<p>The flamboyant Hanson Haines House, sometimes known simply as the Castle, is a residence at 4801 Springfield Avenue in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The house was built in 1902-03 for Quaker banker Hanson Haines by Quaker architect Charles Balderston in a German Medieval Revival style on the exterior and in a Colonial Revival style in the interior. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Memorial Hall, also known as the Adrian I.O.O.F. Hall, is a commercial building located at 120–124 South Winter Street  in the Downtown Adrian Commercial Historic District in Adrian, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elihu C. Clark was born in Walworth, New York in 1811, and began a career as a dry goods merchant in 1830. In 1836, he moved to Adrian and established a dry goods business there. A few years later he began dabbling in finance, and by 1847 he was an important and wealthy local financier. In 1869 Clark, became the first president of the Lenawee County Savings Bank. Clark died in 1880, and his will, he donated $10,000 to the Adrian Lodge of the Odd Fellowship — a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows — to construct a building.</p><br>
<p>By 1888, the Lodge had acquired land and additional capital to construct a building. The lodge hired to local firm of Beck and Vogt to construct the building for a cost of $9,000. Construction started in June, and the structure was completed by the end of 1888. The Odd Fellows held their first meeting in the new hall in January 1889. The first floor was leased by Moreland Brothers and Crane, a tobacco and candy company.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, dwindling membership forced the building to be put up for sale. Today, it serves a variety of commercial businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Clark Memorial Hall is a two-story rectangular structure, measuring approximately 46 feet by 75 feet, located on a corner lot. The building has a mansard roof. The main facade is three bays wide, and is constructed of orange-red brick with a grey limestone water table and cast iron facade and entablature ornamentation. The first floor was designed to house two stores, and contains two doorways and large windows. The second floor housed the Odd Fellows lodge, and is relatively tall in comparison to the first floor. Cast and galvanized iron ornamentation forms a symmetrical arched facade above the windows. The windows are double-hung one-over-one units, set in pairs on each side ind in a triple in the center. Above each window group is a round stained glass window. Above the center arch are the words CLARK MEMORIAL HALL in raised iron letters.</p><br>
<p>The building bears a striking resemblance to the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>The Rockleigh Historic District is a 157 acre historic district located along Willow Avenue, Rockleigh and Piermont Roads in the borough of Rockleigh in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 1977, for its significance in agriculture and architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Dubois House was built from around 1823 to 1833. It features Victorian style on the exterior trim. The oldest section of the Jacob Haring House was built in 1820. It was extended in 1865 and features Greek Revival and Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. John Christie Ware Bungalow is located at 246 East Saddle River Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic house was built in 1909 using boulders and features American Craftsman architectural style as designed by its original owner, John Christie Ware. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1986, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Saddle River Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The B. C. Wandell House, also known as The Cedars, is located at 214, 223, and 224 West Saddle River Road in the borough of Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic house was built from 1865 to 1868 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1986, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Saddle River Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Judge Benjamin Coe Wandell and features Second Empire architecture, such as the use of a mansard roof. The listing includes a large barn and a gazebo by the riverside. From 1919 to 1941, the property was used as a YWCA camp, called Shadyside Camp.</p><br>
<p>The Van Houten House was located at 778 Vee Drive in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . The house was built in 1738 by tradition, but around 1779 to 1800 based on architectural evidence. It was demolished January 3, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Van Gelder House was a historic house at 347 Godwin Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built around 1730 by a member of the Van Gelder family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . It has apparently been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Van Blarcom–Jardine House is located at 380 Wyckoff Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, United States. The historic stone house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, the house was built in the 18th century based on architectural evidence, possibly before the American Revolutionary War, by a member of the Van Blarcom family. It was owned by J. Van Blarcom in 1861 and by Japhet Jardine in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Van Blarcom House is located at 250 Crescent Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1830 by Albert Van Blarcom and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . It was bought by Adam Folley in 1851. James M. B. Frost bought it in 1906 and probably added a second story to the stone section in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The Van Blarcom House is a historic stone house located at 131 Godwin Avenue in the township of Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was once owned by Peter Van Blarcom and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission . The two and one-half story Old Stone house is considered a sister house to the nearby Terhune House. The house is on land that was purchased in 1745 by Johannis Van Zile.</p><br>
<p>The Belmont Hotel is a twelve-story residential high rise built as a hotel on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1924. At that time it was the tallest building near the Capitol, and concern that it blocked the view spurred height-limit restrictions that are still in place. In 1990 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Madison&#39;s first hotel was the American House, built in 1838 on the Capitol Square site where the American Exchange Bank now stands. Over the years other hotels sprang up around town: downtown hotels for legislators and salesmen, resort hotels on the lakeshores, and railroad hotels near the depots. The early 1900s saw growth of state government, the University of Wisconsin, industry, conventions, and auto tourism. All of these drove a need for more lodging space, producing a brief boom in hotel construction. The Belmont was one result, along with the Hotel Loraine and an expansion of the Park Hotel.</p><br>
<p>After growing up on his parents&#39; farm west of Madison, Charles Piper joined a grocery business in 1892 and eventually bought full control of it. He brought in his brother Samuel, and they expanded the store into a chain of retail grocery stores. They brought in two more Piper brothers and added a motorized delivery service in 1904. In 1910 the Pipers moved one of their stores into the Joseph Kaiser Fair Store at the intersection of Mifflin and Pinckney Streets, the corner site where the Belmont Hotel now stands. Across the street they bought the F.A. Ogden Block, an old five-story building with stores at street level and the Madison Hotel above. The Pipers renamed it the Belmont Hotel, and H.H. Hile managed it for them successfully, while the Pipers also opened a cafeteria in the same building. By the 1920s the era of a successful grocery store on the Capitol Square was drawing to a close, and in place of their store, they decided to build a bigger, modern, New Belmont Hotel - a moderatelypriced commercial hotel right on the Square.</p><br>
<p>The Piper brothers financed the $400,000 project largely through the sale of first mortgage bonds to local investors, including many farmers. Madison architects Balch & Grover designed the new Belmont in neoclassical style, with the whole building suggesting one classical column. The basement, first floor, and mezzanine are clad in limestone, suggesting the base of the column. The next eight stories are clad in red brick, suggesting the shaft of the column. Limestone decoration that contrasts with the brick connects the windows into vertical lines, suggesting fluting on the column. The eleventh floor is framed by a metal entablature below and a cornice above - the head of the column. The building&#39;s framework is reinforced concrete, and interior walls are hollow clay tile - a fireproof design which was fairly new at the time. The structure was built from 1923 to 1924 by Baily & Kasson Company of Chicago. Inside, the hotel had 200 small rooms arranged so that each pair shared a bathtub to save space. The hotel opened with a flower shop in the lobby and the Old English Room restaurant in the basement, and charged between $2.00 and $3.00 per night for a room.</p><br>
<p>The height of the New Belmont Hotel stirred controversy. Up to this time, the tallest building near the Capitol had been the nine-story Gay Building (now renamed the Churchill Building) at 16 N. Carroll Street. When built in 1915, the Gay Building was Madisons first "skyscraper." However, the Madison Art League and City Planner John Nolan were concerned that someday tall buildings might hem in the capitol and obstruct the view of its beautiful and symbolic dome. Similar debates were occurring in many cities at the dawn of the skyscraper era: Should we let the towering rectangles of modern commerce hide and overshadow our dear old civic institutions - our graceful government buildings and churches? In response to the Gay Building, skyscraper opponents pushed for legislation to limit the height of buildings around the Capitol Square, but the attorney general "ruled that the state could only regulate construction on the basis of health and safety, not aesthetics." Plans for the New Belmont reignited this debate, and legislation imposing a 90-foot height limit on buildings near the capitol was passed. This time the rule was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the 90-foot limit remains to this day, leaving the 284-foot Capitol dome prominent on Madisons skyline.</p><br>
