<p>The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located off Vermont Route 313 in Arlington, Vermont.</p><br>
<p>The Town lattice truss bridge carries Covered Bridge Road across Batten Kill. It was built in 1852 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is one of Vermont&#39;s oldest surviving bridges.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is located at the village of West Arlington, crossing Batten Kill just south of Route 313. It is a single span structure, with a length of 80 ft, a total width of 17.5 ft, and a roadway width of 14 ft (one lane). It rests on mortared stone abutments, of which the northern one has since been faced in concrete. Guying cables are fastened near each of its corners. The sides are finished in vertical board siding, and the roof is metal. There are five small square openings in each of the sides.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1852, and is one of the states oldest surviving covered bridges. It is also unusual in that it has not had any 20th-century strengthening elements added, a common feature to many of the states older bridges. On August 28, 2011, the Arlington Green Covered Bridge was damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene; it was fixed in the following months and reopened to traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Historic District is a historic district in Hingham, Massachusetts, United States. It is roughly located on North and South Streets from West to Water Streets, Main Street south to Garrison Road, and Lincoln Street and Fearing Road north to Miles. It encompasses the earliest streets laid out in Hingham at the time of its founding in 1635, covering more than 300 years of development and a cross section of Hinghams architectural history. It includes some of the towns oldest buildings, including most notably the Old Ship Church and the General Benjamin Lincoln House, both National Historic Landmarks. The district takes its name from the large number of Lincolns who were among Hingham&#39;s early settlers.</p><br>
<p>The district features Early Republic, Late Victorian, and Colonial architecture and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Davenport Library is a historic home located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It is a two-story brick structure built about 1830 in the Greek Revival style. The building was altered sometime between 1893 and 1915 after it became a library. It was at this time that Colonial Revival details were added. With creation of a new library on the same campus in 1999, the structure was renamed Magee House after the original builder and owner, US Representative John Magee. It is now home to the Steuben County Historical Society and the Steuben County Historian&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>George W. Hallock House, also known as The Pillars, is a historic home located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It was built about 1847 in the Greek Revival style. Later additions and remodeling in the early 20th century added Colonial Revival elements. Built for prominent local resident and banker George W. Hallock, it was also home to his father-in-law Congressman William Spring Hubbell . It currently serves as home to Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.®.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Barnes House is a historic house at 183 Pine Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story house was built in the 1870s, and is a fine local example of Italianate styling. It is three bays wide, with the first floor left bays taken up by a large projecting bay with four sash windows and a bracketed eave. The windows on the second floor have bracketed cornices, and the front entry is sheltered by a decorated porch with turned posts. The house is further distinctive because it has a surviving period barn/carriage house. The builder was probably Howard C. Barnes, who was in the musical instruments business.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The John P. Cahoon House is a historic home in Murray, Utah, United States. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a significant example of residential Victorian Eclecticism in Murray and as the home for over twenty years of John P. Cahoon, a pioneer in the brick industry in Utah and the western United States.</p><br>
<p>The large, -story brick house referred to in 1902 as "easily the finest home in the county outside Salt Lake City," has remained virtually unchanged since its construction around 1900. Although its Victorian styling is more subdued than that found on many houses in Salt Lake City, this house represents the fullest expression of "high style" architecture, in its community, where the: housing stock consists, mainly, of smaller scale, modestly ornamented cottages.</p><br>
<p>The home has since been purchased and restored by Bill and Susan Wright in the 1980s. It currently is christened the Murray Mansion and functions as a reception center that is coupled with a small chapel next door to handle complete weddings. It has also been included in the Murray Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>John P. Cahoon</h2><br>
<p>John P. Cahoon was the principal founder of what is claimed to be the first commercial brick manufacturing plant in both Utah and the western United States in 1878. Brick played an especially important role in the construction business in Utah because of the scarcity of readily available lumber, and by the start of the 20th century there were several dozen companies competing in the brick manufacturing industry. Under John P. Cahoon&#39;s leadership, his company, incorporated in 1891 as Salt Lake Pressed Brick Company, emerged as one of the most successful in the industry, and Cahoon himself made important contributions to the industry.</p><br>
<p>He was appointed to the War Service Committee on Brick in Washington, D.C. in 1918, and served as an organizer and vice president of the Brick Manufacturers Association of America. Also, under his leadership, his company started the first trade school program in Utah, teaching bricklaying to students. Interstate Brick Company, as it was renamed in 1939, has become the largest company of its kind in the Intermountain West.</p><br>
<p>The Lyman Viaduct is a buried railroad trestle built over Dickinson Creek in Colchester, Connecticut, in 1873. Along with the nearby Rapallo Viaduct, it is one of the few surviving wrought iron railroad trestles from the first generation of such structures. It was built for the Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad, whose successor, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , buried it in the sand rather than replacing it with a stronger structure. The viaduct was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 since it is capable of providing detailed information about construction methods of the period.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lyman Viaduct is located in a rural setting of northwestern Colchester. Its center is about 0.5 mi west of Bull Hill Road on the state-maintained Air Line Trail. It is a wrought iron post deck truss design, 1,112 ft long with a maximum height of 137 ft. The structure consists of bents formed out of three quarter-round rolled wrought iron sections, with flanges designed to facilitate riveted assembly. At the stream crossing point, there are four 30 ft columns. Each tier of the trestle is joined horizontally and laterally to adjacent members. The entire structure is buried in earthen fill and topped by a dense pack of cinder blocks, now somewhat overgrown on the sides.</p><br>
<p>The viaduct was built in 1873 by the Phoenix Iron Works for the Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad, which aimed to provide service between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, via Middletown, Connecticut. The viaduct was one of the largest single capital expenses of the railroad venture, which was beset by cost overruns and failed after just ten years of operation. Taken over by the NYNH&H, the viaduct was filled as a comparatively inexpensive means of strengthening the structure for use by heavier equipment in the early 20th century. The line remained in operation into the 1960s, and has since been adapted as the multiuse Air Line Trail by the state.</p><br>
<p>This trestle and the nearby Rapallo Viaduct, which was similarly buried, were among the world&#39;s first examples of wrought iron railroad trestles, and are the only known ones of that period that are believed to be in good condition, due to their entombment. The only earlier known examples of this technology include the Verrugas Bridge in Peru, begun before these, completed in 1873, and washed away in 1889, and the Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania, later rebuilt in steel. Because records of its construction are incomplete, forensic analysis of the structure (for example, by excavating a portion of the embankment) is expected to provide significant information about its design and construction, in particular how its construction may have deviated from known plans.</p><br>
<p>The Pequot Fort was a fortified Native American village in what is now the Groton side of Mystic, Connecticut, United States. Located atop a ridge overlooking the Mystic River, it was a palisaded settlement of the Pequot tribe until its destruction by Puritan and Mohegan forces in the 1637 Mystic massacre during the Pequot War. The exact location of its archaeological remains is not certain, but it is commemorated by a small memorial at Pequot Avenue and Clift Street. The site previously included a statue of Major John Mason, who led the forces that destroyed the fort; it was removed in 1995 after protests by Pequot tribal members. The archaeological site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The fort was located on top of Pequot Hill along Pequot Avenue just north of the village of West Mystic. In the early 17th century, the Pequots were the largest and politically dominant tribe in what is now eastern Connecticut. In the 1630s tensions rose over a variety of issues between the Pequots and their neighbors, among them the Narragansetts to the east, the Mohegans to the north, English settlers of the Connecticut and Saybrook colonies, and the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The Pequot War broke out in 1636, after English trader John Oldham was found murdered on his boat near Block Island. The Pequots were accused of sheltering the murderers, and one of their villages was burned by a Massachusetts Bay Colony force led by John Endecott.</p><br>
<p>The Pequots responded by making attacks on Saybrook, Connecticut, and other Connecticut communities, to which they latter responded by organizing another expedition. Captain John Mason led 90 colonists and 100 Mohegan Indians, later augmented by a band of Narragansetts, against the Pequot fort at Mystic. In the Mystic massacre on May 26, 1637, this force slaughtered 400 to 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Indian Tribe, and burned the fort. This action put the remaining Pequots to flight, and by the end of the war they had been destroyed as a viable polity.</p><br>
