<p>Croghan Island Mill is a historic saw mill complex and concrete dam located near Croghan in Lewis County, New York. The mill complex consists of three blocks; the mill building main block, cold storage block, and office block. The main block is a five-by-three-bay, -story gable-roofed structure sheathed in clapboard, approximately 30 by in size. The cold storage block is a 1-story, gable-roofed addition to the north side of the main block. The office block is a -story, shed-roofed addition projecting south of the main block. The complex also includes the wheel house and flume box in a -story ell projecting off the main block. The concrete dam was built in 1906 and has an approximately 2-story drop.</p><br>
<p>The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Moser Farm, also known as The Mennonite Heritage Farm or Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Farm, is a historic farm complex located near Kirschnerville in Lewis County, New York. The complex consists of Moser family dwelling and a compact grouping of a granary and two English barns. The frame dwelling was built in 1845 and consists of a 2-story, three-bay block and four-bay, -story ell. It was used for Mennonite worship services in the 19th century. The granary dates to the mid- to late 19th century, and the barns date to 1874. The property was purchased in the 1980s as a living history museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is a historic farm situated in western Darke County, Ohio, United States. Located at 467 Stingley Road,</p><br>
<p>Natives of Rockingham County, Virginia, James and Sophia Clemens settled in Darke County in 1818 and became prosperous farmers. Their success led other former slaves to migrate to the vicinity, and a community known as "Longtown" (alternately "Tampico") gradually grew up in the vicinity of the Clemens farm. Over the years, the community became a center for the Underground Railroad, complete with a Quaker school known as the Union Literary Institute; among the movement&#39;s leaders in the community were the Clemens family.</p><br>
<p>The Clemens house itself was erected circa 1850 on land purchased in 1822. The two-story brick I-house rests on a limestone foundation and is covered with a tin roof. Though the house is presently uninhabited, a movement to restore the house and designate Longtown a state historic landmark began in the mid-2000s. The Clemens house itself has been designated a historic site, having been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, along with the other building on the property. It qualified for the Register both because of its place in local history and its association with James Clemens, who was seen as a significant individual in the history of Darke County.</p><br>
<p>The A&P Food Stores Building is an Art Deco–style commercial building designed by Saum Architects in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Built in 1940, it was one of the few small commercial buildings in St. Louis designed in the Art Deco style. The building was also significant as having been one of the first supermarkets in St. Louis that was developed to serve automobile-owning customers, providing parking and convenient "one-stop shopping".</p><br>
<p>There were as many as 84 A&P stores in the city, 20 being supermarkets and the others being cash and carry stores; this building is one of the last surviving of these, and it was among those which kept operating up until A&P entirely left the city in 1979–1980.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Union Pacific Railroad Complex in Evanston, Wyoming, was built to serve the Union Pacific Railroad main line running through Evanston. The complex&#39;s brick buildings were built in 1912–13, with frame buildings spanning the period from 1871 to the 1920s. The complex features a roundhouse with 27 stalls built during the 1912 improvement phase, replacing an earlier roundhouse built in 1871. The complex was the chief service point on the UP main line between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>Five brick structures remain: the roundhouse, machine shop, gas building, storehouse and the mineral building. Five frame buildings include an office, a woodworking shop and a company store.</p><br>
<p>The maintenance depot was closed and transferred to Green River in 1927. The Evanston complex became the Union Pacific Reclamation Plant, where rolling stock received heavy overhaul. It was the largest employer in Evanston, employing more than 300. The Union Pacific deeded the complex to Evanston in 1974. An overhaul facility for railcars reopened the same year.</p><br>
<p>Near the complex is a disused Union Pacific train station, built in 1900 and donated to the city of Evanston in the late 1980s. The depot last saw service in 1983, when the San Francisco Zephyr was discontinued and again from 1991 to 1997 with the Pioneer.</p><br>
