<p>Hunter-Oliphant Block, also known as Browne-Davis Furniture Store, is a historic commercial building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It consists of adjacent brick buildings under single ownership; the three-story Hunter Building, built in 1882, and the Oliphant Building, built in 1880 as a three-story building with a fourth story added in the 1890s. The buildings exhibits Italianate design details. The first floor has cast-iron storefronts. The buildings have a common history dating to 1909 when they were combined as a single furniture store.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Veal School near Roopville, Georgia was built in 1900 and expanded in 1929. It served as a school until 1949. Since then it became used by its community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story building with cedar shingles and four classrooms. The 1929 expansion added hallways between the classrooms and an auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium was used for roller skating on Friday nights beginning in 1954. It has also been used for movies, meetings, concerts, theatre, sports and fundraisers. It was deeded by the Carroll County Board of Education to the community in 1955.</p><br>
<p>The Stillwater Overlook is a scenic overlook in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, United States, just south of the city limits of Stillwater, near the junction of Minnesota State Highway 36 and Minnesota State Highway 95. The overlook was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for having state-level significance in politics/government and landscape architecture. It was nominated as a leading example of the early wayside rests developed by the Minnesota Department of Highways Roadside Development Division, as well as for its sophisticated and well-preserved National Park Service rustic architecture, and for being an important work of Minnesota landscape architect Arthur R. Nichols.</p><br>
<p>The main structure on the site is a limestone wall that overlooks the St. Croix River valley. It was built by the National Youth Administration (NYA) between 1936 and 1937. The limestone was salvaged from the old Minnesota Territorial Prison, which was demolished by the NYA beginning in 1936. The construction is an excellent example of the National Park Service Rustic style, which emphasized the use of locally indigenous materials. The labor-intensive construction techniques also reflect the need to employ many people in federal relief projects. The overlook is very well preserved.</p><br>
<p>This overlook was one of several roadside development projects in the Stillwater area designed by Minnesota Highway Department landscape architect Arthur R. Nichols and built under Depression-era relief programs. Other projects in this time included an overlook north of Stillwater, a roadside parking area at the St. Croix Boom Site, and an Indian battleground historic marker. The roadside development in the Stillwater area reflected its importance as a tourist destination.</p><br>
<p>The Charleston Naval Hospital Historic District is a portion of the Charleston Navy Base that included a collection of buildings connected with the medical needs of the Navy base.</p><br>
<h2>Early years: 1902-1922</h2><br>
<p>On 2 November 1902 the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery bought 96.5 acre of land that was owned by the city of Charleston, South Carolina adjoining the northwest side of the Navy Yard.Records obtained from the Court House, City of Charleston, South Carolina, out of Records F 24, page 30 dated 21 November 1902, containing the following record of interest:</p><br>
<p>THE CITY OF CHARLESTON TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p><br>
<p>12th Day of July, AD 1902</p><br>
<p>Be it resolved, by the Mayor and Alderman of the City Of Charleston in City Council assembled, that the honorable Mayor id hereby directed, authorized and empowered to execute such deeds as may be necessary to convey to the United States of America such portions of the land, the property of the City of Charleston, now known as "Chicora Park", at and for the consideration of two hundred dollars ($200) per acre, as may be desired by the said United States of America, for the purpose of establishing a Marine hospital. Total value is $19,300.</p><br>
<p>Plat presented by J. W. G. Walker, Civil Engineer, USN</p><br>
<p>City received said property from:</p><br>
<p>William B. Chisolm on the 5th day of February AD 1895, Helen S. Whaley and Pauline S Heyward on the 11th day of February AD 1895, and Paul S and Joseph J. Noisette on the 31st day of July AD 1899.</p><br>
<p>In witness where I, J. Adger Smyth, the said Mayor of the said City of Charleston, under and by virtue of the Resolution aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the said City Council of Charleston to be hereunto affixed by the Clerk of the said City Council this 20th day of November in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and two, and in the one hundred and twenty seventh year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.</p><br>
<p>/s/ W. W. Simons&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;J. Adger Smyth (L.S.)</p><br>
<p>Clerk of the City Council&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;Mayor of the City of</p><br>
<p>Of Charleston, S.C.&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;Charleston, S.C.</p><br>
<p>Signed and sealed and delivered in the presence of:</p><br>
<p>/s/ John G. Capers, USA Atty.</p><br>
<p>/s/ E. Longnecker, USAN. (Corporate Seal)</p><br>
<p>/s/ J. W. G. Walker, USAN.</p><br>
<p>Later transfers to the Navy Yard reduced the acreage to 43.14 acre, the number of acres recorded in hospital records as of 1 November 1949.</p><br>
<p>After establishment of the Navy Yard in 1902, the Medical Department activities occupied "hospital" tents near the site of the Marine Corps Post Exchange. In 1905 a Marine Sick Quarters was erected in the same place. During this period, the Medical Officer of the Yard had an office in the Post Office building in Charleston, making a daily trip to the Yard by street car. In 1905, a room in one of the then-existing buildings at the Yard was allotted for use as a Medical Dispensary.</p><br>
<p>On June 26, 1906, Congress appropriated $12,000 to build a Yard Dispensary, but no bids from outside contractors were received, so it was not until December 1908 that a Yard Dispensary was completed by Yard labor. This wooden building was erected on brick piers near the center of the Navy Yard. Later a basement was added which functioned as a dispensary and as a small hospital with many of its patients in tents. Since its beginning, the building was repeatedly enlarged. In 1917 the west wing was added.</p><br>
<p>With the advent of World War I, this 28-bed dispensary, even with the addition of new buildings, was taxed beyond its capacity and was entirely inadequate to meet the hospital needs for the Naval Base, and the increased personnel caused by the establishment of the training camp to the capacity of 5000 men. Emergency facilities in the shape of tents and temporary beds were established in connection with the Naval Dispensary until a total capacity was reached for 120 patients. This was a temporary expedient to meet the circumstances incident to a sudden influx of men without accommodations for the sick.</p><br>
<p>In view of the necessity for a Naval Hospital in this area, a hospital was authorized to be constructed by the NAVAL EMERGENCY FUND ACT A contract was let with the Charleston Engineering & Constructing Co. to build the hospital. Work commenced on June 1, 1917, and the hospital was commissioned on July 31, 1917, in spite of many difficulties encountered in obtaining enough labor and a minor strike among the carpenters. The hospital was the original Naval Hospital built on the site located on the Medical Department Property that was purchased in 1902. The hospital consisted of 19 temporary, wooden buildings with a bed capacity of 250. These buildings included one administration building, one office building, one building for women nurses, nine ward buildings, one galley, a mess hall, garage, laundry, power house, stores house, and recreation hall. These were all one-story buildings, owing to the increased patient load, additional beds were urgently required, and by September 1918 fourteen additional buildings were constructed which increased the bed capacity to 1000 beds. These additional buildings were of wood finished in stucco and were erected south of the hospital reservation. The hospital made use of an ambulance to transport the sick from outlying stations of the Sixth Naval District and from vessels in the harbor to the hospital.</p><br>
<p>Commander W. M. Garton, MC, USN was its commanding officer during its construction and until July 1919.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, due to the increasing cost of maintenance and the decreasing number of patients, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery decided to abandon the World War I Emergency hospital, and the then Yard Dispensary was reoccupied as a combined Naval Hospital and Dispensary. The Yard Dispensary was then designated a Naval Hospital. On 21 December 1922, the emergency hospital was officially closed and the Medical personnel transferred to the dispensary building. Certain of the buildings of the emergency hospital were moved adjacent to the Yard Dispensary and as other buildings were demolished, the materials were used to provide additional facilities at the Navy Yard Hospital. The changes had no other significance other that to return the hospital to a pre-war status.</p><br>
<h2>Middle years: 1922-1970</h2><br>
<p>This hospital/dispensary consisted of several frame buildings occupying about 4 acre of land near the center of the Navy Yard, and had a bed capacity of 57. As indicated before, the main hospital building was completed in 1908 as a Yard Dispensary building, and between 1908 and 1938 new additions were built from time to time to the original structure as the need for expansion became necessary. A new wing was added to the main hospital building and the first floor of that wing was used for office space, the second floor was used for sick officers quarters, and the basement provided additional office and storage space. The building previously used for sick officers quarters, dental office and family clinic was converted for dependents hospitalization. A covered ramp connected this building with the main building. In 1937 work was underway on construction of a new hospital corpsman quarters west of this hospital building. The hospital corps quarters was then located on the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery property. Upon completion of the new quarters, the old quarters was converted to a contagious and genitourinary ward. The building previously used for contagious and genitourinary cases was then used as a Yard Dispensary, because the space in the main hospital was inadequate to include a Yard Dispensary. On 1 May 1941, the Yard Dispensary and the Naval Hospital, which had been combined, were separated into independent medical departments units. As the dispensary was an old war-time 1917-1918 frame structure and entirely inadequate, a new location and building were urgently needed which should be located more in and to the center of the industrial section. In July 1942, the dispensary was transferred to building number 58 of the Naval Shipyard at the entrance of the Third Street gate.</p><br>
<p>The emergency hospital buildings erected in 1917 were moved or torn down during the 1930s period with the exception of the then commanding officers and executive officers quarters, and building 21 (old medical storeroom) and the old mess hall for the original hospital. These four buildings were still standing and being used in 1975. The quarters 5, 6, and 7 that were used as Medical Officers quarters which were located at the West Gate entrance on hospital property were used as a sick bay for the recruit camp during World War I.</p><br>
<p>On 17 June 1940, work was commenced on the construction of two additional wards with a capacity of 60 patients. On 4 October 1940, these wards were completed, this gave the hospital a total capacity 117 beds which was still inadequate for the patient load at that time. In September 1940, funds amounting to about one million dollars were obtained from the Works Progress Administration for the construction of a 200-bed hospital.</p><br>
