<p>The Don Francisco Galindo House, known locally as the Galindo House and Gardens, is a 19th-century house in Concord, California built in 1856 by Francisco Galindo and his wife, Maria Dolores Manuela  Galindo, daughter of Salvio Pacheco who was the grantee of Rancho Monte del Diablo.</p><br>
<p>The house is one of the few remaining Victorian ranch houses in Contra Costa County. In 1875 it underwent significant remodeling resulting in an enlarged basement, first floor and second floor. It was around this time that Francisco and Marias oldest son, Juan "John" Galindo, and his bride, Marina "Sarah" (Amador) Galindo, moved into the house. After Juan and Marinas eldest child, Frederick, and Catherine (Hittman) Galindo were married in 1911, title was transferred to the next generation.</p><br>
<p>Following Catherine Galindos death in 1966, the house was maintained by her children Harold, Ruth, and Leonora. Ruth Galindo, the last direct descendant of the family, resided in the home until her death in December 1999. With distribution of Ruth Galindos estate, the house and its surrounding property of approximately 1.5 acre were deeded to the City of Concord to be preserved for public use as a house museum and park.</p><br>
<p>In October 2001, following a series of public workshops and meetings, the City of Concord adopted a Master Plan for the Galindo House, prepared by the historic preservation architectural firm Page & Turnbull of San Francisco, including a Museum Operating Plan.</p><br>
<p>In September 2010, ownership of the Galindo House and property transferred from the City of Concord to the Concord Historical Society, which spent the next two years renovating the house and opened it to the public in 2012.</p><br>
<p>In May 2013, the Society moved the citys Masonic Temple (which had been dedicated in October 1928) from its location at 1765 Galindo St. to the Galindo House property, facing Clayton Road, to become part of the Societys historical resource center and meeting facility.</p><br>
<p>Wolcott Green Historic District a historic district in the New England town of Wolcott, Connecticut. The district encompasses the town green and the surrounding buildings. The green is located in the town center of Wolcott along Center Road . It has a triangular shape and is surrounded by several houses, a church and the town hall. The other streets bounding the green are Bound Line Road and Kenea Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival style Congregational Church is the dominant structure on the north side of the green. On the opposite end of the green from the church is the Wolcott Town Hall. The rest of the buildings around the green are 18th- and 19th-century houses. The district also includes the Farmingbury Burying Ground, now known as the Edgewood Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The main green space contains several maple trees. There is a Civil War monument in the middle of the green that is surrounded by small shrubs. At the intersection of Kenea Avenue and Center Road is a granite obelisk dedicated to those who served in the two world wars and in the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars. The green also has benches at the corners of the open area and a picnic table near the intersection of Kenea Avenue and Bound Line Road.</p><br>
<p>West Haven Green is the town green of the New England town of West Haven, Connecticut. The green is bordered by Church Street on the south, Savin Avenue on the west, Main Street on the north and Campbell Avenue on the east. The green and surrounding buildings are part of the West Haven Green Historic District.</p><br>
<p>There is a sidewalk around the perimeter of the green and paths into the green from the corners and mid-blocks meeting at the center. The dominant structure on the green is the Congregational Church (built 1859). Behind the church is a cemetery. There are also several war memorial markers, a bandstand, and a flagpole around the perimeter of the green. Wooden benches are scattered at various locations on the green. A stone chess table with seating is located near Main Street. At the north end of Main Street is a stone monument to West Haven fire fighters, on top of which is a large bell. Near the east end of Savin Avenue is a large boulder commemorating British Adjutant William Campbell, who saved the life of Reverend Noah Williston during the British invasion (July 5, 1779) of West Haven in the American Revolutionary War. A modern octagonal bandstand is located north of the center of the block of Church Street.</p><br>
<p>Buildings on Campbell Street (named after William Campbell) are mainly two-story commercial buildings with store fronts on the first floor that were built in the 20th century. One exception is a three-story brick Italianate structure on the corner of Main Street and Campbell Avenue. The Town Hall (built in 1969) is also located at the intersection of Main and Campbell. Savin Avenue consists mainly of early 20th-century single-family homes, one exception being a red-brick funeral home in the Colonial Revival style. On the west corner of Church Street across from the green are two 19th-century wood-frame houses. The rest of the block is taken up by the Christ Episcopal Church and its associated structures and sites.</p><br>
<p>The West Haven Green Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2000. In addition to the green itself, the district includes 20 of 23 buildings on and around the green as contributing properties. Two of the memorials on the Green dating from the early 20th century (the World War I memorial and the Firefighters&#39; Monument) are also considered to be contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Green Historic District is a historic district in the New England town of Prospect, Connecticut. The district is centered on the Prospect Green, the town green.</p><br>
<p>The main feature of the green is a Civil War Soldiers Monument (1907) situated near the center. Near it is a flag pole and another memorial. At the north end of the green is the former town library built in 1903-1904. Several historic buildings surround the green including, the current Congregational Church (built in 1941 and the fourth church on the site), the Grange Hall (1947), the Parsonage (1941), a 19th-century residence once used as a parsonage, and a school house (c. 1865, now used by the local historical society). and</p><br>
<p>The town of Prospect was settled in the 18th century and separately incorporated in 1827. Its town center arose in 1778, when the site, the highest in town, was selected for construction of a church. The town green was also laid out at that time, but remained in church ownership until 1905, when it was sold to the town. In the 19th century it developed as the civic heart of the town, with a Greek Revival school house built in 1867, and its first dedicated town library building (now the Meeting Place) built in 1905 as a gift of the Tuttle family. The library now occupies modern premises south of the church.</p><br>
<p>The Original Slope County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Amidon, North Dakota, United States. The courthouse, which became a courthouse in 1915, was the first courthouse in Slope County. The building served as a temporary courthouse; extant temporary courthouses are highly unusual, as most had poor construction and did not last to the present day. The Slope County building had many other uses, though, which were largely responsible for its survival. The building was a church before it became a courthouse; after the courthouse moved out, the building held a school and two other churches before becoming a senior center in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Noting that a building may be so far "remodeled so they no longer closely resemble the style during their period of historical significance", North Dakota&#39;s State Historic Preservation Board was to meet in January 2015 to consider delisting the property.</p><br>
<p>It was in fact removed from the National Register due to numerous modifications on April 3, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Stark County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Dickinson, North Dakota, United States, which was built in 1936–1937. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was built for $213,000, which then represented quite a building boom, giving encouragement "to the local population that the hardest part of the Depression had ended."</p><br>
<p>It, along with the Hettinger County Courthouse (in Mott) is significant for its Art Deco architecture. The Stark County Courthouse was designed by William F. Kurke, a prolific architect.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Cody Historic District is the historic core of Cody, Wyoming, USA. "Historic" here refers to the early twentieth century, as Cody was not incorporated until 1901. Most of the commercial district was built between 1901 and the 1930s. The district extends along Sheridan Avenue for two blocks, with buildings of brick and local sandstone with storefront display windows. The chief building in the district is the Irma Hotel, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district extends between 1313 Sheridan to 1155 on the south side, and from 1286 to 1192 on the north side.</p><br>
<p>The Barnesville Petroglyph petroglyph site in the eastern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located approximately 3 mi southwest of the village of Barnesville in Belmont County, the petroglyphs have been known both by archaeologists and the general public since the 1850s or earlier. Although the site was significantly damaged during the twentieth century, it is still a significant archaeological site, and has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Creation</h2><br>
<p>The Barnesville Petroglyph carvings were created centuries ago by Native American people. The precise cultural affiliation of its creators is uncertain. Some have attributed the site to the Adena, who inhabited the region approximately between 500 BC and AD 300. However, Barnesville shares many similarities with other petroglyph sites in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and other parts of eastern Ohio; as a result, petroglyph specialist James L. Swauger concluded that it was the work of the people that also created such sites as the Indian God Rock, the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs, and the Hamilton Farm Petroglyphs. Many features of these and similar petroglyph sites in the region indicated to Swauger that they were created by Ojibwe-influenced people of the Monongahela culture, whose earliest presence in the Upper Ohio Valley is believed to have been approximately AD 1200.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The petroglyphs are carved into a single large boulder of Dunkard-series sandstone that sits in woodland atop a hill with an elevation of approximately 1,320 ft. Measuring approximately 3.5 m from east to west and 4.5 m from northwest to southeast, the boulder slopes from end to end: the northwestern corner is nearly 1 m above the soil, but the southeastern corner gradually meets ground level. Dozens of boulders of Dunkard sandstone, both small and large, are littered around the hilltop</p><br>
<h2>Petroglyphs</h2><br>
<p>When the site was first recorded archaeologically, carvings were scattered among several different boulders on the hilltop. At least one such stone has been removed: during the early twentieth century, a group of men masquerading as staff from a museum obtained the second-largest boulder, and it has been lost to science as a result. Smaller rocks were also recorded with petroglyphs, but a 1971 professional survey failed to find anything except on the largest boulder. At that time, it was believed that the other stones may have been stolen, become undistinguishable due to weathering, or simply have become lost among the many similar boulders. Four years later, the second boulder was re-discovered; the previous survey missed it because it had been buried or otherwise obscured.</p><br>
<p>The large boulder of premier interest bears 113 different designs, which have been divided into 6 different classifications: 47 mammal imprints (the tracks of bears and deer, plus indeterminate paw prints and the outlines of animal pelts), 26 bird tracks, 21 human body parts (5 faces and 16 feet), 12 geometric figures, 4 snakes, and 3 pits. While the precise identification of the animals whose prints are carved at the stone are uncertain, these designations were applied because they were seen to be the animals most likely to be encountered by the Native Americans who produced the petroglyph. Similar to carvings at another site that are known as "nut-cracker holes," the pits are small indentations that are most likely to have been made individually, although it is possible that they are the sole surviving elements of otherwise eroded designs. It is very difficult to identify the types of animals whose prints are represented by the smaller tracks: a specialist in mammals from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was unable to determine whether many of them were meant to be the prints of dogs or of cats. Most unusual of the designs are the pelts and the human faces: only one other petroglyph site in the Upper Ohio Valley has designs that appear to be stretched-out animal skins, and the noses featured on some of the human faces are almost unknown at other petroglyphs in the region. Those carvings designated as "geometric" are mostly abstract designs; common on Native American petroglyph sites in the region, such "doodles" are thought to be likely evidence that many different sites were created by people of the same culture.</p><br>