<p>The Union Pacific Railroad Complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The George S. Abbott Building, also known as Wheeler and Wilson Building and Abbott Towers Apartments, is a historic mixed-use residential and commercial building at 245-247 North Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. Built in 1899, it is locally unusual for its all-masonry construction, and its unique adaptation to a triangular lot. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Abbott Building is located a few blocks north of downtown Waterbury, at the northeast corner of North Main and Cooke Streets. The lot is a sloping triangular area of about 3/4 acre, which the building occupies most of. The building is actually composed of two structures, both built mainly with orange brick, although some portions are red brick and there is stone and wooden trim. Five stories in height, it has a distinctive blend of Romanesque and Panel Brick styles, and is an architectural elegant solution to a challenging lot, which is both narrow and steeply sloped. The ground floor historically housed several small storefronts, which have since been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The block was built by contractor Henry A. Lawler in 1899 for George S. Abbott, a local real estate developer, as a speculative venture. The building went through a number of ownership changes, with some owners living in one of the upper units, or operating a business on the premises, or both. From 1930 to about 1980, one of its storefronts was home to the city&#39;s longest-running small business, a tire shop.</p><br>
<p>The Marietta Canty House is a historic house at 61 Mahl Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1897, this Queen Anne style house is notable as the home of singer and African American activist Marietta Canty . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marietta Canty House stands in a residential area in Hartford&#39;s Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, north of the downtown. It is on the south side of Mahl Avenue, just east of its junction with Bethel Avenue. It is one of a row of similar vernacular Queen Anne two-family houses built by developer Frederick Mahl between 1893 and 1897. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and exterior clad in vinyl siding. It is two bays wide, with a formerly two-story (now single-story) porch sheltering the entrance on the right bay. Although the building is not architecturally distinguished, its interior retains original finishes and materials, including staircases, trim, gas lighting fixtures, and fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 1930 by Mary and Henry Canty. Henry Canty, who worked as a janitor for the city, was a prominent member of Hartford&#39;s African American community, a devout Christian attending Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and an active canvasser for the Republican Party. He was also a prominent community activist, helping to organize community clubs for African Americans when the local YMCA would not admit them, and helping to run Camp Bennett, a summer camp for urban youth in Glastonbury.</p><br>
<p>Cantys daughter Marietta appeared on stage on Broadway and elsewhere, and had more than 40 film roles, including parts in Rebel without a Cause, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lady in the Dark. Her typical film role was that of a domestic servant. She ended her acting career in 1951, and returned to Hartford, where she was active in community affairs and politics. She was twice a candidate for Hartfords city council.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Seaside Institute in Bridgeport, Connecticut is a Richardsonian Romanesque rock-faced granite, brick, brownstone and terracotta building designed by Warren R. Briggs and completed in 1887 at the corner of Lafayette and Atlantic avenues, not far from Seaside Park. Originally built for the use and benefit of the female employees of the Warner Brothers Corset Company, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The buildings is currently used by the Bridgeport International Academy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1886, the corset factory founded by Drs. I. D. and Lucien C. Warner in Bridgeport employed approximately 1200 people, seven-eighths of whom were women. The Seaside Institute was designed as a dining, lecture and meeting hall with library, music and reading rooms for the benefit of these female employees. Together with similar buildings constructed for the welfare of employees such as the People&#39;s Club supported by mill owners in Lowell, Massachusetts, Seaside Institute stands as an example of 19th century philanthropy aimed at the welfare of employees or industrial paternalism. An 1887 account of the purposes of the Institute printed in The Century expresses the particular solicitousness toward women employees:</p><br>