<p>In the spring of 1941, work commenced on the construction of a new naval hospital, which was located on the same site as the old World War I emergency hospital. On 13 April 1942 the new naval hospital was completed and commissioned. Originally visualized as a 200-bed hospital, permanent wards in reality had a total capacity of 380 beds. All permanent wards were completed and occupied with the exception of the psychopathic ward which was completed within the next ten days. All the 30-bed temporary wards were finished and four of the 40-bed temporary wards were about ninety per cent finished. Construction of the fifth temporary ward was soon begun and upon completion of this ward gave the hospital a bed capacity of 600. During 1942 the hospital was enlarged by the addition of ten single story wooden ward buildings as a continuation of two rows of permanent ward buildings. On 2 June 1944, 5 acre of land was transferred back to the hospital from the Marine Corps. On this ground the Sick Officers&#39; quarters annex was constructed and occupied in 1945.</p><br>
<p>In September 1944, construction began on a concrete tile walled 260 ft by 42 ft recreation building. Entering this building one will see beautiful mural adorned walls and paneled foyer. A frieze of 68 campaign ribbons in full color against a slate background is found in the foyer. At the soda fountain on the north wall of the ships service is a gigantic mural of life size Navy, Marine Corps, and Red Cross figures and a Gray Lady surrounding the seal of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. This is the work of Quartermaster First Class Wilko H. ANDERSON, who was a civilian portrait painter prior to his naval service. In this recreation lounge on the wide expanse of the south wall, a painted map of the world approximately 14 ft by 35 ft, looks down upon many recreational activities. In addition to the murals in the ships service lounge, the walls of the Red Cross Service Room are adorned with the favorite characters of several famous cartoonists, drawn by the artists themselves when they visited the hospital. Other activities located in the Recreation Building were a first class Post Office, Barber Shop, Beauty Shop, Lounge Rooms, Telephone Booths, Library, Red Cross Offices, Recreation Office, and Movie Auditorium. The auditorium has a seating capacity of 542 and provides movies twice each evening.</p><br>
<h2>Later years: 1970-2007</h2><br>
<p>A groundbreaking ceremony was held 14 February 1970, officially marking the beginning of the new Charleston Naval Hospital, a modern 500-bed structure that would replace the hospital facilities contained in the outmoded quarters on the Charleston Naval Base.</p><br>
<p>The Naval Hospital, at the Navy Shipyard, remained in continual use until the dedication on 2 March 1973 of the Naval Regional Medical Center located at the intersection of Rivers and McMillan Avenues, North Charleston, South Carolina. The new 10-story hospital had a 500-bed capacity and 375,000 sq ft of floor space. The building had central heat and air conditioning, central dictating and transcribing system, central oxygen and vacuum system, television for patient&#39;s rooms, and vertical transport systems. It had two Intensive Care Units, seven operating rooms, three delivery rooms, and a Cardiac Care Unit, all equipped with life support systems. The new Naval Hospital served approximately 73,000 eligible patrons.</p><br>
<p>In March 1973 this new 500-bed Naval Hospital was completed and occupied, at a cost in excess of 18.5 million dollars.</p><br>
<p>The Naval Regional Medical Center, Charleston was established 1 July 1972 to provide improved patient care through improved utilization of resources including medical personnel. The Naval Regional Medical Center commands and coordinates the various Naval medical facilities and programs available to the Charleston and Beaufort communities. In addition to the core hospital, the command included Branch Clinics at the Naval Station, the Naval Shipyard, the Naval Weapons Station, and the Naval Hospital Beaufort with Branch Clinics at the Marine Corps Air Station and Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island. The commanding officer, Naval Regional Medical Center also served as the District Medical Officer, Sixth Naval District.</p><br>
<p>The Sixth Naval District was disestablished on September 30, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The early 1990s ushered in the zenith of Naval Hospital Charleston&#39;s status as a tertiary military treatment facility. At the time of the 75th anniversary ceremony in 1992, the Hospital employed over 1,200 personnel, delivered over 1,300 babies, performed more than 3,000 surgeries, admitted 9,000 patients into our wards, and treated over 365,000 beneficiaries.</p><br>
<p>In 1993, the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) began hearings at the Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, South Carolina resulting in a significant reduction in Navy presence in the City of North Charleston. Just one year later, on 24 June 1994, the Family Practice Residency Program that had produced 185 graduating interns and 149 graduating residents since its inception in 1973 conducted its final graduation.</p><br>
<p>Personnel migrations resulting from BRAC actions reduced the number of active duty personnel and their family members in North Charleston from 77,000 in 1993 to fewer than 38,000 at the end of Fiscal Year 1995. During that same period, the total beneficiary population declined from 106,000 to 71,000. Though bed capacity had steadily declined prior to the BRAC actions, the loss of beneficiaries between 1993 and 1994 resulted in the rightsizing of Naval Hospital Charleston to 40 beds to support the population that remained in the catchment area effective 1 October 1995.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, North Charleston witnessed the final closure of its Naval Base and Shipyard and the City bid farewell to most of the mighty vessels of war that had long home ported at its piers – destroyers, frigates, cruisers, submarines, tenders and other support ships.</p><br>
<p>The Naval Hospital&#39;s Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit were both disestablished in February 1998 to further optimize resources. Later that year on November 1, the Hospital implemented an External Resource Sharing Agreement with Trident Health System that provided Naval Hospital physicians and their patients with a full array of quality inpatient and surgical services to include General Surgery; Obstetrics and Gynecological Surgery; Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery; and Orthopedic Surgery.</p><br>
<p>April 14, 1999 marked the end of another era for the hospital. The Medical/Surgical Unit, the last inpatient ward at this facility, closed its doors to inpatient admissions after 26 years of service.</p><br>
<p>Another historic event occurred when, in October 2006, the Operating Room and Post Anesthesia Recovery and Ambulatory Procedures Units located on the hospital&#39;s 10th deck were disestablished during a poignant ceremony that celebrated the numerous safe and successful procedures performed by the dedicated surgeons and support staff during the 33 years that the units were in operation.</p><br>
<h2>Current years: 2007 and beyond</h2><br>
<p>In alignment with the Chief of Naval Operation&#39;s vision of future force shaping, the Naval Weapons Station Dental Clinic was integrated into the Naval Hospital during a Change of Charge ceremony on October 22, 2004, well ahead of the mandated deadline as a result of the hard work and team focus of both Hospital and Dental Clinic staff members.</p><br>
<p>On January 12, 2007, the Naval Hospital Charleston publicly announced the official change of name from Naval Hospital Charleston to Naval Health Clinic Charleston to accurately reflect the ambulatory care mission which they have provided since 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Naval Health Clinic Charleston would consolidate their services into a modern, two story ambulatory clinic and share the facility and some of its services with the Ralph H. Johnson Veteran&#39;s Administration Medical Center, which will operate a Community Based Outpatient Clinic from the facility. The ground breaking for the new clinic was scheduled for March 23, 2007, with an estimated completion date and official move in date of late September 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Naval Health Clinic Charleston currently renders quality health services for approximately 12,000 enrollees from these buildings located at the Naval Weapons Station in Goose Creek to better serve our beneficiaries in that strategic location:</p><br>
<p>The Branch Medical Clinic offers family medicine and ancillary services.</p><br>
<p>At Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC), the Naval Health Clinic Charleston provides a sick call clinic for 5000 students and 500 faculty.</p><br>
<p>The Branch Wellness clinic provides health promotion classes and health beneficiary consultation.</p><br>
<p>On September 1, 2010, the long-awaited move to the new consolidated Joint VA and Naval Health Clinic commenced. The new site is a 188,000 ft&sup2, state-of-the-art layout. It offers a drive-through pharmacy and a variety of other health care upgrades for active duty service members, their family members, retirees and veterans. It is "ambulatory," or for "walk-in, walk-out" services.</p><br>
<p>With this move, the Naval Weapons Station Branch Medical Clinic and the NNPTC sick call clinic were combined with the Naval Health Clinic operations moving from the Rivers Avenue location, placing all of Naval Health Clinic Charleston at one location.</p><br>
<p>The Hay Lake School is a historic schoolhouse in Scandia, Minnesota, United States, in use from 1896 to 1963. It is now operated by the Washington County Historical Society as a museum alongside the 1868 Johannes Erickson House. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 for having local significance in the themes of architecture, education, and social history. It was nominated as Scandia&#39;s first and only surviving early school.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Hay Lake School is a small brick building with white trim. The gable roof is topped by a belfry. The main façade on the east has a porch with a decorative lattice frieze, a typical embellishment of the period.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school district for this part of Washington County was organized in 1855, but classes were initially held in various local homes. In 1860 the district acquired the former Elim Lutheran Church, and classes were held there until 1890. This building is now preserved at the nearby Gammelgården Museum. Local residents around Scandia worked to construct the area&#39;s first purpose-built school in 1895. One of the lead contributors was Peter Rosell. While carrying a load of bricks intended for the project, however, he broke through ice on the St. Croix River and drowned.</p><br>
<p>The Hay Lake School was completed in 1896 and served continuously until 1963, when a new school building was constructed nearby. The old building was boarded up and stood vacant for years. In 1970 a group of local residents, many graduates of the school, decided to refurbish the building and open it for tours, helping it gain National Register status in the process. The Washington County Historical Society accepted management of the schoolhouse in 1974, moving the Johannes Erickson House onto the property to form a small museum complex near a 1900 monument to the first Swedish settlers in Minnesota. Four years later the historical society gained full title to the school by purchasing it from the Forest Lake School District.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Row Historic District in the village of Athens, New York is a small</p><br>
<p>row of brick row houses that were built as apartments for the workers of</p><br>
<p>the booming clay mining industry in the late 19th century to early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The row houses are found on Brick Row St. off route 385 just north of</p><br>
