<p>The Strouse, Adler Company Corset Factory is a historic factory complex at 78-84 Olive Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Developed between 1876 and 1923, it was the largest and oldest of the city&#39;s several corset manufacturers, and remained in continuous operation for that purpose until 1998. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It has since been converted into residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Strouse, Adler factory is located east of downtown New Haven, at the corner of Olive and Court Streets in the city&#39;s industrial Wooster Square district. The factory consists of a large number of interconnected brick buildings, ranging in height from one to four stories. The oldest buildings in the complex have Italianate styling typical of mill construction of the 1860s and 1870s, while expansions in the early 20th century exhibit more neo-Classical styling. The overall form is one of a rectangle with several outward projections at the corners, and a central courtyard that has partial infill construction.</p><br>
<p>The business that became Strouse, Adler was founded in 1861 as J.H. Smith and Company, and was the nations first manufacturer of corsets. The business was purchased the following year by Isaac Strouse, who took on Max Adler, a local dry goods retailer, as a partner. The company adopted the name Strouse, Adler in 1899 and was incorporated in 1927. The company experienced rapid growth in its early years, moving several times before moving into the older portions of this complex in 1876. It had previously been occupied by the Winchester Shirt Company. The company was in the vanguard of the rise in the popularity of corsets, as well as the rise of New Haven as nations largest producer of the garment by the 1890s. The company remained financially successful through most of the 20th century, despite a decline in popularity of corsets, by introducing lighter-weight fabrics and materials, and manufacturing other types of foundation garments. It was acquired in 1998 by Sara Lee, and this plant was shuttered.</p><br>
<p>The DeRidder Commercial Historic District is a historic district in DeRidder, Louisiana. It covers an 8 acre area roughly bounded by Washington Street, West 2nd Street, Stewart Street, and West Port Street and comprises three blocks of commercial and commerce related buildings dating from 1900 to 1933. Earliest buildings  are mainly one story brick structures, while later ones are one to two stories tall.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The nearby Beauregard Parish Courthouse and Beauregard Parish Jail were not included in the historic district as not directly related to the commercial history of the town.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The DeRidder Commercial Historic District has been the trading center of the parish since about 1905. From 1918 to 1920 several buildings, including the First National Bank, were built. When the lumber boom ended in 1925, the commercial district was enough developed to survive and avoided DeRidder to become a ghost town. The fact the district was mainly composed by brick buildings helped it remain quite intact, despite numerous fires happened over the years.</p><br>
<h3>Contributing Properties</h3><br>
<p>The historical district contains a total of 27 contributing properties, built between c. 1905 and 1930:</p><br>
<p>Mullers, 121 South Washington Street, 30.84587&deg; latitude, -93.28659&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>Hicks Clothing Store, 119 South Washington Street, 30.84599&deg; latitude, -93.28659&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>Building at 115 South Washington Street, 30.84619&deg; latitude, -93.28648&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>House of Fashion/Crafts and Gem, 105-107 South Washington Street, 30.84638&deg; latitude, -93.2865&deg; longitude, built c. 1930</p><br>
<p>Old City Savings Bank, 101-103 South Washington Street, 30.84652&deg; latitude, -93.28649&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>DeRidder School of Beauty Culture, 109 West 1st Street, 30.84653&deg; latitude, -93.28671&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>Irvine&#39;s Drug Store, 111 West 1st Street, 30.84654&deg; latitude, -93.28679&deg; longitude, built c. 1915</p><br>
<p>Delia&#39;s Coin Shop, now Serenity Park, 117 West 1st Street, 30.84652&deg; latitude, -93.28702&deg; longitude, built c. 1915. Building partly demolished between March and April 2008. Area converted to a park. A plaque mentioning Coin Shop is standing near the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Dilk&#39;s Furniture, 119 West 1st Street, 30.84649&deg; latitude, -93.28713&deg; longitude, built c. 1915. Building demolished some time between June 2014 and October 2015. Pillars and part of exterior walls still standing.</p><br>
<p>Harper&#39;s, 105 North Washington Street, 30.84691&deg; latitude, -93.28644&deg; longitude, built c. 1925</p><br>
<p>Bradley&#39;s, 109 North Washington Street, 30.84697&deg; latitude, -93.28644&deg; longitude, built c. 1925</p><br>
<p>Daniel&#39;s Jewelers, now hosting Greater Beauregard Chamber of Commerce, 111 North Washington Street, 30.84704&deg; latitude, -93.28643&deg; longitude, built c. 1925</p><br>
<p>Old Lumberman&#39;s Bank, 117 North Washington Street, 30.8472&deg; latitude, -93.2864&deg; longitude, built 1913</p><br>
<p>Pedal and Splash, 125 North Washington Street, 30.84744&deg; latitude, -93.28639&deg; longitude, built c.1905</p><br>
<p>First National Bank, 131 North Washington Street, 30.84778&deg; latitude, -93.28636&deg; longitude, built 1920</p><br>
<p>Warehouse #1, 110 Block North Stewart Street, 30.84731&deg; latitude, -93.2871&deg; longitude, built c.1925</p><br>
<p>Warehouse #2, 110 Block North Stewart Street, 30.84698&deg; latitude, -93.2871&deg; longitude, built c.1915</p><br>
<p>Ridder Vacuum Cleaners and Sewing, 120 West 1st Street, 30.84679&deg; latitude, -93.2871&deg; longitude, built c.1915</p><br>
<p>E. Hartt Electrical Appliances/Smitty&#39;s Barber Shop, 118 West 1st Street, 30.84679&deg; latitude, -93.28697&deg; longitude, built c. 1905</p><br>
<p>Castle Mall, 201 North Washington Street, 30.84804&deg; latitude, -93.28633&deg; longitude, built c.1905. Building no more in existence.</p><br>
<p>Rogers Auto Parts, 215 North Washington Street, 30.84841&deg; latitude, -93.2863&deg; longitude, built c.1905.</p><br>
<p>Building at 217 North Washington Street, 30.84847&deg; latitude, -93.28629&deg; longitude, built c.1905</p><br>
<p>Reichley&#39;s Bakery, 219 North Washington Street, 30.84854&deg; latitude, -93.28629&deg; longitude, built c.1905.</p><br>
<p>Beauregard News/Reliance Press, 122 Shirley Street, 30.84805&deg; latitude, -93.28696&deg; longitude, built c.1915. Building no more in existence.</p><br>
<p>Cleaners, 120 Block Shirley Street, 30.84804&deg; latitude, -93.2868&deg; longitude, built c.1925. Building no more in existence.</p><br>
<p>Building at 100 Block Shirley Street, 30.84806&deg; latitude, -93.28667&deg; longitude, built c.1915. Building no more in existence.</p><br>
<p>The Railroad Depot, now Beauregard Museum, 120 South Washington Street, 30.84582&deg; latitude, -93.28606&deg; longitude, built 1926.</p><br>
<p>Fort William Henry is located in the village of New Harbor in the town of Bristol, Maine. The fort was, in its time, the largest in New England. The fort was originally built in 1692 but destroyed four years later by New France in the Siege of Pemaquid . A reconstruction was built in 1908. The fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1969. Fort William Henry is now operated as a museum about the fort&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>Fort William Henry is part of the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, which also includes the archaeological excavations of 17th and 18th century village buildings and a museum with excavated artifacts found on the site, including musket balls, coins, pottery and early hardware.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first fort on this site was Abraham Shurtes Fort (1630–1633), a palisaded trading post that was burned down by pirates under Dixie Bull. The next fort on the site was Fort Pemaquid (1633–1676), which was destroyed in the Northwest Coast Campaign (1676) during King Philips War.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Charles</h2><br>
<p>After the Northeast Coast Campaign (1677) during King Philips War, another fort was established with the Treaty of Casco (1678), this third fort was named Fort Charles (1677–1689). Captain Anthony Brockholst (Brockholes) was left in command of Pemaquid in March 1689. Fort Charles was captured early in King William&#39;s War. The Penobscot attacked John Gyles and his family near the fort and took him captive before burning the fort in August 1689. Gyles published his experience years later and described the destruction of the fort:</p><br>
<p>The English regained their authority over the region by building Fort William Henry.</p><br>
<h2>Fort William Henry</h2><br>
<p>The English built Fort William Henry in 1692 during King Williams War to defend New Englands northern boundary against the French and Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia. (Present-day Castine, Maine was an Acadian settlement, which marked the effective southern boundary of Acadia.) The Massachusetts government used one third of its budget to build the fort.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the fort was ordered by Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips and cost £20,000 to build. The English colonial militia leader Benjamin Church assisted in the construction. The fort was built with walls that were 10 to 22 feet in height and a stone bastion which was 29 feet in height. The fort was armed with 20 cannon and a garrison of 60 soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The fort was attacked by a combined force of French and Native Americans in the Siege of Pemaquid (1696). The English were forced to surrender the fort and abandon the Pemaquid area. Benjamin Church avenged the destruction of the fort with the Raid on Chignecto (1696) against Acadia.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Frederick</h2><br>
