<p>The Edward Ransom Farmstead, Livestock and Equipment Barn was a historic agricultural outbuilding in rural White County, Arkansas. It was located on the Ransom Farmstead, a few miles south of Midway, on the west side of United States Route 167. It was a -story structure, built in part out of logs and in part out of wood framing. Its principal form was derived from three log cribs, joined by saddle- and V-notching, a form not seen anywhere else in the county. It was built about 1915.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It has been listed as destroyed by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.</p><br>
<p>The Ball and Roller Bearing Company, also known as American Family Crafts and the Joseph Nutt House and Machine Shop, is a historic industrial complex at 20-22 Maple Avenue in Danbury, Connecticut. Developed mainly in the early 20th century, the factory is most notable as the location where Lewis Heim invented the modern grinding machine, which revolutionized the manufacture of machine parts. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1989. It now houses a church and social service agencies.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Ball and Roller Bearing Company plant is located in a mainly industrial area east of downtown Danbury, on the west side of Maple Street just south of its crossing of railroad tracks. The complex includes three buildings, two of which are wood frame, and one of which is brick. The two wood-frame buildings include the Queen Anne-style former home of Joseph Nutt, who established a machine shop providing services to Danburys hat making industry in 1886. Nutts home also served as his company&#39;s office, and is attached to a single-story monitor-roofed brick structure. Connected to these is the main three-story wood-frame factory building. The latter building used to have a series of additions extending further north; these were heavily damaged by fire in 1987, and demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Nutt factory was purchased by Lewis and Alfred Heim in 1904. Lewis Heim had worked in Danbury&#39;s hat factories, and had by that time already patented several inventions, including improvements to hatmaking machinery. The Heim brothers branched out into the manufacture of ball and roller bearings in 1909, parts which were in high demand for the burgeoning automotive industry. Their success resulted in the repeated expansion of the factory, and it was here that Lewis Heim developed and improved the centerless grinding machine, which enabled the precision shaping of cylindrical parts. Heim sold most of his patent rights in 1922 and the plant in 1928. His Ball and Roller Bearing Company continues to operate in New Milford, Connecticut. The buildings have since been repurposed to other non-industrial uses, with some loss of historic integrity.</p><br>
<p>The Branchville Railroad Tenement is a historic commercial and residential building at the junction of Portland Avenue and West Branchville Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Built in stages between about 1853 and 1905, it is a distinctive reminder of the area&#39;s railroad-related history, serving as tenement housing for railroad workers before being converted to other residential and commercial uses. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 1982. It continues to be used for commercial and residential purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Branchville Railroad Tenement is located in southern Ridgefield, a short way southeast of the Branchville station on the Danbury Line. It occupies a prominent position overlooking the junction of Portland Avenue and West Branchville Road. It is a vernacular three-story wood frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior and gabled roof. Its most prominent feature is its two-story shed-roof porch, extending the full width of the main facade.</p><br>
<p>The tenement was built in stages between about 1853 and 1905. Its earliest incarnation was as a storage facility for the railroad station, to which two stories of residences were added to houses workers on the railroad. Following completion of the railroad, the building was converted into a hotel in 1880, at which time the two-story porch was built and the interior was redecorated. This was apparently an unsuccessful venture, and in 1905 it was converted to a saloon and multifamily residence, with an addition expanding its size to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company Car Barn was historic streetcar maintenance facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Built in 1910 and enlarged in 1920, it served as a maintenance barn first for electric streetcars and then buses for many years, and was one of the few surviving reminders of the city&#39;s early public transit system. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1987. It was demolished in 2008 to make way for construction of the Connecticut Superior Court juvenile facility that now stands on its site.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company Car Barn was located on the east side of downtown Bridgeport, on a parcel of more than 5 acre bounded on the north by Congress Street, the west by Housatonic Street, the east by the Pequonnock River, and the south by a railroad right-of-way. The building had three parts: the western two-story office wing, the main garage in the eastern wing, and an extension of the garage to the south. It was built with load-bearing brick walls, and was a typical example of early 20th-century industrial design. The garage portion of the structure was covered by a series of parallel shed-roof monitor sections.</p><br>
<p>The barn was built in 1910, and served as the principal repair and storage facility for the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company which provided Bridgeports streetcar service in the early 20th century. It was adapted for bus repairs following the conversion of streetcar to bus service after World War II, and later served as a maintenance yard for the citys public works department.</p><br>
<p>136–138 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Second Empire house in Hartford. Built about 1870, it is a rare and well-preserved example of this style in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>136–138 Collins Street is located in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the north side of Collins Street east of Sumner Street. It is a -story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof. It is set on an elevated basement, giving it a taller than typical appearance. It is three bays wide, with its entrance in the center bay, and a two-story projecting pavilion to its right. The roof line is pierced by dormers in the mansard section that have elaborately carved surrounds and round-arch windows, that in the projecting section larger than the others. The latter dormer has a bellcast shape with a peaked hood. The roof the eaves have paired brackets. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with peaked lintels and bracketed sills.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1870. It probably had a more ornate front porch; the present one is a 20th-century replacement. The house was once owned by Isaac Frisbie, the superintendent of Hartford&#39;s poorhouse, which was located behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The Katharine Seymour Day House is a historic house at 77 Forest Street in the historic Nook Farm district of Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1884 for a local businessman seeking to compete stylistically with the adjacent Mark Twain House, it is a good local example of Queen Anne architecture. It now serves as the administrative center and library for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Katharine Seymour Day House is located in the Nook Farm area of Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, at the southwest corner of Farmington Avenue and Forest Street. It is just east of the Mark Twain House, and north of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. The house is a -story stone structure, built out of a multicolored combination of brownstone and limestone. It is a fine local example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, with a busy exterior in terms of color and organization, with projecting gables, dormers and porches. The interior features high quality woodwork, plasterwork and tile.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Francis H. Kimball and was built for Franklin Chamberlin; the project was completed in 1884. Chamberlin is believed to have built the house as a rival to the adjacent Mark Twain House; he had previously sold the adjacent land to Mark Twain on which his house was built. The house was later owned by Willie Olcott Burr, publisher of The Hartford Times newspaper. It was purchased by Harriet Beecher Stowes grandniece Katharine Seymour Day in 1940, as part of a plan to preserve the surroundings of the Stowe House (which was also originally built for Chamberlin). Day established the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in 1941 as a nonprofit vehicle to preserve Stowes legacy.</p><br>
<p>The house now houses the centers administrative offices, and a research library containing many of Stowes materials.</p><br>
<p>The William L. Linke House is a historic house at 174 Sigourney Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1880, it is one of a small number of surviving Queen Anne Victorians on the street, which was once lined with similar houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William L. Linke House stands in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the east side of Sigourney Street north of Asylum Avenue. The street is now lined primarily by multiunit apartment buildings. The house is a -story masonry structure, built out of brick with stone trim. It has asymmetrical massing, with numerous gables and dormers projecting from its hip roof, which is. Its front porch features turned posts and carved valances, with a projecting gable above the stairs. To its left is a two-story projecting bay section with decorative brickwork and terra cotta paneling between the floors, and it is topped by a smaller wooden bay and carved wooden detail at the gable peak.</p><br>
<p>This house was built about 1880, and was typical of houses built on Sigourney Street in the late 19th century. By 1896, a local map shows the street lined with houses similar to this one. Urban redevelopment of the neighborhood, and the street&#39;s transformation into a significant north–south artery have led to the demolition of most of those houses, replaced by two-to-four story apartment blocks.</p><br>
