<p>Old Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church at the junction of Vermont Route 12 and Gilead Brook Road in Bethel, Vermont. Built in 1823, it is a well-preserved Federal period church, lacking modern amenities such as electricity and plumbing. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is used for services only during the summer.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Old Christ Church stands on the east side of Vermont Route 12 in what is now a rural area of northern Bethel. It is just north of Gilead Brook, with a cemetery standing behind it. The church is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A square tower rises above the roof line, with a simple first stage topped by an open belfry. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances, each flanked by pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. Above each doorway is a sash window, topped by a corniced lintel. The gable end is fully pedimented, with a half-oval window at the center of the gable. The interior has a vestibule with stairs leading to a choir loft, and features original box pews in the main sanctuary. It no longer has its original raised pulpit, which was probably removed during renovations in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The town of Bethel was chartered in 1779, and an Episcopal congregation including the town was organized in 1794. It met for nearly twenty years in a variety of facilities, mostly those of its parishioners or of a schoolhouse that stood on the site of the present church. This church was built in 1823-24 by Colonel David Warren on land donated by Simeon Chase, who spearheaded the drive for its construction. It is one of Vermont&#39;s finest examples of a pure high Federal style church. Enrollment declined as churches in town centers were built, and the building was sold in 1852 to a Methodist congregation. It was repurchased in 1871 by the Episcopal congregation meeting in Bethel village, which continues to use the building for summer services.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Episcopal Church is a historic church building at Bridge Street and Vermont Route 14 in Royalton, Vermont. Built in 1836, it is a prominent early example of Gothic Revival architecture in the state, and is one of the oldest surviving public buildings in Royaltons historic village center. Now deconsecrated and maintained by the Royalton Historical Society, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Pauls Episcopal Church stands on the east side of the junction of Bridge Street and Route 14, near the center of Royaltons historic early village center. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. A three-story square tower projects from the center of the front facade, topped by a flat roof with a broad bracketed cornice with a balustrade above. The belfry stage features Gothic-arched louvered openings. The main entrance is in the base of the tower, framed by pilasters and a cornice. A small trinity window is set above the entrance. The interior space, although now missing some of its religious trapping due to its deconsecration, retains a number distinctive 19th-century features, including stencilwork on the walls and cornice, an 1840s pipe organ, and kerosene light fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1836, and was probably based on plans supplied by John Henry Hopkins, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and an early proponent of the Gothic Revival style. Its c. 1842 organ was built by William Nutting, Jr., a self-taught organ maker from nearby Bethel. Much of the building&#39;s stained glass dates to the 1880s and later, when the interior underwent some restyling to meet Victorian fashion trends. The congregation was always relatively small, and typically shared a minister with other nearby churches. Public outcry stopped one call for its deconsecration in the early 1970s, but it was finally closed by the diocese in 1996. The building was then acquired by the Royalton Historical Society, which maintains it as a community resource.</p><br>
<p>The Eureka Schoolhouse is a historic school building at 470 Charlestown Road  in the Goulds Mill village of Springfield, Vermont. Built in 1785, it is the oldest surviving schoolhouse in the state. It is the centerpiece of a small historic site operated by the state. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Eureka Schoolhouse stands between Vermont Route 11 (to the south) and the Black River to the north, in the dispersed rural setting of Goulds Mill, southeast of the Springfield&#39;s main village center. It is a small single-story structure, built out of hand-hewn timbers and covered by a wooden shingle roof. Its walls are finished in rough-cut wooden boards, scored to resemble cut stone. A brick chimney rises from the rear right corner. The front facade, facing south toward the road, is three bays wide, with the entrance in the left bay, and large sash windows in the other two.</p><br>
<p>The school is believed to have been built in 1785, and is the oldest known schoolhouse in the state. It underwent a series of alterations over the 19th century, and was closed in 1900. It stood vacant and abandoned for many years, and was carefully disassembled by preservationists and stored in 1958. In 1968, it was reassembled to its original configuration (as best it could be determined from extant records) at the present site, which also includes the relocated Baltimore Covered Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Black River Academy is a historic school building on High Street in the village of Ludlow, Vermont. Chartered in 1835, the school served as the town high school until 1938. The present building, a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built in 1888, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 for its architectural and historic educational significance. It presently houses the Black River Academy Museum, operated by the Black River Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Black River Academy building stands on the south side of High Street, a short way west of the Ludlow village green. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of load-bearing brick set on a granite foundation. It has a gabled roof with projection hip-roofed sections, and a four-story tower at one corner, topped by a truncated pyramidal roof. Windows are of a variety of sizes, but are generally set in round-arched openings. Bands of cut stone provide horizontal emphasis. The main entrance is in a deep recess under a round-arch opening. Roof lines of the main roof and tower feature corbelled brickwork at the eave.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Black River Academy was chartered in Ludlow in 1835 and operated as a school, serving as the Town of Ludlows public high school until 1938, when a new school was built. The original academy building burned early in the schools history, and the school operated in a church for 44 years until this building was built in 1888. Notable alumni of the Black River Academy include USA President Calvin Coolidge; Rotary founder Paul P. Harris; John Garibaldi Sargent, who was USA Attorney General during Coolidge&#39;s presidency; Vermont Governor William W. Stickney; United States Senator Ernest Willard Gibson; Vermont Supreme Court Justice William H. Walker; and author and historian Abby Maria Hemenway. After the school moved out, the building was used for a time as a convalescent home.</p><br>
<p>Since 1972, the building has housed the Black River Academy Museum, a museum of local history.</p><br>
<p>The Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery is located at the junction of NY state highway 343 and Church Street, in the village of Millbrook, New York, United States. The meeting house, the third one on the site, was built by a group of Friends  from the Cape Cod region, Nantucket and Rhode Island in 1780.</p><br>
<p>It was the largest meeting in the Hudson Valley, and many other meetings split off from it. Unusually, it was located near a developed area, and the Friends in it were more prosperous than their co-religionists elsewhere in the region. Its size and use of brick, along with several other architectural features, are unusual for meeting houses.</p><br>
<p>Attendance at meetings dwindled over the course of the 19th century, and in 1897 control of the property was turned over to the Nine Partners Burial Ground Association. It is still used for occasional Quaker events, and is well preserved from the days of its regular use. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a Multiple Property Submission of Quaker meeting houses in Dutchess County.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The meeting house and cemetery are located on a 9 acre lot at the northeast corner of the road intersection. The undulating terrain slopes up gently towards the northeast. The surrounding properties are similar large lots, some wooded and others cleared, used for residential purposes.</p><br>
