians, it was probably built c. 1678 by Joshua Hempstead, the father of local diarist Joshua Hempsted. It is one of Connecticut&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, and has long been recognized for its architectural and historical significance, having been studied by Norman Isham and Frederick Kelly, prominent early architectural historians of the region.</p><br>
<p>The house supposedly escaped destruction during the 1780 Battle of Groton Heights, in which much of New London was destroyed, because the Hempsteads had prepared a large family reunion meal, which was appropriated by the raiding British forces. It was used as a safe house as part of the Underground Railroad. It remained in the Hempstead family until 1937, when it was acquired by the organization now known as Connecticut Landmarks.</p><br>
<p>The MV Tourist No. 2 was a 1924 wooden-hulled car ferry that has served passengers all over the Pacific Northwest. Originally, it took passengers across the Columbia River, with a dock in Astoria, Oregon. It was undergoing restoration in Astoria until it sunk in 2022. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>With the exception of the Second World War, from 1924 to 1966, MV Tourist No. 2 was in service on the Astoria–Megler Ferry route on the Columbia River. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army purchased the vessel as the FB or JMP 535 to lay mines at the mouth of the river. At the end of the war, it returned to ferry service on the Columbia. The ferry was moved from Astoria, Oregon to Pierce County, Washington, in 1967 and renamed the Islander of Pierce County. It worked on Puget Sound for many years, but eventually its wooden-hull design was overshadowed by vessels with more modern steel-hull designs.</p><br>
<p>Early morning on August 28, 2010, the vessel caught fire while docked at its Kirkland, Washington pier. The fire was confined to the engine room. Firefighters were quoted as saying everything below deck was "toast". The boat was moved from Lake Washington during the morning of August 31, 2010 by the Tug Dixie, part of the Fremont Tug Company.</p><br>
<p>The vessel was sold to Christian Lint in 2010 after Argosy Cruise Lines concluded that it was not economical to repair the fire damage. Lint moored the vessel in Bremerton and used it for special events. In 2016, Lint sold the vessel to the Astoria Ferry Group, and returned it to Astoria on August 1. As of 2019, the vessel was undergoing restoration.</p><br>
<p>Tourist No. 2 partially sank in the Columbia River In front of Astoria where it was moored and for sale on July 28, 2022. It was demolished in situ and removed in September 2022.</p><br>
<p>Price&#39;s Post Office or the Price House is a house built c. 1800 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Its name in the USGS Geographic Names Information System is Prices Post Office. It is located at the intersection of Oak View Farm Road , Old Switzer Road , and Price House Road . It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Price moved to the Spartanburg District around 1793. He was a landowner and entrepreneur. He operated a general store and post office next to his house.</p><br>
<p>When his wife, Anne, died in 1821, she left a forty-two page inventory of the estate. In addition to the house furnishings, the inventory included 25 slaves and agricultural machinery. Going beyond "frontier-level," the furnishings included a curtained four poster bed, an 8-day clock, a desk, and a bookcase, and volumes of the Spectator, the Tatler and other publications. The farm equipment included grindstones, a loom, a spinning wheel, a cotton picking machine, and riding chaise.</p><br>
<p>Just after the Civil War, the house came into the hands of Captain George Bobo Dean and, according to Landrum&#39;s History of Spartanburg County it was his primary residence until he was elected Sheriff of Spartanburg and moved into town. In the Will of George B. Dean, the house (called "My Prince Place") was given to his eldest son, James Madison Dean. It remained in the Dean family until about 1936 when it was bought by the Spartanburg County Historical Association.</p><br>
<p>It is a now historic house museum operated by the Spartanburg County Historical Association. It is open on Sunday afternoons throughout the year, on Saturdays in the summer, and by reservations.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story, brick house with a gambrel roof. At that time, a gambrel roof was unusual in upstate South Carolina. The 18 in thick brickwork on the house is Flemish bond with darkened headers.</p><br>
<p>The rooms are paneled with wood on the walls and ceilings. The first floor has a parlor, called the Pine Room because of its wood paneling, and a large dining room for both the family and stagecoach riders. These two rooms are separated by a central hallway that extends through each story. The second floor has one small and two large bedrooms. The top floor under the eaves has one bedroom for male travelers and one for female travelers.</p><br>
