<p>Edgewood, aka Cordts Mansion is a historic home located at Kingston in Ulster County, New York. It is an impressive, three story Second Empire style residence built in 1873 for a prominent brick merchant and a manufacturer, John A. Cordts. It features a centered tower, slate sloping concave mansard roof with headed dormer windows, iron roof cresting, a columned front porch verandah, and a bay window.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Known to the Cordts family as Edgewood, it is an impressive three-story Second Empire mansion, constructed in 1873 for John H. Cordts, a brick merchant, manufacturer and co-founder of the firm of Cordts and Hutton. It is located within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and is prominently sited atop a hill facing east and overlooking the Hudson River. The mansion occupies anine-acre, mostly-landscaped lot located on the east side of Lindsley Avenue, north of Delaware Avenue, in Kingston, New York. Adjoining the mansion lot to the north is Hutton Brickyards; across Lindsley Avenue, to the south and east is Delaware Avenue and residential housing, some of which was owned by the Cordts family and occupied by brick company employees; to the west across Lindsley Avenue, is a wood lot property once owned by the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company as well as the Moses Yeomans House, a pre-Revolutionary stone house with former ties to the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>The Edgewood Mansion is an imposing building with many distinctive exterior details and features associated with the Second Empire style including the centered tower, slate sloping concave mansard roof with hooded dormer windows having jigsaw trim, iron roof cresting much of it topped with finials in a modified fleur de lys style, molded cornices with paired support eave brackets, a columned front porch verandah, round headed windows, and a side bay window facing south on the first and second stories. Windows on the first and second stories and in the arched tower have shutters. The windows are varied but mostly two over two or two over one. The main section of roof beyond the iron cresting and not visible from the grounds is asphalt. The structural system is joisted masonry. The brickwork is painted yellow and appears to be mainly common bond. The architect is not known but the construction would likely have been supervised by John H. Cordts with materials provided by the Cordts and Hutton brickyard and the Hutton Company lumberyard, both nearby. The dimensions are irregular containing numerous projections and setbacks but can be approximated to 45 ft. x 90 ft. on the first story, 45 ft. x 75 ft. on the second story and 36 ft. x 75 ft. on the third story.</p><br>
<p>The mansion is now part of Hutton Brickyards and will available for hotel stays starting in summer of 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Chatham County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. It sits at the center of town in the middle of a traffic circle. It was built in 1881 for $10,666 and is a two-story rectangular brick structure</p><br>
<p>in the Late Victorian style. It features a two-story classical portico crowned with a distinctive three-stage cupola. A one-story addition was built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. In 1959, extensive renovations were performed on the building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Pittsboro Historic District.</p><br>
<p>A fire on March 24, 2010, did great damage to the building which was in the midst of another renovation. The restored building reopened April 20, 2013 with an exhibit covering Chatham County history on the first floor and a courtroom on the second.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, the county gave a license to the United Daughters of the Confederacy to place a statue of a Confederate soldier outside the courthouse. In 2019, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted to rescind this license, and the statue was removed as part of the trend toward removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in the 2010s.</p><br>
<p>The Bromley Farm–Koizuma Hishinuma Farm is a historic farmstead in the vicinity of Brighton, Colorado, United States. Established shortly before 1899, it includes a complex of four buildings and multiple other historic structures. In 2007, the farm was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was a home of settler Emmet Ayers Bromley, who came to Colorado in 1877. Bromley was president of the First National Bank of Brighton and of the Gibraltar Oil Company. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives and in the Colorado Senate.</p><br>
<p>The Sebastian Baker Stone House is a historic house and farm complex located at 10 Dug Road in Rochester, Ulster County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It includes the house (c. 1790), Dutch barn (c. 1840), granary (c. 1840), horse barn (c. 1870), garage, shed, and privy (c. 1920). Also on the property is a well (c. 1790), family cemetery, house ruins, and sawmill ruins. The house is a -story, vernacular stone dwelling built upon a rectangular plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Zachariah Barley Stone House is a historic house located at 193 Whitfield Road in Rochester, Ulster County, New York, USA.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It includes the house (c. 1770), hoop shop with attached modern garage (c. 1860), and smokehouse (c. 1850). The house is a -story, stone single dwelling that is rectangular in shape and built upon a linear plan. The hoop shop is a -story, heavy timer-framed building with a gabled roof. It features a massive exterior stone hearth. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Umpawaug District School is a one-room schoolhouse located near the junction of Umpawaug Road and Marchant in Redding, Connecticut, United States. The school was built in 1790 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1988. It is the only surviving district schoolhouse in the town. The building was used as a schoolhouse until 1931. Once a year the Redding Historical Society will open the schoolhouse to the public. It is still owned by the town, but is managed by the Redding Historical Society as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Redding Center Historic District is a 55 acre located in Redding, Connecticut, encompassing its historic village center. It includes the town&#39;s current and former town halls, a church, a cemetery, private homes and barns. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 46 buildings with a mix of architectural styles, including Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, and Italianate. They form the most historically significant collection of properties in the community.</p><br>
<p>Fronting a central green is the First Church of Christ, a Congregational church built in 1837 in the Greek Revival style that was the first religious organization established in Redding, obtaining permission in 1729 from Fairfield church leaders to establish a separate parish. Also facing the green is Reddings old town hall, built in 1834 and still used today for some town functions like meetings. Reddings current town hall, police station, fire station, and the Read Cemetery, which has grave markers dating from 1786 to 1860, are also in the district.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel and Esther Bartlett House is at historic house and farmstead at 43 Lonetown Road in Redding, Connecticut. Built in 1796, it is a good local example of well-preserved Federal architecture, somewhat unusual for its shingle siding. The property, now owned by the town and managed by Redding Historical Society, also includes an 18th-century barn. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bartlett House is located in a rural-residential setting, northeast of the town center on the west side of Lonetown Road (Connecticut Route 107) just south of its junction with Gallows Hill Road Extension. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney. The central entrance is framed by pilasters and topped by a transom window and pediment. The entry is sheltered by a gabled portico supported by Doric columns and pilasters. The interior follows a typical center chimney plan, with a narrow entry vestibule, parlors on either side, and the kitchen behind the chimney. Many original interior features remain, including wide floor boards, original doors (with original hardware), and wood paneling in the north parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1796 for Daniel and Esther Bartlett, both members of locally prominent families. They only lived here until 1802, when they sold the property to the Sherwood family, who owned it for much of the 19th century. It remained in active use as a farm property until 1973, when the town acquired it and built the school just to the south. The house was then leased to the local historical society, which uses it as a headquarters and museum.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Barlow House is a historic house at the corner of Umpawaug and Station Roads in Redding, Connecticut. Built in 1730, it is a fine local example of Georgian architecture, with historic association to local figures active in the American Revolutionary War. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Aaron Barlow House stands in a rural residential area near the village of West Redding, at the northwest corner of Umpawag and Station Roads. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with twin stone chimneys and a gabled roof. A 20th-century single-story ell extends to the rear. The exterior is finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingles. The main facade has sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance. The door is topped by a six-light transom window and a narrow band of dentil moulding. The interior follows a central hall plan, with a wide main hall and two rooms on either side. Most of the rooms have original wide floorboards, and some of the original finish woodwork either remains in place, or has been reused during 20th-century renovations.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1730, and was owned by Aaron Barlow, a blacksmith, by 1750. Barlow served in the Continental Army and the Connecticut state militia during the American Revolutionary War, and later served in the state legislature. He is said to have hosted General Israel Putnam in this house on occasion. Aaron&#39;s brother Joel, noted as a poet and statesman, is said to have written one of his best-known works, The Vision of Columbus, in this house in 1787.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwich Avenue Historic District is a historic district representing the commercial and civic historical development of the downtown area of the town of Greenwich, Connecticut. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 31, 1989. Included in the district is the Greenwich Municipal Center Historic District, which was listed on the National Register the year before for the classical revival style municipal buildings in the core of Downtown. Most of the commercial buildings in the district fall into three broad styles, reflecting the period in which they were built: Italianate , Georgian Revival , and Commercial style . The district is linear and runs north–south along the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Downtown Greenwich, between USA Route 1 and the New Haven Line railroad tracks.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Greenwich was first settled in 1640, but settlement was scattered among several villages. It was not until 1665 that Greenwich was formally incorporated as a town of Connecticut. In 1672, a group of settlers bought a tract of land known as Miossehasseky. The area occupied by Havemeyer Fields was used by these settlers as a pasture for horses and the entire village soon acquired the name Horseneck. In 1703, the town voted to have town meetings split between Sound Beach (the oldest settlement) and Horseneck, which was centrally located in the town. In 1760, a “Town House” for conducting town meetings was constructed at what is now the intersection of Putnam and Maple Avenue. The population of Horseneck boomed in the mid-19th century, transforming from a farming village to a wealth suburban community of New York City, mainly as a result of the establishment by the New Haven Railroad of a station at the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. This rapid growth prompted the incorporation of Horseneck as the Borough of Greenwich in 1854. The establishment of borough government ultimately allowed for the rapid construction of new public buildings after the Civil War on previously vacant farmland. Around the area of public buildings, intensive development of commercial as well as residential areas was also taking place.</p><br>
