<p>McMahan Homestead, also known as Landmark Acres, is a historic home located in Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a two-story, five bay wood frame dwelling built in about 1820. The home features a semicircular portico with a denticulated cornice and corinthian columns that was added in the 20th century. On this property is a barn dating from the early 1800s. The home was constructed by Chautauqua County&#39;s first settler, Col. James McMahan, who came to Westfield in 1802 from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The property is the oldest settled property in Chautauqua county with an original deed from the Holland Land Company for a large portion of Chautauqua County and has the oldest landmark in the county. Chautauqua County celebrated its 100th anniversary, 1902, on the front lawn of the McMahan homestead. In 2002 Chautauqua county celebrated its 200th anniversary also on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel F. Nixon Homestead, or simply the Nixon Homestead&#39;, is a historic home located in the Village of Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. The original house was built in 1856 and subsequently expanded in about 1890 to its current size and style.</p><br>
<p>A two-storey wood frame Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style dwelling, it features a prominent Palladian window. The home&#39;s namesake was S. Frederick Nixon (1860–1905) who represented Chautauqua County in the New York State Assembly and served as Speaker of the Assembly from 1899 to 1905.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Lakewood Balmoral Historic District is a historic district in the Edgewater community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1999. The district covers an area of about 63 acre; its boundaries are Magnolia Avenue to the east, Wayne Avenue to the west, Foster Avenue to the south, and Bryn Mawr Avenue to the north.</p><br>
<p>The area is easily accessible from the Berwyn station on the Chicago "L" Red Line.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Lewis Cochran, the first major developer in the Edgewater area, purchased the land which makes up the Lakewood Balmoral district in 1890. Known as Cochrans Third Addition to Edgewater, the region was marketed to middle-class families, as opposed to the Edgewater lakefront, which was mostly mansions at the time. Many of the streets in the district were named by Cochran. Berwyn Avenue, Bryn Mawr Avenue and Wayne Avenue were named after stations on the Main Line running north of his native Philadelphia. Catalpa Avenue was named after a street in Philadelphia, Lakewood Avenue after the town of Lakewood, New Jersey, and Balmoral—a nod to Cochrans Scottish ancestry—after Balmoral Castle in Scotland.</p><br>
<p>The Lakewood Balmoral district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In 1999, it included 490 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area.</p><br>
<p>L&#39;Hermitage is a Greek Revival plantation home. Marius Pons Bringier commissioned the home to be built in Burnside, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as a wedding gift for his son, Michel Douradou Bringier , in 1812.</p><br>
<p>Michel Bringier served at the Battle of New Orleans (1814–15) during the War of 1812. LHermitage was named after General Andrew Jacksons home in Nashville, Tennessee. General and Mrs. Jackson visited here in the 1820s.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Land&#39;s End Plantation in Stonewall, Louisiana, was established in 1835 by Colonel Henry and Ben Marshall, signer of the Louisiana Ordinance of Secession and the constitution of the Confederate States of America. The house, built in 1857, was used as a hospital following the Battle of Mansfield in 1864.</p><br>
<p>The plantation house, along with a 200 acre area comprising several buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The plantation house was completely destroyed by fire in 1989, and was subsequently removed from the National Register in 2024.</p><br>
<p>The Macedonia Baptist Church is a historic church located along LA 1036, about 7.4 mi north of Holden, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1856, and the current building was constructed in 1898. The local community was settled by Anglo-Saxon Protestants during the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Wyuka Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, Lincoln&#39;s Bnai Jeshurun Congregation, a Reform congregation, began using a section of Wyuka.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wyuka Cemetery was established in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, which sought to provide a cemetery for the state capital city founded two years prior. The trustees rejected the first cemetery site along Salt Creek to the west of Lincoln due to flooding concerns and instead purchased 80 acres of land east of the city. Wyuka Cemetery has since expanded to over 140 acres between “O” Street and Vine Street.</p><br>
<p>The iron fence surrounding the cemetery was originally erected around the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The Board of Regents authorized the construction of the fence in 1891, and the fence enclosed the original campus until 1925 when it was removed due to safety concerns because fire engines could not pass through the width of the gates.</p><br>
<p>Wyuka Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is considered a prime example of the rural cemetery form.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Hazel Abel (1888–1966), US Senator</p><br>
<p>Victor Emanuel Anderson (1902–1962), Governor of Nebraska</p><br>
<p>Charles W. Bryan (1867–1945), Mayor of Lincoln and Governor of Nebraska</p><br>
<p>Elmer J. Burkett (1867–1935), US Senator</p><br>
<p>Amasa Cobb (1823–1905), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Emily M. J. Cooley (1831-1917), religious and temperance leader</p><br>
<p>Oren Sturman Copeland (1887–1958), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Hawley Everett (1857-1940), clubwoman, suffragist, author, magazine founder/editor, school principal, superintendent of schools</p><br>
<p>J. James Exon (1921–2005), Governor of Nebraska and US Senator</p><br>
<p>Eugene Jerome Hainer (1851–1929), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Don Hollenbeck (1905–1954), Radio newscaster and commentator</p><br>
<p>John Larkin (1901–1965), Hollywood screenwriter</p><br>
<p>Gilbert L. Laws (1838–1907), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor</p><br>
<p>Turner M. Marquett (1829–1894), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Samuel Roy McKelvie (1881–1956), Governor of Nebraska</p><br>
<p>Milton Montgomery (1825–1897), Civil War Brevet Brigadier General</p><br>
<p>Albinus Nance (1848–1911), Governor of Nebraska</p><br>
<p>Louise Pound (1872–1958), American folklorist, linguist, and English professor</p><br>
<p>William A. Poynter (1848–1909), Governor of Nebraska</p><br>
<p>Peter Sauer (1900–1949), Russian-born World Wrestling champion using the ring name Ray Steele</p><br>
<p>Charles Starkweather (1938–1959), spree killer</p><br>
<p>Jesse Burr Strode (1845–1924), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>John Milton Thayer (1820–1906), Governor of Nebraska and US Senator</p><br>
<p>Roy Henry Thorpe (1874–1951), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Bobby Rae Williams (1942–2012), professional football player</p><br>
<p>The former Kingston City Library building is located on Broadway in the center of Kingston, New York, United States. It is a brick Carnegie library built in 1903 in the Classical Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>It served continuously as the citys library until 1974, when it was closed after a newer library was built in the citys Stockade District. Since then it has been the property of the Kingston City School District, which has used it as the offices for the janitorial department at neighboring Kingston High School. In 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Starting in 2009, the library was renovated into an arts and technology center. On September 12, 2011, it was officially reopened as the Carnegie Learning Center used by Kingston High School and the community.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The library building sits on a 11,250 ft&sup2; lot on the south side of Broadway, slightly raised from street level. Kingston Hospital is across the street, as is City Hall. Just to the east is Kingston High School.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story rectangular building of brown brick on a rough-cut bluestone foundation. A limestone pedimented entry portal is located in the middle of the front. It is heavily decorated with classical motifs. Two ionic columns frame the recessed entrance. On the pediment itself is a book-and-flower frieze. Limestone bands also go around the building at both the lower end of the brick and the top level of the fenestration.</p><br>
<p>Both interior floors are 2,700 ft&sup2;. The lower floor has what was once a lecture hall with raised dais, two study rooms, two bathrooms and a boiler room. A staircase with a Craftsman-style bannister leads up to the main floor, where there are remnants of a cast iron mezzanine for book stacks. Leaded pane glass partitions divide the rooms. Two fireplace surrounds remain at either end.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kingston established its first public library in 1899, a quarter-century after it had been formed from a merger of the previous villages of Kingston and Rondout. It was housed in a room in City Hall, but within three years of the librarys establishment it had already outgrown it. In 1902 the librarys trustees wrote to Andrew Carnegie, who had funded libraries all over the world, to see if he would consider providing them with the money to build a freestanding library.</p><br>
<p>His secretary wrote back. If the city of Kingston would commit itself to spending $3,000 a year ($ in contemporary dollars) to maintain the library, Carnegie would donate $30,000 ($740,000 in contemporary dollars) to build it. City Council accepted the offer and passed an ordinance establishing the required level of funding and accepting Carnegie&#39;s gift. Local steamboat magnate Samuel Coykendall donated the land, provided the trustees raise money for its purchase through subscription. Ground was broken in 1903 and the new building was opened the next year.</p><br>