<p>Carvings at Barnesville are noticeably different from those at Belmont Countys other significant petroglyph site: known as Barton Rock, this site consists of petroglyphs on a large boulder in the middle of Wheeling Creek, approximately 0.7 mi below the unincorporated community of Barton. First described in 2002, Barton Rock consists primarily of images of turtles and birds. Such a concentration is similar to the many riverine petroglyph sites in the Ohio Valley that Swauger described, while Barnesvilles large number of tracks is similar to many other upland sites in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>The earliest published record of the Barnesville Petroglyph was created in 1857 or 1858 by Thomas Kite, and a similar description was produced soon afterward by James W. Ward. Drawing on these works, Charles Wittlesey and J.H. Salisbury produced a more systematic description in 1869 and 1871: published in 1872, they describe the carvings present on the boulder that was once thought to have been removed from the site as well as documenting the carvings that have always been known. A yet fuller description was included in James L. Swaugers landmark Rock Art of the Upper Ohio Valley, which was published in 1972. Because of the dominance of footprints among the rest of the types of carvings, the petroglyph has become popularly known as the "Track Rocks" among local residents; nicknames of this sort are common for better-known petroglyphs, as exemplified by the "Picture Rocks" appellation of Pennsylvanias Sugar Grove Petroglyphs.</p><br>
<p>Besides the carvings themselves, the petroglyphs immediate vicinity is archaeologically important because of the presence of many smaller archaeological artifacts. Various types of projectile points have been found nearby; most were produced by the Adena or various Late Archaic peoples. Moreover, the nearby Shannon Cave is believed to have archaeological value, and it has been proposed that some of the petroglyph carvings are meant to point toward the cave. As a prominent archaeological site, the Barnesville Petroglyph was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is one of four National Register-listed archaeological sites in the county, along with the Brokaw, Opatrny Village, and Tower Sites, which are all the locations of Monongahela villages. Only two other Ohio petroglyphs are included on the Register; known as the Leo Petroglyph State Memorial and Inscription Rock, they are located respectively in Jackson County in the far southern portion of the state and on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie, north of the states mainland.</p><br>
<p>The Dunns Pond Mound is a historic Native American mound in northwestern Logan County, Ohio, United States. Located near Huntsville, it lies along the southeastern corner of Indian Lake in Washington Township. In 1974, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a potential archeological site, with much of its significance deriving from its use as a burial site for as much as nine centuries.</p><br>
<p>Other Native American earthworks are located in the vicinity. A 1914 study found fifteen mounds on the southeastern side of Indian Lake and characterized this "remarkable" group of mounds as the premier location of archeology in Logan County. Another four mounds in Washington Township, which were not included in the 1914 survey, are located on Lake Ridge Island, a short distance to the north of Dunns Pond. These mounds, the Lake Ridge Island Mounds, were listed on the Register on the same day as was the Dunns Pond Mound.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is believed that the Dunns Pond Mound was built by the prehistoric Hopewell peoples at some point between 300 BC and AD 600. While approximately twenty mounds have been recorded around southeastern Indian Lake in modern times, it is likely that many more once existed in the area. When the Miami River was dammed in 1860 to support canal traffic, Indian Lake became far larger than its natural boundaries. Farmland became lake bottom and small hills became islands; the mound suddenly lay near the shoreline, and a small bay of the lake immediately south of the mound was later named Dunns Pond. Consequently, if villages or mounds existed northwest of the Dunns Pond Mound, they have been submerged.</p><br>
<p>Long after the expansion of Indian Lake, the Dunns Pond Mound was little known. For many decades, it was surrounded by woodlands, and the only human activity in the vicinity occurred along a bicycle and snowmobile path that passed over the mound. Excavation was attempted in the early 1940s, but was soon stopped without yielding any significant finds. However, the mound continued to receive attention from archeologists, and in 1974 it was listed on the National Register because it was likely to yield information about the peoples of the past. While the mound was likely built as a charnel house for Hopewell death rites, later Late Woodland peoples also used the mound as a burial site.</p><br>
<p>Interest in the mound by non-archeologists has increased in recent decades. In the first half of the twentieth century, local Boy Scouts proposed clearing the mound of brush as part of a conservation project, although objection by the owner prevented this project from being carried out. Increasing development around Indian Lake has included the creation of a small community around Dunns Pond, named Moundwood; the mound is located on the edge of the community. Access to the mound itself is no longer easily possible; the trail has been removed, and a fence placed around the mound.</p><br>
<p>The William J. Clark House is a historic house at 32 Prospect Hill in the Stony Creek neighborhood of Branford, Connecticut. Built in 1878–80 to a design by New Haven-based architect Henry Austin, it is a particularly fine example of the Stick style of architecture popular at the time. The house is individually listed for its architecture on the National Register of Historic Places as the Stick Style House at Stony Creek, and is a contributing property to the Stony Creek-Thimble Islands Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark House is located in southeastern Branford&#39;s Stony Creek neighborhood, an area which flourished as a summer resort colony in the late 19th century. It occupies 2 acre on the north side of Prospect Hill Road, with views to the Thimble Islands and Long Island Sound. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a busy and ornately decorated roofline, including a three-story tower. The roof gables are adorned with woodwork which gives the Stick style its name, and an elaborately decorated single-story porch extends around parts of the building. The tower is capped by a steeply pitched gabled roof, with gabled dormers projecting from its sides. The interior retains many original period finishes.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Henry Austin and built in 1878–80 for William J. Clark, an industrialist from Southington, Connecticut. Clark was a veteran of the American Civil War, and also served in the state legislature. He spent his retirement years in this house. The house is the most architecturally significant in Branford&#39;s Stony Creek area.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank of Meeteetse, also known as the Bank Museum and the Old Bank Building, was built in Meeteetse, Wyoming in 1901 for Hogg, Cheesman, McDonald and Company Bankers. The following year it was renamed to the more concise First National Bank of Meeteetse. The bank occupied the first floor while the second floor was initially the town council&#39;s meeting place.</p><br>
<p>The bank remained on the first floor until 1975. From 1975 the building operated as a museum, and was renovated in 1987 for that purpose. The two-story brick bank is located on a corner lot. The brick facade is accented by pilasters at the angled corner entrance and inset panels at the parapet level. Stained glass was used in the large arched window on the south side of the first floor and over the entry door. The east elevation formerly abutted another building and is entirely blank, while the north elevation is on an alley, with a wood stair to the second floor. The interior is restored according to historic photographs with the original teller&#39;s cage and the vault.</p><br>
<p>The Southwood Two-Teacher Schoolhouse is a historic school building located on Barker Hill Road just south of East Seneca Turnpike, in the Southwood neighborhood of the town of Onondaga, New York. Further east along the turnpike is the hamlet of Jamesville, New York. The two-teacher school was built in 1937–1938, and is a one-story, yellow brick Art Deco style building, but the ivy hides any architectural details that would show that. The rectangular building has a full concrete block basement and is topped by a flat roof. It remained in use as a school until 1966.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It now serves as a restaurant called "School and Vine."</p><br>
<p>The Hayden Arch Bridge is a concrete arch bridge on old US 14/US 16 in Park County, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places NRHP).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The bridge is the only example of its kind in Wyoming. Built in 1924–25, the single-span bridge spans 115 ft with two smaller approach arches between rock canyon walls. The bridge carries the Cody-Yellowstone Highway across the Shoshone River with a shallow open-spandrel central arch and nominally arched approach spans. The bridge is named after C. E. Hayden, an engineer with the Wyoming State Highway Department, who designed the bridge and supervised its construction. It was built by H. S. Crocker of Denver, Colorado.</p><br>
<p>McLemore Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979,</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Richard McLemore, founder of the cemetery, was the first permanent settler of Meridian in the 1830s. In 1839, McLemore established the cemetery behind a Baptist Church he had built at 6th St and 16th Ave, just outside East End Historic District. Masonic Lodge members reportedly helped treat victims of the outbreak, which explains the numerous Masons now buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery contains around 100 gravesites, the earliest from the 1830s and the most recent from 1942. Since then, the cemetery has been in a state of degradation with overgrown grass and weeds and crumbling headstones. In 1971 Carol James, head of genealogy research at Meridian Public Library, conducted a census of the identifiable gravesites in the cemetery, totalling 96. The census can now be viewed in the library. James reported about the cemetery&#39;s lack of upkeep, stating that vandalism of headstones had been a problem. By 2006 many headstones were in such bad condition that the names were no longer distinguishable. Others had been covered by weeds and other growth, or had moved significantly from their original locations.</p><br>