<p>The Belmont&#39;s designers, Harold Charles Balch and Grover Henry Lippert, were sons of Neillsville, Wisconsin, who took different paths into architecture but ended up in partnership with J. O. Gordon in Madison. Some of their other buildings are the 1917 Prairie School-style Madison Waterworks at 311 N. Hancock Street, the 1924 Georgian Revival-style Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house at 220 Lakelawn Place, the 1925 Tudor Revival-style Koch house at 2316 Eton Ridge, the 1927 Halperin building at 434 State Street, the 1928 Tudor Revival-style Westgate Apartments at 2019 University Avenue, the 1930 neoclassical Dr. Bertrand Building at 320 State Street, the 1930 Art Deco Osborn building at 310 State Street, the 1935 Colonial Revival Pribnow House at 1114 Spaight Street, the 1937 Arte Moderne-style Lyon Apartments at 330 N. Carroll Street, the 1937 Buenzli House at 1345 Rutledge Street, and the 1938 Vogel Brothers apartment at 2306 Kendall Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Belmont functioned as a hotel into the 1960s, owned by the Piper family. In 1968 the YWCA bought the building and began a $300,000 renovation, adding a twelfth-floor swimming pool on top of the building, among other changes.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Ferris House is a historic house at 1 Cary Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. Built around 1760 and enlarged around 1800, it is a well-preserved example of a Colonial period Cape, a rare survivor of the form to still stand facing the Boston Post Road in the town. It is also locally significant for its connections to the Ferris family, early settlers of the area. The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Ferris House stands in the Riverside neighborhood of eastern Greenwich, on a parcel bounded on the west by Cary Road, the north by Fitch Lane, and the south by the Boston Post Road (United States Route 1). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and shingled exterior. The main facade faces south toward the Boston Post Road, and is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the entrance. The entrance is simply framed, with a small transom window above. Its interior features are indicative of two major stages of construction, with vertical wall planking typical of older colonial construction, and a fireplace surround with feathered panels that date to about 1800.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house dates to 1760 or earlier, consisting of the three western bays. The two eastern bays were added about 1800. The house was probably built by Samuel Ferris, whose family was among the early settlers of the area, and was the farmhouse for a 30 acre farm. The building was moved about 80 feet and put onto a new foundation in the 1920s, when the Post Road was realigned. In 1947, the last surviving Ferris descendant gave the farm property to the town, which built housing on most of the farmland, and sold the house back into private ownership in 1957.</p><br>
<p>The State Office Building is a 13-story, 177 ft high-rise building located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The building was built in three separate stages between 1931 and 1959, with the main section being completed in 1939. It is built in an art deco style, and it is the tallest office building in downtown Madison. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the building</h2><br>
<p>The primary facades consist mainly of gray granite masonry cut to size for their particular use.</p><br>
<p>The masonry wall construction of the first and main units built lack a water drainage system, albeit typical for their 1930s vintage.</p><br>
<p>Minertown-Oneva, also known as Minertown, in Forest County, Wisconsin is a historic logging camp built in the early 1900s by Wilbur and Henry T. Miner.</p><br>
<p>It&#39;s in the vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>In 1899, brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner from Vernon County, WI, purchased a 4,000 acre tract in Forest County, Wisconsin, where they constructed a sawmill and related settlement known as Minertown. The settlement included a boarding house and company store for those employed by the Miner Lumber Company, as well as a planing mill, roundhouse, depot, store, a blacksmith shop, a cook shanty, several small four-room houses, and a barn. In 1931, the mill was destroyed by fire and the remaining community was subsequently abandoned. Today, the Minertown-Oneva site is significant for its potential to provide information relevant to late nineteenth century settlement of Forest County, as well as the history of Wisconsin&#39;s hardwood logging era.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Mangohick Church, now also known as Mangohick Baptist Church, is a historic church located in the community of Mangohick, King William County, Virginia. One of two colonial-era churches still surviving in the current county, it was constructed in 1730 at the headwaters of Mangohick Creek, a tributary of the Pamunkey River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the western expansion of English settlement in Virginia, St. Margarets Parish was established in 1720 to serve the upriver area between the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers of then-vast King William County, thus splitting St. Johns parish. Mangohick church was built circa 1730 as a chapel of ease for people living between the existing parishes, first located near the respective county courthouses. Bricks shipped from England were reportedly used to construct it. In 1742, the Virginia General Assembly limited St. Margarets parish to Caroline County, and in 1744 established St. Davids parish near the port of Aylett to serve the western area of King William county (whose boundaries ceased changing). Mangohick then became a chapel of east for St. Davids parish. After Virginias disestablishment of the Anglican Church (which had become the Episcopal Church following the Revolutionary War), Mangohick became a "free church", used by various denominations. Before the Civil War, the three colonial churches in Caroline County, as well as St. Davids church fell into disrepair, and were replaced by clapboard wooden churches, with St. Margarets Church at Ruther Glen, Virginia also eventually also becoming a Baptist congregation in modern times before returning to disuse.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, General Grant pitched his tent near the church, on May 27, 1864, as he maneuvered South and East of General Lee in the prelude to the Battle of Cold Harbor. The Union Baptist Church was formed at this location, and had both white and black members, but by 1920 the congregation was Black.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one-story, rectangular brick building has a steep gable roof and measures 61 feet by 21 feet. The bricks were laid in English bond style below the water table, and Flemish bond style below the water table. The interior features a raised chancel and single pulpit. The tongue-and grove boards have been dated to the late 19th century, and the rear addition of church offices is modern.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephens Church, also known as St. Stephens Episcopal Church, is an historic church located at 6807 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, Northumberland County, in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Built in 1881, it was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style by T. Buckler Ghequiere. On December 28, 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It remains in use by an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. It is located in the Heathsville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The church sits along USA Route 360 on the outskirts of Heathsville. Its main elevation, which faces the west, is dominated by a one-story porch. Its design consists of paired square columns supporting the roof, which is pitched steeply and topped with a cross. Inset is a Gothic-style arch with trefoils and wooden railing; the iron railing on the steps was added later. The double doorway which serves as a church entrance retains its original doors, patterned with a herringbone design and set with quatrefoils of stained glass, set inside a pointed arch. The porch is flanked by more stained glass windows on either side, quite narrow, and a rose window, also of stained glass, is set in the gable. At the very top of the roof is a cross; a finial and pendants make up the decoration of the gable. Inside the church are four bays at each elevation; each contains a stained glass window. The apse may be found in the east of the church; it is rectangular and lighted by three pointed windows, the center one larger than its fellows. A brick chimney on the exterior breaks the shape of the roof. A small vestry may be found beside the apse. A wooden communion rail separates the sanctuary from the nave. The reredos, pulpit, and lectern were constructed by a member of the parish, Clem Goodman. The pews are original. Also surviving is the original church bell, located outside the structure and to its east. The cemetery, behind the church, is a later addition to the grounds. The church design has been called "evidence of rural Virginia&#39;s architectural conservatism", as such churches were more likely to have been built earlier in northern states; it also reflects the influence of architect Richard Upjohn and his 1852 book Rural Architecture on many ecclesiastical architects.</p><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1653 as Chickacoan Parish; it was renamed Fairfield Parish in 1664. St. Stephen&#39;s Parish was formed in 1698, and Fairfield Parish became its lower part; the upper part was formed from an area known to locals as Bowtracy Parish. It was represented in 1785, when the Episcopal Church of Virginia held its first convention, and it sent representatives intermittently to conventions until 1799. It was later disestablished, and its fortunes declined; by 1857 Bishop William Meade could note that there was no active church or parish in the entire county. Renewed interest after the American Civil War led to the purchase of land in 1874 for the purpose of erecting a new church. Materials were shipped down the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to build the structure, and it was completed and consecrated in 1881. Notably, the cornerstone states that the original name of the church was Emmanuel Church, but this appears never to have been used.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the church was involved in a schism in the Episcopal Church when a majority of its congregants voted to become Anglican and join the Church of Nigeria instead of remaining Episcopalian. Following the schism the majority took the name Light of Christ Anglican Church. Some three dozen of those in the minority left, reforming as St. Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church and meeting in various locations, such as a rented house nearby and a Methodist church. They sued for control of the church building and its related properties, including the parish hall, the cemetery, and a house next door; the suit was resolved in their favor in 2012, and an Episcopal congregation once again occupies the building, having returned on Palm Sunday of that year. The Anglican congregation, which is now part of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic of the Anglican Church in North America, meets elsewhere in Heathsville.</p><br>