<p>After Father Rales War, Colonel David Dunbar, Surveyor-General of the Kings Woods, rebuilt the fort in 1729–1730, renaming it Fort Frederick.</p><br>
<p>During King George&#39;s War, Fort Frederick was attacked during the Northeast Coast Campaign (1745) by bands of Penobscot and Norridgewock. They took captive a woman, which alarmed the garrison but she escaped. The fort withstood two attacks in 1747.</p><br>
<p>During the French and Indian War, the fort was decommissioned in 1759 after a new Fort Frederick was built on the Saint John River the previous year.</p><br>
<p>In 1775, the town dismantled the fort to prevent it from becoming a British stronghold during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>During the War of 1812, the waters off Pemaquid Point saw the capture of HMS Boxer by the USS Enterprise on September 5, 1813. The fort was occupied by the British twice during the war.</p><br>
<p>The state acquired the site in 1902, and in 1908 rebuilt the tower of Fort William Henry under guidance of historian John Henry Cartland, using many original stones. In 1969, the fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The entire state historic site (including the fort and other surrounding colonial archaeological remains) was designated the "Pemaquid Archeological Site" National Historic Landmark District in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic commercial center of Damariscotta, Maine. Although the community was settled in the 18th century, most of its downtown area dates to the second half of the 19th century due to an 1845 fire. Lining Main Street east of the Damariscotta River, the downtown has a well-preserved collection of commercial, residential, and civic structures from the period. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and enlarged in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Damariscotta, located in the Mid Coast part of Maine, is located at the head of navigation of the Damariscotta River. This area has a colonial history dating to 1625, when land including the town was purchased from Native Americans by John Brown. The town was first settled in 1754, and was incorporated in 1847 from parts of Bristol and Nobleboro. The town was by then a significant shipbuilding center. Its downtown was largely destroyed by a fire in 1845, after which it was rebuilt in brick and wood. Many of its buildings date from this period or later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Damariscottas downtown is located on a neck of land that projects into the broad Damariscotta River, where Main Street (United States Route 1, the areas main thoroughfare has bypassed the downtown, and Main Street now is designated as United States Route 1B) crosses to the downtown area of Newcastle on the west side. Commercial buildings line the southern side of Main Street as far as Water Street, while the north side is lined by a combination of commercial and residential properties up to Church Street. Many of the residences on the western portion of the north side have been adapted for commercial use. These notably include two particularly fine houses, the Matthew Cottrill House and the Stephen Coffin House, were built by leading shipbuilders and merchants in the early 19th century and survived the 1845 fire. At the eastern end of the district is the 1754 Chapman-Hall House, one of the oldest in the town, and the 1840s Greek Revival Damariscotta Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>The John Hancock Warehouse is a historic warehouse at 136 Lindsay Street in York, Maine. Built in the 18th century, the small warehouse is notable for its association with Massachusetts politician John Hancock. It is the oldest known commercial structure in the state of Maine. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1969. It is now a museum property owned by Museums of Old York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hancock Warehouse is located south of Lindsay Road on the north bank of the York River, a short way east of the Sewall Bridge, which carries Seabury Road across the river. It is a rectangular -story wood-frame structure measuring about 26 x, and is about 40 ft tall. It has a gable roof and is finished in shingle siding. The interior is rough-hewn timber construction joined by mortise and tenon joints with wooden peg fasteners. Its second floor is accessible either via an inside stairway or an exterior ramp. There is a wheel (in working order) to facilitate the movement of goods between floors.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was built in the mid-18th century, and was by the late 1760s owned in part, along with the adjacent wharf and a store, by John Hancock as part of a large merchant empire that included warehouses up and down the Maine coast. Due to his partnership with Joseph Tucker, it is unclear if Hancock ever saw the property himself; he may have visited it in 1791 when he came to York to visit the former Loyalist and longtime friend Jonathan Sayward at his nearby house. When Hancock died, his heirs sold his interest to Tucker.</p><br>
<p>The York Cliffs Historic District is located on Agamenticus Avenue in York, Maine. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1984. It encompasses a collection of eight late Victorian summer mansions built as part of an exclusive development by the York Cliffs Company between 1890 and 1902, representing one of the finest such collections remaining on the coast of Maine. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The York Cliffs District extends along a portion of Agamenticus Avenue, located on a bluff overlooking the Gulf of Maine just north of the mouth of the Cape Neddick River. It includes six houses on the north side of the road, extending eastward from its western junction with Shore Road, and includes two on the south side, nearly opposite the last of the six houses. All of these houses are set on large, landscaped lots. Six of them are in the Shingle style, popular for resort buildings at the time of their construction, while one is in the more elaborate Queen Anne style. The eighth house, the first encountered at the Agamenticus and Shore, has as its oldest portion a Federal period house, built about 1800, which was enlarged with Colonial Revival additions in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The York Cliffs Development Company was founded to develop an exclusive resort community for the wealthy. In all, the company built thirteen summer houses, a golf course, and a large resort hotel, the Passaconway Inn, designed by local architect Edward Blaisdell. The hotel was torn down in the 1930s, and only eight of the company&#39;s houses have survived. At the time of their construction, these properties would have had unobstructed views of the sea, but have since been hemmed in by vegetation and infill development. These houses were furnished with the latest amenities, including water and sewer service.</p><br>
<p>The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is the public library of Kennebunkport, Maine. It is located at 18 Maine Street, in a handsome brick Federal style building that served as the USA Customhouse from 1815 until 1913. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Graves Library is located on the east side of Maine Street (Maine State Route 9) in the center of Kennebunkport. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and granite foundation. Its front facade, facing west, is five bays wide, with windows set in segmented-arch openings, and the entrance located asymmetrically in the second bay from the left, in a round-arch opening with a half-round transom. The interior of the building retains Federal period fixtures and trim.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected between 1813 and 1815 by the Kennebunk Bank of Arundel, which operated on its first floor. The second floor was taken up by the local customs offices, whose jurisdiction covered the ports of Kennebunkport, Kennebunk and Wells. The building was purchased by the federal government in 1832, at which time the entire building was occupied by the customs offices. It continued to serve in this capacity until 1913, when the customs district was merged into that of Portland.</p><br>
<p>The Kennebunkport Library Association was formed in 1916, and rented space in the building that same year. The building was bought from the government by Mr. and Mrs. Abbot Graves. They gave the property to the association in 1921, on condition it be named for their son, Louis T. Graves. The Library was expanded in 1950 and 1988. In 2017, 5,500 square feet was added to include a business center, book sale, kitchen, community room, and an elevator.</p><br>
<p>The Old Schoolhouse, also known as the York Corner Schoolhouse, is an historic one-room school building on the grounds of the Old York Historical Society at York and Lindsay Streets in York, Maine. Built in 1755, it is one of the oldest surviving schoolhouses in all of New England. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Schoolhouse is located on the west side of Lindsay Street a short way south of its junction with York Street (United States Route 1A), just outside the center of the village of York. It stands adjacent to the Jefferds Tavern and the visitor center of the Old York Historical Society, which stands at the street corner. The schoolhouse is a small wood frame structure with a gable roof covered in wooden shingles, with exterior walls clad in clapboards. The interior is quite plain, with wide hand-planed floorboards, a fireplace at one end, a small section of plastered wall, and a few small windows.</p><br>
<p>This schoolhouse was built in 1755 in the York Corner area to provide schooling for that areas children. The buildings window openings were originally covered in oiled paper, which would have provided a limited amount of daylight. (The interior is currently lit by electric lights added by the museum.) It was rescued from demolition by the museum, its previous use having been as a chicken coop.</p><br>