<p>The Seaside Institute was dedicated in an 1887 ceremony attended by Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of the President, and served its intended purposes for a number of years. By 1917, the Warners employed some 2200 women employees with the Institute providing meals, library and classes taught by organizations such as the Young Womens Christian Association. The institute was much remarked upon as an example of what could be done to fight the perceived negative influences of a variety of then-modern conditions, including, the labor problem: "Hushing the discontent of labor by paying fairly... its builders have erected here an island of peace in the storm, which demagogism linked with dishonesty and unthrift, is trying everywhere to precipitate." Likewise, the institute was seen as pointing towards a solution to the perceived ills of women working outside the home: "It ought to be possible for modern invention... to carry this admirable enterprise further on, and to provide for the thousand girls. For the development of the finer elements of character every young girl needs a room which there is some encouragement to keep tidy, and a chance to make pretty, if not beautiful." The institute was even seen as providing a model for ameliorating the perceived problem of saloon patronage by workers. During the labor shortage in World War I, Warner Brothers used the institutes amenities in an attempt to attract women workers who could make more money making cartridges than corsets, describing "club rooms" where employees could take classes in gymnastics, embroidery and English. The offerings of the Institute did not, however, dissuade women workers from organizing and seeking better pay and working conditions, such as in 1915 when the International Textile Workers of America staged a strike seeking the eight-hour day, one of many such strikes in Bridgeport that summer.</p><br>
<h2>Bridgeport International Academy</h2><br>
<p>In 1994, UBA Inc. bought the Seaside Institute building and later became home to Bridgeport International Academy. The building currently houses both the academy as well as Bridgeport Hope School, a K-8 private elementary school.</p><br>
<p>The South Superior Union Hall was built in 1921 in the southern part of what is now Superior, Wyoming. It is located on Main Street. The hall was built by six locals of the United Mine Workers to accommodate union and community activities in the coal-mining community of Superior, and bears the UMWA logo on its pediment, and the inscription Union Hall over the entrance. Built in 1921, the two-story brick hall&#39;s plan is a parallelogram, thought to be unique for its time in Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The hall housed doctors and dentists offices, a bowling alley and a grocery store. Dances were held in the upstairs meeting space. With the closing of the Superior mines in the 1960s the union hall was sold in 1964. The hall was converted to a cafe, but the business did not prosper and the hall was abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The South Superior Union Hall has been restored and is the center of an interpretive park. Theground floor rooms have been opened up as public spaces with interpretive displays.</p><br>
<p>The South Superior Union Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Fort George  was a palisaded earthwork fort built in 1779 by Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War in Castine, Maine. Located at a high point on the Bagaduce Peninsula, the fort was built as part of an initiative by the British to establish a new colony called New Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The fort was the principal site of the British defense during the Massachusetts-organized Penobscot Expedition, a disastrous attempt in July and August of 1779 to retake Castine in response to the British move. The British re-occupied Castine in the War of 1812 from September 1814 to April 1815, rebuilding Fort George and establishing smaller forts around it, again creating the New Ireland colony. The remains of the fort, now little more than its earthworks, are part of a state-owned and town-maintained park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Fort George is today a roughly square earthwork, about 200 ft on each side, with bastions at the corners that project out an additional 40 ft. These works are for the most part about 10 ft in height, although the easternmost bastion is 20 ft high.</p><br>
<p>Features of the fort that have not survived include a palisade, moat, and gateway.</p><br>
<p>The fort at one time was surrounded by a 20 ft wall topped with fraising, and with cheval de frise at the base.</p><br>
<p>Additional defenses included the digging of a canal across much of the neck separating the Bagaduce Peninsula from the rest of the mainland.</p><br>
<p>Castine is set at a strategically significant location near the head of Penobscot Bay, and was a point of conflict at several times between the 17th and 19th centuries. The fort was one of a series of defenses erected by the British in 1779.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Pursuant to plans for establishing a military presence on the coast of Maine as well as the colony of New Ireland, a British force led by General Francis McLean arrived off Castine in June 1779, seized the town, and established Fort George and other fortifications in the area. Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a part, responded by raising a large militia force, which in an operation known as the Penobscot Expedition, disastrously failed in its attempt to dislodge the British in July and August of 1779.</p><br>