<p>the village of Athens. The rows are close to the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Hillsborough Historic District is a national historic district located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 529 contributing buildings, 9 contributing sites, 13 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Hillsborough. The district includes buildings dating to the late-18th and early-20th century and includes notable examples of Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Burwell School, Eagle Lodge, Hazel-Nash House, Heartsease, Montrose, Nash Law Office, Nash-Hooper House, Old Orange County Courthouse, Poplar Hill, Ruffin-Roulhac House, Sans Souci, and St. Matthew&#39;s Episcopal Church and Churchyard. Other notable buildings include Seven Hearths, the Presbyterian Church , Methodist Church , First Baptist Church , Twin Chimneys, and the Berry Brick House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Forest Historic District is a national historic district encompassing much of the original town area of Lake Forest, Illinois. The district is primarily residential, though it also includes three educational institutions and two significant commercial districts. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lake Forest became a popular suburb for the Chicago areas wealthiest residents, and many prominent Chicago businesspeople built their homes in the town. The districts architecture is lavish, reflecting the wealth of its residents, and includes works by Charles Sumner Frost, Dwight H. Perkins, and Howard Van Doren Shaw. The district also includes several buildings on the campus of Lake Forest College, the founding of which spurred the growth of Lake Forest, and Market Square, the country&#39;s first planned shopping center.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Carlowville Historic District is a historic district in the community of Carlowville, Alabama. It covers 780 acre and is centered on Alabama State Route 89 and Dallas County roads 4, 47 and 417. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Carlowville Historic District was nominated to the National Register as a "pleasant blending of nineteenth and twentieth century architecture in quiet, rural environment." The earlier buildings are predominantly wood-frame structures. They range from elegant mansions to plain folk houses. Some of the homes continue to be owned by descendants of the original builders who</p><br>
<p>came here from the Atlantic seaboard nearly 200 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Several of the more substantial houses were built atop brick basements. Two of these structures had their original brick ground floor removed and were subsequently lowered during the twentieth century. Architectural historians have attributed this to dampness and the poor quality of the local brick.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing structures</h2><br>
<p>At the time of the nomination, the Carlowville Historic District contained 21 contributing properties, built primarily in the Colonial Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival styles. Greek Revival is the dominant style. The contributing buildings recognized by architectural historians as the most important structures to the district include: the Rumpt-Alison House (built circa 1840), a two-story Greek Revival-style house with a two-tiered portico; the Alison-Wade House (1849), a two-story Colonial Georgian-style house with a small one-story porch; St. Pauls Episcopal Church (1838), with a Greek Revival-style tetrastyle Doric portico and late nineteenth century Gothic Revival-style bell tower and windows; Carlowville Baptist Church (circa 1837), an end-gabled Federal-style building with a central entrance porch; the Lee-Wade House (1841), an end-gabled two-story Greek Revival-style house with a monumental portico that originally had a brick ground story; the Alison-Youngblood House (1833), remodeled in the Neoclassical style during the 1920s; the St. Pauls Episcopal Church Rectory (mid-nineteenth century), a one-story Greek Revival-style building that originally had a brick ground story; and the Calhoun Law Office (1840), a small Greek Revival-style professional building that was built by Judge James Martin Calhoun, a nephew of John C. Calhoun.</p><br>
<p>The Evansburg Historic District in Evansburg, Pennsylvania, United States, is a National Historic District designated by Congress with over 50 National Register properties dating from the early 18th through 19th century. Almost all of these properties are privately owned and in active use at this time. The Evansburg Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Evansburg is one of Americas earliest planned villages, being the conception of William Lane, whose will of 1732 left to the ministers that shall serve successively at St. James Church, "Forty two acres of land adjoining, which said land shall be laid out as commodious for a settlement as conveniently it may be without causing much damage to the remainder."</p><br>
<p>Evansburg is part of William Penn&#39;s Holy Experiment, where people lived in separate clusters according to their religious, cultural, and national heritage, but were linked together politically and economically in a common destiny that was to become the United States of America. Thus there were the German Lutherans in Trappe, the Welsh Baptists in Eagleville, the Scottish Presbyterians in Norriton, the English Quakers in Plymouth Meeting, the Dutch Mennonite along the Skippack, and the English Anglicans in Evansburg.</p><br>
<p>The village was at one time known as Hustletown for the "hustling" or "raffling" witnessed by two youngbloods who gave a cheer for Hustletown, according to legend. The nickname probably came from the fact that Hussel Town, an individual, owned land next to Edward Lane in 1773. Originally, the land was purchased on June 3, 1684, from Sachem Maughaugam, chief of the Lenape Native Americans. It was called "Pahkehoma" and later Anglicized to "Perkiomen", meaning "the place where grow the cranberries". "Skippack", the name of the other creek, means "a stagnant stream".</p><br>
<p>The Evans family, for whom the village is named, have written in history a record of remarkable achievement and fame. Evan Evans, the second minister at Christ Church, Philadelphia, received his Doctor of Divinity from Brasenose College, Oxford, and was sent by the Bishop of London to be the first Church of England minister in these parts. Owen Evans owned jointly with his cousin Oliver Evans the first steam-mill built in America at Pittsburgh, and later his factory in Evansburg produced large numbers of muskets for the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>John Evans was instrumental in founding Northwestern University, and the Chicago suburb in which it is located was named Evanston in his honor.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>According to the United States Census Bureau, the Census Designated Place has a total area of 1.5 square miles, all of it land. The nearby Evansburg State Park takes its name from the CDP.</p><br>
<h2>Significant contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Some of the districts properties are architecturally or historically noteworthy in themselves. One, the Skippack Bridge, was listed on the National Register prior to the districts creation.</p><br>
<p>Heyser Homestead (Nedrow Eye Doctory and House) is located on Township Line Road, Evansburg. The nine acre property accommodates an elegant brownstone barn and several well-preserved outbuildings, including a root cellar, summer kitchen, smoke house, and well. This German farm belonged to the Hyser family for many years although title search has revealed that the house was associated with the well-known Nedrow family of Philadelphia. According to local tradition, the house contains vats that were used for the dyeing of uniforms during the Revolutionary War. The homestead is primarily significant for its excellent eighteenth century masonry and architecture and for the outstanding condition in which it remains today.</p><br>
<p>John Umstadt House, on Township Line Road, Evansburg, is a well-preserved example of eighteenth century architecture and is important for its association with famous families in the area of Evansburg. Umstat received the land from Mathias Van Bebber, who was granted it by William Penn in 1702.</p><br>
<p>Ann E. Casselberry House and Barn are located on Evansburg Road, north of the Germantown Pike. The house, built between 1798 and 1804, was sold to Ann E. Casselberry who vacated the adjacent Derrick Casselberry House to live in the new one after the death of her husband. The stone masonry of the house is notable as is the handsome barn on the property. Both are good examples of late eighteenth, early nineteenth century architecture. The property is still owned by the Casselberry family in the name of Anna Casselberry.</p><br>
<p>Paul Engle House is located on the bank of the Skippack Creek at 36 Evansburg Road, Evansburg. By the time of Paul Engle&#39;s death in 1795, the farm was well-established. In the deed received by Daniel Rees in 1795, mention of water rights indicated the importance of the Skippack Creek in the economic and technological development of the area.</p><br>
<p>Society for the Propagation of the Gospel School House (today the St. James Community Center) is situated on the northeast corner of Evansburg Road and the Germantown Pike. The small, stone-plastered building which predates 1792 was remodeled to resemble the St. James Church, Perkiomen of 1721. The building is surrounded by gravesites of Revolutionary War soldiers buried after the Battle of Germantown and colonists&#39; graves found there date from as early as 1723. Paul Engle willed money to the school to aid in the education of poor children—an unusual practice for the time. In 1838 the school was leased as a public school and may have been one of the first such schools in the nation. Other uses to which the building has been put include the housing of a printing press used in the production of an early English translation of the Bible, as well as serving as a mortuary, chapel and a library. The building today houses the Evansburg Free Library.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church, Perkiomen, located at 3768 Germantown Pike, was one of the founding churches of the Episcopal Church in America. The original stone church was erected in a cemetery in 1721, but a log structure may have occupied the property as early as 1708. In 1843 the present church was built utilizing the stones and perhaps the two windows on the facade from the old building which was torn down to make room for the expansion of the cemetery. The original datestone of the 1721 church is set in the facade of the present one and the initials of the Church wardens of the time are easily legible. According to Professor Anthony N. E. Garvan of the University of Pennsylvania, the plastered stone church represents "a very moderate and conservative adaptation of the Gothic revival in the facade and the Oxford Movement in interior furnishings." The St. James Church, Perkiomen is an example, in excellent condition, of a rural 19th century place of worship.</p><br>
<p>Funkite Cemetery located south of the Germantown Pike on a hill across from the Skippack Creek Road, serves as a memorial to Mennonite Minister Christian Funk, excommunicated from his church in 1777 for his advocacy of payment of the Revolutionary War tax. The Mennonites are a pacifist sect, but Funk argued that suppression of the colonial revolt by the British might jeopardize the religious freedom which the Mennonites had migrated to America to find. He viewed payment of the tax as incumbent upon Mennonites who valued a reconciliation after they were driven from the church, but neither side would compromise its deeply held beliefs. By 1850, the last of the Funkites had died out. The cemetery contains 32 markers, the earliest dating from 1815. Although the land is overgrown, the stones remain in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>Glebe House, 3814 Germantown Pike, part of which dates 1737, is significant for the role it played before and after the Battle of Germantown in September 1777. The term Glebe House first appears in 1764 when the building is described as "the Glebe House belonging to ye Societys Mission of Radnor and Perquihoma." The term Glebe refers to a farm on which the minister raised his own food so as to be self-supporting. On September 20, 1777, the 3-story plastered stone house (the present day rectory of St. James Church) was the scene of a war council of Washingtons troops/ Local historians assert that soldiers were quartered there after the battle. The building is representative of 18th century country architecture — typical of the early English builders of Evansburg. It is also important as one of the earliest Glebe Houses and farms in the Anglican Church in America still standing.</p><br>
<p>Samuel D. Shupe House, 136 Evansburg Road, was the home of a Philadelphia merchant. This two-story plastered stone house was built in the early 1840s and serves as an excellent example of mid-nineteenth century architecture of this region of Montgomery County.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Mester House, 138 Evansburg Road, is a two-story, two bedroom plastered fieldstone house with end chimneys. The home was built in 1869 by Mester on land that at one time belonged to St. James Church. The home is an excellent example of mid-nineteenth century architecture of this region of Montgomery County.</p><br>
<p>George Coulter House, located along Germantown Pike, is another example of early nineteenth century architecture in Montgomery County. This home, built by Coulter in 1817, is a two-story plastered fieldstone farmhouse with two end chimneys and a pent roof.</p><br>
