<p>The William Sloane House  is a mansion located on 686 Park Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets in the Upper East Side of New York City.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed for the industrialist William Sloane and his wife Frances Crocker Sloane in 1919 by Delano & Aldrich in the Colonial Revival style as one of the Park Avenue Houses.</p><br>
<p>It changed ownership multiple times. Today the Italian Cultural Institute of New York is located there, next to the adjacent Italian consulate-general.</p><br>
<p>The House became a New York City designated landmark in 1970 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Park Avenue Houses.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver D. Filley House is a mansion located on 684 Park Avenue between East 68th and 69th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was constructed for Mary Pyne Filley and her husband Oliver D. Filley in 1926, financed by her parents. The architects were McKim, Mead & White, who used the same neo-Federal style that was shown in the firm&#39;s adjoining Percy Rivington Pyne House on the corner of 68th Street. The generous action of the Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas in acquiring the property in 1965 and presenting it to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, saved the building and assured its architectural integrity.</p><br>
<p>The Designated Landmark of New York City plaque was provided by the New York Community Trust in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The William English House is a historic farmhouse in the far western portion of the USA state of Ohio. Located along State Route 47 northeast of the village of Versailles in the northeastern corner of Darke County,</p><br>
<p>When English erected a new Italianate house in 1881, he ensured that its details aligned with certain astronomical features. Four doors and eight windows on the front (western side) of the house are placed to face exactly westward, and multiple doors on recessed porches on the southern side of the house are placed so that the suns light illuminates them at noon on a certain day of the year. The houses location atop a small hill overlooking State Route 47 ensures that the light of the sun is more frequently cast upon it.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the English House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The DeRidder USO was built in 1941 for the same reasons as all other United Service Organizations; to provide a relaxing atmosphere to members of the armed forces. The building is located at 250 Seventh Street and is across the street from the present day Beauregard Memorial Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>NRHP listing</h2><br>
<p>The DeRidder USO building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The DeRidder USO opened November 28, 1941, was accepted by the United Service Organization on December 1, 1941, and served permanent party and visitor members of the armed services of the United States from DeRidder Army Air Base, as well as Camp Polk.</p><br>
<p>More than 500 USO&#39;s were built for our service men during World War II and some in foreign lands. What sets this one apart is that it was the first USO not built on a military reservation and built specifically for, and donated to, the USO. The second USO in Galveston opened 24 hours later.</p><br>
<p>Civic Center records show that 89,000 soldiers visited the DeRidder USO, 15,000 had showers, and 27,000 saw movies during the time it was an active USO.</p><br>
<h2>Current</h2><br>
<p>The building now serves as the community Civic Center for Beauregard Parish. Plaques commemorating Generals Bradley, Mark Clark, Eisenhower, Marshall and Patton, along with their pictures, hang on the walls near the entrances of meeting halls named in their honor. Fort Johnson or Louisiana does not have a USO at this time. The museum also boasts a Norden bombsight, a very rare item.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic church building in northeastern Darke County, Ohio, United States. Located south of the village of Versailles, the congregation erected their church on the lower portion of this ground and plotted their cemetery on the upper portion. Since that time, the structure has been modified little; the only significant change has been the addition of a small belfry in 1867. Inside, the church retains a high degree of historic integrity: still in place are the wood-burning stove, the reed organ, the hand-carven pulpit, and the original sandblasted windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, St. Peter&#39;s Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its well-preserved historic architecture and because of its place in the settlement of the region. It is one of four churches in Darke County that are listed on the National Register, and the only one that is not Catholic.</p><br>
<p>Pomona Hall is a colonial mansion located at 1900 Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue, in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, that operates as a museum by the Camden County Historical Society. The first building on the site was constructed in 1718, while construction of the more substantial mansion house was started in 1726, with later additions made in 1788. It is not known when the house was first called Pomona Hall; but it is marked on Hill&#39;s Map of Philadelphia and Environs, published in 1809.</p><br>
<h2>Historical data</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Cooper Jr., who built the first part of Pomona Hall, was the son of Joseph Cooper Sr., and the grandson of William Cooper, who came to the American colonies from England in 1676 or 1679. He settled first at Burlington, moving to Pyne Point in 1681. Here he purchased a tract of three hundred acres from the proprietors and from the Indian chief Tallacca. On June 12, 1697, Joseph Cooper Sr., purchased a tract of four hundred and twelve acres from Abraham and Joshua Carpenter along the south branch of Cooper&#39;s Creek. This tract was conveyed to his son Joseph Jr., on December 16, 1714. Initials on the north chimney breast indicate that Joseph and Mary Cooper built that portion of the house in 1726. Joseph Cooper died in 1749. The property passed to his younger brother, Isaac.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Cooper was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from Gloucester County from 1760 to 1749. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin mentions him as one of the friends he acquired during his stay in Burlington. The memorial and the record of the Friends Meeting of Haddonfield says of him:</p><br>
<p>"He was an exemplary friend, and serviceable amongst us in many respects, careful to rule in his own house. He departed this life about the first of the eighth month 1749, having express‘d little before that he had done justly, loved mercy, and hoped that he had been careful to walk humbly.</p><br>
<p>The next owner of Pomona Hall was Marmaduke Cooper, Isaac&#39;s son. Marmaduke, although a Quaker (Religious Society of Friends), took part in the struggle between the mother country and the colonies before the war started. He was a member of the Committee of Observation for Gloucester County and a member of the Committee of Correspondence. When the Philadelphia Meeting of Suffering advised all Friends to be conscientious objectors, he withdrew from all activities.</p><br>
<p>In 1788 Marmaduke built the south portion of Pomona Hall. The marking on the breast of the other chimney indicates that Marmaduke and Mary Cooper were the builders. This later portion conforms to the architecture of the rest of the house. The addition is clearly shown by the vertical joint in the brickwork on both front and rear walls close by the hallway doors, and also by the headings of the cellar windows, the older part was crudely arched by a single row of bricks while in the newer section keyed stone lintels are used.</p><br>
<p>The north wall of the hallway was one of the original outside walls; it is carried to the roof beams. The partition walls running laterally between the front and the back rooms on the north side of the house furnish the support for the ceiling rafters of the attic rooms. The woodwork of the older part of the house is marked by severe simplicity and symmetrical lines. The newels are plain; the balustrades are gracefully turned and fastened by wooden pegs. In the original living room, which is on the left side of the hallway, is a fireplace which originally had a facing of blue tiles.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Pomona Hall has been restored to its appearance during the American Revolution. It has been called the "finest example of a Georgian style plantation house in New Jersey."</p><br>
<p>The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) conducted a detailed survey of the building in 1936, creating architectural drawings and photographs of the existing conditions and gathering documents about the history of the building.</p><br>
<p>Owner: City of Camden. The building is occupied by the Camden County Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Date of Erection: 1726–1788</p><br>
<p>Architect: unknown</p><br>
<p>Builder: Joseph Cooper Jr. for the 1726 section; Marmaduke Cooper for the newer section</p><br>
<p>Present Condition: Good (1936)</p><br>
<p>Number of Stories: Two and one-half</p><br>
<p>Materials of Construction:</p><br>
<p>Foundation - Stone</p><br>
<p>Exterior walls - front Flemish bond with black glazed headers; west elevation in alternating header and stretcher rows; the end walls form gables as settings for the wide chimney breast</p><br>
<p>Interior walls - Plaster; left side of hall wide tongued groved boards, most fireplace ends paneled</p><br>
<p>Roof - Pitch with dormers and with a roof walk between the chimney breasts</p><br>
<p>The H.R. Stevens House is located on Congers Road  in the New City section of the Town of Clarkstown, New York, United States. It is a stone house dating to the late 18th century. In the early 19th century, it was expanded with some wood frame upper stories added later. The interior was also renovated over the course of the century.</p><br>
<p>It shows the convergence of Dutch and English building traditions in the later years of the colonial Hudson Valley. In 2005, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a small lot on the northern side of Congers Road where it bends to the northeast midway between New York State Route 304 at downtown New City and its crossing of DeForest Lake, west of Congers itself. It is on the fringe of a residential area, with large institutional buildings to the southwest along its side of Congers and Clarkstown High School North and its baseball diamonds and football field across the road. All the lots in the generally level suburban area are buffered from each other by strips of woodland.</p><br>
<p>A paved driveway curves in front of the house before ending in front of a stone and wood frame garage. It is sympathetic architecturally but not considered a contributing resource to the listing since it is too modern. A small coursed limestone retaining wall in the front elevates the house slightly.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The house itself is a one-and-a-half-story five-by-two-bay structure of locally quarried pink-red sandstone set in load-bearing walls. It is topped with a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof shingled in asphalt, pierced by gabled dormer windows and two brick chimneys at either end. It has a one-story attached frame wing on the west.</p><br>
<p>The east (front) facade is mostly screened from view by tall evergreen plantings. A wood porch projects from the center of the ground floor. Four square piers support a flat roof with balustrade. At the top of the stone section of the wall is a molded cornice and plain fascia. Above it the gable field is sided in clapboard with a pair of windows and a small lozenge-shaped window in the apex. It has a molded cornice at the roofline.</p><br>
<p>On the north elevation the frieze and cornice at the top of the stone wall continue around the corner and terminate in returns. The basement window on that side shows the signs of having once been an entrance. The west (rear) has a centrally located door and three windows, with the southernmost having an unusually large lintel. At the roof is a shed dormer with five windows. The two-bay frame wing has a small pent-roofed porch over the door on its rear elevation.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance, a replica Dutch door set in a molded casing, opens into a full-depth center passage. The stair to the upper floor, with turned Italianate newel posts and balusters, is on the south side. Two rooms original to the house are on the north. They are of roughly equal size, with an entryway between them larger than is typical for two late 18th-century parlors.</p><br>
<p>Paneled wainscoting is on the lower walls, with lath and plaster finishing above and on the ceiling. The deeply recessed windows reveal the width of the walls. Both parlors have fireplaces with Federal style wooden mantels with a five-part entablature, beveled panels and bulbous colonettes on the front one. The rear substitutes a molded frieze for the colonettes but has a similar five-part structure. The hearthstones are red sandstone similar to the exterior; the floors are thin width oak.</p><br>
<p>On the opposite side of the central hall are two smaller rooms added onto the original house later. The larger rear one is now a dining room, with a door connecting it to the kitchen in the frame wing. Upstairs in the main block is an L-shaped hallway with five rooms clustered around it.</p><br>
