<p>West Main Street–West James Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Richfield Springs in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 58 contributing buildings and three eight contributing structures. The body of the district includes 21 businesses and 29 historic residences, a school, library, and a church complex. The district incorporates the historic institutional and commercial core of the village and a significant residential neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Fly Creek Historic District is a national historic district located at Fly Creek in Otsego County, New York.</p><br>
<p>It encompasses 111 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and 88 contributing structures. The district incorporates three hamlet clusters:</p><br>
<p>Pail Shop Corners,</p><br>
<p>Village of Fly Creek (unincorporated),</p><br>
<p>Marvin Mills,</p><br>
<p>collectively known as "Fly Creek."</p><br>
<p>The district includes the separately listed Fly Creek Grange No. 844 and Fly Creek Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Worcester Historic District is a national historic district located at Worcester in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 24 contributing buildings representing the social and economic nucleus of the town. It is composed partially of frame buildings whose street fronts are distinguished by false fronts or "boomtown" facades and a variety of commercial and residential structures.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>South Worcester Historic District is a national historic district located at South Worcester in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 41 contributing buildings and three contributing sites in this rural hamlet. It is composed primarily of 19th and early 20th century frame residences and outbuildings representing typical vernacular interpretations of popular national styles for the period from about 1810 to 1942.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>St. Boniface Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in the East Street Valley neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1884 by German-Americans. The church building located at 2208 East Street was constructed in 1925 and 1926, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The church has a three bay nave, and a pendentive dome. Guastavino tile system on the dome and interior vaulting, and the exterior is cased in limestone with some carving.</p><br>
<p>From 1994 to 2019, the church was part of Holy Wisdom Parish, a 1994 union between St. Ambrose Parish in Spring Hill and St. Boniface. It was also home to St. John XXIII Personal Quasi-Parish, which is dedicated exclusively to the Traditional Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite). Since 2019, the church is part of Christ Our Savior Parish, along with St. Peter Church and St. Cyril Church.</p><br>
<p>St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church is a historic Ukrainian Catholic church in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The parish is under the authority of the Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1891, initially holding services in the former Grace Lutheran Church at South 7th and Carson Streets. The present church was built on the same site in 1895 and expanded with a major addition in 1919. The building was designated a historic landmark by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1968 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The South Side Market Building, also known as the South Side Market House, is a historic, American market house that is located at 12th and Bingham Streets in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1915, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The original market house on this spot was built in 1893, but was destroyed by fire circa 1914. It was rebuilt in 1915. Architect: Charles Bickel.</p><br>
<p>According to James D. Van Trump and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., "It is one of the last two market houses extant in Pittsburgh; the other is the East Liberty Market.</p><br>
<p>According to Walter C. Kidney, "When it was rebuilt in 1915 after a fire, the towers came off, the gable roof was brought down to the eaves on both fronts, and a well-scaled stone cartouche was set into the south front memorializing the new work. This cartouche is the buildings one decoration today, set off by swags and surmounted by a bulls head. The Romanesque walls otherwise survive largely as built, industrial rather than civic architecture."</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church located near Cowansville in Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA, within the Diocese of Greensburg.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s was built in 1805, and is a log building measuring 22x35 feet. It has a gable roof and three windows on each side. It is the oldest Catholic church still standing in Western Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephens Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Bradys Bend Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1867, and is a one-story, sandstone building in the Gothic Revival style. It is 36 feet wide and 68 feet deep, with a steeply pitched gable roof. It was transformed in 1925 to serve as a community meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Bellman&#39;s Union Church is a historic church in Mohrsville, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The two church congregations - Lutheran and United Church of Christ - date back to 1746. The log cabin they shared and used for separate services no longer stands, but an outline of the foundation is still found on premises.</p><br>
<p>The second church built on the site, the Old Belleman&#39;s church, was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. While it has not been updated for electricity and plumbing, the Georgian-style church features many styles and motifs not seen in many 19th century rural churches. The church embellishes many of the fine points of architecture such as an elaborate cornice, Palladian windows, arched windows, detailed doorways and a gallery. Particular focal points are the wineglass pulpit and a hand-pump organ. The building is used several times per year during warmer months, for Sunday services, weddings, and annual "Hymn Sings" and a service in the Pennsylvania German dialect.</p><br>
<p>The third church was constructed in 1924. Beginning in 2003, the two congregations have shared a pastor and hold shared services, as well as a shared choir, committees, and youth groups, but still maintain their separate identities.</p><br>
<p>The church is home to the Boy Scouts of America Troop 154 of Dauberville, Pa.</p><br>
<p>Bethel AME Church, now known as the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 119 North 10th Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1837, and is a 2½-storey brick and stucco building with a gable roof. It was rebuilt about 1867–1869, and remodeled in 1889. It features a three-storey brick tower with a pyramidal roof topped by a finial. The church is known to have housed fugitive slaves and the congregation was active in the Underground Railroad. The church is now home to a museum dedicated to the history of African Americans in Central Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The only AME church in Berks County to have been built using private resources from its congregation, Bethel AME was founded by George Dillen, Samuel Murray, Isaac Parker, and Jacob Ross. Of those four, Murray was the one most involved with the buildings construction. Closely aligned with Philadelphias Mother Bethel AME Church, "Men preached from the pulpits but the ladies were responsible for organizing benevolent societies and mission circles, teaching classes in the large Sunday Schools attached to both congregations, as well as singing in the choir and providing a musical accompaniment for the Sunday services," according to historian Barbara Goda.</p><br>
<p>Reading&#39;s Bethel AME Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Underground Railroad</h2><br>
<p>Among the earliest abolitionists in Berks County were the owners of Fleetwoods Kirbyville Inn, Robeson Townships Joanna Furnace, Reading Furnace and Scarlett&#39;s Mill, as well as members of religious institutions throughout the region, who provided safe havens for the men, women and children who were escaping from slavery before and during the American Civil War. The Bethel A.M.E. Church and Washington Presbyterian Church were two of the institutions which served as way stations along the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The most famous slavery case to take place in Berks County, according to historian Barbara Goda, occurred in February 1840 when a group of slave catchers traveled to the county from Maryland, and began "wandering about town for several days and examining all of the African Americans they could find." Encountering a man they called "James Turner," they "locked him up as a fugitive," a shocking act to many across Pennsylvania because this was "the first arrest of this kind in the memory of local residents." In response, a trial was held during which one of the churchs founders, Jacob Ross, informed the judicial officer overseeing the case, Judge Banks, that the slave catchers had, in reality, imprisoned a free man — Harry Jones, a member of the Bethel A.M.E. congregation who had been living in Reading, Pennsylvania for roughly six years, and who had just recently married his wife during ceremonies at Bethel. "Judge Banks, in a lengthy decision, explained that the slavery law of Maryland had not been offered into evidence, and he had no judicial knowledge of such legislation: Therefore there could be no legal proof that Turner or Jones owed service or labor to Cooley&#39; (his alleged Maryland owner)," and Jones was freed. Reading, was also home to a local Van Leer noted in the anti-slavery movement, owning a nearby cabin on a railroad station and setting up housing for newly freed slaves.</p><br>
<p>St. Michael&#39;s Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory is a group of architecturally-significant religious buildings located at 200-216 North Mill Street in Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the 2003 removal of its stained-glass windows, pipe organ, and interior furnishings, the building was considered the most unaltered of Victorian architect Frank Furness&#39;s churches. The property was sold in 2005, and is now the New First Baptist Church of Birdsboro.</p><br>
<h2>Built in 1853</h2><br>
<p>St. Michael&#39;s congregation was founded in 1851, and the original church was built in 1853 on land donated by brothers Edward and George Brooke, proprietors of the Birdsboro Iron Foundry Company (later Birdsboro Steel Corporation). George designed the "Norman-Gothic" church building, and he and his brother donated the organ, the bell for its gable bellcote, and other interior and exterior improvements. The Parish House (probably designed by George) &mdash; housing a chapel, the Sunday School, and a reading room &mdash; was completed in 1873, and was a gift of the Brookes.</p><br>
<h2>Furness</h2><br>
<p>As architect of the Reading Railroad, Frank Furness designed the line&#39;s station in Birdsboro (1874, demolished 1967). The Brooke brothers did business with the Reading, and Edward hired Furness to make alterations to his Greek Revival mansion, "Brooke Manor" (1844, altered by Furness circa 1875, demolished 1961).</p><br>
<p>Design of St. Michaels Rectory (1877–78) is attributed to either George Brooke or Furness, and the brownstone residence became another gift of the Brookes. Later alterations &mdash; changing the roof, moving the entrance to a 3-story addition (with bathrooms above), adding a bay window where the original entrance had been &mdash; are attributed solely to Furness, and probably were done at the same time that the church was expanded. Furnesss alterations are visible in an 1890 panoramic view of Birdsboro.</p><br>
<h2>1884-85 expansion</h2><br>
<p>Following older brother Edwards death, George hired Furness to expand the church building. Furness lengthened the nave &ndash; adding east and west transepts and turning a simple box into a cruciform &mdash; and tucked a bell-tower-with-steeple off to one side. The contractor, Levi H. Focht, was a resident of Birdsboro, and had built dozens of Furness-designed stations for the Reading Railroad (including the one in Birdsboro). The churchs exterior was clad in brownstone, with a wooden porte cochere built against the west transept (turning it into a carriage entrance), a colored-slate roof, and a large gold-plated cross crowning the steeple.</p><br>
<p>Furness, son of the Unitarian minister William Henry Furness, experimented with some of the ideas from his contemporaneous First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (1883–86). Both churches had soaring curved roof trusses, vividly colored walls, and high windows that bathed the sanctuary in natural light. For St. Michaels, Furness chose royal-blue ceilings and Etruscan-red walls accented with metallic-gold trim, a color scheme that he had used to dramatic effect at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "Furniss" (as the church historian misspelled the architects name) also designed the church furniture &mdash; altar, pews, etc. &mdash; possibly fabricated by his frequent collaborator, Daniel Pabst. The blower for the Johnson & Son pipe organ (Op. 572, 1882) was housed in the base of the bell tower, and its pipes were stencilled with stylized flowers in colors that recalled Pennsylvania Dutch folk art.</p><br>
<p>The total cost of the improvements was in excess of $12,000, a gift of the Brooke family. The expanded church was consecrated on May 31, 1885.</p><br>
<h2>1892 expansion</h2><br>
<p>The chancel was lengthened by 10 feet and widened by 6 feet in 1892, allowing the installation of choir stalls and moving the altar wall south to the Church Street sidewalk. This work was done by New York designer R. Geissler and contractor Levi H. Focht. At the same time, the Edward Brooke Memorial Window, created by Tiffany Studios in 1887, was removed from the east transept and installed over the altar.</p><br>
<p>Over the decades, the church was embellished with additional stained-glass windows, including another by Tiffany Studios, and other adornments.</p><br>
<h2>Decline</h2><br>
<p>Following years of decline, the Birdsboro Steel Corporations plant closed in 1988, a severe economic blow to the town. By the time St. Michaels celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2001, the congregation had dwindled to the point of not being able to sustain a full-time minister. The Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania closed the church in July 2002. It then outraged preservationists in January 2003, by removing the building&#39;s stained-glass windows, pews, altars and pipe organ. Availability to these items was supposed to be restricted only to other Episcopal congregations, but, according to George M. Meiser IX, president of the Historical Society of Berks County, some of them were offered for sale on eBay.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Brooke Memorial Window stood above the altar for 110 years. It is now in the collection of the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows in Chicago, Illinois. The pipe organ was cannibalized for parts.</p><br>
<p>The church property was sold to another congregation in 2005, and is now the New First Baptist Church of Birdsboro.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>George E. Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania, an architectural historian who has spent his career studying Furness, wrote the 1982 nomination for St. Michael&#39;s inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places:</p><br>