<p>Stephen Rush House, located at 3851 Germantown Pike, is a two-story fieldstone structure that served as a center of food and drink to travelers along Germantown Pike. This Inn was built about 1803 on land purchased from St. James Church.</p><br>
<p>Evansburg Inn, located at 3833 Germantown Pike, is a large, two-story plastered fieldstone inn with end chimneys. The inn was built between 1803 and 1806 by Jacob Fronefield. Fronefield later sold the inn to George Hocker, a "yeoman" from Whitemarsh. Several owners later the property was purchased by Stephen Rush. Rush also owned an additional inn along the Germantown Pike. Rush was a descendant of Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the father of American psychiatry.</p><br>
<p>John Keyser House, located at 3847 Germantown Pike, is a two-story plastered fieldstone structure with end chimneys. Its architecture is similar to many other early homes in this region of Montgomery County. This structure was built by John Keyser between 1799 and 1804. A blacksmith shop was located to the rear of the house and was always busy due to its proximity to the Reading–Philadelphia Turnpike. The property was later owned by Ephraim Boyer, a member of the Boyer family that founded Boyertown. The house was also owned by Henry K. Boyer, an attorney and one-time Speaker of the House for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Owen Evans House, located at 3856 Germantown Pike, is a two-story plastered fieldstone structure that has been modernized somewhat. The structure was built by Owen Evans between 1784 and 1805. Evans was one of the most famous gunmakers in the United States. In 1797 he received a contract from Governor Mifflin and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1,200 guns. These arms were used in the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>Changing House, located on the east bank of the Skippack Creek, is a country version of a Philadelphia town house. It is constructed of plastered fieldstone with the central door flanked by two windows and three windows on the second floor. Samuel bard, a Welsh stonemason, built the house on land purchased in 1811. The house was sold in 1832 to the First Regular Baptist Church for use as their first church and baptismal "changing house." The Changing House was used until 1912 when a modern pool was constructed some distance from the stream.</p><br>
<p>Keyser&#39;s Mill, located on Skippack Creek Road and Germantown Pike, is a four-story structure located adjacent to the Creek. The building is constructed of plastered fieldstone and fenestration consists of rows of three windows. The gable end faces the Skippack Creek Road. The earliest legal mention of the mill was in 1849 when Daniel Croll granted the grist mill to Jacob and Philip Croll. Prior to its purchase for the Evansburg State Park, the property belonged to Byron Keyser. The mill is important because it is larger than the typical two-story mill of the eighteenth century. This mill is the last of the water-powered mills in the area.</p><br>
<p>Peter Williams Tavern, located on Germantown Pike at Skippack Creek, is a three-story plastered stone structure. Fenestration consists of three windows across the two upper floors and two windows and an entrance door placed to the right on the first floor. In the fashion of Philadelphia houses there are no first or second story windows on the side, only one small attic window placed off center. This house is said to be the place in which the planning for the Skippack Bridge took place in 1792. Williams acquired the property in 1790 from Mary Bramwell.</p><br>
<p>Skippack Bridge, already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is an eight-arch stone bridge that was built in 1792 to cross the Skippack Creek on Germantown Pike in Lower Providence Township. The thirty-three foot wide bridge has carried traffic since its completion in 1792. The original datestone reads, "Skippack Bridge, 1792," and bears the names of Mathew Potts, John Mann and Conrad Boyer. The bridge was repaired in 1874 and a second datestone bears among others the name of John Stevens, one of the commissioners. The bridge was funded by monies of which at least a part was collected by lottery in 1762. During the February term, 1792, a court-appointed six man jury was instructed to lay out a road and a bridge easily accessible from either the present Manatawny Road or Germantown Pike and the Norristown Road. One of the points of reference used in surveying the bridge was the Peter Williams Tavern which also became the location for the various board meetings during the construction period.</p><br>
<h2>Other notable structures</h2><br>
<p>Doctors Grigg House, thought to be constructed prior to 1813 by Jacob Fronefield, Blacksmith, who built many houses in Evansburg. He received the land between Germantown Pike and Old Baptist Church Road from Lewis Schrack in 1806 and sold the messuage in 1813 to Joseph Henry, Merchant, with the right of Daniel Croll to dig a tail race across the property. From 1842 and for nearly half a century, the stone house belonged to Dr. John Ryland Grigg, professor at the nearby Pennsylvania Female College, and his son, Dr. Jacob Grigg. Located at 3764 Germantown Pike, it is still maintained as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Zollers House, constructed around 1844. Zollers was responsible for much of the stonework done in Evansburg.</p><br>
<p>Evansburg Methodist Church and the Church House, built some time prior to 1842, perhaps by George Coulter and was sold to trustees of the church in 1842</p><br>
<p>Abraham Harman House is a typical example of 19th-century stone masonry in the planned village of Evansburg. Located at 3865 Germantown Pike, it was sold by Abraham Harman to David Munshower in 1839.</p><br>
<p>Christian Dull House of square German styling, built late in the 18th century at 3861 Germantown Pike, is claimed significant because of early commercial activities, including a wheelwright shop and store.</p><br>
<p>Christian Rekup House, used by William Casselberry as a residence and woodworking shop in 1856, was built in the late 18th century and once owned, in 1797, by Nicholas Custer. Rekup was an early Dutch landowner in Evansburg.</p><br>
<p>Edward Evans House, built in 1806 on land partially purchased from St. James Church at 3845 Germantown Pike, was built by Edward Evans as a -story stucco house in two sections. It contains a gabled roof, exterior brick chimney, and frame shed.</p><br>
<p>Samuel D. Patterson Jr. House, built around 1856, originally had a mansard roof but was altered to give an English appearance. The land for the house was received by Patterson from Isaac Christman, keeper of the Evansburg Inn, in 1855.</p><br>
<p>Keyser Storehouse is a Victorian adaptation of an English house with the addition of a large front dormer. It was built circa 1867 and is a duplicate of Isaac Casselberry&#39;s later home in the east.</p><br>
<p>Vandersloot House, one of two residences across from the Evansburg Inn, was built by a Vandersloot before 1877 on Germantown Pike. The property was sold to Edward Green in 1899 and is currently maintained as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Weber House contains similar architecture as the Vandersloot House, built in the latter part of the 19th century. The home belonged to John Fulton, farmer in 1805, whose property is called a plantation.</p><br>
<p>Abraham Everhart House was built on the Glebe property around 1844 and, although in poor condition, continues to be used as a residence.</p><br>
<p>William Casselberry House was built on Germantown Pike around 1872. Comparable to the A. Everhart Casselberry stone house, it was built on Glebe lands by Abraham Everhart between 1844 and 1857.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Croll Farm, built before 1835, with the house belonging to the gunsmith Daniel Croll. The property was described as 57 acres with a small stream. The land was highly cultivated and included a tenant house, barn, stable, mills, an orchard, and a springhouse. Roll had acquired the land from fellow Funkite Christian Gorwals in 1800. In 1835, Adam Slemmer described the property as situated 24 miles from Philadelphia, containing 67 acres of land, about 5 acres of excellent meadow, and a small stream passing through the same. The land is in a high state of cultivation, conveniently divided into fields and all under good fence. The improvements are a large two-story house with three rooms on each floor, a tenant house on the premises, a large barn stone stable high, the remainder frame, grist and plaster mill, an excellent apple orchard, and never failing spring water with a stone spring house over it.</p><br>
<p>Four Funkite Houses on the corners of Germantown Pike and Grange Avenue. Two homes were built prior to 1811, the third had been the Funk store with mansard roof, and the other was the Abraham Funk house. The two dwellings built before 1811 are listed on the southern side of Germantown Pike and 1811 is the date Abraham and Anna Funk granted the messuage and store to Christian Rosenberry.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Bard House, currently owned by Evansburg State Park on Old Baptist Road, was built in 1832 by stonemason Samuel Bard and modeled after a Philadelphia row home with two windows on the second floor above the central door and a third single window. The house was sold to Andrew Dewees in 1824 and the barn was burned in 1969. Samuel Bard built the stone house on the west bank of the Skippack in 1832 before turning over his former home across the creek to the Baptist Church for its changing house. Bard has purchased the land from Henry Loucks, a lawyer, in 1831, and sold it with a messuage in 1834 to Abraham Dewiest.</p><br>
<p>Letitia Penn House, again following the Philadelphia style row home prototype, was built around 1813 as the little house in the Welsh Baptist community. The earliest south wing, built around 1820, is similar to the Leticia Penn house, has interior single room, and a large fireplace. The middle section duplicates the Changing House with central hall, while the northern addition follows the German architectural style of the northern Skippack Valley.</p><br>
<p>Jesse Bean, Jr. House, built by a carpenter before 1877 on Evansburg Road and once covered with slate.</p><br>
<p>Fry Family House, constructed circa 1877, belonged to the Fry family and is still maintained as a residence in relatively poor condition.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Cope House, a blacksmith shop on Grange Avenue, was constructed circa 1785. It is the house which Catharine Haines, daughter of Dorothea Cope, who had married into that well-known Germantown family, conveyed in 1785 to her relative Jacob Cope. It is currently the Forge Antiques Shop.</p><br>
<p>Samuel and Benjamin Nutter House, built around 1835 and bought by tobacconist Samuel Nutter of Philadelphia in 1855 and sold to Benjamin Nutter a year later. It is speculated that its sale four years later for less money indicated a possible failure of an early attempt to grow tobacco in the Skippack Valley.</p><br>
<p>George Evans House, erected before 1854 on Grange Avenue, is listed as a good example of a Federal style house</p><br>
<p>William Rhoades House, built sometime after 1835 on the northwest corner of Grange Avenue and Ridge Pike, was purchased from William Pennick by William Rhoades and his wife Elizabeth. The house, typical of many Ridge Avenue homes in Eagleville, represents the later architectural and community development of the Welsh Baptists.</p><br>
<p>Christian Rosenberry Home, located on Grange Avenue, built in the late 18th century, is the home of a successful Funkite and Constable of Lower Providence Township.</p><br>
<p>The Codington County Heritage Museum  is a museum located at 27 First Avenue Southeast, Watertown, South Dakota, in the Carnegie Free Public Library building.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Library was built in Watertown in 1906 through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation and functioned as a library until 1967 when operations moved to a new building further east in town next to what was then the newly built Watertown Senior High School. A youth group briefly occupied the Carnegie Library building before its use by the Codington County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Codington County Historical Society</h2><br>