<p>Below the main block is a fully excavated basement; while the wing has only crawl space. On the basement ceiling exposed hewn beams run from front to rear. A concrete block wall in the middle supports them and divides the basement into two rooms. On the north wall are the stone supports for the chimneys, consisting of piers with heavy timber lintels. There are slots for shelving in between. In the northeastern corner is an old board-and-batten door that once provided egress.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the absence of property records, which go back for the house only to 1827, it has been determined from the construction that it was most likely built around 1775, since dressed stone was used on all elevations (earlier houses would have used it only on the front facade). The stone walls reflect Dutch influence waning in the area at that time; the original three-bay interior layout, with a sidehall plan and jambed fireplaces in both rooms, is English in origin, as are the dimensions of the timber beams in the basement. The porch covers the area where any datestone would likely be located; these, however, are not always accurate.</p><br>
<p>Its original exterior may have been fairly similar to the Lozier House in Midland Park, New Jersey, to the south. The other two bays may not have been added to the main block until as late as 1820, as suggested by the Federal style fireplaces. A clear break in the masonry of the basement wall shows where the extension began. Stevens, former town clerk and the earliest known owner, moved in around 1827.</p><br>
<p>The next significant change to the house likely took place around 1860. At that time the Italianate style of the newel posts and balusters was current. They replaced a simpler, enclosed original stair.</p><br>
<p>The dormers and cross-gable may have been added then as well. Another possibility is that they were added closer to the turn of the 20th century, possibly in imitation of the very similar treatment of the Big House in Palisades, elsewhere in Rockland County. However, a similar treatment is also found on the 18th-century Abram Ackerman House just south of the state line in Saddle River, New Jersey, and it seems to have been a common retrofitting for 18th-century houses that had survived to the middle of the following century, in order to bring light and air into their previously unventilated garrets, often accompanying their conversion into bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Varnum Poor House, also known as the "Crow House", is a historic home located on South Mountain Road at New City in Rockland County, New York. It was built between about 1920 and 1949 by artist Henry Varnum Poor . It combines elements of rustic Arts and Crafts movement vernacular with elements of the modern movement. Also on the property are a studio dated to 1957; a small half-timbered mill building, 1921; woodshop, circa 1920–1930; an outdoor kiln from 1957; bridge, circa 1950; and a terraced garden, 1926.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. About the same time the town of Ramapo purchased the house for $1.3 million with help of a $496,000 grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. There were also plans for contribution of furnishings and art from family heir Peter Varnum Poor, but collections and restoration efforts made little progress through 2015.</p><br>
<p>Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens is a historic county courthouse, public garden, and national historic district located at New City in Rockland County, New York. The district has two contributing buildings, one contributing site, five contributing structures, and two contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse building was built in 1928 and is a three-story, symmetrical building built of Indiana limestone in a transitional Beaux-Arts / Art Deco style. The interior features a large three-story lobby that extends across the front of the building to the two flanking pavilions. On the front facade is the county World War I Memorial.</p><br>
<p>The Dutch Garden was designed by Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke (1874–1962), a West Nyack native and wife of the sculptor John Mowbray-Clarke, in 1933–34 and constructed between 1934 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was built as a memorial to the county&#39;s early settlers and was designed in the formal 17th century Dutch tradition. The Dutch Garden won "Garden of the Year" from Better Home and Gardens magazine in 1935. Master craftsman Biaglo Gugliuzzo of Garnerville created walks and latticed walls of Haverstraw brick.</p><br>
<p>It was the only W.P.A. landscape architecture project designed and supervised by a woman. The garden features a one-story tea house whose interior features a brick fireplace with carvings of mountains, windmills and other serene symbols representing aspects of Dutch-American history, others of motifs popular in 1930s: Popeye, the Baker Cocoa and Old Dutch Cleanser maids. Also in the garden is a bandstand, a serpentine brick wall, and a small round brick table.</p><br>
<p>Edward Hopper Birthplace and Boyhood Home, also known as the Edward Hopper House Art Center, is an art center and historic home located at 82 North Broadway, 3 1/2 blocks north of Main Street, Nyack in Rockland County, New York. It is a 2-story, side hall, mid-19th-century Greek Revival–style dwelling with a -story, Queen Anne–style addition. It was the home of noted artist Edward Hopper  from the time of his birth until he moved to Manhattan in 1910. He held title to the house until his death.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Edward Hopper House Art Center</h2><br>
<p>The house is now the Edward Hopper House Art Center, which features one gallery dedicated to Hopper&#39;s life and work, and other galleries for changing exhibits. The center also offers workshops, lectures, jazz concerts, figure drawing and other classes.</p><br>
<p>The Shelby–Nicholson–Schindler House is a "Missouri L-shaped house" in Perryville, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Shelby–Nicholson–Schindler House is located in the western part of Perryville, Missouri, and is situated on approximately one acre of land.</p><br>
<p>The structure itself is a five-bay, 12-room, L-shaped residential building. The porches are attached along the north, south, and east facades. A wash house, the only outbuilding, is attached to the house by the southeast porch. The main portion of the house measures 46 feet, 2 inches along the north facade, and 23 feet on the east and west facades. The rear wing is 28 feet 1 inch by 30 feet. The enclosed southwest porch is 13 feet one inch on the west facade and 12 feet 7 inches on the south facade. The wash house is 12 feet 3 inches by 16 feet 4 inches.</p><br>
<p>The foundations of the main portion of the house are made of cut stone, while the rear wing&#39;s foundation is made of rubble stone interfiled with cement. The outer walls of the house are made of red brick. The porches are made of wood and painted white.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded owner of the house was Dr. Reuben Shelby of Greene County, Pennsylvania, who was an early American settler of Missouri in the 1830s. He was a medical doctor by profession and active in politics. Between 1860 and 1870 the house changed hands four times.</p><br>
<p>In 1870, 20th Circuit Court judge John H. Nicholson and his wife Amalia purchased the house.</p><br>
<p>Carson McCullers House is a historic home located at South Nyack in Rockland County, New York. It is a two-story Second Empire–style residence constructed in 1880 and modified with subsequent interior and exterior modifications largely in the Colonial Revival spirit about 1910. It is a frame structure built originally as parsonage, three bays wide and four bays deep. It features a one-story verandah, a slate-covered mansard roof, and an interesting multi-story tower projection crowned by a bell-cast roof. It was home to noted author Carson McCullers  from 1945 to 1967.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Port Jefferson School was a historic school in the village of Port Jefferson, Ohio, United States. Built in 1877,</p><br>
<p>Three bays wide on the front, the school was a brick structure supported by a stone foundation. Among its leading architectural features were the three lancet windows above the grand entrance, which was trimmed with stone and ornamented with multiple keystones.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Port Jefferson School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its place in local history. Since that time, the school has been destroyed, but the lot at the corner of Wall and Spring Streets remains listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The Whitby Mansion is a historic mansion in Sidney, Ohio, United States. Built in 1890, The resulting mansion, designed by an unknown architect, features massive stone walls that are topped with a slate roof. Elements of the Jacobethan and Châteauesque styles are combined with the Tudor Revival style of architecture. By the mid-1970s, the mansion had ceased to be a house; it had been purchased by The Way International and converted into a historic archive and art museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Whitby Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. It was seen as historically significant primarily as a leading example of the architecture of the rich in late nineteenth-century America.</p><br>
<p>The Beauregard-Keyes House is a historic residence located at 1113 Chartres Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is currently a museum, the BK Historic House and Gardens, that focuses on the past residents and associates of the house. These include its wealthy, pre-civil war French Creole inhabitants, the people they enslaved, the Italian immigrant families who moved in after the civil war, their tenants, and American author Frances Parkinson Keyes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property where the house would be built was originally owned by Ursuline nuns, who sold off parcels of their land in 1825. The home was designed by François Correjolles and built by James Lambert in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier. In his design, Correjolles combined elements of a Creole cottage with Greek Revival features, including a Palladian façade. In particular, he used Creole forms in the interior and on the rear elevation, as well as a cabinet gallery and detached outbuildings, but maintaining the American tradition of a central hall. Consul of Switzerland John A. Merle became the owner in 1833 and his wife, Anais Philippon, added the adjoining garden.</p><br>
<h3>Beauregard</h3><br>
<p>By 1865, the home was purchased by a local grocer named Dominique Lanata, who rented it out until 1904. His first tenants were the Beauregards. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard married his second wife, Caroline Deslonde, in 1860. Caroline was the daughter of André Deslonde, a sugar planter from St. James Parish. The newlyweds honeymooned briefly in the house. Mrs. Beauregard died in 1864.</p><br>
<p>After the American Civil War, Beauregard returned to 1113 Chartres Street and lived in the house from 1866 to 1868. He then moved with his son René and a widowed older sister to a home at 934 Royal Street, where he lived until 1875.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, a new owner of the house wanted to tear it down to erect factories. Local women formed the Beauregard Memorial Association to preserve the home, though the garden could not be saved.</p><br>
<h3>Keyes</h3><br>
<p>American author Frances Parkinson Keyes purchased the house at 1113 Chartres Street and made it her residence. While living at the house, Keyes wrote numerous books, one of which was set in the house and included Beauregard as a character: Madame Castels Lodger. The 1962 novel explored Beauregards emotional struggles as a twice-widowed Civil War veteran who refused to take the loyalty oath to the Union. She also wrote a novel called The Chess Players, based on chess champion Paul Morphy, who was also the grandson of the original owner of the house, LeCarpentier.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>Keyes began the restoration work on the house as early as 1945 when she hired architect Richard Koch to begin work. She also worked with a local group called the Garden Study Club to replant the garden to its 1830s–1860s look and rebuild the brick wall surrounding it. The Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission installed a bronze plaque identifying the home&#39;s history in 1958.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Beauregard-Keyes house is restored to its Victorian style and showcases items from Beauregards family, as well as Keyess studio and her collections of dolls and rare porcelain veilleuses (tea pots). Keyes wrote several articles about her doll collection for magazines and books. A film, "The Story of the Dixie Doll," produced by Laurie W. McGill (www.UFDC.org) discusses not only Keyes&#39; life and books, but her dolls. The house is open for tours.</p><br>
<p>The house also hosts the Nous Foundation, a cultural institution promoting Louisiana’s French and Creole-speaking cultures.</p><br>
<p>In AMC&#39;s Interview With The Vampire, scenes set at the Fair Play Saloon/Azalea Hall were shot in the house, which was "completely transformed" for the TV series.</p><br>
<h2>Images of the building</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas N. Wheeler Farm is located on Indian Lake Road  in the town of North East, New York, United States, south of the village of Millerton. It is a frame house built at the beginning of the 19th century in the Federal style.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the earliest surviving intact farmsteads in the Coleman Station Historic District. In 1993, when the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the house and another building on the property were recognized as contributing properties to its historic character. Seven years later it was listed on the Register in its own right.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The farm&#39;s 18 acre are located on both sides of Indian Lake Road, just west of the three-way intersection where it turns to the east and Mill Road continues north, just west of the former New York Central Railroad right-of-way that is now the Harlem Valley Rail Trail. The area is level, save for a small rise on the northern lot line, located near the floor of the small bowl that makes up the Coleman Station area. A small tributary of Webutuck Creek flows through the north end of the property, draining into the creek itself a short distance to the east.</p><br>