<p>An extension was built to the rear around 1820. The extension was probably built as quarters for the servants. It is constructed of English bond, and is now a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Argabrite House, also known as the Hambrick House, is located at 504 Virginia Street in Alderson, West Virginia, United States. The property, consisting of three contributing buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 2009. The Queen Anne style cottage, built in 1908, was designed by the architectural firm of Jacob H. Daverman & Sons. A barn, also built in 1908, and a chicken house, built in 1920 are in excellent condition and are exemplary of domestic structures of the time. The property was the featured listing in the National Park Service&#39;s weekly list of April 24, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Seneca Historic District is a historic district in Seneca, South Carolina, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district is located south of the railroad tracks in Seneca. The district consists of a number of homes and three churches that were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses have architectural styles that were popular in the period. It also includes a log cabin from the mid nineteenth century that was moved from Long Creek, South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places December 31, 1974. Its boundaries were expanded April 23, 1987.</p><br>
<p>A map of the district is available.</p><br>
<p>The Pond-Weed House is a historic house at corner of the old Boston Post Road and Hollow Tree Ridge Road in the Noroton section of Darien, Connecticut. It has also been known as The House Under the Hill and Half-Way House. Built ca. 1730, the house is a classic wood frame saltbox, stories in height, five bays wide, with a central chimney. It is considered to be the oldest building in Darien.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Eells-Stow House is operated as a historic house museum at 34 High Street in Milford, Connecticut. Built as a private residence and with a construction history dating to c. 1700, it is believed to be Milford&#39;s oldest surviving building. It has a complex history of later additions and alterations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>In the early 21st century, the Eells-Stow House is one of three houses that make up the campus of the Milford Historical Society. It is located on the south side of High Street east of Green Street and south of the citys downtown. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is four bays wide, with a large chimney centered on one of the central bays, and the main entrance on the other. A lean-to section, probably added in the late 18th century, extends to the rear, giving the house a saltbox profile. A two-story, 19th-century ell is partially built over the lean-to and another, older addition. The interior includes exposed construction elements, revealing the different stages of construction. The exact sequence of construction of the buildings elements was historically a subject of debate among Connecticut&#39;s leading architectural historians, including Norman Isham and J. Frederick Kelly.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is believed to date to c. 1700, and was built by Samuel Eells, a prominent local citizen. During the American Revolutionary War, it was owned by Stephen Stowe and Freelove (Baldwin) Stow. Stowe contracted to house and care for prisoners of war who had contracted smallpox; he eventually caught it and died of the disease.</p><br>
<p>The David Ogden House is a historic house at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was built in 1750 as an integral saltbox. The house is an exceptional survivor of a typical mid 18th century Connecticut farmhouse. There is a massive central field stone chimney topped with brick. The house, which escaped the burning of Fairfield by the British forces that invaded during the American Revolution, provides a glimpse into the life of a typical family. The house was called the new house in a 1750 deed. It is believed that the house was built for David Ogden at the time of his marriage to Jane Sturges. For the next 125 years it was home for the Ogden family in this farming and coastal shipping town. The house fell into disrepair and was donated to the Fairfield Historical Society. Presently, the house serves as a museum for the Fairfield Historical Society, which also operates the Fairfield Museum and History Center.</p><br>
<p>At one time the Ogden House was owned by art and antiques dealer Mary Allis, who turned it into a showcase for eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American folk paintings and furniture.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Creek Covered Bridge was built circa 1881 near Hundred, West Virginia, United States. The kingpost truss bridge spans only 36 ft. It is the last remaining covered bridge in Wetzel County and one of two remaining single kingpost truss bridges in West Virginia. The bridge has been structurally reinforced with six W8x12 wide-flange steel beams replacing wood stringers. The bridge is enclosed with painted wood siding and a galvanized metal roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The 1881 bridge was replaced by another covered bridge in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The American Institute of Pharmacy Building, also known as the Americal Pharmaceutical Association Building and the American Pharmacists Association Building is a late Beaux Arts style building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the American