<p>The rapid development of public buildings in the borough was aided by the development of railroad and steamboat service, allowing people to work in New York City while living in Greenwich. Several wealth New York capitalists spurred the rapid development with their own funds. Henry O. Havemeyer was the first of these benefactors. He donated the money to construct the Havemeyer Building, which was originally a school, in 1892. Another philanthropist, Robert M. Bruce, and his sister Sarah E. Bruce, donated to the town the Old Town Hall (now the Senior Center) after it was constructed in 1905. The core of Downtown Greenwich was completed when the Havemeyer family donated the parcel of land south of the intersection of Arch Street and Greenwich Avenue for construction of a public park and a post office. The post office building was constructed in 1916.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, most commercial development took place along the northern end of Greenwich Avenue, where the Boston Post Road was located. This area of Greenwich Avenue provided goods and services to the growing residential community around the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and Putnam Avenue, including what is now the Fourth Ward. Sidewalks, kerosene street lighting, and sewer and water lines were in place by 1882. In the early 20th-century, Greenwich Avenue was paved and a streetcar line was established. Many houses that were already on Greenwich Avenue were moved to residential areas on the parallel side streets to make way for commercial blocks. Commercial development continued to boom in the 1920s, helped in part by the electrification and four-tracking of the New Haven Railroad line. The borough had dominated the civic life of the entire town of Greenwich by this time and the borough and town governments were eventually consolidated in 1932 resulting in the modern town government of Greenwich. The last open lot on Greenwich Avenue was built on in 1947 with the construction of an office building now occupied by Fawcett Publications. While upscale retail businesses replaced the earlier stores and office space in existing buildings upgraded, the streetscape of the area is largely intact and continues to function as the commercial and civic center of the town.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The historic district covers a total area of 86 acres. Of this area, 21.6 acres are part of the Municipal Center district, with 16.8 acres of that occupied by Havemeyer Field. There are 152 buildings in the district, of which 124 are listed as contributing to the historic and architectural significance of the area. The district is bounded to include historic commercial and civic buildings that are associated to the rapid development of the borough of Greenwich in the period 1860 to 1940, and to exclude primarily residential areas as well as modern commercial construction.</p><br>
<h2>Significant contributing buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Greenwich Avenue Historic District is representative of the architectural diversity that was found in the 19th and early 20th century commercial streetscapes of small cities in Connecticut. Greenwich Avenue is distinguished in that so much of the historic streetscape remains intact today. Some of the more significant buildings and blocks are described below.</p><br>
<p>Havemeyer Building &ndash; This building located at 290 Greenwich Avenue was the first to be built in the area of the Greenwich Municipal Center Historic District. It was designed by Loring & Phipps and has a Richardsonian Romanesque design with a pronounced horizontality, and further accented by several architectural elements. These include the Syrian arch surrounding the recessed entrance and the elliptical-arched loggia in front of the auditorium wing. The building was originally built for use as a public school, the Havemeyer School, in 1892 by New York philanthropist Henry O. Havemeyer. This building set the standard for architectural design and site planning that would be adhered to by the newer buildings in the Municipal Center district. In front of the building are two war memorials: one for World War II and the Korean War (built 1956), and another to the memory of Col. Raynal Bolling (built 1921). It is currently used by the Greenwich Board of Education.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Senior Center (Old Town Hall) &ndash; Across the street from the Havemeyer Building at 299 Greenwich Avenue is the Greenwich Senior Center. The building is a Beaux Arts design by Mowbray and Uffinger, and was built in 1904 to serve as the Town Hall of Greenwich. The building is shaped like a vertical cube and has three stories, rusticated at the first story. The roof rises above a copper cornice and has a clock built below a domed cupola. The building was built by another New York philanthropist, Robert M. Bruce. The building was donated to the town in 1905 upon its completion. The building is listed separately on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Main Post Office &ndash; The main Post Office of Greenwich was built in 1916. The land, which originally belonged to the Havemeyers, was sold to the USA government in 1909 specifically for the construction of a post office. The building is a one-story classical revival design by James A. Wetmore and has a concave façade, which complements the acute angle of the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and Arch Street, where the building is located. The area in front of the building is a municipal park and contains a World War I memorial built in 1927. The post office is also listed separately on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Town Hall &ndash; The present town hall at 101 Field Point Road across Havemeyer Field from the Havemeyer Building was built in 1925 as the town&#39;s second high school. The three-story building is a Georgian Revival design by Guilbert and Betelle. The building features “a centrally placed, two-story Ionic portico that is supported by a rusticated ashlar base containing the main entrance.” The building was converted into use as the town hall in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Town Hall Annex &ndash; Built in 1906 as the town&#39;s first high school, the building is a classical revival design by Wilson Potter. The building has a three-story central portion flanked by 2½-story wings and is located at 27 Havemeyer Place.</p><br>
<p>Smith Building &ndash; The Smith Building at 289–295 Greenwich Avenue is one of several commercial buildings that complement the classically inspired designs of the Municipal Center buildings. It was built in 1906 to house law offices and has a Georgian Revival / Italian Renaissance design showing a classical arcade and fluted Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>Shreve, Crump & Low Building &ndash; Another classically inspired building is the Shreve, Crump & Low building on 125 Greenwich Avenue. The building is “a finely detailed, well-proportioned textbook example of the Classical Revival style. An enclosed, self-contained concept of trabeated Greek architecture: the replication in stone of wooden structural members.”</p><br>
<p>300 block of Greenwich Avenue &ndash; The 300 block of Greenwich Avenue showcases early 20th-century commercial architecture as interpreted in the Georgian Revival and Classical Revival styles. It is well preserved, with many of the original storefronts still intact. The buildings in this block are located across Greenwich Avenue from the Post Office and were mainly built in the period 1910–1914.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Trust Bank &ndash; Located at 94-96 Greenwich Avenue, the Greenwich Trust Bank building was built in 1887 in the Queen Anne style. It has an asymmetrical and eccentric eave line. The building stands in contrast to its neighbor, an 1893 building that was altered in 1931 to have an Art Deco façade.</p><br>
<p>Fred Knapp Building &ndash; The Fred Knapp Building at 269 Greenwich Avenue is a Late Gothic Revival design that was constructed in 1906. The building has an elaborate limestone tracery on its storefront and parapet adding to the distinctiveness of the building. The building stands in contrast to its newer Queen Anne style neighbor.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Police Department &ndash; Originally built in 1925 as a garage, this building at 11 Bruce Place has housed the Greenwich Police Department since 1968. It was excluded from the original Municipal Center district because of its original commercial function. In recent years, the building has undergone major renovations. During that time, the Greenwich Police Department has operated out of the Central Fire House, also known as Greenwich Fire Department Headquarters, next door on Havemeyer Place.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich Fire Headquarters &ndash; The Central Firehouse has been the Headquarters building of the Greenwich Fire Department since it was built in 1938. Designed with Art Deco style, this three-story limestone ashlar building was designed by Joseph W. Bailey. This is the only building departing from the classical themes of the other buildings in the Municipal Center district. The building has also been shared by the Greenwich Police Department when their building was being renovated in recent years. Located at 15 Havemeyer Place, the large five-garage-bay firehouse has been home to the Greenwich Fire Department, as well as the Amogerone Vol. Fire Co. # 1, the Vol. Hose & Chemical Co. # 1, and the Greenwich Fire Patrol. As of 2012, GFD companies Engine 1, Tower 1, the Special Operations Unit, and the on-duty Deputy Chief have been moved to the Horseneck Ln. Commuter Lot and the current Fire Headquarters is being demolished after nearly 75 years of service to the town.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Parish Center &ndash; The parish center at 200 Greenwich Avenue is a post-modern building that was designed with the historic setting in mind. Its upper story is setback to maintain the massing of its neighbors, and it also echoes the form of the Beaux Arts style 1916 Greenwich Trust Building. The parish offices are located on the second floor and the first floor is leased commercial space. The parish center was built in 1986 and is a non-contributing property but is significant in that it was designed to blend in with its historic neighbors. The parish center is attached to the St. Marys Roman Catholic Church and Rectory, one of only two churches in the district.</p><br>
<p>Commercial blocks at Bruce Park Avenue and West Putnam Avenue &ndash; The Bruce Park Avenue block consists of a row of four commercial buildings at the south end of the district. The buildings were built from 1899 to 1919 in a variety of styles. The West Putnam Avenue block showcases the Tudor Revival style that was popular after World War I.</p><br>
<p>Davis Stone House is a historic home located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. It includes the house , small barn , and silo . The stone house is linear in plan with a perpendicular frame extension off the rear. The main stone section is one and one half stories, five bays wide with a central entrance, and pent roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The former Norwalk City Hall, located in South Norwalk was built in 1912. The building has since been added, on March 23, 1995, to the National Register of Historic Places. Norwalk&#39;s city hall is now located at 125 East Avenue.</p><br>
<p>After Norwalks City Hall relocated, the first and second floors of the structure became Norwalk Historical Society Museum, which was operated by the city. As a museum, the building contained archival materials and other items related to Norwalks culture and history, including documents, items of significance to the history of Norwalk and artwork.</p><br>
<p>In May 2012, the city removed funding for operation of the museum as well for the cost of renting the building, no longer owned by the city, despite the several thousand visitors annually.</p><br>
<p>The J. Dupuy Stone House is located on Krum Road near Kerhonkson, New York, United States, in the Ulster County town of Rochester. It was built in the mid-19th century and modified later.</p><br>
<p>On the property are several other outbuildings, including a stand-alone smokehouse. They and the house were listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The 2.5 acre lot with the house and outbuildings is located on the south side of Krum Road half a mile east of its eastern end at Queens Highway. The house is surrounded by mature spruce and maple trees, the only such growth in a large area of open fields. The terrain is generally level, providing views of the Catskill foothills to the west and the Shawangunk Ridge to the east.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a five-bay one-and-a-half-story stone building with clapboard siding on the upper half-story. It is topped with a standing-seam metal gabled roof pierced by brick chimneys at either end. On the south (rear) side is a two-bay, two-story clapboard-sided wing added later.</p><br>
<p>Fenestration is regular. All first-story windows are modern vinyl replacements for the originals. Those on the first story have louvered wooden shutters. Those on the upper story of the north (front) facade skip bays. A small wooden deck is located in front of the main entrance, running almost the width of the house.</p><br>
<p>A stone walk leads from the front door to the road; at the latter&#39;s former route there are two stone posts and a six-foot (2 m) square bluestone mounting block, a contributing object to the National Register listing. On the east of the driveway there is a rectangular one-story frame clapboard-sided shed with corrugated metal gable roof and a one-story shed-roofed addition. It has a wooden sliding door on thewest and a board-and-batten strap-hinged door on the east. Behind it and the house, to the southeast, is the smokehouse, a single-story front-gabled rubblestone building with a plank front door.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally built around 1840 in the classic linear form of many stone houses of that era. The smokehouse is one of only six extant in the town of Rochester. In the early 20th century the front was raised to a full story, the only stone house in town where this was done. In the later years of that century, the hip roofed front porch was removed. There have been no other major alterations to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Ephriam DuPuy Stone House is located on Whitfield Road near the hamlet of Kerhonkson, New York, United States, in the Ulster County town of Rochester. It was built in the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<p>It has been very well preserved since the time of its construction. In 1995 it and a wellhouse on the property were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a trapezoidal 2 acre parcel on the northeast section of the junction of Airport and Whitfield roads two miles north of the US 209 highway. It is mostly wooded, with nearby areas cleared and used as fields. Three other stone houses listed on the Register, the Middaugh, Krom and Hornbeck houses to the north, east and south respectively. There are two outbuildings, a non-contributing modern garage across Whitfield Road and a contributing wellhouse on the parcel.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a one-and-a-half-story linear stone building with gabled roof pierced by two brick chimneys at the ends and a gabled dormer window in the center of each side. It is shingled in asphalt on the south with the original standing seam metal remaining on the north. The gable peaks are sided in clapboard and the rest of the house has remaining whitewash. A vertical seam in the middle of the south (rear) facade, the side of the house most visible from the nearby road, is the result of the house&#39;s construction in two segments.</p><br>
