<p>The United Traction Company Building is located on Broadway in Albany, New York, United States. It is a brick building by local architect Marcus T. Reynolds in the Renaissance Revival architectural style, constructed at the end of the 19th century. In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Four years later it was included as a contributing property when the Downtown Albany Historic District was listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>It was the headquarters of United Traction, which at the time of its construction operated the city&#39;s trolley system. Architecturally it complemented the nearby Union Station, and the two served as the gateway to the city for visitors. Although it eventually switched to operating buses, United Traction remained in the building until the 1950s, when it became part of the Capital District Transportation Authority. It is currently used for other business purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building sits on a corner lot of just over an acre (4,500 m²) at the northwest corner of Broadway and Columbia Street, one block south of where USA Route 9 exits from Interstate 787 a block to the east along the Hudson River. The surrounding neighborhood is a densely developed urban center. To the north of the building is a parking lot; across Broadway is a tall office building used as the headquarters of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. To the west are some slightly taller commercial buildings. Across Columbia Street is the small Tricentennial Park. The former Albany Union Station is on the southeast. The terrain is level, sloping up on the west side slightly.</p><br>
<p>Although the building is trapezoidal, it appears rectangular from the street. It is a two-story steel frame structure on a stone foundation faced in beige brick with a flat roof, five bays along the west (front) elevation on Broadway, and three on the south along Columbia. The two sides facing the streets have ornamentation in stone and terra cotta.</p><br>
<p>On both facades, the windows are recessed in round-arched openings topped by scrolled keystones. Between them are large cartouches. A decorated frieze runs below the cornice which separates the two floors. The second floor functions as a piano nobile. Its windows are in rectangular recessed openings topped by segmental pediments and recessed oval attic windows. All the lower stories have one-over-one double-hung sash windows. At the roof a corbeled cornice above a frieze supports wide overhanging eaves.</p><br>
<p>The centrally located main entrance is in a slightly projecting pavilion on both stories. It, too, has a recessed round-arched entrance, flanked by cartouches, with a small set of steps. Below them are stone plaques on the foundation with the words "United Traction Company". Its treatment is otherwise the same as the rest of the first story. Above it is a balcony flanked by two round fluted and vermiculated columns with Corinthian capitals ending at the roofline frieze.</p><br>
<p>Inside the building has been altered considerably, but many original finishes remain under their replacements. The first floor has an oval central hall with a colored marble floor and marble walls with rosettes. An archway leads to stairs with marble floors and an ornate metal railing. Some rooms on the first floor retain their original stonework, such as patterned floors and wall paneling. The rooms on the upper floors have minimal decoration.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Horse-drawn trolley service began in Albany in 1864. The vehicles were operated by the Albany Railway Company, which began to introduce electric trolleys in 1890. By 1899 it was successful enough to commission Marcus T. Reynolds to design its headquarters, and around the time it moved in it changed its name to the United Traction Company. His Renaissance Revival design was possibly inspired by an Italian palazzo. It was a smaller complement to the equally unrestrained Union Station across the intersection, and both buildings were thus the first experience of Albany&#39;s architecture for many visitors.</p><br>
<p>The rise of the automobile led to the decline of trolley systems nationwide. In the 1930s United Traction gradually began to switch from trolleys to buses. The last one was taken out of service in 1946. The company remained in the building until 1950. After later financial struggles, it was one of several private bus companies absorbed into the new, public Capital District Transportation Authority in the early 1970s. The building is the sole reminder of the company&#39;s existence today.</p><br>
<p>The Bronx Borough Courthouse, commonly referred to as the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, is a building in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. The courthouse was built between 1905 and 1914 near Boston Road, Third Avenue, St. Anns Avenue, and 161st Street. The 161st Street station of the New York City Subways IRT Third Avenue elevated was in front of the courthouse. For two decades it housed the Supreme, Surrogates, and County Courts of the borough until the larger Bronx County Courthouse was built in 1934. The Bronx Branch of the New York City Criminal Court remained here until 1977 when the city formally sealed the doors. It is a National Register of Historic Places listing and a New York City Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in Beaux-Arts style, the four story architecture facing south towards Manhattan, was erected with stone granite and adorned internally with lavish stairways, chandeliers, ornaments, and stained glass windows. Its exterior commands two pillars above the entranceway surrounding the throne of Lady Justice (the Greek goddess Themis or Dike) who honors and protects the gates of the law and encompassing city with unwavering and fair judgment. Created by Jules Edouard Roiné, the sculpture is a transcending symbol of the borough&#39;s history. Meanwhile, the design for the entire building has been attributed to two architects, Michael John Garvin and Oscar Florianus Bluemner.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Context and construction</h3><br>
<p>For several years, since the annexation of the West Bronx in 1874, several Bronx advocates including Louis F. Haffen, and The Association of the Bar, in the Borough of the Bronx, in the City of New York, had consistently been striving for the placement of a proper court house in the borough. By the turn of the century, their endeavors were awarded as the city allocated funding for a new building that would represent the area and growing population that had increased from 40,000 in 1874 to more than 200,000 by 1900.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, the first president of the borough, Louis F. Haffen bestowed the contract for a courthouse design worth $40,000 to then Building Commissioner, the first of the borough, Michael J. Garvin, a graduate of Manhattan College and an experienced architect who created the Haffen Building (1901–1902). Garvin soon left his position in office to focus on the design and construction of the courthouse which was to be of great significance. Despite early efforts, his initial concepts were rejected by the New York Art Commission, which denoted them as substandard to the goal being attempted for the site. Left with the task still at hand, Garvin sought various consulting architects in the city to assist with planning. Over the course, he met with underemployed architect, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, a German immigrant who had been a prize student at Berlin&#39;s Royal Academy of Design. It presented a fortuitous opportunity for both men to collaborate. Though the story not fully concrete, it is believed that Garvin offered to share fees and credit for their combined efforts in return for an acceptable building. Garvin eventually submitted a design that was well received by the Art Commission.</p><br>
<p>Outraged of the news, Bluemner scandalized Garvin and claimed that the two had entered into an agreement which Garvin did not uphold. Bluemner sued and (controversially) won. His testimony led to an array of investigations. Since Borough President Haffen, considered to be a prominent and noble representative in office, was the delegate in charge who entrusted Garvin with the plan, he resigned in order to extinguish any attempts to taint the view of the resourcefulness and flourishing development in the prosperous borough. Bluemner, was awarded one-quarter of the amount he claimed to be owed. It was concluded that Garvin had majority credit for the building. In disappointment and clouded by controversy, Bluemner left the profession and turned to painting. Garvin remained as supervising architect through the beginning and completion of the project from 1905 to 1914. The population increased to over 500,000 and the total construction cost of the building amounted to $2,000,000. Bronx Borough Courthouse soon opened its doors to the judicial system and was the center of ordinance for the next twenty years.</p><br>
<h3>Court relocation and closure</h3><br>
