<p>Fairville, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated area in southern Chester County which developed in the early nineteenth century about a mile north of the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. It is a linear village along the Kennett Pike  that runs between Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. Businesses along the road served both travelers on the road and residents of nearby farms. The village or hamlet extends about 500 yards along both sides of Kennett Pike from Fairville Road to Hickory Hill Road.</p><br>
<p>About 1900 Phillip DuPont built a mansion just south of Fairville Road. It is included in the defined Fairville Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Harlan Log House, which was built about 1715, is about a half mile west of the village on Fairville Road.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgeport Bridge was a historic structure located near Denmark, Iowa, United States. This span was a replacement bridge for the original structure whose middle stone pier was deteriorating. The weaknesses in the old bridge were noted in 1887 and 1893. Both Des Moines and Lee counties financed the $5,110 construction of this bridge, which spanned the Skunk River between the two counties. The 240 ft Pennsylvania truss bridge was built in 1904 by the Clinton Bridge and Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa. It carried local traffic for nearly 90 years before it was closed.</p><br>
<p>On February 27, 2024, the south abutment collapsed. The bridge was demolished over the next three weeks. It had the distinction of being the longest pin-connected truss remaining in Iowa. The Bridgeport Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Chester Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Chester, Pennsylvania that served as the Chester County courthouse from 1724 to 1789, the Delaware County courthouse from 1789 to 1850 and the City Hall for the city of Chester. It was built in 1724 and is the oldest public building still standing in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The German Colonial-style courthouse is 2½ stories high with no basement and 2-foot-thick walls. The south and east facades of the building are hewn stone, with the other two built of rubble stone. The Quaker influence on the building can be seen in the two front doors, one for men and the other for women.</p><br>
<p>The interior measures 31 by. The first level has a stone-floored court room divided by a low wooden railing designed to separate the judges and lawyers from court observers. There are no fireplaces on the first floor, but both the jury room and petit jury room on the second floor have fireplaces. The second floor is accessed by a stairwell in the northwest corner of the building.</p><br>
<p>The cupola on the courthouse contained a bell that was cast in London and added in 1729. The bell was removed for many years but returned during a 1920 restoration. A three-sided bay with large multi-paneled windows was added in 1744.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Chester courthouse was built in 1724 and was the fourth courthouse built in Chester. William Hewes, a Lower Chichester Township mason did the stone masonry work.</p><br>
<p>In 1789, the Chester County seat was moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, and the Chester Courthouse served as the Delaware County courthouse. In 1850 the Delaware County seat was moved to Media, Pennsylvania, and the Chester Courthouse served as City Hall for the city of Chester.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was used by the Delaware County Historical Society until 1966 when structural deficiencies forced them to relocate. Owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, in July 2021 the Delaware County Council entered into a 99-year lease for the Courthouse at a cost of $1 per year. Unable to afford the maintenance of the building, the Commission sought to find a way to "offload" it. The Council in conjunction with the Delaware County Historical Commission will manage the building.</p><br>
<p>The court room was the oldest active court in use in the United States until 1967. Every year, one trial was held in the court room to maintain that status.</p><br>
<p>Each year in May, during the celebration of Law Day, a special ceremony is held at the Chester Courthouse. Students from the Chester-Upland School District present a mock trial before Judges of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas and the Magisterial District Courts to commemorate the significance of the courthouse and its importance to American jurisprudence.</p><br>
<p>The Hood Octagonal School is an historic octagonal schoolhouse which is located in Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1841, this historic school is a small, fieldstone, one-story, eight-sided building with a wood shingled pyramidal roof. The school was abandoned sometime around 1865, and was then restored in 1964.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Representatives of the Newtown Square Historical Society have stated that this school was built by James Dunwoody, the father of William Hood Dunwoody, to replace an earlier log school that had been built by James&#39; father.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Blackhawk is an eleven-story brick and terra cotta building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is a Marriott Autograph Collection property.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is connected to the north building of the RiverCenter, Davenport&#39;s convention center, and across the street from the RiverCenter south building. The hotel is just down the street from the Adler Theatre. The Blackhawk has been host to several high-profile people including Presidents Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, writer Carl Sandburg, and boxer Jack Dempsey. Actor Cary Grant was staying at the Blackhawk Hotel when he died in Davenport. The hotel named rooms 412–414 the "Nixon Suite". Big bands such as Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton played at the Blackhawk on many occasions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the construction of the Blackhawk Hotel, the Saratoga Hotel occupied the land. On February 16, 1915, the first seven floors (225 rooms) of the "New Fireproof Hotel Blackhawk" were completed. The building was built at a cost of $1 million by Davenport businessman W.F. Miller. McCarthy Improvement Company was the general contractor. In 1920 the remaining stories, eight through eleven, were added and it gave the hotel 400 rooms. Walsh Company was the general contractor for the addition.</p><br>
<p>In 1916 the Blackhawk Hotel Corporation expanded with the purchase of the Davenport Hotel, which is located two blocks to the west. Over the next twenty years, Blackhawk Hotels purchased properties in St. Paul, Minnesota and Des Moines and Mason City, Iowa. The corporation was reorganized in 1935. That same year a Junior Ballroom was constructed and the Gold Room was enlarged. A new dining room called the Pompeian Room was opened. The new additions cost $25,000 to complete. Space on the mezzanine level could accommodate 1,000 diners. A sidewalk canopy replaced a marquee over the main entrance in 1955.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 the hotel was sold to George Norman & Co. who in turn sold it to the Blackhawk American Corporation two years later for more than $1 million. The hotel was once again renovated in 1969. The following year the hotel upgraded its heating system from coal and oil to natural gas.</p><br>
<p>Plans to convert the hotel into a 300 unit low-rent facility for the elderly were announced on October 13, 1971. A petition for foreclosure on the mortgage was filed in Scott County District Court on December 16, 1971. Financing by the Federal Housing Administration to convert the hotel to low-rent housing was delayed in early 1972, and Blackhawk American Corp. announced that the hotel would remain open despite the setbacks. On January 20, 1972, plans for converting the Blackhawk to elderly housing were dropped. On December 13, 1973, stockholders were told the hotel was bankrupt. A foreclosure lawsuit was filed against the hotel on March 14, 1974. A USA Marshal&#39;s sale of the property on June 28, 1974, failed to produce a buyer as did an auction in November of the same year. The Small Business Administration, who now owned the hotel, considered selling the property for less than the $820,000 they had put into the building.</p><br>
<p>The Blackhawk was sold to Blackhawk Hotel Associates, a subsidiary of Knightsbridge, for $1.2 million on January 28, 1975. An auction of the hotels furnishings and accessories was held the following month. In June of that year phase one of a nearly $1 million renovation was completed. A year later the Davenport Bank and Trust Company foreclosed on the hotels $990,000 mortgage. Judge Max Werling ordered the Blackhawk closed on June 29, 1976. The bank bought the hotel in October of that year at a sheriff&#39;s sale for $1 million.</p><br>
<p>The building sat empty until Phillips Enterprises began a major renovation of the Blackhawk in 1978. The multimillion-dollar project was completed the following year. More than 7,000 people showed up to tour the renovated hotel on September 15, 1979. The Sundance Social Club opened as the hotels restaurant. The Blackhawk was part of the "Super Block" development that opened in 1983. It was the first phase of the citys convention center that would be named the RiverCenter. The hotel would also serve as the convention center&#39;s caterer.</p><br>
<p>John E. Connelly, a Pittsburgh developer, bought the hotel in 1990 and it became a part of his gambling enterprise that included the President riverboat. The hotel passed to the Isle of Capri Casino in 2000 when it bought the Davenport riverboat gambling operation.</p><br>
<p>On February 12, 2006, a fire started in a meth lab on the eighth floor. The hotel had been deteriorating steadily since it was purchased by the Isle of Capri. The City of Davenport took over the property from the Isle of Capri. In October 2008, a development agreement was signed which gave ownership of the property to Hotel Blackhawk, LLC, an affiliate of St. Louis-based developer Restoration St. Louis, Inc. The company announced plans for a $46 million-plus restoration. BSI Construction was selected as the general contractor for the project. Demolition work began in January 2009 and renovation work commenced in April of the same year. The hotel re-opened on December 15, 2010.</p><br>