Pharmacists Association. The building, prominently located on Constitution Avenue, is on the only privately held lot in the area, surrounded by protected Federal lands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The American Institute of Pharmacy Building was designed by architect John Russell Pope and completed in 1933. It is a one-story building with a full basement partially above grade. Structure is steel and brick with reinforced concrete floor and roof. The building is faced with Vermont marble and faces a wide terrace that overlooks the stepped slope leading down to the Lincoln Memorial. The building is arranged with a strongly centralized mass with subordinate wings to either side. A single monumental door flanked by pilasters and large bronze lamps is the sole punctuation of the facade. Allegorical relief sculpture by Ulysses Ricci embellishes the entrance surround. The building was conceived by Pope to be complementary to the Lincoln Memorial.</p><br>
<p>Because of the prominence of the site and its relationship to the Lincoln Memorial the American Institute of Pharmacy was required to make extensive land acquisitions and exchanges with the government to create suitable buffers and to allow for the widening of 23rd Street as it approaches the Memorial. White marble was specifically stipulated as the exterior cladding material.</p><br>
<p>The interior is arranged around a central rotunda, accompanied by a small museum and library, now board room and reception space. Offices are located to the rear, while the basement was planned as laboratory, service and storage space. The rotunda is capped by a low dome resting on pendentives and lighted by an oculus. The flanking museum and library are lighted by skylights.</p><br>
<p>A three-story addition was built in 1959-1961, designed by Eggers and Higgins and subordinated to the design of the main building.</p><br>
<p>The Acadian House is a historic house on Union Street in Guilford, Connecticut. Built about 1670, it is one of Connecticut&#39;s oldest surviving houses, notable for its occupation by refugee Acadians following their 1755 deportation from Nova Scotia. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Acadian House is located in a residential setting just northeast of the town center of Guilford, on the south side of Union Street near its junction with Market Place. It is a -story timber-framed structure, with a gabled roof, large central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade, oriented at an angle to the street, is three bays wide, with a central entrance framed with simple moulding and topped by a fourlight transom window. The windows on either side of the entrance are placed asymmetrically. The rear slope of the roof extends to the first floor, giving the house a saltbox shape. The chimney has an unusual T shape, the result of an expansion after the house was built.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house was built about 1670 by Joseph Clay. Clay&#39;s grandson inherited the property in the 18th century, but vacated the house for a more modern one in 1726. The house has its name because a family of Acadians from Grand Pré were settled in the house following their 1755 deportation from Nova Scotia.</p><br>
<p>The John Wilson House is a historic house at 29–31 Ashland Street in the borough of Jewett City in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. Built about 1781, it is significant locally as a fine example of Georgian residential architecture, and as the home of John Wilson, a leading local industrialist of the late 18th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Wilson House is located in the village of Jewett City, on the south side of Ashland Street at its junction with Hill Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade has a slightly projecting center section, marked by two-story pilasters, a detail repeated at the building corners. A pair of doors are topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The interior has been altered in some significant ways to facilitate conversion to a duplex, including the removal of its original central chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1781–82 by John Wilson, an early settler of Jewett City who married the daughter of Eliezer Jewett. Wilson was a significant early industrialist in Jewett City, establishing a fulling mill in 1790 and incorporating the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. His house, originally a center-chimney plan, was originally located up the street at the corner of Main and Ashland Streets. It was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, then the area&#39;s largest mill. It is the only surviving house associated with either man.</p><br>
<p>William Wilson House, also known as Prospect Hill and the Trammell Hollis House, is a historic home located in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built between 1792 and 1802, and is a large, two story brick dwelling on a stone foundation in a late-Georgian style. It measures 36 ft deep and 70 ft wide and consists of a three-bay central block with a four-bay side wing. The interior features a mural by Baltimore artist Olive Verna Rogers painted in 1936. The property includes four brick outbuildings dated as far back as the 1850s: a kitchen, spring house, privy, and the original stone dwelling house.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>William Wilson House.jpgTrammell Hollis House from HABS</p><br>
