<p>Wanakena Presbyterian Church, also known as Mount Lebanon Presbyterian Church and Western Adirondack Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Wanakena in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1903 and is a "steepled ell" plan with its steepled entry tower located at the intersection of the two volumes. The tower has a louvered belfry topped by a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>Its design is attributed to church plan catalogue architect Benjamin D. Price.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>United Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church located at Lisbon in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1857 and is a rectangular gable roofed frame building, three bays wide and four bays deep. It was modified and enlarged in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Attached to the main block is a two-story Sunday school wing.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Dailey Ridge, also known as Reformed Presbyterian Church of the Town of Potsdam, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1853 and is a modest, two story wood-frame building with a painted clapboard exterior and a simple, gable front, rectangular plan typical of mid 19th century rural churches. Located adjacent is the church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Chapel is a 19th-century Episcopal church located at Morley, St. Lawrence County, New York, designed by the architect Charles C. Haight in the Gothic Revival style and consecrated in 1871. The sanctuary is 24 feet by 62 feet with a gable roof, and the chancel, a rear wing, measures 16 feet by 24 feet. The chapel walls are brick and faced with fieldstone.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1835 in the Federal style with Gothic elements built of red Potsdam Sandstone. It was greatly enlarged and transformed into High Victorian Gothic style later in the 19th century, with less significant alterations continuing into the 20th century. The front facade of the church took its final form in 1886 and is a lavishly decorated Victorian Gothic creation, made possible by donations from Thomas S. Clarkson and his family. It features a 110 ft, 19 by four-level tower. Also on the property is a stone wall dating to 1870, a large cast iron urn dating to about 1880 and a cast iron lamppost on a sandstone base dating to 1880.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Colton in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church was built in 1883 of red Potsdam Sandstone. It is a gable front building, approximately 48 ft wide and 80 ft deep and features an 85 ft, 14+1/2 ft tower. The rectory was built about 1900 and is a two-story, clapboard-sided Italianate building on a sandstone foundation. It is now used as the Colton Town Museum. Also on the property is a cast-iron urn a cast-iron lamppost dating to the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church was built in 1858 for the local Methodist congregation, who merged with the Presbyterians in the 1910s. It is a 40 feet by 56 feet brick structure resting on a raised ashlar limestone foundation. It features a large, square engaged bell tower on the front facade. Also on the property is a cemetery with burials dating to 1809.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Bucks Bridge Community Church, also  known as Bucks Bridge United Methodist Church, was formerly a Methodist Episcopal church located at Buck&#39;s Bridge in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church later more closely followed the Congregational Church polity and theology. Services are no longer held, as the church closed following the resignation of the last pastor, The Rev. Dennis Lowe. The final service was December 9, 2018.</p><br>
<p>The church had worship services Sunday evening at 7:30 PM, with communion on the first Sunday of every month. Services were seasonal; for instance, the 2013 schedule ended with the December 8 service, to resume the following Palm Sunday in 2014. Monthly home services for communion were held over the winter.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was renovated with siding in 2010, keeping the look of white clapboard.</p><br>
<p>Moving the church to the site of the St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum in Madrid, NY, is being considered.</p><br>
<p>United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at Morristown in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church was built about 1838 and is a rectangular, -story frame structure with a gable roof. The interior features pressed tin walls and ceiling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The church will close permanently on August 18, 2013.</p><br>
<p>USA Post Office-Ogdensburg is a historic post office building located at Ogdensburg in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was designed and built in 1867–1870, and is a two-story structure of regular ashlar stone blocks measuring 120 feet by 60 feet. It originally featured an octagonal domed cupola, but that was removed in 1906. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Alfred B. Mullett. In 2009, the United States Congress enacted legislation renaming the building the Frederic Remington Post Office Building, in honor of painter Frederic Remington, who spent his formative childhood years in that city.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Canton is a historic post office building located at Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was designed and built in 1936–37, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one-story, nine bay steel framed structure clad in red brick in a trapezoidal shape. It features a multi-tiered cupola on its low hip roof. The interior features a relief sculpture executed in 1939 by Berta Margoulies.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Gouverneur is a historic post office building located at Gouverneur in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was designed and built in 1915–1917, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A. Wetmore. The building is in the Colonial Revival style and is a one-story, five bay masonry structure clad with a low limestone faced foundation. The main facade features a three bay recessed portico.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Potsdam is a historic post office building located at Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was designed and built in 1932–1933, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James A. Wetmore. The building is in the Classical Revival style and is a two-story, U-shaped structure clad in limestone. The main facade features a colossal seven-bay recessed portico supported by Doric order columns and flanked by Grecian style cast-iron urns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The R. J. Hill Building is a historic commercial building in the small city of Palacios, Texas, which is located on the Gulf coast of Texas. The building was built in 1910 out of cast concrete blocks that were manufactured at the site, at a time that the town "was being promoted as a seaside resort".</p><br>
<p>It is a concrete two story commercial structure with Richardsonian Romanesque elements.</p><br>
<p>The building includes columns that have "entasis, bulbous bases and hypotrachelia, and blocky square-profile capitals."</p><br>
<p>It is located at the corner of 4th and Commerce Streets, only a block away from the Tres Palacios Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.</p><br>
<p>The Ballaine House is a historic homestead in Seward, Alaska, United States. The home was built in 1905 by prominent Seward businessman Frank Ballaine. Frank was the brother of John Ballaine, who is considered the founding father of Seward. The building currently houses a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in 1902, a group of Seattle businessman sought to establish a railroad to connect southern Alaska with Fairbanks in the Interior. After crews surveyed many different routes, John Ballaine selected the northern coast of Resurrection Bay as the southern terminus of their route, as the Bay remains free of ice year-round. John Ballaine obtained much of the land for the town site. His brother Frank lived in Seward and was responsible for selling lots in the town and overseeing the railroad construction, as John remained in Seattle. Frank also founded the town&#39;s first newspaper, the Seward Gateway, in 1904. When a telegraph connection to Seward was completed, Ballaine provided news from the lower 48 states in his paper.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, Frank Ballaine married in Seattle and returned to Seward and began construction of his residence. In that same year, six other homes of similar quality were constructed on that block, and the street was nicknamed "Millionaire&#39;s Row", as the owners believed Alaska would soon have one million residents and Seward would be its "Gateway".</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house measured approximately 22 ft by 45 ft. The first floor contains many windows, a sign of wealth, and usual for that time and location.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Ogdensburg Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Ogdensburg in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1898 and designed by State architect Isaac G. Perry. It consists of a 2-story, hip-roofed administration building and a large gable-roofed drill shed. It is built of load-bearing, reddish-brown Potsdam sandstone walls built upon a raised, rusticated, light-gray limestone foundation. The main block features 5-, 4-, and -story towers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Abram Jordan House  is located along the NY 23 state highway in Claverack-Red Mills, New York, United States. It is a brick Federal style house, with some Greek Revival decorative touches, built in the 1820s as a wedding present from a local landowner to his daughter and son-in-law.</p><br>
<p>It typifies the application of that style in the eastern upper Hudson Valley. In 1999 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a lot of less than 2 acre along the north side of Route 23, just north of the Van Wyck Lane intersection. It is set back slightly from the road, on a slight rise. To its west are other older houses on large lots, two of which, the Stephen Miller House across the street and Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House a few hundred feet to the west, are also listed on the National Register. To the east the land descends slightly into an area of more densely developed and newer residential subdivisions on either side of the road. There are three other buildings on the property, all of them considered contributing to its historic character.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-story, five-by-two-bay structure on a stone foundation sided in brick painted white topped with a low gabled roof covered in seamed metal panels. A boxed cornice and plain frieze mark the roofline. Two white brick chimneys rise at the ends. A single-story brick service wing, with attached frame extension, projects from the north.</p><br>