<p>There are four contributing resources on the property. The meeting house itself is located at the southeast corner, with the cemetery taking up the north and west. Behind the meeting house are a garage and shed, both modern and non-contributing, with a contributing well and pumphouse closer to the cemetery. In front of it is a sundial, a contributing object. A fence with brick entrance gates runs along Route 343.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house is a two-and-a-half-story four-bay structure with load-bearing brick and masonry walls on a stone foundation topped with a gabled roof pierced by brick chimneys at either end. Outside dimensions are 43 8" (524 in) wide by 60 5" (725 in) long and 35&#39; 1½" (421.5 in) tall. The walls are 22¾" (22.75 in) thick. The bricks are laid with two stretcher course and one header course with half-inch (13 mm) joints of the original lime mortar.</p><br>
<p>All facades feature double-hung sash windows with white louvered shutters.</p><br>
<p>They are 12-over-12 pane glass except on the lower north wall, where they are 8-over-8. Most of sashes contain the original glazing. Two plain wooden doors give entrance between the windows on either end. Arched brick lintels are used over the windows and doors. The sashes, doors, sills, shutters and frames are original, made of cypress wood.</p><br>
<p>The interior is one large room, divided into two chambers width-wise with counterbalanced, sliding wooden partitions through the middle of both floors. The doubled style meeting house design, first used by the Buckingham Friends Meeting House in Buckingham, Pennsylvania, allowed for the separation of sexes during worship services, as was the custom of the day. Each chamber has rows of wooden benches arranged around a central area, including an elevated Facing Bench where Weighty Friends would sit. A feature unique to Nine Partners among meeting houses in the area is the vestibule created later by building a lengthwise interior wall along the south side.</p><br>
<p>In the central area there is a wood stove placed on a stone hearth and an oil lamp mounted on a post. Interior walls are original horsehair plaster and unpainted paneling. Wooden interior columns are rounded rather than chamfered as in other meetinghouses in Dutchess County.</p><br>
<p>The second floor consists of a balcony, supported by the same post and beam framing as the roof, forming a gallery looking into the central area of each first floor chamber, divided in the same manner as the first floor. There is a provision to place wood planks over the gallery opening to the first floor, separating the second floor from the first floor completely. The chimneys do not transition through the meeting area to the ground level, but rather are supported by the summer beam (lengthwise support beam) in the attic. This was done to preserve the meeting space below intact.</p><br>
<p>With few exceptions, such as the placement of one lengthwise interior wall creating the above-mentioned vestibule, gutters added in the 1970s, composite shingles on the roof introduced the following decade, and basic repairs and maintenance, the structure remains unaltered from is original state. There has been no retrofitting of electrical, plumbing or central heating.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The earliest graves are unmarked and occupy a hillside adjacent to the corner of Church Street and route 343. The earliest grave marker with a death date is from 1807. The cemetery is administered by Lyall Memorial Federated Church and is one of two still in use in the Village of Millbrook.</p><br>
<p>Those graves closer to the meetinghouse are strictly those of member Friends from the early years of the meeting. As such they reflect Quaker aesthetics enough that that section of the cemetery is considered a contributing resource to the National Register listing. Later on, further away, burials were accepted from other faiths, introducing other funerary art customs. That portion of the cemetery is not considered contributing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From the 1740s, Quakers had been settling in the area of Mechanic, today known as South Millbrook. They began meeting in each other&#39;s homes. There were enough that by 1744, the quarterly meeting at Purchase in Westchester County set up a new monthly meeting for Dutchess County, called the Oblong and Nine Partners Meeting, given the common names of their general locations. It alternated its meetings each month between the Oblong house in Pawling and a log meeting house on the six acres (2.4 ha) where the present meeting house stands. It was replaced with a larger one in 1751 as the meeting grew.</p><br>
<p>In 1767, the meeting began considering whether slavery was compatible with Christianity, one of the first instances of an American congregation taking up the question. In 1688 The Germantown Quakers (along with some of their Mennonite converts) had drafted an anti-slavery petition. The Oblong and Nine Partners meetings were separated two years later after they had both acquired enough members to justify separate organizations. They both decided that they could not accept slaveholders or any who profited from slavery as members or financial supporters, and continued to work to convince local slaveowners to free those they held. Through the Civil War, the Nine Partners Meeting and School was known to coordinate the Underground Railroad activities in Dutchess and Columbia counties.</p><br>
<p>The log meeting house was replaced with a larger one was destroyed by fire on December 27, 1778. A committee was established in April of the following year to build a more permanent structure, measuring approximately 40 by. It was designed collectively by the meeting members.</p><br>
<p>The large brick meeting house was built in 1780 at more than twice its originally budgeted cost, possibly due to the members inexperience in bricklaying. The bricks were made a short distance directly south of the building on a farm known as Altamont Stock Farm which was the property of H. Howard Davison. The choice of brick was an unusual one for a Quaker meeting house, reflecting the greater prosperity of the meeting members and their location in a less remote area, along the Dutchess Turnpike that is today the route of US 44. Quakers from other meetings who visited found the Nine Partners Friends and their meetinghouse somewhat worldly.</p><br>
<p>The success of the Nine Partners meeting helped the Society grow in the Hudson Valley. Several other meetings in the county were started within it as preparative meetings, and outside the county it led to the establishment of the Cornwall meeting in Orange County, still active today, along with meetings as far away as what is now Canada. It soon became a quarterly meeting.</p><br>
<p>Situated to the east and slightly uphill was the former store of Samuel Mabbett, a somewhat strayed Friend and known to be a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War. In 1796, the Nine Partners Meeting purchased the store and converted it to the Nine Partners Boarding School. The school enrolled up to one hundred students at a time and stayed in service until 1863, when the students transferred to the Oakwood Friends School (then known Oakwood Seminary at Union Springs,) in Poughkeepsie. Among its alumni were Lucretia Mott and Daniel Anthony, father of Daniel and Susan B. Anthony. Within a few years of closing, the former school building and land was purchased by John D. Wing, a former student of the school. The school building was moved to the top of the hill and became a part of his estate house.</p><br>
<p>In 1826, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers.The Hicksite branch retained use of the brick meeting house and cemetery, while the Orthodox Quakers retained the school and built their own smaller meeting house between the school and the brick meeting house. This structure remained in place until 1882, when it was removed to the Village of Millbrook. In 1897, the brick meeting house and cemetery were turned over to the Nine Partners Burial Ground Association, ending Quaker ownership of the site. The Nine Partners School would eventually change location and become what is now Oakwood Friends School</p><br>
<p>The Nine Partners Monthly Meeting continues as a part of the New York Yearly Meeting. The meeting house is used during the summer months. During the winter, the meeting is held at the Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Building,  is a historic building in Billings, Montana, United States, that was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as Masonic Temple.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant for its architecture as a good example of the second Renaissance Revival style, designed by the well known Montana architectural firm of Link and Haire. The Temple is also significant because it reflects the importance of the Masonic Order in the early community social life in Billings, Montana, and for its collective associations with many of the most notable men involved in the community&#39;s development at the turn of the century."</p><br>