<p>It remained the citys library until 1974, when more space was needed and the current library on Franklin Street was built. After the library moved out, it became property of the school district. The interior was heavily modified to serve as classroom space, but that proved unworkable. It was used as the offices of the high schools custodial services until renovations.</p><br>
<p>During that time the building was neglected, and the front entrance was fenced off from the sidewalk. In 2009 school district voters approved a $3.6 million proposal to rehabilitate the library building into an arts and technology center. The building is now open to the Kingston City School District.</p><br>
<p>The King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort is a resort located on St. Simons Island in the USA state of Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel began in 1935 as the King and Prince Beach Club, a seaside dance club built by Morgan T. Wynne and Franklin J. Horne. It was noted for its big band entertainment and dancing. After two fires, the club was rebuilt and opened on July 2, 1941, as the King and Prince Hotel. Used as a training facility and radar station by the Navy during World War II, the island resort reopened its doors to the public in 1947. In 1972 and 1982 the resort underwent substantial building renovations and expansions.</p><br>
<p>The King and Prince was the host of the 1957 Bilderberg Meeting. The King and Prince Beach and Golf Resort was made a member of Historic Hotels of America in 1996, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>King and Prince Hotel NRHP plaque.JPGHistoric Hotels of America plaque and National Register of Historic Places plaque</p><br>
<p>Aerial of The King and Prince Resort.jpgAerial view</p><br>
<p>The Boice House is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. It was first built around 1850 in the Greek Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Twenty years later, it was bought by Hewett Boice, a local quarry operator. He had the house refurbished in the then-popular Second Empire style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-and-a-half-story frame building with a two-story rear wing on a stone and brick foundation on the east side of Fair Street. Nearby on that side of the street are the Chichester and William Kenyon houses, both also listed on the Register. It is topped with a mansard roof shingled in patterned slate with an overhanging, bracketed eave. The roof is pierced by round-arched decorated dormer windows.</p><br>
<p>The five-bay west (front) facade has an ornate Victorian porch along its entire first story. On the south elevation is a projecting bay window and the remains of a porte-cochere.</p><br>
<p>A central hall with pressed-metal ceilings, lincrusta wall coverings and flat-paneled wainscoting opens up from the entrance vestibule. A finely crafted staircase goes up from the side, its landing lit by a stained glass window. There are Greek Revival moldings in every room on the first floor, and Italianate marble fireplace surrounds in the parlors.</p><br>
<p>Outside are several contributing resources. Five are objects, all made of bluestone: a carriage mounting block with "H. BOICE" carved into it, hitching post, two plinth blocks with planters, and a walkway. The former carriage house at the rear of the property, now converted to a home studio, is also contributing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The minimal records available for the history of Fair Street in the late 19th century, when it was the residence of many of the city&#39;s most affluent residents, suggest that the house was built around 1850 by Erastus Cooke, a local lawyer. In 1869 he sold it to Elizabeth P. Cockburn of Hurley, NY. In 1885, she and her husband Wiliam Cockburn sold the house to Hewitt Boice, whose quarry had provided some of the stone for the Brooklyn Bridge, for $7,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). He renovated its exterior in a high Second Empire style, most of which remains intact.</p><br>
<p>In 1917 Boice&#39;s daughter, Virginia Boice Seeley inherited it. She, in turn, deeded it to her stepmother, Katherine Deyo Boice, who remarried and lived there until she died in 1953. It has been through several other owners since then but remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church  is located at 53248 N Avenue  in the Linden Lake Historic District in Lake Linden, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and is significant for its impeccable architectural integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church is a spectacular example of Victorian stick architecture. The church is a rectangular asymmetrically-massed front gable structure atop a foundation of mine rock The exterior features dramatic woodwork styling, with fishscale and flat-edged shingles made of pine and separated into sections by stickwork. The gable over the entrance and the tower sides are constructed with diagonal siding; focal points there and on the sides of the church are sided in herringbone and pinwheel shapes, fremed with more stickwork and carved floral rosettes. The church has an open front porch with contrasting turned railings.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes the pastor&#39;s office, kitchen, and meetinghall. The meetinghall has wainscoted walls, a hardwood ceiling, and more intricate stickwork; is also installed. The organ was believed to be the oldest tracker-style pipe organ in Michigan, however a search of the Organ Historical Society database reveals several original and relocated tracker-action pipe organs pre-dating the Garret House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church founded in 1882 by a small group of Scottish residents, headed by Allen McIntyre, which included a number of prominent businessmen and employees of the local Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. It soon became apparent that the congregation would need its own church, and a building committee was formed in 1886. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company donated land, and the committee procured architectural drawings from Holabird and Roche, using them to build the church for an original cost of $8325. The building was dedicated in February 1887, three months before a devastating fire swept through Lake Linden; the church was one of the few frame buildings in the area to escape damage.</p><br>
<p>The church continued to be in use until the 1980s, when the congregation dwindled to the point where they were not large enough to maintain the building. The church was deeded to the Houghton County Historical Society, which has continued to use and maintain it as the Houghton County Heritage Center. Limited restoration has been ongoing since 1993; the restoration included repainting the church in the original colors.</p><br>
<p>The Nuyaka Mission site is located in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, on McKeown Rd.  just off N 120 Rd , approximately 15.7 miles west of the intersection of USA Route 75 and State Highway 56  in the City of Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The Nuyaka Mission is included on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The mission was established by Alice Mary Robertson at the request of the Creek Council, and run by the Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>Initially the Creek principal chief proposed to name the mission Robertson Institute, in honor of William S. Robertson, but his daughter, Augusta, wrote a letter stating that the family preferred that the name should be from the Creek language. Therefore, Nuyaka Mission was named for the nearby Creek town of Nuyaka. Ironically, some of the official correspondence cited by Carolyn Thomas Foreman, gives the name as "New Yorker Mission" and "Nuyarker Mission."</p><br>
<p>The mission consisted of four buildings. One building contained a chapel/assembly room and some school class rooms. The second building held the superintendent&#39;s apartment and housed the boys. The other two buildings were cottages that housed the girls and the teachers who supervised them. Initially, the mission enrolled seventy boys and girls. It had seven female teachers and one man who supervised the boys after school hours. Rev. Thomas Ward Perryman, a Creek who had been educated at Tullahassee Mission, was the first pastor and taught religious classes.</p><br>
<p>Per the granite marker at the site:</p><br>
<p>"Established in 1882 by the Creek Council, Nuyaka Mission was a boarding school for Boys and Girls by the Presbyterians from 1884 to 1899. The Creek Tribe then operated the school for ten years. From 1909 until 1921 it was operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. From 1921 to 1933 it was operated by the Baptists."</p><br>
<p>"In 1936, the buildings were removed and E.E. Mount bought the site to prevent its destruction. In 1937, his daughter and son-in-law, Oakla and Bill Spears, bought the site and lived in the Dormitory Superintendents home for 54 years. Interested in the sites history, they interviewed former students and children of former superintendents. Their efforts led to the preservation of the property which they donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1992."</p><br>
<p>The marker from the Oklahoma Historical Society on SH-56 says, “NUYUKA MISSION Founded by Presbyterian Bd, and Creek Nation, 1882, through work of Alice Robertson. Later first woman elected to Congress from State: Augusta Robertson Moore, 1st Supt. Of Mission School. Nuyaka Town nearby was the seat of the “Loyal Creek” faction in the “Green Peach War.” Led by Isparhecker later Chief of Creek Nation.”</p><br>
<p>Pursuant to the Oklahoma Legislature&#39;s Enrolled Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 25 in May 2003, ownership of the site was transferred from the Oklahoma Historical Society to the Nuyaka Homecoming Association and Historical Society, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Bly House is a historic house located in Ashville, Chautauqua County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, three-bay-wide, timber-framed, Greek Revival style residence built in about 1835. The recessed entrance features a carved architrave supported by Ionic columns. As described in state records, "The west facades of the main block and wing are finished with flush weatherboards; each facade is divided and framed by elaborately fluted Ionic pilasters. The remainder is clapboarded. The entire structure is painted white. The main entrance is reached by a three-step stair of dressed stone. One brick chimney with rebuilt top is located in the main block."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.</p><br>
