<p>Taylor Hall in Hawkinsville, Georgia is a building built in 1825 with Greek Revival and "Plantation Plain" architectural elements. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Taylor Hall is the oldest house in Pulaski County. Dr. Robert Newsom Taylor used Creek Indian labor to construct Taylor Hall in 1824. Originally built on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in old Hartford, the house was dismantled in 1836 and ferried across the river to its present site. Taylor Hall has weathered Yankee encampments, marauding gypsies and period of neglect. Now restored, the house features the original wainscoting and hand-hewn pine planks. It is currently a private residence. It is down a private drive, with no good view from public property.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel is a historic former hotel in Wilmington, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers in Wilmington arrived in 1836, favoring the land&#39;s abundance of streams and lumber. Thomas Cox platted the land and constructed the first grist mill in the region. Farmers traveled to the mill from long distances and required a place to stay while the corn and wheat was being ground. The land on which the hotel stood was purchased by David Lizer in 1836 and likely organized the project himself. The exact date when the building was constructed was not recorded, but it probably was built after the first general store in 1837. The building was likely used first to house goods for the mills in the region and may have served as a trading post.</p><br>
<p>Henry Brown, who owned the town&#39;s general store, build the two-story hotel across the street from the store on Water Street. The hotel is of no particular style, but is most strongly influenced by the Greek Revival movement. An addition was added to the hotel in the 1840s, which connected the hotel to the warehouse. This addition featured a storefront where independent businesses could rent space to sell their goods.</p><br>
<p>The hotel business flourished following the connection of Wilmington to the Chicago and Alton Railroad in the early 1850s. However, the more luxurious Exchange Hotel was constructed across the street in 1844, and the Eagle Hotel failed to see the same increase in business. The Eagle Hotel managed be profitable by offering cheap rooms to families who recently moved to the region. USA Route 66 provided more customers upon its completion, but the hotel nonetheless was forced to convert to a boarding house to stay in business. The building was converted to apartments in the 1940s, retaining small businesses in the storefront until 1982. The Wilmington Area Historical Society purchased the building that year and converted it into a museum. A fire badly damaged the structure in 1990. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. As of 2023, the Eagle Hotel is owned by Mark Nielsen.</p><br>
<p>The G. P. Sparks House is a historic private residence located at 509 East Logan Street in the city of Tecumseh in northeast Lenawee County, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The G. P. Sparks House is a two-story upright and wing house constructed in the Late Victorian style of architecture. The end-gable roof has a pierced-work gable ornament. The first floor of the two story upright section contains a pair of windows with small hoods and shutters; the second floor contains paired, triangle-head, windows, above which is a bullseye topped by a drip molding. The single story wing is slightly set back, and is fronted by a porch with narrow, squared posts and frieze panels, sheltering the entrance. The porch contains delicate latticework brackets.</p><br>
<p>The privately owned G. P. Sparks house is located one block away from M-50 near the River Raisin and just down East Logan Street from the Musgrove Evans House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sparks house was built in 1883 for local musical instrument and sewing merchant G. P. Sparks and his wife Mary. They apparently lived in the house for only five years before moving to the store building where Sparks&#39;s business was located.</p><br>
<p>Because of its pristine detailing and well-preserved appearance, it is regarded as one of the most significant pieces of architecture in Tecumseh.</p><br>
<p>It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Parsonage Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Cochecton in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes 10 contributing buildings. The district included houses and related outbuildings located along a short street set in a natural landscape. They were built between about 1820 and 1900 and reflect a number of popular 19th-century architectural styles including Federal, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Levitz Family Farm is a national historic district located at Grahamsville in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. They include a farmhouse, dairy barn, milk houses, brooder house, chicken coops, garage, and well house. They were once associated with two farms that were combined in the 1940s. The farmhouse was built in 1913 and is a 2-story, three-by-two-bay, wood-frame building on a stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Rockland Mill Complex is a national historic district located at Rockland in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes four contributing buildings and three contributing structures. They include the grist mill  containing much of its original machinery; remains of the original power canal, mill pond, and tailrace with stone retaining walls; tenant house ; proprietor&#39;s house ; and ice house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Lockport Historic District, also known as the Canal and Downtown Area, is a set of fifty-nine buildings in Lockport, Illinois. Of these, fifty-six contribute to the historical integrity of the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The downtown district of Lockport was platted in 1836, the same year that construction began on the Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M Canal). Two years later, Lockport was designated as the headquarters for the I&M. Due to the importance of the canal for commerce, the downtown district runs parallel to it. The district featured the Canals barn, the Gaylord Store and Martin Elevator, the Norton Warehouse and Store, the Canal Office, and the Superintendents Home.</p><br>
<p>Most buildings in the area were constructed with locally quarried limestone. The downtown area, aside from canal-related structures, was mostly used for commercial purposes. It was laid out by Joseph Wapler, the surveyor for the I&M Canal. The oldest buildings in the district today is the Canal Office (1838) and the building at 1020 State Street. The Canal Office was converted into the Will County Historical Society Headquarters and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. An 1895 fire damaged the block between 10th and 11th streets east of State St. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Milne House is a historic residence in Lockport, Illinois, United States. It was home to Robert Milne, Canal Commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Robert Milne was a mason from Banffshire, Scotland who immigrated to Chicago in 1836. In 1840, he was commissioned to build five of the locks on the Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M Canal) and moved to its headquarters in Lockport, Illinois. He purchased a 240 acre lot and constructed a farm upon it, calling it "Kelvyn Grove". The land had been platted as the town of East Lockport, but had never been developed. He briefly lived in Chicago in 1849 before returning to Lockport. In 1854, he sold his Chicago business interests to focus on the canal and his ranch. Milne was promoted to Canal Commissioner by Illinois Governor John M. Palmer in 1869. Milne was also one of the first breeders of Shorthorn cattle in the United States. Four generations of the Milne family lived on the farmstead, owning the house until 1979. Most of the land that was previously on the farm is now owned by the Lockport school district although the house itself is a private residence. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Milne house stands two stories tall and is built with locally quarried limestone. It is generally Greek Revival in design. The main section is rectangular and has cut stone facades and a stone cornice. There are two interior brick chimneys. The street facade is four bays wide while the backyard facade is five bays. A bracket porch and two rear additions were built after 1873. The property also includes a stone milk house and a well. A modern frame garage is also on the property.</p><br>
<p>The John Heck House, also known as the Hauer Residence, is a historic residence in Lockport, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Heck was a Canadian businessman who immigrated in 1838. John Heck was brought to Lockport to oversee the building of the I & M Canal. He mostly provided construction services, ranging from excavation to masonry. Heck purchased a tract of land for $9,000 in 1866; he likely organized the construction himself. His home was constructed from locally quarried limestone. It was constructed in the Greek Revival style, likely influenced by immigrants from New York City who first came to work on the canal. The house also prominently features Italianate details, which were mostly added in a remodeling in the 1870s. Heck died in 1890 and is buried in a local cemetery in Lockport at St. Joseph Church.</p><br>
