<p>The Tyson McCarter Place was a homestead located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the USA state of Tennessee. Before the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1930s, the homestead belonged to mountain farmer Jacob Tyson McCarter , a descendant of some of the areas earliest European settlers. While McCarters house is no longer standing, several outbuildings&mdash; including a barn, springhouse, corn crib, and smokehouse&mdash; have survived, and have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Tyson McCarter Place&mdash; like the Noah Ogle Place a few miles to the west&mdash; was once characteristic of the hundreds of small farms that once dotted the isolated coves and valleys of the northern Smokies. McCarter&#39;s house and outbuildings were arranged in an unusual circular formation around an open barnyard, probably to allow the livestock maximum protection from wild animals. Another unique feature of the McCarter outbuildings is the adjoined barn and corn crib (these are usually two separate structures).</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Tyson McCarter Place is situated along Webb Creek, which flows northward from its source high up on the slopes of Greenbrier Pinnacle and empties into the Middle Fork of the Little Pigeon River at Pittman Center. The 15.8 mi Old Settlers Trail crosses the Tyson McCarter Place 3.2 mi west of the trail&#39;s junction with the Maddron Bald Trail (near the Sevier-Cocke county line). An unmarked 0.5 mi gravel maintenance road (usually gated, but open to foot traffic) connects the Tyson McCarter Place to USA Route 321, just west of the Rocky Grove community. With the exception of a small clearing containing the barn, corn crib, and smokehouse, and a small clearing containing the house ruins and springhouse, the area is covered in a dense hardwood forest.</p><br>
<h2>Historical structures</h2><br>
<p>The barn and outbuildings at the Tyson McCarter Place were probably built around 1876 (they were definitely built before 1900) The farm was one of a dozen or so farms that once comprised the Webb Creek community. McCarters daughter Olive "Ollie" McCarter (1904&ndash;1998) recalled that she, her father, and her sisters built the farms rock walls, some of which are still standing and run parallel to the Old Settlers Trail for a short distance (rock walls such as these were common in the northern Smokies, where they served the same purpose as barbed-wire fences). The McCarters raised hogs, and used the large barn stalls to house mules. The farm&#39;s main crops were corn, rye, wheat, and tobacco. Their farm also included a peach orchard and an apple orchard.</p><br>
<p>The barn is a one-story double-pen rectangular log "drive-through" barn with an attached lean-to corn crib. The side walls of the barn are built of saddle-notched unhewn logs, whereas the front and back walls are built with hewn logs. The barn&#39;s gabled roof was originally built with hand-split shingles, and the foundation was originally built of loose stones and logs. The two pens are each 11 ft by 16 ft, and are separated by an 8 ft drive-through (wagons were usually parked in the drive-through). The corn crib is built of unhewn saddle-notched logs, and originally included a handmade door secured by a wooden latch.</p><br>
<p>The smokehouse, used for curing meat, is a one-story structure built of hewn, dove-tail notched logs, measuring 11 ft by 17 ft. Like the barn, the smokehouse has a gabled roof originally covered with handmade wooden shingles and a foundation of loose stones and logs. The door and storage shelves are missing. The springhouse, used for refrigeration, is a rectangular structure built of hewn chamfer notched logs, measuring 8 ft by 12 ft. The earthen floor contains a stone trough through which a spring flowed, which kept perishables cool. Two chimney falls, each approximately 9 ft tall and 30 ft apart, indicate the former location of the McCarters&#39; house.</p><br>
<p>The Long Beach Main Post Office is a post office located on Long Beach Boulevard in downtown Long Beach, California.</p><br>
<p>The Art Deco and PWA Moderne style building opened in 1934 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (as USA Post Office-Long Beach Main) due to its architectural significance in 1985. It remains in operation as a post office.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built from 1932 to 1934, out of large masonry blocks with terra cotta sheathing. The structures most prominent feature is the central tower rising four-and-a-half stories from the street level. The buildings design has been credited to Louis A. Simon and the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore. From 1933 to 1939, Simon was the head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s architectural style has been described as "Starved Classicism" and "PWA Moderne". One writer has referred to the building as "Post-Quake Moderne," due to the fact that the Moderne style of Art Deco architecture was prevalent as Long Beach was rebuilt after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. In their book, An architectural guidebook to Los Angeles, architectural historians David Gebhard and Robert Winter described the Long Beach Main Post Office as "PWA Moderne, accomplished with restrained and sophisticated taste."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Long Beachs postal system was established in 1885, predating the citys official incorporation. The first postmaster was Col. W.W. Lowe.</p><br>
<p>The proposal for the new main post office building was officially accepted in March 1931, and the groundbreaking took place one year later in March 1932. Construction was underway when the 1933 Long Beach earthquake struck the city. Construction was halted briefly, but work resumed a week later after a survey by contractors showed little damage. The scaffolding was removed from the structure at the end of July 1934, and 5,000 persons attended the opening ceremony in September 1934. The structure has been in continuous operation as a post office since 1934.</p><br>
<p>The Insurance Exchange Building, formerly known as the Middough Building and the Middough Brothers Building, is a registered historic building located on Broadway in downtown Long Beach, California, USA. The eight-story Beaux Arts building was one of the largest office buildings in downtown Long Beach when it opened in 1925. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Insurance Exchange Building was known as the Middough Building when it opened in 1925. The eight-story office building was built by Lorne and Way Middough who moved their mens and boys clothing store into the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The newly formed Long Beach Municipal Court was one of the building&#39;s original tenants, moving into the third, fifth and sixth floors in July 1925. The court remained in the building for five years until additional space was needed for other courts and county offices.</p><br>
<p>In 1931, the Middough brothers sold the building, and its name was changed to the Insurance Exchange Building.</p><br>
<p>With 28,000 ft&sup2; of floor space, the building was one of the largest office structures in downtown Long Beach. In 1958, the building was sold, and the new owners announced plans to remodel and modernize the building and to establish a "de luxe restaurant" on the top floor. At the time of the sale in 1958, stockbrokers, Dean Witter & Co., occupied the ground floor, and other major tenants included Household Finance Co. and Veloz and Yolanda dance studio.</p><br>
<p>In 1962, the building was sold again at a reported purchase price of $750,000. The new owner, Don Roberts Co. Inc. of Beverly Hills, announced plans to turn the building into a center for insurance companies and their representatives.</p><br>
<p>In February 2003, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007, the building was one of the first upgrade projects to be completed as part of The Promenade redevelopment of the downtown area. The upgrade project included a nightclub and Jamaican restaurant.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a national historic district that consists of an Episcopal church complex located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The complex consists of the 1857 Gothic Revival brick church and an 1867 frame parsonage. The parsonage is constructed in the Carpenter Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Murray Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The districts consists of the 16 properties on Murray Street between Eagle Street and Stanley Street. The district includes 16 contributing primary buildings, all residences; six contributing outbuildings, carriage houses and garages; and three contributing objects, a carriage step, hitching post, and early 20th century street lights.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Prater&#39;s Mill was built in the mid-19th century. It is located in Whitfield county, near Varnell, Georgia. Serving the city of Dalton as a working mill, it is now used as the center piece of a country fair that showcases cultural history of Southern Appalachia. The country fair consists of mountain music, Southern foods, and living history exhibits and the handmade crafts and original art. Crafts include blacksmithing, spinning, quilting, rug hooking, woodcarving, and hand tufting.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prater&#39;s Mill is one of 70,000 properties on the National Register of Historic Places. Included in the list are all historic areas within the National Park System, over 2,200 National Historic Landmarks, and properties across the nation that have been nominated for the honor.</p><br>
<p>The mills heritage runs back to the Cherokee Indians. It was built by Benjamin Franklin Prater in 1855. The water-powered mill was originally fitted with the latest in grain cleaning, grinding and sifting machinery, all powered by the Coahulla Creek. As the mills popularity grew, Prater added a cotton gin, a saw mill, a wool carder, a syrup mill, a general store, and a blacksmiths shop. For almost a hundred years, farmers would line up with their mules and wagons early in the morning to get their turn with the millers.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the mill was used as campsites for both sides of the war. While used by the Union army, the mill was considered a valuable source for food so it was not destroyed. The Prater family ran the mill until the 1950s. A succession of millers ran the mill until the 1960s. In 1971, the all-volunteer Praters Mill Foundation took over the mill and began extensive restoration and preservation efforts. Today the mill is best known for the arts and crafts festival held the second full weekend of October. Throughout the year, the grounds are a popular site for fishing, cookouts, family reunions and other special events.</p><br>
<p>On May 20, 1995, fire was intentionally set on the north side of the mill. Two arson convictions have been made to date. Most of the damage was on the inside of the mill. The force of the fire blew out most of the windows, damaged the roof, siding, electrical system, and destroyed an antique display case.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Theater was a center of African American culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1919, by the 1930s the theater had earned the reputation as "America&#39;s Finest Colored Photoplayhouse". The theater closed in 1970, after attendance dwindled and the threat of the Crosstown Expressway had decimated the neighborhood. </p><br>
<p>In 2000, Kenny Gamble&#39;s Universal Companies purchased the Royal, 1522 and 1536 South, buildings on either side of the theater, as well as 1523, 1537 and 1539 Kater St. (the narrow street just south of South) and 1521–1523 South St. (across the street), from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia for $250,000.</p><br>
<h2>Conservatorship lawsuit</h2><br>
<p>In April 2013, Universal Companies applied for a demolition permit claiming the renovation was "economically unfeasible." Universal&#39;s proposal would preserve only the facade and a small portion of the front for culture use while the remaining property would be developed for commercial use. On May 20, 2013, local Philadelphia resident Juan Levy filed in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas a petition seeking to appoint local real estate developer Ori Feibush as conservator over the property to save it from further deterioration.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment study</h2><br>
<p>In April 2015 an independent architectural surveyor presented a financial feasibility analysis for various reuse scenarios for the Royal. The surveyor concluded that the building was reduced to a shell and "...there is no use to which the Royal Theater may be reasonably adapted given the cost of renovations and the revenues that can be expected by those uses..." In July 2015 the Philadelphia Historical Commission approved the owners plan to demolish the auditorium and preserve the Royal&#39;s facade which would be incorporated into a new retail and residential building. Demolition of the auditorium began in 2017.</p><br>
<p>In the fall of 2021, the Royal re-opened as a restaurant, Rex at the Royal (Rex previously existing as REX 1516 down the street from the theater).</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>In 1936 the staff of the Royal organized to form the Colored Motion Picture Operators Union. The last public event to be held at the Royal occurred in June 2009. A preservation coalition presented two performances of jazz and video in the ruins of the auditorium.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1976 and is located in St. Marys, Georgia. The city was first settled in the mid-16th century by the Spanish.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>The St. Marys historic district is roughly bounded by Waterfront Rd., Norris</p><br>
<p>Alexander, and Oak Grove Cemetery. It contains portions of the original 18th-century town containing</p><br>
<p>residential, commercial, and religious buildings dating from the late 18th-early 20th century. Notable</p><br>
<p>features include the waterfront area, the early cemetery, a bell cast by Paul and Joseph Warren Revere,</p><br>
<p>and a memorial oak planted the day of George Washingtons burial. Established by an act of the state legislature on December 5, 1792, and was incorporated in November 1802. It served as Camden County Georgias seat of government from 1869 until 1923. Orange Hall is a contributing property and is also on the NRHP individually.</p><br>
<p>The St. Marys United Methodist Church was founded in 1799. It is considered to be the father of Florida&#39;s Methodist Churches.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of photos</h2><br>
<p>The Burnside Plantation is a 6.5 acre plantation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is also known as the James Burnside Plantation and Lerch Farm. The plantation is located 0.2 mi southeast of the intersection with Eaton Ave, on Schoenersville Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Burnside bought a 500 acre tract of land from John Stephen Benezet in 1748. Burnside sold 200 acre a group of Moravians in 1751. In 1758, Burnside&#39;s widow sold the remaining 300 acre to the Moravian Church. The Church leased the plantation to individual farmers from 1765 to 1845.</p><br>