<p>The building was sold in 2003 to Michael and Rebecca Gray and houses their advertising agency, G&G.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 it was an educational building of the Montana State University-Billings, Urban Institute. In October 2016 it became a bookstore.</p><br>
<p>The Kenton Hotel is a historic hotel in Portland, Oregon. It was built in 1909, added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1990, and identified as a contributing resource in the Kenton Commercial Historic District when the district was added to the National Register on September 3, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was first built by the Swift Meat Packing company in 1909. Since the building deteriorated from the 1970s to the 1980s, it was almost demolished in 1990. However, owing to its history, it was kept and added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Kenton Historic District is a national historic district located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in the crossroads community of Kenton. Except for a few houses that date from the early settlement of the crossroads at the end of the 18th century, most of the buildings in the district date from the last half of the 19th century and more specifically from the 1870s and 1880s. The oldest buildings are the Wilds-Prettyman House  and the Wilds-Cooper House . Other notable buildings include the Kenton Methodist Church , Brick Lodge, Thomas Lamb House , Guessford House , and Queen Anne style "Spindle and Spool" House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Moses-Kent House is a historic house at 1 Pine Street in Exeter, New Hampshire. Built in 1868 for a prominent local merchant, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Victorian residential architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Moses-Kent House stands southwest of the town center of Exeter, at the southwest junction of Linden and Pine Streets. It occupies a large lot, more than 5 acre in size, of which about 2 acre are landscaped. The main house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof, granite foundation, and an exterior finished in wooden siding scored to resemble ashlar stone. It is predominantly Second Empire in its styling, with strong Italianate influence. Its most prominent feature is a three-story tower with mansard roof and windows whose molded surrounds match those of the main mansard roof. The property includes a surviving 1868 carriage house. The interior of the house is well-preserved, retaining features from its construction, and from a later early 20th-century renovation.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1868 by Henry Clay Moses, a local wool merchant, who purchased two lots and demolished the buildings standing on them to make way for it. Moses hired architect Rufus Sargent of Newburyport, Massachusetts to design the house, and landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland was hired to lay out the grounds. Moses was known locally for his philanthropy, and opened portions of the property to the public as a park. It underwent significant alterations c. 1901-02 after it was purchased by George Kent, owner of the Exeter Manufacturing Company. The landscaping of its grounds are conjectured without evidence to have been influenced (directly or indirectly) by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted.</p><br>
<p>The Jonas Cutting&ndash;Edward Kent House is a historic house at 48-50 Penobscot Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1836–37, it is one of the city&#39;s most unusual and elaborate examples of Greek Revival architecture. Built as a duplex, its first owners and occupants were Edward Kent, mayor and a future Governor of Maine, and his law partner, Jonas Cutting, a future Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cutting-Kent House is located just in a residential area just northeast of Bangor&#39;s downtown, at the northwest corner of Penobscot and Pine Streets. It consists of a large two-story wood frame main block, to which additions have been made to the rear. The main block has elaborate and distinctive Greek Revival styling. Its front facade (facing south toward Penobscot street) has four bays recessed behind matchboarded walls headed by Doric pilasters. The first-floor bays have fluted Doric columns at each side, topped by carved wreaths. The center bays house the two unit entrances, and the outer bays have full-length windows; these all have flanking sidelight windows, and the window bays have wrought iron railings across the front. The upper-level window bays also have ornate railings across the bays. The first floor of each side has a rounded window bay topped by a railing similar to the second-floor railings of the front. There is a dentillated cornice line between the floors and above the second floor, with a frieze board above that is punctuated by window openings covered with painted metal grillwork. The roof is a low-pitch hip roof. The rear additions added to each unit date to later in the 19th century, and are not as architecturally sophisticated.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1836-37 for Edward Kent, then mayor of Bangor, and Jonas Cutting, his law partner. The house is of a sophistication that was typical of the residences of the citys elite lumber barons, and is believed to be stylistically unique in New England. Kent went on to serve two terms as Governor of Maine (1838–40), and Cutting was appointed to Maines highest court in 1859 after serving the nation&#39;s diplomatic corps.</p><br>
<p>Stone House on Kentucky River is located in Prestonville, Kentucky. It was built in 1835 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is located on Kentucky River. It is a five bay, two-story, central passage, dry stone house, about 22x46 ft in plan, built in about 1835. It has a two-story, two bay ell built at the same time.</p><br>
<p>It is one of two known dry-stone houses in Carroll County. It was deemed notable as "a good and rare</p><br>
<p>example of the transitional Federal/Greek Revival period."</p><br>
<p>The Fort Kent Railroad Station is a historic railroad station at Main and Market Streets in Fort Kent, Maine. It was built in 1902 by the Fish River Railroad, a line that was used in service until 1979. The station is now home to a museum operated by the Fort Kent Historical Society, dedicated to the local history of the railroad and its influence on the region. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fort Kent Railroad Station is located at the northeast corner of Main and Market Streets (United States Route 1 and Maine State Route 161 respectively), between Market Street to the west and the railroad track to the east. It is a long rectangular single-story wood frame structure with a gable-on-hip roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete foundation. The stations east facade has a projecting telegraphers bay, large baggage doors to the south, and windows and doors for the ticketing area and waiting room to the north.</p><br>
<p>The station was opened in 1902 by the Fish River Railroad, which was later absorbed into the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. The railroad&#39;s arrival had a major economic impact on the regions, enabling the shipment of its products (principally lumber and potatoes) to distant markets. By the 1970s the railroad was in decline, and in 1979 the station was given to the Fort Kent Historical Society. Of the stations built by either railroad, this one is among the best-preserved. Its interior has been converted into a museum space dedicated to local rail-related history, and is generally open during summer months.</p><br>
<p>The North Shore Sanitary District Tower is located in Rosewood Park, Highland Park, Illinois. It was built in 1931 to provide ventilation for the local sewer system. The brick tower is 50 ft tall and topped by a spire. The tower features Art Deco elements, including the spire and its stone door trim and windowsills; the application of a formal architectural style is unusual in a purely functional building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The tower is featured on the cover of the album Oceania by The Smashing Pumpkins.</p><br>
<p>The Evanston Towers are a historic apartment building located at 554&ndash;602 Sheridan Square in Evanston, Illinois. It was built in 1924 and designed by Anthony H. Quitsow. The E-shaped building was designed in the Tudor Revival style and has two courtyards, a crenelated tower on the north side, entrances with Tudor arches, and limestone decorations. Early advertising for the apartments billed them as "among the finest in Evanston" due to the building&#39;s design, amenities, and views of Lake Michigan.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Hofmann Tower is a tower in Lyons, Illinois. It was built in 1908 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Hofmann Tower is featured prominently in two books written by Rose Marie Benedetti and Virginia C. Bulat entitled Lyons: A history of a village and area important for 300 years (1959) and Portage, pioneers, and pubs: A history of Lyons, Illinois (1963).</p><br>
