<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at the junction of VA 3 and VA 205 in historic Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Although the surrounding parish was created in the 17th century, the current brick structure, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, was consecrated in 1849, and planned to celebrate its 175th anniversary on May 31, 2024.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally named Appomattocks parish for the Appomattoc native American tribe in the area, it was one of the three earliest parishes in what became Westmoreland County on Virginia&#39;s historic Northern Neck. The Northumberland County court in 1653 had given native American names to its parishes, including Nominy, Chickacone and Great Wicomico. When Westmoreland County was created from Northumberland County, Nominy parish was further split into Appomattocks and Potomac parishes. Potomac Parish would cover what became Stafford County in what was then western Westmoreland County, and Cople Parish would be created in 1665 from additional land gained from Northumberland County, some of which had been named Westbury parish for a short time.</p><br>
<p>In 1664 Appomattocks was renamed Washington Parish to honor early vestryman John Washington, the great-grandfather of President George Washington who reorganized the parish in 1661. Other prominent descendants of church founders include Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both of whom signed the Declaration of Independence and were sons of Colonel Thomas Lee. Rev. Archibald Campbell served as rector from 1744 until his death in 1774, and also operated a school which educated many boys who later became prominent Patriots in the American Revolutionary War, including future President James Monroe (great, great grandson of church founder Andrew Monroe) and John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (son of Colonel Thomas Marshall). In the early 19th century Rev. Campbell&#39;s youngest son John Campbell represented Westmoreland county in both houses of the Virginia Assembly as well as at church conventions and became a local judge, and his grand daughter Lucy married future Supreme Court justice James M. Wayne.</p><br>
<p>The current brick church building was built circa 1848 through the effort of the new rector, Rev. William McGuire, and parishioners William Wirt M.D. and John E. Wilson. At its 1849 consecration, it became the first reconstructed parish in Westmoreland County since the disestablishment of the Episcopal Church, and Rev. McGuire would later found or rebuild several other parishes on the Northern Neck. Congregations had stopped using Westmoreland countys other churches at Leedstown and Popes Creek by 1805, when church property was sold, and Old Pope&#39;s Creek Church burned down in 1828. In colonial times, Washington parish also included a church at Round Hill in what became King George county, which Rev. Campbell also served and which was decrepit by 1838.</p><br>
<p>Both Union and Confederate troops at various times occupied the church during the American Civil War, especially in its first two years in 1861 and 1862. Members of the Confederate units calling themselves the "Lancaster Greys" (9th South Carolina Infantry company A) and "Lee’s Light Horse" (9th Virginia Cavalry company C) carved graffiti, as did members of the 19th Indiana Infantry, and the 8th New York Cavalry. Other Civil War graffiti was painted over in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Fire severely damaged the historic church on December 19, 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The existing brick sanctuary building was built in the Gothic Revival style, possibly by Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long Jr. (1810-1849).</p><br>
<p>An adjacent area includes several 18th and 19th century gravestones moved from other cemeteries during redevelopment of those properties, but no actual interments. Further major renovations occurred in 1957-1959 (including a parish hall), 1978-79 (HVAC system) and 1991 (Sunday school wing).</p><br>
<p>Burkes Garden Central Lutheran Church, listed as Burkes Garden Central Church and Cemetery, is a historic Lutheran church, cemetery, and national historic district located at Burke&#39;s Garden, Tazewell County, Virginia. The church was built in 1875, and is a plain rectangular frame building, two bays long, with a steep gable roof. It originally served multiple denominations as a union church but has exclusively served the Lutheran denomination in modern times.</p><br>
<p>The community was an outpost of German immigrants who settled in the backcountry frontier in the late 18th century. The cemetery was founded in 1827, and contains a notable collection of sandstone Germanic gravestones.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Old Brick Church  variously known as the Lawnes Creek Parish Church or the Lower Surry Church is a historic church in Bacon&#39;s Castle, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The lower chapel of the Southwark Parish was a brick rectangular room church built in 1754 about a mile northwest of Bacon&#39;s Castle, in Surry County, Virginia. Its brick walls are irregularly laid in Flemish bond and English bond with a few glazed headers. The church remained abandoned from the Disestablishment of the Church of England in America until 1847. It was destroyed by a fire, reputedly set by recently freed slaves following the American Civil War in 1868, but its thick brick walls remained standing. Its ruins were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Old Brick Church was typical of the Virginia vernacular churches of the colonial period. Prior to its destruction it probably resembled other surviving 18th century brick rectangular room churches in Virginia such as the circa-1743 Merchant&#39;s Hope Church in Prince George County and the Ware Parish Church in Gloucester. Its walls were fairly well preserved until 2003, when a large oak tree in the churchyard was uprooted by high winds during Hurricane Isabel and fell on the ruins of the church, collapsing large portions of its walls. The ruins have since been stabilized, and many of the original bricks were saved. There are plans to reconstruct the walls and restore the church to its colonial appearance.</p><br>
<p>According to local folklore going back more than a century, the ruins of the Old Brick Church are said to be haunted. Many credible people young and old over several generations claim to have seen the flying fireball. Those who have seen it describe it as simply a ball of fire. It rises from the church cemetery into the air about forty feet and slowly drifts across the broad fields towards Bacon&#39;s Castle. A former owner of the plantation saw the fireball out of his window and rushed outside thinking his barn was ablaze. Another person staying at the 17th-century Jacobean mansion woke up to find the ball circling his bed before flying back out the window. Many years ago a church meeting was being held outside in the graveyard and everyone in attendance claimed to have seen the ball of fire.</p><br>
<p>Tablet in wall of Old Brick Church (Bacon&#39;s Castle, Virginia).JPGOld Brick Church, VA 10 Bacon</p><br>
<p>Old Brick Church (Bacon&#39;s Castle, Virginia) 2014.JPGOld Brick Church, VA 10 Bacon</p><br>
<p>Doorway of Old Brick Church (Bacon&#39;s Castle, Virginia).JPGOld Brick Church, VA 10 Bacon</p><br>
<p>Mount Sinai Baptist Church, also known as Mount Sinai Baptist Church and Cemetery, is a historic African-American Baptist church and cemetery located at 6100 Holy Neck Road in Suffolk, Virginia. It was built in 1921 by members of the church who were brick masons in the Victorian Gothic Revival style. It features a two towered façade, pointed Gothic-arched windows of stained glass imported from Germany, and prominent Classical porch. The church replaced a frame church erected in 1881. Associated with the church is a cemetery established about 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Church, also known as Chuckatuck Church is a historic Episcopal church located near Chuckatuck. Constructed in 1755, St. Johns is the third church to occupy the site in a parish which was established in 1642. St. John&#39;s Church preserves an important role in the religious history of seventeenth century Virginia and as an architectural example of the evolving preferences of the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Johns Church traces its origins to 1642 when the recently created Nansemond (originally Upper Norfolk) County was divided into three parishes: east, west, and south. St. Johns Church was established within the West Parish which was renamed after the nearby village of Chuckatuck. Early English settlers along the Nansemond River were not wholly supportive of the Anglican faith, instead welcoming ministers and adherents of the Puritan and Quaker traditions into the community. George Fox, a founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers) visited Nansemond in 1672 and found four active meetings in the region. The presence of such strong dissenting communities and squabbles between the three Anglican vestries in Nansemond often led to quarrels that involved the Royal Governor and his council.</p><br>
<p>Little record of the first church of Chuckatuck Parish survives. Archaeological surveys on the site of the present St. Johns Church have uncovered the foundation of a bell tower southeast of the entrance to the existing church, possibly dating from the original seventeenth century structure. A second building may have been constructed on the site around the turn of the eighteenth century. In 1725, the former west (Chuckatuck) and east (Lower) parishes were merged into the new Suffolk Parish. In 1751 the vestry of Suffolk Parish decided to erect a brick church to replace the earlier frame building at Chuckatuck, documented through an advertisement placed in the Virginia Gazette on April 24, 1752. The new St. Johns Church was completed in 1755, after which the earlier structure was razed.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Church ceased to function after the Disestablishment. The church was reorganized in 1826 after which time the parish was formally renamed St. Johns.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Johns Church is reflective of the changing social and spiritual culture of the Episcopal Church in Virginia over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The 1755 structure is a Georgian styled building in the traditional rectangular plan measuring 60 feet, 10 inches, by 30 feet, 6 inches. The brick walls are approximately 21 inches in thickness and are laid in Flemish bond above and below the watertable. The southwest facade is accented with glazed headers, while the remaining walls are laid with random glazed headers. Originally, there were two entrances to the church on the southwest and southeast sides. St. Johns is unusual for the fact that it is not oriented with the altar facing east as is the tradition for eighteenth century churches in Virginia. Though significantly altered today, hints as to the original appearance of St. Johns can be deduced from the remnants still present on the building. The southwest entrance is framed by two brick pilasters of rubbed brick, but the original pediment overhead has been removed, evidenced by patchwork above the door. The southeast facade of the building preserves the location of the original second entrance which was patched with bricks that are lighter in color to the original ones. When originally constructed, the roof featured clipped gables on the northeast and southwest facades, but these were later removed and the ends filled in with brick to make a gable roof over the entire structure.</p><br>
<p>When St. Johns was restored to use in the 1820s, the configuration of the old church still met the preferences of most pre-Oxford Movement Episcopal Churches in the region which emphasized the spoken word over the sacrament in the service. The original windows on the northeast altar end of St. Johns originally framed the position for the communion table, but these windows were later filled in. In the 1880s, as the Episcopal Church embraced a higher liturgical form of worship, the interior of St. John&#39;s was reconfigured to create a recessed chancel, denoting a space for the sacrament apart from the rest of the church. The original windows on the altar wall were bricked over and a central window over the new raised altar was inserted. These renovations were carried out under the direction of William Whitney.</p><br>
<p>The Enid Cemetery is a cemetery in Enid, Oklahoma. Together with the Calvary Catholic Cemetery, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1996. Opened in the 1890s, the two cemeteries were designed in the rural cemetery style. Only a portion of the Enid Cemetery contributes to the historical significance: the Original , First , Second , and Evergreen  additions. Together these encompass a 967 by 1,318 ft area historical section.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Enid&#39;s earliest graves were located on the Hymen and Cora Anderson farm land, following the death of their one-year-old son Lee Stuart in 1897. In 1929, the Enid Cemetery Association expanded the Calvary land by 2 additional acres. The Calvary Catholic Cemetery contains a mausoleum built in 1904 for Ruth Sara Kennedy from white marble in the Neo-Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Enid Cemetery contains a white Georgia marble Art Deco, Neo-Classical Revival styled mausoleum built in 1921 by the Economy Mausoleum Company, a red brick Mission Revival style tool shed from 1927, and an Art Deco gate, reading Enid Cemetery 1897.</p><br>
<p>At least 430 original homesteaders from the Land Run of 1893 are buried here, including:</p><br>
<p>Mary Giles, a clerk at the Enid land office.</p><br>
