<p>Dell Rhea&#39;s Chicken Basket is a restaurant in Willowbrook, DuPage County, Illinois. It is located along historical USA Route 66, near present-day Interstate 55.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Chicken Basket began as a simple lunch counter selling sandwiches in a gas station along Route 66, operated by Ervin Irv Kolarik, that was opened some time during the late 1920s. In 1938, two local farm women entered Irv Kolariks gas station for a cup of coffee; they overheard him complaining about how he hated running a gas station and preferred running the lunch counter instead, and offered to share their secret recipe for fried chicken with him if he agreed to buy his chickens from them. In fact, they even agreed to go to work for him and make the chicken. Kolarik consented, and the chicken was an instant success. The lunch counter was no longer sufficient for serving customers. Kolarik initially converted the stations by then disused automobile repair garage bays into dining rooms, which eventually became known as the National Chicken Basket; but by the mid-1940s, further demand made it clear that a new building was needed to serve patrons. This prompted Kolarik to buy the adjacent property and build a full-service restaurant. Kolarik hired Chicago architect Eugene F. Stoyke to construct the one-story brick restaurant and cocktail lounge.</p><br>
<p>The present-day Chicken Basket was opened next door from the gas station in 1946 in what was then Hinsdale, Illinois, now Willowbrook. The roadhouse&#39;s proximity to Chicago fostered its continued success, and it became a bus stop on Joliet Road for the west suburban Bluebird Coach Lines in 1936, the year that Bluebird acquired the bus route from the Chicago & Joliet Transportation Co., which had introduced service on Route 66 in 1928 (this bus route was later acquired by West Suburban Transit Lines, which went out of business in 1976). Becoming an official Bluebird bus stop helped increase business for the Chicken Basket, as did the fact that patrons of the restaurant could sit by the front windows and watch airplanes taking off and landing at what was then Hinsdale Airport across the street on Joliet Road.</p><br>
<p>Kolarik was also a minor genius at getting publicity for the restaurant. For example, during the winters, Kolarik would flood the roof of the restaurant and hire local youths to ice skate on top of it. A cocktail lounge wing was added in 1956; that was the buildings last major alteration. However, in the end, Kolariks creative marketing ideas weren&#39;t enough to overcome other obstacles. The Interstate Highway System in the 1950s forced roads such as Route 66 to reroute onto superhighways, and the restaurant was eventually bypassed by the construction and opening of I-55 during the late 1950s to early 1960s, which cut off its access to major traffic on this important highway.</p><br>
<h2>Change of ownership</h2><br>
<p>Kolarik kept the restaurant open for many years; then when he discovered that construction of I-55 would cut the restaurant off from major highway traffic, he briefly sold it to another operator before buying it back. However, as more traffic moved to the interstate, business dwindled and the restaurant was taken over by a local bank, which kept it in operation until another buyer could be found. Delbert Dell Rhea, a prominent Chicago businessman who had managed the then Stevens Hotel and had been the executive director of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau, at the time owned the Woodbine Inn down the street from the Chicken Basket. Rhea sold the Woodbine Inn and purchased the historic roadhouse in 1963, taking over Kolariks former business and keeping the Chicken Baskets menu and name but adding his own name as well. Rheas son Patrick, who grew up working in the restaurant along with his mother, Grace Rhea, assumed control of Dell Rheas Chicken Basket following Dell&#39;s death in 1992. The Lombardi family bought the restaurant in 2019 with the promise to continue the tradition by keeping intact the original recipe, service, and homestyle environment that makes the Chicken Basket.</p><br>
<p>The building and its classic freestanding neon sign were added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 2006, along with fellow Illinois Route 66 restaurants Lou Mitchell&#39;s and Ariston Cafe. In 2009, the restaurant was featured on a Route 66 edition of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Theatre is a historic theater located in Wheaton, Illinois. It opened on May 25, 1925, with 1,000 seats, and hosted live drama, silent films, and vaudeville performances. The theater changed hands many times in the 20th century, and at various times was known as the Paramount Theatre and The Wheaton Theatre. In the late 1990s, the theater was used for second-run films, and more recently, as a small concert hall for rock and roll bands. The theater was donated to the non-profit Grand Theater Corporation in October 2001. In the fall of 2005, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was closed in 2006 for a full renovation of the property and the Grand Theater Corporation was anticipating to re-open it as a single screen theater in late 2011. However, Wheaton rejected a plan to allocate $19.3 million to finance the renovation and the theaters debts. Wheaton Park District is currently considering a $10 million plan that would reopen the theater with 860 seats. The theater will feature a donated Morton organ from the 1920s, originally from one of the Loews Wonder Theatres.</p><br>
<p>Old Crawfordsville High School is a former public high school erected in 1910 on East Jefferson Street in Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was a part of the Crawfordsville Community Schools. The old building was expanded in 1914, 1921, and 1941 to provide additional classrooms, an auditorium, and a gymnasium. A new Crawfordsville High School facility opened at One Athenian Drive in 1993. In 2000 the old school building was converted to a multi-use facility of offices, residential housing, and a fitness center. The former high school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The former high school became a senior living facility and in 2019 was converted into 99 apartment units called The Laurel Flats.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Crawfordsville High School was located on East Jefferson Street in Crawfordsville, the seat of government for Montgomery County, Indiana. It served as the town&#39;s high school from 1911 to 1993. The building was converted to mixed-use facility in 2000 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. A new Crawfordsville High School at One Athenian Drive opened in the fall of 1993.</p><br>
<h3>Central School</h3><br>
<p>Crawfordsvilles Central School was constructed on what was known as Jefferson Square, bounded by Jefferson, College, Seminary, and School streets, for $44,000 in 1873. Before additional grade schools were constructed, the brick school building accommodated students in all grades. Robert Krout, the local school board president, delivered a commencement address on the subject of womens equality to the first graduating class of ten students graduated in 1877. (Krout was the father of feminist authors Mary Hannah Krout and Caroline Virginia Krout, who would later teach at the school.) An addition to the twelve-room, three-story school was completed in 1880.</p><br>
<p>By 1880 Central School had become overcrowded and additional schools were built to accommodate the increasing enrollment. In addition, a fire in 1882 required Central School to be renovated. Construction began on a new high school in 1910 and Central School was demolished around 1919.</p><br>
<h3>Former Crawfordsville High School</h3><br>
<p>In 1910 construction began on a new school on the Central School&#39;s property along Jefferson Street. The new building became known as Crawfordsville High School.</p><br>
<p>In 1914 the high school was remodeled to include the extension of wings on either side of the main building. Construction work began in 1919 to add more classrooms and a 2,500-seat auditorium to the school. (The old Central School building was demolished to provide space for the auditorium addition.) In 1941 a Works Projects Administration project included the construction of eight classrooms and a gymnasium on the south side of the school.</p><br>
<p>The Class of 1921 was the first to receive their high school diplomas in the new auditorium. The Class of 1976 became the high school&#39;s 100th graduating class.</p><br>
<p>In 1993 classes moved to a new Crawfordsville High School facility at One Athenian Drive, along State Road 47, near the city&#39;s southwest corner.</p><br>
<h3>Mixed-use facility</h3><br>
<p>In 2000 the school building on East Jefferson Street was converted into offices, a fitness center that incorporates the school&#39;s 1939 gymnasium, one- and two-bedroom residential units, and spaces for other uses. The former high school was added into the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Prairie School-style school, designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Patton and Miller, faces north on Jefferson Street. The two-story, symmetrical-plan building on a raised basement has "cross-hipped roof" with "overhanging eaves" and wing additions extending on its east and west sides.</p><br>
<p>The brick buildings original roof was covered in terracotta tiles, later replaced with asphalt shingles. The main entrance to the building is centered on the north elevation; the gymnasium projects from the south end of the main building. Other entrances are located on the east, south, and west sides of the school. Most of the buildings windows have single openings.</p><br>
<p>Brick pilasters on limestone bases vertically divide the exterior of the building. A canopy is suspended over the main entrance. A stone panel above the entrance canopy reads, "A.D. * High School * 1910" and the word "Gymnasium" is carved above the gym&#39;s entrances.</p><br>
<p>Interior staircases from the main floor lead to the basement and two upper floors. Classrooms and school offices have been converted into residential units. The auditoriums audience space has been converted to offices; however, its two-story proscenium and gallery have been retained. The gymnasium also retains many of its original features, including its wooden basketball floor, wood and cast-iron bench seats, scoreboards, and two locker rooms. The gymnasiums basement level has been subdivided and modified; it includes a lap pool and whirlpool tub.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Joseph P. Allen</p><br>
<p>Joseph Stephen Crane</p><br>
<p>Linda Evans</p><br>
<p>Ward Lambert</p><br>
<p>Kenyon Nicholson</p><br>
<p>Robert E. Vaughan</p><br>
<p>Maurine Dallas Watkins</p><br>
<p>Randecker&#39;s Hardware Store is a historical Commercial style building in Bloomingdale, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was built in 1908–09 to sell goods to local farmers and residents. William Randecker opened to store after wanting to leave the paint business following his deteriorating health. Randecker was a prominent figure in Bloomingdale Township, functioning as the township clerk for twenty years and township collector for an additional five. Early 20th century demands for electrical and plumbing equipment fueled the success of the family-run store. When Bloomingdale was incorporated as a village in 1923, Randeckers was one of 13 commercial establishments in the city. Randecker died in 1946 and passed the store on to his nephew, George Bender, who renamed the store Benders Hardware. The post office co-inhabited the building from 1955 to 1960. The property was sold to the Mazzarella family following Bender&#39;s death in 1976. The store was mostly converted into an antique shop with limited hardware supply. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1994. It currently operates as a MassMutual insurance office.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Randeckers Hardware Store is a -story building at the southwest corner of Bloomingdale Road and Franklin Street. It is painted white with trim around windows painted dark green. The main facade faces east toward Bloomingdale Road. Randeckers house, built at the same time as the store, is to the south. The wood building is 24 x and is on a stone and concrete block foundation. The roof is a gambrel with asphalt shingles. Five steps lead to a balcony porch that spans the width of the main facade. This balcony was originally wood, but has since been replaced with concrete. The entrance is a double door, each with a 4 ft pane of glass. The door is flanked with large show windows. A pair of smaller rectangular windows sits on top of each show window; these windows sit beneath a wooden cornice. Three one-over-one double hung windows are found on the attic floor facing east. Just beneath these windows is a sign reading "Olde Towne HARDWARE".</p><br>
<p>The Bradley Edge Tool Company Historic District encompasses the surviving remnants of a historic 19th-century industrial village in Weston, Connecticut. Extending along Lyons Plain Road near White Birch Road and the Saugatuck River, the area was home to the Bradley Edge Tool Company, which flourished here between 1834 and 1870. The principal surviving elements are residences which were built for the owners and workers of the company; the factory itself burned in 1911. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bradley Edge Tool Company Historic District is located in southeastern Weston, in what is now a rural-suburban setting. It is centered on the junction of White Birch Road and Lyons Plain Road, extending for about 1/3 mile in each direction along the latter roadway. It is about 30 acre in size, with more the 30 historically significant buildings. All are residential in nature, built with wood framing, and finished in vernacular styles of the mid-19th century. Some of the houses were built by the Bradleys for their workers, while the house of owner Miles Bradley (1859) is one of the best examples of Italianate architecture in the district.</p><br>
<p>The Bradley Edge Tool Company was founded in 1834 by Gershom W. Bradley, on a site that previously hosted a comb factory. The company manufactured farm implements, and came in later years to specialize in tools for use on Southern plantations. Increasing urban industrialization and a high cost of transportation led to a decline in the company&#39;s fortunes after 1870. The factory was sold by the Bradleys in 1909, and burned down in 1911. In addition to the surviving houses, archaeological elements of the factory also remain.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>the Gershom W. Bradley House, with a Greek Revival style doorway (see accompanying photo #1)</p><br>
<p>the Miles Bradley House, an "exceptional example of Italianate architecture", has unusual "double bullseye windows" (see photos #3,4)</p><br>
<p>the Osborne House, apparently originally Greek Revival but given a Colonial Revival portico later</p><br>