<p>"The church represents a major complex of buildings by Furness at the height of his career, when he was moving toward direct expression of materials and construction as the constituent elements of his designs....he brilliance of the surviving color scheme of the church interior, which is the only complete, original color scheme from his career... is important both because it carries Ruskinian color into the 1880s, and for recalling his fathers admonition to the American Institute of Architects, in 1872, when he argued that the church architect should make a building that would keep a parishioner awake, if the sermon was dull. That he nobly accomplished....Despite the fact that Furness added to and redesigned the existing church buildings, in its current appearance St. Michaels can be regarded as his work."</p><br>
<p>Trinity Lutheran Church is an historic, American Lutheran church that is located at 6th and Washington Streets in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The current church building was built in 1791, and is a two-story, three-bay by five-bay, red brick building with stone and wood trim. It was designed in the Georgian style. The second floor, which was added in 1851, has a square bell tower and steeple that was last replaced in 1963. The front facade features a columned portico that was added in 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Trinity remains an active presence in the Reading community. The Rev. Hans Becklin was called to serve as Senior Pastor in 2023.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as the Brick Church, is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church located in Culp, Blair County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1892, and is a cross-gabled red brick church with steep gables and a steeple with Queen Anne influences. It features large, many paned stained glass windows with semi-circular arches in the gable ends.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Hoben Park, also known as Arcade Park, Nile Park and Ladies Park, is a city park on the waterfront of Seward, Alaska. It is bounded by the Alaska Sealife Center, the Seward Depot, Railroad Avenue, and Resurrection Bay. The parks north and west sides have a decorative concrete wall, part of which is original to the parks 1923 construction date. The park has been generally restored to its 1920s appearance, although the north side has been shortened due to road widening. Construction of park formed a major part of the city&#39;s self-promotion as the "Gateway to Alaska", and was timed to be finished in time for the visit to the city by President Warren G. Harding on July 13, 1923, when completion of the Alaska Railroad was celebrated. The park is named for Hedley V. "Harry" Hoben, a prominent local citizen who was mayor in 1918–19. Hoben promoted the park and paid for its maintenance until his death in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Manistique Pumping Station is an industrial waterworks building located on Deer Street in Manistique, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early part of the 20th century, the city of Manistique expanded and renovated their water system. However, by 1920, the system was deemed inadequate for firefighting. It was recommended that the city borrow $97,000 to build a new 200,000 gallon water tower and pumping station, as well as building a nearby dam and improving the distribution system. A bond was approved by voters, and construction of the tower began in June 1921. The system was finally complete in September 1922.</p><br>
<p>The system constructed was in use until 1954, when a new pumping station was put into operation.</p><br>
<p>The tower is notable for the architectural approach to the design of the fundamentally utilitarian structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Manistique Pumping Station is 38 feet wide on the outside, 33 feet wide inside, and 137 feet high. 30 feet in diameter and 44 feet high. The exterior of the tower is octagonal, and the interior has 16 sides, strengthening the eight exterior corners that supported the weight of the water tank. The building is primarily faced with red brick with limestone trim, and sits on a concrete foundation. Casement windows near the top of the tower sit beneath a decorative frieze. The domed roof is made of copper.</p><br>
<p>The Clarence H. Cooke House, later known as the Marks Estate, at 3860 Old Pali Road, Honolulu, Hawaii, was built for Clarence Hyde Cooke, the second son of Charles Montague Cooke and Anna Rice Cooke, heirs of the Castle & Cooke fortune. It was designed by the architect Hardie Phillip, built in 1929–32, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as a fine example of the upper-class, Hawaiian-style, great mansion of the late 1920s and early 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Phillip first worked in Honolulu as a member of the firm of Bertram Goodhue and Associates of New York City, who also designed the Honolulu Museum of Art on the site of the former home of Anna Rice Cooke, the C. Brewer Building downtown, and Lihiwai, the residence of Territorial Governor George R. Carter in Nuuanu Valley. For Clarence Cooke, Phillip designed a sprawling 24-room mansion fit for the lavish entertainment it became known for. Features of the evolving Hawaiian Regional style of the era include numerous lanai and open spaces, double-pitched hipped roof ("Dickey" roof), and lushly landscaped grounds. The two-story, whitewashed building is constructed of brick on the ground floor and board and batten on the upper floor. A porte cochere topped by an open lanai leads to a formal entry hall with staircase, which provides access to both floors of two wings running in opposite directions. There are also three guest cottages, a gatehouse, and a four-car garage with servants&#39; quarters above, and a swimming pool with dressing rooms at the rear of the property. The pool area was earlier designed in Neoclassical style by Hart Wood.</p><br>
<p>Cooke left the estate to the Academy of Arts, which sold it in 1946 to Elizabeth Marks, the wealthy daughter of Lincoln L. McCandless. Her husband Lester Marks was a land commissioner for the Territory who resigned in 1949 when Governor Ingram M. Stainback decided to build a new Pali Highway up Nuuanu Valley, right through the middle of their estate. They sued to block the use of their land for the highway, but in 1956 the Territory finally bought the estate for $624,000. However, the Markses were allowed to live in their old home until 1976, when Mrs. Marks was evicted. By that time, she was a widow, but still wealthy enough to buy a new house at Black Point in Kahala.</p><br>
<p>State government departments then took it over, using it for office space, conferences, and special events. After trying to sell it for years, in 2002 the State finally auctioned off the property, which had been appraised at $4.5 million. The winning bid of $2.5 million came from Unity House Incorporated, a labor union nonprofit organization, which planned to use it for office space and a retiree activity center. During that time, much of the house was renovated and in 2010 was put up for sale at $9.9 million, then reduced to $8.5 million without finding a buyer. After Himmelfarb experienced financial difficulties, JPMorgan Chase Bank took possession of the property in 2014 for $6.5 million through a foreclosure.</p><br>
<p>Unadilla Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Unadilla in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 145 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and three contributing objects. the majority of the buildings are residential , with four churches, 11 commercial buildings, six institutional and/or public buildings, one historic cemetery, three monuments, and a limestone railroad underpass.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Roseboom Historic District is a national historic district located at Roseboom in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 73 contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The district includes two churches, a cemetery associated with the former Baptist church, a general store, two early 20th century industrial buildings, a schoolhouse , a grange hall , and dwellings with associated agricultural, industrial, and commercial outbuildings. The bulk of these properties were developed between 1840 and 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Willard Homestead is a historic house at 372 Willard Avenue the Newington Junction area of the town of Newington, Connecticut. Construction of the house is estimated to have been in 1730, based on architectural evidence. In addition to being a well-preserved 18th-century house, it is locally significant for its association with the Willard family, who were early settlers of the Newington area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Willard Homestead is located between Newington&#39;s town center and Newington Junction, on the east side of Willard Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney, clapboarded exterior, and a dry-laid brownstone foundation. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the house. The interior of the house retains a great many original features, including woodwork and plaster, and some of the original hardware. The interior follows a fairly typical central-chimney plan, with a narrow entry vestibule with winding staircase, chambers on either side, and the original kitchen at the rear, with small chambers in each of the rear corners.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1730, based on architectural analysis and deed research. The land on which it stands was granted to the Willard family in 1670, when the area was still part of Wethersfield. It remained in the Willard family until the mid-19th century. Josiah Willard, who was raised in this house, was Newington&#39;s first parish clerk, and is credited with naming the town. Both he and a later resident also served as local school teachers.</p><br>
<p>The Bell House  is a historic house located at 550 Upper Kingston Road in Prattville, Alabama, United States. It is locally significant as an excellent example of the Queen Anne style of architecture, that reached its zenith in Alabama at the turn of the 20th century and continued locally as late as 1920.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Queen Anne style -story wood-frame house was completed in 1893. It is designed by Alabama architect Frank Lockwood. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, and on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on October 7, 1998.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Bennett Bell, son of Jonathan Ezekiel and Georgiana (Bennett) Bell, was born in Greenville, Alabama on November 18, 1859. He was raised in Greenville and moved to Montgomery upon the completion of his education and obtained a job as a clerk at a hardware store. Bell married Mary Pratt, daughter of Julia (Smith) and Merrill Pratt on November 17, 1889. Merrill was the nephew of Prattville town founder Daniel Pratt and was named heir of half his fortune upon his death in 1873. Bell moved to Prattville in early 1890 and served as a manager for the order department of the Daniel Pratt Gin Company as well as a stockholder and manager for the Pratt Company. The Bell House was constructed in 1893. Bell was listed as a secretary for the Prattville Mercantile Company in 1905, and served as a member for the State Legislature representing Autauga County from 1911 to 1915. In April 1919, Bell was appointed probate judge of the county, of which he served until October of the same year. Joseph and Mary raised their eight children until Joseph died in 1937; Mary followed him in 1945. That same year, the Bells daughters Katherine and Adelaide (whom the former had returned from service in World War II) lived in the house until they sold it to Thomas H. Walker in October 1949. In 1970, the house was sold to Colonel Ernest and Martha Biggs by Nancy and Hyman Hamner, the former of which are the recorded owners as of 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the house was used as a filming location for Charles Matthau’s 1995 film The Grass Harp, based on Truman Capote’s novella of the same name.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Sinai School is a historic Rosenwald School in rural Autauga County, Alabama, US, northwest of Prattville. The one-story frame building was built in 1919 to the designs of W.A. Hazel to serve the local African American community. The money to build it was provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The school was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on February 2, 2001. It was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>The school was founded in c. 1891 while holding classes in the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, and had its first building financed by the students’ parents. The original building was located between the church and the train station in Booth. The original building was blown down in an assumed storm, and the school relocated back to the church before the building was rebuilt at its current site. As of 2001, it is owned by the Mt. Sinai Community Center.</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick Church is located in Imogene, Iowa, United States. It is a Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Des Moines. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Irish immigrants began to settle this part of southwestern Iowa in 1869. The town of Imogene was incorporated ten years later. New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa settled young Irish men in nearby Mills County to tend their herds of Black Angus cattle. After the cattle market went under the men stayed in the area to extend the railroad into this part of Iowa. The Rev. Gerald Stack arrived in 1876 to serve the Catholics in the area. He celebrated Mass in a schoolhouse southwest of Imogene. The first Mass in town was celebrated in the home of John Delehant. Father Stack organized St. Patricks in 1880 as a mission of St. Marys parish in Shenandoah, Iowa. At the time all of the state of Iowa was in the Diocese of Dubuque. A frame church was built in Imogene for $1,800 in 1881. That year all of southern Iowa, including Imogene, was placed in the newly established Diocese of Davenport. The property for Mount Calvary Cemetery was purchased south of town in 1883. Father Ryan died the following February and was one of the first people buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>St. Patricks became a parish in its own right in 1888 and the Rev. Edmund Hayes, a native of County Cork, was assigned as its first resident pastor the same year. Hayes was to have a profound effect on the parish and the town itself. He was referred to as the "best known Catholic priest in Iowa" and the "probably the best known minister in all southwestern Iowa of any denomination." Hayes was independently wealthy having inherited his wealth from his brother who had owned silver mines in Nevada and oil and gold in California. He invested a sizable portion of his wealth in Iowa farmland. A rectory was built soon after Hayes arrived and the original church was enlarged. It was replaced by a brick church in 1892 and a new rectory in 1904. A school, St. Patricks Academy, was built in 1906. Hayes partially funded all of these projects himself. The parish became a part of the Diocese of Des Moines when it was established in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The church was destroyed in a fire on February 12, 1915. The only items salvaged was the bell and the Pietà. Omaha architect Harry Lawrie designed the present church, which was built by Ed and Jack Sprague, also of Omaha. Work was begun in August 1915 and completed on March 20, 1919. During construction Mass and other services were held in the Hibernian Hall until they could be held in the basement of the new church. The first Mass was held in the church basement on October 29, 1916. The church was wired for electricity when it was constructed even though it was not available yet in Imogene. The Carrara marble high altar and side altars, as well as the baptismal font, were donated by Father Hayes as a memorial to his family. They were all valued at $60,000-$90,000. Hayes had gone to Pietrasanta, Italy to place the order himself. The altars that were erected in the church, however, were Hayes second choice. The first was on a ship sunk by the Germans during World War I. It took two years for Italian sculptor Enrico Tonnegetti and his crew to assemble the altars. After the churchs debt was paid off it was dedicated on March 17, 1924.</p><br>