<p>142 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Queen Anne Victorian house in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1890, it is typical of houses that were once much more common the city&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>142 Collins Street is located in Hartford&#39;s Asylum Hill area, on the north side of Collins Street east of its junction with Summer Street, opposite the main complex of The Hartford Insurance Group. It is a -story brick structure, with a truncated hip roof and numerous projecting gables and dormers. The front facade has porches on the first and second levels, the upper one occupying only the central bay; both have decorative spindled woodwork friezes and turned supports. A projecting gable section to the right is finished with scalloped shingles, and has a two-window angled bay.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890, and is, with the neighboring house (built about 1870 in the Second Empire style, a study in architectural trends that took place during the development of Asylum Hill in the second half of the 19th century. This house is a particularly fine example of a Queen Anne Victorian executed in brick.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins–Clark House is a historic house at 49 Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1861, it is a prominent example of high-style Gothic Revival residential architecture, and is notable for the association of its first owner, Charles Perkins, with author Samuel Clemens. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978, and is a contributing property to the Nook Farm and Woodland Street District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Perkins–Clark House is located in a residential area of western Hartford, on the west side of Woodland Street near its junction with Niles Street. It is set on a large parcel overlooking the Park River to the west. It is a -story stuccoed structure, with a steeply pitched roof that has gables decorated with bargeboard, and multiple bands of chimneys with corbelled brick tops.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Octavius and Augustus Jordan, according to principles put forth by Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing for the construction of Gothic villas. It was built in 1861 for Charles Perkins, a lawyer whose clients included Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), whose house stands on Farmington Avenue to the south. This stylish Gothic Revival house is the last residential building on Woodland Street, which was once lined with fashionable properties. In 1924 it was purchased by Judge Walter Clark, who undertook numerous alterations, although he was careful to match new buildings stylistically to the main house. The house now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The B.B. Kirkland Seed and Distributing Company is a three-story historic warehouse building at 912 Lady Street in Columbia, South Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Brown Kirkland, a prominent local businessman, started the Kirkland Distributing Company in 1900 and incorporated it in 1908. He built his warehouse in 1916 on the site that farmers had used as a campground when visiting Columbia to sell their products on nearby Assembly Street. They chose the campsite because of three natural springs there, and one spring still flows in the basement of the building today.</p><br>
<p>Kirkland sold a variety of products, including flour, grain and hay.</p><br>
<p>In 1966 the building became the home of the Hinson Feed and Seed Company. By the 1990s the district of old warehouses and textile mills abutting Gervais Street was recast as the Congaree Vista, and trendy business, bars and restaurants began to move into renovated buildings. Presently the B.B. Kirkland Seed and Distributing Company building houses a number of businesses, most notably American Specialty Health, Inc. and the City Art Gallery.</p><br>
<p>The Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children is an important landmark of African-American history at 106 Goffe Street in New Haven, Connecticut. The building, also known as Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school for African-Americans in New Haven opened in 1811. In 1854, Sally Wilson, a black teacher, began a small school for African-American children in her own house in New Haven (The Artisan Street Colored School). The creation of a more permanent institution was proposed at a meeting of New Haven citizens in the home of Atwater Treat in 1864. The purpose was to provide for</p><br>
<p>... the intellectual and moral well being</p><br>
<p>of the colored people of the Town of New Haven and especially of their children... for the elevation and benefit of the class among us, particularly in view of the fact that they have been less favored than others</p><br>
<p>as well as to educational advantages.</p><br>
<p>Mary Lucas Hillhouse, daughter of James Hillhouse, purchased land for $5,000 and hired New Haven architect Henry Austin to design the building. The brick, gable-roofed building is two stories with an attic and a wide dentillated cornice. The interior staircase includes heavy turned balusters and an oak handrail.</p><br>
<p>The school served as an evening school from 1866 to 1871. Very few educational opportunities for African-American children were available previously. The school then closed in 1874 as African-American children began attending previously all-white public schools, beginning 1869. The building was subsequently used by African-American community organizations, as a parish hall and as a lodge for Prince Hall Masons. The building was sold to the Widow&#39;s Son Lodge No. 1 in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated by the Masons with help from Gateway Community College, city public schools and Yale University. The one-room Little Red Brick Schoolhouse Museum opened in 1997.</p><br>
<p>A famous alumni of the school is Edward Bouchet, the first African-American to earn a PhD from any American University.</p><br>
<p>The Pardee-Morris House, also known as John Morris House, is a historic house museum at 325 Lighthouse Road in New Haven, Connecticut. Probably built in the late 17th century, it is one of New Haven&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, and a good example of First Period colonial architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is now owned and operated by the New Haven Museum and Historical Society, and is open seasonally for events, classes and tours.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pardee-Morris House is located in New Haven&#39;s Morris Cove area, on the east side of New Haven Harbor. It is located at the southeast corner of Lighthouse Road and Morris Avenue. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, with stone end walls and chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The stone is laid in part with mortar of great antiquity, into which shells have been mixed. The main facade is seven bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically about the main entrance. The entrance is sheltered by a modern shed-roof hood.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portions of the house are believed to date to the late 17th century, probably during the lifetime of Thomas Morris, the first colonial grantee of land in this area, or one of his sons. It was partially burned by the British in 1779. It remained in the Morris family until 1915, when it was sold to William Pardee. He only briefly occupied the house, and willed it to the historical society upon his death a few years later, along with an endowment for its care.</p><br>
<p>The Storm–Adriance–Brinckerhoff House is located on Beekman Road  in East Fishkill, New York, United States. It is a wooden building in three parts, the oldest of which dates to the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<p>Some of its inhabitants have been among the prominent residents of the county, and the state. Thomas Storm, a captain in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, later served as the state Assembly Speaker. He had George Washington as a guest one night. Members of the Brinckerhoff family, longtime inhabitants of the area, lived in the house until 1930.</p><br>
<p>The house is considered an excellent, well-preserved example of Dutch Colonial architecture. Its modifications and additions reflect changing tastes over the time it was within the Storm family. In 2008 it, along with several other structures on the property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been described as "the most historically significant house" in East Fishkill because of the Washington connection.</p><br>
<h2>House and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a 5.4 acre parcel on the north side of Beekman Road on the northeast corner of the Sylvan Lake Road junction just east of its interchange with the Taconic State Parkway, also listed on the National Register. The area is generally wooded with low-density farm and residential development. The lot is level with the house set back 200 ft from the road. A small pond is located in the rear.</p><br>
<p>The main building itself is a heavy timber frame structure sided in clapboard on a stone foundation. The walls are filled with wattle and daub. Three chimneys pierce the gabled roof, covered with asphalt shingles. It is divided into an east (two stories) and west (one and a half stories) section, itself with a kitchen wing on the west.</p><br>
<p>A porch on the main block of the east section, supported by wooden columns gives access to the original Dutch door offset to the west. It opens into a remaining section of the original great room. It retains its original wide floor planks, exposed chestnut ceiling beams and window sashes. Rear doors lead into a modern kitchen and mud room added to the rear. To the east the cooking shed has the original fieldstone fireplace with exposed chimney and beehive oven.</p><br>
<p>The Portaal to the east has a Federal style fireplace and mantel with fluted columns. To its north is a built-in shelf and closet. Original wallpaper remains on the south wall. The upper half-story is given over to bedrooms, one of which has the original flooring and a secret compartment in the floor.</p><br>
<p>Three dormer windows pierce the south (front) side of the roof on the east wing. A small shed-roofed portico with shallow rounded arch supported by four wooden columns gives access to its original Dutch door, with sidelights. It opens onto a central hall with original staircase. On its east are a living room and library, both with original detailing. The librarys chimney breast has original fireplace jambs, a raised hearth and stile and rail paneling. The living rooms fireplace has its original Delft tiles, a shallow cornice, dentil border and torus and plain molding.</p><br>
<p>The west wing&#39;s second floor has a large landing with beaded woodwork. It leads to a master bedroom and two smaller bedrooms. The entire floor has its original wideboard flooring. The roof framing uses king post trusses on the collar ties rather than the more commonly used tie beam formation, a construction visible in the master bedroom.</p><br>
<p>At the extreme east and west end of the house is an old well and cistern respectively. Both are considered contributing resources to its historic character, as are the monument in front of the house, which contains an old Indian mash bowl found on the property. In the rear of the property, about 100 ft to the north, are the remains of an old silo with a stone wall, also contributing resources. The garage and storage shed are non-contributing modern additions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property on which the house stands was originally part of the Rombout Patent, 85,000 acre purchased by Francis Rombout and Gulian Verplanck from local Native American tribes in 1682. King James II granted letters patent three years later, allowing Rombout and the heirs of Verplanck, who had died in the interim, to subdivide and sell the land.</p><br>
<p>In 1759 Derick Hageman bought 108 acre containing the future house property from Catheryna Rombout Brett, a descendant of Francis who had settled in what is now Beacon. She carefully chose buyers with complementary skills and trades in order to sustain agrarian development on her family lands in the interior of the eastern Hudson Valley. He built the west wing of the house and, as a blacksmith by trade, probably forged the door hinges himself.</p><br>
<p>Ten years later, in 1769, a neighbor, Garret Storm, for whom the hamlet of Stormville is named, bought the property from Hegeman and gave it to his son Thomas as a wedding gift. The younger man added the eastern section. He operated a tavern and store on the site.</p><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Storm served as a captain in the Continental Army, which he allowed to camp on the property. The cistern may also have been used as a prison. He stored some flour that had been confiscated by the army from a miller in Massachusetts, and wrote a letter to the Continental Congress, archived in the Library of Congress, requesting funds to reimburse the miller. George Clinton called him "the most honest man in Dutchess County".</p><br>
<p>In 1778, George Washington, who had the location of the house marked on one of his pocket maps, spent a night. Locals gathered the next morning, and he came out to address them. When they removed their hats at his presence, he advised them to put them back on since he was just an ordinary man like them.</p><br>