<p>George Hofmann, Jr., a local brewer built a dam on the Des Plaines River to generate electricity. He also built the adjacent tower as part of a park that attracted visitors to picnic and ride boats.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s, Rose Marie Benedetti and Maureen S. Kiener worked closely with the preservation efforts of the Village of Lyons Historical Commission to have Hofmann Tower designated a village and state landmark and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Western Springs Water Tower is a museum and former water tower in Western Springs, Illinois. The water tower is considered a symbol of Western Springs by residents, and multiple businesses and local organizations have taken their names from the tower. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Population growth in Western Springs during the late 19th century caused the natural springs after which the town was named to dry up. With the loss of this water source, it became clear that a new waterworks system was needed to support the growing population. The village hired brothers Benezette and Edgar Williams as well as Ethan Philbrick, all civil engineers residing in Western Springs, to design a new waterworks system.</p><br>
<p>Western Springs Water Tower was constructed as part of this system in 1892 on a triangular plot of land, donated Collins family, known as "Block A" (now Tower Green). The entire system was built at a cost of $79,119, a considerable sum at the time. 156 carloads of Naperville limestone were used in the construction and hand cut on site. Thousands of red bricks were used for the upper portion of the tower.</p><br>
<p>The tower was the village&#39;s water storage until a new water tower was constructed in 1962 in Spring Rock Park. The village services all relocated out of the tower in 1957. It remained vacant until the Western Springs Historical Society opened a museum in the tower in 1970 following extensive renovations.</p><br>
<p>On August 30, 1991, a lightning strike set the towers roof on fire and punctured the water tank. About half of the roof was destroyed and water from the firefighting caused significant damage to the towers interior. Most of the valuable historical artifacts in the Tower Museum were saved by the fire department. The museum reopened in 1993 after extensive rehabilitation efforts.</p><br>
<h2>Structural features</h2><br>
<p>Western Springs Water Tower has three floors and a basement. The tower is 112.5 ft tall and 36.5 ft in diameter. The limestone is 6.5 feet (2 m) thick at the base of the tower and thins to about three feet (0.9 m) thick at the top of the stone portion. The brick portion, which housed the water tank, is about 1.5 feet (0.5 m) thick. The capacity of the water tank was 169,000 gallons (639,735 liters). The tower is an example of Romanesque Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Benson Water Tower was a water tower located on Clayton Street in Benson, Illinois. The tower was built in 1891, in response to several serious fires in Benson; it supplied the village with water until 1985. The tall brick tower had a large wooden water tank on top. The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It has since been demolished, and was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The round, red brick tower was 65 ft tall with a base diameter of 16 ft that tapered to 14 ft at its top. The bricks used for the tower were made in Bensons own brickyard. The tower was topped by a 20 ft tall redwood water tank; steel bands held the tanks wooden planks together. The tank held 15,000 barrels of water when full and was connected to the ground by a 6 in diameter supply pipe. Ladders allowed access to both the inside and outside of the tower, and a catwalk surrounded the barrel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Benson experienced major fires in its business district in 1884 and 1889, hindering its development as a commercial center. In response, citizens petitioned the village for improved fire protection, and the village commissioned the water tower in 1891. Fitchen Brothers Construction built the tower for $6,400, or approximately $ in present-day terms. The new water tower led to economic and population growth in the village as new houses and businesses received a steady water supply from the tower. The tower also provided water to farms in the surrounding area, who transported water from the city to supplement their wells, as well as to steam trains on the Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern Railroad. Due to the towers height, it became a town landmark that could be seen for miles. The water tower provided the villages water until 1985, when a new water tower was constructed.</p><br>
<p>The water tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1987. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Kalamazoo State Hospital Water Tower is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was built in 1895 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. It is located on the grounds of the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital was founded in 1859 and soon became a landmark in American medicine. Buildings on the grounds were Thomas Kirkbride and Samuel Sloan, nationally renowned hospital architects. The buildings they designed were reminiscent of medieval designs. In 1895, architect William B. Stratton from Detroit was commissioned to design a water tower on site. Stratton was instructed to come up with a structure that would complement the medieval feeling of the other buildings on the hospital grounds. Construction was completed in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The tower has been struck by lightning multiple times, and the roof was eventually replaced with copper sheeting. The structure was earmarked by the State of Michigan for demolition in 1974. However, a local committee called the Committee to Save the Tower launched a campaign to raise public funds to restore the tower.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The tower is 175 feet tall. The base stone blocks are five feet high; above this point the tower is made of bricks. It is approximately 50 feet wide at its widest point. The outer shell tapers from six feet thick at the base to four feet at the top. The tower has three water storage tanks inside. The main tank is 40 feet high and 40 feet in diameter and can hold more than 200,000 gallons of hard water. Two smaller tanks flank the main tank and hold soft water. Above the tanks is a "look-out" structure with a steeply pitched roof covered with copper sheeting.</p><br>
<p>The Butterworth Building or Butterworth Block at 1921 First Avenue in Seattle, Washington was originally built as the Butterworth & Sons mortuary, which moved into this location in 1903 and moved to larger quarters in 1923. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; adjacent to Pike Place Market, it falls within the NRHPs Pike Place Public Market Historic District and the citys Place Market Historical District. Now owned by the McAleese Family since 2005.</p><br>
<p>The building was the citys first purpose-built mortuary building. The building had the first elevator on the West Coast of the United States, used to transport bodies. The basement, accessible through Post Alley at the rear, is now (as of 2009) home to Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub. Several recent accounts describe the Kells space as the former embalming room and crematorium, but the 1904 account says that the basement housed the buildings heating plant, stables, and a storage space for funeral wagons.</p><br>
<p>The building is associated with several ghost stories. In 2010, the building was featured on an episode of Ghost Adventures.</p><br>
<h2>Original configuration</h2><br>
<p>In the original configuration of the building, the upper floor consisted of three flats for employees of the firm. This floor was accessed by a separate entrance at the south end of the First Avenue façade. The next floor below contained a showroom for coffins (caskets), a separate showroom of child-sized coffins, a room of womens burial garments, and a private reception and consulting room. The main showroom of coffins had a view out the back to Elliott Bay. The 35 caskets on display in August 1904 were priced from US$25 to $200; garments ranged from a $4 robe to other garments costing as much as $125. These wide ranges of prices were typical of an establishment that intended to serve everyone from the poor to the citys wealthiest families. By policy, those who wished to remain with the bodies of their dead between encoffinment and obsequies were allowed to use the private rooms without additional charge.</p><br>