<p>All the windows have green louvered shutters. The south (front) facade is dominated by the centrally located main entrance on the first floor. It is sheltered by an open gable porch supported by columns. The entrance itself is flanked by sidelights and pilasters and surmounted by an ornate fanlight and segmented arched lintel. Above it is a detailed tripartite window within an arch partially cut into the frieze and cornice above it. It is flanked by pilasters supported another segmented arch lintel.</p><br>
<p>The identical east and west elevations feature fully pedimented gable fields, rising slightly above the roofline to create a parapet effect. Quarter windows are within on both elevations. The east sides lower stories feature windows similar to those on the rest of the house; the west sides are smaller. There are no windows on the portion of the north (rear) facade not connected to the wing.</p><br>
<p>The six-paneled main entrance door opens on a wide central hall with finely crafted staircase featuring carved stair ends and maple balustrade and newels. There are large rooms on each side, both with an original carved mantelpieces, moldings and ornamental plaster ceilings and walls. This floor plan is duplicated on the second floor, which has had more modifications to its interior but retains the same original wide-plank wooden flooring found on the first story.</p><br>
<p>Most of the rear kitchen wing has been modernized. An original cooking fireplace and baking oven remains in the frame portion, which also has other older finishes. It is possible that this may have been a separate building at one time.</p><br>
<p>Behind the house is a brick smokehouse. It is one story high, with a gabled roof extended to cover the entrance. The two barns to the northeast have extensive Greek Revival ornamentation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Local landowner Peter Mesick had the house built in 1822 as a wedding present for his daughter Catherine, who wed Jordan that same year. At that time the house was strictly Federal style in form, with its rigid symmetries and restrained classically inspired decorations. The smokehouse was built at the same time.</p><br>
<p>In 1845 the two barns were built, and the house updated in the Greek Revival style which had become popular in the interim. That resulted in the pediments along the gables. There have been no major changes to the property since then.</p><br>
<p>The Peales Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is one of three sites of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the worlds first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton". The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The mastodon skeleton is exhibited at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany, though it was returned to the US for a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.</p><br>
<p>The ASM International Headquarters and Geodesic Dome, at the Materials Park campus in Russell Township, Geauga County, Ohio, United States, are the headquarters of ASM International, a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers. These modernist structures were built in 1958 and dedicated in September 1959.</p><br>
<h2>Purpose</h2><br>
<p>The campus serves as the headquarters of ASM International, formerly the American Society for Metals. The dome is the "world&#39;s largest open air geodesic dome", and is rare among Synergetics, Inc.-designed geodesic domes in that it was never intended to be a covered structure.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Originally serving as headquarters for the American Society for Metals in September 1959, the geodesic dome was built on a 100-acre parcel donated by William Hunt Eisenman (1886–1958), a charter member of the American Society of Metals and its secretary for nearly four decades. In 1961, ASM purchased William Hunt Eisenman&#39;s Sunnimoor Farm and 400-acres of land adjacent to the ASM campus.</p><br>
<p>The complex was designed by John Terrence Kelly, a native of Elyria, Ohio. There are differing opinions on R. Buckminster Fullers role in the design of ASMs dome. While Fuller was a founding partner of Synergetics, Inc. and a patent holder for geodesic dome geometry, he was divested of all interest in Synergetics, Inc. before this dome was conceived. The geodesic dome was designed by Thomas C. Howard, the owner of Synergetics, Inc., in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thomas C. Howard designed many other geodesic domes, such as Climatron Conservatory at Missouri Botanical Gardens, the Union Tank Car Company dome (now demolished) in Baton Rouge, LA, and Poliedro de Caracas in Venezuela. Fuller&#39;s role was limited to licensing the use of his patent.</p><br>
<p>In a 2010 essay, Stan Theobald, retired ASM managing director (2002-2012), recalls that the dome engineers were from the College of Engineering at the North Carolina State University stating, "since they were the only Engineers that Bucky used." Throughout his 32-page essay, Theobald refers to the "dome Engineers," speaking very little of any involvement by Fuller, which would seem to indicate that Kelly used Fullers principles, while other engineers made them work for this unique open-air, above grade project. Theobald elaborated on the spring 1958 groundbreaking and formal announcement dinner that followed at the Union Club in Cleveland, Ohio where Fuller was the guest speaker. Theobald describes Fullers presentation as "a marathon, rambling dissertation" in which he proposed "that the most important advances on the future would be invisible." In his essay, Theobald compares Fuller&#39;s vision from 1958 to reality in 2010, an era of the Internet, DNA, genome mapping, and nano technology.</p><br>
<p>The geodesic dome is actually a triacon truss rising to a height of 103 feet and is 274 feet in diameter. The dome is built using approximately 65,000 parts, including 13 miles of extruded aluminum tubing and tension rods bolted into hexagons. There are no internal supports and the entire 80-ton weight rests on five concrete-filled pylons driven up to 77 feet into the earth.</p><br>
<p>The entire complex sits on a 400-foot diameter piazza with a 100-foot diameter mineral garden in the center that contains 66 labeled specimens of mineral ores with a fountain in the center. The 50,000-square foot headquarter building is a three-story semi-circular shaped concrete structure that occupies two-fifths of the piazza perimeter. The building resides on the western perimeter and is independent of the dome structure and has three distinct sections.</p><br>
<p>The building has floor-to-ceiling aluminum frame windows inside poured concrete walls and floors. The exterior of the western-facing second level glass wall is protected by a 13-foot high, 390-foot long satin-finish stainless steel "sun shield," which protects against the afternoon sun without obstructing the view by providing 4,000 one-foot by five-inch louvers. Stainless steel, bronze, copper, aluminum, titanium and tungsten elements are incorporated into the interior design.</p><br>
<p>The original investment for the building and landscaping was $2.4 million. The semi-circular building, capped by a geodesic dome, symbolizes humanity’s mastery of metals and materials.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction began in March 1958 by general contractor Gillmore-Olson Company, under the supervision of George McKay. Aluminum was supplied by Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co. of Halethorpe, Maryland. The dome was fabricated by North American Aviation Corporation of Columbus, and the Mak Construction Company of Cleveland erected the dome.</p><br>
<h2>Awards</h2><br>
<p>For his architectural work including the design of the ASM headquarters, John Terrence Kelly was awarded the 1968 Cleveland Arts Prize for Architecture.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 2009. The listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service&#39;s weekly list of October 30, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations</h2><br>
<p>In 1995, ASM International sold more than 500 acre, including over half of the original donated parcel, to the Geauga Park District, which represents a sizable portion of the 902 acre West Woods park. The ASM International campus resides on the remaining 45 acre of land split into two parcels. One 41.05 acre parcel is in Russell Township, and the other 3.95 acre parcel is in Newbury Township.</p><br>
<p>The mineral garden was redesigned in 1999 to improve the walkways, irrigation and drainage. A variety of perennials and trees were added, including a Malus apple tree directly descended from the tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newtons theory of gravitation. The tree was donated to ASM by the National Bureau of Standards in 1968. A 16 ft fountain sculpture entitled "ASM Singularity," made from copper, titanium, and stainless steel created by Eric Orr was added as well. On the cover of ASM Internationals 1999 annual report it states: "In mathematical terms, singularity is the point of a curve at which dramatic changes take place."</p><br>
<p>In 1999, a granite memorial dedicated to William H. Eisenman was placed on the eastern hillside. It is engraved with the inscription credited to Daniel Hudson Burnham, famous for the Burnham Plan or "The Plan of Chicago," a comprehensive turn-of-the-century plan for the future of Chicago. The inscription reads, "Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir one&#39;s blood. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die."</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the headquarters underwent renovations and restorations led by the Chesler Group of Cleveland and Dimit Architects of Lakewood, Ohio. The total cost of renovations were nearly $6 million, including over $2 million from state and federal historic-preservation tax credits. The historic preservation funding came as a tradeoff against strict requirements of the National Park Service, the administrative arm of the National Register of Historic Places, which requires renovated historic buildings retain their original architectural character and critical original materials. Interior and exterior renovations included new mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, ADA-accessible restrooms, interior updates, restoration of the glass window wall and the exterior stainless steel sunscreens, and repairs to the concrete structure under the roof.</p><br>
<p>A 1953-commissioned seven-panel brushed aluminum mural created by metals artist Nikos Bel-Jon called the “History of Iron”, once used at ASM trade shows, now hangs throughout the headquarters building.</p><br>