<p>In addition to his many contributions to St. Patricks, Father Hayes influence was felt in Imogene as well. He helped to bring electricity to the town, pledged money toward the street lights, and help found the towns waterworks and library. He died in St. Josephs Hospital in Omaha in 1928 and was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Church measures 130 by and its exterior is composed of Black Hylex St. Louis pressed brick. The exterior has features from both the Gothic Revival and the Romanesque Revival styles. The Gothic features are found in the pointed arched windows and door frames, the quoined stone surround of the large front window, the wall buttresses that flank the main entrance, and the stone trim on the gable. The hinges on the front doors are also executed in the Gothic style. The Romanesque features include the stone trim combined with its brick finish, the stone bands that form the water table, the wall buttresses with their decorative stone caps, the domed corner buttress, the corner tower capped with a battlement, and the projecting front pavilion with its multiple gables. There are similar bands from the water table at the cornice line that surrounds the tower. Other features of the exterior include a raised foundation, corbelling under the eaves, a rounded apse on the rear of the church and confessionals that project from the side elevations.</p><br>
<p>The interior features a single nave that is capped with an oak ceiling that rises 65 ft above the floor. The ceiling is supported by six hammer beam trusses. The base of each truss is decorated with a quatrefoil circular infill. The Carrara marble high altar features a statue of St. Patrick in its central tower. The side altar on the left features a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the side altar on the left a statue of St. Joseph. The altars and the reredoses behind them have a polished finish that contrasts with the rather dull finish of the statues. Across the front of the altar platform is an altar rail that is also executed in marble. The bronze gates in the center are a later addition. Stained glass windows line the nave walls. Love of God, country, and family is visibly displayed in the stained glass windows that adorn the church. The craftsmanship of the church windows was the creation of Italian glass masters which had been commissioned on behalf of families residing in Imogene. The Stations of the Cross are composed of mosaic and marble and are imported from Venice. The Pietà statue from the old church that was donated by Father Hayes in 1910 remains in the church.</p><br>
<h2>St. Patrick Academy</h2><br>
<p>St. Patrick Academy was located on the north side of the church. When it opened on September 9, 1907, it had 100 students. Because of the large number of students, Father Hayes bought the former German Lutheran Church located across the street from St. Patricks Church to house the first and second grades. The Sisters of Mercy taught in Imogene from 1907 to 1918. They were eventually replaced by Dominican Sisters who taught in the school from 1920 to 1969. The present convent was built across the street from the church in 1922 where the old Lutheran church had stood. That church had been torn down in 1919. St. Patrick Academy closed in 1969, and the Dominicans remained at St. Patricks to organize and teach the parishs religious education program. The sisters left the parish in 1972 and the academy building was torn down the same year. Religious education classes were relocated into the former convent. It is now called the Faith Center.</p><br>
<p>The Byron White United States Courthouse is a courthouse in Denver, Colorado, currently the seat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. It formerly housed courthouses of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Completed between 1910 and 1916, the building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, as USA Post Office and Federal Building. In 1994, it was renamed in honor of USA Supreme Court Justice Byron White  a native of Fort Collins, Colorado.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The grand Neo-Classical design of the Byron White USA Courthouse brought design elements popular in the eastern United States to Denver. The monumental scale and elegance expressed its official and public character, and served as inspiration for other civic buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>By 1900, Denver was a major transportation crossroads and a significant western commercial city. The monumental 1893 USA Post Office was already considered outdated, leading the people of Denver to seek a new, larger building for the Post Office and Federal Courts.</p><br>
<p>Authorization for a new building was approved as early as 1903, but funds were not appropriated until 1908. In 1909, Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department James Knox Taylor selected New York architects Tracy, Swartwout, and Litchfield to design Denvers new Post Office and Courthouse. Egerton Swartwout designed the building, Evarts Tracy was working on nearby Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness at that same time. It was one of only thirty-five Federal buildings built during Taylors tenure (1883–1912) that were designed by independent architects commissioned by the USA Treasury Department under the Tarsney Act. Passed in 1893, the Act authorized the Treasury Secretary to use private architects, selected through architectural competitions, to design Federal buildings. The Act reflected the growing demand for greater architectural standards for public buildings and opened the way for additional appropriations to maintain those standards.</p><br>
<p>Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) and Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943) graduated from Yale University and worked as draftsmen in the New York office of McKim, Mead, and White before establishing Tracy and Swartwout in New York in 1900. Electus Darwin Litchfield (1872–1952), a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Stevens Institute of Technology, joined the partnership in 1908.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1910, but progress was slow due to insufficient funds. The initial appropriation of $1,500,000 was supplemented with an additional $400,000 as a result of Denver Postmaster Joseph H. Harrison&#39;s lobbying effort in Washington, DC. The building opened in January 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>With its monumental presence and dramatic public spaces, the courthouse is an excellent example of the Neoclassical architecture that dominated federal building design at the turn of the 20th century. Occupying an entire city block in downtown Denver and standing four stories in height, the building reflects the academic characteristics of the Neoclassical style with its symmetrical design, classical details, and imposing manner.</p><br>
<p>Clad in Colorado Yule Marble—the material used for the exterior of the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C.—the USA Courthouse is set above the street on a rusticated base. A series of grand stairs lead up to the main entrance on the southeast elevation (Stout Street), which is marked by sixteen, three-story, Ionic order columns adorned with eagles. The secondary elevations incorporate similar, but less pronounced, engaged Ionic columns. Set above the third story, a decorative band of medallions and eagles form the base of the large ornamental cornice.</p><br>
<p>The frieze above the main entrance has city names, with cities located east of Denver inscribed to the east of the central bay and those located to the citys west inscribed to the bays west, symbolizing the flow of mail across the country. The solid marble walls on either side of the colonnade are inscribed with the names of former USA postmasters general. Inscriptions selected and designed by architect Evarts Tracy mark the secondary elevations of the building. The frieze facing Eighteenth Street reads "Lex Nemini Iniquum, Nemini Injuriam Facit" (a quotation from Cicero, "The law causes wrong or injury to no one"), and the Nineteenth Street side reads "Nulli Negabimus, Nulli Differemus, Jutitiam" (a quotation from the Magna Carta, "To no one shall we deny justice, nor shall we discriminate in its application"). Marble seats on the northeast and southwest sides of the building are inscribed, "Alternate rest and labor long endure," and "If thou desire rest, desire not too much."</p><br>
<p>The main entry lobby spans the width of the building, with windows opening out through the portico. It has a terrazzo floor and vaulted ceiling with arches springing from the pilasters. Names of Pony Express riders adorn the marble-faced walls. The USA Court of Appeals is located on the second floor along with the Law Library and a District Courtroom. The Law Library (now Courtroom Four) is clad with carved oak panels. An eagle and the Latin inscription, "Lux et Veritas" (light and truth), crown the exit. The USA District Courtroom A with its arched ceiling and pink-tinged white marble walls retains its original gold-trimmed black velvet drapery in the apse behind the judge&#39;s bench.</p><br>
<p>The USA Courthouse is embellished with notable artwork. A pair of Indiana Limestone sculptures of Rocky Mountain sheep commissioned from Denver artist Gladys Caldwell Fisher (1907–1952) sit at the southwest entrance. Fisher completed the sculptures, with help from two assistants, working under the Works Progress Administration in 1936. Prominent artwork within the building includes four canvas murals by Herman Schladermundt (1863–1937). The murals, Fortune Turns on Her Wheel—The Fate of Kings, Postal Service, Labor is Great Producer of Wealth, and Nil Sine Numine (Nothing Without Power), were completed in 1918 and shipped from New York.</p><br>
<p>Extensive building renovations were made in the 1950s and on into the 1960s when the USA Postal Service altered the lobby and first floor, constructed a concrete-block addition, demolished the Appellate Courtroom and Grand Jury Room, and removed original columns for expansion of the third floor. From 1992-1994 some of the alterations were reversed when the building was rehabilitated for use as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The Appellate Courtroom and the Grand Jury Room on the third floor were reconstructed. The lobby, Ceremonial Courtroom, Courtroom Two, Courtroom Four, and District Courtroom A were restored to their original grandeur. The restoration received numerous preservation awards.</p><br>
<h2>Significant events</h2><br>
<p>1893: Passage of the Tarsney Act permits the Federal Government to hire private architects through competitions.</p><br>
<p>1908-1909: Funds are appropriated and a site purchased for a new Federal building; the New York firm of Tracy, Swartwout and Litchfield designs the USA Post Office and Federal Building.</p><br>
<p>1910-1916: The USA Post Office and Federal Building is constructed.</p><br>
<p>1918: Four canvas lobby murals by Herman T. Schladermundt of New York are installed.</p><br>
<p>1936:Stone sculptures of Rocky Mountain sheep by artist Gladys Caldwell Fisher are installed.</p><br>
<p>1950s: Extensive system modifications are made to the building; the third floor is expanded and the fourth floor altered for new courtrooms.</p><br>
<p>1962-1966: The USA Postal Service controls building and undertakes substantive alterations for its own use.</p><br>
<p>1973: The USA Post Office and Federal Building is listed in National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>1992-1994: USA General Services Administration undertakes an extensive renovation/ restoration of the building.</p><br>
<p>1994: The building is renamed and dedicated as the Byron White United States Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>1994-1997: Preservation of the Byron White United States Courthouse is recognized by numerous preservation awards.</p><br>
<p>The John  Lindsay Rand House is a historic home located at Friendship in Brown Township, Ripley County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association for use as their national headquarters and offices.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Style</h2><br>
<p>It was built between 1875 and 1878, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, Italianate style brick dwelling. It consists of a roughly square hip roofed main block with a one-story rear kitchen wing. The Italianate style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles.</p><br>
<h2>Builder and later owners</h2><br>
<p>The original property was owned by Thomas Wilson (1784–1874) and was part of an estate with several hundred acres. After his death, his land was divided amongst 3 heirs, including his daughter Elizabeth Ellen (Wilson) and her husband John L Rand.</p><br>
<p>John L Rand began construction of the house in 1875. The family, which included 1 boy and 2 girls, moved into the house in 1878. Within the next few years, the property was improved by the addition of a well house (far right in old photo), 3-story barn (just right of the house), granary (just right of the barn) and chicken house (far left).</p><br>
<p>The oil portrait to the left was commissioned in about 1880 from the original black-and-white photo and illustrates the original color scheme of the home and out buildings.</p><br>
<p>On March 28, 1903, John L Rand sold all of his Ripley County, Indiana property to John Paul and his son James, and moved to a farm in Marion County, Indiana. Ironically, his next home also carries his name and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Nicholson-Rand House.</p><br>
<p>The Montgomery–Janes–Whittaker House, best known today as Buena Vista, is a historic Federal style plantation house in Autauga County, Alabama, United States, south of Prattville. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the house was started in 1822 by one of the first landowners, John W. Freeman or Josiah Huie. It was completed by the next owner, William Montgomery, in 1844. Mary Emma Scott Stewart purchased the property in 1910 from the Montgomery family. Jacob Janes then owned the house for two years before it was sold to the Fred Whittaker family in 1937. The Whittaker family restored and added modern amenities to the house. They owned it until 1978, when the house was inherited by M.W. Petrey, Jr. It was sold again in 1982 to the Union Camp Corporation, a pulp and paper company that allowed the Autauga County Heritage Association to preserve and maintain the house. Following Union Camp&#39;s acquisition by International Paper, the new owner donated the house to the association in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Original exterior details of the -story frame house include delicately built fanlights over the front doors and in the side gable ends. The interior features elaborate plasterwork and a spiral mahogany staircase that ascends from the ground floor to the third floor attic. A monumental Ionic portico was added to the front facade of the house during the Colonial Revival period by the Stewart family. The Whittaker family changed the front portico floor from wood to brick and added cast iron to the existing second floor balcony during their restoration efforts.</p><br>