<p>The plantation was sold to Charles A. Luckenbach, who sold it to William Lerch in 1853. It stayed in the Lerch family until 1928, when it sold and was divided between the Hafleighs and the Birks.</p><br>
<p>Lehigh County bought the plantation in 1986 and leased it into the private corporation Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites "to restore, develop, and manage as a living and natural history resource". It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.</p><br>
<p>Today the farmstead hosts a variety of events, volunteer projects, venue rentals, historic tours, and festivals. Visitors can tour the farmhouse and the barns and learn about the daily lives of the early people who lived here.</p><br>
<p>No people or animals presently live on the plantation but it was home to the Bethlehem Mounted Police Unit horses from 2009 through early 2017.</p><br>
<p>Orange Hall c. 1830, is located at 311 Osborne St., St. Marys, Georgia, United States, located within the St. Marys Historic District in Camden County and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1973. In 2011, Orange Hall was added to the list of the state of Georgia&#39;s ten most endangered historic sites by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Orange Hall is a good example of the temple-form Greek Revival dwelling. A frame building with clapboard siding, it is among the first structures of Greek Revival design in America. The name originated from the orange trees that surrounded the house. Other details include: two stories, a gabled roof, interior chimneys, front center entrance with side lights and transom surmounted by low pedimented lintel, front tetrastyle prostyle Doric pedimented portico supported by projecting basement, and a rear center recessed two-story porch.</p><br>
<h2>Historic American Buildings Survey</h2><br>
<p>The Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record has the following data recorded regarding Orange Hall. Owner in 1934: S.C. Townsend, Date of Erection: 1810–1815, Architect: No record, Builder: No record, Built for the Rev. Horace Southworth Pratt, a Presbyterian minister.</p><br>
<h3>Architectural notes</h3><br>
<p>This building of the Early Republican period is a Doric prostyle temple. The pediment is flattened and the columns are widely spaced. At the rear end is a superimposed inset portico, one porch above the other.</p><br>
<p>The brink basement storey is stuccoed and has stucco quoins of inch projection. In the basement used to be the old kitchen, now marked by its whitewashed walls, a herringbone brick floor pattern and a Dutch oven. The old Dining Room was under the front portico.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction and original ownership</h3><br>
<p>The property on which Orange Hall stands today was originally granted to William Ashley, one of the twenty founders of St. Marys, in 1787. Phineas Miller is listed as the owner of the lot when it was sold to Ethan Clarke in 1803. In 1826, the lot was divided and the northern half was sold to the wealthy John Wood and Horace Southworth Pratt, a Presbyterian minister. Pratt had arrived in St. Marys around 1820, established the First Presbyterian Church of St. Marys in 1822, and married Wood&#39;s daughter, Jane, in 1823.</p><br>
<p>In 1829, before construction of Orange Hall began, Pratt&#39;s wife, Jane, died. Pratt remained in St. Marys and remarried a few years later. In 1838, construction of Orange hall completed, with master carpenter Isaac Slayton listed as the builder. In 1839, Pratt, a Yale and Princeton graduate, took a position as a professor at the University of Alabama and left Orange Hall behind. General Duncan Lamont Clinch is thought to have lived there when Pratt left for Alabama. Pratt died in 1840 before he could return to Orange Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Succession of ownership</h3><br>
<p>The property was sold in public auction in 1846 to James Mongin Smith, a wealthy planter from Beaufort, South Carolina. Subsequent owners include:</p><br>
<p>1856 – Francis Adams, Mayor of St. Marys</p><br>
<p>1866 – Elizabeth and Joseph Ryals</p><br>
<p>1869 – Silas Fordham, a town supervisor and farmer from New York who used the home as a winter retreat</p><br>
<p>1911 – Joel Lee Sweat, a judge, representative, and state senator from Ware County.</p><br>
<p>1919 – James Howard Becker, an automobile manufacturer</p><br>
<p>1925 – George and Ruth Fryhofer, who spent little time in St. Marys and briefly lost possession to Camden County due to failure to pay taxes</p><br>
<p>1933 – Effie G. Townsend, who fell upon hard times in World War II and converted the upper floors to apartments</p><br>
<p>1949 – Faye Kelly, daughter of Effie Townsend, who severed two parcels from the original lot</p><br>
<p>1951 – St Marys Kraft Corporation, which bought to house paper mill employees for 10 years</p><br>
<p>1961 – City of St. Marys, which agreed to rename the building the "Gilman Civic Center" and use it as a library</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>Orange Hall fell into disrepair during the 1960s. In 1975, the City of St. Marys, the local Chamber of Commerce, and the Gilman Paper Company, assisted by numerous clubs and individuals, initiated an effort to preserve and restore the building. Work began in 1978 using skilled but unemployed high school students because the historic grant required the use of unemployed laborers, which the coordinators were unsuccessful at organizing. The project was highly successful and completed in 1980.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, Naval Reserve Commander John K. Mott completed an extensive restoration plan for the property. Due to limited available of funding, very few of his recommendations were implemented.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, a group of Navy Reservist Seabees took part in repair and reconstruction activities during their summer active duty session.</p><br>
<p>The Homestead Historic District is a historic district which is located in Homestead, Munhall, and West Homestead, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This historic district encompasses the site of the Homestead Strike of 1892, when the Carnegie Steel Company, under the leadership of Henry Clay Frick, broke the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers union.</p><br>
<p>This district also includes the Homestead Pennsylvania Railroad Station, which is separately listed on the NRHP, and the Bost Building, a USA National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>It is situated close to Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>Schooleys Mountain Historic District is a historic district along Schooleys Mountain, Pleasant Grove, and Flocktown Roads, and Heath Lane in the Schooleys Mountain section of Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 14, 1991 for its significance in architecture, entertainment/recreation, and health/medicine. The district includes 71 contributing buildings, such as the Oak Cottage, site of schoolhouse No. 5, Schooleys Mountain Store, the William W. Marsh House, Christadelphian Bible Camp, the former Heath House Hotel, former Forest Grove Hydropathic Institute, Mine Hill Farm, the Marsh Mine and several private residences and commercial buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area grew as a nineteenth century summer resort built around a mineral spring on Schooleys Mountain near a brook that flowed to the Musconetcong River. Schooleys Mountain Springs were rich in iron, termed chalybeate, and said to have healing powers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Highlands Presbyterian Church on Heath Lane was built in 1870 and has a three-story bell tower. The William W. Marsh House at 13 Heath Lane was built with Italianate style and is now used by the Liebenzell Mission and named Eben-Ezer. The Strawbridge House at 2 Pleasant Grove Road was built, also with Italianate style. The Terriberry House at 4 Pleasant Grove Road was built with Shingle style architecture. The gentleman&#39;s farmhouse at 18 Pleasant Grove Road was built and remodeled in Neoclassical style. It was once a stop on the stagecoach line between Morristown and Easton.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>South Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The district encompasses both sides of a three block section of South Main Street , one of Mount Morris&#39; premier residential neighborhoods. The district includes 27 contributing residences along with 13 contributing outbuildings, mostly carriage houses and garages. They comprise the largest and most impressive collection of predominantly high style domestic architecture in the village in a broad range of architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>South Main Street Historic District Mount Morris NY B&B Oct 09.JPGB&B in the South Main Street Historic District, Mount Morris NY, October 2009</p><br>
<p>State and Eagle Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York. The district is located in one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in the village. It encompasses 19 contributing primary properties consisting of 16 residences, one parsonage, and two churches; one contributing site, a grave site with granite marker at St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church; and four contributing outbuildings, a carriage houses, shed, and two garages.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Hemlock Fairground is a national historic district and fairground located at Hemlock in Livingston County, New York. The district covers 35.6 acre with five contributing buildings and one contributing object, the racetrack. There are two clusters of buildings near the racetrack. One cluster consists of the grandstand  and livestock sheds located along the perimeter of the track at the southwest corner of the site. The second cluster consists of exhibition buildings located east of the track.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Linwood Gardens  is a private residence located at York in Livingston County, New York. The property is a 325 acre farm centered around a summer house and surrounded by developed garden areas, woods, and meadows. Most notably, it is home to a historic collection of tree peonies collected and developed by William H. Gratwick III and Nassos Daphnis from the 1930s-1980s.</p><br>
<p>Linwood Gardens was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick, Sr.</h2><br>
<p>William Henry Gratwick, Sr. (1839-1899), was born in Albany and moved to Buffalo, NY in 1877 to found the lumber business Gratwick, White and Fryer Lumber Company, with offices in Tonawanda, Buffalo, and Detroit. The company owned timberland in Michigan and six ships to transport the timber on the Great Lakes. The Gratwick family lived at 776 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo in architect Henry Hobson Richardsons last commissioned home, an imposing brownstone, which stood until 1919. William succumbed to colon cancer in 1899, but notably was treated by Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo during his illness. Mrs. Martha Weare Gratwick, Williams widow, donated $25,000 to Dr. Park which assisted in the establishment of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, the first institution in the world to focus solely on cancer research. The remaining fortune earned by William was split among his three children, including his son, William H. Gratwick, Jr.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick, Jr.</h2><br>
<p>When his father died, "Harry" assisted in management of the lumber company but preferred other pursuits, including real estate projects in the Midwest and acting as Vice-President of the New York State Board of Charities. With the inheritance he also scouted out a farm property in Livingston County, New York, which proved suitable for the establishment of a summer estate, which was a popular investment for those of means. The property was purchased in 1901 and construction began immediately. Harry worked with Green and Wicks, a prominent Buffalo firm, to design the summer house, and hired Boston landscape architect Thomas Fox to plan out the surrounding roads and garden areas between about 1901-1910. The results still stand today, with some alterations. The gardens were recognized with the Historic Landscape Award from the Landmark Society of Western New York in 2015.</p><br>
<p>When Harry died in 1934, the estate was taken on by his son, William H. Gratwick III.</p><br>
<h2>William H. Gratwick III</h2><br>
<p>"Bill" was known as a renaissance man; some of his interests included the breeding and showing of heritage horned Dorset sheep, breeding and training Arabian horses for dressage and driving, carriages, sculpture, and local theater and musical productions. His most lasting legacy, however, is the collection of Japanese and hybrid tree peonies that are still curated at Linwood Gardens, many important varieties of which were developed at the property beginning in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, Bill met Arthur P. Saunders, a chemistry professor and prominent American hybridizer of the tree peony. He introduced over 300 herbaceous peony varieties and over 70 varieties of tree peony in his lifetime, most notably creating distinctive yellow cultivars. Bill Gratwick worked with Saunders for a little over a decade, and imported over 100 select Japanese tree peony plants and 500 seeds from the Chugai Shokubutsu Yen nursery in Japan to complement the Saunders collections. Bill carried on Saunders work after Saunders death in 1953, and Gratwick eventually introduced several of his own cultivars.</p><br>
<h2>Nassos Daphnis</h2><br>
<p>Born in Greece, Nassos Daphnis (1914-2010) was a New York City painter who met Bill Gratwick and was introduced to the world of the tree peony in the late 1930s. For most summers of his life, he visited Linwood Gardens and became deeply involved in painting the tree peonies as well as hybridizing them. His 46 cultivar introductions are in tones of pink, yellow, white, mauve, and maroon, and are named after figures in Greek mythology. The collection of tree peonies at Linwood Gardens reflects the cultivars that he developed on the property and his legacy.</p><br>
<h2>Linwood Music School and York Opera Company</h2><br>
<p>Harriet L. Saltonstall Gratwick (1907-1999) was married to William H. Gratwick III and founded the Linwood Music School in 1947, which operated until 1963. Harriet, who studied at the Eastman School of Music, ran the school during the summer at the Gratwick estate and offered courses in voice, piano, organ, cello, and other musical instruments. Children performed in choral concerts in the gardens, and professional musicians were invited from Rochester and Buffalo to perform free concerts for the community. Mrs. Gratwick also helped establish the York Opera Company, which put on community productions of Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.</p><br>