<p>The residence passed to his niece, Georgina Alice Heck, who may have provided live-in support to John in his later years. Georgina sold the residence only three months later. It served as a boarding house in the 1920s, and was converted to an apartment building in the 1940s. The apartment rooms were later removed, and the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1994, by Jon Rawson. Since 1994, the home was sold to a Couple who turned it into a Bed & Breakfast, "The Liberty Inn" which was sold 3 years later to the Lindemann family.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house was built with locally quarried limestone. It is representative of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. It was originally a square, but has since had two additions. The first addition was to the south side in the late 1860s, shortly after construction. A wood-frame addition, now covered in modern siding, was added to the rear (west) in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The Fitzpatrick House is a historic residence in Romeoville, Lockport Township, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Patrick Fitzpatrick immigrated from Canada in 1833-1834 and was one of Lockport&#39;s first settlers. Fitzpatrick purchased the 160 acre lot shortly after he arrived and constructed a farm. He eventually increased the size of his farm to 1,200 acre and became a prominent citizen. Irish immigrants flocked to the region in the mid to late 1830s during the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Fitzpatrick, who spent his childhood in Ireland, became an important figure in the local Irish community, having already reached a level of economic success before construction of the canal started. The limestone house was constructed along the Chicago–Ottawa stagecoach road, which later became Illinois Route 53.</p><br>
<p>Fitzpatrick&#39;s heirs donated portions of the farmstead to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, which was used for Lewis University. The last descendant of the Fitzpatrick family died in 1950. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The home was acquired by Lewis University in 2001 and is currently used as an alumni affairs office.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Fitzpatrick House is a T-shaped stone house with Greek Revival details. The two sections of the T are each approximately 25 x. The gable ends have two bays and the long section has three bays. The interior has been completely remodeled and has no historic integrity. The south (long) section may have been built first. This side has the front door, centered in the middle bay facing west toward Illinois 53. Typical of Greek Revival houses, the Fitzpatrick House has flat stone lintels, symmetrical proportions, and a horizontal transom. The property also has a 28 x barn.</p><br>
<p>The French Farm is a historic summer estate at the junction of Lake and Round Hill Roads in Greenwich, Connecticut. Developed in the early 1900s, it is a rare surviving estate from the period in which its size and major landscaping elements are preserved. Its major structures  were designed by Henry Van Buren Magonigle, a protege of Calvert Vaux. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>French Farm is located in a suburban residential setting of geographically central Greenwich, occupying a large parcel bounded on the east by Lake Avenue and the west by Round Hill Road, with the two meeting at its southern tip. Originally 35 acre in size, the property has been reduced by subsequent development, but the main house retains the landscaping in its immediate surroundings. The main house is a large 2-1/2 story frame structure, with a projecting Greek temple portico at its center, and flanking wings giving it a total width of 160 ft. Although the property boundaries are lined with trees, an open grassy area affords fine views to the house&#39;s east-facing front.</p><br>
<p>The estate was designed by Henry Van Buren Magonigle, a protege of Calvert Vaux who also worked in the offices of McKim, Mead & White. The house was built in 1906 for H.W. Lanier. Lanier sold the property to John French the following year, and French retained Magonigle to design the estate&#39;s outbuildings in 1911. The estate represents a well-executed country landscape as espoused by Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, and is now of a size and scale that was once common but is now relatively rare in southwestern Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Street Seven Arch Stone Bridge was a historical bridge in Lockport, Illinois. The bridge was the regions first over the Des Plaines River, facilitating trade between farmers west of the river and merchants in Lockport. Farmers were previously forced to use a ford, located near 9th Street. It was approved on March 20, 1868, and cost $4,000. The arch bridge was constructed using locally quarried limestone in eight to twelve inch blocks. Each arch of the bridge spanned 197 foot. The builder is unknown, but may have been Julius Scheibe, a notable local mason who built many of the citys stone structures of the era. Schiebe was also a highway commissioner during the bridge&#39;s construction. A concrete slab had to be added to the foundation of the bridge in the early 1900s due to increased water levels caused by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The Ninth Street Seven Arch Stone Bridge was closed to traffic in 1971 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>On March 8, 2011, the bridge sustained significant damage following a storm. The City of Lockport decided to demolish the bridge that spring. Pieces of the limestone will be used in historical displays.</p><br>
<p>The Simmons - Wright Company is a historic general store established in 1884 in Kewanee, Mississippi, a small town just outside Meridian in Lauderdale County. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The store was originally built in 1884 by William Simmons and Tom Wright before what is now known as US Highway 11/80 was built. What is now the back of the store then faced the Old Dixie Highway, which ran west through Meridian and east all the way to Key West, Florida. The site was most likely chosen because of its close proximity to the railroad, so trains could stop and unload cargo for local farmers.</p><br>
<p>Though the store still operates today, the period in which business thrived began with its establishment in 1884 and lasted until the 1960s. The company relied heavily on the cotton industry and the many farmers that needed supplies in the area. In the 1880s, the store included a blacksmith shop, a gristmill for grinding corn and wheat, a cotton gin, and a sawmill and carried everyday items such as groceries, clothing, and other necessities. During the Great Depression, customers who built up a tab at the store were allowed to pay it off with cotton. The owner would purchase cotton from them. If the cotton was insufficient to pay the customer&#39;s tab in its entirety, the owner would allow the tab to roll over to the next year.</p><br>
<p>A fire destroyed the original store building in 1926, but it was rebuilt in the same year using brick instead of wood, of which the original store was built. There is a wood-burning stove on the first floor for heating during the winter, and though there is no air conditioning in the building, there are fans throughout the building for use during the summer heat.</p><br>
<p>Behind the store, there is a warehouse built-in 1926. It is built on brick pilings and constructed of wood and aluminum. There is a brick enclosure on the south side of the building that was used to store ice for the store. Also on the site are a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, and multiple seed storage buildings made mostly of wood and tin. These buildings were mainly used in the production of cotton. There are also older, deteriorated buildings on the site, including an older cotton gin, a shed, a gristmill, and a sawmill.</p><br>
<h2>The company today</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1950s, C.H. Ryan bought 52% ownership of the store; the remainder was passed down to Rowena, Bo, and Jean Simmons through the will of William Simmons, one of the original owners of the company. Bernice Simmons owned the company from the mid-1970s until her death in 1998. Since then, the store has been owned by Gary and Janice Pickett. Gasoline fueling tanks were added to the front of the store at some point but removed in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Today, the store still operates and sells antiques, hardware, seed and feed for animals, and small farming equipment. The store also continues to sell groceries such as those that might be found in a convenience store as well as the store&#39;s famed hoop cheese.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, film makers working on the Robert Downey, Jr. movie, Due Date, shot video of the Simmons - Wright store that may be used in the film.</p><br>
<p>The Will County Historical Society Headquarters is a historic building in Lockport, Illinois, United States, originally known as the Illinois and Michigan Canal Office Building. It served as the headquarters of the Canal Commission of the Illinois and Michigan Canal from 1836 until 1871, when control of the canal was transferred to the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Illinois and Michigan Canal was a canal that connected Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River via the Illinois and Chicago Rivers. It was first conceived in 1824, when a survey of five potential routes was assessed. Three years later, the United States Congress approved the project. In 1829, the Canal Commission was formed to raise money and oversee the project. The project was dormant until ground was broken on July 4, 1836. That year, the Canal Commission laid out the town of Lockport, Illinois with the intention of locating the canal headquarters there. Slowed by the Panic of 1837, the canal was finally completed in 1848. The headquarters building was built in 1845. The first ship on the canal was launched in Lockport. The Canal Commission operated the canal from this building until 1871, when canal operation was turned over to the state.</p><br>