<p>In 1889 a statue of John Mason, designed by sculptor James C.G. Hamilton, was placed on Pequot Hill near the site where the massacre occurred. The memorial included a plaque recalling Masons role in leading the attack on the fort. In the early 1990s, members of the Pequot tribe petitioned for the statues removal, claiming offense at the commemoration of a killer of innocent people, and that its location was ground they considered sacred. After several years of debate, the statue was moved to Windsor in 1996. The circle where the statue previously stood is now home to what the Pequots consider a tree of life.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological site</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological investigation of the summit area of Pequot Hill has yielded numerous Native American and early colonial artifacts, with features that are interpreted as a palisaded village. The finds are consistent with post-destruction documentation of the site from the 17th to 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The Centerbrook Congregational Church, also known as the Centerbrook Meeting House, is a historic church at 51 Main Street in the Centerbrook village of Essex, Connecticut. It is a single-story wood-frame structure resting on a granite foundation, which is set on a knoll on the north side of Connecticut Route 153. The main block was built in 1790, making it the oldest known church in Middlesex County and one of the oldest in the entire state. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Centerbrook Congregational Church is prominently located in the village center of Centerbrook, on the north side of Main Street (Connecticut Route 154) east of Deep River Road. It is a single-story frame structure, with a gabled roof and mostly clapboarded exterior. A square tower projects from its five-bay front facade, rising to a belfry stage with louvered round-arch openings and a pyramidal roof. Portions of the tower, and of the main gable are finished in decorative Victorian shingles. The building corners are pilastered, and windows are topped by projecting cornices.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1790, but has seen numerous alterations in its long history. Originally a plain rectangular structure, it was given Greek Revival features in an 1839 renovation, and the tower was added in 1889. The 1889 renovations also included a substantial remaking of the interior, which is now nearly entirely late Victorian in style. A two-story addition was added to the rear in 1972, adding space for a parish hall, Sunday school, and kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Camp Bethel is a historic Christian camp meeting facility at 124 Camp Bethel Road, overlooking the Connecticut River in Haddam, Connecticut. Founded in 1877, Camp Bethel is one of the few surviving camp meeting sites left in New England. It is owned by the Camp Bethel Association , a non-denominational, evangelical organization and is open to rent. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Camp Bethel is located in southeastern Haddam, just north of the East Haddam Bridge over the Connecticut River. It is accessed via Camp Bethel Road, which runs north from Connecticut Route 82. It is located on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River, surrounded by woods. The main facilities of the camp include a chapel, memorial hall, boarding houses, and a dining hall, as well as more than 40 cabins. Most of these facilities were built between 1889 and about 1920; the dining hall is the notable exception, built in 1992 after the old dining hall burned down.</p><br>
<p>The camp was established in 1877 by the Life and Advent Union, a division of Seventh Day Adventism which split in 1863 (at an Adventist revival camp in Wilbraham, Massachusetts). Functioning mainly at other Adventist camps throughout New England, they located this site as a permanent base on land leased from a local farmer named Clark. It was the third revival camp established in the state, and the first known to be for an Adventist denomination. As with most camps, early revivals were held in temporary structures, mainly tents, including large ones for use as dining and worship halls. In 1964 the camp was formally renamed "Camp Bethel", and its ownership was converted to a non-denominational not-for-profit organization. It is still used as an organizing center for missionary work; its facilities are sometimes leased to other organizations.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Episcopal Church is an historic church building at 50 Emmanuel Church Road in Killingworth, Connecticut, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church society was organized in the mid-eighteenth century and known as the Episcopalian Society of North Bristol (now North Madison) and North Killingworth. In 1800, the society was organized as a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. The society erected the present church in 1803 and it was called Union Church after 1805.</p><br>
<p>The church, located off Route 148, was organized on July 10, 1800, by 19 residents of North Madison (then North Bristol, named after the Bristol family who were founding members of the church) and two residents of Killingworth. The church building was completed and formally consecrated by Bishop Hobart of New York in 1817. The first part-time pastor, Nathan Bennett Burgess, was hired in 1801.</p><br>
<p>The church was slightly enlarged and formally renamed Emmanuel Church, which is Latin for "God is with us", in 1869. The church fell on hard times in the late nineteenth century. The handful of families remaining in the congregation considered selling the building.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. George B. Gilbert, a native of Randolph, Vermont, arrived as pastor in 1909. Gilbert, a graduate of Trinity College and Berkeley Divinity School (now associated with Yale University) who lived in Middletown, had just had a falling out with leaders of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Middletown over his informal style and populist political views.</p><br>
<p>Gilbert revitalized Emmanuel Church, building the congregation and holding picnics that would draw hundreds of people to the remote Killingworth location. During nearly four decades at Emmanuel Church, he also was pastor of the Church of the Epiphany in Durham and St. James Church in Haddam, also in Middlesex County.</p><br>
<p>When the Christian Herald was looking for a "traditional country preacher" to be the subject of a book in the late 1930s, the magazines readers recommended Gilbert as the perfect choice. The autobiography he wrote for the magazine, Forty Years a Country Preacher, was published by Harper and Brothers in 1939. It topped The New York Times Best Seller list for several months and made Gilbert the subject of a photo spread and article in the July 24, 1939, edition of Life magazine as well as an article in Time. Gilberts son, Charles, said his father wrote the book in long hand while recovering from an operation on his foot. The manuscript was typed by his daughter, Virginia Gilbert.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Gilbert, who also was a state representative and chaplain of the state Senate, died in 1948 at age 76. Gilbert said his father was a man who believed that dedicating his life to the church also required a dedication to the least fortunate members of society. Gilbert would take in homeless people and parolees from the old Wethersfield State Prison to live and work at his 25-acre farm, which was located at the intersection of Millbrook Road and Prout Hill Road in Middletown. "He liked to help poor people, that was his bent," Gilbert said. "We always had one or two strangers, people who were down on their luck, living with us."</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Church was down on its luck within a few years after Gilbert&#39;s death. Virginia Gilbert, who worked as the librarian at Woodrow Wilson High School in Middletown, struggled to hold the dwindling congregation together during the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1960s, the church was changed from a parish to a mission to secure additional financial support from the state Episcopal diocese. The aid included installing electricity at the church for the first time, in 1970.</p><br>
<p>In 1980 the church joined the Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry, a regional ministry that for the past three decades has provided rotating ministers for small Episcopal churches in Killingworth, St. James in Higganum and St. Andrew&#39;s in Northford.</p><br>
<p>The construction of a parish hall and kitchen in 1989 brought Emmanuel Church its first indoor plumbing facilities. The congregation had used an outhouse for the preceding 189 years.</p><br>
<h2>Inside the church</h2><br>
<p>The church houses an organ built by the firm Karl Wilhelm Inc. of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. In its design and construction, the organ is true to historic principles, dating back to the seventeenth century. The free-standing self-contained case is made of white oak with hand-carved butternut pipe shades, which are gilded with 22 karat gold leaf. The natural keys are covered with ebony and the sharps are rosewood and plated with cow bone. There are 8 stops of metal pipes which are of tin-lead alloy, that provide an amazing versatility of sounds, from soft to bright and full. The Bourdon 16’ and 8’, played with the feet on the pedal board, are made of wood and are used to play the bass notes. There is a total of 636 pipes.</p><br>
<p>The church also has a single stained glass window and a brass chandelier.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The congregation is Episcopal. The churchs outreach programs include Helping Hands Food Bank, HK Back Pack programs, Welcome baskets for the Albert J. Solnit Childrens Center, Amazing Grace Food Pantry, St. Vincent dePauls Place, Bishops Fund for Children, Heifer International, Lulac Head Start, New Horizons Women&#39;s Shelter, clothing collections for the South Dakota Indians and Mision Divino Salvador in Bogota, Colombia.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Avon Congregational Church is a Congregational Church building at 6 West Main Street in Avon, Connecticut. Built in 1819 for a congregation founded in 1754, it is a high-quality example of Federal period architecture, and one of the finest works of architect David Hoadley. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Avon Congregational Church is prominently located in Avon&#39;s town center, at the northwest corner of Route 44 and 202. It is a two-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a projecting entry section and a multistage tower with steeple. The projecting section consists of three bays, separated by two-story Doric pilasters, with an entry and window above in each bay. It is topped by a fully pedimented modillioned gable. The tower begins with a plain square clapboarded stage, which has a circular panel with a globe motif, and is topped by a low balustrade with urned posts. The next stage is an octagonal belfry with louvered round-arch openings separated by pilasters. The third stage is also octagonal but smaller in footprint, and is capped by a short spire and weathervane. Each of these stages is also surrounded by a low spindled balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was organized in 1754, when the area was still part of Farmington. Its first church building, located on the east bank of the Farmington River, was destroyed by fire in 1817. That congregation then divided, and the present church was completed in 1819 for the western half. The building has been judged one of the finest works of David Hoadley, showing evidence of influence on him by the works of Charles Bulfinch. The church was damaged by fire in 1876, and lost part of its steeple (since restored) in the 1938 New England hurricane.</p><br>