<p>Peachfield is a historic mansion located at 180 Burrs Road, north of Mount Holly, in the township of Westampton in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1725 by Henry Burr and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1973, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house is owned by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of New Jersey and is operated as a historic house museum that is open for special events and by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The Hopper–Van Horn House is located at 398 Ramapo Valley Road in the township of Mahwah in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1769 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. Prior to that, there is evidence of occupation by Native Americans.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>History of the Owners: 1700–1849</h3><br>
<p>On August 10, 1700, Blandina Bayard purchased a plot of land measuring 16 miles by 12 miles from local Hackensack Indians. At this time, Blandina believed the land to be in the Colony of New York. It was here that she established a stone cottage trading post, which made her one of the first women entrepreneurs in New Jersey. Upon her death in 1711, her will was probated and the land was granted to her daughter-in-law, Rachel Bayard. The Bayard Family joined into a company with the Laroe and Kiersted families who were familiar with the area. In 1725, the patents to the land was deemed invalid and the Kiersteds and the Laroes were tied up in negotiations until 1743. Upon the settlement, Kiersted sold his land to Hendrick Laroe, who purchased it for his son Jacobus Laroe. In 1750, Jacobus built the current structure known as the Laroe-Vanhorn House. In 1765, Jacobus sold the house and property to Isaac Bogert. Over the next few decades, the house and land would change hands a number of times.</p><br>
<p>1785: Jacon Bogert sells farm to Cornelius Haring.</p><br>
<p>1788: Cornelius Haring sold the land to Judge John Haring</p><br>
<p>1796: John Haring sold the property to Judge Henry Van Dalsem</p><br>
<p>1805: Judge Henry Van Dalsem sold the land to Roelif Verbryck</p><br>
<p>1806: Roelif Verbryck sold the land to Abraham Hopper.</p><br>
<p>1823: Abraham Hopper died (1820) and his widow sold the house to her son-in-law, John G. Hopper and his father, Garret W. Hopper</p><br>
<p>1841: Garrett I. Hopper purchased the land from his mother.</p><br>
<p>1849: Garrett I. Hopper sold the land to his Aunt Margaret and her husband, Abram Van Horn.</p><br>
<h2>Owners of the Laroe-Van Horn House 1700–Present</h2><br>
<p>Source:</p><br>
<h3>History of the Owners: 1849–Present</h3><br>
<p>In 1889, Havemeyer purchased the Laroe Van Horn House from William Van Horn. The house was to be used as part of his estate Mountainside Farm and it housed workers who worked on the estate. While Havemeyer lived in the house, he added a new roof. The In 1917, Havemeyer sold the house to Stephen Birch of Marapo Farms and used it to house the herdsmen who worked on the farm. The House became state property in 1972 and housed the President of Ramapo College, which was originally part of the Havemeyers Mountainside Farm. George Potter was the first and only President of Ramapo College to reside in the Laroe Van Horn house. In 1980, the Laroe Van Horn house housed students at Ramapo College for the Environmental Studies Program. In 1989 was purchased by Byrant and Joan Malcolm. A restrictive covenant was attached to the deed, the house had to be preserved and maintained in accordance with the recommended approaches Interiors Standards for Rehabilitations. Any changes to the house needed approved in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. In 2014, they sold the house to Anne-Lise Jacobsen.</p><br>
<h2>Grave Site</h2><br>
<p>Behind the Hopper–Van Horn House a family graveyard. In 2012 Ramapo College adjunct professor Jeff Williamson excavated another gravesite further back in the woods that he believed to contain the unmarked graves of slaves and freedmen that used to work the land.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>In June 1980, students of Ramapo College were involved in an archaeological dig on the site. They excavated about 13,000 artifacts which helped corroborate information about the house&#39;s history and inhabitants. They were able to find artifacts dating back to the early period of habitation, including when the area was a trading post. They were also able to find extensive evidence of the presence of a local tribe prior to European claiming of the site. The collection is currently housed at the.</p><br>
<p>The Van Allen House is located in Oakland, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built around 1740 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Van Allen House was built around 1740 as the home of farmer Hendrik Van Allen. During the Revolutionary War, it served as the headquarters for George Washington on July 14, 1777. At the time, he was moving his troops from Morristown, New Jersey to New York. In 1778 and 1779, Bergen County used the house as a court. Edward Day Page, dairy farmer, businessman, and Oakands second mayor, owned the house as well as the northern fourth of Oakland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was saved from demolition by the Oakland Historical society with aid from the Womans Club of Oakland. It is now maintained as a museum displaying colonial Dutch life. There were several branches of the family in the Paterson Passaic Bergen, New Jersey area.</p><br>
<p>The Reaction Motors Rocket Test Facility was located at 936 Dogwood Trail in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The facility was built in 1942 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, for its significance in engineering, industry, invention, and science. According to the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office online system, the site was razed between 2002 and 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Harold Hess Lustron House is a Westchester Deluxe plan Luston house located at 421 Durie Avenue in the borough of Closter in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Harold Hess, a World War II veteran, purchased it in 1950. Lustron houses were constructed using prefabricated porcelain enameled steel. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2000, for its significance in architecture and industry. It was listed as part of the Lustrons in New Jersey Multiple Property Submission , one of three originally built in the county. After threat of destruction the house was deeded to the town of Closter.</p><br>
<p>The Rorick House Museum, also known as the Malcolm A. Moody House, is a museum located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. The building was originally built in 1850 as a two-room residence for non-commissioned officers from Fort Dalles, this is the oldest remaining house in The Dalles. It was subsequently occupied by USA Representative Malcolm A. Moody, and has ultimately become a museum. The house is the current headquarters for the Wasco County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Trinkle Mansion is an historic building located in Wytheville, Virginia that is now a four-room bed and breakfast. It is a contributing property to the Wytheville Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Trinkle Mansion was built in 1912 by William Trinkle, the son of a prominent Wytheville family. William married a young woman by the name of Ethel and the young couple had two young children, a boy and a girl. William was a wealthy farm owner that oversaw 20,000 acre of land. The house was built in a Classical Revival style and had unprecedented technology for the time period like a steam heating system and a built-in central vacuum system. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register as part of the Wytheville Historic District, added to the national register in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>The Locale</h2><br>
<p>Wytheville is a small town located in western Virginia The town contains a number of historical sites like the Haller-Gibboney Rock House Museum, Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum, and Wolf Creek Indian Village & Museum. There are also a number of hiking and biking trails that surround the town.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Colton House is a historic house at 25 Sedgwick Road in West Hartford, Connecticut. Probably built about 1770, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benjamin Colton House is located in central West Hartford, south of the town center, on the south side of Sedgwick Road at its junction with Ridgebrook Drive. It is a -story wood-frame structure on a brownstone foundation, with five bays and a large central chimney. The main entrance and the windows are simply trimmed, and the second story hangs slightly over both the front and rear, a feature not found on the town&#39;s other 18th-century houses. Upper-level windows are set close to the eave.</p><br>
<p>The land on which this house stands originally belonged to Samuel Sedgwick, one of the areas first settlers. Benjamin Colton Jr. purchased the land where this house stands in 1770 from Benjamin Sedgwick, at which time an older structure stood on it. It is not known whether portions of the older structure survive in this one. Colton was the son of West Hartfords first pastor; his granddaughter married Dr. Edward Brace, who was for many years the town&#39;s only doctor.</p><br>
<p>The Gen. George Cowles House, also known as the Solomon Cowles House, is a historic house at 130 Main Street in Farmington, Connecticut. Built in 1803, it is a prominent local example of Federal style architecture in brick, built for a prominent local family. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The George Cowles House is located on the northwest side of Main Street (Connecticut Route 10) in geographically central Farmington, between Smith Drive and Pearl Street. It is a roughly square -story brick structure, four bays wide, with a side-gable roof and a rear two-story ell. The main entrance is slightly recessed in the load-bearing brick wall, and is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-elliptical transom window. The side elevation is notable for a pair of Palladian windows in the central bay, which are set higher than the flanking sash windows. The south elevation, facing the garden, has as particularly elaborate Jeffersonian portico.</p><br>