<p>PROSPECT HILL OR WILLIAM WILSON HOUSE, BERKELEY COUNTY.jpg2015</p><br>
<p>Woodrow Wilson Middle School, formerly Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, is a historic school building located at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. It was built in 1927 for approximately $750,000. Designed by the firm of Miller & Yeager Architects. It is a three-story, "T"-plan, Tudor Revival style brick building with a central entrance tower.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the school&#39;s main entrance features several large-scale murals by Gilbert Brown Wilson, completed in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Meigs–Bishop House is a historic house at 45 Wall Street in Madison, Connecticut. With a construction history dating to about 1690, it is one of the town&#39;s oldest surviving buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is now used for commercial purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Meigs-Bishop House is located in Madison&#39;s central business district, on the west side of Wall Street at Brookside Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, large central chimney, and clapboard exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a slightly asymmetrical placement of sash windows around a nearly centered entrance. The entrance is simply framed, with a six-light transom window topped by crown moulding. Original interior features include wide floorboards, exposed posts and beams in the front rooms; the fireplace surrounds in these rooms are later alterations.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in stages, the oldest portion being a single three-bay pile dating to c. 1690. A second pile was added in the early 18th century, with the addition of the rear leanto c. 1725 to give the house a saltbox appearance. There were further additions in the late 19th century. It is believed to be Madison&#39;s second oldest house. Its initial construction was by Janna Meigs, who represented what was then Guilford in the colonial assembly. It was later owned by Phineas Meigs, who served in the American Revolutionary War, and was killed defending the area from a British raid.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century, it was adapted for commercial use.</p><br>
<p>Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located on the Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm, in the Kona District, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The 5.5 acre historic Kona coffee farm was established in 1900.</p><br>
<p>The open-air agriculture museum depicts the daily lives of early Japanese immigrants to Hawaii during the period of 1920-1945. It is located at coordinates 19&deg;29&prime;24&Prime;N latitude, 155&deg;54&prime;49&Prime;W longitude, the area now known as Captain Cook, but the traditional land division (ahupuaa) known as Kealakekua.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The farm was owned by Daisaku Uchida, who came to Hawaii from southern Japan at the age of 19 on September 27, 1906. After a three-year sugar contract at Līhue Plantation on Kauai, Daisaku came to the Kona District.</p><br>
<p>Between 1868 and 1924, more than 140,000 Japanese workers came to Hawaii with labor contracts at sugarcane plantation. Many, like Uchida, decided to leave the plantations and start their own family businesses when their contract expired.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, Daisaku married his cousin, Shima Maruo. They moved to the farm in 1913, expanding it and the house in 1925. The land was owned by the Greenwell family. Henry Nicholas Greenwell had been in the coffee trading business in the area since the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The Uchida family lived here until Shima died at the age of 73 in 1966, and Daisaku in 1986 at the age of 99. Three children were born in the original house, and three in the new one after 1925. The eldest son Masao Uchida also farmed the property until he and his wife Masako retired to Honolulu in 1994.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>The long-term leashold had finally run out, and the land was scheduled to be redeveloped into a residential subdivision. Since the farm had never been modernized, it was instead donated to the Kona Historical Society by Sherwood Greenwell.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The living history museum offers self-guided tours, that include the coffee orchard, farmhouse, and coffee mill. A kiosk is open to visitors, and a full tour by costumed interpreters from the Kona Historical Society is available at limited times. A fee is charged.</p><br>
<p>The state registry of historic places listed the farm as site 10-47-7509 on April 16, 1994.</p><br>
<p>On February 9, 1995 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii as site number 94001621.</p><br>
<p>The original Henry Greenwell Store houses the Historical Society, and is also on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>They are both located on the Mamalahoa Highway, known as the Hawaii Belt Road.</p><br>
