<p>The Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is located at the summit of the mountain of that name in the Town of Hardenburgh, New York, United States. It comprises a steel frame fire lookout tower, the observer&#39;s cabin and privy and the jeep road to the complex.</p><br>
<p>Balsam Lake Mountain, the westernmost of the Catskill High Peaks, was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York in 1887, when a nearby sportsmen&#39;s club built it to protect their lands below the mountain. It was later taken over by the state, which built several towers culminating in the current one. The tower was staffed until 1988.</p><br>
<p>After being closed for much of the 1990s, the tower was proposed for demolition as one of five remaining on state-owned Forest Preserve land in the Catskill Park. Hikers and local residents rallied to save it, and after the state&#39;s Department of Environmental Conservation changed its mind, it was restored and reopened. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001,</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The nominated property includes a 500 ft square area around the tower and the entire 3 mi jeep road to the summit from Mill Brook Road between Balsam Lake Mountain and Dry Brook Ridge, now marked as a hiking trail. This gives it a total of 10.9 acre of land, most of it owned by the state but some of it property of the descendants of Jay Gould, whose Furlow Lodge estate is in the area. The tower and road are considered contributing resources; three other buildings near the tower are related to it in function but are non-contributing.</p><br>
<p>The tower and other buildings are around a small clearing at the mountain&#39;s 3,723 ft summit. On all sides are boreal forest consisting of thick balsam fir and red spruce. This is the westernmost large stand of this kind of forest in the Catskills as no peaks west of Balsam Lake rise above 3,500 ft, the elevations where it is most commonly found.</p><br>
<p>The old road arrives from the east; a foot trail leaves the clearing to the south. Along much of its length the road is accompanied by old telephone poles and downed wire from the communication system that once served the tower. It follows red plastic markers down a winding course past a metal DEC gate at the boundary between public and private land to the northeast shoulder of the mountain at 3,300 ft. There it joins and follows another old road, now with the blue markers of the Dry Brook Ridge Trail, down to where it crosses paved Mill Brook Road.</p><br>
<p>The tower itself is 47+1/2 ft tall. It is a steel frame structure, anchored by bolts on surface plates into the exposed sedimentary bedrock at the summit, gradually sloping up to the enclosed cab at the top. Seven flights of steel stairs provide access from the ground.</p><br>
<p>Next to the tower, at the corner of the road and the summit clearing east of it, is the observer&#39;s cabin. It is a one-story batten-sided gable-roofed hut on a concrete foundation with a metal roof. Just inside the woods to the north is the wooden privy. In the summit clearing there is also a more contemporary wooden picnic table and, at the south end, the remains of an older foundation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The tower was built, privately at first, to answer a public need. Later it became public property, even as that need declined. Since then it has found a new purpose.</p><br>
<h3>1885–1909: Establishment by Balsam Lake Club</h3><br>
<p>The forests of the Catskills generally (though not those around Balsam Lake and its neighboring peaks) had been heavily exploited over the course of the 19th century by various forest-product industries, particularly tanning, which depended on the bark of the eastern hemlock for tannin, and left many stands of peeled first-growth trees to rot and die when they had taken all the usable bark. Loggers harvested commercial-grade timber for furniture and made charcoal in open pits in the woods.</p><br>
<p>Many simply abandoned the lands they owned after they had made their money, leaving them to default to the counties in question, which then owed the unpaid property taxes to the state. The distressed forests also heightened the risk of forest fires and their attendant damage to local communities. In 1885 the Ulster County delegation to the state Assembly resolved both issues by getting the Catskills included with the Adirondacks in the new Forest Preserve. The county&#39;s forest lands were transferred to the state to be kept forever wild, and with state ownership came state supervision of fire protection efforts. Nine years later, that legislation would be incorporated into a new version of the state constitution as Article 14, with language closing all the loopholes business-friendly state regulators at the Forest Commission had been trying to use in the meantime.</p><br>
<p>In 1887, two years after the Forest Preserve was created, members of the Balsam Lake club who hunted and fished on its lands near the headwaters of the Beaver Kill south of the mountain, decided to build a tower on the summit to detect fires early. A crew of workmen supervised by the club&#39;s warden built a small tower from trees cut near the summit.</p><br>
<p>That tower stood until 1901, when members of the club went to the summit and found it destroyed by a fire, the probable result of a lightning strike. A new tower, 35 ft in height, was built to replace it in 1905. The members of the Balsam Lake club continued to maintain and staff it until 1909, when the states Forest, Fish and Game Commission (FFGC), a predecessor agency to todays Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), took over the tower.</p><br>
<h3>1909–1970: Public use</h3><br>
<p>Following destructive fires during severe droughts earlier in the decade, FFGC supervisor Hames Whipple had turned to towers as a means of fire detection, since the previous methods of ground patrols had not been successful. He had done so after consulting with E.E. Ring, manager of Maine&#39;s state forestry agency, who had put up nine at locations around that state. "In my opinion," Ring wrote him, "one man located at a station will do far more effectual work in discovering and locating fires than a hundred men already patrolling."</p><br>
<p>The Balsam Lake tower joined those already operated by the state in the Catskills on Belleayre and Hunter mountains. Because of its height compared to the peaks to its west in Delaware County, it offered an excellent vantage point from which to spot fires in that area as well as its immediate surroundings in Ulster County. Views were unobstructed for 12 - in all directions.</p><br>
<p>After taking over, the FFGC spent $38 ($ in modern dollars) repairing the tower. The state also added a dedicated telephone line along a truck road it built connecting to Mill Brook Road at the north so the observers stationed at the tower would not have to hike to the tower from the clubs very remote location at the end of a long road up an isolated river valley. In its first year, according to the commissions annual report, observers spotted fires as far away as Fallsburg and Liberty in Sullivan County and in the Shawangunks, far to the south and southeast.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, the state replaced the crude shelter for observers, described by one as a "shanty", with a more permanent cabin. The next year the open wooden tower the club had built was replaced with a 47+1/2 ft Aermotor steel tower.</p><br>