<p>The building was later purchased by the Will County Historical Society as a headquarters and museum. On May 17, 1972, the building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. When the Lockport Historic District was created three years later, the building was listed as a contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The former canal office building is generally Greek Revival in style, with a symmetrical facade, low hipped roof, rectangular transom, and recessed porch. The original building was one story and today corresponds to the northern portion. A two-story residence was added to the south end of the structure in the 1860s or 1870s. The residence reflects a more Victorian style with deeply molded eaves, heavy brackets, turned porch, and low-pitched roof. However, the two portions of the building share similar window patterns.</p><br>
<p>The McGovney–Yunker Farmstead is a historic farm in Mokena, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John McGovney was one of the first settlers of Frankfort Township, first legally acquiring the land in 1841. His son Elijah McGovney took control of the property in the 1850s and began to expand the property in 1857. Both John and Elijah primarily harvested corn and oats. The 1854 completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad enabled the McGovneys to conveniently move their products. In the early 1860s, Elijah built a farmhouse and barn on the property. In the late 19th century, Elijah McGovney added a chicken coop, well house, a smokehouse/wood shed, and a second barn/shed. The new structures allowed the family to focus on exporting milk. Following Elijah&#39;s death in 1921, the property again passed to his son L. Edward McGovney. He remodeled the farmhouse to conform with early 20th-century architectural trends.</p><br>
<p>L. Edward McGovney only held on to the farmland for three years, as fellow heirs Fred and Carrie Yunker claimed ownership in 1924. The Yunkers added a few improvements in the 1940s and 1950s, including a hog house, cattle shed, corn crib, and open-wire corn bins. Two doghouses, a garage/workshop, and a tool shed were added in the 1960s followed by a metal shed in the 1970s. Edwin Yunker, the son of the original Yunker owners, worked to ensure that the farm would be used to educate local children about the history of Mokena. Edwin Yunker formed the Mokena Community Park District in 1958 and sold his property to the new entity in the 1990s. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historical district on May 31, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Peotone Historic District is a set of forty-two buildings in Peotone, Illinois. Of these, thirty-seven contribute to the historical integrity of the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Illinois Central Railroad was constructed in 1856 and provided rail service for eastern Will County. Two years later, the first commercial structure opened in the city, and residents flocked to the area. By 1865, a windmill, post office, an opera house, a trolley system, and several grain elevators had opened in the city. Peotone also housed the Will County Fair during this period.</p><br>
<p>The land east of Peotone was fertile, resulting in a large population of both farmers and merchants. Most business was conducted on Railroad Street, with storefronts facing the railroad tracks. Eventually business moved to Second Street, causing many of the Railroad Street businesses to simply install new storefronts on what was the rear of their building. An electric generation plant was opened in Peotone in 1894, and street lighting was added later that year. A water tower was erected in 1895, and sidewalks were laid in 1902. A portion of the district on Main Street was destroyed in a 1913 fire and rebuilt a year later. The village trolleys carried passengers from 63rd & Halsted in Chicago south to Kankakee. A major employer in the 1920s was the Continental Bridge Company, which produced many bridges in the United States and Canada, and also supplied steel for the United States Shipping Board. Development ceased in the 1930s following the Great Depression and never recovered.</p><br>
<p>The first buildings in the town were mostly vernacular structures of framing. Following devastation by fire, focus on building materials shifted to masonry. All but two of the buildings in the historic district were, at some point, used for commercial purposes. The Downtown Peotone Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Gordon-Lee Mansion is located in Chickamauga, Georgia and was originally referred to as the Gordon residence. Construction began in 1840 and was not completed until 1847 due to labor and financial issues. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Gordon-Lee House and is also known as the Gordon-Lee-Green House. It is individually listed on the National Register, and is also included in the Chickamauga Historic District. The listing includes six contributing buildings including the main house, a slave house, and a smokehouse, and it includes two contributing sites, on 13 acre.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by slave labor. Bricks were made on the site.</p><br>
<p>Just before the Battle of Chickamauga the home was used by the Union army as the headquarters of General Rosecrans. During the battle it was used as a federal hospital for soldiers. The mansion is the only remaining structure from the Battle of Chickamauga. As it stands now the home is owned by the city of Chickamauga and is a national historic site. The Gordon-Lee Mansion has now been turned into a Wedding venue and is open for tours during spring and summer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion property was bought by James Gordon after the removal of the Cherokee in 1836. Mr. James Gordon previously built the Gordon Mill, which served as the first general store in Walker County, Georgia. With the success of the mill, Mr. James Gordon wanted to build a permanent estate. Construction began in 1840, but due to labor and financial problems it was not completed until 1847.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War the home was used as Union headquarters for General William S. Rosecrans, just before the Battle of Chickamauga (September 18–20, 1863). During and after the battle the mansion was turned into a hospital. Wagons were backed up under the windows of the house so the severed limbs of soldiers could be tossed out and disposed of more easily. The floors were so covered in blood that mats had to be put down to hide the stains. Many soldiers wrote their last words upon the walls and the women of the Gordon family would copy the messages down and try to send them to family members of the fallen soldiers.</p><br>
<p>James Lee bought the house from the Gordon heirs and was married into the family after wedding Elizabeth Gordon. After the death of him and his wife, their son Gordon Lee bought the house. Mr. Gordon Lee completely remodeled the house in the early 1900s and made the double front porch into one with tall pillars, this is the current state of the house.</p><br>
<p>The mansion stayed in the Gordon family for a hundred and seven years until it was sold to Dr. Green in 1974. It was then that the house and its grounds went under some reconstruction, it now looks very similar to the way it did over a century ago.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Downtown Historic District is a historic district comprising the downtown commercial area of the city of Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on January 16, 1976, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1986.</p><br>
<p>Settled in as early as the 1820s, the Tecumseh Downtown Historic District centers on the intersection of Evans Street and Chicago Boulevard (M-50). Evans Street contains only two contributing properties from 115 to 125 South Evans Street, while no portions of North Evans Street north of M-50 are included in the district. The majority of the district is on M-50, consisting of 102–128 West Chicago Boulevard and 101–154 East Chicago Boulevard. There are a total of 31 contributing properties and eight non-contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The two-block-long district consists primarily of two to four-story Italianate buildings dating primarily from 1850 to 1900. In 1824, Tecumseh pioneer Musgrove Evans platted the village with the intent of Chicago Boulevard (then known as the Chicago Road) to be the main thoroughfare through the village. After being settled, Tecumseh was designated as the county seat of the newly established Lenawee County. Its growth also relied heavily on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway line running through the area. Tecumseh developed rapidly as the county seat from 1826 to 1838. The government then moved to Adrian, and Tecumseh&#39;s expansion halted. Because of this lack of later development, much of the downtown area has been preserved. The railway line still runs through the center of the district but has long been in disuse.</p><br>
<p>New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a 52 acre cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907.</p><br>
<p>Its listing includes 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 other contributing structures. Deemed as contributing resources were:</p><br>
<p>the 52 acre rural cemetery itself,</p><br>
<p>its traditional, old Jewish graveyard, which are sections A, B, and F of the cemetery,</p><br>
<p>the red granite and wrought iron gate,</p><br>
<p>the monumental Art Deco entrance gate,</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival chapel,</p><br>
<p>Queen Anne "House of Comfort" building,</p><br>
<p>37(?) small mausoleums in Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Modern styles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery has a chapel, built in 1905, which is no longer in use. It has a storage vault below to temporarily hold 4 caskets. The building housing the office, built in 1916, was originally a rest house and luncheon spot to accommodate the horse drawn funerals that took an entire day.</p><br>