<p>The Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden  is a historic house museum at 9 Main Street North in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The main house was built between about 1754 and 1767 by the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, a prominent Congregationalist minister who played an influential role in the First Great Awakening. The property, the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house and surrounding gardens are owned and operated by Connecticut Landmarks; admission is charged. Another 81 acres of forest and fields adjacent to the museum property are maintained as Bellamy Preserve, the town of Bethlehem&#39;s "Central Park," by the Bethlehem Land Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bellamy-Ferriday House is located just north of the village green in the center of Bethlehem. Its landscaped acreage is screened from the green by mature trees, and is accessed via a drive on Main Street North (Connecticut Route 61). The house consists of a -story main block, oriented facing south, with a two-story ell and modern wing to the north. The main block is roughly square, and is topped by a gabled roof with a central chimney and gabled dormers. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards with corner quoin blocks, and there is a projecting two-story entry section in the rightmost bay. It has a Palladian window in the second floor, and a shallow portico supported by four fluted Ionic columns.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Joseph Bellamy was granted 104 acre of land on the north side of what is now Bethlehem village (it was then known as the North Purchase of Woodbury, incorporated as Bethlehem 1787) in 1738, when he became the North Purchase parish&#39;s first settled minister. Through the 1740s and 1750s Bellamy rose in prominence as one of the leading theologians of the First Great Awakening. The traditional history of this house is that its ell was built about 1754 on land Bellamy purchased in 1741 that stood adjacent to his large tract, and is where his family lived while the main block was built. The ell lacks evidence of a chimney adequate for cooking and heating, however, and it is more likely the house was built and occupied around 1760. Later, Henry Ferriday bought the property; his daughter, Carolyn Woolsey Ferriday, owned it until her death in 1990. Under the terms of her will, the house and several surrounding acres were subsequently turned into a small museum by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, now known as Connecticut Landmarks.</p><br>
<p>The museum features American and European antiques and a formal parterre garden with a collection of roses, peonies and lilacs. A weeping willow on the property once stood at the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte.</p><br>
<p>Reuben Robie House is a historic home located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It was built by Reuben Robie in 1847 and is a 2-story, center-hall Greek Revival–style brick dwelling. The small flat-roofed entrance portico supported by Doric columns was added about 1900. Also on the property is a -story board-and-batten carriage house and a toolshed. It was home to Congressman Reuben Robie .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Delaney Hotel, also the North Hoosick Hotel and Hathaway Hotel, is located at the junction of NY 22 and 67 in the hamlet of Hoosick, New York, United States. It is a large Greek Revival-style building dating to the middle of the 19th century with some later Italianate decoration. Few alterations have been made, and it is a well-preserved example of vernacular interpretations of those styles in a rural building.</p><br>
<p>It was a stagecoach and railroad stop in its peak years. Later owners continued to operate it as a hotel, despite declining business, into the middle of the 20th century. After a period of vacancy and decline, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In the 1980s it was nearly demolished. Recently a new set of owners has proposed to turn it into a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The hotel sits on a 1.5 acre atop a small rise facing the three-way intersection where NY 67 comes in from Vermont to the east and NY 22 comes in from Hoosick Falls to the south, crossing the Walloomsac River just before reaching the hotel. The bridge gives northbound traffic a good view of the hotel&#39;s south (front) facade as it approaches. The two highways run concurrently to the west of the intersection to eventually turn north into Washington County, where they separate again.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a three-and-a-half-story, eight-by-two-bay clapboard-sided frame structure on a stone foundation topped by a moderately pitched side-gabled roof. Brick chimneys rise at either end. At the front and rear rooflines are eaves supported by decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>Dominating the front facade is the full-length two-story porch, recessed under the third story. Both stories feature Stick Style diagonal braces. The second story has sawcut balusters. The third story windows have bracketed crowns.</p><br>
<p>A central double wooden door on the first story serves as the main entrance, with a secondary one on the east facade. Both have wooden surrounds. A similar window to those on the front facade is situated in the east gable apex. There is a two-story addition on the rear giving the hotel a rough "T" shape. Two outbuildings in the rear, once the hotels icehouse and chicken coop, are so badly deteriorated as to no longer be contributing to the propertys historic character.</p><br>
<p>The interior has been extensively altered. The first floor is now entirely open, with its original hardwood floor. The bars in the tavern room, including the intricately carved rear one, remains. An original walnut banister is on the stairs to the second floor, where the walls have old posters of vaudeville performers from the late 19th century. The third floor&#39;s ballroom remains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benajah Burgess, a local farmer, originally owned the land. When he died in 1831, it was divided between his three sons. Three years later, two of them gave their portions to Nairn, the third.</p><br>
<p>The area was slowly beginning to industrialize, and by 1836 there were factories making flannel and scythes in North Hoosick. Around 1850 Nairn Burgess built the hotel on his property to fill the demand for lodging, as many of the workers at the factory were migrants whose families lived elsewhere. It was also a stagecoach stop. A large barn, since demolished, sheltered horses and buggies.</p><br>
<p>Burgess sold the hotel in 1871. After some very rapid transfers of ownership, it became Daniel Randalls property. He in turn sold it six years later, in 1877. It became known as the Eldred House after its new owner, Perry Eldred. In 1894 it was inherited by his young daughter Frances, who had still not attained the age of 21 when the executors of her fathers estate sold it to Chase Hathaway, a major landowner in early 20th-century Hoosick. The building became known as the Hathaway Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, Hathaway sold it to Ida Delaney, a former manager. Her family would own it for over half a century. The areas industrial base declined, and in 1930 the hotels ballroom could no longer be used as a venue for traveling vaudeville acts because it lacked a fire escape. The local economy rebounded slightly, along with the hotel, during World War II when the old factories were used for weapons manufacture.</p><br>
<p>After the war things slowed down again. The hotel was now operated by Ida Delaney&#39;s sons-in-law. Another of her daughters, Anna, had married a wealthy judge and spent most of the summer at the hotel with several servants. Her attempts to bail out the hotel financially led to friction with her in-laws. She inherited the hotel when her sister died in 1964, and eventually sold it, leading to a period of many different owners, none of whom could successfully operate the hotel.</p><br>
<p>It began to decline. In 1974 it was used for some scenes in (1974), starring Horst Buchholz, Ann Wedgeworth and Polly Holliday. Most were exteriors, and the few interiors used were dim, perhaps to conceal the building&#39;s decline.</p><br>
<p>It was in such serious disrepair that by the 1980s Stewart&#39;s Shops was considering buying it and demolishing it to build one of their convenience stores on the property. A petition drive led by a local resident, Dianne Bingham, led the company to reconsider and instead build across the intersection. A Long Island architect bought the property instead, intending to renovate it, but did nothing for several years.</p><br>
<p>Several years later, Larry Stevens, who met and married Bingham during the petition drive, decided to buy the hotel. The couple spent weekends repairing it. They repainted it, reinforced the walls, put in a new septic system and gutted the interior with the intent of opening it as a bed and breakfast for tourists visiting the nearby home of Grandma Moses and Bennington Battlefield. During those renovations, they found late 19th-century posters for vaudeville acts on the second floor, and have kept them there.</p><br>
<p>Erie Freighthouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It is composed of all or portions of seven properties , including the former Erie Railroad freighthouse, various buildings for the sale or storage of agricultural goods, and the former Bath Harnass Company factory.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church of Painted Post is a historic Baptist church located at Painted Post in Steuben County, New York. The church was originally built in 1860 and expanded and remodeled in 1915 by architects Pierce & Bickford after a fire destroyed the mid-19th century building&#39;s tower and spire. The three-part church consists of the main block—a 40 ft, 60 ft, gable-roofed edifice built in 1860 and now containing the sanctuary; the front wing—a 40 ft, 12 ft addition built in 1915 and now containing the foyer and narthex; and a noncontributing rear addition. The front wing features two massive square corner towers surmounted by louvered bell towers and bell curved roofs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Church of St. John the Evangelist is an historic Episcopal church located in the village of Tannersville, part of the town of Hunter in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1885 and is a one-story, one-by-six bay structure. It is built of light frame construction atop partial fieldstone walls on a fieldstone foundation. It features a steeply pitched gable roof with a large square belfry on the ridge. It was designed by architect William Halsey Wood .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the building of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, members of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (also known as the Cowley fathers) held Episcopal services in the Hunter area in local hotels, such as Blythewood, the Laurel House, and the Catskill Mountain House, as well as in the Union Meeting House and a one-room school house on Platt Clove Road.</p><br>
<p>The architect of the church was William Halsey Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hemsley, the parents of Wood&#39;s finance Florence Hemsley and owners of Blythewood, donated the land for the construction of the new church, and also built the road to it, now known as Philadelphia Hill Road. The church opened on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, in early August, 1885, named St. John the Evangelist in honor of the Cowley fathers. Wood and Hemsley wed in the Church on the 19th of November 1889.</p><br>
<p>Wood chose a simple Gothic design for the church, with a "serene and pleasing" vaulted interior and clerestory of wood. While, gifted a substantial oak altar to St. John&#39;s, the new church was not quite finished on its opening Sunday. An article in The Church Standard, dated 19 August 1885 noted, "At that time the windows had yet to be installed, the lathing and plastering were incomplete." Nor did the church yet have its distinctive lotus blossom ceiling paintings.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The new church met not only a spiritual need in the area but also provided a selling point for local hoteliers. The first of many baptisms occurred only days after the church opened, on 16 August 1885. And in the advertisement for Blythewood she posted in the Summer Resorts section of The Churchman, in 1886, Mrs. Hemsley wrote:</p><br>