<p>On September 22, 2010, the RiverCenter/Adler Theatre, Hotel Blackhawk, and the Radisson Quad City Plaza Hotel announced a cooperative marketing agreement branding themselves the "Quad Cities Event Center." While each remains a separate entity they will advertise and market themselves together. All three entities form one complex that is connected by skywalks and includes a total of 116,700 ft&sup2; of space.</p><br>
<p>On March 6, 2013, the owner, Hotel Blackhawk, LLC, entered the property into the Marriott Autograph Collection of luxury hotels, a group of independently owned and operated hotels associated with Marriott Hotels and Resorts. The Hotel Blackhawk is now a Four Diamond hotel (AAA), managed by Innkeeper Hospitality Services, LLC of St. Louis, and has been voted the best hotel in Iowa for the last three years by Business Insider. It continues to be a major force behind the resurgence of Downtown Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Blackhawk was designed by the Davenport architectural firm of Temple & Burrows. Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling served as an associate on the construction project. It features Italian Renaissance design elements along with modern Art Deco. The Italian Renaissance is featured on the rusticated stonework on the entry-level, the granite pedestals and terra cotta pilasters on the corners of the main façade, and the decorative pediments of the windows on the second floor. The Art Deco elements are found in the rolled of the corners of the terracotta pilasters and the streamlined feeling in general of the form itself. The simplified Renaissance Revival style of the hotel is in keeping with the Neoclassicism of other major commercial buildings that were being built at the time in Davenport. When the top four floors were added it required the removal of the building&#39;s original cornice. The resulting termination of the structure makes it more similar to the Moderne style of the nearby Hotel Mississippi, built in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The building is 140 ft tall. It is U-shaped to allow for windows in all the rooms and to allow for air circulation and light. The structure is covered in dark-colored bricks that contrast with the white terra cotta. This surface combination sets it apart from the surface monochrome of dressed stone that was being used in other commercial buildings in the city. An elevator shaft was added to the east side of the building in the 1978–1979 renovation. Originally the lobby contained a two-story atrium, but it was enclosed in later years to create additional meeting space. The atrium was restored as a part of the 2010 renovation to the building. A new entrance was also added to the east side of the building facing the parking lot.</p><br>
<p>Upon its 2010 re-opening, Hotel Blackhawk includes 20 one- and two-bedroom apartments, 130 guestrooms, nine extended-stay rooms and banquet and meeting facilities that include a renovated Gold Room. A bowling alley was re-created in the basement level and shops were incorporated into the main level along with a restaurant and lounge. A new fitness center and a swimming pool, as well as a business center, were also created.</p><br>
<p>The Kahl Building is a historic building located in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building also includes the Capitol Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Kahl Building</h2><br>
<p>The Kahl Building is ten stories tall and rises 146 ft above the ground. It was designed by Davenport architect Arthur Ebeling who used as inspiration the works of Chicago architects William Holabird, John Root and Louis Sullivan. In fact Sullivans Wainwright Building in St. Louis is considered a model after which the Kahl Building was designed. Sullivans influence can be seen in the more elaborate ornamentation on the lower floors while the upper floors are relatively plain. Their decoration is confined to recessed spandrel panels. The building is capped with a staccato pairing of round-arch windows and an elaborate cornice.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, the building was constructed by Henry Kahl and Walsh-Kahl Construction for $1.5 million.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the family of Davenport Banker V.O. Figge and his wife Elizabeth, who was Henry Kahls daughter, donated the building to the Scott Community College Foundation, which used it for academic purposes. The Eastern Iowa Community College District announced in August 2014 their intention to leave the Kahl Building and relocate to a new campus in the former First Federal Savings and Loan Association Building and First Midwest Bank building on West Third Street between Brady and Main streets. The new college campus was opened in January 2018, and the Kahl Building was sold to Jim Bergman of JNB Capitol Building for $2 million in June. A $20 million project renovated the Kahl Building into 65 market-rate apartments. That project was completed in 2023. It preserved the buildings original gold elevators, marble floors, handcrafted plasterwork, and detailed artwork.</p><br>
<h2>Capitol Theatre</h2><br>
<p>The Capitol Theatre opened on December 25, 1920. Builder Henry C. Kahl wanted to provide a 2,500-seat, palace-type theater. Kahl planned a luxurious movie theater larger than any in Davenport or Iowa. When opened, the theater boasted grand pianos, gold leaf decoration, and several chandeliers. Its interior was designed by the Chicago firm of Rapp & Rapp. The organ received a $75,000 restoration in 2000, and it is now the only Wicks theater organ that remains in its original home. In 1925, a 7-story stage house and stage expansion were constructed. It was designed by the Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Kruse. Priester Construction Company of Davenport was the general contractor. The theater joined the Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) circuit in 1927. It discontinued operating as a working movie theater in 1977 and was the last of the city&#39;s movie palaces in operation at the time. By 2023 it had been 14 years since the theater had been used for any performance.</p><br>
<p>A variety of performers have performed on its stage including vaudeville shows. It hosted the Winter Dance Party in 1959 that included Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens before their deaths five days later in an airplane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. The Capitol currently has a capacity of 2,000 seats. The Kahl Building&#39;s renovation includes the Capitol Theatre whose planned use will be for small concerts, plays, comedians, and movies. In 2023, a $24 million renovation and restoration of the theater was completed. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on July 12, and the first concert in venue by Blackberry Smoke is scheduled on September 29, 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Susan B. Anthony Childhood House in Battenville, New York was built in 1832. It was a childhood home of suffragette Susan B. Anthony. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Susan B. Anthony lived there from age 13 to age 19, from 1833 to 1839. The family moved to there from Adams, Massachusetts, where she was born. The listing includes the house, a retaining wall, and a carriage barn. Italianate features were added to the house in 1885.</p><br>
<p>As of 2006, the property is owned by the state; it is controlled by the OPRHP / Saratoga State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Avenue Bridge in Waco, Texas was built in 1902 and was then the longest single-span vehicular truss bridge in Texas. It has a 450 foot span across the Brazos River. It provided for traffic circulation in addition to that provided by the 1870-built Waco Suspension Bridge one block downriver .</p><br>
<p>The bridge cost $93,399 for its construction, not including $1,850 for railings and approach spans. Its cost was split by McLennan County and the City of Waco, which became equal owners.</p><br>
<p>A Black man named Sank Majors was lynched at the bridge in 1905, hung from a crossbeam by a white mob. Another Black man, Jim Lawyer, was attacked for objecting to the lynching. Texas Rangers looked on the violence and did not intervene.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Newlin House was built in 1742 in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania by Nicholas Newlin. Located roughly a mile west of the Newlin Mill Complex, it is located in the Concordville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>This house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1742 by Nicholas Newlin, this historic structure is one of the best preserved, eighteenth-century houses located in Concord Township. It was built with Flemish bond brickwork and a high stone foundation. Its asymmetrical windows divide the house into two sections, which appear to have been built at the same time. The windows are unusually large for a house of its period. The interior has retained much of its original appearance and includes fine Georgian panelling.</p><br>
<p>The Newlin family arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683 and purchased 500 acre in what was then Chester County. Mary Mendenhall Newlin received a grant of land (as a young married woman in 1685, just prior to the Revolution of 1688) in Chester County as well.</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Newlin sold the house in 1751 to Micajah Speakman, who lived there until 1805.</p><br>
<p>Newlin Miller&#39;s House was built by William Newlin during the early nineteenth century in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is located in the narrow valley of Little Broad Run, a tributary of the East Branch of Brandywine Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>William Newlin inherited the land from his father, John Newlin, who bought the land in 1788. He built the house and a sawmill, which was described in 1858 as a "frame sawmill with stone foundations driven by an 18-foot overshoot wheel with a 5-foot face."</p><br>
<p>The house has two stories and is banked into a hill. It is built of "trash stone" and has a frame addition and porch. The sawmill was owned by William Speakman, a local carpenter, from 1876 to 1895. The mill has since been destroyed.</p><br>