<p>The Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Evansville, Indiana, also known as the Greyhound Bus Station, is a Streamline Moderne-style building from 1938. It was built at a cost of $150,000. Its architects include W.S. Arrasmith who designed numerous other Greyhound depots. The terminal, at the corner of Third and Sycamore streets, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In July 2008, the long-unused bus terminal and its site had been considered in discussions about potential locations for a new arena that would replace Roberts Municipal Stadium. By December, city council approved plans to build the Ford Center in another downtown location.</p><br>
<p>In December 2011, then Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel announced plans to turn the adjacent property into Bicentennial Park to celebrate the city&#39;s upcoming bicentennial in 2012.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, a restaurant named Bru Burger opened inside the old terminal.</p><br>
<p>Tippecanoe Place is a house on West Washington Street in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Built in 1889, it was the residence of Clement Studebaker, a co-founder of the Studebaker vehicle manufacturing firm. Studebaker lived in the house from 1889 until his 1901 death. The house is one of the few surviving reminders of the Studebaker automotive empire, which was the only major coach manufacturing business to successfully transition to the manufacture of automobiles. In 1973, the Richardsonian Romanesque mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was further recognized by being designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. It is located in South Bend&#39;s West Washington Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1889 on a parcel purchased by Clement Studebaker in 1868. Studebaker lived in the previous house on the lot until 1886, when it was moved to South Scott Street to make way for construction of the present house. The house remained in his family for many years. His son George lived there until 1933 when he lost the structure due to bankruptcy. For several years, the building stood vacant but, in 1941, E. M. Morris purchased it and gave it to the city as a school for handicapped children. During World War II, however, it served as Red Cross headquarters. In 1970, possession passed to Southhold Restorations, Inc., a local historic preservation group.</p><br>
<p>The house is one of the only surviving elements of the Studebaker familys manufacturing success. None of their original carriage manufacturing facilities survives in unaltered form, and none of the houses of Clements brothers (also involved in the business) survive.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a four-story masonry structure, which presents three stories to the south and west due to the sloping terrain of the lot. The foundation and walls consists of glacial boulders set in concrete, with trim of Indiana Bedford limestone. The building is a somewhat rambling irregularly massed structure, covered by tiled roofs that are either hipped or gabled, and punctuated by a number of chimneys. Prominent features include a large porte-cochere on the west side, the main entrance with its heavy double doors, and the conical tower at its northeast corner.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb, who Studebaker selected after viewing high-style houses of the period in the Chicago area. Construction took three years.</p><br>
<p>Elston Hall, formerly the Hotel Van Curler, is located on Washington Street in the city of Schenectady, New York, United States. It is a tall brick building constructed in 1925 in the Classical Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Its construction was partially financed by local employers General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, which needed space for new workers to live and wanted an architecturally distinctive building comparable with large city hotels of the era. Today, it is one of the main buildings of Schenectady County Community College.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Elston Hall is located at the northeast corner of the 57 acre college property, right at the corner of State (NY 5) and Washington streets. Only the two acres (8,000 m) on which the building sits is included in the listing. To the south Washington feeds into Interstate 890; the Schenectady Armory, also listed on the National Register, is located almost across Washington. Directly across from the building, on the east side of Washington, is a garden with a fountain. On the north Washington is part of the Stockade Historic District, the oldest section of Schenectady. One block to the west, State crosses the Mohawk River via the Western Gateway Bridge to Scotia.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building itself is six stories high, faced in limestone-trimmed brick over a reinforced concrete frame. It is H-shaped, with the north wing shorter than the south due to an extension of the main dining room, topped by a gabled roof with wooden eaves shingled in slate. Some other wings have been built on to the structure since the college began using it. They are too modern to be considered contributing to its historic character.</p><br>
<p>Six Corinthian columns support the main entrance portico. Its entablature, with the words "SCHENECTADY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE" on it in metal lettering, is topped by a dentilled cornice and flat roof with balustrade. Each pillar of the balustrade continues a column below and is topped with a decorative carved urn.</p><br>
<p>The basement level is marked by a stone watercourse. The first floor is fenestrated with alternating rectangular and Palladian windows, and has a belt course of alternating brick and stone dividing it and the second story. White rosettes are between them and their lintels are of white stone with a keystone motif. Some windows are further embellished with swag-decorated friezes. The front doors are surmounted by broken-arch pediments with carved acorns set in blind arches.</p><br>
<p>Decoration is more limited on the upper stories, with each window having just a simple stone sill and lintel. Another belt course like the lower one sets off the top story. The sixth floor&#39;s three central windows are each topped with a blind lunette and have iron balconies. The central five bays of the main block are further set off by rusticated stone quoins at the corner and five brick pilasters supporting a pediment and balustrade on the roofline.</p><br>
<p>On the wings, there are similar touches. The south side&#39;s main entrance is a domed portico with classical detail, matched on the north wing by Ionic columns supporting a flat, dentilled entablature. The belt courses and fenestration are similar to those on the main block. The central window of the fifth (top) story on each wing is marked by a blind carved lunette and balcony, with a blind oculus in the gable. On the inner walls, the central of the three bays has a small circular or square window, alternating by story.</p><br>
<p>A two-story kitchen wing projects from the north. Its windows have been bricked in but have similar decorative patterns (arches and rectangles) to the rest of the building. Two more modern wings, neither contributing, extend from it as well, as does as a large wing from the south of similar materials to the main block. Three emergency exit towers on the corners of the building likewise do not contribute as modern additions.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The first floor retains much of its original finishing. The lobby is in a Georgian mode, with pillars, pilasters and paneling. Its flooring is terrazzo with a genuine marble as a wall base. Another keystoned, lunetted door leads to the Lobby Lounge. Other designs from the exterior, such as the broken-arched niches with acorns, are also repeated inside.</p><br>
<p>The Lobby Lounge itself, now known as the Mohawk Room, is a 50 by room with a semicircular wall. Five sets of double doors overlook the garden and river beyond. Its fireplaces and lunettes on the interior doors are original. The fanlights on the exterior doors are also original but they have been covered with shells on the inside to conceal indirect interior lighting.</p><br>
<p>Just off the Lobby Lounge, the Reception Room now serves as the college president&#39;s office. It has most of its original finishes and has not been altered. The former Dining Room and Assembly Room were combined to make a single Ballroom, and are still together today although they can be divided with a partition. Its original western wall has mostly been removed. What was originally a small private dining room between the Lobby Lounge and Dining Room has now become part of a hallway connecting the building and its western annex. It is lit by the only remaining original chandelier in the hotel building.</p><br>
<p>The upper stories have been gutted to serve college purposes. Nothing of their original layout or finish is left.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>H.L. Stevens & Co., the hotels designers, specialized in small (less than 500 rooms) hotels and apartment houses in a neo-Georgian or Colonial Revival style in either a rectangular or H-shape, seen by the citys Chamber of Commerce as a refreshing change from the small, squarish hotels the city had previously possessed. Their buildings, primarily in the Northeast, are in many cases still extant and show similarities to the Van Curler.</p><br>
<p>Most similar to the Van Curler is the Burritt Hotel in New Britain, Connecticut, also listed on the Register. It is also of brick, has nearly identical limestone decoration and is also H-shaped. The Colonial Hotel in Gardner, Massachusetts, also has a similar design except for the projecting wings and the Federal style decoration at the top.</p><br>
<p>To facilitate it use as a center for local functions, it was designed so that the ballrooms could be entered without having to cross the lobby, seen as the space for commercial travelers. The Georgian Revival style was used for other buildings in the city at the same period, most notably City Hall in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 35 years leading up to the hotels 1925 construction, Schenectadys population quintupled, making it the fastest-growing city in New York. It became ten times as wealthy. Both of these developments were a result of the city becoming the headquarters of General Electric (GE) and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). The two corporations contributed $300,000 of the hotel&#39;s $700,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) construction cost. The local Chamber of Commerce and a thousand citizens filled in the rest. It was named after Arendt van Curler, the Dutch explorer who first saw the site of Schenectady in 1661. Ultimately it would cost $1.1 million ($ in contemporary dollars)</p><br>
<p>The Stevens firm was chosen for the design, due to its successful similar contemporary buildings. A branch of the Mohawk River, the Binne Kill was filled in, streets were widened, a sea wall was built along the Mohawk to the Rotterdam line, and streets were widened. The hotel was publicly owned, so some smaller nearby hotels were torn down to eliminate competition. The building became a focus of civic pride, hosting many major events even as the city declined due to suburbanization, GE began moving work elsewhere and ALCO went into decline along with its industry.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the many local functions it hosted, it became a popular lunch spot for workers at the nearby GE plant. Among its many notable guests over the years were then-governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor, John Philip Sousa, Clement Attlee and Robert F. Kennedy.</p><br>
<p>In 1954 the additions were built to accommodate the increasing demands of business travelers. Every one of the new rooms had air conditioning and a private bath. These rooms rented well, but increasingly guests preferred them to the old section of the hotel, with an overall negative effect on the hotel&#39;s occupancy rate.</p><br>
<p>It declared bankruptcy in 1968. Schenectady County bought the building at the ensuing public auction for $710,000 ($ in contemporary dollars), and converted it for its current use by the college. The colleges board of trustees renamed it after Charles Elston, the longtime chairman of the countys Board of Representatives.</p><br>
<p>Lima Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Lima in Livingston County, New York. The district encompasses 21 commercial, religious, civic, and residential properties in the historic core of the incorporated village of Lima and centered on the Four Corners business district. The buildings date from about 1845 to about 1923. Highlights of the district include significant examples of finely crafted Greek Revival and Italianate style commercial buildings with remarkably intact storefronts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Ridgeland–Oak Park Historic District is a historic district in Oak Park, Illinois that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes 1558 contributing buildings over 539 acre.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the George W. Smith House, an early example of Frank Lloyd Wrights work as a contributing property. The house is one of two Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings within the Ridgeland Historic District and the only residential home; the other structure is the Unity Temple. Otherwise, the historic district lacks examples of Wrights full-fledged Prairie style that are found in abundance in the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The district contains many buildings of merit, including the Oak Park Post Office on Lake Street, designed in 1933 by Charles E. White Jr. and his partner Bertram A. Weber, in 1933, and the Art Deco Medical Arts Building, designed by Oak Park architect Roy J. Hotchkiss.</p><br>
<p>Hayden Bridge, a Howe truss structure, spans the Alsea River about 2 mi west of Alsea, Oregon, United States. Similar spans such as the Mill Creek Bridge crossed the Alsea or one of its tributaries in the same vicinity, but only the Hayden Bridge has survived. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Located along Hayden Road just south of Oregon Route 34, the bridge was either partly or completely rebuilt in 1945. Changes included larger and less rounded bridge portals that could accommodate larger vehicles. Narrow openings under the side-wall eaves on both sides of the span illuminated the interior. The bridge, repaired again in 2003, required further work in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it.</p><br>
<p>Of the more than 600 covered bridges once found in Oregon, only 50 remain. After 1915, although some were of queen-post or king-post design, most of the new covered bridges were of Howe-truss design. In that year, the Oregon legislature passed a law giving the Oregon State Highway Department oversight powers for bridges worth more than $500. The department developed plans for Howe-truss bridges, partly because they were relatively easy to assemble, and distributed them to the state&#39;s counties. Many of these bridges, often built with Douglas-fir timber available locally, were replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by bridges more suited to logging trucks and other big vehicles. Although most of the original bridges no longer exist, the remaining bridges have gained value as tourist attractions.</p><br>
