<p>The Jules Desurmont Worsted Company Mill is a historic mill at 84 Fairmount Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The mill complex consists of three brick buildings, erected 1907-10 by Jules Desurmont, the owner of a textile firm in Tourcoing, a city in northern France, who had been drawn to Woonsocket by the promotional activities of Aram Pothier. The mill produced French worsted wool yarn until 1952, and was used for many years thereafter by smaller textile and industrial concerns.</p><br>
<p>The mill complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Tefft-Steadman House in Marcellus, New York is a Greek Revival-style house that was designed by major architect Minard Lafever. </p><br>
<p>It was built in 1835, apparently faithfully implementing a design from architect Minard Lafever&#39;s pattern-book, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The house is now operated as a local history museum by the Marcellus Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Fabius Village Historic District in Fabius, New York is a 70 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It includes 57 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 4 contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The Historic District is located in Onondaga County, New York.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church, the most prominent building in the district</p><br>
<p>Cemetery of first Baptist church</p><br>
<p>Fabius United Methodist Church, 7818 Academy Street, with a denticulated cornice</p><br>
<p>Fabius Central School, c. 1930, a collegiate Gothic style school</p><br>
<p>7767 Academy Street, c. 1860, a Gothic Revival style house</p><br>
<p>7771 Academy Street, c. 1870, a Gothic Revival style house</p><br>
<p>7824 Main Street, c. 1840</p><br>
<p>Stevens-Wheaton-Hamilton House, 7833 Main Street</p><br>
<p>7763 Main Street, 1830, a Federal style house</p><br>
<p>7764 Main Street, c. 1885, a Queen Anne style house with a 2-story carriage barn</p><br>
<p>Fabius Evergreen Cemetery, c. 1860, a rural cemetery</p><br>
<p>The Christopher Rhodes Greene House is a historic house at 2 Potter Court in Coventry, Rhode Island. The -story house, with a matching stable, was designed by the Providence firm of Stone & Carpenter, and built in 1883 for Christopher Rhodes Greene, one of the owners of the Clyde Bleach and Print Works, located about 1 mi away on the Pawtuxet River. The house features the irregular massing with numerous projections and window shapes and sizes, and a wraparound porch with porte-cochere. The exterior is sheathed predominantly in wood clapboards on the lower level, and shingles cut in a variety of shapes on the upper levels. The main, south-facing, gable peak has more elaborate siding, along with false half-timbering and a medallion.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The James and Lydia Canning Fuller House in Skaneateles, New York is a historic house, which on three occasions was used as part of the Underground Railway.</p><br>
<p>James Fuller married Lydia Charleton in 1815 in Bristol at the Friends Meeting House. This was the same year as the house was built.</p><br>
<p>James Canning Fuller was the secretary of the Skaneateles Anti-Slavery Society in 1838. He was a delegate to the World&#39;s Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 in London.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Lucius Gleason House, also known as Liverpool Village Hall and as the Gleason Mansion, is a historic home located at Liverpool, Onondaga County, New York. It was built about 1860, and is a large two-story, Italianate style, stuccoed brick dwelling. It has a telescoping plan with a two-story, hip roofed main block; followed by a smaller two-story, gable roofed wing; and a -story gabled appendage. The Gleason Mansion is now home to the Liverpool Village Museum and Historian&#39;s office. Operated by the Liverpool Historical Association, the museum features changing exhibits about local history.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Gas Company Purifier House  is a historic building at 200 Allens Avenue  in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a large four-story steel-and-concrete structure, built in 1900 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, early in the era of steel frame construction. It was used for the gasification of coal until about 1940, when it was purchased by the City Tire Company, which occupied it until 2000. The building has been rehabilitated and converted for a variety of other uses.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex  is a historic mill at 25 and 39 Manton Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of a grouping of eleven industrial buildings on 4.4 acre in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, on the banks of the Woonasquatucket River. The buildings were built between 1898 and about 1939. Building 1, the oldest building, began in 1898 as a two-story rectangular brick structure with a three-story tower and a monitor roof, but was expanded over the years, obscuring both the tower and the monitor. The complex was begun by the Earnscliff Woolen Company, which failed in 1909. The Paragon Worsted Company purchased the property, and operated on the premises until 1960, when the company closed the mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church of McGraw is a historic Presbyterian church located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York. It was built in 1901 to designs by architects Pierce & Bickford and is a one-story structure, irregular in plan and massing, built of "Canandaigua gold brick". It features a tower that is square in plan at the base, but above the roofline rises in two octagonal stages built of wood with round arched louvered belfry openings and elliptical windows. It is topped by an octagonal spire crowned by a cast metal finial. The interior features an octagonally shaped auditorium and Palladian windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Union Valley Congregational Church, also known as Union Valley Community House, is a historic Congregational church located at Taylor in Cortland County, New York. It was built about 1849 and is a modestly scaled, one story meetinghouse building with a mortise and tenon timber frame built on an above grade rubble stone foundation. It is rectangular in shape, three bays wide and three bays deep, in the Greek Revival style with an overlay of Late Victorian elements. It features a stout belfry that risesfrom the crest of the roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Little York Pavilion, also known as Dwyer Memorial County Park, Main Pavilion, is an historic trolley park pavilion located at Preble in Cortland County, New York. It was built about 1906, with later additions and modifications, and is a two-story Stick/Eastlake style structure, rectangular at the core, with surrounding verandahs and a jutting pavilion at each corner. The central hip-roofed section contains a single large room at each level.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Pavilion was originally designed as part of a resort destination by the Cortland Traction Company. Little York Lake provided the only resort area between Binghamton and Syracuse, NY. Besides the Pavilion the park housed several boathouses, an observation deck above a water tower, and amusement rides. The Pavilion itself housed a restaurant on the ground floor and a dance hall on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>In 1932, the New York Power Corporation, successor to the Cortland County Traction Company, abandoned the park. Attempted revivals met with little success. At the urging of the Little York Garden Club in the late 1930s, the County Board of Supervisors eventually purchased the property. But not until 1951, under County Highway Superintendent William Dwyer, were improvements seriously begun.</p><br>
<p>Since 1972 the Pavilion has been home to the Cortland Repertory Theatre, a summer performing company.</p><br>
<p>The building has undergone many changes over the years. The most prominent addition was in 1961, when a slate-roofed stone restroom facility was added on the north side. A large brick chimney occupies the center of the east wall; a similar one on the north was removed in 1973. Later alterations include the enclosure of the ten foot wide verandahs on the north side to accommodate kitchen facilities and dressing rooms for the theatre. The roof of the pavilion was originally surfaced with cedar shingles and was edged with white electric lights. Both roof and lighting were removed long ago, and the present roof is a combination of tin and asphalt shingles. Elsewhere, alterations have been carried out more in sympathy with the original design: stairways, porch rails and flooring have been rebuilt, fire doors installed, and wooden steps replaced with concrete.</p><br>