<p>The next floor down was the main floor facing onto First Avenue. The floor contained private offices, morgues, an embalming room, and a "utensil room" to store canopies, pedestals, rugs, laying-out beds etc. These rooms were accessed through the main entrance. A separate door to the north led to a vestibule and a funeral chapel with a main floor capacity of 150 and 50 in the balcony, as well as a separate choir balcony. An adjacent room for use of clergy and family had a capacity of about 15, and connected to a "retiring room", basically a full bathroom. The room for the use of clergy and family had a private entrance separate from the entrance to the chapel itself. Also on the first floor was a special "best show room" with particularly fine caskets; even in 1904 some of these ranged in price as high as $890.</p><br>
<p>The next floor down—below the First Avenue grade, but still above grade on Post Alley—contained a "stock room" with fireproof vaults in which bodies could be stored more or less indefinitely. The 1904 Seattle Mail and Herald account described these as "so much needed in Seattle when people are undecided as to the disposition of the dead", and up to the time of the construction of this building there was no such thing to be had in the city. The basement, level with Post Alley, housed the building&#39;s heating plant, stables, and a storage space for funeral wagons.</p><br>
<p>Since 1983, the basement and stock room (now private banquet room) has been home to the McAleese family&#39;s Kells Irish Restaurant and Pub.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel H. and Isabel Smith Elkins House is a historic home in Columbia, Missouri. The home is located just north of Downtown Columbia, Missouri on 9th street and today contains an artisan glassworks. The large two-story brick residence was built about 1882 in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is located within the North Village Arts District.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Brothers Mule Barn, also known as Rader Packing Co. Bldg. and Diggs Building, is a historic structure built by L.W. and B.C. Wright located at Columbia, Missouri. It is located in an industrial area north of Downtown Columbia, Missouri. The -story masonry building was Mid-Missouri&#39;s leading mule facility in the 1920s. Today the building has been restored and renovated and offices and lofts.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Columbia station is a historic train station and headquarters of Columbia Transit located in Columbia, Missouri. The building was constructed in 1909 as the terminus of the Columbia Branch of the Wabash Railroad . It is a one-story, H plan, Tudor Revival style building constructed of locally quarried rock faced ashlar cut stone. In 2007, the building underwent renovation and restoration and was expanded to accommodate offices for Columbia&#39;s public transportation. The project, costing over $2.5 million, was intended to make the station a multi-model transportation center. It was certified at the LEED  Silver Level, meaning it meets national standards for energy efficiency and sustainable construction. The station is the busiest bus stop in Columbia and served as a pickup point for Megabus until September of 2015.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as the Wabash Railroad Station and Freight House. It is located in the North Village Arts District.</p><br>
<p>The Barth Hotel, also known as the Union Warehouse, is located in Denver, Colorado. It was built in 1882 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1980, it was the oldest continuously operated hotel in Denver.</p><br>
<p>It has also been known as the Union Hotel, the New Union Hotel, the Elk Hotel, and the New Elk Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It is a four-story building with a 50x125 ft plan, designed by Denver architect F.C. Eberley. Its first floor is 18.33 ft from floor to ceiling. Originally the hotel occupied the top three floors; only later was a hotel lobby was added in the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The Peters Paper Company Warehouse, in Denver, Colorado, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988. It was built in 1899, expanded in 1915, and served as a paper company warehouse until 1942.</p><br>
<p>It is a four- and five-story building with a post and beam structural system and with facing of beige brick. It has a pressed metal cornice and a flat roof. The original part, built in 1899, is four stories, and fills two lots. A 1915 addition on a third lot on the north side has five stories but is the same height, and is tied in by the cornice and by windows having the same design. The construction of both parts was designed and/or supervised by architects Gove and Walsh.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Tobacco Warehouse is a historic warehouse building located in Louisville, Kentucky. The two-story brick structure was built in 1892. It was first occupied by John W. Brown & Brothers Tobacco Company.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It has a two-story arched entrance for vehicles, with three narrower round-arched window bays on each side. The building is "representative of the architecture of the many tobacco warehouses built after the 1890 tornado."</p><br>
<p>The Gerrish Warehouse was a historic 18th-century warehouse, located on Pepperrell Cove in Kittery Point, Maine. Built c. 1710, it was one element of the Pepperrell familys shipping empire, notably run in the mid-18th century by Sir William Pepperrell. Converted into a ship chandlery in the 19th century, it was sold to the Maine Maritime Museum in 1976, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The museums plan to move the building by barge to a new location was judged infeasible, and it was subsequently demolished after the museum had recovered its contents. It was removed from the National Register in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gerrish Warehouse was located on the southern shore of Kittery Point, off Pepperrell Road (Maine State Route 103) just beyond the cemetery of the First Congregational Church. The building was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation, and measured about 35 x. It had large doors at its northern and southern facades, the south (water-facing) ones of simple boards, those facing north paneled. It had sash windows, with interior shutters that slid into place. Its floors consisted of plain floorboards, with access to the upper level gained by ladder stairs.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was built c. 1710, and was one part of the large shipping empire of the Pepperrell family, whose most famous member was Sir William Pepperrell, who led colonial military forces in the successful 1745 Siege of Louisbourg and was knighted for this success. Pepperrells descendants, Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, had their properties seized by the state and sold off. In 1797 the warehouse came into the hands of Robert Follett, whose daughter married William Thompson Gerrish. The Gerrishes converted the building into a ship chandlery, finally selling it to the Maine Maritime Museum in 1976. Although the museum developed plans to move the building to a more secure location (its foundation was being undermined by tidal erosion), these plans were not realized, and the building was subsequently demolished; its contents remain at the museums location in Bath.</p><br>
<p>Rochester Fire Department Headquarters and Shops is a historic fire department complex located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The Rochester Fire Department is IOS rated tier one, meaning it&#39;s the best in the country. The complex incorporates two structures: the headquarters building and shops building. The Headquarters Building is triangular in plan and is two stories in height and of buff-colored brick construction with light-colored stone trim. The Shops Building is irregular in plan, two stories and built of the same buff-colored brick as the Headquarters Building. Both structures were constructed in 1936 and incorporate glass block construction and feature Art Deco detailing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Grand Bay Historic District is a historic district in Grand Bay, Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the district comprises twelve acres and the three remaining original buildings from Grand Bay&#39;s central business district. The buildings include the former Freeland General Store, Grand Bay State Bank, and a small commercial building. The site was once the central business hub of the town and included an L&N passenger station, railway freight station, numerous packing houses, and additional general mercantile businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Freeland General Store</h2><br>
<p>Freeland General Store was owned and operated by Albert Freeland. The building, a traditional two-story white frame structure, became the centerpiece of the town&#39;s commercial district. A prominent member of the community, Freeland was elected County Commissioner in 1918. He remained active in local and state politics until his death.</p><br>
<h2>Grand Bay State Bank</h2><br>