<p>Partridge-Sheldon House is a historic home located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a three-story Second Empire style residence built between about 1850 and 1867, and substantially renovated and enlarged about 1880. The structure features a Mansard roof with patterned and polychromed slate, decorative eave brackets, and an imposing Mansard-roofed front porch with ornamental iron cresting. It was the home of Porter Sheldon .</p><br>
<p>The house is owned and maintained by the Jamestown Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The John Frank House was designed in 1955 and built in 1956 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, United States. It was designed by architect Bruce Goff. It was designed for John Frank, founder of Frankoma Pottery. It was specifically designed to showcase the Franks&#39; love for pottery. John and Grace Lee Frank glazed and fired the ceramic tiles located throughout the house.</p><br>
<p>The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Gov. Reuben Fenton Mansion, also known as Walnut Grove, is a historic home located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is an Italian Villa style residence built in 1863. The home features a four-story tower. It was the home of Reuben Fenton . In 1919, the city of Jamestown acquired the property as a Soldiers and Sailors Memorial. During World War II it was used as a recruitment center. After being abandoned for many decades the city had plans to tear it down, however, a society was formed to help save the building. It has been home to the Fenton History Center since 1964 and is now used as a museum dedicated to the local history of Chautauqua county.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It became a Blue Star museum in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Residence</h3><br>
<p>The Fenton mansion was built 1863 for Reuben Fenton and his family. It was occupied until his wife Elizabeth Scudder Fenton&#39;s death in 1901.</p><br>
<h3>War memorial</h3><br>
<p>The property was vacant for many years before the city bought the house in 1919 for $35,000 to use as a war memorial for soldiers and sailors. Veterans associations began to occupy the building. During World War II, the building was used as a recruitment center for young soldiers. It was known as the "last chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic". The mansion was also home to a local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic as well as the national headquarters until the last Civil War veteran died in 1956.</p><br>
<h3>Historical society</h3><br>
<p>In the early 1960s, the building was abandoned. There were plans to tear down the house in conjunction with the new route route 60 was going to take through Jamestown. While plans were being made to tear down the building, mayor William D. Whitehead appointed Stanley A. Weeks to look into other possible uses for the mansion. Weeks would later become the first life member.</p><br>
<p>In 1962, the mayor of Jamestown formed a committee to determine what to do with the property and it was decided to establish a historical society and museum, with the goal of preserving and restoring the Fenton Mansion.</p><br>
<p>The Fenton Historical Society was established on May 22, 1963 and the mansion was converted into a museum. Mary Torrance was the original president, Harry Rose was the first vice president, William Reynolds was the second vice president, Sybill McFadden was the secretary and Bert Hough was the treasurer. In 2013, the adjacent William Hall House was purchased to use as for archives and a research library.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The grounds around the Fenton, also known as Walnut Grove Park, have been the location of a historical archaeology site. The dig started in 2012 and has the goal of uncovering many of the original historical structures that surrounded the Fenton mansion.</p><br>
<p>Some of these structures included the barn, carriage house, and servants&#39; quarters. It was discovered that the barn was actually torn down and a greenhouse was built on the same location.</p><br>
<p>The dig is ongoing, and is coordinated by Dr. Thomas Greer.</p><br>
<p>The Turner-Todd Motor Company Building, more commonly known as the Buick Building, is a historic commercial building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The two-story brick and concrete structure was built in 1926 to house the Turner-Todd Motor Company. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main two-story portion of the building was constructed in 1926. A l-l/2 -story addition was added to the east end of the building in 1940, as is announced by its own cornerstone. The Turner-Todd Motor Company, which had changed its name to the Turner Motor Company in 1932, closed its doors in 1943, but, though now obsolete as a showroom, the building still remained involved in the automobile industry by housing various auto parts stores from 1944 to 2002, the last of which was CarQuest Auto Parts.</p><br>
<p>The building is now primarily occupied by property developer Rogers & Willard, Inc., as well as software development firm Rural Sourcing, Inc. who has occupied the building since November 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Building description</h2><br>
<p>As an early example of a purpose built auto dealership, the Turner-Todd Motor Company building is a significant local example of a prevailing architectural style adapted to the purpose of the automobile industry.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the main portion of the building originally had an open arrangement for the display of automobiles. The showroom was located near the entrance on the west end, while offices were located to the rear. This was altered with the closing of the dealership in 1943. The building was subsequently used by an auto parts dealer and a large service counter was added. The interior walls near the east end of the main building, which was used as a service center, are bare structural tile. A distinguishing feature of the first floor is the concrete ramp located at the rear. Entering from the rolled metal door on the south end of the west elevation, cars were driven up the ramp and stored on the second floor. For convenience of foot traffic, a staircase also leads to the second floor. This floor rests on heavy timbers, approximately 6" thick. The walls are brick. The ceiling</p><br>
<p>features exposed wood framing supporting the roof.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration (2014-2015)</h2><br>
<p>In 2014, Mobile, AL property developer Rogers & Willard, Inc., the current owner of the Turner-Todd Motor Company building, announced that the building would be renovated into modern office spaces and possibly a restaurant space. In September 2015 Rogers & Willard moved into the first refurbished space. The main portion of the first floor has gone through extensive renovations with workspace for around 140 employees in preparation for occupancy by Atlanta-based Rural Sourcing Inc. (RSI), who has occupied the first floor since November 2015.</p><br>
<p>Among the renovations were the refinishing of all window frames and replacement of all of the original window glass, brick facade repairs, installation of modern plumbing and utility equipment, installation of a larger stairwell and elevator, repaving of sidewalks and the parking lot in the rear of the building, installation of modern HVAC equipment, and the build-out of the internal spaces to provide a modern workspace. Care was taken to honor the history of the building and comply with the guidelines for historic building renovation. As a nostalgic touch, the original Buick logos on the cornices of the building were restored to their original appearance of white letters with blue relief.</p><br>
<p>Brocton Arch is a historic "welcome arch" located at Brocton in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a freestanding steel arch bearing the community&#39;s name constructed in 1913 over a public thoroughfare. It is a rare double span, four way street arch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 2012, the Arch was taken down for refurbishing. The Arch was put back up about a year later.</p><br>
<p>Busti Mill, also known as the Old Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Busti in Chautauqua County, New York, USA. It was built in 1839 and remained in operation until around 1959 or 1960. In the later years, the mill was rented out and used sporadically, and the exact closing date is undetermined. The town of Busti deeded the mill to the Busti Historical Society on December 29, 1972.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The mill is part of the Busti Grist Mill & Historical Society Museum, and is open for the town&#39;s annual apple festival and by appointment.</p><br>
<p>Fay-Usborne Mill is a historic grist mill and feed store located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. The original two story, frame feed mill was built in 1899 by James C. Harris. It was purchased in 1913 by John R. Fay who, with his partner Thomas Usborne, expanded the business to include a variety of grain and cereal processing machines.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Welch Factory Building No. 1 is a historic grape juice factory located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It was built in 1897 and expanded in 1899 and 1903, to be an 8-bay wide, 10-bay deep rectangular building. It is the oldest extant structure associated with the Welch&#39;s company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The plant was built by Charles E. Welch and is only 17 miles from the current Welch&#39;s facility in North East, PA. Dr. Welch opened the plant in Chautauqua County, the largest grape growing county outside of California. The plant was built along a spur of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and is still located near a rail line for Conrail\CSX, though no longer having rail access.</p><br>
<p>Ste. Genevieve Memorial Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States is a contributing site to both the Ste. Genevieve Historic District, and the associated National Landmark District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Opened in 1787, Ste. Genevieve&#39;s oldest cemetery is divided into three sections: one for Catholic burials, one for Lutherans and a third for other Protestants. More than 50 Native Americans are buried there as well as an unknown number of African Americans, slave and free. It is also the final resting place for such notables as US Senator Lewis F. Linn, Felix and Odile Pratte-Vallé, and many other Missouri pioneers.</p><br>