<p>The museum is maintained by the Codington County Historical Society. The group was founded in 1970 and was officially incorporated in 1974. They put out a bi-monthly publication for paid members entitled the Codington County Courier. In the past, the publication was called Wagon Wheels.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Fulton is a historic post office building located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1912-1915 and enlarged in 1936–1938. It is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James Knox Taylor. It is a two-story building with a limestone facade that contains a six-part colonnade with attached Doric order columns set in antis between Doric piers in the Greek Revival style. The lobby features a mural by Caroline S. Rohland in 1942 titled "Father LeMoyne Trying to Convert the Indians on Pathfinder Island."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Fulton Public Library is a historic library building located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It is a masonry structure built in 1905–1906 in the Beaux-Arts style. The building is built on a steeply sloped lot and is two stories at street level and four stories behind. It was designed and built with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 3,000 such libraries constructed between 1885 and 1919, and one of 107 in New York State. Carnegie provided $15,000 toward the construction of the Fulton library.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Davis Town Meeting House  is a historic building located in Coram, New York, United States. For most of the 19th century, it served as the town meeting place for the Town of Brookhaven.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Constructed around 1750, the original owner of the house was likely Elijah Davis (1727–1802).</p><br>
<p>In 1790, Brookhaven Town&#39;s leaders decided to move the seat of local government from Setauket to the more central location of Coram. Starting about 1800, the Davis home served as the location of the annual April town meeting, and hosted the meeting over 80 times, until 1885, when the town was divided into election districts.</p><br>
<p>Until the early 2000s, the house was owned almost continuously by direct male descendants of Foulk Davis, who came to Long Island in 1642.</p><br>
<p>The Brookhaven Town Board designated the house as an official town landmark on April 15, 1986. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 2001. In the fall of 2009, much needed renovation work to the building was begun.</p><br>
<p>The Lucas County Courthouse is an architecturally-significant courthouse in downtown Toledo, Ohio, located at 700 Adams Street. The courthouse first opened in 1897. It was designed by David L. Stine, and the contractors were Dun, Perley & Co.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Offices</h2><br>
<p>Lucas County Common Pleas Court (10 judges)</p><br>
<p>County Prosecutor&#39;s office</p><br>
<p>Clerk of Courts</p><br>
<p>The nearby Court Services Building provides support services to the courthouse</p><br>
<p>The Jesse Lee Home for Children was a former home for displaced children on Swetmann Avenue in Seward, Alaska, United States. It was operated by the United Methodist Church from its opening in 1926 until the building suffered damage from a 1964 earthquake and operations were relocated to a new building in Anchorage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to 1926, the Methodist Church operated children&#39;s homes in Nome and Unalaska. The facility at Unalaska, established in 1889 and also functioning as a boarding school, was called the Jesse Lee Home, named after a Methodist minister in the US northeast during colonial days.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Spanish flu pandemic was particularly deadly in remote Native villages, leaving more displaced children. The old missions were overfilled, in disrepair, and transportation of supplies and children to these remote locations was unreliable and expensive. Seward was selected as a new location because at that point in time, it was Alaska&#39;s largest port and transportation point. Transportation costs would be lower due to regularly scheduled routes directly from Seattle.</p><br>
<p>Residents were mainly Native children from the Aleutian Islands (Aleut) and Seward Peninsula (Iñupiat). In the first year after the school opened in 1926, resident Benny Benson won a competition to design the territorial flag. His design is still in use as the state flag. Benson, who was moved from the previous home in Unalaska, was from the village of Chignik. He was a 13-year-old student who won the competition out of over 700 entries. Fanny Kearns, a young Eskimo woman who was employed as a seamstress at the JLH sewed the first Alaskan flag out of leftover cloth. On July 9, 1927, the Balto Building was dedicated and the new flag was raised for the first time at the Jesse Lee Home. The date is still commemorated in the state as Alaska Flag Day. On July 4, 1928, another Chignik boy, Ephriam Kalmakoff, at 14 years old won Seward&#39;s Mount Marathon Race, a mountain foot race above Seward that stood until 1957. He remains the youngest race champion. Another Aleut student at Jesse Lee Home, Peter Gordon Gould from Unga Island overlapped with Benny Benson when the school first moved from Unalaska. Gould would go on to found Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, now Alaska Pacific University, as its first president attended in 1960.</p><br>
<p>The site consisted of three main buildings connected by arcades and several smaller buildings. Original construction included two dormitories, Jewel Guard Hall and Goode Hall. The Balto Building was added between the two dormitories and provided dining space and a large kitchens. In addition to boys dormitories, Jewel Guard Hall held a shop, vocational classrooms, a darkroom, classrooms, library, and gymnasium. Goode Hall served as the girls dormitory and administrative offices. Additional buildings on the property included a superintendents house, barn, schoolhouse, residence, garage, and cold storage. During World War II, the residents were moved to other locations. The primary buildings were painted camouflage and a temporary Fort Raymond Army Base occupied part of the homes property.</p><br>
<p>The home reopened after the war but rather than attending class there, the students attended nearby Bayview Elementary and Seward High School, and government-provided food replaced the gardens and livestock that filled the 100+ acres. The number of residents declined from its high of 120 to between 30 and 40.</p><br>
<p>An earthquake in 1964 severely affected Seward and much of the complex. Goode Hall, the largest of the buildings, was heavily damaged and required demolition. The church opened a new orphanage in Anchorage and the Seward home was closed. In 1966 the property was sold to the city, then to a series of private owners before being foreclosed upon due to unpaid utility district assessments by the City of Seward again. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration effort</h2><br>
<p>The Friends of the Jesse Lee Home, a nonprofit organization, was set up with the goal of restoring the site. Once restored, the Jesse Lee Home was to be used as a public statewide leadership charter high school.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the Alaska State Legislature passed House Bill No. 96, "An Act relating to acquisition and development of the Jesse Lee Home; and providing for an effective date."</p><br>
<p>In 2003, a Department of Natural Resources study found that the building was structurally sound. In 2008, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development awarded the Alaska Community Foundation a $1,000,000 grant to repair and stabilize the Jesse Lee Home. The Friends of the Jesse Lee Home was named the entity responsible for the ongoing operation and maintenance of the project. The State of Alaska appropriated a total of $8,000,000 towards developing how the Balto School would use the building, prosecuting A&E, and renovating the portions of the Jesse Lee Home that were still standing.</p><br>
<p>By 2015, and after $700,000 in expenses, the grants were terminated due accountability and reporting issues.</p><br>
<h2>Demolition</h2><br>
<p>In 2014 the City of Seward transferred ownership to Friends of the Jesse Lee Home (FJLH) under the conditions that FJLH had five years to remove hazardous materials from the site, install 270 feet of water line and install 220 feet of sewer line. As of August 30, 2019 FJLH admitted "not a significant amount" of money had been spent on these features and the conditions for FLJH retain ownership were not met. In July 2020 the Seward City Council voted to demolish the structure. Demolition of the site began Nov. 4, 2020.</p><br>
<p>Bayonne Truck House No. 1, also known as Chief John T. Brennan Fire Museum, is located in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The firehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 2, 1976. The firehouse was constructed in 1875 to be used by Bayonne Hook and Ladder Company #1. The firehouse is now a museum known as the John T. Brennan Fire Museum.</p><br>
<p>The John Smith House is located on Albany Avenue  in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a wood-frame house in the Italianate architectural style built in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>It has remained relatively intact since then. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a deep, narrow, level lot at the corner of the busy intersection of Albany Avenue and Chandler Drive (Interstate 587/NY 28). This junction marks a boundary between the mixed-use uptown area around the Stockade District and the residential neighborhoods of Albany and neighboring streets. The George J. Smith House is to the east, with the Sharp Burial Ground about 300 ft further away on the other side of the street. Both properties are also listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The Smith house is a two-story, three-by-three-bay clapboard-sided frame structure on a raised brick foundation with a moderately pitched hipped roof. The roofline has broad overhanging eaves, a molded cornice and paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>A full-length porch runs along the first story of the south (front) facade. It has a similarly pitched hip roof with a molded, dentilled cornice. The roof is supported by four wooden posts on octagonal plinths. Behind all three bays have French doors, molded cornices and louvered shutters. The second-story windows have similar trim.</p><br>
<p>On the northernmost two bays of the first story on the east is a projecting bay window. The north (rear) elevation has similar windows and an enclosed porch. The west, facing what is now the end of the interstate, is the least decorated of the facades, with asymmetrical windows and an enclosed cellar stair.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, two paneled glass and wood doors with a large transom, leads to a broad central hall with large parlors on either side. Here and on the second floor, many of the original finishings, including plaster and wood, remain.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the driveway to the east is a modern garage in concrete block. It is not considered a contributing resource to the historic character of the property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house is first recorded in an 1870 map as the home of a Mrs. C.S. Smith. A city directory from ten years later clarifies that this is Catherine S. Smith, described as the widow of John Smith. By the early 20th century it had passed to other owners, and has remained a private residence ever since.</p><br>
<p>Originally the house had a cupola in the center of the roof. It was removed in the early 20th century after it was damaged. There have been no significant changes since.</p><br>