<p>The British established the fort under the command of a general named Campbell. There were about 30 houses in the area. They brought in prizes (captured ships and cargo), and received trade from British-controlled Halifax and New York. Loyalists from the surrounding area flocked to the village.</p><br>
<p>The fort was not abandoned by the British until 1784.</p><br>
<p>The British re-occupied Castine in the War of 1812 from September 1814 to April 1815, again establishing New Ireland. They rebuilt Fort George, renamed the captured Fort Madison (aka Fort United States) as Fort Castine, and built Forts Furieuse, Gosselin, Griffith, and Sherbrooke. They also refurbished the peninsula&#39;s canal defense line. They withdrew after the cessation of hostilities, and following a brief period of American use, the fort was abandoned and demolished in 1819.</p><br>
<p>The fort was not re-used by the United States until after the War of 1812.</p><br>
<h3>Detainment and Escape of Wadsworth and Burton</h3><br>
<p>A Loyalist guide led a party, traveling from Falmouth (now Portland) to Fort George. Upon returning to his home in Camden he was captured, court-martialed and executed by the Americans, tried by Major Benjamin Burton under the direction of Brigadier General Peleg Wadsworth.</p><br>
<p>In revenge for this, a party of 25 Loyalists went to Wadsworths quarters at Camden and took him prisoner, injuring Wadsworth. Months later, Major Benjamin Burton was captured while in passage from Boston to St. Georges River. They were incarcerated at Fort George and meant to be moved to prisons in either Halifax or New York, later to be transported to England.</p><br>
<p>Wadsworth and Burton escaped on June 15, 1781 by cutting a hole in the roof of their jail. Under cover of a heavy rainstorm, the noise of their escape was drowned out.</p><br>
<h2>National Historic Place</h2><br>
<p>The state of Maine acquired the fort in 1940, and twenty years later provided funds to rebuild a magazine with other improvements.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Fort George is the site of Majabigwaduce, the location for Bernard Cornwell&#39;s 2010 book The Fort, which is about the Penobscot Expedition.</p><br>
<p>The Cora F. Cressey was a five masted 273 ft wooden-hulled freight schooner operating in the coasting trade along the east coast of the United States. Built in 1902, it served in that trade until 1928. After serving for a time as a floating nightclub, its hulk was towed to the Keene Narrows in Bremen, Maine, where it was scuttled to serve as a breakwater for a lobster operation. Despite its deteriorating condition, the hulk is one of the largest surviving wooden hulls in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Cora F. Cressey was built in 1902 at the Percy and Small Shipyard (now the campus of the Maine Maritime Museum) in Bath, Maine. As built, she was a five-masted schooner, 273 ft long, with a beam of 45.4 ft and a hold depth of 27.9 ft. The hull was not diagonally braced, but did have iron belts for reinforcement. She had a registered capacity of 2499 gross tons and 2089 net tons. She was fitted with two decks and had a typical crew complement of eleven. She had a small steam donkey engine for raising anchors and sails, but not propulsion.</p><br>
<h2>Operational history</h2><br>
<p>Cora F. Cressey was primarily engaged in transporting coal along the eastern seaboard of the United States from southern ports to the north. Her high bow is credited with helping her survive a gale in 1924 that caused the Wyoming, the largest schooner ever built, to sink. In service until 1928, she was converted for use as a floating nightclub in Boston in 1929. Later she was towed to Gloucester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island in the same role.</p><br>
<p>In 1938 her masts were removed and she was purchased by the owner of a lobster operation in Bremen, Maine. She was towed to the Keene Narrows, between the mainland and Oar Island, and partially filled with sand to serve as a lobster pound. Holes were cut in her hull in an unsuccessful bid to improve circulation, and she ended up acting as a breakwater for lobster pens set between her and the shore. In 1988, a 40 ft section of her hull fell off. Portions of her fixtures and equipment were removed prior to her use as a breakwater, and survive as display items at the Maine Maritime Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The badly deteriorating hulk of Cora F. Cressey is one of the largest surviving wooden hulls in the United States. Due to the structural limitations of wooden construction, ships of this size were often leaky, and could not withstand the stresses of heavy weather and sustained hard sailing. Although the largest had up to seven masts, sail power put them at a competitive disadvantage with steam-powered vessels, which could make passage more reliably. There are no known surviving six- or seven-masted wooden schooner hulls.</p><br>