<p>Whig Hill is a historic home located near Plainville, Onondaga County, New York. The main house was built in 1833, and is a -story, five-bay, Greek Revival-style brick dwelling with a nearly flat roof. Whig Hill was the principal element within a listing Whig Hill and Dependencies, which included two barn clusters, a tenant house, and other outbuildings. The barn cluster north of Genesee Street, described in 1975, is no longer present, in 2009. The south barn remains.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Old Tolland County Courthouse is a historic former courthouse at 53 Tolland Green in Tolland, Connecticut. Built in 1822 it was used as a county courthouse until the 1890s. It housed the Tolland Public Library from 1899 to 1985. Now a history museum operated by the Tolland Historical Society, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Tolland County Courthouse is located on the west side of the Tolland Green, roughly at the junction of Connecticut Routes 195 and 74. Build in the neoclassical Federal style, the courthouse a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior with a Palladian window. The roof is topped by a two-story tower, with a square base and an octagonal louvered belfry capped by a round cupola. The main building facade is three bays wide, with corner pilasters rising to an entablature and gabled pediment. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a half-round transom window and gabled pediment. The interior has been restored, with the second floor resembling its original appearance as a courtroom.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was built in 1822, when Tolland was the county seat of Tolland County. The courthouse remained in service as such until 1890, when county courts mostly moved to Rockville. Starting in 1899, the courthouse housed the town&#39;s public library. In 1930, the courthouse was sold for $1 to Samuel Simpson, who promptly donated the building to the Tolland Public Library Association. The building continued to house the probate courts for Tolland and neighboring Ellington until 1960.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse served as the Tolland Public Library until 1985, when the library moved to the renovated and expanded Hick Municipal Building and Library Complex, formerly the Hicks Memorial School. In 2001, the Tolland Public Library Association donated the courthouse to the Tolland Historical Society, which oversaw its restoration and conversion to a museum. The first floor of the courthouse also houses the library and offices of the French-Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic Church Buildings is a historic Romanesque revival Roman Catholic church complex located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Buffalo.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The complex consists of the church, church-school building (constructed 1907), and parish house (constructed 1914). The church was constructed in 1923 and is considered the purest replication of 12th century Lombard-Romanesque architecture in the United States. The church is constructed of unmolded medieval style brick and may well contain the largest collection of colored architectural terracotta decoration in an ecclesiastical structure in this country.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians, also known as the Maria Hilf Chapel, is a historic Roman Catholic church located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Buffalo.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians was constructed in 1853, in the Greek Revival style, as a religious center for the rural Alsatian community and pilgrimage site for urban Alsatian, German, Polish, and Italian immigrants to Our Lady Help of Christians. The interior features a barrel vault ceiling, wooden church mobiliary, frescos, paintings, and other features that reflect an Alsatian village church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Atwell, Glenn R. and Batt, Ronald E. (1979). The Chapel: A Comprehensive History of the Chapel and Pilgrimage of Our Lady Help of Christians, Cheektowaga, New York and of the Alsatian Immigrant Community at Williamsville, New York. Buffalo, NY, The Holling Press, Inc.</p><br>
<p>Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, formerly known as North Presbyterian Church, is a historic Greek Orthodox church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a Gothic Revival-style church designed by Boston architect George F. Newton and constructed in 1906, as home to North Presbyterian Church. In 1952, the church became the Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Macedonia Baptist Church, more commonly known as Michigan Street Baptist Church, is a historic African American Baptist church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a brick church constructed in 1845. Samuel H. Davis was the congregation&#39;s fifth pastor, helped raise money for a church building, and as a mason did much of the construction himself. He gave the welcoming address at the 1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens of America.</p><br>
<p>Rev. J. Edward Nash (1868–1957) served the congregation from 1892 to 1953. His home, the Rev. J. Edward Nash, Sr. House, is located nearby. Rev. Nash&#39;s papers are partially digitized at Buffalo State University.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the church was the subject of a thorough historic structure report, which is now online at Archive.org.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church Complex, also known as Deliverance Temple of God & Christ, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church complex located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The complex consists of the original German Lutheran church structure constructed in 1859 and later remodeled into a school; the eclectic Gothic-Romanesque style church structure constructed in 1885; and the Queen Anne style parish house constructed in 1892.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Asbury-Delaware Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It was constructed in two phases between 1871 and 1876 and is a distinct example of High Victorian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. In 2006, the structure became home to Righteous Babe Records, and known as "The Church" or "Babeville".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Williamsville Christian Church, also known as the Meeting House, is a historic Disciples of Christ church located at Williamsville in Erie County, New York. It is a -story brick Italianate-style structure constructed in 1871 and remodeled in about 1900.</p><br>
<p>Organized some forty years earlier, the evangelical congregation had been meeting in simple quarters nearby. They were a</p><br>
<p>dedicated, community-minded group and are credited with having founded the first secondary school in the area, the Williamsville Classical Institute.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, following a decline in congregation, the building was turned over to the Village of Williamsville for community use and for preservation.</p><br>
<p>This historic building features a rose window facing Main Street. This window and the twelve arched and arcaded windows of the church contain three kinds of glass, the original stenciled glass, pebble glass, and newer leaded glass.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The oldest part of the complex was built in 1869 as the Gothic Revival style Christ Chapel; it was later redesigned in 1913. The main church was constructed in 1884 in the Victorian Gothic style and features stained glass windows designed by John LaFarge and Tiffany studios. The parish house, designed by Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, was constructed in 1905.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register Of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The OKane Building is a historic commercial building in Bend, Oregon, United States. The structure was built in 1916 by Hugh OKane, a local businessman. The two-story building is located downtown on the west corner of Oregon Avenue and Bond Street.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed six retail stores and a theater on the first floor with 20 offices and an apartment upstairs. Continuously used as a commercial building since its opening, it remains downtown Bend&#39;s largest commercial structure. In 1985, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Namesake</h3><br>
<p>The buildings namesake and builder, Hugh OKane, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1857. As a young boy, he illegally immigrated to the United States by stowing away on a ship bound for New York City. By the age of 12, he was selling newspapers and shining shoes on that citys streets. He later learned the tailoring trade, but was always looking for adventure. Before he settled in Bend, Oregon, OKane worked as tailor, sailor, miner, stage coach driver, dispatch rider, horse trainer, and mule packer.</p><br>
<p>In the 1870s, OKane packed supplies in North Dakota and Montana for the USA Army during its campaign against the Sioux Indians. At the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, OKane was supporting General Alfred Terrys column, to which Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry were also attached. Later, OKane mined gold in the Black Hills, making a $50,000 fortune, only to lose it all gambling. From there, he moved west, packing provisions for pioneers and miners in Montana and Colorado.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, OKane became a manager for Tom Cannon, the world champion Greco-Roman wrestler. OKane led Cannons wrestling troop on a 14-month tour of Europe. He later managed Ed Skinner and Marley Kettleman, both world champion sprinters, taking them on a tour of Australia. When he returned to the USA, OKane married Helen A. Wright of Helena, Montana. In 1895, OKane opened a large hotel in Grangeville, Idaho. Leaving his wife to manage the hotel, OKane traveled around the USA racing horses, which he turned into a very successful business.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, OKane and his wife moved to Bend, where they built the Bend Hotel, which quickly became a Central Oregon landmark. It was a very popular meeting place for local businessmen and civic leaders as well as a welcome stop for travelers, but on 30 August 1915, it was destroyed in a fire. Undeterred by the loss, OKane decided to build a commercial building on his newly vacant downtown property. He hired the well-known Beezer Brothers architectural firm to design a fireproof building with space for retail stores and offices. It was finished in 1916, by which time OKane weighed about 300 pounds; he spent most afternoons lounging in a chair propped against the building. From there, he told colorful stories to visitors or slept. Late in his life OKane moved to Portland, Oregon, where he died on 16 February 1930 at the age of 73.</p><br>
<h3>Building</h3><br>
<p>The OKane Building was designed by Louis Beezer and Michael J. Beezer of Beezer Brothers, a Seattle-based architectural firm. The building was constructed in 1916 by Fred Frodeson, a general contractor from the Bend area. The building originally housed six retail stores, 20 offices, and a theater. There was also a second-floor apartment used by OKane and his wife. When it was built, the building was the largest commercial structure in Bend. When Deschutes County separated from Crook County, Bend was selected as the county seat, but there was no courthouse, so the county government rented two offices in the newly opened O&#39;Kane Building to serve as the county court, its first location.</p><br>
<p>The building is an excellent example of Bend&#39;s early 20th-century development. It was the first building in Bend to be built using reinforced concrete as the primary building material. Because of its importance to Bend history and architecture, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 6 November 1986. The building has been in continuous use as a commercial building since it first opened in 1916. Today, it is still the largest commercial structure in downtown Bend.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The O&#39;Kane Building is located on the west corner of Oregon Avenue and Bond Street in downtown Bend. It is a two-story mercantile-style building with a footprint of approximately 100by140 ft. The foundation is concrete and brick with stone firewalls dividing up the basement space. The building was constructed using reinforced concrete as the primary building material. The building has approximately 26,000 ft&sup2; of usable commercial space.</p><br>
<p>The buildings two main façades face Oregon Avenue and Bond Street. The façade was built with reinforced concrete. It is painted a potters clay beige color with white trim. It has a flat roof with large display windows along its street frontage. Above the display windows are sets of pebbled transom windows with green borders; in the center of each set are opening insets decorated by stained-glass emblems of the name "Bend". The offices on the second floor have large triple-window sets; Above these are rectangular green tile insets with open diamond designs at both ends.</p><br>
<p>The buildings main entrance leads to the second-floor offices. The entrance is the buildings most decorative architectural feature. The wooden doorframes are hand carved. There is a stained-glass transom above the entrance with a "Bend Bee" design in the middle, The Bend Bee design is set in blue with a white border. Above the entrance on the outside, there is a plaster cornucopia garland of flowers, fruits, and wheat stocks.</p><br>
<p>The original theater was later converted into a billiards parlor and café. To accommodate the new tenants, the theater section of the building was significantly altered. There are no known photographs of the original theater, so when that section of the building was remodeled in 1985, it was designed to match the rest of the O&#39;Kane building. As of 1986, the old theater housed an exercise studio.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Inside the main entrance, there is a high ceiling and simple plaster walls. A flight of steps with a midway landing leads to the second-floor hallway. The second floor is an L-shaped corridor lined with offices along the Oregon Avenue and Bond Street sides of the building. Today, there are 19 offices along the corridor (one less than the original number). At the far end of the corridor overlooking Bond Street is an apartment suite originally built for the owner and his wife. The corridor has plaster walls with dark wood trim. The plaster is textured below the wainscot molding and smooth above it. The office entrances have dark wooden doors with large pebbled-glass-style inset windows. Most of the original brass and nickel hardware is still in place throughout the building. The interiors of the first-floor retail shops are simple open rectangular spaces as they were originally designed.</p><br>
