<p>The Westport Bank and Trust Company is a historic commercial building at 87 Post Road East in Westport, Connecticut. It is a two-story Classical Revival brick building, designed by local architect Charles E. Cutler and built in 1924. The bank was founded in 1852 by Horace Staples, a prominent local businessman, and was a longtime fixture in the local economy. The building is notable for its architecture, and for a series of murals in its lobby, commissioned in the 1960s and executed by Robert L. Lambdin, an artist best known for his Depression-era work funded by the Works Progress Administration.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The C. J. Starr Barn and Carriage House is an historic estate outbuilding, located on the grounds of the former Sacred Heart Academy on Strawberry Hill Road in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a large -story wood-frame structure with elegant Italianate scrolled woodwork on the exterior, with a smaller barn joined to a larger building that originally functioned as a carriage house. They were built c. 1860 by C. J. Starr has part of a larger country estate, of which these are the only surviving buildings. The estate was given to the Sacred Heart Academy, which has done sensitive restoration of the exterior of the structure; its interior has been converted into a gymnasium and other facilities.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The P. Robinson Fur Cutting Company is a historic industrial building on Oil Mill Road in Danbury, Connecticut. Also known as the Oil Mill Road building, it is a large multi-section -story brick structure set on the banks of the Still River. Built in stages over the last two decades of the 19th century, it is the last surviving industrial building associated with the fur-cutting and felt-making elements of the hatting industry which dominated Danbury&#39;s economy for many years.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The New Mill and Depot Building of the former Hawthorne Woolen Mill are located in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The two structures were built on an existing textile mill complex in the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The mill and its depot, in the Gothic Revival and Queen Anne architectural styles respectively, were unusually decorative for functional buildings of that era. Today they are a commercial and retail complex for the Glenville neighborhood of Greenwich. In 1990 they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Thirteen years later, when the Glenville Historic District was listed on the Register in 2003, the buildings were a contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The two structures are located on a 0.8 acre lot between Pemberwick Road on the west and the Byram River on the east, where the 30 ft dam that powered the mills is still present. To the north is the commercial center of Greenwich&#39;s Glenville neighborhood, with the large former Glenville School, now the Western Greenwich Civic Center, to the east, behind a housing development. On the west side of the street the land rises sharply through wooded bluffs to a residential neighborhood; another one is on the other side of the river, where the land rises more gently to the state line and Rye Brook, New York, a half-mile (1 km) away. To the south Pemberwick continues through woods along the Byram.</p><br>
<p>The "new" mill building, the larger of the two, sits on the river. It is a three-story, 56 by brick building with a two-story 19 by northern wing. Because of a regrading it now appears to be two stories on the east. A central tower rises to a fourth story, its top 55 ft above the ground.</p><br>
<p>Intricate brickwork and decoration characterizes all the main block&#39;s facades. The round-arched windows on both floors have as their springlines belt courses made of three rows of brick laid as two rows of headers with black stretchers in between. This is complemented by a reverse in the arches themselves, where the black bricks are recessed. Pilasters rise between the windows, topped by squares of projecting brick. A dentilled cornice runs just below the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The tower, and all but the east roofline, are crenelated at the top. Additionally machicolation supports the flared top of the tower. Diapered brick spells out "1881", the year of construction, in one of the entablatures. Smaller towers are located at the corners of the building.</p><br>
<p>A pedestrian plaza separates the mill building from the 30 by depot to the east. It is a one-and-a-half-story structure of brick, in less decorative patterns. Its gabled roof has broad overhanging eaves pierced by gabled dormer windows on the west. Both the dormer gables and the braces at the main gable peaks are braced with wood in a lacy foliate pattern, more intricate at the gable peaks than the dormers. The latter have visible rafter ends.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Glenville had grown up around a mill on the Byram since first being settled in the mid-18th century. By 1814 at the latest a textile mill, the Byram Manufacturing Company, had been established at the present site. It went through a variety of owners over the next several decades, none of them able to make it successful in the long term.</p><br>
<p>After an 1874 foreclosure, William Tingue of Paterson, New Jersey, purchased the mill. He formed Tingue, Hous and Company, doing business as Hawthorne Woolen Mill. An insurance survey done in 1875 notes that the buildings were "substantial and in good repair&quot it is not known then why he chose to demolish and replace them within a few years.</p><br>
<p>The depot, probably the first of the two to be built, was to have been served by a railroad, shown as planned on 1867 maps, connecting Port Chester, New York, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. Those plans were eventually abandoned. The construction of the new mill, which replaced a building described by the 1875 insurance survey as similar in size, suggests that Tingue had been able to make the mill very profitable.</p><br>
<p>His success may also have led him to choose such high-style designs for the buildings, to show the importance of the mills to the community and his commitment to them, as owners of such buildings at the time sometimes did. The intricate patterning on the mill facade suggests a great deal of thought went into the composition; the woodwork trim on the depot shows a Stick/Eastlake influence.</p><br>
<p>In 1892 the company changed its name to the Hawthorne Mills Company. Five years later, in 1897, it was recorded as operating with 20 sets of cards and 70 broadlooms. The American Felt Company, a New Jersey–based concern that operated mills in four states, acquired Hawthorne in 1899.</p><br>
<p>Its success continued, with first Irish and later Polish immigrants who lived nearby staffing the mills. In 1939 it had 24 card sets, five pickers and 200 employees total. After World War II it went into decline along with the New England textile industry as a whole.</p><br>
<p>American Felt closed the mill in the 1970s. It has since been converted into a residential and commercial complex. The interiors of the buildings were completely renovated and partitioned, but the exteriors remain relatively intact.</p><br>
<p>The New York Belting and Packing Co. complex, also known locally for its main 20th-century occupant, the Fabric Fire Hose Company, is a historic industrial complex at 45–71, 79-89 Glen Road in Newtown, Connecticut. Its centerpiece is a four-story brick mill building with an Italianate tower, built in 1856. The property also includes a dam impounding the adjacent Pootatuck River, a mill pond, and a hydroelectric power generation facility.</p><br>