<p>Grand Bay State Bank was incorporated in 1912. It remained in business until 1930. The bank occupied a two-story red brick building at the corner of Freeland Lane next to Freeland General Store.</p><br>
<p>Shingleside is a historic home in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It was constructed in 1898–1899 and is an L-shaped, -story, wood-framed, wood-shingled, gambrel-roofed house. It was designed by noted local architect Claude Fayette Bragdon in a style influenced by the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Lick Run Plantation is a historic home and related outbuildings located at Bedington, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The complex consists of a two-story stone dwelling, stone kitchen, and stone barn and corn crib. They were built after Peter Light purchased the property in 1770. Also on the property are a log house built before 1770, and the stone Bedinger Mill. The mill building was built about 1816.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Hill Plantation, also known as Van Leer Place, is a historic stone farmhouse located near Glen Moore in West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>Home</h2><br>
<p>The original structure of two stories and three bays was built by Matthew Robinson or Robertson, probably before the American Revolution. He died in 1792 and left the house to his son David. Around 1800, it was sold to the Lewis brothers, John and Samuel. They were probably responsible for the addition of two bays on the west side of the house at this time. Local tradition associates the house with a tavern, possibly at this time; however, if so, it was never licensed to dispense liquor. In addition to their reputed tavern-keeping, the Lewises also opened an iron mine on the farm. They lost the property in 1824 when it was sold by the sheriff to Isaac Wayne Van Leer.</p><br>
<p>Van Leer, a grandnephew of Anthony Wayne, was the son of William R. Van Leer, a local ironmaster and grandson of Samuel Van Leer a Captain in American Revolutionary War. Isaac Wayne was a progressive agriculturalist and horticulturalist. Isaacs renovations were influenced by his familys estate on the Reading Furnace. He enlarged an existing structure into a barn soon after purchase and replaced the old log kitchen with a new addition to the house in 1843. Van Leer also added gilt paint and other fashionable touches to the house. He called upon friends and family from other states to help plant rarities and build an arboretum. His grandnephew, George Howard Earle III (later Governor of Pennsylvania) was born at the house in 1890. After Van Leer&#39;s death in 1896, the condition of Pleasant Hill deteriorated, particularly when it was rented out during the 1930s and eventually ransacked. It was restored in 1948 and remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Hill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Donegal Mills Plantation is a historic grist mill complex located at East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the mill, mansion, millers house, and bake house. The mill was built in 1775, and is a three-story building. The original section of mansion was built before 1790, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. The mansion was expanded about 1820, with a frame kitchen wing, and about 1830, with a stone two-story addition. It features a full-length, two-story, porch supported by five brick and stucco columns. The millers house was originally built about, and is a -story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. It was expanded to its present size about 1830. The bake house is a two-story, gable roofed frame building. The property was auctioned in May 2010.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Tulpehocken Manor Plantation, also known as the Ley Home, is a historic property which is located near Myerstown, Jackson Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975, the building now serves as the headquarters of the Hanover Rifle Battalion, Revolutionary War re-enactors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A historic home which was awarded National Register status on May 12, 1975, the Tulpehocken Manor Plantation is tied to both the late 18th century mass emigration of German Palatines to the American Colonies and to George Washington, the first President of the United States through its association with the Ley family, whose patriarch, Christopher Ley (1695-1745), came to America from the German Palatinate in 1732. A recipient of an early to mid-1700s land grant from the sons of William Penn near what is, today, Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Christopher Ley quickly began to improve that land and build a life with his wife, Barbara. Among their nine children was son Michael Ley (1739-1824), who first met United States President George Washington as a boy, a relationship which would continue well into Michael Ley&#39;s adult years.</p><br>
<p>Still residing in the vicinity of Myerstown during his 20s and 30s, Michael Ley then became the owner of his fathers land after paying 680 pounds for it on November 6, 1760. Nine years later, he finished building his own residence there. An eight-room, two-story mansion, it was initially designed in a Georgian style, and would ultimately come to be known as the Tulpehocken Manor Plantation. It was also where he would raise a family with his wife, Eva Magdalena (Lower) Ley, who was a daughter of Christian Lower (1740-1806), a blacksmith who became actively involved in the American Revolution and served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Their children included son Christian Ley (1762-1831), who would also go on to serve in the Pennsylvania House from 1799 to 1802, and would also later build another of Pennsylvanias historic homes, Nutting Hall.</p><br>
<p>Within a few short years, Michael Leys residence (Tulpehocken Manor) would come to be known as a place of relaxation for President Washington, most notably during three trips that Washington made to Lebanon County between 1777 and 1794. During the first, Washington traveled to Leys home from Valley Forge, where the Continental Army was encamped, for a brief respite from his military command duties. On two subsequent visits, he specifically visited the property to inspect work on four locks that were under construction there as part of Pennsylvania&#39;s Union Canal system.</p><br>
<p>Despite the close connection with Americas first President and Michael Leys own service as an officer in the Continental Army, the Ley family underwent serious financial hardships following the Revolutionary War. Having spent significant sums of money to support Washingtons troops during the war and then having also lost heavily when their coal industry speculations failed post-war, they were forced to repeatedly mortgage their property until finally losing it in a sheriffs sale in 1834 to Conrad Loos. Loos then subsequently transferred the home and land to his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, Cyrus Shark. Their daughter, Eliza, then became the owner during the 1880s after her husband, Samuel Urich, purchased the property. During their tenure of ownership, they remodeled and enlarged the residence into a 27-room Victorian manor house with a mansard roof, a process which took place between 1883 and 1885. Subsequently, purchasing two houses and land to the east from the Spangler family, they also then bought a small frame house on the western side of the property in 1886. That small building then became known as the Cyrus Sherk Pipe Smoking House.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, the Urich family sold the buildings and land to John S. Nissly; his daughter, Esther E. Nissly; and James Henry.</p><br>
<p>The Tulpehocken Manor Planation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975. From May 2 to May 3, 1997, the entire contents of the inn and plantation were sold at auction by James G. Cochran, Auctioneer, of Boonboro, Maryland. According to pre-sale newspaper advertisements that were published in February 1997, "The contents of the twenty-seven room Michael Ley Mansion, the guest houses and outbuildings on the 160 acre plantation include a sulfur inlaid walnut Kas dated 1771; painted architectural corner cupboard with glass doors; a Charles Cooner-Lebanon tall case clock; a painted mantel and pediment dated 1769 and all original to the home; painted benches; fireplace and cooking items; over 50 quilts; oriental, hooked and braided rugs; over ten walnut Victorian bedroom sets; many marble top tables; a mohair Victorian parlor set and other sofas and chairs; Victorian cellerette; ornate walnut organ; wall clocks; chandeliers and lamps; gilded pier mirrors and overmantels; hall trees; towel racks; many nice paintings and prints; a double silhouette of Mr. and Mrs. Mier - founders of Myerstown; stoneware; china and glassware; carriages; farm equipment; vehicles; tools and many other items not mentioned" (which were subsequently printed in the auctioneer&#39;s catalog for the sale that was released on March 15, 1997).</p><br>