<p>After the war, Thomas Storm was elected to the New York State Assembly for two terms, and then moved to New York City. He became a successful merchant and eventually returned to the Assembly, where he served as Speaker in 1802–03, and later ran for lieutenant governor with Morgan Lewis.</p><br>
<p>He sold the house in 1785 to John Adriance, a member of a prominent Dutchess County family who later lent their name to Poughkeepsie&#39;s library. Upon his death in 1794, the house was sold to George Brinckerhoff. He added the columns and other Federal style decorative touches to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Brinckerhoff descendants lived in the house throughout the 19th century. In 1880, when the Portaals flooring was replaced, a trap door to the basement was discovered. In it were a cap, knapsack and book which may have belonged to a Revolutionary-era British prisoner of war kept in the house. Also kept in the house by the Brinckerhoffs was a secretarys desk brought to the colonies by Joris Brinckerhoff in 1638. It is now in the Museum of the City of New York.</p><br>
<p>T. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, one of the four generations of that family to own the house, served as the East Fishkill town historian. He was able to locate a misplaced map of the Rombout Patent now in the New York State Library. His daughter Julia kept the house in the family until 1930. That year the state and the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter placed a monument in front of the house, which included an old Indian millstone found on the land.</p><br>
<p>It has since remained a private house. Later owners have restored it, and it has been included on historic tours of the county.</p><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Courthouse is located in DeRidder, Louisiana, the location of the parish seat. The courthouse was built at the same time as the Beauregard Parish Jail, by the same people, and completed around the same time in 1915, as directed by the Beauregard Parish Police Jury.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 22 September 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hudson River Lumber Company donated a tract of land to the City of DeRidder. Property that adjoined this tract was owned by the First Baptist Church. The newly formed Beauregard Parish Police Jury, carved out of the old Imperial Calcasieu Parish, purchased the property and a building from the church.</p><br>
<p>Stevens-Nelson of New Orleans was chosen to design a courthouse and jail. Falls City Construction Company was awarded the contract in September 1913. Both buildings were completed in 1915 at a cost of $168,000.</p><br>
<h2>Tunnel</h2><br>
<p>There is a lighted tunnel leading to the jail. It was incorporated into the design to facilitate the transfer of accused or prisoners to and from the jail to stand trial while maintaining safety. The tunnel is no longer in use.</p><br>
<p>The jail has now been renovated to some degree and is open for tours to the public during weekdays and there are special lantern tours at night on occasion, as well as a haunted house around Halloween each year. The tunnel, however, has been completely blocked off at some point between the jail and the courthouse. The small portion visible from the jail side usually has standing water inside it, sometimes quite a lot of water. Thus, it is no longer lighted and/or usable by anyone.</p><br>
<h2>Notoriety</h2><br>
<p>A trial that ended in two hangings in the Beauregard Parish Jail took place at the courthouse. This gave rise to the name "Hanging Jail" but any notoriety concerning the courthouse was lost after the hanging on March 9, 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Current</h2><br>
<p>The 101 year courthouse was in need of updating, that included expansion for a third courtroom, handicap access, elevator upgrades (ADA accessible), sewer upgrades and a facelift to include the courtyard and sidewalks. A new sprinkler and fire alarm system is also included. Corne Lemaire Group is the architectural firm and the bid from Pat Williams Construction was accepted.</p><br>
<p>The policy jury had previously purchased a large former First Baptist Church compound, located beside and behind the jail, and the main building has been renovated to be temporarily used.</p><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Training School in DeRidder, Louisiana, was a school for black students and black teachers in training. The two school buildings, located on the original property at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Alexandria Street, were the first African-American related structures in southwestern Louisiana to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, on March 1, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Teachers</h2><br>
<p>Teacher preparation was an important goal of the Beauregard Parish Training School from its founding until the mid-1930s when the program was discontinued. Subsequently, students were required to attend one or two years at a normal school in order to obtain a teaching certificate.</p><br>
<p>The parish training school movement for training black teachers began in 1911. By school year 1919-1920 Beauregard Parish Training School became one of 107 Training schools in the South. The curriculum included regular courses such as math, science, and English, as well as instruction in how to teach. Although each student completing the teaching program was awarded a certificate stating that he or she was qualified to teach at the elementary level in black schools, it was necessary for each to pass a test given by the state Department of Education before that certification was considered valid. After the teaching program was discontinued in the mid-1930s, students were required to attend one or two years at a normal school in order to obtain a teaching certificate. The school curriculum offered and its teachers were highly valued by the black citizens of Beauregard Parish.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 1929 building&#39;s massing is that of a rectangle beneath a low, slightly overhanging tripped roof. This roof is broken by a low pediment-like gable on the facade, by gablets on each end, and by three tall chimneys. The smooth walls are pierced by bands of windows with concrete sills, on the front and rear. The entrance, which features sidelights, is located at the rear of a small vestibule whose door-less opening is distinguished by a bracketed cornice. The vestibule and entrance are located in the center of the facade within a bay which projects from the rest of the building about 4 inches. A small wing is attached to the northwest corner of the structure. The interior originally consisted of five classrooms organized around an L-shaped hallway. Each room had a high ceiling, plaster walls, and a door with a six-light transom above.</p><br>
<p>The 1938 one-story brick building has a T-shaped footprint. Two large classrooms with a lobby in between take up the front portion of the building, while a gymnasium is provided for in the rear wing. The building features a series of paired windows on both the classroom and gym sections. The end allows the gym to double as an auditorium.</p><br>
<h2>Rosenwald School</h2><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Training School would be considered a Rosenwald School. Funds of $500.00 was given to the parish to assist in building a school by the Rosenwald Fund.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named Rosenwald Schools near the top of the country&#39;s most endangered places and created a campaign to raise awareness and money for preservation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The concept of the parish training school created in 1911 was made possible through the efforts of four philanthropic foundations interested in the education of African-American youth. These foundations - the General Education Board, the John F. Slater Fund, and Anna T. Jeanes Fund, and the Rosenwald Fund, convinced state education officials throughout the South to work with them to improve educational opportunities for blacks. The training school movement had several goals. The first was to provide each parish with a central public school for blacks. With its good physical facilities and carefully chosen curriculum, this school would serve as a model for other black schools in the area. Another goal was to provide a more thorough education by offering more courses. Thus, students could attend a training school two or three years longer than they could one of their smaller rural cousins. Early in the movement training schools offered at least eight grades; later they offered ten or eleven. A third goal was to provide industrial and manual training for African-American children,".laying particular emphasis upon subject pertaining to home and farm." The final goal of the parish training school movement was to prepare teachers who would then serve in the regions rural black elementary schools. The first training school in the nation opened in Louisianas Tangipahoa Parish in 1911.</p><br>
<p>One of the reasons the training school concept worked was because the General Education Board placed agents within the state education departments and, in some cases, within the parishes themselves. In order to obtain a training school, parishes had to own the property where the building would be erected, recognize the school as part of the public school system, and commit at least $750 from public funds toward its maintenance each year. Beauregard Parish met the first requirement when the Longbell Lumber Company conveyed a tract of land to the School Board on February 6, 1917. However, the parish did not receive its first "Supervisory Agent for Negroes" until July 3, 1919. This person&#39;s primary tasks were to assist teachers in writing lesson plans and to create support for black schools. The Beauregard Parish Training School opened in 1920 with a physical plant consisting of two buildings. A large two-story structure served as a high school while a smaller one-story building held the elementary level classes.</p><br>
<p>Schools for African-American students had existed in the Beauregard Parish towns of Merryville, Ludington, Bon Ami, Carson, Longville, Center Hill, Bancroft and DeRidder at least as early as the 1917-1918 term. Although attendance figures for each year are not available, those for the 1923-1924 nine month indicate that an average of 420 students attended the school with as many as 450 having attended at one time. Average daily attendance was around 318 children. State Board of Education records indicate that 19 of the Training School&#39;s students boarded within the DeRidder community during that school year.</p><br>
<h3>George Washington Carver High School</h3><br>
<p>In 1953 the R.H. Crosby family donated a school building to Buaregard Parish to relieve crowding at the training school. This became known as George Washington Carver High School and remained in operation until the public schools were integrated in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Fire and current buildings</h2><br>
<p>The original elementary and high school buildings were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin in 1929. Bids for replacement buildings were opened on July 23, 1929, with the contract awarded to P. Olivier & Son for $20,300. This amount underwrote the construction of twin, one-story, hollow tile buildings with stuccoed exterior surfaces. The State Board of Education annual report for 1930-31 shows that each of these buildings contained five classrooms. Part of the curriculum at that time: reading, writing, and math (grades 2-3); history and geography (grade 4); English, history and literature (grade 7) and algebra and geometry (the high school grades).</p><br>
<h3>Education</h3><br>
<p>Institutions like the Beauregard Training School were the beginning of a new era for Black citizens of the USA.</p><br>
<h3>Historical importance</h3><br>