<p>The site&#39;s industrial history begins about 1850, when the dam was built. The Goodyear Rubber Packing Company, headed by Josiah Tomlinson, brother-in-law of Charles Goodyear, started operations on the site at that time, but the company went bankrupt in 1856. The New York Belting and Packing Company bought the premises in that year. One of the buildings burned down that year, and the company built the present factory building on that site, as well as another further upstream (no longer extant), where it operated until 1917. The property was then acquired by a subsidiary of the United States Rubber Company (later known as Uniroyal), which leased the premises to the Fabric Fire Hose Company until 1977. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The complex was renovated into an office building in 1980 named Rocky Glen Mill. A notable occupant in the late 1980s was Stepstone, which created the Objective-C programming language. The building was renovated again in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Loth Company Building is a historic industrial building at 25 Grand Street in Norwalk, Connecticut. It is a two-story brick Romanesque Revival structure with a four-story clock tower. The rear of the building has been altered by the addition of modern concrete sections in the 1950s. Built in 1903, it is a well-preserved example of industrial architecture of the period, and is a local landmark.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Charles Pierce House is a historic home located the hamlet of Oak Hill in the town of Durham in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1840 and is a two-story, five-by-two-bay, central-hall, double-pile plan frame dwelling. It features a full two-story porch supported by 4 two-story fluted Ionic columns in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Weldon House is a historic hotel located at East Durham in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1923 it is a two-story frame building with a main section measuring 58 feet by 31 feet,  and a rear ell measuring 58 feet by 27 feet . It features a broad verandah along three sides of the main section. Additions were completed in about 1945 and 1965. The structure contains 60 guest rooms that could house up to 140 guests. Also located on the property is the owners residence / laundry, stable, small kiosks, pump houses, and storage huts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Henry T. Botsford House is a historic house located at Greenville in Greene County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1891 and is a three-story, irregularly massed Queen Anne style frame structure on a brick faced stone foundation. It features an engaged square corner tower. Also on the property is a carriage house built in 1894.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1993.</p><br>
<p>Harry Fischel House, also known as Fairlawn, is a historic home located at Hunter in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1840 and substantially enlarged in 1904. It is a -story, five-by-two-bay, Queen Anne–style dwelling with a 2-story, eight-by-one-bay rear wing. It features a 2-story, engaged corner tower and single-story verandah.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Newkirk Homestead, also known as the Newkirk-Garcia House, is a historic home located at Leeds in Greene County, New York. The original structure and basement dates to the 18th century. It is a five-bay, -story frame dwelling to which is attached a 2-story, three-bay frame addition completed in the mid-19th century. It features a Greek Revival style portico with four Doric columns, also added in the mid-19th century. Also on the property are a corn crib, two barns, and a barn foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Lexington House is a historic former riverfront hotel located in Catskill Park on the south side of the Schoharie Creek in the Town of Lexington in Greene County, New York.</p><br>
<p>Lexington House was designed by local architect Jerome Campbell and built for John P. Van Valkenburg in 1883 as a middle class resort. It features Italianate and Eastlake design elements. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it is notable for its historic features and for its long history in arts and professional theatre. "On the opposite side of the lake is the new Lexington House," said a newspaper account in 1886. "So complete in all its appointments and whose imposing structure viewed from across the water lends enchantment to the eye."</p><br>
<p>Also on the property is the Morse Inn (c. 1881), a former ice house (c. 1900), wagon house (c. 1883) and shed (c. 1900). The River Theater (c. 1887) stood on the property until about 2011 when it was severely damaged.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and notable features</h2><br>
<p>Its construction coinciding with the development of the Catskill and Tannersville Railway, the Lexington House is a rare surviving example of mid-scale, railroad-era resort architecture. The Lexington House, featuring thirty rooms, advertised facilities for 50-60 guests. Architecturally, the Lexington House embodies a variety of distinctive characteristics commonly associated with this type of resort architecture.</p><br>
<p>On the exterior, the most salient features associated with the type are the broad verandah and second-story balconies. Expansive porches and open-air balconies were an essential feature of the resort hotel, providing guests with vistas of the surrounding wilderness and pleasant public spaces for social gatherings. Verandahs also served as sanitary and therapeutic retreats from which to enjoy the healthful and moral atmosphere of nature, reflecting the popularity of resorts not only for pleasure and recreational activity but also for escapes from the crowded, disease-ridden and immoral conditions of the suddenly industrialized cities of the northeast.</p><br>
<p>The interior of Lexington House illustrates the typical plan of the mid-scale resort hotel. The ground floor, still virtually intact in spatial configuration and restrained architectural detailing, provided large public spaces for a variety of reception and entertainment uses. No late-nineteenth century resort hotel was complete without a ballroom.</p><br>
<p>According to information currently available, dances were initially held in the sitting parlor and/or dining area of the main house. Dances were held in the River Theater following its completion in approximately 1887. Guest rooms, still intact, flank long corridors along the second and third stories, amply ventilated with movable transoms and numerous windows.</p><br>
<p>Lexington House was particularly progressive for its time, featuring an elaborate system of gas lighting throughout the building and fire-stop framing between the wall cavities and dwelling units. Shared sanitary facilities were located at convenient locations on each floor (modern plumbing was installed in the 1930s). The rear wings and dependencies housed the support facilities for the hotel (laundry, kitchen, storage and ice house) while the various outbuildings provided facilities for resort-related activities. The large wagon house provided livery services for the guests, while the River Theater provided space for local performers and traveling opera, melodrama and vaudeville companies as well as dancing. (A theater was, like the ballroom, an essential component of the Catskill resort experience. Evers, et alia, p. 23). he Lexington House was, according to a number of late-nineteenth century accounts, considered to be one of the finest, most popular resorts of the period, offering a broad range of entertainment and activity.</p><br>
<h2>Camp Lexington</h2><br>
<p>In 1931, after operating as a hotel for seven years, owners Sam and Esther Doctorow converted the house into Camp Lexington, a camp for children with a focus on theatre arts. Their daughter Evelyn Weisberg and her husband Hy, over the next decades, became the primary managers of the programming. In the early 50s, the family purchased the adjacent 145-acre farm to expand the camp. In 1973, as the camp activities declined, it was rebranded as Art Awareness, a not-for-profit artists retreat. A year later, Weisberg met a group of young actors seeking to start a theatre company and invited them to take residence at Lexington House and its surrounding facilities. The artists spent the next several summers renovating the property to accommodate the new company.</p><br>
<h2>Lexington Conservatory Theatre</h2><br>
<p>Let by artistic director Oakley Hall III, Lexington Conservatory Theatre launched its first season at Lexington House in summer 1976, the same year that John Margolies photographed it. In 1978, Hall suffered a traumatic brain injury falling from the nearby bridge, recounted in the documentary film The Loss of Nameless Things. In October 1980, after five seasons in Lexington, executive director Michael Van Landingham announced that the theatre would not return to Lexington House. In December 1980, the group began its first full season as Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany. The theatre company returned to Lexington House over subsequent years for new play development workshops and staged readings.</p><br>