<p>The congregation hosts a Strawberry Festival each year.</p><br>
<p>The Bordentown School  was a residential high school for African-American students in Bordentown, New Jersey, United States. Operated for most of the time as a publicly financed co-ed boarding school for African-American children, it was known as the "Tuskegee of the North" for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The school closed down in 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Formation and operation</h2><br>
<p>The school was founded in 1886 in the New Brunswick house of the Rev. Walter A. Rice, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and former slave from Laurens, South Carolina. Born in 1845, Rice had fought as a volunteer with the Union Army during the American Civil War and went to New Jersey to get an education, after completing his military service. The state passed legislation in 1894 to designate the school as the state&#39;s instructional institution for vocational education. With this legislation, the school was placed under the aegis of a board of trustees composed of state and county officials. The school came under the direct auspices of the New Jersey Board of Education in 1903, with its capital expenditures, curriculum and staffing under state approval. In 1886, the school moved to Bordentown and moved in 1896 to a 400 acre tract there that had been owned by United States Navy Admiral Charles Stewart and known as the Parnell Estate. The state originally leased the land, and purchased it in 1901.</p><br>
<p>The school operated on a year-round basis. It had its own farm, cattle, and orchards that supplied the school with its food; scholarship students could work on the farm to cover their tuition. The school was selective and initially offered its 500 to 600 students an education in the Classics and Latin as part of its overall curriculum, which earned accolades from both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Among notable lecturers at the school were Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson.</p><br>
<p>Because of financial difficulties, the school accepted state aid and was ultimately taken over by the State of New Jersey in 1897 and placed under the supervision of the New Jersey Department of Education in 1945. William R. Valentine, a graduate of both Columbia University and Harvard University, served as the school&#39;s principal from 1915 at least until 1948. Valentine stressed the approach of offering practical job training as a means to prevent students from becoming juvenile delinquents.</p><br>
<h2>Demise and closure</h2><br>
<p>After the passage of the 1947 New Jersey State Constitution, the term "for Colored Youth" was removed from the schools name and it became formally known as the "State of New Jersey Manual Training School" or "Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth" and was opened to students of all races as of 1948. In what was called "an example of desegregation in reverse" by The New York Times, Governor of New Jersey Robert B. Meyner ordered that the school be closed in June 1955, citing the schools failure to recruit and retain white students. The closing of the school ended segregation in the state&#39;s schools, which had persisted in many South Jersey school districts as late as 1952. In 1956, the site was slated to undergo a conversion to become a school for the developmentally disabled, which was estimated to cost as much as $3 million. The New York Times noted that the facilities were in disrepair, and that some buildings would require extensive repairs, while at least two minor structures were to be demolished. As of 2000, the buildings on the site were being used by the New Jersey Department of Corrections; many of the original buildings were in a dilapidated state.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It was the subject of David Davidson&#39;s 2009 documentary film A Place Out of Time — The Bordentown School, narrated by Ruby Dee and broadcast on PBS in May 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Ethel Cuff Black (1890–1977), one of the founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.</p><br>
<p>May Edward Chinn (1896–1980), first Black woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College.</p><br>
<p>Leonard De Paur (1914–1998), composer, choral director and arts administrator.</p><br>
<p>George Franklin Grant (1846–1910), inventor of the golf tee.</p><br>
<p>George W. Haley (born 1925), former United States Ambassador to The Gambia, and brother of author Alex Haley.</p><br>
<p>Maida Springer Kemp (1910–2005), labor organizer who worked extensively in the garment industry</p><br>
<p>Rhoda Scott (born 1938), soul jazz organist and singer</p><br>
<h2>Notable faculty</h2><br>
<p>Alan T. Busby (1895–1992), educator and first African American alumnus of the University of Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>Lester Granger (1896–1976), National Urban League leader.</p><br>
<p>William H. Hastie (1904–1976), first African-American Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.</p><br>
<p>The Heman R. Goodrich House is a private residence located 428 South Church Street in Hudson in west Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 1992.</p><br>
<p>Built between 1861 and 1862, this house was built by Heman Goodrich, who was one of Hudson&#39;s first settlers in 1836. In 1854, he married Almira Carleton, sister of famed poet Will Carleton, who also lived in Hudson.</p><br>
<p>The house stands at the corner of South Church Street and Pleasant Street, which is three blocks south of the Hudson Downtown Historic District and two blocks from the Gamaliel Thompson House.</p><br>
<p>Ohio Boulevard–Deming Park Historic District is a boulevard in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The median is maintained by the city of Terre Haute as city park land. In the teardrop-shaped green space formed as the boulevard branches and widens between 19th and 20th streets is a fountain, restored in 2002. This small area was dedicated as Remembrance Plaza on September 11, 2002, in honor of those who lost their lives in the September 11 attacks one year prior.</p><br>
<p>The boulevard was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its significance in architecture, landscaping and the history of the region.</p><br>
<h2>Deming Park</h2><br>
<p>Demas Deming Jr., the son of an early settler of Terre Haute, began developing the district on a large tract of land owned by his family. Using money acquired from the sale of another parcel of land to the city of Terre Haute that became Deming Park, around 1921 the Deming family created a scenic boulevard with a scenic parkway in the middle stretching from 19th Street to Fruitridge Avenue. Currently, the park consists of 177 acre and includes a public swimming pool, an 18-hole disc golf course, the Oakley Playground and the Clark-Landsbaum Holly Arboretum.</p><br>
<p>The Minster Elementary School is a historic Catholic school building in Minster, Ohio, United States. Built in the early twentieth century, it has been recognized as a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1906 in a modified version of the Italianate style, built on a stone foundation. Among its most distinctive features are a three-story tower in the center of the facade, ornamented brackets under the cornices of the corners, and dormer windows in the roof. The elementary school is related to St. Augustine&#39;s Catholic Church, which lies on the same property.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>The early settlers of southwestern Auglaize County and surrounding regions placed great value on the education of their children. These predominantly Catholic people founded many schools in connection with their churches, several of which are still in existence. Although some of these schools — generally the older buildings — are small structures, several are larger and architecturally distinctive buildings; among this latter category are the schools at Minster, St. Henry, and Wapakoneta. A parish school was first established at Minster in 1867; as St. Theresas School for Girls, it was partially meant to instruct girls who planned to enter the adjacent convent. This convent (now destroyed) was significant to the ecclesiastical position of St. Augustines as one of the three mother churches of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood in western Ohio. Today, St. Augustines is the only remaining one of these three — SS. Peters and Pauls Church at Petersburg and St. Valberts Church at St. Valbert have both been abandoned, and only their cemeteries remain.</p><br>
<h2>Historic preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, the Minster Elementary School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. More than thirty other buildings, including St. Augustine&#39;s Church and eight other schools, were added to the Register at the same time as part of the "Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources." This group of buildings qualified for inclusion on the Register primarily because their historic architecture represented their connections to the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Because many of these buildings are churches with tall Gothic Revival towers, the region has come to be known as the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>The Old Germantown Academy and Headmasters&#39; Houses or The Old Campus is an historic, American school campus, the original site of Germantown Academy, located at Schoolhouse Lane and Greene Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The academy moved to a new suburban location in 1965, and the site is currently occupied by the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>After the founding of Germantown Academy in 1759, the land for the campus was donated by Dr. Charles Bensell, a prominent Germantown landowner and later trustee of Germantown Academy.</p><br>
<p>The first structure erected on campus was the old schoolhouse with belfry. It was built using local Wissahickon schist and was designed in the colonial style. Until the school&#39;s 1965 relocation, this school held the distinction of being the oldest school still operating out of its original building. The schoolhouse was replicated on the 1965 campus in Fort Washington.</p><br>
<p>The bell that hung in the belfry was first ordered in 1770 and brought over from England on the tea ship Polly. Due to the tensions with the British crown in the early 1770s, however, the ship was unable to land; as a result, the bell was transported to Chester, Pennsylvania, where it remained until it could be moved to Germantown.</p><br>