<p>The Beauregard Parish Training School was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1996. Unveiling of a Plaque designating the Beauregard Parish Training School as a Historical Landmark occurred November 16, 2001.</p><br>
<p>One of the twin classroom buildings constructed in 1929 was destroyed by another fire during the mid-1930s. Instead of replacing it with a similar building, the school board elected to construct a combination classroom building/gymnasium on the site. It was completed in 1938. Both the 1929 and 1938 buildings continued to be used as educational facilities well into the post-World War II period - as the Beauregard Parish Training School until c. 1941 and as a regular public school after that date. During the historic period (1929–1945), and into the postwar era, the school was the only opportunity in the parish for blacks to receive a high school education. The large rural parish had a population of 14,847 in 1940, one-fifth of which was black. The parish seat of DeRidder was the only town of any size. A 1948 government document notes that there were in that year eight high schools and eight elementary schools for whites and one high school and two elementary schools for blacks.</p><br>
<h2>Current</h2><br>
<p>Both buildings are now used as part of BeauCARE Head Start educational program for early childhood education.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Velmer Lenora Smith, DeRidder historian</p><br>
<p>State of Louisiana, Division of Historic Preservation, Office of Culture, Recreation, Tourism.</p><br>
<p>Lewis, A. C., Special Report on Negro Education in Louisiana, Session 1923-1924, Baton Rouge:</p><br>
<p>Beauregard Parish Planning Board, Beauregard Parish Resources and Facilities, 1949, 1959.</p><br>
<p>Louisiana State Department of Education, November 1924.</p><br>
<p>The Slaughter–Hill Ranch, in Roswell, New Mexico, also known as Cunningham Homestead, Estancia Pavo Real, or the Canning Farm, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was the first homestead of Sam Cunningham, from Missouri, who built the hand-hewn log house. The building is the only surviving example of a hand-hewn log first homestead in the Roswell area.</p><br>
<p>The ranch is significant also for association with C.C. Slaughter, a Texas cattleman who established a registered Hereford cattle herd here of national reputation.</p><br>
<p>After C.C. Slaughter died in 1919, ownership of the property eventually went to George Slaughter&#39;s daughter Eloise and her husband Curtis Hill, a lawyer.</p><br>
<p>The Slaughter–Hill House also known as the Corrie Hill House or the Roger Dixon House, is a historic home located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1775, and enlarged with a frame addition in the early 19th century, and further enlarged about 1835–1840. It is a two-story, "L"-plan, log and frame dwelling with a central-passage plan. During the 1820s. it was the residence of Congressman and diplomat John Pendleton.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The William G. and Anne Williams House is a historic building in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA, and was a four-room bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The Williams house is a Queen Anne style Victorian home that has been on the Wisconsin State and National Register of Historic Places since 2005. The home is known officially on the historical register as the Williams, William G. and Anne, House. It was built by W. G. Williams, a banker in the small town. Today the home is a private residencet for Mr. Elliott and Mr. Mueller.</p><br>
<p>The Imperial Granum-Joseph Parker Buildings, also known historically as the Del Monico Building, are a pair of conjoined historic commercial buildings at Elm and Orange Streets in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1875 and 1877, the two buildings are among the finest examples of the architecture of that period in the city, with one sporting one of the city&#39;s only surviving cast iron facades. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Imperial Granum-Joseph Parker Buildings are located one block east of the New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, on the east side of the corner of Elm and Orange Streets. Both buildings are four stories in height, and of masonry construction, with heavily bracketed projecting cornices at the roof line. The Parker Building, which stands at the corner, is built out of red brick. Its ground floor facade is a modern stylistic copy of the Imperial Granum Building, with paneled pilasters at the outer ends, and engaged round columns separating the window and door bays. It has one storefront, with three display windows and a double-door entrance. The main building entrance, which now serves both buildings is located to its right. The upper-level windows are set in rectangular openings with peaked stone lintels. The Orange Street facade has similar upper-floor windows, with mostly blinded window bays and a secondary entrance on the ground floor. The Imperial Granum building is slightly narrower, sharing a full party wall with the Parker Building. It is three bays wide, with a single storefront on the ground floor. The upper-level windows have more elaborate surrounds, with engaged columns between windows set in segmented-arch openings, pilasters at the ends, and shallow dentillated cornices between the floors.</p><br>
<p>The Parker Building was built in 1875, and the Imperial Granum in 1877. Both have been attributed to architects working in the office of Henry Austin: the Parker by David R. Brown, and the Imperial Granum by Rufus G. Russell. The latter is noted as having the citys only surviving ground-floor cast iron facade, a feature that was never popular in the city and existed only in small numbers. The Parker Building was built for a paper manufacturer, who used the upper floors as a warehouse. The Imperial Granum gets its name from a patent medicine marketed by its owner, Edward Heaton, and for many years sported an advertisement of that product on its exposed southeastern wall. The buildings came under one owner in 1945, and were joined in their upper floors by breaking through the party wall, and also building a shared, interior staircase. For many years, a hatshop named Del Monicos occupied the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Theatre, also known as Little Theatre on Lincoln Street, is a historic performance space at 1 Lincoln Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1924, it is the only known survivor in the state of the Little Theatre Movement of 1911-1933. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. After a major rehabilitation in the 2010s, the theater was reopened, and is now known as the ACES Little Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lincoln Theatre is located on a densely built residential block on Lincoln Street, a short dead end off Trumbull Street, about three blocks north of the New Haven Green. It is a multipart construction, with a gable-roofed entry and auditorium at its north end, with rear sections devoted to the backstage and dressing room areas. A modern glass-and-stone addition extends to the left side of the original building.</p><br>
<p>The theater was built in 1924, and was the only purpose built theater constructed in the state by one of a dozen or so Little Theatre Movement organizations in the state. It was in active use by that organization until 1935, mainly under the creative auspices of Jack Crawford, an English professor at Yale University. In 1935 it was taken over by the Federal Theater Project, a Works Progress Administration program supporting the creative arts, which ended in 1939. It was used for commercial theatrical productions until 1945, when it was converted into a film theater, showing foreign and art films. Robert Spodick owned Lincoln theatre at this time and other movie theatres in the New Haven area including the York Square Cinemas which had a large mural photograph of the Lincoln theatre in their auditorium. The Lincoln theatre closed in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the building was acquired by ACES Educational Center for the Arts, a local educational organization and public arts magnet school. It was used mainly for its events (private and occasionally public) until 2012, when it underwent a major rehabilitation and upgrade, which preserved elements of its Art Deco interior.</p><br>
<p>The Welch Training School, also known as the Welch School, is a historic school building at 495 Congress Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1883, it is a good example of Queen Anne architecture as applied to school buildings, and was the city&#39;s first teacher training school. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building now houses a substance abuse clinic.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Welch Training School building is located west of downtown New Haven, at the northwest corner of Congress and Vernon Streets in The Hill neighborhood. It is a -story masonry structure, built out of red brick with stone trim, and covered by a slate mansard roof. Gabled dormers of varying styles and configurations adorn the roof faces, and a four-story gabled entry section projects at the center of the main facade. Windows are set in rectangular openings with sandstone sills and lintels, and sandstone stringcourses give horizontal emphasis to the design.</p><br>
<p>The school, completed in 1883, was designed by Leoni W. Robinson and is a good local example of Queen Anne architecture. It was named for Harmonus Welch, the citys first president of the board of education, and later also Mayor of New Haven. The school was designed to provide a space where new teachers could be trained, in order to address a shortage of qualified teachers in the citys school system. In its early programs, trainee teachers were paired with other teachers to learn teaching methods, before being sent for further hands-on training to other schools. The school&#39;s function for teacher training was ended in 1893, when the Skinner School opened as a proper normal school, and this one then became a regular elementary school. It was closed in the mid-1970s.</p><br>
<p>The 1900 Rittenhouse Square Apartments is a historic high-rise building on Rittenhouse Square in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built 1923–1926.</p><br>
<p>The 190 foot tall, 19-story building has been converted to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>1900 Rittenhouse Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1982, and February 8, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Drake Hotel, a historic 375-foot-tall, 33-story luxury hotel located at 1512–1514 Spruce Street at the corner of S. Hicks Street between S. 15th and S. 16th Streets in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was built in 1928–29 by the Murphy, Quigley Company and was designed by the architectural firm of Ritter and Shay in the Art Deco style with Spanish Baroque terra cotta ornamentation on themes surrounding Sir Francis Drake, including "dolphins, shells, sailing vessels and globes." The building is topped by a terra cotta dome.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally proposed to be 28-stories, and the demolition work took place in April 1928. The first steel column was placed on site on September 1, 1928 and just four months later stunt reporter Vivian Shirley went to the top of the unfinished building on January 29, 1929. It was originally scheduled to open in June 1929, but the developers stated it was ready for occupancy on September 11, 1929.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1978. It was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1977. In 1998, the building was extensively renovated and converted to condominiums as "The Drake".</p><br>