<h2>Art Awareness</h2><br>
<p>A not-for-profit founded in 1975, Art Awareness operated gallery and artist retreat space at Lexington house over 25 years, until the property was sold to Ensemble Studio Theatre. Run by artistic director Judd Weisberg and executive director Pamela Weisberg, Art Awareness hosted numerous artists and their works, including Elisa Monte, Alvin D. Loving, Ann Agee, Patsy Norvell, Mark Dion, Sarah Draney, Jared Handelsman and Gail Schneider.</p><br>
<h2>Ensemble Studio Theatre</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1990s, Ensemble Studio Theater began using the 31-acre campus seasonally for its new play development work. In 2000, EST purchased the property for $190,000. The purchase strained the finances of the theatre group, unraveling in an embezzlement scandal and culminating in the suicide of founder Curt Dempster in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Present use</h2><br>
<p>Lexington House was acquired by Lexington Arts & Science, LLC in 2019.</p><br>
<p>In 2024, the town of Lexington applied for funding from the New York State Restore NY program, on behalf of a group of projects designed to revitalize the Lexington hamlet and restore and re-use several nearby historic structures. The proposal includes the restoration of Lexington House and the adjacent Barn Theatre, which previously housed Lexington Conservatory and Ensemble Studio Theatre.</p><br>
<p>The A. T. House is a historic house located at 435 Main Street, Oak Hill in Greene County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in three phases: about 1790, about 1795 through 1815, and about 1830. It is a -story and is one of the oldest structures at Oak Hill. Traditional Dutch construction methods were used in the building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Zadock Pratt House, also known as the Zadock Pratt Museum, is a historic home located at Prattsville in Greene County, New York. It was originally built in 1828 as a two-story, five-bay Federal style residence. It was substantially altered about 1856 with the addition of numerous architectural details reminiscent of the romantic, picturesque tastes in mid-19th century America. It is a frame structure constructed of massive hemlock posts and beams over a stone foundation. It features broadly projecting eaves and a two-story portico supported by octagonal columns. Also on the property is the original well. It was the home of Zadock Pratt , founder of Prattsville. It has operated as a house museum since 1959. In 2011 the ground floor was damaged heavily by Hurricane Irene.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. To this day there still stands two Ginkgo trees (one male and one female) planted circa 1825 by Pratt. The trees were brought by Pratt from China.</p><br>
<p>Hathaway, also known as V. Everit Macy and Edith Carpenter Macy Estate, is a historic estate house located at Tannersville in Greene County, New York. The house was built in 1907 and designed by architects Delano & Aldrich. It is a large, two story rectangular residence surmounted by a hipped roof with deep overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. It is constructed of concrete block coated in stucco. Also on the property are a carriage house, solarium, garage, and shed. A fishing cabin was once situated on the pond of the property, but is no longer standing. Hathaway was previously run as a Bed and Breakfast lodge, with prominent Broadway actress Maude Adams among its guests.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The William Brandow House  is a historic house located at 480 Route 385 in Athens, Greene County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1788 and is a -story, rectangular frame dwelling with a gabled roof. Significant modifications were made in the late 19th century in the Victorian style and early 20th century in the Colonial Revival style. It retains its original Dutch split entry door.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Tripp House and Store Complex is a historic home and general store complex located at Durham in Greene County, New York. The complex includes the Tripp House , the Original Tripp Store  and 1888 Tripp Store, a barn , Outhouse , and two outbuildings / sheds . The house is a 2-story, five by two-bay, central hall, single pile plan brick dwelling. It sits on a stone foundation and is surmounted by a steep gable roof. The 1888 Tripp Store is a four- by eight-bay, -story wood frame commercial / residential structure. It features a 2-story Victorian-era porch. It incorporates the Original Tripp Store, a 2-story timber-frame building, as a rear storage section.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Parsonage is a historic home located at Oak Hill in Greene County, New York. The house was built about 1815 and is a two-story, heavy timber framed, five bay gable roofed dwelling modified about 1840 and about 1870. Also on the property is a carriage barn with board and batten siding. From 1868 to 1973 it served as the parsonage for the nearly Methodist Episcopal church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Ford&#39;s Store is a historic general store located in the hamlet of Oak Hill in the town of Durham in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1870 as a two-story commercial building in the Italianate style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The restored storefront is composed of a recessed entry flanked by display windows. John Bonafide, preservation analyst from the New York State Parks Commission, said of the building, “As constructed, Ford’s Store is a representative example of Italianate style commercial architecture, popular in America during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Built on the site of an earlier store and harness shop, the building is architecturally significant as an intact example of simple, mid-nineteenth century commercial architecture in the hamlet of Oak Hill. Today, the Ford’s Store building is one of two intact commercial storefronts to survive in the community. Despite years of neglect and damage, Ford’s store, as restored, survives with a high degree of its architectural integrity.”</p><br>
<p>Emerson Ford was the first of the Ford family to handle general merchandise there in partnership with G. M. Hallenbeck in 1875 as Ford and Hallenbeck. Emerson Ford had two sons, Ernest E. and N. Dwight. Ernest E. came into the business in 1898 with the help of his wife, Bertie Conran. Emerson&#39;s other son, N. Dwight, married Millie B. Mackey and moved to Nebraska, where they had a son named Theodore Leo. Leo helped at the store during the summers of 1925 to 1926 before coming to work there full time in 1928. He became a partner of Ernest in 1931, and the store was then known as Ford and Ford. The last of the Fords to enter the business were George and Lionel, sons of Leo, and together with their father and great uncle they worked in the store until illness forced Ernest into retirement in the late 1950s.</p><br>
<p>At that time Ralph Brand took over the store. A newspaper article recounts: “Ralph Brand has purchased stock, fixtures and merchandise of Fords’ store and will rent the building. Oak Hill post office will continue to occupy a portion of the store and will be operated by Leo and George Ford and Gledon Hulbert. Ralph will operate the store with Mrs. George Ford as his assistant.” Kenneth Brand, Ralph’s son, remembers: “My father ran the Ford store in the late 1950’s. I used to play around the store when I was a kid. Behind the store there used to be a shed. The shed had an outhouse in it, and the outhouse extended out over the Catskill creek. No flushing was required. Not very environmentally friendly, but that’s the way things were done back then. John Cords ran it for a few years after my father gave it up. I would guess that it closed around 1966 or 1967.” Sometime after that, the front windows were removed to install garage doors to allow the space to be used for auto repairs and storage.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored in the 1990s, when the original components of the façade were found intact in the basement of the building and reinstalled. For a time, George Stevens ran a business called The Electric Farm out of the building, selling plants, especially African violets, that were grown under lights. Later the building was used as an annex of DeWitt Hotel Antiques, and then as a bookstore run by Fari Raad of Cornwallville. A record store, Dope Jams, which operated in Brooklyn from 2006 to 2012, was next to occupy the space. Dope Jams had been called “one of the best record stores on the East Coast.” The store, owned by Paul Nickerson, was decorated “like Aleister Crowley’s library” and carried house, dance, disco music, classic hip-hop, and techno. In 2020 the building was painted a solid charcoal gray when poet Kostas Anagnopoulos took over the space as Pidgin, selling antique furniture and objects with select contemporary items. Kostas said of the store, "A pidgin is a simplified form of communication; an informal language, often developed in trade, allowing those from different backgrounds to convey thoughts to one another. I like to think of the objects in my store, with their quiet presence and shared appeal, as both the medium and the message."</p><br>