<p>The ninth season of this elegant resort will begin on June 15th. The house has been entirely rebuilt and refurbished: many improvements made; large, airy bedrooms; more parlors, etc. Steam heat and gas also introduced. The house stands +2000 feet above tide-water and commands a charming view from the piazza of the adjacent mountains and sunset in the Gap. The grounds are well-shaded; fine tennis courts, etc. The abundant table and well-known home-like character of the house have always brought to it the best class of travellers. Good laundry and livery. Railroad station within five minutes&#39; walk. Episcopal church within a quarter of a mile. Telegraph and good mail facilities...</p><br>
<p>Halsey Wood&#39;s brother, Reverend Alonzo Wood, Sr. was among those who celebrated the first Holy Eucharist in 1885, and his family served the church for over seventy five years. He married his brother to Florence, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Hemsley, at St. John the Evangelist on 19 November 1889, the first wedding celebrated there. His three sons, Alonzo Jr. Daniel and Edmund, officiated at the church, as did Reverend Alonzo Stewart. Subsequently, the Rt. Reverend Allen Brown, Bishop of Albany, ministered to the congregation, as did Reverend Leonard J. Sachs, and Reverend John C. Smith.</p><br>
<h2>Local impact</h2><br>
<p>The cool summers of the Catskill mountains attracted wealthy, middle-class vacationers from New York, Philadelphia and other lowland towns and cities. When the railroad reached Tannersville in 1882, the area boomed as a summer resort for the elite.</p><br>
<p>As Field Horne in his history of Greene County noted, “A very different community of summer residents had its start at the same time...Tannersville came to be the center of the private parks, where wealthy and cultured people built substantial cottages in which to spend much of their summer in private surroundings.”</p><br>
<p>The new road up Philadelphia Hill stimulated the building of a small community of summer homes in the 1880s. Although a small farm house and one summer cottage, built in 1884, preceded the opening of the church, four more houses were completed before the end of the decade, including that of Fannie Hay Brand, who later married Reverend Alonzo Wood. While not part of a private community, Philadelphia Hill&#39;s houses share the late Victorian architecture characteristic of Onteora Park Historic District, Elka Park Historic District, Twilight Park Historic District and Santa Cruz Park (the latter two amalgamated into one in 1935), the private resorts established in the town of Hunter between 1882 and 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The church is used in the summer with regular services on Sundays in July and August.</p><br>
<p>The church hosts weddings, baptisms, and memorials. Classical instrumental and voice ensembles also use the church for occasional concerts and recordings. All visitors are welcome.</p><br>
<p>The church is located on Philadelphia Hill Road off County Route 16, 1.1 miles from the traffic light in the center of Tannersville, along the road signposted to Elka Park. The church celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010 with Bishop William Love of Albany the celebrant.</p><br>
<p>Addison Village Hall was a historic village hall located at Addison in Steuben County, New York. It was built in 1906 and is a four-story, greyish brown brick rectangular structure. The facade featured a projecting center pavilion that reaches five stories and is flanked by identical two story, one bay wings. It was demolished in 1994 and the site is now occupied by the Old Village Hall Memorial Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Waiola Church and Cemetery in Lāhainā is the site of a historic mission established in 1823 on the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi. Originally called Waineʻe Church until 1953, the cemetery is the final resting place for early members of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, the church was destroyed by fire and rebuilt, but it was lost again to the 2023 Hawaii wildfires.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first mission to Maui was founded by Reverend William Richards (1793–1847) in 1823.</p><br>
<p>For a few years, temporary structures made from wooden poles with a thatched roof were used. In 1828, island Governor Hoapili supported the building of a stone and wood structure.</p><br>
<p>The Christian church was built adjacent to a pond surrounding an island called Mokuʻula, which was sacred to traditional Hawaiian religion and residence of the king. The first stone building was dedicated on March 4, 1832 and called Waineʻe Church.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Ephraim Spaulding (1802–1840) joined with his wife Juliet Brooks (1810–1898) from 1832 to 1836.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Dwight Baldwin transferred here in 1836, and served as physician, even though trained in theology. The Baldwins rebuilt the house of the Spaldings, which was kept in the family until 1967 when it was made into a museum.</p><br>
<p>Waineʻe (moving water) served as the church for the Hawaiian royal family during the time when Lahaina was the Kingdom&#39;s capital, from the 1820 through the mid-1840s. Several members of the royal family who were initially buried near Halekamani and on Mokuʻula were reburied in 1884 in the cemetery (the first Christian cemetery in the state). A notable aspect of the cemetery is that the missionaries and Native Hawaiians were buried side by side.</p><br>
<p>Another building called Hale Halewai (meeting house) was built a few blocks to the northwest around the same time. In 1855, the congregation built a larger building, calling it Aloha Hale (aloha house), completed in 1858. It was built to celebrate how Baldwin had spared the population of Maui from the smallpox epidemic of 1853. In 1859, the royal government added benches and desks, and used it as a school. In 1862, the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii used it temporarily.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, a fire destroyed the church. A new one was built from donations by Henry Perrine Baldwin, son of the original Baldwin pastor. In the 1950s, a wind storm knocked down the bell tower of Hale Aloha and damaged the Waineʻe Church. A modern church structure was finished in 1953, when the name was changed to Waiola (living water). The bell from the Hale Aloha tower was salvaged for the new church.</p><br>
<p>Hale Aloha was remodeled in 1908, but fell into disrepair, and was missing its roof a floor in 1973 when a restoration was begun by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation. The structure was rebuilt by 1985, and stonework by 1992. A bell tower that was built in 1910 was also restored. A new bell was installed in the Hale Aloha tower in 2009. Hale Aloha is located on 600 Luakini Street.</p><br>
<p>In August 2023, the church building was lost to the 2023 Hawaii wildfires.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church and Hale Aloha are two contributing properties of the Lahaina Historic District, designated a National Historic Landmark District on December 29, 1962.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is pastored by licensed minister Kahu Anela Rosa. Sunday services are at 9:00 a.m. Services are a mixture of Hawaiian and English language and song. The congregation is affiliated with the Hawaii Conference of the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Burials in the cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The tombstones in the cemetery, with death dates:</p><br>
<p>Keōpūolani, September 16, 1823</p><br>
<p>Kaumualiʻi, May 26, 1824 (1825 on monument)</p><br>
<p>Nāhiʻenaʻena, December 30, 1836</p><br>
<p>Kuini Liliha, August 25, 1839</p><br>
<p>Ulumāheihei Hoapili, also known as Hoapili, January 3, 1840</p><br>
<p>Kalākua Kaheiheimālie, also known as Hoapili Wahine, January 16, 1842</p><br>
<p>Kekauʻōnohi, granddaughter of Kamehameha I, 2 June 1847</p><br>
<p>William Richards, November 7, 1847</p><br>
<p>Hornell Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Hornell in Steuben County, New York. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure built in 1894. It was designed by architect Isaac G. Perry. The three-story main structure has a four-story round corner tower. Attached to the main structure are an additional pair of two-story corner towers. Extending from the main structure is a long two-story wing with a gable roof and corner stair tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Hall, located at 805 S. Mathews Avenue in Urbana, Illinois, is an historic building on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Smith Hall is located just off the main quad of campus and is just east of Foellinger Auditorium. The building was constructed in 1917-21 and was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by James M. White and George E. Wright.</p><br>
<p>Smith Hall is known for being the first building on the campus to be completely funded by a private party donation. It was dedicated to Tina Weedon Smith by her husband, Captain Thomas J. Smith. Smith Hall is used for university lectures and music classes, as well as for speakers and performances.</p><br>
<p>In 1996 Smith Memorial Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On August 14, 1913, Captain Thomas J. Smith wrote a letter to Captain Edward Bailey stating that Smith intended to donate about $200,000 to the University of Illinois to build a music building in memory of his wife, Tina Weedon Smith. Captain Smith had been a member of the board of trustees from 1897 to 1903. Smith donated land and money that totaled approximately $480,500 to pay for the building construction.</p><br>
<p>Construction on Smith Memorial Hall began on November 9, 1917 when Captain Thomas J. Smith laid the cornerstone. The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture style by James McLaren White, a professor at the University, and George E. Wright. Final construction on the building was completed in 1920.</p><br>
<p>A 30 percent expansion of the building was in the original plans and was also shown on campus maps until 1930. However, in 1931 the proposed expansion to the building was dropped and the maps never showed the expansion again.</p><br>
<h2>Groundbreaking ceremony</h2><br>
<p>According to the Daily Illini newspaper, the groundbreaking ceremony for Smith Memorial Hall took place on Tuesday October 24, 1916. Captain Thomas J. Smith and President James of the University used a spade to break the ground at the site of construction. The spade, covered in University of Illinois colors, was given to Captain Smith after the ceremony. Captain Smith also gave a speech to the crowd of spectators, faculty, students, trustees, and Glee Club members. During the address, Captain Smith said, "I determined that I would cause to be erected a building to her memory and present the same to the University of Illinois, dedicated to the cause of music for the use of the University musical college for the advancement of the science and art of music, with the hope that it would in a measure bless mankind. From that time I have lived an economical life, to the end that I might be able to contribute to the erection of such a building as would be a credit alike to the memory of the departed loved one and to the University." The speech was followed by a performance by the University Glee Club.</p><br>