<p>The Pine Creek Indian Reservation is the home of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi , a federally-recognized tribe of Potawatomi in the United States. The reservation headquarters is located at 1485 Mno-Bmadzewen Way, between Fulton, Michigan and Athens, Michigan. The historic structures on the reservation were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1838, members of the Potawatomi nation were forcibly removed from local lands to Kansas, in an operation known as the Potawatomi Trail of Death. During this removal, a group of Tribal Members escaped and returned to their native lands in Michigan. In 1845, Chief Moguago purchased a 120-acre parcel of land along the Pine Creek, and established the Pine Creek Indian Reservation. With the help of Europeans in nearby Athens, the Potawatomi constructed several houses and a school.</p><br>
<p>Comstock&#39;s Bridge, also known as the Comstock Covered Bridge, is a covered bridge in Connecticut, connecting the town of East Hampton to the town of Colchester, spanning the Salmon River. First built in 1840, but entirely replaced in 1873, it is one of only three historical covered bridges in the state. It is open to pedestrian traffic in a small park off Comstock Bridge Road. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 1, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Comstock&#39;s Bridge is located in southeastern East Hampton, near the junction of Comstock Bridge Road and Colchester Avenue (Connecticut Route 16). The bridge consists of two spans: its main span is a Howe truss, 80 ft long, with a roadbed 12 ft wide. That span is covered by a gabled roof and sheathed in vertical board siding. Gates at either end of the bridge limit access to pedestrians. A secondary span, 30 ft in length, connects the bridge to the eastern shore. This span is uncovered; its trusses are sheathed in vertical siding with peaked caps. The bridge abutments are a combination of unmortared rubblestone and cut granite.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1840. The bridge suffered major damage in the 1920s when a truck crashed through the floor. It underwent major restoration work in the 1930s by a Civilian Conservation Corps crew, which replaced some bridge materials with parts in part recycled from old buildings, and added the gates at either end. It is now closed to traffic, and is accessible from a small public park.</p><br>
<p>The Deep River Freight Station is a historic railroad depot at 152 River Street in Deep River, Connecticut. Built in 1915 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , it is one of two surviving early 20th century stations on the southern end of the former Connecticut Valley Railroad  line. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 1994. It is now a station on the Valley Railroad, a heritage steam railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Deep River Freight Station is located in eastern Deep River, between River Street and the former CVR railroad tracks, which run parallel to the Connecticut River. It is a single-story wood frame structure, about 25 x. It is mounted on brownstone piers, which support massive wooden sills. Original period loading docks are on the buildings north and south side, and the building has a low-pitch roof with wide eaves supported by large brackets.</p><br>
<p>The station was built about 1915 by the NYNH&H, as part of a government-mandated program to update railroad infrastructure. The station was originally built to serve both passengers and freight. Passenger service on the line was decimated by competition from the automobile, and ended in 1933. Freight service continued until 1961, when the NYNH&H went bankrupt. A portion of the CVR track was revived as a heritage railroad in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Essex Freight Station is a railroad station located in the Centerbrook village of Essex, Connecticut. Built in 1915, it is a well-preserved example of period railroad-related architecture. It now serves as a station on the resurrected Connecticut Valley Railroad, which provides excursion steam train trips. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Essex Freight Station is located at the southern end of Railroad Avenue, a spur road off Connecticut Route 154 just west of the limited access highway of Connecticut Route 9. The setting includes the railyard, now used by the heritage Connecticut Valley Railroad, which includes operable early 20th-century equipment including switches and signals. The station is located on the west side of the railyard. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch roof that has wide eaves supported by large brackets. Its walls are finished in vertical board siding on the lower part, and clapboards on the upper.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1915 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad along the former Connecticut Valley Railroad line, which had been serving the Connecticut River valley since 1871. The line saw passenger service along at least part of its line until 1933, and freight service until 1961, when the NYNH&H went bankrupt. A passenger station of similar appearance was originally located nearby, but was demolished. The station and yard were acquired in 1970 by the heritage Connecticut Valley Railroad, a nonprofit organization of railroad aficionados, which has been operating steam-powered excursion trains on portions of the CVR line since 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Deep River Town Hall is located at the junction of Connecticut Routes 80 and 154 in Deep River, Connecticut. Completed in 1893, it is unusual for its distinctively urban styling in a quiet rural suburban community. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 1, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Deep River Town Hall is located near the southern end of the main village of Deep River, located in a triangular plot on the south side of the junction of Connecticut Routes 80 and 154, with a west-bound one-way street immediately to its south. In contrast to other village architecture, it is a three-story brick building, set up against the sidewalk on the main roads. A single bay faces the intersection, housing the main entrance in an arched recess, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a semicircular transom window. The side elevations are nine bays, divided into groups of three; some of these groups have doors at the center, while others have windows. Upper-level windows are organized as pairs of sash windows topped by half-round transom windows. The building&#39;s roof has a projecting cornice lined with modillion blocks.</p><br>
<p>The town of Deep River&#39;s previous town hall was located adjacent to its post office, which was destroyed by fire in 1891. This building was constructed as a replacement in 1893, with town offices on the ground floor, and an auditorium space on the upper floors. It is an unusually large structure for an otherwise relatively rural community.</p><br>
<p>The Pratt, Read and Company Factory Complex is an historic industrial facility located in Deep River, Connecticut. Established in 1863 by Pratt-Read and significantly enlarged in 1914, it was one of the principal sites of ivory processing in Connecticut, producing combs, buttons, and piano keys. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984. It has been converted to residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Pratt, Read factory consists of two clusters of mainly brick buildings lining the Deep River north of the town center, west of Main Street and bounded on the north by Spring Street and on the south by Bridge Street. The main building of the complex is set close to Main Street, rising five stories, with an architecturally elaborate entry tower near its center. Wings extend from this building toward the river. The second complex stands across the river, and is dominated by a four-story concrete building.</p><br>
<p>The eastern half of the complex was developed by the Pratt-Read Company beginning in 1863, although no buildings survive that predate 1881. George Read first began processing ivory in this area in 1809, which were taken over by Pratt, Read in 1863. The older buildings were all destroyed by fire in 1881, with the present main structure built immediately after the fire. These facilities were used to process ivory, notably for combs, buttons, and piano keys, and eventually entire piano keyboard actions. In 1914 the company expanded on the western bank of the river, developing the complex that stands off Bridge Street. It was one of the works of a pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete in factory construction, Ernest J. Ransome.</p><br>
<p>The Connecticut Valley Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable Site is a former railroad facility located in Fort Saybrook Monument Park off Main Street in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The roundhouse and turntable were built in 1871 by the Connecticut Valley Railroad, which was later acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The rail facilities are built partly on the archaeological remains of Fort Saybrook, the main fortification of the 17th-century Saybrook Colony, and are the only surviving remnant of what was once a large facility, with an icehouse, coal bin, steamboat dock, depot, and signal tower. Archaeological remains of these other facilities are believed to lie under other parts of the park and adjacent properties. The exposed facilities were excavated in 1981-2. Both structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Connecticut Valley Railroad was chartered in 1868, and began operations three years later, providing service between Saybrook Point and Hartford, with a connection to the Shore Line Railway at the Saybrook Junction station. The extension to Saybrook Point ceased operations in 1922, and its facilities were abandoned. The roundhouse was a quarter-round structure housing six bays, with foundations of brick and stone, supporting both the structure and the tracks on which the railroad cars ran. The turntable had a concrete base. Portions of these features are exposed in the park, with interpretive signage explaining the use and history of the site.</p><br>
<p>The New Haven City Hall and County Courthouse is located at 161 Church Street in the Downtown section of New Haven, Connecticut. The city hall building, designed by Henry Austin, was built in 1861; the old courthouse building, now an annex, designed by David R. Brown, was built in 1871–73. They stand on the east side of the New Haven Green.</p><br>
<p>The pair of buildings was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1975. They are significant early examples of High Victorian Gothic architecture in the United States. The city hall building&#39;s most striking feature used to be a clock tower that rose above. It is shown in historic drawing among the accompanying photographs. In 1992, a memorial to those involved in the Amistad incident, the Amistad memorial, was erected in front of city hall, facing the New Haven Green, as this was the site of the prison where the Africans aboard the Amistad were held and tried.</p><br>
<p>In January 2012, a PureCell Model 400 was dropped into place behind City Hall in the Millennium Plaza. The heat produced by the fuel cell will be used to heat and cool City Hall and the Hall of Records. It will supply 60 percent of the buildings heating needs, and 30 percent of cooling needs. According to Giovanni Zinn of the citys Office of Sustainability, the PureCell can help the city save up to $1 million in energy costs over the next ten years.</p><br>
<p>The New Haven County Courthouse is located at 121 Elm Street in the Downtown section of New Haven, Connecticut. The building was built in 1917 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 2003. It is one of the citys finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture, with a particularly elaborate central atrium, and was the site of Griswold v. Connecticut, a historic court case involving womens right to birth control.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Haven County Courthouse is located in downtown New Haven, facing the New Haven Green from the northwest corner of Elm and Church Streets, It is a three-story stone structure, finished in white Vermont marble. Its principal mass is basically rectangular, with projecting sections of differing depths on each side. The two street-facing projections house its main entrances, which are fronted by Ionic porticos. A central section rises a full extra story to provide additional height to the central atrium. The interior is finished in richly ornamented finishes of marble, mahogany, brass, and plaster. Some doors have heavy brass knobs bearing the county seal.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed by William H. Allen and Richard Williams. Their Beaux Arts architecture design won a design competition over submissions from several well-known architects, and contributed to the city&#39;s adoption of the City Beautiful movement to improve its public spaces and facilities.</p><br>