<p>Seven years later, during the Battle of Germantown, the Germantown Academy was used as a hospital and camp for the occupying British army. Recorded stories indicate that troops used the belfry and its weathervane for target practice before and after the battle. During the same occupation, the first game of cricket played in the United States was reportedly played on the academy lawns.</p><br>
<p>Today, the original weathervane, complete with a British crown (no longer in use), still shows bullet damage.</p><br>
<h2>Campus additions</h2><br>
<p>Between its start in 1759 until 1888, the campus changed very little, even as the school grew in number and in prominence. At the insistence of alumni, a gymnasium was donated for student use. The building was known as Alumni Hall and was later converted into the school chapel after the building of a new gymnasium in 1950. The building was built closest to the corner of Schoolhouse Lane and Greene Street and was designed in the colonial revival style of architecture.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the century, academy leaders proposed that a rear addition be made to the 1760 schoolhouse. That addition became known as Sauer Hall, and was named after Christopher Sauer, one of the founders of the academy and the publisher of the first German bible in America.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, academy leaders purchased the adjoining property on Schoolhouse Lane, looking toward Wayne Avenue, that was known as the Alburger property and later as the Dove House and Kershaw Hall. The Alburger residence had been built during the 1760s as a house for one of the early masters of the academy. Over time, it was used by different families and changed from its colonial origins into a building with distinct Victorian architectural traits.</p><br>
<p>The house briefly hosted George Washington in 1793, during his stay in Germantown at the time of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and while it was the home of the academy&#39;s German master, the Rev. Frederick Herman. Washington and some of his former generals were treated to meals and reportedly used the house for cabinet meetings during the epidemic.</p><br>
<p>The house was bought by the academy in 1920 and was restored to its original colonial style in 1937. Originally two stories, a third story was built during its occupation by families. During the renovation, the third story was removed. In 1937, the house received an addition (in the same colonial style) which was used for kindergarten classrooms.</p><br>
<p>The next addition to campus came in 1932 after the death of alumnus Edward Wynne Moore, who had been a member of the class of 1903. Moore Hall was constructed and served as a space for the intermediate grades. The building was erected in the rear of Dove House.</p><br>
<p>The last building to be built before the school&#39;s move to Fort Washington was the gymnasium that was erected to the right of the Dove House, looking toward Wayne Avenue. The gym was built between 1950 and 1951 in honor of recent academy members who were veterans of the World Wars.</p><br>
<h2>Athletic spaces</h2><br>
<p>Located in the rear of the 9 acre property was an athletic field that served as a football and baseball field and a track, depending on the season. Due to the lack of space, many teams including the soccer and tennis teams had to play at the nearby Germantown Cricket Club. This developed a relationship between the club and the school that would last until the move. As there was no pool on the campus, the swim team practiced at the Germantown YMCA or in the nearby suburbs.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Township Building is a historic building in downtown Ansonia, Ohio, United States. Built in the Italianate style in 1883,</p><br>
<p>Designed by John Fryberger of the Toledo-based Spitzer and Company, the Brown Township Building was built under the direction of O.J. Hager. Prominent among these ornaments are decorations on the roofline and at the primary entrance and the windows.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Township Building has been designated a historic site because of its well-preserved historic architecture and its contribution to local history. Although the building was erected in the 1880s, its historic significance was considered to extend into the period after World War II. This fact complicated the process of designating it a historic site; however, the National Park Service deemed the building worthy for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is the only Ansonia building that is listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The Hopper House is a historic stone house located at 72 Hopper Farm Road in the borough of Upper Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built around 1750–1760 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The property was owned by John Deremus and Jacob Servent in the 18th century. They may have been the buiders. The Hopper family owned it in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Old North Knoxville is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the citys downtown area. Initially established as the town of North Knoxville in 1889, the area was a prominent suburb for Knoxvilles upper middle and professional classes until the 1950s. After a period of decline, preservationists began restoring many of the neighborhood&#39;s houses in the 1980s. In 1992, over 400 houses and secondary structures in the neighborhood were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Old North Knoxville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In the years following the Civil War, Knoxville experienced an economic boom that brought about a rapid increase in the citys population. The city gradually expanded northward and westward to accommodate the influx of new residents. The housing boom reached what is now Old North Knoxville in the late 1880s, when it was incorporated as the town of North Knoxville, and continued after its annexation by Knoxville in 1897. The neighborhoods earliest residents included doctors, politicians, and business managers, and some its earliest houses were designed by prominent Knoxville architects, such as George Barber, Charles Barber, and David Getaz. As Knoxville continued expanding northward, most notably with the annexation of Fountain City in 1962, North Knoxville became "Old" North Knoxville.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Old North Knoxville is located just off Broadway (part of USA Route 441), about halfway between downtown Knoxville to the south and Sharps Ridge to the north. The neighborhood straddles a hill that gradually rises from First Creek and descends toward Second Creek. East Scott Avenue traverses the hills crest, with the slopes gradually descending southward to East Baxter Avenue and northward to East Woodland Avenue, leaving the houses along East Scott approximately 20 to 40 feet higher than other houses in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Old North Knoxville Historic District is roughly bounded by East Woodland Avenue to the northwest, Bluff Street to the northeast, Armstrong Avenue to the east, and Central Avenue to the south. Several other historic districts lie in the vicinity, namely Mechanicsville to the southwest, Fourth and Gill to the south, Park City to the east, and North Hills to the northeast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>North Knoxville remained predominantly rural until the latter half of the 19th century. An 1871 map of Knoxville shows scant development along "Broad Street" (Broadway) north of the Knoxville National Cemetery. In the years after the Civil War, however, Knoxville&#39;s railroad access and an influx of northern capital helped make Knoxville a major warehousing and textile manufacturing center, bringing about an exponential increase in population. By 1886, several houses and several roads (including Armstrong and "Kennion") had been built in what is now Old North Knoxville, and several factories had been built nearby along Second Creek, namely the Brookside Cotton Mill, the Fantz (Fanz) Sausage Factory, and two marble works.</p><br>
<p>Rather than wait for annexation by Knoxville in order to obtain city services, North Knoxville incorporated as a separate city on January 16, 1889. L. A. Gratz was elected as the town&#39;s first mayor. The new town secured contracts for water and electric lighting deemed superior to the contracts Knoxville had forged, and North Knoxville School was held in high esteem by parents. At the time of its incorporation, North Knoxville was considered one of the best residential neighborhoods in Knoxville, due in part to its relatively small concentration of lower class residents, and by 1895, the town had a population of 3,200. North Knoxville was annexed by Knoxville in 1897.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1900s, trolley tracks connected North Knoxville to downtown Knoxville. The neighborhood consisted primarily of upper middle and professional class residents, including business managers, doctors, lawyers, and professors. One section of Glenwood Avenue was known as "Doctors&#39; Hill," since nearly every home on the block was occupied by a physician. Business leaders living in the neighborhood included Brookside Cotton Mill manager William Lang, H. T. Hackney Company president (and later mayor of Knoxville) Benjamin Morton, and several Southern Railway officials. George Dempster, inventor of the Dempster-Dumpster and a mayor of Knoxville, lived in Old North Knoxville in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>North Knoxville continued to grow until the 1940s, by which time most of the original residents had died or moved away. Knoxvilles continued expansion northward and westward, as well as the onset of automobile travel, drew the residents of the citys early suburbs further out to newer neighborhoods along the citys periphery. During the 1950s and 1960s, many of the neighborhoods larger houses were converted into low-rent apartments, causing a decline in housing values. The formation of the Old North Knoxville Neighborhood Association in the 1970s, however, led to the restoration and rehabilitation of most of the neighborhood&#39;s historic homes.</p><br>
<h2>Old North Knoxville Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Old North Knoxville Historic District covers 324 acre, and includes properties along Alexander Street, East Anderson Avenue, Armstrong Avenue, East Baxter Avenue, Cornelia Street, Folsom Avenue, Fremont Place, Glenwood Avenue, Harvey Street, Kenyon Street, Kern Place, Matthews Place, McMillan Street, East Oklahoma Avenue, Rader Place, East Scott Avenue, Shepherd Place, Stewart Place, Thompson Place, and East Woodland Avenue. The district&#39;s 496 contributing buildings and structures consist primarily of houses and outbuildings, with one commercial structure. The neighborhood is characterized by short front lawns and large sidewalks. Circa-1907 "Granitoid" pavement, known locally as "singing" pavement due to the sound it makes when cars drive over it, is still found along Kenyon Street.</p><br>