<p>Belmont Hall is a Georgian house located in Smyrna, Delaware, built about 1773 by Thomas Collins, who would become the eighth governor of Delaware. The front façade faces US 13.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The brick house front is five bays wide and three stories tall, surmounted by a flattened gable. The crown of the gable is flattened to form a widow&#39;s walk, accessed by a projecting stair tower to the rear of the walk. The house is wide but shallow, one room deep with two rear wings projecting to the north, which were built before the front. The front portion is 46 ft wide by 21.25 ft deep.</p><br>
<p>The interior plan is oriented around a central hall, flanked by parlors on either side. A stair rises from the hall, and is flanked by bedrooms on the second and third floors. Extensive interior woodwork is located primarily in the entrance hall and the west parlor. The interior was renovated during the Victorian era, but was restored in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Six hundred acres (600 acre) were granted to Henry Pearman by William Penn in 1684, and became known as "Pearmans Choice." A small brick house was built on this property. This house and two hundred acres were sold to Andrew Love in 1691. The property was bought by Thomas Collins, who would become High Sheriff of Kent County and later a brigadier general in the Continental Army, eventually rising to the governorship of Delaware. He added the present front about 1773. In 1777 a British party attempting to capture Collins shot a sentry posted on the widows walk, who died in the room below. His death is commemorated by a plaque in the front hall presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Thomas Collins, the only person to be unanimously elected by the Assembly, had the honor of serving as the 8th President/Governor of Delaware from 1786 until his death in 1789. Collins died at Belmont Hall in 1789.</p><br>
<p>In 1827, John Cloak acquired Belmont and farmed the land according to scientific principles. Belmont brand canned tomatoes became popular in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>A fire in 1922 gutted the third floor. The existing east and west dormers were added during repairs. The Cloak/Speakman family retained the property into the 1980s. It was sold to the State of Delaware in 1987, as part of a deal to acquire 30 acre for the Route 13 bypass around Smyrna.</p><br>
<p>The Dorilton is a luxury residential housing cooperative at 171 West 71st Street, at the northeast corner with Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 12-story building, designed by local firm Janes & Leo in the Beaux-Arts style, was built between 1900 and 1902 for real estate developer Hamilton M. Weed. The Dorilton is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dorilton is roughly H-shaped in plan, with recessed light courts facing south and north. The southern light court, along 71st Street, functions as an entrance courtyard with a gateway. The limestone-and-brick facade is divided into three horizontal sections: a three-story base, six-story shaft, and three-story upper section with mansard roof. The decoration on the facade includes bronze oriel windows curving outward, as well as sculptures, decorative terracotta, and balconies. Inside, the building had its own mechanical plant and three elevators. The lobby had several classical details, while the upper stories had 48 apartments, which by the 21st century had been divided into 60 apartments. The units contained decorations such as paneling, Queen Anne style fireplaces, French doors, and round window bays. When the Dorilton was completed, its design generally received positive acclaim from architectural critics.</p><br>
<p>Weed bought the site in February 1900 and hired the firm of Janes & Leo to design a twelve-story apartment hotel on the site. The building cost $750,000 and was intended to attract middle-class residents who otherwise would not have lived in apartments. Storefronts on the ground floor were added after 1919, and many decorative elements were removed or had deteriorated by the 1950s. The Dorilton was sold several times over the years before becoming a housing cooperative in 1984. The exterior was restored in the late 1980s and again in the 1990s, and the interior spaces were restored in the mid-2010s.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The Dorilton is at 171 West 71st Street, at the northeast corner with Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It occupies the western end of a city block bounded by Broadway to the west, 72nd Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, and 71st Street to the south. The Dorilton occupies a trapezoidal plot because Broadway runs diagonally to the Manhattan street grid. The land lot covers 13,393 ft&sup2, with a frontage of 110 ft on 71st Street. The Broadway frontage has variously been cited as 100 ft, 105.5 ft,</p><br>
<p>The building is near several other structures, including the Rutgers Presbyterian Church and the Ansonia apartments to the northwest, the Apple Bank Building one block north, the Triad Theatre to the east, and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament and the Pythian Temple to the southwest. Directly west of the Dorilton is Verdi Square and an entrance for the New York City Subway&#39;s 72nd Street station. In addition, Sherman Square is directly to the southwest.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Janes & Leo for real estate developer Hamilton M. Weed. The building has a Beaux-Arts style limestone and brick exterior, featuring monumental sculptures, richly balustraded balconies, and a copper and slate mansard roof. The Dorilton is twelve stories high; the facade rises ten stories before the mansard roof.</p><br>
<h3>Form and facade</h3><br>
<p>The Dorilton is roughly H-shaped in plan, with recessed light courts facing south and north. The southern light court, along 71st Street, functions as an entrance courtyard with a gateway divided into three sections. The outer two sections of the gateway contain large wrought-iron gates, behind which was a small, U-shaped driveway, while the center section contains a pedestrian entrance. The gateway also contains four limestone columns, which flank each section; the tops of the columns contain crestings and limestone spheres. In addition, between the two center columns is a frame that surrounds the pedestrian gate, which is decorated with a shield and two cherubs.</p><br>
<p>The facade is divided into three horizontal sections, similar to the base, shaft, and capital of a column. The ground and second stories of the facade are clad with rusticated blocks of limestone, while the third story is clad with alternating limestone-and-brick bands. By the late 20th century, the ground level contained storefronts facing Broadway. There is a large balcony above the third story, which is supported by heavy brackets, some of which are grouped in pairs.</p><br>
<p>The midsection is clad largely in brick, except for the corners, which have limestone quoins. The Broadway facade is divided into three pavilions. The northern and eastern elevations are faced in cheaper red brick with varying hues and textures. The ninth story is clad with alternating limestone-and-brick bands. At the ninth story, the southern light court is spanned by an arch, The mansard was originally covered with slate, but this was replaced with tar paper in the mid-20th century. In addition, there was formerly segmentally-arched terracotta lintels above the eleventh-story windows, as well as large terracotta lintels above the three largest dormer windows on the mansard roof. Some of the copper cresting on the roof remains intact, and there are also chimneys.</p><br>
<h3>Features</h3><br>
<p>The Doriltons entrance vestibule is decorated with putti that flank a cartouche, similar to the motifs above the center section of the 71st Street gateway. The lobby had several classical details, many of which were later painted over. The basement contained a storage room for every tenant, as well as an "automobile storage and charging room", which at the time was a novel feature for a New York City apartment building. When the Dorilton opened, each apartment and hallway had a telephone connecting with a janitors office, and all tenants could use electricity from the building&#39;s power plant for free.</p><br>
<h4>Apartments</h4><br>
<p>The upper stories originally had four apartments per floor. By 1923, there were 48 units in total, each with five to eight rooms, and each floor contained two to three bathrooms that were shared by all of the apartments. When the building was developed, the space under the mansard roof was intended to be leased out as artists&#39; studios. The top of the building contained a roof garden, in addition to "sun parlors" measuring 35 by.</p><br>
<p>The units were decorated with mahogany, oak, white-enamel, and maple trim. The hallways contained paneled wainscoting, while the floors were laid in a parquet pattern, Each residence had a parlor clad with white enamel and mahogany; the dining rooms had high wooden wainscoting, oak-and-mahogany finishes, and beamed ceilings. In contrast to later apartment buildings, the apartments typically had much fewer bathrooms than bedrooms, and the closets were extremely small.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, many of the apartments have been divided into smaller units. These apartments retain some of their original decorations, such as paneling, Queen Anne style fireplaces, French doors, and round window bays. Another unit, a two-bedroom apartment, contains a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, and outdoor terrace. Some of the apartments have fireplaces in both the living room and the dining room, in addition to curved oriel windows. one of the penthouses has a 2,000 ft2 terrace with a Jacuzzi, dining area, and plants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the development of the Dorilton, its site was part of an 18th-century farming community called Harsenville; that community had been redeveloped into a residential neighborhood by the 1880s. The city&#39;s first subway line was developed starting in the late 1890s, and it opened in 1904 with a station at Broadway and 72nd Street. The construction of the subway spurred the development of high-rise apartment buildings on Broadway, such as the Ansonia and the Dorilton.</p><br>
<h3>Apartment house</h3><br>
<h4>1900s to 1920s</h4><br>