<p>North of the road is the house and most of the associated farm buildings are located on the north side of the road. On the south a tennis court stands on what was once a cornfield. Various farm buildings such as a granary, stables and carriage house are located behind the main house. There are six contributing resources to the Register listing on the property.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house is a two-story, five-bay hand-hewn timber frame building on a stone foundation. It is sided in clapboard and topped with a gabled roof shingled in wood and pierced by two brick chimneys. It has a one-and-a-half-story wing on the east, similarly treated but with two large gabled dormer windows piercing the roof instead of chimneys. Connected to its northeast is a one-story shed-roofed kitchen wing.</p><br>
<p>A gable-roofed single-bay porch with railings and square pillars shelters the main entrance. The first-story windows on the south (front) facade have panels beneath. All windows on that facade of the main block are two-over-two double-hung sash. On the wing they are 12-over-12. The kitchen wing&#39;s roof shelters a side entrance and porch on the east end of that wing. Above it is a small Palladian window in the gable field. The north (rear) facade has irregularly placed nine-over-six sash.</p><br>
<p>The raised-panel oak main entrance door, with windows on the side and above, opens onto a wide central hallway with its original heavy oak wide tongue-and-groove flooring and plaster walls. On the east are two parlors of roughly the same size with some original wall sections and wideboard pine flooring. Their fireplaces are almost identical, with pine mantels and marble hearths; the southeast one having a built-in cupboard nearby. The substantial chimney stacks are angled to be centered at the roof. The kitchen wing&#39;s interiors date to the early-to-mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>On the east of the main hall is the stairs, much of which are original. It has square newels and a simple molded handrail with simple square balusters. The original pine stair treads were protected by carpeting for many years.</p><br>
<p>The second story has an identical floor plan. The northeast bedroom has original wainscoting and chair rail. All woodwork in it and the southeast room is original as is the pine wideboard flooring. The basement runs under the entire house, including the kitchen wing. There are no hearths, but the stone and wood bases of the chimney stacks are evident.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wheeler family came to America in 1635 when Thomas Wheeler emigrated from the English town of Cranefield to Concord, Massachusetts. Over a century later, in 1749, his great-great-grandson, also named Thomas, bought land in the Great Nine Partners Patent and settled in what is now Amenia, New York, to the west of the future Coleman Station. He operated a mill near the current house site.</p><br>
<p>No construction date is known, but it is believed that the house was built around 1800 from its Federal style architecture. At that time Thomas Newcomb Wheeler, one of ten children of the elder Thomas Wheeler&#39;s son Noah, would have been 26 years old, old enough to have had his own house. Noah divided his holdings among his children in 1818, retaining what is now the Wheeler-Bassett Farm on Reagan Road for himself to live out his final years.</p><br>
<p>A tenant house was built to the southwest in the early 1820s. Noah Wheelers children, Thomas included, bought out their cousins holdings in 1824. Seventeen years later, in 1841, Thomas sold his holdings to his sons Henry and Lawrence for $9,000 ($ in contemporary dollars), on the condition that he be allowed to remain in his home for the remainder of his natural life and that their 44-year-old unmarried sister Selina be allowed to use one of the bedrooms and both parlors for the remainder of her life. The following year his will expanded on these terms.</p><br>
<p>Two years later, Thomas N. Wheeler died. Lawrence bought out Henry&#39;s interest for $1,200 and then sold it to their younger brother Stephen D. Wheeler for $4,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). The two brothers soon became embroiled in litigation with the New York and Harlem Railroad over the value of the land it wanted to take from them through eminent domain to complete its route from New York City to Albany. The railroad ultimately prevailed, with the Wheelers receiving less per acre than their neighbors, but won the right to have a bridge erected over the rock cut south of the tenant house and maintained in perpetuity by the railroad and its assigns.</p><br>
<p>Stephen Wheeler moved back into the house after swapping land with his brother in 1859. This transfer reduced the lot around the house to its current 18 acre from what had at one time been 600 acre. When he died, his daughter sold her rights to the house to her brother Burnett. They mortgaged it in 1876 to Hiram Clark and his wife Mary.</p><br>
<p>After the Blizzard of 1888, the rock cut filled up with snow, leading to a rail accident that killed five people and took a week to clear. One of the locomotive&#39;s cab roofs was used as an animal shelter in a nearby field. The houses were used to treat the wounded. Mary Wheeler defaulted on the mortgage and lost the house in 1897, taking it out of the Wheeler family after almost a century.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Newton Harris House is at historic house at 130 Broad Street in New London, Connecticut. Completed in 1860 to a design by Leopold Eidlitz, it is a major local example of Italianate and Renaissance Revival architecture. It was built for Jonathan Newton Harris, a prominent local businessman who was mayor of New London at the time of its construction. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 27, 1982. It is now home to New London&#39;s United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jonathan Newton Harris House is located northwest of downtown New London, at the south corner of Broad and Williams Streets. It is set on a knoll, with a variety of government facilities in other architecturally distinguished buildings located nearby. It is a large brick structure, two stories in height, with Italianate and Renaissance Revival styling. Prominent features include a three-story tower with a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof, a cornice with heave Italianate brackets, and windows arranged in groups, either with rounded arch tops or segmented arch tops. At the center of the main facade, on the second floor above the main entrance, is a recessed arcade with brownstone columns and balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1859–60, to a design by Leopold Eidlitz, a protégé of Richard Upjohn, who was then promoting Italianate design ideas. Jonathan Newton Harris, for whom it was built, was a local businessman whose success began as a grocer and seller of farm equipment, and expanded to encompass a wide variety of interests. Harris was mayor of New London from 1856 to 1862. The house was extensively modified in 1891 as a classroom building for the Williams Memorial Institute, and again in the 20th century, when it was adapted for use as a church.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan A. Woodworth House is a historic house at 28 Channing Street in New London, Connecticut. Built in 1890, it is a high quality example of transitional Queen Anne and Shingle style architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 1982, and is part of the Post Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nathan A. Woodworth House is located in a residential area west of downtown New London, overlooking Williams Park on the west side of Channing Street at Granite Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with asymmetrical massing and a busy roof line characteristic of the Queen Anne style. It has a number of different types of projections and roof gables, decorative chimney caps, and a front porch with turned posts and balustrade. The interior features finely crafted woodwork, fireplaces with decorative tile surrounds, and a main staircase newel post with an integrated gas light fixture.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1890 for Nathan Woodworth, who was in the paper milling business in nearby Waterford; its design appears to be an adaptation from an architectural pattern book. The land on which it was built was purchased by Woodworths father in 1865, and sold to his (Nathans) wife in 1890. Construction of this house contributed to the reputation of the Williams Park area as a desirable upper-class residential enclave. Its builders, the Bishop Brothers, were one of the best-known construction firms in the city at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Acors Barns House is located at 68 Federal Street at the corner of Meridian Street in New London, Connecticut. Barns was a wealthy merchant in the whaling industry whose company became one of the largest whaling firms in the city. He managed to avoid the collapse of whaling by investing elsewhere; he was the founder of the Bank of Commerce in 1852, and his son and grandson succeeded him as president.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1837, the Acors Barns House is a two-and-one-half story Greek Revival house with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. The front facade of the house is five bays wide with a Greek Revival portico leading to the main entrance. Additions to the house include a projecting center dormer, and second-story projection over a partially enclosed veranda. The plain exterior is contrasted by interior&#39;s elaborate hall ceilings, detailed woodwork and arched marble fireplaces. Journalist David Collins wrote in The Day newspaper that the Acors Barns house is a "fine and rare example" of architecture that is especially important to New London.</p><br>
<p>The Acors Barns House was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 22, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Acors Barns</h2><br>
<p>Born in 1794, Acors Barns was the son of a mariner and lived in Westerly, Rhode Island and Stonington, Connecticut before moving to New London, Connecticut and forming a whaling company with William Williams Jr. in 1827. The company prospered and became one of the largest firms in the city, but Barns avoided the 1849 decline of the whaling industry by investing elsewhere. He invested in the Willimantic and Palmer Railroad before establishing the Bank of Commerce in 1852. Barns died in 1862, but his sons would succeed him a president of the successful bank.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1837, the Acors Barns House is a two-and-one half story Greek Revival house with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. The front facade of the house is five bays wide with 6-over-6 sash and the main entrance has a Greek Revival portico supported by fluted Doric columns from top step. The simple single-panel door is surrounded by sidelights. The corners of the building have simple pilasters and four chimneys rising from the top. The rear of the house has a one-story veranda with a shallow hipped roof that is supported by square columns with a simple balustrade. The veranda has large 6-over-9 sash windows that extend almost a full story. In 1975, the area surrounding the property has undergone significant change, but the house is surrounded by trees and shrubs and a wrought iron fence that helps set it apart from the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Modifications to the house include the addition of a large pediment-shaped dormer that projects from the center of the main roof and is lighted by a rectangular double window. Part of the veranda was enclosed and the stairs that lead to a formal garden were removed. Above the center of the veranda is a second-story projection that was described as visually compromising the elegance of the rear facade.</p><br>
<p>The plain exterior is contrasted by the elegance of the interior of the house. The house has elaborate hall ceilings, detailed woodwork and arched marble fireplaces. The floor plan is built around the central hall with an offset stairway. The parlor rooms to the right are separated by a wide archway. The two rooms to the left are a dining room and a pantry that has a dumbwaiter to the kitchen in the cellar. The National Historic Register of Places nomination noted that the cellar contained the "remains of the kitchen, washroom and wine cellar". The second floor is made of four chambers and the attic consists of five small rooms. The attics rooms served as the servants cubicles.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>The Acors Barns House has gone through several owners over its lifetime. In 1862, the house passed from Acors Barns to his son William H. Barns. In 1893, the second son, Charles Barns acquired the title to the house and transferred it upon his death to Harriet Barns Vincent, the daughter of his sister. Harriet Barns Vincent sold the house to Julia OSullivan in 1919. Francis McGuire purchased the house in 1956, and used it to house the offices of his law firm; it would later pass to James McGuire, who in 2013 sold the house to the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut for $325,000. The foundation stated it would continue to preserve the houses historical integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>In the NRHP information about the house, Bruce Clouette writes, "The Barns house physically documents the symbiosis by which the wealthy and the propertyless shared a home. Its value as an artifact is enhanced by the successful reuse which has retained the character of the building."</p><br>