<p>The Urbana Monument Square Historic District is a historic district at the center of Urbana, Ohio, United States. Since Urbanas earliest days, this portion of the city has been a public square in the heart of the citys business district. Among the buildings in the district are examples of the Federal, Georgian, Italianate, Richardsonian Romanesque, and Second Empire styles of architecture. In 1984, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its architecture and its contribution to local history. Approximately 25 acre are included within the landmarked area, which is composed of 66 contributing properties, and which also includes 13 non-contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Sisters Place was a homestead in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the USA state of Tennessee. The surviving structures&mdash;which include the cabin, springhouse, and corn crib&mdash;were once part of a farm that belonged to the Walker sisters&mdash;five sisters who became local legends because of their adherence to traditional ways of living. The sisters inherited the farm from their father, and after the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was formed in the 1930s, they obtained a lifetime lease. The National Park Service gained control of the property in 1964 when the last Walker sister died. The surviving structures were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Former Great Smoky Mountains National Park historian Paul Gordon writes, "of all the people who once lived in what is now Great Smoky Mountains National Park, none exhibited better the character of the mountain people than the Walker family." An article about the Walker Sisters appeared in the April 27, 1947 edition of the Saturday Evening Post.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Sisters Place is located at the upper (northern) end of Little Greenbrier, a narrow valley carved into the southwestern slope of Cove Mountain by Little Brier Branch. The flat in which the cabin and outbuildings are situated has since become known as Five Sisters Cove. Cove Mountain rises to the north and east, and the southwestern flank of Cove Mountain, known as Little Mountain, rises to the west. The Little Brier Gap Trail connects the area to the Metcalf Bottoms picnic area along Little River Gorge Road to the south, and a gravel maintenance road connects the area to Wears Valley Gap Road (which accesses Wears Valley) to the west. The Cove Mountain Trail connects the area with the Sugarlands Visitor Center opposite Cove Mountain to the east.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1820s, much of what is now Little Greenbrier was purchased by John Renfro, although little is known of Renfro. Early Little Greenbrier settler Arthur "Brice" McFalls, who moved to the area from South Carolina, bought what is now the Walker Place from Renfro in 1838. McFalls probably built the smaller half of the Walker Cabin shortly thereafter. Wiley King (1800&ndash;1859) purchased the land in 1853, and built all but the chimney of the larger, 2-story half of the Walker Cabin. His sons completed the chimney shortly after his death.</p><br>
<p>In 1866, Kings daughter, Margaret (1846&ndash;1909), married John Walker, a Union Army veteran who had just returned from the Civil War. The Walkers moved into the cabin in 1870 and in subsequent years dismantled the McFalls cabin and reassembled it as a wing of the Walker Cabin for use as a kitchen. Walker also built the porch during this period. In 1909, Walker deeded the land to six of his daughters&mdash; Margaret (1870&ndash;1962), Martha (1877&ndash;1951), Nancy (1880&ndash;1931), Louisa (1882&ndash;1964), Polly, and Hettie (1889&ndash;1947)&mdash; and his youngest son, Giles (Walkers other four children had married and moved away). Upon John&#39;s death in 1921, Giles deeded his share of the land to his sisters. With Nancy dying only 10 years later, Margaret, Martha, Louisa, Polly and Hettie became the five Walker sisters continuing homesteading and later associated with Five Sisters Cove.</p><br>
<p>While the mountain communities in the surrounding valleys began to modernize to some extent after World War I, the Walker sisters clung to the old way of life, which emphasized self-reliance. The sisters raised sheep and grew corn and cotton, sometimes plowing their own fields. They made their own clothes from the wool and cotton they had raised and became well known for their Christmas feasts, which consisted almost wholly of food they had grown themselves. In 1933, the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, charged with purchasing property for the creation of the national park, unsuccessfully tried to persuade the Walker sisters to sell their land. Fearing bad publicity, the commission refused to initiate a condemnation suit. The Walker sisters finally agreed to sell the property in 1940 in exchange for a lifetime lease.</p><br>
<p>Once the Park was established, the sisters could no longer do many of the activities that made up their traditional way of life such as grazing livestock, hunting, fishing, or wood cutting. They began accepting Park visitors and selling handmade products from the Parkss establishment in 1940 until 1951 when only two sisters remained, Margaret and Louisa, who wrote a letter to the Park service asking for the visitors welcome sign with information about the Walker cabin to be taken down. The two remaining sisters maintained their homestead until Margarets death in 1962 at 92 years old. Louisa stayed at her family home until her death two years later in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Historical structures</h2><br>
<p>The Walker Cabin is an L-shaped log cabin, with a porch filling out the gap in the "L" to make a rectangle. The cabin&#39;s kitchen consists of one story measuring 18 ft by 27 ft, and has a door leading to the porch and a door to the larger half of the cabin. The larger cabin consists of one-and-one-half stories measuring 20 ft by 22 ft. Both cabins are built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching and contain sawn board floors. Both have gabled, shingled roofs, and both have stone-and-mud chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The Walker corn crib is a 25 ft by 20 ft structure built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching. The structure&#39;s large gabled roof overhangs both sides of the crib considerably, creating ample shed space. The interior of the crib has a puncheon floor and is accessed by a door at the west end. These structures were sometimes called "plunder sheds," as farmers used them to store miscellaneous items such as barbed wire, brooms, firewood, and tools.</p><br>
<p>The Walker springhouse is an 8 ft by 10 ft structure built of hewn logs with half-dovetail notching. The gabled roof is supported by poles, and a board and batten door allows access. The interior contains a stone trough through which a spring once flowed, cooling the interior. The interior walls contain small storage shelves. Before the advent of refrigerators, springhouses were used to keep perishable items cool.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1912, the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond is the oldest standing church structure in the city of Redmond, Oregon, United States. It is also the second-oldest religious building in Deschutes County. The church was built in the Gothic Revival style with Queen Anne architectural detailing. It was the home of Protestant congregations from 1912 until 1979. Today, the building is privately owned and used as a special events venue. The First Presbyterian Church of Redmond was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Presbyterian congregation in Redmond was organized in 1906, one year after the city was founded. The church was established by Reverend Jesse C. George under the authority and guidance of an existing Presbytery in Pendleton, Oregon. The Pendleton Presbytery had sent Reverend George to Central Oregon in 1905 to minister to the Tumalo community fifteen miles southwest of Redmond. Shortly after arriving, a number of Redmond residents asked him to conduct Presbyterian services in their community as well. Over the next few years, George established the Redmond congregation with the help of Reverend J. W. Mitchell of the Sisters Presbyterian Church and Reverend Levi Johnson, an itinerant pastor who eventually founded eleven churches in Eastern Oregon communities.</p><br>
<p>The new Presbyterian congregation held services in a number of locations around the city. In 1910, the congregation bought three adjacent lots along 7th Street in downtown Redmond for a permanent church building. A ground-breaking ceremony was held on July 31, 1911. The building was completed the following spring and dedicated on June 30, 1912. Shortly after the churchs dedication, Redmonds local newspaper reported that the church had cost $5,000 to build and had seating capacity for 250 parishioners.</p><br>
<p>The church continued to grow along with the city of Redmond. In 1929, the First Methodist Church of Redmond had lost its minister and was struggling financially so by mutual consent, the First Methodist congregation was merged into the First Presbyterian Church. The combined congregation sold the First Methodist Church property, retaining the First Presbyterian Church and its minister. With permission from the Pendleton Presbytery, the church was officially renamed the Redmond Community Presbyterian Church on October 1, 1929.</p><br>
<p>A major renovation of the church was begun in 1943 and completed in the spring of 1944. The changes included reorienting the sanctuary. The original design had the congregation seated in a semicircle facing east. In the new design, the pews were set in parallel rows along the length of the building facing north. A classroom area was open up and incorporated into the sanctuary to provide space for the altar, pulpit, and choir seating at the north end of the room. The church&#39;s new sanctuary was dedicated on June 18, 1944. A large non-historic education and fellowship hall was built next to the original church in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The church and adjacent fellowship hall were used by the Presbyterian congregation until 1979, when the church was relocated to a new facility on N.W. 19th Street. The buildings were then sold to a private investor, but the historic church structure remained vacant until 1992. The original 1912 building was resold at that time, and the new owners opened the Redmond School of Dance in the historic building. The dance school closed in 2003 and the building was once again sold to investors. In 2004, the building was purchased for use as a special events venue. Today, the building houses a private business known as The Historic Redmond Church. It rents space for weddings, concerts, lectures, art exhibits, workshops, and community meetings.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church of Redmond is the oldest church building in the city and the second-oldest religious structure in Deschutes County. Because of the building&#39;s Gothic Revival architecture and its importance to the history of Central Oregon, the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in the Gothic Revival style with Queen Anne architectural detailing. It is a rectangular one-story building with a structural footprint measuring 72 feet by 40 feet. There is a two-story steeple on the southwest corner of the building above the main entrance. At the top of the steeple is a belfry that houses the church-s original 40 in bell, which was cast by the American Bell and Foundry Company of Northville, Michigan. At the peak of the steeple is a tall, ornate finial with decorative globes, fans, and scrollwork.</p><br>
<p>All of the church windows are Gothic arch style. The main sanctuary window is made up of four Gothic arch windows that support a rose window with ornate tracery. The entire window group is set into a large Gothic arch frame. On the east side of the church is a large bay window. In the original church design, this bay window feature was the focal point of the interior sanctuary space.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The ceiling in the church sanctuary is 19 feet high. The sanctuary walls are lath and plaster with a wooden wainscoting to a height of three-and-a-half feet. The sanctuary pews were originally arranged in a semicircle facing a large bay window on the east side of the building. In 1944, the sanctuary was reoriented along the length of the building with the pews facing an expanded altar and choir area at the north end of the room. Today, the sanctuary space is open and can be arranged as required for specific events.</p><br>
<p>There are two rooms in the northwest corner of the building. Both are approximately 12 feet by 12 feet. The rooms have 13-foot ceilings and the same lath and plaster walls and wainscoting as the sanctuary. The rooms have hanging glass-globe lights that are original to the building. A hallway runs from the sanctuary along the northeast corner of the building to the back door. It also provides access to a restroom and an office area that was once the church organ&#39;s mechanical room.</p><br>
<p>The former USA Post Office in Canandaigua, New York, is located on North Main Street . It is a Classical Revival granite structure built in 1910 and expanded in 1938. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places both as a contributing property to the Canandaigua Historic District in 1984 and individually in 1988, as part of a Multiple Property Submission of over 200 post offices all over the state.</p><br>
<p>Its construction was authorized in the first decade of the 20th century under the Tarsney Act of 1893, which authorized the federal government to hire private architects to design buildings for its use. Local philanthropist Mary Clark Thompson, widow of banker Frederick Ferris Thompson, donated the land and paid for Boston-based Allen & Collens to design the new building. It is one of only three post offices in the state built under the act, and the only one outside of New York City. In 1938 it was expanded with an additional story under the auspices of Louis Simon, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction it was also used as a federal courthouse. Three years after it was listed on the Register, the Postal Service moved out for larger quarters. The neighboring YMCA bought the post office building several years later. It has annexed it to its own building and built an extension to the west, but kept the post office building intact.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The former post office building is located in the center of Canandaigua, on the west side of North Main between Atwater Place and Greig Terrace, on the corner with the former. To the south is Atwater Park. Canandaigua&#39;s city hall, also a contributing property to the historic district, is opposite the park on the south, across West Street.</p><br>
<p>On the north is the building now occupied by the local YMCA, separate from the post office building at the time of construction but now annexed to it. Across North Main, a four-line road with a narrow planted median strip at this point,</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-story granite structure on a raised basement with a rear addition. A driveway is set on the south side between the building and a sympathetic stone retaining wall. In the front is a flagpole and a short walk, with a line of large shrubs setting off the driveway on the south.</p><br>