<p>Before the routing of the subway line had been finalized, in early 1899, developer Hamilton M. Weed paid $175,500 for a plot on the corner of Broadway and 71st Street in February 1899. The media announced in February 1900 that Weed had bought the plot from Oppenheimer & Hamershlag and had hired the firm of Janes & Leo to design a twelve-story apartment hotel on the site. Weed had previously worked with Janes & Leo to develop townhouses in Upper Manhattan. The next month, Weed filed plans for the site; The Dorilton was designed as a larger version of the Alimar, an apartment building developed at 105th Street and West End Avenue, Weed&#39;s development was one of several large apartment buildings developed on the Upper West Side in the early 1900s. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company gave Weed a $725,000 construction loan for the site in February 1901 so Weed could complete the edifice.</p><br>
<p>The building was known as the Dorilton when it was completed in 1902 for $750,000. The elaborate design was intended to attract middle- and upper-class people who would have otherwise lived in townhouses. Weed sold the Dorilton in March 1902 to a group of investors from Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island; the building was valued at $1.25 million. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) wrote that the building was frequented by musicians and actors. Among the building&#39;s early tenants were actress Bernice Golden, who was the ex-wife of F. Augustus Heinze, as well as businessman Henry Osborne Havemeyer. An ammonia tank in the building exploded in 1905, shortly after its completion.The Dorilton Corporation sold the building in November 1915 to an investor, at which point the structure was valued at $1.5 million. The buyer, George Noakes, gave the Dorilton Corporation two apartment houses as partial payment. Noakes took over a $674,000 mortgage that had been placed on the property. Subsequently, Sonn added storefronts and renovated the interior. Frederick Brown purchased the Dorilton in February 1923 at an assessed value of $1.5 million; by then, annual rental income from the building had increased to $200,000. Three months later, Brown resold the building to a syndicate of investors led by Max Raymond. The New-York Tribune reported that the building had six stores and 48 apartments.</p><br>
<h4>1930s to 1970s</h4><br>
<p>The Dry Dock Savings Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings against the Dorilton in 1938, as the previous owners had failed to pay $1,263,904 on the mortgage. The bank acquired the building at a foreclosure auction that month. By October 1939, the buildings managing agent reported that the Dorilton was fully rented. Isaac Prussin bought the building from the bank in 1945 at an assessed valuation of $900,000. At the time of Prussins purchase, the building contained three stores, as well as 55 apartments with between four and seven rooms each. Prussin co-owned the Dorilton with Irving Stolz for five years. The men sold the building in February 1950 to a syndicate represented by Max Uviller; at the time, the building was worth $655,000.</p><br>
<p>One of the Doriltons cornices was removed at some point after 1945, and many decorative elements were removed or had deteriorated by the 1950s. The Doriltons tenants by the 1960s included vocal coach Phil Moore, who operated a studio in the building. The LPC proposed designating the building&#39;s facade as a city landmark in May 1974 and voted that October to designate the building as a New York City landmark. The Dorilton was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h3>Co-op</h3><br>
<p>The Dorilton became a housing cooperative in 1984. The next year, workers began renovating the Dorilton, particularly its roof; John Wright Stephens and Jonathan Williams were hired as the renovation architects. Stephens and Williams repainted the eleventh-story facade in a trompe-l&#39;œil pattern, since there was not enough money to fund the restoration of cornices on the 10th and 11th stories.</p><br>
<p>The exterior masonry, decorative terra-cotta work and chimneys and roof were restored in 1998 by the Walter B. Melvin architectural firm. The signage outside the building&#39;s storefronts was removed during the 1990s. Among the residents of the co-op were actor Nathan Lane and newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.</p><br>
<h2>Critical reception</h2><br>
<p>When the building was under construction, the New-York Tribune wrote that "the imposing architecture of this lofty structure has, since the completion of its ornate facades and picturesque, domed roof, attracted the attention of every resident of the Upper West Side". Montgomery Schuyler criticized the design in 1902, describing "the wild yell with which the fronts exclaim, Look at me, as if somebody were going to miss seeing a building of this area, 12 stories high". Schuyler further regarded the roof as oversized, saying: "this roof, under pretence of being a roof, three full stories in tinware, including the parapet story, ostensibly of brick and stone, with scarcely any reduction in area from its substructure, and the fact would give it a squeezed and skintight look, no matter how it was treated in detail. But it is treated with extreme cruelty."</p><br>
<p>Modern critics viewed the building more favorably. In 1978, Peter Carlsen and Christopher Gray wrote for GQ magazine that "this fine madness, thought to be indigestible for decades, suddenly seems worth taking a little more seriously". In the 1983 book New York 1900, Robert A. M. Stern and his co-authors wrote that the buildings "almost overblown Modern French" design contrasted with the "restrained, almost severe Classicism" of earlier townhouses designed by Janes & Leo. Architecture historian Andrew Dolkart regarded the Dorilton as "the most flamboyant apartment house in New York", with its striking, "French-inspired" sculpted figures and an enormous iron gate "reminiscent of those that guard French palaces." Architecture historian Francis Morrone considered it one of the citys great apartment buildings. The novelist Thane Rosenbaum wrote that the "white, ghostly faces" of the facade&#39;s sculptures "look not so much threatening as beleaguered".</p><br>
<p>The N. J. Felix House is a historic home located in Asharoken, Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a -story, four-bay, shingled and clapboard residence with a steeply pitched hipped roof in an eclectic combination of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. It features two elongated decorative brick chimneys and gable dormers. It is a representative example of a large, upper-income single-family dwelling along Huntington&#39;s north shore. Also located on the property is a contributing privy.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Eliphas Buffett House is a historic house located at 159 West Rogues Path in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It consists of a two-story, three-bay-wide main structure built in about 1835, with a one-story, three-bay-wide east wing built in about 1800. The 1835 main structure is representative of the Greek Revival style. It features two elongated decorative brick chimneys and gable dormers. It is a representative example of a large, upper-income single-family dwelling along Huntington&#39;s north shore. Also located on the property are a contributing barn and shed and the Buffett family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The John Harned House is a historic house located at 26 Little Neck Road in Centerport, Suffolk County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It consists of two -story, three-bay wide, gable-roofed sections built in about 1850. It has a shed-roofed porch on square columns and a central chimney. Also located on the property is a contributing late-19th-century barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Charles Van Iderstine Mansion is a historic home located at Centerport in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1897 and is a large, rambling -story clapboard, shingled and shiplap sided residence with a varied gable roof. It features a 3-story octagonal tower with a bell roof and a balustraded sleeping porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 2019, the house was placed for sale for $2,989,000.</p><br>
<p>N. Velzer House and Caretaker&#39;s Cottage is a historic home and cottage located at Centerport in Suffolk County, New York. The house is a -story, three-bay clapboard structure flanked by -story, two-bay, gable-roofed wings. It was built about 1830 and exhibits restrained Greek Revival details. The cottage is a -story, clapboard residence with a shallow gable roof and a three-bay, side-hall plan.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The properties of the house and the cottage are divided by a private road leading to some condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Buffett House is a historic house located at 169 West Rogues Path in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It consists of a -story, five-bay wide, shingle-sided dwelling built in about 1830, with a -story, three-bay wide, saltbox shingle-sided wing built in about 1750. It is one of the oldest intact residences in Cold Spring Harbor village.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The John Bumpstead House is a historic house located at 473 Woodbury Road in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a small, 1½-story clapboard dwelling with a shed roof side wing built in about 1835. Also on the property are a late-19th-century shed and barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The David Conklin House is a historic house located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York, on the southwest corner of High Street  and New York Avenue .</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story, three-bay wide, gable-roofed dwelling with a -story, five-bay gable-roofed east wing and a -story, five-bay hip-roofed southwest wing. The main and original portion was built in about 1750. Also on the property are a privy and well house. It is occupied by the Huntington Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home, also known at the Annie Wittenmyer Home or the Annie Wittenmyer Center, located in Davenport, Iowa, United States is a former orphanage for children. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The home was originally used for orphans from the American Civil War. Starting in 1876, children from broken homes, as well as orphans from all of Iowa&#39;s 99 counties, were taken in at the home.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Annie Turner Wittenmyer was a Sanitation Agent for Iowa whose job was to oversee the needs of Union Army soldiers during the American Civil War. Iowa contributed approximately 76,000 men to the army, and one of them wrote a letter saying,</p><br>