<p>Mike Todd, the observer from the time the cabin was constructed until 1947, was sometimes able to spot fires as far away as Northeastern Pennsylvania, many miles to the southwest. During his tenure he claimed to have shot over 900 porcupines chewing on the cabin to prevent damage. He also took black bears around the tower and on his drive up.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1960s the state replaced the 1918 cabin with the current one. Unlike older observer&#39;s cabins in the Forest Preserve, the one on Balsam Lake lacks a porch. This was the most significant change to any aspect of the fire tower complex after the construction of the current tower.</p><br>
<p>Another observer, Larry Baker, ended a search and rescue operation in 1968. He found some missing Boy Scouts from Long Island who had gotten separated from their group, a short distance from the tower at the lean-to near the south end of the summit.</p><br>
<h3>1971–present: Decline and restoration</h3><br>
<p>From 1971 onwards, Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish describes the Balsam Lake tower as being staffed "primarily for the entertainment of hikers". One of those was CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who owns property in Hardenburgh and, observer Tim Hinkley recalls, came up with his daughter one day in 1988. Later that year Hinkley became the Balsam Lake Mountain fire tower&#39;s last observer as it was closed. Three years later, with the closure of the Red Hill fire tower in the southern Catskills after a brief reopening due to severe drought, the fire tower era ended.</p><br>
<p>The tower remained, its lower flight removed in 1993 to prevent public access. Hikers continued to climb it for the views from the steps, but it was no longer maintained and subject to deterioration. In 1990 George Profous, a DEC forester, wrote in a draft planning document that the Red Hill tower, one of the five left in the Catskill Park along with Balsam Lake, should be dismantled as no longer in conformance with state management guidelines for Forest Preserve lands. He hoped that public opposition would emerge and save the remaining towers, which it did.</p><br>
<p>The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development and DEC helped the communities near the fire towers form the Catskill Fire Tower Restoration Project. Volunteers in the area raised $16,000 through benefit concerts and art exhibits. DEC employees and AmeriCorps volunteers began restoring the tower in 1999, putting in new stairs and a new roof and windows for the cab. After new ironwork was installed, the tower reopened in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>The tower today</h2><br>
<p>Its views have been described as the finest from any Catskill fire tower, and it is a common destination for hikers. Aspiring members of the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club come because the peak is required for membership, other hikers come to complete the Adirondack/Catskill Fire Tower Challenge, and some come just for the view from the tower itself.</p><br>
<p>It can be approached from three directions. The two most common use the Dry Brook Ridge Trail, blazed with blue plastic markers, to connect to the red-blazed Balsam Lake Mountain Trail, which makes a short loop across the summit. South of the fire tower it connects to the yellow-blazed Mill Brook Ridge Trail, which offers a longer approach from the west over that mountain.</p><br>
<p>The northern approach, the most popular, the highest trailhead in the Catskills at 2,580 ft. It is longer but less of a climb In 1998 the Mill Brook Ridge Trail was built. It starts from the west end of Alder Lake near Turnwood and runs 6.7 mi to a junction with the Balsam Lake Mountain Trail 0.1 mi south of the fire tower. It is considered the most ambitious route</p><br>
<p>Graham and Doubletop mountains, Balsam Lake&#39;s higher neighbors to the east, dominate the view from the fire tower, with Slide, the highest Catskill peak, between them in clear weather. In the best of conditions the Blackhead Range at the northeast corner of the Catskills is visible as well. To the north Dry Brook Ridge appears as a single peak rather than a long ridge, with Bearpen, highest peak in New York outside the Forest Preserve, visible in clear weather. Westward Woodpecker Ridge and the eastern summit of Mill Brook Ridge are closest, and in the distance the view looks down on the lower peaks in eastern Delaware County, with Mount Pisgah, home to Ski Bobcat, standing out above most of them. South the view takes in the Beaver Kill Range, with Peekamoose, Table and Red Hill and its fire tower also visible. In clear weather the Shawangunk Ridge is also visible to the southeast, and Elk Mountain, highest peak in Northeastern Pennsylvania, is on the southwest horizon.</p><br>
<p>As part of the restoration project, interpretive guides man the tower on weekends during the warmer months. Those who wish to stay the night on the mountain can camp in a lean-to on the south slope below the spring at about 3,300 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Hadley Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Hadley Mountain at Hadley in Saratoga County, New York. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation in 1917.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the initial ten towers purchased by the State Commission to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires. The tower may be staffed in summer months by a steward who will answer questions from hikers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Plaque</h2><br>
<p>There is a plaque at the base of the trail which leads to the fire tower. The plaque states that the original wood tower was erected in 1916. The current steel tower was built in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The Kane Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Kane Mountain at Caroga in Fulton County, New York. The station includes a 60 ft, steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1925, an observer&#39;s cabin built about 1960, and foot trail. The tower and trail are contributing resources. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Kane Mountain Fire Observation Station can be accessed via three separate foot trails leading to the summit of Kane Mountain. The main trail runs from Green Lake Rd. This 0.5 mile hike climbs 600 ft. to the top of the mountain at 2200 ft. above sea level. The trail is moderate in difficulty. The second trail runs from Schoolhouse Road. This is a shorter ascent to the top, however its difficulty is higher due to a steeper grade and rocks. A third trail can be accessed either from the Green Lake Rd. trailhead or from the Pine Lake Campground.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Tremper at Shandaken in Ulster County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 47 ft, steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917 and a jeep trail that extends from the base of the mountain to a point below its summit. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Catskill Park from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire lookout tower on Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain at Chesterfield in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 40 ft, steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a jeep trail that extends from the base of the mountain to a point below its summit, the remains of an observer&#39;s cabin possibly built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936, and a spring house. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Windmill Company.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on the western end of the Loon Lake Mountains west of Loon Lake in Franklin County, New York in the Debar Mountain Wild Forest. The station and contributing resources include a 35 ft, steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it replaced a wooden fire tower that was constructed in 1912. The tower has been unused since 1971, and the stairs have been removed to keep people from climbing it.</p><br>
