<p>Middlefield Hamlet Historic District is a national historic district located at Middlefield in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 24 contributing principal buildings and eight contributing dependencies. All but one of the buildings are residences. It also includes a Greek Revival style frame store building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Pantigo Road Historic District is a historic district in the Village of East Hampton, on Long Island, New York. It is located on a segment of New York State Route 27 named Pantigo Road, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Moran House, a National Historic Landmark, is included in the district. The district runs along NY 27 from the intersection of Accabonac Road and Egypt Lane(which has a historic district of its own south of this one) to Amy&#39;s Lane, west of a former town named Pantigo, which was between the East Hampton Village line and Amagansett, New York. Pantigo is home to Manhattan socialites during the summer months and is mainly sought after for its historic and exclusive homes. In recent years, Pantigo has emerged as the chicest town in the Hamptons.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 43 contributing buildings, which, taken together illustrate the spectrum of architectural styles common in East Hampton from 1715 through 1920. These styles include Colonial, Federal, Queen Anne, shingle and Craftsman. The historically rural feel is maintained due to deep front lawns, large mature trees and surviving agricultural outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The Old Mine Park Archaeological Site is a historic site in the Long Hill section of Trumbull, Connecticut, United States. It was mined from 1828 to 1920 and during 1942-1946, and has been incorporated in a municipal park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Hubbard Tungsten Mine at Long Hill</p><br>
<p>The first mention of minerals at Saganawamps, or Old Mine Park, is found in the February 21, 1757 deed giving Howkins Nichols of Stratford a lease for 200 years of 5 acre "at a place commonly called Saganawam for obtaining ye ore or mineral substances."</p><br>
<p>Some time around 1818, Ephraim Lane took some samples of rocks he found at Saganawamps to Yale University Professor Benjamin Silliman for identification. Silliman reported, in his new American Journal of Science, that he had identified tungsten, tellurium, topaz and fluorite. Shortly after the articles were published, Ephraim Lane was making specimens available to collectors at a price and apparently to protect his supply of minerals, Lane acquired a lease to 4 acre in Trumbull later to be known as "Shagamywamps the mine lot" in 1828 from Elijah Hawley. Lane then leased the land to Thomas R. Hubbard.</p><br>
<p>In 1837 the first (and at the time only) prismatic barite ore of tungsten in the United States was discovered at the mine. It was scientifically studied in 1887 by Adolph Gurlt of the University of Bonn. The area has previously been mined for copper, silver, lead and gold as well as limestone. The Hubbard Mine for tungsten was operated by the Rare Minerals Company from 1898 and later by the American Tungsten Mining and Milling Company, ceasing operations after a fire in 1916.</p><br>
<p>Besides tungsten, the mine was also a source of beryl, opal, topaz, tourmaline and 60 other crystals and minerals in varying quantities.</p><br>
<p>Later on the site was demolished and a Home Depot was built nearby, many of the same crystals and minerals were found on this site. This site is closed for crystal and mineral mining</p><br>
<h2>Park</h2><br>
<p>The Old Mine Park is a 72.1 acre open space created in 1937 on the site of the mine. The park features:</p><br>
<p>An 11 mi loop trail for biking & hiking.</p><br>
<p>Two Pavilions and Picnic Area</p><br>
<p>Lavatory</p><br>
<p>Pheobe Meadows multi-purpose field</p><br>
<p>A walking bridge over the Pequonnock River.</p><br>
<p>The McGulpin House is a historic house museum, located in a structure originally built before 1780 and now located at the corner of Fort Street and Market Street on Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is owned, operated, and opened to the public during the summer months by Mackinac Island State Park as part of Historic Downtown Mackinac Island.</p><br>
<h2>History and today</h2><br>
<p>The McGulpin House is built in a working-class French Canadian style. Its origins are unknown; it has not always stood on its current location. There are two theories about the origins of the building: the house could have been created as a home for the priest of St. Annes Church or to be a home for people on the island. An analysis of the homes structural timbers indicates that they were hand-sawn with a pit saw, which indicates that the timbers were cut prior to the construction of the Mill Creek sawmill in about 1790.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s timbers and design style indicate, but do not prove, that the structure was constructed prior to the settlement of Mackinac Island in 1780–1781. It is known that several private frontier houses were built in the vicinity of Fort Michilimackinac in the period between 1763 and 1780, which were prosperous years for the fur trade at the Straits of Mackinac. In 1780 Lieutenant Governor Patrick Sinclair, in a move related to the American Revolutionary War, ordered the fur traders and private citizens of the Fort Michilimackinac settlement to move to a fortified village on the southern end of Mackinac Island. The Strait of Mackinac froze solid with ice that winter, and there is documentary evidence that some wooden houses were partly dismantled and carried across the ice to their new island settlement. It is believed that the McGulpin House may have been one of these homes.</p><br>
<p>After the War of 1812 the United States consolidated its political and economic control over Mackinac Island, the fur trade boomed, a title deed registry was opened, and written real estate records began. In 1819, what is now the McGulpin House was purchased by William and Madeline McGulpin, a craftsman baker and his wife. The McGulpins operated a shoreline farm on the Lower Peninsula mainland, near what is now Mackinaw City. The site of their farm was later named McGulpin Point in honor of these pioneer settlers.</p><br>
<p>With local grain in hand, the McGulpins specialized in baking bread and hardtack for the American Fur Company&#39;s establishment on Mackinac Island. The fur company post on Market Street was by far the largest employer at the Straits of Mackinac, and resupplied dozens of fur traders who fanned out over the Upper Great Lakes by birchbark canoe to trap and trade for furs.</p><br>
<p>The McGulpin House was moved to its current location in 1981. It has been opened to the public as a barebones restoration that concentrates on the actual structure of the home at it would have appeared around 1820, shortly after the McGulpins moved in. The McGulpins were a working-class family who would not have possessed a home fitted with many of the furnishings used by more prosperous families in the early American upper class. The McGulpin House can be compared with the nearby Biddle House, an upper-class home.</p><br>
<p>Edgerton Park, also known as the Frederick F. Brewster Estate, is a 20 acre public park on Whitney Avenue, straddling the New Haven&ndash;Hamden town line in Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>It is site of the demolished Victorian home of Eli Whitney II, known as "Ivy Nook". In 1909, it became the estate of industrialist Frederick F. Brewster, with a new Tudor-style mansion constructed named Edgerton for its location on the edge of town. The mansion was demolished in 1964, pursuant to Brewster&#39;s wishes, after the death of his wife, and the property was donated to the city. The present landscape was designed by Robert Storer Stephenson in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed as historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. In 1988, the district included seven contributing buildings, eight other contributing structures, and one contributing object.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The 22-acre park features the original wall, greenhouses, carriage house, gatehouse, and bridge from the Brewster estate. There is also a large fountain and community gardens. The Sarah T. Crosby Conservatory in the Community Greenhouses features a rain forest exhibit, a dry landscape with desert plants, and orchids.</p><br>
<p>The Elm Shakespeare Company has been offering outdoor summer performances in Edgerton Park since 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Edgerton Park Conservancy</h2><br>
<p>Edgerton Park Conservancy is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the needs of Edgerton Park. It works to restore and maintain the buildings and grounds, and offers education programs for schools and the community in the conservatory. The conservancy works in partnership with the city of New Haven, which owns the property.</p><br>
<p>G.R.O.W.E.R.S., a horticultural program for handicapped adults, offers plants for sale in the greenhouse.</p><br>
<p>Oneonta Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses 64 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It encompasses the citys intact commercial and civic core and includes commercial buildings, six churches, the citys historic civil buildings, a few industrial buildings, and a small park. The district includes several separately listed buildings: the Masonic Temple, Old Post Office, Municipal Building, Ford Block, and Oneonta Theatre. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Morris–Lull Farm, also known as Elmwood Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Morris in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses two contributing buildings and one contributing site. They are an early 20th-century, two-story T-shaped barn; a privy; and the farm landscape. The farmhouse, known as Elmwood, is a two-story Federal style stone house, five bays wide and two bays deep.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Unadilla Waterworks is a historic waterworks and national historic district located at Unadilla in Otsego County, New York. It encompasses one contributing building and 11 contributing structures. It consists of two separate sites that were developed between 1880 and 1891 to supply the village with water for fire protection and domestic use.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Peterson Farmstead is a farm just east of Waconia, Minnesota, United States. The farm is located in rural Carver County, Minnesota, on Minnesota State Highway 5. The farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with its first owner, Andrew Peterson. It is owned and operated by the Carver County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Andrew Peterson (Anders Pettersson) was born October 20, 1818, at Västra Ryd parish in Ydre härad, Östergötland, Sweden. He died March 31, 1898, in Waconia, Carver County, Minnesota. He emigrated from Rydsnäs, Sweden to American in 1850. With his sister and fourteen other emigrants, they arrived in Boston on July 2, 1850. He arrived in Burlington, Iowa, about four weeks later and lived there for four years. He later moved to Minnesota in 1855, claiming 160 acre near the southeastern shore of Lake Waconia.</p><br>
<p>He kept a series of daily diaries and ledgers dating from 1850 until a few days until his death in 1898. Petersons diary was donated by his family to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1939. These writings provided inspiration for Vilhelm Mobergs novels The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home, although they were set in Chisago County, Minnesota. While Andrew Peterson is not familiar to many Americans, his story is well known in Sweden. The Andrew Peterson Society was established in Sweden in 2003. A musical called Andrew Peterson: The Genuine Pioneer Story had great success in Sweden in 2012. In 2007 a tour group came from Sweden to visit the farm.</p><br>
<p>The property’s last owner was Ward Holasek. Despite being unaware of its historical value when he purchased the property he later collaborated with Jo Mihelich, author of the 1984 book, Andrew Peterson and the Scandia Story, to preserve numerous artifacts and structures, ultimately leading to the property being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Following Holaseks passing in 2013, he bequeathed a 51-acre portion of the land to the Carver County Historical Society. The will was contested, by Holaseks sons but a complicated settlement was reached, where a property swap was agreed upon.</p><br>