<p>The letter was read at a convention after which a board was convened to create a residence for the orphans of Iowa soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The location had been a meeting area and treatment center for the pioneers, settlers, and the indigenous peoples of the region, including War Chief Black Hawk and the Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, and Winnebago tribes. The land was also a center for the war wounded from the Mexican-American War, which included the housing and care of the long-term casualties. The residents kept a small farm and were taught to farm by German-Danish immigrant Claus Einfeldt.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War ended, over 13,500 children were in need of assistance as a result of the war deaths of Iowans—with many more badly wounded. An orphans fair was held asking branches be built in three different Iowa cities and Farmington was soon considered inadequate to the Davenport home. Davenport was a center for Union volunteer units and after the War ended, soldier camps were not needed. Camp Kinsman (on present-day Eastern Avenue) was donated to be used for the home. On November 11, 1865, the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home received its first occupants by steamboat, when 150 children were delivered to matron Annie Wittenmyers care. The residents kept a small farm and were also taught to farm by German-Danish immigrant Claus Einfeldt. On June 6, 1866, the home was taken over by the State of Iowa and Wittenmyer continued to oversee the home until 1867. Eventually the Civil War orphans were grown and left the Home. From 1870, the home began to accept children from all Iowa 99 counties.</p><br>
<p>The Home was soon expanded and redesigned with small, home-like cottages replacing the barrack style dorms.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the Iowa State Legislature required that residents have employment before they left the home, and starting in sixth grade, students spent part of their school day learning a trade.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, the facility was renamed "The Annie Wittenmyer Home" by the Iowa General Assembly. In 1960, the focus of the home shifted from that of an orphanage to a residential special education and behavioral counseling facility. In 1975, the Wittenmyer Home closed having helped an estimated 12,000 children and provided a century of service.</p><br>
<h2>Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is made up of 34 resources, which includes 24 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, six non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing structure. It is located on the east side of the city to the south of Garfield Park and the Duck Creek Parkway, which are across East 29th Street. Oakdale Memorial Gardens, where the orphan&#39;s graves are located, is to the east across Eastern Avenue. The former right of way for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, now in use by the Canadian Pacific Railway, is to the west and south.</p><br>
<p>Carll S. Burr Mansion is a historic home located at Commack in Suffolk County, New York. It is an imposing -story, seven bay shingled residence. The decorative roofline features a flat roofed belvedere with a bracketed cornice and a mansard roof. It was built about 1830 and remodeled in the Second Empire style between 1881 and 1885. Also on the property are a contributing barn and cottage. Additionally it was said to be a horse race training farm during the 19th Century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Carll House is a historic home located on Deer Park Avenue across from the vicinity of the intersection with Wolf Hill Road in Dix Hills in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1750 and is a -story, five bay gable roof residence with a -story side addition. Also on the property are three contributing 19th century barns, a small pond, and cottage. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Catholic Church was a Catholic church in northwestern Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Located in the southwestern corner of Van Buren Township, the church sat at the intersection of Hoying and Wright-Puthoff Roads in the unincorporated community of St. Patrick.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>St. Patrick parish was organized in 1862 among a primarily Irish population. Although the region was settled primarily by German farmers, the members at St. Patrick were generally laborers who had been recruited to participate in the construction of the Miami and Erie Canal through western Shelby County. Starting one year later, the parish was served by priests from the Missionaries of the Precious Blood; these priests were based in Minster, nearly five miles to the northwest. The parish built a log church in 1863; it was replaced by a frame church in 1871. Members in the vicinity of McCartyville to the northeast were created a separate parish in 1882, weakening the original parish.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>By the 1910s, the old frame building had proved insufficient for the churchs needs. Consequently, the parish arranged for the erection of its third and final church, a Flemish bond brick structure constructed in a transitional Italianate style of architecture. This building was based on a foundation of concrete and a gabled tile roof; the rectangular church featured a square bell tower on its southwestern corner. The interior featured frescoes and a prominent statue of Saint Patrick (the patron saint of Ireland); it was lit by multiple windows of stained glass. As a large church in a rural setting served by priests of the Society of the Precious Blood, St. Patricks was closely connected to many other churches in western Ohio: wide areas of western Ohio that were primarily settled by Catholics feature large churches at sparsely-populated crossroads. While most of these churches are constructed in the Gothic Revival style of architecture, some of the newer churches of the region — including St. Patricks — appear in a variety of styles; St. Patricks was one of the few that lacked the high steeples of the Gothic Revival structures. The leading role of these churches in western Shelby County and the lands somewhat farther west has caused the region to be nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<h2>Other buildings</h2><br>
<p>St. Patricks Church was one of four properties owned by the parish in the community of St. Patrick. Located to the east of the church was the parish cemetery; across Hoying Road to the north was the former parish school, built in 1906; and to the east is the brick rectory. A square two-story structure, the rectory features a hip roof and a stone foundation. The parish built the rectory in 1919 to house its pastor; before its construction, St. Patricks was served by priests from St. Michael&#39;s Church in Fort Loramie to the southwest.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1977, the church and rectory were recorded by the Ohio Historic Inventory for the purpose of historic preservation; both buildings were ranked in good condition without any significant risks. Two years later, they were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places, along with over thirty other buildings in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches. When these churches were listed, it was feared that some rural churches were ultimately endangered by changing demographics; while all of the other churches remain active parishes, St. Patrick&#39;s has closed. While the parish was listed as being in operation in 1996, it no longer appears on the website of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and the church has been destroyed. A small memorial occupies the site of the church, while the rectory remains in its place.</p><br>
<p>Seaman Farm was a historic home and farm complex located at Dix Hills in Suffolk County, New York. The main dwelling was built about 1805 and is a -story, shingled dwelling with a saltbox profile. It has a five-bay, center entrance main facade. Also on the property are two barns, a corncrib, three sheds, and a well structure.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The site was left abandoned since 1992, whereupon the barns deteriorated into collapse. The house was permitted to be demolished in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Ireland-Gardiner Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Greenlawn in Suffolk County, New York. The original section of the main dwelling was built about 1750. It is a -story, shingled dwelling with a saltbox profile and a rear shed-roof addition. It has a central chimney and deep overhanging eaves. Also on the property are a barn, a corncrib, a shed, and a cottage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Carll House is a historic home located on the northwest corner of Wall Street and Central Street in Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It consists of a -story, three-bay, shingled main residence with a 2-story, three-bay shingled west wing. The earliest section of the house was built about 1820 and the west wing added about 1840.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Gilsey Mansion is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a large, seven-bay, two-story clapboard, T-shaped residence with a hipped roof, built about 1900 in the Colonial Revival style. A four-bay, two-story gable-roofed wing projects to the rear. It features a porte cochere on tapered Doric order columns and a pedimented portico.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>House at 244 Park Avenue is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a four bay, saltbox profile dwelling with clapboard sheathing and a brick foundation. It was built about 1830 and features a shed roof porch on square columns. The house is located on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and Mill Lane across from the Huntington Hospital Parking Garage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>B. Ketchum House is a historic home located in Fort Salonga in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a -story, six-bay shingled dwelling. The main entrance features a four-pane transom, simple molded surround, and gable-roof canopy. It was built about 1765 on what is today the northwest corner of Middleville Road and Bread-and-Cheese Hollow Road, and representative of the early settlement of Huntington.