<p>Significant court cases tried at the courthouse include Griswold v. Connecticut, which ensured that married women could have access to birth control methods and information, and the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale.</p><br>
<p>The sculpture in the courthouses front was executed by J. Massey Rhind. The figures in Rhinds tympanum are Justice, Victory, Precedence, Accuracy, Common Law, Statutory Law, Progress and Commerce. Unobtrusive netting is installed across the tympanum to prevent hawks from nesting there, as the birds have done in the past.</p><br>
<p>The Lighthouse Point Carousel is located in the East Shore section of New Haven, Connecticut in Lighthouse Point Park. The carousel was built about 1905, and is one of a shrinking number of early 20th-century carousels left in the state, featuring the carvings of Charles Looff and Charles Carmel. The carousel and its 1916 building were together listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lighthouse Point Carousel is located in New Haven&#39;s Lighthouse Point Park, near the southeastern top of the city on Long Island Sound. It is located in a rectangular building, about 200 ft inland from the Five Mile Point Light which gives the park its name. The building is about 150 x in size, with a high-ceilinged square section housing the carousel, and a lower-roofed extension that houses concessions. The building has Renaissance Revival styling, with tall window bays articulated by pilasters, and round-arch window bays surrounding the carousel section. The roof above the carousel is topped by a monitor with clerestory windows.</p><br>
<p>The carousel itself is a platform style device, about 60 ft in diameter. It includes 70 figures and two chariots, some of the figures mounted on fixed metal columns, and some on columns that rise and fall with the carousel&#39;s motion. The figures appear to have originated from different sources, including figures carved in a diversity of styles. Some of them have been attributed to Charles Carmel of Brooklyn and others to Charles Looff. A figure of George Washington can be seen directing the carousel with a baton. The mechanism that drives the carousel is located at the center, with a decorative fiberglass surround.</p><br>
<p>The carousel was constructed about 1905 by Timothy Murphy. Murphy is known to have "reworked" materials from other carousels, and is believed to have hired Carmel to make some alterations to the figures here. The present building was erected in 1916 by Thomas Shanley, the proprietor who developed Lighthouse Point Park as a trolley park. The park was purchased by the city in 1925, which reduced the number of attractions, but continued to operate the carousel for many years. All of the other park buildings were demolished in 1957, but the carousel was retained, its figures placed in storage. It has since been restored to operation.</p><br>
<p>The Charter Oak Firehouse is a historic former fire station at 105 Hanover Street in Meriden, Connecticut. Built in 1876, it was the first firehouse built in Meriden, and is the oldest surviving municipal building in the city. The firehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1994. It has been converted into a private tattoo studio</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Charter Oak Firehouse is located in downtown Meriden, at the northwest corner of Hanover and Butler Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built with load-bearing brick walls featuring Romanesque styling, and it is covered by a gabled roof. Its most prominent feature is a square tower, set at near the left front, which is four stories in height. It was originally covered by an open wood-frame belfry, but is now covered by a flat roof. It has rounded-arch window openings near the top. A single equipment bay faces Butler Street, with glazed double-leaf wooden doors set in a segmented-arch opening. A pedestrian entrance is located between it and the tower. Additions extend the building to the west and south.</p><br>
<p>The firehouse was built in 1876, and originally housed a pumper that was pulled by manpower. It was built by James Kane, a local bricklayer noted for the speed at which he worked. When the city acquired a horse-drawn steam pumper in the 1890s, the building was extended to the rear to house not only the new machine, but stabling for the horses. The building remained in use as a fire station until 1979, and was then adapted to house a state motor vehicle office. In 1992 it was converted to commercial office space.</p><br>
<p>Forestville station is a former train station located off 171 Central Street in the Forestville village of Bristol, Connecticut. It was built in 1881 by the New York and New England Railroad, and was a key element of the prosperity of the village, benefiting from many daily passenger rail stops. Service to the area ended in 1960. The station, now repurposed to other uses, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1978 as Forestville Passenger Station.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Forestville station is located in the heart of Forestville village, on the west side of Central Street, between the former railroad right-of-way it served and the Pequabuck River. It is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a bracketed cornice and a hipped roof topped by a louvered cupola with finial. A platform shelter extends east from the station, supported by square posts with angle brackets. The building originally had a two-story tower, which was lost to fire in 1900. Its footprint is now occupied by a slightly projecting section that historically acted as a vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1881 by the New York and New England Railroad on a railroad line originally owned by the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad. Local lore says that the building was prefabricated and delivered to the site by the railroad. If this method was used, it was the only instance in which the railroad employed this construction method. The station was served at the outset by 13 trains per day, greatly enhancing the village&#39;s economic prosperity. Service to the station was discontinued in 1960.</p><br>
<p>Simsbury station is a former railroad station in the center of Simsbury, Connecticut. Built in 1875, it is a distinctive example of a railroad station with Italianate styling. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1976 as Simsbury Railroad Depot. Presently, it houses a restaurant, called "Plan B".</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Simsbury Railroad Depot stands on the east side of Simsbury&#39;s downtown area, on the east side of Railroad Street between Station Street and Phelps Lane. It is a narrow rectangular single-story brick building, oriented north-south, with the road to the west and the former railroad right-of-way to the east. The street-facing facade is divided into six bays, each slightly recessed with a band of brick corbelling at the top, and brick pilasters between. As built, there were three window bays, two pedestrian entrances, and a freight door in these bays; they have since been altered for use by the restaurant.</p><br>
<p>Simsbury was first served by the Farmington Canal in 1826. The canal failed in 1846, and its route was overbuilt by the New Haven and Northampton Railroad in 1850. This line provided service between New Haven and points further north on the Connecticut River. A second line was run through the town in 1871, connecting Hartford with Albany, New York. A station is documented as standing on this site in 1873, but the records of the Connecticut Western Railway indicate the present building was constructed in 1875. The styling is particularly unusual for the period, as most stations built at the time were wood frame structures that had more Gothic Revival elements.</p><br>
<p>The Tunxis Hose Firehouse is an historic firehouse at Lovely Street and Farmington Avenue in the center of Unionville, Connecticut. BUilt in 1893, it is a well-preserved example of a late 19th-century rural firehouse with Queen Anne Victorian features. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1983. It presently houses a muster vehicle for Tunxis Hose Company No. 1, a local volunteer fire company.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tunxis Hose Firehouse is located in the center of the Unionville village of Farmington, on the east side of Lovely Street north of its junction with Main Street and Farmington Avenue. It is a two-story brick building with Queen Anne features. It has a single garage bay, a cross-gable roof with decorative corbelled brickwork below the roofline, and a three-story tower with a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The Tunxis Hose Company was founded in 1893, in response to fires at major local employers in 1890 and 1892 that threatened the communitys economic vitality. Land for its firehouse was purchased that year, and this building was completed soon afterward. Its architect is unknown; the brickwork was laid by Joseph Jetner, a local mason. The building and the hand-drawn hose reel that first occupied it cost the company $4,000. In addition being used by the fire company, the building has also historically been used for social events. It served as the communitys only firehouse until 1960, when a new station was built nearby. The company continues to use the building for storage and as a staging area.</p><br>
<p>State Street Block  is a granite building near the waterfront in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. Architect Gridley James Fox Bryant designed it. In the 1850s "the Long and Central Wharf Corporation... sold each bay to individual owners, requiring that the granite to be used for the sidewalk & facade of each bay must be purchased from the Corporation & erected according to the architects plan.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>Walt Whitman visited Boston in 1860, and wrote about what he saw: "Noblest of all State Street Block, east of the Custom House, rough granite. The above probably one of the finest pieces of com architecture in the world." Another visitor travelling through Boston (in 1859) called it "a magnificent block."</p><br>
<p>In the mid-20th century, "nearly three-quarters of the original 22-bay building... was amputated for construction of the Central Artery... and the roofline of the remainder has been destroyed." The surviving portion of the block was added as part of the Custom House District to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The South Green Fire Station, also known as the Engine Company 1 Fire Station, is at 197 Main St. in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1927, it is an architecturally distinctive example of Classical and Collegiate Gothic Revival architecture, designed by a prominent local firm. The station, as well as the former fire equipment maintenance house behind it at 36 John Street, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The station presently houses Engine Company 1 and Ladder Company 6 of the Hartford Fire Department.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Green Fire Station is located in downtown Hartford, on the west side of Main Street, between Charter Oak Avenue and Park Streets. It occupies the eastern half of a lot that extends west to John Street. The station is a two-story masonry structure, built out of brick with limestone trim. Its front facade is three bays wide, with equipment bays in the two right bays, and a pedestrian entrance to the left. The equipment bays have pointed-arch openings, squared off by limestone trim with carved depictions of firefighting equipment. Above each of these bays is a band of three sash windows, each of which has a tone panel with a diamond shape at its center. The left bay has an oriel window above it. The station was the second to be built for Engine Company 1, established in 1864 when the city created a paid professional fire service. The company&#39;s first building also occupied this site: an Italianate structure, it was replaced to better meet the requirements of motorized fire equipment.</p><br>