<p>Richmond Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church, also known as Richmond Avenue United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It consists of two structures: a rectilinear Chapel structure, which dates to 1885–1891, and a larger Temple structure dating to 1887–1898. Both structures are two and a half stories set on a raised basement story, with two three-story towers. They are built of ashlar Medina sandstone. It is now home to the Upper West Side Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–West.</p><br>
<p>Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, formerly known as St. Luke&#39;s A.M.E. Zion Church until the late 1950s, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a brick church constructed in 1920. It is the oldest surviving church associated with the Buffalo A.M.E. Zion congregations.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Downtown Historic District is a historic district located at Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes 112 contributing buildings and comprises the village&#39;s commercial core. It subsumes the Liberty Village Historic District listed in 1978, which had 12 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and 2006. Allan Bérubé (1946–2007) helped to establish the enlarged historic district.</p><br>
<p>Sennett and Bertha Kirk House is a 1913 Colonial Revival house in Garnett, Kansas, United States. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 2005. In 2017, the house is operated as The Kirk House, a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was home of Sennett Kirk, a banker. The 2005 NRHP nomination states:</p><br>
<p>A banker for more than half a century, Sennett Kirk was cashier of the Garnett State Savings Bank from the time his father, Lester K, Kirk, opened it on September 6, 1889 until Sennett Kirk became bank vice-president in 1947. Sennett Kirk also served as secretary of the Garnett Mutual Loan and Savings Association organized in October 1894. The Garnett State Savings Bank moved into the northwest room of the Kirk Building in 1901.</p><br>
<p>Sennett Kirk married Bertha Mellen of Garnett on June 12, 1901 and they lived on Fourth Avenue their entire married life. Bertha was born January 11, 1873, in Greeley, Kansas, the daughter of William and Emma Mellen. She attended the University of Kansas and graduated from the Tulton and Trueblood School of Oratory in Kansas City, Missouri. She taught in the State School for the Deaf in Jacksonville, Illinois, and then in the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe. Bertha Mellen Kirk was a member of the Congregational Church. Sennett and Bertha Kirk&#39;s first child, Leta was born November 19, 1903. Another daughter, Bertha, was born January 4, 1906. A son, Sennett Kirk, Jr., was born September 14, 1909.</p><br>
<p>Because of their wealth, education, and social connections, the Kirks were influential in the local Garnett community. Sennett Kirks father, the Hon. Lester K. Kirk, was elected on April 4, 1870 to be the first mayor of the city of Garnett when it was granted third class status (in Kansas this means it had a population between 2,000-5,000). When Lester Kirk died on July 4, 1902, he was known as a prominent attorney and "one of the foremost citizens of Anderson. County." He also served as county attorney, state representative and state senator. A long-time friend Manford Schoonover wrote in Kirks obituary, "there are a score or more of men in Anderson County who owe their start in life to his help financially, and by council and friendship." Martha Lindsay Kirk, wife of L. K. Kirk, died April 7, 1908. She was well known in Garnett and Anderson County and had been prominent in social and church circles since the early days of settlement.</p><br>
<p>Bertha Kirk&#39;s father was William H. Mellen, one of the oldest and best known businessmen of Garnett and Anderson County. He taught school at Greeley in 1871 and was elected Register of Deeds of Anderson County. Mellen then finished an unexpired term as County Treasurer. His wife died in 1889, and after that time he lived with his three daughters. In an obituary September 29, 1899, William Mellen was described as "a highly educated man, a poet of merit, and a progressive man in business circles."</p><br>
<p>On July 8, 1913, the Garnett Evening Review reported. Sennett Kirk has a force of men at work preparing to move his house to the rear of the premises preparatory to building a handsome new house of modem style and appointments." A few days later on July 16, the Review noted, "Ground was broken today for Sennett Kirk&#39;s new house. Jake Barnett and George Ashburn and their men are preparing to put in the foundations." In a front page notice July 31, "A Fine Residence," the newspaper reprinted a report from the Ottawa Herald. "George P. Washburn & Son, architects, have drawn the plans for a $15,000 residence at Garnett for Sennett Kirk of the State Savings Bank. The building will be the finest in Garnett and will be a three story structure with basement. The building will be of wood, and the plans are drawn for the most modem residence in eastern Kansas. The location will be at Fourth and Walnut, in the principal residence district of the city."</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Kirk House was associated with the development of municipal services in Garnett. The town began to supply water in 1890-1891. Streets first were paved in 1898. Gas service was developed for cooking, heating, and lighting in 1904-05 and the town began producing electricity in 1914. With the installation of electric streetlights, Fourth Avenue in front of the Kirk House became the "great white way" of Garnett and Anderson County.</p><br>
<p>After the family moved into the new house, the large and stately Colonial Revival residence became a gathering place for the community. According to local reminiscences, the Kirks often entertained high school students in their home on significant occasions with refreshments followed by entertainment such as dancing or music in the top floor "ballroom."</p><br>
<p>When Mrs. Bertha M. Kirk died intestate on September 14, 1951, the three Kirk children inherited the Kirk House. On June 15, 1957, the heirs sold the property to Herman G. and Emma S. Brandenburg. The Brandenburgs sold to Effie M. Graham on November 28, 1960. Mrs. Graham died at Kansas City, Missouri on October 23, 1970 and her son, William S. Graham inherited the property.</p><br>
<p>In March, 1988 Robert Logan and Robert Cugno purchased the property. They lived in the house and ran a successful bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>up to the NRHP nomination date.</p><br>
<p>After owning the property for 11 years, they sold to new owners Mike and Eileen Burns. Since that time, Mike and Eileen have been diligent to restoring this historical icon to its original grandeur. The Graham family has generously loaned many antiques, once owned by third owner of the house Effie Graham, back to The Kirk House. Rich, colorful, period wall coverings and décor in the Arts & Crafts motif have been used to continue to evoke a “walking back into the past” atmosphere.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination states:</p><br>
<p>The Kirk House has excellent historic architectural integrity. Because its original location, contemporary setting, well-preserved design, materials, and workmanship convey a sense of the past.</p><br>
<p>The Kirk House may be the last house superintended by notable Kansas architect George P. Washburn. Presumably, George Washburn collaborated with his son, Clarence, on the design and construction of the Kirk House. The design and quality of construction for the Kirk House expressed the Kirk familys prominent social standing in the community. According to local tradition, Bertha Mellen Kirk was familiar with Washburns work in Garnett and throughout eastern Kansas. Therefore, she wanted the "best" architect in Kansas to design her new house.</p><br>
<p>Reportedly, Mrs. Kirk wanted a more elaborate porch than originally designed so, in order to satisfy the client, the architects added metal columns with ornamental terra cotta capitals to enhance the square stone piers which actually supported the porch roof. According to another traditional story, the contractor was unable to order new quartersawn oak lumber for the interior paneling and instead acquired and reused paneling from a Chicago mansion being demolished.</p><br>
<p>The DeWolf Furniture Company with Harry Barnard as superintendent built the Kirk House. Because of their experience manufacturing store, bank, and church fixtures, the company&#39;s workers were prepared for the fine woodwork that distinguished the Kirk House. Charles Wesley Devolve established the first furniture factory in Garnett in 1887. He came to Garnett in 1872 with his two sons George and Harry Devolve and engaged in the furniture and hardware business. Charles DeWolf had a furniture store in downtown Garnett in 1885. Then on February 11, 1887, the local board of trade voted to build the walls of a building to be used as a furniture factory and production work started by July 22. Charles DeWolf left Garnett for Kansas City in 1897. When George DeWolf died in 1924, he also was credited with the development of the furniture manufacturing business in Garnett.</p><br>
<p>Local artist Paul Nordstrum painted the naturalistic murals in the Kirk House dining room. According to local tradition, these paintings were based on sketches of Anderson County landscapes suggested by Mrs. Bertha Kirk. In the April 24, 1914 Garnett Review, Nordstrum was described as an accomplished artist who had been praised in a Vernon County, Missouri, newspaper article for his decoration of the county courthouse. The report said: "the decorative skill of the artist is shown admirably, both in the harmonies and pleasing combination of colors... throughout the building, all done in what is technically known as the New Art style.. The two long panels on the east and west walls, at the head of the grand stairway, are filled with beautiful Missouri landscape scenes, the one on the west wall representing a landscape before civilization, and that on the east wall, the more newly-developed country."</p><br>
<p>The distinguishing architectural features of the Kirk House are representative of the Colonial Revival style and details of the interior ornamentation express the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement. The Kirk House is an excellent example of the rectangular side-gabled Colonial Revival building subtype. This sub-type was built throughout the period of popularity, but predominated after about 1910.</p><br>
<p>The Norwich Village Historic District encompasses the compact village center of Norwich, Vermont. The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now Norwich University . The district has well-preserved examples of architecture ranging from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Norwich was chartered in 1761 and settled the following decade. Its original town center was located north of the present village, which rose in significance due to its location nearer fertile lands adjacent to the Connecticut River, and the 1820 establishment of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, now Norwich University. The village population peaked about 1830, declining due to westward migration, and the eventual relocation of the academy to Northfield; its original campus was destroyed by fire in the 1860s. A few homes survive from the early settlement period of the 18th century, with most of its architecture reflecting the Federal and Greek Revival periods of the first half of the 19th century. A number of Colonial Revival buildings were added in the early 20th century, and there are a modest number of Late Victorian buildings, notably the Norwich Inn.</p><br>
<p>The spine of the historic district is a section of United States Route 5 and Main Street north of Interstate 91, and extends along some of the cross streets. Buildings are mostly set on small lots, with modest setbacks from the street. The main focal point of the district is the village green, located at the junction of US 5 and Main Street. Arrayed around the green are municipal buildings, including the town hall, library, and post office, as well as several churches and the towns elementary school. The towns general store, Dan and Whits, is on the west side of Main Street, north of this junction and adjacent to the Norwich Inn.</p><br>