<p>Clare Town Hall, also known as Town of Clare Museum, is a historic town hall building located at Clare in St. Lawrence County, New York. It was built in 1897 and is a simple 1-story, three-by-three-bay, clapboard-sided frame building, 30 feet wide and 50 feet, 6 inches long. It was used as the town hall until 1968, when it became the town museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Mather Inn is a hotel in Ishpeming, Michigan. The inn served as housing for the cast of the classic 1959 movie Anatomy of a Murder, and was the place where Duke Ellington composed the movie&#39;s score. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1875, Robert Nelson, the founder of Ishpeming, built a hotel in the city known as the Barnum House. Four years later, the Barnum House burned, and Nelson replaced it with another structure he called the Nelson House.</p><br>
<p>Realizing the benefit of having a first-class hotel, William G. Mather, Cleveland-Cliffs president, financed the construction of the Mather Inn as a replacement. Mather hired Boston architect James H. Ritchie to design the building and turned to Warren H. Manning, a longtime associate, to design the grounds. The hotel is considered to be an excellent example of the work of both men.</p><br>
<p>The Mather Inn opened in 1932, and served the community for decades. In 1959, it served as lodging for the cast of the classic movie Anatomy of a Murder. In the mid-1980s, the Mather Inn Preservation Society was created to sustain it. However, the inn fell on hard times, and in 1987 it was closed and sold.</p><br>
<p>The inn was vacant for many years, but in 2004 renovations to the building were started. As of 2009, the inn is privately owned and is undergoing a renovation to turn it into luxury residences and office suites.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the old boiler room and adjacent storage area were converted into a brewery named Cognition Brewing Company. The brewery served its beer out of the old pub. The brewery closed in 2023 after the hotel&#39;s new owners decided to apply for their own liquor license.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mather Inn is a four-story rectangular building, constructed of concrete and steel with a brick facing. The front facade is divided into three bays, with a two-story portico sheltering the entrance in the center bay. The varied fenestration on the front, including bay windows flanking the center entrance and dormers on the hipped roof, make the facade architecturally interesting.</p><br>
<p>The public areas of the interior are panelled in pine, and include a sunken dining room and men&#39;s clubroom. There are forty-seven guest rooms, including three furnished apartments. On the exterior, the grounds contain uniform terraced gardens and a huge boulder rock garden. The inn is still substantially similar to its original state, having undergone few alterations.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Storm House is located on the NY 217 state highway just east of Claverack, New York, United States. It is a Federal style brick house built in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It combines aspects of that style found in urban and rural houses, and has a richly detailed interior that remains intact. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The property is a 3.6 acre lot on the north side of Route 217, one-quarter mile (500 m) east of where it splits from NY 23. The house is set back slightly from the road, behind a wooden fence. A small stream separates the house from the remaining foundations of two barns that have since burned down. They are both considered contributing resources to its historic character. A long driveway forks at the ruins of one barn, with the east fork leading to the house. There limestone blocks remaining from the days when visitors arrived by carriage flank the end of the long walk to the front entrance.</p><br>
<p>Around it, the land gently slopes upward to the east. There are similar older houses on larger, semi-wooded lots to the east and west. Across the road is a large cultivated field that rises to the south.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-story, five-by-one-bay brick building on a stone foundation topped with a seamed metal roof. A brick wing extends from the northwest corner. Alongside and behind it are a complex of sheds that have been combined into a modern kitchen and workshop.</p><br>
<p>On the south (front) facade all windows have louvered shutters. A boxed cornice marks the roofline. A columned portico, similar to the one on the Dr. Abram Jordan House one mile (1.6 km) west on Route 23, shelters the main entrance, itself in a molded frame flanked by shuttered sidelights and topped with a stone round-arched lintel.</p><br>
<p>The east and west sides both have one window apiece on each story. In the east end this is complemented by an unusual pointed elliptical window in the garret. The wing on the north end has been complemented with a newer, two-story wing and several additions.</p><br>
<p>A narrow central hall is behind the six-paneled main door. Around the doors to the parlors on either side are original wooden moldings. Each step on the three-run staircase has a carved fan design on the side. They are topped with a cherry Federal-style bannister. At the rear of the hall a small stair leads to the rear wings.</p><br>
<p>Both parlors have their original finishings, including interior shutters and fireplace. The east one is more ornate, with its door having applied molded leadwork in addition to detailed moldings and carvings. The mantel has a deep cornice with a central rectangle containing a molded strip and floral center motif. It is flanked by two smaller plain rectangles with a fluted strip beneath. The fireplace sides have fluted columns, with the square ends of the mantel shelf protruding overhead.</p><br>
<p>A door to the smaller room to the rear is flanked by pilasters. It is topped with a cornice centered on a sunburst carving, with rosettes at the ends. It, too, has molded leadwork highlights. The ceiling of this room is molded plaster with an oval molding and center medallion.</p><br>
<p>There is similar decoration in the western parlor, but without the doorway cornices. Next to its fireplace is an original china closet. The door leads to the west entry to the house.</p><br>
<p>This vestibule leads to the rear wing of the house. The original kitchen wing has a reconstructed fireplace and original Dutch door. It has a bedroom in its upper story.</p><br>
<p>The bedrooms on the second floor are similar in layout and size to the rooms below. They, too, have intricate original detail, although not as extensive. The east bedroom&#39;s mantel is flanked by molded pilasters and a deep cornice. There are no interior shutters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Storm family emigrated to the New Netherland colony from the Brabant region in the mid-17th century. Originally settling in Brooklyn, descendants worked their way up the Hudson Valley, serving in various public capacities as the region went to English and later British and American control.</p><br>
<p>Stephen Storm was born around 1788, the son of Judge Thomas Storm, who may have located in Claverack from Stormville, in Dutchess County. In later years Thomas was a Judge, and resided in a large frame house about two miles to the east.</p><br>
<p>In 1807 Stephen married Catherine Phillips, who was entitled to a dowers share to a quarter of the traditional Johannes Phillips leasehold from the Van Rennselaer patroonship dating from the 1760s. The couple presumably settled in the original late 18th century three-bay brick house which appears in the same location on the Penfield rents map (1806). The house was built around 1810, the year in which Stephen gave his father in law a $10,000 mortgage. The house was constructed on an expanded footprint covering five bays and a small ell extending to the rear. Some of the structural materials used in building the federal home were salvaged from the earlier structure, including floor joists sawn from finished Dutch style ceiling beams, and floor boards resawn from old wide yellow pine flooring.</p><br>
<p>The Storms had five children. Catherine died in 1819.</p><br>
<p>Federal style houses were common at the time. The Storm House pairs a common size for rural applications of the style with some features more frequently found in urban Federal houses, such as the narrow central hall and shallow depth with single-story rear additions. Its interiors are among the most richly decorated of any house from the period in Columbia County.</p><br>
<p>The house is related to other Claverack federal residences in terms of layout, and interior trim details, including refined fluting on stair spandrels similar to those found in the James Vanderpoel house (House of History), Plumb-Bronson mansion, and another privately owned Claverack house. The east front parlor features related fluting in the overdoor panels.</p><br>
<p>The front facade was laid in Flemish bond and finished with lead-tucked grapevining. The rest of the structure is laid in common English bond with ordinary jointing.</p><br>
<p>In 1817 Storm bought the 150 acre opposite the house for his farming operations from Jacob R. Van Rensselaer, a descendant of the areas original Dutch manorial family who still had considerable landholdings in the area and was active in local politics as a state assemblyman, serving as speaker of that body and later New Yorks Secretary of State. Storm himself would serve as an assemblyman for a single term in the early 1820s.</p><br>
<p>In 1839, Storm moved to nearby Hudson and sold the house to an Andrew Pulver after his wife died. The Pulver family raised the rear addition&#39;s roof, the only significant change made since its construction. They lived there until Andrew died around 1900. Other owners of note include John Delafield, a Livingston family descendant and resident of Montgomery Place, who considered preserving the house during the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Bend Amateur Athletic Club Gymnasium is a historic building in Bend, Oregon, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places  in 1983. The building was designed by Lee Arden Thomas and built by Guy H. Wilson.</p><br>
<p>When the Bend School Board established a building committee to develop plans for a new high school in 1923, they followed recommendations from the building committee and accepted the Bend Amateur Athletic Club building from the Bend Holding Company to use as the high school&#39;s gymnasium. The school would become Old Bend High School (also listed on the NRHP).</p><br>