<p>By 1930, the population of Bronx skyrocketed to 1.25 million, with more than a million residents added since 1900. Due to the unforeseeable expansion, the city invested $8,000,000 in building a new Bronx County Courthouse completed in 1934. The majority of the departments moved to the spacious facility, leaving only a police court at the Third Avenue site until 1977, when the building was officially closed by the city. By 1973 the Third Avenue elevated was eliminated, and with it the only direct rapid transit access to the location. The building was used for 58 years. During the decline of the borough in the 1970s, vandals destroyed parts of the interior of the property by stripping metalwork and breaking irreplaceable features. Soon, city intervention sealed all doorways and windows with concrete blocks leaving the facility dormant and bound in graffiti for a couple of decades.</p><br>
<p>Questioning the financial need of maintaining the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse as an asset, different city officials suggested razing the building. Many historians, community leaders, and preservationists sought to keep the building alive, so not to repeat the travesty of Bronx Borough Hall; it obtained Landmark status in 1981, protecting it for future possibilities. However, after thirty years, the building is currently on the Landmarks Conservancy&#39;s most endangered list due to lack of serious repairs and proper usage.</p><br>
<h3>Sale and redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>After its closure, countless proposals were put forth to reuse the space either for civic or public purpose. However the landmarked structure proved to be too costly and complex and could not be financed by many interested Bronx community groups. In 1996 it was sold for $130,000 at a 1 Police Plaza auction to Gus Kitkas, owner of the Five Borough Electrical Supply Corporation in Astoria. In 1998 it was auctioned again and sold for $300,000 to Henry Weinstein, a citywide and Brooklyn private developer, for development, In 2011, Weinstein and partners looked to rehabilitate the Grey Lady. A much-needed exterior cleaning was performed. A full set of plans were drawn and approved for an interior enhancement, to include uses such as office, medical offices, or community facility.</p><br>
<p>Beyond 2005, a revival of critical interest has surfaced for Oscar Bluemner&#39;s paintings, being honored at a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art that year and having garnered widespread attention. However, official Landmark records continue to acknowledge Garvin as the sole designer of the courthouse. There are several contemporary points of views as to who really designed the building, though Garvin ultimately completed the entire construction.</p><br>
<p>An art show ran in the old courthouse in May and June 2015. In mid-2016, the old courthouse was considered as a location for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, though this was later dropped. The following year, it was announced that the courthouse would be used as a location for the 1,200-seat Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts, part of the Success Academy Charter Schools system. However, that plan also fell through, and, the building is for sale at an asking price of $35 million.</p><br>
<p>Public School 11, also known as Highbridge School, is a historic school located in The Bronx, New York City. It is a part of the New York City Department of Education .</p><br>
<p>Located in the Highbridge neighborhood, it is a brick and stone building in the Romanesque Revival style. It has three sections: a three-story northern section with tower and rear extension built in 1889; a six-bay, three-story wing built in 1905; and a gymnasium / auditorium built in 1930. The oldest section features a mansard roof. The interior of the auditorium has a mural added in 1937 as part of a Works Progress Administration arts project.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Drovers Inn and Round Family Residence consists of an historic home and an historic inn located at Vestal in Broome County, New York. The Drovers Inn was built about 1844 and the Rounds Family Residence was built 1895–1912. The inn is a -story wood-frame Greek Revival structure with an overlay of elaborate Victorian-era decoration added about 1880. The residence was built in 1895 and features an engaged tower with a bell cast roof added in 1912.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Owasco Reformed Church, also known as Reformed Dutch Church of Owasco, is a historic Dutch Reformed church located at Owasco in Cayuga County, New York. It was built in 1811-1815 and is a large, rectangular, Federal-era frame meeting house at the core of the hamlet of Owasco. Also located on the property is a two-story, Queen Anne style parsonage built in 1886-1888 and a gable roofed frame barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Wellman Building, also known as the Wellman Block, is a historic commercial building located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York. It consists of an 1897 masonry bearing wall structure and a steel frame structure built in 1910. The 1897 building is a five-story, Renaissance Revival brick building. The 1910 addition retains the Renaissance Revival style. The building originally housed a druggist and stationery store on the first floor, with offices on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>LeJeune&#39;s Bakery is a historic Louisiana bakery located and operating at 1510 Main Street, Jeanerette.</p><br>
<p>Opened in 1884 by Oscar J. LeJeune as the Old Reliable City Bakery, the building underwent a major remodelling in 1918, when O.A. LeJeune and Walter LeJeune, Sr. purchased the bakery from Oscar.</p><br>
<p>The building was renamed LeJeune&#39;s some time between 1918 and 1934., and added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Fairfield County Courthouse, also known as the Court of Common Pleas, is located at 172 Golden Hill Street in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is also known as Geographical Area  Courthouse No. 2 at Bridgeport. It still functions as a courthouse where all but the most serious criminal cases are heard.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1886, when the then-current city hall/county courthouse (now McLevy Hall) proved insufficient for both the growing needs of Bridgeport and Fairfield County, the county decided to build a new courthouse. Norwalk bid for the new courthouse to be moved there, offering $100,000 towards construction, but the Bridgeport group, including P.T. Barnum, offered $150,000. The building was designed by Bridgeport architect Warren R. Briggs, and was completed and opened in 1888.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Fairfield County Courthouse stands on the northside of downtown Bridgeport, on the north side of Golden Hill Street just west of Main Street. It is a three-story masonry structure, with its exterior clad in brick with brownstone and terra cotta trim. It is set on a high foundation of ashlar granite. The main facade is dominated by a six-story tower at its center, which is capped by a pyramidal roof. The building corners are adorned with crenellated turrets. The main entrance is to one side of the tower, in the center of a series of large round-arch bays, with flanking granite columns.</p><br>
<p>Butler School is a historic building in Oak Brook, Illinois. Frank Osgood Butler donated the land for the two-room schoolhouse in the late 1910s. The building became a meeting place for locals, and hosted the first club to use the term "Oak Brook" to refer to the surrounding settlement. The former school was briefly used as the village hall, police station, and library, until new buildings were constructed for those purposes in the 1970s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed as a two-room schoolhouse in the early 1920s and functioned in this capacity until 1961. Frank Osgood Butler was the son of a wealthy businessman who bought a farm as a summer home in between the burgeoning suburbs of Elmhurst and Hinsdale in 1898. Butler gradually increased the size of his holdings by purchasing his neighbors&#39; lots and businesses.</p><br>
<p>It was Butler who donated a small 10 acre tract of land to the city and funded the construction of a new school. The region was home to two one-story schools at the time, and Butler wanted to create an educational environment that was notable at the state level. The architect of the Georgian Style school is unknown; the style was among the most common in the interwar period for its patriot connotations. Grades one through four were taught in one classroom, while five through eight were taught in the other. A traveling music teacher visited the school once a week to teach piano. The school was originally in Consolidated School District #17 and was reassigned to Consolidated School District #53 in 1926. Butler&#39;s large holdings in the area stunted local development, and attendance was unable to significantly increase over the forty-year period. An average of fifty-two students attended class each year. The school became an important place for social gatherings and hosted games, sports, and drama. A civic organization that met in the school was the first to use the term "Oak Brook" to refer to the surrounding community. The village adopted the name after it was incorporated in 1958.</p><br>