<p>The Solvay Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Solvay in Onondaga County, New York. It was built between 1903 and 1905, and is a one-story, buff-colored brick building on a high basement. It has a hipped roof and Classical Revival style design elements including a distyle-in-antis portico in the Ionic order. It was built in part with a $10,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>It was renovated in recent years with focus on preserving and restoring historically accurate details.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Mark&#39;s Church in Jamesville, New York is a Gothic Revival-style church built in 1878. It no longer functions as a church, and instead houses the Jamesville Community Museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The church occupies a prominent position in the center of the hamlet of Jamesville, at the corner of E. Seneca Turnpike and Apulia Road. The Seneca Turnpike was the first highway in the region.</p><br>
<p>The Manlius Village Historic District is a 15 acre historic district on the east side of the Village of Manlius, in the Town of Manlius, New York, about 9.5 miles from the downtown of Syracuse.</p><br>
<p>The village was bypassed by later transportation—Genesee Street/Route 5, which took a flatter course to the north, the Erie Canal, which generated growth of Syracuse, railroads, and the NYS Thruway in the 1950s—and "thus retains much of the flavor of the turnpike era to which this small Onondaga County village owes its existence."</p><br>
<p>The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The district includes four churches and one commercial block building on the western edge of the district. "The district does not include the downtown commercial area of Manlius because a number of fires, remodelings, and demolitions have infringed on its visual continuity."</p><br>
<p>Most of the 50 contributing buildings in the district are single-family homes. Most of the buildings are on Seneca Street, part of the old Seneca Turnpike, or one block north on Pleasant Street.</p><br>
<p>The district, which comprises a three-block area, includes several buildings dating from approximately 1813, when the village of Manlius was incorporated, as well as buildings constructed later in the 19th century and a few 20th-century buildings. It includes Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>The first wave of construction in the village was around its incorporation in 1813. The Christ Episcopal Church, Smith Hall, and other buildings that still survive in the district were built during that time. Smith Hall, built during 1813–16, was expanded in 1824 to include a third-floor meeting room for the Masons. The "lodge room still has murals depicting symbolic Masonic scenes; these are said to have been painted early in the nineteenth century by an itinerant painter by the name of Fish. The paintings were later covered by wallpaper and were rediscovered in 1902." The buildings at 105 North Street and 112 Franklin Street, both pictured, are residential examples of structures built during the first wave of construction and are also two of the five buildings in the district to be adorned with pilasters.</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival was a predominant architectural style in the second wave of building in the 1830s. 311 Pleasant Street, pictured, is an example of this style in a residential structure. Later construction included the bandstand in Academy Park on Seneca Street in the 1880s and First Baptist Church on North Street in 1929, both pictured.</p><br>
<p>Beginning at the east side of the district on Seneca Street, the properties in the district are as follows:</p><br>
<p>503 Seneca Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>501 Seneca Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, stone hitching posts flank a stone mounting block at the street, built in the first wave of construction circa 1810</p><br>
<p>500 Seneca Street, described as being from the 1850s - 1860s, no longer standing</p><br>
<p>In Academy Park, where the old Cherry Valley Turnpike diverged away from the old Seneca Turnpike (Seneca Street), is the bandshell, built in 1880</p><br>
<p>St. Ann&#39;s Church, a modern intrusion but interesting building fitted into an odd-shaped lot and not incompatible with the scale of the nearby historic buildings, was built in 1969</p><br>
<p>417 Seneca Street, stucco-covered limestone, the first wave of construction near 1813, originally commercial, now a residence</p><br>
<p>413 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>411 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church, built during the first wave of construction in 1813, moved in 1832 from its original site atop the Seneca Street hill, with gothic elements added in the mid-19th century</p><br>
<p>Modern extension of Christ Church replaced separate buildings at 405 and 407 Seneca Street (Note, the former buildings still show in Google satellite view photo as of January 2010)</p><br>
<p>316 Seneca Street, St. Ann&#39;s Convent, built in the 1850s - 1860s, Italianate style brick building</p><br>
<p>314 Seneca Street, St. Ann&#39;s Rectory, like 105 North Street, is a brick building with an oval window centered in its stepped gables and is three bays wide with two stories and a one-story two-bay wing with the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>312 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>310 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>306 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>Smith Hall (the Masonic Temple), built 1813–16, the first wave of construction, third-floor added in 1824, brick buildings with stepped gables</p><br>
<p>301 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>Old Baptist Church, from 1827, Greek Revival style church built in the second wave of construction, has lost its steeple and been converted to commercial space</p><br>
<p>Vasto Commercial Block, Greek Revival style commercial structure built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>241 Seneca Street</p><br>
<p>Then, turning right on Franklin Street:</p><br>
<p>105 Franklin Street, brick Bell Telephone building, contemporary style modern intrusion built in 1970</p><br>
<p>108 Franklin Street</p><br>
<p>112 Franklin Street, the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>113 Franklin Street, the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>Then, at Pleasant Street, beginning to the left and continuing to the right in an easterly direction:</p><br>
<p>211 Pleasant Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, was built in the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>213-25 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>301 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>305 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>307 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>309 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>311 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>304 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>306 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>308 Pleasant Street, Greek Revival style residence built in the second wave of construction beginning in the 1830s</p><br>
<p>Then, at Pleasant Street and North Street, turn right onto North Street:</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church, a neo-Federal style brick church built in 1929, at the corner of Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>117 North Street</p><br>
<p>113 North Street, a pilastered house with an off-center doorway and faced gable end to the street, built in the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>106 North Street, no longer standing</p><br>
<p>105 North Street, the Wattles-Van Schaak-Barnes House, with a fruited pediment and narrow pilasters connected by flattened arches, the first wave of construction built near 1813, this one, like 314 Seneca Street, is a brick building with an oval window centered in its stepped gables and is three bays wide with two stories and one-story two-bay wing</p><br>
<p>Returning to Pleasant Street and continuing east:</p><br>
<p>401 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>405 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>407 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>409 Pleasant Street</p><br>
<p>501 Pleasant Street, pilastered residence with centered front door and nearly flat roof, the first wave of construction near 1813</p><br>
<p>Turning right on Clinton Street:</p><br>
<p>105 Clinton Street</p><br>
<p>All photos in this article are from December 2009 unless otherwise noted.</p><br>
<p>The Oswego–Oneida Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, New York. The district encompasses 32 contributing buildings on 50 acres in a residential section of Baldwinsville. The district developed between about 1830 and 1920 and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Gothic Revival residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and includes.</p><br>