<p>Vine Street Hill Cemetery is a notable nonprofit cemetery located at 3701 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery was originally known as the German Evangelical Protestant Cemetery on Carthage Road or just Carthage Road Cemetery, located three and one half miles from the City of Cincinnati.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Members of the German Evangelical Reform Churches of St. Peter and St. Paul of Cincinnati founded the cemetery, now known as the Vine Street Hill Cemetery in 1849. On February 26, 1850, the first land for the cemetery was purchased from Samuel West. In August 1882 additional land was purchased from F. Feldman and S. West.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was originally known as the German Evangelical Protestant Cemetery on Carthage Road or just Carthage Road Cemetery, located three and one half miles from the City of Cincinnati. The name of Carthage for this section of the road starting north of Glenmary Avenue was changed to Vine Street after the suburb of Clifton was annexed to Cincinnati in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The original and main entrance to the cemetery is 3701 Vine Street and the cemetery became known as the Vine Street Hill Cemetery in 1941.</p><br>
<p>The German-American architect-builders George and August Brink of Cincinnati designed the chapel located in the center of the cemetery. Cost estimates for the new chapel complex was $15,000 as reported in an article appearing in The Inland Architect in 1884. The German Evangelical Protestant Cemetery Chapel was named to the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 2008. The chapel&#39;s architectural details and craftsmanship expands knowledge of the work and contributions of German-American architects-builders and the specific contributions of George and August Brink to late nineteenth century Cincinnati.</p><br>
<p>George and August Brink are also credited for the remodeling of John Hauck&#39;s home on Dayton Street in Cincinnati. John Hauck was a prominent German-American brewer in Cincinnati and his home is now a museum within the Dayton Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>August Bloedner, designer of the 32nd Indiana Monument</p><br>
<p>August "Garry" Herrmann, Cincinnati politician, owner of Cincinnati Reds, chairman of the National Baseball Commission</p><br>
<p>Nick Altrock, Major League Baseball player</p><br>
<p>Edward William Boers, Medal of Honor recipient</p><br>
<p>Phelps "Catfish" Collins, guitarist</p><br>
<p>William Edward Voll (1893-1982), Pitcher for the Cincinnati Red Stockings</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The Hamilton County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, Hamilton County, Ohio Burial Records. Volume Three; “Vine Street Hill Cemetery 1852-1977.” Cincinnati, OH 1991</p><br>
<p>Segal, Alfred. Cincinnati Post & Times Star. “In Which We Report on 3701 Vine.” (June 30, 1962)</p><br>
<p>Vine Street Hill Cemetery Association, History of Vine Street Hill Cemetery</p><br>
<p>The Inland Architect, IV, 2 (September 1884), p. 31</p><br>
<p>Cook, William A., August "Garry" Herrmann, A Baseball Biography, McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, NC 2008</p><br>
<p>Langsam, Walter E. Great Houses of the Queen City, Two Hundred Years of Historic and Contemporary Architecture and Interiors in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, OH 1997</p><br>
<p>The Dallas Scottish Rite Temple is a monumental structure in the Farmers Market District of downtown Dallas, Texas. Constructed in 1913 as an official headquarters for use by the Scottish Rite Masons and other local Masonic lodges, it is a fine example of early 20th century Beaux Arts Classical architecture in Texas. The structure, a Dallas Landmark and Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property in the Harwood Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The B. A. and Ruth Stover House is a historic 1927 residence in Bend, Oregon, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 by its current and third owners, Norman and Holly Remer.</p><br>
<p>Located at 1 NW Rocklyn Road, the two-story, gabled English Cottage style house was built on a former Indian campground at the northern littoral of Mirror Pond. The pond was created in 1909 when the Deschutes River was dammed for hydroelectric power. The house was designed by Hugh Thompson and the contractor was Henry Nelson (1890–1984). Thompson was a friend of the Stovers, and also designed the Capitol Theater (1922) on Wall Street that Stover purchased from Dennis Carmody.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Stover worked at the Bend Company mill and was a bank teller at Independent First National Bank. He served in World War I including at Château-Thierry in France, and was a theater owner and clothing retailer. Known as a youth booster, he organized the first annual Bend Water Pageant and was elected a State Representative, serving in the 1951-195 legislature under governors Douglas McKay and Paul Patterson. He was a member of numerous organizations. Bend&#39;s Stover Park is named after him.</p><br>
<p>Stovers wife, Ruth Cushing, was born in Spokane, Washington to pioneer parents. She was the first four-year graduate to receive a diploma at Portlands Jefferson High School in 1913, attended Eastern Washington Normal School in Cheney, and taught in Riparia, Washington and Salem, Oregon.</p><br>
<p>The Ashbel Smith Building, also known as Old Red, is a Romanesque Revival building located in Galveston, Texas. It was built in 1891 with red brick and sandstone.</p><br>
<p>Nicholas J. Clayton was the architect. It was the first University of Texas Medical Branch building.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, the building named for Ashbel Smith, a Republic of Texas diplomat and one of the founders of the University of Texas System. The building was registered as a Texas Historical Landmark in 1969 and renovated in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Old Red was flooded with six feet of water by Hurricane Ike. It was also one of the few buildings to survive the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.</p><br>
<p>Mason District Number 5 Schoolhouse is a former two room rural schoolhouse in Mason Township, Cass County, Michigan built in 1874; the school could hold up to 110 students.</p><br>
<p>The school house is listed on both the National Register of Historic Sites and the Michigan registry of Historic Sites.</p><br>
<p>The current uses are still a split use government building, where the historic school house is used by the Cass District Library for the Mason-Union Branch and the new addition in the back, being used by the township.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school house was built between 1874 and 1875 at the cost of about $3,000. It has been known as the Sailor School and the Kessington School house. In 1964 Mason Township board bought the building for use as the township hall. In 1973 the Cass County Library founded and established a branch library in the township hall to serve the members of the South-East corner of the county. In 1987, the building was restored.</p><br>
<p>The bell that was on top of the school house was built by the Gould Mrf. Co of Seneca Falls, New York. The bell weights about 290 pounds and was shipped from New York to Mason.</p><br>
<p>The bell that sits outside the schoolhouse now has not always been with the school. After the bell was installed it stayed with the building until a reconstruction project took place on the building during the 1970s. The bell was dropped from the belfry and york was cracked or broke. The bell could not be reinstalled so it was left sitting on the ground until a local farmer bought the bell from the township, and then sold it to a family member who lived in Wichita, Kansas. Several attempts were made to buy the bell back to restore it with the building. However the owner refused to sell the bell until 1996 when he contacted the township and stated that he was willing to sell the bell. Two local people went to buy the bell and had the yoke fixed before donating it to the township. After almost 25 years after the bell was sold it was returned to the schoolhouse.</p><br>
<h2>Information from Michigan registry</h2><br>
<p>The narrative description on file with the Michigan registry reads:</p><br>
<p>The Mason District Number 5 Schoolhouse is a one-story, T-plan, yellow brick structure resting on a fieldstone foundation. Raised dark red brick trim forms Italianate-inspired hood molds over the arched windows and door frame and trims the cornice, forming triangle-shaped downward projections which mimic the appearance of brackets. In the raking eaves, the red brick trim is inset with yellow brick crosses. A double row of red brick also forms a belt course marking the separation between the first floor and foundation on the exterior. A gable-roofed, single-story addition, constructed c. 1988, extends off of the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>The text that is listed about the schoolhouse on the Michigan Register of sites for the Statement of Significance reads:</p><br>
<p>In size and architectural distinction, the District Number 5 Schoolhouse is far in advance of the typical late nineteenth-century rural Michigan school building. Constructed in 1875, the structure served Mason Township as a school for up to 110 students until 1959. In 1964, the schoolhouse was reopened as the township hall. Since 1972, the former District Number 5 Schoolhouse has accommodated the Mason-Union Branch of the Cass County Library as well as the township hall.</p><br>
<p>The marker text that has been placed on the site reads as follows:</p><br>
<p>DISTRICT SCHOOLHOUSE This late-Victorian schoolhouse was built in 1874-1875. Constructed at a cost of $3,000, it is made of locally manufactured yellow and red brick. The 1882 Cass County History described it as "the best rural schoolhouse in the State." Its two classrooms could accommodate 110 pupils. The school was used until the local district was absorbed into the Constantine School District in 1959. In 1964 the building became the township hall; and in 1972, the Mason Union Branch of the Cass County Library.</p><br>
<h2>Film</h2><br>
<p>The building and the bell are highlighted in a documentary called "From Moccasins to Main Street" which was produced by Equity Studios Inc. The documentary is a tour of the Native American Sauk Trail what is now US 12.</p><br>
<p>Beauregard Parish Jail is a former jailhouse in DeRidder, Louisiana built in 1914 in the Gothic Revival architecture style. It is referred to as the Gothic jail or the Hanging jail. The jail is owned by the Beauregard Parish Police Jury. The Beauregard Parish Rehabilitation Committee serves under the direction of the Police Jury with the primary duty of the preserving the jail. The Beauregard Tourist Commission has a vested interest in the jail and other historic sites and has been involved in many aspects of securing a continued future of the jail.</p><br>