<p>the Lockwood House, a "three-quarter house" (see photo #13)</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Hickman House is a historic home in Howard County, Missouri. It is a brick, Georgian-style house, built by businessman Thomas Hickman in 1819. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1819, the 1,800 ft&sup2; house represents southern Georgian-cottage style and is one of the state&#39;s oldest intact brick houses. The -story structure was constructed of hand-made brick and built on a stone foundation. The large 8 ft central hallway provides access to three of the four main rooms and an unfinished attic.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Thomas Hickman</h3><br>
<p>Thomas Hickman was a local businessman and one of the original settlers of Howard County. The property is located two miles from Old Franklin, the site where William Becknell and his party began the legendary Santa Fe Trail in 1821. Hickman and his wife Sarah M. Prewitt came to the Boonslick area of Missouri from Bourbon County, Kentucky, around 1816. One of Hickman&#39;s business ventures included a partnership with Wm. Lamme & Co., a dry goods and hardware business in Old Franklin.</p><br>
<p>The house now sits on the property of the University of Missouri Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>A $1.3 million rehabilitation was completed in 2009 to bring the home to its historic condition. While the house was in decay, restoration-construction experts had much original material to work with: exterior brick, stone foundation, floor joists, walnut flooring, cabinets, sills, interior molding and chair rails. Rehabilitation efforts included pouring a new foundation; restoring original window size and replacing panes and sashes; re-shingling the roof in period materials; removing paint from and stabilizing exterior brick; refinishing original floors and woodwork; and restoring interior plaster. In addition, the four chimneys were rebuilt from a state of disrepair, and a summer kitchen was reconstructed based on archaeological and historical information.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Falkinburg House, also spelled Falkenburg, is located at 822  Delsea Drive  in the South Dennis section of Dennis Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The historic brick Federal style house was built around 1805 and was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1961. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1994, for its significance in architecture and politics/government.</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, the house is one of three brick houses in the county built before 1860. Joseph Falkinburg served in the New Jersey legislature during the War of 1812. In 1989, the house was purchased by the Arc of Cape May County.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. Charles C. Stratton House, also known as Stratton Hall or Stratton Mansion, is located at 538 Kings Highway, near Swedesboro, in Woolwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1936. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1973, for its significance in architecture and politics. The house was the home of New Jersey Governor Charles C. Stratton.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two and one-half story brick house with Flemish bond and featuring Federal architecture. It was built near Raccoon Creek by Doctor James Stratton. His son, Charles C. Stratton, was born here in 1796 and lived here the rest of his life. He became the first governor of New Jersey under the new state constitution of 1844, which provided for the direct election of the governor.</p><br>
<p>Whitney Mansion, also known as Hollybush Mansion, is a historic house located on the campus of Rowan University in Glassboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was used as the Rowan University President&#39;s Residence until 1998. Since 2003, Rowan University has spent more than $3 million to restore the mansion, which is now used as a meeting place and museum.</p><br>
<p>Originally the home of the Whitney family, it was the first of its kind in South Jersey, setting a precedent with its Italianate architectural style. Its interior decorations attest to this precedent, featuring significantly unique elements such as the trompe de l&#39;oeil ceilings in the parlor and the Summit Room, as well as the painted glass archway above and around the front door. The stone used in the construction of Hollybush was New Jersey Ironstone, a sedimentary type of stone found in the low hills and ridges of South Jersey.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the mansion hosted the Glassboro Summit Conference, a summit meeting between United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Union Premier Alexei Kosygin.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was built in 1849 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1972, for its significance in architecture and politics/government.</p><br>
<p>The Bloomingdale School is a historical building in the Queen Anne style in Bloomingdale, Illinois. In 1994 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Bloomingdale School-Village Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Illinois passed legislation in 1855 to support schools with local taxes. Five years later, the Bloomingdale Academy opened as a private high school in a former Baptist church. It closed a year later, but the building was used from 1861 to 1891 as an elementary education building. The school was moved into the newly built Bloomingdale School later that year. The former school still stands and currently functions as the Bloomingdale Park District Museum.</p><br>
<p>The new two-story Bloomingdale School was originally designated in District #7, and was re-designated to District #13 in 1902. The first story was used for grades 1 through 4, and the second story grades 5 through 8. A teacher would teach all four grades simultaneously. A new school building was erected for Bloomingdale in 1937, and classes were moved there. In lieu of destroying the old school house, the village re-purposed the building in 1938 to function as the local government headquarters. The Bloomingdale fire and police departments operated on the first floor. The school bell tower was removed and replaced with a siren and flag pole. Citizen groups were permitted to use the Village Hall for meetings. In 1977, the village offices moved to a new building to account for the town&#39;s rapid growth. The village retained control of the old Village Hall, but leased it to retailers.</p><br>
<p>Robinwood, also known as the George H. Miller House, is a historic residence in Elmhurst, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George H. Miller worked as a high school teacher in Marshall, Michigan, but decided to take a new job working in Chicago at Sears, Roebuck and Co. Shortly thereafter, Miller decided to form his own business, the Miller Fibre Box Company. The business was profitable, and he sold it to retire at the age of fifty. In his later years, Miller and his wife Bernice were active in Elmhurst city affairs.</p><br>
<p>Robinwood was built in 1908 by Joy Wheeler Dow, an architect who wanted to contrast the styles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin while still maintaining appeal to the growing middle class. He had no formal training, and primarily built single-family homes in New Jersey. Robinwood was particularly heavily influenced by one of Dow&#39;s buildings, Princessgate, in Wyoming, New Jersey. English-based designs were popular in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago—Tudor Revival style residences were particularly popular in Elmhurst. It is thought that Robinwood was somewhat influenced by the style, but more-so by the Arts and Crafts Movement burgeoning in England. Bernice Miller lived in the house until her death in 1936, when it was passed on to her sister, Jessie Porter.</p><br>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. Almerico purchased the home in 1968. Robinwood was sold to Dr. And Mrs. Miller in September 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Robinwood is on a 100 x lot on the west side of Arlington Street north of Church Street. The house neighbored that of architect Walter Burley Griffin, though this house was demolished in the 1970s. The floor plan is simple, with four main rooms on each of its two main floors. The building is 44 x with a single gable running horizontally with deep eaves. A shingled gable extends over the main doorway. Robinwood has three bays, each with a dormer on the second floor. The house has a stone chimney on the south wall of the house while a brick chimney protrudes from the ridge of the roof, aligned with the northernmost dormer. The building&#39;s exterior walls are constructed from Indiana limestone.</p><br>
<p>The Levoy Theatre is a 696-seat operational performing arts center located in Millville, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The First Levoy Theatre</h3><br>
<p>The first Levoy Theatre filled a ten-year void left in Millville after the 1898 fire that destroyed the Wilson Opera House (once at High and Sassafras Sts.), Millville&#39;s largest theatre of the 19th century. By 1908 Millville needed a new source of entertainment, and William "Pop" Somers of Atlantic City and Somers Point fame came to Millville seeing the opportunity for his Levoy. On a side note, Somers was one of the early Ferris Wheel designers, even before Mr. Ferris himself. Only after a lengthy court battle between Ferris and Somers did the famous ride become known as the "Ferris" Wheel and not the "Somers" Wheel.</p><br>
<p>On January 9, 1908, Somers first Levoy was opened. It was much smaller than todays structure; there were two floors—the theatre on the lower floor and a dance floor on the upper. The first admission prices were 5¢ for one ticket or 25¢ for six.</p><br>
<p>The early silent flickering films shown in the original Levoy were often accompanied by a vocalist or piano player in the background to follow the action.</p><br>
<h3>The Second Levoy Theatre</h3><br>
<p>Only four years after the first Levoy opened it was to be enlarged by Colonel Ellsworth Shaw, a job that took five months, 29 days to enlarge the theatre occupying two store widths and doubling its previous size.</p><br>
<p>The Levoy now had a larger stage, with a wrap around "horse-shoe" balcony. Its facade at this point slightly resembled the facade of the Levoy known today, at a somewhat smaller scale. Reopening ceremonies began on November 4, 1912, with William Somers’ renaming of his theatre as the "New Levoy".</p><br>
<h3>Handle & Rovner’s Theatre Beautiful</h3><br>
<p>For the next fifteen years the Levoy was Millvilles center of entertainment for silent films and Vaudeville; its main competition came from the Peoples’ Theatre just across the street, also operated by the Levoys owners.</p><br>
<p>The famous Morris Handle and A.J. Rovner leased the theatres from Somers in April 1927 and soon decided that the Levoy was the one they were going to invest in. After several months of further enlargements and embellishments creating its current footprint and scale the "Theatre Beautiful" of Millville was ready for its grand reopening.</p><br>
<p>The Levoy was now at its full size: a 1,100 seat lower level, a 400-seat balcony, box seating, one of three $30,000 Lenoir pipe organs built specially for the Handel & Rovner Company (serial number #P304B), a stage-proscenium with full fly system, orchestra pit, a marble and chandelier filled lobby and mezzanine, and a very ornate classical facade that gave the impression of a theatre in a very large city.</p><br>
<p>Over 3,500 people turned out for opening night, September 19, 1927, with a bill of live Vaudeville acts as the main attraction.</p><br>
<h3>Warner Brothers</h3><br>
<p>As Vaudeville&#39;s popularity waned and film became the dominant entertainment medium, the Hollywood studios began to require exclusivity of their films to company-owned theatres. The Levoy was sold to Warner Brothers on May 28, 1930. The 1930s brought the first time in history that theatres were built solely for movie use, and Warner Brothers wanted to modernize the Levoy into one of these new movie palaces.</p><br>
<p>This brought about the third major renovation of the Levoy, in 1939. Different than the other renovations of the Levoy in 1912 and 1927, the 1939 renovation was not an enlargement. Instead, it was mostly a cosmetic renovation consistent with Warner Brothers’ view of what a modern theatre should be.</p><br>
<p>A new neon-heavy marquee was constructed; deco-styled front doors with half moon shaped windows replaced the solid wood ones; the lobby was remodeled to create a new "eye flow principle&quot the auditorium had new wall tapestries with illustrations of the earths eastern and western hemispheres on opposing walls; the whole theatre was now "scientifically air conditioned" for the comfort of all patrons; and movies were made ever grander by the enlargement of the movie screen and the utilization of the RCA Companys new "Sound Apex" system.</p><br>
<p>With its grand reopening on August 18, 1939, the Levoy had now officially entered the Golden Age of motion pictures.</p><br>
<p>The popularity of television in the 1950s brought the entertainment and news, previously exclusive to theatres, into everyones living rooms for free. The TV competition, combined with the Federal Government antitrust crackdown on Hollywoods stranglehold on distribution, caused studio profits to drop significantly. In an effort to cut their losses, the Studios began divesting themselves of real estate and in 1952 Warner Brothers sold to Eugene Mori, owner of the Landis Theater in Vineland.</p><br>
<h3>"Uncle" Simon Cherivtch</h3><br>
<p>During the next six years the Levoys slow but steady decline continued. The theatre was now a losing business, and the Levoys ownership changed again, this time to Simon Cherivtch, businessman and former Millville Mayor. Simon took control on August 28, 1958, and quickly made his message clear on what he planned for the Levoy.</p><br>
<p>He stated that if attendance kept declining he would find another use for the building, possibly a supermarket or small shopping center. This was a serious threat to the Levoy, since everybody knew that Cherivtch had bought the Peoples’ Theatre in the early 1950s, closed it, and converted it into a modern store.</p><br>
<p>Cherivtch made several initial attempts to increase attendance, including an attempt to revive live performances with such acts as former Vaudevillians Olson & Johnson&#39;s "New Hellz-a-Poppin’ Yock and Roll Revue of 1959" and risking arrest for violating local "Blue Laws" by threatening to open on Sunday, February 22, 1959.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 1960s Cherivtch tried many times to bolster Levoy crowds and revenues. He started parades complete with elephants!, gave silver dollars out to children at Saturday matinees, created hype that the Beatles would be at the theatre during the peak of Beatlemania in 1964, and had lottery drawings for ticket stub holders. Many of the matinee kids soon gave him the nickname "Uncle Simon" because of all of his generous schemes.</p><br>