<p>The Louis Will House is a "high-style" Queen Anne style house at 714 N. McBride St. in Syracuse, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 2009. It is currently a private residence.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Louis Will, Progressive Party mayor of Syracuse during 1914–16. He was owner of a candle-making business.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the house is built of brick on a sandstone foundation. Terra-cotta features decorate various parts of the house. A porch with turned wood elements wraps from the west facing front of the house around the south side. The most significant feature of the house is its stained glass windows, which are believed to be early works of the Tiffany studios in New York City.</p><br>
<p>Oddly, the architect is unknown, despite original plans for the house being available.</p><br>
<p>It faces on McBride Park and stands out as the pre-eminent home of the area.</p><br>
<p>The Tates Creek Baptist Church is a Baptist church organized in 1783. In May 1775 the first recorded religious service took place in Fort Boonesborough. It met in a stone building around Shallow Ford until it burned down around 1850. The current building was finished in 1851. Several members of the congregation were delegates to a convention held in September 1786 regarding separating Kentucky from Virginia. Tates Creek Baptist Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.</p><br>
<h2>Rev. Andrew Tribble</h2><br>
<p>The founding pastor of the Tates Creek Baptist Church, Andrew Tribble, was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and may have helped shape his political philosophy.</p><br>
<p>According to church historian Ratliff, Tribble came to Madison County from Virginia and helped found the church between 1783 and 1785, and organized the church in 1786.</p><br>
<p>Tribble was Tates Creek Baptist&#39;s pastor until 1819. He died in 1821 and is buried off Colonel Road, south of the church.</p><br>
<p>A monument to Tribble, placed by the North Carolina-based Baptist Church Preservation Society, highlights the persecution of Tribble and other Baptists suffered in colonial Virginia, when only members of the Anglican clergy were allowed to preach.</p><br>
<p>In addition to erecting the monument, the preservation society also did restorative work on the stone wall that surrounds Tribble&#39;s grave site, said local historian James Neale, a descendant of Tribble.</p><br>
<h2>Influence on founding fathers</h2><br>
<p>It has been claimed in print from the nineteenth century onward that Thomas Jeffersons ideas of democracy were influenced by Baptist congregations, and in particular by Andrew Tribble. Calvin Coolidge also alluded to this claim in a 1926 speech. The earliest known source is an anonymous article published in the Christian Watchman ten days after Jeffersons death in 1826, but no first-hand evidence of communications between Tribble and Jefferson has been found.</p><br>
<p>The Baptists&#39; petitions against their persecution are said to have gained a receptive hearing from such founding fathers as George Washington, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and played a role in the statute of religious freedom drafted by Jefferson and adopted by Virginia after the colonies gained independence.</p><br>
<p>While in Virginia, Tribble pastored a church near Thomas Jeffersons estate, Monticello. Records indicate that Jefferson sometimes attended the churchs services and at least once a business session. About ten years before the Revolution, the future president invited Tribble home for Sunday dinner, after which the preacher asked Jefferson what he thought of the denomination&#39;s democratic form of government.</p><br>
<p>All church members, including men, women and children, had equal votes.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson, who later drafted the Declaration of Independence, is said to have remarked it was "the only form of pure democracy that then existed in the world" and "it would be the best plan of government for the American colonies."</p><br>
<p>According to stories handed down over the years, Tribble often made mention of Jefferson in his sermons, Ratliff said.</p><br>
<p>The Tarbell Building is a historic commercial building located in the Village of Marathon in Cortland County, New York. It is a three-story brick structure constructed in 1885 in the Queen Anne style. It has retail storefronts on the first floor and apartments and storage on the second and third. A rock-faced foundation pierced with basement windows is exposed on the south side. The Tarbell Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>It was built by Gage E. Tarbell (1856-1936), who rose from poor boy to become, over time, a jeweler, lawyer, mining promoter and insurance broker. He served as vice president of the Equitable Assurance Company. Tarbell again commissioned fine architecture at Garden City, a model suburb he later helped develop on Long Island.</p><br>
<p>Glen Haven District No. 4 School and Public Library is a historic school and library building located at Fair Haven in Cortland County, New York. It is a one-story irregularly shaped structure constructed in 1901 in the Shingle Style. It contains the classroom on the south end and the library on the north end. It features a hipped roof with boxed eave overhangs. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Rossiter & Wright and built by Andrew Lieber.</p><br>
<p>Hatheway Homestead, also known as Tinelli&#39;s Hathaway House, is a historic home located at Solon in Cortland County, New York. It consists of a -story main block built in 1844, with a later 2-story wing addition, in the Greek Revival style. It was built by Major General Samuel G. Hathaway . The main block is constructed of smooth-surfaced fieldstone and wing of random ashlar stone blocks. The main block features a distinctive parapet of alternating balustrade and panels. It was later converted for use as a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Town Line Bridge, also known as Taylor Lenticular Truss Bridge, was a historic bridge located at Taylor in Cortland County, New York. It was constructed in 1888 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut. It was an 85-foot-long single-span bridge and was built to serve wagon traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Groton Bridge Co. is also associated with the bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its NRHP listing, the bridge was believed to be one of only 13 lenticular truss bridges in New York State.</p><br>
<p>On August 24, 2018, demolition of Town Line Bridge began. By September 12, 2018, the bridge was completely torn down with no plan to replace. It is unknown who authorized the demolition as there is no documentation on the matter currently available other than a brief discussion during a held in April 2018.</p><br>
<p>Water, Wall, and Pine Streets Lenticular Truss Bridges is a national historic district and set of Lenticular truss bridges located at Homer in Cortland County, New York. The district includes a series of three bridges built in 1881 over the Tioughnioga River by the Corrugated Metal Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Old Homer Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Homer in Cortland County, New York. The district includes the historic core of the village of Homer centered on the village green. It includes a mix of residential, commercial, civic, and religious structures. Residences are primarily 2-story frame structures and commercial structures are 2- and 3-story structures constructed of brick. Included within the district is the Homer Town Hall , the -story Jebediah Barber building , 3-story Brockway Block , and residences dating to the 1810s. Also located within the district boundaries is the USA Post Office .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Octagon House Old Homer Village Historic District Dec 09.jpgOctagon House, December 2009</p><br>
<p>Calvary Episcopal Church Old Homer Village Historic District Aug 09.jpgCalvary Episcopal Church, August 2009</p><br>