<p>St. James&#39; Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Cleveland in Oswego County, New York. It is a frame Gothic Revival style structure built in 1867. It is a 28 by rectangular board and batten building composed of a nave, front entry, chancel, and tower which rests on a random coursed stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Constantia in Oswego County, New York. It is a small frame vernacular Federal style structure completed in 1831–1834. The last record of it having been painted is 1851. Also on the property is a cemetery with most gravestones dating to the mid 19th century. William H. Baker  is interred in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church and Society of Volney, also known as Bristol Hill Church, Congregational United Church of Christ, is a historic Congregational church located at Volney in Oswego County, New York. It is a frame vernacular Federal style structure built in 1832–1835. It is a two-story structure, rectangular in plan, 40 feet wide and 54 feet deep. A tower extends from the center of its facade. Except for the loss of its bell, the church is in virtually original condition. Early members of the church were abolitionists and the church is known to have had African American members dating to the 1820s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Bethany Congregational Church is a United Church of Christ house of worship located in Thomasville, Georgia in south Georgia&#39;s Thomas County. It was founded on February 1, 1891, by the American Missionary Association as the chapel and worship center of the Allen Normal and Industrial School, an educational institution for African American students. The school operated from 1885 to 1933, and the church remained after the school property was razed in 1935.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who earned a divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut, accepted the pastorate of Bethany Congregational Church in 1955. He served as pastor of Evergreen Congregational Church in adjacent Grady County during 1957–59; Evergreen is also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>Mount Adnah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It was designed in 1853 and within the boundaries of this contributing site are two contributing buildings , 10 contributing structures, and five contributing objects. Notable burials include M. Lindley Lee  and Albert Lindley Lee .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Lawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Parish in Oswego County, New York. It was first used as a burial ground in 1814 and formally incorporated in 1871. Within the boundaries of this contributing site are three contributing buildings; a 19th-century receiving vault, the Mills-Petrie Mausoleum of 1899, and the Mills-Petrie Chapel of 1917. The earliest gravestones date from 1825.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>US Representative Hadwen C. Fuller (1895–1990) is buried there.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery and national historic district located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was established in 1855 and designed by landscape architect Burton Arnold Thomas . Within the boundaries of this contributing site are six contributing buildings, 12 contributing structures, and 18 contributing objects. Notable burials include De Witt Clinton Littlejohn , Luther W. Mott , Newton W. Nutting , Joel Turrill , David P. Brewster , Rudolph Bunner , James Cochran , John C. Churchill , Leander Babcock , Abraham P. Grant , and Orville Robinson .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Pontiac Hotel is an historic hotel located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1912 and designed by the office of architect George B. Post . It was originally a four-story, U-shaped structure; in 1955 a one-story ballroom was added at the rear of the structure in the exterior courtyard. It features both Classical and Mission style details. The most distinctive interior feature is a 40 ft rotunda centrally located on the main level. In the 1980s the structure was converted from hotel use to house 70 apartment units for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Woodruff Block is a historic commercial building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is a four-story masonry structure built about 1840 and modified between 1900 and 1930. It features rectangular cut stone columns with Doric capitals in the Greek Revival style. When built it was located strategically at the terminus of the 1828 Oswego Canal.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Harmar is a historic neighborhood in the city of Marietta, Ohio, United States. Located at the western side of the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it grew up around the early Fort Harmar in the 1780s, being settled in conjunction with Marietta. After a period of forming part of Marietta, it existed separately beginning in 1837 before rejoining the mother city in 1890. Connected by bridge to the rest of the city, it retains much of its nineteenth-century architecture and landscape, and most of the neighborhood is now a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first pioneers of Marietta landed in April 1788, beginning by building cabins and planting crops along the river. They generally lived on the eastern side of the Muskingum, across from Fort Harmar, but their farms were close enough to the fort that garrison troops routinely watched their farming activities, which itself was reincorporated by an act of March 13, 1837. Believing the bills provisions to be in accord with the desires of the residents, a legislative committee found itself to have been deceived after residents resolved almost unanimously to reject many of the provisions, and five days after Mariettas incorporation bill passed, the first act was repealed and replaced by a new act drafted to reflect the resolution of Harmars electorate. This status continued until 1890, when the two municipalities were re-merged. The same year marked the end of Harmars own legal school district, separate from the districts of Marietta and Marietta Township, which had been formed in 1866.</p><br>
<p>On January 9, 1970, the neighborhood was the site of fire at the Harmar House Center nursing home, which ultimately killed 32 of the 46 residents.</p><br>
<h2>Landscape</h2><br>
<p>Architecturally, Harmar is a good example of Ohio communities planned in the nineteenth century. Its grid plan begins at Fort Harmar and proceeds along both rivers away from their confluence, with the wide tree-lined streets being oriented north-south and east-west rather than paralleling the rivers. Houses in the neighborhood include examples of various nineteenth-century architectural styles; the Federal, Greek Revival, and Gothic Revival styles are most significant, although the bridge has since been replaced by a newer span that opened in September 2000. State Route 7 formerly traversed the neighborhood, although the opening of the nearby Washington Street Bridge facilitated its rerouting away from the Putnam Street Bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Historic district</h2><br>
<p>In 1974, 60 acre of Harmar was designated the Harmar Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Forty-two buildings, plus the fort site and one object, were included in the district as contributing properties. In 1993, the district was expanded by the addition of more than two hundred contributing properties over an area of approximately 150 acre; the original district protected areas closer to the fort, while the later designation expanded the district to the base of the bluff at the far edges of the neighborhood. Not all of the contributing properties are still in existence, as the destroyed Putnam Street Bridge was included in the district, but the replacement span was designed to be compatible with the architecture of Harmar to the west and the larger Marietta Historic District at its eastern end.</p><br>
<p>The George J. Smith House is located on Albany Avenue  in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a Queen Anne Style frame house built in the 1880s. Its interior has been slightly modified since then.</p><br>
<p>In addition to being a representative example of the Queen Anne Style in Kingston, it was home to George J. Smith, who served a term as the area&#39;s congressman. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Currently its lower floor is a local Montessori school, and the upper floor is an apartment.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The George J. Smith House is situated on a 100 by lot on the north side of a divided section of Albany Avenue, a short distance east of its junction with Interstate 587 and NY 28. The neighborhood is residential, with most houses of similar vintage. The John Smith House next door to the west is also listed on the Register, as is the Sharp Burial Ground across Albany a short distance to the east. Another house is to the east with a woodlot to the north.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a three-story building on a brick foundation sided in a mix of cedar clapboard and wood shingle. It has steeply pitched multiple intersecting gable roofs and projecting bays covered in red shingles.</p><br>
<p>On the south (front) facade, a three-story three-sided bay projects from the southwest corner. It has alternating bands of siding, projecting eaves with gable stickwork. To its east a porch extends across the rest of the first story. It has a gable roof offset to the east, supported by four chamfered posts with decorative capitals in pierced woodwork trim.</p><br>
<p>The east profile has an inset porch on the second story near the front. It has similar decorative stickwork below its projecting gable. Next to it is another projection, a two-story three-sided bay topped with a hipped roof. The north has a two-story wing and two-story porch. On the west, the simplest side, is a large exterior brick chimney.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is a pair of wooden and glass doors in a heavily molded frame. It leads to a broad central hall flanked on the west by two parlors joined by a broad archway. Both have fireplaces with intricate classically inspired wooden mantels. Many of the finishes, including the lath and plaster walls and carved architraves, are original. On the east of the main hall a stairway climbs to the second floor. It has finely carved balusters and newels. The second floor has been converted into an apartment but retains many original finishes as well.</p><br>
<p>At the northwest corner of the property is a small garage. It appears to have been a carriage house built at the same time as the house, and is thus considered a contributing resource to the property&#39;s historic character.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house first appears on a fire insurance map in 1887. Five years later, in 1892, a city directory identifies the owner as George J. Smith.</p><br>
<p>Smith had brought the Powell Cigar Company to the city, built a large factory and made it the Powell, Smith & Company. Later it became the American Cigar Company, with 1,800 employees at its peak. In the years after the house was built, he became active in Republican politics, serving as the county committee chair and the state treasurer in the late 1890s. Four years after that, in 1902, he was elected to the House for a single term.</p><br>
<p>The house remained a private residence until its use by the school. It has had no other modifications save those made for that use.</p><br>
<p>The Marietta Historic District is a historic district in Marietta, Ohio, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Among the buildings in the district are ones dating back to 1788,</p><br>
<p>When the district was added to the Register in 1974, it encompassed an area roughly bounded by the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers and Warren, Third, Fifth, and Sixth Streets. In 2001, some of its original boundaries were slightly reduced, but it was also expanded greatly to include an area roughly bounded by Marion, Montgomery, Ohio, Greene, Butler, and Second through Ninth Streets, and the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. The resulting district encompasses over 900 acre and includes over two thousand contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The National Register includes properties and districts that are considered historic under any of four criteria:</p><br>
<p>Association with significant events in American history</p><br>
<p>Association with significant historical individuals</p><br>
<p>Well-preserved and historically significant architecture</p><br>
<p>Possibility of yielding archaeological evidence</p><br>
<p>While most properties and districts on the Register qualify under one or two of the criteria, the Marietta Historic District qualifies under all four.</p><br>
<p>Standard Yarn Company Building is a historic factory building located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is a brick structure, measuring 200 feet along the street and constructed in three sections between 1897 and 1911. It is of common mill construction with load bearing masonry walls and wooden floors and joists supported by heavy wooden posts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Walton and Willett Stone Store, also known as the Cahill Building or Cahill&#39;s Fish Market, is a historic commercial building located in Oswego, New York. It is a three and four story, limestone structure with a distinctive stepped gable roof on the banks of the Oswego River. The oldest commercial building in the city of Oswego, it was built in 1828 and first used as a ship chandlery. In later years, it housed a newspaper office, customs collector, steamboat ticket and freight office, and warehouse. In 1945, it was purchased for use as a fish market.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It was the site of Coleman&#39;s Irish Pub until 2008.</p><br>
<p>In June 2014, the building was ruled "dangerous" by city codes officers citing structural concerns. In 2018, it was redeveloped and opened as seven luxury apartments, now called Cahill Landing. In 2019 the building received the Preservation League of New York State&#39;s Excellence in Historic Preservation award.</p><br>