<p>Over 5,000 burials occurred in this small, two-block cemetery. The cemetery was closed in 1881, though some additional burials occurred through 1894. Local records show that almost half of those interred were children under six years old.</p><br>
<p>Notable burials include Lewis F. Linn (1796–1843), physician and US Senator, and John Scott (1782–1861), US Representative.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Restoration was performed in the 2010s by the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery became of part of the National Historic Landmark District in 1960, and the National Register of Historic Places historic district in 1966.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office—Fredonia is a historic post office building located at Fredonia in Chautauqua County, New York, and within the boundaries of the Fredonia Commons Historic District. It was designed and built in 1935–36 as a Works Progress Administration project, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five bay brick structure set on a brick foundation in the Colonial Revival style. The central section features three large round arched openings with cast-stone keystones. The interior features "The Harvest&quot a mural from 1937 by artist Arnold Blanch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Dunkirk is a historic post office building located at Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York. It was designed and built in 1928-1929 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A. Wetmore. It is a two-story brick structure with a one-story rear wing, in the Colonial Revival style. The entrance is set within a limestone surround with a Doric frieze and modest cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Linden Village Hall and Fire Station is a public building, located at 401 Calumet Avenue in the Lake Linden Historic District in Lake Linden, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hall is a two-story Richardsonian Romanesque structure on a rough sandstone base</p><br>
<p>The first story is constructed of red brick, with lighter brick above; belt courses run between floors and above the windows; additional trim is made from sandstone. A square tower dominates the center of the front facade; the front entrance is through the tower. originally covered with slate. Each of the pavilions has a group of three arched windows on each story; the tower has two arched windows on each story and a single arched entrance on the ground level.</p><br>
<p>The third story of the tower is pierced with arched openings, and an octagonal cupola sits atop the tower. A small, flat-roofed, one-story addition projects toward the rear.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building is finished with plaster and wainscoting, and contains Art Deco light fixtures. The first floor contains a village office, police and fire station, and a lounge area. The second floor contains a council hall, large meeting room, and kitchen, bathroom, and storage facilities.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Lake Linden suffered a devastating fire in May 1887, which affected 75% of the structures. Although the frame village hall survived, city fathers believed that a new fireproof structure with space for a fire station would be in the best interests of the community. In 1901, the village asked architects for designs, and chose one submitted by Charles K. Shand of Calumet. The Hall was built by a local contractor, L. F. Ursin, and opened in 1902, serving as village offices, fire station, polling place, and public meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>A propeller from the Lady Be Good, an American B-24 Liberator lost in the Libyan Desert in April 1943, is on display in front of the village hall. Crewmember T/Sgt. Robert E. LaMotte of Lake Linden was a radio operator aboard the aircraft. His remains were found in the desert in 1960.</p><br>
<p>The Rusher Hotel, also known as the Great Southern Hotel, is a historic hotel building at 127 West Cedar Street in Brinkley, Arkansas. It was built in 1915 to serve the Brinkley Union Station. It is a three-story brick building, whose main entrance originally faced the railroad, but was reoriented to the street facade after the railroad declined in importance.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and is a contributing property to the Lick Skillet Railroad Work Station Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Bosch Building is a commercial structure located at 302 Calumet Avenue in the Lake Linden Historic District in Lake Linden, Michigan. It is also known as the Lindell Chocolate Shoppe. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Joseph Bosch</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Bosch was born in Baden, Germany in 1850. He emigrated to New York with his family when he was four, then moved to Wisconsin at the age of twelve, In 1867, the family moved to Lake Linden; there, Bosch worked as a miner of the Calumet & Hecla company. However, he harbored the desire to become a brewmaster, and travelled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to work at the Schlitz Brewery, then on to Cleveland, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky before returning to Lake Linden in 1874 to found the Torch Lake Brewery. Two years later he admitted business partners and changed the name to Joseph Bosch & Company. In 1894 he again changed the name, this time to Bosch Brewing Company, and in 1899 the brewery was the largest in the Upper Peninsula, with a capacity of 60,000 barrels annually.</p><br>
<p>Bosch was also the president of Lake Linden&#39;s First National Bank, organized in 1888, and participated in various mercantile enterprises, including those carried on in the Joseph Bosch Building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In May 1887, fire swept through the village of Lake Linden, affecting 75% of the structures then within the village and completely destroying many. Joseph Bosch suffered a substantial amount of property loss. After the disaster, the village council decreed a fire prevention zone, within which structures had to be constructed of brick or stone, and roofed with fireproof materials. In particular, this zone covered the first three blocks of Calumet Street, where the Joseph Bosch Building now stands. In the late 1800s, Bosch built three structures in this area: the Bosch Bottling Works at 347 Third Street, the First National Bank at 346 Third Street, and the Joseph Bosch Building at 302 Calumet Street.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Bosch Building was constructed in 1887, immediately after the fire. It originally housed the N. Reding Company, which was partially owned by Bosch. In 1892, Bosch bought out Reding, and in 1893 re-incorporated the business as the Poull Mercantile Company, managed by Boschs brother-in-law N. G. Poull. In 1902, the company was sold to the Lake Linden Co-op. Over the next few years, a number of other businesses used the building, including and Edward Liebleins wholesale grocery and an indoor archery range.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, Greek immigrants Louis Grammatiskakia and James Pamopallis bought the building, combining their previously separate candy-making businesses. They remodelled the building into a restaurant, christened The Lindell, and installed plate glass windows in the front and remodelled the interior in an Arts and Crafts style. The new restaurant opened in 1918.</p><br>
<p>The business was sold to two brothers, John and Angelo Gekas, who ran it for 43 years. Then, In 1977, Richard and Frances Grunow purchased the building, and it continues to be well-maintained and operated as a restaurant.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Bosch Building is a two-story Italianate The building has plate glass windows in the first floor and arched windows on the second story with decorative brick and stone hoods with prominent keystones. The windows are arranged in two banks of four, with a single window in the narrow recess the north side, altering the symmetry of the facade. An ornate metal cornice lines the top of the building. A 1920s era sign made of metal and neon advertising the Lindell Chocolate Shoppe hangs in front of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Church of Our Saviour is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal Church located on Eastport Street between Main and Fulton streets in Iuka, Mississippi Designed by architect James B. Cook, it was built in 1873. Its board and batten siding, steep roofs and lancet windows are typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. In order to prevent its removal, local citizens bought it from the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and was restored in 1992. It is a venue for weddings and other events.</p><br>
<p>Georgia Cottage, also known as the Augusta Evans Wilson House, is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1972, based on its association with Augusta Jane Evans.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Colonel John Murrell of Georgia had the Greek Revival style house built in 1840 for his daughter, Mrs. William A. Hardaway. It was then sold in 1855 to Alfred Batre, nephew of Adolphe Batre, Mobile Mayor (1830), who purchased it for his new bride Hortense Addison, daughter of Lloyd Dulany Addison of the Oxon Hill Manor Addison&#39;s. Augusta Jane Evans purchased the house from Batre in 1857 for her father, Matthew R. Evans, with the proceeds from her first book, Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. Matthew Evans had relocated his family to Mobile from San Antonio, Texas, in 1849. The Batres would move into 110 S Franklin Street, then 400 Church Street.</p><br>
<p>Augusta Evans went on to write two of her most famous novels at Georgia Cottage, Macaria and St. Elmo. She married Lorenzo Madison Wilson in the parlor of the house in 1868. Following her marriage she moved into her husbands Greek Revival mansion, Ashland, namesake of the modern Ashland Place neighborhood. Georgia Cottage remained in the Evans family until 1879, when it was sold to Andrew Damrell. Damrells heirs sold it in 1926 to J.N. Brownlee, and it was subsequently purchased by Dr. Edward Simmons Sledge in 1935.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Sledges son, Eugene Bondurant Sledge, grew up at Georgia Cottage. He served in the United States Marines during World War II and became a noted university professor and author. His memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa was, in part, the basis for Ken Burns PBS documentary, The War, and the HBO miniseries, The Pacific.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and grounds</h2><br>