<p>Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York. The district includes 33 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District stands in the middle of McGraw incorporated village. The village of McGraw is situated in Cortland County which is largely an agricultural area. As the Main Street Historic District is linear in configuration, it incorporates both sides of Main Street between South Street at the west end and Washington Street at the east end. The whole business district of McGraw, 2 main churches, the library, and many of the preliminary and most important residences of the village are located in the Main Street Historic District. The Historic District also contains 27 contributing principal buildings, 6 contributing dependencies (buildings), 1 contributing structure, in total 34 contributing resources. Three non-contributing buildings are there as well. In spite of other potentially eligible buildings and districts being present in the village, none is contiguous with the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District is noteworthy for its architectural concentration on the historic residential, religious and commercial buildings. Eight vernacular Federal style houses represented the primary development and the earliest substantial frame dwellings built in McGraw. In the 1840s and 1850s, the Greek Revival style became very popular in New York. The style is depicted in the Historic District by the 1845 which previously was a residence of the eminent McGraw family designed with a distinctive Ionic order portico. The Main Street Historic District also has a series of commercial buildings of late Victorian period which were constructed with brick and stamped-metal facades in 1906. These buildings portray McGraws early 20th century affluence and the influence of mass-produced building materials on the design of small town commercial buildings after 1890. Two of the 1830’s churches located in the Main Street Historic District were modified to a great extent in 1919 and 1920 to show the unprecedentedly late continuation of delightful tastes in some rural villages well into the 20th century. The preservation of the historic and architectural character in the Historic District started after 1920 since the importance of McGraws principal industry slowed growth and construction in the village. At present, McGraws Main Street Historic District is one of the small town centers in Cortland County that survive with adequate physical integrity to mirror the county&#39;s broad and diverse.</p><br>
<p>Randall Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located at Cortland in Cortland County, New York. The district includes six contributing buildings and one contributing structure. It includes a cobblestone farmhouse built between 1825 and 1840 with a distinctive Colonial Revival porch added about 1920. Also on the property is a -story frame cottage, a dairy barn, garage, playhouse, carriage barn, smokehouse, saltbox shaped barn, small gabled barn, sugar shack, and milk house. The property also includes distinctive landscape elements.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Canfield Island Site, also known as Archeological Site 36LY37, is an archaeological site in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located on Canfield Island in the West Branch Susquehanna River, the site lies east of the city of Williamsport in Loyalsock Township. It is believed to have been inhabited by prehistoric Native Americans for thousands of years, with the oldest discoveries dating back to more than one millennium before Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Canfield Island is an artificial island formed by the digging of a canal near the side of the West Branch Susquehanna in the early twentieth century; today, this canal forms the northern half of the island&#39;s shoreline, and the West Branch forms the southern half. Much of the island has been cultivated during the historical period, but forests today cover a significant portion of the island. It has frequently received deposits from the West Branch. The island has a total area of 21 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological investigation</h2><br>
<p>The island was first revealed to be a potential archaeological site as a result of a preliminary investigation performed by an exploratory group of members of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology who first visited the island in 1958. Beginning in 1960 and continuing periodically through 1980, a series of excavations yielded artifacts to a depth of 15 m below the surface,</p><br>
<p>Excavations yielded discoveries from a set of phases that was more complete than could be found at most comparable Pennsylvania sites. While ceramics are rare at the site, the presence of charcoal from a wide range of phases has provided a basis for dating charcoal found at many other sites in the state. Another significant discovery was a set of massive hearths amid large numbers of fishing nets, which has led to the proposal that Canfield Island was a major fishery.</p><br>
<h2>Conclusions</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological investigations have concluded that Canfield Island was inhabited during the Late Archaic period (approximately 3,000 years BP) and a fragment found at the lowest point of investigation, while it cannot be dated conclusively, may have originated in the Early Archaic period. Various phases of the Woodland period appear at the site, and evidence exists of occupation by the Susquehannock, who still inhabited eastern Pennsylvania after the arrival of Europeans in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, Canfield Island was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of the amount of information it had yielded and because of its potential to yield even more information. The site is today part of Riverfront Park, a Loyalsock Township park that includes an archaeology-themed trail on the island. Since 2003, local Native Americans have held an annual pow-wow on the island.</p><br>
<p>The William Kenyon House is located on Fair Street in Kingston, New York, United States. It was built by William Kenyon, a member of Congress from the area, in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>It is an intact example of the center-gable Italian villa-style house popular at the time. In 2001 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the east side of Fair Street two lots north of its junction with Franklin Street. The neighborhood is residential, dominated by similar 19th-century houses. Two others just up the street, the Boice and Chichester houses, are also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Standing two and a half stories on a stone and brick foundation, the house is sided in tan-painted brick. It is topped with a low asphalt-shinged hipped roof with modillion-supported overhanging eaves at the roofline. There is one brick outbuilding in the rear, which seems to have served as a summer kitchen. It is a contributing resource to the property&#39;s historic character.</p><br>
<p>The west (front) facade is three bays wide. The northern two bays project. On both stories it has a centrally located double window with molded stone cornice and sill and original wooden louvered shutters. In the center of the gable apex is an oculus.</p><br>
<p>Two windows, also with their original shutters, are located symmetrically on the north and south profiles of the house. A modern two-story wing projects from the east elevation.</p><br>
<p>Wooden steps lead up to the main entrance in the southern bay. It is sheltered by a flat-roofed porch with plain wide frieze and cornice supported by a single turned pillar rising from a wooden railing. A double door with transom opens into a side hall with a detailed wooden stair. Pocket doors lead to parlors on the north. All the rooms on the first floor have their original plaster cornices and projecting Greek Revival moldings and architraves. The second floor&#39;s rooms are more restrained.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1850, when Italian-villa style houses were at the peak of their popularity. The Kenyon House is typical of the center-gable version, which does not include a tower. In 1870 it was listed as the property of Kenyon, a local lawyer and businessman who had served a single term in Congress a decade earlier. It has remained a private residence since, with little alteration save the modern addition in the rear.</p><br>
<p>Oran District No. 22 Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Oran in Onondaga County, New York. It is a one-story frame building on a stone foundation, 25 feet wide and 41 feet deep. It was originally built in the 1830s as a store and post office. It was remodeled sometime before the 1860s for use as a school. It ceased being used as a school in 1951 and is now used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Pompey Centre District No. 10 Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Pompey Center in Onondaga County, New York. It is a one-story frame building on a stone foundation, 24 feet wide and 32 feet deep. The roof features a small belfry. It was built in 1857 and ceased being used as a school in 1943.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>A related 1840 schoolhouse in Pompey was destroyed by fire in January 2010.</p><br>
<p>Mycenae Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located in the hamlet of Mycenae in the town of Manlius in Onondaga County, New York. It is a one-story building built of locally quarried limestone with a low-pitched gabled roof in the Greek Revival style. The roof features a small belfry. It was built in 1850 and ceased being used as a school in 1936.</p><br>