<p>The house was built 1803 for George Cowles, around the time of his marriage, by his father Solomon, a wealthy merchant. Both father and son were prominent in town affairs. The son did not have the business acumen of the father, and lost the house in foreclosure to a wealthy relative. Although a number of the building&#39;s owners subdivided its larger chambers to increase the number of bedrooms, these changes have generally been reversed.</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Trust Company building is a historic bank building and a branch of the Rockland Trust Company at 288 Union Street in Rockland, Massachusetts. The bank was founded in 1907, and was originally in offices across the street before commission this building in 1917. It is a two-story brick building designed by Boston architect Thomas M. James, a well-known specialist in bank design. A single-story addition was added in 1923, which was raised to two stories in 1947. A three-story addition was added in 1947. The original building and additions are all built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The main entry is recessed behind a pair of massive columns, which are flanked on the facade by a pair of pilasters, which support an entablature that is topped by a brick parapet and granite balustrade. The bank&#39;s corporate headquarters were housed here until 2008.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Edmonds Historical Museum is a free museum in Edmonds, Washington, which focuses on Edmonds&#39; history through various exhibits and a small collection of artifacts. It was established in 1973 by the Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society. It is located in downtown Edmonds at 118 5th Ave. North.</p><br>
<h2>Displays</h2><br>
<p>The Edmonds Historical Museum building has two floors. The upper floor features an exhibit gallery which offers temporary rotating displays, a diorama depicting the 1910 Edmonds town site and waterfront, and the Cook Victorian Parlor. The upper level also houses the administrative office, work rooms, a local history library and an extensive photography archive. The research library is open to the public by appointment.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor consists of the long-term exhibit conceived to commemorate the centennial of the incorporation of the City of Edmonds (1890-1990). The ground floor contains a series of displays depicting Edmonds&#39; past, including some reconstructions of historical locations and objects, such as a room from a local hotel and a model of a shingle mill, representative of the mills that filled the waterfront at the turn of the century.</p><br>
<h2>Events and community outreach</h2><br>
<p>The museum is geared towards the education of local students and residents. The museum created a "Trunk Tales for the Classroom" social studies curriculum for elementary school students. University of Washington students assisted with a 201 photography exhibit.</p><br>
<p>The Edmonds Historical Museum hosts and participates in several local community events including the Edmonds Historical Walk, the Edmonds Museum Garden Market hosted annually since 1994, and an annual scarecrow festival since 2012.</p><br>
<p>The museum hosted a talk by Lourdes Alvarado-Ramos about veterans&#39; affairs services in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The museum has featured local indigenous artwork from Tulalip and Coast Salish artists.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Yeomans House is a historic house on the waterfront of Palmer Cove on Brook Street in the Noank section of Groton, Connecticut. With its construction dating to 1713, it is believed to be Noank&#39;s oldest surviving structure, built by one of its early settlers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Edward Yeomans House is located in a rural setting west of the village center of Noank, southwest of a ninety-degree bend in Brook Street on more than 5 acre overlooking Palmer Cove. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof and central chimney. The exterior is finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and shingles, reflective of its evolutionary growth. The interior follows a typical central chimney plan, with parlors on either side of the chimney, and the kitchen behind, with small chambers in the rear corners.</p><br>
<p>The area that is now Noank was first laid out in 1712, when Groton town officials did so to facilitate further growth in the town. The following year, Edward Yeomans built a five-bay center-chimney structure with gable roof, on land whose ownership was contested by the local Pequot people. Yeomans left the land a few years later, due in part to what he perceived as encroachment by the Pequots on his land. Before 1760, a sixth bay was added, and the roof replaced by the gambrel roof. In the early 19th century, a shed-roof kitchen addition was added, and the main entrance relocated from the south to the north side of the house. The house is believed to be the oldest in Noank.</p><br>
<p>The Yantic Woolen Company Mill, also known as the Hale Company Mill, is a mill complex located at the junction of Chapel Hill and Yantic Roads in northwestern Norwich, Connecticut. Built in 1865, the stone mill is a well-preserved example of mid-19th century textile mill architecture, and was the major economic force in the village of Yantic, where it stands. The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sandwiched between the Yantic River and the limited-access highway carrying Connecticut Route 2, the mill is connected to the river by Yantic Road. Its main building is a large 4-1/2 story ashlar stone structure with a five-story square tower at its center. The tower was originally capped by an octagonal belfry, which has not survived. The main mill is connected to a series of smaller buildings, also stone. The mill was powered by water delivered from the river via a stone headrace that ran from a dam (no longer standing) about 0.5 mi to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>The mill complex dates to 1865, when it was built by E. Winslow Williams on the site of an older mill, built by his father, which had been destroyed by fire. The mill was the economic engine of Yantic well into the 20th century, with textile production ending in 1989. It originally produced flannel, employing 150 workers at its peak output. The village that surrounds the mill has been reduced in size, with the owner&#39;s house and tracts of worker housing demolished to make way for the construction of Connecticut Route 2.</p><br>
<p>The Winthrop Mill  is a historic mill building on Mill Street in New London, Connecticut. It is a grist mill located astride Briggs Brook between bridges carrying the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 95. The mill was established in 1650, and the complex retains elements that are believed to be original to its construction. It is now owned by the city and the grounds are open daily; the mill itself is open for tours by special appointment. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Winthrop Mill is located north of downtown New London, on Mill Street, a short road between State Pier Road and Winthrop Street. The site is located on Briggs Brook, and is overshadowed by the high bridges carrying I-95 overhead. The mill building is a 1-1/2 story gambrel-roofed wood frame structure, measuring about 30 x. The roof flares out over the front to include a porch, supported by four square posts. The exterior of the building is finished in horizontal boarding that gives rough clapboard-like flushboard finish. Attached to the west wall is the mill&#39;s waterwheel. It is powered by water delivered from an elevated wooden penstock, which receives water from a gate at a small dam on the brook upstream from the mill. The penstock is about 200 ft long, and is supported by wooden trestles mounted on stone piers. The interior of the mill contains a mix of modern and old finishes, and retains only a portion of the machinery needed to operate it properly.</p><br>
<p>The first mill was supposedly established on this site in 1650 by Governor John Winthrop, Jr. and William Comstock. The property remained in Winthrop family hands until the late 18th century. Some elements of the mill infrastructure may be very nearly original to the period of first use, notably the elevated flume, wheel pit, and tail race. The present building may also include elements of the original, although it is known that the mill was set afire during Benedict Arnold&#39;s 1781 raid on New London and Groton. The property went through a succession of owners until 1892, when it was acquired by the city. It was leased for commercial operation until 1913, and underwent a major rehabilitation in 1960.</p><br>