<p>The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Saint Regis Mountain at Santa Clara in Franklin County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 35 ft, steel frame lookout tower erected in 1918, the site of the former observer&#39;s cabin, and 9/10 of a mile foot trail between the cabin site and summit. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The tower was restored by a friends group that formed in 2013, and the tower was re-opened to the public in September 2016.</p><br>
<p>Blue Mountain House Annex, also known as The Log Hotel, is a historic hotel located on the grounds of the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York, USA. It was built in 1876 and is a two-story structure built of square-hewn spruce logs with halved log cornering. It features a verandah on the south and east. It is one of the earliest and best known of the Adirondack resort hotels.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Hedges is a historic home and Adirondack Great Camp located at Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York. The property consists of 30 buildings and structures and many related site features. From about 1890 to 1920, it was the seasonal home of Hiram B. Duryea, and from this period nine buildings and structures remain. In 1920, it was purchased by Richard J. Collins and converted to an Adirondack resort. The Main Lodge complex was built in 1882; the main block is a two-story, wood-framed building with a mansard roof. The Stone Lodge was built 1900–03 and is a two-story gambrel-roofed building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>In April 2018, the Hedges was sold to a coalition of sixty individuals and families, many of whom had a long history as guests at the resort. It remains open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Lake Pleasant Town Hall is a historic town hall located at Speculator in Lake Pleasant, Hamilton County, New York. It was built in 1894 and is a simple -story, three-by-three-bay, front-gabled, clapboard-sided building. It was used as town hall and library until 1961, when the town offices moved to new quarters. The library remained until 2003 and it is now used as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Hamilton County Courthouse Complex is a historic courthouse complex located at Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The complex consists of three buildings: an 1848 Greek Revival style stone jail with 1940 stone addition, the 1929 brick courthouse, and county clerks office building, also built in 1929. The Colonial Revival style buildings replaced the original 1843 wood-frame courthouse and clerks office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hamilton County NY Jail Aug 10.jpgJail building, August 2010</p><br>
<p>Whelan Camp is a historic late period Adirondack Great Camp and national historic district located on Raquette Lake at Long Lake in Hamilton County, New York. The district includes four contributing buildings and one contributing structure. It is composed of a large, sprawling Shingle Style main camp and five supporting buildings constructed between 1915 and 1918. The buildings include the Main Lodge, Garcon Lodge, Power House, lean-to, and workshop.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Chenango County Courthouse District is a national historic district that includes a historic courthouse located at Norwich in Chenango County, New York. The district has 45 contributing buildings and includes two parks, governmental buildings, cultural and commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the Chenango County Courthouse , Sheriffs office , County Clerks office , First Baptist Church , Maurice S. Ireland Building , Old Norwich Hotel, City Hall , and the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Depot . Also in the district is the separately listed US Post Office-Norwich.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex located at 37 W. Main Street in Norwich, Chenango County, New York. The complex consists of the church, parish hall, and education building. The church was designed by architect Isaac G. Perry and built in 1874 in the Gothic Revival style. It is a one-story, rectangular limestone structure, 116 feet long and 62 feet wide. The main facade features two square, engaged towers of uneven heights. The parish hall was built in 1915 and expanded with the education building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The San Germán Underground  is a vaulted brick storm sewer system built in 1835 underneath the urban center of San Germán, Puerto Rico. The system is made of a central tunnel and several smaller side tunnels. The construction is of brick and rubble with modern concrete repairs. The main part of the system covers the underground course of Quebrada Manzanares from its headwaters to its resurgence as a surface stream, 842.53 m away. The vaulted brick branches, most of them abandoned and sealed, date mostly from before 1910. The tunnel sections built up to 1918 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Alcantarilla Pluvial sobre la Quebrada Manzanares.</p><br>
<p>St. Augustines Catholic Church is a historic church in Napoleon, Ohio, United States. Located on the edge of the citys downtown, two blocks away from the Henry County Courthouse, the church is a prominent landmark in Napoleon.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Augustine Parish was founded at some point between 1856 and 1858; its first priest was Michael Pietz. The parish was dedicated to St. Augustine in honor of Augustine Pilliod, who supervised the construction of its first building. This structure was replaced with the current church, which was built at a cost of $21,893. Although construction was largely completed in 1881, the altars were not installed until 1888.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Augustines Church has been rated a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture: both its exterior and its interior feature many examples of the style. A high ceiling, supported by many Gothic arches, rises above the sanctuary and its elaborate wooden altar and pews. Stained glass windows on the front, rear, and sides of the church provide light to the interior. The buildings exterior, topped with a steeple that rises 200 ft above the ground, is built of brick trimmed with stone. The entire structure rests on a stone foundation; at the time of construction, small windows lit the basement, but these windows have since been closed with concrete blocks. Other small alterations have been made to the building over the years, including the replacement of the original front doors and wooden steps and the removal of crosses on the building&#39;s corners.</p><br>