<p>The Old Randolph County Courthouse is a historic former county courthouse at Broadway and Vance Street in the center of Pocahontas, Arkansas. It is a two-story Italianate Victorian brick structure, built in 1872, regionally distinctive for its architectural style. It has brick quoined corners, and a low hip roof with small central gables on each elevation, and a square cupola with flared roof. Its eaves are studded with paired brackets and dentil moulding. It served as the county courthouse until 1940, and has since then has housed city offices, the local public library, and other offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgewater Historic District is a historic district in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1996, it includes buildings built between 1818 and 1933, although the most significant buildings in the district are those that were built before the Civil War in the 1860s. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Beaver Rivers, Bridgewater was a transportation center as the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal during the pre–Civil War era. This prosperity is reflected in many of the district&#39;s buildings: the adjacent communities of Beaver and Rochester were less significant during that time, and accordingly have a much smaller number of period buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Bridgewater-Rochester Bridge, a canal lock for the Bridgewater Canal, and 97 buildings. Among its contributing properties are three churches, the Keystone Bakery, and the William B. Dunlap Mansion, which is separately listed on the Register. Because the bridge spans the Beaver River to Rochester, a small portion of the district is located in Rochester. Another building in the district is the house of Joseph Hemphill, a local landowner who platted much of Bridgewater in 1818. Built in 1818, it is Bridgewater&#39;s oldest extant house.</p><br>
<p>During Bridgewater&#39;s heyday, Bridge Street was a vibrant downtown street. Its buildings housed a wide variety of businesses, ranging from offices to stores to metalworking shops. Among the leading businesses of Bridge Street, the Keystone Bakery, was once the largest bakery in Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. Now located on Market Street, Keystone left Bridge Street in 1884 because of its rapid expansion.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgewater United Methodist Church was organized in 1839 and built its first building in the same year. Its current building, a Gothic Revival structure located on Market Street, was erected in 1907. First Presbyterian Church worships in a Romanesque Revival church at the western end of Bridge Street. The congregation was founded as the result of an 1845 split in the Presbyterian church in Rochester. Built in 1845 and remodelled several times since, the church remains in use to the present day.</p><br>
<p>The Library Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Ogdensburg in St. Lawrence County, New York. The district includes seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing object. They include the Remington Art Museum , Ogdensburg Public Library , Library Park, and The Soldiers and Sailors Monument.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Gerard Crane House is a private home located on Somerstown Turnpike  opposite Old Croton Falls Road in Somers, New York, United States. It is a stone house dating to the mid-19th century, built by an early circus entrepreneur in his later years.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is an unusually sophisticated late application of the Greek Revival architectural style. The interior features a high level of decoration, particularly English Renaissance-style plaster moldings on the ceilings that are not commonly found in rural Greek Revival houses. It is the center of a 25 acre estate that includes not only the original outbuildings but an original section of Somerstown Turnpike and one of its mileposts.</p><br>
<p>It remains largely as it was originally built. In 1985 the area was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the northernmost such listing in Westchester County.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The estate is located on the west side of the road, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of downtown Somers, just opposite Old Croton Falls Road. At the oblique intersection a grassy stretch of the old route of Somerstown Turnpike continues across the front yard and parallel to Route 202 for approximately 800 ft north of the house until the road resumes that course. The house itself is located on a small rise, with outbuildings and a garden to the south. There are 10 other contributing properties to the listing on the parcel, five buildings and five structures. A portion of Rhinoceros Brook flows through the property on its way to East Branch Reservoir.</p><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The house is a two-and-a-half-story five-bay stone building on a raised basement with a shallow hipped roof with small cupola and identical chimneys on the north and south. It is sided in a locally quarried granite with an unusual natural marbleized appearance in a smooth-faced ashlar pattern with quoins on the front (reverting to random ashlar on the rear and sides). The roofline has a plain frieze, simple cornice and is set off by a stringcourse.</p><br>
<p>The east (front) facade has a central entrance portico featuring classical ornamentation. Fluted Doric columns and consoles support an entablature with denticulated cornice. A transom, sidelights, and ornate frontispiece frame the slightly recessed four-inch–thick (10 cm), 500 lb mahogany door. In the rear is a similar portico with a less elaborate door, chamfered Doric columns and a molded entablature.</p><br>
<p>There is much decoration inside the house. On the north side of the central hall are library and parlor with high ceilings. Their plaster molding features a band with a talon motif over a cornice with an acanthus band and a broad ribbon of flowers and leaves. Below that is a frieze with meticulously detailed plaster heads of noteworthy literary figures encircled and connected by oak leaves and acorns. The doorways and windows are framed by fluted Corinthian pilasters with foliated entablatures atop. A chandelier hangs from an ornate plaster medallion in the library ceiling. Also in the library is an Italian marble fireplace with colonnettes, paneled spandrels and finely carved friezes and cartouches. It has a cast iron fireboard ornamented with a brass crane.</p><br>
<p>On the south side, the dining room has a similarly foliated band around the ceiling. The original music room has since been converted into a kitchen. There is a less ornate fireplace on the south side. The mahogany staircase has turned balusters, a chamfered newel post and a scroll motif on the risers.</p><br>
<p>The second floor has a similar layout although it is less ornate. All the bedrooms have cast-iron heat registers and a brass nameplate on the door with the manufacturers name. The third storys garret was used as a ballroom. Four queen posts surround the area under the skylight in the middle of an L-shaped set of servants&#39; quarters on the north and east.</p><br>
<p>In the basement is the original kitchen, with a large fireplace and bread ovens. Below it is a sub-basement with a datestone giving the names of the contractors and a built-in safe.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings and landscape</h3><br>
<p>Five original buildings remain on the property besides the house. Immediately to the rear is the original summer kitchen, now converted to a two-car garage. It is a one-story building cut into the hillside, sided in granite with a flat roof and stepped parapet. Farther to the rear, and also cut into the hill (steeper at this point), is the gambrel roofed barn with stone foundation and vertical wood siding. It has an elliptical fanlight in its east gable, among other varied fenestration, and a silo to the northwest. Also attached is a deep stone foundation that may be the remains of the original icehouse.</p><br>
<p>A frame springhouse is slightly to the south, and a one-story granite shop to the northwest, also now in use as a garage. Just off the house&#39;s southwest corner is the privy, made of dressed granite with a flat roof, overhanging wooden cornice, mahogany door and six-over-six double-hung sash window.</p><br>
<p>Contributing structures include the iron fence along the original front lot line of the house, a stone wall between the summer kitchen and barn and a stone bridge over the brook. The original alignment of Somerstown Turnpike, which now serves in part as a driveway for the property, is included, as is one of its stone mileposts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Crane and his brother Thaddeus, descendants of a colonel in the Revolutionary War, moved to Somers from their hometown, nearby North Salem, in 1823. They had become active in the new business of exhibiting exotic animals, and records show that they had taken a lion to the Carolinas three years earlier. They bought land from Hachaliah Bailey, whose exhibition of Old Bet at the building now known as the Elephant Hotel is considered the beginning of the circus in America, that they would later build on.</p><br>
<p>They added to their menagerie, got partners, and exhibited as far as west as the Mississippi River. They were among the founders of an early trade organization called the Zoological Institute, which collapsed in the Panic of 1837. Crane himself was more fortunate; he served as a director, and later president of a local bank, and had just concluded four years as town supervisor at the outset of the panic.</p><br>
<p>In 1849, having married Roxana Purdy, he had the house built. Its extensive detailing and finely crafted stonework are features of a country manor house in the highest Greek Revival tradition. The English Renaissance-style molded plasterwork on the first floor ceilings, common in urban homes of this type but rare in rural variants, reflects Crane&#39;s cosmopolitan tastes.</p><br>
<p>The next years census shows the Cranes at that address, with their six children and one other woman. He died in 1872. The house and estate have remained a private residence since then. Other than the barns gambrel roof and the conversion of the main house&#39;s music room into a kitchen in 1964, there have been no significant alterations to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Old Rock School in Dodgeville, Wisconsin is a school that was built in 1853 and converted into a private house in 1882. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building constructed of limestone rubble, with massive blocks of dressed limestone serving as quoins and lintels. It has a central chimney and a gable roof. Its interior dimensions are 22 ft by 36 ft. The school was converted into a one-family house in the 1890s and into a multiple unit residence in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Meridian Baptist Seminary is a former educational institution for African-Americans in Meridian, Mississippi. The college was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1979, but delisted in 2008 after a fire destroyed the building in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The seminary was founded in 1896 and initially held classes in the basement of New Hope Baptist Church. In 1905, a two-story building was built at the corner of 16th Street and 31st Avenue, and the school moved classes there. That building was demolished in 1920 and replaced by a brick building built by local black carpenters. The school offered a traditional high school curriculum for black students, along with college preparatory and vocational programs. It was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-Americans.</p><br>
<p>After flourishing through the 1920s and 1930s, the school began offering only two-year high school transfer certificates in 1949, after which academic offerings gradually decreased. The school hosted several Freedom Schools during the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It was described as "the palace of the Freedom School circuit" after hosting a convention for the schools on August 8, 1964, the day after the funeral of James Chaney, one of the workers killed in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.</p><br>
<p>After closing in 1972, the building was used very rarely. After almost ten years of no use because of safety concerns, an overnight fire on September 16, 2007, burned the building to the ground. After an investigation, the cause of the fire could not be determined due to the extent of the damage.</p><br>
<p>The First Territorial Capitol of Kansas  is the sole remaining building of the ghost town of Pawnee, Kansas. The city served as the capital of the Kansas Territory for five days before it was moved to Shawnee Mission and then present day Lecompton, Kansas, and the town became part of neighboring Fort Riley. The building was the meeting place for the first elected Territorial Legislature in 1855. After falling into disrepair, the structure was restored in 1928 and today it serves as a history museum operated by the Kansas Historical Society and supported through The Partners of the First Territorial Capitol.</p><br>
<h2>Location and construction</h2><br>