<p>The Colman Building is a historic office building on First Avenue in downtown Seattle, Washington. It occupies a half of a block in proximity to Pioneer Square, and is bound by First Avenue, Marion, and Columbia Streets. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a City of Seattle landmark.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in several stages with a change of design between 1889 and 1906. It was commissioned by Scottish immigrant and master machinist James Murray Colman who arrived in Seattle in 1872 and would later build Seattles first brick office building (1875) and Colman Dock which originally was the citys main coal shipping point. Colman owned large tracts of lands along Seattles waterfront and was instrumental in bringing the first railroad (Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad) to the city as well as helping start the citys first street car line.</p><br>
<p>Architect Stephen J. Meany drew the original plans in a Victorian style while the reconstruction that is visible today was the work of August Tidemand, inspired by the Chicago School with less ornamentation and large pivoting windows. The architectural cast-iron elements from the original design remain on the first floor, while the second floor was re-faced rusticated stone. Four floors of red brick trimmed with marble were built on top of this. The building is crowned with a copper cornice. The Colman building was one of the largest office buildings in Seattle in the 1900s and was the centerpiece of Colman&#39;s multi-million dollar estate at the time of his death in 1906 shortly after its completion.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>James Colman and the first Colman Building</h3><br>
<p>Among his numerous land holdings along Seattles waterfront, James Colman owned the entire block of First Avenue between Columbia and Marion Streets. According to legend, he came to acquire the property when he towed the wrecked ship Windward to shore there intending to salvage it. When the Colman building was later built on the site, the ships hull was surrounded by land and buried under the foundation where it is said to still lie in the sub-basement. By the mid 1880s Colman had built up the lot with a uniform row of 2-story wood frame shops, occupied by everything from fruit sellers to undertakers and one of the earliest permanent locations of Seattle&#39;s YMCA.</p><br>
<p>In 1888, Colman commissioned architect Stephen Meany to design a large office building that would occupy his property. Meany&#39;s design was of an ornate five story brick Victorian/Romanesque edifice trimmed in cast iron and faced in cement and would feature a large central tower. While the cornerstone was laid and foundation begun in early 1889, a shortage of stone plaguing the city forced Colman to put off construction in order to keep collecting rents on buildings still on the property as long as possible. Construction of the building was made easier when the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 wiped out all of the buildings on the block. Construction commenced as soon as the debris was cleared.</p><br>
<p>During the rebuilding of Seattle in the aftermath of the fire, a huge surplus of office space was being created with all of the multi-story structures being built simultaneously. Noticing this, Colman halted construction of the building, which had only reached its second floor. It remained in this unfinished form for the next fifteen years. Despite its stunted growth, the Colman became an important business address in the city and housed many notable businesses and social clubs like the Elks and the Seattle Bureau of Information, whose sole purpose was to keep the newspapers in on the East coast supplied with good news about the city. The Customs House operated within the Colman Building as well as the Circuit Court. Architect Meany moved his offices into the building and The Dexter Horton Bank, a predecessor to Seafirst Bank, relocated to the building in 1890 while their new building was being built.</p><br>
<p>In July 1895 the corrugated iron-clad warehouses occupying the other half of the block burned to the ground. Colman replaced them with a 3-story stone warehouse building, known as The Colman Block Annex, which eventually functioned for many years as a candy factory, before being demolished in the mid-20th century for a parking lot. Today, this is the site of Griffis Seattle Waterfront (Formerly known as The Post Apartments.)</p><br>
<h3>Reconstruction</h3><br>
<p>Construction of the Colman Building was finally resumed in February 1904 and by this time, architectural tastes had changed, and Colman hired Norwegian architect August Tidemand, who had designed the Colman Block Annex ten years prior, to completely rebuild the building in a Chicago School style while still echoing the building&#39;s intended 1889 layout. Tenants were moved to the nearby Burke Building until construction finished. Perks of the new building would include 300 offices, fireproof construction and stair fire escapes. Another improvement over the old building would be the addition of three elevators with 24-hour operators. As construction began in early 1904 The Seattle Times noted the improved service over that of the Colman Building at the time:</p><br>