<p>Tiring of trying to maintain an unprofitable business, in the early 1960s Cherivtch modified the front part of the building by removing most of the lobby, the south staircase and several rows of seats in the auditorium to create two retail shops.</p><br>
<p>Cherivtch tried several times to sell or lease the Levoy to groups like the Jaycees or even to regional theatre circuits, but all were unsuccessful in running the theatre and the title eventually went back to Simon.</p><br>
<p>The early 1970s brought a new round of problems to the Levoy. The general flight of patrons from the downtown to the new shopping mall combined with two Multiplex cinemas opening in Vineland was taking away much business. But worst of all, because of low revenues, basic maintenance and upkeep began to slide. The building and its systems started to deteriorate. In 1972 the Levoy closed for several months "for alterations" when the first major exterior alteration occurred.</p><br>
<p>The large wood eave façade that hung high above the marquee was hanging out some 10-12 inches from the building. This was ordered removed— and was, on July 7, 1972.</p><br>
<p>Soon afterward the four wooden pilasters were also taken down, leaving only wood beams to show where these decorative elements once stood. The 1972 shutdown and renovation were only temporary setbacks because the Levoy would soon reopen, but it was a sign of things to come.</p><br>
<h3>Closure</h3><br>
<p>The seats were old, the balcony was often closed, and movies were all second run, but it was still open for business, this time until July 1974. Once again problems with electric, wiring, heating, and the leaky roof were cited as problems.</p><br>
<p>For the next four months the Levoys new lessee, Seymour "Sy" Siegal, planned an optimistic comeback for Millvilles 66-year-old theatre. Improvements were made, promotions like the 5¢ movie were brought back, and the Levoy&#39;s occupancy permit was granted on November 13, 1974. This temporary reopening lasted for a month, and then an extra week was added on.</p><br>
<p>This stop and go game with City Hall came to an end on December 24, 1974, when the Levoy was permanently closed because of the lack of substantial improvements. This put an end to Sy Siegal&#39;s efforts, and once again the title went back to Simon Cherivtch.</p><br>
<p>The theatre was threatened with demolition in October 1976 when The Levoy&#39;s lessee, Theatre VI Corporation of Long Island, was given 60 days to make minimum safety repairs on the building before the city would undertake demolition proceedings. Demolition never occurred, due to logistical, legal and financial issues.</p><br>
<h3>Blaze Diegidio</h3><br>
<p>Cherivtch met Blaze Diegidio of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and persuaded him to buy the old theatre in 1980.</p><br>
<p>At first Blaze had planned to renovate the Levoy into a mini-mall, but these plans never formulated and for several more years the Levoy was boarded up.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-1980s, the store space on the ground floor was reopened for leasing, and the second floor mezzanine was torn out to create residential apartments.</p><br>
<p>On August 6, 1994, Blaze opened the Levoy for a tour to a group of interested citizens. It was this tour that convinced the group that there was enough of the theatre left to warrant the formation of a grass-roots organization to restore and reopen the theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Levoy Theatre Preservation Society (LTPS)</h2><br>
<p>In 1995, Joseph Pierce Jr., one of those who had been on Blaze&#39;s Levoy tour convinced his father Joseph Pierce Sr. and friend Jeffrey Page that something needed to be done to preserve the Levoy Theatre. The three formed the Levoy Theatre Preservation Society as a non-profit corporation.</p><br>
<p>When Blaze Diegidio was first contacted by the LTPS about selling the Levoy, Blaze was reluctant to deal with a non-profit organization—-probably fearing that he would not be able to recoup his expenses. For the next 3 years, Mr. Diegidio took the LTPS on a roller coaster ride of joy and despair with his capricious attitude regarding the sale of the Levoy, until his death in 1998. Eager to relieve themselves of a white elephant and gain some significant tax breaks in the process, Diegidio&#39;s survivors sold of the Levoy to the LTPS.</p><br>
<p>As new owners of the Levoy, the LTPS successfully applied to have the property listed on the State of New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places in August 1998 and began fundraising and stabilization efforts.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Pierce Jr, died in a swimming accident at Millville&#39;s Union Lake in July 2000 and the organization struggled for years to recover from the loss.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, a partnership was formed between the Levoy Theatre Preservation Society and a local community theatre group, The Off Broad Street Players, led by local attorneys and arts enthusiasts Phillip and (his daughter) Lauren Van Embden. Together these groups began a campaign entitled the Levoy Renaissance Project, which was to give fuel to the capital fundraising mission to salvage the dilapidated shell of a building and bring performing and screen arts back to downtown Millville. In spite of the economic downturn from the housing market collapse, there was enough public sentiment in favor of the project, and enough perseverance from the new leadership to accomplish what had been impossible for decades.</p><br>
<p>The next two years were spent simultaneously planning every detail of construction from seating layout and acoustics to carpet color and dressing room design, while assembling a highly complex multimillion-dollar financial package. Funding was sourced from a combination of tax credits, private and public funds and was finally completed in April 2010. Work on the restoration of the theatre began shortly thereafter.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>The renovation project suffered a setback on January 3, 2011. A section of the building&#39;s north wall collapsed, followed by the front wall, leaving most of the 100-year-old structure in rubble. One building nearby was deemed a total loss due to damage from the collapse. One firefighter, already on the scene investigating a gas leak prior to the incident, was struck and injured by falling debris.</p><br>
<p>The Levoy Theatre construction renovation project restarted in May 2011, five months after the partial collapse, and continued until August 2012. The facade and marquee of the theater was replicated to match an incarnation of the theater from the late 1920s, and much of the interior of the theater has been modeled and matched to the historic features of the century-old venue. Upon entering is a small lobby, followed by a larger ground-floor lobby and a grand staircase leading to a mezzanine lobby. The new theater seats about 700 patrons, has state-of-art sound and lighting, and a levitating orchestra pit.</p><br>
<h2>Re-opening</h2><br>
<p>The Levoy Theatre successfully re-opened on September 9, 2012, with a performance by the Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra underscoring the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, just like the original Levoy offered.</p><br>
<p>The Levoy Theatre&#39;s official grand opening gala took place on September 22, 2012. The gala began with a reception, followed by the premier of the play "Roundabout: A New Amusement", by Jim Cook Jr. which chronicled the history of the 1912 opening. A concert by resident theatre company, The Off Broad Street Players along with professional theater actors and singers closed the evening.</p><br>
<h2>Removal From Historic Registers</h2><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. A local group, which had issues with the building&#39;s tax exempt status as a historic place, petitioned the State of New Jersey to remove the property from its database following the 2011 collapse. Their argument that there was an insufficient portion left of the building remaining to qualify as a historic place, and any further construction was essentially a new building. On July 17, 2013, the Levoy Theatre was removed from the National Register after being previously removed from the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Landis Theatre–Mori Brothers Building is located at 830–834 Landis Avenue in the city of Vineland in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The building was built in 1937 and its first movie was Hats Off. The theater serviced the USO during World War II, and the auditorium was twinned in 1980. After 50 years of service to the Vineland community, it closed finally in 1987, victim of declining revenue against the Demarco Cinemas nearby. Its last movie was House 2. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 2000, for its significance in architecture, engineering, and entertainment/recreation. It was designed by Philadelphia architect William Harold Lee, who designed several historic theaters. Renovation of the theater was completed in early 2010, and it officially re-opened on May 22, with Bernadette Peters being the opening act.</p><br>
<p>William H. Emery Jr. House is a Prairie School residence in Elmhurst, Illinois. It was one of the first independent commissions for Walter Burley Griffin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Emery Sr. moved to Chicago, Illinois, and purchased the Seth Wadhams farm in Elmhurst in 1887. Aside from profits made from developing the farm, Emery served as president of the Elmhurst school board, the Elmhurst Golf Club, and the New England Society of Chicago. Emery also had an important role in bringing electricity and water supply to the town. Emery had six children, including William H. Emery Jr. The younger Emery was a personal friend to architect Walter Burley Griffin, whom he met in school. Griffin had designed the Elmhurst Golf Club (now demolished), but the Emery house was his first residential commission. Emery had ideas about what he wanted his house to look like, and believed that Griffin&#39;s mentor Frank Lloyd Wright would not be tolerant of his opinions. The house was a wedding gift from the senior Emery to the junior Emery and was completed in 1903. The 1909 William B. Sloane House at 248 Arlington Avenue is the only other Griffin-designed residence in Elmhurst.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased and restored by architect Edward L. Balluff and his wife Gail in 1979, and later placed on the National Register of Historic Places in May 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The property on which the house was built was part of the original Emery land claim, now at the northeast corner of Arlington Avenue and Adelia Street. The lot is rectangular at approximately 175 x. The house is 61 x with the longer axis parallel to Arlington Avenue. It is rectangular with two exceptions: the porte cochere extending to the west and two-story wing on the east. A semicircular drive from Arlington provides access to the porte cochere. The foundation is concrete and is built mostly with red brick, concrete, stone-colored stucco, and wood trim. The cedar-shingled gable roof is high pitched, unusual for a Prairie School design, and was probably influenced by Japanese architecture.</p><br>
<p>The John L. Pentecost House is a historic residence located in Elmhurst, Illinois, reflecting c. 1910 design trends.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally constructed in 1888 in the Queen Anne style for Rebecca Richardson for $3,000. The house was built in a burgeoning Elmhurst, Illinois neighborhood, Cottage Hill Avenue, where several stately mansions had recently been constructed. Its construction was typical of Victorian residences with a hipped roof with lower cross gables.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 1910 by John L. Pentecost, a seafood purveyor for Chicago hotels. Pentecost immediately hired Oak Park architect Henry G. Fiddelke to completely remodel the house. Pentecosts wife was interested in architecture and wanted their new residence to incorporate recent design trends. The result was a blend of several popular architectural styles, such as Prairie School and Arts and Crafts, while still retaining some of the Victorian features of the original residence. Fiddelke previously worked with Adler & Sullivan and was currently in the employ of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Among his designs was Ernest Hemingways childhood home; Hemingway was a friend of John Pentecost&#39;s son Jack, so John may have heard of Fiddelke through this connection. Dr. Edwin M. Smith, Jr. purchased the house from the Pentecost estate in 1946 and lived there until 1970. The house retains the integrity of the 1910 remodel.</p><br>
<p>Notice of Public Hearing Historic Preservation Commission Case Number 16-HPC-01</p><br>
<p>Request for Removal of Historic Landmark Designation</p><br>
<p>Notice is hereby given that the Elmhurst Historic Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in the Elmhurst City Hall, 209 N. York Street, Elmhurst, Illinois. The purpose of this meeting is to consider a request for removal of historic landmark designation pursuant to the Elmhurst Historic Preservation Ordinance.</p><br>
<p>Regarding March 9 public hearing, Commission allowed the removal of historic landmark designation.</p><br>
<p>Home is presently be razed/deconstructed in July 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house sites on a 100 x lot (roughly 0.75 acre). It is a -story residence, approximately 31 x. When remodeled in 1910, the exterior was painted with a light-grey Portland cement stucco. This is accented with darker-grey wood-and-metal trim. The front of the house faces the west. A large picture window 7 x and two casement art glass windows decorate the facade. The second floor of this side has two double-hung windows, one of which remains from the original 1888 construction. The entrance is under a gabled portico with a slight pitch and decorative wood details. The portico columns are stucco with white trim. Dark-grey steps lead to a landing with two built-in bench seats. Copper gutters on this side have been painted white. The north side has a gabled projection that extends 4 ft; the projection extends slightly farther on the second and third floors. The east (rear) elevation features a rear entrance with a small porch. A second-floor porch is supported with wood columns with Doric capitals. The south side features the veranda with fitted screens and storm windows on three sides. A 1910-door leads from the veranda to the interior dining room. A garage and gazebo were recently constructed on the property.</p><br>