<p>Its east (front) facade has a projecting central portico. Four round fluted Doric columns flanked by in antis Doric piers supporting a Doric entablature in which "United States Post Office And Courthouse" is engraved in the architrave. It is the center of a frieze with metopes ornamented with round panels. Above it is a dentilled cornice topped by an attic. At the top of the entire portico is an anthemion set between the engraved words "A.D. MCMXI" and capped with volutes on the end. A small brick section rises up from the center of the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>Climbing up to the portico is a full-width set of six stone steps. On either side are pedestals with pedimented pylons supporting cast iron anthemia-shaped lamps with glass globes. They are set with a cast iron caduceus. On either side is a single bay with a two-over-two double-hung sash window topped by a two-light transom in a recessed surround on the first story, where a water table forms their sills, and a smaller two-over-two with no surround on the upper story. The attic has two similar windows flanking the anthemion.</p><br>
<p>Behind the portico colonnade is the main entrance, set within a battened, crosetted enframement with "Canadaigua" carved into the top. Above the modern entrance doors is a transom with a classically inspired grille. It is illuminated by a large metal lamp that hangs by a chain from the ceiling. On either side are two double casement windows topped by a three-pane transom with a similar grille. Above them are spandrels carved with a Greek key pattern separating the two stories. The second story has simpler two-over-two double-hung sash similar to those outside the portico.</p><br>
<p>On the south facade, the only other original one remaining exposed, the fenestration retains many of the same treatments, but with deeper recessing. A secondary entrance near the east corner has two paneled wooden doors with a crosetted upper light and blind transom. To its west, two barred windows open into the basement as the driveway rises toward the former loading dock at the end of the block. The water table continues, supported by brackets at the base of the two largest first-story windows, set with narrow four-light casement in the same surrounds as their counterparts on the east. A single narrow casement window is to the west, followed by a dropped single-pane transomed casement window.</p><br>
<p>The second story on the south side has one-over-one double-hung sash with no surrounds, likewise set deeper than the east windows. Above it the cornice continues as well. In the rear the former loading dock entrance, now barred off, is on a small extension. A brown brick extension with some architecturally sympathetic elements continues further west; it was built by the YMCA after the Postal Service discontinued use of the building and is not part of the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>The entrance doors open into a wooden vestibule with Doric pilasters. Five more, this time of white marble, divide the main lobby beyond it into five bays. The walls are of the same stone, with light and dark green marble used for the baseboards and sills; it has a terrazzo floor, also with marble trim. The screenline, between the pilasters, has oak frames and classical grilles. At the top of the pilasters is a plaster Doric entablature and crossbeams with a Greek key design similar to that seen on the east facade.</p><br>
<p>A stairway and elevator lead upstairs. To the west of the lobby is a large work area. At the west of the building, in the loading-dock addition, is the former courtroom. It, too, has Doric pilasters, crosetted windows with grilles and stylized fretwork on its metal vents.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Canandaigua was established as a European-American settlement in the last years of the 18th century, as a base for the settlement of the rest of Western New York. As it was roughly on the same corridor and transportation routes of the many other communities that had been established between Utica and Buffalo, it was established as the county seat as soon as Ontario County was created.</p><br>
<p>Mail delivery began in 1794. Canandaigua continued to grow and railroads made the city a stop as soon as tracks could be built there. In 1860 the federal government negotiated a lease with the county that allowed it to operate a post office in perpetuity in a corner of the county courthouse.</p><br>
<p>By the later decades of the 19th century its location at the north end of Canandaigua Lake made the city a popular destination for summer residents. In 1886 two arrived who would leave a major mark on the city, including the current post office building. New York City banker Frederick Ferris Thompson and his wife, Mary Clark Thompson, a native of Canandaigua whose father had served as governor, built Sonnenberg Gardens, also listed on the Register and designated a state historic site, as their summer home. They commissioned Boston architect Francis B. Allen to design the house.</p><br>
<p>The Thompsons became very committed to Canandaigua, funding the planting of trees along its streets and founding the hospital building later used as county offices. In 1906, with the post office outgrowing its space in the courthouse, Congress authorized a post office building for the city, although no site was available. Four years later Mary Thompson, now widowed, bought the current site and donated it to the federal government.</p><br>
<p>Normally, at that time, post office buildings, like all other federal government buildings, had been designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect at the Treasury Department. But the Tarsney Act of 1893 allowed a limited number of commissions, such as the 1900 Ellis Island Immigrant Inspection Center, to be awarded to private architects. Mary Thompson paid for Allens new firm of Allen & Collens, best known for the Union Theological Seminary building on Manhattans Upper West Side, to design the new Canandaigua post office. It was one of only three post offices in the state designed privately under the Act, and the only one outside of New York City.</p><br>
<p>The post office moved into temporary offices at the YMCA while it awaited the construction of its new home. First the Atwater Block, the existing 1850 building on the site that had served mainly as lawyers&#39; offices and, briefly, the first office of the Ontario County Historical Society, was demolished. Construction began on the new post office in 1910; it was completed and opened two years later.</p><br>
<p>Allen produced a building less restrained than his other ventures into the Classical Revival mode, which often used simple engaged pilasters on their front facades rather than the full colonnaded portico he employed in Canandaigua. Behind the portico, the window design is meant to reflect the Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens. While the building is quite monumental for a small city in upstate New York, its front entrance and lobby are more modestly scaled than that monumentality would suggest.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its completion the building was two stories tall, with a parapet on the edge of its flat roof. A third story was built on the roof inside the parapet, and a small two-bay extension was added to the west (rear) elevation. Inside, a staircase was extended and elevator added to reach the new floor.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the post office would fulfill other federal government functions as well besides occasional court sessions. Local draft boards met here during all the major wars and military conflicts the USA was involved in during the 20th century. In 1991 the Postal Service, having outgrown the building again, moved to a new facility on the eastern edge of the city, off routes 5 and 20.</p><br>
<p>The building then sat vacant for three years. In 1994 the YMCA, where the post office had briefly been quartered during the building&#39;s construction eight decades earlier, bought the building for an expansion. In the process it added the rear extension and joined its building next door to the post office.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office—Geneva is a historic post office building located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a symmetrically massed one story structure faced with red brick and trimmed in limestone. It was constructed in 1905-1906 and is the first post office constructed in New York state in the Colonial Revival style. It is one of 13 post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James Knox Taylor. The entrance portico features four Doric columns supporting a full Doric entablature and pediment with an oculus in its tympanum. The interior features a mural titled "The Vineyard" by Peter Blume and installed in 1942.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Geneva Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Washington Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. The cemetery was laid out in 1832 and the entry is distinguished by a handsome cast iron arch dating from the 1840s / 1850s. It contains about 2,200 burials dating from 1832 to the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burial</h2><br>
<p>Eliakim Sherrill</p><br>
<p>Samuel Miles Hopkins</p><br>
<p>Joseph Gardner Swift the first graduate of West Point Military Academy</p><br>
<p>Wilder Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at South Bristol in Ontario County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1801 and contains about 60 stones dating from 1801 to 1900. It includes the graves of many of the early settlers of the crossroads hamlet of Mud Creek, a long gone settlement established by Gameliel Wilder in 1788.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Adelaide Avenue School is a historic school building located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a one-story, polychrome brick structure on a raised basement. It features a variety of picturesque late 19th century decorative features in the Queen Anne style, such as a multi-gabled roof surmounted by a louvred cupola. It is a typical example of a late 19th-century ward school, along with the Saltonstall Street School.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Complex consists of six interconnected buildings located at 1801–1803 Atwater Street in Detroit, Michigan, as well as the remains of a nearby dry dock at 1900 Atwater Street. The 1801-1803 Atwater complex is also known as the Globe Trading Company Building, and in 2015 was opened by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources as the Outdoor Adventure Center.</p><br>
<p>The complex is significant as a historic maritime manufacturing facility. The earliest structure, an 1892 machine shop, is also significant as an early example of an industrial building entirely supported by its steel frame, but using traditional brick and standard windows to infill the curtain walls. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. In 2012, the Department of Natural Resources received funding for historic redevelopment of the complex, along the city&#39;s east riverfront promenade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works-Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex includes pieces of two once-independent companies—the Dry Dock Engine Works and the Detroit Dry Dock Company—which merged in 1899.</p><br>
<h3>Detroit Dry Dock Company</h3><br>
<p>In the 1840s, Captain Stephen R. Kirby began a shipbuilding firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and by 1852 had moved to Saginaw, Michigan. In 1870, Kirbys son Frank, a Cooper Union-trained engineer, joined the firm as lead designer. the Kirbys firm purchased a shipyard in Wyandotte, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, Campbell, Wolverton and Company opened a ship repair yard on the Detroit River at the foot of Orleans Street. In 1860 the firm, now known (with the addition of John Owen as president) as Campbell & Owen, constructed a 260&#39; dry dock in the same location. They constructed their first steamship in 1867.</p><br>
<p>In 1877, Campbell & Owen reorganized, changing its name to the Detroit Dry Dock Company. At about the same time, Detroit Dry Dock purchased the Kirby&#39;s Wyandotte shipbuilding firm. Also in the late 1870s, railroad and shipping magnate James McMillan became interested in shipbuilding, purchasing shares in Detroit Dry Dock. By 1890, McMillan was president of the company, and by 1892 was also president of the nearby Dry Dock Engine Works.</p><br>
<h3>Dry Dock Engine Works</h3><br>
<p>Dry Dock Engine Works, a marine engine manufacturer, was formed in 1866 by William Cowie, Edward Jones, and Robert Donaldson, with Cowie as president. The firm set up shop on Atwater, between Orleans and Dequindre, across from the dry dock firm that was then called Campbell & Owen. (The city vacated Dequindre in the vicinity of the Dry Dock Engine Works in 1917, and Guoin some time later; neither street currently exists in the area.)</p><br>
<p>The main product line of the Dry Dock Engine Works was marine engines, and they produced 129 engines between 1867 and 1894. However, the firm also produced stationary and portable steam engines, as well as mining equipment, mill gearing, and brass and iron casting.</p><br>
<p>Although unimportant at the time, the Dry Dock Engine Works is significant as an early employer of Henry Ford. The future automobile magnate worked at the firm between 1880 and 1882 as an apprentice machinist. His work with steam engines at the Dry Dock Engine Works inspired in part Ford&#39;s later idea of adding an engine to a carriage for road use.</p><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works had always had a special relationship with the nearby Detroit Dry Dock Company, which only increased as the years passed. In 1892, James McMillan took over the presidency of Dry Dock Engine Works, and the two firms were controlled by the same person. It was around this time that the oldest of the remaining structures in the complex, the machine shop and dry dock no. 2, were built.</p><br>
<h3>Integration: Detroit Shipbuilding Company</h3><br>
<p>Although even after 1892 the two firms were technically separate, they essentially operated as a single business unit, with the same principals in charge of both. The integration of these operating units created a substantial company: in 1900, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company employed 1337 people, and was the fourth-largest employer in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>A few years later, in 1902, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company built two more still-surviving structures, the foundry and the industrial loft building. Sometime in the 1910s, three more structures were built, which completed the enclosure of the block where the original Dry Dock Engine Company was founded, and represent the latest of the surviving buildings of the complex.</p><br>