<p>Sweet Memorial Building is a historic village hall and auditorium located at Phoenix in Oswego County, New York. It is T-shaped structure built in 1929 in the Neoclassical style. It features a two-story cast stone portico surmounted by a cast stone pediment. It stands as a memorial to Congressman Thaddeus Campbell Sweet , who helped to rebuild the village after a fire in 1916.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Oak Street School is a historic school building located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It is a rectangular red brick structure, trimmed in cast stone and built in 1913–1914. It is a two-story building over a high brick basement. It ceased being used as a school in 1991. It has since been retrofitted into small apartments used primarily by senior residents of the city.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Carley&#39;s Mills Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located at Hastings in Oswego County, New York. It is a modestly scaled, one story frame building built about 1870. On the rooftop is a hipped roof belfry, which still retains what appears to be the original bell. Also on the property is a cast iron water pump. It ceased being used as a school in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Fort Brewerton is a historic fort site located at Brewerton in Oswego County, New York. It is the site of a fort that originally was in the form of an eight-pointed star with sixteen 30 ft faces surrounded by a 10 ft moat. The 480 ft parapet had earth walls 5 ft high from which projected log palisades. Within the parapet were four log blockhouses, smaller buildings for munitions and supplies, and wells. It was erected in 1759 to defend the passage from Albany to the port of Oswego.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Brewerton Historical Society operates the Oliver Stevens Blockhouse Museum, with excavated artifacts and exhibits about the fort and area history. The museum is a log reconstruction of a late 18th-century log block house that was located on the site. The museum is open 12-4pm on the third Saturday of each month from April through December as well as special events. Private tours are available by request.</p><br>
<p>The Von Trotha–Firestien Farm is a historic farm near Bracewell in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The farm was established circa 1887 by the von Trotha family and expanded with the work of a family of Russian German immigrants, the Fiersteins, in the 1910s. Today, the farm is recognized as significant in the history of local agriculture, including the use of irrigation and advanced techniques of feeding livestock. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Frisco Depot and adjacent Antlers Spring are historic sites in Antlers, Oklahoma, United States. The sites are a part of the National Register of Historic Places, in which they appear as a single entry.</p><br>
<h2>Establishing the Railroad</h2><br>
<p>Antlers owes its existence to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad—also known as the Frisco Railroad—which opened in June 1887. The railroad, which was built north to south through the mountains and virgin timberlands of the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory, brought civilization to the wilderness—three passenger trains operated daily in each direction, plus two freight trains, making for a total of ten trains per day.</p><br>
<p>To support this industrial infrastructure section houses were established by the railroad every few miles. The houses assumed responsibility for maintaining the railroad track and right-of-way in either direction of each location.</p><br>
<p>A section house was established at the site of present-day Antlers, with adjacent station stops to the north at Davenport, Indian Territory—now Kellond, Oklahoma—and south at Hamden, Indian Territory—now Hamden, Oklahoma. Railroad officials chose Antlers as the site due to the presence of a well-watered spring of fresh water. Surrounding the spring were numerous pairs of deer antlers nailed to trees. The antlers had been placed there by hunters as hunting trophies, and constituted a local landmark. The station, originally called Beaver Station after nearby Beaver Creek, was soon renamed Antlers.</p><br>
<p>Antlers, Indian Territory quickly became a bustling territorial town and was provided a wooden railroad station. The downtown business district was wooden, too, and much of it went up in flames during a catastrophic conflagration in 1904. Town officials afterward passed an ordinance requiring fireproof buildings made of brick, stone or cement throughout the town limits. This ordinance prevented the Frisco Railroad from replacing the depot with a stucco building such as had just been built (and still exists) in Hugo, Indian Territory.</p><br>
<p>In March 1913 the railroad company announced it would build a brick building east of the tracks. The first stakes went into the ground two months later and, on June 5, 1914, the new depot opened for business. The depot quickly became the most important building in the community. Crowds routinely greeted each arriving passenger train, from which many townspeople embarked and disembarked, and businessmen greeted the freight trains, which delivered or received produce and goods for sale or shipment. The depot was, quite simply, the busiest building in the county—for decades.</p><br>
<p>On February 1, 1958, the end of an era dawned as the Frisco Railroad ended passenger service. This coincided with the development and paving of area highways, made necessary by the increasing use of the personal automobile. Freight service continued until February 1981, when the Burlington Northern Railroad—which had since purchased the Frisco Railroad—closed and abandoned all railroad track, trestles and right-of-way north of Antlers. South of the town the track remained in place and pulpwood continued being loaded onto railroad cars at the Antlers Depot for shipment southbound. This continued until 1990, when a new loading facility was built just south of Antlers.</p><br>
<p>The Pushmataha County Historical Society was established in 1984 and its first major project was an initiative to obtain the abandoned Antlers depot and restore and preserve it as a county museum. On June 1, 1985, USA Senator Don Nickles announced that Burlington Northern agreed to donate the depot to the historical society. The transfer of title soon took place and the historical society set about its mission.</p><br>
<h2>The Depot Building</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in a vaguely Italianate style, the depot is low, long and symmetrical, and measures 100 feet long by 30 feet wide. It consists of red brick with parapets topped by a concrete cap. The building is flat-roofed with a horizontal wooden canopy over the controller’s observation window.</p><br>
<p>Approximately half of its interior was devoted to passengers and half was devoted to storing or moving freight. The architecture of the building speaks to a different era, an era predating civil rights and racial equality. From north to south the building housed a waiting room for white passengers, with adjacent toilets, a ticket office, and a waiting room for Negro passengers, with adjacent toilets.</p><br>
<p>At the time the depot’s registration nomination was prepared for entry into the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the building was empty except for the agent’s office. Ticket windows and desks made of walnut—original furnishings—were still in place, as was the train order board lever controls, which were still in use.</p><br>
<h2>Antlers Spring</h2><br>
<p>Antlers Spring had not fared as well. It was enclosed in a concrete wall and roofed. It still flowed, but had deteriorated and had not been maintained. Nonetheless its historic nature was acknowledged, and it was included in the nomination. It was later accepted into the National Register along with the depot.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>Antlers Depot is home to the Pushmataha County Chamber of Commerce, which occupies the former waiting room for white passengers, and the Pushmataha County Historical Society, which occupies the former ticket office, Negro waiting room, and freight room.</p><br>
<p>Ownership of the building has recently been contested. The historical society contends that it received ownership outright from Burlington Northern in 1985, and labored solely to restore, preserve and operate the building until recent times. Somewhat more recently the City of Antlers has asserted its ownership, pointing to legal documents signed by historical society officers which, in part, transfer deed to the city.</p><br>
<p>Historical society officers acknowledge the validity of the city’s claim but say that a transfer of ownership occurred as part of the fine print on a lengthy legal document purporting to achieve other objectives.</p><br>
<p>“…Title to the Depot building was transferred to the city in an underhanded manner,” society officials wrote in a letter published in the town newspaper. “Transfer of title was never brought before our board or the membership of PCHS,” they continued. “The city of Antlers may have gotten legal title to the building but it has no moral title.”</p><br>
<p>Antlers’ city manager has since assumed responsibility for physical maintenance of the depot and, from 2009 until 2013, gave the chamber of commerce space within the facility for its operations. Despite the lingering differences of opinion regarding Depot ownership, the two groups cooperated very successfully in preserving and operating the Depot as a continuing public trust. The building once again serves solely as home of the historical society, and is open and staffed by historical society volunteers throughout the week.</p><br>
<p>Fewell School is a historic site located in Fewell, Oklahoma. Fewell, 10 miles east of Nashoba, Oklahoma, is a rural community in the Kiamichi Mountains of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>Fewell School was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936-1937 as a Great Depression public works project.</p><br>
<p>As built, the school consisted of three rooms and measured 28 by. An extension measures 15 by feet and changed the building&#39;s formerly rectangular footprint to that of an "L" shape.</p><br>
<p>The school is constructed of uncoursed and undressed native sandstone. Beaded mortar sets the stones and, according to an architectural survey in 1988, is of "excellent" workmanship. It is roofed with sheet metal and the roof has intersecting gables. The front entryway, at the southeast corner, is behind double arches. Wood sash windows on concrete sills rise to the eaves.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the 1988 survey the building was found to be in good condition and was in use as a private residence—which the survey noted was an "excellent example of adaptive reuse".</p><br>
<p>Fewell School was examined in 1988 and nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Its nomination was successful.</p><br>
<p>Fewell is in the sparsely populated Little River (Oklahoma) valley, and is adjacent to the river. During the Great Depression the area experienced economic difficulty and the WPA construction project provided much-needed jobs.</p><br>
<p>More information on Fewell and the Little River valley may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Albion State Bank was an historic structure in Albion, Oklahoma, located amidst the rugged and rural but verdant Kiamichi Mountains, in northeastern Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bank was built in the period of optimism immediately following Oklahomas statehood on November 16, 1907. Settlers considered the county to be an agricultural paradise, and logging was an important industry in the Albion region. The towns railroad station was an active transshipment point for timber, and the town&#39;s early population grew rapidly.</p><br>
<p>Albions future commercial success seemed assured to the towns businessmen, one of whom, John T. Bailey—who also named the town—built Albion State Bank in 1910. Bailey built the bank on the northwest corner of the public square—no longer extant as a square; it has been bisected by USA Highway 271—at the corner of Pearl Street. Bailey&#39;s brother, Edgar Bailey, operated a dentist office in the rear two rooms.</p><br>
<p>Continued and enduring prosperity eluded Albion, however, and in approximately 1927 banker Bailey transferred the bank to Talihina, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building remained empty until 1930, when J.M. (John Melvin) Armstrong, another prominent Albion businessman, purchased it and opened a grocery store. He closed the store in 1950, converting it into his family residence, where he lived until his death in 1963. His widow continued living there until her death in 1972.</p><br>