<p>The contested 51-acre portion only included one historic building, the north barn. The remaining twenty acres, which housed the other historic structures, including the house, were owned by Holaseks sons. Both parties eventually collaborated to reach a mutually beneficial agreement. The Carver County Historical Society retained 12.17 acres along with all the historic structures and included Andrew Petersons original acreage, while the sons retained the larger remaining portion of land with the newer non-historic buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 2006, the Carver County Historical Society initiated restoration efforts on the farmstead by focusing on the granary, with additional assistance from Swedish carpenters. Subsequently, storm damage in July and August of 2010 caused the collapse of the east wall and gables of the North Barn, leading to stabilization measures to safeguard the remaining structure for future restoration endeavors. Subsequent funding was secured to restore and reinforce the foundation of the North Barn, paving the way for its potential transformation into a public park facility. The restoration project remains ongoing.</p><br>
<h2>Note</h2><br>
<p>This article contains information obtained from the Swedish Wikipedia article Andrew Peterson.</p><br>
<p>The Brame House, also known as the Brame-Cody-Neal House, was a historic Classical Revival-style house in Montgomery, Alabama. The two-story frame house was built in 1897 by W.W. Brame. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on January 29, 1980, and to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980. The house was demolished in 1990, after some attempts were made to save it.</p><br>
<p>The Tankersley Rosenwald School, also known as the Tankersley Elementary School, is a historic American Craftsman-style school building in Hope Hull, Alabama, a suburb of Montgomery. This Rosenwald School building was built in 1922 to serve the local African American community. The money to build the school was provided, in part, by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 26, 2003, and to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of The Rosenwald School Building Fund and Associated Buildings Multiple Property Submission on January 22, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Franklin Jackson House, commonly known as the Jackson-Community House, is a historic Italianate-style house in Montgomery, Alabama. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on July 21, 1978, and to the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The two-story frame house was built by Jefferson Franklin Jackson in 1853. Jackson served as a United States Attorney for northern and central Alabama. He died during the Civil War years. His wife subsequently remarried to Thomas H. Watts, Governor of Alabama from 1863 to 1865. Descendants of the family owned the house into the 20th century and it remained a residence until 1943.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 1943 by the Montgomery City Federation of Colored Womens Clubs, an African American organization comprising twenty-five adult clubs and fifteen youth clubs, for use as a meeting place. The Montgomery City Federation had been formed in 1939 with a goal of promoting positive citizenship. The house became known as the Community House and was used as a Girl Scouts headquarters, a social and civic center, and, in December 1948, the first Montgomery library open to African Americans. Significantly, the house was used to host meetings of the Womens Political Council. They were the first group to officially call for a boycott of the racially segregated Montgomery bus system, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.</p><br>
<p>Fort Blount was a frontier fort and federal outpost located along the Cumberland River in Jackson County, Tennessee, United States. Situated at the point where Avery&#39;s Trace crossed the river, the fort provided an important stopover for migrants and merchants travelling from the Knoxville area to the Nashville area in the 1790s. After the fort was abandoned around 1800, the community of Williamsburg developed on the site and served as county seat for the newly formed Jackson County from 1807 and 1819. The fort and now vanished village sites were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1788, Averys Trace crossed the Cumberland River at a natural river ford known as "Crossing of the Cumberland," where sandbars made it possible to wade across for much of the year. A ferry was established in 1791, and the following year a blockhouse was built on the rivers east bank. In 1794, a larger fort was constructed on the west bank of the river opposite the ferry. Eventually named for Southwest Territory governor William Blount, the fort was garrisoned by militia and later by USA Army regulars until it was closed in 1798. Excavations conducted by the Tennessee Division of Archaeology between 1989 and 1994 revealed the fort&#39;s location and provided evidence of its shape.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Fort Blount site is on an embankment overlooking the west side of the Cumberland River about 340 mi above the mouth of the river. (This section of the river is now part of Cordell Hull Lake). The embankment is at the eastern end of a peninsula created by a narrow turn in the river called Smiths Bend. Smiths Bend Road, which intersects Tennessee State Highway 53 in the Gladdis community 10 mi west of Gainesboro, traverses the peninsula and provides the chief road access to the area.</p><br>
<p>The old Williamsburg community was near the Williams Cemetery, which contains the graves of early settler Sampson Williams and his wife, Margaret. It was about 1,500 ft southwest of Fort Blount. The Fort Blount Ferry was near the end of Smiths Bend Road, which it connected to the Flynns Creek community across the river. Most of Smiths Bend is still private farmland, though the Army Corps of Engineers, which built Cordell Hull Dam, manages several recreational areas along the peninsula&#39;s lakeshore.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Fort Blount</h3><br>
<p>In 1788, the governor of North Carolina commissioned the construction of a road to connect the Washington District of what is now East Tennessee with the Mero District in Middle Tennessee, to make it easier for travellers to cross the rugged Cumberland Plateau region. Known as Avery&#39;s Trace, the road crossed the Cumberland River at the natural ford known as the "Crossing of the Cumberland", which then was at the eastern edge of Sumner County. In 1791, Sampson Williams (1762&ndash;1841), an early Nashville pioneer and sheriff of Davidson County, was granted the right to operate a ferry at this spot.</p><br>
<p>The influx of settlers to Middle Tennessee after the American Revolution agitated tensions between the Native Americans and white settlers, and Indian attacks rose sharply. A series of small forts, called "stations," were built throughout Middle Tennessee during the 1780s and 1790s. In 1792, Governor William Blount instructed Sampson Williams to raise a militia force and built a blockhouse at the Crossing of the Cumberland. The blockhouse was completed in late 1792 or early 1793, possibly with help from a detachment led by Major Hugh Beard, and was sometimes called "Beard&#39;s blockhouse." Williams was commissioned a lieutenant and commanded the garrison, which consisted of a handful of local volunteer militiamen.</p><br>
<p>In 1794, Secretary of War Henry Knox&mdash; who believed blockhouses were inadequate protection&mdash; suggested that Governor Blount replace the blockhouse with a strong stockade.</p><br>
<p>In 1796, French botanist André Michaux was staying at Fort Blount when he discovered the rare American yellowwood tree in the surrounding forests. The following year, future French King Louis-Philippe passed through Fort Blount, and reported it was being modified or replaced. In 1802, Michauxs son, François André Michaux (1770&ndash;1855), travelling with prominent early Middle Tennessean Moses Fiske, stayed at the Williams tavern. He reported that Fort Blount had been demolished.</p><br>
<h3>Williamsburg</h3><br>
<p>After the closure of the fort, Sampson Williams purchased most of the property and adjacent land, establishing a sizeable plantation. In 1800, the "Fort Blount" post office opened with Williams as post master. Until 1805, Williams land was part of Smith County, and the Smith County court convened at Williams tavern several times. In 1805, the county boundaries were redrawn, and the Williams plantation was now in Jackson County. In 1806, the Tennessee legislature authorized the purchase of 60 acre of the Williams farm to create a county seat. The town was incorporated as "Williamsburg" the following year.</p><br>
<p>Besides the courthouse and jail, completed in 1808, Williamsburg included a hotel, a general store, and at least five houses, reached by the Fort Blount ferry. Williamsburg was de-incorporated in 1820.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>After the county seats removal, Sampson Williams purchased the old courthouse, which he modified as an elaborate residence. He continued to operate an inn and ferry, and his plantation grew to several hundred acres and worked by 20 or 30 slaves. After his death in 1841, his son-in-law Andrew McClellan inherited the plantation. On McClellans death in 1850, the plantation was placed in a trust for McClellan&#39;s children. They sold the land to John Pruett in 1869, and when Pruett died 10 years later, it passed to his daughter Sallie and son-in-law James Fox. It remained in the Fox family until the mid-20th century. The Fox house, which appears on a 1931 map of the area, may have been on the site of the old courthouse. The Fort Blount Ferry operated until 1974.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1960s, the USA Army Corps of Engineers surveyed the area for the construction of Cordell Hull Dam (located several miles downstream near Carthage). Using old maps and land grant boundaries, the Corps identified a 125 acre plot believed to have been the site of Fort Blount and Williamsburg, and in 1974 placed this plot on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Fort Blount-Williamsburg site." Later research and excavations conducted by the Tennessee Division of Archaeology, however, placed both Fort Blount and Williamsburg just outside the listing&#39;s boundaries.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological investigations</h2><br>
<p>Between 1989 and 1994, Samuel Smith of the Tennessee Division of Archaeology led a team that conducted extensive excavations of the Fort Blount-Williamsburg site, designated 40JK125. The excavations, which focused primarily on the fort itself, uncovered the remains of a prehistoric structure, three structures likely associated with Fort Blount, and several thousand artifacts. Their findings were published in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The largest structural remnant found by excavators, known as "Building 1," consisted of a 21 ft by 21 ft limestone foundation that once supported a wooden structure. Excavators determined this structure to be a blockhouse, based on its size, square shape, and the design of contemporary blockhouses. Just west of Building 1 was "Building 2," only a few remains of which survived, most notably a chimney. Although its purpose is indeterminable, excavators suggested it may have been a kitchen. Slightly northeast of Building 1 was "Building 3," which had a foundation that measured 13 ft by 12 ft. The remains of two hearths and evidence that a wooden structure hung over one of the hearths suggest that this was a smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>Evidence for an outer wall surrounding all three structures was provided by postholes and vegetation lines. Four postholes aligned with the chimney wall of Building 2 may be remains of the western wall, and a noticeable vegetation line to the north of the structures may have been caused by what was once the forts northern wall. The southern wall was indicated by three aligned postholes, one of which was relatively large and may have been one side of the forts gate. The eastern wall was less apparent, but may have been aligned with the smokehouse&#39;s eastern wall. If conjecture regarding these findings is correct, the fort had dimensions of 120 ft by 90 ft.</p><br>
<p>Prehistoric artifacts indicate the site was used as early as the Paleo-Indian period, and used extensively during the Middle Woodland period (c. 500 BC - 500 AD). Most of the sites historic-period artifacts consisted of the remains of glass containers and tableware. A number of Spanish coins&mdash; which were common on the Tennessee frontier&mdash; were recovered at the site, including one dating to 1781. Gun parts and ammunition were scant, but included lead balls, leadshot, and gunflints and flintlock parts. A pewter button found in Building 1s cellar dates to 1800 or later, and indicates that the fort likely stood until at least 1800. Excavators uncovered at least three items that were used specifically on soldiers&#39; uniforms in the 1790s.</p><br>