<p>Houses in Old North Knoxville include designs by three established architects&mdash; George F. Barber, his son, Charles Barber, and the Swiss-born David Getaz. Architectural styles represented in the district include Queen Anne, Eastlake, Folk Victorian, Bungalow/Craftsman, Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Neoclassical Revival, American Foursquare, and Shingle. The district has one Colonial Revival home (517 East Oklahoma) and one home designed in the French Eclectic style (518 Glenwood).</p><br>
<h3>Notable houses</h3><br>
<p>W. R. Cooper House (1212 Kenyon Ave.), a Folk Victorian house built circa 1883, moved approximately one block to its present location in 1900.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Fitzgerald House (311 Glenwood Ave.), a Folk Victorian house built circa 1888.</p><br>
<p>Lou-Mar (505 East Scott Avenue), built 1889, a Queen Anne-style house designed by architect David Getaz.</p><br>
<p>James Eugene Fair House (241 East Scott Ave.), a Queen Anne-style house built in 1896.</p><br>
<p>Pine Crest (131 East Scott Avenue), a Folk Victorian house built in 1899 for Brookside Mills manager William Lang, and designed by architect George F. Barber.</p><br>
<p>James B. Dunn Mansion (1424 Armstrong Avenue), a large Neoclassical-style house built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>131 East Oklahoma Avenue, a Neoclassical-style house built around 1910, noted for its oversized columns.</p><br>
<p>518 Glenwood Avenue, a French Eclectic-style house built in 1925, and designed by architect Charles I. Barber of the firm, Barber & McMurry.</p><br>
<p>George Dempster House (235 East Scott Avenue), an American Foursquare-style house built in 1926; the home of the prominent Knoxville businessman and mayor.</p><br>
<p>Marble Hill (125 East Glenwood Avenue), an Arts and Crafts "bungalow mansion" built in 1916, and designed by Martin E. Parmelee. Built for the Samuel T. Buffat family. Buffat was an executive with the H. T. Hackney Company. Fountain City banker William S. McKinney purchased the home in 1920. From 1965 to 2003, it was the home of noted bluegrass musician Daniel E. Bailey, a member of the Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys. Bailey was also grocer Cas Walker&#39;s radio announcer.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport House, also known as Sans-Souci, is an 1859 residence in New Rochelle, New York, designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis in the Gothic Revival style. The "architecturally significant cottage and its compatible architect-designed additions represent a rare assemblage of mid-19th through early 20th century American residential design". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The home is located in a residential section of New Rochelle, a suburb just north of New York City. The sprawling 11,216 ft&sup2, 39 room house is one of the largest in the area and is deeply set back from Davenport Road. The house&#39;s original setting included several undeveloped acres. Today, upper-middle and upper-class, single-family detached housing surrounds the property on all four sides. The property boasts mature trees, numerous bushes, a large front lawn, a circular driveway and stone entrance pillars, with wrought-iron fence and gates.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cottage was built in 1859 for Lawrence Montgomery Davenport whose great grandfather had purchased the extensive Sound shore property known today as Davenport Neck. At the time of its construction in 1858, only a handful of dwellings were located on the promontory including several owned by Davenports close relatives. With a commanding view of Long Island Sound, meadows, and groves of fruit trees, the property was ideally situated for Davis scenic sense. The original -story blue-stone cottage features a large center gable, bargeboards, symmetrical chimneys, decorative shields, and diamond-paned oculi windows.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Anthony Walton White Evans purchased the home in 1865, and in 1871 hired Davis to design a one-story wing on the south side of the house. The addition included a library, semi-circular billiard room and conservatory. In 1875, the family hired architect Frederick Coles to add a similar wing on the north side. Shortly after, a second story was added to both the north and south wing adding numerous bedrooms and bathrooms to both. In 1912 the north wing was further expanded and includes the large kitchen, pantry, a small dining room, and second stairwell.</p><br>
<p>The home remained in the Evans family until 1922 when its next owner, Leroy Frantz, transformed the first floor of the southern wing into a ballroom.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>All rooms in the building have "intricately designed parquet floors". The main entrance hall has an open staircase, molded cornices, and a red marble fireplace. The semi-circular library has a wood-panelled ceiling, a fireplace and bookcases. The former billiard room has molded cornices, dado, and sliding interior shutters. The parlor and dining room have molded cornices, glazed sliding doors, and red marble fireplaces. Some of the other rooms have fireplaces and the semi-circular master bedroom has a sleeping porch.</p><br>
<p>The interiors of the house and its period additions are largely unchanged. Original A. J. Davis details are abundant and include crenelated cornices in the parlor and dining room, original marble mantelpieces and decorative corbels in two second-floor bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>Vermont Hatch Mansion is a historic home located at Cornwall in Orange County, New York. It was built in 1935 for Vermont Hatch and is a two-story, coursed ashlar stone dwelling in an eclectic French chateau style. It features a series of slate tiled hipped roofs. Also on the property is a gable roofed, stone garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Agriculture Building at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Agriculture Building and Engineering Building were both built using the same funding from the Arkansas Legislature. Completed in 1927, the Agriculture Building hosted a library, the agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, rural economics and sociology, and entomology departments, in addition to offices. A new Plant Pathology building was built in 1978, taking some of the aforementioned departments. The two buildings are connected by a skywalk. It now contains the agribusiness and economics, agricultural and extension education, agricultural communications, and entomology departments.</p><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall at the University of Arkansas is a building on the university&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall was built in 1935 as "Classroom Building" with two other structures: the Home Economics Building and the old Student Union. Using Indiana Limestone, the building was finished in 1940 by the Manhattan Construction Company of Muskogee, OK. It initially held faculty only. The Commerce Building was finished in 1947, and the two buildings were connected. It was at this time that the structure was named the Business Administration Building. Five other departments were also housed in this building until the namesake moved out in 1978 to a new Business Building on Ozark Avenue. It was then renamed Ozark Hall, which it remained named until 2015. In 1987, the Commerce Building-portion was razed. The building then came to house the Graduate School, the department of geosciences, and the nursing program. In December 2015, Ozark Hall was renamed Gearhart Hall to honor G. David Gearhart, the fifth and former chancellor of the university.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation project</h2><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall was expanded over the approximate location of the old Commerce Building. The three-year project, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects was completed in 2014. The new wing houses the Honors College and a few classrooms. As part of the expansion, the remaining classrooms also received restoration and updating.</p><br>
<p>Dumbarton Historic District is a national historic district in Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The suburban subdivision features curvilinear streets, generously sized lots, and naturalistic landscaping that generally reflect design principles associated with Frederick Law Olmsted. These features characterized the Roland Park Companys seminal developments. Many of subdivisions original residents were prominent Jewish merchants and industrialists, most of whom were of German descent.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Baltimore County Jail is a historic jail located at Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1855 and is a two-story Italianate style stone building, measuring 52 feet wide and 62 feet deep. It consists of a five-bay-wide warden’s house with a central three story entry tower. In the rear is a cell block with three levels of jail cells and covered by a gable roof. The wardens house and tower features a low pyramidal hipped roof and 30 in walls. Attached to the wardens house is a stone garage built in 1940. It was used as a correctional facility until 2006.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Klots Throwing Company Mill is a historic silk mill located at Cumberland in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1902–1903, and is a long two-story brick building with double-gable roofs and paired stepped parapets. An addition was built in 1909. It was operated by Gentex Corporation and closed in 1972. The building was subsequently used for storage. From 1988 until 2002, the north end of the building housed the Western Maryland Food Bank. The building will be converted to loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Quarter Place is a historic home located at Lothian in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1860 and is a -story Gothic Revival–style frame dwelling. It consists of a main block with a 2-story rear wing. The main block is three bays wide with a central entrance and features a central cross-gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Queenstown Rosenwald School, also known as Sunnyside School, is a historic Rosenwald school building located at Severn in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1932 and is a plain, one-story, frame building. The building contained two classrooms and a library. The school closed in 1966 and subsequently became the Queenstown Community Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Lula G. Scott Community Center is a historic site located at Shady Side, Maryland in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It now consists of two frame buildings that were built as Rosenwald Schools.</p><br>
<p>The buildings originally were built on separate sites. The Churchton School was constructed in 1921 and the Shady Side School was constructed in 1926. Both were built as single-story schools with two-room-plans. Decades later, one of the school buildings was moved to the site of the other, and expansion followed.</p><br>