<p>James T. Douthitt, an original homesteader, who was shot by his wife, Dollie in 1904. Later, Dollie Douthitt also wounded several people during a courthouse shooting spree.</p><br>
<p>Fredrick and Susan Dresser, original homesteaders who lived inside a dug-out creek bank, unable to afford construction of a house.</p><br>
<h2>Sections</h2><br>
<p>Black people were interred in Potters Field during segregation, and had a separate entrance to the cemetery. The plots in this section were the least expensive, and many of the graves are unmarked. Local legend holds that Boston Corbett, who shot the assassin John Wilkes Booth is buried in one of these unmarked graves. Corbett was known to have peddled medicine in Enid for W.W. Garrit and Company of Topeka. More famous to the Enid area, is a corpse that never received a burial—that of David E. George, a drifter, who claimed to be Booth himself, and committed suicide in Enids Grand Hotel in 1903. His body, ultimately claimed by his lawyer, Finis L. Bates, went on a nationwide tour for over 50 years before ultimately disappearing.</p><br>
<p>The Jewish section of the Enid Cemetery contains the graves of many early Enid merchants, including Herbert L. Kaufman, Milton Newman, Marinus Marcus Godschalk, and Abraham Herzberg, all of whom owned businesses in Enids downtown. Herbert Kaufmans house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and he operated Kaufmans Style Shop. Marinus Godschalk founded Enids first clothing store with Joseph Meiberg called Meiberg and Godschalk. Milton Newman ran Enids branch of Newman Mercantile. Abraham Herzberg founded Herzbergs Department Store and his house is a contributing property to the Waverley Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In the American Legion section, veterans from the Spanish–American War, the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II are laid to rest, often with bronze insignias representing the battles in which they fought. The Irvin McDowell Circle of the Grand Army of the Republic built a Civil War Memorial in 1917 and the United Commercial Travelers built a World War I Memorial in 1920. Grave markers also include insignias representing membership in the Masons, International Order of the Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of America, and the Grand Army of the Republic.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing historical objects</h2><br>
<p>Potter&#39;s Field, the Jewish section, and the Champlin family plot are all contributing sections of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The 1921 Neo-Classical Revival and Art Deco style white marble Mausoleum, the 1927 red-brown brick Mission Revival style tool shed, 1917 Red brick office building, 1914 Gazebo, 1929 Art Deco gate, and the Elm and cedar trees planted in 1923 are contributing objects. Several contributing objects are memorials to military service such as the American Legion plot with forty-eight graves of veterans, Union Veterans section of fourteen graves, World War I memorial to Garfield County veterans who died in service, and 1917 Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War monument to the unknown soldier. The Kennedy Mausoleum and open-air altar in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Several grave markers also contribute to the historic significance of the cemetery: William F. Svarik (1909) in the Catholic cemetery, W.C. Conley (1889–1921) in Potter&#39;s Field, William Mason (1909–1936) and M.J. Adler (1867–1919) in the Jewish section, Lt. Commander Robert L. Strickler, Martha J Camden (1852–1926), Aviation Cadet John Willard Nivison (1922–1943), Allen B. Crandall, Opal Young (1899–1903), Lee Stuart Anderson (1896–1897), Frank James T. Douthitt (1904–1923), and the Mill family in the Enid Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Notable graves</h2><br>
<p>Notable among those interred are:</p><br>
<p>H.H. Champlin, founder of Champlin Refinery and the First National Bank of Enid.</p><br>
<p>W.O. Cromwell, Attorney General of Oklahoma Territory and advisor to Governor William H. Murray</p><br>
<p>The Frantz Brothers, local businessmen who helped establish the Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Houstin James, father of author Marquis James.</p><br>
<p>Fred C. Gensman, founder of Gensman Hardware Store, a downtown staple on the square for almost eighty years, President of the Enid Cemetery Association.</p><br>
<p>Jack H. Pellow, stonecutter who worked on Grant&#39;s tomb, founder of Pellow Monument Works in 1911 which provides headstones for local burials.</p><br>
<p>James Yancy Callahan, Oklahoma Territorial Delegate to the USA House of Representatives</p><br>
<p>Robert M. Blair, Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient</p><br>
<p>The Carl E. and Alice Candler Schmidt House is a private home located at 301 Lake Shore Rd. in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Carl E. Schmidt</h2><br>
<p>Carl E. Schmidt was born in Detroit on December 31, 1858, the eldest son of Traugott Schmidt. He was educated in the schools of Detroit and Germany, and learned the tanning trade from his father. Schmidt worked in his father&#39;s firm, which exported skins, furs, and wool,</p><br>
<p>Schmidt was active in politics, serving as a member of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, the state board of arbitration and mediation, and the state board of forest inquiry. and political advisor to Hazen Pingree, who served as both mayor of Detroit and governor of Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, Schmidt married Alice M. Candler, the daughter of a prominent Detroit businessman. The couple had three daughters: Emma, Alice, and Ida.</p><br>
<h2>Ray Smith</h2><br>
<p>Ray Smiths parents purchased the property in the 1920s. At this time the property stretched from Lake Shore to at least Grosse Pointe Blvd. Ray Smith was an avid horticulturist and was a pioneer in the field of farming in Michigan. He was independently wealthy and thus never needed to support himself by working. Whenever he needed cash, he simply sold off a parcel of the land. Ray Smith never married, but was considered something of a playboy in his later years. He was a frequent escort of Eleanor Fords after her husband&#39;s death.</p><br>
<p>Smith&#39;s parents made some major changes to the property upon their purchase. The property was originally intended to only be used as a summer cottage and thus has only one closet on the first floor. It originally had an outdoor porch on the back side of the house. The Smiths closed that up and made it into a room with 9 large windows. The Smiths also combined three rooms on the Kerby side of the home to form one great room. Perhaps one of the biggest changes, however, was the removal of the front porch.</p><br>
<h2>1990s Remodel</h2><br>
<p>When the third owners moved in, they too remodeled the home, however not to the extent of the 1920s remodel. The third owners completely redesigned the kitchen from the ground up. They found several layers of flooring in the kitchen that had been put on top of each other including linoleum and wood. They redid the flooring in the great room. They redid the plaster in the butlers pantry only to later find out that pipes above the redo were leaking, so everything would have to be taken out, the pipes replaced, and then put back in. A large amount of plaster repair took place as well as some modernization. New pipes were put in on the first floor. A new gas furnace was installed to replace the coal fired furnace that was being used into the 1990s. Upstairs, new showers were put in to replace two old ones. The servants quarters were turned into a variety of rooms including two guest bedrooms, an office and a laundry room. A new mudroom was added to the back entrance, and the former servants&#39; dining room was turned into the breakfast room.</p><br>
<h2>Interesting facts</h2><br>
<p>Despite the age of the home (107 years), the home has only changed hands twice, the Schmidts to the Smiths and the Smiths to the current owners. Ray Smith owned the home for the majority of the time.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Carl E. and Alice Candler Schmidt House was built in 1904. The Grosse Pointe Historical Society has incorrectly stated 1909, and as a result, many publications have copied that date incorrectly as referenced in the below source. It is a shingle style house with Tudor influences. When the house was built, it was a strip farm. The property stretched at least to what is now Grosse Pointe Bvld. The original carriage house still stands on the corner of Grosse Pointe Blvd and Kerby. After being sold by Ray Smith to raise cash, it was painted white and converted into a single family home.</p><br>
<p>The Julius Boesel House is a historic house near the village of New Bremen in the northwestern part of the USA state of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Said to be designed by J.A. Chapin of Lima, the design of the house is based heavily on Design No. 53 from George Franklin Barber&#39;s Cottage Souvenir #2. The house was built for Julius Boesel, a leading member of New Bremen society. The design mixed brick and frame construction, sitting atop a stone foundation, to produce this twenty-room, two-and-a-half story house. Included on the property was a massive carriage house.</p><br>
<p>After being extensively modified in the third quarter of the twentieth century, the house was purchased in 1976 by Donald and Jacqui Kuck, who began a long-term restoration program. Included in their program was the removal of intrusive elements such as lowered ceilings and carpets on the walls. The Kucks were able to restore the house to the point that it qualified for addition to the National Register of Historic Places, and it was listed on the Register on March 30, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Lima Memorial Hall is a historic performing arts center and city hall on the edge of downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Designed by the architectural company of Dawson & McLaughlin and named for local military veterans, the Beaux-Arts building was built in 1908. A dominating aspect of its architecture is the massive marble staircase that rises from the foyer to a second-floor open balcony.</p><br>
<p>As a performing arts center, Memorial Hall has hosted concerts by John Philip Sousa&#39;s band, Victor Borge, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and singers from the Boston and Chicago opera companies. It no longer serves as the city hall; the municipal offices are now located on Public Square at the center of the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was featured in the August 1911 issue of The Ohio Architect, Engineer, and Builder magazine "to illustrate the work of the architectural firm, Dawson and McLaughlin....It is a handsome example of Beaux Arts Classicism."</p><br>
<p>In 1979, Memorial Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of 1979, the building had not ever been expanded, but its entry doors and its windows were all replaced in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Orange Street Historic District encompasses a large residential in the East Rock section of New Haven, Connecticut. Roughly bounded by Orange, Cottage, Eagle, State, and Audubon Streets, this area saw growth between about 1830 and 1900, and includes a broad diversity of well-preserved 19th-century residential structures. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>New Haven&#39;s early economy was based mainly on trade based around its port. In the 1820s, the Farmington Canal opened, spurring a round of industrial development that was accompanied by population growth. The Orange Street area, located northeast of the New Haven Green, was one of the areas that saw significant development during this period. Around 1850, the city became a railroad transportation hub, and its industrial base expanded significantly. Residential growth in the Orange Street area expanded beyond Clark Street, into an area that was until 1850 farmland.</p><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped area bounded on the northwest by Orange Street, between Audubon and Cottage Streets. The northwestern half of Orange Street is included in the Whitney Avenue Historic District, which abuts the Orange Street Historic District on the west. The southeastern boundary is State Street, although no buildings facing State Street are included. Most of the buildings in the district are residential, and are of wood-frame construction. They are stylistically diverse, with representative examples of styles from the late Federal period of the 1820s to the Colonial Revival of the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Quinnipiac River Historic District is a 313 acre historic district straddling the Quinnipiac River in the Fair Haven and Fair Haven Heights neighborhoods of New Haven, Connecticut. It encompasses most of the historic maritime village of Fair Haven, with a history dating back to the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The historic Fair Haven village developed beginning in the early 18th century, around a ferry crossing of the Quinnipiac River, now the site of the Grand Avenue bridge. It was a mainly agricultural outpost of New Haven, whose development was further spurred by the construction of the first bridge on that site in 1790. A few taverns and houses surviving in the district from this period. Owners of waterfront properties adjacent to extensive mudflats engaged in the harvesting and processing of oysters, which became a major economic activity in the area by the mid-19th century. Fair Haven was annexed to New Haven in 1871, and subsequently participated in that city&#39;s industrial expansion, developing in part as a streetcar suburb while still focused on oyster processing and related industries.</p><br>