<p>The Whippany Burying Yard, in the Whippany section of Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, is a cemetery that was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 11, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The two plus acre burying yard, which has approximately 450 graves and which dates back to 1718, is the oldest cemetery in northwest New Jersey. Graves include those of veterans of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War I.</p><br>
<p>The Jack Brooks Federal Building is a federal office building in Beaumont, Texas. Completed during the Great Depression in 1933, it was the United States Post Office and Federal Building. The building houses courtrooms and chambers of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and an office of the United States Postal Service. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter came to Beaumont to officiate over the renaming of the building for Congressman Jack Brooks, who lived in and represented the area for many years.</p><br>
<p>The building features many Corinthian columns and has many detailed features. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Beaumont Commercial District.</p><br>
<p>The Lee Creek Bridge in Natural Dam, Arkansas was a Pennsylvania through truss bridge that was built in 1934. It was a twin-span bridge with a total length of 587 ft, which carried Arkansas Highway 59 across Lee Creek. It rested on concrete piers and abutments, had a vertical clearance of 14 ft and had a roadbed 22 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, at which time it was one of four surviving Pennsylvania through truss bridges in the state. Another bridge, in Van Buren, also crosses Lee Creek and is listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>This bridge was demolished and replaced in early 2018, and was removed from the National Register early in 2019.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Delhi is a historic post office building located at Delhi in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1938, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a symmetrically massed one story brick building with a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. The front section features a copper clad gable roof crowned by a square flat-topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round arched vent openings on each face. The interior features a 1940 mural by artist Mary Earley titled Down-Rent War, Around 1845.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Walton is a historic post office building located at Walton in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936–1937, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five-bay, steel frame building on a raised limestone clad foundation in the Colonial Revival style. The front section is symmetrically massed and features a slightly recessed, three bay central entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Gardiner Place Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola is a Catholic parish church located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, administered by the Society of Jesus . The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence OTooles Church. In 1898, permission to change the patron saint of the parish from St. Lawrence OToole to St. Ignatius of Loyola was granted by Rome. The address is 980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10028. The church on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 84th Street is part of a Jesuit complex on the block that includes Wallace Hall, the parish hall beneath the church, the rectory at the midblock location on Park Avenue, the grade school of St. Ignatiuss School on the north midblock location of 84th Street behind the church and the high school of Loyola School  at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street. In addition, another Jesuit high school, Regis High School , occupies the midblock location on the north side of 84th Street. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1851. It occupies "the site of the former St. Lawrence OToole Church, founded in 1851, and named for a twelfth-century bishop of Dublin by the parishs first pastor, the Rev. Eugene OReilly from Ireland. The parish was entrusted to the care of the Society of Jesus in 1886 and marked the Jesuits first major apostolate in the Yorkville area of New York. Late-nineteenth-century directories listed the address of St. Lawrence at the corner of Park Avenue and East 84th Street.</p><br>
<p>The present grand limestone edifice stands as testimony to both the growing affluence and confidence of the Catholic community on New York&#39;s Upper East Side near the start of the 20th century as well as the ambitious determination of Fr. Neil McKinnon, S.J., pastor of the parish from 1893 to 1907. During his time, Martin J. Scott, later a noted author of novels and controversial literature, worked as assistant priest among the young (1902-1915) and built a day nursery in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The church was declared a New York City Landmark on March 4, 1969. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The church was used as the setting for the funeral of Logan Roy, a central character in the HBO television series Succession. Filming for the episode, which aired in May 2023, took place over two and a half days.</p><br>
<h2>Notable funerals</h2><br>
<p>Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady – May 1994</p><br>
<p>Aaliyah, singer and actress – August 2001</p><br>
<p>Patricia Kennedy Lawford – September 2006</p><br>
<p>Lena Horne, singer and actress – May 2010</p><br>
<p>Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor – February 2014</p><br>
<p>Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer – November 2014</p><br>
<p>Mario Cuomo, governor of New York – January 2015</p><br>
<p>Ann Mara, co-owner of N.Y. Giants Football Team – February 2015</p><br>
<p>David Carr, N.Y. Times media columnist – February 2015</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>A wooden church was erected in 1852, which was replaced in 1853 by a modest brick structure.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s present foundation was built 1884-1886 as the foundations to a planned Gothic design. The parish was transferred to Jesuit control in 1886.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>St. Ignatius Loyola, A Pictorial History and Walking Guide of New York City&#39;s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (1999) includes an exemplary description of the exterior and interior of the church:</p><br>
<p>Two unbroken vertical orders, a Palladian arched window, and a tri-part horizontal division suggesting the central nave and side aisles beyond, lend a Classical balance to the Park Avenue exterior. Yet St. Ignatius façade is not static; the central division raised in slight relief beyond the side divisions and the varying intervals between the symmetrically positioned pilasters (columns that are not free standing) create a subtly undulating dynamism that introduces a note of syncopated rhythm reminiscent of the exterior of Il Gesù, the Jesuits mother church in Rome. The original plans for the street front of St. Ignatius, presently 90 feet high and 87 feel wide, included a pair of towers designed to reach 210 feet above the ground, but this feature of the project was abandoned early, leaving only the two copper-capped tower bases on either side of the central pediment as hints of the grander scheme. Located directly beneath this pediment are the motto of the Society of Jesus, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (To the Greater Glory of God) and the Great Seal of the Society, composed of a cross, three nails, and the letters I H S (the first three letters of Jesus&#39; name in Greek which later became a Latin acronym denoting Jesus the Savior of Humankind); together they proclaim to all who pass by that St. Ignatius is a Jesuit Parish.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The church is constructed of American, European, and African marbles, including pink Tennessee, red-veined Numidian, yellow Siena, pink Algerian marble, white Carrara marble, and veined Pavonazzo marble; most of the intricate marble work was executed by the firm of James G. Batterson Jr., and John Eisele of New York.</p><br>
<p>The marble mosaic Stations of the Cross panels were designed by Professor Paoletti for Salviati & Company of Venice; some were publicly exhibited in Turin before installation.</p><br>
<p>The great twelve-panel bronze doors located at the sanctuary end of the side aisles… were designed by the Rev. Patrick O&#39;Gorman, S.J., pastor from 1924 to 1929... crafted by the Long Island Bronze Company….</p><br>
<p>The Jesuit statues, including St. Francis Xavier and St. John Francis Regis were carved by the Joseph Sibbel Studio of New York in Carrara marble.</p><br>
<p>The church is notable for its organ, dedicated in 1993 and built by English organ builder Noel Mander. The instrument "is New York City&#39;s largest mechanical action (tracker) pipe organ, and the largest mechanical action pipe organ ever to have been built in the British Isles."</p><br>
<h3>Baptistery</h3><br>
<p>The semi-circular wrought-iron baptistery screen in the Chapel of John the Baptist of gilt flaming swords was wrought by Mr. John Williams to the designs of William Schickel. The baptistery font is of Carrara marble set above marble pavement designed "by Heaton, Butler & Bayne of London, with slight modifications made by Mr. John Buck of the Ecclesiastical Department of the Gorham Company of New York; the Gorham Company was also responsible for cutting and installing the mosaics tesserae (the pieces comprising the mosaic)." The baptisterys altar and surround curved walls are of Pavonazzo marble inlaid with mosaics, "designed and executed under the direction of Mr. Caryl Coleman of the Ecclesiastical Department of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company. These mosaics, composed of that companys justly famous opalescent Favrile glass, are as delicate as the Venetian glass mosaics above are bold." Tiffany also executed the baptisterys semi-dome.</p><br>
<h2>List of rectors</h2><br>
<p>1. Rev. Eugene O&#39;Reilly, rector 1851-August 5, 1852</p><br>
<p>2. Rev. Thomas Ouellet, S.J., rector 1852-</p><br>
<p>3. Rev. Walter J. Quarter, rector –1866</p><br>
<p>4. Rev. Samuel Mulledy (1811–1866), rector 1863–1866</p><br>
<p>5. Rev. Victor Beaudevin, S.J., rector 1866–</p><br>
<p>10. Rev. John Treanor, S.J., rector (–1880)</p><br>
<p>11. Rev. Robert J. Fulton, S.J.(1826-1895), rector November 1, 1880-</p><br>
<p>12. Rev. David Merrick, S.J. (rector 1880–)</p><br>
<p>13. Rev. Neil McKinnon, S.J., rector July 31, 1893 – 1907 (parish rededicated on December 11, 1898, with new upper church dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola and lower church dedicated to St. Lawrence O&#39;Toole)</p><br>
<p>14. William O&#39;Brien Pardow, S.J., rector 1907-1909</p><br>
<p>15. David Hearn, S.J., rector 1909-1915</p><br>
<p>16. Cowles Havens Richards, S.J., rector 1915-1919</p><br>
<p>17. James J. Kilrowy, S.J., rector 1919-1924</p><br>
<p>18. Patrick F. O&#39;Gorman, S.J., rector 1924-1929</p><br>
<p>19. Edward J. Sweeney, S.J., rector 1930-1933</p><br>
<p>20. William J. Devlin, S.J., rector 1933-1935</p><br>
<p>21. W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., rector 1935-1940</p><br>
<p>22. Francis A. McQuade, S.J., rector 1940-1945</p><br>
<p>23. John Edwards Gratton, S.J., rector 1945-1949</p><br>
<p>24. C. Justin Hanley, S.J., rector 1949-1952</p><br>
<p>25. Robert I. Gannon, S.J., rector 1952-1958</p><br>
<p>26. John J. McGinty, S.J., rector 1958-1960</p><br>
<p>27. William T. Wood, S.J., rector 1960-1966</p><br>
<p>28. Charles T. Taylor, S.J., rector 1966-1970</p><br>
<p>29. Robert J. Haskins, S.J., rector 1970-1979</p><br>
<p>30. Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J., rector 1980-1986</p><br>
<p>31. Walter F. Modrys, S.J., rector 1986-2005</p><br>
<p>32. Gerald R. Blaszczak, S.J., rector 2005-2008</p><br>
<p>33. William J. Bergen, S.J., acting rector June–August 2008</p><br>
<p>34. George M. Witt, S.J., rector 2008-2015</p><br>
<p>35. Thomas H. Feely, S.J., parish administrator 2015–2016</p><br>
<p>36. Dennis J. Yesalonia, S.J., rector 2016–Present</p><br>