<p>It is prominently located on NY 5.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In recent years it has been used as an antiques shop. As of late 2009, the building is vacant and available for sale or for rent.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank of Lacona is a historic bank building located at Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1922-1923 and is a one-story, brick commercial structure in the Neoclassical style. It is three bays wide and five bays long with a multi-stage parapet roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Today, the bank building is a PathFinder Bank branch.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Sandy Creek in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1917–1918 and is a -story frame church with an octagonal plan and a pyramidal roof. The front of the building features a three-stage rooftop tower. The interior layout is based on the Akron plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Newton M. Pitt House is a historic home located at Sandy Creek in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1851 and is a two-story, frame Greek Revival style structure with an L-shaped plan, gable roof, and wide cornice.</p><br>
<p>It features a prominent pedimented portico supported by two square pillars and two columns with Ionic capitals.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Sadler House is a historic home located at Sandy Creek in Oswego County, New York. It was built about 1870 and is a 2-story, red brick Italianate-style structure consisting of a 2-story, three-bay main block and -story, four-bay side wing and 1-story rear wing. Also on the property is a contemporary carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Smith H. Barlow House is a historic house located at Harwood Drive in Lacona, Oswego County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built about 1898, and is a -story, frame Queen Anne–style structure consisting of a rectangular main block, -story east wing, and one-story gabled rear wing. It features a -story square tower and one-story entry porch. Also on the property is a contemporary carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Charles M. Salisbury House is a historic home located at Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1907 and is a -story, clapboard residence with a square plan, steeply pitched multi-gabled roof, an asymmetrical facade, and irregular fenestration. The facade features a large fixed-pane window with stained glass. Also on the property is a contemporary carriage house and a small residence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Fred Smart House is a historic home in Lacona in Oswego County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two-story frame Queen Anne-style residence consisting of a rectangular, gabled main block with a round tower attached to each of its two front corners. Also on the property are a contributing carriage house and pergola.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Tobias Van Steenburgh House is located on Wall Street  in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a stone house built around the beginning of the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It was one of the few buildings in Kingston not burned by the British in 1777. A large plaque on the front of the house notes this. In 1999 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the west side of Wall Street near its junction with Franklin Street. The surrounding neighborhood is residential, with houses of more recent construction. There is a former school building to the west. In the rear of the house are a modern garage and swimming pool, neither of which are considered contributing properties to the National Register listing. An iron fence separates the property from the sidewalk.</p><br>
<p>From a full basement, the house rises one and a half stories. It is faced in limestone rubble and has a steeply pitched gabled roof with projecting eaves pierced by a large central dormer with flanking shed dormers. On the west (rear) elevation, there is a frame extension one bay wider than the house itself in either direction. Both bays end in small, gabled dependencies.</p><br>
<p>The east (front) facade is five bays wide, asymmetrical but with a centrally located front entrance. The windows are in heavy mortise and tenon frames. In the front wall near the north end is a large embedded stone tablet explaining that the house "suffered no injury" when British troops burned Kingston on October 16, 1777, and that it was home to the van Steenburgh family for two centuries.</p><br>
<p>The north and south ends are similar, with asymmetrical fenestration in both. A garret door remains in the upper gable end on the west profile.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, a recessed Georgian-style door with transom, opens into a central hallway that runs the depth of the original stone building. A parlor is on the east and a large dining area on the west. Both rooms have exposed ceiling beams and Georgian trim. In the parlor is an intricate Federal style mantel with chip-carved sunburst motif. The dining room has a large fireplace with plain surround meant for cooking. The original rear doors lead into the rear extension; hyphens lead to other stone dependencies with office space and a modern kitchen.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The houses build date of 1700 comes from a statement by its owner in the late 1930s. He told the Daily Freeman, Kingstons newspaper, that the house had been built by that year. Its original owner, the first Van Steenburgh, was a man named Jan Janisse, later Jansen Timmerman, from the Dutch town of Amersfoort who assumed the Van Steenburgh name after he married in 1660.</p><br>
<p>His descendant Tobias Van Steenburgh was the owner of record at the time of the Revolution. Why the house was not burned in 1777 is not known. Legend has it that it was the home of a Mrs. Hammersly, a woman with Loyalist sympathies, who was in love with a British officer who spared the house. Others have it that the British began to burn the house, but the order to withdraw was sounded soon after and slaves who were hiding in the nearby woods quickly extinguished what little fire there was after the troops left. A variant on that tale says that since the house was used as an inn at the time, the slaves rolled a barrel of rum they had tapped and treated the soldiers to free drink until the order came to leave.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Van Steenburgh family until the mid-19th century. In 1897, on the 120th anniversary of the burning, the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter placed the plaque in the front wall. In 1930 local architect Henry Graiser built the rear addition, carefully designed to be sympathetic and non-intrusive to the original house. There have been no significant changes to the building since.</p><br>
<p>The Longyear Hall of Pedagogy  was an academic building located on Presque Isle Avenue, on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1972 as part of the Kaye Hall Complex, and removed from the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Longyear Hall, named for prominent Marquette real estate developer and early Northern Michigan Normal School patron John Munroe Longyear, was constructed in 1900, the year after Northern was founded. This building burned down in 1905. A second Longyear Building, a reconstruction of the original, was built in 1907, based on a design by Battle Creek architect E. W. Arnold. Longyear Hall was used to house administration offices, classrooms, and the library.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, to form a three-building complex. An addition to the Longyear Hall, housing athletic facilities, was built in 1933. In 1972, Kaye Hall and the Peter White Science Hall were demolished. Longyear Hall was abandoned in 1975 when administrative offices were moved, and the structure was never used again. Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, Longyear Hall was torn down in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Longyear Hall of Pedagogy was a rectangular two-and-one-half-story structure built with a steel frame sheathed with local Marquette brownstone, with a hipped roof and gabled dormers. The front entrance was topped by a bank of three rectangular windows and flanked by two-story bay windows. A stone beltcourse ran between the first and second stories, and a dentil cornice edged the top of the structure.</p><br>
<p>The Union Avenue Historic Commercial District is a century-old business district in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. The district comprises sixty-nine contributing properties in a total area of 27 acre including the Union Depot, Vail Hotel and Quaker Flour Mill. While still South Pueblo, Bat Masterson, best known for his association with Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday was brought in as sheriff to protect a railroad that was being built.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Little is known about the early history of the area. On maps as early as 1872, the area was called 5th Street, with the first known reference to Union Avenue in 1880. The Pueblo City Hall, also on the National Historic Register of Places, had a key part in the formation of the modern city of Pueblo. In Article VI of The Articles of Consolidation, it was agreed that City hall had to be within this district "not further north then 2nd street in the present city of Pueblo and not further south then the Arkansas River."</p><br>