<p>Three buildings associated with the church are located nearby. A two-story brick rectory, bought by the parish in 1925, sits behind the church, while a Catholic school lies next door. Across Clinton Street from the church is located a convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame, a two-story Italianate building constructed in 1862.</p><br>
<p>The tall brick Gothic tower of St. Augustines Church places its architecture in stark contrast to another historic church on the edge of downtown Napoleon. First Presbyterian Church, located on Washington Street four blocks southwest of St. Augustines, features an American Gothic exterior built of multicolored sandstone.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance. It is one of four buildings in Henry County that are listed on the Register; the others are the county courthouse, the sheriff&#39;s house and jail, and First Presbyterian Church. It remains an active parish of the Diocese of Toledo and its Our Lady Queen of Peace Deanery.</p><br>
<p>Sherburne Historic District is a national historic district located at Sherburne in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 119 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The district contains four areas: the commercial district, the South Main Street neighborhood, the William Champ Park and environs, and the East State Street residential area. The district includes commercial, academic, industrial, and residential properties. Among the notable structures are the Sherburne Bank Building , Sanford Block , Sherburne Inn , Congregational Church , and Sherburne Public Library .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Kreuzer-Pelton House is a Dutch-influenced fieldstone house on Staten Island in New York City. Erected in 1722 as a one-room cottage, it was expanded in two stages: in 1770 and in 1836. It is designated as a New York City landmark. The house was built by Joseph Rolph.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, Tory militia commander Cortlandt Skinner used the house as his headquarters. William IV of the United Kingdom was a guest at the house.</p><br>
<p>The Hall-Benedict Drug Company Building is a historic commercial building at 763-767 Orange Street in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1909 to house a pharmacy, it is a little-altered and well-preserved example of an early 20th-century mixed residential-commercial neighborhood building. The building was listed on the National Register in 1986. It is also a contributing property in the Whitney Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hall-Benedict Drug Company Building is located northeast of downtown New Haven, on the south corner of Orange and Linden Streets in the East Rock neighborhood. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, built with load-bearing brick walls and a roof that has a steep mansard facade in front and a slightly sloping shed roof to the rear. The front roof face has modillion blocks at the eave, and is pierced by three dormers; the outer two have gabled roofs, while that at the center has a shed roof. The front facade faces Orange Street, and is asymmetrical, with a glassed storefront at the corner that has a recessed entrance. The main building entrance is near the center of the facade, under a continuation of the cornice that extends across the storefront&#39;s top. A round-arch window occupies the rightmost bay of the front. Upper-level windows are sash with fixed diamond-light transom windows above. Despite efforts of local preservationists, the original storefront windows were removed in 2020 and replaced with historically inappropriate modern plate-glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1909 for Alonzo B. Hall, a druggist who had just entered partnership with Edward M. Benedict. The only significant alteration to its interior or exterior has been the addition of an ell to its rear in 1929. This is in contrast to most similar buildings of the period in the city, which have been substantially altered. The building was designed by Frank Elwood Brown, a local architect who produced a significant number of designs for modest residences and commercial buildings in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Bainbridge Historic District is a national historic district located at Bainbridge in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 93 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and one contributing object. It encompasses the villages most intensive concentration of historically and architecturally significant properties. It includes commercial, residential, civic, and ecclesiastical buildings. It includes the village green with bandstand and the adjacent United Presbyterian Church  and St. Peters Episcopal Church . Other notable buildings include the Bainbridge Town Hall , Old Jericho Tavern , and First United Methodist Church . Located within the district are the house and carriage house of the separately listed Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Greene Historic District is a national historic district located at Greene in Chenango County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 141 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It includes the main commercial area and the oldest residential neighborhoods, with notable public buildings interspersed. The commercial structures are two or three story frame or brick buildings and include the Sherwood Hotel (1913). Other notable ecclesiastical and public buildings include the Municipal Building (1886), Moore Public Library (1903), Zion Episcopal Church (1886, designed by Henry M. Congdon), Church of the Immaculate Conception (1834), First Congregational Church (1820), and Central Baptist Church (1901). Located within the district is the separately listed Clinton-Rosekrans Law Building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Oxford Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Oxford in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 201 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures. It encompasses the village&#39;s historic core and includes commercial, residential, civic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Among the notable buildings are the First National Bank of Oxford building , James Clarke House building , Baptist Church , and Gerritt Van Wagenen house . Located within the district are the separately listed Theodore Burr House and US Post Office-Oxford.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Theodore Burr House  is a historic home located at Oxford in Chenango County, New York. It is a box like, wood-frame 2-story building with recessed -story wings. It was built between 1810 and 1812 by Theodore Burr , one of the founding settlers of Oxford. It was a private residence until 1843, then a rectory until 1900 when it became the public library building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1981.</p><br>