<p>The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost&#39;s former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to local family lore, poet Robert Frost spotted this property on the west side of Franconia&#39;s Ridge Road in 1915 while looking for a home in the area. He purchased it from farmer Willis Herbert, for whom he supposedly procured an adjacent property. The house is 1½ stories in height, with a long front facade covered by a porch. The facade affords fine views of the Franconia Range and Mount Lafayette.</p><br>
<p>Frost and his family lived in the house until 1920, when it was sold back to the Herbert family. It remained a private residence until The Frost Place was founded in 1976 when the farm was purchased by the town of Franconia, restored, and given its name, opening as a museum in 1977.</p><br>
<p>From 2013 until 2022, The Frost Place offered an annual chapbook prize, with the winning chapbook published by Bull City Press. Past winners include Jill Osier, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Anders Carlson-Wee, Tiana Clark, Yuki Tanaka, Cassandra Bruner, Aa Hee Lee, and Ethan Chua.</p><br>
<h2>Conferences</h2><br>
<p>In 2024, The Frost Place hired poet Patrick Donnelly to lead as Program Director. He continues to direct the annual Poetry Seminar. For many years, The Frost Place sponsored a Conference on Poetry, and a Conference on Poetry and Teaching. The Conference on Poetry was directed by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, with poet Ross White serving as Associate Director. The Conference on Poetry and Teaching and the Writing Intensive was directed by poet Dawn Potter; associate director was poet and teacher Kerrin McCadden.</p><br>
<h2>Management</h2><br>
<p>A board of trustees assumed responsibility for the management of the museum and associated programs, and Donald Sheehan served as executive director until 2005. In 2006, the trustees appointed Jim Schley to be Sheehan&#39;s successor. From the fall of 2008 until April 2011 the trustees managed The Frost Place. Maudelle Driskell was named executive director in April 2011 and served until 2023, when Stacy Holmes was hired as Interim Executive Director in the fall of that year. In 2024, Stacy Holmes was appointed Executive Director. Friends of the Frost Place is the nonprofit organization that manages The Frost Place house-museum and its programs.</p><br>
<h2>Resident poets</h2><br>
<p>The Fyler–Hotchkiss Estate, also known as the Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum, is a historic house museum at 192 Main Street in Torrington, Connecticut. Operated by the Torrington Historical Society, its main house is a well-preserved and distinctive example of Chateauesque Victorian architecture. It is also significant for its association with Orsamus Fyler, a prominent local politician and businessman. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Fyler–Hotchkiss Estate is located north of Torrington&#39;s central business district, on the east side of Main Street north of city hall and the Catholic church. The estate complex includes two houses and a carriage house, set back from the street. The main house is a large -story brick structure, with a cruciform plan. It has a hipped roof with gabled sections projecting to the sides, and dormers on the front and rear roof faces. A porte-cochere projects from the left side, and a circular three-story turret with conical roof projects from the left front corner. The front-facing gable dormer has a sculpted outline that is repeated at a much smaller scale in dormers rising in front of the turret roof. The main house, the Fyler–Hotchkiss house, is Chateauesque in style.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1897 to a design by William H. Allen for Orsamus Fyler. Fyler was a prominent local businessman and politician, who served in the American Civil War and was active in Republican Party politics. As state insurance commissioner he oversaw important reforms to the state&#39;s insurance regulations. The house passed to Gertrude Fyler Hotchkiss and Edward Hotchkiss, who was also prominent in local politics and business. The adjacent Italianate house, part of the original purchase by Orsamus Fyler, was used by the family as a rental property.</p><br>
<p>HotchkissFylerHouseCarriageHouse490sm.jpgCarriage house</p><br>
<p>CarsonHouseTorringtonConnecticut488sm.jpgCarson House</p><br>
<p>The Broom Building is located at 701 Wheeling Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio, United States. The property was listed on the National Register on February 17, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property was purchased by Adam Broom in the late nineteenth century for commercial purposes. He built a large building in 1890 in the Italianate style and operated his grocery at the site until the turn of the century. The building was then purchased by William Harper, another grocer, who ran his store at the location from 1901 until 1917. The building was also used for the Practical Business College.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The three-story brick building is rectangular in shape to fit its lot. The corner of the building is rounded off and contains the main entrance. Another entrance is located to the right of the main entrance with a large picture window in between. Small rectangular windows line the west facade and illuminate the interior ground floor. Stone surrounds the entrances and windows and breaks up the monotony of the brick face. The second floor contains long rectangular windows which are set within rusticated stone blocks. Brick pilasters line the walls along the rounded corner and are set with windows in between. All windows on this floor are 1/1 sash. The third floor is lined with the same 1/1 sash windows as the floor below, but are surmounted by a brick arch with a decorative keystone of rusticated stone. A stone belt course also lines the third floor at the top of the windows and runs the entire length of the building. A stone block is located on the rounded corner and bears the word "Broom" in large block letters. The flat roof sets on a metal cornice with a panelled frieze and egg and dart moulding. The overhang is supported by consoles and foliated ornament. Large red brick chimneys rise from the roof.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In early 1983, the Broom Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. Critical to its designation was its status as one of Cambridge&#39;s few remaining Italianate buildings without major modifications: numerous Italianate buildings once lined Wheeling Avenue downtown, but few have survived to the present.</p><br>
<p>The James Alldis House is a Queen Anne style house at 355 Prospect Street in Torrington, Connecticut which is significant for it being a fine, well-preserved example of Queen Anne architecture, and also locally for its association with the largest industry in Torrington, the needle manufacturing plant which became the Torrington Company. It was built for James Alldis, supervisor at the firm, and a leading citizen of Torrington. The house was built in 1895 and retains most of its original features, including the hardwood floors, most of the original lighting fixtures and door hardware, and the original hot air heat distribution system. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The property includes a second contributing building, which is a carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s "irregular plan and massing", its round tower with conical roof, and its "elaborate porch of sawn and turned woodwork", and "intricacy of detail" elsewhere are all characteristic of Queen Anne style exteriors. Besides variety in massing, variety is also expressed in a wide variety of window designs and surface textures. The first floor exterior is straight-lined, composed of narrow smooth clapboards; the exterior of the second floor and above is textured and wavy in its edges.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s interior is also Queen Anne style overall in that it includes classical detail work (of a variety of named styles), and it also is very well preserved. Interior details include a tiled fireplace. The house has two colored-glass windows, one believed to be from Tiffany Studios and one from Bigelow Studios.</p><br>
<h2>James Alldis</h2><br>
<p>James Alldis (1839–1910) was a leading citizen. English-born, he immigrated to the USA at age 14. He was supervisor of the Excelsior Needle Company, a needle manufacturing firm which became the Torrington Company, and which was the largest employer in Torrington. He worked there from 1869 to 1899, when he retired. He was a "principal shareholder" in the Torrington and Winsted Street Railway and served as its president from 1899 to 1906, when it was sold to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He was a Democrat in a Republican town. He purchased the property to have this substantial house built in 1895.</p><br>
<h2>Recent use</h2><br>
<p>In 1895, the house&#39;s location was in a "fine residential neighborhood" although very close to the downtown business area. Currently there is a church and other institutional buildings on the same block, and the Alldis House and at least one other house have been adapted for non-residential use. The house now houses a law firm on two floors and an apartment above.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church of Cedar Rapids, also called the Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1875, it served the Unitarian Universalist community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA, for more than 135 years. Because of the high cost of upkeep and diminishing membership, the congregation voted to sell the building and grounds in May 2010. It was demolished in October 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Skene Memorial Library is located on Main Street in Fleischmanns, New York, United States. It is also used as the village hall. The frame building, combining elements of the Queen Anne and Shingle architectural styles, dates to the early 20th century. Its exterior incorporates aspects of local train station architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was built by the widow of prominent gynecologist Alexander Skene, who summered in the area, and had founded the library several years before. In addition to her own contributions and contributions from villagers, she raised money from Andrew Carnegie, making it one of the many Carnegie libraries. Later it was deeded to the village. In 2001 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. among its 15,000 volumes.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The library is on an 0.9 acre lot on the north side of Main Street in Fleischmanns&#39; small downtown. The neighborhood is a mix of commercial and residential buildings. Behind the lot is woodlands, rising slightly to a low hill behind a small parking lot. In front is a small lawn with stone monuments to local war veterans, and the sidewalk.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building itself is an L-shaped one-story structure on a stone foundation sided in wood shingles. Four narrow wood moldings run around the eave, lintel, sill and water table levels. The high hipped roofs are shingled in asbestos with broad overhanging eaves supported by brackets. Stone chimneys rise from the west side and the east rear.</p><br>
<p>At the center of the south (front) facade is a porch supported by Doric columns and a wooden balustrade topped by a wide frieze and triglyph with dentilled moldings. The words "SKENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY" are on the entablature. Its overhang is also supported by narrow brackets. Three wide stone steps with iron railings climb up to it.</p><br>
<p>Above the porch is an octagonal tower with round-arched windows in alternating facets above the roofline. Its top stage has louvered vents in all but the front facet, which is sheltered by a gabled hood with a small vergeboard. It is topped by a rounded roof with the same bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>All windows are in pairs, with a diamond pattern in the upper pane. A similar pattern is in the transoms on the other two entrances, both on the north end of the rear. A modern wheelchair ramp goes up to these from the parking lot.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The double wood and glass doors at the main entrance lead into a small vestibule where stairs provide access to the tower and cellar. From there doors open into the main reading room, rectangular with an elliptical arched ceiling. The original plaster walls have been covered in modern paneling; the original hardwood floors remain. Oak and chestnut molding trims the cornice, doors and windows.</p><br>