<p>The area has suffered several floods that have received national coverage due to the scope and the damage they caused to both the local and national economies. Before the current levee was constructed, the district and most of the rest of Pueblo was devastated by the single largest flood in Pueblo history in 1921. The damage was described to The Los Angeles Times by Maj. Paul P. Newlon, who took command of the state troops sent to help recovery, as "Conditions are beyond description...Virtually every building from the postoffice to the square beyond the Union station on Union avenue was completely wiped out." almost completely destroyed the city&#39;s downtown and killed over 1,500 people. As Pueblo was the leading economic center of southern Colorado before the flood, both the city economy and the regional economy were severely set back.</p><br>
<p>Many of the existing buildings were built in the 1880s, but due to the floods many were remodeled to the standards of the time preceding the region&#39;s floods. Most notably this was an issue with the flood in 1921. With the collapse of the district economically and the decline of passenger railway use, the district soon became a notorious "Red Light District", known also for its many Taverns. Local folklore says that in the late 1930s the residents of Union Ave in the mesa junction area petitioned to have the street name changed, in order to avoid association with this element. In 1939 the upper portion of the street was renamed Colorado Ave.</p><br>
<p>Due to the impacts of negligent ownership and the age of the buildings, decay soon set in. Starting in 1996, a major voter approved project was started to renew the "unsightly" district to be a catalyst for cultural and economic growth. The Historic Arkansas River Project follows the original path of the Arkansas River, which had been rerouted after the 1921 flood. It has a special significance for Pueblo as it marks the former borders of France and Spain and later United States of America, Mexico and the Republic of Texas. By 2001 the addition of the Riverwalk was deemed a success in not only revitalizing the district, but helping the Pueblo city economy recover from a decade long recession the city had experienced after CF & I Steel laid off 3800 workers in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In November 2008, The Branch Inn, a historic building with ties to reputed mafioso Jo Jo Concialdi,</p><br>
<p>was destroyed by a sudden explosion. One woman was killed and multiple other individuals were injured in the destruction of the Branch Inn. The century-old building was not only lost, but many other buildings in the area were damaged.</p><br>
<p>An investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined that the explosion was the result of a gas leak. However, responsibility for the accident is disputed, with multiple parties alleging that the city is responsible for neglecting possible warning signs, and the city claiming that the local utility company failed to properly maintain the leaking pipeline. The local district attorney has announced that no criminal charges will be filed.</p><br>
<p>By late 2009, plans had been laid for new construction on the vacant lot, a move welcomed by neighboring business owners.</p><br>
<p>The Union Avenue Historic Commercial District is a common location for community events. Annual events held in the district include the "B Street Bash" in June, Oktoberfest in September, and the autumn Pueblo Chile and Frijoles Festival.</p><br>
<p>The district has been host to several well-known politicians over its history. Pueblo Memorial Hall hosted the Pueblo speech, which was the last public speech of president Woodrow Wilson. The city erected a plaque commemorating his speech in support of the League of Nations.</p><br>
<p>The Union Avenue Historic Commercial District was the location of a rally for Barack Obama&#39;s presidential campaign on October 31, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Seward Depot, also known as the Seward Station, is a former rail depot in Seward, Alaska, United States.</p><br>
<p>The depot was constructed in 1917 at what is now Adams Street and Ballaine Boulevard to serve the railroad line. Seward was and remains the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The Seward line was owned by the Alaska Central Railroad, the Alaska Northern Railroad, and at the time of the depot&#39;s construction, the USA government. President Warren G. Harding visited Seward and Alaska in 1923, and following completion of the Mears Memorial Bridge, drove the ceremonial golden spike at Nenana, connecting Seward with Fairbanks.</p><br>
<p>In 1928 the building was moved to its current location on Railway Avenue following a flood of Lowell Creek.</p><br>
<p>Much of the railyard in Seward and the track north along the Turnagain Arm were destroyed in the Good Friday earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit the town, and the depot was out of use. It served as the headquarters for the Alaska Marine Highway&#39;s M/V Tustumena for a time. In 1998 it was sold to the Chugach Alaska Corporation after the corporation completed renovations, and the building served as a native cultural center for three years. It is currently owned by the Seward Association of the Advancement of Marine Science, dba, Alaska SeaLife Center, who lease it for operation as a cafe.</p><br>
<p>Hoben Park, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is adjacent to the depot. Both are located at the southernmost point in Seward.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Charbonneau is located at 88 Wisconsin Street  in Priest River, Idaho and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was originally constructed in 1912 by Charles and Dora Charbonneau . During the first half of the 20th century, Priest River and the Hotel Charbonneau, which is located one block away from where the train station used to be, was a popular stopping-off point for people traveling to nearby Spokane, Coeur d&#39;Alene, Sandpoint, and Priest Lake. In 1920, Dora Charbonneau added a brick addition onto the south side of the hotel to accommodate more guests. After the brick addition was built, the Hotel Charbonneau boasted 27 guest rooms with more than half of them having their own private bathrooms; an extravagant luxury at that time.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was purchased by Bob and Lorraine Shaffer in the mid-1940s and then renamed to be the Lorraine Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Charbonneau operated as a hotel/boarding house until the late 1980s when it was abandoned and risked being condemned. In 1991 the Priest River Restoration and Revitalization Committee (PRRRC), a local non-profit group composed entirely of volunteers, took control of the Hotel Charbonneau and saved it from complete deterioration. Among the PRRRC&#39;s accomplishments was having the Hotel Charbonneau added to the National Register of Historic Places (11/19/91), which was hoped to protect the historic structure for future generations. The hotel was purchased by the PRRRC for $50,000; the group hoped to rehab it to serve as a combination bed-and-breakfast and apartments for senior citizens.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the Hotel Charbonneau was privately owned and undergoing restoration.</p><br>
<p>According to its website, in 2017 the hotel is under renovation and is not open.</p><br>
<p>The three-story building has an irregular U-shaped plan. The original L-shaped building of 1912 was expanded by three-story addition on the south side making the U shape. With.</p><br>
<p>The President&#39;s Mansion is a historic Greek Revival style mansion on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It has served as the official residence of university presidents ever since its completion in 1841. The structure narrowly avoided destruction during the American Civil War, making it one of the oldest surviving buildings on campus today. The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 1972, due to its architectural and historical significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the Presidents Mansion began in 1838 when the university trustees set apart funds for a residence suitable for the president of the young institution. While the plans for the university and its already completed buildings had been designed by William Nichols in the late 1820s and early 1830s, he had left the state and was busy with new projects by this time. The new house was designed by Michael Barry, in a Greek Revival style complementary to the existing Nichols-designed campus buildings. The trustees chose a site adjoining what today is the south side of The Quad, in an area which had been originally designated in the Nichols plan as the future medical school grounds. Construction on the building began in 1839 and was completed in 1841.</p><br>