<p>The River Street Historic District encompasses a historic industrial area in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, Connecticut. Located south of Chapel Street between James Street and Blatchley Avenue, the industrial buildings here date to New Haven&#39;s growth as a major industrial center between the American Civil War and World War I, with significant emphasis on metalworking businesses. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The River Street Historic District occupies about 8.5 acre on the southern end of the Fair Haven Peninsula, with harbor frontage to the south. It includes three large industrial complexes dating from the 1870s to the 1910s, with most buildings constructed out of load-bearing brick or masonry. It is significant in New Haven&#39;s industrial history as the site of several metals-related manufacturing enterprises. It includes the Dutee Wilcox Flint auto plant, a nail manufacturing plant, the complex of the National Pipe Bending Company, and others.</p><br>
<p>The area developed as a major industrial area after the Civil War due to New Havens status as a major railroad junction, with ready access to nearby railroads and a supply of both skilled and unskilled labor from immigration and the citys earlier industries. In 1869, Hobart Bigelow expanded his boiler manufacturing operation to a new location in Fair Haven, and in 1883 he established National Pipe Bending, which manufactured parts for use in his boilers. The area reached its largest extent due to war-related manufacturing in World War I, and declined thereafter. The layout of the buildings was made to maximize access to railroad access spurs that ran along what are now some of the area&#39;s roads.</p><br>
<p>Trowbridge Square Historic District, originally known as Village of Spireworth and Mount Pleasant, is a well-preserved 19th-century neighborhood in the Hill section of New Haven, Connecticut. Roughly bounded by Columbus, Howard, and Union Avenues, and Church Street on the east, the area was laid out in 1830 and developed as a working-class neighborhood. It retains its historic streetscape, and many original buildings, representing modest versions of a diversity of mid-to-late 19th century styles. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Trowbridge Square Historic District is centered on a Trowbridge Square, a small square park located southwest of downtown New Haven and northwest of the city&#39;s historic working port areas. The surrounding streets were laid out in apparent emulation of the nine-square plan by which New Haven was platted in the 17th century. These streets are mostly lined with modest 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 story frame houses, set close to the street, with vernacular touches of architectural styles dating from about 1830 to the turn of the 20th century. The principal non-residential structures in the area are those of the Sacred Heart church, school, and convent, which date to the same period.</p><br>
<p>The Trowbridge Square area was little more than a shanty town in the early 19th century, adjacent to docks and tanneries to the south. James Hillhouse, a local landowner, contemplated development of the area in the 1810s, but economic depression held these plans back. The idea was picked up in 1830 by Simeon Jocelyn and Isaac Thompson, who purchased the land, laid out the street grid, and dubbed the new development "Spireworth". Jocelyn, a successful businessman and real estate developer, sought to create "a harmonious community in which the city&#39;s poor and disadvantaged, a high proportion of whom were blacks, could achieve spiritual, moral and (hopefully) economic betterment." Development remained slow until the 1850s, when Thomas Trowbridge funded improvements to the park (including its fence) and spearheaded construction of the church. Trowbridge also developed many of the small worker cottages in the district, which were primarily rented out to laborers. He built more elaborate and larger Italianate houses in the Cedar Street area.</p><br>
<p>The Upper State Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved neighborhood commercial district of the late 19th century in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. The district is an irregular strip running NNE to SSW mainly along State Street in New Haven , one block west of Interstate 91, the highway which determines the district&#39;s eastern and southern borders. The district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>When New Havens core area was laid out in the 1630s, what is now State Street started out as a path from that area to a series of meadows along the Mill River that were used as pasture land. A bridge spanned the Mill River in 1641, cementing the roadways importance as an east–west travel route. It saw no significant commercial development, however, until after 1850, when the rapidly industrializing city began expanding into the area. By the 1890s the street had been almost fully developed as a neighborhood commercial center, serving the large residential area traversed by Orange Street and Whitney Avenue to the west.</p><br>
<p>Most of the buildings lining State Street date to this first period of development. They are architecturally and functionally diverse, including commercial buildings, mixed-use commercial/residential buildings, light industrial buildings, and churches. Many of the commercial buildings have retained original features of their storefronts. Only a small number of buildings from that period have been demolished, and the surrounding streetscape suffered from the construction of Interstate 91 in the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Bloomvale Historic District is located east of the hamlet of Salt Point, New York, United States. It is a collection of buildings and structures around the intersection of Clinton Corners Road , state highway NY 82 and the East Branch of Wappinger Creek. Most of it is in the Town of Pleasant Valley; the eastern portion is in the Town of Washington.</p><br>
<p>The village (and thus the district) was named after Isaac Bloom, a landowner and politician in the area during and after the Revolutionary War who built a Federal style mansion and operated the first mill on the creek (and thus sometimes historically known as Blooms Mill or Bloomdale). By the mid-19th century it had grown into a small industrial town around what was now a cotton mill. After a fire destroyed the mill, the community faded away in the early 20th century. A later owner was able to use the remaining facilities as a cider mill until almost the middle of the century. In 1991 the dam, the remaining mill buildings, and some of the houses were grouped into a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped 38 acre parcel extending east and west from the junction of Route 82 and Clinton Corners. Its boundaries are those of the lots with the contributing properties on them. The creek forms the boundary on the east and southeast.</p><br>
<p>The area is wooded, with little land cleared around the buildings and structures. There are a total of five buildings and eight structures in the district, most of which relate to the area&#39;s history as a mill site and date to the 19th century. Two of the buildings (a house and modern garage), and one of the structures (a swimming pool), are not considered to be contributing properties. The entire area is also considered a site with potential for archeological investigations, making it the 11th contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally built to attract settlement to the region, the mill property has passed through three distinct phases of use during its period of historical significance. It remained a gristmill and sawmill, supporting the areas farmers, into the mid-19th century, well after Blooms ownership. Redeveloped as an industrial cotton mill, it led to expansion of the area&#39;s population, despite frequent changes of ownership for a quarter-century, until a fire destroyed it. In the early 20th century a new owner built a cider mill on the site although it is not known whether it was commercially successful or not.</p><br>
<h3>1730s–1839: Gristmill and sawmill</h3><br>
<p>The first record of a mill at Bloomvale is a 1749 deed for a nearby tract that describes it as being "west of the kill that Isaac Filkins grist mill stands on." Filkins had inherited the land from his father Henry, one of the Great Nine Partners of the area&#39;s royal land grant. 11 years earlier, in 1738; it is not known if there was a mill at that time. There is a strong possibility that there was as most large landowners had set them up on their holdings by that time, in order to encourage European settlement.</p><br>
<p>The mill continued to be referred to as "Filkins mill" in land records for the rest of the century. Sometime around the Revolution, though, it became just a name, as Isaac Filkins sold the mill property to a younger man named Isaac Bloom, who may have come to Dutchess County from what is now Brooklyn. The younger man signed a 1775 deed for a nearby property as a witness, and Benson Lossings 1852 Pictorial History of the Revolution records the Continental Army encamped at "Bloom&#39;s Mills." That name may be anachronistic, but by 1781 another local deed references Bloom as a nearby landowner, and in 1785 he took out a mortgage on 277 acre that contained the current mill property.</p><br>
<p>Bloom&#39;s 1808 obituary records that he was in the local militia during the Revolutionary War. After independence, he continued to devote himself to public service. He served as the first town clerk after the war, in Clinton, of which Bloomvale was still part at that time. After service as a county judge, a title he kept for most of his life, he was elected to the New York State Assembly and later the State Senate. At the time of his death he had been elected to the USA House of Representatives and was awaiting the start of his term.</p><br>
<p>Bloomvale was his country seat, and he built the large Federal style mansion on the southwest corner of the two roads around 1801. It is angled diagonally, to face the mill and the creek. Its decoration and size epitomize the highest of the Federal style in rural Dutchess County of that time. Today the building is the most architecturally significant in the district.</p><br>
<p>After Isaac Blooms death, his estate was divided among his six surviving children and the children of a seventh who had died before him. The complicated and delicate subdivision of his land this entailed required that it be surveyed accurately, and this was done in 1809, adding considerably to the historical record. It shows that the mill property was separated from the house, and two new farms created. The deed records from this period are confusing, but show that Jonathan Bloom, the son who began living in the house after his father died, acquired four shares of the estate from his siblings. The proceeds from the subdivision were used to settle the estates debts.</p><br>
<p>A mortgage the family took out was nevertheless allowed to default, and in 1826 the Blooms lost the properties to a William Thurston of New York City. Four years later, in 1830, he in turn sold it to Rowland Hazard of South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His family was already involved in the emerging textile industry, with wool and cotton mills in South Carolina and Pennsylvania in addition to their native state. The Bloom property was the latest in a series of acquisitions related to that, moving up the Wappinger Creek valley, where agricultural output was declining to the point that it could no longer sustain the original gristmills.</p><br>
<h3>1840–1875: Cotton mill</h3><br>
<p>Hazard was unable to industrialize the Bloom mill, since it is still described as a sawmill and gristmill in his 1839 will. His wife and daughters subdivided the farm property, which they continued to live on, and leased the mill to an Isaac Merritt and Charles Frost in 1845, on the condition that the two built a cotton mill and housing at their own expense within a decade. By 1850, they had done so, since it is depicted on a contemporary county map. According to the 1850 census&#39;s industrial schedule, the mill employed 35 and produced 30,000 lb of cotton yarn per year. That record also refers to its location as Bloomvale, the first recorded use of that name.</p><br>
<p>The only recorded use of "Bloomdale" is on the 1856 deed from the Hazards sale of the property to Troy industrialist David Thomas Vail, for $6,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). It is possible that it was a misnomer. The deed also suggests that Merritt and Frost fulfilled the terms of their lease but did not renew it, since a Charick Rosencranz is given as the mill operator. Vails purchase may have purely speculative, or a way of buying the Hazards out, since the next year he resold the property to Rosencranz for $20,000 ($ in contemporary dollars).</p><br>
<p>The high purchase price led Rosencranzs mortgage, like the Blooms, into default. In 1862 a man named Benjamin Pond acquired the property after foreclosure for $2,100 ($ in contemporary dollars). Rosencranz apparently remained as its manager or in some significant capacity since the 1870 censuss industrial schedule calls it "Rosencranz and Ponds Bloomvale Factory". By that time, it employed 60 and had increased production to 208,000 lb annually. Bloomvale was a thriving industrial village, and Pond gave $10,000 for the construction of a Dutch Reformed Church chapel for it, an outgrowth of a Sunday school he had started for workers&#39; children.</p><br>
<p>Two years after the census, Pond sold the mill to a group of investors from Philadelphia for $17,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). He had to foreclose on them three years later, in 1875. The property was sold at auction for $3,916 ($ in contemporary dollars) to another Philadelphia man, Henry Carson.</p><br>