<p>The Daylight Building or Daylight Block is a two-story office and commercial building on Union Avenue in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The building was completed in 1927. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Daylight Building, faced with blond brick, was one of several downtown Knoxville buildings built by real estate developer Benjamin Howard Sprankle. A glass clerestory on its roof allowed sunlight to enter the interior core of the building. Offices lining both sides of a square hallway surrounding the buildings core had windows, open either to the outside or to the light well at the buildings core.</p><br>
<p>The building served for many years as offices for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It was one of four downtown Knoxville buildings that housed TVA personnel from 1933 until the early 1980s. Much of TVAs engineering staff was located in the Daylight Building, along with staff of the agencys training and soil conservation organizations. TVA vacated the building when the agency moved into a new office tower in the 1980s. There were proposals to demolish the building.</p><br>
<p>Developer David Dewhirst bought the Daylight Building in 2008 for $1.35 million. The following year he began restoration of the building, including its glass clerestory and its daylight illumination, with the intention of creating retail space on the first floor with apartments above. The restoration process revealed some original design details that had gone unnoticed for many years, including copper window frames that had been obscured by yellow paint. Tenants began moving into the building&#39;s 36 rental apartments in August 2010.</p><br>
<p>In order to qualify for historic preservation tax credits, Dewhirst sought listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was listed on the National Register on November 25, 2009. The listing recognized the buildings role in TVAs early history and the lack of alterations subsequent to its use by TVA.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio State Normal College at Kent is a historic district in Kent, Ohio, United States. It consists of the five original buildings on the main campus of Kent State University, with the first, Merrill Hall, opening in 1913 and the last, Moulton Hall, opening in 1917. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The name of the district comes from the working name of what would later be named the Kent State Normal School in 1911 and ultimately Kent State University by 1935.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On May 19, 1910, Ohio Governor Judson Harmon signed into law the Lowry bill to establish two normal schools in northern Ohio, one in the northwest and one in the northeast. A five-member search commission was formed to examine the bids from each community interested in hosting the schools. After eliminating several communities in two rounds of applications and presentations, the commission arrived in Kent September 27 and examined two sites in Kent including the 52.89 acre William S. Kent farm at the corner of East Main and South Lincoln and the Engelhart Farm on the southeast side of the village. The commission returned for a surprise visit November 11 to again examine the Kent farm with final hearings November 19. News officially reached Kent November 25 via a telegram to William S. Kent from the Normal Schools Commission. Governor Judson Harmon announced that Kent had been selected as the site of the normal school for northeast Ohio on December 1. It was initially known as the "Ohio State Normal College at Kent" until July 17, 1911 when the school was formally named by the new board of trustees. They agreed to name the school after William S. Kent as the Kent State Normal School making it the only public university in Ohio named for an individual. It was at the same time the Board hired John Edward McGilvrey as the school&#39;s first president and chose architect George F. Hammond to design the first two buildings and draft a campus master plan.</p><br>
<h3>Planning and construction</h3><br>
<p>The five original buildings were designed together in the classical revival style by architect George F. Hammond and were arranged in a semicircle at the top of the hill, originally as "Normal Hill",</p><br>
<p>Merrill Hall was completed first in time to host the first classes on the campus May 19, 1913, the beginning of the first summer term, though McGilvrey had already begun classes at extension centers. 47 students attended that first session with 20 faculty members. Merrill Hall would serve as the home to all departments including the Teacher Training School, the library, and the administration until 1915. Lowry Hall would also open in 1913 as the first dormitory, then only for women. It was first referred to as "Walden Hall" because of its similar setting to Henry David Thoreaus Walden Pond before being named for John Hamilton Lowry in 1915. By 1915 the Administration Building (later to be the Auditorium Building and presently as Cartwright Hall) was opened along with Science Hall, today known as Kent Hall. The Administration Building also housed the library, an auditorium, and a makeshift gymnasium which would play host to Kent States early basketball games. In addition to housing the science classes, Kent Hall also became the home of the University School until 1927. The final building of the original plan was Moulton Hall, an additional dormitory for women, which opened in 1917.</p><br>
<h3>Modifications</h3><br>
<p>Original plans called for the Administration Building (today&#39;s Cartwright Hall) to have a dome and be connected to classroom buildings (Merrill Hall and Kent Hall) on each side. The dome was never completed, but a facade was added in 1931 which gave the building its present pitched roof. The covered connections were built, but eventually removed in later renovations. In 1923, construction began on Wills Gymnasium, which was connected to the back of the Administration Building. It opened in 1925. An addition was also built onto Lowry Hall beginning in 1923. In 1926 construction began on the William A. Cluff Teacher Training School (today known as Franklin Hall) adjacent to Kent Hall as the home for the University School followed by Rockwell Hall in 1927 to house the library, both opening in 1928. Merrill Hall was renovated in 1931 and Science Hall was renamed William S. Kent Hall in 1938 after the opening of McGilvrey Hall as the new home for the science department.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, Lowry Hall housed members of the Civil Aeronautics Administration War Training Service. As the campus began to expand and grow at the conclusion of World War II, new dorms and classroom buildings were built resulting in changes for the uses of every building in the district. A new student union building opened in 1948 as the center of campus activity slowly began to shift to the southeast. New dorm construction during the 1950s allowed for the conversion of both Lowry and Moulton Halls to be used as classroom buildings and other buildings would house several different departments at various time. Merrill Hall, for instance, would house the School of Music and the English Department in the 1950s with Kent Hall housing the School of Speech, Humanities, foreign languages, and several administrative offices at various times prior to 1960. Merrill Hall would again be renovated in 1969. By the 1970s, construction of the 12-story library and current student center and several other buildings during the 1960s established a new center of activity and the campus has continued to expand south and eastward from there. The Executive Offices were moved to the current location in the library in 1976 and the Wills Hall gymnasium and pool were demolished in 1979.</p><br>
<h3>Current uses</h3><br>
<p>All buildings in the district were completely renovated throughout the latter half of the 1990s and most of the 2000s beginning with the renovation of Merrill Hall, which was completed in 1994, and ending with the renovation of Kent Hall in 2005. Merrill Hall now houses the Department of Sociology and the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Lowry Hall was renovated in 1996 and is now home to the Department of Anthropology, the Office of the University Architect, Facilities Planning and Operations, Kent State University Press, Faculty/Staff Assistance Programs, and the Institute of Research and Decision Support and, along with Moulton Hall, the College of Public Health, which began offering online courses in 2009 and classroom courses in August 2010. Moulton Hall was renovated in 1998. It now houses Educational Technology and Distance Leaning, the Deans Office for the College of Communication and Information, the Faculty Professional Development Center, and the Research Center for Educational Technology. Cartwright Halls renovations were completed in 2002. What remained of Wills Hall was demolished and replaced with a new lobby for the University Auditorium. It was renamed for President Carol Cartwright following her retirement in 2006 and houses the University Auditorium, the Division of Research and Graduate Studies, and the Institute for Study and Prevention of Violence. Renovations and an addition to Kent Hall were completed in 2005. It currently houses the Department of Psychology.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Anchorage is a historical home in the Harmar neighborhood of Marietta, Ohio, United States. Also known as the Putnam Villa, it was built in 1859 by Douglas Putnam for his wife Eliza. Douglas was the great grandson of General Israel Putnam. Douglas&#39; brother, David Putnam, Jr. was the leading abolitionist in Marietta. David was said to frequent the home, leading to the belief the home was used as part of the Underground Railroad although no evidence has been uncovered.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, the Knox family bought the house from the Putnams. The Knox family was involved in boat building and gave the home the name of The Anchorage. From 1960 to 1986 the house was a nursing home. Since 1996, the home has been owned by the Washington County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Star Gazers Stone located on Star Gazers Farm near Embreeville, Pennsylvania, USA, marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line. The stone was placed by Mason and Dixon about 700 ft north of the Harlan House, which was used as a base of operations by Mason and Dixon through the four-and-a-half-year-long survey. Selected to be about 31 mi west of the then southernmost point in Philadelphia, the observatory was used to determine the precise latitude of its location. The latitude of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was then set to be 15 mi south of the point in Philadelphia. The farm, including the house and stone, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985. In 2013 construction was completed on a parking area to allow public access to Star Gazers Stone.</p><br>
<p>Built c. 1724 near the forks of the Brandywine, the Harlan House was enlarged c.1758, and is likely the first house built in Newlin Township. The Harlan family lived in the house until 1956, and carefully preserved the location of the stone through the generations.</p><br>
<h2>The observatory</h2><br>
<p>Mason and Dixon used the finest instruments of their day in the survey, including a type of telescope, the zenith sector built by John Bird, used for measuring latitude and an "equal altitude and transit" instrument for sighting survey lines, as well as a less accurate quadrant for faster rough estimates of latitude, and a chronometer built by John Harrison, used for measuring longitude. Though Harrisons chronometers later became the standard instrument for measuring longitude, the surveyors job was mainly to measure latitude, and Mason preferred the method of lunar distance of measuring longitude to the new method.</p><br>
<p>On December 9, 1763 soon after arriving in Philadelphia, the surveyors received their instructions from the joint border commission:</p><br>
<p>The first instruction was completed by January 6, 1764 by constructing an observatory near the Huddle-Plumstead House on Cedar Street (now named South Street) in Philadelphia, and measuring the angle of the zenith of eight stars. Rather than measure 15 mi directly south of Philadelphia to start the survey, a westward move was needed to avoid crossing the wide Delaware River twice, and to avoid beginning the survey of the Pennsylvania-Maryland border in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The surveyors fulfilled the second instruction by January 13, as recorded in their journal:</p><br>
<p>The new site of the observatory was near marks that had been made by surveyors from New Jersey in 1730 and 1736.</p><br>
<p>By February 28 Mason and Dixon had determined the latitude at Star Gazers Stone by observing the eight stars. After making adjustments for the distance their observatory was south of Philadelphia, Mason and Dixon measured 15 mi south to a point in Delaware by April 21. They moved the observatory to this point where they measured the latitude again and remeasured back to the Star Gazers Stone. In May and June they again measured the latitude at Star Gazers Stone. The southern point was named the "Post markd west" and the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was, after a delay, measured straight west from there.</p><br>
<p>Mason and Dixon returned to the house many times during the four and one-half years of the survey, often spending the winters there. On January 1, 1767, Mason recorded a temperature of minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit at the farm. They returned to the observatory when they started the new task of measuring the distance of a degree of latitude in miles. They were reputed to be heavy drinkers, and local lore says that a nearby tributary of the Brandywine, Punch Run Creek, was named to commemorate their drinking. At the end of the survey, the Harlan house was one of the last places they visited before returning to Britain via Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h2>The Harlan house and farm</h2><br>
<p>Brothers George and Michael Harlan were Quakers who were born in Durham, England and immigrated to Pennsylvania about 1687 from County Down, Ireland. Michaels son George Harlan built the house in the forks of the Brandywine c.1724. In that year the Free Society of Traders sold 7,000 acre to Nathaniel Newlin, which became Newlin Township in Chester County. Newlin immediately sold some of the land, including 169 acre in the forks of Brandywine Creek sold to George Harlan. A son, Joel, was born to George and Mary Harlan in 1724 in Newlin Township, presumably in their new house. The house was probably the first in the township. Tax assessments in the township were first made in 1739, and until 1760, Joels older brother John Harlan paid the taxes on the house and farm. Sometime between 1758 and 1760 Joel returned to Newlin Township after living in other locations in Chester County, took ownership of the farm and built an addition to the house. Both Johns and Joels families apparently lived in the same house, but Mason and Dixon&#39;s Journal always refers to the "John Harland farm" or simply the "Harland farm." John Harlan died by drowning in the Brandywine in 1768.</p><br>