<p>Two piers separate the main reading room from a smaller one on the west. It was meant to be separated from the main room by partititions that could be pulled down from the piers, but these may not be operational. The west reading room&#39;s main feature is the large stone fireplace on the west wall, with a decorative stone arch in splayed stone and brick. It has a narrow wooden mantel with a shelf supported by brackets and a 10 in wooden overmantel with decorative carving.</p><br>
<p>East of the main reading room is a stage area. It is recessed behind a partition and reached by three sets of stairs. Both it and the west reading room have molded window and door treatments similar to the main reading room. They can also be found in the small reading room in the north wing. The other room there, the village clerk&#39;s office, has been completely redone and has none of its original finishings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, the economy of the Catskills had shifted from forest-product industries to resorts, with the establishment of the state Forest Preserve and the completion of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. The Fleischmanns area became the summer residence of a number of celebrities of the era, such as baking magnate Charles Louis Fleischmann, for whom it would later be renamed, conductor Anton Seidl, opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci, and Alexander Skene.</p><br>
<p>The latter, a Scottish emigrant, was a pioneering gynecologist who founded the American Gynecological Society and for whom Skene&#39;s gland is named. He and his wife, Belgian-born Annette Wilhelmine Lillian Van der Wegen, built Bonnie Em, a Scottish-style castle, as their summer home on the slopes of Belleayre Mountain in nearby Highmount.</p><br>
<p>In the 1890s, Annette Skene had been trying to get the community to organize a public library, offering to start it with a donation of 500 books from her own library. In 1896, after two years of her entreaties, a library association was formed. Two residents donated the present site in 1901. Initially, funding for a library building came from subscription fees paid by Fleischmanns residents. Mrs. Skene also wrote to Andrew Carnegie, who was offering to finance what came to be called Carnegie libraries in English-speaking countries at the time, in gratitude for the role libraries had played in his life. He contributed $5,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) on the usual condition that the community building the library pledge a tenth of that amount annually for maintenance and support. Fleischmanns was able to raise double that amount, and began the collection with 875 books, including Mrs. Skene&#39;s original donation. The builder, Crosby Kelly, was another local resident and subscriber.</p><br>
<p>The library was opened late in 1901, named in memory of Alexander Skene, who had died the previous year. At that time, Carnegie funded libraries without any review of the plans for the proposed building, and New York architects Henry and Marshall Emery, summer residents who had also been among the subscribers, had a free hand. Most of their work is in the Rockland County village of Nyack, where Henry Emery moved the practice after his brother&#39;s death in 1921, and Albany and New York City.</p><br>
<p>The Skene library is not as high in style as the Emerys&#39; other known work and seems to have been designed more to blend in with other local architecture. It combines the Queen Anne and Shingle styles, both popular for resorts and cottages in the 1890s. Features such as the overhanging roof, eaves and shingled siding also suggest the railroad stations in the area.</p><br>
<p>Marshall Emery and Annette Skene married, and continued to support the library for several years, donating a heater in 1905. The year before, the association&#39;s minutes reflect a donation of $130 from the local Ladies Aid Society to hold a fair, which continued for many years. Performances were given on the stage, many using a grand piano that has since been lost. One local resident recalls seeing her first film, a Tom Mix western, at the library.</p><br>
<p>In 1928 it was deeded to the village for use as a municipal building. It continues in both roles today. There have been no significant changes associated with this use other than the remodeling of one of the rear rooms to serve as the clerk&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>La Iglesia Pentecostal La Luz del Mundo / Light of the World Church Pentecostal Church is an Assemblies of God Pentecostal church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, located at 179 South 9th Street, occupying the historic 19th-century former New England Congregational Church since 1955.</p><br>
<p>The former New England Congregational Church was a Congregational Church built between 1852 and 1853 in the Italianate-style to designs by Thomas Little. It is a brick building faced in brownstone with wood and metal trim. Henry Ward Beecher gave the keynote address at the cornerstone laying and his younger brother Thomas K. Beecher was the guiding spirit for the young congregation. The adjacent rectory was built in 1868.</p><br>
<p>At some point, the Congregational congregation sold the church and it was operating as a Lutheran church in the mid 20th century. The Lutherans sold the church in 1955 to Iglesia Pentecostal La Luz del Mundo / Light of the World Church Pentecostal Church (Assemblies of God Pentecostal). It was landmark protected in 1981. It was restored between 1988 and 1993, and as of 2008 was still in use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Transfiguration is a Roman Catholic parish located at 25 Mott Street on the northwest corner of Mosco Street  in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York and is staffed by the Maryknoll order.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in 1801 in the Georgian style of architecture for the Zion English Lutheran Church., a Lutheran congregation that subsequently converted en masse to the Protestant Episcopal Church. The church then became known as Zion Protestant Episcopal Church. It was rebuilt after a major fire in 1815 which gutted the church and 35 dwellings in the surrounding Five Points neighborhood. The church was rebuilt thanks to the effort of congregation member Peter Lorillard.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal congregation sold the building in 1853 to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which transferred to this building the congregation of the "Church of the Transfiguration" which was then located on Chambers Street.</p><br>
<p>The church is one of four on the Lower East Side built from Manhattan schist. A copper-covered octagonal tower designed by Henry Engelbert was added to the church building in 1868, when the Gothic windows are assumed to have been added as well. The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Parish</h2><br>
<p>The Church of the Transfiguration had its origins in 1827, when the Rev. Felix Varela y Morales purchased the former Episcopalian "Christ Church" on Ann Street to serve as a home for the fourth Catholic parish established on Manhattan. When the building on Ann Street became unsafe to use, in 1836 Father Varela purchased a former Scottish Presbyterian church on Chambers Street, renaming it the "Church of the Transfiguration", and his congregation moved there. The congregation had outgrown its Chambers Street church by 1853, leading to the purchase by the (then) Roman Catholic Diocese of New York of the larger church building on Mott Street to serve as a new home for the parish. The parish therefore has the unusual history not only of having been located in three different locations in the city, but each time having as its home a building originally built as a Protestant church.</p><br>
<p>Over the years it has continued to serve the Irish, Italian and more recently Chinese immigrant communities.</p><br>
<p>Today, this parish serves an almost entirely Chinese congregation. It offers Sunday masses in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and has a Catholic School open to all religions. The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers who staff the parish belong to an order that has historical roots in overseas missions to China in particular and the entire world in general. Because the Maryknoll Order is dedicated to overseas mission, this Chinese Roman Catholic Parish has the unique designation as the only parish that is entirely staffed by Maryknollers. Among its pastors was Bishop John W. Comber, M.M. (1967-1969), a Maryknoll Missionary who had served in Fushun.</p><br>
<h2>Transfiguration School</h2><br>
<p>Transfiguration School is the Catholic parochial school linked to the Church of the Transfiguration. It was founded in 1832 by Varela and became open to children of all faiths in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The school has high academic standards and won the National Blue Ribbon Schools Award in 2011. Focusing on expansion, the school has launched a five-year campaign that will end in 2016. By that time, there will be a student body of 700 across three campuses. The campuses are the Early Childhood Campus, Transfiguration Lower School, and Transfiguration Upper School. Transfiguration Lower School is the school connected to the Church of the Transfiguration. Transfiguration Upper Schools current campus was St. James Elementary Schools former campus, where New York State governor Al Smith received his only education.</p><br>
<h2>Mergers</h2><br>
<p>In 1967 St. Joachims Church on Roosevelt Street, which was founded in 1888 by the Scalabrini Fathers, was demolished to make way for a city housing development on Park Row. The parish was merged with the nearby St. Josephs Church, founded around 1923, also by the Scalabrini Fathers. In 2007, St. James Parish on James Street, established in 1835, merged with the nearby Parish of St. Joseph to create the combined Parish of St. Joseph/St. James. In 2015 St. Joseph/St. James was merged with the Church of the Transfiguration.</p><br>
<p>The Lagonda Club Building is a historic clubhouse in downtown Springfield, Ohio, United States. Designed by Frank Mills Andrews,</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1895, the Lagonda Club is an early example of Beaux-Arts architecture. This style was favored by Andrews, whose work appears to have been influenced by Louis Sullivans preferred style. After the Lagonda Club ceased to use the building, it became the headquarters of the local chamber of commerce. Today, the property is again owned by the club (now known as "Club Lagonda"), which seeks to rent most of its space to businesses. Because of its historically significant architecture and its place in Ohios history, the Lagonda Club Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975; at the same intersection is located another landmark, the former Warder Public Library.</p><br>
<p>St. Raphaels Church is a historic Catholic church in the city of Springfield, Ohio, United States. Established in the 1840s as Springfields first Catholic parish, it uses a Gothic Revival church building, the towers of which hold a prominent spot in the city&#39;s skyline. As a work of a leading city architect, the building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>None of Clark Countys first residents were Catholics; the first Catholics moved into Springfield circa 1835, and by 1845, the community had nearly seventy Catholic families. The first priest to minister in Springfield was Henry Damian Juncker, the future Bishop of Alton, but his responsibilities elsewhere permitted him to visit Springfield only once or twice monthly, and services were held in private residences or in buildings owned by others. James F. Kearney was the first resident priest, coming in August 1840, but due to illness he resigned after one years service. The members bought land in 1848, and the parish was officially erected in 1849 and dedicated to St. Raphael. Although money was originally lacking for the construction of a building, the parish&#39;s needs were supplied by wealthy Cincinnati resident Michael Cassily, and with his money the members built the foundation of a church building. Over the next quarter century, twelve different priests served the parish, holding tenures ranging from one to eighteen years. By the late 1860s, the parish was growing to the point that a single priest could no longer serve everyone: an assistant pastor was appointed in 1868, even though a second parish, St. Bernard, had been formed in 1860. Another parish, St. Joseph, was established in 1884.</p><br>