<p>W. F. DeWitt Hotel is a historic hotel located at Durham in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1865, and is a -story, seven bay by three bay, frame building in the Italianate style. It rests on a stone foundation and has a moderately pitched gable roof. As of 2013, it was operating as an antiques store.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Prattsville Commercial Building is a historic commercial building located at Prattsville in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1824 and is a -story building constructed of massive hemlock timber frame on a dry laid fieldstone foundation. It is built into the side of the east bank of Schoharie Creek. It was built by Zadock Pratt , founder of Prattsville.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Frank D. Layman Memorial is a historic monument located at Hunter in Greene County, New York. It was erected in 1901 to commemorate Frank D. Layman, who died on the site of the memorial on August 10, 1900, while fighting a forest fire. It is pyramidal in shape, four sided, and rises upward from a base approximately seven feet in diameter to approximately 11 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Bronck Farm 13-Sided Barn is a historic barn located at Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. It was built about 1832 and is a 13 sided frame structure with a hipped roof surmounted by an octagonal cupola. It has an overall diameter of 70 feet and the one story interior is open in plan. It is related to, but listed separately from the Bronck House.</p><br>
<p>It meets the definition of a round barn, as a polygon shape approaching circular.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Squadron A Armory is a former United States Army armory and was the home base of Squadron A. It took up the whole block between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue, between 94th and 95th Street. It was therefore also known as the Madison Avenue Armory. A surviving part of the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron A Armory and is a New York City landmark.</p><br>
<p>A stone plaque with the squadron&#39;s cry "Boutez en avant!", translated variously as "Press forward!" or simply "Charge!", is located on the wall at Madison Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1895 by a New York City contractor named John F. Johnson. It was constructed with red bricks, featuring massive walls with towers. It also included about 100 horse stalls to house Squadron A&#39;s horses.</p><br>
<p>The building was partially demolished in the 1960s; however, an emergency action from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, which designated it a landmark, stopping the demolition of the Madison Avenue facade. That facade was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. When the eastern building was rebuilt, it was done in a style similar to the original.</p><br>
<h3>Usage</h3><br>
<p>Today, the eastern and central part of the site are used by Hunter College High School and Elementary School as the schools&#39; main campus. The outline of some of the former walls is lined with trees.</p><br>
<p>Halcott Grange No. 881, also known as Green Valley Grange, is a historic Grange building located at Halcott in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1889 and is a -story, rectangular gable-roofed structure. It features a prominent portico and cupola with Italianate brackets. It was originally built as a creamery and converted for use as a Grange after 1914.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The Halcott Town Board holds its meetings there, making it the town hall for practical purposes.</p><br>
<p>Athens Lower Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Athens in Greene County, New York. The district contains 267 contributing buildings, including the Jan Van Loon House built in 1706. It includes residential, commercial, and ecclesiastical structures built primarily during the 19th century in a variety of popular architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Ardmore Avenue station is  one of two former Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad  stations in Villa Park, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Ardmore Avenue Train Station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station is a stone-faced structure built in 1910 by the Ballard & Pottinger real estate firm. The station was erected to draw passengers to property that the firm was developing. The plan was successful, and enough people moved into the station vicinity to prompt incorporation as Villa Park in 1917. The station catered to passengers until July 3, 1957, when the CA&E abruptly shut down after years of financial losses. The Ardmore Avenue station is one of very few of what was once seventy-three railroad stations that served the CA&E. On November 21, 1980, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the station is the headquarters of the Villa Park Chamber of Commerce. The building now lies along the Illinois Prairie Path, a recreational path built along the former CA&E right-of-way.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one story structure is built in an English motif and served mostly as a waiting shelter. Doors and windows are made of wood with steel lintels. The tile roof has galvanized iron gutters and a brick chimney. The building features a wood cornice. The station could be heated by a wood-burning fireplace and had electric lighting. Windows are found on all sides and two doors are on the north, leading to the platform. The interior was originally furnished with wood benches and flip-top seats.</p><br>
<p>The Villa Avenue Train Station is one of two former Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad  stations in Villa Park, Illinois. The building was also used as an office by the Western United Gas and Electric Company. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it is now the home of the Villa Park Historical Society Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station is a Tudor Revival structure built between August and November 1929. The station replaced two smaller waiting rooms on the east side of Villa Park. The western portion of the station served passengers, while the eastern portion functioned as a Western United Gas and Electric Company office. Both the railroad and the utility company were owned by utilities mogul Samuel Insull. Realtors Ballard & Pottinger would offer free railway trips to the station on Sundays to show off properties in the local region. The station was across the street from the American Ovaltine factory, the largest employer in the village. Villa Park eventually became the largest commuter customer for the railroad. Villa Avenue Train Station closed on July 3, 1957, due to the decline of the CA&E. On August 22, 1986, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the station is the headquarters of the Villa Park Historical Society Museum. It is one of only four CA&E stations still standing. Today it is found along the Illinois Prairie Path, which was constructed along the former CA&E right-of-way.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Arthur U. Gerber, staff-architect of Samuel Insull who owned the CA&E at the time. The single-story building is rectangular, measuring 28 x. A gable roof covers the waiting room section and the portico. The roof includes a limestone chimney and synthetic shingles. Window and door frames are made of wood. Walls are built with wood, stucco and limestone. The southern elevation features a 4 ft limestone wall topped with two rows of limestone blocks. The western portion includes a stone-arched window with mullioned casements. The eastern half has three high square windows. The three gables are half-timbered and stuccoed.</p><br>