<p>The Churchton school was moved to the Shady Side School site in 1953. A wing was added in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Brick House Farm, also known as the Richard Jarrell Farmhouse, is a historic home in Greensboro in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1823 and is a five-bay-long, two-story brick “I” house with a kitchen addition dating to the 1970s. The main house measures 41 ft long by 20 ft deep. It is one room deep and features a gable roof. The perimeter of the estate is wooded by pine and cherry trees. A small orchard is located at the front of the property. The remaining barn and chicken coop lays behind the house. The house is full of intricate wood work and features several rooms on each floor. The stairs continue up to the attic which goes above the entire house and one can stand up without having to duck.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Jacob and Hannah Leverton House, also known as the Dyott Farm, is a historic home located at Linchester, near Preston, in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story side-passage-plan brick house with a gable roof constructed in the first quarter of the 19th century. A two-bay, two-story frame wing was built in 1968 to replace the original -story wing. It was the home of Jacob and Hannah Leverton, Quakers, who were agents of the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Linchester Mill is a historic grist mill located at Preston in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The original mill was built at the site in about 1682; the current structure was erected in approximately 1840 and is a -story frame building sided in red-painted weatherboard and roofed with raised-seam metal. It is four bays long and two bays deep, with a two-story lean-to addition. Then known as Langrell&#39;s Mill, operations ceased in 1974 but currently houses a museum collection of milling machinery dating from the 19th century to the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 after renovations began in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Gobbler Hill is a historic home located at Chestertown in Kent County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1858 and is a center-hall plan frame house on a foundation of local fieldstone and brick. It is five bays wide, two bays deep, and two stories tall with late Greek Revival / early Italianate style details. It features a shallow hip roof surmounted by a tall belvedere and a full-width porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Charles Sumner Post #25, Grand Army of the Republic is a historic fraternal lodge building located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. Named after Charles Sumner, it was constructed as a meeting hall about 1908 and is a two-story gable-front frame building, built on brick piers, with a rectangular floor plan. It is located in the Scotts Point area, a historically black area within the Chestertown Historic District, and was abandoned between 1985 and 2002. It is one of only two Grand Army of the Republic halls for African-American veterans known to survive in the Nation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. In 2012, Preservation Maryland placed the Charles Sumner Post #25 on its list of threatened historic properties.</p><br>
<p>The building has been restored by the Kent County Arts Council and opened to the public in 2014 as a museum of American Civil War history and the role of African-Americans in the war.</p><br>
<p>Still Pond Historic District is a national historic district located at Still Pond in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The district contains approximately 75 buildings dating from the early 19th century through the 1930s. Notable structures include the Still Pond Methodist Church, the George Harper Store, the Medders-Krebs House, a former Odd Fellows Hall, and a former schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Davis House is a historic farmhouse located near Columbus and Dublin in Norwich Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1815, it is one of the county&#39;s older buildings and served as the home of pioneer settler Samuel Davis, who was notable for his service in the American Revolution and subsequent frontier exploits. The house has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Davis was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1763After completing an apprenticeship as a silversmith, he joined the Continental Army, fighting in the American Revolution. Following the end of the war, he travelled west to Kentucky County, Virginia, where he traded silver goods with Native Americans and encountered well-known frontiersmen like Daniel Boone, Nathaniel Massie, and Simon Kenton. He later served as a scout for a military group called Mason County Spy Company, which was formed under the leadership of Simon Kenton and General Charles Scott.</p><br>
<p>In 1814, Davis purchased a property in what is now Franklin County, Ohio, from a resident of Highland County. The following year, he built his house on this land. Davis house is a simple rectangular building constructed of simple stonework. Little craftsmanship was expended on the house; the only dressed stone in the walls, for example, is found on the quoins. The stone for the house came from Davis own property; large amounts of stone were necessary, as the building&#39;s walls are 18 in thick. Built in the Federal style, it is the oldest stone house still standing in Franklin County.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for its architectural significance. It is part of a collection of National Register-listed properties located along Dublin Road, in and near the city of Dublin.</p><br>
<p>The Uniopolis Town Hall is a historic village hall and museum in Uniopolis, Ohio, United States. Built in 1875, this Gothic Revival structure was built as a church, the Divinity Church of the United Brethren in Christ. The building ceased to be used for this purpose in 1900, when it was purchased by the village of Uniopolis and converted into a village hall. After more than ninety years of service as a village hall, the building began a process of conversion into the museum of the Uniopolis Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Uniopolis Town Hall is a simple Carpenter Gothic structure with five lancet windows on each side. Its weatherboarded walls rest upon a foundation of concrete and are topped with a roof of asphalt. As the Uniopolis municipal building, it has served a range of non-governmental purposes, including use as a community meeting room and as an auditorium. In recognition of its importance to the community, the village hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Although it was built in 1875, its primary use as a community building means that its period of historic significance was deemed to have begun in 1900.</p><br>
<p>While the National Historic Register officially entitles the home as the Aaron Wright House, Dr. Wright preferred the spelling as Aron. The current owners of the property, Larry and Cheryl Dillin, utilize his preferred spelling. In 2020/2021 the property underwent significant restoration, including structural work and exterior paint and lighting. Recently, the property and the Dillins were awarded with a National historic preservation award from the local Daughters of the Revolution Chapter</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Aaron Wright House is a historic home located in Springboro, Ohio. It was built by Dr. Aaron Wright in 1857. Since 1979 the house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Issac Elmer Williams House and Office are a pair of buildings in St. Marys, Ohio, United States. Built in 1903,</p><br>
<p>Immediately after graduating from the Kentucky School of Medicine at the University of Louisville in 1892, Williams began to practice medicine in St. Marys; he remained there until retirement in 1942. He built his house and office on the city&#39;s western side in 1903; their location adjacent to each other was a typical arrangement at the time for doctors in small cities such as St. Marys. These two buildings, both frame, feature the Queen Anne style common in the early twentieth century. Among the leading architectural features of the house are its large roof with multiple gables, of which the most prominent are those of the attic that feature imbricated shingles on their walls. Located to the south of the house, the office is a five-room single-story structure. Its design is similar to that of the house, including an attic gable with imbricated shingles.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the house and office were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. They qualified for inclusion on the Register both because of their contribution to local history and because of their architecture. As virtually no changes have been made either to the house or to the office — inside or out — they are excellent examples of early twentieth-century Queen Anne architecture, especially because of their location adjacent to each other. Moreover, these buildings are significant because of their place as a house-and-office combination of a typical early twentieth-century doctor.</p><br>
<p>The King William County Courthouse is a courthouse located in the unincorporated community of King William, King William County, Virginia. The original courthouse structure was constructed in 1725; it is the oldest courthouse building in continuous use in the United States. The courthouse is constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond. In 1840 the courthouse was enlarged and a brick wall was erected to enclose the court green and to keep livestock and poultry away from the buildings. A new courthouse complex has been constructed to augment the old; however, hearings are still held in the old building to preserve its historic designation.</p><br>