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Potter–Williams House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a -story, four-bay, gable-roofed clapboard structure resting on a 1-story raised stone foundation. It features a massive central chimney and three pane frieze windows. It was built in 1827 and representative of the late settlement period of Huntington. Also on the property is a springhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Prime House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a -story, five-bay, gable-roofed clapboard structure with a shed roof rear extension. It was built as a two-family workers&#39; residence in 1855 and was representative of the late settlement period of Huntington. The house is next door to the Prime-Octagon House, and across the street from the Heckscher Museum of Art.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Silas Sammis House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It consists of a -story, five-bay, shingled section built about 1730 and a larger, three-bay, -story shingled residence built about 1800. The small east wing was the original dwelling. It is an intact example of settlement period architecture in Huntington.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Anthony–Buckley House is a historic Queen Anne style house in La Grande, Oregon, that was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is locally significant for its late Queen Anne style architecture; it includes Stick/Eastlake and Colonial Revival elements, too. The property also has original fencing of stone, cast iron, and woven wires. It also is significant for association with Swiss immigrant John Anthony who first owned the house, and for association with Anthony Buckley.</p><br>
<p>The Garrett Historic District is a national historic district located at Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana. It is roughly the area bound by Railroad Street on the North, Britton Street on the East, Hamsher Street on the West and Warfield Street on the South with Randolph Street extending to 3rd Ave. to the South. The district encompasses 925 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Garrett.</p><br>
<p>Within the District, there are many buildings dating back to the earliest days of the City of Garrett. Garrett City Hall, former Masonic Temple, Silver Screen Theater, Garret Clinic, Johnson Building, B&O Railroad Freight House, Mountz House and more. Just outside the District are many school houses and the Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District complex.</p><br>
<p>In 2008–2009, the downtown area of Garrett was fully revamped with vintage style lamps and decorative planters. All power lines were placed underground and new sidewalks with bricks were laid.</p><br>
<p>While many buildings have been torn down or lost over the years due to unsustainable damages, the District still boasts its heritage with the continuing renovation of buildings and other buildings being built or renovated to look like period buildings of the District&#39;s beginnings in 1875.</p><br>
<p>The Lame–Smith House and the Sydney and Gertrude Smith Barn , about one mile northwest of Halsey, Oregon, are historic structures that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The barn is a 40 ft by 60 ft timber-frame building built in 1888. It was built to house horses being raised for fire and police departments of the Pacific Northwest. Its ornamented cupolas were assessed to be the finest in Linn County.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse has Gothic Revival features and was built in c.1864 by Joseph Lame and was enlarged in c.1884 for the J.A. Smith family. This property is mainly constructed of timber. Also on the property are an automobile garage (1994), a wood-frame pump house (1940s), and metal equipment shed (1960s). To the west of the house, in 1998, was a very large Black walnut tree, likely the largest in Linn County.</p><br>
<p>In 1998 the nearby fields were being used to grow grass seed.</p><br>
<p>The West End Hose Company Number 3 is a historic two-story brick firehouse located at 15 North Doughty Avenue in the borough of Somerville in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 2002 for its significance in architecture and social history. The building is currently the Somerville Fire Department Museum operated by the Somerville Exempt Firemen&#39;s Association.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The firehouse was designed by Somerville architect Jacques Vanderbeck in a Romanesque Revival style and built in 1888. The primary design element is the large arched window on the second level featuring squares of textured glass in several colors. The brick arch over it has a granite keystone with "WEST-END HOSE, 1888". It housed the West End Hose Company until 1970, when the company relocated to a new firehouse. The building then became home to the Somerville Fire Museum.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Ascension was a historic church building at 1601 Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The church was built in 1893 and demolished in July 2017.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its incorporation in 1854, Atlantic City, on Absecon Island, was seen as a prime location for the development of a resort town. Although by 1874 nearly 500,000 visitors would come to the city during its peak tourist season, its resident population was comparatively minimal at 1,043 in 1870 and 5,477 in 1880.</p><br>
<p>In the earliest decades of the citys history, church services, like many of the amenities and attractions in the resort town, were exclusive to the summer months when the population swelled enough to fill scattered denominational churches to capacity. By the 1870s, devout Episcopalian residents, unsettled by the lack of year-round services at St. Marks Episcopal Church, began a movement to permanently institute religious services in Atlantic City. When the 1879 summer tourist season began, year-round church services were instituted as Alfred M. Heston, historian and author of Heston’s Handbook: Atlantic City Illustrated, wrote: “The Church of the Ascension was organized as an all-the-year-round parish in 1879, principally through the efforts of Mrs. Francis W. Hemsley, the daughter of Bishop Underdonk and mother of Frederick Hemsley, present owner of the Hotel Brighton.” The Hemsleys, whose son Frederick was the grantor of the plot of land on which the church was built, were parishioners of the church who did much to establish the city as a year-round destination; according to Heston, Francis Hemsley in 1876, “announced that the Hotel Brighton would thereafter be conducted as an all-the-year-round hotel. Mr. Hemsley thus inaugurated the winter season which has contributed so much to the popularity of Atlantic City as a health resort. The winter and spring business at many of the hotels is now more profitable than the summer business.” Francis Hemsley had retired to Atlantic City “in the early 70’s for the benefit of his health” before his death in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Until 1900, almost all structures in Atlantic City were frame houses built of timber rather than more vigorous or durable materials.“Compendium of Censuses 1726–1905: Together with the Tabulated Returns of 1905,” New Jersey Department of State, 1906.</p><br>
<p>A.H. Mueller, “A. H. Mueller; 530 Locust St., Philada, PA; Publisher of Atlantic City Maps in Various Forms; Lot Plans a Specialty” (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A. H. Muiller, Publisher, 1900). This coexistence of permanent and impermanent building traditions lasted through the early decades of the twentieth century, after which the devastation caused by several fires was significant enough to warrant construction of a more solid, fire-resistant building stock. In 1886, the original timber frame Church of the Ascension was relocated from the intersection of Michigan and Pacific avenues to its ultimate location at the northwest corner of Pacific and Kentucky avenues to suit a parish desire for a more central location. The timber-frame church was demolished in 1883 to allow construction of the Spanish Renaissance-style Church of the Ascension, which was designed by Philadelphia-based architect Lindley Johnson. The development of the church from a “frame chapel” at the intersection of Michigan and Pacific avenues to the eclectic structure that stood at the intersection of Kentucky and Pacific avenues is best summarized by an entry in The Daily Union History of Atlantic City, New Jersey: "Rev. J. Rice Taylor, the first rector, began regular services in June, 1880, which have been maintained without intermission ever since. Under his direction, the parish was duly incorporated January 3, 1881, entering legally and canonically into possession of the church property. Rev. Wm. H. Avery succeeded to the rectorship in February 1882 and continued in charge for some years. In 1886, the vestry, seeking a more central and convenient location bought ground at Pacific and Kentucky Avenues and with the advice and consent of the canonical authorities removed the frame chapel thither adding an annex for Sunday school purposes. Rev. J. H. Townsend became rector December 1, 1891, and laid the corner stone of the present edifice April 27, 1893, which was completed by the liberal offerings of resident and transient worshippers and opened for use May 13, 1894. This structure was designed by Mr. Lindley Johnson is in the Spanish Renaissance style and is a good example of a commodious yet inexpensive hard material building well adapted to the varying needs of this population and climate."</p><br>