<p>When W.H. Sidley became the pastor in 1873, he was distressed to discover the parishs diminutive complex: a small brick house of worship, a tiny frame house used as a school, and no rectory whatsoever. He soon arranged for the construction of a rectory, which was finished in the following year at a cost of $7,000. Two years later, he began a more substantial school building, three stories tall, it was completed in September 1877 at a cost of $19,000. By the early 1890s, the church itself was proving insufficient for the parishs needs, and the process of replacing it began in early 1892 as the original brick building was destroyed. Six years passed before the completion of the replacement building, which was consecrated by William Henry Elder, the Archbishop of Cincinnati, on July 17, 1898.</p><br>
<p>St. Raphael&#39;s was the high school parish of Daniel Rudd, an African-American newspaperman who founded the first Black Catholic Newspaper in 1886, "American Catholic Tribune."</p><br>
<p>An Ohio Historical Marker honoring him was dedicated Dec 12, 2021.</p><br>
<p>During the 1920s, the church prospered amid civil strife. In 1923, when Archbishop Moeller was raising money for Mount St. Marys Seminary of the West, St. Raphaels was wealthy enough to provide $10,000 for the school fund, amounting to fully 10% of the total. Its funds also sponsored Springfield Central Catholic High School, meant for students of all city parishes rather than for St. Raphael parishioners only. Conversely, the church was the focus of rising Ku Klux Klan sentiment in Springfield. Among the most exciting incidents in the parish history occurred during a KKK parade: the Klansmen planned to process past the church, but the parish priest stood before the parade, blocking the way, and the Klansmen turned aside.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Raphaels is a high Gothic Revival structure, built of sandstone from Berea. Since construction in the 1890s, it has been one of Springfields most distinctive buildings, due in large part to its two front towers — the bell tower is 135 ft high, and the principal tower 184 ft. By climbing 156 steps to the summit of the principal tower, one gains a panoramic view of the city and surrounding countryside. The buildings general plan is that of a streamlined Latin cross, with slight gabled projections near the rear forming the crosspieces. Three entrances pierce the facade, while lancet windows of similar height are placed at varying locations in the towers, and two-story windows fill the side bays. Widest and tallest are the windows placed in the rear-side projections and above the entrances on the facade. Both towers are topped with pointed roofs, surrounded by ornamental pointed roofs of far smaller sizes, while the roof of the main part of the church is a steep gable. Despite extensive Gothic Revival detailing, such as the pointed-arch windows and doorways, the building also retains some elements of the Romanesque Revival style, including the false buttresses and columns around the main entrance, as well as the sheer massing of both towers. By the time that the building was complete, parishioners had spent $75,000 on construction and ancillary costs. The architect for St. Raphaels was Charles A. Cregar, first among architects native to Springfield. Cregar was responsible for numerous grand buildings in Springfield, including City Hall, and St. Raphael&#39;s is among the chief examples of his work.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>St. Raphaels remains an active part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, but no longer as a separate parish: St. Josephs and St. Raphaels have been combined into a single parish. The church building itself has received wide recognition: it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 1976, due to its historically significant architecture. It is one of six Cregar-designed buildings listed on the Register, along with the former city hall, St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, the former Arcade Hotel, St. Joseph&#39;s Church, and the former Third Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>The Shawnee Hotel, now called Shawnee Place, is a historic building in Springfield, Ohio. It is located on Main and Limestone Streets and at eight stories was the tallest building in Springfield when it was built in 1916–1917. It included such innovations as in-room plumbing, meeting rooms, and banquet facilities.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was in operation through the 1960s when converted to a residential hotel. It later was vacant until 1985, when it was converted to senior housing. The building was renovated again in 2009, and in 2012 became senior living apartments managed by Episcopal Retirement Homes.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple is a historic structure in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Located along High Street in downtown Springfield,</p><br>
<p>The temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2008. In nominating the temple for inclusion on the Register, the Ohio Historical Society highlighted its significance as the home of the oldest fraternal organization in Springfield.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Sidney in Delaware County, New York, United States. It is a community burial ground with the earliest recorded interment dated to 1787. Burials date from 1787 to 1890 and cemetery records indicate 275 burials.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Cemetery Signs.JPGCemetery sign and historic marker</p><br>
<p>Pioneer stones.JPGGravestones in the cemetery</p><br>
<p>Stone in Pioneer Cemetery.JPGGravestone in the cemetery</p><br>
<p>Amos Bristol Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located at West Meredith in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built about 1800 and is a two-story, five bay building of post and beam construction with wooden plank walls. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and is clad with narrow wooden clapboards.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Center Street Historic District is a historic district in Ashland, Ohio, United States. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 with a boundary increase that took place in 1992, Center Street features Victorian homes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district is established between Town Creek and Vernon Avenue on the east side of Center Street and between the theater and Morgan Avenue on the west side. Once known as Huron Road, Center Street runs current with Ohio State Route 511 and Ohio State Route 60, which travels the entire length of Ohio. is the homeowners&#39; association for the district.</p><br>
<p>From its inception, Center Street intended to be a street of significant homes. A June 22, 1859 Ashland Union article says:But the “star of empire” is establishing its head quarters in South Ashland. The grading of the principal street under the direction of the Supervisor, Mr. Hildebrand, has progressed sufficiently far to convince every one, that, when completed, and when the shade trees which, by next year, will line both sides of the street, shall have had time to accumulate a foliage, there will be no town or city in the State any portion of which will present a more attractive appearance than that of Centre street in South Ashland.Center Street fulfilled its potential, for prosperous businessmen, industrialists, bankers, politicians, and physicians built their significant homes on it. Since these homes were built between 1850 and 1920, a variety of architectural styles are represented. The view of these houses remains much the same as when most of the homes were completed.</p><br>
<p>At one time almost all of the Center Street houses had fences with gates that were kept shut to keep out the swine that were allowed to roam the city and the cattle that were driven along the street. In 1860 Ashland passed a hog ordinance and a cow ordinance in 1867 to prevent these animals from wandering in town.</p><br>
<p>During a city council meeting on April 30, 1894, R. M. Campbell petitioned to have Center Street paved with bricks from Main to Bank (now College Avenue) Streets. Although it was not the first brick paved street in Ashland, Center Street’s paving was accomplished four years before even Main Street was improved.</p><br>
<p>Per Alta Sims, who was central to the street being listed on the Historic Register, “the Center Street Historic District is, in short, a veritable textbook in residential architecture.”</p><br>
<p>Beginning at Town Creek, the houses on the west side of center street are as follows:</p><br>
<p>220 Center Street The Carter - Shinn House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house features a turret with a cone-shaped roof and a metal finial.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1893 by William Carter, who was in the lumber business. Later, his daughter, Louise, who was born in the house, lived here with her husband, T. Ellsworth Shinn.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as a florist shop,</p><br>
<p>302 Center Street The Hildebrand House, Originally Greek Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1859, this was the home of Jacob Hildebrand</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>308 Center Street The Parsonage, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1896, this house features a turret with a cone-shaped roof and a metal finial.</p><br>
<p>Given as a gift by Mrs. E. P. Smith, this house was the parsonage for the Congregational Church, which is across the street.</p><br>
<p>312 Center Street The Benjamin Myers House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Dr. Benjamin Myers served in the Ohio General Assembly, as mayor of Ashland, and as a county probate judge.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as Dr. Starkey&#39;s Chiropractic Clinic</p><br>
<p>414 Center Street The Cowan House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Originally a simple brick structure, this house was expanded in 1905 using Colonial Revival style by P.A. Myers for his son, Guy and his wife, Kate More. “It is remarkable for the fine detail of the frontispiece which matches that of the roof dormers of both the house and the carriage building.”</p><br>
<p>Built by Dr. Jacob P. Cowan who married Mary Jane Hooker. Dr. Cowan was a physician, served in the Ohio General Assembly, and was a United States Representative in the 44th Congress for what was at the time the 14th district.</p><br>
<p>Currently the home of the</p><br>
<p>414 Center Street The Thornburg Carriage House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Also part of the Ashland County Historical Society, home of the</p><br>
<p>432 Center Street The Wallack House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874 by Eli W. Wallack, this house has a projecting portal and imbricated siding. When Veda Winbigler owned the house, she split off the back portion around 1926 and moved it to the rear of the lot. It was made into a house facing Walnut Street, which has been torn down. On May 8, 1946 the house was sold to the Red Cross who added rooms to the back of the house twice.</p><br>
<p>Wallack was in business with J. W. Harman and then later with Randolph and Jonas Freer. Eventually he partnered with W. C. Frazee in a furniture store on Main Street. He served as treasurer for Montgomery Township. He was first married Anne Faws, who passed away in 1873 at the age of 39. He then married Caroline Campbell in 1876.</p><br>
<p>Formerly the home of the American Red Cross of Ashland County, it now serves as the law office of Robert DeSanto</p><br>
<p>508 Center Street The Philip A. Myers House, Italian Villa Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1915, by Philip Andrews Myers, this notable limestone and brick house includes an attached motor car garage. The front of this house is symmetrical with a central entrance topped with a third story dormer and one story bay windows on each side.</p><br>
<p>P. A. Myers was married to Samantha Alice Chase. He was an inventor with over 100 patents whose first notable invention was the double-action force pump. P.A. Myers with his brother, Francis Myers, own largest industry in Ashland, F.E. Myers & Brothers, a pump and hay tool business. In 1880, P. A. Myers was the first in Ashland to have a telephone in his original home at 420 Center Street, which was razed.</p><br>
<p>Currently incorporated into</p><br>
<p>602 Center Street The Frazee House, Italianate Architecture, Romano-Tuscan Mode</p><br>
<p>Built in 1873 by William C. Frazee, this red brick house has a heavy, bracketed cornice, a low roof, and carved lintels above its windows. It features a porch with a projecting hood and an elaborately carved gablet roof. This house was considered "one of the most beautiful and attractive in the city."</p><br>