<p>Two newly constructed highways, the Tri-State and the East-West Tollway, offered the potential of town growth. In addition, Marshall Field purchased a local tract of land to develop into the Oakbrook Center shopping mall. To prepare for this, the Butler family traded Butler School to the village for a new tract of land for a seven-room school. Butler School was re-purposed as a Village Hall, Police Station, and library. As the village continued to reap the benefits of its increased commerce, a new Village Hall was erected in 1975, and the former Butler School was used solely as a library. In 2001, a new library was constructed and the school was converted to a museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse is considered an example of Georgian Revival architecture with Federal Style details. The building is rectangular, with the long side running north to south, with a wing on the east and the west. The rectangular portion is 62 by, the east wing is 28 by, and the west wind is 18 by, combining for approximately 6,000 ft&sup2;. It is made of brick with wooden trim and windows. Like many Georgian Revival buildings, there are chimneys on opposite ends of the building. The chimneys both have a cement cap. A fanlight sits above the main door on the south facade; the doorway still has its original three-paneled wood doors. It opens to the vestibule, where a metal staircase leads to the second floor. Though the stairs have since been carpeted, the staircase maintains its original balustrade with matching newels. The north end of the vestibule as an elliptical fanlight. Windows are double hung and feature a brick lintel with a keystone.</p><br>
<p>The John Brand Jr. House is a historic house located at 351 Maple Avenue in Elmira, Chemung County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1890, and is a large -story, Queen Anne–style dwelling. It features a large scale Palladian window on the west gable end. The house was designed by Elmira architect Otis Dockstader and his associate Joseph H. Considine.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 2010. It is located in the Maple Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The William S. Gerity House is a historic house located at 415 William Street in Elmira, Chemung County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Known in upstate New York as "The Strawberry Mansion" (for its distinct red brick facade), this historic home was built in about 1880 and designed by Thomas Gerity, a well-known regional architect of the day. A large two-story, brick and stone Queen Anne style dwelling of almost 8,000 square feet, the home showcases classic wood moldings, 12 foot etched ceilings, and original pocket doors. It features an irregular cross-gabled massing and high gable roofs, as well as a large bracketed entrance porch, second story balcony, and projected semi-octagonal front bay.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 2010. Originally designed as a private residence, "The Strawberry Mansion" was purchased in December 2019 by Charlie Schmitt and Brenda Brown, who claimed they were restoring it to its Victorian period grandeur for use as a private residence and vacation rental. In July 2023, the home was listed for sale, the exterior covered in ivy.</p><br>
<p>The Bronx County Courthouse, also known as the Mario Merola Building, is an historic courthouse building located in the Concourse and Melrose neighborhoods of the Bronx in New York City. It was designed in 1931 and built between 1931 and 1934. It is a nine-story limestone building on a rusticated granite base in the Art Deco style. It has four identical sides, an interior court, and a frieze designed by noted sculptor Charles Keck. The sculptures on the 161st Street side are by noted sculptor George Holburn Snowden. Two sculptural groups on the Walton Avenue side are by noted sculptor Joseph Kiselewski. Kiselewski collaborated with Adolph A. Weinman to create the work. The Bronx Museum of the Arts was once located on the main floor. The building stands two blocks east-southeast of Yankee Stadium, and across 161st Street from Joyce Kilmer Park.</p><br>
<p>While never officially titled Borough Hall, the Bronx County Courthouse houses all municipal borough functions, and is listed as a borough hall on maps by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The previous freestanding Bronx Borough Hall was damaged by fire and torn down in 1969, but had stopped operating in an official capacity long before this.</p><br>
<h2>Murals</h2><br>
<p>The first floor&#39;s Veterans Memorial Hall houses four 10 ft. by 36 ft. murals, one per wall, by James Monroe Hewlett, depicting historic events in the Bronx. The murals were unveiled in June 1934 and feature the following historical events:</p><br>
<p>The Arrival of Jonas Bronck – 1639, in what is now Mott Haven.</p><br>
<p>The First Meeting of the Westchester County Court – 1764, in what is now Westchester Square.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Pell&#39;s Point – October 18, 1776, in what is now Pelham Bay Park.</p><br>
<p>The Departure of George Washington from the Van Cortlandt House – November 1783 in what is now Van Cortlandt Park.</p><br>
<p>A mural depicting the arrival of Jonas Bronck, considered the founder of the borough, was created in the early 1930s by James Monroe Hewlett. The mural was damaged by workers in August 2013. Many people, including the proprietor of Jonas Broncks Beer Co and a reported descendant of Laurens Duyts, a Danish farmer who traveled to New Amsterdam with Bronck on his ship Fire of Troy, sought the murals restoration prior to the 100th anniversary of the Bronx&#39;s separation from New York County in 2014.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Renaming</h2><br>
<p>In February 1988, Mayor Edward Koch renamed the Bronx County Courthouse to the Mario Merola Building to honor the late Bronx County District Attorney Mario Merola.</p><br>
<p>The Port Henry Fire Department Building is a historic fire station located at Port Henry in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1883 and is a two-story square, 38 by, brick building with a flat roof sheathed in asphalt. It features round arches, recessed panels, and decorative corbelling in the Romanesque style. It ceased being used as a fire station in 1970.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Sacandaga Railroad Station is a historic train station located at 136 McKinley Avenue in the town of Northampton in Fulton County, New York. It was built in 1920 to serve Sacandaga Park and is a one-story, rectangular hipped roof wood-frame building, 125 feet by 30 feet, on a concrete slab foundation. It features exposed rafter ends, small louvered dormers, and broad eaves in the Shingle Style. In the 1950s it was converted for use as a stable. It is a rare surviving, non-residential building remaining from the heyday of Sacandaga Park as a resort established and served by the Fonda, Johnstown, and Gloversville Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The 83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable is a historic police station and stable located at the corner of DeKalb and Wilson Avenues in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. It was built in 1894 in the Romanesque Revival style to a design by William Tubby.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1977, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It currently houses NYPD Patrol Borough Brooklyn North.</p><br>
<p>The former 18th Police Precinct Station House and Stable of the Brooklyn Police Department is a historic police station and stable located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The two buildings were completed in 1892. The station house, which later was used by the New York City Police Department&#39;s 68th Precinct, is a three-story brick building with carved stone detailing in the Romanesque Revival style. It features a projecting corner tower and Norman-inspired projecting main entrance portico. The stable is a two-story brick building connected to the station house by a one-story brick passage. It ceased being used as a police station in 1970, and was bought by the Sunset Park School of Music.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982,</p><br>
<p>The Rescue Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 Firehouse is a historic fire station located in the village of Roslyn, in Nassau County, New York, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Although the department was established on November 1, 1852, the Colonial Revival style firehouse itself was built in 1937 and designed by prominent Roslyn-based architect Henry W. Johanson. It was subsequently sold, repurposed, and renovated – and it now houses a retail business.</p><br>
<p>The new Roslyn Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 firehouse, dedicated in 1986, is a Brobdingnagian structure containing five fire trucks and larger equipment, towering over the Roslyn Plaza, which had fallen victim to the Town of North Hempsteads asphalt- and concrete- philosophy, demolishing 19th century structures for the Long Island Railroads expansive parking lot. The volunteer firefighter brigade has claimed several championships over the years in competitions with other firehouses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Sea Cliff Firehouse is a historic fire station located at Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York. The fire department was established in 1884, and the firehouse was built in 1931. It is a 1 1/2-story, Tudor Revival style brick building with ornamental half timbering. It has four engine bays with segmental arched openings and a steep slate roof with dormers. It features a bell tower topped by a slate gable roof.</p><br>