<p>Excavation of the land was to be completed within thirty days of the groundbreaking ceremony. The contract was held by Wager & Company of Champaign-Urbana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Smith Memorial Hall houses many different musical performance and practice rooms, the largest of which is the large performance hall, which seats 650 in the orchestra and 450 in the balcony. The acoustics of the large performance hall are controlled by having a period of reverberation of 1.75 seconds when at full capacity, and having provisions in the design to decrease the period of reverberation when the hall was empty.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Room of the Smith Memorial Hall is a lavishly decorated drawing room, with crystal chandeliers. It is often used for chamber music performances and student recitals.</p><br>
<h2>Current uses</h2><br>
<p>Smith Memorial Hall is now used for musical practices and recitals. The building&#39;s large lecture rooms are used regularly, and the small rooms throughout the hall are used by university musicians for teaching and practice. The lecture halls are also used for musical recitals and performances. Many recitals are played in the hall every year, including harpsichord recitals, Doctor of Musical Arts recitals, and performances by university music students and jazz bands.</p><br>
<p>Hornell Public Library is a historic library building located at Hornell in Steuben County, New York, USA. It was designed in 1908 and dedicated in 1911, with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 3,000 such libraries constructed between 1885 and 1919. Carnegie provided $25,000 toward the construction of the Hornell library. It is a one-story, five bay structure built of white pressed brick with masonry trim.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The former USA Post Office in Hornell, Steuben County, New York, United States, is located on Seneca Street. It was built in 1916 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A. Wetmore. It is a neo-Georgian, Colonial Revival style structure. It was vacated by the post office in 1965 and served as offices for the Hornell Board of Education and District Administration until 1989. In 1996 it was purchased by Jerome S. O&#39;Connor, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Zachary Smith Post Office</h2><br>
<p>On August 3, 2010, the new Hornell Post Office, now located at 23 Genesee Street, was officially renamed the Zachary Smith Post Office after Lance Corporal Zachary Smith of the United States Marine Corps, who died in action in Operation Enduring Freedom in January 2010. As part of a USA Postal Service policy, Smith&#39;s name was only allowed on a plaque inside the building. and a dedication ceremony took place on January 28, 2013.</p><br>
<p>World War Memorial Library, also known as Corning City Club, is a historic library building located at Corning in Steuben County, New York. It is a -story brick structure in a combination of the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles. Built in 1897 to house the Corning City Club, it became home to the library and memorial to Corning natives who lost their lives in World War I following a fire in 1926. The original architects were Pierce & Bickford of Elmira, with the later remodeling by Palmer Rogers of New York City.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Northcutts Cove Chapel in Altamont, Grundy County, Tennessee, is one of the oldest chapels of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the southeastern United States.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was dedicated in 1909 by Charles A. Callis who was then, president of the Southern States Mission of the LDS.</p><br>
<p>The building is a wooden-frame structure with a bell tower and spire. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>Benjamin Patterson Inn, also known as Jenning&#39;s Tavern, is a historic inn and tavern located in Corning in Steuben County, New York. It is a two-story, ell shaped frame structure in the Federal style. Built in 1796, it is the oldest frame building in the area and perhaps all of Steuben County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Patterson Inn is a historic house operated as part of the Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes by the Corning Painted Post Historical Society. Visitors can tour the historic tavern room, dining room, kitchen, guest quarters and innkeepers quarters, and view the Societys collection of textile equipment in the Long Room. The Inn grounds also include an 1855 log cabin, an 1878 schoolhouse, a barn with agriculture tools and equipment and a working late 19th-century blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>The Society also operates the Painted Post-Erwin Museum, a museum of local history located in a late 19th-century railroad depot in Painted Post, New York.</p><br>
<p>The David Littell House is a historic house in Hanover Township in the southwestern part of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Built in 1851, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Littell House was erected by the local builders Hayward and Cain on land owned by the Littell family for several generations. William Littell was among the areas first settlers, having received a warrant for the tract of land where the house was built after his service in the Revolutionary War. Littell donated some of his grant for the location of the Service Associate Presbyterian Church and Seminary, which joined the United Presbyterian Church of North America at its formation in 1858. After his death, his son David — a leading member of the Service church — inherited the land. Besides agriculture, the property was the location of a tannery, which was in business at the time of the houses construction, and which was profitable enough to make Littell a rich man. The Littell House remained in the Littell family after David&#39;s death, passing successively into the hands of his son, grandson, and great-granddaughter.</p><br>
<p>Because the names of its builders are known, the history of the David Littell House is better known than that of most rural period houses in its vicinity. In 1986, the David Littell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It received this recognition due to its unique degree of preservation, as it was one of few nineteenth-century houses remaining in Hanover Township and the only one that had survived without major changes. The house was seen as a prime example of local history, as it remained a living example of early nineteenth-century industry and agriculture in the township.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>A Greek Revival house located along Pennsylvania Route 18 near the small community of Mechanicsburg, the Littell House is a typical two-story brick farmhouse of its era. It features a symmetrical house plan with a central hallway and two rooms on each side of the house, each of which has a fireplace and two windows to the front or back of the house. Among its most unusual features is a hallway window on the second story, which includes details built in a way common in houses of the period but quite rare in Western Pennsylvanian farmhouses. The roof was originally flat or slightly sloped; it was replaced by the current gabled roof soon after the house was built. Although the house has been altered in other ways since its construction, these changes have been relatively insignificant — for example, replacing the shingled roof with slates and adding a new front door to protect the interior — and have generally had little or no effect on the house&#39;s historic integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Remainder of property</h2><br>
<p>The Littell property includes four historically significant sites in addition to the house. Littell did not originally build a house at the current location: three previous house sites are located on the same property. Moreover, a group of three pits used for drying hides in the tannery is located near the southeastern corner of the property. Also located on the property are a barn, a garage, an outhouse, and two wooden sheds; as all were built or rebuilt in the twentieth century, they do not contribute to the house&#39;s significance in the way that the previous house sites and the tanning pits do.</p><br>
<p>The Bedford Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building at 4 Church Road in Bedford, New Hampshire. The white clapboard structure was built in 1832 for a congregation organized in 1749 and was for many years the town&#39;s only church. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It is the oldest Presbyterian church building in the state and in the Presbytery of Northern New England.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Bedford Presbyterian Church is on the western edge of Bedford&#39;s dispersed village center, on the south side of Church Road just west of its junction with Bedford Center Road. It is set on a rise, from which it overlooks the rest of the center. It is a -story wood-frame structure with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a three-stage tower: the first stage is square, with clock faces on each side, the second is an open belfry with arched openings, and the third is an octagonal drum with paneled pilasters, which is topped by a gilt cushion and weather vane. The main facade is fronted by a six-column Ionic portico, the columns supporting an entablature and pedimented gable with half-round window at the center. The interior of the church still has most of its original box pews, some having been removed in 1885 to make room for an organ and choir. A modern church hall wing joins the building to an 1880s vestry house.</p><br>
<p>Bedford was settled in the 1730s, by predominantly Presbyterian Scottish and Irish immigrants. As a result, the Presbyterian Church became the towns established religion, unlike many New England communities, which were usually settled by Congregationalists. Although Bedford was not the first Presbyterian congregation in New England (Londonderrys is older by a few years), this church is the oldest Presbyterian church building in the region. The front portico was added in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church of Goffstown  is a historic Congregational church building in the center of Goffstown, New Hampshire, United States. It is a member of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference .</p><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1768, and now meets in its fourth meetinghouse. This wood-frame building, whose oldest portions probably date to 1845, was extensively restyled as a Queen Anne Victorian around 1890 to a design by Manchester architect William M. Butterfield. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and building history</h2><br>
<p>The Goffstown Congregational Church is located in the village center of Goffstown, at the southwest corner of Main and Church Streets. The church is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and an exterior finished in wooden clapboards and decorative wooden shingles. It presents a gabled facade to Main Street, with a tower on the left side, rising two stories to a gabled roof with dormers and a steeple. Entrances are found in the base of the tower, and at the right side of the main block, sheltered by hoods with Stick style woodwork. A third entrance is set in the parish hall, which extends to the left at the back of the main sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1768, and first met in a meeting house in the village of Grasmere. Its second meeting house was built in 1816, and was located on South Mast Street. The present building&#39;s construction history begins in 1845, when a Greek Revival structure was built. It was enlarged in 1869, and in 1882 the gallery was removed and new windows installed. In 1890, the congregation retained Manchester architect William M. Butterfield to significantly redesign the building, resulting in its present appearance. The contractor was William U. Carlton. Few traces remain of its previous Greek Revival appearance, and only minor changes have been made since then to its exterior.</p><br>