<p>This period of the mill&#39;s history is sketchy. Local lore holds that the cotton mill burned down in 1873, but it is difficult to tell from the written record, since all the property transfers from this period refer to the "Bloomvale Factory." The 1875 sale price, the first one after the date of the fire, is the lowest although it is hard to tell since the value of the property had fluctuated wildly. Carson owned the property for 22 years, for purposes unknown. By the time his heirs sold it to Susan Titus in 1897, the price had dropped to $2,500 ($ in contemporary dollars), the lowest until she sold it to Edwin Swezey, an engineer from Brooklyn, for $1 ($ in contemporary dollars).</p><br>
<h3>1876–present: Cider mill</h3><br>
<p>The workers had gradually moved out after the fire, and the last vestige of Bloomvales industrial prime ended when the chapel stopped holding services in 1910. Swezey, who expanded the mill property to 500 acre, built a 40 ft-square cider mill out of the ruined stones from the cotton mill, with help from reinforced concrete and steel, in 1913. Swezey hired Frank Vitale, an Italian immigrant from Brooklyn, NY, to perform the stone masonry work for the rebuilding of the mill. Swezey also restored the managers house and one of the surviving workers&#39; houses.</p><br>
<p>In 1919 the Bloom mansion, somewhat neglected by a succession of owners during the previous century save for the addition of a veranda and kitchen wing, received new attention. New owners, and local historians, recognized its historic importance and kept it to better standards as Dutchess County began to become a popular weekend home site for wealthy New Yorkers. The construction of the Taconic State Parkway, which passes nearby, over the next several decades made it easily accessible by automobile from the city and thus even more attractive.</p><br>
<p>Swezey may or may not have been successful with his cider mill, but he continued to subdivide and sell portions of the onetime Bloom property for the rest of his life. After his death in 1945, his widow sold the mill property and 50 acre to Joseph DeNatale of Yonkers. In 1950 the house&#39;s veranda was removed; in 1989 the chapel was demolished. The present owner has combined most of the surviving mill properties into one parcel.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>There are five buildings and eight structures within the district. Of these 13 resources, 10 are considered contributing properties. In addition the entire district is considered an additional resource for what it might yield in archeological investigations.</p><br>
<h3>Bloom House</h3><br>
<p>Isaac Bloom built this five-bay two-story clapboard-sided side-gabled Federal style mansion in approximately 1801, at the height of his prosperity. Its front facade facing northeast, allowing a view of the mill property. Exterior decoration includes a Palladian window, door sidelights and leaded glass transom. Windows have splayed block lintels, scored and keyed to look like masonry. The roof line is accentuated with blocked modillions that form pediments on the gable ends. In the front is a paved terrace with broad steps descending to the lawn.</p><br>
<p>Inside the house follows a central hall plan with large rooms in the front on either side and smaller ones in back that has been minimally altered. Most of the interior trim is restrained. Doors are paneled on only one side, and the cherry stair rail has no additional finish. The most decorated piece in the house is one of the parlor fireplaces, which has carved in its mantelpiece swags flanking a central urn under the shelf with garlands hanging down the flanking pilasters. The firebox complements this with a gray marble surround. Picture windows have been added to the rear of both first floor rooms.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is similarly furnished but with even more restraint. In the attic the open rafters allow a view of the craftsmanship involved in the queen post framing; it has been left unfinished. The basement has been renovated into additional living space.</p><br>
<p>During the 19th century, a kitchen wing was added to the south and a veranda, since removed, added to the front. Two other buildings are amid the five acres (2 ha) of lawns and landscaping on the property, a contributing wellhouse and noncontributing garage. Barns that were once on the property no longer exist; one was replaced with the garage. The swimming pool to its south is the only non-contributing structure in the district.</p><br>
<h3>Mill complex</h3><br>
<p>The 1913 stone cider mill, its 2½-foot–thick (2.5 ft) walls built partly with stones from the ruined cotton mill, sits to the south of the creek a short distance east of Route 82. It has since been converted into a house. A small shed behind it is the other non-contributing property in the district. To the house&#39;s northwest on either side of the creek are the remaining stone abutments from the 18th-century road and bridge at the site. No remnants of the sawmill/gristmill from that time have been discovered.</p><br>
<p>Further east, along the creek, a high table that creates a waterfall marks the site of the 19th-century cotton mill, with a mill pond still behind it. Foundation and ground floor wall sections are all that remain of the 45 by two-story structure. To the north and east are smaller remains of foundations, the sites of two workers&#39; homes. Further east is another, smaller foundation, the remnants of an icehouse.</p><br>
<p>The only surviving workers home is to the south of the mill site, on a rise above the road. The former mill managers house further south is still extant. It has been altered and enlarged and is no longer considered sufficiently historic, so the district boundaries were drawn to exclude it.</p><br>
<p>Wild&#39;s Mill Complex  was among the last remaining industrial buildings in the formerly thriving milling community of Valatie, Columbia County, New York, United States. It was located southeast of the intersection between USA Route 9 and State Route 203. A five-story brick structure, it served as an historical landmark and its 5.5 acre lot contained the ruins of a previous mill. It was situated along the west bank of the Kinderhook Creek.</p><br>
<p>The original northern section of the building was built in 1846, at 144 ft long and 56 ft wide. Its builder is unknown. A large addition was constructed around 1890. The owner of the mills, Nathan Wild, emigrated from England in the early 19th century and ultimately moved to Columbia County.</p><br>
<p>After Wild&#39;s death in 1867, his sons gained responsibility of the mills. The southern mill was bought by William Harder, who built the addition, in 1890. Modified into a paper mill in the 1890s, the northern mill eventually burned during the 1950s. The southern mill continued to produce cotton products until 1956. A two-story Federal-style building between the two mills was marked as the mill office on early maps, and has since been converted into a residence. However, it is considered an uncommon instance of a standing early 19th-century office building. Among the earliest textile mill complexes in Columbia County,</p><br>
<p>The Hugh T. Rinehart House  is a historic house located near Uniopolis in Union Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. A brick structure built in 1861, it was once the home of one of the most prominent citizens of early Auglaize County. It has been designated a historic site because of its high degree of preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Hugh T. Rinehart</h2><br>
<p>Born in 1813, Hugh T. Rinehart was raised on a farm in Tazewell County, Virginia. At the age of twenty, approximately three years after being apprenticed to a blacksmith, he married the former Juliana Godfrey, also a native of Tazewell County. Three years later, they moved to Union Township where he carved a farm out of the wilderness; they were among the first settlers of what today is eastern Auglaize County. Juliana lived on the farm until her death in 1881 and Hugh until 1891. Rinehart was a leading member of Auglaize County society as well as a longtime local politician: he served as a justice of the peace for fifteen years and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the Ohio General Assembly. He was also one of the original county commissioners elected at the organization of Auglaize County in 1848.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Rinehart built the current house in 1861 along the road between Waynesfield and Wapakoneta, which is now State Route 67. Its architecture is simple: the overall plan is a rectangle, three bays on all four sides, and one-and-one-half stories in height. Inside, the house is built primarily of walnut wood panelling that closely resembles its original state.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the Rinehart House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It fit National Register qualifying criterion "B" because of its connection to Hugh T. Rinehart and qualifying criterion "C" because it was an unusually well-preserved period house in the region. Five smaller buildings were included with the house as contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Wild House is an historic building in Valatie, Columbia County, New York, United States. Built by Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure, in 1826, the original Federal-style building was continually expanded throughout the years as the Wild family&#39;s textile mills in the area flourished. The residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as a result of its historical and architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nathan Wild House is located on Main Street (New York State Route 203) in the village of Valatie, 18 mi south of Albany, New York. It is situated on a 3.7 acres lot, which extends a full block. The house itself faces southward toward the road. It was built as a two-story, wood-frame Federal-style structure and eventually expanded using Italianate architecture. Several wings were added onto the residence after its initial construction, as well as a ballroom, which was built before 1873 off the west wing. A porch is located on the front facade, and a small back porch was added to the main section around 1850. The building&#39;s interior does not contain much of its original detail as a result of extensive remodeling at the same time. Since the home was profiled in History of Columbia County, New York (1873) by Franklin Ellis, it has not undergone any major changes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shortly after 1800, Nathan Wild and his brother James moved from Manchester to the United States. After his employment at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Rhode Island, he migrated to Columbia County, where he was contracted by the Columbia Manufacturing Society to oversee the construction of a cotton mill. By the 1820s, Columbia Countys economy relied significantly upon cotton and wool production. Ultimately, four years later, he built a new mill, using the first power looms in New York State. Another mill was built on the same property nearly 20 years later, and collectively, the Wilds Mill Complex had 12,800 spindles and 175 workers. The last remaining structure on the complex was demolished around 1986.</p><br>
<p>In 1826, Wild built a residence, where he, his wife and his nine children lived. The textile business expanded, and as a result of his wealth, local prominence as one of the founders of Valatie, and growing family, he added to the home and redesigned it. The home gained its modern-day appearance in the 1870s, and it was owned by the Wild family until 1978. The property is both historically and architecturally significant; its design is reminiscent of Valaties milling era. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, and as of 2000 it was being considered for inclusion within the related Register listing for Wilds Mill Complex. Currently the Nathan Wild House has been restored to a private home, after several years&#39; operation as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Exton, also known as St. Pauls Church, is a historic church at 1105 E. Lincoln Highway in Exton, Pennsylvania in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the area known as the Great Valley. It was built in 1828 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as St. Paul&#39;s Church. It is one of the 155 parish churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1828, St. Pauls is the second oldest religious congregation in West Whiteland Township in continual existence, following Grove Methodist Church. It was built along the Lancaster Pike, the first turnpike in the United States, and a major route to the west from Philadelphia. The church is historically linked to St. Davids at Radnor, St. Peter&#39;s Church in the Great Valley and Christ Church, of Greenville, Delaware from the time when Episcopal churches in the area shared rectors.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone laying ceremony in 1828 was of statewide significance, with John Andrew Shulze, the Governor of Pennsylvania, attending, as well as Bishop William White, Presiding Bishop of Pennsylvania, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and the Rev. Brinckle, rector of both St. Peters and St. Davids. The Great Valley was predominately Quaker in 1828, and about 75% of the founding members were of Quaker heritage. They may have changed religious membership because their participation in the United States military during or after the American Revolution violated Quaker pacifist beliefs. Or they may have left their Quaker roots because of the Separation of 1828 between Quaker Hicksite and Orthodox branches.</p><br>