<p>The decision to commission Philadelphia-based architect Lindley Johnson to design the church is likely traceable to Francis Hemsley&#39;s son, Frederick, who had commissioned Johnson for the construction of a pair of residences in Germantown, Philadelphia, and six cottages in the Chelsea section of Atlantic City, including his residence at the intersection of Maryland and Pacific avenues. In 1900, the Church of the Ascension parish house and auditorium were designed and constructed, possibly by Lindley Johnson, who was still in active practice at the time. The parish house and auditorium, which ran north along Kentucky Avenue from the rear of the church, were executed in a manner meant to balance and unify the original composition through identical coloration and materials.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, fire destroyed the adjacent Overbrook Hotel (formerly the New Dunlop Hotel, Hotel Abbey, and Pacific Hotel) and several timber frame residences and resulted in five fatalities. Though some of the more sensationalist news articles would report that the church was destroyed in the blaze, Church of the Ascension survived with minimal damage except to ten stained glass panels embedded in the elevation adjacent to the hotel. Lavers & Westlake, who created the original panels, re-executed identical stained glass windows from original drawings, and all damaged windows were replaced in kind. Months later, to complete the campaign of repair and improvement, heating was installed under the pews to keep parishioners warm during service.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, the eminent Philadelphia-based ecclesiastical architect Frank Rushmore Watson completed improvements to the chancel, which include the addition of four D’Ascenzo Studios stained glass windows. In about 1924, The New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, which previously had an office across the street on Pacific Avenue, constructed a five-story office tower, purchasing and demolishing the church&#39;s auditorium in the process.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Ascension was inscribed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Its more recent history is included in the National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form, which was initiated by members of the parish on the occasion of the churchs centennial in 1984: “The present lot was purchased in January 1886 and the wooden church was moved in the spring of that year. At that time, the entrance was on Kentucky Avenue. The second rector, John H. Townsend assumed the pastorate in 1891. A dynamic priest, he immediately planned a new church building. The chimes were given by the Hemsley family, and Miss Josephine Fletcher organized and directed the boys’ choir which took part in the first service, held Whitsunday May 13, 1894. In the fall of 1896, a pipe organ was installed and Mr. Alber Dietz came from New York City as the first full-time organist and choir master. In 1900 this office was filled by Mr. Alger E. Weeden, who held his post for forty years and left his imprint on both the parish and the whole community. The same year also saw the construction of the parish hall buildings as well as the beginnings of St. Augustines and All Saints’ Chapels, starting the realization of Father Townsend&#39;s dream of Ascension as mother church. Soon after, Church of the Good Shepherd was built in the inlet section.... In this, our Centennial Year, we look forward to a second century of service as a missionary parish for Christ and His Church. The parish must stand as a witness to the Catholic faith of the Episcopal Church in downtown Atlantic City. In this time of citywide transition, the Church of the Ascension offers an enduring message: ‘with God’s help, we shall be of even greater service to the community: to His great glory.... As of this writing (November 1983) there remain two Episcopal Churches in the City of Atlantic City—the Church of the Ascension and St. Augustine’s. Where there were once five Episcopal Churches in Atlantic City there are now just two. The Church of the Ascension being the “mother church” must survive and become a landmark in the ever changing facade of Atlantic City.”</p><br>
<p>In 2015, Church of the Ascension was closed and the historic stained glass windows were removed from the building. Jonathan Elliott, the director of communications for Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey at the time of the closure, was quoted in a May 2016 Press of Atlantic City article as follows: “Its fair to say the building was closed because it is structurally unsound, Elliott said. He said an engineering firm determined in mid-2014 that the condition of the church, specifically the bell tower, presented a danger to the community and that to make it safe, inhabitable and up to code would take a minimum of $2.5 million.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>Church of the Ascension was demolished in July 2017.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Redeemer, built in 1908, was a historic church located at 20th and Atlantic Avenues in the borough of Longport in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1992, for its significance in art. health/medicine and religion. It suffered a catastrophic fire in June 2012, and was demolished. A re-creation of the church is under construction and scheduled to open in June 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the firm of Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, the building likely was the work of architect H. Louis Duhring Jr. Duhring&#39;s father was a prominent Episcopal minister in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a friend of Joseph P. Remington, the donor of the land for the church.</p><br>
<p>It was heavily damaged in a fire on June 30, 2012. The fire was thought to be started when the church was struck by lightning from a storm connected with the June 2012 North American derecho severe-weather event. The surviving structure was deemed unsafe and demolished on July 2, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Ramsay is a historic estate located at Greenwood in Albemarle County, Virginia. Contributing elements on the estate include the main house , barn , garden , cottage , tenant house and garage , main house garage , potting shed , three greenhouse ruins , smoke house, chicken house, equipment shed, slave cabin ruins , and a circular turnaround . The main house is a classical Revival style dwelling begun about 1900 with sympathetic additions dated to 1937, 1947, and the early 1950s. The sympathetic additions and modifications, and barn and garden, were designed by noted Charlottesville architect Milton L. Grigg .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot is a historic depot in Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States. The depot is located on the southwest corner of Virginia Avenue and Central Avenue. It opened as a station on the White Oak Railway in 1903 and later became part of the Virginian Railway, which it served until 1957. From this year until closure in 1983, it operated as a depot for the Norfolk and Western Railway. The depot now serves as the meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. It is the only remaining Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot opened in 1903 on the White Oak Railway, a subsidiary of the White Oak Coal Company. The depot served a line from Glen Jean to coal mines in Summerlee and Lochgelly; it initially served as both a checkpoint for coal cars from these mines and a freight and passenger station for the newly incorporated town of Oak Hill. The station&#39;s opening led to a commercial boom in Oak Hill, which transformed from a farming community to a commercial center with multiple banks, hotels, and stores. The Virginian Railway leased the depot in 1912 and ultimately bought it in 1922. The depot continued to provide passenger and freight service to Oak Hill until after World War II, when passenger service to Oak Hill ended. The depot became part of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1957 and provided freight service for the railway until it closed to trains in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Southern Corp., the holding company for the Norfolk and Western Railway, donated the closed depot to the city of Oak Hill in 1995. The White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society has since restored the depot through donations and a USA Department of Transportation grant. Oak Hill began an annual festival known as Depot Day in 1997 to raise money to restore the depot. The depot presently serves as a meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society but is otherwise vacant; it is the sole surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the station caught fire in a suspected arson attempt and suffered slight damage.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Oak Hill Railroad Depot is a one-story wooden building located on the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Virginia Street, along the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks. It has a board and batten siding with Victorian features, a style representative of small-town railway depots of the early 1900s. The original depot consisted of a passenger waiting area and a station master&#39;s office. A warehouse, loading dock, and ramp were added to the depot in 1922. Restoration on the depot began in 1993, at which point it was painted a period shade of gray. Behind the depot, there is a small steam locomotive.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church is a historic church in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1905 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 2, 2001, for its significance in architecture. It is one of four churches of The Parish of Saint Monica in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Nicholas of Tolentine&#39;s 1916 Moller pipe organ (Opus 2138) was rebuilt by Peragallo in 2006 and will be restored over the course of the next several years. The organ at St. Nicholas is one of the busiest in the country, playing at all Masses, at several choir rehearsals per week, and at a host of weddings, funerals, and concerts.</p><br>
<p>At each of the eleven regularly scheduled Masses, the post-Vatican II Mass is celebrated with music.</p><br>
<p>John P. O&#39;Neill, an American counter-terrorism expert, working for the FBI, and killed in the September 11 attacks, once served as an altar boy in this church His funeral was held at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Hamilton, NJ. He was buried on September 28, 2001</p><br>
<p>Mays Landing Presbyterian Church is a historic church built in 1841 and located at Main Street and Cape May Avenue in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1938 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1982, for its significance in architecture and religion. The church was added as a contributing property to the Mays Landing Historic District in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church is a brick building using Flemish bond and designed using Greek Revival architecture. The front portico features Doric columns. The land was donated to the church by Samuel Richards, who owned the Weymouth Iron Furnace. The Reverend Allen H. Brown served as pastor 1846–1854 and 1862–1872.</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker is a historic burial monument in the cemetery at Scullville Bible Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, along County Route 559 near Somers Point. It was built in 1887 and added to both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Jeffries (1829-1887) is known for his association with the ship Twenty One Friends, which, following an incident at sea, floated without crew across the Atlantic Ocean for two years before being claimed and returned to service.</p><br>