<p>Entrances to either elevation are located off-center, to the east on the north and the west on the south. All windows on the ground floor are two-over-two double-hung sash, with louvered shutters. The upper windows are smaller six-over six, paired on the west and single on the east. The dormers are similarly treated. They light a centrally located stair inside that divides two large rooms.</p><br>
<p>The wellhouse is a small frame building topped with a gable roof. It is sided in flushboard. Paired louvered panels divided by a central mullion shelter the well.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Earlier accounts suggest the home was built in 1730, the year Ephriam DuPuy was born. It is more likely that it was built 20 years later when he married. His father&#39;s will leave him the house and barn "already in his possession". Ephriam served as a first lieutenant in the Third Ulster Regiment during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction, in separate halves, the front of the house faced south. Later renovations turned that around. The wellhouse was built in 1890, the garage in the early 20th century. There have been no other significant changes to the property since then.</p><br>
<p>The Kaatz Icehouse was a historic ice cutting facility located on the shore of Kaatz Pond, off Whitney Road in Trumbull, Connecticut. Built in 1908, it served in this role until 1955, and was believed to be one of the last surviving structures of this type in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Following its demolition in 1978, it was delisted in 2009.</p><br>
<p>It was a wood-framed structure, built in 1908 by Ernest Kaatz, who ran an ice harvesting operation between 1908 and 1955. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 1977. The local historical society claims it was the last icehouse standing in New England.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwich Senior Center, formerly Greenwich Town Hall, is a historic municipal building at 299 Greenwich Avenue in the business district of Greenwich, Connecticut. USA. Built in 1905, it is a prominent local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and served as the town&#39;s center of government until 1977. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Greenwich Town Hall is located near the center of the Greenwich&#39;s central business district, on the east side of Greenwich Avenue at Havemeyer Place. The building is shaped like a vertical cube, three stories, with single-story wings extending to the sides. The first floor is rusticated stone, while the upper floors are more finely finished, with two-story Ionic columns rising to a mansard roof. The roof rises above a copper cornice and has a clock built below a domed cupola. The main entrance has an elaborate surround, with pilasters rising to a heavy gabled pediment.</p><br>
<p>The building is a Beaux Arts design by Mowbray and Uffinger, and was built in 1905 by W.J. Smith to serve as the Town Hall of Greenwich. Its construction was funded by Robert M. Bruce and his sister Sarah. Robert Bruce was a New York City cotton merchant and philanthropist whose home is now the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science; the Bruces were well known for their local philanthropy. In 1977, the town government offices were moved to a building that was formerly used by the Greenwich High School at Field Point Road. This building is now used as a senior center.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Miner House was a historic house on Hewitt Road in North Stonington, Connecticut. Built in 1717, it was a unique and rare example of a house that was constructed of apple, oak, sycamore and chestnut wood, The house was destroyed by fire in April 2003. with a particularly well-preserved late First Period bedchamber. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Miner House was located in a rural setting northwest of the village center of North Stonington, on Hewitt Road, a dirt lane off Connecticut Route 2. It was a -story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof, end chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Unusually for houses of the period, the main facade was what is generally considered a side elevation, with the roof ridge perpendicular. The roof extended down to the first floor on the right side, giving the house a saltbox profile. The main entrance was roughly in the center of the facade, with two bays of windows on either side, placed with some asymmetry. There were two irregularly placed windows on the second floor, and a small window set just below the gable peak.</p><br>
<p>The house was an architecturally unusual example of a late First Period colonial residence. It unusually retained its single-pile structure, with a large single room on each floor, and a chimney at the end. The side-facing leanto section was added sometime in the 18th century. The interior was also distinctive for its use of a variety of different woods for the flooring and finishes, as well as three large granite fireplaces. The second-floor bedchamber was a rare example of an early 18th-century room finished before the use of horsehair plaster became more common: it had been finished entirely in wooden wainscoting and paneling.</p><br>
<p>The East 80th Street Houses are a group of four attached rowhouses on that street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. They are built of brick with various stone trims in different versions of the Colonial Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>They were built in the 1920s as homes for wealthy New Yorkers of that era, including Vincent Astor, Clarence Dillon and George Whitney. All were designated city landmarks by 1967, the first group of houses on the Upper East Side so recognized. In 1980, all four houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as intact surviving examples of high-style townhouses for affluent homebuyers of that time period.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The four houses are located on the south side of 80th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, on land that rises gently from 79th Street to the south. The block has an assortment of similarly sized buildings, most more modern. It is primarily residential with mixed use development on the neighboring avenues. The area is part of the Upper East Side. From west to east, the houses are numbered 116, 120, 124, and 130.</p><br>
<h3>116 East 80th Street</h3><br>
<p>Westernmost in the row is 116 East 80th, the Lewis Spencer Morris House. It is a four-story, four-bay building of brick laid in Flemish bond with marble trim topped by a pediment that hides the attic. Continuous belt courses divide the first story from the English basement below and second story above. They are echoed by a continuous stone cornice at the roofline. Festoons and medallions decorate the entablature above. A projecting central section, flanked by entrance bays, features a central entrance where marble surrounds and consoles support an entablature below an arched fanlight.</p><br>
<h3>120 East 80th Street</h3><br>
<p>120 East 80th Street, the George Whitney House, is a six-story house also in brick with marble trim. Its most notable feature is a central projecting semicircular marble portico where two fluted Doric columns support an entablature at a string course between the first and second stories. The portico is reinforced by a round-arched main entrance and pedimented second-story window above. The other second story windows have iron railings and splayed brick lintels. Above the third story a cornice with blocks sets off the slate-covered mansard roof, pierced by three dormers with segmental arched roofs on the first of its stories and four on the second, recessed slightly and set off with a wood railing. The top of the mansard roof conceals the sixth story.</p><br>
<h3>124 East 80th Street</h3><br>
<p>124 East 80th Street, the Clarence Dillon House, is also a six-story brick building in the Neo-Georgian style. Its front facade culminates in a pediment, which along with the high end chimneys conceals the two top stories. It, too, has a classically detailed entrance, flanked by Ionic pilasters supporting a segmented pediment. Brick quoins accentuate the second and third stories.</p><br>
<h3>130 East 80th Street</h3><br>
<p>The easternmost house in the row, the Vincent and Helen Astor House at 130 East 80th, is the only one not of brick. It is a five-story, three-bay Neo-Adamesque building faced in French limestone laid in an ashlar pattern. It shares classical detailing with the two houses to the west. The entrance, two paneled doors surmounted by a fanlight, is sheltered by a small portico supported by Ionic columns. The window above echoes the fanlight with a blind arch, and on either side two-story Ionic pilasters support a full entablature with dentil course and four paterae. Above it a pediment with gently pitched slate roof runs the full width of the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The block between 79th, 80th, Park and Lexington was first developed in 1870 with a row of 19 three-story brownstones on the north side of 79th, right after the street was built. No other houses were built there until 1907, when two sisters had a double-width Georgian built at 123 East 79th. Eight years later, in 1915, a relative of theirs had a house built at 121 East 79th, which went all the way through to the back of the block. Other grand houses were built on East 79th, but the land behind them on the site of the East 80th Street houses remained undeveloped into the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The first of the houses to be built on East 80th Street was 116. The firm of Cross and Cross, known for other designs in New York of the era such as Tiffanys and the Links Club, built the neo-Federal home for Lewis Spencer Morris, a descendant of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was joined in 1927 by Mott B. Schmidts neo-Adamesque style home for Vincent Astor at 130. Astor also had Schmidt design a matching garage to replace the brownstone at 121 East 79th.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, the two architects built one more house apiece on the block. Cross and Cross contributed the neo-Georgian building at 120 for George Whitney in 1929, and in 1930 Schmidt put the finishing touch on the block with a similar house for financier Clarence Dillon at 124. During the late 1920s, the four wealthy residents of the East 80th Street houses, who liked the location because the rise in the land complemented by the low houses behind them on the south side of East 79th let the sun into their gardens, bought up the lots behind them on the north side of East 79th. They did this to prevent them from being acquired by developers of new high-rise apartment buildings that would have blocked the sun.</p><br>
<p>The four houses were among the last built in their styles before the Great Depression changed American ideas about luxury housing. The residents kept the block and their vacant rear lots together until 1942, when they began to sell them off. The Junior League of New York moved into the Astor House later in the decade, and found it so well maintained it did not need a sprinkler system in the yard. The last parcel, the Astors&#39; garage, was sold by Brooke Astor in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Three years later, in 1967, the Morris and Dillon houses were the first houses on the Upper East Side recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Astor House followed three months later. Late in 1968, the Whitney House completed the set.</p><br>
<p>Other than the Junior League, the houses have largely remained private residential properties. At the time they were listed on the National Register, in 1980, the Dillon House was owned by Iraq for diplomatic purposes. One unit has been remodeled in Early American style by the residents, who have lived there since 2000.</p><br>
<p>The John Randall House is a historic house on Connecticut Route 2 in North Stonington, Connecticut. Its earliest section dates to 1685, with the main block reaching its present configuration before 1720. The house was restored in the 1930s by early preservationist Norman Isham and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Randall House is set on a rural parcel of land down a long lane on the west side of Route 2, about 2,000 ft north of its junction with Interstate 95. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five asymmetrical bays wide, with a massive central stone chimney and clapboarded exterior. Its main entrance is framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature. The house is framed with inch-thick planking, a common technique of the period, although the planking was usually thinner, and is suggestive of two distinct periods of construction. The eastern parlor has a large fireplace wall finished in wooden paneling, the fireplace flanked by pilasters. The western parlor has a period built-in cabinet, wainscoting, and original plasterwork. The house was part of a farm named Anguilla Farm by the namesake son of the original proprietor, John Randall, a husbandman and Sabbatarian from England.</p><br>
<p>Darius Randall, a descendant who lived in the John Randall House was an abolitionist and the home was a stop on the Underground Railroad with a trap door in the Keep (Hearth Room) that leads to a secret room where slaves were hidden. In 1997, Randall’s Ordinary received this recognition from the Connecticut Historical Commission.</p><br>
<p>Two emancipation releases have been found in the Stonington Town Records signed by William Randall: On March 24, 1808, William Randall “emancipated and made free a Negro man named Jabe Slave being 29 years of age well and healthy.”</p><br>
<p>On March 11, 1807, William Randall freed “Rose, a 26-year-old Negro slave, who was well and healthy.” https://mystoningtonancestors.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/randalls-ordinary-underground-railroad/</p><br>