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<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Fourteenth Ward Industrial School is located at 256-258 Mott Street between Prince and Houston Streets in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built for the Children&#39;s Aid Society in 1888–89, with funds provided by John Jacob Astor III, and was designed by the firm of Vaux & Radford in the Victorian Gothic style. The Society built a number of schools for indigent children at the time. It was later known as the Astor Memorial School.</p><br>
<p>The building, which is now in residential use, was designated a New York City landmark in 1977, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The W. O. Decker is a 52 foot wooden tugboat built in Long Island City in 1930 as the Russell I for the Newtown Creek Towing Company. The Decker tugboat company on Staten Island bought and renamed the boat in 1946. She was originally steam powered before being refitted with a 175 hp diesel engine. In 1986, she was donated to the South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan, where she remains today. She was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1996. She was restored in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Schermerhorn Row Block, located at #2 through #18 Fulton Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, was constructed in 1811–12 in the Federal style, and is now part of the South Street Seaport. Each of the individual houses were designated New York City Landmarks in 1968, and the block was collectively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peter Schermerhorn, father of Abraham Schermerhorn, built these counting houses in 1811–12 to serve the growing New York seaport. No 2 & No 4 Fulton Street were occupied from 1847 to the 1990s by Sweets Seafood House, for over a century New York Citys oldest fish restaurant. The building at the corner of Fulton and South Street (#2) was once a hotel; at that time it was altered &ndash; in 1868 &ndash; to add a mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were purchased in 1974 by the State of New York. During the 2003 redevelopment, these buildings were linked to the A.A. Low Building, which faces John Street, to create gallery space. The permanent exhibits include paintings by the maritime artist James E. Buttersworth.</p><br>
<p>Nearly contemporaneous to the building of Schermerhorn Row, other counting houses and warehouses were built in the immediate area, at 180-195 Front Street, 159-171 John Street, and 91-92 South Street, many of them in the Greek Revival style. These buildings were all restored in the 1980s under the supervision of the architect Jan Hird Pokorny, and are now part of the South Street Seaport.</p><br>
<p>The Stafford Hotel, now The Stafford Apartments, is a historic building in Baltimore, Maryland which was constructed in 1894. The Stafford Hotel building was the tallest building on Mount Vernon Place at the time of its inception. It was designed by architect Charles E. Cassell , who was a founding member of the AIA Baltimore chapter, and also designed the Christian Science Temple, Chamber of Commerce building, and Stewart&#39;s Department Store in Baltimore. The building itself is clad in brown Roman brick, and features arched windows and balustrade balconies – all of which is done in the Richardsonian/Romanesque architectural style.</p><br>
<p>The building is located on the north face of Mount Vernon Place, a cross-shaped park composed of 4 landscaped squares, featuring the Washington Monument at its center. The park itself is located in the heart of Baltimores historic district, and many of the most historically and architecturally significant structures in Baltimore line its sides. Mount Vernon Place represents Baltimores history and development during the 19th and 20th centuries, and can be seen as the finest surviving example of Maryland&#39;s 19th century urban planning efforts.</p><br>
<p>The hotel opened on November 5, 1894, and was considered the grandest hotel in all of Baltimore. The hotel opened with highly decorated halls, foyer, dining rooms, a bar, a café, a ladies reception, a drawing room, smoking rooms, lounges, a barber, a coatroom, a newsstand, offices, a writing room, private dining rooms, reception rooms, 140 bedrooms, 30 private parlors in suites (with 80 baths among the suites on the upper floors), a basement finished in marble, and a central rotunda featuring an open curved stair illuminated by a large rooftop skylight. It was preferred by the famous and wealthy while visiting Baltimore. F. Scott Fitzgerald is even known to have resided in the hotel from 1935-1936.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the years the hotel received numerous renovations, and in 1968 the building was sold at auction. At the time of sale, it had 117 guest rooms.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing building in the Mount Vernon Place Historic District, a USA National Historic Landmark District designated in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Today, The Stafford is a 96-unit apartment building; housing primarily students from the nearby Johns Hopkins University&#39;s Peabody Institute. While it is owned by the university, it is managed and leased by LandMark Property Management, Inc. In 2016, Stafford Capital Partners, LLC, an investment group led by Luis A. Cozza purchased the leasehold interest in The Stafford from Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO). The community consists of studios, 1-bedroom, and 2-bedroom apartments, that range from 390 sq ft (36 m) to 696 sq ft (64.7 m). Community amenities include a fitness center, laundry facility, and common room. While the interior has been recently renovated, the historic exterior is very much intact and in good condition.</p><br>
<p>The Wayne Village Historic District is a set of fifty-three buildings in Wayne, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest settler to Wayne was Solomon Dunham, who arrived in 1835. In 1850, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad connected to the village, and Dunham realized the opportunity to develop the region. He built an inn and a store by the station. Solomon&#39;s son Mark Dunham later collaborated with several other area farmers to construct a complex of stables and open the Fletcher Norman Horse Company. The stables gained a great reputation for breeding Percheron horses. The first church in Wayne was erected in 1871, and by the mid-1870s, several small businesses had opened.</p><br>
<p>By the 1920s, demand for horses had dropped dramatically with the advent of the automobile. The Fletcher Norman Horse Company closed in 1929, ceasing almost all future growth of the suburb. Following incorporation in 1958, Wayne experienced a period of growth, but the older buildings in the village were mostly maintained. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The registration form for the Wayne Village Historic District indicates that of the fifty-three buildings in the district, thirty-four contribute to its historical identity. The form, however, lists only fifty-two properties.</p><br>
<p>Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Tool House - The building has been significantly altered and twice moved since its construction.</p><br>
<p>Wayne school (c. 1852) - Converted to a residence</p><br>
<p>Richard Chipp House (c. 1885) - Moved to its present location before 1890</p><br>
<p>Daniel Dunham House (c. 1885) - Moved to its present location in 1888–89. Extensively remodeled.</p><br>
<p>Frederick A. Glos House (1910)</p><br>
<p>Jane N. Woodcock House (c. 1885–89)</p><br>
<p>Albert D. Trull House (1886) - Covered with modern siding</p><br>
<p>Adam A. Glos House II (1893)</p><br>
<p>32 W 167 Army Trail Road (c. 1885)</p><br>
<p>Herman Will House I (c. 1885)</p><br>
<p>Solomon Dunham House (1852) - Wayne&#39;s first house. Substantially altered.</p><br>
<p>John Warnely House (c. 1913)</p><br>
<p>32 W 245 Army Trail Road (c. 1855–59) - Solomon Dunham may have been involved with its construction.</p><br>
<p>James Campbell Hardware Store (c. 1880–85)</p><br>
<p>Tom Campbell Store (1904)</p><br>
<p>32 W 252 Army Trail Road - Non-contributing gas station</p><br>
<p>Hiram Adams Boot and Shoe Store (c. 1860) - Extendively remodeled as a residence</p><br>
<p>32 W 236 Army Trail Road (date unknown) - Converted to a residence in early 20th century</p><br>
<p>Joel Hathaway House (1887) - Front elevation remodeled</p><br>
<p>James Creighton House (c. 1913)</p><br>
<p>John Dolph House (built before 1874) - Moved to present location in 1920s</p><br>
<p>32 W 164 Army Trail Road (built before 1874) - Greek Revival house</p><br>
<p>Adam M. Glos House I (c. 1875–79)</p><br>
<p>Adam Glos House (c. 1910)</p><br>
<p>Wayne Congregational Church (1871) - Now affiliated with United Church of Christ and known as Little Home Church by the Wayside. Remodeled twice, parish house added in 1946.</p><br>
<p>Dr. William L. Guild House (1883)</p><br>
<p>Congregational Church Parsonage (1889)</p><br>
<p>John Suchalski House (1946)</p><br>
<p>C. J. Foley House (c. 1946)</p><br>
<p>Byron Ballard House (c. 1872–74) - Extensively remodeled</p><br>
<p>Byron Ballard House (c. 1893)</p><br>
<p>Walter V. R. Powis House (1904)</p><br>
<p>Herman Will House II (c. 1914)</p><br>
<p>Albert Will House (1928)</p><br>
<p>Walter Peterson House I (1929)</p><br>
<p>Walter Peterson House II (c. 1925)</p><br>
<p>George Loucks House I (1923)</p><br>
<p>George Loucks House II (1926) - Recent addition</p><br>
<p>Abner C. Clark House (1925)</p><br>
<p>Carl Sauter House (1928–29) - Inappropriate siding</p><br>
<p>E. T. Hathaway House (built before 1880) - Moved to present site in 1880s. Extensively remodeled "beyond recognition"</p><br>