<p>The Gurdon Bill Store is located in Ledyard, Connecticut. In 1818, the land for the store was purchased by Gurdon Bill and his partner, Philip Gray. In 1819, Gray sold his interest in the store for $500. Bill operated the store until his death in 1856 and the store is believed to have made its final transaction in 1868. It has not been used since it was sold to the Congregational Society in 1875, retaining its historical integrity. The store is an 18 by by -story gable-roofed clapboarded structure built upon fieldstone and stone blocks. It has some unusual architecture in the form of a pent-roof and three-part window shutters. Clouette describes the store as "the best preserved early 19th-century store known in Connecticut." The Gurdon Bill Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Gurdon Bill Store is named for Gurdon Bill, who was born in 1784. The land was originally purchased by Bill and his partner, Philip Gray, in 1818. Clouette notes that four years later, Bill was the sole owner of the property; a record from 1819 says Gray sold his interest in the store to Bill for $500. Bill continued to run the store until shortly before his death in 1856. At age 21, Bill went to Plainfield Academy and later went on to work with various merchants before setting up the store in North Groton, later incorporated as Ledyard, Connecticut. Clouette notes a brief passage of the store out of the Bill family, soon reacquired, before it was sold to the Congregational Society in 1875. The Congregational Society has made limited use of the store, preserving its historical integrity. Local historians speculate that the store&#39;s final transaction was made in 1868; afterwards the store was boarded up and left essentially unused.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1818, the Gurdon Bill Store is a 18 ft by 30 ft -story clapboarded store. The walls extend higher up than the ceiling to an attic for additional storage space. The wood-shingled gable roof also has a smaller pent roof on the front facade that projects about 1 ft beyond the wall, which is unusual in New England architecture. The foundation of the store is built upon fieldstone and has stone blocks above the ground; the store has a full cellar. The main facade has two large twelve-by-twelve light sliding sash windows on the left side that can be covered with three-part batten shutters. The main door is a Dutch door with a plain frame and to its right is a smaller six-by-six sash window without a batten shutter. The rear facade is plain and devoid of any windows. The north end of has four windows, two for the attic, and the south end has only two windows for the attic, all with six-over-six sash.</p><br>
<p>The interior consists of one large room on the south end, from the main entrance, and two smaller connecting rooms on the north. The walls of the main room have wide-board horizontal panels and a large L-shaped counter running parallel to the south and west walls. Behind the counter are tiers of pine shelving and on the west wall are built-in drawers with simple wooden pulls and open bins on the bottom. The east wall has a plank bench. The two connected rooms on the north are similar with both having "plastered walls, a narrow beaded board for pegs or hooks, simple sliding shutters on the windows, beaded post casings, and brick diagonal fireplaces."</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>Clouette writes, "The Gurdon Bill Store is the best preserved early 19th-century store known in Connecticut. There are earlier store buildings and more elegant ones, but it would appear that the Bill Store is unique in retaining so many of its original features intact, particularly in the interior." It was submitted to the National Historic Register of Places under criteria A for being a "country store" which supplied items that local farmers needed, but could not produce or manufacture. The building also was submitted for its well-adapted and well-preserved architectural integrity. The store also has an unusual pent-roof and three-part window shutters, the purpose of which is not entirely known.</p><br>
<p>Locally, the Gurdon Bill Store was rumored to have been a tavern or an inn, although no evidence or record indicates such a use, and it was apparently a waystation for stagecoaches. A historical marker in the immediate vicinity ties the Gurdon Bill store to the birthplace of Samuel Seabury, America&#39;s first Episcopal bishop. No conclusive evidence for this claim exists.</p><br>
<p>The Land Title Building and Annex is an American early skyscraper located at 100 S Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was built for the oldest title insurance company in the world, the Land Title Bank and Trust Company. The two-building complex, joined at the first floor, was built in two phases. The earlier, northern one of the building&#39;s two towers was erected in 1898 and was fifteen stories tall. It was designed by Chicago-based architect Daniel Burnham, who was an early pioneer in the development of tall buildings.</p><br>
<p>The southern, 22-story, 331-foot tower, added in 1902, was also designed by Burnham in collaboration with Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer; it was built on the site of the former Lafayette Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>A Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission historical marker outside the building commemorates Anne Brancato Wood, a state legislator and entrepreneur whose offices were located in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Humphrey–Williams Plantation  is a historic plantation complex located near Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. The Humphrey–Williams House was built about 1846 with the forced labor of enslaved people, and is a two-story, five-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame farmhouse. It features a one-story, full-width shed porch. Also on the property are the contributing William Humphrey House , Annie Fairly&#39;s House , tobacco barn , a carriage house , a smokehouse, a store-post office , and the agricultural landscape.</p><br>
<p>The main house, on a 9 acre property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, as Humphrey–Williams House. The larger plantation, including 5 contributing buildings and 1 additional contributing site on a 566.6 acre property, was re-listed in a boundary increase listing in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Seth E. Ward Homestead, also known as Ward House or Frederick B. Campbell Residence is a historic home located in the Country Club District, Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed by Asa Beebe Cross and built in 1871. It is a two-story, "T"-plan, vernacular Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It features a single story, full-width front verandah. It was a home of Seth E. Ward.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The St. Joseph Catholic Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States was a historic church at 4th and Clay Streets which was built in 1878 and demolished in 1989. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant as the best example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture in Owensboro and as the focal institution in the history of the German Roman Catholic community of Owensboro and Daviess County."</p><br>
<p>In 1948, the parish of St. Joseph was combined with the nearby Irish-American parish of St. Paul to form Sts. Joseph and Paul parish by Bishop Francis Cotton. St. Paul church was larger and newer so it was used as the main church. Regular services at St. Joseph ended in 1978. The church was only used for mass on special occasions until 1984 when a fire damaged the St. Paul church. St. Joseph was then used for regular mass until St. Paul&#39;s rededication in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The sixteen stained-glass windows of the church were gifted by the Diocese of Owensboro to the Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts in 1989 before the church was razed. The windows were created and painted by Emil Frei in the guild tradition and installed in the church between 1900 and 1910. The twelve largest windows are sixteen feet tall by four feet wide. The Frei family helped to restore the windows after the move.</p><br>
<p>It was a front-gable brick structure with a bell tower and eight-sided spire. It was 43x86 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>Photographs of the church can be found here:.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, is a historic church at 403 W. 5th Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Also known as Old Trinity Episcopal Church, it was built in 1875 and is deemed " a good example of the English influence</p><br>
<p>on early church architecture in the United States."</p><br>
<p>The church was in regular use until 1964 when the parish built a new building, the "New Trinity Episcopal Church", at 720 Ford Avenue. As of early 1972, the building was in use by the Cliff Hagan&#39;s Boys Club, which was to use it for a short time before another facility would become ready.</p><br>
<p>Good Spring Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery mainly for the descendants within and outside of what now is called Mammoth Cave National Park and is formally located in Edmonson County, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church at Good Spring was organized in the year 1842 on the third Saturday in February by Elders Jesse Moon, R.T. Gardner and William Skaggs with the following members: Brown Blair, Mary Blair, Isaac Blair, Lucy Blair, David Blair, Betsy Blair, J.L. Smith, Sarah Smith, Rachel Pace, William Skaggs, J.D. Sanders, Sally Sanders, Thomsas Meredith, Esaline Smith and Pega Davis. An entry, made in the Beaver Dam Church Book in March 1842, lists some of the names that went to Good Spring from that church:</p><br>
<p>"A petitioning letter from members... naimely (sic) Henry B. Blair and Mary (wife) and sister Rachel Pearce (sic) for letters of dismission which was granted for ministerial aid for the purpose of being constituted into a church to themselves for convenient sake for which is granted and sent to their aid Elder Jesse Moon... "</p><br>
<p>The members of Good Spring, before it was formed, had to travel to Rhoda to attend church at Beaver Dam, or go to Nolin Baptist Church. Due to the distance and conditions of travel at that time, they thought it expedient to form a church of their own.</p><br>
<p>Aunt Susan Blair was born in the heart of the Forks in the middle of the decade preceding the Civil War and grew to young womanhood there. In a letter written to Charlie Whittle in 1931, she paints a picture of the conditions that existed around Good Spring Church in the olden days, "On Sunday we went to church were Good Spring Church now stands. The old house was built of logs and heated with a fire place. My father and the neighbors built it in 1842; and my father and mother were among the first members there. The first preacher I can remember was Uncle Billy Skaggs (William Skaggs). When they had a revival meeting, everybody came and stayed all day. Some would bring the dinner one day and others the next. There were no night services. Sometimes there would be more than the church house would hold; and then they held the service out under the trees. The older women wore homespun, yarn dresses and hats tied with a ribbon under their chins. I was fourteen years old before I had my first pair of dress shoes; and I had to carry them in my hand until I was nearly to the church and then sit down and put them on. When I started home, I had to pull them off and carry them, for they had to last me for three or four years, or until they were too small for me."</p><br>