<p>Harmony Hall Plantation, located in White Oak, Bladen County, is one of the oldest residences in North Carolina</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Harmony Hall is a late 18th century home and was built by Col. James Richardson, who settled in Bladen County sometime prior to the American Revolution. Richardson received a large portion of land for his military service and the exact size of the land received is unknown. The land is on the banks of the Cape Fear River and was partially a grant from King George III for Col. Richardson&#39;s gallant service with General James Wolfe in the French and Indian War. The Colonel became interested in the land after he and his brother were shipwrecked off of Cape Hatteras and had to spend several months making repairs in Bladen County, NC before they could return to their home in Stonington, Connecticut. Col. Richardson fell in the love with the land and, after receiving a large tract of land their for his service, he built his home there, 12 mi from Elizabethtown, NC and 1 mi from the river. The building is frame built in a two-story Gabled style with two-story galleries, an unusually tall foundation with ventilation holes, and exterior stairs leading from the second story to a full attic. The interior is partially paneled with wide pine boards, some with chair-rails and some plastered above a paneled dado. The mantels are modeled after the Adam design. Shortly after completing the construction, Col. James was captured by the British army during the Revolutionary War and paroled. However, after learning of many British soldiers breaking their parole, he too broke his and re-enlisted in the American Army.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Debunked: Cornwallis legend</h2><br>
<p>In a local legend associated with the home, General Cornwallis used Harmony Hall as his headquarters for a time during his march to Wilmington, North Carolina. According to the legend, one night he and his staff were planning their campaign against General Greene in an upstairs bedroom when Mrs. Richardson crept up the exterior stairwell and eavesdropped through a hole in the ceiling, overhearing their plans. After creeping back down, she dispatched the plantation overseer to warn General Greene, allowing him to defeat Cornwallis. However, careful historical analysis has shown that although General Cornwallis marched within several miles of Harmony Hall, he was always on the opposite side of the Cape Fear River. There is no historical evidence to suggest that he crossed the river at any time. The legend may have some truth, as there is a chance that the Richardson ladies relocated during the war and had contact with General Cornwallis at some different location, but there is no way to determine this.</p><br>
<h2>After the Revolutionary War</h2><br>
<p>Harmony Hall remained in the hands of the Richardson family until Col. James&#39; grandson, Captain Edmund Richardson, moved to Texas and sold it to unknown parties in 1865. In 1874 it passed into the hands of the Layton family, who owned it from that point until 1962, when the property was given to the Bladen County Historical Society by N. Arthur Layton Jr., of Winter Haven, Florida as a memorial to his parents and Col. James A. Richardson.</p><br>
<p>The property is now in a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to the care and keeping of the house. The Harmony Hall Plantation Village Foundation was established after a split from the Bladen County Historical Society around 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Property and grounds</h2><br>
<p>In addition to the home itself, there are several other buildings on the property. There is a schoolhouse, two restored country stores, a chapel, corn-crib, external kitchen, log cabin, and a gatehouse, which were not originally on the property and were relocated and restored. There is also a small house, the Wanda Campbell Cottage. A short way across the river is located the Purdie-Richardson family cemetery, although the property no longer belongs to the home.</p><br>
<p>Sahler Stone House and Dutch Barn is a historic home and Dutch barn located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. The house was built about 1780 and is a five-bay, -story linear plan stone and frame gable ended house. It was restored in 1957. The 1-story Dutch barn has a corrugated metal roof and clapboard siding.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Schoonmaker Stone House and Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. The property includes the house, a small shed , privy , and two barns. The house is a late 18th-century or early 19th-century, two-story gable-end stone house built in a simple Adamesque style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The C. K. Schoonmaker Stone House is located on Queens Highway near the hamlet of Kerhonkson, New York, United States, in the Ulster County town of Rochester. It is a stone bank house erected in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It has remained mostly intact from the time of its construction. In 1997 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a 2 acre lot on the east side of Queens Highway, approximately 1.5 mi north of highway US 209. The area is rural, a combination of woodlots and small fields. The lot is mostly wooded, with many mature locust trees and shrubbery partially screening the house from the road. The foundation of an old barn is located to the east.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-story five-bay stone structure built into a rise in the land so that its basement is exposed on the south (front) side. It is topped by a gabled roof pierced by brick chimneys at either end. A three-quarter-width shed-roofed two-story frame addition is on the west. Ivy covers the south end of the front facade and that side&#39;s chimney. All windows have board-and-batten shutters.</p><br>
<p>A centrally located two-story wooden porch shelters the main entrance on the basement level behind vertical wainscot and diagonal latticework. Above it is a balustraded balcony whose gabled roof is supported by square pillars. At the rear a corresponding entrance on the upper floor is complemented by a full-length patio. Next to the wing on the west is a basement door sheltered by a cantilevered porch. On the rear elevation a shed-roofed dormer window surmounts the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, with sidelights and transom, opens onto an interior with a central hall plan on both floors. Both the modern and historic kitchen, with the remains of a beehive oven, are on the first floor. Many rooms retain original finishes, such as the wall plaster, wide board flooring and exposed ceiling beams, along with some original molding.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the early 19th century, a variant on the linear model of stone houses popular at the time. It was called a bank house since it was built into a rise in the earth, like a few others in the town. At some point in the late 20th century the shed-roofed dormer window over the main entrance was removed. There have been no other major changes to the house.</p><br>
<p>Van Wagenen Stone House and Farm Complex, also known as Het Kilities Landt, is a historic home and farm complex located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. The property includes the house, bank barn , small shed , storage barn , small barn with attached shed , and a garden shed . Also on the property are the remains of a smokehouse and the dug well. It is a -story, linear stone dwelling dated to the early 18th century. The front features five irregularly spaced dormers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Dirck Westbrook Stone House is located on Old Whitfield Road near the hamlet of Kerhonkson in the Town of Rochester, New York, United States. It is a stone structure that dates in part to the early 18th century.</p><br>
<p>A century after it was built, a larger Greek Revival front was added. The property has otherwise remained intact. In 1999 it and some accompanying outbuildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house and its outbuildings are located on a triangular 5 acre lot between Old Whitfield and Whitfield roads roughly one mile (1.6 km) north of the US 209 highway. Canyon Lake Road leaves to the east opposite the property&#39;s driveway and crosses the North Peterskill, a subtributary of Rondout Creek. The lot is planted with mature trees, particularly locusts in front of the house. The surrounding area is generally rural, consisting of either fields or woodlots.</p><br>
<p>There are five resources on the lot. In addition to the house there are two other buildings, a garage and caretakers&#39; house. Both are modern and not considered as contributing to its historic character. A smokehouse, privy and state historical marker are considered contributing.</p><br>
<p>The main house itself is a two-story five-bay main block of rubblestone with clapboard siding above the first story. It is topped with a gabled roof shingled in asphalt over the original metal and pierced by two stone chimneys. A one-and-a-half-story wing with similar treatment, the original house, projects northward from the north (rear) facade, pierced by a central chimney. Next to it is a modern enclosed frame porch.</p><br>
<p>On the south (front) elevation, the main entrance is flanked by double-hung nine-over-nine sash windows with wooden shutters. Above them are eyebrow windows set in the frieze. The main entrance is framed by a wooden surround. In the rear the porch is topped with a segmental arched dormer window. The kitchen wing has a sash window similar to those on the main house&#39;s attic set in a central shallow-pitched dormer with overhanging eaves and a flat soffit. The ground floor windows on that wing have slightly pedimented lintels.</p><br>
<p>Behind the house is a modern garage at the end of the drive. To its north are the smokehouse and gable-roofed privy. The caretaker&#39;s house is at the south corner of the property, near the 1920s-era state historical marker.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dirck Westbrook&#39;s is associated with the property from at least 1709, when the local town trustees granted him the land between the house and Mettacahonts Creek to the north. It is believed that he had established himself in the town earlier than that, around 1700. The front block was added in the early 19th century, a common practice at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Hoornbeck Stone House is located at the junction of Boice Mill and Drum Farm roads in Kerhonkson, New York, United States, a hamlet of the Town of Rochester in Ulster County. It was erected in the early 19th century using the Georgian architectural style, incorporating an earlier house as its rear wing.</p><br>
<p>It reflects a later generation of stone houses built by the descendants of Dutch settlers in the town, features like the full stone gable fields on either end. In 1999 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a multiple property submission of stone houses in Rochester.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at the northwest corner of the junction of the two roads. It is on a 15 acre lot that straddles Boice Mill Road to Mill Brook south of the property, where the remains of a mill once on the site can be seen at the base of a steep waterfall. To the east, across Drum Farm Road, are barns built when the house was the center of a much larger dairy farm. The surrounding neighborhood is a rural area of fields and woodlots.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-and-a-half-story five-bay stone structure topped with a gabled roof shingled in asphalt with two interior brick chimneys at either end. A one-and-a-half-story rear wing, the original house on the site, projects to the north at the east corner. It has a gabled roof shingled in asphalt with a modern porch over its eastern entrance. At the northwest corner a hip roofed porch also connects the two sections.</p><br>
<p>At the center of the south (front) facade of the main block is the recessed main entrance, a paneled door set between paneled pilasters with capitals that divide the sidelights. They support an entablature with a full-width similarly divided transom. There are two small two-over-two sash windows on either side. All other windows are 12-over-12 with louvered wooden shutters.</p><br>
<p>The paneled front door opens into a modified central hall divided into front and rear sections separated by an arched entryway. The hallway divides two rooms of equal size on either side. This arrangement is replicated on the second floor. The rear wing has a kitchen on the ground level and a loft upstairs. Throughout the building, all finishes are original.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Records show the water rights to the property in the hands of Jacob Hoornbeck&#39;s family from 1703 onward. They established a mill on the brook near the property, the remains of which can still be seen. It is not known when the original house, which now serves as the kitchen wing, was built. The Georgian main block was added to it around the turn of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Later in that century the kitchen wing may have been used as a hoop shop. A few changes were made to the house during that period. A front porch was removed some time between 1967 and the property&#39;s listing on the Register. There have been no other significant alterations to the house in the course of its existence.</p><br>
<p>The Hornbeck Stone House is a historic home located on Whitfield Road near the hamlet of Kerhonkson, New York, United States, in the Town of Rochester in Ulster County, New York. It was built in two sections in the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<p>Its appearance has been slightly altered since its construction, but it retains the integrity of its original design. In 1999 it and several outbuildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on an irregularly shaped 11.3 acre lot on the east side of Whitfield Road almost two miles (3.2 km) north of the US 209 highway. The lot is bisected by the North Peterskill, a tributary of Rondout Creek. It is wooded, giving way to small fields in surrounding areas. Other land in the area is used for farming or similar large residential lots, with the exception of the high ground of Whitfield Cemetery to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>There are four buildings on the property, a chicken coop, garage and shed in addition to the house. All besides the house are not considered contributing to its historic character. Its main block is a one-and-a-half-story five-bay rectangular stone structure topped by a steeply pitched gable roof pierced by two chimneys and three shed-roofed dormers. A small one-story wing projects from the south.</p><br>