<p>The capitol is located in the Kaw valley of northeastern Kansas, 100 yard north of the Kansas River. It first sat along the eastern border of Fort Riley, but today is within the boundaries of the base. A 2.8 acre site on which the building stands was provided to the Kansas Historical Society through a revocable license from the War Department in 1928. It is separated from the river by a grove of trees, and Union Pacific Railroad lines run parallel to the building close to its north side.</p><br>
<p>Construction began with about thirty workers under the direction of Warren Beckworth and was essentially completed in 1855. The building&#39;s foundation is roughly 40by80 ft, and it is two stories tall. Each floor is identically arranged for an assembly hall, with support columns down the center, and a stairway connecting the floors on the south side. Its foundation and walls are made of native limestone. A stone chimney is at each short side, with bricked exteriors. Its ceilings are exposed structural timbers. Doors are of wood with cut-stone thresholds, and window sills are also cut stone. Hanging lanterns for lighting were probably used. During its 1927 restoration, wood timbers were used that were chipped to make them look hand-cut. 2 inch planks were used for the floors and set with iron nails. Hand-forged hardware attached doors and windows. The roof was shingled with 3 ft tiles split to resemble shakes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The legislature</h3><br>
<p>The contentious first session of the legislature met for only five days in the Pawnee capitol, July 2–6, 1855. Dissatisfied with the location and the condition of the building, they were determined (even before their arrival) to relocate to Shawnee Mission, where they would be closer to the Missouri constituents who illegally elected most of them. Thirteen members made up the council, which met on the capitol&#39;s second floor, and 26 comprised the house, which met on the first. Of the 39 total legislators, only eight had free-state ties while 31 were from the South. They ranged in age from 23 to 55.</p><br>
<p>Their first action was to unseat all but one of the free-state legislators by negating March election returns in favor of a special election held in May which replaced them with pro-slavery men. This helped earn them the lasting nickname, the Bogus Legislature. On July 3, Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder gave an address, during which the only remaining free-stater stood up and denounced his acts and those of his own colleagues. According to a 1928 address by Charles M. Harger, heated debate in the first days of the capitol included the phrases, "justice for all," "Southern rights," "The flag and the Constitution," and heard for the first time were pleas for "Kansas, the brightest star of all".</p><br>
<p>On July 4, the legislators passed their bill to move to Shawnee Mission, and quickly overrode the governor&#39;s veto of the measure. After adjourning on the sixth, they loaded up their property, and on horses and wagons headed for the new site, with the governor compelled to follow.</p><br>
<h3>The capitol</h3><br>
<p>Governor Reeder had announced in April, 1855, his intention to call the legislators to convene in Pawnee, at which time construction rapidly took place around town, including of the capitol. But the building was not finished when the designated date arrivedfloorboards were not nailed down, windows and doors had not been installed and the roof was not finished. A hole in the exterior wall left for construction purposes still remained at the second floor. The builders even worked through day and night on the Sunday before the session to complete the project, but this added to the disgust of the legislators, as Pawnee was a community that recognized the Sabbath. "No good law could ever be enacted within the four walls that had witnessed such desecration," one lawmaker said, according to a town resident.</p><br>
<h4>Other uses</h4><br>
<p>After the legislatures departure, curious residents found the interior in disarray. Later, one townsman made the second floor of the building his residence. When Pawnee was ordered destroyed and its land reincorporated into Fort Riley, the first floor became home to the commissary department. Most of the towns buildings were demolished, but the former capitol building was spared and over time served a variety of other uses. In September 1855, it was used as a polling place for another election, corrupted again by Missourians charging a $2 (~$ in ) fee for voting. The Army used it as a warehouse, and the building also housed a carpentry shop. After the tenant had moved out, it was used both as a bachelor&#39;s club and a place for ministers to work.</p><br>
<h4>Restoration</h4><br>
<p>Pawnee&#39;s demise was followed by neglect of the first capitol. In 1877 the roof was torn off in a windstorm, and the interior heavily damaged. Talk of preservation began around 1900, and in 1907 Col. Samuel F. Woolard of Wichita began raising a restoration fund. He later became president of the Kansas Historical Society. Historic restoration would be partially based on the memory of John Martin of Alabama, who had been a clerk for the first legislature.</p><br>
<p>By 1908, a total of $499.50 was raised by $5 (~$ in ) subscriptions to the cause, allowing for much repair work to be done. Stone in the walls was replaced. Windows and doors were squared up. Cracks were filled with cement, and cement plaster covered walls after they were reinforced with iron. Union Pacific, partial landowner, was interested in the preservation at this time. The railroad company owed its creation to the first legislature, which established it as the Leavenworth, Pawnee & Western railroad franchise to build a transcontinental line through Kansas. In 1926, Governor Ben Paulen asked the legislature to help the preservation effort, and state Senator G. W. Schmidt introduced a bill appropriating $1,000 (~$ in ) for this cause. But replacement of the roof alone cost $2,000, and Union Pacific provided over $20,000 for the whole project. Historic benches, chairs, desks, and stoves were purchased to refurnish the interior. The exterior grounds were cleaned up, a water main laid, and flagstone and gravel walkways were made. In 1927 it was designated a National Historic Place and on August 1, 1928, the site was dedicated.</p><br>
<p>Union Pacific President Carl R. Gray wanted a formal presentation of the site to the State of Kansas, and the company planned and paid for a grand celebration. Ten thousand people attended. Special trains were brought to the scene, including one with a collection of artifacts for viewing. Fort Riley personnel performed military ceremonies and music, while Native Americans held tribal dances. A flag was raised over the capitol that had previously flown over the Memorial Building in Topeka at the close of the Great War, while Governor Paulen was given a 20-gun salute and reviewed National Guard troops. Barbecue was served to the crowd.</p><br>
<p>A mock legislative session was held, called together by State House Speaker D. M. Hamilton, and all attending lawmakers were clad in 1850s period attire. Paulen read Governor Reeder&#39;s message at the start of the session. During proceedings, a costumed man arose, declaring with a fiery speech that he was from Missouri and demanded a seat in the legislature. He was threatened by the other actors, but attentions were diverted by a faux Indian attack outside the building.</p><br>
<p>The official dedication wrapped up the events. Attendees at the celebration included:</p><br>
<p>Governor and Mrs. Paulen</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Governor D. A. N. Chase</p><br>
<p>Former Kansas Governor Willis J. Bailey</p><br>
<p>USA Senator Charles Curtis</p><br>
<p>USA Senator Arthur Capper</p><br>
<p>Union Pacific President Gray, of Omaha, Nebraska</p><br>
<p>By 1958, trees planted on either side of all building entrances had become overgrown and blocked the doorways. These were removed before state legislators met for an actual session, for one day, in 1961, as part of statehood centennial celebrations.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The capitol became a history museum in 1928. The structure was christened on August 1 with a speech by Union Pacific Solicitor General Nelson H. Loomis, who said those who congregated there that day, "...dedicate this restored captitol building as a memorial to the brave and patriotic men and women who toiled and suffered that their children might enjoy the wholesome pleasures and delights which the wise maker of the Universe intended for those who should dwell in this beautiful and radiant land which we call Kansas." The First Territorial Capitol State Historic Site features exhibits on Kansas Territory, rail and river travel in the region, and the history of Pawnee. Because the museum is on an active USA Army base, there are restrictions on visitors, including requirements for photo identification.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Lucia, formerly the Imperial Hotel, is a historic hotel building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1909 as an extension of the adjacent, original Imperial Hotel. The original Imperial building was made into a separate hotel in 1949, renamed the Plaza Hotel, and after a period of non-hotel use in the 1980s it today operates as the Kimpton Hotel Vintage Portland.</p><br>
<p>The 1909 building retained its original name until 2002, when the Aspen Hotel Group purchased it, remodeled it as a boutique hotel, and renamed it Hotel Lucia.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, listed as New Imperial Hotel and described as having Early Commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is operated by Pyramid Global Hospitality.</p><br>
<p>The Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, originally named the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building and also known as the Mabel Tainter Theater, is a historic landmark in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and is registered on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by Captain and Mrs. Andrew Tainter (whose sons house, the Louis Smith Tainter House, is also on the National Register), to honor their late daughter Mabel Tainter, who died in 1886 at age 19. The lumber barons daughter had enjoyed music and the arts, so the building was designed to serve those areas and no expense was spared by the parents. Designed by Harvey Ellis or Edgar Joraleman, both architects in the Minneapolis firm of L. S. Buffington in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building was constructed in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The Tainters were wanting to do something to memorialize their late daughter when Reverend Henry Doty Maxson, a Unitarian minister, arrived in Menomonie in April 1888 to organize a local Unitarian society. They were Unitarians and discussed their wish with him. They were inspired by his suggestion to create a community center that would “deepen, broaden, heighten the entire round of life” as a memorial.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in April 1889 on property in the heart of the business district that had contained a livery stable that Tainter already owned. There was a brief explanation in March in the local weekly newspaper, the Dunn County News, that Captain Tainter owned the livery stable being razed, but no mention of what was going to be built.</p><br>
<p>It wasn&#39;t until the end of December that the general public learned the details of the new large building on Main Street. Captain Tainter wrote a brief note to the Unitarian Society explaining his purpose - “It is my purpose to convey the Memorial building I am erecting in this city to trustees for certain public uses and purposes, among which is the tender to your society and congregation of a place for the prosecution of its educational, charitable, social and religious work. I hope to have the building ready for use on or before the middle of May next.” When this news appeared in the weekly newspaper, the editor added additional information in response to the “all sorts of speculation and conjecture respecting the character and purpose of the memorial building” since construction began. He said that while some people would have “herald in advance their purposes and plans,” Tainter “entered upon this work with his same business methods and, very naturally, he did not see any more reason to take the entire public into his confidence in this case, than he would in any other matter of business.” He added that the building will include a free public library and reading room, an auditorium, parlors, amusement rooms, dining room, kitchen, and offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was dedicated on July 3, 1890, with a ceremony in the buildings theater. Featured guests were Captain and Mrs. Tainter, Menomonies mayor and common council, and the president of the Mabel Tainter Literary, Library and Education Society, L. S. Tainter, a brother of the late Mabel. The presentation address was given by Rev. H. D. Maxson, a Unitarian minister who had been instrumental in working with the Tainter family in developing the idea for the building. The trust was accepted by S. W. Hunt, and the dedicatory address was delivered by Rev. J. H. Crocker of Madison, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The Mabel Tainter Memorial Building, which cost approximately $125,000, was donated by Captain and Mrs. Tainter to the private Mabel Tainter Literary, Library and Education Society to own and manage the building during the dedication. As stated at the time, "In accordance with her wish, the father and mother have felt the fittest monument to the dear dead is a contribution to the welfare of the living."</p><br>