<p>Reconstruction of the building involved removing most of the brick facade and arches to be replaced with stone, with the floors above to be executed in brick trimmed with stone, all crowned by a projecting copper cornice. Several cast-iron elements from Meany&#39;s original design including the entrance arch and storefront columns were retained and integrated into the new facade. When completed in 1906, the new building rose six stories high and cost $150,000.</p><br>
<p>The Colman Building housed several businesses that catered to miners during the Alaska Gold Rush as well as housing several administrative offices for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1908-9.</p><br>
<p>The lobby of the building was completely rebuilt in 1930 with designs by Seattle architect Arthur Loveless.</p><br>
<h3>Recent history</h3><br>
<p>On March 16, 1972, the Colman Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In October 1978, the building was purchased by CHG-City Center Investors, who began a ten-year, three phase process of restoring the building to its original grandeur. On March 19, 1990, the Colman Building became a City of Seattle Landmark (Ordinance #114993) on nomination by CHG International of Federal Way, Washington, with James Mason as their agent.</p><br>
<p>The Colman Building was brought back to local ownership in 1997 when Triad Development purchased the building for $7.1 million from Plaza Realty Holdings Inc. of Long Beach, California. They had in turn purchased the building out of foreclosure in 1996. Triad spent over $2 million in renovations including new air conditioning and better interior lighting as well improving street level businesses. In 2019, Unico Properties purchased the Colman Building for approximately $37 million.</p><br>
<p>The Circle Ranch, also known as the R.L. Miller Ranch has been continuously operated as a working cattle ranch for more than 100 years. Located in Sublette County, Wyoming, it was first occupied as a homestead by Otto Liefer between 1878 and 1880. Liefer sold his claim to James Mickelson in 1895, who developed the ranch into one of the largest ranching operations in the area. The ranch has remained in the Mickelson family ever since.</p><br>
<p>The cottonwood log Liefer cabin remains standing, along with a cabin built about the same time by Nicolas Swan. Together, they are the oldest permanent structures standing in Sublette County. The early cabins are surrounded by ranch buildings built by the Mickelson-Miller family, including a 1905 ranch house. By 1915 Mickelson&#39;s holdings in the area amounted to 20,000 acres, with 6000 cattle.</p><br>
<p>The Circle Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Judge Isaac Wilson House is a historic residence in Batavia, Illinois. It was the home of Isaac Wilson, a former Congressman who moved to the Batavia region and later named the settlement. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Isaac Wilson moved from Batavia, New York to Batavia, Illinois in 1835, two years after the first settlers arrived in the area. He was previously the judge of the Genesee County Court and a member of the New York State Assembly. He was elected to the 18th United States Congress with the Democratic-Republican Party, supporting the Adams-Clay ticket. He was the first representative voted by New Yorks 29th congressional district. Wilson built a 14 by log cabin on his Batavia land claim. Isaac Wilsons only son Isaac Grant Wilson became a prominent judge in Kane County, earning the elder judge the nickname "Daddy" Wilson. Wilson named the growing settlement Batavia in 1840. A year later he was named the town&#39;s first postmaster, and he probably used his house as the post office.</p><br>
<p>The two-story house was constructed during Wilsons term as postmaster, in 1843. The lumber was produced locally with Batavias sawmills. He lived in his house until his death in 1848. The house (and much of the surrounding neighborhood) remained with his heirs for many years. The Chicago and Aurora Railroad as built in 1850, and Wilson&#39;s descendants were able to board the train from their front lawn. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Judge Isaac Wilson house is a vernacular Greek Revival frame house. The entrance is on the north-northeast corner with a six-panel door. The main portion of the home is 23.5 by with eight double-hung sash windows on the first floor and three on the second. The floors are constructed with ash and chestnut lumbar. The southeast portion of the first floor was used as the fireplace room. A two-room basement lies beneath the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The R.E. Hoy No. 1 Oil Well was constructed by the Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation in September 1916. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986. Milton C. Garber and his brother Bert Garber hired geologist Dorsey Hager to determine potential drilling locations on their properties. The Garber brothers contracted Harry F. Sinclair to construct a well on R. E. Hoy&#39;s farm (NE corner, Section 25, T22N, R4W,</p><br>