<p>The Abram Demaree House is a historic Dutch Colonial house located at 45 Old Hook Road in the borough of Closter in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The oldest part of the sandstone house was built from 1760 to 1769 by Abram Demaree. It was expanded in 1809 with a two-story Federal style main section built by his son David A. Demaree. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1979, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The Achenbach House remains are located at 184 Chestnut Ridge Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The stone house was built around 1757 by Johan George Achenbach and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1979, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission  and the Saddle River MPS.</p><br>
<p>The house was the home of Larry Blyden and Carol Haney in the 1960s. It was owned (but never occupied) by travel pioneer Mario Perillo until his death in 2003, and subsequently passed on to a trust in his son Stephen Perillo&#39;s name, who is the present owner. It was largely destroyed by fire in 2004, though a portion of the original structure remains intact as a guest cottage.</p><br>
<p>Reed Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. The district contains 30 contributing buildings. They are a collection of mid-19th century, two and three story commercial buildings. The district displays a uniformity of style in its Italianate style brick facades with ornate brackets and overhanging eaves. It also includes three late Federal style residences.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Twilight Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Haines Falls in Greene County, New York. The district contains 102 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. It is composed of two late 19th century resort communities that have been incorporated as one  since 1935. Twilight Park is the larger of the two, while Santa Cruz Park includes 15 remaining cottages. The initial cottages were constructed in 1887.</p><br>
<p>On 14 July 1926, fourteen people were killed in hotel fire in Twilight.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Elka Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Hunter in Greene County, New York. The district contains 31 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. It is composed of a planned community of 20 seasonal houses founded and developed as small, late 19th century, summer residential enclave by wealthy German Americans. It includes 19 summer cottages, an observation tower, and a former community carriage house converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Onteora Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Hunter in Greene County, New York. The district contains 94 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures. It is composed of a golf course and extensive hiking trails planned during the late 19th century. The small residential area was laid out in 1880. The district is characterized by woodlands and open space and features breathtaking panoramic mountainous landscape views.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>New Baltimore Hamlet Historic District is a national historic district located at New Baltimore in Greene County, New York. The district contains 94 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It encompasses the historic core of New Baltimore and includes a collection of residential, commercial, and ecclesiastical structures. The buildings date from the late 18th to late 19th centuries. It also includes the New Baltimore Reformed Church and a historic cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Machias Railroad Station is a historic railroad station near the junction of Court and Main Streets  in Machias, Maine. Built in 1898, it is one of five surviving stations built by the ambitious but unsuccessful Washington County Railroad. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1992. The station was restored in 2015 for use as a visitor center and community meeting space.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Machias railroad station stands on the north side of United States Route 1, at the eastern fringe of its downtown area. Just to its north runs the multiuse Downeast Sunrise Trail, which occupies the former railroad right-of-way of the Washington County Railroad. The station is a long rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof that has broad overhanging eaves supported by chamfered braces. The walls are clad in weatherboard. A three-sided ticket booth projects on the track side, next to an operable switching signal. The track side facade features two large freight entrances, one at ground level, the other raised about 2 ft above the ground to facilitate direct offloading from freight cars. The interior has retained most of its original woodwork, despite conversion of its passenger waiting area into a freight storage area in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Railroad was incorporated in 1894, began construction on its rail lines the following year, and ran its first train in 1899, delayed by funding issues. Despite lofty projections of profitability, the line, which ran between Brewer and Calais, was financially unsuccessful, and its assets were auctioned in 1903 and leased to the Maine Central Railroad. During its brief lifespan, the railroad constructed 24 stations, most according to a standardized design, of which five survive. The Machias station was built in 1898 and enlarged in 1910. In 1957 the building was converted to a freight depot, at which time the freight doors on the track side were added and interior alterations made. The rail line was abandoned in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building is now owned by the town, which granted a $1 lease to the local chamber of commerce. The chamber in 2015 embarked on a fundraising campaign to complete restoration of the interior for use as a visitors center and meeting space.</p><br>
<p>West Quoddy Lifesaving Station is a historic coastal rescue station on West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine. The lifesaving station was built in 1919, and was operated by the United States Coast Guard until 1972. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1990. It now houses a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>West Quoddy Head is an easterly-pointing peninsula in southeastern Lubec, overlooking Quoddy Narrows, a strait between Lubec and Campobello Island, Canada, that provides access to Passamaquoddy Bay and harbors located on the St. Croix River and other rivers which the empty into the bay. Most of the peninsula is part of Quoddy Head State Park, and the former lifesaving station is located on 5 acre on the north side of the peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The station consists of four buildings, three of which are located on a rise above the shore. The main building is a dwelling house, 2-1/2 stories in height, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. Nearby are a garage and a utility building. The largest building of the complex is the boathouse, which is located at the shore. It has three bays providing access to the boat storage inside, with two of the bays now having leveled floors installed over the original sloping floors. The slip for launching the boats extends more than 100 ft (a consequence of the area&#39;s extremely high tides), and includes a (now deteriorating) track system to facilitate launch and retrieval of vessels.</p><br>