<p>There have been 10,925 people buried in the cemetery as of December 31, 2009. Besides the public mausoleum and single graves, there are 1,441 platted family lots, 40 private mausoleums, 2 memorial mausoleums, and 24 sarcophagi. The newest section of the cemetery, encompassing 5.5 acres of single graves and family lots, opened in the spring of 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Maskel House is located on Bacon&#39;s Neck Road near the Greenwich section of Greenwich Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. The building was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1939. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975, for its significance in exploration/settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The building has two sections. The older section is a two-story wood frame house built in 1698. The newer section is a two-story brick addition built in 1725 featuring glazed Flemish bond brickwork. The property was purchased by Thomas Maskell from Edward Shaw in 1703. Two of his descendants, James and Thomas Ewing, participated in the Greenwich Tea Party. The house remained in the family until 1800 when it was sold to Jonathon Doan. The farm was later known as Vauxhall Gardens.</p><br>
<p>The Greenwich Historic District is a historic district located in the Greenwich section of Greenwich Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. When originally listed, it extended from the Cohansey River north toward the neighboring settlement of Othello. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1972, for its significance in agriculture, architecture, commerce, and politics. It included 19 contributing buildings, many documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey . A boundary revision was approved on August 12, 2024.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Greenwich Tea Party of December 22, 1774 is commemorated with the Greenwich Tea Burning Monument erected in 1908. The Old Friends Meeting House is a two-story brick building that was built in 1779 by the Quakers. The Richard Wood House is a two-story brick building constructed in 1795 by the merchant Richard Wood 3rd.</p><br>
<p>The Market Street Historic District is a 166 acre historic district located along Market Street in the downtown area of the city of Salem in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1975, for its significance in architecture, art, commerce, industry, military history, religion, social history, and transportation. The district includes 44 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Old Salem County Courthouse, located at the corner of Broadway and Market streets, was first built in 1735, and later enlarged in 1817 and 1908. It is a 2 story brick building using Flemish bond and features a cupola and a portico with Doric columns. The Johnson House was built in 1807 by Robert Gibbon Johnson, a gentleman farmer. It was moved from its original site to 90 Market Street in 1966. The 3 story brick Ford&#39;s Hotel, also known as the Fenwick Building, at 87 Market Street, features Queen Anne revival style. The First Presbyterian Church was built in 1856 and has a 165 foot central spire.</p><br>
<p>Danforth Memorial Library, also known as the Paterson Free Public Library, is located at 250 Broadway in the city of Paterson in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The library was built in 1905 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1984, for its significance in architecture, education, and social history.</p><br>
<p>The Library sits on a 1.5 acre property and houses the city&#39;s art collection, mostly of painting 19th century paintings donated to the city.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Paterson Free Public Library was established in 1885. Although Paterson had many libraries and reading rooms across the city as early as 1828, most were accessible only to those who paid subscription fees. It wasn’t until 1884, when New Jersey Assemblyman William Prall introduced the New Jersey General Library Act to the State Legislature and called for the establishment of free public libraries across the state. On April 13, 1885, residents of Paterson voted in favor of the Act.</p><br>
<p>It is the oldest public library in New Jersey, and citizens of Paterson created it. Danforth Memorial Library is the current location of the main library branch, and is located at 250 Broadway after the Great Fire of 1902 destroyed the first two libraries. Some 40,000 books in the original Danforth Library were destroyed in the fire, the only books that survived were some on loan by patrons in their homes. The devastating fire left some 500 families homeless and destroyed several city buildings including City Hall, police station, high-school, two banks, five churches, a theatre, among others. In 1888, Mary Elizabeth Danforth Ryle funded the historical building in memory of her father, Charles Danforth, a leading industrialist in Paterson and the inventor of the frame used in Cotton-spinning machinery. Mrs. Ryle gifted the funds under two conditions: that the building be used solely for the city’s Free Public Library and to bear the name “Danforth.” Unfortunately, Mrs. Ryle passed away in 1904, before being able to see the library construction completed in memory of her father.</p><br>
<p>When the cornerstone of the library was laid in October of 1903, Patersonian and Vice Chancellor Eugene Stevens, of the New Jersey Chancery Court said at the ceremony, “…This building will be the home of the Free Public Library of Paterson. It will be an architectural ornament to our city. It has been skillfully designed to meet all the requirements of the most efficient modern library work.” During the laying of the cornerstone ceremony, several items were deposited in the corner stone, including; a photograph of Mrs. Mary E. Ryle, an engraved portrait of the late Charles Danforth, a scrap-book with outlines of the history of both the old and new Danforth Libraries, the Great Fire of 1902 and the Great Floods of 1902 and 1903, silver coins on 1902-1903, and others.</p><br>
<p>A formal dedication ceremony was held on April 29, 1905 where native-Patersonian and former Governor of New Jersey / former member of President William McKinley’s cabinet, John W. Griggs remarked, “Out of the ashes of the old has risen the new nobler structure, an ornament as well as a utility to our city, a building to rejoice over, to behold with admiration and to regard with civic pride.”</p><br>
<p>The Danforth Memorial Library officially opened to the public on May 1, 1905 to a crowd of thousands who jumped on the first opportunity to visit the building. At the time, the total cost of the building construction along with its furnishings was $220,000 (equal to about $7.7 million dollars in 2024).</p><br>
<p>The Library (and its branches) were closed from October 7 – 25, 1918 by order of the Board of Health because of the Spanish Flu epidemic.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, the wife of Vice-President Garrett A. Hobart, gifted a valuable collection of paintings as a memorial to her late-husband to be hung as a permanent exhibit within the library. Hobart donated 26 works of art, including the 1872 painting The Bath by American artist, and cofounder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eastman Johnson.</p><br>
<p>Remodeling was done to the library in 1967, where a staircase was removed from the stack area, a small additional was made to the rear of the building, two of the three skylights were removed, and overhead lighting and air-conditioning were installed along with dropped ceilings on the two floors.</p><br>
<p>By 1995, the library system was reduced from seven locations to three, prior to this, there was a branch in each of the city’s wards. By 1995, there were three (3) additional library branches in the Paterson Public Library system. In 2011, Hurricane Irene destroyed the First Ward (also known as Northside) Branch. Since then, a branch service has been running out of the Christopher Hope Center on Temple Street in its location. In November, 2022, the city announced it was selling the North Main Street library location to a Paterson-based nonprofit group that planned to convert the building into a resource center that would provide mental health counseling, job training and reentry services.</p><br>
<p>These branches are the Totowa Branch, Southside Branch, and Northside Branch. Danforth Memorial Library opened the Community Learning Center in 1986, and it has increased its African American and Spanish language collection. In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated 35 computers. The library’s Southside location now offers an Arabic/Islamic collection thanks to a New Jersey State Library special collections grant. The Danforth Memorial Library is a member of the PALS Plus consortium.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Danforth Memorial Library architecture is described as Classical Revival. It is a two-story building with four monumental columns made with gray limestone material on a granite foundation. It was designed by Henry Bacon, who also designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>The 1956 Biographical Dictionary of American Architects featured Bacon’s architecture and said, “Among the notable examples of his work should be named the Danforth Memorial Library." In a biographical blub on Bacon, the 1978 Encyclopedia of Americana stated, “A strict adherent to the classic Greek style of architecture, Bacon designed several important buildings, among them the public library in Paterson, N.J.”</p><br>