<p>Although now deep within the Mobile city limits, Georgia Cottage was a country house when originally built. Slave labor was utilized in its construction.</p><br>
<p>The one-story wood-frame structure, on a brick foundation, is a stylistic blending of Gulf Coast cottage and Greek Revival forms. It has matching side wings to each side of the main block and a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The house is situated at the end of a long avenue of live oaks, planted prior to 1840. The avenue is listed with Alabama&#39;s Famous and Historic Trees Program.</p><br>
<p>Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Freight Depot is a historic freight depot located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It was constructed in 1904, for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. It is a -story brick structure. It is co-located with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Station.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Chichester House is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a brick house in the Second Empire style built around 1870. In 2001 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  along with the similar nearby Boice House.</p><br>
<p>It has a three-story three-by-three-bay main block on a stone and brick foundation with a slightly recessed north wing. On top is a concave mansard roof shingled in patterned slate, pierced by round-arched dormers with decorative trim. At the roofline is an ornate overhanging eave.</p><br>
<p>A front porch, rounded at the two southern bays, in the Classical Revival style covers all three bays of the main block and two in the north wing at the first story. Its posts are supported on stone piers. Behind it the main entrance leads into a narrow vestibule and then a wide side hallway with detailed ceiling moldings. Similar detail is evident in the carved balusters and newel on the main staircase. The two parlors to the south have modillioned ceilings and fireplaces with finely crafted architraves and surrounds. The north rooms are similarly treated.</p><br>
<p>Behind the house is its original carriage house, now used for storage. It is intact and thus considered a contributing resource to the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>It was built around 1870. The minimal records from that time, when it was one of the city&#39;s most affluent residential neighborhoods, show that it was home to a "Mrs. Chichester". It has remained a private home, relatively intact, ever since.</p><br>
<p>The J. Frank Dobie House is a historic house in Austin, Texas built in the Colonial Revival style in 1925–26. The house was bought by J. Frank Dobie in 1926, and it contained the library and office where he did much of his writing. Until his death in 1964, Dobie used the house for informal entertaining with colleagues and students. It was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, and currently houses the Michener Center for Writers.</p><br>
<p>The Cox–Craddock House is a historic Colonial Revival-style house built in 1928 in Austin, Texas. It was designed by the architect Hugo Kuehne.</p><br>
<p>Robert A. and Linda Cox, the first owners of the house, were both economics professors at the University of Texas. Linda Cox sold the house in 1948 to Larry Inge Craddock, who had a variety of business interests in the city, including a miniature golf course and gas stations. Craddock enclosed the piazza and sleeping porch on the east end of the house. The current owner has restored the piazza to Kuehne&#39;s original open design and railing.</p><br>
<p>The home is located at 720 East 32nd Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 2001, as an excellent example of a Colonial Revival residence. It is built of brick and has a "symmetrical composition" in which a "pedimented portico forms the prominent central entry." The side-gabled roof is pierced on the front side by three pedimented dormers.</p><br>
<p>The design by Hugo Kuehne included a porte cochere which was not built.</p><br>
<p>Jamestown Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York. It was built in 1932 for Company E, 174th Infantry Brigade. It consists of a Tudor Revival-style administration building with an attached drill shed. It is one of 12 extant armory buildings designed by State architect William Haugaard.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>School No. 7 is a historic school building located at Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York. It is significant as a one-story school building of the early 20th century. It was designed about 1916-1919 and built about 1920–1921.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 by the efforts of the neighborhood in which the school resides and against the better judgement of the rest of the city that would have liked the location return to private residences or businesses. The location in question is about 0.4 miles from a public beach along Lake Erie and an ideal location for beach front restaurants and other entertainment venues.</p><br>
<p>Euclid Avenue School is a historic school building located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York. It is a two-story, rectangular brick structure built in 1911 and enlarged in 1920 and 1956. The structure combines Neoclassical features and proportions with elements of the Spanish Mission and American Craftsman styles in an eclectic composition that is characteristic of early 20th-century architectural fashion.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Greene–Marston House  is a historic house in Mobile, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the house began in about 1851, with a one-and-a-half-story cottage, built by the Greene family.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold to Regina DeMouy Rapier in 1919, after the DeMouy house was destroyed in a fire. Many of her DeMouy, Rapier, and Marston relatives lived in the house during this period. The house gained its name in the early twentieth century from an incident involving the Marston sisters, Adelaide and Eleanor. Family tradition maintains that one evening the children were sitting on a porch rail, and when they got up the rail disintegrated before their eyes. It was discovered that the porch had been infested with termites, from which it acquired its common name.</p><br>
<p>It became locally renowned as a literary gathering place during the tenancy of Adelaide Caroline Marston Trigg. In 1941, she co-founded Mobile&#39;s The Haunted Book Shop. The bookstore became a literary fixture that attracted the likes of Harper Lee, Thomas Mann, Eugene Walter and William March. Several years after selling her interest in The Haunted Book Shop, she operated Far Corners Book Search out of the house.</p><br>
<p>Adelaide and sister Eleanor were close friends with Eugene Walter. He was renowned as an author, poet, gourmet chef, translator, and friend of Federico Fellini. Walter lived with them on several occasions and featured the house in his 1982 cookbook, Delectable Dishes From Termite Hall.</p><br>
<p>Adelaide Trigg died in 2008 at the age of 89. The house has remained in the Marston-Trigg family.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1983, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The Central Mine Historic District is a historic district located off US 41 in Upper Michigan. The mine itself was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958, while the surrounding district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Central Mine Historic District covers the remains of the nearly abandoned mining town of Central. The district includes around 20 frame structures from an original 130, as well as scattered ruins. Most remaining structures are frame, two-story company houses on stone foundations. These houses all have gable roofs, porches, and lean-to additions. The district also contains the well-maintained Central Mine Methodist Church, which is in nearly original condition.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1854, John Shawson, an agent of the Cliff Mine, discovered native copper in the bottom of an ancient pit (apparently dug by Native Americans) several miles from Cliff Mine. The Central Mining Company was organized in 1854 for the purpose of mining copper in the Keweenaw. Mining began in 1856, and the mine&#39;s lode proved so rich that Central became was able to turn a profit in its first year of operation. Between 1856 and between then and the end of the 19th century the company built over 130 structures for the mine and the community of workers. At the peak of production in 1868, the town of Central was home to over 130 people, primarily immigrants from Cornwall, England. The mining industry eventually contracted, and by 1887 the Central Mine was the only fully operational mine in Keweenaw County. In 1898 the mine ceased operation, and residents began leaving the town. The last permanent resident left in 1952, although some structures in the area are still used as summer cottages.</p><br>
<h2>Central Mine and Village</h2><br>
<p>The Keweenaw County Historical Society owns 38 acres of the old Central site and operates the Central Mine Visitor Center which features exhibits about the mine and village. Some of the residences can be visited or are being restored.</p><br>
<p>The Central Mine Methodist Church is a church located on Old Stage Road in Central, Michigan, in the Central Mine Historic District. It is one of the few structures being maintained in this nearly deserted mining town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Central Mine Episcopal Church is a single-story rectangular frame church on a stone rubble foundation with basement. The front facade boasts a large square tower with a belfry and castellations on the top. The exterior is clad in wood siding with outlines along each edge; the gabled roof is shingled. The interior sanctuary is approximately 46 feet by 31 feet; an additional vestibule is located in the case of the tower. The sanctuary is furnished with handmade straight-backed pews.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Central housed workers from the nearby Central Mine, where copper was mined from 1856 to 1898. Construction on the church was begun in 1868 as a joint effort between the Central Mining Company and employees, primarily immigrants from Cornwall, England. The church was completed in 1869, and promptly became a community center for the town. Peak membership was over 300 people.</p><br>