<p>Tulpehocken Manor currently serves as the headquarters of the Hanover Rifle Battalion, Revolutionary War reenactors.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and grounds</h2><br>
<p>In addition to the manor house, which was initially constructed in the Georgian style as an eight-room, two-story mansion, and then remodeled and enlarged in the Second Empire style in 1883, the property is home to 18 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures, including a small gambrel roofed dwelling known as the Cyrus Sherk House, a mid-19th century stone bank barn, numerous sheds and other farm outbuildings, a seven-seat outhouse, a large stone quarry, and the ruins of four locks from the Union Canal which were built in 1794.</p><br>
<p>Buckmeadow Plantation House was a historic plantation house located along LA 2, about 5 mi northwest of Lake Providence, Louisiana. It was built in 1840 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was a "large, rambling, brick and frame, Carolina I house which was built in three stages between about 1840 and 1930." It was built in about 1840 with two rooms on each floor and a one-story front gallery around sides and front. When listed the house retained wooden Greek Revival mantels and square brick gallery posts from this era. It was expanded by addition of a second frame I-house and otherwise modified in the late 1800s. It was renovated again in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The house was removed from the National Register on December 28, 2015, after the land owner demolished the whole area, over the summer of 2015.</p><br>
<p>Chatchie Plantation House, also known as Homewood, is a historic Louisiana plantation house located along LA 308, about 3.6 mi east of Thibodaux.</p><br>
<p>The original house, built in 1847, burned near the end of Civil War. The actual structure is a -story fully raised frame house built in. The original kitchen, unharmed by fire, was included in the present building. The main gallery has six Doric posts and the house has an unusually large attic space, comprising four rooms and a central hall.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Mary Plantation House is located on the Mary Plantation, downriver from Braithwaite, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was begun in 1795 and expanded to its current form in 1820.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Situated on the east bank of the Mississippi River, the building is the oldest house in Plaquemines Parish. Although the early history of the location is uncertain, according to one architectural historian a house was built on the site in about 1795. It was significantly enlarged in the 1820s, and it went through a number of owners.</p><br>
<p>Eric Knobloch, a Tulane University botanist, and his wife bought the property in 1946, restored it, and opened it for tours. The plantation house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1983. After the Knobloch couple&#39;s deaths, their heirs sold the house in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Plantation House was put up for auction in 2012 and sold for $770,000 (~$ in ).</p><br>
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<p>Arlington Plantation House  is an historic home located at 56 E. Main St. in Franklin, Louisiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a 3 story Greek Revival style house, designed and used as a single dwelling, and is undoubtedly the most widely recognized historic archetype of the southern states. It was built around 1830 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is now offered as a wedding and events venue and for overnight stays.</p><br>
<p>Moro Plantation House is located in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It is just north of Louisiana Highway 566, three miles west of USA 65 & three and one half miles west of Waterproof, Louisiana. It was built in about 1839 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Greek Revival plantation house in delta farmland facing Muddy Bayou near the Mississippi River. It was built as a central hall plan with brick on the ground floor and frame construction on the upper story. It has "outstanding interior woodwork", the finest in the parish, in its four upper story main rooms.</p><br>
<p>Crescent Plantation is located on Walnut Bayou, Madison Parish, Tallulah, Louisiana. It was originally built in 1832 but a main section was constructed in 1855. The plantation was the home of doctor D.M. and Elizabeth DeMoss Dancy from 1855 until after the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Crescent Plantation was renamed The Ellis Place in 1902 when the patriarch of the Elder Family died and left ownership to Annie Clark Ellis. Ellis was a Black Woman. The Ellis Place housed, employed, and educated former slaves. She owned The Ellis Place until 1936, when her husband James (Eugene) Ellis was murdered by a violent mob of white people who then chased her and her children off of the land. The Ellis Place was then renamed to the former name, The Crescent Plantation.</p><br>
<p>The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A sawmill was erected and cypress was cut from the land and the main plantation house was built on the banks of the Walnut Bayou by Dancy slaves.</p><br>
<p>Houston, Texas businessman Gus Worham, that founded American General Corporation, went into real estate business with Sterling C. Evans, that had a long involvement with Texas A & M University. The two bought and sold distressed ranch properties and plantations in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Among these were the Little Eva Plantation in Chopin, Louisiana (near Natchitoches, Louisiana), where they raised (and exported to Russia) Santa Gertrudis cattle and hybrid pecans. They also acquired Randle Lake Plantation in Milam County, Texas, Bear Lake Plantation in Tallulah, Nine Bar Ranch in Cypress, Texas, and the U Bar Ranches in Medina County, Texas and Hidalgo County, New Mexico, as well as the Crescent Plantation.</p><br>
<p>Evans set his daughter Dianas husband up in a real estate development in Charlotte, North Carolina, and went into the grain elevator business with Lyndalls husband in Tallulah, and sold him Crescent Plantation.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The name of the original builder in 1832 has been lost but from 1855 there is considerable information. The front of the two storied structure has eight doric columns with a wide balcony on each floor. Thomas F. Ward owned the plantation up to 1915, and after that as late as 1936, George W. Patterson.</p><br>
<p>In 1936 it was recorded that there had been some changes to the original design. The roof had been replaced with one of galvanized tin, a restroom had been added, a kitchen in the rear wing, as well as sheds and barns to house modern equipment.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War</h2><br>
<p>During the Civil War the plantation was reportedly saved from being "sacked and burned" because Mr. Dancy had a very sick female family member in the house and Union officers would refuse to burn the house with her in it.</p><br>
<h2>Publications</h2><br>
<p>Henry C. Dethloff wrote extensively about Gus Worham, Sterling C. Evans, Texas A&M, and Louisiana, to include</p><br>
<p>Sterling C. Evans: Life, Learning, and Literature, and</p><br>
<p>Our Louisiana Legacy (an examination at how Louisiana culture has affected the nation), and archives of his publications can be found at the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M.</p><br>
<p>The Calumet Plantation House, in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana near Patterson, Louisiana, was built around 1830, modified c.1850-70, and further modified around 1950. The house was originally part of a forced-labor sugar plantation and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The house was deemed architecturally significant "as an example of a very successful conversion and major enlargement of an early nineteenth century cottage sized house into a mid-nineteenth century large plantation house."</p><br>
<p>Montrose Plantation House is a Greek Revival-style plantation house built in about 1880 which is located in Madison Parish, Louisiana, on Louisiana Highway 603 about 6.5 miles SE of Tallulah. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "locally significant in the area of architecture because it is a rare surviving example of a Greek Revival plantation house within the context of Madison Parish. Montrose is a relatively late, provincial example of a modest size Greek Revival plantation house. This can be seen in the five-bay gallery with its simple posts and entablature, as well as in the mantels, the plan, the basic form, and the central front doorway."</p><br>
<p>Palo Alto Plantation is an historic mansion located at the corner of LA-1 and LA-944, along Bayou Lafourche in Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. It was built in c.1847 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1977. The architecture is an Anglo-Creole type Louisiana plantation cottage decorated in Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded owners of the plantation were Pierre Oscar Ayraud and his wife, Rosalie Rodriguez, who acquired the house from succession of Rosalie&#39;s father, Mathias Rodriguez, in 1852. The house is thought to be designed by architect, James Dakin based on its style.</p><br>