<p>Many of the charter members of this old church were descendants and-or the living existence of the pioneer Baptists who settled Green County and associated with the Brush Creek Church and settlement. Elder William Skaggs married first Lindsey Meredith, a daughter of Joseph Meredith, Sr., who was traveling from Green County. Joseph was the father of Thomas Meredith, a charter member of Good Spring Church. The Sanders family also came from Brush Creek area of Green County at an early date. The Blairs came to Edmonson County from the Cumberland River area of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Good Spring Church was a flourishing and a prosperous church until the Government ambushed the establishment of Mammoth Cave National Park. The church property was acquired by the National Park Service and the church dissolved. The building is currently still standing and each year descendants of the pioneers who worshipped their return for their yearly home-coming and dinner on the grounds of what used to be.</p><br>
<p>Good Spring Church had the largest membership of any church in the Green River Association from 1896 to 1900.</p><br>
<p>In the times of 1842, it was built and kicked off the cave&#39;s history of a continuous offering with a beautiful view for not just the fact of the matter, but it became open to the public and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places NRHP in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It was built in 1827 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The church was established in 1827. The current building was built in 1927 after the original was destroyed in a tornado. It is a 42x26 ft one-story gable-front frame building, on a foundation of stacked sandstone blocks.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Floyd Collins (1887–1925), cave explorer and famous cave accident victim</p><br>
<p>First African Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 264-272 E. Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky. The congregation was founded c. 1790 by Peter Durrett and his wife, slaves who came to Kentucky with their master, Rev. Joseph Craig, in 1781 with "The Travelling Church" of Baptists from Spotsylvania, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>First African Baptist of Lexington is the oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky and the third oldest in the United States; it is the oldest black congregation west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1850 under its second pastor, it had more than 1,800 members, the largest congregation of any in the state. The nineteenth-century Italianate church was constructed in 1856; by 1861 the congregation at this building numbered 2,223 members. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Today the first African Baptist congregation worships at a newer church at 635 Price Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peter Durrett As a young man of 25, he converted to the Baptist faith and married an enslaved woman who lived on Rev. Joseph Craigs plantation. Peter probably accompanied frontier guide Capt. William Ellis to the Kentucky district in 1779 scouting the subsequent Travelling Church migration. After their return and upon learning that his wifes master intended to so migrate, Peter asked for help from Duerrett, who traded him to Craig so the couple could stay together.</p><br>
<p>Durrett and his wife migrated in 1781 with their master and others of the largely Baptist Travelling Church from Spotsylvania, Virginia, led by Josephs older brother Rev. Lewis Craig. Because Durrett helped the military leader, Captain William Ellis, guide the several hundred migrants and their slaves on the arduous 600-mile journey through the Appalachian Mountains, he was known as Old Captain after the trip. By 1784 Old Captain and his wife were members of a Separatist Baptist church at Boones Creek, where Joseph Craig was pastor.</p><br>
<p>Soon after, Peter Durrett and his wife got permission from Craig to be hired out and moved to Lexington. There they hired themselves to the pioneer John Maxwell, who let them build a cabin on his property at Maxwell Spring in Lexington. This is where Duerrett began preaching to fellow slaves. The 19th-century religious historian Robert Hamilton Bishop noted that Mrs. Durrett was integral to forming the first congregation:</p><br>
<p>His wife was also particularly active in providing accommodations for the people, and in encouraging them to be in earnest about the things which belonged to their everlasting peace.</p><br>
<p>Durrett applied to the local Baptist association for ordination, accompanied by numerous people seeking baptism. He had hesitated to baptize them without ordination. The association did not ordain Durrett, but "directed him to go on in the name of their common Master." Durrett began to baptize persons he believed ready.</p><br>
<p>Durrett and his wife gathered about 50 congregants, most of whom he baptized. About 1790, the members united as the First African Church (now known as the Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church in Lexington), and Durrett began to administer the Lord&#39;s Supper. It is also the oldest black church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Its early congregants were slaves and free blacks from the Lexington area. The congregation bought its first property in 1815. In 1816 it started a religious school, which continued with lay teachers and classes in various locations.</p><br>
<p>The congregation&#39;s first deed for land was dated in July 1820, for property purchased by the trustees: Rolla Blue, William Gist, Solomon Walker, and James Pullock, all free men of color. Durrett lived until 1823, when he was said to be near 90. His congregation then numbered near 300.</p><br>
<p>Durrett was succeeded in 1823 by Rev. London Ferrill, who was appointed preacher by the Lexington city trustees. A former slave from Hanover County, Virginia, he was freed as a young man by his unmarried masters sister, who inherited his estate and named the infant. (He was likely his first masters son, as he is believed to have been of mixed race and was given a distinguishing name by his master&#39;s sister.) Although not formally educated, Ferrill was a powerful preacher; he worked as a skilled carpenter. He and his wife migrated to Kentucky and settled in Lexington. He was ordained as a preacher by the First Baptist Church (majority white) before being called to the First African Baptist Church, and was a leader among both the white and black communities.</p><br>
<p>Ferrill served nearly 31 years. After his appointment, his church was received into the Elkhorn Association of the Baptist Church. With the continuing growth of Lexington, the First African Baptist congregation attracted many new members, mostly enslaved, but also free blacks. In 1833 the church purchased the former Old Methodist Meeting House and met there for some years. Ferrill led the congregational growth from 280 to 1,820 members by 1850, when it was the largest church in Kentucky, black or white.</p><br>
<p>During the cholera epidemic of 1833, Ferrill was one of three clergy who stayed in the city to care for people; his own wife died during the crisis. He was said to marry slaves with the words: "united until death or distance did them part," which reflected the years of many slaves being sold from the Upper South to the Deep South. Louisville was a major shipping point for slaves being transported down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.</p><br>
<p>In 1854 Ferrill died suddenly of a heart attack. His funeral procession of nearly 5,000 persons to his burial at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground of Christ Church was said to be the largest in Lexington after that of the statesman Henry Clay two years before. Ferrill was the only black to be buried there.</p><br>
<p>In 1856 First African Baptist completed their new building, designed in the popular Italianate style with large, arched windows. By the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, the congregation numbered 2,223.</p><br>
<p>After the war, together with most other black Baptist churches, the congregation withdrew from the Elkhorn Baptist Association, as they wanted to be independent of white supervision. First African Baptist soon joined a state association of black Baptist congregations established after the war. Today the congregation is part of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the largest association of African-American Baptists.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the First African Baptist congregation sold its historic building downtown to the nearby Central Christian Church, which has used it as a childcare center. They are considering sale of the historic structure. The First African Baptist congregation moved in the 1980s to a new facility at 465 Price Road.</p><br>
<h2>Honors</h2><br>
<p>The 1856 church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>2008, Christ Church Cathedral named its community garden for London Ferrill, second preacher of First African Baptist.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 Christ Church helped gain approval for a city monument installed in honor of London Ferrill at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground. The state has also memorialized the site with a highway marker.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky is a historic church at 171 Market Street. The church was designed by the important Lexington architect Cincinnatus Shryock who was also an elder at First Church.</p><br>