<p>The Francestown Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Route 136 in the center of Francestown, New Hampshire. The white clapboarded building was built c. 1801–03, and rebuilt in 1837, at which time it received its Greek Revival styling. It was used as a church until 1987, and for town meetings until 1833. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is now managed by a nonprofit as a community resource.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francestown Meetinghouse is prominently set in the village center of Francestown, on the east side of the triangular junction of Main Street with New Boston and Greenfield roads. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade resembles a Greek temple front, with four Doric pilasters rising two stories to an entablature and triangular pediment with semi-elliptical fan in the tympanum. Its tower has two square stages topped by a steeple, with a town-owned clock in the first stage, and an open belfry in the second, with round-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>Francestown&#39;s first meetinghouse stood near this site, and was built between 1801 and 1803, due to the cost involved to the relatively poor community. It served both Congregationalist and Presbyterian congregations (who shared the publicly funded minister) until 1825, when a new Calvinist congregation objected to a tax-funded minister. The town auctioned off its share of the building in 1833, and its ownership came to the Congregationalists. A schism in the congregation led to court action in 1877, the result of which was the eviction of the congregation by the society that was judged to own the building. The building continued to be used predominantly for religious services until 1987, when it was sold to a local non-profit as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The Goffstown Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic 19th-century center of Goffstown, New Hampshire. Most of the district&#39;s 23 buildings lie on Main Street , in a 0.5 mi running north from the Piscataquog River to North Mast Street . The district also includes properties on Depot Street and Church Street, west of Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Goffstown&#39;s first town center, established when the town was first settled in the 1740s, was in what is now Grasmere Village, east of the present center. A bridge was built near the present center in 1766, to facilitate the movement of felled trees used as ship masts by the Royal Navy, and a gristmill was built adjacent to the nearby falls. The railroad arrived at that point in 1850, after which what had been "West Village" became the dominant village. A town hall was built on Main Street in 1869, which burned in 1937 and a replacement built in 1947. The public library was added in 1901, and is separately listed on the National Register. The district includes a variety of houses, many dating to the early 19th century, and a few commercial buildings along Main Street.</p><br>
<p>In addition to municipal buildings, there are two churches and several railroad-related buildings. The Goffstown Congregational Church, also separately listed, is the fourth meetinghouse for a congregation founded in 1768; it is a wood-frame structure built in 1840 and given a Queen Anne restyling in the 1890s. The Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1889, is an L-shaped wood-frame structure facing North Mast and Summer Streets. There are two train depots: a passenger-only station built in 1880, and now on the grounds of the local hardware store, and an earlier freight-and-passenger station, a utilitarian structure built in 1850 and moved onto Depot Street to make way for the second building.</p><br>
<p>There are two unusual objects in the district. One is a popcorn stand, which has been used during the warmer months since the 1930s, and is now operated by the local Lion&#39;s Club. At the northwest corner of High and North Mast Streets is a 19th-century horse watering trough, which is now used as a planter.</p><br>
<p>The Goffstown Public Library is located at 2 High Street in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The building it occupies was designed by architects Henry M. Francis & Sons and was built in 1909. It is small Classical Revival building built of brick with stone trim, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is one of the finest examples of Classical Revival architecture in the town, with a three-bay main facade whose central entrance projects slightly, and is topped by a pediment supported by Ionic columns.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Goffstown Public Library occupies a prominent position in the center of Goffstown village, at the northeast corner of Elm and High Streets. Oriented facing west, it is a single-story brick building, covered with a slate hip roof and set on a granite foundation. It has a raised basement, separated from the main floor by a stone string course. The building facade was originally symmetrical, having had a sympathetic addition made to the northern end. An entablature encircles the building below the roof line, which is studded with modillion blocks. The main entrance is in a projecting section, capped by a pedimented gable. The entry is set in a recess, flanked by round columns in antis, and framed by pilasters and a projecting cornice.</p><br>
<p>Goffstowns library was founded in 1888 with the donation of 150 volumes by Miss Lucy Rogers. The library was originally housed in Goffstowns town hall (a building that no longer stands), until 1907, when construction was begun on this building. The architect was Henry M. Francis of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who also designed small libraries for Rindge and Jaffrey. The building was formally dedicated in October 1909, and has served as the town&#39;s main library since.</p><br>
<p>The Greenfield Meeting House is a historic meeting house on Forest Road in the center of Greenfield, New Hampshire. The two-story wood-frame building was built in 1795; it is one of a small number of 18th century meeting houses in New Hampshire, and is believed to be the oldest still used for both religious and secular purposes, hosting both church services and town functions. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Greenfield Meeting House is located on a rise overlooking the village center of Greenfield, on the north side of Forest Road between Sawmill and Francestown Roads. When originally built, it was roughly square, with a gallery instead of full second floor, and porches at the gable ends that sheltered stairs to the gallery level. The bell tower was added in 1825, and the gallery level was filled out in 1848. In 1867 the building underwent major alterations: it was rotated ninety degrees and raised two feet, a vestibule was built, and the belltower placed atop it. These alterations transformed the previously Federal-style building into one that resembles a more typical Greek Revival structure. A clock manufactured by E. Howard & Co. was installed in the tower in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1795; its frame and exterior were built by Hugh Gregg, but the joiners of its original interior finishes are not known. The buildings evolutionary construction history gives a distinctive window into changes in taste and usage of meeting houses over time. Its initial form was one that was quite common in the surrounding hill towns, and the 1825 addition of a bell tower was a nod to the growing trend towards towers on religious buildings. The 1848 separation of civic and religious areas was the towns solution to state-mandated separation of church and state, and the 1867 reorientation completed the transformation of the building to a more typical 19th-century church appearance. Interior alterations to the religious sanctuary also echoed trends, including the removal of the high pulpit in favor of a reading desk, and the replacement of box pews with bench pews.</p><br>
<p>The Hollis Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Hollis, New Hampshire. The district is centered on Monument Square, which connects Main Street  to Depot Street and Broad Street. It covers about 400 acre, and extends along all three of those roads for some distance, and includes properties on Silver Lake Road and Ash Street. Most of the buildings in the district are residential or agricultural in use, and date before the turn of the 20th century; the oldest buildings date to the mid-18th century. The "Always Ready Engine House", which occupies a triangular parcel at the western end of Monument Square, was built in 1859, and is the town&#39;s oldest municipal building. Its most architecturally sophisticated building is the town hall, built in 1887 to a design by William M. Butterfield of Manchester. The district represents the growth of a mainly agricultural community over a 200-year period. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The area that is now Hollis was originally part of Dunstable, Massachusetts, and was incorporated in 1740 as "West Dunstable&quot it was renamed "Holles" in 1746 by New Hampshire&#39;s colonial governor Benning Wentworth. It was first settled in 1730 by Peter Powers, who built a house (no longer standing) near 8 Silver Lake Road in the district. The civic portions of the district, including Monument Square, the cemetery, and the site of the first meeting house, were given to the town by Abraham Taylor in 1740, and the Congregational society was organized in 1743. The town reached its pre-20th century population peak about 1800, after which it saw a steady exodus of farmers to better lands in the Old Northwest. In the late 19th century a small number of summer estates were built in the town, but it remained largely agricultural into the late 20th century, when it began to acquire a more suburban character.</p><br>
<p>The Hunt Memorial Library, also known as the John M. Hunt Memorial Building, is a historic former library building at 6 Main Street in downtown Nashua, New Hampshire. Built in 1903, it is a significant early work of the renowned Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram, then in partnership with Goodhue and Ferguson. The Nashua Public Library moved to a new building in 1971. The building is owned by the city and is available for rent for functions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
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<p>The Hunt Memorial Building is located at the northern end of downtown Nashua, at the southeast corner of Main and Lowell Streets. It is a multi-level structure built of brick laid in Flemish bond, with limestone trim. Its three-story square tower is an imposing presence at the upper end of Main Street, with a staircase turret projecting from one corner. The tower has buttressed corners and large Gothic-arched windows, and houses a four-face clock in its upper level. It is topped by a crenellated parapet. The main entrance is located at the base of the tower, in a Gothic-arched opening with heavy oaken double doors with book-leaf panels.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1903, and is an early work of architect Ralph Adams Cram, then early in a distinguished career. Cram was a native of New Hampshire, and was during his career a major proponent of renewed interest in Gothic Revival architecture. The Hunt Building includes good examples of the architectural vocabulary Cram developed for this role. It was used as a library until 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Meetinghouse is a historic house on Monument Square in Hollis, New Hampshire. Built in 1744, its oldest portion is a rare regional example of a Georgian period saltbox house. The structure was extended with a new west-facing facade sometime later, and has seen both residential and commercial use. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Meetinghouse is located on the east side of Monument Square, on the east side of Main Street across Cleasby Lane from Hollis Town Hall. It is a 2½-story wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped plan covered by a cross-gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The oldest portion of the house was built in 1744, and is a rare regional example of a Georgian saltbox-style house. This portion of the house faces Cleasby Lane, and is two rooms deep on the first floor and one room deep on the second. A second block, oriented to face Monument Square, was attached to this house in the 18th century, as were smaller additions to its east side. A number of alterations have been made to the house, notably the addition of bay windows to the western facade, part of an adaptation of the structure for retail uses.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for the Reverend Daniel Emerson, the first settled minister in Hollis, and stands on land that was part of the 40 acre ministerial parcel set aside when the town was planned. Emerson at first occupied a log cabin, which burned in April 1744, and the oldest portion of this house was built in preparation for the arrival of his bride. The Emersons had thirteen children, giving a reason for the increase in the house&#39;s size in the second half of the 18th century. It remained in the Emerson family only until 1820, and has passed through many hands since then. The square-facing bow windows are a late 19th century alteration. Some of the owners are known to have rented out rooms to tenants.</p><br>