<p>32 W 218 Glos Street (date unknown) - Moved to present site before 1900</p><br>
<p>Warner Wheeler House I (c. 1885–89)</p><br>
<p>Amandus Cover House (1884)</p><br>
<p>Warner Wheeler House II (c. 1889)</p><br>
<p>Sim Roberts, Jr. House (1887)</p><br>
<p>Robert Henderson House (c. 1928)</p><br>
<p>Wayne Village Hall (date unknown)</p><br>
<p>Reinhart Sherbert House (1887)</p><br>
<p>Herman Will House III (1890)</p><br>
<p>John Arndt House (c. 1885–89) - Addition in 1916. Previously a post office and tobacco shop until converted into a residence in 1915.</p><br>
<p>U. S. Post Office (1956)</p><br>
<p>The West Chicago City Museum, originally the Turner Town Hall, is a museum in West Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Turner Town Hall originally functioned as the first Village Hall of West Chicago, providing police and fire control services to the community. West Chicago was originally known as Junction, as three railroads crossed through it. The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad erected the first railway station in the town in 1849, and in five years&#39; time, the town was an important railway maintenance stop. Working on steam engines and railway cars at the time induced a great fire hazard, but there was no city services to fight the blazes. All fire control was ineffectively provided by private companies.</p><br>
<p>In 1883, the village, now known as Turner, approved the construction of a Town Hall. Aside from its town safety functions, the hall also provided a meeting place for citizens of the village and hosted a local museum. Fire protection was officially added in 1888. The town hall maintained its functions until 1976 when it was re-designated the West Chicago City Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story building is in the middle of a commercial block, though it was originally detached. It was built with a cream colored brick on a limestone foundation. The main facade faces northeast toward Main Street. This facade is asymmetrical due to its Italianate tower. The tower, which projects slightly from the facade, has a secondary entrance and a single round top window. The tower originally had a metal pyramidal roof, but this has since been removed. The main entrance on the body of the building was replaced in 1942 when barn doors (used by the fire station) were replaced with a set of Federal Style doors and windows. Three round top windows are found on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The McAuley School District No. 27 is a schoolhouse in Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois, 1.25 mi west from West Chicago, Illinois. By the time the schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, District 27 was the last fully functioning one-room school district in Illinois. The final schoolhouse was built in 1913 on a school lot used since the 1850s; it closed in 1991 and the school district annexed into West Chicago Elementary School District 33 in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land for the school was donated by George McAuley in 1857. A school house was built on this site and served the community until 1913, when it was auctioned off. The current structure was built on the same site in 1913 and featured toilets, ventilation, and electricity, features that were considered progressive at the time. The designs and functionality of the school were strongly based on circular messages issued by the Illinois Office of Public Instruction. A garage built in the same year is also on the school site and has not been altered since its construction.</p><br>
<p>Illinois Gov. Henry Horner recommended in 1935 that all one-room schoolhouses should be demolished. By 1960, almost all of the one-room schoolhouses were destroyed or converted into meeting halls. As the last functioning one-room school in Illinois, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The school was built with a simple wooden frame and followed the rules issued by the Illinois Office of Public Instruction. It faces Illinois Route 38, also known as Roosevelt Road. The weatherboarded building is 28 x with a concrete block foundation. Two square columns with wide entablature flank the entrance. On the inside, six black slate blackboards cover the south wall and a seventh is found on the west wall. Two small windows are found on each side of the entrance. The building underwent renovation in 1963. Carpet was placed on top of the hardwood floors on the top level and drywall was installed in the basement. A second door was also added on the west wall of the basement at this time.</p><br>
<p>Morningside Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district is characterized by spacious lots and tree-shaded curving streets. It encompasses 99 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site.</p><br>
<p>Morningside developed early in the 20th century as a secluded area for middle and upper class residents. Construction in the neighborhood spanned nearly 40 years – from 1917 to 1953 – creating an architectural collection ranging from English cottages and Tudor Revival style manors to post-war ranch houses. The area was named to the National Register of Historic Places by the Partners in Preservation program. Funded by local preservation advocate Jim Morrow, the program pays for professional preparation of National Register nominations for qualifying structures in Lake and Porter counties.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Old DuPage County Courthouse is a Richardsonian Romanesque style court house designed by Mifflin E. Bell in Wheaton, Illinois, United States. The building served as the seat of government for DuPage County, Illinois from its construction in 1896, until a new courthouse was built in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original DuPage County Courthouse was built in 1868 on land purchased from Warren L. Wheaton. A new DuPage County Courthouse replaced this structure in 1896 and housed many important events. Clarence Darrow defended George Munding in a trial in 1924 that made regional headlines. The first sentencing in Illinois of a convicted criminal to go to the electric chair occurred here in 1931. A jailhouse annex was constructed in 1959, although it was later demolished. The courthouse operated until 1990, when the present day DuPage County Courthouse was built. In danger of being demolished, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. A lightning strike in 1988 destroyed the original tower, though it was subsequently rebuilt. National Louis University purchased the building in 1993 to operate as a satellite campus. In the mid-2000s, the building sold again and converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<p>Built of red brick, the building features a bell tower and multiple turrets. These features were included in the buildings design to give it the appearance of a castle, which was intended as representative of the buildings purpose of defending law and justice. The interior of the ground floor features marble wall panels that rise 4 ft along the walls. It is one of the only Richardsonian Romanesque buildings in Northern Illinois. The duration of the style&#39;s popularity was short and the buildings were expensive to construct.</p><br>
<p>The David Mallett Jr. House, also known as The Mallett House, is a historical site located at 420 Tashua Road in Trumbull, Connecticut. It lies directly across Tashua Road from the Christ Episcopal Church and Tashua Burial Ground. The site consists of a 1.5 acre property and two buildings. The residence measures 3,196 ft2, was constructed in 1760, and is privately owned. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is an exceptionally well-preserved center-chimney colonial farmhouse, and has significance for its 150-year history of association with the Mallett family.</p><br>
<p>The DuPage County Historical Museum, formerly the Adams Memorial Library, is a building designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Wheaton, Illinois, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adams Memorial Library was the first public library in Wheaton, Illinois; along with a library in Downers Grove, it was one of the first two libraries in the county. Funds for its completions were donated by John Quincey Adams, a real estate investor and miller. Adams was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and moved to Chicago in 1851. He was the fourth cousin, twice removed of President John Quincy Adams. He co-founded the Chicago Board of Trade and became a prominent Chicago citizen. Adams moved to Wheaton following the death of his wife, Marilla Phipps Adams, for whom the library was named. Charles Sumner Frost, who had recently designed the Chicago and North Western railroad station in Wheaton, was selected as the architect. It was one of Frost&#39;s first commission after he split with partner Henry Ives Cobb. Ground was broken on October 2, 1890 and Adams dedicated the museum on October 28, 1891. The library classified books with the Dewey Decimal system, becoming one of the first in Illinois to use this system. Adams Memorial was the main library in the region until a new library was constructed in 1965. The endowment from Adams completely supported the facility until 1923, when Wheaton provided additional funds. The initial book purchase by Adams exceeded 2,700 books.</p><br>