<p>However, after the Central Mine closed in 1898, the population in Central swiftly declined and the church closed.</p><br>
<p>The church is in nearly original condition, with the only changes made in 1879, when some pews were removed, and in 1968 when a bell was hung in the belfry.</p><br>
<p>East Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located in Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York. It is an approximately 28 acre district encompassing 20 buildings and the Westfield Cemetery located along East Main Street. A number of the structures are in the Italianate and Colonial Revival styles. Candlelight Lodge was built in 1851 by a prominent Philadelphia architect as a private home, the property encompassing a good portion of the east half of the Village of Westfield. Candlelight became a lodge in the 1920s and a bed and breakfast in 1986. Candlelight Lodge is a seven bedroom Victorian mansion currently on a two-acre lot in the Village of Westfield. Candlelight also has the Captain Storm House, a Queen Anne Victorian home moved on to this property in 2000 with the assistance of the National Historic Trust and listed on the National Resister of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>WestfieldNY Cemetery.jpgWestfield Cemetery</p><br>
<p>Fredonia Commons Historic District is a national historic district located at Fredonia in Chautauqua County, New York. The district encompasses the central core of Fredonia; the main civic buildings, churches and commercial structures clustered around the commons. The district includes approximately 25 structures including the Fenner Fire Station, Village Hall, USA Post Office, Darwin R. Baker Library, United Methodist Church, Baptist Church, and Trinity Episcopal Church. Commercial buildings are located along the south side of the commons.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>French Portage Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Westfield in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It encompasses the nearly intact 19th century and early 20th century village core clustered around the principal intersection of East Main Street and South Portage and the commons. There are 104 structures in the district that reflect a variety of architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, and Gothic Revival.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Point Chautauqua Historic District is a national historic district located on Point Chautauqua, three miles  from Mayville in Chautauqua County, New York. It is located approximately due north, upwards and to the left, across Chautauqua Lake from the Chautauqua Institution. The district is a planned resort community laid out in 1875 by Frederick Law Olmsted as a Baptist camp meeting. Within a generation, it had become a resort community. The 80 acre district includes the serpentine street system, which ascends the steeply wooded slopes of the site, and its collection of single family residences developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. Among the architectural styles represented are American Craftsman, Queen Anne, and Carpenter Gothic.</p><br>
<p>Point Chautauqua previously had its own post office, ZIP Code 14768, that closed and merged with the neighboring office in Dewittville on April 30, 1966. The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Corliss Steam Engine on the Pawnee County Fairgrounds in Pawnee, Oklahoma is a Corliss steam engine that was built 1912. It and a twin sister engine were originally built for the Blackwell Zinc Co., of Blackwell, Oklahoma. It powered most of the electricity-powered machinery in the 1000-employee zinc smelting plant, until the plant closed in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It was later donated to the Oklahoma Steam Thresher Association, disassembled, and restored in its own building on the Pawnee County Fairgrounds.</p><br>
<h2>NRHP listing</h2><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1979, with NRIS number 79002016. The application states that the significance of this engine is:"...(1) its position of pre-eminence in the history of American technology, (2) its role in the Industrial development of Oklahoma, and (3) its survival as one of the country&#39;s few remaining functional Corliss Engines."</p><br>
<h2>History of Corliss steam engines</h2><br>
<p>A steam engine fitted with rotary valves and having variable valve timing was invented by and named for an American Engineer, George Henry Corliss, in 1849. Engines fitted with Corliss valve gear offered the best thermal efficiency of any type of stationary steam engine until the refinement of the uniflow steam engine and steam turbine in the 20th century. Corliss&#39; engines were generally about 30 percent more fuel efficient than conventional steam engines with fixed cutoff. This increased efficiency made steam power more economical than water power, allowing industrial development away from millponds.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the Pawnee engine</h2><br>
<p>The Corliss engine now displayed in Pawnee was part of an Allis-Chalmers steam electric generating plant. It is a large piece of machinery in every respect, being 25 feet long by 18 feet wide and weighing 110 tons. The flywheel is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 10 tons. The cylinder has a 20 inch bore with a 36 inch stroke.</p><br>
<p>This engine uses separate valves for the steam and the exhaust to allow natural drainage. It also has a Reynolds trip gear, which uses a spring to cause the engagement of the hook with the catch plate. Sudden unequal pressure buildups were prevented by having a space between the outer surface of the boiler and the inner surface of the steam regulator.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the NRHP application, the system was assessed in good operating condition.</p><br>
<p>La Quinta is a historic house in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1932 for oil magnate H.V. Foster (1875-1939). The Spanish Colonial Revival house is located on the campus of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 1982.</p><br>
<p>La Quinta was designed in 1930 by noted Kansas City architect Edward Buehler Delk. About the same time, Delk designed a house that was built near La Quinta for Paul Fridjof Dahlgren, the brother of Mrs. H.V. Foster. The Dahlgren house is Spanish Revival in style. It is located to the south of La Quinta in the Country Club Terrace subdivision.</p><br>
<p>The Whittier School in Mitchell, South Dakota, is a Works Progress Administration-funded school building of vernacular, local design that was built in 1935. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It has brick exterior walls and a stone belt course along with modillion blocks near the roofline. It has a hipped roof with red clay tile. Most windows are nine over one, double hung windows. It was designed by architects Kings & Dixon.</p><br>
<p>Whittier has many distinguished alumni including Bobby Bowen, Garrett Lyle Gross, Eric Giblin, Beau Mackey, and Bruce "B.J." DeJong. Mr. Mackey has participated in local cage fights in the Sioux Empire. Mr. Gross has revolutionized the agricultural journal industry and also the SMS texting industry. Mr. Giblin is local entrepreneurial sandwich artist.</p><br>
<p>The William V. N. Barlow House is on South Clinton Street in Albion, New York, United States. It is a brick building erected in the 1870s in an eclectic mix of contemporary architectural styles, including Second Empire, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Its interior features highly intricate Eastlake style woodwork.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of a prominent local architect who designed many major buildings in Albion. In 1983 it and an accompanying barn, since converted into a garage, were added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of two houses in Albion so designated (the other is the Greek Revival Tousley-Church House).</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a 1 acre lot on the east side of South Clinton Street, one block south of West Avenue (state highway NY 31) and a block west of South Main Street (NY 98). The terrain is generally level. The surrounding neighborhood is residential, with many late 19th- and early 20th-century houses that retain less integrity. To the north and west are industrial areas. A woodlot separates the houses on Clinton from those on South Main to the east.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-story brick structure on a Medina sandstone foundation. On the west (front) facade is a projecting pavilion with two-and-half-story tower. It is topped with a mansard roof pierced by gabled dormer windows. There are porches on the north and east sides.</p><br>
<p>On the north side the porch features turned posts and a decorative balustrade. The plainer east porch has wooden columns. Near it a gabled hood with scalloped edges shelters the rear entrance.</p><br>
<p>A similar but more decorative porch shelters the main entrance at the base of the tower. It has a gabled hood with return projecting from a shed roof above an elliptical arch with keystone. Two turned wooden fluted columns support the arch. From them project two brackets with drop pendants, supporting the gable. The base has latticework and more turned columns supporting the porch deck.</p><br>
<p>Above the main entrance is another window similar to those on the projecting bays, then a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof with a window in the west field. The dormer windows feature pediments with molded circular and diamond motifs. On the south side the chimney is corbeled at the roofline.</p><br>
<p>Double walnut doors lead to the interior, with much of its original Eastlake style woodwork. Most prominent among this is the main staircase, also of walnut, with turned balusters. A large two-tone newel has a niche for a gas light and intricate carvings in a floral pattern. The gas fireplace has a walnut frontispiece with more floral carvings, geometric forms and an intricate cast iron grill. The inside of the front bay, in the living room, has louvered shutters and decorative surrounds. That room, the central hall and stair hall all have vertical beadboard wainscoting. Walnut sliding doors separate the living and dining room.</p><br>