<p>The Peterborough Town House is the town hall serving Peterborough, New Hampshire. Located at Grove and Main Streets in downtown, the 1918 building is a significant local example of Colonial Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
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<p>The Peterborough Town House occupies a prominent location in downtown Peterborough, at the southwest corner of Main and Grove Streets. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a gabled roof. The main facade, facing Grove Street, is divided into five bays, which consist of round-arched openings on the first level. The bays of the tall upper level are divided by pilasters which support a modillioned entablature and gabled pediment with oculus window. The building is topped by a small octagonal tower. In the interior, the lower level is taken up by town offices, while the upper level houses a large, high-ceilinged auditorium with a balcony at the front of the building and a stage at the back.</p><br>
<p>The hall was completed in 1918, after the previous town hall (located on the same site) was extensively damaged by fire in 1916. It was designed by architect Benjamin F. W. Russell of Little & Russell, a part-time resident of Peterborough who had worked for architect Guy Lowell. The design resembles that of Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, which is described as a possible inspiration for its features. The building continues to serve its intended function.</p><br>
<p>The Signers House and Matthew Thornton Cemetery are a pair of historic properties in Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. It consists of a house, once owned by Matthew Thornton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the adjacent cemetery in which he is buried. The house is a two-story Georgian style double house, and is the only surviving house of the period in Merrimack. It was owned by Thornton from 1780 to 1797, when he sold it to his son James. The cemetery, located across the Daniel Webster Highway from the house, is also Merrimacks first cemetery, with the oldest gravestone marked 1742.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is now occupied by the Common Man restaurant.</p><br>
<p>According to surviving archival documents, the area was formerly known as Lutwyches Ferry, and the building currently called the Signers House was in fact built by Matthew Thornton&#39;s son Matthew Jr. on the previous location of a farm purchased by Matthew Thornton in 1780 from William Spooner. The previous owner Spooner had obtained the farm and ferry titles somehow from the town, which had seized the property from Col. Edward Goldstone Lutwyche who had obtained ferry rights in 1767. He was a colonel of the Fifth Provincial regiment and a Loyalist. He refused an order to call out his regiment for the battles of Lexington and Concord, and on the night of April 20, 1775, left Merrimack for Boston within the British lines, leaving ownership to his mother Sarah, who remained. Sarah appealed for and was granted restoration of the ferry rights on October 24, 1775, and held them until her death September 7, 1778, aged 77 years. She is buried in Thornton cemetery.</p><br>
<p>On April 14, 1784, records show Thornton needed to petition for reinstatement of ferry rights which again had been confiscated by the town upon the occasion of Sarah&#39;s death. He was successful and sold the rights in 1797 to his son Matthew Jr.</p><br>
<p>Union Chapel is a historic chapel in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Completed in 1887, it has been a center of local civic life since then, and is architecturally a distinctive local example of Stick/Eastlake design. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009,</p><br>
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<p>Hillsborough&#39;s Union Chapel is located in Hillsborough Lower Village, on the south side of Sawmill Road a short way east of the 2nd New Hampshire Turnpike. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation. A square tower projects slightly from the right side of the main facade, with an open belfry capped by a hip roof. Windows are set in groups that share bracketed sills. Those on the front facade are topped by small shed roofs. The windows feature colored glass panes. The interior is finished primarily in varnished woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies Aid Society, a group formed to provide a meeting area and chapel in the Lower Village area of Hillsborough, had the structure built in 1886–7 at a cost of $2,081.38. The funds were raised mainly within the Lower Hillsborough community, with the single largest donation coming from native son Benjamin Pierce Cheney. It was designed by John Jackman, a local architect, and was apparently based on a slightly larger church built by Jackman in neighboring Henniker. The chapel was used for religious services mainly during the warmer months, and has also been a center of community activities since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Weston Observatory is a historic folly on Oak Hill, the high point of Derryfield Park in Manchester, New Hampshire. Built in 1897, the granite tower is a prominent local landmark, given to the city by James A. Weston, a Manchester native who served twice as governor of New Hampshire. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
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<p>The Weston Observatory is located near the center of Derryfield Park, at the summit of Oak Hill, a prominence that affords fine views of the city to the west. It is an octagonal granite tower standing 66 ft tall. Its base consists of several large pieces of cut granite, with the entrance at the west side, surmounted by a lintel engraved with Weston&#39;s name. A heavy cornice encircles the tower at the top of the first level. Most of the tower is rustically finished stone, laid in random coursing that gradually decreases in diameter. The top level is an open pavilion, topped by an octagonal cupola supported by slender metal columns. Narrow windows illuminate the interior of the tower, which houses a circular iron staircase.</p><br>
<p>The tower was built in 1897 by the city using funds bequested by James Weston, and is the only surviving structure related to his life in the city. It was originally open to the public during the warmer months of the year, but was commandeered for military use during the Second World War, and was thereafter used to house police transmitters. It was not well maintained by the city and allowed to fall into disrepair, but has been restored. Now surrounded by an iron fence, it is not normally open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Levi Woodbury Homestead is a historic house at 1 Main Street in Francestown, New Hampshire. With a construction history dating to 1787, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture. The house is most significant as the only known surviving structure that has a significant association with statesman Levi Woodbury , who had a long career as a successful politician and jurist. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
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<p>The Levi Woodbury Homestead occupies a prominent location in the town center of Francestown, on the west side of the triangular junction of Main Street with New Boston and Greenfield Roads. It has a 2½-story main block with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. A 1½-story wing extends to the north. The east (street-facing) is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by pilasters, which rise to an entablature and fully pedimented gable. The south facade, only three bays wide, has a similar entrance at its center. The interior retains many original finishes, most dating to the early 19th century when the building underwent major changes.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house, now part of a wing of the main house, was built in 1787. The house was expanded in stages, reaching its present configuration c. 1832. The house is most significant as the only known surviving structure that has a significant association with statesman Levi Woodbury. Woodbury had a long and distinguished career in state and national politics, serving on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as Governor of New Hampshire, in several positions in the United States Cabinet, and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Woodbury was born in this house, and operated his law practice out of this house 1813–19. The house remained in the Woodbury family until the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The County Farm Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge in Wilton, New Hampshire. Built in 1885, it carries Old County Farm over Whiting Brook, just south of its northern junction with Burton Highway in a rural section of northwestern Wilton. It is an unusually late and well-preserved example of a 19th-century stone arch bridge, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
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<p>Old County Farm Road was the main access road to the Hillsborough County Poor Farm, and is now an unmaintained class 6 road. The bridge consists of a single stone arch with a span just under 18 ft. It is lined with cut granite voussoirs 18 in thick. The arch begins on land 7 ft above the water, and the arch rises to a height of 15 ft above the typical water level. The arch is embedded in a causeway which is 430 ft long and has a base width of 29 ft.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1885 for the town by the Ward brothers of Lowell, Massachusetts, at a cost of $3,000. The Wards were well known for work they did on railroad bridges, which often employed stone arches. Stone for the bridge was quarried in Wilton, from a quarry that also supplied granite for public works projects in the town center. The bridge has been little altered since its construction: the arch was originally dry laid, but a number of joints in the barrel of the arch have subsequently been mortared with concrete.</p><br>