<p>Hauptgebaude,  also known as Old Main, was the predecessor to Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, Illinois. The three-story building was constructed in 1878 as a gymnasium style of school, reflecting the German heritage of the local residents. The new building allowed the school to increase its enrollment to 103 students in its first year. Classes in the Hauptgebaude were solely taught in German until 1917. In 1919, the school became accredited as a junior college. Starting in 1928, the school added additional buildings to the campus. The school began admitting female students in 1930, and received accreditation as a four-year college in 1934. Old Main functioned as the school&#39;s administration building until the 1950s. It was renovated in 1920 after a major fire, and again in 1976 and 1995. At one time or another, Old Main housed the science labs, the cafeteria, a pipe organ, and a Fumatorium  where students in the early 1900s smoked, talked and played chess. Along with Irion Hall, Old Main even served as the library  before Memorial Library was built. Old Main now houses faculty offices, art studios and general classrooms and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Glen Ellyn Main Street Historic District is a set of eleven buildings in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The houses were built between 1874 and 1890 when the village was known as Prospect Park. The swampy setting of the village began to gain a reputation as a retreat away from the city, and by 1882 the village was large enough for incorporation. Wealthy businessmen built homes along the main stretch of the village in what would become the historical district. In the mid-1880s, a river was dammed, creating Lake Glen Ellyn, spurring the new name for the village.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Significant structures</h3><br>
<p>These buildings are of particular historical or architectural interest. These residents were owned by early settlers and still resemble the original building.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Gault House (1890) - Gault was an ornithologist known locally as "the bird man". He was a member of the National Geographic Society and National Audubon Society, and the secretary of the Wilson Ornithological Society. His articles appeared in The Auk and the Smithsonian Institution. The home was formerly the site of the first school in the village.</p><br>
<p>Edgar H. McChesney House (1885) - Queen Anne style residence. McChesney opened a grocery store with his brother in 1878. He sold his business and was later postmaster and village president. The house features an iron gate and a horse barn.</p><br>
<p>Nelson P. Dodge House (1882) - Italianate style residence. Dodge was a carpenter and the son of an early settler to the region.</p><br>
<p>Henry Fennamore House (1874) - Gothic Revival style residence. A private kindergarten was taught in the residence in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Whittle–Meacham House (1889) - Queen Anne style. The original owner, Civil War veteran James F. Whittle, sold the house to George Meacham in 1899 when he retired to Alabama. Meacham was related to the Meacham family that originally settled in Bloomingdale.</p><br>
<p>John Newton Nind House (1876) - Italianate style. Nind moved from Bloomingdale Township to start a farm. He built this house after he retired in 1875. Later renovation incorporated Greek Revival elements into the house.</p><br>
<h3>Contributing structures</h3><br>
<p>These buildings are not as historically important as "significant" structures but are at least fifty years old and have had minimal alterations.</p><br>
<p>564 Main Street ( 1890) - Vernacular house partially destroyed in a 1904 fire.</p><br>
<p>569 Main Street (c. 1925) - Craftsman residence.</p><br>
<p>571 Main Street (c. 1920) - Craftsman residence.</p><br>
<h3>Intrusions</h3><br>
<p>These buildings contrast with the surrounding buildings. Though they are listed as part of the district, they are not historically relevant.</p><br>
<p>580 Main Street (c. 1945) - Ranch-style house</p><br>
<p>587 Main Street (c. 1925) - Dutch Colonial Revival house.</p><br>
<p>The George Baker House is a historic residence in unincorporated Milton Township near Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The Greek Revival house features a limestone exterior on a stone foundation, and an asphalt roof. It was constructed for and designed by George Baker in 1847. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Following the end of the Black Hawk War, settlers began to move to the Chicago region, including DuPage County. Valentine Baker, a French immigrant, moved to the region from New York in 1843. John Russ purchased an unsettled lot on a hill from the federal government on May 2, 1843, and sold it to the Baker family on August 9. Valentine Baker died in 1846, before he could build a house on the lot. His 20-year-old son George took over the responsibility, and the house was completed in 1847. It was built halfway between Stacys Tavern and Lisle on Park Boulevard. The road was originally an Indian trail that became an important north–south thoroughfare. George Baker married Mary Forttman on January 11, 1848. They expanded the lot to include 392.5 acre of farmland. They had seven children together. A wing was added to the house in 1853. George Barker was buried next to his father on the property in 1873. The farm was passed down to Georges son Valentine, who was the last family member to hold the land. It was deeded to John H. and Christopher W. Stauch in 1892, who combined the property with their existing land.</p><br>
<p>The house became dilapidated, and remained abandoned until it was purchased in 1942 by Frederic and Helen Babcock. Frederic was an editor for the Chicago Tribune who rehabilitated properties. In 1965, part of the property was sold to the town of Glen Ellyn to build Glencrest Middle School. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on March 1, 2010. The hill that the house stood on retained the name of Baker Hill, which recently lent its name to a nearby shopping center.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The George Baker House is a Greek Revival style farmhouse. The 1853 addition converted the house into an Upright and Wing configuration. The house is on the west side of Taylor Road at its intersection with McCormock Avenue just west of Illinois Route 53. It is built into the hillside of Baker Hill, with entrances on the first floor on the east and the second floor on the west. The three-story brick house is painted white with a partially exposed limestone foundation. The main entrance on the east side has a large porch; the historic main entrance was probably on the west. Windows are surrounded by brick lintels and limestone sills; the west windows have black shutters. Both doors have six-over-six windows on either side. The second floor has three windows on the east side, and side windows on the north and south. The addition has a door and window on the south side and a door and two windows on the east. There are two smaller windows on the west side of the addition. Two ground-level windows are also present on the west.</p><br>
<p>There was originally two rooms on the first floor. The east room had a chimney in the center and a staircase leading to the kitchen below. Next to the rooms is a small hall with stairs to the second floor. The hall also led to a bathroom and an entrance to the kitchen. The largest room on the second floor is on the east. The north side features two small rooms. On the west is a bedroom and a bathroom. The main hall has a stairway to the third floor, which was probably originally a single room, but has been converted into two. In the first floor of the addition, the dining room has a maple floor. The kitchen was also relocated here to the south; it was originally a pair of pantries, but was converted in the 20th century. A root cellar is on the west. A hall runs on the second floor to two bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House is a private house located at 1224 Haggerty Road in Canton Township, Michigan. The structure is significant because it is one of the most finely crafted houses in the township and because of its association with one of the most important families in the area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Erastus Truesdell was born in Massachusetts in 1802. Erastus married Calista Merry and moved to Michigan in 1832, one of the first families to settle in Canton Township.</p><br>
<p>Erastus and Calista had eight children, the seventh of whom was Ephraim F. Truesdell, born in 1842. In 1888, Ephraim and Emma Truesdell hired Charles W. Curtiss, a builder from Plymouth, Michigan, to construct this house.</p><br>
<p>After Charles died in 1937, his wife rented out rooms in the house to schoolteachers and, during World War II, workers at the nearby Willow Run plant. The house stayed in the family for a number of decades; during this time the house was used for funerals because the large double doors in the front allowed caskets to be easily carried into the house. In the 1980s, developers bought it with the intention of starting a bed and breakfast. The home was resold in 1992 and restored, and in 2003 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story structure constructed of red brick on a stone foundation. It is built in a cross-shaped plan, with a deep gable-front section intersected by a side-gabled section which projects to either side of the main section. A hip roof section containing the double-door main entrance, is nestled in the corner created by the intersecting gabled portions of the structure. A low porch with Stick-Eastlake turned posts and pierced screens wraps around the hip roof section and shelters the front door; a similar porch sits on the opposite side of the front facade. Both side and front gables are ornamented with an incised arch beneath the roofline. A bay window is located on the south side; the remainder of the windows are of the one-over-one double-hung variety, set within segmented-arch brick caps.</p><br>
<p>Bank of Italy building in Downtown Visalia was built in 1923 at 128 East Main Street. The Bank of Italy building has five stories plus a basement. R. F. Felchlin, a Fresno construction company, supplied the architectural, engineering, and contracting services. The ground level was designed to be a bank, and the other space was set aside for offices. Later it became the Bank of America. Today the ground floor continues to be a bank, and the upper floors still provide office space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tulare County, California on April 1, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Alling & Cory Buffalo Warehouse is a historic warehouse building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It consists of a six-story, L-shaped, 120,000 ft&sup2; former paper warehouse building built in 1910-1911 for the Alling & Cory company of Rochester, with a one-story, brick loading dock addition built in 1926. It is built of reinforced concrete with classical detailing and considered to be of the "Daylight Factory" design. The building has been rehabilitated into an apartment complex.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Seated Lincoln is a 1911 sculpture by Gutzon Borglum, located next to the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1995, for its significance in art.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The bronze sculpture depicts Abraham Lincoln larger than life size, seated at one end of a bench also cast in bronze. Lincoln is bearded but bare headed, with his stovepipe hat resting on the bench beside the mans hand. The bronze is set on a low stone platform with five steps, beside the steps to the courthouse. The informal composition was an unusual departure from the usual monumental depiction of Lincoln standing or enthroned on a high plinth. It was inspired by Borglums research, reading that Lincoln often sat alone on a bench in the White House garden to gather his thoughts during the American Civil War, particularly when there was bad news. In 1908, Borgulm had completed the marble bust of Lincoln which is now installed at the USA Capitol, and he later sculpted the heads of four USA presidents including Lincoln at Mount Rushmore.</p><br>
<p>The work was funded by a $25,000 bequest by Newark businessman Amos Hoagland Van Horn, who died in 1908. Van Horns estate also funded Borglums Wars of America monument, erected in Newark in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The sculpture was cast at the Gorham Manufacturing Company foundry in New York, and dedicated by President Theodore Roosevelt on Memorial Day, May 30 1911. Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed "Why this doesn&#39;t look like a monument at all!" which Borglum took as a compliment. The sculpture was restored in 1980 by the Cavalier Renaissance Foundry of Bridgeport, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>Borglum also made a number of smaller bronze maquettes of the statue. One example, was sold at Sotheby&#39;s in 2009 for $62,500, and another in 2016 for $100,000.</p><br>
<p>The James and Mary Lawson House is located at 209 North Main Street in Woodstown of Salem County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1869 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 2001, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>James Dennis Lawson, a local farmer and merchant, built the house in 1869. His wife, Mary Davis Pancoast, was from a wealthy Quaker family. The three-story frame house is built with Italianate style, a cubical Italian villa. Additions to the house were built after 1909 and 1942.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Shinn House is located in Woodstown, Salem County, New Jersey. The house was built in 1742 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1979, for its significance in architecture and politics/government.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Samuel Shivers in 1742, and then inherited by his son-in-law Joseph Shinn. The northern third of the house was built in 1812.</p><br>
<p>Shinn was a member the fifth session (June–August 1776) of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey which ordered the arrest of the colonys last royal governor William Franklin, approved the Declaration of Independence and wrote New Jerseys first state constitution (1776).</p><br>
<p>Josephs son, General of the New Jersey militia Isaiah Shinn, later owned the house, but built another house across the street in 1790. Both of these houses are located in the local Woodstown Historic District along with another nearby house, the William Shinn House. Isaiahs grandson, painter Everett Shinn was raised in Woodstown but never lived in the Joseph Shinn House.</p><br>