<p>Until Captain Tainter&#39;s death in 1899, he provided funds to cover the operating costs of the building. At his death, he established an endowment fund of $65,000 for the society. By 1925, the endowment had grown to $105,000 through legacies left by other members of the Tainter family and other individuals.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the Building</h2><br>
<p>The exterior stone is Dunnville sandstone quarried from along the Red Cedar River about six miles south of town. The architect used Moorish influences in addition to the Richardsonian Romanesque style that guided most of his work. The interior contains hand-stenciled walls and ceilings, marble staircase and floors, stained glass windows, four fireplaces, brass fixtures and walnut and oak woodwork. The building still has its original Steere and Turner pipe organ, with a total of 1597 pipes and 28 stops; originally water-powered, it was eventually converted to electric power and completely restored. The building included both an ornate 313-seat theater and a reading room.</p><br>
<p>The building was intended to be the home of the Unitarian Society of Menomonie. The original deed to the society gave the Unitarian Society free use of the auditorium, assembly room, parlors, ladies work room and young mens club room. It continues to meet there on a regular basis.</p><br>
<p>As the name of the society indicates, the building was also intended to become Menomonie&#39;s public library, replacing the public library in second-floor rooms across Main Street. The city library donated (subject to recall) 745 of its 3,000 volumes to the new library, distributing the rest to the public schools. In addition, Captain Tainter donated his 3,000 volume collection. The city also provided $200 a year to the new library. The Mabel Tainter Memorial Library opened January 21, 1891 with nearly 4,000 volumes.</p><br>
<p>By 1925 the collection included 16,374 volumes, 2,577 public documents, and 3,930 pamphlets. The library was open to any resident of the county.</p><br>
<p>Needing more space and better accessibility, the Menomonie Public library moved to a new single story building in 1986. The former Reading Room is now the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts Box Office & Gallery Store.</p><br>
<p>Although the historic elegance and beauty remain intact at the Mabel Tainter Memorial Building, construction was recently completed to update the building&#39;s accessibility and safety features. A new entrance, public elevator, new wiring, a sprinkler system, and other safety updates were installed to improve the facility and ensure its longevity in historic downtown Menomonie.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, is a charter member of the League of Historic American Theatres and a designated Wisconsin Historical Marker Site.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts—a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization—owns and operates the building. The organization offers a performing arts and comedy series, an annual fine arts and crafts fair, and other arts and cultural programming. The Menomonie Theater Guild also presents much of its season at the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts.</p><br>
<p>Note: Information about the Tainter Memorial assembled for National Register listing some decades ago has been superseded by later historical research, and in fact in recent years the Register information has been modified to reflect the conclusion that Ellis did not design the building. More likely Edgar E. Joralemon, who replaced Ellis in Buffington&#39;s office, did.</p><br>
<p>Mount Zion Methodist Church is located on Primrose Avenue  in Somers, New York, United States. It is a white clapboard-sided church built near the end of the 18th century, and heavily renovated around 1860. A century later, in 1970, it was severely vandalized.</p><br>
<p>It is the oldest church in Somers, and important to the establishment of Methodism in New York as the dominant church in northern Westchester County for much of its history. The congregation has been defunct since the late 19th century, and the building and its cemetery are now town property. In 1990 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The church building is located on a small 1.4 acre lot along the east side of Primrose just south of Reis Park. It is on a small rise, elevating it above the roadway which slopes south at that point, with the cemetery on three sides. All lot lines save the front are marked by stone walls.</p><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>It is a two-and-half-story post-and-beam frame gabled church 30 by on a slightly exposed fieldstone foundation. There is no decoration or steeple, but a small brick chimney rises from the north end. The roof is shingled in asphalt and has an overhanging eave, complemented by plain frieze and cornerboard.</p><br>
<p>All three bays on both stories on the east and west have 12-over-12 double-hung sash windows. There are only two windows on the north and south sides of either story, and one small one in the gable ends. The main entrance, in the middle of the south (front) facade, is a pair of doors with a shouldered architrave surround.</p><br>
<p>From the entrance a narrow vestibule leads inside to a central hall where two small stairways on either side go up to the gallery, supported by four plain columns chamfered above the gallery level. Outside of the vestibule, the plain pine flooring is unpainted. The walls are wainscoted with vertical beaded tongue-and-groove boards on the first story, and plain white plaster above.</p><br>
<p>There are three sets of benches on the first story, all facing the pulpit except for those on either side of it, which face the center. The pulpit itself is a raised wooden platform supporting a lectern flanked by pedestals. A mahogany and horsehair settee is against the wall. A balustered wooden communion railing along the front also curves to slightly cover the sides. Cast iron heating stoves with detached pipes are located near the south end.</p><br>
<p>The gallery is floored in overlapping wide pine. Its three rows of benches all face the pulpit. A four-lamped kerosene-fueled chandelier hangs from the ceiling.</p><br>
<h3>Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>The cemetery&#39;s graves are all closely spaced and well-maintained. They date from 1793 to 1959, reflecting design trends of their eras. The oldest 11 graves, up to 1816, are of brown sandstone and shaped like arches with flanking finials. There is little funerary art save an urn on one.</p><br>
<p>Marble headstones account for the largest group, from 1812 to 1908. These can be divided into three groups. The most numerous, from 1812–1929, are plain stones with block lettering. A small group from 1819–1863 are more neoclassical, with urn and willow motifs including not only urns as well as italic lettering. A small group from the Civil War period are the most ornate in the cemetery, adding books and chain-and-tassel designs to the earlier flourishes. One grave of a Union Army soldier includes a cannon.</p><br>
<p>Granite takes over for the majority of later graves. Most are more massive, taking the form of pyramids and pedestals. There are three family plots within the cemetery, one of which is only set off by its original fence posts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Methodism had arrived in the American colonies before the Revolution, and continued developing through it and afterwards. Prior to the establishment of churches, the denomination&#39;s preachers traveled in "circuits", groups of towns where they had gained followings. These were eventually adopted by the church as its formal organizational structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1787, the New Rochelle Circuit was formally established by Freeborn Garrettson at the direction of Bishop Francis Asbury. It was the third Methodist Society in the state and the first in Westchester. When the Somers church was built in 1794, it was the first church of any kind in that town and the fifth of seven on the New Rochelle Circuit.</p><br>
<p>All of these were intentionally built as austere as possible. This saved money and was in keeping with the Methodist philosophy as it broke from England. Asbury had declared that all Methodist houses of worship were to be "plain and decent, but no more expensive than absolutely unavoidable." Many were simple white frame buildings like Mt. Zion, resembling houses or barns more than churches, with only their large windows suggesting that use and the influence of the Federal style. Of the original seven, only Mt. Zion and the Bethel Chapel in what is now Croton retain most of their original form and finish.</p><br>
<p>As Methodism grew in popularity, so did the churches. The circuits continued to be redefined. Mt. Zion became part of the Croton Circuit in 1803, and then the Cortlandt Circuit six years later. In this position it was the central church for the surrounding communities. One of its mission churches, the West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church, has itself had its former building listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>This lasted until the 1840s, when the churches in Shrub Oak and Peekskill to the west received their own circuit. In 1860 the church received a major rehabilitation, adding some decoration in the Greek Revival, reducing the size of the pulpit and adding the gallery.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zions regional influence continued on churches in the rural communities to the north and east until 1861, when the circuit was effectively disestablished. At that time the Lewisboro church became separate, and Mt. Zions influence was purely local.</p><br>
<p>Because of this, and the growth in communities encouraged by the New York and Harlem Railroad (today the Metro-North Harlem Line), the congregation began to dwindle. It enjoyed a renaissance in the 1880s under several committed new pastors, with a hundred new members. The construction of the New York City water supply system in northern Westchester ended that resurgence, as the land acquired for its reservoirs displaced many of the local farmers who had made up the bulk of the congregation since its earliest days. The last regular services were held by The Rev. N.S. Tuthill in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The church building went under the care of the Methodist congregation in nearby Katonah, which maintained it for a while in the early 20th century and held anniversary services there once a year. Those ceased after 1930, and the building began to decay. In 1970 it was severely vandalized, with its original mahogany pump organ destroyed as well as the original balusters around the pulpit. The original windowpanes were smashed at that time as well.</p><br>
<p>Three years later, in 1973, the town bought it from the Methodists to prevent further incidents and preserve it as a historic site. It is today under the care of the Somers Historical Society. In the late 1980s its site was further buffered when a developer donated the adjacent 16 acre, former farmland which had been zoned for single-family residential use, to the town as open space in return for clustering houses in another development.</p><br>
<p>The Fourth Street Historic District is a historic district in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. It consists of a concentration of fifteen late-nineteenth-century commercial buildings between Virginia and Iowa Streets that date from 1889 to approximately 1915. Many of the buildings are significant for their elaborate Romanesque Revival architecture. The area is now a local center of restaurants, bars, and specialty shops.</p><br>
<p>The D&#39;Iberville Apartments is a complex of historic apartment buildings located in Mobile, Alabama. They were built in 1943 to the designs of architects Harry Pembleton and Aurelius Augustus Evans. They were constructed in a Minimal Traditionalist style of architecture and are notable for their significance to the community planning and development of Mobile during World War II, a time of tremendous growth in the city. The apartments were added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 2004.</p><br>