<p>The first occupant of the mansion was Basil Manly, Sr., the second university president. Serving from 1837 until 1855, Manly was widely considered to be a popular president. Nevertheless, he and the trustees were criticized by members of the Alabama Legislature for the "unnecessarily lavish" structure.</p><br>
<p>On April 3, 1865, Union Brigadier General John T. Croxton and 1500 cavalrymen approached Tuscaloosa. Croxton had orders to destroy all targets of military value in the town. Tuscaloosa was captured on that day, and all of its factories and the river bridge destroyed. On April 4, Croxton sent Colonel Thomas M. Johnston and two hundred men to burn the university. In the midst of carrying out his orders, university faculty pleaded with Johnston to spare the library rotunda. Johnston sent a message via courier to Croxton, asking if he might spare the building. Croxton replied "My orders leave me no discretion... My orders are to destroy all public buildings."</p><br>
<p>Although technically a private residence, the Presidents Mansion was also set on fire that day. Tradition maintains that the presidents wife, Louisa Frances Garland, arrived at the mansion from the temporary refuge of Bryce Hospital just as soldiers were setting a pile of furniture inside the building alight. She persuaded them to douse the flames, thus sparing the house. The mansion was one of only seven buildings on the campus spared destruction; the others were the Gorgas House, Little Round House, Observatory and a few faculty residences.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The design for the three-story stuccoed brick structure features a high arcuated ground floor, with the stucco on the front of this level giving the appearance of ashlar. It is surmounted by two upper principle floors, accessed by a centrally placed double staircase at ground level. The front facade is five bays wide, with the two principal floors fronted by a monumentally scaled hexastyle portico, utilizing the Ionic order.</p><br>
<p>The mansion has been renovated on numerous occasions in the more than 160 years since it was completed. One of the largest changes came in 1908, when the exterior assumed its predominantly white appearance.</p><br>
<p>The James and Mary Forsyth House is located on Albany Avenue near uptown Kingston, New York, United States. It is a brick Italian villa-style house designed by Richard Upjohn in the mid-19th century. When it was finished it was celebrated locally for its lavish decor. James Forsyth, as well as another later resident, left the house after being accused of financial wrongdoing. It has been modified slightly since its original construction with trim in the Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Along with the Old Dutch Church by Minard Lafever, it is the only extant pre-Civil War building, and the only house from that period, in Kingston designed by a nationally prominent architect. In the 20th century it was used as a Masonic Lodge. Since 1986 it has been the offices of a local construction company that has restored some of Kingston&#39;s other historic buildings. In 2003 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is at the front of a 3.3 acre lot on the north side of Albany Avenue across from Academy Green Park, the triangle formed by Albany, Clinton Avenue and Maiden Lane. On the west is a four-story brick Colonial Revival apartment building, built in the mid-1920s as the Governor Clinton Hotel. To the east are other commercial properties, culminating in the eastern terminus of Interstate 587 and NY 28 at the junction of Albany and Broadway. Behind the house, north of the property, is a parking lot and a small pond.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-and-a-half-story, three-bay structure of load-bearing brick walls on a raised foundation of tooled limestone in an ashlar pattern. All the exterior trim is in wood. The roof, hipped with a gable crossing the center, is shingled in asphalt, with a molded cornice with large brackets supporting the eaves.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>On the south (front) facade, the first story has a wooden porch covering all three openings. The porch echoes the house, with a modillioned center gable and hipped roof supported by fluted Ionic columns with turned balusters between them. Behind them the windows have been fitted with French doors.</p><br>
<p>Windows on the second story have segmental brick arches, wooden hoods and cut stone sills. Above them is a single roundel window in the center gable.</p><br>
<p>The east profile has similar window treatments to the front on a one-bay projecting gabled section with a similar porch. The two flanking bays have porches for their French doors that cantilever out with perforated woodwork railings and large wood brackets with drop pendants supporting the hoods. By contrast, the central projecting bay&#39;s porch is similar to the front one. The center-bay second-story window has a round arch and is slightly recessed, giving it a Palladian feel. On the opposite side, the west elevation is similar with a bump-out at the southwest corner.</p><br>
<p>On the north side are similar windows and another projection, with a small frame addition. A fire escape runs up the side. There are no French doors on this elevation.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance consists of a modern door in front of the original paired glazed doors and a round glass transom. It opens into a small vestibule, which in turn leads through another pair of doors with stained glass lights and transom, possibly depicting scenes from Forsyth family history in a Romantic medieval fashion, into the L-shaped main hall with linoleum flooring. The basement stairs are directly ahead; the main stair is off to the right. A library and parlor are on the east and west respectively. Further to the north are a dining room and drawing room. A small bedroom and dressing room are in the addition on the rear.</p><br>
<p>Both the front parlor and library retain their original parquet flooring, molded baseboards and plaster cornice. The library also has a paneled wooden door with its original silver hardware, paneled pocket shutters on the French doors to the exterior. A set of wooden cabinets have a cornice with running guilloché frieze. In the parlor is a chimney breast with marble Italianate mantelpiece. A wide opening with Corinthian columns leads into the dining room to the north.</p><br>
<p>The dining room has similar flooring and walls, as well as another mantelpiece in the same material and style. A bracketed wooden frieze runs around the room at a height of six feet (2 m). The drawing room, the largest space on the first story, has 15 ft ceilings and many of the same decorative features.</p><br>
<p>Near the stair to the second floor is a wooden settee. The staircase itself is cantilevered out, and consists of open stringers with carpet on the steps. It is decorated with a turned newel post and balusters. The round arched window on the east profile lights the landing with 19th-century stained glass.</p><br>
<p>The western half of the second floor is an open meeting room supported by steel I-beams visible from the attic, with carpeted floor and daises on the wall. The original master bedroom is in the northeast corner. It retains its marble mantelpiece in the chimney breast. It is currently carpeted, with acoustic tiles in the ceiling. The walls, baseboards and plaster cornice are original, as are the doors and silver hardware.</p><br>
<p>The attic has been extensively modified, although it is still possible to see how it was used originally as servants quarters. The northeast room still has the original door and beaded board enclosures. The basement is still in its original layout, used for storage and service functions. There is an original cast iron stove in the kitchen. The servants dining room retains its original doors and a Greek Revival wooden mantelpiece.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>A few years before the Forsyth commission, Upjohn had built his first Italian villa, the Edward King House in Newport, Rhode Island. One of the earliest uses of that form in the country, it was praised by Andrew Jackson Downing in his book The Architecture of Country Houses, as "unit beauty of form and expression with spacious accommodation, in a manner not often seen... There is dignity, refinement and elegance, all about its leading features".</p><br>