<p>The Church Farm School was founded as a farm and industrial school for boys in 1918 by the Rev. Dr. Charles W. Shreiner about 300 yards west of the church. From 1921–1948 Shreiner served as rector of St. Paul&#39;s, as well as Headmaster of the Church Farm School.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s was built in 1828-29 with major Gothic alterations added in 1872. It was built as a 44-foot x 60 foot one story structure with a plain gable roof. The pews formed around double aisles facing the pulpit at the south end between two doors which formed the main entrance. In 1872 the church was rebuilt keeping the same walls and roof. On the south façade a vestibule and spired bell tower were erected. The pulpit was moved to the north end and a 12’ X 17’ chancel with a triplet window was added there with two 12’ x 12’ rooms, a library and a robing room. New pews, which incorporated a pointed Gothic arch, faced north along a single central aisle. An organ gallery was added as well.</p><br>
<p>Most prominent is the Lychgate at the old entrance to the church. In colonial times through to the mid 1900s, the Lychgate was the place where the unclean would stop and wait until the priest arrived to bless them. In the Judeo–Christian tradition a dead body was considered unclean or unholy. So the pall bearers would carry the body to the Lychgate there priest would greet the pall bearers and mourners. It is under this Lychgate that the priest conducted the first part of the funeral service under its temporary shelter. Once the body was blessed, it could enter upon hallowed or blessed ground. Generally, the ground outside a church is not considered sacred. But, when the church in constructed in or next to a cemetery then the ground in and around the Church has been consecrated. So, it is with St. Paul&#39;s, immediately beyond the East wall is the 200-year-old cemetery.</p><br>
<p>This combination circumstances demonstrates the significance of the Lychgate to not only the orthodox Christian but to the historical authenticity of church structure.</p><br>
<p>The Rectory was built in 1884 – 5. In 1928 the triplet window was replaced by a window designed by the D’Ascenzo Studios of Philadelphia, donated by the Rev. W. L. Bull.</p><br>
<p>The Neely–Sieber House is a historic house on the west side of Lima, Ohio, United States. the house combines elements of the Colonial Revival and Georgian architectural styles.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>This three-story brick house is named for its first and second owners, John D. Neely and Frank X. Sieber. An oil baron from Oklahoma, Neely lived in the house for fifteen years until his 1919 shooting death in the western United States. Five years later, the property was purchased by Sieber, a leading Lima businessman; he and his family owned the house for over fifty years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Located at 620 W. Spring Street, the Neely–Sieber House is a fine example of early twentieth-century Lima residential architecture. As the home of an oil baron, it was one of many grand buildings in the city erected in the wake of the discovery of petroleum near Lima in 1885. The house&#39;s three floors are divided into twenty-six rooms, many of which are decorated with chandeliers, carven mahogany panelling, and hand-painted ceilings. Among these rooms are a grand ballroom and quarters for the household servants.</p><br>
<p>The houses exterior is dominated by a large veranda that wraps around the houses front and western sides. Brick walls are supported by a stone foundation and topped by a roof of asbestos. Above the main entrance is a broken pediment and a semi-circular transom, and three third-floor dormer windows pierce the front of the roof.</p><br>
<h3>Similar buildings</h3><br>
<p>Many houses similar to the Neely–Sieber House were built on Limas west side around the turn of the twentieth century, but few remain. Some of the best examples of period residential architecture once lined West Market Street just west of the citys central square, but most of these houses were destroyed in the 1960s after rezoning; only the MacDonall House survived.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1976, the Neely–Sieber House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As one of the most elegant houses ever built in Lima, and as one of the few surviving mansions on the city&#39;s west side, it was seen as deserving of historic preservation primarily because of its historically significant architecture. Several other historic Lima houses are also listed on the National Register: the MacDonall House was added in 1978, and a group of thirty-five houses on the far western end of Market Street were designated the West Market Street Boulevard Historic District in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Wesley Brethren Church is an historic church in Wesley, Texas, United States. The church was built in 1866. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The church is mostly built with hand cut native logs. Directly above the doors is a hand painted sign bearing the message: "JA JSEM TA CESTA I PRAVDA I ZIVOT SLOVA JEZISEKRISTA", meaning "I am the way, the truth, and the light, the words of Jesus Christ" in Czech. Inside the church, much of the wall and ceiling surface has elaborate and detailed hand painting, added between 1889 and 1891.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Josef Opocensky organized the first Czech Protestant and Moravian Brethren congregation in North America in 1864 at Veseli (now Wesley). The Wesley Brethren church, erected in 1886, served as a school between 1866 and 1900 and as a museum by 1989. Among his supporters and the first Czech and Moravian settlers in that part of Washington County, Texas and Austin County, Texas (Wesley and Latium) were former members of his congregation in Zádveřice in Moravia, and pioneers to Texas: Peter Mikeska, Jiri "George" Psencik, Josef Skrivanek, Mataus Rubac, Paul Sebesta, Tom Chupik (father of Johanna, wife of Rev. Ludvik Chlumsky), Frank Sebesta, Ernest Schuerer (married to Marie Opocensky, niece of Rev. J.O, Karl Rypl, Vinc Silar, Josef Rypl, Josef Silar, Jan Zabcik, Josef Jezek, Jan Baletka, Josef Masik. Rev. Josef Opocensky died July 17, 1870, and is buried in the cemetery adjacent to the church.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 438 N. Wall Street in Belton, Texas.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1874 in a Vernacular Gothic style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1999 local author Elizabeth Silverthorne wrote “A History of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Belton” that detailed both the history of the building and the church. Despite being founded in 1860, the church wasnt admitted to the rolls of parishes of the Episcopal Church of Texas until 1863. During its early years, the congregation of St. Lukes used the meeting space of other area churches. In 1871, W.W. Patrick, a reverend in Waco, was appointed to minister St. Lukes one Sunday a month with John C. Moore, a lay reader, performing services the other weeks. Under Patricks guidance, the congregation of St. Lukes raised the funds necessary to construct their own building. Patrick signed a contract to construct a 27-foot by 39-foot “rock house with a recess channel, semi-gothic in style.” At the time, the cost for the endeavor was $3,000 — about $57,000 adjusted for inflation — and the stones were to be cut from Bell County quarries. The congregation raised about half of the needed money from the community and half was donated from other Episcopal churches throughout the country. Although construction of the building was completed in 1874, the new church was not consecrated by Alexander Gregg, the Episcopal bishop for Texas, until April 18, 1875. After the completion of the church Patrick relocated from Waco and became St. Lukes first full-time minister. However, by the 1960s things had picked up to the point that the congregation had outgrown their original building and on Sept. 10, 1968, a groundbreaking was held for a new church. Construction on the building lasted until early 1969. The new building was consecrated on March 23, 1969 — Palm Sunday. Shortly afterward, the 1874 building was deconsecrated. After its deconsecration, the building was sold to the Belton Fine Arts Association for $3,000, about $14,000 adjusted for inflation.</p><br>
<p>Ximenes Chapel  is a historic chapel at 113 Ruiz Street in San Antonio, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The chapel has long been an important gathering place for San Antonio&#39;s Mexican-American and Hispanic Catholic population.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was rebuilt in the 1920s to replace the original chapel from 1813, which had been destroyed in a fire. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a historic church on Ash Street in Lindsay, Cooke County, Texas.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1903 and added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>At first appearance, you would think that this is a stone church, much like the German immigrants that founded Lindsay would have attended in their home country. On closer examination, it is carefully painted (and maintained) wood.</p><br>
<p>The church is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.</p><br>
<p>Old Bnai Zion Synagogue, also known as Sunset Palace, is a historic synagogue at 906 N. El Paso Street in El Paso, Texas. It was built in 1916 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It served as synagogue from 1912 to 1917, serving El Paso&#39;s first Jewish community. It served St. Nicholas Greek Church from 1927 through at least 1934. In 1984 it was serving as a dance studio, Sunset Palace, as well as sometimes as a social center and church.</p><br>
<p>Central Presbyterian Church  is a historic church at 402 N. College in Waxahachie, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>Each of the 250+ members is from varied denominational backgrounds, united together for the glory of God and the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge. Central Presbyterian has a dynamic youth group and strong ties to Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services. It is an established church in a historic community. CPC is part of Grace Presbytery and Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<h2>Mission</h2><br>
<p>Worship. Love. Grow. Act.</p><br>
<h3>Responding to God’s grace</h3><br>
<p>"Inspired by the grace of God we nurture and enrich the spiritual faith of our church community and exemplify God’s transcending love in our daily lives through our worship, witness and actions so all will come to know and embrace the redeeming power of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!</p><br>
<p>Together, we are the body of Christ. The power of the mission statement lies in the application to the vision, ministries, and day to day activities of this church and by each individual through the Holy Spirit."</p><br>
<h3>Worship</h3><br>
<p>Every Sunday at 11 AM</p><br>
<p>402 N. College St Waxahachie, Tx 75165</p><br>
<p>Beginning</p><br>
<p>Central Presbyterian Church was founded in 1853 when the Reverend B. Malloy organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with twelve charter members. With the union of two national Presbyterian denominations in 1905, the local congregation took the name of Central Presbyterian Church of Waxahachie, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Current Building</p><br>
<p>The current building was first used on Easter of 1919. Designed by architect C.D. Hill, this late Gothic Revival building was constructed of oriental brick trimmed in white stone, with a seating capacity of approximately five hundred. The cost of the building and furnishings was $112,522. The pipe organ, which is an Austin Opus 809, and is still in operation, was donated.</p><br>
<h3>“Today we became a church”</h3><br>
<p>In 1950, CPC sponsored a refugee family from post WWII Communist-ruled Hungary, the Zsohars. With two days&#39; notice, the congregation responded and got a house ready for the family. Ed Clark, head of the Men’s Bible class, said as he addressed the congregation, “Today, we became a church!”</p><br>
<p>The relationship established with the Zsohar family has had a long-lasting impact on CPC’s mission of reaching out to others beyond our walls and into the world. Surviving Through Faith, written by Zoltan Zsohar, chronicles how God used the members of CPC in 1950 to respond to the family’s needs, welcome them to their new home in Texas and to unite a church.</p><br>
<h3>Commitment to youth</h3><br>
<p>The Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services (PCHAS) began its mission in Waxahachie during September 1960. The organization provides Christ-centered care and family support to children from birth to 17-years–old, as well as single mothers who have suffered from neglect, abuse, and abandonment, or children whose families are experiencing some type of family crisis or other issues which threaten family stability. Over the years, many members have served as mentors to the kids. The kids and home parents are an integral part of the church family, and the deep commitment to PCHAS continues today.</p><br>
<p>The youth group, Same Difference Youth Group, has a strong tradition of fellowship with each other and connecting with other Presbyterian youth through camps at Mo Ranch and the annual Senior High Youth Conference within Grace Presbytery. The Youth have also been leaders in service, volunteering at Our Calling, Union Gospel Mission, as well as mission trips within Texas in recent years.</p><br>
<h3>"Bethlehem Revisted"</h3><br>
<p>In 1997, Central Presbyterian Church initiated “Bethlehem Revisited”, an event portraying a full representation of life in Bethlehem when Christ was born. It includes replications of homes, shops and other facilities authentic to the time period. Costumed characters act out the roles of merchants, clergy, soldiers and other inhabitants. Camels, donkeys, goats and other animals are part of the event. “Bethlehem” takes place on the church property, just east of the main building.</p><br>