<p>The Burdette Building, also known as Burdette Hardware Building or B.W. Burdette Building, in Simpsonville, South Carolina, was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with brick walls laid in running bond, interrupted by pilasters. It was built in 1921 to replace the wood frame and brick building on the same site which had been destroyed by a fire. It was the largest building in Simpsonville and it stimulated the commercial economy which otherwise was waning. It is located across the street from 101 East Curtis Street and the Simpsonville Clock Tower.</p><br>
<p>Careys Camp was established in 1888 as a Methodist camp meeting near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. Traditionally occupied for 12 days beginning the last Wednesday of July for prayer and religious instruction, the camp is composed of 47 wood cabins  in an oval around a tabernacle. As with many such meeting grounds, the camp is located in a grove of oak trees. The front-gabled cabins almost touch each other. Each cabin has a window in the gable and a porch on the front. The rear of the porch is entirely open to the interior of the house, so that the cabins occupants could see and be seen from the center. An enclosed kitchen is in the back of the cabin. Sleeping rooms are located upstairs.</p><br>
<p>Tents are usually owned by families, although a few tents, such as the preacher&#39;s, are owned by the camp committee. A boarding tent with six sleeping rooms offers food, and a confectionery is located outside the circle. At the center of the circle is the tabernacle. Originally a long shed, two arms were added to make it cruciform in shape, with three arms used for seating while a fourth serves as a chancel. Hinged panels open to allow a view into the tabernacle from outside. Benches outside accommodate overflow.</p><br>
<p>Carey&#39;s Camp was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway, now known as Falls Park, runs along both banks of Reedy River from the falls to Church Street, in Greenville, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the arrival of Europeans, Cherokees settled the area around the Reedy River. The first white settlements occurred in 1777, and the city of Greenville grew around the river when mills harnessed its power. Evidence of the mills can still be seen along the river today. Furman University built a campus nearby in 1850.</p><br>
<h2>Reedy River Falls Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1907 the first idea of turning Reedy River Falls into a park was introduced. This idea had been ruined when the city began to become industrialized. Industries and even individuals used the river as a dump for waste and trash. The actual pollution hadn&#39;t ceased until the 1960s. Furman donated the land needed to set aside to begin Reedy River Falls Historic Park and Greenway. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The development of Falls Park began in the 1990s when a developer proposed the concept of turning the park into a regional attraction. The development of the park began with a budget of 13,000,000 and was funded through the City of Greenville Hospitality Tax.</p><br>
<h2>Description of Falls Park</h2><br>
<p>Falls Park is located right in the center of Greenville County. This area has become known as Downtown Greenville and is a huge attraction with its citizens. The area today is filled with thousands of stores and restaurants. The park now includes a bridge known as Liberty Bridge and brings together many different types of greenery and benches, and different trails throughout the park.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman Potato House was located near Laurel, Delaware, one of the last surviving examples of its building type. The southern part of Delaware saw a sweet potato boom from 1900 until blight struck in the 1940s. In order to store the crops, potato houses were built. The Chipman House was built in 1913 by Joseph and Ernest Chipman on their property with the assistance of Alva Hudson. The 2½ story balloon-framed house was furnished with sparse, shuttered windows and slatted floors, allowing adjustment of air circulation. Two stoves provided heat during the winter, one of which survives.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman potato house was modified for tractor access. Windows were once glazed beneath the shutters, a very unusual feature in a potato house. The internal structure used samson posts, a kind of capped column that is normally employed in mill construction to bear heavy loads, leading to speculation that the feature echos construction in the adjacent, now destroyed Chipman&#39;s Mill. The Chipman house was also unusual in plan, divided into four quadrants with 2.5 ft walkways between. Each quadrant was divided into at least three bins. The attic was divided in two with a center aisle, for a total of 50 bins, typically 9 ft by 3 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Chipman Potato House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The structure was removed from the site in late 2017 or early 2018.</p><br>
<p>Craig House is a historic home located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina. The House was originally owned by John Craig, Esquire, whose family originated in southwestern Scotland, immigrated to South Carolina from Northern Ireland in 1772. After receiving a land grant in Lancaster County from King George III, Craig bought additional land in the Waxhaws in 1773.</p><br>