<p>The William S. Townsend House is located at 96 Delsea Drive  in the Dennisville section of Dennis Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The oldest section of the historic house was built around 1820. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1961. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1984, for its significance in architecture and politics/government. The house was later listed as a contributing property of the Dennisville Historic District on June 21, 2016.</p><br>
<p>William S. Townsend was a wealthy farmer and merchant in the area. The oldest section of the house was built around 1820 by a member of the Ludlam family. It was expanded by Townsend around 1835 and again around 1845. According to the nomination form, Henry Clay visited Townsend in 1847.</p><br>
<p>Ravenswood, also known as the Leonard Home, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1880, and is a -story, eclectic Italianate/Second Empire style brick mansion. It has a low-angle Mansard roof covered with asphalt on top and grey, slate shingles on the slopes. Additions were made to the original house in 1907–1908, 1913 and 1914. Also on the property are the contributing summer kitchen , the Tally-ho barn, the mule barn, a sheep barn, milk barn, carriage house, Managers House, servants houses, smokehouse, sheds, a garage, and a pump house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>McCradys Tavern and Long Room is a historic tavern complex located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Constructed in several phases in the second half of the 18th century, the tavern was a hub of social life in Charleston in the years following the American Revolution. The taverns Long Room, completed in 1788, was used for theatrical performances and banquets for the citys elite and is the last of its kind in Charleston. McCradys was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its architectural and political significance.</p><br>
<p>Edward McCrady (d. 1794), a Charleston barber/vintner/tavern owner and Revolutionary War veteran, purchased the tavern in 1778 and expanded the tavern, and constructed the Long Room over the next decade. In 1791, the Society of the Cincinnati hosted a banquet in the Long Room for President George Washington, who was visiting the city. The building operated as a tavern and banquet hall throughout much of the first half of the 19th century and later served as a warehouse and print shop. The building was restored to its late-18th-century appearance in the 1980s, and currently houses McCrady&#39;s Restaurant.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The McCrady&#39;s Tavern complex consists of two main structures&mdash; the main tavern building, which faces East Bay Street, and the Long Room, which faces Unity Alley. The main tavern building is a rectangular three-story brick structure with a flat roof. The building is four bays wide, with its front (east) facade facing East Bay Street. The north facade is flush with an adjacent building, and the south faces a narrow corridor. The rear facade faces a courtyard that connects it to the Long Room. The main tavern building is oriented east-to-west, while the Long Room is oriented north-to-south, giving the complex a "T" shape.</p><br>
<p>McCradys Long Room is a two-story brick structure measuring 75 ft by 25 ft. The buildings front facade faces Unity Alley, a narrow pedestrian alley connecting East Bay Street and State Street. The corridor on the southeast end of the Long Room adjacent to the front has been enclosed and now serves as the complexs main entrance (the entrance to the main tavern building on East Bay is used as a private entrance for the current restaurants "Chefs Room" guests). The Long Room buildings first story consists of an arcade open on the east side, which originally housed stalls for horses. The Long Room building&#39;s main room, where banquets and performances were held, occupies most of the second story and originally included a stage and a 16 ft ceiling. The second story also included an anteroom and a dressing room for performers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lot now occupied by McCradys Tavern was initially granted to a merchant named Jonathan Amory, who sold it in 1723. In subsequent decades, the lot was used for various commercial purposes. What is now the main tavern building had been constructed by 1767 when it was mentioned in a city survey. Edward McCrady, a local barber, purchased the building in August 1778 and began using it as a tavern. Like many colonial taverns, McCradys offered meals and lodging in addition to providing a venue for gathering and drinking.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolution, McCrady was a leader in Charlestons militia. When Charleston fell to the British in 1780, McCrady was arrested and taken to St. Augustine, where he was held until 1781. McCrady eventually purchased lots adjacent to his tavern, allowing him to construct the Long Room, which served as a banquet hall and small-scale performance venue, in 1788. On May 4, 1791, the Charleston branch of the Society of the Cincinnati hosted a banquet for President George Washington in McCradys Long Room. The banquet was also attended by South Carolina governor Charles Pinckney, several members of Congress, and the mayor of Charleston.</p><br>
<p>After McCrady died in 1794, the tavern changed hands several times. In 1884, it was converted into a warehouse, and in 1913, the Daggett Printing Company purchased the building for use as a print shop. In the 1970s, after the building had been abandoned for several years, it was added to the National Register, and plans were made to restore it to its late-18th-century appearance.</p><br>
<h2>McCrady&#39;s Restaurant</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1980s, the McCrady building was remodeled by the architectural firm Bentel & Bentel for use as a restaurant. The arcade stalls beneath the Long Room were outfitted with tile and modified to serve as a dining area adjacent to the restaurants bar. The Long Room functioned as a large dining room. Other modifications to the complex included the addition of mahogany paneling and a Baccarat crystal chandelier in what is now called the "Chefs Room." In 2010, the restaurants chef, Sean Brock, was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Southeast. Sam Sifton, a New York Times Food Editor, referenced McCradys as one of the best restaurants outside of the "first tier" of American cities. On April 30, 2020, Neighborhood Dining Group announced that McCrady&#39;s would remain closed permanently after its shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><br>
<p>Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Botkins, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1865, the parish owns a complex of buildings constructed in a wide range of years, including two that have been designated as historic sites.</p><br>
<h2>Early parish history</h2><br>
<p>Immaculate Conception parish was organized in 1865 among a population of twenty-eight poor German immigrant families. A few Catholic families had settled in the vicinity of the village many years before, but their poverty had prevented them from supporting a pastor; accordingly, Mass was celebrated only occasionally by travelling priests. For many years, they worshipped in private homes or in a former schoolhouse, although a log church was built by the early 1860s. Soon after the creation of the parish, the members began to take measures to replace their church, and a new brick building was completed in 1867. Erected at a cost of approximately $8,000, this structure measured 45 ft by 85 ft, and it was crowned by a respectable steeple. As the years passed, the parish grew; by 1883, its membership was eighty-two families. Increased membership permitted improvements to the church: it was remodelled and embellished by painter F.H. Hefele in 1898, and ornate stained glass windows were installed in 1899. From the parishs earliest years, it possessed a cemetery: a small plot 1 mi north of Botkins was used for a time, and it was soon replaced by a more suitable location on the villages northern edge.</p><br>
<h2>Rectory</h2><br>
<p>Many parishes in the region constructed rectories for their pastors in accordance with an archiepiscopal directive in the early twentieth century. Most of these houses are simple brick structures influenced by the style of the Sears Roebuck catalog of the day. The rectory at Botkins, built before this directive, is significantly different: its architecture is an ornate Italianate. Its brick walls are built on a foundation of limestone, and the building is covered with a roof of asphalt. This two-story house was the second rectory owned by the parish; its members bought and converted a house in 1875 before erecting the present structure in 1887 at a cost of $3,000.</p><br>
<h2>School</h2><br>
<p>Many parishes in the region also operated parish schools from their earliest years. Some rural parishes, such as St. Roses in St. Rose and St. Wendelins in Wendelin, built one-room schools for their children in the middle or late nineteenth century, while parishes such as St. Josephs in Wapakoneta and St. Johns in Fryburg erected larger two-story structures around the beginning of the twentieth century. it was a two-story building with a basement; among its most significant architectural features were the pillars at its entrance and the sharp contrasts at corners between walls. In this way, it was similar to parish schools at Celina and Coldwater, which were architecturally very similar to Botkins and to each other, and which were erected at a similar point in time.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1961, the parish replaced its church building with a modern structure; however, the rectory and school were left in place. These two buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979: the school qualified because of its architecture, and the rectory both because of its architecture and because of its contribution to statewide history. Thirty-four other buildings in western Ohio were listed on the Register at the same time as part of the "Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources," a group of Catholic churches and church-related properties in rural western Ohio. These massive churches are the namesake of the region, which has been nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>Today, Immaculate Conception is an active parish of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is clustered with Sacred Heart Parish in McCartyville and St. Lawrence Parish in Rhine, and the entire cluster is a part of the Sidney Deanery. Although the rectory retains its location adjacent to the church, the school has been destroyed, and a parking lot now sits in its place. This destruction was predicted in 1979 when the school was nominated for inclusion on the Register; the nominators noted that officials&#39; demands for progress endangered many parish schools. Ultimately, the destruction was a result of the expansion of the local elementary school in 1985: until this point, the Botkins Local School District had been renting the unused parish school building, but the increased space produced by the expansion rendered the old school superfluous. Despite its destruction, the school remains on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The LeMoyne Crematory was the first crematory in the United States. Francis Julius LeMoyne had it built in 1876 on his own land, perched atop a location known locally as Gallows Hill in North Franklin Township near Washington, Pennsylvania. The first cremation took place on December 6, 1876. LeMoyne believed that cremation was a more sanitary way to dispose of bodies, preventing the contamination of drinking water. After 41 more cremations there , the crematory was closed in 1901. LeMoynes remains are buried there.</p><br>
<p>It is a brick 20 x 30 one-story building.</p><br>
<h2>Timeline</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Francis LeMoyne believed that cremation was a more sanitary way to dispose of bodies, preventing the contamination of drinking water.</p><br>
<p>After 41 more cremations there (with Dr. LeMoyne being the third, in 1879), the crematory was closed in 1901. The final cremation had occurred the year prior, on November 28, 1900, after Mrs. Mary S. Booth&#39;s remains were disposed of in the retort.</p><br>
<h2>The crematory in recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1953, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission installed a historical marker noting the historic importance of the crematory.</p><br>
<p>Today, the structure can be found in the same location off of South Main Street. The Washington County Historical Society occasionally offers limited tours.</p><br>
<p>The Sackville House was an historic, American building that was located at 309 East Wheeling Street in East Washington, Pennsylvania before it was demolished in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The seventeen-room building was constructed in 1884 by John Vester. Ownership of the building passed to Vester&#39;s nephew Leo Sackville in 1943.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976. By the late 1970s, the building had been converted to three apartments. Sackville&#39;s widow later sold the building to the Washington & Jefferson College.</p><br>