<p>Today the event is a collaboration between several churches, businesses, organizations and individuals from the community. Bethlehem Revisited draws several thousands of visitors from throughout the region each Christmas season who are reminded that Jesus is the Reason for the Season.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church building at 1903 Church Street in Galveston, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A Presbyterian congregation met in Galveston as early as 1839, when Reverend John McCullough delivered sermons there. In May 1840, McCullough with two other ministers and an elder established a Presbytery.</p><br>
<p>The Presbyterian congregation was organized in 1840 with the assistance of missionaries from the United States, and it met in a wooden church building from 1843 to 1872, the first church building in Galveston. The current Romanesque building was constructed in 1872 and is considered one of the best examples of Norman architecture in the region. It was designed by Nicholas J. Clayton, a prominent early Texas architect. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Currently, the congregation is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Synod of the Sun, and of New Covenant Presbytery.</p><br>
<p>Scottish Rite Cathedral is a historic Scottish Rite Masonic building at 2128 Church Street in Galveston, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Masons previously occupied Harmony Hall, a building designed by Nicholas J. Clayton for the Harmony Club. The Masons lost this building to a fire in 1928. The Masons hired the firm of Alfred C. Finn, who assigned H. Jordan MacKenzie to this commission. This art deco building clad in brick and stone faced its loggia toward Church Street and made window placements to suggest the internal arrangement of the building. The building is decorated with copper doors and stone relief sculptures.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1928 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 801 Andrews in the Fourth Ward, Houston, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Late Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1923 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Bethel Church building was constructed in 1889 as a haven for former slaves and was entirely constructed of wood. Built by the Reverend Jack Yates, the plot was located in Houston&#39;s Freedmantown district. The original structure was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1900. Between 1900 and 1920, a second church structure was erected on top of the remains but it too was later destroyed. Twenty three years later, the church was reconstructed for a third and final time.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the last church service was held in the building after which it was abandoned.</p><br>
<p>On January 24, 2005, a fire destroyed the interior of the church, leaving only the exterior brickwork intact."The roof, all the interior and even the church&#39;s back wall had been destroyed; all that was left were three walls, some concrete supports and the concrete floor."</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the church was sold to the City of Houston. Soon thereafter, the city erected steel supports and a concrete floor to preserve the building.</p><br>
<p>The city purchased the church, one of the oldest in Houston, for $350,000 of special tax increment re-investment zone money. The city planned for the restoration project to take two years. Prior to the citys purchase of the church, area residents feared that the church ruins would be demolished to make room for more townhouses. Since the fire occurred, the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church congregation relocated to a new building. Pastor Robert Robertson, the leader of the church, supported the citys purchase and restoration of the church facility.</p><br>
<p>The Sessions–Pope–Sheild House, also known as Sessions House or Sheild House, is a historic home located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It is thought to have been built in or shortly after 1766, and is a -story, five-bay by two bay, brick Southern Colonial dwelling. It has a clipped gable roof with dormers. It has two T-shaped end chimney. Also on the property is a contributing archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The City Cemetery of Raleigh, also known as Old City Cemetery, was authorized in 1798 by the North Carolina General Assembly as Raleighs first burying ground. It was laid out on 4 acre of land just outside the original 1792 eastern boundary of Raleigh and bounded by East Street on the west, East Hargett Street on the south, and Morgan Street on the north. It was originally laid out in four equal quarters with the northern two quarters reserved for residents, the southwestern for visitors, and the southeastern for Negroes, both free and slaves. Over time, the cemetery has gradually been enlarged toward New Bern Street in 1819, 1849, and 1856 and now contains approximately 7.5 acre. The cemetery was enclosed in 1898 by a cast-iron fence that was formerly around Union Square to keep straying livestock out of the State Capitol grounds. A network of cobblestone driveways with granite curbstones run through the cemetery. In 1857, the city boundaries were extended to include the cemetery, and the city charter provided for a resident caretaker. Many persons of Raleighs and North Carolina&#39;s early period are interred at City Cemetery including governors, mayors, politicians, newspaper editors, military officers, ministers, doctors, planters, attorneys, bankers, and Scottish and English stonemasons who helped build the Capitol.</p><br>
<p>City Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 12 September 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Historic grave sites</h2><br>
<p>Joel Lane</p><br>
<p>Jacob Johnson</p><br>
<p>John Rex</p><br>
<p>Joseph Gales</p><br>
<p>Weston R. Gales</p><br>
<p>John Devereux</p><br>
<p>William Boylan</p><br>
<p>Thomas Meredith</p><br>
<p>William Peace</p><br>
<p>Governor Charles Manly</p><br>
<p>William Henry Haywood</p><br>
<p>Dr. Josiah Ogden Watson</p><br>
<p>Romulus M. Saunders</p><br>
<p>William White</p><br>
<p>Sion Hart Rogers</p><br>
<p>Colonel William Polk</p><br>
<p>General Lawrence O. Branch</p><br>
<p>General William A. Blount</p><br>
<p>Richard Hines</p><br>
<p>Absalom Tatom</p><br>
<p>William Shaw</p><br>
<p>William Hill</p><br>
<p>Anna J. Cooper</p><br>
<p>The War Memorial Auditorium is a 2,000-seat performance hall located in Nashville, Tennessee. Built in 1925, it served as home of the Grand Ole Opry between 1939 and 1943. It is also known as the War Memorial Building, the Tennessee War Memorial, or simply the War Memorial. It is located across the street from, and is governed by, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, and is also adjacent to the Tennessee State Capitol. It received an architectural award at the time of its construction, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the conclusion of World War I, the Tennessee Historical Society, the Nashville Engineering Association, and veterans groups began plans to erect a building in Nashville to memorialize the soldiers who had lost their lives in the conflict. This effort soon found an ally with the Tennessee Capitol Association, which required space for state offices and the storage of states collection of memorabilia. While there was some public support for building a classical structure adjacent to the Parthenon in Centennial Park, Governor Albert H. Roberts supported construction of a building on land between Union, Sixth, Seventh, and Cedar (now Charlotte) streets, very close to the State Capitol building designed by William Strickland. Chapter 122 of The Public Acts of 1919, also known as the Tennessee Memorial Act, enabled the state to acquire this land and build a memorial hall for offices and public assembly. The act also included provisions for memorial parks to be constructed next to the building and ensured that the names of the 3,400 Tennesseans killed in World War I would be etched on the exterior of the hall. The cost of construction, which exceeded $2.5 million, was paid for with $600,000 from the city of Nashville, $1,000,000 from Davidson county, and $1 million from the state of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>A three-person committee of out-of-state architects was commissioned to choose an architect and designer for the project. The committee designed a competition that would narrow the field to three in-state and three out-of-state finalists, who would then compete for the final design. The ultimate winner was Nashville architect Edward Dougherty, affiliated as an associate with McKim, Mead, and White of New York. He designed a memorial in the classical architectural style consisting of an auditorium and an office block separated by a court of honor. The central courtyard is surrounded by Doric colonnade and portico recalling the entrance through the Propylaeon to the Athenian Acropolis. Above the front steps to this entrance, a carving reads:</p><br>
<p>AMERICA IS PRIVILEGED TO SPEND HER BLOOD AND HER MIGHT FOR THE PRINCIPLES THAT GAVE HER BIRTH AND HAPPINESS AND THE PEACE WHICH SHE HAS TREASURED.</p><br>
<p>WOODROW WILSON</p><br>
<p>The above statement is a reference from 8:30 p.m. on April 2, 1917, where President Woodrow Wilson delivered his message before a joint session of Congress, recommending that a state of war be declared between the United States and the imperial German government. Realizing that the war looming ahead would be a costly one, Wilson said, "The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured." Almost a decade later, on the September 21, 1925, the War Memorial Building was dedicated. During the dedication ceremony Tennessee&#39;s World War I hero, Sgt. Alvin C. York, was escorted down the aisle as the band played Dixie.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium originally seated 2,200, with stunning design features and near perfect acoustics. "Youth" is the name of the heroic statue which stands in the center of the courtyard holding a Nike in his open left palm, symbolizing victory in the war. Belle Kinney Scholz was the sculptor of the statue. She also built the Confederate Womens Monument at the southwest corner of the building. To the south end of the large plaza in front of the War Memorial are monuments to the Korean War (built by Russ Faxon in 1992; Faxon also built the Oh Roy statue that sits inside of the Ryman Auditorium) and the Vietnam War Monument (built by Alan LeQuire in 1986; LeQuire also built the Parthenons Athena and the Music Circle&#39;s Musica). The military branch of the Tennessee State Museum is on the ground floor of the southern end of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was recognized with a Gold Medal Award by the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) in 1925, the highest honor that the AIA can bestow.</p><br>
<p>From 1939 to 1943, the War Memorial Auditorium served as the fourth home of the Grand Ole Opry.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Ole Opry was performed here from about 1939 through 1943, when the Opry moved to the larger Ryman Auditorium. The Opry members who were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry family during this time at War Memorial Auditorium include Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe, and Minnie Pearl, just to name a few. On May 3, 2010, after the current Grand Ole Opry House flooded, the Opry returned to the War Memorial Auditorium for its first public performance there in over 66 years, and continued as one of the venues that hosted the Opry until the current Opry House was restored.</p><br>
<p>Nashville&#39;s Capitol Hill and grounds that surround War Memorial Auditorium has changed greatly since the early days. The area in which the War Memorial Building resides was originally known as Memorial Square, and it consisted of the War Memorial Building, the courtyard and fountain, and the State Capitol Building. The building has hosted three United States Presidents on their campaign trails, one United States Vice President, numerous Tennessee Governor Inaugurations, and an untold array of artists across all genres.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>The auditorium features both open floor and seated configuration, which gives the option of sitting or standing during a performance. A wooden stage and proscenium meet an open floor with a surrounding balcony. The ceiling of the auditorium is adorned with square patterned art deco inlays. Charlie Daniels put on his first Volunteer Jam on October 4, 1974, featuring performances by members of The Allman Brothers Band and Artimus Pyle. In recent years the venue was featured in Carrie Underwoods 2006 single "Dont Forget to Remember Me" and Jewel&#39;s 2010 single, "Satisfied." It has hosted such acts as Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Mumford & Sons, Jason Mraz, The Dead Weather and more. Live from the Artists Den filmed their 2010 Robert Plant and the Band of Joy DVD performance during a two night stay at the auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 as Tennessee War Memorial.</p><br>