<p>The jail was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hudson River Lumber Company donated a tract of land to the City of DeRidder for a courthouse and jail. The newly formed Beauregard Parish Police Jury, carved out of the old Imperial Calcasieu Parish, purchased the property and a building from the church. Stevens-Nelson of New Orleans designed a courthouse and jail. Falls City Construction Company was awarded the contract in September 1913. Both buildings were completed in 1915 at a cost of $168,000.</p><br>
<h3>Notoriety</h3><br>
<p>"J. J. Brevelle was a taxi driver who was murdered by his "fares" while taking them to a rural destination. Brevelle is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. The two men who were found guilty of his murder were hanged in the old parish jail on March 9, 1928. Deputy Sheriff&#39;s Jim Crumpler and Gill were the hangmen. Joe Genna, age 25, was pronounced dead at 1:06 PM and Molton Brasseaux at 1:29 PM. Neither man was buried in Beauregard Parish."</p><br>
<p>It was after this incident, the Beauregard Parish Jail, sometimes referred to as the Gothic jail, also became known as the Hanging Jail</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>The structure not only made history because of its unique design but also because there was a toilet, shower, lavatory, and window in each cell. A large spiral staircase gave access to each cell. Architectural historian Johnathan Fricker stated, "The old jail is unique in structure, it has the possible distinction of being the only penal institution in the country using "Collegiate Gothic" design in the first decade of the 20th century." The jail could "house" over 50 prisoners. There was a jailers&#39; quarters on the bottom floor as well as a kitchen. There is a tunnel leading from the courthouse to the jail that was used to transport prisoners for trial.</p><br>
<h3>Current</h3><br>
<p>The building is currently not in use. Options are being explored as to current plans for the jail. On August 2, 2007, the Beauregard Tourist Commission submitted the building (noted as Beauregard Parish Jail "Gothic Jail") for inclusion in the Louisiana Preservation Alliance&#39;s annual Ten Most Endangered List. This will open new avenues for funding for the building. Negotiations are underway for the jail to be used in an up-coming movie.</p><br>
<h2>In the media</h2><br>
<h3>Television</h3><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Jail (known as the Gothic Jail) was featured as a haunted location on the paranormal TV series, Most Terrifying Places, which aired on the Travel Channel in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Jail (known as the Gothic Jail) was featured as a haunted location on the paranormal TV series, Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, which aired on the Discovery+ in April 17, 2021.</p><br>
<p>It was also featured in an Episode of Achievement Haunter in 2018.</p><br>
<p>Salt Sulphur Springs Historic District is a national historic district located at Salt Sulphur Springs, near Union, West Virginia, Monroe County, West Virginia. The district includes seven contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures related to the Old Salt Sulphur Springs Resort or "Old Salt." Notable properties include the Old Stone Hotel, Episcopal Chapel, Stone Store Building , Stone Bath House , Stone Spring House , Sweet Sulphur Springs Site , Salt Sulphur Spring , and Iodine Spring . It is the area&#39;s most significant collection of native limestone buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Salt sulphur springs, Virginia LCCN2003655747.jpgImage prior to Civil War</p><br>
<p>Salt Sulphur Springs Historic District 2022c.jpgChapel in 2022</p><br>
<p>INTERIOR, LOOKING NORTHWEST (4 x 5 negative; 5 x 7 print) - Salt Sulphur Springs, Chapel, USA Route 219, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, WV HABS WVA,32-SALSU,1B-2.tifInterior of the chapel in 1974</p><br>
<p>Salt Sulphur Springs Historic District 2022d.jpgStore Building in 2022</p><br>
<p>Salt Sulphur Springs Historic District 2022h.jpgBath House and Spring House in 2022</p><br>
<p>SOUTHWEST FRONTS AND SOUTHEAST SIDES (4 x 5 negative; 5 x 7 print) - Salt Sulphur Springs, Cottages, USA Route 219, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, WV HABS WVA,32-SALSU,1D-1.tifCottages in 1974</p><br>
<p>LOOKING NORTH, SHOWING IODINE SPRING (FOREGROUND), SALT SULPHUR SPRING (LEFT BACKGROUND), AND TWIN COTTAGES (UPPER RIGHT) (4 x 5 negative; 5 x 7 print) - Salt Sulpher Springs, U HABS WVA,32-SALSU,1-1.tifIodine Spring in 1974</p><br>
<p>SOUTHWEST FRONT (4 x 5 negative; 5 x 7 print) - Salt Sulphur Springs, Erskine House (Ruins), USA Route 219, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, WV HABS WVA,32-SALSU,1E-1.tifErskine House in ruins in 1974</p><br>
<p>The Porter Building is a historic building listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in the Downtown Historic District of Woodland, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed in 1913 by architect W.H. Weeks, architect of many other landmarks in Woodland such as the Woodland Opera House and the Yolo County Courthouse. Construction bids were accepted and Earle L. Younger of San Jose (later a Woodland resident) was the lowest bidder. The buildings exterior includes buff-colored Roman brick with elaborately decorated cornice and an arched entrance way that leads into the buildings lobby. The building had many modern amenities that were rare for its era, some of which were "firsts" for Woodland, including an electric elevator, steam heating system, and telephone service in each office. The successful completion of this major construction project was of great benefit to Younger, and helped him become one of the more popular commercial builders in Woodland until the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>Today the building is a part of the Downtown Woodland Historic District. During much of the 2000s, the building was left vacant, but it was announced in December 2009 that a private community college will be moving into the building. A project to retrofit the building to bring it up to date with current safety standards is underway. Changes to the interior of the building will take place in preparation for the classrooms and offices it will house. The current plans are to keep as many preexisting walls as possible. The steam heating system that was originally a luxury for the building is still intact, but a new heating and air conditioning system will also be put in place. The exterior of the building will be restored to its original state in 1913. The architect for the remodeling of the building is Duane Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The Household No. 1 Site is an archaeological site in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located off Timms Lane in Rostraver Township, the site lies on a bluff above the Youghiogheny River.</p><br>
<p>Local archaeologists knew of the site in the early part of the twentieth century; the best records of the site are from amateur George Fisher, who studied the area from 1900 to 1950. More complete records were obtained after a 1980 investigation, which was part of the planning for the construction of baseball fields in the vicinity. Because archaeologists discovered a significant range of artifacts in the location, the fields were moved to allow for continued excavation. This investigation determined that the site was that of a Monongahela village.</p><br>
<p>Evidence of warfare dominated the findings from the Household 1 Site. Many burials were present at the site — including sixteen at the site of one house alone — and projectile points composed a much larger percentage of the total findings than did domestic tools. Furthermore, the small total number of artifacts overall shows that the site was only occupied for a short period of time, and its location on a river bluff suggests that its site was chosen for defensibility. These discoveries, like those at many other Monongahela village sites, demonstrate that the Household residents lived in a highly martial culture.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Household Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its archaeological significance.</p><br>
<p>William H. Johnson House, built, is a historic house in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house is named for William H. Johnson (born 1829), the original owner who lived here until his death, February 26, 1904. William H. Johnson was a prosperous New Brunswick businessman who owned a wallpaper hanging and house painting company, with business addresses on Church Street and Morris Street in New Brunswick. He and his wife Sarah resided here with their daughter Adilade.</p><br>
<p>The house is a good example of Victorian craftsmanship, built by and for New Brunswick residents in the Italianate style, right after the Civil War when New Brunswick experienced a post-war economic boom. Architectural components including the tall narrow windows with arched tops, double bays, cornice brackets, and low pitched roofs exemplify the Italianate style. It is significant because of the high level of integrity of its original decorative components, including some wallpaper from the late 19th century presumed to be hung by William H. Johnson himself.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 2006, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<p>Friends of The William H. Johnson House has been established to support the William H. Johnson House, and is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes, specifically to support the restoration, preservation and maintenance of the William H. Johnson House, and to further knowledge about the building and its inhabitants, and to contribute to the local community through education and outreach. The education and outreach is intended to enhance the community&#39;s knowledge of its history and early inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company Building, also known as The Cooperage, is a historic factory building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a roughly rectangular brick building composed of three primary sections of four-, three-, and two-stories, which encircle a central courtyard. The three sections are the Mill Building , Forge Building , and Pattern Building . The E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company revolutionized the barrel making industry by patenting the design and manufacturing of machinery used for mass-producing barrels. The company operated from 1840 until 2002.</p><br>