<p>Frazee, who married to Nancy Swineford, was a businessman who was elected Ashland County clerk of the court of common pleas. After his time as clerk, he partnered with Eli Wallack in the furniture business and also was an undertaker.</p><br>
<p>608 Center Street The McClellan House, Queen Anne Architecture (Moved See 513 Center)</p><br>
<p>622 Center Street The Clark House, Jacobean Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1918, by Jesse Lewis Clark, this is an imposing three-story brick-and-stone house with “steep-sided triangular gables which rise above the roof.” The front features two-story bay windows with stone mullions. The house also has a delicate glass canopy extending over the north entrance. Italian artisans were brought to Ashland to create the plaster ceilings in some of the rooms.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Hess & Clark stock-food plant was one of the largest in this industry in the world. is still sold today. Clark built Ashland’s Good Samaritan Hospital (now part of the University Health System) in 1915 with the stipulation that no sick person should ever be denied care there. He was also the president of Ashland&#39;s Y.M.C.A.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>800 Center Street The Mayner House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1910 by Ed Mayner, this house was originally larger, for part of this house was removed to build another.</p><br>
<p>Currently the Flora House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>812 Center Street The Brown House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1908 by Emery Brown, one of the founders of the Home Company department store.</p><br>
<p>Currently the China House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>818 Center Street The Hunter House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1900</p><br>
<p>824 Center Street The Dotterwick House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1935 by Dr. Fred Dotterwick</p><br>
<p>Currently the Miller House, housing for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>834 Center Street The Heltman House, Gothic Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874, this ornate three-story house has a shorter, two-story turret with a finial. It features a wrap-around veranda topped with an open second story gallery. It has a central gable and a small third story veranda. It is finished with complex, imbricated siding.</p><br>
<p>J. H. “Hal” Heltman married Carrie B. Dresskell on August 20, 1884 and lived most of his life in this house. For 45 years he was a grocer and the Heltman building located on Mains Street still bears his family’s name.</p><br>
<p>Currently the Mossey Building, welcome center and offices for Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>910 Center Street The J.C. Myers House, Prairie Style Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1908 by John C. Myers, this house is irregular in composition with a horizontal look. It has dark wood stripping, a low-pitched tiled roof, and oblong chimneys. A contemporary photograph shows the house sporting an urn planter, which is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s signatures, but he has not been authenticated as the architect of this house.</p><br>
<p>Myers was a 1902 Harvard graduate and an art collector.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as the Ashland Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>934 Center Street The T.W. Miller House, Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1914 by Thomas W. Miller. One of the more grand and unique houses on Center Street, this house has a white smooth stucco walls, a red tiled roof, and arched doorway and windows. It also has a rear courtyard. It features a stately drawing room with a vaulted ceiling and galleries.</p><br>
<p>T. W. Miller founded Camp Rubber Company in Ashland which merged and became Faultless Rubber Company. The company specialized in medical rubber products and had a practical monopoly in sponge rubber products.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as medical offices for University Hospitals Health System</p><br>
<p>1016 Center Street The Haynes House, English Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house built in the 1920s by R. P. Haynes is made of limestone and stucco and has carved plaster walls.</p><br>
<p>1042 Center Street The Barr-Sheets House, Craftsman Architecture</p><br>
<p>Beginning at Town Creek, the houses on the east side of center street are as follows:</p><br>
<p>209 Center Street The Old Congregational Church, Romanesque Architecture</p><br>
<p>Completed in November 1890, this church is described as “a heavy and elegant brick structure of Gallatian architecture.”</p><br>
<p>The Congregational church was organized in 1889. This church was built during the tenure of its first pastor, Rev. John M. Merrill.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>303 Center Street The Pancoast House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built by Adaline Pancoast in 1904 after her husband, Ohio, died. The couple used to live in a house on this site built in 1874, which was moved to Ohio Street.</p><br>
<p>Ohio Pancoast was a druggist and one of the first businessmen to use gas jets to light his store windows. He was one of the business men that pledged not to sell alcohol without a prescription during the temperance crusade in 1874.</p><br>
<p>313 Center Street The Randolph Freer House, Italianate Architecture</p><br>
<p>Randolph D. Freer married Harriet Smith had four sons, Frank W., Charles R., Walter M., and George R. "Truly a self-made man," he, with his brother, Jonas, established the Farmers’ Bank of Ashland in 1874.</p><br>
<p>Currently serving as</p><br>
<p>401 Center Street The Old United Brethren Church, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>This church, whose "architecture is modern and tasty," was dedicated on November 15, 1896. It was rededicated on February 14, 1909 after some additions and improvements were made.</p><br>
<p>The United Brethren Church was founded in 1867 and the congregation built this church because they outgrew their original one.</p><br>
<p>Currently the</p><br>
<p>413 Center Street The Grabill Home, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house built in 1903 by Samuel H. Grabill has an extended carriage entrance on the north side. The front of this house is symmetrical with rounded verandas on either side of the centered entrance which is flanked by two-story Ionic columns supporting a portal. The ballroom was on the third floor. This house, designed by Vernon Redding, has a fan light over the front door and a large center hall that extends to the kitchen rooms in the back. A parlor/music room is on the south side with the family sitting room on the north. Behind the smaller carriage entrance hall is the dining room. A curved stairway on the south side leads to the second floor complete with five bedrooms and a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>Samuel H. Grabill was a farmer and business man. He married Anna Ewing and had four children, Nancy, Howard, John, and Elizabeth. The last three attended Oberlin College. Charles Kettering worked for S. H. Grabill “servicing the first electric street lights in Ashland.”</p><br>
<p>421 Center Street The Topping House</p><br>
<p>William V. B. Topping built the house in 1908 on this site where his father’s 1873 house was originally. This sturdy house sports an orange tile roof with dark, vertical wood siding on the upper portion and brick on the bottom.</p><br>
<p>Young Will Topping and Wils McClellan were listed as “pioneer wheelmen” of Ashland because they were among the first to ride bicycles.</p><br>
<p>427 Center Street The Patterson House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1900 by Shearer-Kagey and Co. with the inside finished by David Stark. The original front porch had spindles but was enlarged and enclosed by the Pattersons. There is cherry woodwork in the north parlor and the master bedroom. Quarter sawn oak makes up the rest of the woodwork except for the pine in the maid’s room. Near the leg of the dining room table was a bell that could be stepped upon to ring the maid. An open stairway leads one upstairs which has four bedrooms, a bath, and closets. The third floor is finished and there is a back stairway.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Patterson was the president of the First National Bank of Ashland from 1924-1933. He married Emma Kellogg, who was an accomplished soprano and the organizer of the Ashland Musical Club.</p><br>
<p>431 Center Street The Randolph Freer Homestead, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This tall home has a second story veranda and an unusual central turret. The upper portion has imbricated siding.</p><br>
<p>The first Randolph Freer home (he later built a house at 313 Center Street) Charles Freer lived here in the early 1880s.</p><br>
<p>503 Center Street The Jonas Freer House</p><br>
<p>One of the oldest houses on Center Street, this house was built in 1859 by Jonas and Mary Freer. This symmetrical house has a tall, central gable with a decorative fret. The entrance sits to the right in this central gable and is hooded with consoles. Recessed side wings were originally one story, but now are two. The house originally had gingerbread along the eaves and had porches with gingerbread in front of both recessed sides. In 1888 plate glass windows were installed and the wings were raised.</p><br>
<p>On November 15, 1888, was the dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument Mrs. Mary Freer donated to honor those who had given their lives in the Civil War. Former President Rutherford B. Hayes came to town for the dedication and likely stayed in the Freers’ home.</p><br>
<p>509 Center Street The Ullman House, Italianate Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built around 1880 by Jonas Freer. Plank I p. 133-134 This house was built by Jonas Freer and sold to George Ullman, a cashier at the Farmers’ Bank, in 1882. Mrs. Carleton Mitchell, daughter of Guy C. and Kate Moore Myers, rescued this house in 1984 with the help of restoration architect, Andrew Cascio and contractor Howard Steigerwalt. The outside of the house features gingerbread trim, porches, and a double front door with beveled glass. It has 11-foot ceilings and two marble fireplaces. The house currently is a duplex with a stairway with a walnut railing leading to the second floor apartment.</p><br>
<p>513 Center Street (formerly 608 Center Street) The McClellan House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>The original part of this house was built during the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>Wilson Marshall McClellan, M.D. began his practice in Ashland in 1898 and also owned a drug store. He was married M. Esther Harley and had two children, Jean Kathryn and Marcia.</p><br>
<p>521 Center Street The Wick House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>C. O. Wick built this house before 1874. Thomas R. Shinn purchased the house in the 1880s and separated the house into two residences, this one at 521 Center Street and the one next door, 525 Center Street, where his son, Carl, lived.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Shinn partnered in business with Beach and Brown to form the Home Company, a central department store for Ashland for years.</p><br>
<p>525 Center Street The Wick House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Originally part of the same structure as 521 Center Street, these houses both have three-story turrets, second-story bay windows and front porches.</p><br>
<p>531 Center Street The Damp House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This home was built prior to 1872 by John Damp, who also built the mill in 1869 that used to be on Center Street by Town Creek. This house features a three-story main block with a pointed gable and a first-floor bay window on the south side. The double-bracketed cornice has denticulated molding. The house was restored in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>603 Center Street The Brinton House, Victorian Stick Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built before 1874 purchased by Joseph Brinton, a railway agent. Joseph’s daughter, Mary Brinton Tubbs, wrote an essay, “Ashland in the Early 1880s” in which she describes the house as Cape Cod.</p><br>
<p>609 Center Street The Sackett House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in the 1880s by Dr. Clark D. Sackett, who also ran his medical practice from it.</p><br>
<p>707 Center Street The McDowell House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1930s by Ed McDowell, a superintendent at the F. E. Myers and Brother Company.</p><br>