<p>Finn&#39;s Point Rear Range Light is located at the intersection of Fort Mott and Lighthouse roads on Finns Point in Pennsville Township of Salem County, New Jersey. The range light was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1978, for its significance in engineering. It has been incorporated into the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The range light was built 1876–1877 by the Kellogg Bridge Co. of Buffalo, New York. The tower is made from wrought iron and is approximately 100 feet high. The platform at the top is reached by a cast iron spiral staircase encased in a wrought iron cylinder. The use of wrought iron was atypical for this type of tower. It had resistance to corrosion and cracking. According to the nomination form, this tower is the only extant structure of this type in the state. The light was taken out of service and the lenses removed.</p><br>
<p>Pitman Grove is a 20 acre historic district located in the borough of Pitman in Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1977, for its significance in architecture, religion, and community planning. The district includes 349 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Grove centers around a circular park where the Pitman Grove Auditorium was constructed. Twelve numbered avenues, lined with cottages, radiate from this circle like spokes on the hub of a wheel.</p><br>
<p>The Grove was established in 1871 as a Methodist summer camp meeting site. From its early days, it attracted a large number of visitors. In 1892, a reporter for The Philadelphia Record recorded 60,000 visitors over a 16-day period. Increasingly, people started to live in the Grove year-round. In 1905, it became a part of the Borough of Pitman.</p><br>
<h2>Pitman Grove Auditorium</h2><br>
<p>The first structure on this site was a temporary “preaching stand” built in 1871. This was quickly replaced by a twelve-sided pavilion, about fifty feet in diameter capped by a cupola, covering a stage raised off the ground and protected by a wood railing at its perimeter. In 1878, the Auditorium was remodeled, and a new, rectangular-plan wing added to provide seating capacity. The building was expanded in 1911 adding 24-foot side aisles at both the north and south elevations. Gas lanterns lit the Auditorium beginning in the early 1880s with electrical arch lights added in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Architectural features include: colored Queen Anne Style windows, a combination of vertical board and batten siding with shingled siding above at the east end entrance, and a three-bay arrangement of a wide central aisle flanked to each side by a smaller side aisle.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium changed in the early 1960s to reflect a more modern style. An extensive renovation in 1993-94 attempted to restore the building to its pre-1911 appearance. Despite renovations over time, many original materials and features remain.</p><br>
<p>Built by the New Jersey Camp Meeting Association the auditorium continues to be used for camp meetings each summer as well as a place of secular assembly throughout the year. It is now owned by the Borough of Pitman.</p><br>
<p>Other nearby Camp Meeting Association buildings included: Whitecar Tabernacle which was located on the unit block of Fourth Avenue and was used mainly for children&#39;s religious services and instruction. Lizzie Smith Temple was located at the corner of Wesley and South Avenues.</p><br>
<p>The Orland P. Bassett House, also known as the "American Beauty" House, is a historic Colonial Revival residence in Hinsdale, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Orland P. Bassett House, and the accompanying carriage house, were constructed in 1899. Bassett began his career as a printer, moving to Chicago manage the Pictorial Printing Company in 1874. He moved to Hinsdale with his wife in 1887 and began cultivating roses as a hobby. In 1888, he created a hybrid rose known as the American Beauty rose in his greenhouse. He co-founded Bassett & Washburn, which became the first florist to distribute the rose. Commercial horticulture was a relatively new field as Americans had only gained significant disposable income late in the 19th century. One of their largest clients was the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, who purchased the roses for use in their dining cars. The company was the largest employer in Hinsdale in 1900. Bassett retired in 1907, passing the business to his son-in-law, and moved to Pasadena, California in 1910. Bassett&#39;s grandson Egdar Washburn lived in the residence until 1913, when it was sold to Quaker Oats treasurer Robert Gordon. The house was renovated in 1942.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Bassett purchased a plot of land on the corner of Oak and Sixth Street in late 1898 and commissioned contractor Ole Anderson to build it for $25,000. The original architect is unknown—although the plans to the building are intact, there is no indication of who drew them. Enock Hill Turnock remodeled Bassetts former house, "Bonnie Heights", and may have continued a working relationship with Bassett. Given Bassetts occupation, the house was nicknamed the "American Beauty" House by local residents. The house was completed in December 1899. The third floor of the house features a ballroom where the Bassetts held dancing parties. The house was principally built in the Colonial Revival style, but also features elements of Queen Anne Style.</p><br>
<p>Hazelhurst is a historic house located at 150 East Genesee Street in Skaneateles, New York. It was originally a small summer home built for William Loney about 1866, and enlarged and renovated in 1904. It had an extensive lawn stretching down to Skaneateles Lake, which was later split up into 30 separate building lots that now share a common lake access. Hazelhurst is a three-story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style balloon frame dwelling. It features a wraparound porch with Ionic order columns, multiple gabled roof, porte cochere, and corner tower with conical roof. The mansion is now used as a 14-bedroom home for the elderly called "The Athenaeum".</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church of Atlanta is a historic Presbyterian church located at Atlanta in Steuben County, New York, United States. It was built in 1895 and is a Queen Anne style building constructed of red pressed brick over a limestone basement. The architect was Otis Dockstader of Elmira. The interior is designed on the Akron Plan. Also on the property is a former horse shed that was converted in the 1920s for use as a Sunday School and Boy Scout facility. Founded after a devastating fire destroyed most of the downtown area of the village, the church has always served a broad cross section of the community. Having nearly closed the church is now experiencing a period of renewal. Services are at 11:00 AM on Sundays.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The William Whitney House, also known as the Hallmark House, is a historic Late Victorian and Italianate residence in Hinsdale, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William M. Whitney moved to Winfield in 1858 and was elected DuPage County Circuit Clerk and Recorder two years later. During his term, he became involved in real estate, and platted one of the first regions of Downers Grove. He purchased a house in Hinsdale in 1867 which he sold at three times the price three years later. Now wealthy, he moved into a newly constructed house on First Street. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1870. During his term in the House, legislature was passed allowing for certificates of incorporation. Whitney immediately returned to his home town and gained the required signatures for a petition to incorporate Hinsdale, which was approved in 1873.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed for the Stodder family in 1869 and purchased by Whitney a year later. Whitney lost a substantial sum of money in the Panic of 1873, and was forced to sell his house in 1879 to cover overdue taxes. Eighteen families have owned the house since Whitney. The house was featured in a national television commercial for Hallmark Cards, earning the residence its nickname. On October 19, 1989, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, it was deemed a contributing property to the Robbins Park Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a 177 x lot at the southwest corner of First Street and Park Avenue in Hinsdale. It is a wood-frame building, approximately 80 x. Most of the building is two stories; a section in the rear is only one story. This one-story section is a 1950s kitchen addition. A porch covers the front of the house, which extends to the east and west facades. The house features Italianate arch windows and cornice moldings. A two-car garage was added in 1988, replacing a 1950s garage. The second story has three evenly spaced windows on the north elevation. Two floor-length windows are found to the left of the double door entrance to the house. The doors are 9 ft tall with rounded windows in the top panels. Side entrances are found along the east and west sides of the porch. A brick chimney rises through the roof. A basement runs under the entire house except under the east entrance. Basement walls are limestone blocks and irregular stones.</p><br>
<p>The Butterfield Cobblestone House is on Bennett Corners Road in the Town of Clarendon, New York, United States, south of the village of Holley. It is a cobblestone structure from the mid-19th century built in the Greek Revival architectural style by a wealthy local farmer to house his large family. Three generations of his descendants would run the farm over the next 80 years. Later owners would make some renovations to the interior.</p><br>
<p>One of approximately 90 cobblestone structures in Orleans County, it is the only one in Clarendon. It is also considered the finest Greek Revival building in the county. The house and several outbuildings, part of a working farm, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, the easternmost property in the county currently so recognized.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on a 26 acre farm on the west side of Bennett Corners Road in the northern section of the town, three-quarters of a mile (0.75 mi) south of the NY 31A state highway. The terrain is generally level, with cleared fields either cultivated, left fallow or used as horse pasture, and woodlots. All nearby properties are also large farms, with a large residential subdivision 0.4 mi to the north-northeast.</p><br>
<p>All the buildings are in the southeast corner of the farm. To their north, along the road, are seven acres (2.8 ha) of horse pasture, with 13 acre of alfalfa and timothy to their rear, in the west. The rest of the property is taken up by a small apple orchard, a mixed vegetable plot, and a woodlot.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The main house, sheltered by a 70 ft horse chestnut, has a one-and-a-half-story main block with one-story wings to the north and northwest, its side and rear respectively. It sits on a stone foundation with its sides in mostly lake-washed coursed cobblestones from 1 to 2.5 in in diameter set in mortar. The main block and wings are topped by gabled roofs shingled in asphalt and pierced by a stone chimney where the side and rear wings intersect.</p><br>
<p>A continuous limestone water table runs around the first story at floor level. Limestone is also used for the windowsills, lintels, quoins and steps to the main entrance. A datestone set in the gable field on the east elevation of the main block gives 1849 as the construction date.</p><br>
<p>At the rooflines are a molded wooden cornice with wide frieze on the north and south sides of the main block. The basement windows are all screened with vertical bars. On the northeast corner of the north wing is a recessed porch screened by four 12 in wooden columns on limestone slabs, their capitals flaring outward past the beam at the top of the porch. It is floored in Medina sandstone with a limestone border. Its door has a ceramic knob with brown and white swirl.</p><br>
<p>Another, smaller wooden porch, of recent construction, shelters an entrance on the north of the northwest wing. It has a wooden floor and steps but is otherwise architecturally consistent with the other porch. There is also a tongue and groove wooden door on the north end of the west (rear) facade. At the peak of the gable on the main block on this side is another stone, with the initials "O.B." for Orson Butterfield, the builder and original owner. At the southwest corner is the pedimented double-door entrance to the cellar.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The main entrance, at the north end of the main block&#39;s east face, is a 2½-inch-thick (2.5 in) recessed panel wooden door with a ceramic knob. It is flanked by sidelights and pilasters, with a transom atop. It opens into a foyer floored in random-width red pine with beveled-edge baseboard topped by a curved molding on the walls. The doors from it have wide wooden trim and an ogee-topped architrave.</p><br>
<p>On the south is a square parlor with two windows on the south and east walls, all with recessed panels on either side and below. They are bordered by paneled pilasters on plinth blocks with beveled tops. A door on the south opens into a small office with a treatment similar to the foyer. The north parlor, occupying the wing on that side, has similar treatments as well but their size varies with each window and door, reflecting its origins as three separate rooms combined into one. It is floored in chestnut planks. On the west wall is a fieldstone fireplace with "H & JG, &#39;69" carved into the masonry for its owners and construction date.</p><br>
<p>To its west, in the northwest wing, is the current dining room, originally the kitchen. It is floored in white oak with a brick fireplace, surrounded by a wooden mantel, set in the east wall, which has a drywall covering over its brown brick. A flagstone hearth is in front of the fireplace. The walls have a similar combination of baseboard and molding as the other rooms.</p><br>
<p>Pocket doors, believed to have come from a nearby older house, lead west into the kitchen. It has a similar interior to the dining room, with Amish-built oak cabinets. A bathroom and office round out the first floor.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs are three bedrooms, a large closet and another bathroom. It is less decorated than the first floor. The floorboards are random-width pine and the ceilings are lower.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>There are three other buildings on the property: a barn, chicken coop and Morton metal building. The first two are old enough and retain sufficient integrity to be considered contributing resources to the National Register listing. The metal building was added in the late 20th century and is not considered contributing.</p><br>