<p>The former maintenance building is a rectangular brick building with modest Classical Revival features. It was built in 1920 and originally housed specialized equipment for servicing fire engines. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Engine Company 15 Fire Station is located at 8 Fairfield Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. It was built in 1909, and is one of two surviving firehouses in the city which was built to stable horses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989. It presently houses Engine Company 15 and Ladder Company 2 of the Hartford Fire Department.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Engine Company 15 Fire Station is located in southwestern Hartford, at junction of Fairfield and New Britain Avenues. It is a two-story brick building with Colonial Revival features. It is roughly rectangular in shape, three bays wide, with the leftmost pedestrian entrance bay recessed. The right two bays house equipment, and have rectangular garage door openings. Windows on the second floor are in groups of three, with splayed lintels that have stone keystones. Stone stringcourses run at the top of the first-floor windows and at the bottom of the second-floor windows. A stone panel above the equipment bays is carved with the company identification. The upstairs rooms feature original woodwork, including door and window trim. Wooden doors conceal the slide pole, and the rear of the story contains exposed elements of what originally served as a hay loft. Behind the equipment bays on the ground floor is a kitchen space that is built into what were originally horse stalls. The basement includes an area formerly used for hose drying.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company 15 was organized in 1909, and this was its first station. It was designed by the Hartford firm of Zunner and Sellew. It has lost a number of its exterior architectural features, particularly around the equipment bay openings, which have been enlarged, and the roof, which used to have a more elaborate cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Engine Company 16 Fire Station, also known as the Blue Hills Fire Station, is located at 636 Blue Hills Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1928, it is one of the city&#39;s most architecturally distinctive fire stations, a Tudor Revival structure designed by the local firm of Ebbets & Frid. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989. It continues to serve its original function, housing Engine Company 16 of the Hartford Fire Department.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Engine Company 16 is located on the east side of Blue Hills Avenue in Hartford&#39;s northern Blue Hills neighborhood, opposite its junction with Harold Street. It is a two-story structure, with a steel frame faced in brick with stone trim, with Tudor Revival styling. It is covered by a hip roof, with chimneys at either end. It has two equipment bays at the center, flanked by pedestrian entrances, and nearly symmetrical projecting side wings. The left side wing has two sash windows, while that on the right has three. The interior is simply decorated, with a tiled apparatus room on the first floor and a dormitory above, with two brass poles.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company 16 was organized by the city in 1928, the year this building was constructed. It was designed by the Hartford firm of Ebbets and Frid. It is remarkable among the city&#39;s fire stations for its rich exterior detailing, and its Tudor Revival styling, which is not found on other stations. The area around the station was at the time of its construction a somewhat sparsely built residential area, that has since been developed more densely.</p><br>
<p>The Engine Company 2 Fire Station is a firehouse at the corner of Main and Belden streets in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. It is a brick structure built in the early 20th century, the second firehouse built for the company. Architect Russell Barker, who designed many public buildings in the city, used the Italian Renaissance Revival style, unusual for a firehouse. The front facade boasts intricate brickwork. It is one of two remaining firehouses in the city originally designed to accommodate both men and horses. In 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places along with several other city firehouses. It continues to serve its original function, housing Engine Company 2 of the Hartford Fire Department.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The firehouse is in the Clay–Arsenal neighborhood north of downtown Hartford. It is on the southwest corner of the intersection, a block north of the five-way intersection of Main, Ann and High streets with Albany Avenue and the railroad tracks beneath Tunnel Park. The Interstate 84/USA Route 6 freeway one block further south divides Clay–Arsenal and downtown.</p><br>
<p>This section of Clay-Arsenal is a transition from downtown to outer residential neighborhoods. Main has a concrete divider here, creating separate roadways on both sides of the intersection. The firehouse&#39;s neighboring buildings are commercial structures of similar height on Main, and houses on Belden. Across Main is a newer housing development.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building is a two-story seven-by-five-bay structure on a foundation of brownstone on the east (front) elevation and concrete on the other three. Load-bearing walls of wood frame and masonry rest on it. Five-bay pavilions project from the east and west, with the latter having an additional three-bay pavilion projecting further. The two combine to make the building cross-shaped.</p><br>
<p>On all sides the masonry is faced in brick. It is beige on the east (front) facade. At the corners projecting courses are laid to resemble quoins.</p><br>
<p>Along the ground level of the pavilion at the first story are three large garages with metal overhead doors. A smooth concrete apron runs down to the street. Above the garages, on an entablature of brick laid in stretcher bond, are metal letters spelling out "CLAY-ARSENAL STATION ENGINE CO. 2 LADDER CO. 3". It in turn is topped by a course of four bricks laid vertically, all but the third from the bottom headers, with separate stone blocks carved with letters. From south to north they "HFD", "FIRE" and "DEPT."</p><br>
<p>They set off a second story with a smooth stone face set with five round-arched windows. On either side of the central window are stone panels. The south one has a "2" and the north one "1910". The windows are set with double-hung sash.</p><br>
<p>At the springline of the arches another brick course sets off the stone, with the brick above it laid in a basketweave pattern. The arches themselves are segmental, consisting of four vertically laid headers. Above them another projecting stretcher course ends the basketweave, topped by vertical stretchers, two rows of projecting stretchers, two rows of stretchers and finally a top row of projecting stretchers below a stone cornice. The otherwise flat roof has a hipped section in the front of the main block behind the pavilion.</p><br>
<p>The other three facades are faced in red brick and fenestrated with nine-over-one double-hung sash trimmed with brownstone lintels. There are two bay windows on the north and south faces, toward the west corners. Around the base of the hipped roof is a cornice of corbeled brickwork.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>On the inside much original trim remains. The apparatus room has narrow wainscoting, part of which is now concealed by a dropped ceiling. Semicircular openings in the walls house the sliding poles. In the rear a row of large doors once served as the stables, with another set on the south opening into the former harness room.</p><br>
<p>Two rooms behind the stables also once served horse-related functions. One retains the iron hitching posts and wood flooring. The other has been converted into a kitchen, with those features removed.</p><br>
<p>Most of the original woodwork remains on the second floor, particularly window and door surrounds. Double wooden doors set off the upper ends of the poles. A dropped ceiling has been added to the front dormitory. Over the stables is a largely unfinished room that once served as the hayloft.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Engine Company 2 was established in 1864 when the city of Hartford decided to combine its existing volunteer fire companies into a single paid citywide department. It had originally been the Neptune company, based near the present location at 1161 Main Street. That firehouse was used for the remainder of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1910, the city decided to build a new firehouse for the company. Architect Russell Barker, who had begun as a draftsman in another local architect&#39;s office and had had no formal training otherwise, received the commission. It was the first of a group of buildings he designed in the Hartford area, including five schools, through 1930. His design used the Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style, not commonly used for firehouses. Originally a projecting cornice with a pent tile roof supported by brackets ran the length of the east facade. It is not known when, or why, that was removed.</p><br>
<p>It was meant to accommodate both men and horses, reflecting a distinct era in the fire department&#39;s history when it had its own horses but had not yet begun to motorize. It and the Engine Company 4 building on Ann Street, which housed the last two department horses until 1920, are the only two left in Hartford with that design feature.</p><br>
<p>The Engine Company 6 Fire Station is a former Hartford Fire Department firehouse located at 34 Huyshope Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1937, it is a well-preserved example of a Moderne style fire station, and served as such until 1984. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989. It now houses a homeless shelter.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Engine Company 6 station is located in Hartford&#39;s southeastern Sheldon-Charter Oak neighborhood, on the east side of Huyshope Street at its junction with Nepaquash Street. It is a two-story Moderne style brick and brownstone structure, with a foundation of brownstone and concrete, and a flat roof. It is three bays wide, with two equipment bays on the right. The left bay has a pedestrian entrance and windows, set in a slightly smaller opening. The second floor bays have bands of three sash windows. The interior retains some original fixtures and finishes, but the sliding pole has been removed. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company 6 was organized in 1873, and was originally known as the Colt Fire Company, for its proximity to the Colt Armory. The companys first station, an Italianate brick building, was damaged by flooding in 1936 and demolished. This building was constructed as its replacement, and was designed by the citys architectural bureau. It is similar in appearance to the city&#39;s Engine Company 5 station, albeit with simpler styling. Engine Company 6 was disbanded in 1984 to form HFD Tactical Unit 1, and the building was repurposed as a homeless shelter.</p><br>