<p>There are 33 names of famous classical works carved on the structure’s frieze that runs around the entire building. Inside, visitors will find a large bronze tablet which commemorates the building’s donor, Mrs. Mary E. Ryle (Charles Danforth’s daughter), depicting her as an angel-like figure in bas-relief completed by sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman (who also worked with Bacon on the sculpturing of the Lincoln Memorial). The bronze tablet was added to the library entrance in November of 1907 after a citizen movement begun pushing for a suitable memorial to be erected in Mrs. Ryle’s honor. Shortly after, Mrs. William Prall gifted a bronze medallion with the head of Rev. William Prall, D.D., who was the library’s first President and one of its founders. Today, that medallion hangs inside the Reference Department.</p><br>
<p>When the library opened in 1905, it featured four stories of steel book stacks which could shelve sixty thousand volumes, a children’s library with hundreds of books, an art library, newspaper reading room, coal cellar, assembly and exhibition room, and reference library, among others. The library also contained four stories of steel book stack shelving in an area of the library that is completely fireproof and housed more than 25,000 volumes.</p><br>
<p>The property owner is the Board of Library Trustees of the City of Paterson. In 2020, the Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, granted $734,812 to rehabilitate the historic landmark; this fund came from the Library Construction Bond Act. According to the library administration, the rehabilitation project will cost $1,469,624; the current mayor, André Sayegh, and his administration need to cover the matching amount. The rehabilitation project consists of renovating the Childrens Department and the Community Literacy Center, modifying the elevator to American with Disabilities standards, replacing the librarys roof, and repairing the retaining wall.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>As of March 2024, the Paterson Free Public Library director is Corey Fleming.</p><br>
<h3>Board of Library Trustees of the City of Paterson.</h3><br>
<p>As of March 2024:</p><br>
<p>Debra Bracy, Mayor’s Alternate</p><br>
<p>Margie Di Alva-Leon</p><br>
<p>Shanikwa Lemon, Superintendent’s Alternate</p><br>
<p>Errol Kerr, Vice President</p><br>
<p>Tracy Pearson</p><br>
<p>Irene Sterling, Secretary/Treasurer</p><br>
<p>Derya Taskin, President</p><br>
<p>Mahbubah Uddin</p><br>
<p>Dennis Vroegindewey</p><br>
<p>Collett Park is a public park in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>The park was established in 1883 on a parcel of land donated to the city of Terre Haute by Josephus Collett, a railroad magnate and philanthropist. Its 21 acre of tree-filled park land are approximately two miles north of downtown Terre Haute. A Romanesque Revival pavilion was built in 1894 by architect J. Merrill Sherman.</p><br>
<p>The park&#39;s large main building with an indoor rental facility as well as outdoor shelters and restrooms. There are also football and soccer fields, a playground, horseshoe pits and tennis courts.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 for its historical significance in entertainment and recreation. The neighborhood that arose around the park, now known as the Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District, was placed on the Register itself in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Standard Oil Gasoline Station is a historic building once used as a gas station in Plainfield, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in Plainfield. As the first transcontinental road in America, the road saw very heavy usage and was re-designated USA Route 30 in the 1920s. From 1940 to 1957, USA Route 66 ran concurrently with US 30 on the same section of Lincoln Highway through Plainfield, creating substantial traffic. Plainfield&#39;s location on the routes made it a prime location for refuelling stations.</p><br>
<p>The station is a fusion of the "Domestic" and "Spanish" style gas stations that Standard Oil designed in the early 20th century. The Domestic elements were intended to represent a cottage, promoting a mom-and-pop atmosphere, while the Spanish style incorporated southwestern architecture. Like most Standard Oil stations at the time, the color scheme was red, white, and blue.</p><br>
<p>Built during the Great Depression, the Plainfield station features less ornamentation than stations during the 1920s due to economic concerns; instead, large panes of plate glass were used along the sides of the station. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984. It is a contributing property to the Downtown Plainfield Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The brick building has a stucco finish. The original metal roofing is intact. A small addition, built from cement block with a flat roof, was later constructed as a car wash. Four piers emerge from the roof and are decorated with glass-globed electric lights; the north two piers are further ornamented with a simple belt course. The two wooden doors have recessed panels below a window. The paint scheme was at one point changed to orange and yellow, but has been changed back to its original red, white and blue.</p><br>
<p>The Plainfield Halfway House is a historic building in Plainfield, Illinois. Plainfield was first settled in the 1820s by a group seeking to convert the local Pottawatomie to Christianity. Squire L. F. Arnold, the first postmaster of Plainfield, owned the tract of land on which the building stands. In 1834, he built a small building to serve as a post office and a stop for stagecoaches. The property was sold in 1836, and a two-story building was constructed adjacent to the original structure. This new structure operated as a tavern and inn. The inn earned its name by being halfway on the stagecoach line between Chicago and Ottawa. A year later, Dr. Erastus Wight became manager of the establishment, running it until his death in 1845. His son, Dr. Roderick Wight, took over from his father and purchased the building in 1850. He added a one-story addition to the back of the inn later that year.</p><br>
<p>The inn&#39;s large size made it an ideal site to conduct town affairs. It was used as a meeting hall in its early years and became the main location for Plainfield social events. The Plainfield Light Artillery used the building as a headquarters from 1856 until the Civil War. The building ceased to function as an inn starting in 1886, and was converted into a private residence. It was home to the descendants of the Wight family until 1956. The original building that served stagecoach passengers was demolished in the 1940s. The remaining building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District is a residential area in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, surrounding Collett Park.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park was established in 1883 and named after its benefactor, Josephus Collett. A community of residents soon formed around it, living mainly in large, single-family houses that were set up in a grid around the park. Many of the homes were built between 1900 and 1920 and are of various architectural styles, including Queen Anne Style, Free Classic, Shingle Style and Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>The area, with its tree-lined streets and impressive dwellings, became a fashionable place for the established residents of Terre Haute to live. In the time when Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) was located only a few blocks south of the area, several professors built homes in the Collett Park neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its significance in architecture, community planning and landscape architecture. The Collett Park Homeowners Association helps care for the neighborhood. Collett Park itself was placed on the Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is a Masonic temple that serves as the home of the Scottish Rite in the Guthrie Valley, Oklahoma Orient, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA This is actually a complex consisting of two buildings on a 10 acre plot of ground on Oklahoma Avenue in downtown Guthrie that was originally named Capitol Park.</p><br>
<h2>NRHP Assessment</h2><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple of Guthrie is architecturally and historically significant because it is one of the best examples of large scale, Neo-Classical Revival style in Oklahoma; it is the largest, most elaborately designed and constructed Masonic Temple in the state; and because of its importance historically to the Masonic fraternal organization in Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>Also "it has been recognized as the center of state-level Masonic activities since 1923, when first used even before completion. It is... the site of the Mason&#39;s statewide functions.... "</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Original building and park</h3><br>
<p>The original building in this complex, now named the East Annex, was constructed in 1908 by the city of Guthrie and called Convention Hall. It was intended as the meeting place for the Oklahoma State Legislature. It was a rectangular brick structure with two two-story wings flanking a two-story atrium having a gallery promenade. A basement completed the internal space.</p><br>
<p>The East Annex was used for one regular session of the Legislature in 1909 and one special session in 1910. After the Legislature agreed to move the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City in 1910, the city of Guthrie offered to sell the Convention Hall complex, including Capitol Park, to the Scottish Rite Masons, who wanted to construct a temple in Guthrie. A deal was concluded with the Parr & Hawk, an Oklahoma City architectural firm, to design the western building (designated as the Temple), and the James Stewart Construction Company began construction in May 1920.</p><br>
<p>It is "one of the world&#39;s largest Masonic Centers".</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by architects and built in 1919 in Classical Revival style. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>From the NRHP nom:</p><br>
<p>It is located at 900 E. Oklahoma in Guthrie.</p><br>