<p>Shipbuilding continued at the facilities in Wyandotte and Detroit through the 1920s, with a substantial number of ships constructed in the World War I years of 1917-1919. However, business soon decreased and in 1920 the yard in Wyandotte was closed as a cost-cutting measure. The Detroit Shipbuilding Company completely ceased operations in 1929.</p><br>
<h3>Use post-maritime construction</h3><br>
<p>The property owned by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company at Atwood and Orleans passed through several hands, being used by a cabinet shop and a stove manufacturer in the early 1930s. In 1935, the property was acquired by the Detroit Edison Company. It is unclear what use, if any, Detroit Edison put the property to in the 1930s and 40s, but in the 1950s and 60s Edison used the engine-building plant as a reconditioning and appliance shop. By 1968, the property was occupied by the Globe Trading Company, a machinery and mill supplies dealer. In 1981, Edison sold the property to Globe. At some time later, the property was abandoned, and by 2002 was empty and owned by the city of Detroit.</p><br>
<h3>Redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>In 2006, a $15-million redevelopment plan was announced, with 45 condominiums and 10,000 ft&sup2; of ground floor retail space. To facilitate the renovation, in 2007, the city received an Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grant to clean up the building. However, the economic downturn in 2008-2009 forced a reconsideration of the renovation project, and the project plan was converted to incorporate rental units. The redevelopment was intended to be financed in part by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and in part by using historic tax credits,</p><br>
<p>Instead of the proposed housing development, in 2013 the Michigan Department of Natural Resources began renovating the building into the Outdoor Adventure Center. This development involved demolition of portions of the historic building complex. The center opened in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Engine Works began manufacturing engines on Atwater Street in 1867; however, the earliest buildings used by the company were replaced by later buildings, built between 1892 and 1919. These early structures were located throughout the city block owned by the company, and included a sheet metal works, boiler shop, forge, machine shop, and the Dry Dock Hotel. The Detroit Dry Dock Company began shipbuilding in the same area as early as 1852. Their earlier dry docks, including Dry Dock No. 1, no longer exist. A complex of six buildings, as well as Dry Dock No. 2, do remain.</p><br>
<h3>Detroit Dry Dock Co. Dry Dock No. 2 (1892)</h3><br>
<p>In 1892, the Detroit Dry Dock Company constructed a new dry dock near the foot of Orleans Street, just west of their original dry dock facility. Dry Dock No. 2 was 378 ft long, 20.5 ft deep below the water line, with a width of between 91 ft (at the top) and 55 ft (at the bottom). As constructed, the dock could be flooded in twenty minutes and pumped dry in about ninety minutes. The dock was sized to be able to accommodate any vessel traveling on the Great Lakes at that time, and could house even fully loaded vessels.</p><br>
<p>A monument with sculpture depicting the Dry Dock and the steamer Pioneer is located at the north end of the dry dock.</p><br>
<h3>Dry Dock Engine Works Machine Shop (1892)</h3><br>
<p>Also in 1892, Detroit Dry Dock built a machine shop at the corner of Atwater and Orleans, running parallel to Orleans. The shop replaced a portion of the earlier machine shop which fronted on Atwater. The building was designed and built by Berlin Iron Bridge Company, a firm from Connecticut now part of the American Bridge Company. The building featured a load-bearing steel frame and non-load-bearing brick curtain walls, at the time a novel construction technique. Also in 1892, Berlin Iron Bridge also built a boiler shop of the same construction across Dequindre from the main complex; this building has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h4>Description</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop is 200 ft long, 66 ft wide, and 48 ft tall to the top of the wall; a roof monitor extends the height an additional 10 ft. The building consists of thirteen bays dividing the length into 15 ft, with the northernmost bay a full 2 ft wider. Internally, the shop is separated by columns into a 37 ft running the length of the building on the west side, and a 27 ft on the east side.</p><br>
<p>Pediment walls at each end of the building rise above the roof and are capped with limestone. Two windows per bay were included along the west side. The original windows were replaced sometime between 1912 and 1932. The roof is supported by a series of trusses spaced at nearly 12 ft. A 13 ft runs most of the length of the roof. Although now covered with sheet metal, the sides and roof of the monitor were originally glass.</p><br>
<h4>Background</h4><br>
<p>The 1892 machine shop was constructed to take advantage of what was at the time the most modern innovations applied to manufacturing buildings: electric drive machinery and an electrically driven traveling overhead crane. The tall, wide construction of the building, containing an open space lacking support columns, reflects the desire to implement the crane into the company&#39;s manufacturing process.</p><br>
<p>The open space in the building was possible due to the construction of the building in what was at the time a novel method. Steel frame construction had emerged in 1880s Chicago in the construction of office buildings, the first being the nine-story Home Insurance Building, constructed in 1884. However, the first building to be completely supported by a riveted all-steel frame was the 1889 Rand McNally Building.</p><br>
<h4>Significance</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop is an early example of an industrial building which was entirely supported by a rigid structural steel frame, with exterior walls that were merely a curtain around the structure. This building may very well have been the first such structure in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>The particular design used by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company represented a conservative, hybrid design. The steel frame completely supported the structure, but the non-load-bearing curtain walls were nonetheless designed the same way as traditional brick load-bearing walls. The windows in the infill were standard-sized windows arranged in a traditional two per bay, side-by-side configuration.</p><br>
<p>The construction gave the Dry Dock Engine Works the advantages of the open interior space provided by the steel frame construction combined with the more substantial, traditional appearance afforded by the brick exterior. In addition, the brick gave some protection from cold during winter months, with enough windows to maximize the interior light. This particular building exemplifies a link between the traditional past style of industrial architecture and the revolutionary change represented by steel framing.</p><br>
<p>Eric J. Hill and John Gallagher, in their American Institute of Architects guide to Detroit architecture, state that this building is perhaps "the most important surviving nineteenth-century industrial building in Detroit."</p><br>
<h4>Machine Shop photo gallery</h4><br>
<h3>Industrial Loft Building and Foundry (1902)</h3><br>
<p>In 1902, the company constructed two structures: the Industrial Loft Building and a foundry. The Industrial Loft Building ran along Atwater from the east side of the machine shop to what was then Dequindre. The loft building fronted on Atwood, stretching from the machine shop to Dequindre; the foundry faced Dequindre north of the loft building, completing the enclosure of the entire city block from Atwood to Guoin and Orleans to Dequindre.</p><br>
<h4>Foundry</h4><br>
<p>The foundry is 151 ft long and 75 ft wide, and stands 50 ft high to the top of the wall; a roof monitor adds another 14 ft to the height. Clerestory windows run the length of the building. The interior is sectioned into a 46 ft main section and a 26 ft.</p><br>
<p>Like the machine shop, the foundry is constructed with a load-bearing steel frame sheathed with non-load-bearing brick. The interior bays ran the full height of the building to make room for an overhead crane.</p><br>
<p>The foundry building operated as a foundry for only a little over a decade. Sometime in the 1910s, the company built a new foundry and this building was converted into an erecting shop. At some time afterward, possibly as late as the 1950s, the southernmost bay of the building was turned into a loading dock with the addition of an interior concrete block wall. Balconies above the dock were constructed, likely for storage.</p><br>
<h4>Industrial Loft Building</h4><br>
<p>At the same time as the foundry was constructed, the Detroit Shipbuilding Company also built a three-story loft building.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally occupied by a blacksmith&#39;s shop, bolt-cutter, and office space on the first floor, a pattern shop and tool room on the second floor, and engineering offices and storage on the third floor. Other alterations of the facade over time include bricking in of windows on the east side and the addition of doors on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Like the machine shop and foundry, the loft building had a steel-framed structure with brick curtain walls. The framing supported the loads on the floors as well as the weight of the roof. The steel framing, however, was wholly contained within the building rather than being encased in the brick.</p><br>
<h3>Machine shop addition, chipping room, and shipping/receiving (c. 1910s)</h3><br>
<p>Sometime between 1910 and 1919, three more structures were built, enclosing the yard between the 1892 machine shop and the 1902 foundry.</p><br>
<h4>Machine shop addition</h4><br>
<p>The machine shop addition is a steel-framed structure 122 ft long, 41 ft wide, and 43 ft high to the roof trusses. A roof monitor extended the height another 4 ft. It was built along the east side of the 1892 machine shop; the brick in-fill of the machine shop was removed to provide a continuous inner area. The north wall of the structure had a large steel-framed window wall, although the lower portion of it is now bricked in.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the addition was originally a wide, open space with an overhead crane similar to the one in the original machine shop. However, some time after 1922 a wooden floor was constructed within the building to provide a second story on top of a 22 ft first-floor bay.</p><br>
<h4>Chipping room</h4><br>
<p>Some time later, a chipping room was built along the north end of the block between the machine shop addition and the foundry building, displacing remnants of earlier buildings in the same place. Much of the north side was originally steel-framed windows; these have since been covered with blocks.</p><br>
<h4>Shipping/receiving</h4><br>
<p>In 1918, the company constructed a shipping/receiving building in the center of the complex, within what was previously an interior courtyard. This structure is a two-story steel-framed building measuring 5 by 72 feet (1.5 m × 22 m). The first floor was originally a shipping/receiving area, with access to Atwater via the drives running through the industrial loft building. The second floor functioned as a stockroom. A roof monitor provided light for the second floor, but the completely encased first floor required artificial lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Schenectady Armory is located on Washington Avenue in the city of the same name in the USA state of New York. It is a brown brick building dating to 1936.</p><br>
<p>New York&#39;s state architect at that time, William Haugaard, used the Art Deco architectural style for the exterior of the building and the Tudorbethan mode for the interior. The armory remains virtually intact today. It was home to two units of the New York Army National Guard until it was closed in 2008. In 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The armory is on a one-way extension of Washington Avenue just north of its interchange with Interstate 890 and just south of Schenectady County Community College&#39;s Elston Hall opposite, the former Hotel Van Curler. To its east is Fuller Street and some industrial buildings.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>It is on a 1.9 acre lot with one other building, a modern garage not considered a contributing resource to the Register listing. The armory itself is a T-shaped building of brick on a steel frame structural system. The main block is three and a half stories in height with slightly asymmetrical two-story side wings. It has a projecting entrance pavilion on the west (front) elevation, with a segmented arch over its sally port, filled with two heavy oak doors with medieval-inspired hardware. The facade is otherwise embellished with details representing both the Art Deco and Tudorbethan styles.</p><br>
<p>Projecting perpendicularly to the main administration building on the east is the drill shed, a gable-roofed wing with its windows spaced by buttresses with stone caps. The brick-faced concrete block garage is to the southeast.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance vestibule is a two-story octagonal space with concrete wainscoting painted to look like red sandstone. Doors leading to offices off the entrance have half-sidelights and scored concrete surrounds. Corridors on the first story are cross-vaulted, with those on the second story using barrel vaults. Both have concrete ceilings and brick walls.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the north wings first story, the company meeting room, later converted into a bar and dining room, features paneled wainscoting, stuccoed concrete walls and a concrete ceiling encasing the support beams. The offices elsewhere in the wing have generally been subdivided and modernized, although the second-story corridors barrel vault, accentuated by spandrels supported by brick piers, is intact.</p><br>
<p>In the drill shed, the ceiling is wainscoted, with steel trusses, exposed brick walls and an intact balcony at the west end. The original hardwood flooring has been covered with wooden tiles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Schenectadys first armory was built in 1868 to serve two local units, the Washington Continentals and the Citizens Corps. The former, formed in 1839, had first served in the Mexican War. It was broken up during the recent Civil War but reformed afterwards. The Citizens&#39; Corps was not formally organized until 1873. It joined the New York National Guard in 1880, becoming the 36th Separate Company.</p><br>
<p>Their armory was built with a $30,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) appropriation from the state obtained by newly elected assemblyman Robert Furman. A three-member commission including Furman chose the hill in Crescent Park overlooking the city as the site for a three-story red brick building with a polychrome slate roof. Records show an "83rd Regiment" drilling in the armory until it disbanded in 1874. It may have become the 36th and 37th Separate Companies.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, sentiment began to grow to build a new armory. State architect Isaac Perry&#39;s new building was completed and built on the same site in 1898, just in time for the Spanish–American War. It was well-received locally and continued to serve the local Guard units as they prepared and mustered for World War I, where they were designated as the 105th Infantry of the American Expeditionary Force, a name that remained associated with Schenectady for many years. After the war, as many as five separate companies were using the armory, and throughout the 1920s they began lobbying for another new armory.</p><br>