<p>The DuPage County Historical Society purchased the Adams Memorial building in 1965 and transferred ownership to the county. It re-opened as the DuPage County Historical Museum in 1967. On June 4, 1981, it was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum seeks to "educate the general public through the collection, preservation, interpretation, and exhibition of materials which document the history of DuPage County and its relationship to Illinois and the nation, and to provide local history services for historical organizations and for scholarly endeavors."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is found at the southeast corner of Wesley and Main Streets in Wheaton. It stands two stories tall and was built with coursed limestone and Bedford stone trimmings in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The style is characterized by rough-hewn stone blocks, emphasized horizontal lines, wide rounded arches, and intricate ornamentation. The work is nearly identical to a library that Frost designed in Morgan Park, Chicago the previous year. Each facade has a tall stone gable with pinnacles on either side near the base. Gable eaves have dentil moldings carved into a leaf motif. Each gable has an arched window. The north gable is capped with a decorative urn. The north facade features a turreted stair tower on the east side. It also has a double doorway, the main entrance, and a bay window on the west side of the first floor. The entrance is arched with a Bedford stone egg-and-dart voussoir. An inner arch is ornamented with a leaf design. The south facade has a bay window that looks out onto a small courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The interior features oak floors and plaster ceilings. The first floor is dominated by a main hall with an oak staircase on the west wall. The main reading room is on the northwest corner, the ladies&#39; reading room is on the southwest, a lecture hall is on the northeast, and three rooms are on the southeast. The main hall features marble wainscoting. The main reading room has a carved panel ceiling and a fireplace; this room features the north bay window. The ladies reading room also has a fireplace. The lecture room is decorated with oak wainscoting. The library room, one of the three southeast rooms, also originally had a fireplace. The second floor was a 500-seat auditorium with a gallery. A room on the southeast of the floor was used as a dressing room, though it was later removed to build a fire escape and kitchen. The staircase leads up to a third floor, which originally overlooked the auditorium.</p><br>
<p>In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, DuPage County Historical Museum was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).</p><br>
<p>The Commodore Hull School, now also known as the Commodore Hull School Apartments, is a former elementary school at 130 Oak Avenue in Shelton, Connecticut. It was built in 1907, and is believed to be the first school in the state built using the fireproof combination of terra cotta blocks and reinforced concrete. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Commodore Hull School is located in a residential area northwest of downtown Shelton, on the west side of Oak Street. It is a two-story structure, constructed of terra cotta blocks, brick, and reinforced concrete, with a flat roof. The street-facing facade has a center entrance flanked by large panels of stuccoed concrete, in which sash windows are set on both levels. The side facades each have secondary entrances in projecting center sections, with flanking bands of windows. The building is crowned by a low parapet.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1907, when Shelton was still part of Huntington, but growing rapidly as an urban industrial community. It is significant as an early example of the movement towards completely fireproof school building, in general stirred by the 1871 great fire of Chicago. It was designed by Meloy and Beckwith, and included what were considered the latest advances in fireproof construction. The school was named for Commodore Isaac Hull, a Huntington native who commanded USS Constitution during the War of 1812. It served as a school until 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Hanford Davenport House, also known as the Davenport-Green House, is a historic house at 353 Oenoke Ridge in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States. It was built in 1820. It was listed, along with a 19th-century barn on the property, on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The house is significant as a fine example of Federal architecture and features especially high quality Adamesque carving in its interior.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hanford Davenport House stands in a rural residential setting north of New Canaan&#39;s village center, on the northern corner of Oenoke Ridge and Lambert Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, presenting proper facades to both streets. The Lambert Street facade is five bays, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around a center entrance, above which is a Palladian window. The entry is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a fanlight, and is sheltered by a gabled portico. The Oenoke Ridge facade is three bays wide, with the entry in the leftmost bay; it is stylistically similar to the other entry. The gable end above this facade features an oval window. The interior of the house has many high quality original carvings, including window surrounds, fireplace mantels, and doorways. An ell of uncertain vintage, possibly the remnants of an old smithy, extends to the north.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1820, most likely by Hanford Davenport, on land belonging to his in-laws. The interior woodwork was done by Hiram Cressey, a local woodcarver well known for his high quality work. The house remained in the Davenport family until 1905.</p><br>
<p>The Naperville Historic District is a set of 613 buildings in Naperville, Illinois. Of these 613 buildings, 544 contribute to the historical integrity of the area. The district represents the town as it was originally platted and a few early additions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stephen Scott established a farm on the DuPage River in 1830, marking the first settlement in what would become Naperville. A sawmill, grist mill, trading post, and school were erected soon after several other families migrated to the land. Among the earliest settlers was Joseph Naper, who, in 1831, made a claim to land and built a cabin at the earliest site of Naperville. By 1832, 180 residents lived in the Naperville region. The village was briefly abandoned in 1832 as families fled to Fort Dearborn during the Black Hawk War, but most returned after fighting had ceased. The first post office was constructed in 1833. The Galena Road between Chicago and Galena opened in 1834 and brought commerce to the area. In the 1850s through the early 1870s, Naperville battled politically with Wheaton over which town should be the county seat of DuPage County. Though the town built a courthouse, a court decided in favor of Wheaton. The courthouse was demolished and was converted to a park.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Naperville was founded in 1833, and is the oldest church in DuPage County.</p><br>
<p>Naperville primarily found economic success through the management of local resources. Stone quarries exported limestone, breweries produced alcohol, and three separate plant nurseries flourished. Other important industries were Naperville Agricultural, producing farming equipment, and Martin Mitchells Naperville Title and Brick Works. By World War I, the largest employer was Naperville Manufacturing Co., which eventually became of the nations leading furniture exporters. Plainfield College in Plainfield moved its campus to Naperville in 1870, and was later renamed to North Central College. The Evangelical Theological Seminary was organized in 1873 and was closely associated with North Central until merging with Garrett Theological Seminary in 1974. Despite this economic welfare and religious presence, Naperville grew slowly; the population in 1910 was only 3,449. The towns first major population boom was in the 1950s, as increased ease of traveled enhanced Napervilles place a Chicago suburb. Most of the older sections of town, however, are intact.</p><br>
<p>The Naperville City Council established the Naperville Historic District in 1986.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, North Central College announced their plans to purchase and demolish the P. E. Kroehler mansion, owned by Little Friends, for the purpose of rezoning and redeveloping the property with new academic buildings. The college subsequently withdrew from the purchase, but Little Friends stated their intent to proceed with applying to demolish the building.</p><br>
<h2>Selected sites of structures of significance</h2><br>
<p>Naperville selected twenty sites and structures of particular value to exemplify the historical merit of the district.</p><br>
<p>Willard Scott, Jr. House (1887) – Son of Stephen Scott. Operated Scott&#39;s General Store and the Naperville Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Elmholm (built before 1917) – Designed by Harry Robinson. Proprietor Rollo M. Givler owned the Clarion, a local newspaper</p><br>
<p>205 North Wright – Purchased by the seminary in 1908, moved to present site in 1912 for use as a dormitory</p><br>
<p>122 South Brainard (1874) – Owned by Hammerschmidt family, notable for quarrying business</p><br>