<p>Garfield County). From 1916 to 1940 the well utilized primary production, adding secondary methods of gas injection (1941 to 1948) and waterflooding (since 1948). At the time of nomination, the Hoy well was producing 4 barrels, and had been in operation for 69 years.</p><br>
<p>Inyan Kara Mountain  is a mountain associated with the Bear Lodge Mountains of Crook County, Wyoming,  that is considered sacred by the Lakota people, particularly for mothers in childbirth. Inyan Kara stands apart from the main body of the Black Hills, with an elevation of 6,368 ft. The mountain was stated to rumble on quiet days by the local Native Americans and by early explorers. No mention of the noises is found after 1833; the noise has been attributed to gas escaping from burning coal seams.</p><br>
<p>The peak was visited by George Armstrong Custer during Custer&#39;s 1874 Black Hills Expedition, reaching the summit on July 23.</p><br>
<p>The peak was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Ranch A, near Beulah, Wyoming, was built as a vacation retreat for newspaper publisher Moses Annenberg. The original log ranch structures in Sand Creek Canyon were designed in the rustic style by architect Ray Ewing. The principal building, a large log lodge, was built in 1932. Other buildings constructed at the time included a garage with an upstairs apartment, a barn, a hydroelectric power plant, stone entrance arches and a pump house. The lodge was furnished with Western furniture and light fixtures made by noted designer Thomas C. Molesworth. Many of these furnishings, among the first of Molesworth&#39;s career, are now the property of the state of Wyoming and are in the Wyoming State Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Annenberg bought the property around November 1927 from Frank LaPlante. Annenberg and his son Walter were going to Yellowstone National Park and stopped to eat in Beulah. Impressed with the trout he was served, Annenberg inquired after the property where the trout was raised. He bought the 650 acres ranch from LaPlante on the spot the next day for $27,000 in cash, which Annenberg produced from his pocket. Annenberg added more parcels to bring total acreage to more than 2,000 acres. Moses and Walter Annenberg were the chief users of the ranch; Sadie Annenberg and her daughters came to the ranch only once. Guests arrived by rail at Aladdin, Wyoming, where the tracks ended, on private railcars owned by Annenberg. As publisher of the Daily Racing Form, Annenberg had a telephone communication center installed in the basement for coordination of horse racing information.</p><br>
<p>The design work was done by South Dakota architect Ray Ewing, who hired the Juso Brothers to build the structures. The Jusos were Finnish immigrants who used traditional Finnish log building practices to fell, trim and erect the logs for the lodge and supporting structures. Work took place during the Great Depression, employing sixty to seventy workers, a significant project for the local economy.</p><br>
<p>Annenberg came under Federal investigation for his business practices in the late 1930s and was convicted of income tax evasion in 1940, was imprisoned, and died shortly after his release in 1942. Annenberg&#39;s heirs sold the ranch to Wyoming governor Nels Smith, Bill Walker (Cheyenne, Wyoming) and Sam Keener (Salem, Ohio). Ranch A was used as a dude ranch for twenty years, and was featured in an October 1956 issue of National Geographic. In 1963 the Fish and Wildlife Service bought the ranch, using it as a genetics laboratory for salmonid research under the name "Spearfish Fisheries Center Complex." After 1979 the genetic research was replaced by fish diet research. The ranch was deeded to the state of Wyoming in 1996 for educational purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Sand Creek is a spring-fed stream with a consistent water temperature that is ideal for raising fish. The complex is located on the floor of the canyon with sandstone cliffs rising to either side. The lodge is sited near the northern canyon wall. Square in plan, the two-story lodge measures about 74 ft by 75 ft. The second story overhangs the first, creating a long veranda across the front of the building, supported by stone piers with standing log sections as columns. The entrance is a knotty pine double door with iron strap hardware. The second story is a side gable dominated by shed dormers extending nearly the full width of the building, front and back. A small cross gable marks the center of the second story. A walkway extends directly from the rear of the second floor to the hillside behind. The interior features an atrium extending to the roof, surrounded by living spaces on both levels, framed in log construction.</p><br>
<p>The garage is also of log construction, measuring 44 ft by 44 ft, with three bays for vehicles, one of which has since been closed in. The second floor is framed as a smaller version of the lodge, and houses a three-bedroom caretaker&#39;s apartment.</p><br>