<p>New Berlin Historic District is a national historic district located at New Berlin in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 118 contributing buildings. It encompasses the villages historic core and includes commercial, residential, civic, ecclesiastical, and railroad related buildings. Among the notable buildings are the Central Hotel , National Bank and Trust Building , First Baptist Church , St. Andrews Episcopal Church , Municipal Building, and New Berlin Central High School. Also located within the district is the separately listed Horace O. Moss House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Horace O. Moss House, also known as Preferred Manor, is a historic home located at New Berlin in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1831 and is a 2-story, five-by-five-bay, fieldstone house with a 1-story frame addition and truncated hip roof with central belvedere. It was reportedly designed by Richard Upjohn and features an elegant Federal period interior. It is located in the New Berlin Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The William Lawrence House is a historic house in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States. Located along Main Street  north of the city&#39;s downtown, it is historically significant as the home of William Lawrence, a prominent USA Representative during the late nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The house is a square two-story structure, measuring approximately 50 ft on each side, and topped with a hip roof; its brick walls rest on a stone foundation with a basement. At the time of construction, the house included multiple chimneys, but with one exception these have all been removed. Other changes since the time of construction have included the replacement of multiple doors and the addition of a wing in the rear and a small stone porch on the southern side. With the exception of the removal of shutters from the windows, the Main Street front of the house differs little from its state when built. Inside, many original features remain, including walnut panelling and two cherry fireplaces. The most prominent original feature is the spiral staircase, which climbs from the first floor to a skylight above the second floor. Lawrence&#39;s original dining room and kitchen were damaged by a fire; soon after new owners purchased the house in 1947, the rooms were completely reworked and converted into a storage room for the rear wing.</p><br>
<h2>Home of a politician</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The Lawrence House was built circa 1860 in a modified version of the Italianate style. While the exact date of construction is unknown, its terminus ante quem is 1861: in this year, a member of the Lawrence family incised initials and the date into a windowsill.</p><br>
<h3>Life of Lawrence</h3><br>
<p>Born in Mount Pleasant in eastern Ohio in 1819, Lawrence was trained as a lawyer and moved to Logan County in 1841, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. During his years in Bellefontaine, he served in various county offices, was elected to both houses of the Ohio General Assembly, served six terms in the United States House of Representatives, and was appointed to the office of First Comptroller of the Treasury. Lawrence was known professionally as an expert on land law; he was the primary lawyer on behalf of Great Plains farmers who won nearly 1,000,000 acre of land in a prominent lawsuit against railroad companies. As a leading member of Logan County society, he served on the board of trustees of Geneva College in Northwood from 1851 to 1854. In his private life, he was deeply interested in agriculture; after his death, his estate included multiple farms.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence purchased from P.S. Powell a lot at the intersection of Main Street and High Avenue in Bellefontaine in 1852; here he built his house approximately eight years later. He owned the property until 1897, when he conveyed it to his family; however, he continued to live there until his death two years later.</p><br>
<h2>After Lawrence</h2><br>
<p>Lawrences widow Caroline sold the house to a Dr. W.W. Hamer in 1901; in it, Hamer operated Bellefontaines first hospital. Later owners included a family who lived in the house, the Howard Kerr American Legion Post, and B.O. Beatty, the owner of a car dealership. After owning the house for only a short while, Beatty sold it to the recently founded Calvary Baptist Church, which quickly began to remodel the property. Two years of renovation included the addition of the rear wing, which was used as a sanctuary, and the removal of the kitchen and dining room that had been burned while the house was used by the American Legion; the rest of the house was used as offices and Sunday School classrooms. Members of the church first worshipped at the property on March 6, 1949.</p><br>
<p>After growing membership forced Calvary Baptist to build a new house of worship in 1972, the house remained vacant until it was bought by a partnership of lawyers. The law office remains in the house today; the rear addition has been converted into offices that are used by other businesses.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the William Lawrence House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While its high degree of preservation was seen as significant, the house was added to the Register primarily for its association with Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Redondo Beach is part of the California Federation of Womens Clubs  and was founded in 1908. Included in the Mission Statement of the Woman&#39;s Club of Redondo Beach is the care and preservation of their Clubhouse which was built in 1922 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The buildings design "reflects the beach community character of Redondo Beach during its early years. Using redwood board and batten construction, the building expresses the vernacular bungalow tradition once popular in Southern Californias coastal areas." The building is one of the largest surviving in the South Beach communities, of buildings of its type.</p><br>
<h2>Club history</h2><br>
<p>On November 6, 1908, a small group of twenty women, ambitious to be helpful in the civic and cultural life of their community, organized the Woman&#39;s Club of Redondo Beach. An agenda was adopted to support local charities, provide social services through volunteerism, promote cultural and civic advancement as well as hosting social events.</p><br>
<p>The club was accepted into the General Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs in 1910 and incorporated November 7, 1915 under the state laws of California.</p><br>
<p>On May 6, 1922, construction of the Clubhouse was begun at 400 South Broadway, Redondo Beach. In October 1922, the first meeting was held in the new building.</p><br>
<p>A Junior Membership was established in 1922; the Dianas, an intermediary group was organized in 1932, for women under the age of 35, after which time they would join the Woman&#39;s Club. The Evening Division (to accommodate members who were unable to attend during the day) was formed in 1949, but later disbanded.</p><br>
<p>South Otselic Historic District is a national historic district located at South Otselic in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 60 contributing buildings. It encompasses the hamlets historic core and includes commercial, residential, ecclesiastical, and industrial buildings. Among the notable buildings are the Methodist Church , Gladding Corporation factory and office , J. Brown Grist Mill , Noonans Blacksmith Shop , Cox Block , and Dew Drop Building . Notable residences include the Octagon House  and the Queen Anne style Former Gladding Mansion .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Cox Block built in 1890 burnt to the ground on December 14, 2014. After a grease fire started in one of the first floor apartments.</p><br>