<p>Plans announced in January 2010 are for the complex to be converted to "live and work" apartments and commercial space by in partnership with. More information about the project can be found at.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Inn, originally known as The Guest House and now the Alexander Guest House, is a historic building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that was built during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors and that later was used as a hotel. It is included on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in a historic district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Guest House was built in 1943. A wood-framed building, similar to many other World War II period “H-plan” buildings, it served as guest quarters to a number of dignitaries during the top-secret Manhattan Project, including Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. In 1949, a 44-room addition was completed. The name was changed to the Alexander Inn in September 1950. The hotel was sold by the government to Mr. W. W. Faw for $34,000 in 1958. At that time, private bathrooms and a ballroom were added, and the kitchen was expanded.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as a contributing property in the Oak Ridge Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Inn ceased operating as a hotel in the mid-1990s. Since that time the building had fallen into serious disrepair. On December 18, 2009, the Oak Ridge Revitalization Effort, a local nonprofit organization, announced that it had purchased the historic property. In March 2010, the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance listed the inn at the top of its first East Tennessees Endangered Heritage list of endangered historic buildings and places in a 16-county region of East Tennessee. The previous, no-interest mortgage of $353,700 expired on June 30, 2011, after that date the property was to revert to its former owner. The Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association (ORHPA), a group concerned with protecting the citys history, them began working with ORRE to develop a new non-profit organization that would focus entirely on restoring the Inn.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander was for a while on the endangered list by East Tennessee Preservation Alliance. The Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board endorsed, and the Oak Ridge City Council approved, a 90 percent, 10-year tax break for the project to convert the hotel into Senior Living by a private developer.</p><br>
<p>In November 2015 the building re-opened as a senior living center, after an $8 million renovation via Dover Development. The facility offers memory-care and assisted-living housing.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Alexander Inn and its grounds are central elements for the crime novel Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass (the writing team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. William Bass), published in 2009. The book mentioned a below-ground pool that had been left abandoned, filled with water and debris, and was a hazard. Shortly after the book was published, this pool, which did exist prior to the building&#39;s conversion into an assisted living center, was drained and filled in with dirt.</p><br>
<p>War Memorial Park is a public park in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It is located south of the town center, bounded by River Street, Arch Street and the Town River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The park was established in the 1930s and was constructed in part with funding from the Works Progress Administration. The park is located at the site of West Bridgewaters earliest industrial activities, a mill site dating to the 17th century. This early use spawned a variety of other water-powered industrial uses in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was notably the site of Ames Shovel Companys first factory. Other industrial activities here included a sawmill, gristmill, shingle mill and even a pickle factory.</p><br>
<p>The 1936 creation of the park resulted in the donation of a large number of historic industrial artifacts, which are displayed on its grounds.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h3>Pulpit Rock</h3><br>
<p>A feature of the park is Pulpit Rock, a large boulder where Reverend James Keith, minister of the First Church of Bridgewater, is said to have preached his first sermon in 1663.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Hill is an historic farmstead located in a rural area within the town of Rhinebeck, New York. It contains several contributing structures, including an eighteenth-century farmhouse, a Dutch barn complex, a well, a wellhouse, an outhouse, and two sheds. The property is characterized by a mix of wooded terrain and open fields. It became a National Register of Historic Places listing on July 9, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Bradford-Huntington House is a historic house at 16 Huntington Lane in the Norwichtown section of Norwich, Connecticut, United States. The house was built in stages, beginning around 1691, and is one of the oldest to survive in the area. It was owned by American Revolutionary War officer Jabez Huntington. It is claimed that Huntington hosted George Washington here. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is also a contributing property in the Norwichtown Historic District .</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bradford-Huntington House is located northeast of the Norwichtown green, on the west side of Huntington Lane. It stands facing south on a stone foundation, with a large brick fireplace and chimney in the middle of each of two gambrel-roofed wings. It is stories in height, with a gambrel-roofed main section and a clapboarded exterior. The interior has many well-preserved features, including exposed chamfered summer beam, wide floorboards and a winding staircase in the front entry vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house, part of its main block, dates to no later than 1691, when it was described as the "new dwelling house" of John Bradford. The house was enlarged in stages by members of the Huntington family, who were early settlers of Norwich. Jabez Huntington, its owner in the late 18th century, was a major general (the highest rank awarded) in the state militia during the American Revolutionary War. In this role, he is believed to have hosted both George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette at his home. The house is of architectural interest for its complex construction history, exhibiting differing construction methods over time.</p><br>
<p>The Lucas Mansion, also known as the Hiddenite Center, is a historic home located at Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina. It was built about 1900, and is a three-story, frame Queen Anne style dwelling. It features a two-story wraparound porch. It was enlarged to its present size by 1928. Local tradition says the house was enlarged twice by raising the existing floor and building a new floor beneath or between the existing floors. The house roughly follows a cruciform plan, though the plan varies from floor to floor. It was owned by James Paul Lucas, a South Carolina native and international diamond merchant.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, Eileen Sharpe and R.Y Sharpe purchased the mansion and established the Hiddenite Center. The Hiddenite Center has restored the first floor of the Lucas Mansion with period furnishings and a collection of local gemstones and minerals. The second floor is used as a regional art gallery and includes a gift shop. The third floor features a large collection of dolls on display.</p><br>
<p>The Centre Harbor Village Historic District encompasses the historic village of Center Harbor, New Hampshire. It consists of a small cluster of properties located north of Plymouth Street and Main Street, as well as the Nichols Memorial Library , and the Kona Fountain, which is located in the center of that intersection. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The village of Center Harbor arose in the late 18th century at a natural transit point dictated by the geography of Lake Winnipesaukee, whose northwesterly major port it is, Squam Lake, which lies a few miles to the north, and hilly terrain separating the two bodies of water. With the advent of steamboats and railroads in the mid-19th century, it became a major transit point for travelers to the White Mountains, and prospered from the tourist trade. About half the village&#39;s ten buildings predate 1850, while the rest were built between then and about 1920, reflecting this period of economic success.</p><br>
<p>The oldest building in the district is probably the Locust Cottage, built c. 1800. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, distinctive for its porch with latticework balustrade. The Morse & Stanley Block is a commercial wood-frame building which was built before 1837, but was altered somewhat and now has the appearance of a late-19th-century commercial building. Three other houses predate 1837, the most notable being the Coe House and Barn, built in 1820 but significantly expanded and restyled c. 1850 with the latest Victorian architectural fashion. The Kona Drinking Fountain which adorns the main intersection was dedicated in 1907; it was a gift of businessman Herbert Dumaresq, owner of the Kona Farm estate in nearby Moultonborough. The Nichols Memorial Library was a gift of summer resident James E. Nichols of New York City; it is a Classical Revival structure built in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Carpenter Silversmith Shop is a historic building that was built between 1772 and 1774 on the green in Norwichtown, now a section of Norwich, Connecticut. It is a 30 ft by 24 ft -story clapboarded building with a gambrel roof. The interior has a single brick chimney that was used for the forge, but it has been modified and adapted for modern use with modern doors, electric lighting and heat, and a disappearing overhead stairway that leads to the attic. Joseph Carpenter  was a successful of silversmith, clockmaker, and pewterer, and shared the building with his brother, a merchant. The shop was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970, and was listed as a contributory property for the Norwichtown Historic District on January 17, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Original occupants</h2><br>
<p>Born in 1747 to Joseph and Elizabeth Carpenter (née Lathrop), Joseph Carpenter was a successful silversmith in Norwich, Connecticut. The shop was constructed between 1772 and 1774 and Joseph shared it with his brother Gardner Carpenter, who operated a mercantile business from the shop. In 1775, Joseph Carpenter married Eunice Fitch, and they had six children. He died in 1804. Carpenter was noted to be one of the "most successful of the Norwich silversmiths, clockmakers and pewterers..."</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Facing southeast on the Norwichtown green, the Joseph Carpenter Silversmith Shop is a 30 ft by 24 ft -story clapboarded building with a gambrel roof. Constructed between 1772 and 1774, the building was built on a stone foundation and has a stone stoop leading to the front entrance. The gambrel roof is framed without a ridge pole. It overhangs the front and back facades by 2 ft, but does not project the sides. At the time of the National Historic Register of Places nomination, the roof used wooden shingles. The National Historic Register of Places noted that the partitioning was "recent" at the time of its 1970 nomination.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Carpenter Silversmith Shop is an example of a small frame silversmiths shop, and is believed to be the only surviving example in New England. The shop was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970 and it was listed as a contributory property for the Norwichtown Historic District on January 17, 1973. As early as 1917, the shop was the subject of a preservation effort. The shop was photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey. The shop was featured as part of a historic house tour in 1993s "Reflections on the Past."</p><br>