<p>The original congregational name was the Mount Zion Church, founded in 1784, making it one of the oldest churches in Lexington, KY. The name was changed when they moved to the present day building in 1874.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Cincinnatus Shryock grated college at Transylvania University, located in Lexington, KY. His family is famous for their architecture in Kentucky. One of the most famous buildings done in his family was by Gideon of the Old State Capital building in Frankfort, KY.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church has a gothic style with a large tower in the front made with a copper spire. It also includes stained glass throughout the tall tower and around the rest of the building. At the time it as created, it was an important piece of architecture in the Lexington skyline.</p><br>
<p>The Second Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 460 E. Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky. Construction began on the church in 1922, and it was dedicated in 1924; it was the third building used by its congregation, which was founded in the 1810s. Architects Cram & Ferguson designed the Gothic Revival church; Frankel & Curtis are also associated with the building. The church&#39;s main entrance features multiple gabled buttresses, a balcony under a large arched window, and a gable at its peak. On the west side of the church, a buttressed tower rises from the roof to a steep spire.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church meeting house in Lexington, Kentucky. The church building was constructed in 1801 on land donated by Mary Todd Lincoln&#39;s grandfather Levi Todd.</p><br>
<p>It replaced a log meetinghouse which had been built in 1785. It is a stone 40x50 ft structure which had two rows of square windows. It was renovated in 1880; the renovation replaced the square windows by Gothic shaped ones. Stone front steps were donated in 1900.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church in Flemingsburg, Kentucky is a historic church at W. Main and W. Water Streets. It was built in 1819 and added to the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It is notable as it is "one of the oldest Presbyterian meeting houses in the State, and is the major known surviving work of</p><br>
<p>the fine local architect-builders, Samuel Stockwell and John Eckles."</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church in Prestonburg, Kentucky is a historic church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1989. It is a historic Methodist church building on S. Arnold Avenue between Ford Street and W. Graham Street in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1917 in a Late Gothic Revival style. It is a brick building with yellow sandstone trim on a raised concrete block foundation. The brick is glazed with a yellow-orange mottled finish and is laid in running bond.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic church on Moscow Avenue in Hickman, Kentucky. It is part of the Christian Methodist Episcopal denomination formed in the South after the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>On December 16, 1870, in Jackson, Tennessee, 41 freedmen who were former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South organized what was then called the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. (The Methodist Church had split before the war into North and South denominations.) This denomination was composed primarily of African Americans who wanted to have their own churches free of white supervision. In 1954 they changed the name of the denomination to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>This church was built in 1895 and added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a masonry building, built to replace the previous building which was destroyed in a fire. Its reverend, Warren Thomas, was a carpenter and mason.</p><br>
<p>The church was deemed "important because of the role it played in the early history of education in the black community of Hickman, Kentucky, and the fact that it was the first black church founded in this small western town."</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Kentucky is a historic Methodist Episcopal church. Located on Stanford Street, it has also been known as the Lancaster United Methodist Church. It was built in 1896 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist congregation dated back to at least 1815. It acquired this church&#39;s property from the Presbyterian church in 1878 and rebuilt the church starting in 1894, with foundation dated 1896. It was deemed notable as one of two remaining brick Gothic Revival churches in Lancaster.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Olivet Methodist Church is a historic church in Lancaster, Kentucky. It was built in 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is Italianate in style. Brackets supporting overhanging eaves of its gable roof. It has round-arched stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The current pastor is Darin Gary. It donates to the United Methodist Children&#39;s Home frequently.</p><br>
<p>The Paint Lick Presbyterian Church is a historic church at KY 52 in Paint Lick, Kentucky. The Gothic Revival church was built in 1879 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "Garrard Countys best example of a rural Italianate brick sanctuary as well as housing one of the areas oldest Presbyterian congregations" (founded in 1782).</p><br>
<p>Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church, also known as Greensburg Separate Baptist Church, is a history church at Hodgenville Avenue and N. 1st Street in Greensburg, Kentucky. It was built in 1876 and added to the National Register in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for its architecture: "The church is the best of very few</p><br>
<p>examples in Green County of the Gothic Revival style."</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church South in Greenup, Kentucky, is a historic church on Greenup&#39;s Main Street. It was built in 1845 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable "as good example of the sensitivity of the church congregation to the changing national styles. A Greek Revival church building was updated in the 1870s to the Gothic Revival style."</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1845. It was modified in 1876, including by the addition of a square bell tower.</p><br>
<p>The Montgomery Ward Company Complex is the former national headquarters of Montgomery Ward, the United States&#39; oldest mail order firm. The property is located along the North Branch of the Chicago River at 618 W. Chicago Avenue in Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The two earliest buildings in the complex, the old Administration Building and the Mail Order House, are constructed of reinforced concrete and were designed by Richard E. Schmidt and Hugh Garden, members of the architectural firm of Schmidt, Garden and Martin.</p><br>
<p>The 400,000 ft&sup2, eight-story Administration Building served as the company&#39;s headquarters until 1974, and features sword and torch motifs on the base and vertical piers that rise uninterrupted, culminating in a parapet with motifs similar to the base. A four-story tower was added in 1929 on the northeast corner of the building, with a pyramid roof.</p><br>
<p>Crowning the roof of the Administration Building is a 22.5 ft replica of the bronze statue that was originally placed on top of the old Montgomery Ward Building on Michigan Avenue. An adaption of an earlier statue that had topped both Madison Square Garden in New York and the Agriculture Building at the 1893 World&#39;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was made for the building by the same creators, W. H. Mullins Manufacturing Company of Salem, Ohio and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The statue is called The Spirit of Progress, and depicts the goddess Diana, dressed in flowing robes, balancing on a globe, and holding a torch in her right hand and a caduceus in her left hand.</p><br>
<p>Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000 ft&sup2; Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward&#39;s operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors, and storage lofts within ceiling heights ranging from 12 to 17 ft. The west facade, following a bend in the river, is almost 1,100 ft long and a single floor covers 6 acre. At one time the building had its own post office branch and a ground-floor shipping platform that could accommodate 24 railroad freight cars. The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000.</p><br>
<p>In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>After the bankruptcy of Montgomery Ward in 2001, the earliest buildings were converted into upscale condominiums. The project met the National Historic Landmark criteria for preservation, with the exception of balconies added to the administration building. In 2004, the office tower also was converted to condominiums, now called The Montgomery.</p><br>
<p>The Mail Order House building is now home to restaurants, the Big Ten Network, Wrigley, Echo Global Logistics, David Barton Gym, Allyu Spa, Groupon, Kingsbury Yacht Club boat slips, InnerWorkings, Uptake, Dyson Inc., and 298 luxury condominiums. Bankers Life & Casualtys Chicago offices were also located here for several years, until Groupons expansion led Bankers to move in late 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Immaculate Conception Church in Hawesville, Kentucky, was a historic Roman Catholic church building on Water Street. It was built in 1860, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Its 1975 National Register nomination states:The Hawesville Immaculate Conception Church is an example of the determination of a small but devout religious group to build and maintain a church. The early people of this church maintained it without the guidance of a permanent priest. They worked until they had constructed a building in which to worship. The building was small and simple but surprisingly monumental, without any striking decoration, except for the traditional stained glass windows and the intrinsic beauty of the stone of which it was constructed. The church building expressed the simple dignity of a people whose religion was the focal point of their community as well as spiritual life.</p><br>