<p>Full-width shed-roofed porches supported by wooden square pillars run the length of the west (front) elevation and the east. The main entrance is off-center, located on the second northern bay between two-over-two double-hung sash windows. A secondary entrance is located at the west corner of the south gable end. The shed dormers have a pair of eight-over-eight sash on the sides and a single one in the center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in two separate sections around 1750. The southern third came first; its intact exterior wall is still visible in the interior. When completed the house had one single shed dormer with three windows in the middle of the west elevation; late 20th-century renovations created the current configuration. The southernmost front window was once a third entryway.</p><br>
<p>The March Route of Rochambeau&#39;s Army: Bailey Road is a section of abandoned roadway that is a historic site in Bolton, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bailey Road portion of the Rochambeau Route is accessed via Bailey Road off United States Route 6 in western Andover. That road comes to a maintained end a short way west of the town line, continuing thereafter as a still-discernible country track about 50 ft wide. This now-abandoned stretch of road originally extended all the way to Brandy Street in Bolton, north of the location of Bolton High School. It extends in a generally east-west direction, but winds to follow the terrain, and eventually ascends a steep ridge. Both sides of the road were historically lined with stone walls; that on the south side is now in better condition than that to the north. There are two short stone slab bridges along this road section, which are little more than stone slab box culverts. Unlike many other surviving Rochambeau Route segments, this one is completely devoid of subsequent development.</p><br>
<p>French chroniclers of the Rochambeau armys trek were highly critical of the road conditions in Connecticut. They described the route between their fourth and fifth camps (Windham and Bolton, respectively) as being "frightful", with "mountains and steep ridges", that one writer said they traversed "with the greatest difficulty imaginable". The road was originally laid out in 1710, and was in the 1790s bypassed by more suitable routes. By the time of World War II, the road segment had been entirely abandoned. Research done in preparation for the marchs 200th anniversary identified the road section, in part by the presence of surviving period homes near either end. The eastern end is now marked by an interpretive sign.</p><br>
<p>The Krom Stone House at 45 Upper Whitfield Road in the Ulster County Town of Rochester, New York, United States, is one of several houses associated with that family. It was built somewhere between 1680 and 1720.</p><br>
<p>A frame wing added over a century later, along with clapboard siding over the original home. In 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on an irregularly shaped 8.1 acre lot on the north side of Upper Whitfield Road, a half-mile (1 km) west of Accord Speedway and 500 feet (150 m) west of another Krom stone house. The area is mostly wooded, as the land begins to rise into the Catskill Mountains to the west. There are some small clearings nearby for other houses. A small stream, its channel lined in stone, flows to the west of the house.</p><br>
<p>To the west of the house is a modern frame hip roofed garage with drop siding. Scattered behind the house to the north and east are four chicken coops, one story shed-roofed frame buildings. None of these are considered contributing resources to the property&#39;s historic character.</p><br>
<p>The house itself has a two-bay two-story fieldstone main block with side-gabled roof shingled in asphalt. The upper story has been sided in clapboard to match the two-story frame rear wing. The exposed fieldstone has been painted white as well.</p><br>
<p>A shed-roofed porch with stone deck supported by four round columns runs the full width of the south (front) elevation on the first story and wraps around to the east. That gable end has a picture window with an art-glass top. A satellite dish projects from the southwest corner of the second story.</p><br>
<p>The rear wing was built so its east wall is continuous with that of the original block, giving the current house a rough "L" shape. Its west side has a semi-hexagonal projecting bay window overlooking the stream. An exterior chimney rises up the north end of the wing. At the southeast corner of the wing is the house&#39;s secondary entrance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original house is believed to have been built between 1680 and 1720. At that time it was a simple one-and-half-story stone house. In 1890 that block was raised an additional story and the rear wing put on, both using timber instead of stone. The garage and chicken coops were added in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Globe Ticket Company Building was completed at 112 North 12th Street in Philadelphia in 1900 as a printing and warehouse facility for the Globe Ticket Company, which exclusively printed tickets. The building was liquidated and demolished in 1988 to make way for the convention center.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Convention Center now occupies the site and all nearby land. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and has not been delisted.</p><br>
<p>The building was also known as the Hering building and featured an inscription to Constantine Hering, a homeopathic physician, in Latin.</p><br>
<p>The Adrian Engine House No. 1 is a historic fire station located at 126 East Church Street in downtown Adrian, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1989. It is located within the Downtown Adrian Commercial Historic District and next to the Lenawee County Historical Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Adrian Fire Department dates back to 1841, with the formation of a volunteer company. A second company was founded in 1845, and by 1851 the two companies had over 100 volunteers. In 1855, construction began on this fire station to house Engine Company #1. It was put into service early in 1856. In 1867, the city went to a full-time fire department, and purchased new steam equipment and horses to pull it, necessitating the addition of stables to the building and other changes to house the equipment. In 1877, an addition directly abutting the engine house was constructed to house new equipment.</p><br>
<p>In 1912-14, new motorized equipment was purchased to replace the horse-drawn equipment. In 1917, the two companies in the city were consolidated into this building. Concrete floors were added in 1932. The fire station was used by the city until 1987, making it the oldest continuously operating fire station in Michigan when it closed. After that, the building was internally restructured into retail office space, while the outside had remained unchanged. It is currently occupied by the Adrian Design Group.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Adrian Engine House is constructed mostly of bricks mixed with a few later additions made of wood. It was built with a mixture of Romanesque Revival and Italianate architecture. The main feature of the fire station is a landmark tower once used for drying the fire hoses. At 70 feet (21 m) tall, it is one of the tallest structures in the city.</p><br>
<p>The front facade has a gabled parapet with a hip-roofed wood belfry at the center of the facade. The second floor contains four arched windows, and vehicular doors below are also of arched brick.</p><br>
<p>The Adrian Public Library is a historic structure located at 110 East Church Street in downtown Adrian, Michigan. Originally used as a library, it was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on December 14, 1976, and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although the library branch dates back to 1868, its first independent library structure was completed in 1909 with a $27,500 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Library Fund in addition to $5,000 donated by the city. Illinois architect Paul O. Moratz designed the library, and it was completed by local contractor C. F. Matthes. The building was designed to hold a public library as well as an art gallery and lecture auditorium.</p><br>
<p>It was formally dedicated and opened on February 5, 1909, and was used as a school district library until it transferred ownership to the city in 1915. When the building itself became insufficient, a new location at 143 East Maumee Street opened on June 12, 1978, and remains in operation. The old location passed through several owners before being given back to the city. The building is used to house the Lenawee County Historical Society Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is 2½ stories and built with a mix of Mission Revival Style, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It is constructed of brick and sandstone, and measures 70 feet by 70 feet. Standing on a corner lot, the building has two main entrance facades. Both entryway are through massive arches, 18 feet high and 17 feet wide, trimmed with carved sandstone. Near each entryway is a tower, one rising 66 feet and the other 44 feet. A semi-circular room pushes outward on the corner between the towers.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, a first floor lobby with coved ceiling connects the entrances. Two other large rectangular rooms are on the first floor, along with the semicircular room and two rooms in the bases of the towers. The second floor has the same floor plan.</p><br>
<p>The Wailuku Civic Center Historic District is a group of four historic buildings and one non-contributing property in Wailuku, Maui Hawaii that currently house the governmental offices of both the County of Maui and the State of Hawaii. The historic buildings were built during a time span from 1901 to 1931. They incorporate several architectural styles and two of the four historic buildings were designed and built by Hawaii-based architect C.W. Dickey. The non-contributing property houses most of the County of Maui&#39;s main offices.</p><br>
<h2>Old Wailuku Courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Courthouse was built in 1907, allowing the court to move in 1908 from an inadequate facility just across the street (where the current Territorial Building now stands), which had been built in 1880. The old Courthouse was then used as Maui County&#39;s Town Hall.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Henry Livingston Kerr, the design incorporates Beaux-Arts architecture. The 7,000 ft&sup2, 68 ft by 52 ft structure is built of concrete block cast-like stone set upon a below-grade reinforced foundation that also houses another floor of office space. The "cast stone" was created onsite and patterned randomly to prevent repetition. This was deemed more economical than hauling quarried stone, though the blocks were just as difficult to install at 400 lb each. The current hipped wood-framed roof was installed in 1929, replacing the original flat roof which had been leaking. In 1962, a further 5,000 ft&sup2; was added to the courthouse, which included the addition of a basement.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s use as a courthouse ended when a new Circuit Court building was built just down the street. Bought by the County of Maui, it currently houses the offices of the Prosecuting Attorney.</p><br>
<h2>Kalana Pakui Building/Old Police Station</h2><br>
<p>The Kalana Pakui Building was built in 1925 and designed by Maui architect William D&#39;Esmond, incorporating Mediterranean Revival Style architecture. it is currently used as the Planning Department Offices for Maui County.</p><br>
<h2>Wailuku Library</h2><br>
<p>The current Wailuku Library was built in 1928 to replace another building on the same site used by the Maui County Free Library, which was created by the Maui Womens Club in 1919 as the first Library on Maui. Designed by Hawaii-based architect C.W. Dickey, the building incorporates both Mediterranean Revival & Hawaiian architecture cues. It is a single story asymmetrical building with a prominent double-pitched hip roof, which shelters the main building. The entryway features a tiled drinking fountain with a Silversword tiled motif. Two wings, each with lower but equally dramatic double-pitched hip roofs, extend to the right rear and left of the building. The walls are plastered, and contain long, thin casement windows. A large Monkey-Pod Tree sits to the west of the Library; it is the first site of Mauis first public telephone in 1878.</p><br>
<p>The library, operated by the Hawaii State Library System, is open Monday-Friday, and houses a Bookmobile.</p><br>
<h2>Territorial Building</h2><br>
<p>The Territorial Building was built in 1931, on the site of the former Courthouse/Town Hall for Maui next to the Ka&#39;ahumanu Church. Designed by Hawaii-based architect C.W. Dickey, the building incorporates both Mediterranean Revival & Hawaiian architecture cues. The two-story stucco-covered stone building features a similar double-pitched hip roof like the library, with the addition of overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. A central entryway has a shed roofed lanai with decorative tiled elements, including a Spanish tile bench. Wrought-iron mock balconies, with French Doors, are to either side of the entryway lanai.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses the Governor of Hawaii&#39;s Liaison office among other state offices.</p><br>
<h2>Kalana O Maui County Building</h2><br>
<p>Within the historic district is the Kalana O Maui County Building of Maui, which is situated between the Courthouse and Old Police Station. The nine-story building, built in 1972, occupies a site formerly occupied by a firehouse and jail. It is listed as part of the historic district as a non-contributing property.</p><br>