<p>The Engine Company 9 Fire Station is located at 655 New Britain Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1929, it is a distinctive application of the Tudor Revival to firehouse design, and it was one of the city&#39;s first "suburban" fire stations, set in an originally less-developed outlying area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1989. It continues to serve its original function, housing Engine Company 9 of the Hartford Fire Department.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Engine Company 9 Fire Station is located in southwestern Hartford, on the south side of New Britain Avenue at its junction with Forster Street. It is a two-story brick building, with a brownstone foundation and trim. It is covered by a hip roof, and has a circular turret with conical roof near the rear of its right side. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a pair of equipment bays at the center. Although there are symmetrically placed pedestrian entrances flanking those bays, that on the left is under the main roof mass, while that on the right is under a section where the roof line descends to the first floor. The upper level has four sash windows, and is finished in brick laid in a basket weave pattern, sections separated by half-timbering in the Tudor Revival style. The interior is relatively simple and unaltered.</p><br>
<p>Engine Company 9 was organized by the city in 1900, and this is its second station. It was designed by the Hartford firm of Ebbets and Frid, and built in 1929; its style is similar to that of the Engine Company 16 Fire Station, built about the same time. Set in a residential neighborhood south of downtown, it was designed to blend in with the houses surrounding it. Engine 9 was one of the city&#39;s first "suburban" stations, set outside its urban core.</p><br>
<p>The New Haven Jewish Home for the Aged is a historic nursing home at 169 Davenport Avenue in the Hill neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Completed in 1923 and repeatedly enlarged thereafter, it was the second organization in the state to provide housing and medical care to the local elderly and indigent Jewish population. The building, still in use as a nursing home, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Haven Jewish Home for the Aged is located a few blocks west of the Yale–New Haven Hospital on the city&#39;s west side, bounded on two sides by Asylum Street, and Davenport Avenue. It is a large four-story masonry structure, built out of brick, steel, and concrete, with the oldest portion at the northeast corner of Davenport and Asylum. That portion has fine Beaux Arts styling, with the entrance projecting slightly at the center of a five bay facade. Modern wings extend to the rear and right of the original block.</p><br>
<p>The New Haven Jewish Home was organized in 1914, the second such charity to be founded in the state, after a similar one in Hartford. It was founded by the Sisters of Zion, a local women&#39;s group, and operated out of a residence at the present address. It grew rapidly, serving the Jewish population of southern Connecticut and all the way to New York City. The oldest portion of the present building was built in 1921-23, to a design by local architects Brown & von Beren. It was enlarged in 1950 and again in the mid-1970s, even after calls were made to move out of what had become a significantly crime-ridden neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Caroline Nicoll House is a historic house at 27 Elm Street in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Built in 1828, it is a rare surviving example of an urban townhouse from that period, and a well-preserved example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Caroline Nicoll House is located in downtown New Haven, on the north side of Elm Street 1-1/2 blocks east of the New Haven Green. It is a -story brick structure, five bays wide, with stepped gable ends that include paired chimneys. The main entrance is sheltered by a portico supported by paired Egyptian-style columns. A two-story brick ell extends to the rear, further extended by a single-story addition. The interior retains many original features, including fireplace surrounds and trim, despite numerous alterations to adapt it for commercial use.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1828, and is a well-preserved local example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival architecture. It was built by Abraham Bishop as a gift for his daughter Caroline, on the occasion of her marriage to Charles Nicoll. Bishop was a prominent local statesman, and Nicoll a businessman. It remained in the Nicoll family until 1894. At which time it was purchased by a doctor, who added one of the ells to serve as his practice office. By the 1930s the building had been completely converted to use as professional offices. The house is also notable for surviving in an area that has seen significant changes due to urban renewal practices.</p><br>
<p>The William Pinto House, also known as William Pinto-Eli Whitney House, is a historic house at 275 Orange Street in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a Federal-style building of post-and-beam construction, and was built in 1810 for John Cook, a merchant. It is rare and unusual for its design, which places the gable end facing the street, rather than to the side as was more typical in the Federal period. It is historically notable for its second owner, William Pinto, a member of one of New Haven&#39;s leading Jewish families, and for its third occupant, Eli Whitney, who leased the house from Pinto in the later years of his life. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Pinto House is located a short way east of the New Haven Green in central New Haven, on the east side of Orange Street between Elm and Wall Streets. It is a -story wood rame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its street-facing facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay. Sash windows occupy the other bays, and are topped by corniced lintels. There is a small Palladian window in the gable end above. The entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a half-round transom, and is sheltered by a gabled hood with elongated carved brackets. The interior retains main finishes including fireplace surrounds and trim.</p><br>
<p>When this house was built in 1810, Orange Street was a fashionable upper-class residential area; it has since been transformed into a largely commercial district of the city&#39;s downtown. It was built for John Cook, a prominent local merchant, who sold it in 1812 to William Pinto, a member of one of the first Jewish families to settled in New Haven. Pinto served in the state militia during the American Revolutionary War, and was one of its most successful West Indies merchants. Pinto rented the house to inventor Eli Whitney in 1819, which he occupied until his death in 1825. Architecturally, the house is a rare surviving example of a Federal style house with a front-facing gable.</p><br>
<p>Raynham, also known as the Kneeland Townsend House, is a historic residential property at 709 Townsend Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of Connecticut&#39;s best-preserved Gothic Revival estates, having remained in the Townshend family for seven generations, and has a history dating back to the founding of the New Haven Colony in the 1630s. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Raynham is located in eastern New Havens East Shore neighborhood, on the east side of Townsend Avenue opposite its junction with Raynham Avenue. Its 15 acre includes picturesque grounds. The main house was built in 1804 with Federal styling, but was extensively altered in the 1850s, giving it its Gothic Revival treatment. The estate includes a carriage house, caretakers house, a variety of agricultural outbuildings, and three structures, including a gazebo, added in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Land for the estate was first given to members of the Tuttle family in 1640 by the leaders of the New Haven Colony. It was sold to Isaac and Kneeland Townsend, prominent local merchants, in 1797. Kneeland Townsend built the core of the main house in 1804, and several of the outbuildings date to his ownership as well. The estate was given a significant makeover in the 1850s, applying the design principals and some design patterns of Calvert Vaux, a major proponent of Carpenter Gothic architecture. The surviving parcels of the estate constitute New Haven&#39;s largest single residential landholding.</p><br>
<p>The Quinnipiac Brewery, also known as Brewery Square, is a complex of brick buildings at 19-23 River Street in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Developed beginning in 1892 and operative until the 1930s, the complex is a rare example of a late 19th-century large-scale  brewery. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Most of the complex is now residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Quinnipiac Brewery complex is located in a primarily residential area in southeastern Fair Haven, on about 2.5 acre bounded by Front Street, Ferry Street, and the Quinnipiac River. Its dominant feature is the six-story Romanesque main brewery building, built in 1882 and given its present facade in 1896. The other major buildings are an office building, also dating to the 1880s, and the bottling plant, built in 1916. The brewery plan is representative of the transition of beer production from smaller local breweries to those producing it on a more industrial scale. It had larger above-ground facilities, made possible by advances in refrigeration, and its bottling plant, a recent innovation, was located across a public way (East Pearl Street) to satisfy tax authorities.</p><br>
<p>The Quinnipiac Brewery was founded in 1882 by two German-Americans, Peter Schleipmann and William Spittler, during the height of development of breweries producing lager beers. The business was economically successful, undergoing several expansions through the mid-1910s, but was shut down with the advent of Prohibition in 1919. During Prohibition, the plant was sold to another business which produced cereal beverages. After Prohibition ended, the plant was acquired by the New Haven Brewing Company, which produced beer for about ten years. The plant stood either vacant or as a warehouse until the late 1970s. It has since been adaptively repurposed to house residences.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 111-113 Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1905 for a congregation founded in 1844, it is a good example of late Gothic Revival architecture, and is further notable as the second church in the city established as an African-American congregation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Lukes Episcopal Church is located northwest of the New Haven Green, at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Sperry Street in the citys Dixwell neighborhood. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of red bricks with Indiana sandstone trim. It is L-shaped in plan, with the main sanctuary oriented with its long axis perpendicular to Whalley Avenue, covered by a gabled roof. The sides are buttressed, as is the tower that projects at the center of the front facade. A hyphen connects the sanctuary to a 20th-century addition fronting Sperry Avenue to the rear right side. The main entrance is at the center of the tower, set in a round-arch opening, above which is a small ornately surrounded stained glass window.</p><br>
<p>The congregation of St. Lukes has its origin in one established in 1844, when the African-American membership of the citys Trinity Church on the Green separated to organize it. At first they met in a chapel owned by Trinity, and then they purchased the building of an African-American Baptist congregation in 1852. They began a building drive in 1894 to raise funds for construction of this building, which was completed in 1905. It was designed by the local firm of Brown & von Beren, who did extensive work in the city in the early decades of the 20th century; it is one of a small number of churches designed by that firm.</p><br>