<p>The first lifesaving station in the area was established by the United States Life-Saving Service (a predecessor to the Coast Guard) in 1874, and was one of five such stations in Maine. It was located at Carrying Point Cove on the south side of West Quoddy Head, a relatively exposed location. The present facility was built by the Coast Guard in 1919 to replace that one, and was in active service until 1972. Since then, it has been used as a boat-building school, biological research station, and bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>The Pittsfield Railroad Station is a historic former railroad station at 114 Central Street in Pittsfield, Maine. The station was built in 1888 by the Maine Central Railroad, and now serves as the Depot House Museum, operated by the Pittsfield Historical Society. It is one of the best-preserved railroad stations in Maine from that time period. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pittsfield depot is set on the north side of the railroad tracks that run east–west on the southern outskirts of the town center. The building is a single-story wood frame structure, with clapboard siding. Its main facade faces toward the tracks to the south, and is nine bays wide, with a succession of windows and doorways, and a rectangular projection. The building has a hip roof, with a gable at the center of the main facade, and extended eaves with Stick style brackets and a paneled entablature. The building has retained all of its original windows, which are distinguished by patterned colored glass in the upper sashes.</p><br>
<p>The first railroad to arrive in Pittsfield was the Maine Central Railroad in 1855, providing service to Bangor and Waterville. In 1886 the Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad built a spur line from Pittsfield to Hartland, significantly increasing the activity level at the station. The Maine Central built this station in 1888. There was originally an exchange house located at the west end of the station, to facilitate the transfer of goods from one line to the other; this has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The station is now owned by the town, and operated by the Pittsfield Historical Society as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Skowhegan Fire Station is located at 16 Island Avenue in the center of Skowhegan, Maine. The fire station, built in 1904 to a design by William R. Miller, is one of the state&#39;s finest Romanesque Revival fire houses. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Skowhegan Fire Station is centrally located in the town center of Skowhegan, on an island in the center of the Kennebec River, joined to the rest of the town by Island Avenue, designated United States Route 2 and United States Route 201. Set on the north side of the road, it is a roughly square 2-1/2 story brick structure, with three original vehicle bays, and a fourth added on to the right in a modern single-story addition. The main block bays are highlighted by brickwork arches that rise to including paired round-arch windows at the second level, which have a raised brickwork field with a round brick panel at its center. A tall entablature includes terra cotta signage identifying the building with flanking broadfoot crosses.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the noted Lewiston architect William R. Miller, whose other public works include the L. C. Bates Museum and the Lawrence Library, both in Fairfileld. The building is a well-executed example of the Romanesque Revival executed in brick.</p><br>
<p>At the end of February 2024, The Skowhegan Fire department moved out of the 120 year old station to a new public safety complex on East Madison Road.</p><br>
<p>The Monson Historical Society Museum is located on Main Street in the center of Monson, Maine. It is housed in a former municipal building, built in 1889 to house firefighting equipment and a fraternal lodge, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Monson Engine House  on August 5, 2005, as one of a small number of surviving 19th-century fire stations in rural interior Maine. The museum is open on Saturdays in the summer, showing items of local historical interest.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and building history</h2><br>
<p>The museum building is a rectangular two-story wood-frame structure, set on the east side of Main Street, just south of Phillips Brook, which is the outlet of nearby Hebron Pond. The building is set on a slate pier foundation, whose northeast corner projects over the stream. This corner is the location of a four-story hose-drying tower, arranged so that drying firehoses can drain directly into the stream. The building has a hip roof, as do the tower and a southern -story addition. The main facade faces west, and is divided into six bays. The three left bays have double-leaf equipment doors with a decorative frieze above, and symmetrically placed sash windows on the second floor. The next two bays have sash windows on the first floor, the right one with a window above as well. The rightmost bay has the building&#39;s personnel entrance and a smaller sash window above. Below the roofline is a soffit supported by scrolled brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building has seen multiple, sometimes overlapping, uses since its construction in 1889. It was originally built to store firefighting equipment on the lower level, and to provide a meeting space for the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a Civil War veterans organization, on the upper level. The town used the building for fire equipment storage until 1968. The GAR chapter was moribund by 1910, and surviving members sold the group&#39;s interest in the building to the town in 1918. The GAR facility was also used by a number of other local social organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the local Grange chapter.</p><br>
<p>The town held its town meetings and offices in another building (no longer standing) until 1918, when these functions were moved into the GAR facilities of this building, which included the construction of a small jail cell in the basement. In 1936-37 the building was enlarged by the southern addition, and the building was outfitted with heat. It was known as Monson Town Hall until 1968, when the present town hall was built next door. It was sold to the DAR in that year, which established a small local history museum. The DAR sold it back to the town in 2003, which turned maintenance of management of the building over to the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of four known 19th-century fire stations still standing in Maine&#39;s smaller communities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 is a historic former fire station at 284 Center Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1902, it is a high quality local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and is one of a series of important public commissions by local architect Wilfred E. Mansur. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Bangor Fire Engine House No. 6 is located in a predominantly residential area north of downtown Bangor, at the northwest corner of Center and Montgomery Streets. It is a rectangular two story building, built out of brick and stone, and topped by slightly flared hip roof with the square base of a now-removed cupola at its center. The first floor is brick with brick quoining at the corners. The second floor is finished in stuccoed brick, with brick quoining at the corners and on the sides of the window openings. The first-floor street-facing openings are set in rounded-arch openings, with two former equipment bay entrances facing Center Street, and a central pedestrian entrance bay facing Montgomery. One of the equipment bays has been adapted to house a second pedestrian entrance.</p><br>
<p>The fire house was built in 1902, and was one of a series of public commissions by architect Wilfred E. Mansur that include the listed Bangor Hose House No. 5, and some of the city&#39;s schools. Built in the days when fire equipment was drawn by horses, it served as a fire station until 1987. At the time of its National Register listing in 1988, it had been converted to commercial use.</p><br>
<p>Bangor Hose House No. 5 , is an historic fire station at 247 State Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1897, it served as a fire house for about a century. It now houses the Hose 5 Fire Museum, a city-operated museum devoted to its fire history. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former House House No. 5 is a two-story brick building, standing on the south side of State Street (United States Route 2), east of downtown Bangor, between Salem Court and Merrimac Street. It is Romanesque Revival in style, with a dormered hip roof and a three-story hose drying tower topped by an open belfry. It has two round-arch equipment bays, with a pedestrian entrance, also round-arched to their right. Second-floor windows are recessed in corbelled round-arch openings, and the tower features a band of decorative brickwork below the belfry.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1897 from a design by Bangor architect Wilfred E. Mansur, and represents one of his finest works in the Romanesque style. Built in the days when fire equipment was drawn by horses, it served the city as a fire station until 1993, when it was converted into a museum, which is operated by the members of the Bangor Fire Department. It is home to several antique fire engines as well as Gamewell Fire Boxes, a collection of antique breathing apparatus, and other historic fire fighting equipment and engines. Admission is free, open by appointment through the summer.</p><br>