<p>Colonial Warehouse is a building in Minneapolis. It was built 1885–1909 as a series of buildings with a common façade. It is part of Minneapolis&#39;s historic Warehouse District and a contributing property to the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Formally known as the Minneapolis Street Railway Company Building, the property now bears the name Colonial Warehouse. The warehouse was intended to be the powerhouse for a cable car system that was never built. Instead it became an electric carhouse, and the first electric powerhouse for streetcars in 1890. The building housed the general offices and the paint and woodworking shops during the horse-drawn streetcar era. Thomas Lowry, the head of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company, chose this site as the firm&#39;s headquarters. It became the main offices of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company until 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Damariscove Lifesaving Station is a historic coastal maritime rescue facility, located on Damariscove Island in Boothbay, Maine. The station was built in 1897, and is one of the more architecturally distinguished of the surviving stations. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987. It is now privately owned.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Damariscove Island is the southernmost of a chain of islands extending south from the Maine coast, defining the eastern side of Boothbay Harbor. It is roughly in the shape of an inverted Y, with a narrow channel between the legs of the Y. The Damariscove Lifesaving Station is located facing this channel on the western leg. It is an asymmetrically massed 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, its sections covered by hip roofs, with an octagonal observation tower at the southeast corner. The boathouse portion of the station extends east from the main block, with the bay doors facing north.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The United States Life-Saving Service was established in 1874 by the United States government to provide marine rescue services along the nations shores and waterways. Between then and 1929, the Service, and its successor the United States Coast Guard, built twelve stations on the Maine coast. This one was built in 1897, to design by the services staff architect, Victor Mendelheff. It is distinguished from the other surviving stations in the state by its octagonal observation tower, and a generally more sophisticated architectural style. The station was manned by the Service and later the Coast Guard, until 1959. The station is now privately owned.</p><br>
<p>The Sheepscot Historic District encompasses a historic village in Alna and Newcastle, Maine. Located just below the mouth of Dyer Brook where it enters the Sheepscot River, the 1,200 acre includes an area that has seen little alteration in more than 100 years, and includes one of the oldest roadways in the state. The area is archaeologically sensitive for prehistoric and historic settlement sites. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Sheepscot lies astride a narrow point in the upper tidal section of the Sheepscot River, which is the border between the towns of Newcastle and Alna. The main portion of the village consists of a row of closely spaced houses along The Kings Highway, one of the Maines oldest roads, which runs south from the east-west Sheepscot Road on the Newcastle side of the river, just south of the mouth of Dyer Creek. Just south of the junction stands the Sheepscott Community Church, and there are a scattering of residences on the Alna side. The buildings exhibit a range of 19th-century architecture styles, from the Federal, through the Greek Revival, to the Italianate period.</p><br>
<p>The area has a colonial settlement history dating at least to the 1630s, and possibly the 1620s, and was before then the site of Native American activity. The Sheepscot area fell between major land grants, one bounded on the east by the Kennebec River, the other on the west by the Damariscotta River. The first bridge spanning the Sheepscot was built here in 1794, and the present bridge occupies roughly the original footprint of that bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Glidden-Austin Block is a historic commercial building at 52 Main Street in Newcastle, Maine. Built in 1845, it is a prominent local example of mid-19th century commercial architecture, occupying a prominent location in the community&#39;s downtown area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Glidden-Austin Block occupies a prominent location at the junction of Academy Hill Street and Main Street (Business United States Route 1) in the center of Newcastle. It is a -story brick building, with a gabled roof and granite foundation. The ground floor is seven bays wide, with two three-bay storefronts flanking a central building entrance. Each storefront consists of large fixed-pane display windows on either side of the store entrance, the elements divided and topped by rough granite lintels and posts. The second and third floors each have five windows, each with granite sills and lintels. Three gabled dormers project from the roof, and chimneys rise from the side walls.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1845 by William Taylor Glidden, a prominent local ships captain and merchant. Soon after building it, Glidden took on as a partner in the building Algernon S. Austin, a blacksmith who was involved in the locally prominent shipbuilding industry. The building probably originally housed a chandlers shop on the ground floor and residences above. It has seen a wide variety of uses, including as a garment factory, undertaker&#39;s shop, and tenement house. It presently houses the Newcastle Publick House, a restaurant and bar.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. Edward Kavanagh House is a historic house on Maine State Route 215 in the Damariscotta Mills area of Newcastle, Maine. Built in 1803, it is a fine example of Federal period residential architecture, and is historically notable for its association with one of Maine&#39;s early Irish Catholic immigrants, James Kavanagh. The house was later home to his son, Maine Governor Edward Kavanagh. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kavanagh House is located just west of the village of Damariscotta Mills, between Pond Road (SR 215) and Damariscotta Lake to the north. The house is a large two-story structure, approximately 45&#39; square, with a hip roof topped by an octagonal cupola. It rests on a granite foundation, and its front and east facades are finished in flushboard siding with wide pilasters, while the west and north are finished in clapboards. The roof is encircled by a low balustrade, and has a dentillated cornice. The main facade is five bays wide, with the entrance at the center, set in a round-arch opening with a half-round fan above the door. The entrance is sheltered by a half-round porch, supported by Ionic columns, which rise to an entablature and balustrade. Above the entry is a Palladian-style three-part window, flanked by narrow pilasters, with a fan louver above the center window.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1803, and is one of Maines most sophisticated examples of Federal architecture. It was built by Nicholas Codd, an Irish immigrant and housewright who is also credited with the Matthew Cottrill House in Damariscotta, and the brick St. Patricks Catholic Church which stands near this house. Codd, apparently based in Boston, Massachusetts, was lured to work in this area by James Kavanagh and Matthew Cottrill, both early Irish immigrants to the area. They were successful businessmen, and James Kavanagh&#39;s son Edward became Governor of Maine in 1843, finishing the term of John Fairfield, who had won election to the United States Senate.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins Tide Mill was one of the last surviving 18th-century tide mills in the United States. Located on Mill Lane in Kennebunkport, Maine, it was built in 1749 and operated until 1939. It was destroyed by an arsonist in 1994. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the property&#39;s present owners, the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, are contemplating construction of a replica.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Perkins Tide Mill was located on the north side of Kennebunkport village, on the northeast shore of Mill Stream, a tidal arm of the Kennebunk River. Its main building was an L-shaped wood-frame structure, set on wooden pilings and a rubblestone foundation. It had a cross-gabled roof, and was finished in wooden shingles. The mill interior housed a wide variety of equipment related to the history of its operation as a grist mill, including a waterwheel, grindstones, and gears and shafts. A dam, still partially in evidence, extended across Mill Stream, with a sluiceway near the building.</p><br>
<p>The mill was built in 1749, and was successively adapted to new technologies until 1939, when it ceased operations. Its original grindstone was imported from England, and the dam was originally granite with pine posts. A new grindstone was imported from France in 1866, and the dam was rebuilt in 1963, with most of the old structure retained under the new.</p><br>
<p>The Maine Trolley Cars are a group of 10 rail vehicles, mostly trolley cars, located in Kennebunkport, Maine. The cars were built in various years between 1893 and 1926, and the group was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1980. The trolley cars are a small part of the large collection of vehicles at the Seashore Trolley Museum. While the museum&#39;s collection of more than 250 vehicles includes ones from several different USA states and a few foreign countries, the 10 vehicles in the National Register listing were all operated in the state of Maine at one time.</p><br>
<h2>Listing</h2><br>
<p>Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway car 108, one of four non-passenger vehicles among the 10 in the group</p><br>
<p>The following vehicles are included in the listing:</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #14, Narcissus, of the Portland-Lewiston Interurban</p><br>
<p>Baggage/express/mail car #8 of the Mousam River Railroad (unpowered trailer)</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #31 of the Biddeford and Saco Railroad</p><br>
<p>Locomotive/express car #52 of the Aroostook Valley Railroad</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #70 of the Aroostook Valley Railroad</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #82 of the York Utilities Company</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #88 of the York Utilities Company</p><br>
<p>Locomotive #100 of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway</p><br>
<p>Railway post office/express car #108 of the Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway</p><br>
<p>Passenger car #615 of the Portland Railroad Company</p><br>
<p>The Kennebunkport Historic District encompasses most of the village center of Kennebunkport, Maine. It includes the town&#39;s highest concentration of historic architecture, with many buildings from the late 18th and early 19th century, when Kennebunkport was at its height as a shipping and shipbuilding center. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Kennebunkport lies on the coast of southern Maine, between the Kennebunk River and the Little River. Its main village is located in the southwestern part of the town, on the north bank of the tidal Kennebunk River, inland from the coast. This area was first incorporated as Cape Porpoise in 1653, was abandoned during the wars of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was resettled in 1719. It was incorporated as Kennebunkport in 1820. The town&#39;s early economic success as a shipbuilding and shipping center, which was eventually supplanted by its development beginning in the 1870s as a summer resort area, which was centered in the Cape Arundel area.</p><br>
<p>The major roads in Kennebunkport village are Western Avenue, which runs southwest to cross the river into Kennebunk, North Street, which runs inland, and Ocean and Maine Streets, which run parallel to the river, southward toward Cape Arundel. The district extends along these roads, and includes numerous properties on the side streets which connect them. It has 147 buildings, of which only 24 were built after 1925. Most of these later structures (for example, the 1960 town offices) are in sympathetic styles. Residential properties in the district are typically high-quality vernacular interpretations of architectural styles popular at the time of their construction. A few houses date to the colonial period, including the 1745 Gideon Walker House on South Street, which was altered to plans by John Calvin Stevens in 1910. The largest number of buildings in the district are from the Federal period, when Kennebunkport was at its economic height. One of the finest houses from this period is the Capt. Nathaniel Lord Mansion, separately listed on the National Register in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Notable contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Melville Walker House</p><br>
<p>Rancho Corral de Piedra was a 30,911 acre Mexican land grant in present day San Luis Obispo County, California consisting of two square leagues given in 1841 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José María Villavicencio, with an extension of five square leagues given in 1846, by Governor Pio Pico. The grant was located between present day San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande, and bounded on the south by Arroyo Grande Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>José María Teodoro Villavicencio (1800&ndash;1853), called for brevity Villa, was the grandson of Rafael de Jesus Villavicencio (a soldier and member of the Portola expedition) and Maria Ildefonsa Berges. José María Villavicencio retired as captain of the militia at Monterey, and was administrator at Mission San Antonio and Mission San Fernando. Villavicencio first married Maria Gertrudis Briones (1802 to 1832) the daughter of Jose Manuel Briones (1774 to 1849) and Maria Raymunda Buelna (1780 to 1808). After Maria Gertrudis death he remarried to Maria Francisca Rafaela Elisabet o Ysabel Rodriguez (1814 to aft.1880?) the daughter of Sebastian Rodríguez grantee of Rancho Bolsa del Pajaro and Maria Perfecta Pacheco. His brother, Rafael Jose Serapio Villavicencio was the grantee of Rancho San Geronimo.</p><br>