<p>In 1975 the building was purchased by Mrs. Lorene Barnett, who operated a succession of small businesses there. In 1979, at the time of an architectural survey, the building was vacant but in good condition. Its wood plank flooring was original, and also in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The building was a one-story structure constructed of red brick in a rectangular footprint. It measured 40 feet long and 25 feet wide. The windows were originally arched. The interior ceilings were of pressed copper bearing a decorative design. The original bank vault painted with the words, “Albion State Bank” was mounted in a brick wall and was still present during the survey in 1979.</p><br>
<p>A water well dug in approximately 1933 was outside the back door.</p><br>
<p>The architectural survey noted the bank&#39;s “considerable integrity” due to remaining “structurally sound and essentially unaltered” and recommended it successfully for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>More information on Albion may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Photo</h2><br>
<p>See for a photograph of the bank.</p><br>
<p>The Choctaw Capitol Building  is a historic building built in 1884 that housed the government of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma from 1884 to 1907. The building is located in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, two miles north of the community of Tuskahoma.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A United States Post Office operated here as Council House, Indian Territory from February 6, 1872, to June 30, 1880. Postal operations were later carried on at nearby Lyceum, site of the Choctaw girls’ academy, and Tuskahoma. During the days of the Indian Territory the Council House was located in Wade County, Choctaw Nation.Morris, John W. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.</p><br>
<p>After several decades of constitutional experimentation, during which the Choctaw Indians moved their national capital among several locations, the National Council in 1883 authorized construction of a permanent seat of government at Tushka Homma. The name means “home of the red warrior” in the Choctaw language, and its spelling has since been standardized as Tuskahoma.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol was completed in September 1884, built of red native brick, sandstone, and nearby timber for $30,000. It is 72-11" long by 62-4" feet wide, and stands 54&#39;-2" tall to the chimneys. It consists of two stories and a mansard roof attic. In the fall of 1884 the Indian Journal at Muskogee, Indian Territory wrote, “The capitol building is the finest structure in the Territory…”</p><br>
<p>Inside the Capitol were rooms for the Senate, House of Representatives, Principal Chief, Supreme Court, and constitutional officers, including the National Attorney and National Auditor.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol was in use from 1884 until 1907, when the Choctaw Nation was abolished and Oklahoma became a state. After annexation and statehood, the building fell into disuse and disrepair. Jane Austin McCurtain was appointed as custodian of the Council House, and served until her death in 1924.</p><br>
<h2>Present Day</h2><br>
<p>The Capitol has achieved new life as the national museum of the successfully reconstituted Choctaw Nation, whose executive offices are now located in Durant, Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation holds its annual Labor Day festival there, which attracts nationally known country-western singers and bands, and draws in excess of 100,000 attendees.</p><br>
<p>A Choctaw war veterans&#39; memorial is on the Capitol grounds. It includes a special section in tribute to the famous Choctaw Code Talkers, who pioneered the use of Native American languages as military code. Their initial exploits were during World War I, and were repeated by Choctaws and additional tribes during World War II.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. More information on the Capitol, Tuskahoma and the Choctaw Nation may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Clayton High School Auditorium is an historic structure serving the public school of Clayton, Oklahoma. Clayton is located in the Kiamichi Mountains of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium was constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) public works project in 1936-1937, during the Great Depression. It provided much-needed jobs in the Clayton area, which had been economically ravaged.</p><br>
<p>According to an architectural survey completed in 1988, the auditorium is almost unique in being only one of two known WPA buildings constructed for sole use as auditoriums rather than as dual-use auditoriums and gymnasiums. (Much more common elsewhere in the county and Oklahoma was the dual-use auditorium and gymnasium, such as the WPA built elsewhere in the county in Antlers, Oklahoma, Moyers, Oklahoma and Rattan, Oklahoma.)</p><br>
<p>Art Deco was the prevalent architectural style during the 1930s, and the auditorium shows hints of it through its angular lines. The building is a single story T-shaped structure built of native untooled and uncoursed stone. According to the 1988 survey the stonework and masonry work are “excellent”.</p><br>
<p>The roof is flat with parapets capped with limestone blocks. Entryways are recessed, and windows are emplaced in groups of two. A drainage ditch dug by the WPA surrounds the building and, like the building, has been kept in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>The building was nominated successfully to become part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Justifying its inclusion was its unusual Art Deco allusions—uncommon among WPA buildings in the region—and its purpose as a sole-use auditorium.</p><br>
<p>More information on Clayton may be found in the Pushmataha County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Ten Broeck Stone House is located on Albany Avenue  in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a stone house built in the early years of the 19th century and modified later in that century.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the rare high-style Federal homes in the city. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on the north side of Albany Avenue, a short distance west of where it curves to the northeast. The neighborhood is mostly residential, with the exception of the Sharp Burial Ground, also listed on the National Register, slightly to the south on the opposite side of Albany. Most of the neighboring houses are of mid-19th to early 20th-century construction, on a large scale and frequently exhibiting little restraint in their architectural styles. The house at 184 Albany Avenue, a short distance across the street to the north, has been listed on the Register as well.</p><br>
<p>In contrast to those other houses, which are on narrow, deep lots of roughly 1 acre, the Ten Broeck House is on a 8 acre lot with 250 ft of frontage along Albany Avenue. In its rear is a large pond and woods buffering nearby Interstate 587 and NY 28. There is one other building on the property, a modern garage to its south. It is not considered a contributing resource to its historic character.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-story, seven-by-two-bay house of limestone in rough courses with a metal-clad gabled roof pierced by two brick chimneys near either end. The roofline has a box gutter, modillions and simple frieze, all done in wood. A smaller stone wing extends from the south, and a two-story frame wing is on the rear.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front), the facade has a centrally located main entrance sheltered by a small one-story porch with gently pitched hipped roof. The north profile has two windows on all three levels. The western wing has a modified hipped roof with a large exterior chimney on the north side. The west (rear) facade has a detailed Federal entrance with a molded round arch frame and fan louver. On the south side is the stone wing, offset to the west, with a small wooden vestibule and entry on its south. It, too, has a gabled metal roof and chimney.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, a deeply recessed paneled door with Greek Revival surround and glass transom, leads to a central hall that runs the full depth of the main block, to a curved rear wall. Original finishes include the wall and ceiling plaster, moldings and wide plank flooring. The staircase has a finely turned newel and balustrade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s kitchen wing on the south, part of its original construction, may stand on the site of an earlier house destroyed when the British burned Kingston in 1777, during the Revolutionary War. The main block has been established as built in 1803, the year the marriage of Jacob Ten Broeck and Margrit Watson, the first owners, was recorded at the Old Dutch Church.</p><br>
<p>It was a monumentally scaled Federal style building, with strict attention to the hallmarks of that style, such as its proportions symmetry and classically inspired roofline details. A few decades later, modifications introduced the Greek Revival elements to the house, such as some of the interior detailing and door surrounds. In the later years of the 19th century, the frame rear and side additions were added.</p><br>
<p>There have been no other modifications since its construction. It has remained a private residence for over two centuries.</p><br>
<p>John Van Buren Tavern is a historic inn and tavern building located near Fulton in Oswego County, New York. It is a -story, three-by-five-bay, brick building with a side-gable roof. It was built sometime between 1800 and 1821 and operated as a tavern into the 1860s, when it was converted to a residence. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and house lived in while the tavern was under construction.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>John Wells Pratt House, also known as Pratt House Museum, is a historic home and museum located at Fulton in Oswego County, New York. Built in 1863, it is a large two story residence in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>The house is rectangular in plan with a three bay wide, three bay deep hipped roof main block with a gabled two story service wing. It features a cupola with round arched windows. A finely detailed Queen Anne style porch was added about 1880.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Orson Ames House is a historic house located at 3339 Main Street in Mexico, Oswego County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1830, and is a single-story frame structure with a heavy timber post and beam frame and plank walls. The main block is 36 feet wide and 24 feet deep. A major alteration occurred about 1930 and the kitchen was rebuilt in 1960. In 1851, Orson Ames sheltered at the home the famous fugitive slave William "Jerry" Henry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Asa and Caroline Wing House is a historic home located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. It was probably built in the 1830s and is a -story frame settlement period structure. It has a fieldstone foundation, post and beam construction, plank walls, and gable roof. Asa and Caroline Wing purchased the home in 1847. It is a well-documented location used in harboring fugitive slaves. Specifically, from December 24–27, 1850, Asa Wing harbored seven members of the Thompson family in their flight to Canada.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Caroline M. Mitchell Wing (1821–1889) married Asa Wing in 1843; he died in 1853.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Chandler House is a historic house located at 5897 Main Street in Mexico, Oswego County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a formal, two-story, Greek Revival/Exotic Revival style residence constructed of grey sandstone. The residence was built in 1838 and is five bays in width with a symmetrically composed facade and one chimney piercing its roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.</p><br>
<p>Fowler-Loomis House is a historic home located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. It is a large, square, -story wood-frame house in the Greek Revival style. The residence was built in 1847 and is a full five bays in width with a low-rise hipped roof. It features a full-length, 2-story portico supported by four massive square columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Timothy Skinner House is a historic home located at Mexico in Oswego County, New York. It is a large, Italianate style brick residence. The residence was built about 1869 and is composed of a -story, three-bay main block with a 2-story, two-bay recessed wing. The property was sold to the American Legion in 1964.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