<p>This house was subject to multiple painting by French-born artist, Marie Adrien Persac (1823–1873).</p><br>
<p>The plantation house is a -story building on brick piers with a twelve-foot-wide porch set under the roof line. The window panes of the house are more than 170 years old and contain etchings with names and initials, and it is said to be how the family would check if their engagement diamond rings were real. The doorknobs are lower than a modern home, because the average height of people was shorter.</p><br>
<p>In 1860, the Lemann family purchased the home, and as of 2019 it is still owned by the family and used as a bed and breakfast and for events.</p><br>
<p>Scottland Plantation House is located in Tallulah, Louisiana. It was built in 1860 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Scottland Plantation was the home of Thomas B. Scott, the first sheriff of Madison Parish. The house was bought and restored by Lt. Col. (ret.) Porter Johnson. Lt. Col. Johnson had served in Iraq during 2010–2011 with the Army&#39;s Strategic Effects Branch, and he was involved in the restoration of war-damaged historical sites. He bought Scottland Plantation after his return to his hometown. His scope of work included replacing the roof and repairing windows.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant View Plantation House is located in Oscar, Louisiana. It was built around 1820 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is Creole in style, one of 193 buildings in Pointe Coupee Parish identified in a study of older buildings. It is further, however, "one of a distinct group of eight large Creole plantation houses which, architecturally speaking, represent the apex of the Creole style in the parish. This can be seen in the following:</p><br>
<p>Pleasant View is a full two stories high, unlike the normal one story Creole cottages found in the parish,</p><br>
<p>It features brick between posts construction, (The vast majority of the parish&#39;s Creole houses have plain frame walls with no infill.)</p><br>
<p>It features pre-Greek Revival details such as turned gallery columns and Adamesque mantels. These details which are associated with the Creole style do not occur often In the parish. Most of the so-called "Creole" buildings of Pointe Coupee Parish are Creole in plan and configuration only. Typically they feature Greek Revival, Victorian, or bungalow details."</p><br>
<p>It is located in Oscar on the south side of Louisiana Highway 1, in from the south bank of False River.</p><br>
<p>Clarendon Plantation House was a historic plantation house located about 1.3 mi west of Evergreen, Louisiana. The house was built in 1842 by Jonathan Koen, and was enlarged in 1890 with several minor changes to its structure.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was demolished in May 1991, and was delisted on July 22, 2016.</p><br>
<p>Washington Street Rowhouses are a pair of historic rowhouses located in Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The two-story, three-bay, brick row houses were built about 1840 in the Greek Revival style. They have pitched roofs, interior end chimneys, applied wooden cornices, and side by side entrances that adjoin the party wall.</p><br>
<p>They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Bridge Square Historic District is a national historic district located in the Northwest Quadrant of Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district contains 24 contributing buildings that consist primarily of two-, three-, and four-story brick masonry commercial and industrial buildings. Structures date from 1826 to 1928, the oldest being the USA Hotel , that served as the location of the founding of the University of Rochester and Colgate Divinity School.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Brown&#39;s Race Historic District is a national historic district located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district contains 15 contributing buildings, 2 contributing structures, and 14 contributing sites. All of the principal buildings are used for commercial purposes and are sited along or near the curving south rim of the Genesee River gorge at the rim of the High Falls. The district comprises a collection of 19th-century industrial buildings built of brick and stone, and ranging in size from one- to six-stories. Also in the district is the mill race and the 19th century iron Pont De Rennes bridge, which is used today as a pedestrian bridge and viewing platform of the High Falls and surrounding gorge.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Jackson Street Cemetery, also known as Old Athens Cemetery, was the original cemetery for Athens, Georgia and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was in official use as the town cemetery from about 1810 to 1856,</p><br>
<h2>Location and history</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery is situated on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus adjacent to the College of Environment + Design and Baldwin Hall (to the south) Jackson Street (to the west), and Thomas Street (to the east), "on land that was originally part of the Universitys land grant from the state legislature, and the school apparently donated it to the city of Athens, though Duncan says theres no official record of the transaction". reducing it to the two and one-half acres it now occupies. The University had wanted to build on the land and tried to assert title to it in 1890, but opposition scuttled their plans.</p><br>
<p>Cramped for campus space, the University vigorously pursued idea under Chancellor Hill. Graves were to be moved to Oconee Hill and the site used for building, but his death in December, 1905 ended this campaign.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s plans to take over the Old cemetery were again proposed, and when Baldwin Hall was built (opened 1938) a couple of acres were indeed taken from the south end of the cemetery (and more for its parking lot). The cemetery was also targeted for use as a site for the Visual Arts Building (opened 1961), but this was "fended off" by the Athens Historical Society (while another slice of land was taken from the north end of the cemetery, as shown by old aerial photographs).</p><br>
<p>Bodies were disturbed in this process: "workers back in the 1930s removed 120 wooden boxes filled with bones from where Baldwin Hall now sits, then buried them in two 95-foot trenches in or near a pauper cemetery", and a bit of "lore" says that UGA Dean, William Tate, "rode along with the procession to give it some dignity".</p><br>
<p>In the fall of 1980 the University again proposed moving the graves to Oconee Hill, this time so that the cemetery land could be used for a parking deck. The coalition that fought this proposal "was the nucleus of the Old Athens Cemetery Foundation, Inc." It argued that the legal problems that would result from the proposal would be stupendous."</p><br>
<p>The Old Athens Cemetery consisted of about six acres in 1906 and now comprises two and a half acres. It has been a victim of the ravages of time and weather, as well as deliberate vandalism, and is the subject of an ongoing restoration project by Janine Duncan, of the University of Georgia Grounds Department.</p><br>
<h2>Contemporary disinterments</h2><br>
<p>On November 17, 2015, construction crews working on a renovation of Baldwin Hall discovered a human skull. Construction was paused, and additional graves have been located. "UGA is working closely with the appropriate state agencies to ensure that the remains from up to 27 gravesites are properly removed and re-interred." A total 105 peoples remains were removed, of which 30 had enough DNA for analysis. Of those, 27 were African American and would have been enslaved people. Leaders of the African American community in Athens want the remains to be reinterred in one of the predominately African American cemeteries in town, either Brooklyn Cemetery or Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery. However, UGA says that it is following the direction of the State Archaeologists Office in placing the bodies in Oconee Hill Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Charles Dougherty</p><br>
<p>Robert Finley</p><br>
<p>Grove Place Historic District is a national historic district located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district includes all that remains and is associated with "The Grove," the original homestead area of Rochester&#39;s Selden and Ward families. It is an enclave of 22 substantially intact small-scale 19th century residences, constructed between about 1850 and 1895, which were built, owned, and occupied by this complex extended family.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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