<p>There is a museum, the Guthrie Scottish Rite Museum, there.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Historic District is a residential historic district located in the city of Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1984. On May 18, 1990, the district received a boundary expansion, which required an additional listing on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district, which contains houses dating back to the 1830s, centers on the intersection of West Chicago Boulevard (M-50) and Union Street. The district contains 82 houses, three churches, a former school, and a library as contributing properties. The structures primarily date from the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century and consist mostly of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture. On May 18, 1990, the district received an expansion of two houses located on 704–710 West Chicago Boulevard, bringing the total number of houses in the district up to 84.</p><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Historic District is sometimes referred to as the “West Chicago Boulevard-Union Street Historic District” to distinguish it from the Tecumseh Downtown Historic District, which is located just east on West Chicago Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>The Small–Towle House is a historic residence in Wilmington, Illinois. Wilmington was an important milling down in the 1850s, particularly with the connection of the Chicago and Alton Railroad in 1854. The house was built by William McGinnis in 1864. After five years, he sold the house for more than ten times the price he paid for the lot. One of the early owners of the house was John H. Daniels, Wilmington&#39;s first mayor. In 1870, the Small family purchased the home; the son of the owner married the daughter of McGinnis later that year. Eli Small ran the Mohawk Belle, a steamboat on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. The Smalls lived in the house until 1883, when they sold it to the Towle family. The Towles sold the house in 1933 for $1 during the Great Depression under the condition that the owners cared for Julia Towle. Constructed during the transition time between Greek Revival and Italianate styles, the vernacular building is often classified as "upright-and-wing". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Moar Mound and Village Site is an archaeological site in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. — spread out over an area of 20 acre. One of the few remaining mounds in southern Warren County, the Moar Mound has been very well preserved from deterioration.</p><br>
<p>Believed to be the work of Late Woodland peoples, the mound is believed to be the burial location for one or more individuals and a range of grave goods. It is likely associated directly with the adjacent village, from which multiple burials have been recovered. Archaeological excavations of the village site have yielded a wide range of artifacts, making the Moar Mound and Village Site one of Warren County&#39;s premier archaeological sites.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Moar Mound and Village Site were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. Key to this designation as a historic site was their potential to yield archaeological information about the peoples that built the mound and lived in the village.</p><br>
<p>The Flanders House is a historic residence in Plainfield, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Plainfield was first settled by James Walker in 1829, who later contributed to a sawmill on the DuPage River. This mill brought new settlers to the region, creating Will County&#39;s first permanent community. The new settlement was also halfway down the Chicago to Ottawa stagecoach line, stimulating commercial development. Jason R. Flanders immigrated from Boston, Massachusetts to Troy Township. He farmed his land for eight years before moving to Plainfield in 1840. Flanders was apparently active in the local lumber trade and provided timber for the construction of frame buildings in town.</p><br>
<p>There is no record of the house ever being used for any non-residential purpose, but it may have served travelers in a manner similar to the nearby Plainfield Halfway House. It would have been odd for a building the size of the Flanders House to not take advantage of the stagecoach line. Little is known about Flanders, other than that he was the first constable of Plainfield. By the time of his death, he had amassed a 300 acre land holding. The three surviving Flanders children received a one-third share in the building.</p><br>
<p>Only two buildings remain in Plainfield that were constructed before the Flanders House. The house was sold to the Peace Lutheran Church in 1974 and converted to a parsonage. The church sold in 1990 and restored to its 1841 appearance. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Smith House is a historic First Period house at 82 Plants Dam Road in East Lyme, Connecticut. With a construction history dating to about 1700, it is one of the oldest buildings in the community, exhibiting a pattern of architectural changes over the 18th century. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Smith House is located in a rural setting in western East Lyme, on the north side of Plants Dam Road a short way west of its junction with North Bride Brook Road. It is a -story gambrel-roofed Cape style house, with clapboard and shingle siding, a five bay facade, and a large central chimney. The facade is slightly asymmetrical, with the entrance near its center. The interior follows a central chimney plan, with the east side of the house exhibiting construction methods of the early 18th century, as well as period featheredged wood paneling. There is also a rare surviving fireplace in the basement, indicative that it probably served as a summer kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house, its east side, was built c. 1700, and the main block reached its present size c. 1730. The house was built on land that had been granted to Thomas Bull, one of the founders of Hartford, for his service in the Pequot War of 1637. In 1692 Thomas Bull&#39;s sons sold the land to Nehemiah Smith, Jr. In 1698 Bull transferred it to his second son, Samuel, who built this house near the Niantic River. The house passed out of the Smith family in 1746.</p><br>
<p>The Wylie School is a historic school building at Ekonk Hill Road and Wylie School Road in Voluntown, Connecticut.Built in 1856, this school was used by the town until 1939, and is its only surviving district school building. It is now used as a meeting space and museum by the local historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wylie School is located in a rural setting, at the northern corner of Ekonk Hill Road (Connecticut Route 49) and Sandhill Road. It is a small single-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade has two matching entrances, framed by simple molding and topped by a cornice. The interior has two vestibules with closets between them, leading into a single large schoolroom with a raised section at the back. The buildings utilitarian appearance, which is largely devoid of period stylistic embellishments, was probably more typical of Connecticuts 19th-century district schools. The interior has been furnished to give the appearance it might have had in the 19th century, although the fixtures are not original. The property includes a period privy.</p><br>
<p>The school was built around 1855, on land given for the purpose by Henry Wylie, a local farmer. The school served the northern part of Voluntown until its closure at the end of the school year in 1939. From 1909, its teacher was Margaret Tanner, a teacher who served forty years in the school system, teaching several generations of children.</p><br>
<p>The US Post Office-Norwich Main is located at 340 Main Street in downtown Norwich, Connecticut. Built in 1905 and enlarged in 1938, it is a good local example of Classical Revival architecture, with an unusual level of detail for a period post office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Norwich Main Post Office is located on the eastern fringe of its central business district, on the north side of Main Street between Cliff and Park Streets. It is a tall single-story Classical Revival structure, built of steel framing faced in limestone and brick. It has a mansard-style roof surrounded by a stone balustrade, and a slightly projecting center entrance three bays in width. This section is framed by four fluted Ionic columns, and is flanked by windows set in elaborate bracketed and corniced stone surrounds. Some of the exterior detailing is reflected in the main lobby area, where there are Ionic pilasters rising to detailed ceiling moulding.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in 1903 by James Knox Taylor and built in 1905, with a 1938 addition designed by Louis A. Simon and funded by the Public Works Administration. It was one of only six buildings designed by Taylor in 1903, resulting in an unusually detailed design. The addition was made with similar materials to the original; while not as elaborate in its design, it has elements that tie the two sections together.</p><br>