<p>West Hill Cemetery  is a historic cemetery at Sherburne in Chenango County, New York. The cemetery contains over 4,500 burials, two thirds of which predate 1950. The earliest burial dates to 1803. The cemetery includes a small, one story brick chapel built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Col. William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), US Representative and son-in-law of President John Adams is buried here.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Sherburne High School is a historic high school located at Sherburne in Chenango County, New York. It was constructed in two phases, 1924–1925, and 1935. The building ceased being used as a school in 1981 after consolidation in the Sherburne-Earlville Central School in 1971 and subsequent use as an intermediate school.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Smyrna Elementary School is a historic elementary school building located at Smyrna in Chenango County, New York. The original 86,000 ft&sup2, L-shaped school was constructed in 1941. In 1956, a 4,650 ft&sup2; addition was completed in two sections; a classroom section to the east and small kitchen addition to the south. It is a single-story building with basement and mezzanine work space. The building is in the Art Moderne style. The school closed in the late 1970s after consolidation in the Sherburne-Earlville Central School.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Charles C. Hovey House and Strong Leather Company Mill is a historic home and mill located at Bainbridge in Chenango County, New York. The house is a -story Queen Anne style residence constructed in 1889. It and the adjacent carriage house were included as part of the Bainbridge Historic District. The mill building is a long -story, 5,000 ft&sup2; structure built between 1897 and 1903 to house the Strong Leather Company, a manufacturer of patent leather. The roof is defined by its unusual parabolic arch, formed by a series of 60 rounded bows joined to the rafters.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Community House, also known as the Winnetka Community House, is a 3 acre community center located at 620 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois. The center was completed in 1911, though it has been expanded several times since. Architect Arthur Coffin designed the building primarily in the Tudor Revival style, though his design also incorporated elements of the Prairie School. The building hosted a wide variety of community activities for all ages and genders, including sports and gym classes in its gymnasium, music and photography groups, billiards, and lectures; by the end of 1911, 51 different groups had begun meeting in the center. While the Community House was nonsectarian, its establishment and operation were heavily influenced by Winnetka&#39;s Congregational Church and inspired by its principles of community, education, and youth outreach. In keeping with the popular contemporary settlement movement, the church also planned the center as a settlement house; while it lacked living spaces, it included other typical settlement houses features such as its gymnasium, dining areas, and meeting rooms.</p><br>
<p>The community center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2007.</p><br>
<p>Bates Round Barn is a historic round barn at Greene in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1928 and is a three-story structure, with attic, and a diameter of 60 feet. It is covered by a domical roof and the interior silo, built of tile, is topped by a ventilator. DeVern Bates also built the nearby Young Round Barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Young Round Barn is a historic round barn at Greene in Chenango County, New York built in 1914. It is located on ‘’’Round Barn Farm’’’.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The barn was built by DeVern Bates for James Clifford Young after his previous barn burned down in 1914. Bates was familiar with circular barn design having designed one for the University of Illinois in 1910. It is a two-story structure, with a large square entrance bay, and a diameter of 80 ft. It is covered by a conical, two slope gambrel roof topped with a circular cupola venting the loft and central silo. DeVern Bates also built the nearby Bates Round Barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Clinton–Rosekrans Law Building is a historic law office at Greene in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1892 and is a simple two story brick structure with an ornate, galvanized iron front. It measures 40 feet wide and 60 feet deep, with a frame second story porch in the rear. It is located within the Greene Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Earlville Opera House is a historic theater located in Earlville in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1890 and occupies six of the eight units of the Douglass Block. The three-story Opera House rises above the two-story annex with the theater and balcony occupying the second and third floor, while storefronts are housed on the first floor. The heyday of the Opera House was from the 1890s to the 1920s; serving as a focal point for community activities and the arts beginning in 1892 and evolved through the decades by providing Vaudeville acts, three-penny operas, and traveling medicine shows, followed by silent movies and then “talkies” in the 1950&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>Then, the realities of cars, drive-ins, and television forced the small second story theater out of competition, locking the doors in 1952, seemingly for good. In 1971 the building was threatened by demolition but purchased by artist and political activist Joey Skaggs and generously donated to the Earlville community for the express purpose of restoring, preserving, and continuing its cultural function in perpetuity.</p><br>
<p>In July 1972, the Earlville Opera House, Inc., assembled a volunteer board of directors and began restorative work immediately; in 1974, the Opera House was named to the National Register of Historic Places; and in 1976, the Opera House saw its first live performance in more than fifty years. Since that time, the Opera House has operated as a volunteer-based, not-for- profit organization with a dual mission: "To enrichen the Central New York community through the visual and performing arts while preserving its historic building for future generations".</p><br>
<p>Patrons near and far continue to benefit from the vision, determination and leadership of the Earlville Opera House in three different centuries, particularly during the 50 years since its rebirth as a multi-arts center dedicated to community building through presenting the highest quality of artistic programming with longevity. This remains a true reflection of the artistic vision of Joey Skaggs.</p><br>
<p>Earlville Opera House is located within the Earlville Historic District. It is used as a community arts center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Earlville Opera House is a wonderful, largely intact, acoustically perfect historic theater. Managed by a stable, well-established, community-based organization, the building is the home of an exceptional year-round performance series; three visual arts galleries; an Artisan Gift Shop featuring the work of regional artists; arts education opportunities; a workshop series in response to community needs; and a variety of cultural activities including administration of the New York State Council on the Arts State Community Regrants (SCR) Program for Broome, Chenango and Otsego counties. The iconic venue serves far more than its own Village and continually addresses the current and future needs of a large regional community by expanding the availability and diversity of arts and culture in rural New York, undertaking critical historical preservation, and enhancing the economic vitality of Central New York.</p><br>