<p>The original house is two stories measuring 25 ft by 16 ft, constructed of stone. The c.1758 addition was also constructed of stone and measures 25 ft by 13 ft. A small frame addition was built in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The Harlan family lived on site until they sold the property in 1956. In 1908 the Chester County Historical Society dug up the Star Gazers Stone, set it in concrete, built a low stone wall around it, and placed a plaque on the new wall. At the dedication, Henry K. Harlan said that each generation of the family was taught that the Star Gazers Stone had an important place in American history and that they should not move the stone., the region&#39;s foremost land conservation organization, now owns the stone as part of ChesLen Preserve, which is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Joshua Harlan, son of the immigrant George Harlan, built a log cabin known as the Harlan Log House about 1715, about 12 mi south in Kennett Township which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Evans County Courthouse is a historic government building and clock tower located in the city of Claxton, Georgia, United States, the seat of Evans County. The courthouse was built in 1923 and is the home of Evans Countys Superior Court and the base of the countys government. On September 18, 1980, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Evans County was created in 1914, first by a proposed constitutional amendment in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11 and then officially ratified by a vote of the citizens of Georgia on November 23. With the creation of the new county a courthouse was needed. The first building used as such was the White Building, a three-story edifice built by Mr. R. King White and later bought by Mrs. Ben Daniel. Mrs. Daniel&#39;s husband, Dr. Ben Daniel, used the building as his office. This building was used until 1923, when the current courthouse was completed. The work was done by J.J. Baldwin and West Point Iron Works for $60,000. On December 28, 1994 the American Legion erected a monument to those men from the county who died in various wars, beginning with World War I and ending with the Vietnam War. The interior to the courthouse was remodeled in 1979 and 1980 and, in 2003, the bell tower clock was restored.</p><br>
<p>The Emile Brunel Sculpture Garden and Studio, also known as the Totem Indian Trading Post, Le Chalet Indien, and Brunel Park, is located on Da Silva Road, just off the NY 28 state highway, in Boiceville, Town of Olive, New York, United States. It consists of seven sculptures and three buildings.</p><br>
<p>Brunel was a French immigrant and artist who had become fascinated by the Native American tribes of the West during his travels there in the early 20th century. After a successful career as a photographer he bought a tract of land in the Catskills and built a studio residence and a resort on it, decorated with sculptures inspired by the Native American art he had seen. The resort closed and the statues were relocated soon thereafter when Route 28 was widened through it at the end of World War II, but the sculpture garden remained a popular roadside attraction afterwards.</p><br>
<p>In 1929 Brunel began construction of a studio residence on the site in the "neo-rustic" or French Arts and Craft style. His wife and daughter (both named Gladyse) kept the sculpture garden maintained after his death in 1944, operating a nearby souvenir shop until 1985. The artist&#39;s home and studio remain intact, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The studio and sculpture garden are located on a 1.3 acre lot at the intersection of Da Silva and Route 28, approximately a half-mile (1 km) south of the small hamlet of Boiceville. The area is primarily wooded, with the land generally sloping westward towards Esopus Creek. There are some other houses on the former resort property uphill and to the east, and along Route 28 to the south. The land across the highway is undeveloped since it is owned by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection as a buffer for Ashokan Reservoir to the south.</p><br>
<p>There are nine resources on the property. Seven (the sculptures and totem poles) are art objects and three are buildings: the studio, a shed and a log cabin fronting on Da Silva. The latter was built in 1960 to serve as a souvenir store and is thus not old enough to be considered a contributing resource to the National Register listing.</p><br>
<h3>Studio</h3><br>
<p>The studio, on the west side of Da Silva, is a two-story frame building with exposed basement, sided in rough stucco with carved reliefs of Native American scenes and a profile of Brunel and his wife with the legend "Le don de Dieu" (French for "the gift of God"). Its gabled roof, with broad overhanging eaves, is pierced on the south (front) by two gabled dormer windows. Fenestration is irregular and asymmetrical.</p><br>
<p>Inside it has a garage and storage room on the first story, a living room, kitchen and dining room on the second, and bedrooms in the attic. The first floor fireplace has a stucco surround with carvings of large birds, and birds are also painted on the windows. Finishes of fiberboard sheathing, simple moldings, beamed ceilings and built-in cabinetry are original.</p><br>
<h3>Sculpture garden</h3><br>
<p>A short path west of the house climbs a gentle rise a short distance to the sculpture garden. It is dominated by three large sculptures created by shaped wire mesh filled with rocks and then covered in concrete. On the south of the garden is the 30-foot–tall (10 m) Moon Haw Haw, a male figure with a single feather at the rear of his head looking skywards towards the Burroughs Range to the west with both arms outstretched, palms facing upwards. It is complemented by Natache, a similarly attired seated female figure with one hand held aloft. On her back is a child in a papoose.</p><br>
<p>The third sculpture, The Great White Spirit, is located in the north corner. It is a tree with spreading roots, of the same height as Moon Haw Haw. At its top are four faces representing Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. They are complemented by four faces at the base, representing the vices of jealousy, greed, hate and lust. Alternatively the four faces at the base represent the anti-thesis of those on top: Jesus and Satan; Moses and Pharaoh; Buddha and Mara, the king of Demons; and Mohammed and Bacchus, the god of wine. The work was Brunel&#39;s last and also serves as his monument, as his ashes are interred within it.</p><br>
<p>There are also two large totem poles made by the same method. A third which collapsed and was partially buried was resurrected in 2002. Smaller sculptures, including a nesting pelican and seated chief, which serves as a bbq chimney are also located around the garden.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Châteauneuf, Brunel came to the USA in 1904 at the age of 30. He set out for the West, where for several years he made a living as an itinerant painter, focusing on scenes of the vanishing frontier life and painting signs and broadsides for traveling circuses and whiskey makers. Shortly after his arrival he met his future wife, Gladyse McCloud, a 14-year-old girl working as a caricaturist at one of the circuses. He promised to return for her when he had become successful.</p><br>
<p>He began turning to photography, using newer camera equipment and finding Native Americans a major subject. His photographs began to sell, and he returned to New York. There he became involved with the early film industry, where he met and later worked for Cecil B. DeMille. He produced and directed a film, The Hand of God, founded the New York Institute of Photography and perfected one-hour film processing, an advance which allowed dailies to become part of the filmmaking process.</p><br>
<p>Building on this, he established himself as a photojournalist for the New York Times Magazine, and started a chain of photo studios in the upscale commercial districts in Manhattan, including studios in Tiffany&#39;s and Bloomingdales. He had achieved success, and called for Gladyse, still not yet out of her teens. She returned, and the couple married.</p><br>
<p>His success allowed him to start purchasing the land around an existing hotel in the Catskills in 1918. Eventually he acquired 77 acre around the current property, which became the Chalet Indien resort. He added tennis and croquet courts, bridle paths, and what local lore claims was the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Ulster County.</p><br>
<p>The resort was very successful, with many celebrity guests, due to its location on Route 28s C-shaped course up through the Catskills into the Adirondacks, in an era when auto touring was just beginning. During WWII it was a choice vacation spot among New Yorks European cultural elite. It was listed as the summer time residence of Broadway producer Harold Prince, father and son abstract painters Max and Jimmy Ernst, the Austrian composer Karol Rathaus, and the architect Frederick John Kiesler. Jimmy Ernst painted one of his very first murals for the hotels parlor. Edward the VII and Mrs. Simpson also were known to be frequent guests as were Enrico Caruso and George M. Cohan. Brunel also counted the Roosevelt&#39;s amongst his many friends. Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote to him: "I have long since ceased caring about what other people may think."</p><br>
<p>Brunel exhibited Native art and artifacts he had collected out west along with his own sculptures that he had started making in the years after he had bought the land. In 1929 he built a home and studio in an Arts and Crafts style evoking the farmhouses of his native France. It was an unusual house for the area, where most older houses reflect Dutch and English building traditions</p><br>
<p>Chalet Indien continued to prosper over the next two decades. In 1944, two events led to its demise. The state announced plans to reroute Route 28 in a way that compromised the future of the resort, and Brunel died. Before World War II ended the following year, it would close.</p><br>
<p>Gladyse and the Brunels&#39; daughter continued to operate the trading post on the property, selling goods manufactured by local tribes. They sold off parcels of the resort and consolidated the sculptures in their present garden and built the log cabin for the store around 1960, nine years after Gladyse died. Her daughter continued to run the store until her death in 1985; after that, her own daughter kept it going for another ten years before selling it. It closed around the end of the 20th century. In 1997 the property was sold to the current owners who have been preserving the home and restoring the gardens in keeping with the original style, spirit and unrealized plans for both.</p><br>
<p>The Julie Rogers Theatre is a historic performing arts theatre located on Pearl Street in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Built in 1928, the theatre was once Beaumont&#39;s City Hall and Auditorium. The capacity is approximately 1,663 seats.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations</h2><br>
<p>The building was renovated in 1982 when it was re-purposed from the city hall and auditorium combination to a theatre for the performing arts. The theatre was renovated again in 2007. It now features continental seating (no center aisle). Seating includes 1,253 seats in orchestra seating, 144 seats in loge seating, and 266 seats in balcony seating.</p><br>
<h2>Performances</h2><br>
<p>This facility is home to the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and hosts performances of the Beaumont Civic Opera, the Beaumont Civic Ballet and the Beaumont Ballet Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Pratt Historic District is a historic district that includes 140 acre and 154 buildings in Prattville, Alabama, United States. It is named in honor of Prattville&#39;s founder, Daniel Pratt. The district includes the historic downtown and is roughly bounded by 6th Street in the north, Northington Street in the east, 1st Street in the south, and Bridge and Court streets in the west. Architecture in the district includes the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Bungalow styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Autauga County Courthouse. It also includes the site of the Daniel Pratt House, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for the expansion of the successor to the Pratt industrial complex.</p><br>
<h2>List of properties</h2><br>
<p>The district, which spans 15 blocks and once served as an industrial hub, encompasses over 200 properties that were primarily built in the timeframe of 1840 to 1930. The following structures are listed in no particular order.</p><br>
<p>215 and 225 South Court Street; built 1900.</p><br>
<p>B.W. Moncrief General Merchandise (207-213 South Court Street); built from 1910-20.</p><br>
<p>Service station (201 South Court Street); built c. 1920, contains Mission Revival architecture such as the elements of tiled parapet and zapatos.</p><br>
<p>Old Autauga County Courthouse (147 South Court Street); built 1870 and an example of Italianate architecture applied to civil architecture.</p><br>
<p>190 Hunts Alley; built 1875, originally servants quarters for the Miles-Barnes-Ellis House.</p><br>
<p>143 Hunts Alley; built c. 1895, possibly originally a millworkers house.</p><br>
<p>127, 131, 135, 139, and 141 Hunt&#39;s Alley; built c. 1900, row of five identical dwellings intended as rental space for slaves.</p><br>
<p>Miles-Ellis-Barnes House (115 South Court Street); built c. 1850, originally owned by Benjamin Miles, superintendent of frame and brush department for the Pratt Cotton Gin Factory.</p><br>
<p>Chambliss-Thomas Building (103 South Court Street); built 1924.</p><br>
<p>Service station (101 South Court Street); built 1922.</p><br>
<p>Autauga County Courthouse (134 North Court Street); built 1906, an example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Designed by the Bruce Architectural Company of Birmingham and contracted by Lewman and Company of Louisville.</p><br>
<p>Planter&#39;s Warehouse (138 North Court Street); built 1913.</p><br>
<p>Millworker&#39;s cottage (131 North Court Street); built c. 1915 to serve Prattville Cotton Mills.</p><br>
<p>Millworker&#39;s cottage (117 North Court Street); built c. 1880 to serve Prattville Cotton Mills. One of the few surviving 19th-century mill cottages.</p><br>
<p>Mill house (143 North Court Street); built c. 1880, one of few surviving mill houses out of hundreds built for Prattville Cotton Mills.</p><br>
<p>131 and 141 First Avenue; built c. 1880, pair of mill houses which are among the few surviving houses of the village that served Prattville Cotton Mills.</p><br>
<p>334 Third Avenue; built c. 1900, part of the Prattville Cotton Mills mill village.</p><br>
<p>Cook House (209 North Court Street); built c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>Esco House (217 North Court Street); built c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>Golden House (221 North Court Street); built c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>McHearg Houses (231 and 233 North Court Street); built c. 1880 and c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>Johnson House (245 North Court Street); built c. 1895.</p><br>