<p>As the colleges plans for the buildings demolition progressed, the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation and the college discussed the possibility of preserving the building; however, zoning issues with East Washington, the projected $40,000 costs of moving, and the additional cost to restore the building after being converted to apartments halted that effort. By 1982, the Olin Fine Arts Center was completed.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commissions Bureau for Historic Preservation was notified of the buildings demolition on June 1, 2010. It was formally de-listed from the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 2010, roughly 20 years after its demolition.</p><br>
<p>It continues to be designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Covington House historic cabin in Vancouver, Washington, was built by Richard and Charlotte "Anna" Covington born, raised and married in London, England who travelled by ship around Cape Horn, stopping at the Sandwich Islands  and finally arriving at Fort Vancouver in the Oregon Territory, where they had been hired to teach children of the Hudsons Bay Company employees. The first three "plains" of the area were held by Hudson Bay Fur Trade Co. whereas the fourth "plain" was opened up for public sale as property north of the Columbia River became part of the United States, the government gave newly acquired land to early pioneers, willing to settle and farm the land. The Covingtons taught at the Fort immediately after their arrival, 1846 until 11 April 1848 when they entered "donation land claim" No. 43 640 acre in the Fourth Plain area, the community now referred to as Orchards, where they built their home, House No. 16 and Boarding School, per the 1850 census. Although they never had any of their own children, the couple established a boarding school in addition to operating a large fruit farm, called the Kalsus Farm. The children slept in the cabin loft, as it was an arduous seven – eight-mile trek, one way, north east of the Fort and wrought with danger for small children to attempt to travel alone. The Covingtons log cabin soon became known as the social center of hospitality with musical entertainment in the early days of Vancouver on the Columbia River. Besides his guitar, they also brought a violin and the first piano to the Pacific Northwest as well, they also taught music to many of these local children at that time. Richard Covington was extremely talented, in addition to building their log cabin home, and developing an expansive orchard, he served in several offices as a justice of the peace, county clerk, school superintendent, cartographer, artist, musician, vocalist, and briefly as a ranger during an "Indian uprising" First Nations/Native Americans.</p><br>
<p>The inscription on the marker in front of the cabin: "Erected 1848 by Richard and Anne Charlotte Covington on Fourth Plain. Boarding school was conducted herein in 1850. This building housed first piano in the Oregon Country and was center of social activity in entire region".</p><br>
<p>USA Army Captain (and future President) Ulysses S. Grant was quartermaster at what was then known as Columbia Barracks at Fort Vancouver for 15 months beginning in September 1852 – 1853. During this time, he was known to ride 7–8 miles by horseback to visit the Covington home, to enjoy some semblance of familial life.</p><br>
<p>Richard Covington was elected Clark County school superintendent in 1862 and 1863. In 1867 he received an appointment to work in the United States Patent Office, under the administration of their friend and then President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant, so they sold their farm, in January, to William C. Hazard for $2,100 and moved to Washington, D.C. At the time of their departure, they gave their piano to a friend who eventually gave it to Nan Maynard Rice years later. In 1967, Miss Rice donated the piano to the Clark County Historical Museum. The Covingtons stayed in Washington, DC through President Grant&#39;s term in office, then temporarily spent time in Victoria, British Columbia until retiring to the Sandwich Islands until Richards death. It is believed that Anna returned to England.</p><br>
<p>The Covington House cabin, which is the oldest (domestic dwelling/home) privately built structure, is also the oldest school building in addition to it being the oldest boarding school built in Clark County, Washington. Circa 1925, it was "rediscovered" by local businessmen, who came together to raise attention and funds needed to save and restore the cabin. Which at that time not only was being used to house farm animals, but was "in advanced stage of disrepair – barren and weathered, open windows and doors, and unkempt shingles, dispiritedly in part of a weed-grown lot". Circa 1926–28, the individually adze hewn logs of the cabin were numbered and catalogued, disassembled, and relocated at its present site, 4201 Main Street, where it stands today. At that time that was the northwest corner of Leverich Park, (in an area called Kiggins Bowl due to the shape of the terrain), facing the old Pacific Highway, before being separated from the Park by the development of the "new" freeway, Interstate 5. Several modifications were added during this major restoration and relocation project, including electricity, heat, lights, water and plumbing, wooden floor, a new unique fireplace boasting large local river stones and single piece of local timber for the new fireplace and mantle, new windows, a kitchen, two restrooms and a fully restored roof with wooden rain gutters. The location was distinctive as being on the old Pacific Highway, and facing the old "Vancouver Column" adjacent to the oldest and now the newest (due to removal, restoration and re-dedication of the) Blue Star Memorial Highway Marker, in the state of Washington.</p><br>
<p>The Covington House itself is currently owned and maintained by the city of Vancouver on land owned by the local school district and managed by the Vancouver Womans Society affiliated with GFWC The General Federation of Womans Clubs. The house had served as a home, a farm and a boarding school, and quickly became a social hub. As it was in the beginning, so it is now, the cabin continues to provide a special place for special events as well as being utilized by many local groups as a regular meeting place. Because the cabin is a National Landmark, it is available to view by the public, by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Registry</h2><br>
<p>Listed on the National Register of Historic Places 5 May 1972.</p><br>
<p>Listed on the Clark County Heritage Register in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Orson Everitt House is a private house located at 39040 West Seven Mile Road in Livonia, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Orson Everitt House is an irregularly massed with a multi-colored paint scheme. The principal feature of the facade is the broad porch which spans the front; the porch features turned balusters and a circular turret at one end. Various dormers, including a turret with conical, roof break the roof line.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Marshall Everitt first settled on the property where this house was built in 1830. A few years later, the family built a simple structure just east of the current house location. As the family prospered, more structures were added, and in 1899, Marshalls grandson Orson Everitt built this house. It is likely the design of the house was selected from a house plan book; a similar house plan can be found in Herbert C. Chivers.</p><br>
<p>Orson Everitt still owned the property in 1915. The house was owned by the Foy family from 1968 till it was sold in 1979-1980 to Klein and Bloom. Being lovers of historical relics and treasuring preservation of beautiful spaces, Richard and Barbara Foy registered the home with the National Register of Historic Places, in efforts to preserve the house from being destroyed by future land development proposals from CBS/Fox Video. Mr. Foy was a well respected businessman in the Livonia area, and Mrs. Foy was an avid artist, antique collector, and homemaker to two children, Dean Foy and Holly Foy.</p><br>
<p>The house was later converted to office space in 1979 by the law firm of Klein and Bloom.</p><br>
<p>The property was sold in 2020 and is now home to an engineering company, Northstar Vision.</p><br>
<p>The John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead is a private farm, including house and outbuildings, located at 4896-5228 Sheldon Road in Canton Township, Michigan. The 1897 Queen Anne farmhouse located on the site is also known as the Michael and Catherine Hasselbach Fischer House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead consists of a ten-acre field with multiple buildings, including an 1897 Queen Anne house, a 1945 ranch house, 18 greenhouses, a boiler house, and a modern garage. The remains of a barn, silo, and milkhouse are also located on the property. The greenhouses are gable-end bays covered with paned glass, and were constructed in the 1940s for market farming.</p><br>
<p>The 1897 Queen Anne style house is typical of the style, but is relatively unusual in the local area where gabled-ell and upright-and-wing farmhouses were more popular through the turn of the century. The house has a cross plan, and the exterior contains typical Queen Anne details such as fishscale shingles and bay windows.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Michael Fischer immigrated to the US from Wurttemberg, Germany in 1847 when he was 14 years old; his wife, Catherine Hasselbach, immigrated from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany in 1852. The couple settled in Sheldon Corners where Michael opened a blacksmith shop. In 1862, they purchased the land this farmstead sits on and constructed a house. In 1897 their son John built the Queen Anne house on the property. The quality of the house is significant, in that it attests to the degree of affluence and assimilation attained by these second generation farmers.</p><br>
<p>Greenfield Hall, formerly known as the John Gill House, is located at 343 King&#39;s Highway East in the borough of Haddonfield in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1974, for its significance in exploration/settlement and military history. The Historical Society of Haddonfield operates a museum within the building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first structure to be built on the property was a small cabin built in 1728 by John Gill Sr. This cabin was later torn down. John Gill Sr.&#39;s son John Gill Jr. built a new house on the property in 1747. In 1841, this house was torn down with the exception of two small rooms and a new house was built in its place. The new house was built by John Gill IV and is a red brick, center-hall -story Georgian-style home. Alexander Oswald Brodie purchased the home in 1916 and lived there until his death two years later. The house then passed through a succession of owners until 1960 when it became the headquarters of the Historical Society of Haddonfield.</p><br>
<h2>The museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum has three rooms, a parlor, dining room and bedroom, which are kept as they would have appeared in 1841. The other rooms are used to show various items from the Historical Society&#39;s large collections relating to the history of Haddonfield.</p><br>
<p>The Haskell House, also known as the Andrew Clark House, is a historic house on Ross Hill Road in Lisbon, Connecticut. Built about 1798, it is a good example of transitional Georgian-Federal residential architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Haskell House, (a.k.a. “Andrew Clark House”) stands in a rural area of central Lisbon, on the west side of Ross Hill Road about 0.5 mi north of Connecticut Route 138. It is a -story wood-frame structure built in 1798 by Capt. Andrew Clark. It is five bays wide with a side-gable roof and a large central chimney. A -story ell extending to the north was the original pre-1728 freestanding farmstead, referred to as “the Elisha Morgan Farm” in 18th century documents, but likely built by one of the town’s earliest settlers, the Read family. A second ell to the west features a circa 1750 Rhode Island Cape that was dismantled and moved to the property in 1967 by prominent antiques dealers Jerome & Selma Blum as a sensitive contribution to the house. Much of the hardware and some of the floors from the Rhode Island house were used to complete the main house restoration. The most notable of the house&#39;s facade are a second-story Palladian window, an original, hand-carved gilded eagle ornament, a pavilion sheltering the main entrance and a massive granite surround topped with picket fencing. Although the basic structure of the main house is Georgian, its styling is more Federal, reflecting the transitional period of its 1798 construction date.</p><br>
<p>Land for the house, along with the pre-1728 so-called Morgan farmstead, was purchased in 1792 by Capt. Andrew Clark, a wealthy farmer who also served as a state representative. This section of the house is presumed to have been built in 1798, based on the panel with that date in the chimney. The panel resembles a similar one in a house in the nearby village of Newent, suggesting the house was built by an itinerant craftsman. After Clark and his wife died (outliving all of their children), the house passed into the Haskell (or Herskell) family of her sister, Dolly Partridge Haskell.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Homestead is a historic house on Madley Road in Lebanon, Connecticut. Built c. 1708, it is believed to be Lebanon&#39;s oldest building. It was owned in the late 18th century by James Clark, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark Homestead is located about 1 mi south of the village center of Lebanon, on 5 rural acres at the junction of Madley and Goshen Hill Roads. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, large central chimney, clapboarded exterior, and rear lean-to section giving it a classic New England saltbox appearance. An ell, added in the 19th century, extends to the rear. The entrance is at the center of the front facade, with a seven-light transom window and architrave above. The interior follows a typical central chimney plan, with a narrow winding staircase in the entry vestibule and parlor spaces to either side. The north bedroom in particular has a fine fireplace surround with fluted pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The land the house stands on is a remnant of 100 acre purchased in 1700 by Daniel Clark. His grandson Moses was given the land in 1708 and built the oldest portion of this house soon afterward. That portion included the central chimney and three bays; it was widened and extended about 1750, probably by Moses&#39;s son James, making it five bays wide and adding the lean-to. James Clark was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, serving at the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, and other engagements. He lived to the age of 95 and attended the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument.</p><br>