<p>John Craig, Esquire and several of his sons fought in the Revolutionary War battles that occurred in the vicinity. The current Craig House dates from the early 1830s, and was originally a federal-style farmhouse. In 1901, it was significantly enlarged with a Victorian front addition by John Edgar and Amanda Drennan Craig, who were married in 1883 at Kilburnie, then the residence of the Drennans.</p><br>
<p>John E. Craig Jr. inherited Craig house after the death of both parents in 1989. His twin brother Bill Craig restored the house over a two-year period. in 2002 a wing was added in the back to accommodate the furnishings of the vacated Manhattan apartment. The old kitchen was removed in 2015 and replaced with a two-story addition and elevator.</p><br>
<p>The fields and woods surrounding historic Craig House are all part of pre-Civil War Craig Farm, which included more than a thousand acres of the area between Highways 200 and 521 from Montgomery Lane to several miles north of Cane Creek.</p><br>
<p>Craig Farm today consists of close to 400 acres, owned by the five siblings of the current Craig generation and Johannes Tromp, and is operated as a cattle farm by Bill Craig, the twin brother of Kilburnie partner John Craig.</p><br>
<p>The House is a two-story, originally L-shaped, frame clapboard covered frame dwelling, with several rear additions. It features a porch and second story balcony.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Chipmans Mill was located near Laurel, Delaware, and is now the name of a Delaware State Park which encompasses the mill pond, including a boat ramp for fishing . Chipmans Mill functioned into the late 1940s. Arson destroyed the structures in November 1986.</p><br>
<p>The relatively remote area had been one of the last remaining residences of the Lenni Lenape, who left Delaware and the Chipman&#39;s Pond area in 1748. Settlers soon came, attracted by the available timber and water power. Christ Church was built nearby, which still survives.</p><br>
<p>The destroyed mill had two structures. In 1884, Joseph Chipman had built a one-story mill over the millrace (which survives), which contained turbines and millstones. The wooden superstructure featured mortise and tenon joinery. An adjoining two story section was moved to the site from elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The John Tyler House is a historic house at 242–250 East Main Street in Branford, Connecticut. Built about 1710, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century residences, and a good example of late First Period architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Tyler House stands in eastern Branford, at the northwest corner of East Main Street (United States Route 1) and Mill Plain Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, a large central chimney, and clapboard siding. The main roof is more steeply pitched than typical period houses, and gives way at the back to a rear leanto section, added at an unknown (but probably 18th century) date. A more modern extension has further elevated the rear leanto. The front facade has sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance, which is sheltered by a shed-roof portico supported by square columns. A modern single-story hip-roof ell extends to the right of the main block, and a smaller shed-roof ell further extends the leanto to the rear. The interior follows a typical period center-chimney plan, with parlors on either side of the chimney, and a long kitchen space behind.</p><br>
<p>The house is estimated to have been built about 1710 by John Tyler, Jr. on land originally granted to his father George. It is one of Branford&#39;s small number of 18th-century houses, and a well-preserved example of houses of that period.</p><br>
<p>The Picó Pomar Residence, also known as Coamo Historic Museum, is a Spanish Colonial Neoclassical architecture building built in 1840, and is located on the main plaza of Coamo, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased in 1863 by Don Clotilde Santiago, another merchant from Mallorca, who expanded it. During the late 1800s it was one of Puerto Rico&#39;s "most active and important import-export merchandise distribution centers and the most important in the south-central region of Puerto Rico." The business exported coffee, tobacco, and sugar, and imported manufactured goods from the USA and Europe.</p><br>
<p>It was later purchased by Coamo&#39;s Municipal Government and transformed into a museum.</p><br>
<p>Old Christ Church, also known as Old Lightwood, is a historic Episcopal church near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. The 1772 church resembles its parent church, Green Hill Church of Stepney Parish in Wicomico County, Maryland, except that while Stepney was built in brick, Christ Church is of wood construction. Its weathered appearance gave rise to a nickname "Old Lightwood," although it now is painted barn red.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Laurel did not exist when the colony of Maryland laid out its original 30 parishes in 1692. Scharfs History of Delaware reportedly states the last Native Americans in Delaware left from the Chipmans Pond area, which became the site of this Christ Church, in 1748. By 1772, a small settlement had been built, including a mill (now Chipman&#39;s Mill State Park), store, some houses, and iron foundry. The large Stepney Parish of the Church of England levied 80,000 pounds of tobacco from citizens and Robert Houston built this chapel of ease for residents of its northern part, often called simply "Broad Creek Chapel."</p><br>