<p>The wooden barn, just to the northwest of the house, is a 36 by structure with a gambrel roof oriented north–south. It has most of its original fieldstone foundation save for a short section of the north end where it was replaced with cement blocks. The roof has asphalt shingles except for the bottom half of the east side, done in corrugated aluminum.</p><br>
<p>On its east side, facing the road, are three entrances and three windows. The southernmost is a large single sliding door with a crossbar design that opens to reveal a gate at ground level and a locked door to the hayloft above. Two other sliding doors, one faced in wood shingles, are to the north; a small door cut into the tongue-and-groove siding near the north end has since been nailed shut.</p><br>
<p>The west side, with battens added to its tongue-and-groove, has a pair of sliding doors near the north end opening into the cellar. At the south end are two smaller single sliding doors. In both ends there is a single round window near the gambrel peak. The south end has a lean-to to shelter firewood extended on it below the door to the hayloft.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the south end is given over to horse stalls. There are three, all with sliding gates with vertical metal bars. A steep staircase leads up to the hayloft. A fourth stall is located behind one of the two tack rooms. A sliding door opens into the granary, now a woodworking shop. To its north is the threshing floor, with a corner staircase leading to the basement.</p><br>
<p>Two-thirds of the upper story is taken up by the hayloft, divided into two sections. The stairway from the southwest corner, near the horse stalls, opens via a door in the floor. A truss rests on the floor in the south section, suggesting the area beyond it was once open. Similarly, one of the three stone walls in the section of the basement not open is more fragile, with older mortar, suggesting it may have been part of the foundation of a previous barn on the site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Orson Butterfield came to Clarendon from the Jefferson County town of Rodman with his wife Lydia, around 1830, in his early 20s. He bought the hundred acres (40 ha) on which the present farm and house stand and began farming. He served in the state militia and became very successful. The road on which the farm was located was known for most of the 19th century as Butterfield Road.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1849 to house the large Butterfield family. All work was done by local craftsmen, with the cobblestones brought south from Lake Ontario. The Greek Revival design was stylish, but also took into account the needs of a large farm family, with enclosed staircases to conserve floor space and heat, along with more efficient cast iron stoves instead of furnaces.</p><br>
<p>Three years later, in 1852, Butterfield left home to try his luck in the California Gold Rush. In the meantime his family ran the farm. His brother Rufus is recorded as living there by the 1860 census; son Wilford, who held the deed at the time, died in 1867 of an unspecified illness contracted while fighting in the Civil War. In 1870, Butterfield returned.</p><br>
<p>When he and Lydia died in 1887, the house was bequeathed to two of his children, Florence Butterfield Lyman and Joseph Pratt Butterfield. Around this time, the current barn was built, the last major development on the property. According to local tradition, it reflected Joseph&#39;s success in the Chicago stockyards and the farm he owned in Marengo, Iowa. He transferred his portion to his sister six years later, in 1893.</p><br>
<p>Florences will gave the property to her husband for the remainder of his natural life, and specified that it go to her own daughters after that time. One of them, Ora Lyman Reid, transferred her share to her sisters husband, Darius Morton, in 1920. Two years later, he sold it to Italian immigrants Dominic and Josephine Mastrangelo, taking the farm out of the Butterfield family after 90 years.</p><br>
<p>The Mastrangelos ran the farm until 1961, when they sold it to John and Margaret Green. Three years later, the Greens sold it to C. Howard and Joyce Greene, who ran a tack shop in the barn. They made many of the alterations to the interior of the house, particularly adding the fireplace to the dining room and building a chimney for it on what is believed to be the location of one of the original stove chimneys. Most of those took place around 1969.</p><br>
<p>Two years later they sold it to Donald and Elmer Gretzinger. Donald soon wanted to sell, but was unable to find a buyer for the entire farm. He subdivided it, and sold the portion with the house and farm buildings on it to Edmond and Ruth Spencer in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Ruth ran an antiques business out of the barn with her daughter, and was active in the Cobblestone Society, devoted to the history and preservation of buildings of that type. They sold to the current owners in 2007. That family put in the current north porch, replacing a concrete one built in the mid-20th century that was less historic, and remodeled the former creamery into the current kitchen. There have been no other alterations to the house and property.</p><br>
<p>The Robert A. and Mary Childs House is a historic Queen Anne style residence in Hinsdale, Illinois, originally owned by Robert A. Childs.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Childs family moved to Hinsdale 1873, the year of its incorporation. Mary purchased a lot of land in 1881 for a new property. Civil War veteran (15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment) Robert A. Childs was an attorney who graduated from Illinois State Normal University, passing the bar in 1873. Robert Childs was the president of the Hinsdale School Board from 1879 to 1894, and was a founder of Hinsdale Trust & Savings Bank. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in 1893 and served one term. In total, Robert Childs practiced law for 42 years. Mary founded the Hinsdale Library Association in 1886 and served as its director for 15 years.</p><br>
<p>The Childs commissioned the building in 1888 to avoid a 600% property tax hike on undeveloped property. They raised five children in the house until 1919. The house was awarded a Historic Preservation Award from the Hinsdale Historical Society in 1994 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is now known as one of the ugliest houses in Hinsdale.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is on an 86 x lot on Garfield Avenue, one of Hinsdale&#39;s main residential streets. It neighbors a 1900 house designed by George Washington Maher. The -story house is approximately 43 x. It features many details typical of Queen Anne architecture, including a steeply-pitched roof, a corner tower, large gabled dormers, and a wrap-around porch. The east elevation is the main facade.</p><br>
<p>J. Stuart Wells House, now the Ernest H. Parsons Funeral Home, is a historic home located at Binghamton in Broome County, New York, USA. It was built in 1867-1870 and designed by the noted New York State architect Isaac G. Perry. It is a -story brick dwelling on a cut stone foundation and topped by a hipped, cross-gabled roof. It was expanded in the 1940s-1950s and features a wrap-around porch. Also on the property is a 2-story brick carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple in Richmond, Virginia is a Richardsonian Romanesque style building built during 1888–1893, designed by Jackson C. Gott. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is a prominent building in downtown Richmond.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination asserts that the building is the finest example of Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture in the state, and others have asserted that at its time of construction it was "one of the most magnificent examples of modern architecture in the South."</p><br>
<p>The design by Gott was one of 17 submitted in a design competition.</p><br>
<p>The building was used for a 1905 function attended by USA President Theodore Roosevelt. It was used by the Masons until 1971. In 1982 the Richmond Foundation for the Arts acquired it with intended purpose of its serving as an arts center for the region.</p><br>
<p>At some later date the building housed a catering venue, office building and apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Hinsdale Historic District is a set of seventy-three buildings and one park in Hinsdale, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The region was platted by William Robbins, the founder of Hinsdale, in 1865. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad&#39;s (CB&Q) passenger station prompted several small businesses to develop across the street. Fifty-eight of the listed buildings were built for commerce, three for government, and nine for transportation. The remaining building is a theater. The shops are densely clustered in orthogonal patterns, and are mostly found on the south side of the railway tracks. The government buildings, including the Village Hall (Hinsdale Memorial Building) and USA Post Office are on the north side.</p><br>
<p>An article entitled "Hinsdale the Beautiful" in Campbell&#39;s Illustrated Journal prompted city officials to further beautify the city. The first major project was a state-of-the-art train station, which was designed by CB&Q architect Walter Theodore Krausch. The station became a model for the future construction of other stations on the line. The region north of the tracks became the next target, focusing on the Railroad Park (modern day Burlington Park). Commercial demand spiked in the early 20th century, even causing some gablefront residential buildings to be rezoned as commercial. The 1200-seat Hinsdale Theater was constructed in 1925 for $160,000. Chain retailers began to move into the downtown district starting in the 1920s, starting with a Loblaw food chain in 1929 (which was purchased in 1932 by the Jewel Tea Company). A Piggly Wiggly and a Walgreens also moved in during this period. In the 1920s, the city of Hinsdale overhead plans by a local car dealership to build the largest automobile garage "east of the Mississippi". To curb this plan, the city bought the proposed site and constructed a building dedicated to those who served and died in World War I. Construction on the Memorial Building finished in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale is notorious for the aggressive teardown policies pursued by real estate agencies in its residential districts, but the commercial district has remain intact. The earliest buildings are on First and Washington Streets, which date from the 1880s and are in the Late Victorian, Italianate, and Queen Anne Styles. Colonial and Renaissance Revivals featured in early 20th century buildings until the Hinsdale Plan of 1923 dictated the use of Georgian Revival architecture. Eight of the properties were built after 1955. The district is served by three asphalt-paved parking lots.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Contributing structures</h3><br>
<p>These buildings are at least fifty years old and have had minimal alterations. They comprise the main core of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale Memorial Building (1927) - Georgian Revival Style Village Hall and public library designed by Edwin H. Clark</p><br>
<p>Railroad Park (1877) - A public park adjacent to the Hinsdale Memorial Building</p><br>
<p>8 W. Chicago Ave. ( 1950) - Colonial Revival gas station</p><br>
<p>10 W. Chicago Ave. (1926) - Classical Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>24 W. Chicago Ave. (1915) - Garage</p><br>
<p>26-28 W. Chicago Ave. (c. 1940) - Modern Style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Schweider & Mewherter Building (1944) - Classical Revival commercial block designed by R. Harold Zook</p><br>
<p>9 E. First St. (1904) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>10-12 E. First St. (c. 1912) - Commercial Style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Ostrum Building (1925) - Renaissance Revival style commercial block</p><br>
<p>212-214 First Street Building (c. 1912) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>Police and Fire Station (1935) - Georgian Revival police and fire station designed by Philip Duke West</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale Theater (1925) - Renaissance Revival movie theater designed by William Gibson Barfield</p><br>
<p>Philip D. West Office (1950) - International Style commercial block designed by Philip D. West</p><br>
<p>Ray J. Soukup Building (1929) - Renaissance Revival style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Henry Reineke Building (1922) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>Papenhausen Building (1888) - Gablefront commercial block</p><br>
<p>Buchholz Block (1895) - Renaissance Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>John Reineke Building/The Squire Shop (1941) - Classical Revival commercial block designed by R. Harold Zook</p><br>
<p>17 W. First St. (1887) - Gablefront commercial block</p><br>
<p>19 W. First St. (1887) - Gablefront commercial block</p><br>
<p>Brewer Brothers Filling Station (1929) - Colonial Revival gas station designed by R. Harold Zook</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale Trust and Savings Bank (1910) - Classical Revival temple-front</p><br>
<p>Dieke Building (1920) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>LaGrange Gas Company (c. 1940) - Art Deco commercial block</p><br>
<p>16 E. Hinsdale Ave. (1890) - Gablefront commercial block</p><br>
<p>18 Edward F. Neidig Building (1907) - Prairie School commercial block</p><br>
<p>Brush Hill Train Station (1898) - Renaissance Revival style railroad station designed by Walter Theodore Krausch</p><br>
<p>Mohr Building (1909) - Commercial style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Clineff&#39;s Home Restaurant Building (1928–30) - Classical & Renaissance Revival style commercial block designed by Francis A. Flaks</p><br>
<p>32-34 E. Hinsdale Ave. (1912) - Commercial Style commercial block</p><br>
<p>36 E. Hinsdale Ave. (1924) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>8 W. Hinsdale Ave. (c. 1927) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>Old Post Office (1926) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>18 W. Hinsdale Ave. (c. 1902) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>20 W. Hinsdale Ave. (1894) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>Fleck Automobile Building - Commercial Style commercial block</p><br>
<p>McClintock Building/Auto Dealership (1922) Commercial block</p><br>
<p>53 S. Lincoln St. (1935) - Colonial Revival freestanding commercial building</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office Hinsdale, IL (1939–40) - Georgian Revival United States Post Office designed by Louis A. Simon</p><br>
<p>33-35 S. Washington St. (1900) - Queen Anne and Classical Style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Fox Building (1891) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>39 S. Washington St. (1897) - Queen Anne commercial block</p><br>