<p>The Metropolitan Block is a historic commercial building along North Main Street in downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Built in 1890 at the middle of Lima&#39;s petroleum boom, it is historically significant as a well-preserved example of Romanesque Revival architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Metropolitan Block is a five-story building constructed in a Victorian version of the Romanesque Revival style. Built primarily of brick, the block includes many stone details throughout its exterior, supporting elements of cast iron on the first floor, and the original glass windows of its storefronts. Among the building&#39;s decorative elements are transom windows of lavender-colored glass above the entrances, awnings of canvas covering the sidewalks around the building, and turrets at the top of the facade.</p><br>
<h2>Related buildings</h2><br>
<p>Many elaborate buildings were constructed in downtown Lima during the oil boom of the 1880s and 1890s, including the adjacent Renz Block and many buildings on South Main Street; however, the Metropolitan Block is the only major building of the period not to have been significantly modified.</p><br>
<p>During the early twentieth century, the establishment of Standard Oil offices in Lima and the increasing size of the Lima Locomotive Works led to the construction of more ornate buildings in the city&#39;s downtown. Among these structures were the Elks Lodge and Ohio Theatre, located less than one city block away on North Street.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, the Metropolitan Block was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its unusually well-preserved architecture. A remaining portion of the Miami and Erie Canal and four Lima buildings, including the Allen County Courthouse across Main Street from the Metropolitan Block, had previously been listed on the National Register. In 1982, nearly twenty other buildings in the city were added to the National Register as part of the "Lima Multiple Resource Area," a group of architecturally-significant buildings in the city&#39;s downtown. Among the buildings included in this collection were the Renz Block, the Ohio Theatre, the Elks Lodge, and several buildings on the nearby Public Square.</p><br>
<p>Cherry Hill is an unincorporated community in Wayne County in the USA state of Michigan. The community is located within Canton Township along Cherry Hill and Ridge Roads but otherwise has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics. The Cherry Hill Historic District is a primarily residential historic district encompassing the greater part of Cherry Hill. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cherry Hill, settled in 1825, was an early crossroads hamlet in Canton Township. The town was originally called "Ridge" (also the origin of "Ridge Road") due to its position atop the ridge shore of an ancient lake. The town of Ridge soon followed suit, and changed its name to "Cherry Hill." Hitchcock&#39;s inn was used later as a general store and a dance hall, becoming the social center of the community for generations.</p><br>
<p>The Ypsi Creamery was located in Cherry Hill, after which the Detroit Creamery (later the Wilson Dairy) operated until 1940.</p><br>
<p>Cherry Hill is the last of the five hamlets in Canton Township to retain substantial historic significance; it also endured as a commercial and social hub until the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Community development</h2><br>
<p>In 2000, construction began on the Cherry Hill Village residential development in the area. The development included over 750 houses, parks, and a town center with a community theatre. The development emphasized traditional architecture and site plans to evoke a neotraditional small-town feel.</p><br>
<h2>Historic District description</h2><br>
<p>The Cherry Hill Historic District contains buildings facing Cherry Hill and Ridge Roads near their intersection. These include the Cherry Hill House, the only Italianate building in the township, the Gothic Revival Cherry Hill United Methodist Church and associated cemetery, the Cherry Hill School, the Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House, the Thomas and Isabella Moore Clyde House, buildings used for one of Henry Ford&#39;s Village Industry projects, and other farmhouses and associated outbuildings in the area.</p><br>
<p>The William B. and Mary Chase Stratton House is a private house located at 938 Three Mile Dr. in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William B. and Mary Chase Stratton House was built as a collaborative venture between husband-and-wife William Buck Stratton (an architect) and Mary Chase Perry Stratton (a ceramicist). The two-story house is constructed of hollow tile with steel beams faced with varicolored brick shading from brown to beige. The house is irregularly massed and crowned with a low-pitched roof covered with unglazed tiles of Pewabic Pottery, produced by Mary Chase Perry Stratton&#39;s company which is a National Historic Landmark in Detroit.</p><br>
<p>The house design was heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Strattons used natural material, texture, and color to create an original and masterly composition. The interior of the house holds a simple elegance, and is notable for the fine composition and harmony both within the house and between the interior and the landscaped grounds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Stratton began his planning for the house in 1912, six years before he married Mary Chase Perry in 1918. The home in Grosse Pointe was built in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The John Thompson Woodhouse House is a private house located at 33 Old Brook Ln. in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>John Thompson Woodhouse</h2><br>
<p>John Thompson Woodhouse was born on September 3, 1861, in Waterford, Ontario to William Thomas Woodhouse and Elizabeth Thompson, and came with his family to Detroit in 1874. In 1880 he became a clerk at the M.L. Wagner Company, a small tobacco products manufacturing company. By 1881 he was a partner in the firm, and from there on the company flourished. By 1892 the name had changed to the Wagner and Woodhouse Company, and in 1901 became John T. Woodhouse & Company. By 1911, Woodhouse was the company&#39;s president and sole owner.</p><br>
<p>Woodhouse had married Alice Matilda Goodyear, daughter of Nicholas Goodyear and Jane Almond, on January 30, 1884, in Detroit, Michigan; together they had six children, one of whom died in infancy. However, Alice died on March 4, 1911, in Detroit, Michigan. Woodhouse remarried on April 26, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan to his second wife, Elizabeth E. Ewing, daughter of John Timothy Ewing and Elizabeth Johnson, but the couple divorced on December 17, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. In the meantime, John T. Woodhouse & Company continued to grow, and moved into a new headquarters in downtown Detroit where Hart Plaza is now located. In 1917, Woodhouse hired George D. Mason to construct this house. It was built between 1918 and 1920. Woodhouse moved into this house once it was built, and in the late 1920s turned his business over to his son, John Thompson Woodhouse Jr. Woodhouse remarried to his third wife Clara S. Frederick, daughter of Charles N. Frederick and Selma Dreher, on August 19, 1929, in Niagara Falls, New York, but financial losses due to the Great Depression caused him despair, and he committed suicide in this house on January 25, 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Further history</h2><br>
<p>After John Sr.&#39;s death in 1930, his son John moved into the house. He sold off portions of the surrounding property as lots. The younger John maintained ownership of both John T. Woodhouse & Company and of this house until his death on December 10, 1967, in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. At this point, the house was put up for sale. The house was purchased in 1974 by Drs. E. G. and Aspasia Metropoulos, who undertook a substantial renovation of the property.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The John Thompson Woodhouse House is a -story, irregularly massed Tudor Revival house with a tile roof designed by George D. Mason. It is similar in design to the 1915 house Mason designed for Charles T. Fisher, located on West Boston Boulevard in Detroit in what is now the Boston-Edison Historic District. The Woodhouse house has a combination gable and hip roof, and is finished in rock-face random ashlar limestone on the first story and stucco above. The gables are half-timbered, and the facade is trimmed with smooth-cut limestone.</p><br>
<p>The house is unusual in that it has two prominent facades. The original front, once visible from Lake Shore Road, has a center entrance with an elaborate stone pediment above containing garlands of fruit and the sculptured head of the Greek goddess Hera. The entry doorway contains a double door flanked by sidelights. A two-story bay window containing multi-light windows with decorative carved stone panels sits next to the entrance. A metal balconet under a broad tripartite window sits above the entrance. On the other side of the house, the current main entrance is in the center of an irregular facade. The entryway is set in a square-headed limestone door surround with a sculptured stone head of Zeus centrally positioned above the door. Above that is a bank of windows.</p><br>
<p>Inside the house, the entry is through a small vestibule which opens into a large entry hall containing the main staircase. The entry hall has a heavy oak beamed ceiling and oak floor, and the staircase is constructed from heavy carved dark oak. The living room and dining room are off the entry hall. The living room has oak wainscoting and bookcases, a dark oak floor, and a carved stone fireplace. The dining room has decorative molding with patterned frieze encircling the room. The nearby breakfast room has a Pewabic tile floor.</p><br>
<p>The original address of the John Thompson Woodhouse home was 337 lake Shore Drive, Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County, Michigan, USA. The John Thompson Woodhouse palatial home was modeled after Scale Hall in Skerton, Ecclesiastical District of St. Luke&#39;s, Lancashire, England, which had been occupied by one branch of the Woodhouse family for generations.</p><br>
<p>The Marks–Family House is a historic house on the eastern  side of Delphos, Ohio, United States. Erected along Franklin Street in 1902,</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Marks–Family House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. Key to this significance was its well-preserved Queen Anne exterior and its original interior. Two other Delphos buildings are listed on the National Register: St. John&#39;s Catholic Church, which is also located on Franklin Street, and the Bredeick-Lang House on the western (Van Wert County) side of the city.</p><br>
<p>Nutwood Place is a historic farm complex on the northern edge of Urbana, Ohio, United States. Today composed of the farmhouse, a round barn, and a small amount of former fields, the farm has been owned by some of Urbanas leading families. Colonel William Ward, the founder of Urbana and the farms original owner, built the farmhouse in 1815. At this time, he owned 160 acre of land north of the village of Urbana; there he established his farm under the name of "Nutwood Place," where he lived until his 1822 death.</p><br>
<p>Commercial hatter Absalom Jennings of New York City bought the farm in 1856, but he waited three years before taking up residence there. Here he remained for the rest of his life, breeding horses and cattle. Under his direction, the brick round barn was erected in 1861.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, Nutwood Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. It is one of eight places listed on the National Register in Urbana.</p><br>
<p>The John Q.A. Ward House is a historic house in Urbana, Ohio, United States. Located along College Street on the city&#39;s western side,</p><br>
<p>John A. Ward&#39;s son, John Quincy Adams Ward, is the namesake of the house. A sculptor, Ward was known for multiple carvings of the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, and Oliver Hazard Perry.</p><br>
<p>The Ward House is historically significant for its early architecture. Based on a stone foundation, the brick house is a two-story structure built in an "L" plan. This well-preserved architecture, together with its connection to John Q.A. Ward, led to the house&#39;s addition to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Shelby House, also known as Kerr House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It was built circa 1855, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick I-house. It has a two-story rear ell with two-story porch. The front facade features an entry portico with tapering octagonal posts and scrollwork balustrade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Shelby House is no longer standing, though a German bank barn, built ca. 1900, associated with the property still stands.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination form:</p><br>
<p>The Shelby House originally fronted on the old Santa Fe Trail, a route paralleled by today&#39;s USA Highway 24. Nearby are apple orchards, modern apple processing and storage buildings and a circa 1900 German bank barn. The Shelby House is said to be constructed of bricks fired at a kiln east of the property. The brickwork is precise, with bricks laid in a common bond....</p><br>
<p>The Shelby House is the only extant antebellum building of the Thomas Shelby plantation. Antebellum outbuildings which originally included a brick carriage house and a slave cabin have been razed.</p><br>