<p>With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Corral de Piedra was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to José María Villavicencio in 1867.</p><br>
<p>When José María Villavicencio died in 1853, he left the rancho to his seven children. In 1860, his widow Rafaela borrowed money from her brother Jacinto Rodriguez. In 1866, Rodríguez convinced the heirs to sell him the entire rancho, which he sold to dairymen George Steele and his brothers Edgar W., Isaac C., and Rensselaer E. Steele. In 1867, the heirs decided that the sale to Rodríguez was not legal, and sold six-sevenths of the rancho to George Alexander.</p><br>
<p>The Andersonville Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. It runs from 4800 North Clark Street to 5800 North Clark Street in the city&#39;s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. The area is home to a heavily Swedish American community.</p><br>
<p>Many buildings in the district have remained intact since the early twentieth century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Harvey Deming House </p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Paul Harvey Deming House, built in 1907, was one of the first year-round residences constructed in Grosse Pointe Farms. It was built in the site of some of the first of the area&#39;s summer cottages, built in the late 1800s. The lot on which the house was built is a long and narrow lakefront property, measuring 150 ft wide and 614 ft deep.</p><br>
<h2>Paul Harvey Deming</h2><br>
<p>Paul Harvey Deming was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 19, 1874. His father was one of the earliest residents of that city and the directing head of the George Worthington Company. He attended school in Cleveland as well as Cornell University before entering the business of automobile manufacturing with the White Motor Company, manufacturer of the White Steamer. In 1904, Deming married Helen Smith of Detroit, and in 1905, he left Cleveland to become vice-president of the American State Bank of Detroit, the position he held when this house was built. Deming stayed with American until 1919, when he joined House Financing Corporation of Detroit. Deming was also Chairman of the Board of the George Worthington Company.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house was a 15000 square foot, two-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival built in the shape of a U. The exterior of the house was covered with stucco, with decorative half-timbers typical of Tudor architecture in the gables. The main entrance, on one side of the U, was covered by a porte-cochere. The roof consisted of intersecting gables, steeply pitched.</p><br>
<p>The house sat on the rear half of the lot, and was reached by a private drive from Lakeshore Road. The grounds were well-landscaped.</p><br>
<p>Fine Creek Mills Historic District encompasses a historic mill-centered community in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Fine Creek Mills Historic District is composed of two adjacent parcels of land containing approximately 15 acre of land on either side of Robert E. Lee Road (Route 641) near the intersection of Huguenot Trail (Route 711) in Powhatan County, Virginia. Situated at a bend in the road where it originally crossed Fine Creek at the lower falls, the community of Fine Creek Mills developed as early as the 1730s when a gristmill was established along the creek. The community continued to flourish as a commercial center for the area into the mid 20th century with a school, post office and store also located there. With a road along Fine Creek leading to the ferry across the James River at Lee&#39;s Landing, Fine Creek Mills served as an important link to the James River and the railroad to Richmond.</p><br>
<p>The property included in the district consists of the Fine Creek Mill Ruins, the Fine Creek Manor Site (Peter Jefferson Home Site), and the Millers House, dating from the mid-18th century, as well as the Gatehouse/Cheese Factory, the Fine Creek School, the Store and the Chase-Harris House, all of which date to the early 20th century. Several other stores, a blacksmith shop, a coopers shop and a post office were also located in Fine Creek Mills at one time, but do not exist today.</p><br>
<p>A new reception facility, The Mill at Fine Creek, is located in the historic district and makes the Miller&#39;s House available for overnight accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Antoine LeClaire House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is a community center that was built as a private home by one of the founders of the city of Davenport. It also housed two of Davenport&#39;s Catholic bishops. The home was constructed in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Antoine Le Claire</h3><br>
<p>Antoine Le Claire was an interpreter for the USA Government stationed at Fort Armstrong on Rock Island on the Mississippi River. In 1832 he was the interpreter for the treaty signing between the Sac (Sauk) and Meskwaki tribes and the United States after the Black Hawk War. The tribes gave Le Claire two parcels of land in Iowa, one at the top of the Rock Island Rapids and one below. The lower parcel became part of the city of Davenport, which he was instrumental in establishing in 1836.</p><br>
<p>Le Claire became Davenports first citizen. He established the first church (St. Anthonys), ferry service, steam mill, store, hotel, and foundry. His philanthropy included the establishment of two other churches, the property for the Scott County Courthouse, and Iowa College, which later became Grinnell College. There is also some indication that Le Claire was involved in the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Le Claire agreed to build his first house on the location where the Black Hawk Treaty was signed. He built a small log structure on the site in 1833 after the treaty was ratified by the United States Senate. It was replaced by a small white house that became known as the Treaty House. Le Claire and his wife Marguerite lived in the modest house until 1855 when they built an Italianate mansion in the center of the Le Claire Reserve. The Reserve is one of the parcels deeded to Le Claire by the tribes and covers much of the east side of Davenport south of Locust Street. The house, and others being built by Davenport&#39;s wealthier citizens, shows the progress the city had made in the twenty years since its founding.</p><br>
<p>Le Claire donated the Treaty House to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad. It was not only Davenports first railroad station, but the first station west of the Mississippi. The house had to be moved from its original location. With his support, the first railroad bridge had been built across the Mississippi and its location was just below his Italianate mansion. It was completed a year after the house. The first locomotive to cross the river was named the Antoine LeClaire. The steamboat Effie Afton struck the bridge and the following lawsuit became one of Abraham Lincolns best-known cases.</p><br>
<p>Le Claire and his wife lived in the mansion until they died in 1861 and 1876 respectively. The couple had no children, but they informally adopted his nephew, Louis Antoine Le Claire, after Antoine Le Claires half-brother Alexis died in 1849. He inherited the couples property upon their death.</p><br>
<h3>Diocese of Davenport</h3><br>
<p>The title to the St. Anthonys church property, named Church Square, was deeded by LeClaire to Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque in 1839 to support the Catholic Church in Davenport. Commercial properties were built on the east side of the block. Income from these properties was a factor in Davenport being named a see city with its own bishop in 1881. The Very Reverend John McMullen from Chicago was named the first bishop of the Diocese of Davenport. The clergy of the diocese purchased the LeClaire House for the bishops residence. McMullen died in the house less than two years later. His successor, Henry Cosgrove, moved into the residence after he was named Bishop of Davenport in 1884. When Cosgrove died in 1906 his successor, James Davis, chose to live elsewhere because the house needed extensive repairs and it needed to be renovated. Previously there had been a friendly rivalry between Cosgrove and Davis after the later had a new rectory built at Sacred Heart Cathedral, where he was the rector, because it was larger and more modern. The diocese sold the LeClaire House and purchased the F.H. Miller House as the new residence for the bishop.</p><br>
<h3>Later years</h3><br>
<p>After the Catholic diocese sold the house in 1908 it was converted into apartments. At some point the original three porches were removed and the brick was painted white. By the start of World War I, the neighborhood was in decline and the LeClaire House began to deteriorate along with it.</p><br>
<p>In 1976 the Bicentennial Commission of the city of Davenport purchased the house as one of their projects. An extensive renovation process has been ongoing since then. Extensive work has been done to the exterior and interior with all the mechanical systems having been replaced.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The LeClaire House is a two-story, brick, 14-room Tuscan Italianate mansion on the top of a bluff 125 ft above the Mississippi River. The rooms are evenly divided on the two floors. The front square section of the house has four rooms on each floor and there are three rooms in a back wing. A large corridor stretches from the front to the back of the house on both floors. The exterior features a shallow hipped roof, wide, bracketed eaves, and a belvedere on the top of the roof. The house has nine fireplaces, 12 ft high ceilings, ornate plaster medallions, and a 3-story elliptical staircase. There are also Greek Revival elements to the house as well. They are found in the doorway framed between pilasters and the scroll pediments over the windows. The property originally had a circular drive made of cinders that was lighted with gas lamps. The estate also contained carriage barns, a summer kitchen, an ice house, and a plum grove.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation Goals</h2><br>
<p>Five goals were established as guiding principles for the LeClaire House renovation:</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The LeClaire House is historically significant both in its architecture and the importance of Antoine Le Claire to the local community. It was one of the first Italianate residences in Davenport and it was influential in the design of other large-scale homes in the city. Le Claire was the founder of the city, one of its most prominent philanthropists and entrepreneurs in its early years. He is also significant in the establishment of the Catholic Church in Davenport. While his death predates the establishment of the diocese, he donated the property for both St. Anthonys and St. Margarets churches. The later church was largely built by LeClaire, and became the city&#39;s first Catholic Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The Bro Bowl is one of the last remaining skateboard parks of the 1970s and the first public skatepark to be built in Florida, United States. It is the first skatepark to be listed on any national registry of historic sites.</p><br>
<p>Located at Perry Harvey Sr. Park in Tampa, Florida, this facility opened in 1979. The Bro Bowl is a bank-style park more similar to the first generation skateparks of 1976-1977 rather than the late seventies parks which tended to focus on vert. What is also unusual about the Bro Bowl is that it was constructed as a free public skatepark during a time when most parks were private profit-driven ventures. In 1998, the Bro Bowl was featured in the fourth Birdhouse video, The End, starring Thrasher Magazine&#39;s pro skateboarder of the year, Andrew Reynolds. In 2010 the Bro Bowl became the subject of a documentary titled "The Bro Bowl: 30 Years of Tampa Concrete."</p><br>
<p>The Bro Bowl takes its name from its proximity to the city of Tampa&#39;s projects. In the early years, it was common to hear skaters refer to the bowl as the place where the brothers riot. Over the years, the press, and even the mayor of Tampa have lost track of the history of the park and openly refer to the park by its colourful name.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Perry Harvey Sr. Park Skateboard Bowl.</p><br>
<p>It is apparently the first skatepark, world-wide, to be recognized on a national historic registry. The Rom, built in 1978 in east London, England, was the second; it became Grade II listed in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The original skatepark was demolished as part of a renovation of Perry Harvey Sr. Park and replaced with an updated design heavily inspired by the original.</p><br>
<p>The Bro Bowl is one of the available points of interest in the Tampa level of the video game, Tony Hawk&#39;s Underground.</p><br>
<p>The Grosse Pointe Memorial Church  is a church located at 16 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA. it is a member of the Presbyterian Church, USA . It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1990 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the area that is now the Grosse Pointes was largely Roman Catholic. By the mid-19th century, though, the area was being used more heavily as a summer resort for residents of Detroit, and enough Protestants had moved into the area to warrant their own church. In 1865, a group of Grosse Pointe residents founded the non-denominational Grosse Pointe Protestant Evangelical Church; two years later, the group built a church at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Kerby on land donated by Rufus Kerby. In 1894, Joseph H. Berry donated land near his home, which encompassed the site of the present church. A second building, known as the "ivy covered church", was built on the site.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, the congregation reorganized as a Presbyterian church. to the congregation for a new church building, as a memorial to their parents John and Helen. The congregation hired the architect W. E. N. Hunter to design the current building, which consists of the church itself and four additional units, constructed between 1923 and 1927. In 1925, the church changed its name to "The Grosse Pointe Memorial Church", reflecting the Newberry&#39;s gift. The new sanctuary, built on the site of the ivy-covered church, was dedicated to the original founders of the congregation on May 15, 1927.</p><br>