<p>The Amherst Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Amherst, New Hampshire. Centered on the towns common, which was established about 1755, Amherst Village is one of the best examples of a late-18th to early-19th century New England village center. It is roughly bounded on the north by Foundry Street and on the south by Amherst Street, although it extends along some roads beyond both. The western boundary is roughly Davis Lane, the eastern is Mack Hill Road, Old Manchester Road, and Court House Road. The district includes the Congregational Church, built c. 1771-74, and is predominantly residential, with a large number of Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival houses. Other notable non-residential buildings include the Farmers Bank, a Federal-style brick building built in 1806, and the Amherst Brick School, a brick Greek Revival structure that has served as the School Administrative Unit 39 offices since 1997.</p><br>
<p>Amherst was surveyed in 1735, and settled by veterans of King Philips War from Massachusetts. Its first colonial meeting house was built in 1749 on a hill northeast of the village common, and was moved to the common after the town was incorporated in 1760. Several houses, including one originally used as a tavern, that were built in its immediate area in 1750 are still standing. Amherst was the first shire town of Hillsborough County (organized 1769), and was located roughly midway between Boston, Massachusetts and Lake Champlain, and it flourished economically. The present town hall was built in 1825 as the countys third courthouse. The town entered a decline when the people began leaving for more fertile lands in the American Midwest, and when the town was bypassed by significant industrialization. In 1862, the county functions were moved to the growing industrial centers of Nashua and Manchester.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Canaan Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Canaan Street in Canaan, New Hampshire. Built in 1794, with some subsequent alterations, it is a good example of a Federal period meeting house, serving as a center of town civic and religious activity for many years. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, The building is still owned by the town, and is available for rent.</p><br>
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<p>The Canaan Meetinghouse is located at the southwest corner of Canaan Street and Apple Blossom Road, overlooking Canaan Street Lake to the east. It is a 2½-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A square tower projects from the short front side, rising 53 ft to a clock stage and open octagonal belfry. The current main entrance is at the base of the tower, framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature; the original main entrance is located at the center of the long south side, with a slightly simpler surround. The interior is outfitted with bench pews, a replacement for the original box pews, and the gallery level has been covered over to provide a full second story.</p><br>
<p>The Federal-style building was constructed for use as a church in the mid-1790s. It was also used for town meetings from an early date, and was purchased by the town in 1829, at which time it was reoriented to have the entrance on the short end. Originally built with projecting stairwells on the short sides, one of the stairwells was mounted on top of the other to create the tower after the town bought the building. In 1841 the upper gallery was converted to a full second floor, intended for use as a church space by the local Baptist congregation.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a historic church at 45 Chapel Lane on the campus of Holderness School in Holderness, New Hampshire. Built in 1884 to a design by Charles Coolidge Haight, it is a prominent regional example of Gothic Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
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<p>The Chapel of the Holy Cross occupies a prominent location near the center of the Holderness School campus, separated from New Hampshire Route 175 by the school&#39;s athletic fields. It is a single-story brick building, with its long axis oriented east-west. Its main entrances are on the long south side, the eastern one set facing east in a projecting brick vestibule, and the western one sheltered by a wooden porch. The vestibule extends further to a square three-stage tower, which is topped by an octagonal steeple and cross.</p><br>
<p>The masonry Gothic Revival building was built in 1884 to a design by Charles Coolidge Haight. It was paid for by a gift from Sarah Titus Zabriskie. The building has undergone only modest external changes since its construction, the most notable being the 1957 enlargement of the organ wing on the north side to accommodate an organ the school had acquired from the Castle in the Clouds estate. The chapel&#39;s 19th century stained glass windows (maker unknown, but speculated to be the New York studio of J & R Lamb) were replaced in the 1930s and 1940s, in part by original windows by the studio of Charles Jay Connick, and in part by windows that had been removed from the All Saints Church in Peterborough, and adapted to their new location by Connick.</p><br>
<p>The Dorchester Community Church is a historic church building off NH 118 in Dorchester, New Hampshire. Built in 1828 and rebuilt on a smaller scale in 1883, it is a well-preserved local example of Greek Revival architecture. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,</p><br>
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<p>The Dorchester Community Church is located in the historic town center of the rural community, at the junction of North Dorchester and Town House Roads, a short way northwest of New Hampshire Route 118. It is set on the north side of a small green, alongside a district school and the 19th-century town hall. It is a single-story frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A tower rises above the roof, with a square first stage, and an open octagonal second stage, which is surmounted by a small dome and weathervane. The main facade is three bays wide, with pilastered corners. The main entrance is at the center, flanked by pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. Windows are rectangular sash, with shutters on the sides and shallow projecting cornices above.</p><br>
<p>The vernacular Greek Revival church was built in 1828 on Thompsons Hill, and was originally known as the South Meetinghouse. With its enrollment in decline, the church was moved in 1883 to be adjacent to the town hall, at which time it was disassembled and rebuilt at a smaller scale. In 1940, funds were raised locally for the buildings restoration and electrification. It is maintained by a community organization and continues to be used for services.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal church, located in a small cemetery on New Hampshire Route 175 in Holderness, New Hampshire. Built in 1797, it is one of only two surviving 18th-century buildings in the state that was built as a church . It is also the only major surviving structure associated with the life of Samuel Livermore, a prominent New Hampshire statesman and jurist. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is maintained by the cemetery&#39;s association, and is occasionally used for services.</p><br>
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<p>Trinity Church is located in a rural setting in northwestern Holderness, on the grounds of Trinity Cemetery on the north side of New Hampshire Route 175. It is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A hip-roofed entry vestibule projects from one end, and a shed-roofed pulpit section projects from the opposite end. Unlike most early New Hampshire buildings used as churches, it follows a traditional Anglican church layout, rather than that of the colonial meeting house that was more typically built with entrance and pulpit on the long sides of the building.</p><br>
<p>The church was constructed in 1797 with most of its funding from Samuel Livermore, a prominent early settler of Holderness and a New Hampshire statesman who lived nearby, and is buried near the church in the cemetery. It was built on land owned by Livermore, and remained in the familys ownership until 1854, when Arthur Livermore Jr. deeded it along with the adjoining burying ground to the Trinity Church Yard Cemetery Association for one dollar. The association has owned and maintained it ever since. The churchs congregation declined in size in the mid-19th century, and it is now only used occasionally for services. The nearby Holderness School opened with a sermon in Trinity Church on September 11, 1879, and it served as the school&#39;s chapel until 1884, when a new church was built on its campus. The school still holds annual services here.</p><br>
<p>The Littleton Town Building, also known as the Littleton Opera House, is a historic municipal building at 1 Union Street in Littleton, New Hampshire. Built on a steep embankment overlooking the Ammonoosuc River in 1894–5, it is a good example of a Late Victorian municipal building, which continues to serve that purpose today. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
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<p>The Littleton Town Building occupies a prominent position at the eastern end of its Main Street, standing at the southeast corner of Union and Cottage Streets on a lot fronting the Ammonoosuc River to the south. It is a wood-frame structure presenting five stories to its rear (facing the river) and three on the front, owing to the steeply sloping lot. Its most prominent feature is the six-sided tower rising above its northwest corner. It is covered by a truncated hip roof, with a wooden parapet encircling the central flat roof. The main roof eave is lined with brackets, with gabled wall dormers on the two street-facing facades. There are two primary entrances on the Union Street facade, each sheltered by Stick style gabled hoods supported by large triangular brackets. Windows on the upper level of the theater section have rounded tops.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Howard & Austin of Brockton, Massachusetts, and was completed in 1895. When built the structure housed all manner of municipal services, including fire, police, library, and town offices. The east end of the building is taken up by the opera house, a multi-galleried auditorium with a seating capacity of 750. It was originally used by a local concert organizer, and continues to serve as a major local venue for theatrical and musical events.</p><br>
<p>The Asbury United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on NH 63 in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. It has been termed the "mother church of Methodism in New Hampshire", and is home to the state&#39;s oldest continuously running Methodist congregation, organized in 1795. The building, constructed in 1844, is a prominent local example of Greek Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Asbury United Methodist Church is located in the town center of Chesterfield, on the east side of New Hampshire Route 63. It is a 1½-story wood-frame structure, rectangular in shape, with a gable roof, and a tower rising from its front (northwestern) facade. The main facade is divided into three bays by four pilasters, with entrances on the two outer bays and a window in the center. An uncovered porch extends across the facade, with a latticework railing and a broad centered stair. The tower is a two-stage square structure, the lower stage with corner pilasters, and the upper (which houses the belfry) with paired pilasters matching those on the facade.</p><br>
<p>Methodism first began to be preached in southwestern New Hampshire in 1793 by Jesse Lee, and developed a following sufficient to organize a congregation by 1795. The first Methodist circuit was known as the "Chesterfield circuit" since it was based here. This organization at first met in local homes, schools, and other church buildings, prior to the construction of this church. It was built in 1844 by contractor Oscar C. Coolidge, and bears stylistic design touches characteristic of the early works of Ammi Burnham Young, a native of Lebanon, New Hampshire.</p><br>