<p>Evans House (253 North Court Street); built c. 1935.</p><br>
<p>174 Fifth Street; built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Durden-Miller-Misseldine House (164 West Fifth Street); built c. 1885.</p><br>
<p>Kelly House (152 West Fifth Street); built c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>Ward-King House (120 West Fifth Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>223 and 227 Chestnut Street; built c. 1910, pair of dwellings.</p><br>
<p>Meeks House (205 Chestnut Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Post House (201 Chestnut Street); built c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>Planter&#39;s Cotton Warehouse (164 West Fifth Street); built c. 1880</p><br>
<p>Garrett House (133 West Fifth House); built c. 1885.</p><br>
<p>Jones House (121 West Fifth Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (130 Fourth Street); built c. 1891, land originally purchased by the African Methodist Episcopal Church from Merrill Pratt, Daniel Pratt&#39;s nephew.</p><br>
<p>David Hall House (106 Chestnut Street); built c. 1880. Was reputedly built for David Hall, now serves as a law office for W. Clarence Atkeison (as of 1984).</p><br>
<p>Lowery House (117 North Chestnut Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Hunt-Rawlinson House (141 North Chestnut Street); built c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>216 North Chestnut Street; built 1890.</p><br>
<p>214 North Chestnut Street; built 1880.</p><br>
<p>Chambliss House (101 East Fifth Street); built c. 1920.</p><br>
<p>George House (109 East Fifth Street); built c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>Cook House (115 East Fifth Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Weir-Garner House (147 East Fifth Street); built c. 1860.</p><br>
<p>Hunt-Sullivan House (153 East Fifth Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Hunt-Stoudemire House (171 East Fifth Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Lindsey House (209 North Washington Street); built c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>Wyatt House (110 East Fifth Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Wadsworth-Roach House (113 East Fifth Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Nixon-Jackson House (120 East Fifth Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Kilgore House (138 East Fifth Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Smith-Bayard House (137 North Washington Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Hannon House (113 North Washington Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Wilkinson-Avant House (105 North Washington Street); built c. 1895.</p><br>
<p>157 East Fourth Street; built c. 1939, considered an exception to the “50-year” criteria for its example of 1920s-40s American colonial architecture.</p><br>
<p>Henry Bell House (145 East Fourth Street); built 1935, noted for its reinterpretation of federal architecture.</p><br>
<p>Golson House (133 East Fourth Street); built c. 1885.</p><br>
<p>Northington-Ross House (117 East Fourth Street); built c. 1895.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church (100 East Fourth Street; built 1912, example of neo-Tudor architecture.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church (178 East Fourth Street); built 1909, example of Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>Gipson House (129 East Third Street); built 1888, owned by the Prattsville First Baptist Church as of 1984.</p><br>
<p>Norton-Anderson House (239 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1925, originally built for Harry W. Norton upon his marriage to Nora Ellen Mims, who was daughter of Wilbur Fisk Mims and granddaughter of county historian Shadrack Mims.</p><br>
<p>Buckner House (120 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Ticknor-Hazen House (206 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1850. Constructed by Daniel Pratt for his niece, Mary Ticknor, who married Pratt Gin Factory worker and eventual Prattville Presbyterian Church pastor from July 1861 to July 1877 James K. Hazen. Later occupied by town mayor James Burns.</p><br>
<p>Cobb-Westbrook House (152 East Third Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Johnson-Pirtle House (170 East Third Street); built 1936.</p><br>
<p>Bateman House (218 South Washington Street); built 1921.</p><br>
<p>Griffin-Wilkinson House (266 South Washington House); built c. 1930 by Carl Griffin.</p><br>
<p>Stewart-Murphree-Smith House (139 East Main Street); built c. 1900</p><br>
<p>Bateman House (141 East Main Street); built c. 1900 by James M. Bateman.</p><br>
<p>NW corner Northington (199 East Sixth Street); built 1850, 1895.</p><br>
<p>159 North Northington Street; built 1913, originally occupied by the Collier family.</p><br>
<p>132 North Northington Street; built c. 1900 by W.W. Dunkin.</p><br>
<p>217 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1900 and occupied by the Rice, Archibald, Gresham, Bateman, Searcy and Cranfield families.</p><br>
<p>225 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1910 for William T. Northington.</p><br>
<p>235 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1905 as a Baptist pastorium.</p><br>
<p>245 Wetumpka Street; built 1906 for Dr. D.P. Jones Sr.</p><br>
<p>301 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1855, 1895 for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina native William H. Northington as his (reported) second house on Wetumpka Street.</p><br>
<p>306 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1855, 1880 for Pratt foundry foreman (supervisor) M.D. Fisher.</p><br>
<p>Dismukes House (129 North Northington Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>260 Wetumpka Street; built 1935 and used as a Methodist parsonage from its construction until 1981.</p><br>
<p>246 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1880 and used as a parsonage for the Prattsville First Methodist Church until 1935.</p><br>
<p>216 Wetumpka Street; built c. 1895 as a parsonage for the presiding elder (district superintendent) alongside 246 Wetumpka Street.</p><br>
<p>Prattville Primary School (210 Wetumpka Street); built 1927 and potentially designed by Frank Lockwood, north of the site of where Prattville Academy once stood.</p><br>
<p>Prattville Academy site (opposite Fourth Street intersection); built 1859 by Daniel Pratt as Prattville Male and Female Academy. Nearby marker commemorated in 1916 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy commemorates American Civil War unit “Prattville Dragoons”. Building was demolished in 1929, is now a part of Prattville Primary School as of 1984.</p><br>
<p>123 South Washington Street; built c. 1915, specimen of early Prattville worker housing.</p><br>
<p>Cook House (127 South Washington Street); built c. 1870.</p><br>
<p>Wynn House (213 South Washington Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Parrish-Frye House (222 South Washington Street); built c. 1895.</p><br>
<p>Walker House (319 South Washington Street); built 1921.</p><br>
<p>A.F. Fay-Grouby House (345 South Washington Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Fay Servant House (345 South Washington Street); built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Fay-Mercer House (403 South Washington Street); built 1854 by George W. Coe.</p><br>
<p>Autauga Baptist Association Office (326 South Washington Street); built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>Spigener House (346 South Washington Street); built c. pre-1836, potentially built by Joseph May and possibly the oldest structure in Prattsville.</p><br>
<p>163 First Street; built c. 1930.</p><br>
<p>149 First Street; built c. 1850.</p><br>
<p>137 First Street; built c. 1890, served as a workers’ cottage.</p><br>
<p>131 First Street, built c. 1890, server as a workers’ cottage.</p><br>
<p>135 First Street (behind 131 First Street); built c. 1840, built as part of the Mims Hotel complex and once served as the bedroom of Annie Mims.</p><br>
<p>Anthony-Booth-Wilkinson House (123 First Street); built c. 1883 by William Anthony.</p><br>
<p>Mims Hotel (121 First Street); built c. 1840, formerly the center of the hotel complex before moving to its site in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Wright House (317 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1925.</p><br>
<p>McWilliams-Smith House (102 East Main Street); built c. 1850 reputedly for A.K. McWilliams, and was later owned by Amos Smith and his son, George, who founded Pratt&#39;s sash and blind factory in 1850.</p><br>
<p>Scott House (342 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1890.</p><br>
<p>Tumlin House (340 South Chestnut Street); built c. 1875, reputedly as a servant house.</p><br>
<p>Suzuki World (113 West Main Street); built c. 1940, an example of Moderne architecture built for Dave R. Yarbrough and Terry Walls as a Plymouth dealership, and was serving as a Suzuki dealership as of 1984.</p><br>
<p>131 West Main Street; built c. 1900 for C.E. Thomas and formerly housed Behrendson Bakery.</p><br>
<p>133-135 West Main Street; built 1915 as storefronts for C.E. Thomas.</p><br>
<p>137-141 West Main Street; built c. 1895 as a pair of storefronts.</p><br>
<p>Rawlinson-Gay Building (147-149 West Main Street); built 1899, built for E.J. Rawlinson at Rawlinson&#39;s Mercantile.</p><br>
<p>151-153 West Main Street; built c. 1900 as a commercial structure for Howard S. Doster.</p><br>
<p>155 West Main Street; built 1912 as a mercantile establishment for W.G. Robertson.</p><br>
<p>159 West Main Street; built 1905 as a storefront for Howard S. Doster, partially occupied by Progress Printing as of 1984.</p><br>
<p>161 West Main Street; built 1903, formerly Behrendson Bakery.</p><br>
<p>163-165 West Main Street; built 1920 as storefronts for J.B. Bell.</p><br>
<p>Hagler-Faulk Office (132-134 West Main Street); built 1900 as a housing store and a medical office for Dr. J.W. Hagler.</p><br>
<p>Spigner-Grouby Building (138-142 West Main Street); built c. 1895, 1910. Originally served as a Spigner furniture store, then as a storefront for Chattagnnoa Roofing and Foundry Co.</p><br>
<p>Hurd-Grouby-Odell Building (144 West Main Street); built 1912 by W.G. Hurd.</p><br>
<p>Ellis-Newton Building (146 West Main Street); built 1900 as a commercial structure by merchants D.N. Smith Sr. and J. Norton Rice.</p><br>
<p>150-152 West Main Street; built 1900 as a storefront and office by S.D. McLemore.</p><br>
<p>Wilkinson-Musgrove Building (154 West Main Street); built 1900 as part of a range of businesses for Prattville Rexall Drugs, for Dr. J.E. Wilkinson. Later used as the Prattville Post Office.</p><br>
<p>Prattville Rexall Drugs (160 West Main Street); built 1904, c. 1928 for First National Bank (west half) and Prattville Drug Co. (east half; built 1907). The east building burnt down in 1928, was rebuilt, and in 1957 the west side was purchased and made into Prattville Rexall Drugs.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Grocery/Godwin Hardware (164-166 West Main Street); built c. 1900 as a two-unit structure for J.T. Floyd.</p><br>
<p>Red Arrow Hardware (172 West Main Street); built c. 1860 by Daniel Pratt as a cotton warehouse for Pratt Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>176 West Main Street (formerly Prattville Mercantile Co.); built c. 1855 by Daniel Pratt for mill operatives. Considered one of the most significant Antebellum commercial structures in Central Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Bell-Thomas Building (173-187 West Main Street); built 1921 as an eight-unit commercial building by J.B. Bell and C.E. Thomas.</p><br>
<p>Wainwright-Smith-Cook House (115 Maple Street); built c. 1860 for Pratt factory complex mechanic James Wainwright. It is the only unaltered residence surviving from mid-19th century residential areas immediately surrounding original factory buildings on the south side of Autauga Creek.</p><br>
<p>Barnes-Cavnar House (124 Maple Street); built 1898 for W.H. Barnes Sr.</p><br>
<p>Bush Hog-Continental Gin Complex (West side of Autauga Creek)</p><br>
<p>Sash, Door, and Blind Factory; built c. 1849, oldest surviving structure of the complex. In 1857, the structure additionally housed a grist mill, machine shop, and a carriage & wagon factory.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Factory; built 1854–55, remnants remain of a sign that once read “DANIEL PRATT COTTON MANUFACTURY”.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Pratt Gin Company (later addition); built 1896, represents the last major phase of expansion before Pratt companies merged with Continental Gin Company in 1899.</p><br>
<p>Continental Gin Company Warehouse; built 1911 on the site where Daniel Pratt once built a church/storefront in 1853.</p><br>
<p>Sheet Metal Department; built c. 1905, located south of the Continental Gin Warehouse.</p><br>
<p>Site of Daniel Pratt Foundry; built c. 1860, demolished c. 1965.</p><br>
<p>Site of Offices, Turntable, and Open Lumber Shed; built c. 1860, demolished c. 1965.</p><br>
<p>Site of Fountain; built c. 1855–57, demolished c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>Gurney Industries, Inc. (originally Prattville Manufacturing Company); three structures all predating 1900, acquired by Gurney Industries in 1946.</p><br>
<p>Picker House (now offices for Gurney Industries); built as early as 1850–60, used as offices from 1946 onwards.</p><br>
<p>Prattville Manufacturing Company No. 1; built 1887–88, built to replace a textile mill built in 1859 that was damaged in a freshet on March 30, 1886.</p><br>
<p>Prattville Manufacturing Company No. 2; built 1896 as a near-mirror image of the first building.</p><br>
<p>Autauga Creek Dam; built c. 1920, sold to Continental Gin Company after mills converted to electricity in 1932.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Cemetery (on hill south of Bush Hog-Continental Complex); established c. 1840 by Daniel Pratt for his family, friends, and mill operatives. Notable graves include that of Pratt and his family, as well as painter George Cooke. Earliest marked grave is that of Pratt&#39;s baby daughter, Mary, who died September 21, 1843.</p><br>
<p>The district also contains multiple conditional contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Montebrier is a historic plantation house in Brierfield, Alabama, United States. The -story frame structure was built circa 1853 by S.W. Mahan in a Gothic Revival cottage orné style. The house is notable for its use of lightly arched porch supports and wide eaves that may show the influence of Andrew Jackson Downing&#39;s The Architecture of Country Houses. It currently remains in the Mahan family as a private residence and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Central Diner, also called Paulas Kitchen and formerly known as The Elmwood Diner, Liberty Elm Diner, Jenns Elmwood Diner, Ole Elmwood Diner, or Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806, is a historic Worcester Lunch Car Company diner at 777 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The diner was built in 1947 by the Worcester Lunch Car Company as #806. It is a single story prefabricated structure, 106" wide and 40 long. At the ends of the diner the barrel roof has an overhang of three feet. There are entries at the north end (one of the original entrances) and in a projecting stainless steel vestibule on the eastern facade. The original southern entry is obscured by the cinderblock wall of the kitchen addition which projects to the diner&#39;s rear. The interior is well-preserved, with little alteration since its construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The diner was first located at West Gaspee and Exchange Streets, a site which housed businesses known as the "Central Diner" since at least 1932. It was moved to its present location in 1953 or 1954, retaining the name. It is one of four Worcester Lunch Car Company diners (out of what was once a much larger number) still operating in Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The diner went through a number of names and owners over its lifetime. A cinderblock kitchen was added in 1953, after it was moved to Elmwood Avenue. A stainless steel vestibule at the front was added some time between 1956 and the 1970s. Wooden siding was added sometime between 1995 and 2002.</p><br>