<p>For the Forsyth house, Upjohn used the center-gable variant of the Italian villa, instead of the tower variant he had used in Newport. His great-grandson, Everard Upjohn, writing about the house in the 1930s, saw similarities between the Forsyth and King houses. " shows the same tendency to break up the mass", he observed. At the same time, he felt that the interior was so tightly divided that there was little possibility of opening it up.</p><br>
<p>The Forsyth House is also similar to Upjohns J.J. Johnson House in Brooklyns Flatbush neighborhood, since demolished. It, too, was an Italian villa with a center gable and roundel, segmented-arch windows with hoods and a bracketed cornice. "While not exciting, and certainly not such as to cause one to stare", wrote Everard Upjohn, "it escaped the most obtrusive faults of its time."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Newburgh, James Forsyth moved to Kingston in 1840 at the age of 21. He became a successful lawyer and politician, and married a local woman, Mary Bruyn. In 1847, he visited New Haven, Connecticut, then a center of contemporary architecture. He wrote his wife about the "exquisite private residences... in every respect superior to any in Kingston".</p><br>
<p>The couple decided to build such a house in their hometown. After talking to an architect in New Haven, they turned to Upjohn, then enjoying renown for the success of Trinity Church. They consulted closely with the architect on the design throughout the process, and many of his renderings have survived. They are archived in Columbia University&#39;s Avery Library, and show that the house was not substantially modified from the original design. Asphalt shingles replaced the planned metal cladding on the roof, the only significant change to the exterior before the house was built. No records have been found from the actual construction.</p><br>
<p>When the house was finished in 1851, the Forsyths threw a housewarming party, with champagne and oysters, to which they invited many of Kingstons other affluent couples. Nathaniel Booth, a local merchant, echoed the Forsyths original hope, writing that the house was "a splendid affair throwing all others in Kingston in the shade." The lavish decoration, he wondered, "would rather astonish the honest Dutch who built Old Sopus could they revisit old scenes", referring to Kingstons original 17th-century settlers.</p><br>
<p>Forsyth did not get to enjoy his sumptuous surroundings for long. He had made $200,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) through a number of fraudulent schemes, including forgery and illegal stock sales, and just before this was discovered in 1853 he left the country. After traveling through southern Europe for a while he made his way to the English city of Hereford on the Welsh border. There, under the assumed name of Edward Rashleigh, he drank heavily and died at the age of 36 in the Green Dragon Inn in 1855.</p><br>
<p>After his flight and death, his wife and children remained in the house. Sometime almost two decades later, in the 1870s, they sold it to William Fitch, a relative of Ezra Fitch. Later it was the property of county treasurer John Broadhead. During his tenure, around the turn of the century, the front porch was redone in a Colonial Revival mode and the columns at the dining room entryway were added. In the early 20th century, Broadhead moved to Connecticut after he was accused of stealing $80–200,000 from the county. At a public auction in 1907 it was sold to Samuel Gray, a grain dealer from Saugerties.</p><br>
<p>In 1939 the local Freemasons bought it. Local architect George Low supervised some large-scale changes, including the bump-out at the southwest corner and the opening of the western half of the second story to create a meeting room. A fire escape was also built on the rear of the building to comply with the building code.</p><br>
<p>After remaining vacant for years in the late 20th century when the Masons moved out, it was bought in late 2002 by Carey Construction, a local firm that has restored some city landmarks like the Persen House and City Hall. As part of its restoration, Carey said it might remove the other second floor walls to create a more open space for offices and add skylights to the roof but did not plan to make any other permanent changes.</p><br>
<p>The Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic District is a historic ranch complex located southwest of Pinedale, Wyoming. The district includes 11 wooden buildings, including a homestead house, a bunkhouse, a barn, and various other farm buildings and outbuildings. Albert P. "Prof" Sommers founded the ranch in 1908. Sommers married May McAlister in 1911; after the couple bought land from May&#39;s parents and her friend Nellie Yates, their ranch grew to 1,900 acre. The ranch is still operational and serves as an example of the many ranches built in the upper Green River Valley.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Oswego City Library is a historic library building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It has also been known as the Oswego School District Public Library. It was built in about 1855 and is a two-story brick structure over a full basement. It features a distinctive castellated style with exterior battlements, machicolations, tower, turrets, corbels, and arcaded windows. It was a gift from Gerrit Smith, who gave $25,000 for the building construction and $5,000 for books.</p><br>
<p>The library is credited for being the oldest public library in the United States that maintains operations out of its original building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After a fire destroyed part of the library&#39;s building in 1853, politician and abolitionist Gerrit Smith gathered people to serve as Trustees to contribute to the maintenance of a new library which would value the welcoming of people of all backgrounds.</p><br>
<p>Smith stipulated that the library be located on the east side of the Oswego River, hence in the part of the city where he owned other properties, and also that "privileges and benefits of the library shall be always as acceptable to the one sex as the other, and that no person on account of their race, complexion or condition, shall be shut out of the privileges and benefits, or in any degree curtailed of them."</p><br>
<p>Upon opening to the public in 1857, the Oswego Public Library held approximately 8,000 volumes of works. The City of Oswego and the Oswego School System provided financial contributions to sustain the library in its infancy.</p><br>
<p>It is documented in early records that numerous black residents of Oswego, including Tudor E. Grant and his family, did indeed borrow books out of the library.</p><br>
<p>The library became part of an independent library district in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It was measured and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1966.</p><br>
<p>Oswego Theater, now known as Oswego 7 Cinemas, is a historic movie theater located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was designed in 1940 in the Art Deco style and opened in 1941. The front features bands of yellow, red, and dark red brick that create broad horizontal and perpendicular belts. A pair of cast stone, accordion pleated vertical stripes are included on the facade. It was designed by architect John Eberson .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Oswego County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1859-1860 and altered in 1891 and again in 1962. The two story building rises above a cruciform plan and is constructed of load bearing masonry walls faced with smooth ashlar limestone. It features a portico surmounted by a domed cupola. It was designed by architect Horatio Nelson White .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Oswego Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure built in 1906–1908. It was designed by State architect George L. Heins. It consists of a -story administration building with an attached large, gable-roofed drill shed. The building features a 5-story octagonal tower at the northwest corner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Oswego YMCA</h2><br>
<p>After the closing of the Armory in 2004, The Oswego YMCA purchased the Armory and now runs most of its Child and Teen activities out of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Humane Society</h2><br>
<p>The Humane Society rents a single room in the basement of the Armory.</p><br>
<p>The Buckhout–Jones Building is a historic commercial building located at 5-13 West Bridge Street in Oswego, Oswego County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a three-story brick building. It was built originally in the 1850s and rebuilt in 1876 after a fire. The building exhibits Gothic and Queen Anne design details. Two fugitive slaves operated barber shops in the building from the 1850s to 1880s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Tudor E. Grant</h2><br>
<p>Tudor E. Grant was a former slave whose barbershop business was in the building.</p><br>