<p>This courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>The Adolph Boesel House is a historic house in New Bremen, Ohio, United States. Built in 1898 in a combination of the Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne styles of architecture, it was the home of a leading New Bremen citizen.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1860s, the Boesel name was associated with banking in New Bremen. In 1866, Charles Boesel established a small bank in New Bremen that expanded throughout the nineteenth century. Despite a split in the business in 1905, the Boesels remained in control of the original corporation, which was soon renamed the "First City Bank of New Bremen." Adolph Boesel later became president of this corporation, which in 1923 maintained deposits of nearly $570,000. Adolph was the son of Jacob Boesel, a two-term member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who was Charles oldest son. Besides serving the community as a banker for more than forty years, Boesel was a member of the local government, acting as the villages treasurer in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Boesel erected his house along Franklin Street on the village&#39;s western side in 1898; after he left the residence, it was the home of Alfred Rabe. A two-story structure with an attic, the house is a distinctive example of local architecture. In recognition of its place in local history, the Adolph Boesel House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Despite this honor, it was later classified as demolished by the Ohio Historical Society because the home was moved from its original location. A new house occupies its original address. The house remains listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Young America City Hall is a historic building in Norwood Young America, Minnesota, United States. It is currently a private residence. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on January 4, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1909 for the city of Young America, which merged with the neighboring city of Norwood in 1997, it was converted into a single-family home by 2000.</p><br>
<p>The 4,000 ft&sup2; structure retains its original bell tower, tin ceilings, ticket window as well as original hardwood floors in what was converted to a basketball court. The most recent owners planned to live on the second floor and convert the main floor into a youth center, but the plans fell through when they needed to move for work. In its present layout, the structure includes four bedrooms, kitchen, living room and formal dining room, all on the upper level, as well as four bathrooms. A partial loft was added which includes a library with a gas fireplace, a recreation room and recording studio.</p><br>
<p>In May 2010 the structure was being offered for sale at a price of $449,900.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church is a former parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located in Dallas township in rural Marion County, Iowa, United States. It was part of the now defunct village of Bauer. The closest communities are Melcher-Dallas and Lacona. The church building still stands and together with the adjacent cemetery comprises an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Josephs was founded in 1853 to serve German immigrants in a place in western Marion County called Newbern, or New Bern. The unincorporated village that was built around the church was later called Bauer after the family name of the areas earliest German settlers. The parish was founded in the Diocese of Dubuque during the episcopate of Bishop Mathias Loras. The church building was built in 1876 under the leadership of Bishop John Hennessy. Initially, the parish did not have a resident priest and was served by priests located at St. Patrick’s in Georgetown. Its first two church buildings were log structures that were built on the same property of the present church. The Rev. John Baumann was assigned as the first resident parish priest. The first rectory was built in 1873.</p><br>
<p>Baumann blessed the cornerstone for the present church on October 3, 1875, and the Rev. S. Cann preached a sermon. Limestone, which is abundant in this area, was from a quarry located southeast of the church and used for the foundation. The clay for the bricks was excavated from the property, and the bricks were formed and fired on site under the direction of parishioner Jacob Metz. Other members of the parish built the building. The finished church building was dedicated in 1876. Shortly after the church was built Father Wieland replaced Baumann as pastor. The high altar and the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary were created by Buscher & Kramer and installed in 1880. The St. Joseph altar was installed sometime later. The pews were installed the following year, as were the bells in the tower. The bells were produced by J. G. Struckstede and Brother of St. Louis, Missouri. Bells are dedicated to the honor of the saints (Ad Honorem Sts.) and St. Joseph (Sancta Joseph). In 1881 the parish became part of the Davenport Diocese when it was established. A reed organ built by the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont was installed around 1900. The plaster Stations of the Cross were added in 1916.</p><br>
<p>Other parishes were founded from Bauer in Melcher, Knoxville, Rose Mount, and Lacona. German remained the language used for sermons and church services, when Latin was not required, until March 1913 during the pastorate of the Rev. Charles Dohrmann. The younger members of the parish had insisted up until that time that at least some of the sermons be preached in English. That same year a new rectory was built across the road from the church. It is a 2½-story, frame, American Foursquare dwelling. As the 20th century progressed the German population at Bauer became more aligned with the mainstream American culture and the influence of ethnic traditions was reduced. As the numbers of clergy started to decline, St. Joseph’s lost its resident priest in 1969 and it was clustered with other parishes. The rectory was sold in 1972 and remains in place as a private home. The number of parishioners declined as well and the parish was closed in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Parochial School</h2><br>
<p>The parish supported a school that was begun as late as 1877 with a lay teacher. Eventually the school was staffed by the School Sisters of St. Francis from Milwaukee. A 2½ story, frame, school building and convent, no longer extant, was built in 1904 to the north of the church.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s was one of seven parochial schools in the Davenport Diocese that operated as public schools. All of these areas were predominantly Catholic, nearly 100%. In the early 20th century the state of Iowa required all districts to have a school. Parochial schools fulfilled the requirement. Funds were used to pay at least some of the Sister’s salaries, books (except for religion), equipment and other items per the contract with the state. In Bauer, the salary that was paid to the Sisters was so low that the superintendent chose not to report it so as to not bring down the salary level of the other teachers in the district. A map was the only piece of equipment that was provided, and $50 a year was provided for coal to heat the school. Starting in 1937 lawsuits were brought against the districts challenging their legal right to employ the Sisters. The District Court upheld the practice, but the state Supreme Court overturned the decision and left it open for a retrial. The case was dropped as was one in 1941. While the state could not restrict employing teachers based on their religious beliefs, they could restrict what they wore. The Sisters continued to wear their habits, but they removed their rosaries and reliquaries. In 1953 the state legislature passed a law that refused state aid to these parish-based schools. The school at St. Joseph’s became a parochial school and remained open until 1964. After the school was discontinued the building remained on the church grounds into the 1990s and served as a parish hall and local community center.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Church is a 60 by brick structure built on a limestone foundation. It is rectangular in shape and its main facade is dominated by a square tower that projects from it. The tower is divided into two sections by a course of stone that is surmounted by a large stone cross. It is capped by a hip roof and a cross. Brick corbelling is found underneath the eaves of the west, north, and south elevations of the building, and around the top of the bell chamber. The corbelling on the main facade (west elevation) is laid on a diagonal, parallel to the slope of the gabled roof. The east elevation does not have corbelling, but features instead double rose windows with the lower window being somewhat larger. While the upper window cannot be seen on the interior, its original mullions remain in place. The side elevations feature four lancet windows that are evenly spaced. Metal shingles cover the roof of the nave. A single-story, frame sacristy protrudes from the east wall of the church. It is a later addition to the larger structure.</p><br>
<p>The altar platform is located on the east end of the interior. The high altar is no longer extant, but the side altars remain in place. The pews are organized in four sections across the width of the nave, with three aisles separating them. Some of the original pews remain in the gallery, but those of the main floor were added at a later date. The stained glass windows depict the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Boniface (the apostle to the Germans), St. Francis of Assisi, St. Barbara, and St. Catherine of Siena.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>St. Josephs Cemetery measures 183 by with burial plots laid out in a grid pattern. It is located directly east of the church with an entrance on the west side adjacent to the church. An iron gateway arch with the words "St. Josephs Cemetery" marks the entrance. A pedestrian walk down the middle terminates at an altar towards the center and divides the cemetery into three sections. The altar was built of flagstone on two poured concrete steps. It features a sculpture of the Crucifixion that is about 10 ft in height with a cross made out of wood. It is flanked by life-size statues of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist. The statues are painted metal and are believed to date sometime prior to World War I.</p><br>
<p>The first five rows in the north section of the cemetery are restricted to the burial of children. There are no restrictions in the rest of the cemetery. The earliest grave markers are from 1851, which was two years before the parish was established. The markers are made from various kinds of stone, notably limestone and granite, and were executed in a variety of styles. One of the more prominent styles include 40 cross-on-stone markers that can be divided into three basic forms. The oldest form is used in seven grave markers. It is a cross-on-tablet marker that consists of a small, tablet-like marker that is surmounted by a stone cross. While they vary in height they are typically 2.5 ft high. With 21 examples the cross-on-shaft grave marker is the most popular. They date from the last quarter of the 19th century. This style features a stepped base, a narrow rectangular column, and a carved stone cross at the top. They also vary in height, but several of them measure 5 ft in height. The third form is the largest of the three. Called a cross-on-block it consists of a large, rectangular block, that is capped with a cross. They also vary in height, but there are several examples that are 6 ft in height. The 12 examples of this style date from the first two decades of the 20th century. There are also variations of this style which include the cross being inscribed on the block itself. A heart is another prominent symbol used on grave markers in the cemetery. It is found prominently in the children&#39;s section and on the marker for Sister Columba, the only professed religious buried in the cemetery. There are only a few grave markers that feature urns, which were popular in Victorian cemeteries in Iowa. Noticeably absent are iron cross grave markers that are found in the several German settlements in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Catholic Church is a parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located in rural Monroe County, Iowa, United States, on USA Highway 34, west of Albia, Iowa. It is located in an unincorporated area known as Georgetown and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Foundation</h3><br>