<p>The Shelby House is significant in the area of agriculture as the main living center of the operating family of a documented hemp plantation. Thomas Shelby, who owned many slaves, was a major participant in the local hemp market. In 1860, Shelby harvested more dew-rotted hemp than all but a handful of other Lafayette County growers. While exemplifying the Greek Revival l-House property type favored by many of the transplanted Southerners, the Shelby House also displays architecture of exceptional quality (see MPS cover document, "Antebellum Resources of Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties, Missouri: Associated Property Types: Greek Revival l-Houses, Central Passage Subtype"). Builder Shelby was among the wealthier of the slave-owning farmers, and this is reflected in such embellishments as a projecting pedimented gable, cast iron lintels, and massive entablature enframements....</p><br>
<p>Located in prime hemp country, the Thomas Shelby House housed the slaveowning Shelby family and was the centerpiece of a large plantation where a transplanted Southern culture flourished prior to the Civil War. Shelby harvested 47 tons of dew-rotted hemp in 1860, and his interest in hemp was so great that he continued harvesting immense quantities into the 1870s, when the market was greatly diminished. Shelby was relatively wealthy and his farm already consisted of more than a thousand acres when the Shelby House was constructed in circa 1855. In 1860, the census reported the farms cash value as $60,000 and listed its size as 1,580 acres, 800 of which were improved. Shelbys "personal estate" was valued at $36,000 in 1860. To operate the plantation, Shelby had an overseer and 41 slaves.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its domestic function as the family home, the Shelby house undoubtedly served as the nucleus building on the plantation. Here decisions were made about such things as crop plantings, when to take hemp to market, and matters involving the primary labor force. There were other more specialized buildings, such as barns, granaries and slavehouses, but today the house is the only extant building on the old Shelby property which represents antebellum plantation agriculture. While harvesting huge quantities of hemp, Shelby, like his neighbors, also practiced diversified agriculture which was important commercially as well as for self-sufficiency: the family and Shelby&#39;s many slaves had to be fed. Income was derived from a variety of agricultural products including livestock, and this diversity made Shelby and the other growers less vulnerable to fluctuations in hemp prices during the 1850s. Production on the Shelby plantation increased in most categories during the 1850-60 decade. Shelby also may have speculated in land....</p><br>
<p>Shelby was a successful agriculturalist on Dover Road prior to construction of the Shelby House, continuing and expanding the farming operation established by his parents. His 1850 farm was valued at $4,400, and was of sufficient size (440 acres, 100 of which were improved) for the production of 12 tons of hemp, 2,000 bushels of corn, 200 bushels of oats, 200 pounds of butter, 40 bushels of wheat as well as other produce, while he also raised livestock including 8 cows, 20 beef cattle and 100 swine. In 1850, Shelby had 15 slaves. 7 Forty-seven tons of hemp were produced on the Shelby plantation-which by then had grown much larger--in the year ending June 1, 1860. This amount was exceeded by only two other "growers within Lexington Township, a choice hemp growing area. (While 47 tons was a considerable amount from an individual plantation, it represented only about one per cent of the 4,605 tons of hemp produced in Lafayette County.) In 1860 Shelbys plantation also produced 7,500 bushels of corn, 700 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of potatoes, 40 tons of hay, and 400 pounds of butter. He had 42 beef cattje, 10 cows, 200 swine, 30 horses, 18 asses and mules, 8 oxen and 4 sheep. Shelbys few sheep producecf an insignificant amount of wool in 1860, down from the previous decade when a dozen sheep produced 50 pounds. After the war, the flock was greatly expanded....</p><br>
<p>Settlers from the Upland South, aspiring to develop their ideas of status and the good life on-the Missouri frontier while practicing a plantation lifestyle, built hundreds of Greek Revival l-Houses but relatively few were as impressive as the Shelby House, which remains an outstanding local example of architectural quality in a Greek Revival country house. Born in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1818, Thomas Shelby came to Lafayette County with his parents, William and Nancy Shelby, who were Virginia natives, in 1836. They settled along Dover Road on land purchased from the James Hicklin family. In 1838, Shelby married Nancy H. Gordon, whose father George H. Gordon was an early settler/surveyor who laid out the town of Lexington, and whose uncle was Lin Boyd, a Congressman for 16 years and a former Speaker of the House. Shelbys own relatives included a former Kentucky governor. Shelbys plantation was in operation prior to construction of the Shelby House in circa 1855, but no descriptive record exists of earlier family residences. In 1860, the Shelby household consisted of the parents, seven children and J. Enoch, an overseer of the farm including the family&#39;s 41 slaves. Perhaps Shelby sympathized with the Confederacy, but in any case he was considered neutral during the war. According to one biographical (or possibly autobiographical) account, Shelby could "estimate the claims and mistakes of both the contending parties. Without being offensive to either.....he commanded (confidence and esteem) alike from blue coats and gray..." Although the loss of his slaves deprived him of considerable wealth, Shelby kept his plantation and had sufficient assets to continue his agricultural pursuits during the years of reconstruction.</p><br>
<p>Shelby was reluctant to abandon hemp even in the depressed postwar market, harvesting 20 tons (a substantial amount even a decade earlier) in the year ending June 30,1870. His plantation was smaller at 1,000 acres but the amount of improved land was the same as in 1860, 800 acres. Valuation was $30,000. In addition to hemp, produce in 1870 included 4,000 bushels of corn, 900 bushels of wheat, 20 bushels of potatoes, 100 pounds of wool, 500 pounds of butter and 100 tons of hay. Shelby&#39;s orchard produced $100 worth of fruit. He had more cows (30), beef cattle (60) and sheep (30) than in the antebellum censuses, while maintaining the same number of swine (200). There were fewer horses (16), asses and mules (16) and working oxen (2). Livestock were valued at $4,500." At some point, Shelby reportedly purchased 1,500 sheep. He also is said to have experimented with buffalo. After the death of his first wife in 1876, Shelby went to Ohio where he married Margaret Houston. They returned to the Lexington area and probably to the farm in about 1880, then moved to Lexington in 1883. Shelby died in 1907. The Shelby House remained in the family until 1917.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Adam Mosgrove House is a historic house in Urbana, Ohio, United States. Located along Miami Street  on the city&#39;s western side,</p><br>
<p>A two-and-one-half-story structure, the brick house is a simple rectangle built upon a stone foundation. Its style is predominantly Federal, although the entrance is strongly Greek Revival, featuring pilasters topped with Doric capitals. As one of Urbana&#39;s oldest houses, and as the home of one of its leading early citizens, the Mosgrove House has been seen as historically significant; for this reason, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Heights Christian Church is a historic church at 1703 Heights Boulevard in the Houston Heights section of Houston, Texas.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1927. In 1967 the congregation moved to a new location, but retained ownership of the building which was used for community events. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is now known as Lambert Hall and is used for community events, including operas.</p><br>
<p>First Methodist Church  is a ruined historic Methodist church at 300 E. Houston Street in Marshall, Texas. It has also been known as First United Methodist Church and as Methodist Episcopal Church of South Marshall. It is a stuccoed brick Greek Revival-style church with a portico having four monumental square columns; such architecture is rare in Texas. It was added to the National Register in 1980. A fire on the morning of December 9, 2024 destroyed most of the structure and left the building in ruins.</p><br>
<p>It was documented in 1936 by the Historic American Buildings Survey. The portico was originally topped by a belfry but that was replaced in 1949 by a large octagonal cupola. It was built during 1860 to 1861, probably by slave labor. Its builders included mason Alexander Pope and carpenter Billingon Smalley.</p><br>
<p>It was expanded in 1949 and in 1958.</p><br>
<p>Enoch Mather Marvin served at First Methodist and was elevated to Bishop of Trans-Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South during his tenure in Marshall. Marvin Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Tyler is named after him.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, Confederate supplies were stored in the basement and it was the site of organization for the war effort. It was the site of the first conference, in 1862, of the Trans-Mississippi states convened by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Texas Governor Lubbock, Missouri Governor Jackson, and representatives of Arkansas and Louisiana participated.</p><br>
<p>Texana Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Brackenridge Recreation Complex outside of Edna, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally built in 1859 in the former town of Texana. The church was relocated to Edna in 1884 where it was situated at the intersection of Apollo Drive and Country Club Lane. In 2001, the church was again moved to its present location along Brackenridge Parkway near Lake Texana and restored.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at E. Oliver and N. Swenson in Stamford, Texas. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Built in 1908, the church is a large, domed structure built on a Greek Cross form and covered with buff-colored brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986, and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1989. A two-story educational building was added in 1932 and another educational wing in 1960.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church was organized in Stamford in early 1900. Frank Shelby Groner became pastor in 1905. He increased the membership from 147 to about 750 and that made a new and larger church necessary. After using temporary facilities for seven years, the congregation had grown and prospered enough to initiate a new structure. Ten leading members of the church each pledged $1,000 for construction, and the new church stood as one of the city&#39;s most elaborate and expensive structures.</p><br>
<p>Bush Family Home State Historic Site is a historic house that was home to former USA Presidents George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush from 1951 to 1955. It is located at 1412 W. Ohio Ave. in Midland, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The home was built in 1939 and was purchased by the Bush family in 1951 for $9,000. They lived in the 1,400 ft&sup2; home until late 1955. It was also the earliest childhood home of Governor Jeb Bush. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was purchased for $100,000 to become the museum, which had its opening dedication on April 11, 2006. The house, formerly the George W. Bush Childhood Home, was transferred to the Texas Historical Commission in 2023.</p><br>
<p>Marvin Methodist Episcopal Church, South  is a historic church at 300 W. Erwin Street in Tyler, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The original parts of the building including the current sanctuary were built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Currently known as Marvin Methodist Church (or just Marvin Church) the church grew from the first Methodist Movement in Tyler. Belonging originally to the Methodist Episcopal Church(South) (and its successors The Methodist Church and The United Methodist Church), today it fellowships with the Global Methodist Church</p><br>
<p>Central Congregational Church  is a historic church building at 1530 N. Carroll in Dallas, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The late Gothic Revival church building was constructed in 1920 for the Central Congregational Church congregation before it moved to another location. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The building is now home to City Church International.</p><br>
<p>Saint James Second Street Baptist Church is a historic church at 210 Harding Street in Fort Worth, Texas. The congregation was founded in 1895 by the Reverend J. Francis Robinson. Construction of the church began in 1913, by architect Frank J. Singleton. African-American contractor George Powell built the south wing, while B.G. Rhodes built the north wing. Short square entry towers frame the Gothic Revival style red-brick building, and the lancet-shaped art glass windows give it a fortress-like appearance.</p><br>
<p>Services were held in the basement until construction was finished in 1918. For many years the church held graduation ceremonies for I.M. Terrell High School. The church was designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1986. It was added to the National Register in 1999. In 2004, an electrical fire sparked a three-alarm blaze and caused $100,000 in damage.</p><br>
<p>Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church and Parsonage comprise a historic Black Catholic church property located at 1100 and 1104 Evans Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas. The buildings are located in the historic African-American neighborhood in southeast Fort Worth. The church and the parsonage were built in 1929 and 1911, respectively, and historically were staffed by the Josephites. Both buildings were added to the register in 1999.</p><br>