<p>However, it turned out that both Maryland and Delaware claimed this relatively remote area known for its heavy stands of virgin pine trees. This dispute led to clarification of the boundary via the Transpeninsular Line and Mason–Dixon line, which placed the church in Delaware. It then became the "Mother Church" of Western Sussex County, Delaware. By 1821, Rev. Daniel Higbee was elected rector for this church and four others. St. Peters Church in Lewes, Delaware was to pay him $180 per year, and this Christ Church and three others paid him $120 annually. Those less wealthy churches included Prince Georges Chapel in Dagsboro, Delaware (begun 1755 as a chapel of ease for St. Martins parish in Worcester County, Maryland and caught in the same boundary dispute), St. Pauls Church in Georgetown, Delaware, and St. Georges Chapel about 9 miles south of Lewes. Pew rents at this church were once five dollars per year, and this parish helped to form St. Phillips in Laurel in 1834, St. Lukes in Seaford, Delaware in 1835, as well as St. Johns Little Hill, St. Marks in Millsboro in 1848, and All Saints in Delmar in 1886 when the railroad down the Delmarva Peninsula brought relative prosperity to this area. Four Delaware governors have been members: Nathaniel Mitchell, who is buried there, William B. Cooper, William H. H. Ross, and Elbert N. Carvel.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 40 ft by 60 ft church has been repaired and painted on the exterior. It is particularly known for its simple, original interior, now one of only about a dozen in the Atlantic Coast of the United States that have never been plumbed or electrified. Only the window sashes are painted, and the pulpit stands on the middle of the north wall, with an altar at the east end. Box pews are high, with doors to each family section, signified by chalked names. The ceiling is a flattened barrel vault. A gallery remains at the west end, reached by stairs; it was once used for slaves and free negroes, with seats but no back rests.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Services are held monthly in the summer and occasionally in the fall.</p><br>
<p>Laurens Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in Laurens. The district includes residential, commercial, religious, and governmental buildings built between 1880 and 1940. Notable buildings include the Laurens County Courthouse, Old Methodist Church, St. Paul First Baptist Church, Public Square commercial buildings, Rosenblum&#39;s and Maxwell Bros. and Kinard Store, Provident Finance Co. and Parker Furniture, McDonald House, Augustus Huff House, Gov. William Dunlap Simpson House, and Hudgens-Harney House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980 and extended in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Laurens County Courthouse, the James Dunklin House, William Dunlap Simpson House, and other properties that are separately NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Potato House was a small -story building near Laurel, Delaware that was built to store harvested sweet potatoes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Sweet potatoes were a dominant crop in Sussex County, Delaware, and numerous potato houses were built to store them. After a blight in the 1940s, the crop became less important and many potato houses were allowed to deteriorate or were converted to other use.</p><br>
<p>The frame building was about 20.17 ft by 30.25 ft in plan on a concrete and brick foundation. Windows were confined to the ends of the building, as are doors. The original "triple sheathing" was covered by asphalt shingles. The triple sheathing system consisted of wood weatherboards over diagonal wood sheathing on wood studs with straw insulation, and an interior sheathing of horizontal beaded tongue and groove boards. A wood shingle roof was likewise covered with asphalt shingles.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Potato House was typical of its kind, with a center aisle between potato bins on both levels. A sliding trap door provided ventilation between levels. A chimney was provided to allow the house to be heated sufficiently to avoid freezing the stored crop.</p><br>
<p>Lodi School Hillside Improvement Site, also known as Veterans Memorial Park, is a former public works project listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site consists of two parcels located on Corner Street, between Pleasant Street and Columbus Street in Lodi, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The stone retaining walls and stairways of the hillside below Lodi Primary School were a public works project from 1933 to 1938. The site was designed by the first professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Franz A. Aust. On the opposite side of a creek that separates the two parcels of land, Veterans Memorial Park was completed in 1948. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 2009. It was the featured listing in the National Park Services weekly list of April 17, 2009.</p><br>