<p>North Central College (1870) – Designed by John M. Van Osdel. South wing added in 1890</p><br>
<p>Nichols House (1917) – Designed by Harry Robinson</p><br>
<p>227 East Jefferson (1866) – Designed by G. N. Gross. Later the home of ecologist May Theilgaard Watts</p><br>
<p>Dieter House (1846) – Designed by Dr. David Hess. Moved to present location in 1898.</p><br>
<p>Wilson House</p><br>
<p>Kroehler Manufacturing Company (1905) – Alterations in 1909 and 1913</p><br>
<p>Paw Paw Station (1833) – First public building in the county (post office). Considerable alterations</p><br>
<p>J. L. Nichols House (c. 1890) – Donated funds for public library and North Central College, founder of Kroehler Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>General Store (1847–49) – Designed and operated by Joseph Naper, the town&#39;s founder</p><br>
<p>Central Park (1868) – Former site of county courthouse</p><br>
<p>221 West Jefferson (c. 1870)</p><br>
<p>Dr. Truitt House (c. 1917) – Truitt practiced medicine for over 50 years and helped establish the city hospital</p><br>
<p>Kreger Family House (c. 1860)</p><br>
<p>Nichols Library (1898) – Designed by Mifflin E. Bell</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church (1906)</p><br>
<p>P. E. Kroehler House (built before 1917) – Became president of Kroehler Manufacturing Company. Part of North Central College in 1950s</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Branch Library at 13th St and 28th Ave in Meridian, Mississippi is one of two former Carnegie libraries in the city, both funded by a grant from Andrew Carnegie in 1904. This library was built for blacks while the other was built for whites. The other library was built at 25th Ave and 7th St and now houses the Meridian Museum of Art. Both buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The black library was demolished in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A group of women in the city had formed the Fortnightly Book and Magazine Club in the 1880s and began raising money to build a library for the city. The books they collected and shared within the club were later the basis of the library collection for Meridian. With wide support for the library, the club enlisted Israel Marks, a city leader, to approach the national philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for funding assistance. Marks, who helped operate the Marks-Rothenberg Department Store next door to the Grand Opera House, was an acquaintance of Carnegie and convinced him to issue a $38,000 grant in 1904 to the city&#39;s government to build two Carnegie libraries — one for whites and one for African-Americans. The white library would receive $30,000 while the African American one would receive $8,000.</p><br>
<p>It was asserted to be the only Carnegie library ever built for African Americans in the country, however twelve total Colored Carnegie Libraries were built. The 1905-built Louisville Free Public Library, Western Colored Branch was the first (Louisville would also get another, the Eastern Branch), and the rest were in Mounds Bayou, MS (opened 1910); Houston, TX; Savannah, GA; Evansville, IL; New Orleans, LA; Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN; Atlanta, GA; and Greensboro, NC.</p><br>
<p>The city used the money both to renovate the vacant building (formerly owned by the First Presbyterian Church of Meridian) at 25th Ave and 7th St and transform it into the white library and to build the African American library at 13th St and 28th Ave on land donated by a local Methodist church.</p><br>
<p>The two libraries served the city until 1967, when the institutions became integrated, combined their collections, and moved all materials to the new Meridian Public Library at 2517 7th St.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple was a historic two-story wooden building at 809 1st Avenue, near the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was built in 1906, expanded in 1908, and further altered in 1913 and 1916. Its architecture was "eclectic Renaissance Revival", a style that had been popular in the "lower 48" United States in the 1880s and 1890s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally constructed for the Tanana Commercial Company in 1906. The fire that destroyed much of the city that same year did not affect it, as the fire stopped about one block away.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, the Tanana Lodge No. 3, a Masonic group that had started as a club in 1904 and received a charter in 1908, purchased the building. The Masons added an extension in the rear for lodge rooms and a main hall in 1908. The building was raised in 1913 and a new facade was added in 1916. The Masons no longer meet in the building.</p><br>
<p>President Warren G. Harding gave a speech from the steps of the Masonic Temple during his visit to Alaska in 1923.</p><br>
<p>The roof of the vacant building collapsed on March 17, 2018, and the rest of the building was demolished the next day. It was delisted from the National Register in August 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple in Yuma, Arizona, was built in 1931 in the late Art Deco style of Moderne. It was designed by Los Angeles–based architects Edward Gray Taylor and Ellis Wing Taylor. In 1933, at the depth of the Great Depression, the Masonic lodge lost all its funds in a bank closure. On November 16, 1933, the building&#39;s ownership was turned over to the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company "in satisfaction of a $16,900 realty mortgage." It was later rented back to the Masonic chapter and on May 10, 1940, ownership was restored.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as one of few major Modernist Art Deco Style buildings surviving in Yuma. The Masonic Temple was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple of El Dorado, Arkansas is located at 106-108 North Washington Street, on the west side of the courthouse square. The four-story masonry building was built in 1923–24 to a design by Little Rock architect Charles S. Watts. It is one of a small number of buildings in Arkansas with Art Deco styling influenced by the Egyptian Revival. This particular styling was likely influence by the 1922 discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, and included in the El Dorado Commercial Historic District in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple is a historic fraternal and commercial building at East Fourth Avenue and State Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Fundraising for the building was led by Joseph Carter Corbin and J. N. Donohoo. It is a four-story brick building, built between 1902 and 1904 by the states African-American Masonic lodge, the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. It was at the time Pine Bluffs tallest building; the ground floor held retail space, the second floor professional offices, and the upper floors were devoted to the Masonic organizations.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge No. 18 is a historic building in Lisbon, Arkansas, US. The two-story wood frame lodge building was built in 1858, and is virtually unaltered. It has several distinctive construction features, including 12" by 12" timber posts that rise the full two stories at its corners; this feature is believed to be unique in the state. It was built as a meeting hall a local chapter of Freemasons, and is the oldest purpose-built Masonic hall still used for that purpose in Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Spring Field Banquet Center in Fullerton, California is a historic building built in Mission/Spanish Revival style. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Originally constructed in 1920 as a Masonic meeting hall, the Freemasons sold the building in 1993, due to declining membership and funds. The current owner completely rehabilitated the building in 1995. The building now houses the Spring Field Banquet Center, a commercial banquet hall and reception center.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple was a historic building in Riverside, California. Constructed in the Classical Revival style in 1908, it served as a Masonic Hall for two local Masonic Lodges. When the Masons moved to new premises in 1955, the building was purchased by Riverside county.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was demolished in 1988 to make way for the new Riverside County Hall of Justice.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Hall in Wickenburg, Arizona, United States, was built around 1922. It served historically as a clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>The building "is noteworthy as a rare local example of the concrete frame with brick infill method of construction."</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. At that time it was the location of a Montgomery Ward department store.</p><br>
<p>Its Arizona State historic inventory noted that was a "rare local example of Mission Revival architecture" and that it was a demonstration of "unique local use of concrete frame construction."</p><br>
<p>By June 2011, the building was no longer standing. Building has been demolished by 2018.</p><br>
<p>Despite being lost, the building is apparently still listed on the National Register; no delisting is known to have occurred.</p><br>