<p>William Evernden Building (1894) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>41 S. Washington St. (1932) - Commercial style commercial block</p><br>
<p>John Bohlander Building (1894) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>43 S. Washington St. (1901) - Commercial style commercial block</p><br>
<p>Olson&#39;s Dry Goods (1909) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>46 S. Washington St. (1912) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>47 S. Washington St. (1881) - Italianate and Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>Oswald Building (1889) - Colonial Revival commercial block, 1928 remodel designed by R. Harold Zook</p><br>
<p>Karlson&#39;s Building (1898) - Commercial style</p><br>
<p>53 S. Washington St. (1927) - Classical Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>54 S. Washington St. (1892) - Queen Anne commercial block</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale State Bank (1927) - Classical and Renaissance Revival commercial block designed by William Gibson Barfield</p><br>
<p>Papenhausen Building (1888) - Queen Anne commercial block</p><br>
<p>104-106 S. Washington St. (1910) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>Theidel Building (1925) - Renaissance Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>112-114 S. Washington St. (1929) - Tudor Revival commercial block designed by Edward P. Steinberg</p><br>
<p>116-118 S. Washington St. (1915) - Commercial block</p><br>
<h3>Non-contributing structures</h3><br>
<p>These buildings are included as part of the listing, but are not of historical significance.</p><br>
<p>John C. F. Merrill Building (1910) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce (1978) - Commercial block designed by Philip Duke West</p><br>
<p>Hinsdale Laundry Building (1894) - Gablefront commercial block</p><br>
<p>Riccardo&#39;s Tailor Shop (1972) - Colonial Revival commercial block designed by Albert Nemoede</p><br>
<p>Western United Gas and Electric Company (1909) - Temple-front</p><br>
<p>26-26.5 E. Hinsdale Ave. (1957) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>40 E. Hinsdale Ave. (1998) - Neo-traditional commercial block</p><br>
<p>13 S. Lincoln St. (c. 1920) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>40-46 Village Ct. (1908, 1960s) - Colonial Revival strip mall</p><br>
<p>45 S. Washington St. (1993) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>48 S. Washington St. (1914/1919) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>50 S. Washington St. (1988) - Commercial block</p><br>
<p>120 S. Washington St. (1965) - Colonial Revival commercial block</p><br>
<p>The DuPage Theatre and DuPage Shoppes, nicknamed "The Duper", was an historic movie theater in Lombard, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 800-capacity theater was designed by R. G. Wolff, who formerly worked for Rapp and Rapp. Wolff was a consultant for the Chicago Theatre and was responsible for the design of several others (including the Patio Theater on the northwest side of Chicago). The theater was named after the county to bring out-of-town customers to the shows. Built-in 1927, The DuPage was a Spanish patio-style theater (like the Uptown) that also incorporated commercial and residential aspects in its buildings. The theater was originally a single screen, but it has been divided into two screens that play $1 movies in recent years. As a small town, the six shops incorporated into the theater comprised a large portion of the village&#39;s commerce at the time. The shops and theater also benefited from their proximity to the Chicago and North Western Railway.</p><br>
<p>The DuPage Theatre and DuPage Shoppes were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 1990, Paul Anderson and Fatal Beauty Studios (a local recording studio) attempted to open the theatre as a concert hall, but the Village Board turned them down. In the interim, the theatre lay vacant until 2000, when Big Idea Productions, Inc., a producer of children&#39;s videos, purchased the property. The company planned to renovate the theater and use the other space for its corporate headquarters. After determining that the site would need to be more significant for their plans, they pulled out and returned the theater to village ownership. Lombard appointed several committees to oversee the feasibility of rehabilitating the theater. Their efforts were ultimately fruitless, and in May 2007, the DuPage Theatre and DuPage Shoppes were demolished. They were removed from the National Register in 2020. The land where the building stood remained vacant until 2021, when ground was broken for new luxury apartments.</p><br>
<p>Vestal Central School, also known as Central Junior High School, is a historic school building located at Vestal in Broome County, New York. It was built in 1939 and is a large three- to four-story, modified U-shaped structure. It is built of variegated brick over cinder block with a steel frame and a reinforced concrete foundation. The interior features a number of Art Deco style details. Also on the property is the original bus garage built in 1950. The school is now occupied by the Vestal Senior Center, Evergreen Alternative High School, several small businesses, and administrative offices of the Vestal Central School District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of Binghamton, now Our Free Will Baptist Church, is a historic Evangelical church located at Binghamton in Broome County, New York. It was built in 1884 and is a large rectangular, wood-frame building, three bays wide and seven bays deep, on a stone foundation. It is two stories tall on the front elevation and, because of a steep drop off, four stories on the remaining sides. It features a steep gable roof and engaged bell tower. The variegated random ashlar stone siding was added about 1952, when a rear addition was completed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Masons&#39; Hall, located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia was built during 1785 to 1787 by Richmond Lodge No. 13 . The building is still the active home of and owned by Richmond Randolph Lodge No.19 who have met in their third floor lodge room continuously since Masons’ Hall was completed in 1787. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Construction History and Funding</h2><br>
<p>The original plan to raise money for Masons’ Hall was a lottery, passed by an act of the Legislature December 27, 1785, permitting raising up to £ 1,500. The original fundraising committee consisted of John Marshall, Gabriel Galt, Foster Webb Jr., David Lambert, and John Beckley. This lottery was not successful though, and only sold a few tickets after one year.</p><br>
<p>About this time, many had abandoned hope of raising money by lottery. Those who had bought tickets were complaining, and the managers wanted to be relieved of the duty. As of April 13, 1787, it was resolved by the Common Hall that the “Society of Free Masons” would give security in the amount of £ 5,000 and a lodge committee was authorized to raise only £ 500. It is important to know that months prior, in January 1787, a disastrous fire had destroyed 30-40 houses in Richmond, and burned £ 130,000 worth of property. This was a time where money in Richmond was hard to come by.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the Richmond fire and the second fundraising attempt, it is believed that the building had not been raised above the first story but had been roofed over, and served as a Lodge room and public hall.</p><br>
<p>With the far less ambitious amount of £ 500 planned to be raised through the second lottery, a second floor made of wood (rather than brick as originally planned) was completed December 10, 1787, but left the lodge in debt. The Lodge had only raised £ 400 with the lottery, and on May 28, 1791 a builder named William Booker filed his bill in the County Court of Henrico asking the court to sell the building to pay him an owed balance of £ 247. This sum was paid though by Joseph Darmstadt and the suit was dismissed. This debt was gradually paid back and years of prosperity followed.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Status</h2><br>
<p>At the time of its NRHP listing, it was the oldest Masonic building in the United States that was built as a Masonic meeting place and used continuously for that purpose, and one of few surviving buildings from the 18th century in Richmond. It was reportedly protected from fire by the command of a Union general, also a Mason, when the Union army occupied Richmond in 1865.</p><br>
<p>An early non-Masonic meeting held there provided instruction to Virginia&#39;s delegates to the USA Constitutional Convention.</p><br>
<p>The building has an octagonal cupola.</p><br>
<h2>Current Use</h2><br>
<p>Masons&#39; Hall continues to be used for masonic purposes and is the home of Richmond Randolph No. 19 Lodge.</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Masonic Lodge is a historic brick building built in 1873, located in Hamilton, Virginia. Built in the Italianate style, it historically served as a Masonic meeting hall and  as a school for grades 1−12.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>No Masonic lodges meet in the building today, and its original 1873-dated cornerstone was (as of the 1999 NRHP-listing) on display at another Masonic lodge building several miles away.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Historic District, is a national historic district that is located in Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 587 contributing buildings, five contributing sites, and three contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Warren. The buildings were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival and Italianate. Notable buildings include the flatiron National City Bank Building (1891), the Conewango Club, the Elks Club, Trinity Episcopal Church (1895-1896), First Presbyterian Church (1895-1896), and the former Swedish Lutheran Church (1916). The contributing objects are a bronze statue of General Joseph Warren (1912), the Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1909), and the Civil War memorial (1922).</p><br>
<p>Also located in the district but separately listed are the John P. Jefferson House, Struthers Library Building, Warren Armory, Warren County Courthouse, Wetmore House, and Woman&#39;s Club of Warren.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>USA Post Office Warren PA Jul 12.jpgUSA Post Office, July 2012</p><br>
<p>Warren Municipal Building Jul 12.jpgWarren Municipal Building, July 2012</p><br>
<p>Warren Public Library Jul 12.jpgWarren Public Library, July 2012</p><br>
<p>The Carbon County Jail is a historic jail located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The jail was built in 1869–1870 by Harry Bowman (under architect Edward Haviland) and is a two-story, fortress-like rusticated stone building. It has thick, massive walls and a square, one-story guard turret above the main entrance. It features arched windows on the main facade and on the turret. There is a basement which was used for solitary confinement until 1980. The building is most notable as the jail where a number of suspected "Molly Maguires" were imprisoned while awaiting trial in 1875–1876 and subsequently hanged.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1974. It is located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District.</p><br>
<p>On January 23, 1995, following the completion and opening of the new $8.2 million Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning, the prisoners were transferred out of the jail to the new facility.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>When the county put the jail up for sale in the fall of 1994, local residents Thomas McBride and wife Betty Lou purchased the building for $160,000 with the goal of preserving the local history.</p><br>
<p>The Old Mauch Chunk Historic District is a national historic district located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jim Thorpe. It includes residential and commercial buildings in a number of popular architectural styles, including Italianate. The original town was laid out in 1831 by noted civil engineer John A. Roebling. Notable buildings include the I.O.O.F. Hall (1844), Lehigh Coal and Navigation Building (1882), Jim Thorpe National Bank (1870s), Carbon County Courthouse (1894), Dimmick Memorial Library (1889), Capitol Theater (Mauch Chunk Opera House) (1882), 1855 School, Weiksners Taproom (1860s), "Stone Row," Webster House, New American Hotel, and Hooven Mercantile Building. Located in the district and listed separately are the Asa Packer Mansion, Harry Packer Mansion, Carbon County Jail, Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, and St. Marks Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Jim Thorpe PA Stone Row.jpgStone Row</p><br>
<p>Jim Thorpe PA St Marks Episcopal.jpgSt. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church</p><br>
<p>Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, Jim Thorpe, PA 01.JPGCentral Railroad of New Jersey Station</p><br>
<p>The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was designed by architect Addison Hutton, and was built in 1874. It is a -story, three-bay-wide, red-brick dwelling, which was designed in the Italianate style. The front facade features a verandah constructed of green Vermont sandstone and a bell tower that is attached to the two-story extension. It was given as a wedding gift to Harry Packer (Industrialist) from his father Asa Packer.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The mansion appeared in the season five episode of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, "Ruffman Manor is Haunted," and was used as the setting for Ruffman Manor.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the Harry Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe was the inspiration for the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World.</p><br>
<p>The Old Mill Museum, also known as the Alfred Wilkerson Grist Mill, is a historic structure located along the River Raisin at 242 Toledo Street in Dundee, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on August 3, 1979. It was later listed as a contributing property within the Dundee Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 1990.</p><br>
<p>Referred to as the oldest and most notable landmark in Dundee, it is the Dundee Historic District&#39;s only inclusion (along with the surrounding park) on the opposite of the river from the rest of the downtown area. While the facility itself was not built until the 1849, the dam upon which it is located was first constructed in 1827 and rebuilt in 1846. It is the largest of several dams located along the River Raisin — the majority of which are in nearby Monroe.</p><br>