<p>The Wheeler Block, also known as the Old Town Hall and the former Ransom School, is a historic civic and commercial building at 40 Norwich Avenue in Colchester, Connecticut. Built in 1872, it is a good local example of Second Empire architecture, seeing a variety of civic and commercial uses. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wheeler Block is located in the village center of Colchester, facing north across Norwich Avenue to the town green, near the junction with Hayward Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure in the Second Empire style, with a mansard roof, bracketed cornice, and gable-roof dormers with paired round-arch windows. A single-story porch extends across the front, with turned balusters and bracketed square posts supporting a low-pitch hip roof. An ell extends to the left of the main block. The interior is mainly the product of alterations made in the 1930s, when it was converted for use as town hall.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1872 by Joshua Wheeler, a local merchant and Mason. The building originally housed commercial businesses in the ground floor and the local Masonic lodge above. The lodge, founded in 1781, was the first in the state east of the Connecticut River, and was a major social organization in the town, remaining an active force in civic events and occupying the buildings upper floor until 1970. In 1910 Wheelers daughter, Emeline Ransom, gave the building to the town, which used it as a schoolhouse until 1936, and as town hall until 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Zabriskie Tenant House was a historic house of the American colonial architecture style called Dutch Colonial on Dunkerhook Road in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, adjacent to the Saddle River County Park. The Zabriskie family, who farmed much of the area to the east of the Saddle River , built the home to house their domestic workers. It was one of the few structures left in New Jersey directly related to free African American communities in the state, and was a remnant of an African American Dunkerhook community that  included several homes and an A.M.E. Church. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984, as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission , for its significance in exploration/settlement and architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Developers Sal and Marcello Petruzella made a proposal to demolish the house and subdivide the land for the development of larger stylized houses with no reference to the historical community. In spite of the houses listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and Paramuss own listing of historic resources, the Paramus Planning Board approved the demolition in late April, 2011, and the house was scheduled to be demolished in June, 2011. Preservation New Jersey, the states historic preservation advocacy group, put the house on its 2012 Most Endangered Historic Properties List. Local historians and preservationists, including Peggy Norris, Ted Manvell, and H. Michael Gelfand, worked out a plan to move the house to Bergen Community College for an educational adaptive reuse. This plan was supported by the Countys Board of Chosen Freeholders, the Bergen County Executive, and the administration of Bergen Community College. The college&#39;s campus was also a part of the Zabriskie landholdings, and began to draw up plans for the placement of the house and its use in an educational function. The county was in the process of petitioning the state for funds to move and rehabilitate the structure</p><br>
<p>when on July 13, 2012, the developers Sal and Marcello Petruzella demolished the Zabriskie Tenant House.</p><br>
<p>The demolition was a significant loss for the future understanding of the history of Dutch agricultural settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries, African Americans as slaves and freed peoples in New Jersey, and the rural nature of Bergen County that gave way to the massive suburban development after World War II. The house was of a similar plan as the Naugle House, across the Saddle River in the Borough of Fair Lawn, which utilized open space funds to purchase the Naugle House. The Borough of Paramus failed to make such an effort, but in 2013 seated a Historic Preservation Commission to prevent the loss of other historic resources in the borough. That commission, however, was never legally empowered or given voice in borough decisions and so has had no positive impact on historic preservation in a construction-friendly municipality.</p><br>
<p>Booker T. Washington School, also known as District School #10 and Washington High School, is a historic school building located at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. It was built in 1914 and was designed by the firm of Miller & Yeager Architects. It is a two-story, rectangular brick building with Classical Revival style design elements.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 for its historical significance in African-American education in the area.</p><br>
<p>In recent years through the end of the 2001–2002 school year, the building has housed Booker T. Washington High School, a school for pregnant, parenting and alternative students. Because of safety issues and compliance with current state standards, Washington High School moved from its original location to a new structure near Terre Haute South Vigo High School. As of June 2008, the original building was undergoing appraisal in preparation for being listed for sale.</p><br>
<p>Tan-y-Deri, also known as the Andrew T. Porter Home and the Jane and Andrew Porter Home, is a house in Wyoming, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. It was designed in 1907 by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for his sister Jane Porter  and her family. Jane, her husband Andrew Porter , and their children James  and Anna  moved into the house by late January 1908. The home stands in a valley that was originally settled by the Lloyd Joneses, who were the family of Wright and his sister&#39;s mother. The Lloyd Joneses were originally from Wales and, as a result of this heritage, Wright chose a Welsh name for the Porter home: "tan-y-deri" is Welsh for "under the oaks".</p><br>
<p>Tan-y-Deri is on Wights Taliesin estate, which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It is one of five Wright-designed buildings on the estate; two of them can be seen from it: the Romeo and Juliet Windmill, and the main Taliesin house. The fifth building is Midway Barn, Wrights farming facility.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Porter family moved to the town of Wyoming because Andrew had been hired to be the business manager of the nearby Hillside Home School run by Janes aunts, Jane and Ellen C. Lloyd Jones. Wright designed a home for the Porters, but they chose a design of his that was more economical: Tan-y-deri is an example of one of his designs for A Fireproof House for $5,000. Wrights intended to make these homes fireproof by using concrete. However, since the home was intended for the country, the architect modified the design so that it was clad with cedar shingles.</p><br>
<p>The home was designed with two floors. The main floor had the living room, dining room, and kitchen. And open veranda was accessible from the living room and dining room. The second floor had four bedrooms and the bathroom. Each bedroom was placed on a corner. The home design included an unattached horse stable (no longer extant).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1911, Wright would design his own home, Taliesin, down from the top of a hill within sight of Tan-y-deri (Taliesin is also a Welsh word and means, "shining brow"). Three years later, Tan-y-deri would be used for triage following the attack and fire at Taliesin that resulted in seven deaths. Jane and Andrew&#39;s four-year-old son, Franklin, was kept upstairs away from the victims, but his bedroom overlooked the open veranda on which they were laid. Wright biographer, Meryle Secrest, wrote that Franklin, while recalling his memories of the event:… Mingled with the memory of intense excitement of the fire is that of men moaning in the night with pain, and of a whippoorwill singing during moments of quiet…. For ever after the song of a whippoorwill at night at Tan-y-Deri seems infinitely sad.The Hillside Home School closed in 1915, so the next year, Andrew went to work in Chicago in an investment firm. Two years after that, the family followed Andrew to Chicago and the Porters purchased the Arthur Heurtley House, also by Wright. Tan-y-deri then became a summer vacation home for the Porters until the 1930s. Andrew Porter retired in 1935, after which he and Jane returned to living at Tan-y-deri full time. They remodeled the lower level, opening the former basement into excavated space on the north. By the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright had started the Taliesin Fellowship (his architectural apprentice program) on the Taliesin estate.</p><br>
<p>Andrew died several years after World War II, in 1948. Jane died five years later. In 1955 their son, Franklin, sold the home and surrounding acre to his uncle, so it also became part of the Taliesin estate. The estate is owned by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which was founded by Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife, Olgivanna, in 1940.</p><br>
<p>Frank Lloyd Wright left Tan-y-Deri and the rest of the Taliesin estate to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Because the house has been owned by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, it has since been used as housing by the Taliesin Fellowship and the School of Architecture at Taliesin. A major restoration project of the home was carried out by Taliesin Preservation, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the Taliesin estate and running a tour program and bookstore housed near the site at the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center (also a Wright design).</p><br>
<p>The Hill–Carrillo Adobe, also known as Carrillo Adobe is a historic structure in Santa Barbara, California. Built in 1825 and 1826, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is also registered as a California Historical Landmark site  as well.</p><br>
<p>It is a U-shaped building consisting of original rectangular 1825–1826 section that faces the street and two wings added in the 1900s. It was built by Daniel Hill, originally from Billerica, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The Lodi Arch, also known as Mission Arch, in Lodi, California, is one of the few remaining Mission Revival ceremonial structures within the state of California. It was built in 1907 by architect E. B. Brown for the first Lodi Tokay Carnival, which still occurs annually as the Lodi Grape Festival. The following year, a California Golden Bear and a sign reading "Lodi" were added to the arch. The arch was restored in 1956 after its deteriorating condition made it a safety hazard; the golden bear was turned to the North in 1956 and has also been restored twice, in the 1940s and in 2001. In addition to its architectural significance, the arch serves as a symbol of Lodi and a focal point for the city&#39;s downtown.</p><br>