<h3>Liberty Elm and Elmwood Diner</h3><br>
<p>The diner operated as the Liberty Elm Diner from 2006 to 2013. On February 22, 2010, the diner made an appearance on the Guy Fieri television program “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, a local publication called the diner "one of the best neighborhood joints in Rhode Island."</p><br>
<p>The Liberty Elm was sold in May 2013 and re-opened as Elmwood Diner in April 2014. The diner closed and was listed for sale in April 2017.</p><br>
<h3>Paula&#39;s Kitchen</h3><br>
<p>The diner re-opened in August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as "Paulas Kitchen," serving "Dominican food and more." The restyled restaurant featured outdoor seating and a new look with an orange-and-black paint (where the previous design had been red and white), and giant black numbers "777" on the facade. In January 2021 Paulas Kitchen announced on Instagram that they were closing and the diner was once again listed for sale.</p><br>
<p>The Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site is an archaeological site in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is composed of two smaller sites: a group of small quarries on top of Snaggy Ridge, and the remnants of what may have been a campsite along Carbaugh Run below the ridge.</p><br>
<p>Since their discovery by Norman Keefer in the 1920s, the quarries have been examined informally by a wide range of archaeologists, but no formal study of the site has been conducted. Several other prehistoric quarries are located in the area; it is one of three known quarries along South Mountain alone. The site has been rated as one of Pennsylvania&#39;s leading rhyolite quarries: with forty or more pits, it is one of the largest rhyolite quarry sites in the state. It is believed that the stone still present at the site can be used to determine the origins of rhyolite found in other sites statewide, thus providing clues about trade networks during the period that the quarries were worked. Also significant is the potential connection between the quarries and the streamside site, which may reveal evidence of settlement patterns in the region.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its archaeological significance.</p><br>
<p>The John Chambers House is an originally residential building located at 90 North State Street in St. Ignace, Michigan. The house is currently operated as the Colonial House Inn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Chambers Sr. was born in Ireland in 1801, and emigrated from Ireland to Philadelphia in 1846. He moved from Philadelphia to Illinois, and then in 1849 to Mackinac Island where he was joined by his wife and children.</p><br>
<p>John Chambers had eight children; three of his sons, John Jr., Michael, and Patrick, opened a prosperous general store in St. Ignace in 1870 under the name "Chambers Brothers." The three pooled their money and invested heavily in local real estate, including the first dock built in the city. John Jr. died in 1891, but the other two Chambers continued a prosperous business, opening branch stores in other towns.</p><br>
<p>Michael Chambers, born in 1850, was particularly prominent. He also served on the board of Michigan Technological University, then the Michigan School of Mines. Patrick Chambers also entered politics at a local level, serving as Supervisor of Ignace Township and County Treasurer in the 1870s and 80s.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, Michael and Patrick built a Colonial Revival front section onto their family home. the house stayed in the family until 1945, when it was sold to a retired ship captain, who used it as an inn from 1947 to 1978. The inn was renovated in 1978–1981, and reopened that year. As of 2010, the house is used as the Colonial House Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The older section of the Chambers House is located in the rear; it is a two-story, hipped-roof structure sitting on a rubble foundation. The front addition is three stories, covered with yellow fish-scale shingles and clapboards. A two-story entrance portico is supported by Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>The Sommerheim Park Archaeological District includes a group of six archaeological sites west of Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States. The sites are in Sommerheim Park, one of the few undeveloped areas of the Lake Erie shoreline, in Millcreek Township. This district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is one of the leading archaeological sites in the Erie area and along the southern shoreline of Lake Erie, due to the amount of artifacts and the lack of disturbance on the site.</p><br>
<h2>Discoveries</h2><br>
<p>Excavations revealed artifacts across a wide area of the park, including in the north where there are former farmlands and in dense woods along the park&#39;s eastern edge. The artifacts uncovered represent a wide range of archaeological cultures. Digs at six sites have found evidence from the entire Archaic period (roughly 8,000BCE to 1,000BCE) and the Early and Middle Woodland period (roughly 1,000BCE to 500CE). Artifacts include an especially dense concentration of Late Archaic remnants as well as a nineteenth-century dump created after European settlement. Various stone tools and evidence of Late Archaic houses have been found, indicating that the area may have been occupied seasonally by a fishing and hunting people.</p><br>
<p>Although the findings have been largely limited to the tops of the area&#39;s bluffs, scholars believe that the edges of the bluffs may yield evidence of prehistoric cemeteries. The district is significant because few seasonal campsites from before the Late Woodland period have been discovered along Lake Erie.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>Local archaeologist C. Frederick Sanfords discovery of Plano points in Sommerheim Park in 1975 led to the first recognition of the area as a possible archaeological site. Students at Eries Gannon University investigated the park under the leadership of a university archaeologist in the summer of that year, beginning a program of annual field schools that continued through the rest of the 1970s. These excavations yielded little evidence of disturbance at the sites, adding to their significance. While some parts of the bluffs had been cultivated after European settlement of the area, the damage was limited to the shallow upper layers of earth that could be cultivated with horse-drawn plows. The district&#39;s location on a lake bluff is likely to be the reason that it has survived; many similar sites likely once existed along nearby beaches and ridges, but they have likely been destroyed by the expansion of Erie and its suburbs and by quarrying for sand and gravel.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Well-preserved Native American archaeological sites are a rarity in the Lake Erie plain. The amount of information found at the Sommerheim Park sites makes them one of the leading archaeological sites in the Erie area and the southern shoreline of Lake Erie. In recognition of their significance, the sites were designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. No other Native American village sites northwest of Pittsburgh are listed on the Register, and the only other prehistoric site on the Register in northwestern Pennsylvania is Indian God Rock, a petroglyph in Venango County.</p><br>
<p>The Centreville Historic District is a historic district in Centreville, Alabama, United States. It includes 7.5 acre and twenty buildings, including the Bibb County Courthouse. It is roughly bounded by Walnut Street, and the East and West Court squares. It features examples of Victorian architecture. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>List of structures</h2><br>
<p>The district is made up of 20 historic buildings, which are listed in no particular order.</p><br>
<p>Davidson-Leeper House (419 Walnut Street); built c. 1869 or earlier.</p><br>
<p>Ritz Theatre (427 Walnut Street); built c. 1920.</p><br>
<p>Thrasher Building (429–443 Walnut Street); built c. 1925 as a multi-business storefront complex.</p><br>
<p>Bibb County Banking and Trust Company (101–107 Court Square, West); built 1899.</p><br>
<p>Bibb County Service Building (109 Court Square, West); built c. 1920.</p><br>
<p>Centreville Presbyterian Church (115 Court Square, West); built 1859.</p><br>
<p>Centreville Press Building and the Hellums and McElvey Law Office (117–119 Court Square, West); built c. 1928.</p><br>
<p>Bibb County Jail (121 Court Square, West); built c. 1910.</p><br>
<p>Bibb County Courthouse (Court Square); built 1902.</p><br>
<p>Chism Cleaners (122 Court Square, East); built c. 1920.</p><br>
<p>Masonic Building (Court Square, East); built c. 1910.</p><br>
<p>Southland Furniture Store (110 Court Square, East); built 1926.</p><br>
<p>Kennedy House (476 Walnut Street); built 1837.</p><br>
<p>Yeager Building (466 Walnut Street); built c. 1898.</p><br>
<p>Yeager Hotel (458 Walnut Street); built 1898.</p><br>
<p>Quality Clothing Store (456 Walnut Street); built c. 1903.</p><br>
<p>Meig’s Drug Store (488 Walnut Street); built 1895.</p><br>
<p>Fuller Building (444 Walnut Street); built c. 1908.</p><br>
<p>Fashion Fabrics (440 Walnut Street); built c. 1903.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Building (436-438 Walnut Street); built c. 1903.</p><br>
<p>Confederate Statue (Court Square); built 1910.</p><br>
<p>Old Tombstone, also known as the Denton Monument, is a folk art tombstone listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register in the town of Hollins, Virginia, United States. Located in the Tombstone Cemetery, just east of Plantation Road , Old Tombstone is noted for its folk art elements as being unique to Southwest Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Old Tombstone is a monolithic freestone carving marking the grave of Robert Denton, who died in 1805, and is 4 ft long, 2.6 ft wide and, 1.6 ft at its thickest point. The stone features a carving on its top exposing the head and torso of a child, with markings in German, English and Latin. The inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>Once loved, once valued, now avails me not; Though my relations have not me forgot...</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The monument was designed by Laurence Krone, a prolific Virginia-German carver. Its design featuring a carving of a child, although commonplace in New England during the period, is unique to Southwest Virginia. Krone met the Dentons after the family took him in after falling ill at the turn of the 19th century. Due to the generosity of the family, Krone carved the monument free of charge upon the death of Robert Denton.</p><br>
<p>By 1967, the ornate lid that once covered the sandstone face and bust of the child was stolen. As a result of the theft, the Hollins Lions Club constructed a roof and chain-link cage around the monument to protect it from vandals. Due to its architectural significance the monument was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1977 and to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The cemetery where it is located, Tombstone Cemetery, takes its name directly from that of Old Tombstone.</p><br>
<p>The Beverly Road Historic District is a historic district consisting of fifteen residential buildings located between 23 and 45 Beverly Road in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Beverly Road Historic District covers the original area of the Beverly Park Subdivision, platted by Henry B. Joy in 1911. The district was one of the earliest upper-class subdivisions in the Grosse Pointes, and marked the change of the area from a farming and summer-home community into an upscale year-round community. Residents of the district included prominent company executives, businessmen, and lawyers such as William P. Hamilton, William Cornelius Crowley, Edwin R. Stroh, Sidney T. Miller, William Van Dyke, and Edwin B. Henry. Beverly Road is still one of the few private streets in Grosse Pointe Farms.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The structures in the district line both sides of Beverly Road from Lakeshore Drive to Grosse Pointe Boulevard. The homes are primarily large-scale and feature high-quality workmanship and design.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Yancey in Grand Island, Nebraska, also known as The Yancey Motor Inn, is an eleven-story building built during 1917-1923 that remained, in 1982, the tallest building in the city at 201 feet . Its design reflects Renaissance Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 1982 it was under renovation that convert hotel rooms of its upper nine floors into 57 residential condo units.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Fort Cobb was a United States Army post established in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma in 1859 to protect relocated Native Americans from raids by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. The fort was abandoned by Maj. William H. Emory at the beginning of the Civil War, but then occupied by Confederate forces from 1861&ndash;1862. The post was eventually reoccupied by US forces starting in 1868. After establishing Fort Sill the US Army abandoned Fort Cobb. Today there is little left of the former military post.</p><br>
<p>Major William H. Emory, commander at Forts Washita and Arbuckle, established Fort Cobb in October 1859 on the west side of Pond Creek, near its confluence with the Washita River. The fort was named in honor of Howell Cobb, then Secretary of the Treasury.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Several small tribes, including the Anadarko, Caddo, Tonkawa and Penateka Comanche had made peace with the government of Texas in 1854. In return, the Texas Legislature had created two reserves of land along the Brazos River. However, the Northern Comanche, more warlike people who dominated the area north of the Red River, continued to raid white settlements in northern Texas. The white settlers regarded the presence of any Indians as dangerous, and began attacking the friendly tribes along the Brazos. Trying to prevent overt war, Federal Indian Agents began moving the friendly tribes from Texas into Indian Territory along the Washita River. The removal, under USA Army escort, and commanded by Major George H. Thomas, began August 1, 1859.</p><br>
<p>Before the removal, the chiefs of nine different tribes, including those living on the Brazos, plus the Wichitas, who already had a reservation in Indian Territory, met in a council with Army officers and Federal Indian Agents at Fort Arbuckle. The government representatives promised protection from both white Texans and hostile tribes if the chiefs would move their people to sites near the Wichita Mountains. An area near Medicine Bluff along had already been approved in 1855 and 1858 by Agent Douglas H. Cooper as an acceptable place for a military post. Elias Rector, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, whose office was at Fort Smith, was to make the final site selection for a new Agency.</p><br>