<p>In the rear of the house is one of the few remaining water wells, with hand pump, left in Albion. At the end of the driveway, near the rear of the property, is the former horse barn, now a garage, the other contributing resource to the property&#39;s historic character. It is a one-and-a-half-story frame gabled structure with exposed rafter ends, sided in clapboard with vertical flushboard between the two floors. Its front gable window has a pedimented hood with cut-out design, and the side windows have uneven panes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shortly after his 1810 birth in Madison County, Barlows parents moved the family west to the Monroe County town of Sweden. After apprenticing to a carpenter in Brockport, he moved to Albion in 1833 and began his career as architect and builder. Over the next half-century, he designed some of the villages most significant buildings, such as the Swan Library and the county courthouse, earning the nickname "High-Rickety" for the many cupolas on them. He also the chapel and entry archway to Mt. Albion Cemetery outside the village, also listed on the National Register. The significant buildings in Albion that he did not design, he built.</p><br>
<p>His own house was built in the later phase of his career, around 1873. His earlier works had been solidly within their stylistic traditions, in contrast to the eclecticism demonstrated by the house. It has touches from three common styles of the time: an engaged square Italianate tower, a Second Empire mansard roof and a Queen Anne Style projecting polygonal bay. The exterior and, especially, the interior, reflect a love of surface decoration as espoused in the works of Charles Eastlake.</p><br>
<p>The house has remained a private home since his death in 1909. At some point in the ensuing years the wood cresting and finials were removed from the roof and dormers. The original walnut doors between most of the rooms on the first floor were replaced with French doors in the 1920s. Five decades later, in 1975, the woodshed was converted into a family room using materials similar to the original house. The only other change to the property has been the replacement of wood with cement on the garage floor.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson Blood Cobblestone House is located on South Main Street  in Lyndonville, New York, United States. It is a Greek Revival house built in the middle of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Blood, a prominent citizen of the surrounding Town of Yates in its early years, built the house with cobblestones he and his family personally transported down to the site from Lake Ontario to the north. Its former chimney arrangement suggests that it was one of the first houses in the area to be heated with stoves instead of fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>During the first half of the 20th century it was subdivided into three rental units, and much of the interior renovated. Later it was restored to a single-family dwelling. In 2005 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the only property in Lyndonville so far listed, and the northernmost entry on the Register in Orleans County.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a three-quarter–acre (3,200 m) lot on the west side of the street south of the village&#39;s center, where Route 63 crosses Johnson Creek. The neighborhood is residential, with the houses dating to the late 19th and 20th centuries. Mature trees dominate the lots, giving way to worked fields on either side of the highway. The terrain is level. A modern, non-contributing garage is located at the rear of the lot.</p><br>
<p>Three sections comprise the house. The main block is a large rectangular three-by-three-bay two and a half stories tall. Two one-and-a-half-story wings extend to the north and west (rear). All are sided in rows of lake-washed medium-sized cobblestones set beads of V-profile lime masonry.</p><br>
<p>All trim — lintels, sills, quoins and water table — is limestone. That material is also used for an unusual decorative feature on the east (front) facade: a semi-elliptical stone arch with keystone that springs from the lintels of the second story windows. Above it the shallow pitched gabled roof is set off by a very deep plain frieze and molded cornice with returns. The six-over-six double-hung sash windows are original. A mid-20th century porch with square posts is on the east face of the north wing.</p><br>
<p>The recessed main entrance, on the northern bay of the main block, contains a large paneled door with sidelights. It opens into a vestibule where a stair with a simple Colonial Revival railing climbs to the second story. A single large room is to the south; the north wing contains a dining room with marble fireplace, and the kitchen. The rear wing is a family room. Upstairs, the layout is similar, with a large bedroom above the large first-floor main room.</p><br>
<p>Most of the house&#39;s finishings were added later. The ceilings of the main rooms are modern coved plaster. The most significant original elements are the wooden doors and their shouldered surrounds. On the second floors of the wing the small sash windows slide up into the wall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jackson Blood came to the area before Orleans County had even been formed, in 1815, as a young man. He bought a farm near the lake and later acquired large tracts of land around today&#39;s Lyndonville. When the town, named after Governor Joseph C. Yates, was formed in 1823, he was named one of its first three commissioners of common schools.</p><br>
<p>Local tradition holds that the Blood family themselves collected the cobblestones from the lake and brought them down to the house starting with Bloods purchase of a farm in the area in 1830, reflecting Lyndonvilles increasing importance within the town over Yates Center due to its proximity to the Erie Canal and its location along a creek that powered a mill. It was completed in 1846, its tight rows a hallmark of the middle and late years of the cobblestone trend. Originally it had four chimneys, three of which were purely decorative, to maintain a symmetrical exterior appearance. The fourth was at the southeast corner of the main block. Its extant flue angles to the east wall, suggesting along with the construction date that the builder was using the new technology of stoves to heat the house, instead of relying on fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>Blood lived in the house until 1875. A few years before his death, one of his sons, C. Jackson Blood, served as town supervisor for a term. In the 20th century, the house was subdivided into three rental units. The dining room fireplace was added during this period, as was much of the interior decor. In the 1950s, another renovation reunified the house. There have been no other significant changes.</p><br>
<p>The John Shelp Cobblestone House, also known as the Shelp–Beamer House, is located on West Shelby Road  in West Shelby, New York, United States, just east of the Niagara–Orleans county line. It is an 1830s cobblestone house in the Greek Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Of the six cobblestone buildings in the Town of Shelby, it is the most accomplished stylistically. In the late 19th century, the interior was renovated into a more contemporary style. In 2008, the house, two barns, and a milk house on the grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located near the southwest corner of an 11 acre lot at the northeast corner of the junction of South County Line and West Shelby roads. The area is rural, with large lots consisting primarily of worked fields with some scattered second-growth trees, a large wooded area to the south-southeast, and houses at the roads. It is generally level with a slight slope to the north. In the rear are the three contributing outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The main house has two sections, a two-story five-by-two-bay main block with a two-by-two-bay wood frame two-story wing on the northeast corner. The slope of the ground exposes the basement at the rear, giving the house the appearance of three stories. Both sections are topped by shallow pitched gabled roofs shingled in asphalt. The main block is pierced by a single brick chimney at the south end.</p><br>
<p>A shed-roofed porch with wooden Tuscan columns and balustrade covers the centrally located main entrance, the two bays to its west, and the east elevation of the main block. The cobblestone siding consists of four horizontal rows per limestone quoin of medium-sized field stones with lime mortar between. Windowsills and lintels are of cut stone.</p><br>
<p>Wooden louvered shutters flank the six-over-six double-hung sash windows; on the west facade the two northern windows are shuttered and the south window on the first story longer than the other three. The two bays east of the entrance have large plate glass windows. At the roofline a molded wooden frieze sets off an overhanging cornice with returns. Blind lunettes are located in the gable fields.</p><br>
<p>A screen door protects the paneled front door, set off by sidelights. It opens into a central hallway with a natural-finish oak staircase rising two flights to the second story. Oak is also used for the paneled spaces below the stair&#39;s balustrade, which incorporates a small bench.</p><br>
<p>All interior woodwork on the first floor is similar natural-finish oak. The door and window surrounds are flat pilasters with ogee-profile moldings at the entablature. In the basement is the original kitchen fireplace, with bake oven.</p><br>
<p>The milk house is a single-story single-bay frame structure with gabled roof, a door and two windows. The main barn is on a rubblestone foundation, with an earthen ramp providing entrance. Both it and the two-story gabled carriage barn, where sliding doors provide access to both levels, are sided in vertical board and batten.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shelp, a Schoharie County native who married Mary Ann Cone, daughter of an early Shelby landowner, bought the 80 acre where the house now stands in 1828. Five years later, in 1833, he bought another 40 acre. In 1836 he moved his family into the new house. Originally, it had four chimneys. Three were decorative, one was functional. Its flue angles to the space between the windows, suggesting along with the date of construction that the owner was using heating stoves, then a new technology, to heat the house rather than the fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>Shelp stayed at the house until his death in 1868. He and his descendants were prosperous and productive farmers who expanded and improved the property. Around 1900, apparently after a stove fire in the dining room, renovations were made that brought the interior into that time period. The wooden staircase is consistent with the Queen Anne style, and the porch reflects emerging Colonial Revival tastes.</p><br>