<p>It was listed as both a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Roops Fort, also known as Roops Trading Post, Fort Defiance, and Roop House, is a historic building in Susanville, California. The building, which was built in 1854 by Isaac Roop, was the first building built by white settlers in Lassen County. The fort was originally a trading post for westbound migrants and was the first post west of Fort Hall in Idaho. The building also served as the capitol of the short-lived Nataqua Territory, a territory created in 1856 to avoid California tax collectors. The territory was incorporated into Roop County, Nevada, named for Isaac Roop, in 1861. California and Nevada entered into a border dispute known as the Sagebrush War over the Susanville area in 1863, and Roops Fort served as a fort for the Nevadans during the skirmish. California won the war, and Roops Fort became part of Lassen County in 1864.</p><br>
<p>It is a California Historical Landmark (#76), and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Catlett House, also known as Beechmoor Place is a historic house located in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 25, 1973. Approximately one-half of this building was built circa 1812 by two brothers, Horatio and Alexander Catlett Jr. The Catlett brothers and their parents, Alexander Catlett  and Susanna Beall, were early settlers to the area and operated a trading post, inn, tavern, and USA Post Office from this location for many years. Natives of Virginia, the Catletts settled at Mouth of Sandy around the turn of the 19th century. They capitalized on the growing river trade and prospered at this location. The town was laid out in 1849 by civil engineer James Fry and named Catlett&#39;s Burgh in honor of the two brothers, who were the first European settlers of present-day Catlettsburg.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1860s, many years after the Catletts ceased to do business in Catlettsburg, a larger addition was built on to the Catlett House by then owner C.W. Culver. The original Catlett House became the south wing of the new dwelling. It was covered in white clapboard siding and used as a living quarters for the servants of the larger home. In 1868 the wife of Colonel Laban T. Moore purchased the three acre property with home from Mr. Culver for $10,000. Colonel Moore, an attorney, had served one term in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the 14th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Once under his ownership, he named the house Beechmoor for the large beech tree that stood on the property and for his surname of Moore.</p><br>
<p>Beechmoor has remained under the ownership of Colonel Laban T. Moores descendants since 1868. It is still a grand residence, with a library featuring over 2,000 works of literature, a music parlor, a formal sitting parlor, a formal dining room, and four bedrooms upstairs in the main house. Several 64 in wood logs of virgin timber hold the 42 ft house up from its natural stone cellar. The Catlett House portion is not recognizable as a log cabin, the logs have been covered over with wood siding. The last full-time resident of the Catlett House/Beechmoor home was Rebecca Patton, Colonel Laban T. Moores granddaughter. She died in 1986, well over 90 years of age. Before her death, she dedicated herself to the preservation of her beloved lifelong home. Since her 1986 death the home has been maintained with proceeds from a trust fund she created before her death and the rental income from seven houses on the estate. The first portico was replaced with a second larger portico. It has since been removed, and the original green wood swinging shutters have also been removed. An effort to restore the estate has been underway by Col. Moore&#39;s present-day descendants recently, with exterior painting completed in June 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe is a Monterey Colonial style building from 1846, located in Salinas, Monterey County, California. The adobe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973, and is California Historical Landmark #870.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Boronda Adobe is a Spanish Colonial adobe, with a wood-shingled roof, wrap-around porches, open beamed ceilings, and two indoor fireplaces. It was built by José Eusebio Boronda between 1844 and 1848. The adobe is located on Boronda Road, northwest of Salinas, California. Boronda who was the grantee of Rancho Rincon de Sanjon, a 2,230 acre Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Eusebio Boronda. Boronda is the third son of Captain José Manuel Boronda and Maria Gertrudis Higuera.</p><br>
<p>In about 1887, the family members of William Anderson and Ines Boronda de Anderson, daughter of José Eusebio Boronda were living in the adobe. In the 1920s, Ygnacio Boronda (Eusebio&#39;s grandson) and his family was the last Borondas to live in the adobe. In 1929, the adobe property was sold to Charles Brooks who built his home behind the adobe.</p><br>
<h2>Boronda History Center</h2><br>
<p>The Monterey County Historical Society (MCHS) acquired the Boronda Adobe in December 1972, from Marguerite (Earl) Wilson. The terms of the transaction was 3 acre of the adobe property was purchased for $5,500 and 2 acre and the adobe was a gift from Wilson. The adobe has been restored and was made into a museum in 1976. Today it operates as part of the Boronda History Center.</p><br>
<p>The registration for the Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe as a California Historical Landmark dates back to March 15, 1974.</p><br>
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<p>Simons General Store is a historic general store located at Ancram in Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1873–74 and is a rectangular shaped three story frame structure. It features a cupola and an elaborate two story piazza. The interior features original furniture and fixtures dating between 1874 and 1895, with electric fixtures dating between 1911 and 1915.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Peck House is a historic Greek Revival-style home located in the hamlet of North Chatham in Columbia County, New York. It was reconstructed about 1848 and is an imposing, 2-story, symmetrical, five-bay-wide and one-bay-deep dwelling with a substantial -story rear wing. It features a three-bay, 1-story porch with Doric order columns. The interior features a number of Greek Revival–style details. Also on the property is a brick smoke house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is also included as a contributing building in the North Chatham Historic District, which was added to the National Register in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Peck House is located at the intersection of County Road 32 and New York State Route 203.</p><br>
<p>James G. Van Valkenburgh House is a historic home located at Chatham in Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1843 and is a Greek Revival–style residence. It is a large, 2-story, five-bay center-entrance, two-bay-deep, frame dwelling with a large -story service wing. The main entry features a single-story open porch with four fluted Doric order columns and a deep entablature. Also on the property are a garage, two barns, and a well house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>William Henry Ludlow House is a historic home located at Claverack in Columbia County, New York, next to the Ludlow-Van Rensselaer House. It was built in 1786 and is a Georgian-style residence. It is a -story, five-bay center-entrance, brick dwelling. The south facade features a finely crafted Palladian window. Also on the property are four large stone gate posts and an original mile marker. There are 10 fireplaces. Outbuildings include the original summer kitchen, root cellar, ice house and a new carriage house. The house underwent a historically correct restoration in 2011.</p><br>
<p>William Henry Ludlow (1740-1803) was a New York merchant who came to Claverack to escape the British occupation of the city during the Revolution. As a prominent Federalist, William Ludlow entertained Supreme Court Justice John Jay in the house in the spring of 1789. The Ludlow House was a precursor to what became known as the Federal style of American architecture. He is buried in The Claverack Dutch Reformed Churchyard. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The property was previously owned by Academy Award-winning film producer Peter Spears and his husband,</p><br>
<p>Brian Swardstrom; they purchased the home in 2009 and sold it in 2012. It remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Ludlow-Van Rensselaer House is a historic home located at Claverack in Columbia County, New York, next to the William Henry Ludlow House. It was built in 1774 and is a 2-story, five-by-one-bay center entrance, brick dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 2-story gable-roofed rear wing. The entry features a finely crafted portico composed of Ionic order columns supporting a wide entablature and shallow pitched roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Dr. Elbert S. Porter House, also known as "Oakledge", is a historic home located at Claverack in Columbia County, New York. It was built in 1846, and is a Greek Revival–style residence. It is a 2-story, three-by-two-bay, side entry frame dwelling with a single-storied square-columned porch spanning the facade. The 2-story main block is flanked by small single-story wings.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