<p>Rector made an expedition to Medicine Bluff, arriving June 22, 1859. He was accompanied by several Indian Agents and the chiefs of the Caddoes and Wichitas. He reported that the Medicine Bluff site was completely unacceptable because the heavy spring and summer rains caused creeks to overflow and become impassable, hot winds in summer caused "miasma", (an old term referring to a bad atmosphere) and malaria outbreaks had caused great suffering to the local Wichitas. The Rector expedition marched farther north to the Washita River. Rector found an acceptable site near Pond Creek (later renamed Cobb Creek).</p><br>
<h2>Fort Cobb in the Civil War</h2><br>
<p>At the beginning of the Civil War, the garrison at Fort Cobb consisted of four companies of Federal troops. Colonel Emory ordered two companies sent to Fort Washita. The other two remained at Fort Cobb. Fort Washita was occupied by Confederate troops from Texas on April 17, 1861. On the same day, orders from Washington, D.C., directed that all Federal troops in Indian Territory should march to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Emory received the order while marching to Fort Cobb. The latter fort was occupied by a small contingent of Confederate troops under William C. Young and Indian Agent Mathew Leeper.</p><br>
<p>In May 1861, Colonel Young made a "peace treaty" with the native tribes around the fort, promising them the same protections that they had with the USA government before the war. No official treaty was made with the tribal chiefs until Albert Pike, the Confederate Commissioner for Indian Affairs, arrived to sign the treaties with the chiefs on August 12, 1861. However, the relations soured after the Confederate government showed it was unable to keep its promises. In particular, Agent Leeper behaved "cantankerously" toward the Natives. In return the chiefs were rude toward Leeper and finally demanded that he be removed. Leeper moved his family to safety in Texas. Many Natives, fearing reprisals, moved away from the Fort Cobb area to live in Kansas until the Civil War ended.</p><br>
<p>About thirty men from tribes allied to the Confederacy were recruited to the Confederate Army and armed to guard the fort in 1862. No regular troops were assigned there until May, 1862. They collected and guarded the abandoned supplies into the summer, but left the fort in August.</p><br>
<p>An armed party of Natives allied to the United States (Union) attacked the Wichita Agency on October 23, 1862, killed the white employees, put the corpses in the agency building and burned it to the ground. Agent Leeper escaped the attack and fled to Texas.</p><br>
<h2>Post-war activities</h2><br>
<p>On January 6, 1869 the last soldiers left Fort Cobb. They moved to Medicine Bluffs, where they established Camp Wichita on January 8. Fort Cobb was officially abandoned on March 29, 1869, and Camp Wichita was renamed Fort Sill. General Hazen transferred the Kiowa and Comanche Agency to Fort Sill.</p><br>
<h2>Listing as National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>Fort Cobb was established as National Register of Historic Places with the National Park Service on March 1, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The High Street Historic District of Hartford, Connecticut is a 1.1 acre historic district that includes three buildings typifying the architectural styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The buildings are located at 402-418 Asylum Street, 28 High Street, and 175-189 Allyn Street, and includes the Batterson Block and Judd and Root Building, each individually listed for their architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This district consists of three properties on the block of High Street between Allyn and Asylum Streets in Downtown Hartford. Located at the southwest corner of Allyn and High is the Judd and Root Building. To its south, facing High and Asylum Streets, is the Capitol Building. Across High Street from these two buildings, in the center of the block, stands the Batterson Block. The area where these buildings stand was basically residential until the 1860s, when commercial development pressures prompted its transition.</p><br>
<h3>Batterson Block</h3><br>
<p>The Batterson Block was the first of the three buildings to be built. It is a five-story masonry structure, with load-bearing brick walls finished with stone trim. The ground floor has a commercial storefront with five arched openings in white stone. The second through fourth floors have Romanesque style round-arch windows, with polychrome arches, and columns separating adjacent windows. The fifth floor is a less-stylish later addition. The block was built as a speculative venture c. 1860 by James G. Batterson, whose first business was the New England Granite Company. Batterson went on to found the Travelers Insurance Company in 1863. The architect of this building is unknown; the building is one of the city&#39;s most distinctive examples of Gothic and Romanesque architecture.</p><br>
<h3>Judd and Root Building</h3><br>
<p>The Judd and Root Building was built in 1883 to a Romanesque design by Francis Kimball and Thomas Wisedell, and is the most architecturally elaborate of the three buildings. Its ground floor has multiple storefronts, each articulated by stone piers, with three polychrome arches joining them. The second floor has alternating bands of pale stone and red brick, with paired sash windows in segmented-arch openings topped by flared polychrome lintels. In the upper levels, windows are grouped in pairs or threes, with surrounding decorative brickwork and inset terra cotta panels. Brick corbels are a feature above the upper-floor windows and on the cornice.</p><br>
<h3>Capitol Building</h3><br>
<p>The Capitol Building is the newest of the three buildings, constructed in 1926 to a Classical Revival design by Thomas Lamb, on the former site of the Park Street Congregational Church. It is a six-story building with a steel frame, concrete floors, and brick exterior with granite trim. The ground floor has storefronts articulated by granite piers, with a center entrance set recessed in a granite arch. The second through fourth floors are plain brick with sash windows set in rectangular openings with stone sills. The fifth and sixth floor bays are articulated by fluted stone pilasters, and the building is crowned by an elaborate projecting cornice with metal cresting.</p><br>
<p>The Buckingham Square Historic District is a historic district in Hartford, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 with an area of 8 acre and included 60 contributing buildings. The district is located in the area around Buckingham Square Park.</p><br>
<p>The district boundaries were increased in 1982 to add one more contributing building on an 0.9 acre area. The added building was designed by George Zunner and was built in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District No. 2 is a historic district in Hartford, Connecticut. It encompasses a city block in the citys downtown noted for its concentration of insurance-related highrise commercial buildings constructed in the early decades of the 20th century. It is visually dominated by the Travelers Tower, completed in 1919 and for many years Hartfords tallest building. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, at which time it included seven contributing buildings over a nine-acre area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is located in the heart of downtown Hartford, directly north of the Old State House. It covers an L-shaped area extending south from Atheneum Square North, bounded on the west by Main Street and the north by Central Row. It is bounded on the east by the Modern Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building, and by Grove and Prospect Streets. This area has been a business and commercial area in the city since the late 18th century, and is where a number of nationally significant insurance companies were founded. The buildings along Central Row are architecturally significant, encompassing a transition from early commercial architecture to that of the early 20th century. The districts taller buildings, including the Travelers Tower, were designed by architectural firms based in New York City and already experienced in skyscraper design. Most of the districts buildings are now owned by the Travelers Insurance Company, which continues to be headquartered here.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing buildings</h2><br>
<p>Putnam Tower, 6 Central Row</p><br>
<p>Travelers Office Building, 9-17 Central Row</p><br>
<p>Marble Pillar Building, 19-25 Central Row</p><br>
<p>Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. Building, 56 Prospect Street</p><br>
<p>Travelers Office Building, 59 Prospect Street (also known as 26 Grove Street)</p><br>
<p>The Travelers Tower, 1 Tower Square</p><br>
<p>and one noncontributing building:</p><br>
<p>Travelers Office Building, 740 Main St.</p><br>
<p>The Pratt Street Historic District of Hartford, Connecticut, encompasses all of Pratt Street, between Main and Trumbull Streets, in the city&#39;s downtown. This block, which includes 15 buildings , is the only place in the city where its typical early 20th-century streetscape is retained. All of the buildings in the district were built between 1830 and 1928, a significant number of them designed by major local architects. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Pratt Street is a one-block street in Downtown Hartford, running east-west between Main Street on the east and Trumbull Street (across from the XL Center) in the west. It is lined by fifteen buildings (eight on one side and seven on the other) that are distinctly more modest in scale than those on the surrounding streets, ranging in height from two to six stories. All but one were built between 1896 and 1937, and are in commercial revival styles popular in that period. The one exception is the 1830 Spencer House at 76-78 Pratt Street, a two-story brick townhouse that is a reminder of the street&#39;s residential origin.</p><br>
<p>Anchoring the southeast corner of Pratt and Trumbull is the Steiger Building, a six-story building with its lower stories faced in smooth stone, and its upper floors finished in light brick. Just to its south on Trumbull is the Heublein Building, a Romanesque Revival structure built out of red brick and brownstone in 1896. To the east of the Steiger Building on Pratt Street is a Classical Revival structure five stories in height, built in 1897. Adjacent to it is the Dillon Building, one of Hartford&#39;s finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture, built in 1899 and attributed to architect Isaac Allen Jr. Allen is also credited with the building three to the east, a two-story building built in 1919 which exhibits extensive terra cotta detailing and expansive use of glass. The 1893 Society for Savings Building anchors the eastern end of the street; its original architect was George H. Gilbert, but it has undergone several restylings (most notably in 1926-27 by Dennison and Hirons) to acquire a more International appearance.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Street became pedestrian-only in 2020. The intention was to attract foot traffic to downtown and for Pratt Street to become a center of activity in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Elm Street Historic District encompasses a collection of architecturally distinguished institutional and residential buildings near the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut. Located on Capitol Avenue and Trinity and Elm Streets, it includes the city&#39;s best concentration of early 20th-century architecture, including Bushnell Memorial Hall and several state office buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Elm Street Historic District is located on the southwest of Hartford&#39;s downtown. It is bounded on the north by Bushnell Park and the west by the grounds of the state capitol complex. Its buildings extend along Capitol Avenue and the south side of Elm Street between Trinity Street and Pulaski Circle, and along Trinity from Elm to Buckingham Street. It is about 15 acre in size, and originally included fourteen historically significant buildings. The largest of these is the State Office Building, between Capitol and Buckingham, a fine example of Classical Revival architecture with Art Deco details, built in 1930 to a design by Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray of New York City. Just to its north is Bushnell Memorial Hall, designed by the same firm and also completed in 1930. It features a Georgian Revival exterior and a rich Art Deco interior. Extending east from the Bushnell area on Capitol Avenue are the First Presbyterian Church (1870, Romanesque Revival), and parking lots, some of which on the site of early 20th-century residential buildings that were part of the district listing but have since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>North of the Bushnell, at the corner of Trinity and Elm Streets, is the former Orient Insurance Company, now housing the state treasurer&#39;s office. It is a fine example of Beaux Arts architecture, built in 1905 to a design by Davis & Brooks of Hartford. Extending east from that building along Elm Street were three large buildings all built by insurance companies between 1917 and 1926, as well as the J.M. Ney building, a former factory. Two of these buildings have been demolished; one, the Scottish Union & National Building, now houses the state appellate court.</p><br>
<p>The Alabama State University Historic District is a 26 acre historic district at the heart of the Alabama State University campus in Montgomery, Alabama. It contains eighteen contributing buildings, many of them in the Colonial Revival style, and one site. The district was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on August 25, 1994, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alabama State University traces its beginnings to 1867, when former slaves Joey Pinch, Thomas Speed, Nickolas Dale, James Childs, Thomas Lee, John Freeman, Nathan Levert, David Harris, and Alexander H. Curtis founded a school for African Americans in Marion, Alabama. This school, the Lincoln Normal School, was the direct predecessor for the State Normal School and University for the Education of Colored Teachers and Students, established in 1873 by the Alabama Legislature. In 1887, the school moved to Montgomery, renamed the Alabama Colored Peoples University. Classes were initially held at Beulah Baptist Church. The name was changed to State Normal School of Colored Students in 1889, following legal wrangling regarding state funding.</p><br>
<p>Land for a permanent campus at the current location was purchased in 1889, with the first permanent building, the wood-frame Tullibody Hall, erected in 1890. This Tullibody Hall burned in 1904 and was rebuilt in brick in 1906. Following the death of the first president, William Burns Paterson, in 1915, the school became organized as a four-year teacher training high school and junior college. In the 1920s, additional land was purchased, and the state appropriated $50,000 for the construction of dormitories and dining facilities. The school became a full four-year institution in 1928, had a name change to State Teachers College in 1929, and conferred its first bachelor&#39;s degree in teacher education in 1931. The majority of buildings within the historic district date from this mid-20th century period, 1916 through 1945. The name of the university changed several more times over the next few decades: to Alabama State College for Negroes in 1948, Alabama State College in 1954, and in 1969, assumed the current title of Alabama State University.</p><br>