<p>The state finally began construction of the current building in 1936. Unlike other armories built in New York during the Great Depression, Schenectady&#39;s was located in the core of the city, near the hotel, the General Electric plant a quarter-mile (400 m) away, and businesses that had flocked to Erie Boulevard, the recently filled former route of the Erie Canal. The old armory in Crescent Park was demolished in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The armory continued to serve local military needs through World War II, the Korean War and the early years of the Cold War. In the early 1960s it was isolated in the neighborhood when I-890 was built. The hotel went bankrupt but was quickly reused as Schenectady County Community College&#39;s Elston Hall.</p><br>
<p>By the 21st century the armory had again grown outdated, and the states Division of Military and Naval Affairs closed it down on November 10, 2008, to save heating costs. College sporting events and other gatherings that had been held in the armory were likewise suspended. The 206th Military Police Company, which had been based there, moved to a new facility in Latham, and the other tenant, the 501st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, moved to the new Scotia Armed Forces Reserve Center at the Schenectady County Airport. The state sold the armory at auction in July 2012 for $260,000. It was purchased by partners Ray and Jeff Legere. It now operates as Armory Studios NY, the regions largest, dedicated, qualified New York State soundstage and a major entertainment destination. Large production companies have utilized its 30,000 sq ft Studio A, the former Drill Hall, for sets and or as a location, as well as many of the other spaces throughout the facility. In 2020 AMAZON STUDIOS AMAZON STUDIOS taped their MODERN LOVE at Armory Studios NY and utilized much of the facility, with Studio A being sectioned into multiple shooting spaces. In 2022 HBO MAX taped PRETTY LITTLE LIARS ORIGINAL SIN Pretty Little Liars Original Sin turning Studio A into an indoor amusement park using both bespoke elements and a full complement of full sized, actual amusement park rides including a ferris wheel. Throughout, independent films have used multiple locations including freestanding Studio B, listed above as the modern garage. In 2022 Armory Studios NY welcomed Van Gogh, The Immersive Experience to Studio A, which ran from June of that year until October 2023. Following that successful run, Monet The Immersive Experience was installed and remains running. Van Gogh Expo attracted upwards of 140,000 visitors and to meet that challenge, Armory Studios NY opened Armory Lounge NY, the former Visiting Officers Lounge, serving coffee, cocktails and light fare. The mess hall was converted to THE OFFICER’S CLUB, a flexible event and catering space, to meet growing demand.</p><br>
<p>The Barnett–Criss House is an Italianate style house constructed on the much traveled National Road a few miles east of New Concord, Ohio. The house was placed on the National Register on 1978-12-08.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in Westland Township, Oliver Barnett made himself one of the area&#39;s most important farmers following service in the Union Army during the Civil War. He and his wife arranged for the construction of the house in 1875, relying on contractors from Pittsburgh. Here they lived for fifteen years before selling the property to Elijah and Carrie Criss, another well-known farming couple.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The rectangular house sits on top of a sandstone basement with water table separating house from basement. The house facade is lined with wooden siding. The front of the house is accentuated by a front porch containing slender posts on broad bases. The posts are decorated with trusses reaching from each post to make an arch. The large front double-doors are capped by a transom window. The porch is framed to either side by a bay window.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is accentuated by a central tower with a decorative double window with a porthole window above it. The tower is capped by a gabled roof with decorative brackets and entablature. To either side of the tower are a pair of windows. The sloping roof is punctured to either end by a brick chimney.</p><br>
<p>The side of the house contained an open porch with a water pump. The porch was covered over into a sunroom sometime around 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The main entrance at the front of the house opens up into the central hall with a staircase leading to the second-floor bedrooms. To the left of the hall is the parlor which contains an original brass gas chandelier with springs and a pulley for easier maintenance. A fireplace with decorative carved wooden panels add a touch of sophistication.</p><br>
<p>The parlor once opened up onto another open porch with a necessary located nearby. The porch was covered over and was split into a study and a bathroom. This room opens up into the large kitchen. A large cooking fireplace graces the center of the outside wall with a food pantry to its right. This pantry is said to be designed by a specialist who could maintain a consistent cool temperature. The kitchen opens up onto the central hall or continues into the dining room or sunporch.</p><br>
<p>The dining room contains a fireplace much like the one in the parlor. The bay window at one end of the room was used as a tea area. The doors throughout the house are framed by oak frames with a frosted levered window. The doors are all hung on decorative iron hinges.</p><br>
<p>The Dunnan–Hampton House is an historic building in Paxton, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1897 and purchased by the Dunnan family in 1900. Distinctive features include the cupola, stained glass window, and hand-carved ornate woodwork. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2007.</p><br>
<p>Reflective of the Queen Anne style, the house also incorporates elements of Stick Style and Eastlake Style. The house was restored by Ronald and Charlotte Hampton to the point where it is "almost exactly what it was like in 1897”.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Scotia, New York, is located on Mohawk Avenue  in the middle of the village. It is a brick Colonial Revival structure built at the end of the 1930s, serving the 12302 ZIP Code, which covers the village and some surrounding areas of the Town of Glenville.</p><br>
<p>It is one of five nearly identical post office buildings across the state, all featuring elaborate detail and decoration. In the lobby a mural depicts a 1690 confrontation between Native Americans and an early settler family. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009 the Postal Service announced that it was considering closing it down, sparking a community effort to save it.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The post office occupies a small lot at the western corner of Mohawk and Center Street. The neighborhood, the villages downtown, is a mix of small commercial and residential structures. To the buildings west is a house; to its north a parking lot. It is set back slightly from the street, with landscaping and plantings in front.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a one-story, five-by-five-bay steel frame building on a poured concrete foundation faced in brick laid in English bond with a hipped slate roof pierced by two zinc-coated ventilators. The hipping is lower over the three central bays on the rear; a one-bay loading dock projects from that area.</p><br>
<p>A molded brick watercourse sets off the basement, and the roofline is marked by a corbeled course giving the effect of a denticulated cornice. The western (front) facade is symmetrically composed around a centrally located, recessed segmented arch with a lintel of radiating voussoirs. A carved metal eagle is situated above the door in front of the transom. A row of stars is set in the arch above, and "SCOTIA, N.Y. 12302" is etched on the glass in the transom. Metal lettering saying "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE" is above the door, with "SCOTIA" on either side.</p><br>
<p>The windows on all facades are similarly shaped and decorated. Small brick corbels between the window openings suggest brick piers with denticulated capitals, and the recessing and arching of the windows combines with this to suggest an arcade.</p><br>
<p>Concrete steps with modern railings rise to the entrance, with a recently added wheelchair ramp coming in from the north. The original lampposts have been mounted on separate pedestals. The modern aluminum and glass door leads into a wooden vestibule with fluted pilasters and a curved ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The lobby itself takes up four of the five bays of the façade, with the postmasters office occupying the buildings southeast corner. A modern plywood wall has been built on the west with a partition and sliding doors further subdividing the space. New teller windows and Formica countertops have been added, but the original wooden customer tables remain. Also original are the finishings, from the terrazzo floor to the marble base and counter height dado that rise to a plaster ceiling with cornice. On the east wall is a mural, The Glen Family Spared by French Indians, above the door to the postmaster&#39;s office.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As Scotia grew into a broom-making center during the 19th century, its postal needs were easily handled by a small building at what is now 109 Mohawk Street. In 1935, as a relief measure during the Depression, Congress authorized construction of the current building, replacing an old house and garage at the site.</p><br>
<p>Louis A. Simon, then Supervising Architect at the Treasury Department, handled the design, as he did for many of the other post offices built in New York during the 1930s. His design for Scotia&#39;s was almost identical to one used for four other post offices in small communities around the state: Akron, Horseheads, Middleburgh and Oxford. All are modestly scaled brick Colonial Revival buildings, showing no original variations save for minor later alterations.</p><br>
<p>Construction did not get underway until 1939, at a time when Congress was scaling back on new post office construction in anticipation of war. The local firm of Loucks and Clarks was awarded the contract and finished the building the following year, making it one of the last to be completed in the state under a Depression-era relief program. It was originally considered a branch of the post office in Schenectady to the southeast, hence its NRHP listing as "Scotia Station".</p><br>
<p>The next year, 1941, Buffalo artist Amy Jones painted the 56" by 12 (1.7 by 3.7 m) mural, depicting the sparing of the Glen family during the 1690 Schenectady massacre, a key turning point in the early history of Scotia. She had also painted a similar confrontation between early settlers and Indians for the Painted Post post office, and did at least one other postal mural, in Winsted, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the USA Postal Service (USPS) announced Scotia was one of 600 local post offices around the country it was considering closing because of the difficult economy. The community rallied to persuade the USPS to keep it open, partly because of its historic status. The Schenectady County legislature passed a resolution to that effect, and its leader, Susan Savage, started an Internet petition along with two other legislators. The Postal Service has still not taken Scotia off the list of potential closures, as of September.</p><br>
<p>The building at 426 South Main Street  is located in Canandaigua, New York, United States. It is a two-story brick dwelling in the Italianate architectural style built around 1880. In 1984 it and its neighboring barn were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is the only remaining house from that era on that block. While its form is Italianate, its upper arches are more typical of Renaissance Revival buildings, a style that was starting to become popular at the time of the building&#39;s construction. Its architect is unknown. At the time of its listing on the Register it doubled as a residence and antique shop. Today, however, as at the time of its construction, it is solely used as a residence.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on the west side of South Main, midway between the intersections with Parrish and (on the west side) Phelps, and Clark streets. running parallel to the north shore of Canandaigua Lake. The terrain is level, reflecting the proximity of the lake.</p><br>
<p>To both the north and south are houses of newer construction, mostly smaller in size as well. These give way to larger commercial properties, such as the gas station on the Parrish corner. Across the street is a similar combination of newer houses and larger commercial buildings with large parking lots, with a large storage facility on the land behind them. To the west the land is wooded and largely undeveloped as far as Sucker Brook, other than the back lots of commercial properties on Parrish.</p><br>
<p>The house sits on a one-acre (4,000 m) lot sheltered by mature trees, in contrast to the more open, and smaller, neighboring lots, with its gravel driveway on the south. It is a two-story, three-bay structure on an exposed stone foundation, topped with a truncated hipped roof pierced by two corbellled brick chimneys at the ends. A two-story, one-bay projecting pavilion is located in the center of the north elevation, matched by a two-story bay window on the south side.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the west (rear) elevation is a two-story wing, also with a hipped roof and chimney, projects. On its west is a one-story wood frame addition with a gable roof and clapboard siding with irregular fenestration. A small one-story enclosed frame clapboard-sided porch is nestled in the southwest corner between it and the main block.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) facade the main entrance, in the northernmost of the three bays, is sheltered by a flat-roofed wooden porch supported by four ornate wooden pillars with scroll brackets and pierced woodwork at the roofline. Wooden steps with pierced quatrefoils rise up to it, flanked by metal handrails. The porch&#39;s brick foundation is topped with a wooden deck.</p><br>
<p>A stone water table sets off the foundation stone from the brick facing the house. Windows on the facade are all one-over-one double-hung sash windows set in a slightly recessed wooden surround and topped by segmentally arched drip molds, as are all windows elsewhere on the building. The only deviation is above the front porch, where two narrower versions of the windows echo the double main entrance doors below.</p><br>