<p>The William A. Buckingham House, also known as Buckingham Memorial Hall, is a historic house a fraternal hall at 307 Main Street in Norwich, Connecticut. It was built in 1847 by William A. Buckingham, whose later political career included terms as mayor of Norwich and Governor of Connecticut . Since 1898, it has housed a variety of veterans&#39; and other service organizations, as well as government offices. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Buckingham House is located in downtown Norwich, on the south side of Main Street just east of the Otis Library. It is a -story brick structure, with a main block three bays wide, topped by a hip roof with a steep gable above what was originally the main entrance. The roof has extended eaves, which are adorned with modillion blocks A recessed wing extends to the left side, fronted by a single-story porch covered by a curving metal roof and supported by posts with open fretwork. The interior has been extensively altered, retaining only a small number of original features, including fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1847 for William A. Buckingham, whose later political career included terms as mayor of Norwich and Governor of Connecticut (the latter during the American Civil War). Buckingham is known to have had both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant as guests. The house was purchased in 1898 by the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans organization. In the early 1980s it was the meeting place of Sedgwick Camp #4 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, a Union Civil War descendants organization. It now houses a variety of government and social service offices as well as the Norwich Area Veterans Council, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 270 and the John R. Morse Chapter 10 of the Disabled American Veterans.</p><br>
<p>The Abel H. Fish House is a historic house at Buckley Hill Road and Rathbun Hill Road in Salem, Connecticut. Built about 1835, it is a well-preserved example of a vernacular Greek Revival farmhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 2, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Abel H. Fish House is located in the rural setting of northeastern Salem, near the junction of Buckley Hill and Rathbun Hill Roads. It is set well south of Buckley Hill Road, about 200 ft down a lane that used to be a public road, and is oriented facing south, away from the road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, four-bay facade, and clapboarded exterior. It has Greek Revival features, including an entry flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a transom window and entablature. To the east is a single-story wing, believed to be an older structure. The interior has a number of unusual features, including a winding staircase near the entrance, and a space that may have been used for the manufacture of soap.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1835, and is a typical example of a period farmhouse built for a farmer of middling economic means. Abel Fish bought this farm, then 165 acre in 1826, where he grew potatoes and raised dairy cows and sheep. He was active an area Baptist congregation, referred to in local records as "Deacon Abel Fish". The house now stands on about 10 acre, with much of the surrounding farmland still relatively undeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The William Gorton Farm, also known as the Bond Farm, is a historic farm complex at 14 West Lane in East Lyme, Connecticut. The site was continuously used for various agricultural pursuits from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries. The existing buildings date from the 18th century to the late 19th century, including a farmhouse, two barns, a blacksmith shop, and the remains of an icehouse and dock. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Christopher Christophers, believed to be an emigrant from Barbados, purchased a large tract of land on what was then called Black Point, in 1686. It was probably used for hay and pasturage for livestock. The land passed via marriage to the Manwaring family in 1723, and was used at least part of the time for cattle. The surviving farmhouse dates from the last quarter the 18th century, and had possibly been built by 1782 when a house farm and buildings were mentioned in a will. The land was sold to Robert Gorton in 1817. A dock was built in 1858, and used to load hay for vessels bound for the West Indies. The large red barn was built circa 1869, the other two surviving buildings, a horse and blacksmith shop, were also likely built soon after.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Norman J. Bond purchased the farm from William G. Gorton in 1874. Part of the farm was used for Black Point Cottages, a summer resort venture started by Bond. By the 1880s a colony consisting mainly of wealthy New Yorkers occupied the southern tip of Black Point. Although the West Indies trade had by then subsided, dairy farming continued on the remaining portion of the farm until the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The Hamburg Bridge Historic District is located in Lyme, Connecticut. It encompasses a small village which was of economic importance until about 1824, as the site of a bridge across the Eight Mile River since 1759, and as the head of navigation of the river, which feeds the Connecticut River at Hamburg Cove. The district includes 10 houses, all of which are historically significant, as well as old stone wharves dating to the period. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Eight Mile River takes its name from the location of its mouth, 8 mi above the mouth of the Connecticut River, which it feeds via Hamburg Cove. Hamburg Bridge is located at a narrow point in the river, where it becomes shallowed and can no longer be passed by deep draft ships. A bridge has been standing at this site since 1759, and the area just below this head of navigation became the site of a small waterfront community. By 1800 (the first year for which reliable land records of the area are available), there were houses, shops, and wharves lining both sides of the river below the bridge. The area was economically successful until about 1824, when a deep-water channel was dredged to the village center of Hamburg, a short way downriver. The Hamburg Bridge area then waned economically, with no significant new development.</p><br>
<p>The district is 21 acre in size, and contains 10 houses, nine of which date to either the 18th or early 19th century (the tenth was built in 1879. They are all of wood frame construction, and architecturally vernacular, typically with modest stylistic embellishments from alterations. The properties that include waterfront footage also typically have a stone-lined landing area or projecting wharf. The current bridge is a three-arch concrete structure built in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The Lathrop-Mathewson-Ross House is a historic house on Ross Hill Road in Lisbon, Connecticut. The house was built in 1761, and is a well-preserved example of Georgian residential architecture with an extensive documentary trail. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lathrop-Mathewson-Ross House is located at 198 Ross Hill Road in rural northeastern Lisbon, on the north side of Ross Hill Road east of Phillips Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin chimneys, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. Its main entrance is topped by a transom window and framed by a molded wooden surround. The interior follows a typical central hall plan, with delicate scrollwork on the stringerpiece of the staircase on the right side, with original wooden paneling above and below. Much of the interior retains features original to its construction, or to a major 1824 renovation.</p><br>
<p>The earliest record of the house occurred in the deeded estate of Ezra Lathrop on December 28, 1761, as recorded in the Norwich Land Records, volume 16, page 89. In 1800, the property was purchased by Jeffrey Mathewson, and it remained in the hands of the related Mathewson and Ross families until 1958. Several generations of these families kept detailed diaries and accounts of their lives and happenings related to the property, providing a significant window into rural life of the period. Two residents, Bucklin Mathewson and George Ross, represented the area in the state legislature.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold on July 28, 2020, to a private buyer</p><br>
<p>The Raymond-Bradford Homestead is a historic house on Raymond Hill Road in Montville, Connecticut. Built about 1710, it is notable for its history of alteration, dating into the late 19th century, its construction by a woman, Mercy Sands Raymond, in the colonial period, and its continuous ownership by a single family line. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Raymond-Bradford Homestead is located in a rural setting of central Montville at 999 Raymond Hill Rd, at the northern terminus of Oakdale Road. Connecticut Route 163 passes to the west and south. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a hip roof. It has a center entrance, sheltered by a Victorian hood with decorative brackets, and a chimney placed off-center on the rear roof face. The interior follows a central hall plan today, although it had a central chimney when built.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in stages, with the oldest portion dating to about 1710. It was built on land purchased by Mercy Sands Raymond, a widow from Block Island, and James Merritt, apparently by Raymond, who managed a 1,500 acre farm with Merritt and her son Joshua until her death in 1741. The first owner of the house was Mercy Sands Raymond. During her time on Block Island, Raymond is thought to have accommodated Captain Kidd and was paid handsomely for the help.</p><br>
<p>The house was substantially altered about 1820, adding Federal style features and changing the roof from a gable to a hip roof. It was again restyled in the 1870s, when the central chimney was removed, and wood finishes more in keeping with Victorian tastes were installed. Around this time the rear ell, housing the kitchen, was added. At the time of its National Register listing in 1982, it was still in the hands of Raymond descendants.</p><br>
<p>The Ezra Clark House is located on Mill Road in the Town of North East, New York, United States. It is a brick house built in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest farmhouses in the town, and one of the few built of brick. In 1985 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eight years later, when the Coleman Station Historic District was created and listed on the Register, it was further recognized as a contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>Building and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a 8.7 acre lot behind a picket fence on the west side of Mill Road a short distance north of Indian Lake Road at the center of Coleman Station. To its east the rear lot line is the former New York Central Railroad right-of-way, now the Harlem Valley Rail Trail. It is mostly open fields or wetlands, with a small pond south of the house. In addition to the house there is a barn and shed north of the house and a gazebo at the pond. None are considered contributing resources to the property&#39;s historic character. The foundation of an old barn to the northeast has not been assessed for its archaeological potential.</p><br>
<p>The main house is oriented perpendicular to the road, with its main facade facing south. A stone basement built into a slight rise in the land is exposed on the south and west. It supports a two-story, five-bay brick building with gabled roof shingled in polychrome slate pierced by two brick chimneys. The south (front) elevation has a full-width wooden porch supported by chamfered columns on both stories. The slope of the land means that the rear of the first story is underground.</p><br>
<p>All windows have paneled wooden shutters with their original hardware. Those on the second story of the front are regularly spaced, those on the ground floor are not. The two that flank the slightly off-center entrance have brick segmental arches.</p><br>
<p>The windows on the side elevations are asymmetrically placed. The upper rear elevation has a central door with a segmental arched brick lintel. To the east is a larger window with a flat brick arch, added later. The other two windows, on the west, are brick arched and original to the house.</p><br>