<p>In the middle of the 20th century the house was abandoned and fell into some disrepair. The current owners bought and restored it to its 1900 appearance in the mid-1960s, finding the evidence of the dining-room fire in the process. There have been no other alterations to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Skinner-Tinkham House, commonly known as the Barre Center Tavern, is located at Maple Street and Oak Orchard Road  in Barre Center, New York, United States. It is a brick house in the Federal style built around 1830. It was renovated after the Civil War, which brought some Italianate touches to it.</p><br>
<p>Originally it was a tavern along one of the Western New York region&#39;s busier transportation routes, renovated into a house by a wealthy local farmer after that business ended. It is a rare surviving Federal-style brick tavern in Orleans County. It is currently vacant and in a state of disrepair, although some restoration efforts have been made. In 2004 it and a nearby barn were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house and barn are located on a 1.5 acre lot at the northwest corner of the roads, on the hamlet of Barre Center. The hamlet is a small group of buildings on small lots grouped along the highway in the midst of the surrounding rural area. To the immediate south is a commercial building and church; a general store is located across the street and to the southeast. The land in the area is flat.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>At the northeast corner of the lot, the house is a two-story five-by-two-bay structure faced in brick laid in Flemish bond on a stone foundation topped with a gabled roof currently covered in tar paper, pierced by two brick end chimneys. A one-and-a-half-story brick wing with similar roof projects from the south face; from its west projects a frame wing of similar height sided in clapboard. Between the main block and south wing is a small wooden addition in a visible state of disrepair. In the center of the south wing is the entrance to the cellar.</p><br>
<p>A two-brick water table runs across the front of the main block at door sill level. Steps that would lead up to the centrally located main entrance are missing. All windows on the east (front) facade have wide stone lintels and sills; the main entrance has a round-arched stone lintel with keystone, filled with a wooden fan. The center lintel on the second floor has "1829", the date of the house&#39;s construction, carved into it. The wide overhanging eaves at the roofline shelter a wide plain frieze and are supported by wooden brackets.</p><br>
<p>On the north and south sides the brick is laid in common bond instead. The gable fields have blind lunettes with their original wooden fans. The west (rear) elevation has more of the foundation visible, exposing limestone blocks laid in a random ashlar pattern. Only the sills are stone on its windows; flat brick arches top the windows. The south elevation of that wing has one centrally located window on each story. The larger one on the first story has a similar treatment to the eastern first-story windows on the main block; the one above it has a stone sill and flat brick lintel.</p><br>
<p>The west wing&#39;s foundation is coursed ashlar on the south elevation, and coursed rubble on the other two. Its cornice is bracketed only on the south side, the side visible from Maple Street. A one-story concrete block addition with gabled roof extends further west from that side.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The front door is framed with its original semicircular limestone arch with keystone and impost blocks. It opens on a large square room filling the building&#39;s southeast corner and extending two-thirds of its depth. A fireplace with original mantel is on the south wall; a narrow stair goes to the upper story behind the west wall while a door opens onto the rear porch. The past presence of a chair rail in the room is evident from the plaster behind where it was. The original baseboard and some window trim remains.</p><br>
<p>In the north end of the wing are two rooms. The larger one, in the northeast corner, has its black marbleized mantel on its fireplace on the north wall, as well as its original architrave and window moldings. The smaller room, in the northwest, no longer has its mantel but its chimney cupboards remain.</p><br>
<p>The south wing has a single room. A former fireplace has been closed up. From the room a door and former window, now converted into shelving, open into the west wing. In it are two large rooms separated by a core with pantry, closets, and vestibule. The inside of the concrete addition has a track in the ceiling, a water supply and floor drain, attesting to its use as a slaughterhouse.</p><br>
<p>On the second floor of the main block are three bedrooms, all with their original finishes. A steep, narrow stair leads up to the attic, where the original roof framing is visible. It consists of three heavy beech king post trusses with purlins and common rafters, about 16 in below the current roof. The two chimneys corbel together and form a common flue. At the south end are the remains of a small 6 by brick room.</p><br>
<p>The south wing has a single room upstairs, matching the one below. The ceiling rafters slope down from the collar ties; there is no attic. A cellar, accessed via the bulkhead door on the south side, runs under the entire brick portion of the building. Three more Medina sandstone steps lead into the large room under the south wing, which has the stone cistern parged with mortar in its western half. A load-bearing stone wall with two brick arches supporting brick fireplaces on the north side sits under the divide to the main block; the large room beyond is divided by a wooden partition. Stairs corresponding to the ones on the first floor rise below them to the now-closed opening. The entire cellar is floored in brick; a still-functional perimeter drain empties into a hole in the northwest corner.</p><br>
<p>There is no cellar in the west wing. Instead, there is a crawl space. In the southeast corner is a stone-line well 25 ft deep.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Original landowner Stephen Skinner had first bought the 50 acre on which the house now stands from the Holland Land Company, original owners of most of Western New York, in 1827, but did not make any payments after his down payment and the land reverted to the company. He repurchased it the next year and built the main block of the tavern. On several other properties he built a blacksmith&#39;s shop, coal house, sawmill and paint shop. This time he was able to make his payments, albeit at some points in cattle rather than cash, and received full title in 1832.</p><br>
<p>At the time of construction, in 1829, there were only two other houses in Barre Center, both modest wooden structures built when Barre Center had been the main stop between Albion and Batavia along the Oak Orchard Road, today Route 98. Among them, a brick house, especially one of that size and stylistic sophistication, stood out. The hamlet grew in the prosperous early 1830s as it developed an agricultural economy, since the travel-related business was being displaced by Benton&#39;s Corners, at the junction of Route 98 and what is now NY 31A two miles (3 km) to the north, as the Erie Canal linked Albion with the rest of the state.</p><br>
<p>Skinner sold the house in 1836 to two other men, who soon lost it to foreclosure in the Panic of 1837. Several of Skinner&#39;s other properties also went into default, and there is no mention of him or his large family in records from the 1840 census. In 1839 the property was bought by an Edward Rowlandson, who continued its use as a tavern.</p><br>
<p>He was able to operate it successfully, and maps of the area from the 1850s identify it as his tavern. The late Greek Revival molding on some of the interior architraves suggests some of the subdivisions of the interior rooms in the main block occurred under his ownership. Doors were grained as well, and some of the fireplaces may have had stoves added at that time.</p><br>
<p>In 1865 Relly Tinkham, discharged from the Union Army due to a serious illness contracted while guarding hospitals in Baltimore, bought the property. A Barre native who had already acquired other properties originally developed by Skinner, a successful local farmer who had expanded into barrel making before the American Civil War. It is likely that he converted the tavern into a house, as the rise of the railroads had finished the decline in Barre&#39;s importance as a transportation stop, and by 1875 no hotels are listed in local business directories.</p><br>
<p>The conversion left the first floors tavern layout alone, but raised the roof and built the frame western wing with its more modern kitchen. On the front facade he added the Italianate decorative touches to the windows and doors. It is likely that he also had the barn, the propertys other contributing resource, built with its denticulated cornice. This may have taken place around 1874 since tax records show a large jump in the property&#39;s assessment that year, which may also be due to outbuildings no longer extant.</p><br>
<p>In 1884 he sold the property and moved to another home nearby. Property records for the next two decades are scarce, but during the later years of the 19th century it is likely that some changes were made to the house. Most significant among them were the installation of larger, taller front windows, and the subdivision of the large upstairs room that had previously only had a removable wooden partition.</p><br>
<p>Carl and Sarah Hakes bought the property in 1913. They owned it for another four decades, the longest tenure of any of the house&#39;s owners. Their changes consisted of adding modern plumbing, including a bathroom behind the old public room, and heating to the house. In 1957 they sold to their son Wilson, who had been renting the property. He sold it in 1964.</p><br>
<p>From that year on the house was occupied by a series of tenants, most of them farmworkers. The frame wing filled up with furniture, clothing and other discarded items. The main block continued to be occupied, but less frequently maintained.</p><br>
<p>By the end of the 20th century it had become vacant for a few years. Andrea Rebeck, Historic Sites Restoration Coordinator for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, moved into the house to oversee those efforts in preparation for listing on the National Register. An archeological dig was also undertaken.</p><br>