<p>The Laconia Passenger Station is a historic railroad station at 9-23 Veterans Square in downtown Laconia, New Hampshire. It was built in 1892 for the Boston and Maine  Railroad and is a prominent regional example of Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The building now houses a variety of commercial businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Laconia Passenger Station is located on the north side of downtown Laconia, occupying an irregular block formed by North Main Street, Veterans Square, Pleasant Street, and New Salem Street. It is set at an angle to North Main Street, from which it is separated by the grassy area of Veterans Square, and faces roughly southeast. It is a long and roughly rectangular structure, with its northwest side facing where the tracks of the B&M formerly ran. It is built out of granite and red sandstone, and has a central area, the former waiting room, that is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a pyramidal roof. That area is flanked by single-story sections with tall hip roofs, and its front is dominated by a porte-cochère with large rounded arches. The waiting room area features a large sandstone fireplace, and has a floor covered in patterned tile.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1892 to a design by New York City architect Bradford Gilbert. It was built for the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, which was acquired three years later by the Boston & Maine. The size and scale of the station were due in part to the activism of Charles Busiel, a local businessman who was later governor of New Hampshire. It is one of the only 19th-century stations of this scale and architectural sophistication to survive in the state.</p><br>
<p>The station served the railroad until 1965, with portions of it dedicated to local police and court functions as early as 1963. The building has since been repurposed for commercial uses.</p><br>
<p>The East Jaffrey Historic District is a historic district running roughly along NH Route 124  through Jaffrey, New Hampshire. It encompasses what is now the economic and civic heart of the town, centered on the Jaffrey Mills and the crossing of the Contoocook River by Route 124. It extends as far west as St. Patrick&#39;s Church beyond Charlonne Street and as far east as the US Post Office building at Route 124 and Ellison Street. To the north it extends along Peterborough Street  to Christian Court, and to the south it extends along River Street  and School Street to their junction. The district includes early 19th-century residential structures, as well as industrial buildings and housing associated with the Jaffrey Mills which arose in the mid-19th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The town of Jaffrey was laid out in the 1740s, and incorporated in 1773. Its original town center, now the Jaffrey Center Historic District, was located near its geographic center. The village of East Jaffrey had its beginnings with the establishment of saw and grist mills on the Contoocook River in 1770 by John Boorland. The construction of a turnpike (now NH 124) near the mills in 1799 brought further economic activity. In 1814, the mill complex was replaced by a woolen mill, predecessor to the Jaffrey Mills buildings that now line the river north of the Main Street bridge. By the mid-19th century the area had seen significant growth, with a large number of Greek Revival houses, and a growing array of businesses and civic institutions. The arrival of the railroad in 1870 cemented the area&#39;s economic and civic importance.</p><br>
<p>The Blackledge River Railroad Bridge is a Warren truss bridge that was built on the site of a c. 1870 railroad bridge. The original bridge was completed and opened by August 3, 1877. Likely built by the Colchester Railway Company, the bridge was part of the 3.59 mi of track from Colchester, Connecticut, to Turnerville . The line was leased to the Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad and reported improvement in 1879 and a new 110 ft iron bridge by 1881. The line was leased to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1882. After dominating the region, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad petitioned for changes to the Air Line and the approval came on July 7, 1911.</p><br>
<p>The historic Blackledge River Railroad Bridge was constructed c. 1912 as an improved version of the previous bridge. The new 108 ft bridge integrated the previous abutments into the design and was elevated a further 5 ft above the Blackledge River. The railroad bridge was abandoned in the 1960s and sold to the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986. The bridge is now located in Airline State Park. By 2007, a wooden pedestrian bridge was built atop the railroad bridge and crosses over the Blackledge River.</p><br>
<h2>Previous bridges</h2><br>
<p>According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination, the first bridge was constructed in the early 1870s by the Boston and New York Air-Line Railroad. The details on this bridge are largely unknown, but contradictory evidence exists placing the construction of the bridge between 1876 and 1877. According to Marshall, the Air Line Railroad was completed in 1873 and the Colchester branch was completed in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Organized in 1876, the Colchester line was completed by the Colchester Railway Company. The line operated 3.59 miles of track from Colchester, Connecticut, to Turnerville (now known as Amston, Connecticut) and it opened on August 3, 1877. The line was leased on April 3, 1878 to the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad company for 999 years. The Air Line reported to the Railroad Commissioners in 1899 that a bridge over Blackledge River was completed. The New York, New Haven and Hartford dominated the region by 1905, having acquiring over three dozen railroads. The approval for the changes came on July 7, 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Second bridge</h2><br>
<p>The Blackledge River Railroad Bridge was rebuilt to increase the flood clearance and the load-bearing capacity of the bridge, but its abutments were integrated into the new bridge. Completed c. 1912, the replacement Blackledge River Railroad Bridge is a riveted steel, double-intersection Warren deck truss. The original granite stone abutments which supported the previous bridge was reported to be five feet lower, were integrated with the brownstone abutments of the rebuilt bridge. The bottom chord of the span is 32 ft above the Blackledge River. The truss is 108 ft long and about 18 ft deep. The top and bottom chords are typical box girders with diagonal members and the deck is open. At some point, the bridge was altered with the addition of a sewer pipe.</p><br>
<h2>Fate</h2><br>
<p>The line continued to serve local passenger and freight trains for decades, but flooding in August 1955 destroyed the critical bridge work in Putnam and lead to its closure in the 1960s. Several years after its abandonment the railroad was sold to Connecticut&#39;s Department of Transportation. By 1983, the abandoned railroad bridge had its span sealed off and its tracks lifted. The bridge is in the Salmon River State Forest and is a part of the Air Line State Park Trail. Constructed prior to 2007, the new wooden bridge decks the railroad bridge. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection was assisted by the Coast Guard Academy and the 192nd Engineering Battalion of the Connecticut National Guard.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination lists the Blackledge River Railroad Bridge under both criteria A and C. Criterion A requires the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history, and criterion C concerns the distinctive characteristics of the building by its architecture and construction. The basis for its criterion A, is that it was part of a major improvement to the engineering and lines under the operation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The bridge was listed under criterion C as "a representative example of the typical medium-length railroad bridge of the early 20th century." The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Richard Charlton House is a historic house at 12 Mediterranean Lane in Norwich, Connecticut. Built about 1800, it is a well-preserved example of an early 19th-century cottage with vernacular style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Captain Richard Charlton House is located in Norwich&#39;s Norwichtown neighborhood, on the northwest side of Mediterranean Lane north of East Town Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney. The front door, centered on the main facade, is framed by sidelight windows with reproduced bullseye glass panes and pilasters. The interior has a typical central chimney plan, with an entry vestibule that also houses a narrow winding staircase to the attic. What was originally the kitchen (and is now the living room) is to the left, while there are a small bedroom and modern kitchen to the right. Floors have wide wooden boards, and walls are finished in reproduced vertical planking. Door hardware is a combination of original, old, and reproduction wrought iron.</p><br>
<p>It is estimated that the house was built around 1800, probably replacing a similar house built for Richard Charlton, a ships captain. Charlton was a locally notable ships captain, who was killed in military service during the French and Indian War. This house may have been built with framing timbers from Charlton&#39;s original house by his son Samuel. The building underwent a major restoration in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Ulupō Heiau on the eastern edge of Kawai Nui Marsh in Kailua, Hawaii, is an ancient site associated in legend with the menehune, but later with high chiefs of Oahu, such as Kakuhihewa in the 15th century and Kualii in the late 17th century. It may have reached the peak of its importance in 1750, before being abandoned after Oahu was conquered in the 1780s. The site became a territorial park in 1954, was partially restored in the early 1960s, marked with a bronze plaque by the State Commission on Historical Sites in 1962, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The massive stone platform of the heiau measures 140 by 180 ft, with outer walls up to 30 ft high, its size and scale indicating both its cultural importance and the chiefly power of its patrons. Many of the stones may have been transported from as far as Kualoa, more than 10 mi away. Although it probably began as an agricultural heiau (mapele) with springs feeding crops of taro, banana, sweet potato, and sugarcane along the fringes of the 400 acre Kawai Nui pond full of mullet and other fish. However, the great warrior chief Kualii may have converted it to a heiau luakini, with an altar, an oracle tower (anuu), thatched hale, and wooden images (kii).</p><br>