<h2>The Monument</h2><br>
<p>The Capt. John Jeffries burial marker is approximately 15 ft tall and the largest marker in the Scullville Bible Church cemetery. The church was built in 1866 and, at the time of his death, was named Palestine Bible Protestant Church. The monument is made of marble and stands on a square brick base approximately 4 ft on each side. It is located in the Jeffries family plot behind the church, surrounded by other local-area family plots, many of which also date back to the 19th century. The square center section features an inscription, and above that a bas-relief engraving of the ship associated with Jeffries—and the source of his historical fame—the Twenty One Friends. Another smaller section above bears the initials “J.J.” and a draped urn is carved at the top of the monument. The center inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries. Born Nov. 15, 1829. Died March 17th 1887. A member of the K. of P.</p><br>
<h2>The Jeffries of Great Egg Harbor</h2><br>
<p>The Jeffries family can trace its genealogy back to 18th-century European settlers of Rhode Island. John Jeffries Sr. (1735-1810) from Egg Harbor earned a pension for his service during the American Revolutionary War. The family owned land where Patcong Creek empties into Great Egg Harbor River, and it was here they built a two-storey plantation house. The area became known as Jeffries Landing and was an active port as well as later becoming a popular destination area for bathers.</p><br>
<p>The settlement that formed inland, north of Jeffries Landing, came to be called Jeffers, also named after the family. In the early 1900s, Jeffers was renamed Scullville, honoring a different family, the Sculls. Currently, where Patcong Creek meets Great Egg Harbor River is still called Jeffries Landing.</p><br>
<p>John Sr. and his wife, Judiah, had three sons, one of whom was John Jeffries Jr. (1789-1834). In 1819 John Jeffries Jr. was named wharf master at Jeffries Landing, responsible for collecting the wharfage of 30 cents per day to dock there. In 1829, John Jr.’s wife, Isabell, gave birth to John III (1829-1887), who would grow up to become a sea captain.</p><br>
<p>Capt. John Jeffries III later lived along English Creek, upstream from Jeffries Landing along the Great Egg Harbor River. He was married to Hannah Barrett Jeffries.</p><br>
<h3>Variations of the name</h3><br>
<p>The family name can be seen spelled different ways; Jeffries, Jeffryes, Jeffrys and Jeffers appear with interchangeability although all reasonably refer to the same family. Some evidence of this can be found within the penned family plot in Scullville (Palestine) Bible Church cemetery. On one side of the Captain, his wife Hannah “Jeffers” is buried and on the other side, his young son Samuel J. “Jeffers”. In between stands the monument to Capt. John “Jeffries”.</p><br>
<h2>Shipbuilding along Great Egg Harbor River</h2><br>
<p>The banks of Great Egg Harbor River, from Mays Landing to Somers Point, were an ideal environment for shipbuilding in the century following the American Revolutionary War due to natural resources in the area. These resources included lumber from pine, oak, and cedar as well as bog ore. The waterways were deep enough for ships up to 2000 tons (1,800 MT).</p><br>
<h3>The Twenty One Friends</h3><br>
<p>In 1872, Capt. Gaskill built a three-masted (tern) schooner for Capt. Jeffries.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, returning to Philadelphia with a full load of lumber from Brunswick, Georgia, the Twenty One Friends was rammed by the John D. May off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Capt. Jeffries removed his crew and abandoned the vessel. The ship and cargo were left to the mercy of the sea.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Jeffries’ concern for the safety of his men was appropriate; however, the Gaskill-made ship proved itself to be more seaworthy than expected. After the collision, the ghost ship was sighted on both sides of the Atlantic over the next two years. It finally came ashore in Ireland, where its cargo was salvaged and it was employed as a fishing vessel. The Twenty One Friends remained in service until 1914.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>The Jeffries monument represents not only the life of a sea captain from the Great Egg Harbor River, but also an industry along that river during the 19th century. There are few remaining relics from the marine and shipbuilding industries that mark this region&#39;s history during that time.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the monument has been singled out for its intricate carvings, which helped achieve its NRHP status.</p><br>
<p>The David Ackerman House is a historic stone house located at 415 E. Saddle River Road in the village of Ridgewood in Bergen County, United States. It was built around 1750–1760. It was documented as the David Ackerman-Naugle House by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1936. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The house was built by either David A. Ackerman or his son, Garret D. Ackerman. Garret&#39;s son, David G. Ackerman (1744–1831) inherited the house in 1774. His son, Abraham D. Ackerman, inherited it in 1831. David B. Naugle bought the house in 1861.</p><br>
<p>The Ackerman–Dewsnap House is located at 176 East Saddle River Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic house was built around 1835 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1986, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Saddle River Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, Ackerman sold the property to James Dewsnap in 1864. He remodeled the house around 1870. The borough now owns the property.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Communion is a historic Episcopal church building on Summit Street in Norwood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady in Late Gothic Revival style and Shingle Style and was built in 1886. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1988, for its significance in art and architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Episcopal services service in Norwood began in the local Presbyterian Church about 1870. Norwood was a weekend and vacation resort for New Yorkers at the time, and the parish served these visitors throughout much of its history. Official consent to form a church parish was given on October 14, 1878, by Bishop Odenheimer of the Diocese of Newark.</p><br>
<p>Land for the church was donated Mr. and Mrs. George W Luckey. Construction began in 1876 and was completed in 1877. This building was destroyed by fire on November 6. 1886. Following the original plans, a new building, costing $8,229.69, was completed in 1888. A Carrara marble altar and a Tiffany window depicting the Resurrection were donated by the William H. Oakley family. An organ built by the J.H. & C.S. Odell Organ Builders was donated by the Suydam family.</p><br>
<p>A parish hall was built in 1930 and an education building in 1969. From 1980 to 1987 the church shared a rector and administrative services with nearby St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church in Harrington Park.</p><br>
<p>The New North Reformed Low Dutch Church, also known as the Saddle River Reformed Church and the Old Stone Church, is a historic Dutch Reformed church located on East Saddle River Road at Old Stone Church Road in the borough of Upper Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The current church was built in 1819 and was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  program in 1936. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982, for its significance in architecture, exploration/settlement, religion, and social history.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1784, formed from the Paramus Reformed Church. An earlier church may have been built at the site around 1789. The current church was constructed from 1814 to 1819 and was restored from 1971 to 1972. The stone church features a replica pulpit based on the original imported from the Netherlands. The cemetery contains several graves of soldiers from the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The Paramus Reformed Church Historic District is a 39 acre historic district encompassing the historic Old Paramus Reformed Church located at 660 East Glen Avenue in the village of Ridgewood in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1975, for its significance in architecture, education, military history, and religion.</p><br>
<h2>Church history</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1725 by Dutch settlers. The stone church was built in 1800, replacing an earlier building from 1735 and using the stones of the old church. The church also has a small gated cemetery with graves of Dutch ancestors and a path that leads to a nearby residential street.</p><br>
<p>The church was used as a hospital, barrack and prison in the Revolutionary War. The church is currently still in use.</p><br>
<p>On November 16 and December 26, 2014, Joseph Galli of Somerville allegedly used a high powered AR-15 rifle to shoot inside the church. This led to the breaking of a stained glass window dating back to 1875. Him and Alexander Norell were charged with more than $2,000 in property damage and indicted for gun charges with an assault rifle.</p><br>
<p>The Reformed Dutch Church of Wyckoff is located at 580 Wyckoff Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, United States. The historic stone church was built in 1806 and was documented as the Wycoff Reformed Church by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1937. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 2003, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was built of local fieldstone in 1806. The carpentry was done by Daniel Baldwin. It features vernacular Early Republic, Federal architecture. The windows have Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