<p>An educational wing was added to the structure in 1962. The additional space housed the Barbour Chapel, Fitt Library, Fellowship Hall, and more Christian Education facilities. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. In 1997, the church undertook a major renovation project, which included adding a lakeside entry and reception area and enlarging the chancel.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<h3>Pastor and staff</h3><br>
<p>Today, Grosse Pointe Memorial Church is led by Head of Staff, Jeff Lincicome, and the Minister of Music & Organist is James Biery. The Church employs approximately 25 staff, both full and part-time.</p><br>
<h3>Capital campaign</h3><br>
<p>In 2014, GPMC undertook a capital campaign for various renovations around the church, as well as starting new projects. Examples include:</p><br>
<p>Stained glass windows (Remove, repair, reinforce, reinstall)</p><br>
<p>Carillon (repair steel frame that holds bells, rewire connections to console, recast, rehang existing bells, add new and final bell (the largest))</p><br>
<p>Outreach: Habitat for Humanity (3 habitat houses in 3 years)</p><br>
<p>Columbarium (expand capacity by approx 250 niches)</p><br>
<p>Sanctuary upgrades (wiring for lights, boiler)</p><br>
<p>Crib and toddler wing (update and renovate, make more secure and welcoming)</p><br>
<p>Fellowship Hall and Youth Recreation Space</p><br>
<p>Capital endowment funds</p><br>
<h3>"Back 40" and Trinity Terrace renovations</h3><br>
<p>The outdoor space behind the church on Lake Saint Clair is used as a worship space during the summer months. When the capital campaign was completed, it was expanded and renovated to create a flatter space. A playground was also installed, the garden was put in, and a shed was constructed. The "Back 40" was renamed Trinity Terrace. The expansion and renovation was mainly financed by the Kaiser family with the help of the Gallagher-Kaiser company.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Grosse Pointe Memorial Church is a Neo-Gothic structure built of ashlar limestone trimmed with smooth sandstone and a slate roof. The structure is asymmetrically massed, with a cross-gable roof and bell tower. The front facade of the church is topped with a front gable. Each side elevation has four bays with pairs of stained-glass clerestory windows; the bays are separated by piers.</p><br>
<p>The central nave is laid out in the form of a Latin cross with a vaulted ceiling. Aisles on each side are separated from the nave by masonry pillars, with the clerestory windows above. On each side of the church, three-story cross-gabled units present arched entryways and flat-topped diamond-pane windows.</p><br>
<p>The church contains carvings by the German sculptor Alois Lang and stained glass windows designed by the Willet Studios.</p><br>
<p>The East 73rd Street Historic District is a block of that street on the Upper East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the south side of the street between Lexington and Third Avenues. It is a neighborhood of small rowhouses built from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Many of the houses were originally carriage houses for wealthy residents of the Upper East Side, such as Edward Harkness, and their facades still reflect that origin. Among the architects who designed the buildings were Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Romeyn. Later owners included Joseph Pulitzer. Eventually the buildings were converted for automotive use. Some have become purely residential.</p><br>
<p>The block has remained architecturally distinct even as those around it have seen larger and more modern construction replace all or some of their original buildings. In 1980 the individual buildings were designated New York City Landmarks, and two years later it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Most of the buildings on either side of 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues are part of the 1.4 acre district. Specifically, the fifteen buildings from 161 to 169 and from 166 to 182 East 73rd Street make up the historic district. This excludes the two large apartment buildings, constructed later at the intersection with Lexington Avenue on the west side of the block.</p><br>
<p>This area is flat and just outside the boundaries of the larger Upper East Side Historic District, designated later. The buildings along this block are from three to five stories in height, lower than the more modern buildings on adjacent blocks. All are contributing properties; there are no non-contributing resources in the district.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its creation the district was not contiguous with the Upper East Side Historic District to the west. In 2010 that district&#39;s boundaries were extended slightly by the city so that it now includes the buildings at 150 and 153–157 (usually referred to as 155) East 73rd Street, immediately adjacent to the district. This extension has not yet been recognized at the state or federal level.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Development of the future Upper East Side began in the early 1860s with the construction of rowhouses for middle and working class buyers on the cross streets several blocks east of Central Park. Among those houses were a row of six built by an E.H. Robbins on East 73rd. Two of those, 171 and 175, are the only rowhouses left from that group.</p><br>
<p>In the decades at the end of the century, the city&#39;s wealthy began building large houses for themselves near the park, sometimes demolishing the original rowhouses to do so. The East 73rd Street houses were not in an ideal location for such housing, but they were the right distance for carriage houses for their horses and buggies: a short walk from their houses but far enough away that the noise and odor would not disturb them. They usually included housing for the servants who fed and drove the horses.</p><br>
<p>Richard Morris Hunt designed 166 East 73rd, the first one, for art collector Henry Marquand in 1883. In 1890 the large stable at 182 was built to rent stable space to owners who did not want or could not afford to build their own carriage houses. The other carriage houses were gradually built in the 1890s, with the last ones completed early in the next century. Among these, Charles Romeyn contributed the neo-Flemish building next to Hunts in 1899. Shortly after Marquards death, Hunt&#39;s was sold to Joseph Pulitzer, then publisher of the New York World, who lived several blocks to the east at 73rd and Park.</p><br>
<p>By this time the automobile was beginning to come into use, especially among the wealthy residents of the Upper East Side. In 1906 the newest building in the district, 177–79 East 73rd, was built specifically to house cars instead of horses. Two years later, in 1908, the commercial stable across from it at 182 was converted for automotive use as well.</p><br>
<p>At that same time, in 1907, Standard Oil heir and philanthropist Edward Harkness, who lived nearby at Fifth Avenue and 75th Street, bought 161. He spent two years converting it into a garage with a squash court and locker room upstairs, in addition to chauffeur&#39;s quarters. Gradually the other carriage houses followed, with some being sold and converted into owner-occupied housing with an attached garage. By 1920 this process was complete, and the neighborhood assumed its present form.</p><br>
<p>During the 20th century some of the buildings took on importance in the citys musical community. Pulitzers estate sold the carriage house at 166 to the MacDowell Club, named after composer and pianist Edward MacDowell, after his death. The club in turn sold it to the Central Gospel Chapel of New York, which met there until 1980. In 1950 the Dalcroze School of Music in New York, the only music teachers&#39; training school in the Western Hemisphere personally authorized by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, moved into 161 for a few decades.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The districts buildings fall into three types, representing different eras of local development: two Italianate rowhouses, 11 carriage houses and two taller structures built for commercial purposes. The rowhouses are the oldest, dating to the early development of the Upper East Side during the Civil War. The carriage houses came later, some built on the site of demolished early rowhouses, with the commercial buildings coming near the end of the blocks development.</p><br>
<h3>Rowhouses</h3><br>
<p>The two rowhouses are both on the north side of the street, at 171 and 175. Both are narrow three-story brick Italianate buildings built in 1860, part of an original row of six. They are trimmed with stone around the windows and doors and decorative wooden cornices. The house at 171 also retains a cast iron veranda shading the first floor.</p><br>
<h3>Carriage houses</h3><br>
<p>All the carriage houses follow a similar basic plan that persists despite later conversion into private homes and a variety of facade materials. The ground floor entrance has a large round or segmental arch, but is sometimes flat, with an accompanying pedestrian entrance. Specifically equestrian decorative touches such as symbols or cartouches were kept to a minimum. The interiors have often been extensively remodeled for their current residential use. They are two or three stories tall.</p><br>
<p>Among the carriage houses, 161 and 163 are distinguished by rock-faced brick with limestone trim. Equestrian symbols such as saddle pouches, horse heads and reins are carved into their ground floors. Their galvanized iron friezes are further decorated with embossed garlands and rosettes. The neighboring building at 165 East 73rd is a Beaux-Arts style building in yellow Roman brick with foliate carvings. The Romanesque house at 166 has a finely detailed corbelled brick cornice with its date of construction, 1883, in cast iron letters below.</p><br>
<p>Architectural eclecticism arises further down the block&#39;s south side. At 168 East 73rd the roofline is broken by the stepped gable, a hallmark of the neo-Flemish Renaissance style unusual in the city and usually not developed to the extent it is at 168 East 73rd. Next door, 170 and 172–74 show signs of the Neo-Grec style with the latter also having some Queen Anne elements. The last building in the carriage house row on the south side, 178 East 73rd, combines Beaux Arts decor with neo-Georgian brickwork.</p><br>
<h3>Commercial buildings</h3><br>
<p>The two commercial buildings, at 177–79 and 182 East 73rd, are the highest on the block at five stories. Both were originally built for paying customers who rented and were not wealthy enough to afford their own separate buildings rather, with 177–79 the only one on the block designed with automobile use in mind. It is a Beaux Arts building on an exposed limestone and granite foundation with the middle stories faced in brick with terra cotta trim. Its upper story is a mansard roof pierced by three unusually large dormer windows with terra cotta enframements. The central dormer takes the form of a triumphal arch with heavy stone blocks. Its overall level of decoration is unusually sophisticated for a utilitarian structure.</p><br>
<p>Across the street, 182 East 73rd is a brick Romanesque Revival structure with stone trim and cornices separating several of its stories. Above the fourth story "S KAYTON & CO." is inscribed on a corbelled name panel in the middle of a round-arched cornice. Many of the windows are set in arches themselves.</p><br>
<p>The Main Building of Torrance High School is located on the campus in Torrance, southwestern Los Angeles County, California. The Main Building was opened to students as Torrance School in 1917.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On opening the "Main Building" in 1917, Torrance School accommodated both elementary and high school students in its first building. In 1923, with the opening of the new elementary school for kindergarten through sixth grade students, Torrance School was renamed Torrance High School.</p><br>
<p>Torrance elementary schools were in the Los Angeles City School District until 1947, when they transferred to a new Torrance school district. In 1947 Torrance high schools moved to the Redondo Union High School District and then became a part of the modern Torrance Unified School District in 1948.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Main Building, built in 1917, was the first building on the campus, then known as the Torrance School and serving all grades. It is a two-story structure designed in the Mediterranean Revival style, and has architectural elements in the Classical Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. The central two-story section is flanked by one-story wings, which all frame an outdoor courtyard patio.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is the dominant element of the building&#39;s facade. It consists of a set of layered elements: a large pediment with a cornice, a cofferred arch, a flat window with pediment above, a large arched fanlight, and a flat doorway portal. The doorway is flanked by paired columns.</p><br>
<p>A rear addition was built in 1922, in the same style. In 1923, after the Torrance Elementary School was built on the campus, the original Torrance School Main Building was converted into a high school. The elementary school building was annexed to the high school in 1963, and was renamed the Torrance High School Annex building.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The Main Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Main Building is one of four on the Torrance High School campus listed on the NRHP, the other buildings are:</p><br>
<p>Auditorium—Assembly Hall (1938)</p><br>
<p>Home Economics Building (1923)</p><br>
<p>Torrance High School Annex (1923−1925), originally Torrance Elementary School.</p><br>