<p>Kailua, with its ample supplies of pond fish, irrigated fields, and canoe landings, was a center of political power for Koolaupoko, which often vied with Waialua for control of Oahu. After defeating the forces of Oahu high chief Kahahana in the 1780s, Maui chief Kahekili lived in Kailua, as did Kamehameha I after conquering Oahu in 1795. In later years, Queen Kalama, consort of Kamehameha III, inherited most of the land in Kailua after the death of her husband in 1854, most of it acquired in 1917 by Harold Kainalu Long Castle for his Kaneohe Ranch. The acquisition of land for Kaneohe Ranch brought about changes to the area due to the grazing and ranching of livestock.</p><br>
<p>The Leffingwell Inn  is a historic inn at 348 Washington Street in the Norwichtown section of Norwich, Connecticut. With a construction history dating to 1675, it is one of Connecticut&#39;s oldest buildings, and was an important meeting place during the American Revolutionary War. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Leffingwell Inn is located just south of the junction of Town and Washington Streets, at the southern end of the Norwichtown area. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in stages in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its oldest part, the northeastern corner, dates to 1675 and was built by Stephen Backus. The Inn was founded by Thomas Leffingwell 2nd, the son of Norwich co-founder Thomas Leffingwell. Over the next century it was altered and expanded several times, reaching its present configuration, which is a roughly square structure with two main facades and long sloping roof lines along the other two facades, as if two saltbox houses had been joined at a corner. It has many features dating primarily to the 18th century, including casement windows, wooden paneling, and several kitchen hearths, a further indication of the building&#39;s evolutionary construction history.</p><br>
<p>Most of the architectural features of the house are the handiwork of Benajah and Christopher Leffingwell, who made the most significant alterations and additions in the 18th century. Christopher, in addition to operating the inn, established Norwich&#39;s first paper mill, as well as a stocking factory. The inn is locally historically important as a meeting point during the American Revolutionary War. It is now a museum property owned by a local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The IXL Historical Museum is a historic office building, residence, and museum complex in Hermansville, Michigan, United States. The main building was constructed as the headquarters for the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company before it became a museum. The museum was organized in 1982, and the main building, also known as the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>The building was the original office and headquarters for the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company, a company founded by German-born cabinetmaker Charles J. L. Meyer. In the mid 19th century, Meyer had established a factory in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin making wooden sashes, doors, and blinds. In 1878, to acquire pine for his factory, Meyer began buying land in Menominee County, Michigan. In 1881–1882, Meyer moved company operations out of Fond du Lac into Michigan, and built the company&#39;s headquarters at the current site in Hermansville. Meyer continued purchasing land, and eventually the company owned nearly 100,000 acre spread out over eight counties.</p><br>
<p>However, the company had overextended itself, and in 1890 the tightening credit market and reduction in sales forced Meyer to sell some of the companys assets. The firms flooring was called "IXL," Every piece of flooring was stamped with the letters "IXL" inside a circle.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, the introduction of hardwood flooring was not an immediate success, and the company began falling apart. At the same time, Meyer suffered a brain hemorrhage from a riding accident which left him confused and unable to cope with running the company. Meyer&#39;s son-in-law, Dr. George Washington Earle, took over operation of the company.</p><br>
<h3>George Washington Earle</h3><br>
<p>George Washington Earle was born in Truxton, New York in 1849. In 1851, his family moved to Huntley, Illinois, and when he was only ten years old Gerge left home on his own. He hired out on a Wisconsin farm owned by Dr. Rollin S. Wooster in 1860, and in 1863 moved with Wooster to Iowa. Earle attended school, and eventually acquired enough education that he became a schoolteacher. However, he was unsatisfied, and in 1868 returned to New York and began doing piecework in a sash and door factory, continuing until he had saved enough money to attend medical college.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, Earle gradualted from Buffalo Medical College, receiving his diploma from Millard Fillmore. He moved to Tully, New York, and began a medical practice, which over the next 17 years he built into a large and prosperous business. In 1886, Earle took a months-long trip to Europe, where he met Emma Meyer, Charles Meyers daughter. They were married in 1888, and in 1889 Earle decided to retire from the rigors of practicing medicine, and moved with his wife to Michigan. Earle invested a considerable amount of his savings in his father-in-laws business, and was made a vice-president of Wisconsin Land & Lumber only months before the 1890 financial crash. With the other directors unable or unwilling to steer the company, the crash and Meyers incapacitation forced Earle to take over the companys operations.</p><br>
<h3>Earle&#39;s Tenure</h3><br>
<p>Earle renegotiated with the companys creditors, raised new loans, and cut expenses to keep the company afloat. Wisconsin Land & Lumber developed a tongue in groove process which led to the company being the United States largest hardwood floor producer at one time. The IXL logo became an industry benchmark, with architects specifying "IXL or equivalent" in contracts.</p><br>
<p>With the increase in demand for hardwood flooring, the company prospered. The last of the companys debt was finally retired in 1910. When timbered land became too expensive to purchase, Earle began buying logs from small jobbers. Earle remained at the helm of the company until his death in 1923, when control passed to his two sons, G. Harold and Stewart Prescott Earle. The site in Hermansville remained the firms headquarters until the death of the last of Meyer&#39;s grandsons in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The main building contains artifacts from the 19th century with minimal changes from the 20th or 21st century. The structure is a two-story, wood-framed building with a T-shaped plan. The exterior is sheathed with clapboard siding, which is divided by horizontal and vertical stickwork aligned with the windows on the front and sides, as well as diagonal stickwork on the gables. Open triangular brackets support the eaves. Entrance doors on the front and side are accessed through small gabled porches. The rear of the building is sheathed with simple clapboard siding, with minimal ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The building holds documents from the company which the public can view. Other items in the building include crank telephones, oak desks, dictaphones, inkwells, and adding machines. The paymaster&#39;s office is located near an entrance; workers were paid in company scrip which they could use to purchase items from the company store. The second story of the building was a residence.</p><br>
<p>The company built the town and the worker&#39;s houses until it sold them off after World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Locus 7 Site is an archaeological site in Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located north of Fayette City, the site lies on a bluff over Downers Run about 2,000 ft from the Monongahela River. It is believed to be the location of a former Monongahela village, but its date is uncertain; the village may have existed at any time between 900 and 1600. Its location on a bluff is unusual for Monongahela village sites, but this may have contributed to its preservation; most riverside Monongahela sites in the valley of the Monongahela River have been destroyed by development.</p><br>
<p>Small-scale archaeological investigation at the site has revealed a wide range of pottery at the site, along with a significant amount of mussel shells; it is believed that a more extensive excavation would yield evidence of small round houses and a stockade. Such a large amount of potential findings has been theorized because of the limited disturbance that the site has seen: unlike most Monongahela sites in the region, it has been damaged only by surface cultivation by local farmers who used only horse-powered equipment.</p><br>
<p>Locus 7&#39;s archaeological significance was recognized in 1980 when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Store, at 21 Lisbon Road in Bath, New Hampshire, claims to be the oldest continuously operating general store in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The initial construction date of this brick two-story structure is uncertain, and was claimed to be 1804 by a 1937 reference work. Its predominantly Federal styling supports a date in this timeframe. It is known through other documentation to have been standing in 1814, and was damaged by fire in 1824. Repairs at that time probably included adding Greek Revival elements to the building&#39;s exterior. Although numerous Federal-style brick buildings were built in Bath, this is the only commercial one to survive.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Located on the Ammonoosuc River, the store is one of the most well-known landmarks of northern New Hampshire. Not only does it sell groceries, gas, and beer, at one time it was a place where customers could drop off UPS packages and dry-cleaning, and pick up mail. The store is a regular stop on the presidential campaign trail</p><br>
<p>Due to a combination of a poor economy generally, and the loss of local customers to major chain stores, the store suffered financially in the early 2000s.</p><br>