<p>713 Center Street The 1st T.W. Miller House, American Four-Square Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1909, this house was the first residence for Thomas W. Miller and his wife, Helen Myers, F. E. Myers’ youngest daughter.</p><br>
<p>717 Center Street The Banning House, Second Empire Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in the 1880s by J. W. Banning. One of the most remarkable homes on Center Street, its timber may have been imported from Cincinnati. This house originally featured tall Gothic doors, impressive woodwork, and a third story ballroom.</p><br>
<p>The house has been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>803 Center Street The Mykrantz House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built during the 1890s by Joseph C. Mykrantz. Unique to this house is its wrap around porch with a corner gabled entrance way and third story crescent windows.</p><br>
<p>Mykrantz was a well-known attorney and “wrote a legal advice column for the Ashland Press.”</p><br>
<p>819 Center Street The Mowrey House, Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1906 by H. A. Mowrey, who had a photography and portrait business.</p><br>
<p>831 Center Street The Slocum House, Gothic Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in the late 1860s, this was originally a farmhouse. This house is symmetrical featuring a main block with a pointed central arch and recessed side wings with verandas. This house has gingerbread details, bracketed cornice, and denticulated molding.</p><br>
<p>841 Center Street The George Freer House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1902 by George R. Freer, this house features a large wrap around veranda.</p><br>
<p>George R. Freer married Myrtie Brown. He was a banker with Farmers’ Bank and also in clothing business, Freer Brothers, with brothers Frank and Charles.</p><br>
<p>847 Center Street The Charles Freer House, Vernacular with Colonial Revival Influenced Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1901 by Charles R. Freer.</p><br>
<p>Charles married Alice Wood and was also in clothing business, Freer Brothers, with brothers Frank and George.</p><br>
<p>855 Center Street The Brubaker House, Colonial Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1905 by William Henry Brubaker, who was part-owner of the Ashland Hardware.</p><br>
<p>903 Center Street The Kenney House</p><br>
<p>Built before 1874 by Judge T. J. Kenney, this house began as a “simple red brick farmhouse with three chimneys.” It has a fireplace with tiles reported to have been fired in Germany. The superintendent of the Faultless Rubber Company, Charles Edgerton Campbell, purchased this house in 1915 and enlarged it and covered the brick with stucco.</p><br>
<p>911 Center Street The Beach House</p><br>
<p>Built around 1930 by W. V. Beach</p><br>
<p>919 Center Street The Balch House, English Tudor Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1930</p><br>
<p>925 Center Street The Cordell House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>This house was built around 1920 by Will Cordell.</p><br>
<p>931 Center Street The Young House, Queen Anne Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built around 1920</p><br>
<p>933 Center Street The Stockwell House, English Revival Architecture</p><br>
<p>Built in 1922 by John Stockwell, this Elizabethan stone house has a roof that looks like thatch and stovepipe chimneys.</p><br>
<p>John Stockwell, with Thomas Wick, was one of the founders of the Home Company.</p><br>
<p>16 Vernon Avenue (formerly 1003 Center Street) The Stearns House, Victorian Vernacular Architecture</p><br>
<p>Union Free School is a historic school building located at Downsville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1903-1906 and is a large T-shaped wood-framed building on a raised foundation of concrete and bluestone. The main section of the school is two and one half stories with a hipped roof and features a decorative belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Rock Valley School is a historic one-room school building located at Rock Valley in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1885 and is a one-story wood-frame building on a cut-stone foundation and gable roof. The main section of the building is rectangular and approximately 24 feet by 36 feet, two bays wide and three bays deep. It was used as a school into the early 1940s and used as a polling place and community meeting house since the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Walton Grange No. 1454 is a historic Grange building located at 137 Stockton Avenue in Walton in Delaware County, New York, United States. Designed by architects Randall and Gilbert of Walton and built in 1886, it consists of a two-story administration building with an attached gable roofed drill shed. It was occupied from 1886-1896 by the 33rd Separate Company then vacated in 1896 and converted for use as a school and a Grange hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as Walton Grange #1454-Former Armory.</p><br>
<p>The Stockton Avenue Armory, a National Guard armory built in 1896, is located next to the Grange building. It was designed by Isaac Perry. It was occupied from 1896 to 1965 and converted to White Castle Department Store in 1966. It is now known as the Castle on the Delaware and is being restored to host events. It is also home to a cafe. In 2016 it was separately listed on the National Register as the Second Walton Armory (33rd Separate Company).</p><br>
<p>The South Street Armory, located at 55 South Street, was constructed in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Hobart Masonic Hall is a historic building located in the village of Hobart in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was originally constructed in 1889 as a meeting hall for St. Andrews Lodge No. 289 of Freemasons, although it is no longer used for that purpose.</p><br>
<p>The building is a -story wood-frame building on a rubble stone foundation in the Stick-Eastlake style. The building is rectangular in shape with a small cross gable wing on the west elevation.</p><br>
<p>Currently the building houses a local history museum, operated by the Hobart Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Delaware is a historic hotel building located at East Branch in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1891 and enlarged after a fire in 1908. It is a large three-story wood-framed building, 40 feet wide and 70 feet deep. It features a two-story verandah on the front facade supported by Doric order columns on the first story.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Judge Gideon Frisbee House is a historic home located at Delhi in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built about 1798 and consists of a 2-story, clapboarded, rectangular-frame main section with a -story rear wing. The house is in the Federal style. It serves as headquarters of the Delaware County Historical Association.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Murray Hill is a historic home located at Delhi in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1867 and is a frame building with an irregular plan in the Italian Villa style. It consists of a two-story, ell-shaped main block with lower wings extending from the south side and rear. It features a three-story tower above the main entrance with a one-story porch extending across the front. Also on the property is a two-story tenant house and a barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Hardenbergh House, also known as The Hardenbergh Manor, is a historic home located at Roxbury in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built about 1790 and consists of a 2-story, five-bay center-entrance stone structure with a smaller -story frame addition built about 1820. Also on the property is a board and batten horse and carriage barn, the ruins of a large dairy barn, and gateposts partially constructed of millstones.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Walter Stratton House is a historic home located at Roxbury in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1828 and is a small -story building on a deep fieldstone basement with a gable roof. It has a 1-story recessed frame wing. Also on the property is a 1-story frame garage. It is one of six extant stone houses in the town.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>MacDonald Farm is a historic farm complex located at Meredith in Delaware County, New York, United States. The complex consists of the main farm house, a hops barn now used as a garage, privy, smokehouse, incubator shed, barn, straw barn, creamery, mill building, and two residences built for married hired hands. The farm house was built in 1851 and most of the buildings were built between 1870 and 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Van Benschoten House and Guest House is a historic home and guest house located at Margaretville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It is an example of late 19th summer boarding house design applied to a working farmhouse. The main house was built about 1890 and its exterior massing of the two story main residence is broken up into four gabled pavilions emanating from a hipped-roof core in the Queen Anne style. It features an octagonal tower with a tall pointed roof. Also on the property is a cow barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Kelly Round Barn is a historic round barn located near Halcottsville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1899 and is a two-story structure with a low conical roof, approximately 90 feet in diameter. It features a central silo.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kelly Round Barn was built in 1899 by the Kelly brothers, Hiram, David, Norman and George as a milking barn. In 1915, it was sold to the Meade family who operated it until the 1960s. In 1981, it was donated to the Erpf Catskill Cultural Center by Alta Industries, which reconstructed the deteriorated barn in 1988. The barn has been the site of the Pakatakan Farmers Market since 1996.</p><br>
<p>The 90-foot diameter barn was built with oak timber and set on a stone foundation constructed by local mason Henry Sanford. It is one of the first and only existing round barns to have a fully operational silo located in the center. Gravity was used to push the hay to the bottom after being loaded from the top. As many as 51 cows were lined around the perimeter on the bottom so they could graze while they were milked. This represented the technological advance of efficiency.</p><br>
<p>New Stone Hall is a historic school building located at Franklin in Delaware County, New York, United States. It was built in 1855–1856 and is a three-story rectangular building, eight bays wide and three bays deep. It features a slate-covered hipped roof and octagonal cupola. It was built as the main academic building of the Delaware Literary Institute, then later used by the local school system. It was abandoned in 1932. It is located within the Franklin Village Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>McArthur-Martin Hexadecagon Barn is a historic barn located at Bloomville in Delaware County, New York, United States. It includes the 16-sided portion of the barn, calf wing and driveway, driveway ramp with stone embankment, two round silos and a frame addition. The barn was built in 1883 and is a three-story frame structure, 100 feet in diameter.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Banks Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. It spans the Neshannock Creek southeast of New Wilmington. Constructed in 1889, the bridge is a Burr arch truss built on stone foundations and supported by steel girders; it is 121 ft long.</p><br>
<p>Unlike many Pennsylvania counties, Lawrence County never possessed many covered bridges; perhaps only five such bridges were ever built in the county. Today, only the Banks Covered Bridge and the McConnells Mill Covered Bridge near Rose Point remain. While the Howe truss used by the McConnells Mill bridge is very rare, the Burr arch truss used by the Banks bridge is employed by many Pennsylvania bridges. Its interior walls are similar to those featured on many covered bridges in Bucks County.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical significance, along with the McConnell&#39;s Mill bridge.</p><br>
<p>Jackson-Aitken Farm is a historic farm house, dairy barn and farm fields located at Andes in Delaware County, New York, United States. The farmhouse was built about 1850 and is a one and one half wood-frame structure in a vernacular Greek Revival style. The barn is a large three story wooden building with a cross gabled banked entrance built in 1896. It features a distinctive cupola.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