<p>The Old Fire Engine House is a historic fire station on North Main Avenue in Orono, Maine. Built in 1892, it is a well-preserved example of a late-19th century wooden fire station. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985. It is now used by Boy Scout Troop 478, which is in the Katahdin Area Council.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Fire Engine House is located on the south side of North Main Avenue, opposite the end of Pond Street. It is built into the side of a slope down to the Stillwater River, presenting 1-1/2 stories to the street and a full second story on the south (river-facing) side. It is a wood-framed structure, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The roof is topped by a belfry with a pyramidal roof, and there is a hose drying tower at the southern end. The front gable is pedimented, and there is a paneled double door in the central equipment bay, with a pedestrian door to the right and a doubled window to the left. The interior retains original woodwork finishes, including tongue-and-groove paneling on the walls and molded architrave trim with corner blocks on the windows.</p><br>
<p>The town of Orono is divided by the Stillwater River, complicating the provision of fire services. Its earliest fire services, established in the 1830s, were volunteer services, but the first engine house was not built until the 1860s. It was built on the south side of the river, where the town center is located, while the engine for the north side was stored in other buildings. In 1892, the town authorized the construction of this building as a permanent structure for the engine (on the main level) and the horses to draw it (on the basement level down the hill). The bell was used to summon the volunteers.</p><br>
<p>Alcove Springs was a popular stop along the Oregon Trail near Independence Crossing in Marshall County, Kansas. Travelers along the trail gave the springs its name. The words Alcove Springs, carved into the hard limestone cliff by the Donner Party, can still be seen, although some of the carving has weathered away. It is located about four miles north of Blue Rapids, along the Big Blue River.</p><br>
<p>Across the road from the Alcove Springs park is another park commemorating the Oregon Trail and features history, wagon swales and a D.A.R. marker memorializing Sarah Keyes, a member of the Donner Party who died in 1846. The exact location of her burial is unknown.</p><br>
<p>Alcove Springs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Indian Rock Schoolhouse, also known as District 3 Schoolhouse or Webutuck Country Schoolhouse, is located on Mygatt Road in the hamlet of Amenia, New York, United States. It is a wooden one-room schoolhouse built in the mid-19th century in accordance with a standard state plan for small rural schools that reflected contemporary educational reform movements.</p><br>
<p>Of 12 such schools built in the Town of Amenia during that era, only this one survives mostly intact. It remained in use until 1927. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Since then it has been restored by a nearby private school and has been used for community events and historic education.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The school is situated on a 1 acre lot on the north side of the road, at the north fringe of the developed area of the hamlet. The surrounding terrain is level, mostly open and rural. Amenia&#39;s Rural Cemetery is across the curve in the road. To the west is an altered 18th-century house, with an early 19th-century gambrel-roofed farmhouse on the east. Maplebrook School, a private institution for children with learning disabilities, is to the north, across a meadow.</p><br>
<p>The building is in the southwest corner of the lot, 40 ft from the road at the end of a short gravel driveway. It is a one-story timber-framed structure on a stone foundation 17 by with board-and-batten siding and a steeply pitched gable roof shingled in cedar shake.</p><br>
<p>All elevations except the north have two double-hung six-over-six sash windows. Pointed hoods shelter those on the south. In the gable field is another pointed hood with a sign saying "Indian Rock Schoolhouse", giving the period of its use in smaller type. Another, smaller sign identifying the property is in the ground near the southeast corner. At the northeast and northwest corners are entrances with a glass transom. The north (rear) elevation has two large barn-style doors.</p><br>
<p>Inside the schoolhouse there are remnants of the original heating system, the flue and lower section of the brick chimney. Original low wooden wainscoting, with some initials carved into it, remains along the walls, which also have some of the original plaster and blackboards. Channels on the floor, where desks and seats were affixed to it, also remain, as do some remnants of the original vestibules in the otherwise open interior.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built around 1850, possibly slightly earlier. A decade before New York, following a broad education-reform movement of the time, had issued standard plans for a rural one-room schoolhouse with separate entrances for boys and girls to a single open room inside. Many adopted stylistic features of the early Gothic Revival movement such as steeply pitched roofs and board-and-batten siding, as reflected in a popular 1870 pattern book.</p><br>
<p>Amenia built 12 such schools around the town. The one on Mygatt Road acquired the name "Indian Rock" from a nearby lookout supposedly used by the area&#39;s Native American tribes. Notwithstanding what is believed to be its construction date, its existence is first mentioned in an 1884 deed for the sale of the property. It is not known if it had a separate lot then as it does now; however such subdivisions were a common practice for schools in upstate New York at the time.</p><br>
<p>In 1927 the school was closed as districts began to consolidate into larger, more permanent schools. It would later be used for storage in the 1950s, when the rear barn doors were added. The building was neglected throughout the remainder of the 20th century, and at the time of its listing on the National Register the windows had been boarded up.</p><br>
<p>Shortly before then, it had been acquired by the president of the local historical society, who donated it to the Webutuck Schoolhouse Association of Maplebrook School. That organization has been able to raise enough funds to restore it to its current condition by 2004. It is the only one of the 12 schools built in Amenia to remain largely intact from its original construction.</p><br>
<p>The association has published a newsletter and maintains a blog of oral history of the school from former students, now mostly senior citizens. It now has over a hundred members. Maplebrook School has used the building for community service projects for its students. It continues to host events in conjunction with local public schools, such as an Arbor Day picnic and Summer Sundays. Students from local day care centers have even had classes in the building, using slates and other period equipment.</p><br>
<p>Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport in New York City.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wavertree was built in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool company R.W. Leyland & Company, and is named after the Wavertree district of that city.</p><br>