<p>The facility first served as a gristmill for the growing milling industry in Dundee. Later, the building was converted to produce hydroelectricity as the villages only source of power around 1910. As the oldest surviving structure in Dundee, it was almost demolished in 1934 after years of disuse. Automotive magnate Henry Ford purchased the building and restored it at great cost as part of his village industries program. His only addition to the original three-story structure was the addition of a single-story structure on the side of the building. He converted the mill into a small factory to produce welding tips for his industry, and he was known to make many visits to Dundee. His interest in Dundee was an experiment to see if small towns could be used for his massive, global industry. After Fords death in 1947, support for this small factory diminished, and it was sold in 1954 to the Wolverine Manufacturing Company, where the building was converted once more to produce paper products. The Wolverine Manufacturing Company used the facility until 1970, when they sold it to the village of Dundee for $1. The village revamped the structure and its surrounding 13.8 acres (5.6 ha) for public use as a museum and park. Although the property is praised for its historical nature, it is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places in its own right.</p><br>
<p>The museum offers ghosts tours and paranormal investigations. The Old Mill Museum is also the location of the annual Old Mill ParaFest.</p><br>
<p>Highland Hall, located in MidTown Columbus, Georgia was built in 1857 by the Ellis family and originally sat on a ten-acre lot. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a Greek Revival, raised cottage that was originally two rooms deep, symmetrically flanking a large central hall. A two-story rear addition was built at about 1905, incorporating what is thought to have been the original detached kitchen. The pedimented front porch has four square-sectioned columns and fine cast-iron balustrade and ornamental trim.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ellis’ sold Highland Hall in 1878 for $700. During the next decade, Highland Hall changed hands several times before being sold to Estelle Collins in 1905. Ms. Collins remained in the home until her death in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The New Preston Hill Historic District encompasses a small rural 19th-century village center in the New Preston area of the town of Washington, in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Settled in the late 18th century, it is distinctive for its examples of stone architecture, include a rare Federal period stone church. The district, located at the junction of New Preston Road with Gunn Hill and Findlay Roads, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Preston area was first settled in the 1750s, and the New Preston Hill junction was where its first meeting house was built in 1754. The area was by then of recognized significance for the crossroads, with New Preston Road serving as a stage route between Hartford, Connecticut and the Hudson River. The village supported the surrounding agricultural community, but declined in importance in the mid-19th century, when the village New Preston became more important for the water power the drove its industries.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses about 210 acre around the junction of New Preston Road with Gunn Hill Road and Findlay Road. The main focus of the district is a triangular green, with the 1824 Old Stone Church as its main focus. This church has no heat or electricity and is used during the summer and for weddings. The church has another building, the "Village Church" that is used for the rest of the year, outside this district. The district includes other nine other mainly residential properties surrounding the green, and extending westward along New Preston Road.</p><br>
<p>There are 12 contributing buildings:</p><br>
<p>Hill Congregational Church, which "dominates" the district; it has been documented in drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey</p><br>
<p>a district school</p><br>
<p>a parsonage</p><br>
<p>Rev. Samuel Whittlesey House, from 1808</p><br>
<p>John Ferris House, from 1800</p><br>
<p>Newton&#39;s Tavern, c. 1900, a Federal/Greek Revival building with 12 over 12 windows (meaning 12 panes in upper and lower sashes)</p><br>
<p>a tollhouse from the 18th century, which has lost exterior appearance as such</p><br>
<p>house on Parcel 25, Federal/Greek Revival, with fluted pilasters, above the road behind a stone wall. Property also has a barn</p><br>
<p>house on Parcel 26</p><br>
<p>house on Parcel 33</p><br>
<p>house on Parcel 35</p><br>
<p>horse barn on Parcel 35</p><br>
<p>sheep barn on Parcel 35</p><br>
<p>The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Freight House is a historic railroad building located at Cohoes, Albany County, New York. The freight house was built in 1910 by the Delaware and Hudson Railway. It is a one-story, rectangular brick building on a raised, battered concrete basement. It measures approximately 40 ft wide and 300 ft long, and has a low pitched gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops were two historic buildings and one historic structure located at Green Island, Albany County, New York. The buildings were built in 1871 by the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad. They are: the three-story, five-bay, brick car shop building measuring approximately 100 by; the one-story, semicircular, brick roundhouse; and the 40 ft octagonal water tower. The shops remained in operation into the late 1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>On March 3, 2011 the structure caught fire. The fire started on the third floor and quickly spread to the first. The building was demolished a few weeks later.</p><br>
<p>Hook and Ladder No. 4, originally Truck No. 4, is a firehouse located at Delaware Avenue  in Albany, New York, United States. It is an elaborate brick structure in the Dutch Colonial Revival architectural style, designed by Albany architect Marcus T. Reynolds, and completed in 1912. In 2001 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is one of Reynolds few public buildings, and one of the rare uses of the Dutch Colonial Revival in a city established by Dutch colonists in the late 17th century. In addition to its distinctive stepped gable, the building also features terra cotta sculptures that illustrate Albanys history. Its construction reflected the city&#39;s expansion in the early 20th century, and it has remained in use as a firehouse.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The fire station is located on the southwest corner of the intersection, in southern Albanys Delaware Neighborhood. It is predominantly densely developed and residential, with single-family homes built later than the firehouse the predominant building type. Hook and Ladder No. 4 is on a short stretch of the south side of the street with some commercial buildings. Across from it, at the corner of Delaware and St. James Place, is the neighborhoods other major landmark, St. James&#39; Catholic Church. Next to it is a large parking lot with a couple of buildings. Two blocks to the north, across Hackett Boulevard, is an expansive, more open area of larger institutional buildings, primarily those associated with Sage College of Albany and the South Clinical Campus of Albany Medical Center.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-and-a-half–story, three-by-six–bay structure of brick on a stone foundation laid in Flemish bond. In the joints the mortar is struck deep to produce a shadow effect in sunlight. It is topped by a hipped roof of copper with a four-horn fire siren in the center. A two-story engaged tower is on the south profile, along Marshall Street. A small one-and-a-half-story brick extension connects to the east (rear) elevation via hyphen.</p><br>
<p>On the first level the west (front) facade has two large gently arched slightly recessed garage openings flanking a main pedestrian entrance. The sides of the arches have alternating courses of brick and olive green terra cotta. Atop them is a molded terra cotta cornice rising from corbels in the shape of heads. Above the garages are two wrought iron crosses, with another one above the main entrance. Terra cotta also forms the quoins every sixth course on the corner towers up to the small peaked roofs. Along the side elevations are double-hung four-over-eight round-arched sash windows; those on the north have been bricked in.</p><br>
<p>The tower on the south is semi-octagonal in shape. Its facets have narrow recessed segmental arches with narrower versions of the four-over-eight windows divided by pilasters of alternating brick and terra cotta ending with a molded cornice of the latter at the arch springline. Around the base is another terra cotta feature, a water table. A wooden cornice with small wooden brackets marks the roofline, similar to the other towers and side elevations.</p><br>
<p>A continuous terra cotta course forms the sill of the three second-story windows, all recessed double four-over-eight sash. Only the tops of their arches are terra cotta; above each is a further distinctive pattern of that material, then a line of arches forming the base of the two six-step gables at the top of the facade. Each stage is set off by a terra cotta course with cornices on the steps. Two stages below the summit are medallions. Atop each gable is a small diamond-shaped pillar topped with a three-foot–tall (91 cm) beaver holding a shield. Between the two is an elaborate crest with two gargoyles holding the city&#39;s coat of arms.</p><br>
<p>Two smaller gables, with three steps apiece, rise from the northern two bays of the south facade. Their decoration is more restrained, with only iron fleur-de-lyses on the face. To their south, the tower&#39;s conical roof is engaged with an actual cross-gable that lacks the steps. At its sides are two more pillars with beavers atop. In its field is one central segmental-arched recessed sash window, with three plain terra cotta courses corresponding to its sill, springline and the base of an engaged pillar at the top. A single-bay rounded pediment is on the hyphen, and the rear extension also has a step-gabled roof paralleling the rear cross-gable.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>An elaborate terra cotta surround frames the main entrance. Above the door is a plaque with "A.F.D., 1910" in raised lettering topped with a dentilled cornice. The pillars on the side have alternating raised bands.</p><br>
<p>The interior has been extensively renovated from its original appearance. The first story is mostly a single large bay for fire engines. It is floored in cement. The walls are painted white and the ceiling is of wood paneling stained dark brown. A chimney originally used when the firefighters had to heat water for their chemical pumper remains on the northeast. In the rear is the locker room on the southeast. Opposite it is a dining room/kitchen and some office space.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs are the firefighters&#39; quarters, and a workout room. The interior of the rear extension has been converted from disused stable space and a hayloft to a lounge. In the base of the tower is a bathroom, recently renovated. The stairs to the second story take up the remainder of its space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Organized fire protection in Albany dates to the end of the 17th century. The city was then still known as Fort Orange from its Dutch origins. After several fires caused by stray chimney soot had damaged some houses, the city council ordered that each ward have two fire ladders ready for use. "Brant masters" were appointed to inspect chimneys every two weeks, and paid in wheat.</p><br>
<p>Later they were called "fyre masters" as the city began to further acknowledge the reality that it had been under English rule since the 1674 Treaty of Westminster. Further ordinances required that two full buckets of water be kept near any fireplace, with certain businesses required to have three. In 1732 the city bought its first piece of fire equipment, followed two years later by the construction of its first firehouse, at Beaver and South Pearl streets downtown. A second one was built six years later on State Street, then known as Yonkers Street.</p><br>
<p>Albany had established a public firefighting service, but it remained a volunteer fire department until 1867. By then the city had begun to expand beyond its earlier core, swelled by immigration and industrialization brought on by the development of the Erie Canal and the railroads. The newer buildings in the larger city required full-time professional firefighters.</p><br>
<p>Most of this early expansion took place to the south. By the early 20th century the South End had been built out and development moved up the hill to Delaware Turnpike, today&#39;s Delaware Avenue. In the 1900s a trolley line was established along the street. City government began discussing the need for a new fire station there, and residents of Marshall Street circulated a petition calling for one.</p><br>
<p>In 1909 the city council approved, among other infrastructure improvements for the area, appropriations of $38,000 ($ in modern dollars) for the purchase and construction of a fire station at the corner of Delaware and Marshall. Local architect Marcus T. Reynolds was commissioned to design the new building. It would be his only public building that was not a school.</p><br>
<p>Reynolds use of the Dutch Colonial Revival mode, with Flemish and Tudor Revival elements, was intended to pay homage to that era of the citys history, from which no buildings remain. Very few other buildings in Albany are built in it. The stepped gables were the most visible element, complemented by the extensive terra cotta decoration that told the history of the city. Local lore has it that the four heads which serve as the corbels for the arches on the first story are idealized portraits of Reynolds and three of Albany&#39;s more prominent public officials at that time. The beavers recall an early symbol of both the city and the state.</p><br>
<p>The station, then Truck No. 4, was designed with horse-drawn fire equipment in mind. In addition to the stables and hayloft in the rear, it had harnesses that dropped from the first floor ceiling onto the horses when the alarm sounded. That era would soon end, as Albany had introduced its first motorized fire vehicle that same year. In 1913 the station got a chemical wagon, and two years later its own first motorized vehicle. Its horses would be retired in 1919, when an engine was added to its first truck.</p><br>
<p>Two bigger engines were introduced in the early 1960s, one transferred from another company when it was closed. In 1991, the city hired the firm of Quackenbush & Tobin to design what ultimately turned out to be $350,000 in renovations to the interior. At that point many of the remaining features from the horse-drawn era were adapted for modern use, such as the conversion of the stable extension to a firefighters&#39; lounge.</p><br>