<p>The area that would come to be known as Georgetown was settled by people of Irish descent from St. Louis, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Many who settled the area came to build the first railroad west of the Des Moines River and they originally named the settlement Staceyville. At the time the entire state of Iowa was part of the Diocese of Dubuque. The Rev. Jean Villars from Keokuk visited the area starting in 1848 and celebrated Mass in peoples homes. In the 1850s the Rev. John Kreckel from St. Mary of the Visitation in Ottumwa started visiting the area monthly until a small log church called St. Gregorys was built in 1851.</p><br>
<p>As the community grew, in large part because of Irish immigration, a new church building was needed. They decided to build a mile west, closer to the village of Staceyville. Construction on the new St. Gregorys Church was begun in 1860 and completed in 1865, the same year the Rev. Bernard P. McMenomy was assigned to the parish. The American Civil War had delayed construction of the church. The church was designed by the Rev. Timothy Clifford and constructed of brick and sandstone in the Gothic Revival style by Carr & Cullen. The sandstone was quarried by hand from Babbs Quarry a few miles away. The parish became a missionary center in southern Iowa. The pastor visited communities in Afton, Bauer, Chariton, Dutch Settlement, Irish Settlement (Decatur County), Leon, Melrose, Osceola, and Woodburn.</p><br>
<p>The church was renamed St. Patrick&#39;s in 1872 in acknowledgment of the parishioners’ Irish ancestry. Staceyville was renamed Georgetown sometime later. The parish became a part of the Davenport Diocese when it was established in 1881.</p><br>
<p>The stained glass windows were added to the church in 1892. The small bell tower with a short spire that sits on top of the roof above the main entrance of the church was added in 1903. It houses a bell that the congregation bought in 1896. A renovation of the church&#39;s interior from 1905 to 1906 included building an inclined floor, a pressed tin ceiling, new pews, altars, and statues. The pipe organ was installed in the back gallery in 1924.</p><br>
<h3>Parochial School</h3><br>
<p>The parish supported a school staffed by the Congregation of the Humility of Mary from Ottumwa. It was one of seven parochial schools in the diocese that operated as public schools. All of these areas were predominantly Catholic, nearly 100%. In the early 20th century the state of Iowa required all districts to have a school. Parochial schools fulfilled the requirement. Funds were used to pay at least some of the Sister&#39;s salaries, books (except for religion), equipment and other items per the contract with the state. Starting in 1937 lawsuits were brought against the districts challenging their legal right to employ the Sisters. The District Court upheld the practice, but the state Supreme Court overturned the decision and left it open for a retrial. The case was dropped as was one in 1941. While the state could not restrict employing teachers based on their religious beliefs, they could restrict what they wore. The Sisters continued to wear their habits, but they removed their rosaries and reliquaries. In 1953 the state legislature passed a law that refused state aid to these schools. The school at Georgetown chose to replace the Sisters with lay teachers so they could continue to receive financial aid from the state. The school closed in 1959.</p><br>
<h3>The Modern era</h3><br>
<p>The church building was extensively renovated in the late 1950s. The altar was moved forward and a central heating system was installed. A kitchen and meeting rooms were added to the church&#39;s north side. The ceiling was lowered, obscuring the tin ceiling, and new walls and flooring were installed. The side entrances into the church were closed off and replaced with shrines. Running water and electricity were added to the sacristy and social rooms.</p><br>
<p>Two tornadoes struck St. Patricks in 1963 and 1969. On both occasions the churchs roof was damaged.</p><br>
<p>As the numbers of clergy started to decline, St. Patrick&#39;s lost its resident priest and it was clustered with other parishes in Monroe County. It has been run by a lay Parish Life Coordinator under the direction of a Canonical Pastor since the 1990s. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Other additions to the parish grounds include a memorial garden with a new statue of St. Patrick. It was added in 2002 as a memorial to a former pastor, the Rev. Mark Swanson. A new parish hall was built in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Patricks Church is a 100 by sandstone structure. The stones vary in color from beige to brown. They are roughly cut and measure 8 in to 20 in in length and 6 in to 10 in in width. The main facade features a central, double-door entryway that is flanked by two single-door entryways. The two side entrances were closed in a renovation project between 1959 and 1960. The facade is divided into three bays by four non load-bearing buttresses. Lancet windows are located above all three entryways with three windows located in the central bay. There are six-pointed arch windows located along the east and west elevations of the church. The north elevation features a rose window, which can no longer be seen on the interior because of a dropped ceiling and wall that were added to the churchs interior in 1956.</p><br>
<p>St. Michaels Catholic Church is a former parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located in the unincorporated village of Holbrook, east of Parnell, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Michaels Church, Cemetery, Rectory, and Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Holbrook</h2><br>
<p>The parish buildings represent the Irish-Catholic settlement of Holbrook. The area of Iowa County, Iowa that became known as Holbrook was settled by Irish immigrants or descendants of Irish immigrants. Thomas Hanson, one of those settlers, brought the priest from Iowa City in his lumber wagon and Mass was celebrated in his home. People from the surrounding area would gather for the Mass. The former rectory sits across the highway from the church and the former Hibernian Hall is across the cemetery to the west. The cemetery surrounds the church on three sides. Other than a few houses, they are all that is left of the village which at one time had a post office and a store.</p><br>
<h2>St. Michael&#39;s Parish</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1843 and plans to erect a church were begun. A small frame church was built in what is now St. Michaels Cemetery, near the site of the present church building. The Rev. Mathias Hannon, who came to Holbrook from St. Marys in Iowa City for the first time in 1853, described the church thus, "I said mass within before the floor was laid, had the beautiful snow for carpet, and a pine box for an altar in fact a place as forlorn as the stable wherein the Savior was born. There was no more than fourteen families."</p><br>
<p>Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque assigned the Rev. Peter J. Sullivan as the first resident pastor. He built the current church building in the Romanesque Revival style in 1867. The building is constructed of brick, measures 90 by, and cost about $2,000 to build. The pastor himself donated the paintings for the Stations of the Cross, which cost $1,000. They are no longer in the church and what happened to them is unknown.</p><br>
<p>St. Michael&#39;s became a parish of the Davenport Diocese when it was established in 1881. Alterations were made to the buildings as the years continued. The bell, which is still in the tower, was cast in St. Louis in 1882. A new dome was placed on top of the bell tower during the pastorate of the Rev. Thomas King (1889–1909). During the pastorate of the Rev. Edward Gaule (1909–1917) a new sanctuary with new altars was added to the church. The new bell tower, the third one constructed on this site, was added at this time as well. An addition was added onto the rectory when the Rev. John J. Moriarity (1917–1922) was the pastor. The Rev. James M. Ryan (1922–1927) added stucco to the exterior of the church during his pastorate.</p><br>
<p>In 1885 Bishop Henry Cosgrove assigned the Rev. James Davis as the pastor. He was an Irish immigrant who came to the Dubuque Diocese shortly after his ordination in 1878. At the time, St. Josephs in Parnell was a mission to St. Michaels, and Davis built both the school and church there. He also built the front part of the present rectory in Holbrook. Four years later he was transferred to St. Margarets Cathedral in Davenport. He would be the cathedrals rector and direct the construction of the new Sacred Heart Cathedral. The people of Holbrook considered the transfer a demotion seeing as St. Margaret&#39;s was a smaller parish. Father Davis went on to become coadjutor bishop in 1904 and then Bishop of Davenport in 1906.</p><br>
<p>As the 20th century progressed the rural population of Iowa decreased, and the Holbrook area was no different. Toward the end of the century St. Michaels was clustered with other parishes in the area and served by a single priest. Finally, on March 28, 1996, Bishop William Franklin announced in The Catholic Messenger that St. Michaels would close by the end of June. In a little over a century St. Michaels went from being “the largest and best parish in the diocese” to closing. Rev. Richard Okumu of St. Peters parish in Cosgrove was placed in charge of pastoral management for corporate affairs. The parish buildings were sold to the Friends of St. Michael&#39;s, who are now responsible for their upkeep.</p><br>
<h2>Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall</h2><br>
<p>The Hibernian Hall was built in 1899 by the local chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. It was deeded to the parish corporation in 1948 and was renamed St. Michael&#39;s Parish Hall. It is a 1½-story frame structure that sits to the west of the church. The building is covered in clapboard and it is capped with a gableed roof. The round-arch windows that mimic those of the church are surrounded by drip molds. There is an odd-placed rectangular window above and to one side of the entrance. It appears in an early photo of the structure, but it may not be original.</p><br>