<p>Stuckey&#39;s Bridge is a bridge spanning the Chunky River just outside Meridian, Mississippi. The bridge was listed as a Mississippi Landmark on August 4, 1984, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was originally built as the main route across the Chunky River southwest of Meridian. Documents in the Lauderdale County Archives reveal the contract to construct a bridge in this location was written in 1847, and estimates place the bridge&#39;s construction date around 1850. A new bridge replaced the old one in 1901, built by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, a member of the Dalton Gang named "Stuckey" owned a nearby inn where he would rob and murder his guests and bury his victims’ bodies on the riverbank. The legend says that after murdering twenty people, Stuckey was finally caught and hanged from the newly constructed bridge located on the site of his murders. Rumours of Stuckey haunting the bridge arose as well as claimed sightings of an old man carrying a lantern along the rivers edge, loud splashes that supposedly represent Stuckeys body hitting the water after his noose was cut, and visions of his lifeless corpse hanging from the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>In the media</h2><br>
<h3>Television</h3><br>
<p>Stuckeys Bridge was one of the featured haunted locations on the paranormal TV series, Most Terrifying Places in America which aired on the Travel Channel in 2018 in a special episode titled "Haunted Road Trips". On the segment, the bridge was referred to as Old Man Stuckeys Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Pigford Building, also known as Pythian Castle Hall, is a three-story red brick building in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building, constructed in 1914 by the Knights of Pythias Mount Barton Lodge No. 13, was originally known as the Pythian Castle Hall. It served as a home for the organization&#39;s weekly meetings. In the 1920s, the building was bought by Pigford Realty, who rented the building out to small businesses. Offices were located on the second floor while a ballroom occupied the third. Between 1933 and 1976, a post office and drug store owned by R.M. Hamil operated out of the first floor of the building. Other businesses have located inside the building since its construction including restaurants, beauty salons, and dress shops.</p><br>
<p>A graphic design business and tanning salon were located in the building in the 1990s, and after the business closed the entire building was gutted and renovated. A dress shop named Alexander&#39;s, owned by Debbie Moorehead, was opened in 1999, and the two upper floors of the building were closed to the public in 2000. A new dress shop named Dream It is now located on the first floor of the building and owned by Theresa Long.</p><br>
<h2>Reports of hauntings</h2><br>
<p>The owner of the graphic design business in the building during the 1990s often worked late into the night, so she put together a small sleeping area. While she was there late at night, she reportedly heard footsteps from the second floor. Other occurrences included voices from the buildings intercom system as well as a full-bodied apparition of a lady in a long white dress, which the owners three-year-old cousin saw. The owner later saw the apparition as well and claimed that it did not like men. Objects would reportedly move across the room and doors would slam if male employees were in the building.</p><br>
<p>Employees and customers of Alexanders, the dress shop which opened in 1999, reportedly heard "a womans ghostly laughter." Jewelry and clothes were often found lying on the floor in the mornings after having been hung or pinned up the previous night. On October 15, 1999, J.T. Mohammed, an employee of Alexanders, saw the apparition of the lady in white on the balcony. One employee, who was the only person in the store at the time, later received a phone call from an inside line, and another employee heard voices coming from an empty dressing room. Alan Brown, author of Haunted Places in the American South conducted an investigation into the hauntings in the early 2000s, during which several paranormal experiences were recorded. A door to the roof was nailed shut, clothes moved while they were untouched, and earrings appeared beside Browns assistant&#39;s bed the next morning.</p><br>
<p>Theresa Long, owner of Dream It, and her daughter have both reported vacuum cleaners being turned on while unplugged, and many electronic devices work incorrectly while in the building. Alan Brown visited the building again in 2008 to do a study, after which he labelled the building as haunted.</p><br>
<p>Brook Farm is a historic country estate farm at 4203 Twenty Mile Stream Road in Cavendish, Vermont. It includes one of the state&#39;s grandest Colonial Revival mansion houses , and surviving outbuildings of a model farm of the turn of the 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The property is now home to the Brook Farm Vineyard.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Brook Farm is located on 45 acre in rural northwestern Cavendish, with its complex of buildings set on the west side of Twenty Mile Stream Road. The property includes rolling fields separated by rows of trees and stone walls, and overlooks Twenty Mile Stream to the east. Most of the farm buildings are arrayed along a basically semicircular drive, with the house, horse stable, and cow barn dominating the collection of about ten buildings. The main house is a rectangular -story wood-frame structure, set on a stone foundation, with extensions in the shape of a backwards L on the west side. The main block has a gambrel roof with dormers on both sides, and a small gable above the main entrance at the center of the south side. A single-story porch, in parts with an open roof, wraps around the south, east and north sides, with projecting pavilions at the two corners. The porch projects in front of the entrance, with an open balcony area above. Both the main entrance and the balcony entrance have a Palladian arrangement of sash windows on either side of the door. The interior of house is richly decorated with woodwork and vaulted plaster ceilings in the public rooms.</p><br>
<p>Farming began on this property in 1788, and it grew over the 19th century to become one of Cavendishs largest and most successful dairy farms. In 1881 it was purchased by James H. Bates, a cousin of the previous owner, who had found success as a businessman in Brooklyn, New York and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Bates transformed the property into a model farm, and moved the original farmstead to another location in order to build the mansion house that stands today. Documentation suggests that Middlebury architect Clinton Smith was involved in its design, on which construction was completed in 1894. Most of the remaining farm buildings date to the late 19th century, although the original 1790 barn was part of the Batess original plan. That barn collapsed in 1988. The property is now a vineyard.</p><br>
<p>The historical importance of this property and others were evaluated in a study, "Agricultural Resources of Vermont MPS".</p><br>
<p>The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall is a late nineteenth-century theater presently in use on the east end of Long island in Riverhead, New York. The building was built by David F. Vail, with the help of his son George M. Vail in 1881. David was a local lumber dealer in the Riverhead and Eastern Suffolk County Long Island area.</p><br>
<p>The theater/music hall opened on October 11, 1881. The main theater and its balcony are a miniature opera house designed by J. W. Flack. The ground floor of the building housed commercial business storefronts, while the upstairs contained the opera house. The music hall began its operations with candle lighting, however the Vail&#39;s began operating a gas plant behind the theater. As a result, gas fixtures were placed all along the horseshoe balcony, and gaslight continued at the music hall until the advent of electricity to the area in July 1888, when the venue added electric lights.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, George M. Vail, now sole owner of Music Hall, sold the building to Simon Leavitt, a tailor and clothier, who leased out the upstairs as a theatrical venue. In 1914, the Music Hall was used by Thomas Edison as a demonstration site for kinetophone, an early attempt at the synchronization of sound and film.</p><br>
<p>As more modern theaters were built in the area, the Music Hall was converted for use over the years as a restaurant, a roller skating rink and even a betting parlor. However, the balcony and stage proscenium remained intact throughout the conversions. Eventually Theodore Leavitt (Simon&#39;s son) took over the clothier business and closed the upstairs, using it only as a storage area until his retirement in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>After his death, Theodore Leavitts widow Mollie Leavitt owned the music hall until its acquisition by the Council for the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in 1982 through a grant from the USA Department of Housing and Urban Development arranged by the Town of Riverheads Community Development officer, Robert Schemer. The Council is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable corporation which now oversees and operates the venue.</p><br>
<p>From the early eighties to the late nineties, old movies were shown on a small screen in its downstairs space, dubbed the "Mini-Cine". These movie showings helped the theater raise monies for the music hall&#39;s restoration. The theater has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 25, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The music hall held its grand re-opening on June 28, 2003. It continues to host numerous cultural, civic and charitable events throughout the year for the local community.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer School stands in an isolated location in Park County, Wyoming, about 8 mi north of Clark, in the Clark Fork Valley near the Montana border. The frame structure is an example of a country school built to serve students in rural areas prior to the introduction of school bus routes to more centrally located facilities. Built in 1914, it was a one-room schoolhouse until 1953, and it operated until 1967.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer School is sited in an open area with a commanding view of the Absaroka Range. The -story building is set on a concrete daylight basement. The hipped roof covers the original single room and the northern music room addition. A gabled roof covers the teacherage addition. A bell tower marks the entrance on the south side between the main block and the teacherage. The original building was designed by architect Curtis Oehme and built by H.P. Anderson. Central heating with a coal furnace was added in 1930. The teacherage, consisting of a living room-kitchen and a bedroom, was added in 1953, along with indoor plumbing. Vernon Drake designed a music room addition in 1956, while the school was further modernized and converted to fuel oil heat.</p><br>
<p>The student population varied between five and 28 students in grades 1 through 8 through 1957, after which grades 7 and 8 attended school in Belfrey, Montana. The school was deeded by the Powell School District in 1970 to the Pioneer Service Group as a community Center in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Ainsley House is a 1925 California Arts and Crafts house in Campbell, California, built in the style of an English Tudor Cotswold cottage. The house and accompanying carriage house  were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is now a museum and is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The house was the third home of Campbell canning pioneer John Colpitts Ainsley (1860–1937) and his wife, Alcinda (1875-1939), and was originally located on the southwest corner of their 83 acre orchard at the northeast corner of Hamilton and Johnson (now Bascom) Avenues. After J.C. Ainsley&#39;s death in 1937, Alcinda left the house, living with friends until her death in 1939. The house remained in the family, but with the exception of occasional Christmas seasons and social events over the years, was vacant, though well-tended, for decades. The Ainsley family donated the house, its furnishings and the carriage house to the City of Campbell in 1989 and they were moved to their present location at 300 Grant Street in Downtown Campbell in 1990. The house museum, Morgan Gallery and nearby Campbell Historical Museum are supported by the Campbell Historical Museum and Ainsley House Foundation.</p><br>
<p>James and Fanny How House is a historic home located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a noted example of a Tudor Revival–style dwelling designed by local architect Harold L. Olmsted in 1924. It is composed of three sections: a -story cross-gabled front block, a 1-story gabled connecting link, and a 2-story gabled rear block with a small 1-story wing. It has a limestone ashlar and concrete foundation and painted stucco-covered exterior walls of brick and tile.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–East.</p><br>
<p>Edwin M. and Emily S. Johnston House is a historic home located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a Colonial Revival style brick dwelling designed by Bley & Lyman in 1934. It consists of a -story cross-gabled main block with a 2-story side-gabled garage wing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–East.</p><br>