<p>From the main entrance, a modern door with simple wood trim, there is a central hall with two rooms on either side. The rooms on the west feature corner fireplaces; the one in front has an exposed beam ceiling. The front room on the east, the original kitchen, has a large fireplace in the side wall and a Dutch beehive oven; like the two opposite the fireplace&#39;s mantelpiece is original. The room to the rear has been divided so as to accommodate a modern bathroom on the east. A staircase on the interior side wall of the old kitchen leads upstairs to bedrooms and a modern kitchen. The garret above it has been subdivided into two bedrooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>For a long time it was assumed that Clark had built the house, and that it was the oldest house in the Millerton area. A brick in the chimney inscribed "J.M. 1780" has suggested it was built later than originally believed, and by someone else. The most likely candidate for "J.M." is Jacob Meyers, a lieutenant in the Continental Army whose family is known to have moved to the Millerton area around that time from the hamlet of Pulvers Corners, today in the town of Pine Plains to the west. The house is a typical Hudson Valley brick house showing the influence of English and Dutch building traditions, such as the porch and central hall plan.</p><br>
<p>Clark and his family, longtime residents of the area, moved in sometime around 1795. The farm originally included much more land than it presently does. Later owners have added the windows, changed the roofing material several times, and added some of the windows. As a whole the house retains much of its original plan, materials and integrity.</p><br>
<p>Dederer Stone House-Stonehurst is a historic home located at Orangetown in Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1865 and is a -story, T-shaped dwelling constructed using regular size units of local granite with dressed sandstone trim. It features a jerkinhead roof. Also on the property is a two-story barn and stone hitching post.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. All the files a paperwork for this house have not yet been digitized (all the paperwork is still sitting in a shelf somewhere).</p><br>
<p>The Michael Salyer Stone House is located on Blue Hill Road  in Orangetown, New York, United States. It was built in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Unusually for Rockland County, its gambrel roof has clapboard siding in the upper gable apexes, a feature normally found farther north, in Colonial stone houses in Ulster County. It is possible that this may be due to Huguenot influence. In 2002, it and its well were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today it serves as a local historical museum.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is on the west side of Blue Hill, 800 ft south of its intersection with Sickletown and Convent roads, east of the village of Pearl River. It occupies an 8.3 acre lot overlooking Lake Tappan, a reservoir on the Hackensack River shared by New York and New Jersey, across the road. To the west and south is the Blue Hills Country Club golf course, buffered by woods. The land along Blue Hill to the north is also wooded, ending at some other residences along Sickletown.</p><br>
<p>From the west bound the land slopes down sharply, then gently, to the lake at the east. The house is on a small cleared section at the roadside with a lawn. A driveway to the south becomes a circular parking area. To the northwest is the old well and a frame shed.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a one-and-a-half-story five-by-two-bay structure of rough-cut rectangular sandstone units on a rubblestone foundation. A small one-story frame kitchen wing projects from the north end of the west (rear) elevation. The centrally located main entrance on the east has a small stone porch with wooden benches backed by simple square balustrades on either side. Two bulkhead doors on the north and south corners of that elevation provide exterior access to the basement.</p><br>
<p>The slate-shingled gambrel roof is pierced by brick chimneys at the ends and three shed dormer windows on either elevation. Its wide overhanging eaves on the east and west elevations flare outwards; on the north and south it is flush. Clapboard is used in the gable apexes.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) facade the blocks are laid in a Flemish bond pattern. The two windows flanking the main entrance have paneled wooden shutters; all and the doorway are topped with splayed brick lintels. On the sides the stonework reverts to a more random pattern. The north has two windows on either story; the south one on the first floor, with shutters, and two on top.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is a recessed paneled wooden door with a radiating-muntin rectangular transom on top. It opens into a central hall that runs the depth of the house to the rear entrance, a heavy planked Dutch door with top light. Many original finishings remain, such as wall plaster, wide-plank flooring, moldings and architraves.</p><br>
<p>On the north is a parlor, the largest room in the house, covering the full depth of the building. It has a fireplace with Federal style mantel and built-in cupboard. The south parlor has a similar fireplace, and the room to the west is now the bathroom.</p><br>
<p>Stairs lead from the north parlor to the second floor, which also has a central hall. Its western end was converted into another bathroom. There are two bedrooms on either side of the hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1783 the 380 acre of the Kakiat Patent where the house now stands were owned by Jeremias Mabie. He had built a house on the property and raised four daughters. That year one of them, Elizabeth Mabie, married Michael Salyer. It is believed that the house was at least under construction at the time of the wedding, as a present.</p><br>
<p>Gambrel roofs, originally used by English settlers in New England, became popular with Dutch settlers in the Hudson Valley during the 1760s. They could span a house two rooms deep yet provide more space for an attic than a gabled roof. The Michael Salyer House, with its wide upper and lower angles, is a regional variant more commonly found in the southern Hudson Valley, closer to New York City. It is known as a "Flemish roof" despite the lack of an apparent antecedent in European building traditions.</p><br>
<p>The house also has frame and clapboard infill in the gambrel apexes. This is rare for a Rockland County Dutch stone house, and much more common in Ulster County farther north on the west side of the Hudson Valley. It may be due to Jeremias Mabie, who like the early settlers of the New Paltz area was not descended from Dutch settlers but rather of French Huguenot extraction.</p><br>
<p>Salyer died in 1810, willing the house to his wife. She in turn passed it to her daughter Mary and her husband David Bogert upon her death the following year. From them it passed through a variety of owners for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Blauvelt family, until it became property of the United Water Company. In 1992 it was donated to the Town of Orangetown,</p><br>
<p>After the donation, volunteers worked to restore the house. It opened as a museum with permanent exhibits in 1996. In 2007 it closed for more renovations, including a new roof and French drain system. The following year it reopened with three exhibits, one dedicated to Revolutionary War-era British spy Maj. John André.</p><br>
<p>The Ford Valve Plant is a factory building located at 235 East Main Street in Northville, Michigan. The plant was built as part of Henry Ford&#39;s vision of decentralizing manufacturing and integrating it into rural communities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>"Village Industries"</h2><br>
<p>Northvilles Valve Plant was the first of Henry Fords "Village Industries" factories. The Village industries were designed to bring the economic advantages of industrial jobs to rural communities through the establishment of decentralized, non-disruptive manufacturing plants. In particular, Ford intended the Village Industries to stabilize the income of farmers who would otherwise have little winter income, and he gave his workers leaves of absence to work their farms.</p><br>
<p>Over the span of the 1920s and 1930s, Ford established over thirty more Village Industries factories, making everything from copper welding rods to lamp assemblies to wheels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Ford purchased the property this building sits on in 1919. Between 1919 and 1936, the plant manufactured over 180 million valves,</p><br>
<p>In 1936, Ford replaced the mill with an Albert Kahn-designed factory building. but still incorporated a water wheel.</p><br>
<p>The Village Industries program was discontinued in 1947, but the factory continued to produce valves.</p><br>
<p>The Forest Park Hotel is a six-story building located in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The six-story building was built in 1923 and is made of reinforced concrete with red brick curtain walls trimmed with terra cotta. Following the early success of the hotel, a seven-story addition was built in 1926 that closely follows the design of the original building. A one-story stone and glass addition was added to the building&#39;s northeast corner in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The original building was designed by Preston J. Bradshaw, a prominent St. Louis architect who also designed the nearby Chase Park Plaza Hotel, Mayfair Hotel, Lennox Hotel, and Coronado Hotel. The center wing addition was designed by George D. Barnett, Jr. and includes several small private dining rooms of considerable architectural interest.</p><br>
<p>The Forest Park Hotel was once famous for the Circus Snack Bar nightclub located in its ground floor retail space fronting Euclid Avenue. During the nightclub&#39;s heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, it was run by local hotelier and businessman Harold Koplar and hosted performers such as Liberace, Louis Armstrong, and Sarah Vaughan.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, restaurateur Harold Butler, founder of the restaurant chain Dennys, bought the Forest Park Hotel and performed $7 million in renovations. Financial trouble, however, led to the buildings sudden foreclosure and vacancy in December 1990.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, a private development group renovated and converted the long dormant Forest Park Hotel for $20 million into a 115-unit apartment building.</p><br>
<p>Two successful restaurant owners in the CWE recently signed a contract to open a new restaurant on the first floor of the hotel facing Euclid.</p><br>
<p>Big House is a historic home located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York. The Big House is the oldest dwelling in Palisades and the only building remaining from the hamlet&#39;s formative years. It was built about 1735 and is a large stone dwelling in a vernacular ethnic "Dutch" style. It consists of a rectangular central block flanked on either side by wings. In the nomination for the National Register of Historic Places it is further described as embodying the distinctive characteristics of the eighteenth-century regional Dutch vernacular building tradition, specifically its -story, gable-roofed form, linear plan, multiple entrances, and masonry construction.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Neiderhurst is a historic estate located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York. The main estate house was built as a summer home between 1872 and 1874 in the High Victorian Gothic style. It is a two-story, L-shaped residence surmounted by steep gable roofs. It was built by Winthrop S. Gilman, Jr. , son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman . Also on the property are a small observatory converted to a cote; Fern Lodge, built 1866, a residential outbuilding that was formerly the stables; a barn converted to residential use; a concrete pergola; and stone shed. The estate grounds retain a park-like quality.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Seven Oaks Estate, the former Charles F. Park estate, is a historic estate located at Palisades in Rockland County, New York designed by George E. Woodward, an editor of The Horticulturist magazine. The main estate house is a large clapboarded structure built in 1862 in the Gothic Revival style, with cues from Calvert Vauxs Villas and Cottages . The house features a projecting central bay and full-width verandah. Also on the property are a coachmans house, built about 1862, and four subsidiary outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Lilley Road—Lower Rouge River Bridge is an automotive bridge located on Lilley Road over the Lower River Rouge in Canton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lilley Road Bridge spanning the Lower Rouge River was originally built in 1923–1924 by the Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio, for installation where Telegraph Road crossed a branch of the River Rouge just north of Warren Road. However, just ten years later, Wayne County widened Telegraph, necessitating the removal of the bridge. At the same time, the county took responsibility for the Lilley Road crossing of the Lower River Rouge, which had been previously maintained by Canton Township. The county reworked the river channel and installed the truss bridge previously removed from the Telegraph Road site. The structural and historical integrity of the bridge was well-maintained during the re-installation.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lilley Road Bridge over the Lower River Rouge is an eight-panel Pratt camelback pony truss with an upper chord constructed from back-to-back channels tied by X-lacing, a lower chord constructed from channels with battens, and a floor of built-up I-beams riveted to superstructure. The entire length of the superstructure is 90 ft, with an 84 ft span. The structure width is 27 ft, with a cantilevered sidewalk on each side of the roadway.</p><br>
<p>Linton Township High School and Community Building or Pimento School is a historic school and community centre building located at Pimento in Linton Township, Vigo County, Indiana. It was built by architects from the Albert G. Beldon company in 1925. It is in the American Craftsman style of architecture. Contractor was James O. Sickels of Princeton, Indiana. The building is now abandoned in disrepair.</p><br>