<p>The ship was first used to carry jute between eastern India and Scotland. When less than two years old the ship entered the "tramp trades", taking cargoes anywhere in the world. In 1910, after sailing for a quarter century, the ship was dis-masted off Cape Horn and barely made it to the Falkland Islands. Rather than re-rigging the ship its owners sold it for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. Wavertree was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947. This ship was discovered in 1967 at the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires by an American citizen working on a sand barge and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968. The ship was sent to the Arsenal Naval Buenos Aires for restoration. In 1969 after restoration was complete, the ship was towed to New York. The vessel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1978.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 2015, the ship was sent to Staten Islands Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. Inc. for a $13 million restoration, funded by New York Citys Department of Cultural Affairs, city council and Manhattan&#39;s borough president. The restoration included the replacement of steel plates below the waterline, a new ballast system, updated electrical systems, and coating work that includes a cathodic protection system.</p><br>
<p>The restoration started in May 2015, and ended on 25 September 2016, when the ship returned to South Street Seaport museum.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Airy Forest, in Cincinnati, Ohio, was established in 1911. It was one of the earliest, if not the first, urban reforestation project in the United States. With nearly 1,500 acre, its the largest park in Cincinnatis park system.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The originally forested land was cleared for agricultural use in the 19th century, but years of poor grazing and agricultural practices led to severe erosion and poor soil composition. As quoted in a 1914 Cincinnati Times-Star editorial, a farmer facetiously remarked that his farm (in Westwood) "was a good one when he first took it up but that since he had cleared off all the trees it had slid down the creek and was to be found somewhere in the neighborhood of New Orleans."</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>Established in 1911, the Mount Airy Forest covers an impressive 1459 acres and includes natural areas, planned landscapes, buildings, structures, and landscape features. The numerous hiking trails, bridle paths, walls, gardens, pedestrian bridges, and various other improvements within Mount Airy Forest reflect the ambitious park planning and development that took place in Cincinnati in the early-to-mid-20th century. Conceived as the nation&#39;s first urban reforestation project, the park has developed over the years—especially during the Depression and post-World War II period- into a park with a variety of areas, spaces and structures designed to accommodate recreational, social, and educational activities. Today it continues to offer a large expanse of protected land within the city limits where the public can enjoy the richness and diversity of nature.</p><br>
<p>In the largest reforestation program undertaken by a city seen until that time, the barren land was restored to a park largely in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The rustic CCC structures are still standing and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park now includes 700 acres of reforested hardwoods, 200 acres of forested evergreens, 269 acres of wetlands, 170 acres of meadows, and a 120-acre arboretum. A wheelchair accessible treehouse was built in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The park was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Amenities</h2><br>
<p>The park offers hiking trails, an 18-hole disc golf course, and a 2 acre dog park.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Hook and Ladder Company Building is a historic fire station at 39 Elm Street in Andover, Maine. It is a long and narrow two-story wood-frame structure. Its front  elevation has a large opening on the first floor closed by a modern garage door on the ground floor, with a small rectangular window to the right. Above this are two widely spaced sash windows. The side elevations each have five sash windows on the second floor; the east side also a single sash window on the first floor. The rear elevation has two sash windows flanking a hose tower that rises above the main, gabled roof. The building is clad in brick-patterned metal  siding which appears to be original.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor of the interior is an open space whose walls are finished in fiberboard which is not original to the building&#39;s construction. The upper level is divided into three rooms, with a stairwell at the rear, rising through a portion of the hose tower. A stairway used to be located behind the front room, but only the partition and opening remain. These spaces retain original tongue-and-groove sheathing on the walls and ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Andover Hook and Ladder Company was founded in 1890 to provide fire protection services for the small town. In 1904 an existing building, only a portion of the present one, was moved to this site, and the larger portion (approximately two-thirds) of this building was constructed. It was actively used as a fire station until 1987, and is now used for storage by the local historical society, and occasionally for community-related meetings. It is one of a relatively small number of rural fire stations to survive from the period in the state.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Turntable and Engine House are a historic railroad maintenance facility in Rockland, Maine. The turntable and engine house were built in 1921, and are a significant reminder of the railroad&#39;s historic importance to the development of the city. The facilities were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rockland Turntable and Engine House are located about 0.5 mi west of the city&#39;s downtown, in the former rail yard sandwiched between Park Street (United States Route 1) and New Country Road. The engine house is a wedge-shaped wood frame building, two stories in height, with a flat roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete foundation. on the inner (east-facing) side of the wedge there are five entry bays, four of which retain track-mounted doors. The front portion of the building is only one story, with the rear having an elevated roof with monitor-style windows overlooking the front.</p><br>
<p>The turntable is about 100 ft east of the engine house. It is 50 ft in diameter, consisting of a steel deck mounted on a central pier and topped by wooden decking. The outer portion of the turntable rests on a rail attached to the concrete retaining wall that encircles the structure. A small operator&#39;s shed stands at the western edge of the turntable.</p><br>
<p>These facilities were built in 1921, as a replacement for older structures. Because Rockland was at the end of the line, a turntable was built here in 1871, not long after service began on the line. The present turntable and engine house are the only known structures in the state to survive in this state of preservation.</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-16.jpgCloser view of the engine house</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-29.jpgCloser view of the turntable</p><br>
<p>Rockland Turntable and Engine House-4.jpgAnother view of the turntable</p><br>
<p>The Gardiner Railroad Station is a historic former railroad station at 51 Maine Street in Gardiner, Maine. It was built in 1911 by the Maine Central Railroad, and was in use as a station until the 1950s. It has since seen a variety of adaptive commercial uses. A distinctive example of Romanesque architecture, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Gardiner Railroad Station stands in downtown Gardiner, between Maine Street and the Kennebec River, just north of the mouth of Cobbosseecontee Stream. It is a single-story masonry structure, built of stone and brick, and set on a full-height granite basement. It is roughly in the shape of an H, with projecting end wings, and a complex hipped roof line. The roof has extended eaves with exposed rafters, and the central roof section has gabled dormers. The building corners and window openings are quoined in smooth granite, while the basement level is of rough-cut granite, which transitions to smooth stone up to the sills of the first-floor windows.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1911 to a design by Portland architect George Burnham. It replaced Gardiners first station, which had been built just to the south when service was inaugurated to the city in 1852. It is one of the states most architecturally distinguished surviving railroad stations.</p><br>