<p>The Hugh Cain Fulling Mill and Elias Glover Woolen Mill Archeological Site is a 4.4 acre industrial archeological site in the eastern part of Ridgefield, Connecticut . It is the site of an early fulling mill established in 1770, and was an active industrial site until the turn of the 20th century. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1770, Hugh Cain, a resident of Redding, purchased land on the Norwalk River, and soon afterward began operating a fulling mill on the site. Although he sold the property, which then included the mill and a house, to David Banks in 1789, he continued to operate the mill until at least 1794. Cain died in 1806, and Banks apparently continued to operate the mill until his death in 1847. The works was taken over by Elias and John Glover, who were known to also spin yarn and weave woolen cloth on the premises. By the end of the 19th century, the property had been taken over by Henry Lawton, an Englishman.</p><br>
<p>By the early 20th century, the property was little more than stone foundations. It was declared a local landmark by the town in the 1960s. Many of the surviving stones have been robbed away for other uses, and few traces now survive of the mill.</p><br>
<p>Camps No. 10 and 41 of Rochambeau&#39;s Army, also known as Site No. 97-87D, is a historical archeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It encompasses the areas occupied by the French Army under General Rochambeau during their marches across Connecticut in 1781 and 1783. One of the major encampment sites is located on the grounds of the Hawley School, where a historic marker is placed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>American and French military leaders decided to join their forces outside British-held New York City in 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. This required Rochambeaus French army to march west across Connecticut, which it did in summer of 1781. The armys 10th camp was in Newtown, then a small community in western Connecticut. This encampment was one of the largest in Connecticut, since all four French regiments were encamped here simultaneously prior to beginning their southwesterly march toward New York. Two of the regiments were encamped on a low rise a short way east of the village center, including the area where the Hawley School now stands. French maps of the period also show a second large encampment area farther east near Sandy Hook, and a smaller camp for advance forces on a rise west of the village. Officers were quartered at the Caleb Baldwin Tavern.</p><br>
<p>On the march toward Newtown, the armys regiments all marched independently on the same route, separated by a days travel. From Newtown south, the army marched as a single unit due to their approach to enemy-held territory. The army then marched to Virginia and the Siege of Yorktown. It returned to Providence in 1783, retracing much of the route that it had followed in 1781. The Newtown sites were among those reused during the return march.</p><br>
<p>The Cosier-Murphy House is a historic house at 67 Connecticut Route 39 in the Candlewood Corner section of New Fairfield, Connecticut. Built about 1840, it is one of the town&#39;s best-preserved 19th-century houses, and a good local example Greek Revival architecture. The house, along with a small agricultural outbuilding, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cosier-Murphy House stands in a rural residential setting northeast of New Fairfield&#39;s town center, on the north side of CT 39 a short way west of Saw Mill Road. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-gable roof and shed-roof additions to the side and rear. It has a side-hall plan, with the main entrance in the right-hand bay, and shortened windows on the second floor, in what appears to be an expanded frieze band above corner pilasters. The entry is framed by pilasters which rise to support a corniced entablature. The interior has well-preserved period woodwork, including the fireplace mantel in the front parlor. Interior doors are original, with original latches or doorknobs.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1840, based on architectural evidence; the towns records were destroyed by fire in 1867. It was purchased from Cosiers widow by Daniel Murphy, an Irish immigrant who lived next door (in a house that has not survived). It remained in the hands of Murphys descendants until 1970. They claim that New Fairfields first Roman Catholic mass was held in this house about 1880 by an iterant priest.</p><br>
<p>H. W. Ambrose House, also known as Dunmeade, is a historic home located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built from 1924 to 1926, and is a large two-and-one-half-story, cruciform plan, brick residence in the Tudor Revival style. It features a steeply-pitched gable roof sheathed in slate. Also on the two-acre property are a garage and pool house. The house has seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, eight fireplaces and a third floor once used for a school.</p><br>
<p>Henry Ambrose, general manager of Conway Lumber Co., built the house. His wife Maude named the house but it is uncertain what the name meant, though Dunmeade is believed to refer to a relative. Because it was one of the first homes in the neighborhood to have electricity and running water, it became known as the "home that built Conway" since other houses could more easily connect to utilities. Janel and David Ralph bought the house in 2020 and converted it to a bed and breakfast called The Inn on Elm. Because of the time their other business required, they listed it for sale for $1.9 million in 2023. They plan to live in the carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built in 1928 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and is a long, rectangular, one-story, gable-roofed, frame board-and-batten building. It features the wide overhanging eaves and is in the American Craftsman style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Myrtle Beach Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Myrtle Beach in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built in 1937 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and is one-story rectangular building was constructed with the standard ACL bi-level floor plan that has a raised freight room with steps leading down to the lobby/office area. It features exterior architectural detailing reflecting Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Mission stylistic influences.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Prior passenger services</h2><br>
<p>Until 1955 the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ran passenger rail service from the station along the Myrtle Beach Branch to Chadbourn, North Carolina, where a connection could be made to a train bound for Florence, South Carolina, Sumter, South Carolina and Columbias Union Station to the west, and Wilmington, North Carolina to the east. At the start of the 1950s the train went beyond Chadbourn to Elrod, North Carolina, where a connection could be made to the ACLs Palmetto. From 1955, onward, there was primarily freight service from Myrtle Beach, with the last passenger train departing on October 23, 1986. Horry County bought the railroad from CSX in 1984 using federal and state money. The state condemned the tracks east of the Intracoastal Waterway in 1988. As of 1996, the local and state governments had spent millions, including $4 million to repair the drawbridge over the waterway. Carolina Southern Railroad, which was leasing the railroad at the time, offered $425,000 to buy the line, intending for passenger service to resume and generate $1 million a year, but the county rejected the offer. Repairs to the waterway bridge were completed in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration effort</h2><br>
<p>Trains used the nearby train yard until 1971. The last freight train used the depot in 1988, and after that it became a beer distributor&#39;s warehouse. When it appeared the depot would be torn down, the city bought it for $750,000 in 2000. A concrete block addition came down in 2001 as efforts began to have the property named to the National Register. By the time the designation was achieved, the All Aboard Committee had raised $470,000 of the $677,000 restoration cost. The depot opened as a museum May 6, 2004. A. Dale Gilliland, AIA volunteered his services as architect to restore the depot.</p><br>
<p>Beaty-Little House is an historic home located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855 and is a two-story, rectangular, central hall plan residence with a hipped roof and two interior brick chimneys. It features a full-width, hipped-roof porch across the front façade with freestanding Tuscan-influenced columns and an elaborately sawn balustrade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Beaty-Spivey House is a historic home located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1870 and is a -story, cross-gable-roofed frame residence sheathed in weatherboard. It features a projecting gable with a half-story above and three-bay porch with four tapering, octagonal, freestanding posts and recessed porch at the first story.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Arthur M. Burroughs House is a historic home located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built from 1903 to 1904 and is a two-story, asymmetrical plan frame residence sheathed in shiplap siding. It has a gabled-on-hip roof with two-story projecting pedimented bays. It features a two-story octagonal tower with turret, with bell-cast roof and a one-story hipped-roof porch in the Queen Anne style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