<p>The more modern church building which replaced it has subsequently been deconsecrated; River Valley Behavioral Health now occupies the site of the former Immaculate Conception Church, which has not been removed from the Register despite the demolition of the original, historic building. The congregation still exists, meeting in a different facility in the Hawesville area.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s School is a historic former school building on Birch Street in Biddeford, Maine. Built in 1887, it was one of the first large masonry schools to be built in the state, and became a focal point for the migration of French Canadians into the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former St. Josephs School is set in a residential area a few blocks south of Biddefords central business district, on the north side of Birch Street, between Alfred and Graham Streets. It is a large 3-1/2 story brick building with a rectangular footprint and a full fourth story under a tall mansard roof. The roof is pierced by wall dormers featuring three-part round-arch windows topped by gablets. String courses separate the floors, and the window bays of the main (north-facing) facade are roughly grouped in threes. There is modest Romanesque brick corbelling at the eave. The main entrance is set in a 1916 brick stair tower at the northwestern end of the building.</p><br>
<p>Biddefords textile mills saw an influx of both Irish and French Canadian migrants in the mid-19th century, resulting in the establishment first of the predominantly Irish Roman Catholic parish of St. Marys, and then in 1870 of the establishment of St. Josephs, which catered primarily to the French Canadian Catholic population. Parochial education first began in the basement of the St. Josephs church, and the present school was built in 1888, to a design by Dr. Ferdinand Bernier, a parishioner. The school remained an anchor of the local French immigrant population well into the 1960s, with much of the curriculum taught in French. The building has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The Deshon-Allyn House is a historic house at 613 Williams Street in New London, Connecticut built in 1829 for the captain of a whaling ship and is a fine example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival architecture. The house is now on the campus of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, which has used it for a variety of purposes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Deshon-Allyn House is located on the campus of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum on the east side of Williams Street, north of downtown New London. It is a large 2½-story structure built out of random-laid stone, with corner quoins and openings framed by ashlar granite. It is covered by a truncated hipped roof with gabled dormers, and four brick chimneys projecting from its roof faces. The recessed entry is flanked inside the opening by Ionic columns and sidelights, with a transom window across the top. Above the entrance is a small Palladian window, its elements separated by pilasters. Many of its surviving interior features are identifiable in the publications of Asher Benjamin.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1829 for Captain Daniel Deshon, the master of a local whaling vessel, and is a particularly elegant example of late Federal architecture. It was purchased in 1851 by Lyman Allyn, also a whaling captain who greatly enlarged his fortune by investing in railroads and other businesses. The museum that now owns the house was established in his memory by his daughter.</p><br>
<p>Robert Ballard&#39;s Ocean Exploration Trust (founded 2008) established offices within the Deshon-Allyn House.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Hempstead House, also known as the Old Huguenot House, is a historic house museum on Hempstead Street in New London, Connecticut. Built about 1759, it is an architecturally unusual stone house with a gambrel roof, a style not otherwise seen in the city. Because of its unusual form, it was thought to have been built by French Huguenot immigrants at an earlier date. The house is owned by Connecticut Landmarks, along with the adjacent Joshua Hempsted House, operating the pair as the Hempstead Houses museum. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Hempstead House is located west of downtown New London, set close to the road at the corner of Hempstead and Truman Streets. It is a -story stone structure with a gambrel roof and brick end chimneys. The walls are formed out of dressed granite laid in regular courses with mortar. Its main facade is four bays wide, with the entrance in one of the center bays. A single small shed-roof dormer projects from the rear roof&#39;s steep face.</p><br>
<p>Although the house was built in 1759 by Nathaniel Hempstead, the English grandson of Joshua Hempstead (whose 1678 home stands adjacent), its form and building material are unusual for southern New England in that period, leading to local lore attributing its construction to French Huguenot immigrants. It is possible that laborers who built the house were Acadians resettled to New London after the Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1750s. The same workers may have worked on another major stone building in the city, the Shaw Mansion.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. Samuel Huntington House is a historic house at 34 East Town Street in Norwich, Connecticut. The house was built in 1783 by Samuel Huntington , a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970, and is a contributing property to the Norwichtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Governor Samuel Huntington House is located in the Norwichtown neighborhood of Norwich, one of its early settlement areas. It is on the south side of East Town Street, just west of its junction with Huntington Lane. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. Its most prominent feature is a monumental entry portico, rising a full two stories to a gabled pediment, supported by paired columns. The main entry is flanked by sidelight windows and a carved woodwork surround, and there is a latticework porch above. The entry portico and wide entry section are 19th-century alterations, and there have been significant interior alterations, accommodating the building&#39;s 20th-century use as an office.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1783 for Samuel Huntington, one of Norwichs leading citizens. Born in Scotland, Connecticut, he came to Norwich in 1763, where he soon represented the town in the colonial legislature. He served on Connecticuts committee of safety, and in the Continental Congress, where he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and served for one year as its president. He became the state&#39;s third governor in 1786, a position he held until his death ten years later.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Philip Turner House is a historic house at 29 West Town Street in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. Possibly built in the late 17th century, it is one of the oldest houses in Norwich, and a well-preserved example of vernacular architecture. At the time of the American Revolutionary War it was probably owned by Dr. Philip Turner, a leading surgeon for the Continental Army. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Philip Turner House is located in Norwich&#39;s Norwichtown neighborhood, on the north side of West Town Street near its junction with Sturtevant Road. It is a colonial-era "half house", stories tall and three bays wide, with clapboard siding and a large chimney behind the entrance, which is in the rightmost bay. Some of its exterior siding is fastened with hand-cut nails and exhibits feathering typical of early clapboards. The interior is basically two chambers on the ground floor, with a parlor in front and a kitchen in the rear. There are two bedrooms on the upper floor, with original wide pine floors and period wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>Turner served with the Continental Army through much of the war, acting as a surgeon at the Siege of Boston before being appointed Surgeon General of the armys Eastern Department in 1777, a post he held until the wars end. He later became a staff surgeon for the United States Army.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Joshua Lathrop House is a historic house at 377 Washington Street in Norwich, Connecticut. Built about 1750, it is an example of Georgian residential architecture of that period and further notable as the home of the first pharmacist in the state, who operated out of these premises. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1970, and is a contributing property to the Norwichtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Joshua Lathrop House is located in Norwich&#39;s historic Norwichtown area, on the east side of Washington Street just south of Lathrop Lane. The house has two parts - an older saltbox section and a more typical Georgian -story frame structure at the front, with a side gable roof and central chimney. The house is built into a hillside, such that the front basement is fully exposed, and the main entrance is now made through an opening in the basement wall below the original entrance. The facade is four bays wide, with an irregular placement that has the entrance at the center, two bays to its left, and one to its right. The lean-to section at the rear is also two stories in height, with irregular placement of windows and doors. The interior retains many original features, including wooden paneling and fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1750 by Joshua Lathrop, who operated a drugstore there with his brother Daniel. This is believed to the first such operation in the Connecticut Colony. Joshua Lathrop remained in partnership with his brother until 1774, and then with his nephews and son until his death in 1807. The house may have further historic significance due to the possibility that Benedict Arnold may have lived here during his apprenticeship with the Lathrops.</p><br>