<p>History of more than one Opera House on the current site:</p><br>
<p>Fire visited the first Opera House soon after it was built in 1890. The village with the help of Newell Douglass constructed a second opera house in the Douglass block on East Main Street but it too burned on March 31, 1892, when half of the Douglass block was consumed in the blaze. The village rallied again and the current Opera House was completed by November 1892 on the same site.</p><br>
<p>Smyrna Town Hall-Opera House is a historic town hall and theater at the hamlet of Smyrna in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1907 and is a modest two story rectangular building under a shallow hipped roof topped by a square wooden cupola. It is of wood-frame construction with a yellow brick veneer, three bays wide and four bays deep.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Smithville Valley Grange No. 1397, also known as First Universalist Society Church and Smithville Community Center, is a historic grange hall at Smithville Flats in Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1842 as a church and converted for use as a grange hall in 1921. The building is in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, known locally as Saint Michael&#39;s Monastery Church, is a state and national historic place in Union City, New Jersey, United States. Formally opened in 1869 and completed in 1875, the grounds of the complex are bounded West Street and Summit Avenue between 18th and 21st Streets. The small street leading to its front entrance from the east is called Monastery Place. At one time the largest Roman Catholic church in Hudson County, it has since become home to a Presbyterian congregation while part of the grounds are used for housing and education. At one time its walls were adorned by artwork by Hildreth Meière, until rain damage prompted their removal from public view.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1861, Passionists began their ministry in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and by 1864 had built a monastery in what was then West Hoboken, on a site bounded by West Street and Summit Avenue, between 18th and 21st Streets. was donated by J. Kerrigan, the owner of Kerrigan Farm, and the namesake of Kerrigan Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The monastery that was located on the grounds began operating in 1864. The domed church was designed in 1869 by Irish-American architect Patrick Keely. It opened its doors later that year. Additions to the complex were made in 1914, 1929, and 1944. In 1934 artist Hildreth Meière was commissioned to create three murals of the patron saints of the church&#39;s shrine for its the chapel.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the relics of Saint Benedict were enshrined near the main altar. At one time, the church was the largest Roman Catholic house of worship in Hudson County. A 1934 fire—one of the largest ever in North Hudson—completely destroyed its domed section, as well as all three of the Hildreth Meiére murals. The church was rebuilt and reopened the following year, and Meiére was again commissioned to create 14 more murals to hang in the monastery.</p><br>
<p>The monastery continued to serve the predominantly Irish, German, Italian, and Hispanic community as a local seminary and residence for church clergy.</p><br>
<p>Following a 1984 fire, the owners attempted to sell the property, which at the time was the last undeveloped major parcel of land in Union City, to a commercial developer interested in building a shopping center, but the city blocked this endeavor by rezoning the six-square-block site for single-family residential development. In 1983 Saint Michaels Parish merged with nearby Saint Josephs Parish, whose school and church were on the corner of Central Avenue at 14th Street, becoming Saint Joseph and Michael&#39;s Parish. In 1986, the complex was placed on both state and national registers of historic places.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1986, records for St. Michael&#39;s and other nearby parishes were microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. Also that same year, the monastery and church were sold at a minimal price to a 100-member Korean Presbyterian congregation from Palisades Park, and renamed Hudson Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>A third fire on August 19, 1994, destroyed a large portion of the monastery building, though the church was undamaged.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding park grounds, which had been used in the past for sports activities by citizens, were sold. The southeast portion on 18th Street between West Street and Central Avenue is now occupied by two condominium buildings and a low-to-moderate income housing complex that replaced the portion of the monastery destroyed by fire in 1994. In 2002 José Martí Middle School and the southern branch of the Union City Public Library were built on the southern side of the Monastery grounds, on 18th Street. They opened in 2004. That school converted into a high school in 2019, and is now known as José Martí STEM Academy.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) added the church to its "Ten Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey" list, due to the deterioration that has begun due to the structures age, and the inability of the Korean Presbyterian congregation that had been using it since 1986, which consists of less than 100 members, to raise the money needed to repair it. The church was the fourth site in Union City to be placed on PNJs list. In addition to the decay that had already suffered by the building by the time the church was purchased in 1984, rain had damaged the artwork by Hildreth Meiére that adorned the walls, which are no longer viewable by the public.</p><br>
<p>The David McKenzie Log Cabin is a historic house located within the Mountain Homeplace in Staffordsville, Kentucky, United States. The cabin was built between 1860 and 1865 by David McKenzie, who was an early settler of Johnson County. It was originally located at 37&deg;52&prime;56&Prime;N latitude, 82&deg;54&prime;44&Prime;W longitude, in Volga but was moved to the Mountain Homeplace in the early 1990s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is a double-pen, -story cabin measuring approximately 34.6 by. It is not known if the structure was originally a double-pen structure as it is today or whether the eastern pen, constructed of poplar, was built first followed by the addition of the western pen, which is of yellow pine.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Norwich is a historic post office building located at Norwich in Chenango County, New York, United States. It was built in 1932–1933, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State built by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. It was designed by architect George Ketcham of Syracuse. It is a one-story brick building ornamented with elaborate cast stone details in the Colonial Revival style. It is located within the Chenango County Courthouse District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Caleb Bragg Estate, in the unincorporated village of Montauk, New York, was built in 1929. It was designed by Walker & Gillette. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the estate included seven contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and one contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It is a 4.2 acre estate on Star Island in Lake Montauk. Walker and Gillette were the architects.</p><br>