<p>The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Abner Concklin House  is a historic house located at Closter Road in Palisades, Rockland County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in about 1859, and is a small, two-story frame residence, three bays wide, with later rear wings and alterations dating to about 1920. It features a hipped roof with a monitor-like cap at the apex. Also on the property are a garage and shed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Dakin-Coleman Farm is located on Coleman Station Road  in the Town of North East, New York, United States. Its large wooden farmhouse was built shortly before the Revolution.</p><br>
<p>At one point it was legally divided between two heirs of its original builder. In the late 19th century renovations mostly to the interior added some Victorian aspects to it. It has remained largely intact since then, and is the oldest house in the hamlet of Coleman Station. It has been a contributing property to the Coleman Station Historic District since it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1993, and was listed in its own right on November 22, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse sits on a 3 acre lot on the north side of the road halfway between the former site of Coleman&#39;s Station along the New York Central Railroad right-of-way (now the Harlem Valley Rail Trail) and the US 44/NY 22 highway. A small tributary of nearby Webutuck Creek flows through the property, and forms its eastern boundary. The land slopes gently toward the west with a sharp rise on the south side. Most neighboring properties are farmland, with typical associated buildings.</p><br>
<p>There are three buildings on the property: the main farmhouse, a barn and a garage. All were built in different eras. The house and barn are contributing resources to the National Register listing; the one-story frame hipped-roofed garage is more modern and is not.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a two-story, five-bay hand-hewn timber frame structure on a stone foundation. It is sided in clapboard and topped with an overhanging side-gabled roof shingled in asphalt pierced by a single brick chimney on the east end. Mature trees surround it. A one-story shed-roofed wing projects from the west, with larger wings behind it.</p><br>
<p>A small gabled porch with round columns shelters the centrally located main entrance. All the windows are flanked by wooden louvered shutters, save for Palladian windows above the main entrance and in the gable fields. Fenestration is symmetrical except for the north (rear) elevation, where it reflects changes made to the interior of the house over the years.</p><br>
<p>The wooden paneled front door, flanked by sidelights and topped with a transom, opens onto a broad center hallway. An original staircase and doors remain on the west side, while the entryways opposite are open. It is floored in medium width heavy oak shiplap, as are the two western rooms. Their fireplaces share a chimney but are slightly different, as the southwest one is completely original but the northwest one has had new brick put in. It has its original crane and beehive oven.</p><br>
<p>On the east is a large open drawing room, created by removing the wall that separated the two parlors. Some of the original 12-inch (30.5 cm) flooring planks, with forged-head nails, remain in the corner. A firebrick fireplace with neoclassical mantel is located on the end wall. French doors open to the exterior from the rear. A chair rail runs the length of the wall.</p><br>
<p>The staircase has original square newels and balusters supporting a simple molded pine handrail. It leads to a second floor with a similar layout. On the east side of the central hall are two large doors, apparently original, with one perhaps taken from the first floor. Two newer bathrooms have been added in the rear, both using the original wide pine floorboards. The southeast room has its original fireplace of cut marble. A doorway connects it to the second story of the kitchen wing, which also has remnants of the original hearth. A full basement extends under the entire house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land the house stands on was first owned by Simon Dakin, a Baptist minister from Concord, Massachusetts. He bought 107 acre for his son Caleb to start a farm on in 1773. It is believed that Caleb built the house shortly thereafter, making it the oldest extant residence in the Coleman Station area.</p><br>
<p>Caleb died young. His will divided his holdings, which he had increased during his life to 275 acre, into 10 – strips and distributed them among his wife and daughters, under the control of his only son, Caleb Jr. One of these divisions went right down the houses center. It was split between Myra Dakin Goodrich and Achasa Dakin Coleman, with occupancy rights granted to Dakins widow Rhoda and his unmarried daughter Betsy.</p><br>
<p>The property was transferred again when Caleb Jr. died a year later. His nephew Amasa Dakin Coleman acquired the property from his mother upon reaching the age of majority in 1834. Sometime during that decade the interior was modified slightly, with the wooden neoclassical mantelpiece added and the flooring replaced in the east parlor.</p><br>
<p>By 1850 Amasa Coleman had increased the size of the farm to 150 acre. An abolitionist, he was one of the first members of the local Republican Party. He strongly supported local improvements such as the New York and Harlem Railroad, going so far as to testify in court on the railroad&#39;s behalf when his neighbors the Wheelers contested the compensation it offered them for their nearby farm. He would later lobby for the opening of a station on his property near the farms of the area, all of which were beginning to specialize in raw milk production, and it and the area would eventually take its name from him.</p><br>
<p>His daughter Elizabeth inherited the farm when he died in 1876. It was less successful under her ownership. Around that time the interior was further reworked with more Victorian touches added, as well as the exterior changes like the French doors.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, on Elizabeths death, the house was sold out of the family. The associated land was gradually sold as well, leaving the current three acres. In 1920 the garage was built. The houses interior was reworked again to accommodate changes to the plumbing, including the new bathrooms, in 1992. There have been no other major changes to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob P. Perry House is a historic home on Sickletown Road in Pearl River, New York, United States. It was constructed around the end of the 18th century, one of the last houses in Rockland County to have been built in the Dutch Colonial style more common before the Revolution.</p><br>
<p>It is a stone structure with a detailed period interior. A later owner renovated it during the 1930s, and an addition was built onto it in the late 1970s. There are several other buildings and structures on the property, the remnant of a former farm. In 2003 the house and an adjacent well and wellhouse were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house and outbuildings occupy a 5 acre lot at the south corner of the three-way intersection of Sickletown Road and Gilbert Avenue (Rockland County Route 26), an area of Pearl River known as Nauraushaun. The terrain is level, with a steep drop to the reflecting the proximity of Lake Tappan and the Hackensack River basin. Large trees grow around the property, in keeping with the suburban character of the area. Surrounding properties are all residential.</p><br>
<p>The main house itself is near the north corner of the lot, with an unpaved driveway from Sickletown running up to its west (front, originally the rear) elevation. Its main block is a one-and-a-half-story five-by-two-bay structure of dressed red sandstone blocks laid in rough courses, a bit more randomly on the south. The south and north roof fields are sided in clapboard It is topped with a broad gambrel roof with flared outward eaves shingled in split cedar shakes. On either side is a continuous shed-roofed dormer window; brick chimneys rise from either end. A sympathetic hyphen connects it to a modern wood frame addition on the south.</p><br>
<p>On the east elevation, the house&#39;s original front facade, is a centrally located main entrance flanked by two windows on either side, echoed in the dormer fenestration above. Most of this is shielded by closely planted shrubbery and an awning over the entrance, a double Dutch door with original strap hinges. On the west, what is now the recessed front entrance has a small wooden porch with two wooden benches along the sides facing each other. It is flanked by a set of triple casement windows on either side. The north and south elevations are similar despite the hyphen on the latter, echoed by ivy on the other end. There are two windows on the attic level and a set of louvered quarter-rounds high in the gable field. The only difference is on the first story, where the south side has a wooden door into the hyphen, complemented by a French door to the exterior, whereas the north side has two windows to the west of the ivy with paneled wooden shutters.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Inside, the house has a center-hall plan and many original finishings. From the former main entrance there are six-paneled doors, cased in molded architraves leading to the parlor on the north, the dining room to the south and the other half of the entrance hall on the west, which also provides access to a small bathroom and closet. A stair with newel and squared balusters is against the south wall. Walls and ceilings are plaster with a molded chair rail.</p><br>
<p>In the north parlor is a large fireplace with a detailed Federal style mantelpiece. It has a thin corniced molding, reeded frieze, fluted pilasters and three large hearthstones in front. Next to the chimney is a Colonial Revival dishware cabinet with glazed paired doors in a round, keystoned arch and similar paneled doors below. Thirty-foot (30 ft) tulip beams with beaded edges run the length of the ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The dining room fireplace is in a large projecting chimney breast with a simple wood mantel and similar hearthstones in front. A small separate room may be original; it is currently used as the kitchen. Its entrance door has a molded casing and a filled-in transom opening; it may be an exterior door reused from another location. French doors lead into the hyphen.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs, the second floor has five rooms and two bathrooms with Federal detailing, including doors similar to the main entrance hall. In the attic are original hewn roof timber framing and rough sheathing. The rafters rise from end plates to a purlin where the roof pitch changes. Rising from the center beam is a vertical member joined to the horizontal collar by mortise and tenon. The cellar has stone-arch supports for the fireplaces above and a cold storage area.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>Immediately south of the house is a modern wooden cottage. Also on the property is a stone and wood barn. These, along with the addition, make up the other three buildings on the property, none of which contribute to the Register listing.</p><br>
<p>To the east is a stone-lined cistern, topped with a circular wellhouse of red sandstone and frame. Both of them are of the same historic period as the house and are considered contributing structures. The other structure, an ornamental pond, was added more recently and does not contribute.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the house sits was originally part of the late 17th century Kakiat Patent, covering portions of what is today Rockland County and adjacent Bergen County, New Jersey. After the Revolutionary War, Michael Salyer, who had built a house nearby, sold the western portion of his land to Peter Perry.</p><br>
<p>Whether the house was built in two sections or as one is not clear. A 1936 history of the house by Rosalie Bailey holds that it was, and if so, Perry may have built the west half of the house by 1796, although it is not certain he ever lived in it as he died elsewhere. It is equally possible that, like the similar nearby Sickels-Vanderbilt House, it was built as one.</p><br>
<p>Perry&#39;s will bequeathed the property to his son Jacob, who completed the current main house (if that was the case) in 1801. Its walls of locally quarried dressed red sandstone and broad gambrel roof with wide flared eaves reflect a Dutch Colonial building tradition much more common in houses built before the war. The Perry house is one of the last in that style from the period.</p><br>
<p>The interior, as it was built and refined over the next decades, reflects the then-popular Federal style. Jacob P. Perry died in 1839 and willed it to his son Jacob J. Perry, who died ten years later. From there it passed through other owners until it became the property of Clarence and Athens Chester around 1930.</p><br>
<p>The house had fallen into some disrepair by that time, and the Chesters undertook to renovate and restore it. In the process they made some changes. The most significant changes made to the exterior were the installation of casement windows, and the replacement of the single windows on the west elevation with the current bands of three. On the south elevation they added the front windows. Inside, they installed doors consistent with the other interior decoration and put the current oak flooring down over the original wide planking.</p><br>
<p>In 1955 the half-bath was added on the first floor. On the outside separate dormers were merged into the current continuous band. Two decades later, in 1978, the hyphen and south addition were added. There have been no other modifications to the house since. It continues to be a private residence.</p><br>