<p>Above the second story is a projecting molded cornice that continues around the entire main block. The frieze it sets off features a large semi-circular cross-gable set with a round-arched single-pane casement window in paneled stone trim. At the top of every bay except those on the pavilion and bay window is a recessed elongated oval oculus set in stone trim. The roofline is marked by a wide overhanging eave with another molded cornice.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance has two sets of double doors set in a segmental-arched entryway topped with a drip mold, similar to the windows. The outer doors are wooden with three large glass panes. They protect a pair of wooden inner doors with decoration similar to that on the porch just outside. Among the original interior features in the house are its original stairwell and two marble mantels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Very little is known about the house&#39;s origins. Its builder, architect and original owners or inhabitants are unknown. It is, however, believed that the house and adjacent barn, a contributing resource to the National Register listing, were built around 1880. An Italianate overall form was combined with upper-level decoration that reflected the newer Renaissance Revival style.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction neighboring houses were in similar Late Victorian modes. Over time they were all demolished, leaving only 426 to exemplify its two styles. In 1984, when the house was listed on the Register, its owner was operating an antique shop on the ground floor, leading to the use of "building" rather than "house" in the listing name. The front steps also had wooden balustrades rather than their current metal rails.</p><br>
<p>The Thaddeus Chapin House is a historic house located at 128 Thad Chapin Street in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, six-bay-wide, brick dwelling on a slightly raised basement in the Federal style. The sides of the house have a steeped gabled roof and there is front porch in the center of the house around the main entrance. It was built in the 1820s. Also on the property is a late 19th-century frame barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Saltonstall Street School is a historic school building located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. The original section of the school was built in 1875, with a major addition constructed in 1890 and is a one-story, polychrome brick structure on a raised basement. It features a variety of picturesque late 19th century decorative features in the Queen Anne style, such as a multi-gabled roof surmounted by a louvred cupola. It is a typical example of a late 19th-century ward school, along with the Adelaide Avenue School.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Court House Historic District is a national historic district consisting of 25 structures, including one monument, located in Lancaster, Virginia, Lancaster County, Virginia. Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve and interpret the history of Lancaster County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Court House Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lancaster County was formed from Northumberland County in 1651, and plans for a courthouse were prepared three years later, and it was built by William Norgham. Although the original Buildings exact location is now unknown, it is assumed to have stood very near the Coromotan River, given the order referencing "ye building of a courthouse in Coromotan..." and mentions an inlet. However, the location proved unpopular, so the courthouse was moved to land of Captain William Ball by 1698. It was moved again circa 1738, and the county seat in 1740. The current courthouse was opened in 1861 and built on what had once been the Upper Tavern. It was remodeled consistent with Thomas Jeffersons Roman Revival courthouse designs in 1937. The complex includes the old clerks office and former jail, both dating back to the 18th century. The town itself was authorized in 1691 by Virginias General Assembly, on the west side of the Corrotoman River. Furthermore, the county&#39;s records date back to the colonial period, unlike many Tidewater counties whose records were destroyed in the American Civil War, since Lancaster County avoided much devastation.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the county encouraged emigration, even distributing a pamphlet The Northern Neck of Virginia as a Home for Immigrants in Northern States, Canada and Europe. The 1872 Confederate memorial dates from this effort and is believed to be the first such monument erected in the Commonwealth. The historic district, essentially a linear village, also includes a tavern built circa 1800, a mid-19th-century post office, Carpenter-Gothic church, turn-of-the-century store, and many detached mid-19th-to-early-20th-century dwellings.</p><br>
<h2>Notable structures</h2><br>
<p>Clerk&#39;s Office *</p><br>
<p>Confederate Monument</p><br>
<p>Jail *</p><br>
<p>Job Carter&#39;s Tavern (Cornwell House)</p><br>
<p>Lancaster Court House</p><br>
<p>Lancaster House *</p><br>
<p>Steuart Blakemore Building (Old Post Office) *</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church</p><br>
<p>Elements of the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library</p><br>
<p>Brigham Hall, also known as Grove Home, is a historic psychiatric hospital located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. It is a complex of 10 buildings designed as a facility for the care and confinement of the mentally ill. The Gothic Revival style main building was built about 1855 and is surrounded by the contributing outbuildings. The central section is a - to 2-story brick and fieldstone structure, flanked by two-story brick wings. Other structures on the property are Heritage House , an early 20th-century residential unit; Female Unit #1 and Male Unit #2, also constructed in the early 20th century; a frame storage building; paint shop; cistern; gazebo; and Recreation Building, built between 1908 and 1924. By 1960 the complex was converted for use as a nursing home for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Cobblestone Manor is a historic home located at Canandaigua in Ontario County, New York. It is a two-story cobblestone dwelling built in the 1830s in the Greek Revival style. Early 20th century additions include a Colonial Revival style front porch with fluted Doric columns and a cornice decorated with modillions.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Pythian Temple, built in 1906 for Commencement Lodge Number 7 of the Knights of Pythias, is an historic building located on Broadway in the Theater District of Tacoma, Washington. It was designed by noted Tacoma architect Frederick Heath.</p><br>
<p>Like many multistory urban fraternal buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its lower floors were rented out for retail and office spaces while the upper floors were reserved for lodge use. This pattern of usage continues into the 21st century for this building, although Commencement Lodge plans to renovate the building to permit the rental of its hall for cultural events.</p><br>
<p>On August 23, 1985, Pythian Temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was featured in the summer 2008 newsletter of the Marian Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. The group reported that the Pythian order remains active and is working to preserve its 1906 building and has received grants for work on the Knights of Pythias Castle Hall. "This two-story hall, completely hidden within the building&#39;s interior, is a rich confection of early 20th Century woodwork, plaster, lighting, murals and carpeting."</p><br>
<p>For a short period in the mid-1990s, the Pythian Temple hosted a local theater company, and its ornate auditorium was the setting for productions of such plays as Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Inherit the Wind, 12 Angry Men, and Talk Radio.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Knights of Pythias, the building houses the Tacoma Youth Theater and Seabury Middle School.</p><br>
<p>The Knights of Pythias Building is an historic three-story redbrick Knights of Pythias building located at 315 Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Also known as the Knights of Pythias Castle Hall, it was built in 1901 on the site of an 1881 structure, the first Pythian Castle Hall ever built, which had burned earlier the same year. The building housed the citys first offset printing press and coin-operated laundry. On, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark . In 1981, it was restored and is now part of the Sundance Square area of downtown Fort Worth. The lead tenant in the building today is Haltoms Jewelers.</p><br>
<p>Ashcroft is a historic home located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a -story brick home with a high pitched slate roof with projecting eaves. It is a large Gothic Revival style country house set deep in the midst of once carefully landscaped grounds. The house and property were designed by Calvert Vaux in 1862.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Nester House, also known as Geneva-on-the-Lake, is a historic home located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York, USA. The Renaissance Revival building&#39;s design is based upon the Villa Lancellotti, a 16th-century suburban villa in the village of Frascati near Rome. It was built in 1911 and is a large three-story, U-shaped villa, built of brick and concrete block and coated in stucco. In 1949, the Capuchin Order acquired the property and operated the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary on the property. In 1973, the Capuchins sold the property and the house and its 1949 additions were later converted into 30 apartments. It is now operated as a resort.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Bell Building is an office building located in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. It was built in 1907 by local businessman Newton J. Bell, and was the tallest building in Montgomery at the time. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The height of the building is 187 feet.</p><br>
<p>The entire 12th floor and the roof were rented by the Beauvoir Club (the predecessor of the Montgomery Country Club), which had sold their mansion on Perry Street and signed a ten-year lease for the Bell Building.</p><br>
<h2>Revitalization</h2><br>
<p>The Bell Building underwent a multimillion-dollar revitalization to transform the building into high-end apartments and some retail space on the ground levels.</p><br>
<p>Holy Corners Historic District, so named because of its concentration of early 20th-century churches, temples and other large buildings of public assembly, is located on both sides of North Kingshighway Boulevard between and including Westminster Place and Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. On December 29, 1975, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Methodist Church, 5000 Washington Boulevard (1902)</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ, Scientist, 475 North Kingshighway Boulevard, corner of Westminster Place (1904)</p><br>
<p>Racquet Club, 476 North Kingshighway Boulevard (1906)</p><br>
<p>Second Baptist Church, 520 North Kingshighway Boulevard (1907)</p><br>
<p>Temple Israel, 5001 Washington Boulevard (1908); and</p><br>
<p>Tuscan Masonic Temple, 5015 Westminster Place (1908).</p><br>
<p>The McCracken-McFarland House is a historic house built in 1825 in the city of Cambridge, Ohio, United States. It was once home to one of the city&#39;s political leaders, and later a Presbyterian minister. Few extant buildings in the city can compare to it architecturally, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>William McCracken settled in Cambridge in 1809 at the age of twenty-two. Although he began his residency as a simple blacksmith, McCracken later made himself into one of the most prominent members of local society. McCracken arranged for the construction of the present house, built in 1825, but his wealth was sufficient to pay for the erection of a brick house in the same neighborhood in 1830. Two years later, William McFarland was born in New Athens. At the age of twenty-five, he was ordained as a minister in one of the denominations that later formed the United Presbyterian Church of North America. McFarland moved to Cambridge in 1860 to pastor its United Presbyterian congregation, soon taking possession of the house, and it remained the property of the McFarland family until his daughter conveyed it to the Guernsey County Historical Society in 1966. Since that time, the society has converted the house into its museum.</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival in style, the McCracken-McFarland House is a weatherboarded structure with a slate roof. It sits slightly above the sidewalk; one must climb two small sets of steps to attain the six-columned porch on the front of the house. Both stories of the facade are divided into five bays, with windows in all except for the center of the first story; this place is occupied by the main entrance, its transom light, and its sidelights. The gabled roof is topped with a chimney on either end of the roofline. Although the Greek Revival influence is present, the house is primarily a vernacular structure, retaining a settlement-period mode of design with few extant parallels in the city.</p><br>
<p>In early 1979, the McCracken-McFarland House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of its place as the home of William McCracken. Among the other National Register-listed locations in Cambridge is the McCracken-Scott House, the brick house that William McCracken had built in 1830.</p><br>
<p>George and Addison Wheeler House, also known as Old Place, is a historic home located at East Bloomfield in Ontario County, New York. The Greek Revival–style home was built in two sections in about 1818 and 1840. The 2-story main block from 1840 features a temple front with a massive, pedimented portico. Behind it stands a -story wing that was the original saltbox-style home constructed about 1818. Also on the property is a 19th-century barn / carriage house and a small family cemetery. Abandoned for a generation, it was restored in the late 1940s by William and Marie Houghton.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Pythian Castle is a historic three-story brick-and-stone Knights of Pythias building located at 610-612 Court Street in Portsmouth, Virginia. Built between 1897 and 1898 for the Atlantic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, it was designed by architect Edward Overman in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture. Like many multistory urban fraternal buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its street floor was rented out for retail and office spaces while the upper floors were reserved for lodge use. In 1908 a single-story brick-and-stone Romanesque Revival addition was built to the north of the original building. In 1979 the Pythian Castle was sold by the knights. On October 30, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today the ground floor is a Mexican eatery.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Downtown Portsmouth Historic District.</p><br>