<p>The Briar Patch Road Historic District is a historic district in East Hampton, New York that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. In 1988, it included seven contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district covers 30 acre at the End of Briar Patch Rd. along Georgica Pond in East Hampton.</p><br>
<p>It includes six houses:</p><br>
<p>Augustus Thomas House</p><br>
<p>J. Lawrence Aspinwall House, designed by Aspinwall of Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen</p><br>
<p>John Heywood Roudebush House</p><br>
<p>Shephard Krech House East, a Colonial Revival house designed by architect Arthur C. Jackson</p><br>
<p>H. H. Abbott&#39;s Servant Quarters</p><br>
<p>Howard Ogden Wood House</p><br>
<p>It is one of 8 historic districts and 24 individual properties covered in the Village of East Hampton Multiple Resource Area study of 1988.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Oxford is a historic post office building located at Oxford in Chenango County, New York, United States. It was built in 1939–1940, 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 under Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, five-bay, steel-frame structure on a raised, poured-concrete foundation with a molded-brick watercourse. It&#39;s square, with a slate-covered hipped roof in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1941 mural by Mordi Gassner titled "Family Reunion on Clark Island: Spring 1791." It is located within the Oxford Village Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Egypt Lane Historic District is a national historic district located at East Hampton, New York in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes six contributing buildings; three principal buildings and three outbuildings. The principal buildings are dwellings in the Colonial Revival, Federal, and Saltbox styles.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Buells Lane Historic District is a national historic district located at East Hampton, New York in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes 25 contributing buildings; 20 principal buildings and five outbuildings. The district is almost exclusively residential and represent variations of late Victorian period vernacular design built between 1884 and about 1910. Also included in the district is Most Holy Trinity Church , built in 1894, and a two-story wagon shop built in 1896.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Jericho Historic District is a national historic district located at East Hampton, New York in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes three contributing buildings. They are three early the 19th century, Federal style residences; the remnants of a historic settlement known as "Jericho." All are built of heavy timber-frame construction with shingled exterior sheathing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in the city of Napoleon, Ohio, United States. Located at 303 W. Washington Street, it has been recognized as a historic site because of its unusual architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>Organized in 1861, the congregation built its first church building on the southwestern corner of the intersection of Washington and Webster Streets, two blocks away from the Henry County Courthouse. Approximately forty years later, the original building was destroyed and the present structure erected on its place; construction began in 1900 and concluded in 1901.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Harry W. Wachter, the church was constructed in the American Craftsman style. Supported by a foundation of sandstone and topped with a terracotta roof, the building features walls of sandstone, taken from quarries near Mansfield, Ohio. Many towers and gables, finished with bargeboards, and break up the plane of its roof; among the most distinctive features of the roof is a small steeple that rises through the main tower, creating an appearance similar to that of a beehive. The interior is lit by multiple large arch windows and a skylight.</p><br>
<p>Unlike those of many sandstone buildings, the walls of First Presbyterian are built of stones of many different sizes and colors. Combined with the towers and gables of the roofline, the building presents a distinctive appearance; a 1977 survey of historic buildings pronounced the churchs architecture unique for northwestern Ohio. Its unusual shapes and colors present a significant contrast to St. Augustines Catholic Church, located on the other side of downtown Napoleon: while First Presbyterian includes a broken roofline and the many decorative elements typical of the American Craftsman style, St. Augustines is a uniform Gothic Revival structure with a tower 200 ft high. First Presbyterians architecture has led to wider recognition for the church; in 1980, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its architectural significance. Only three other buildings in Henry County, all of which are in downtown Napoleon, are listed on the Register; no Ohio county has fewer properties on the Register than does Henry County.</p><br>
<h2>Congregation</h2><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is an active part of the Maumee Valley Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA). When the presbytery last compiled statistics, the congregation reported 133 members; at that time, it was served by Pastor Gavin Pitt. The congregation has also owned a parsonage; located at 304 W. Main Street, near the church building, it is a brick Victorian house built before the first church building was destroyed.</p><br>
<p>Hurricane Hall was built in the 1790s in Fayette County, Kentucky by David Laughed on the Lexington-Georgetown Pike in what is now a part of Lexington. Architecture historian Clay Lancaster describes it as "the most engaging residence in Fayette County". The home is included in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased in 1803 by Colonel Roger Quarles. Quarles with his wife, Jane Rodes Thomson Quarles and their two children came from Virginia. Colonel Quarles was a gentleman farmer. The Fayette County Kentucky tax list in 1826 listed 1,563 acre, 30 slaves, 33 horses and 1 pleasure carriage.</p><br>
<p>The front door opens into a 15 ft. Notable decorative features were the French scenic wallpaper in the parlor and hallway, installed to commemorate the wedding of the Quarles&#39; daughter, Sarah Anna Eliza Quarles to William Z. Thomson in 1817. The wallpaper was later taken down, with snippets of the wallpaper becoming framed and hung in the parlor.</p><br>
<p>Quarles Grandson, Patrick Henry Thomson inherited the house in 1856. P. H. Thomson maintained a private school on the estate. The Thomsons had 12 children, and it is said the children ran through the house like a hurricane. Hence, the name Hurricane Hall.</p><br>
<p>The home remained in the Quarles-Thomson family until 1962. It is now a thoroughbred breeding operation within what is now Lexington.</p><br>