<p>The barn was built about 1935 and measures about 63 ft by 43 ft. The peeled log walls rest on a concrete foundation. A gambrel roof crowns the two-story structure. Other contributing structures include the pump house (1932), built in stucco with applied half-timber detailing and a rolled roof edge. The 1933 hydroelectric plant is similar in style and construction. Dams are associated with each building. A root cellar, stone walls, a lily pond and its feeder canal all date from the historical period.</p><br>
<p>Additional buildings include the fish hatchery lab, a 1967 brick building, the distinctive Sawtooth Building (ca. 1964) or Wet Laboratory, another hatchery building with a sawtooth roof profile, and several apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Management by the foundation</h2><br>
<p>Ranch A Includes 645 acres owned by the state of Wyoming. It is managed by the Ranch A Restoration Foundation as an education center. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>On April 23, 2013, Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis introduced the Ranch A Consolidation and Management Improvement Act (H.R. 1684; 113th Congress). The bill requires the federal government to transfer 10 acres of federal lands in the Black Hills National Forest to the state of Wyoming. The land connects different, separated pieces of Ranch A for Wyoming. The bill also removes the restrictions placed on the land that prevents the foundation managing the site from some types of fundraising. Formerly, outside groups were not allowed to rent any of the property, which changed under this bill, increasing revenue.</p><br>
<p>Lochinvar is an antebellum plantation house near Pontotoc, Mississippi built by Robert Gordon c. 1836. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s heart pine woodwork and handmade bricks highlight the attention to detail of its wealthy owner and the Scottish architects and builders he employed. Solid Doric style columns from a castle in Scotland support the front porches, and the balcony railing is carved to resemble English lace. An entirely self-supporting spiral staircase winds to the second floor, and a secret stairway is set between the walls in the back of the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gordon bought this land from a Chickasaw woman, Molly Gunn, daughter of William Colbert and his wife. She was married to James Gunn. Robert Gordon had immigrated to Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi, from Scotland. The Gordons of Lochinvar were an old Scottish clan whose seat was at Kenmure Castle in Galloway, Scotland. He excelled as a trader in the Native American communities and a landowner, and founded the town of Aberdeen in Monroe County, Mississippi. After the Chickasaw Cession of 1832, he purchased two sections of land near Pontotoc, where he built Lochinvar in 1836.</p><br>
<p>He married Mary Elizabeth Walton. Their son, James Gordon, grew up in the house. He married Carolina Virginia Wiley, and they had two children, Annie and Robert James. A planter, James Gordon served as an officer in the Confederate Army under Jeb Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was briefly suspected of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>James Gordon became a politician, representing Chickasaw County in the Mississippi legislature in 1857, 1878, 1886, and 1904–1908. In December 1909 Governor Edmond F. Noel appointed him to fill the unexpired term of USA Senator Anselm J. McLaurin until the state legislature could elect a new senator in February 1910. (This was prior to popular election of US Senators.)</p><br>
<p>James Gordon had inherited Lochinvar when his father died in 1867. Lochinvar remained in the Gordon family until 1900, when J. D. Fontaine, an attorney in Pontotoc, Mississippi, bought it to use as a tenant house. The black-and-white photo on this page was taken during a stage of poor maintenance.</p><br>
<p>In 1966 Dr. Forrest Tutor and his wife, Dr. Janis Burns Tutor, purchased the house from Fontaine&#39;s son and restored it. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Heavily damaged by a tornado in 2001, Lochinvar has been restored by the Tutors to its former glory. A photo album of the house is maintained by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History at the link in "External Links" below.</p><br>
<p>The Dayton Masonic Center, formerly the Dayton Masonic Temple, is a significant building in Dayton, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>It was built by a Masonic Temple Association formed from 14 Masonic groups. The building was finished in 2 years and 9 months, by 450 workers, most of whom were Masonic Brethren, of whom it was said "Without thought of honor or gain, these men gave unstintingly of their time, abilities and means, sparing neither themselves nor their personal interests to advance this building project to its happy fulfillment."</p><br>
<p>The building is 265 ft long by 190 ft wide by 80 ft high, and encloses 5,000,000 cuft. It is made of steel, cement, and stone, including 55,000 cuft of Bedford stone and 15,000 cuft hard limestone and marble from Vermont, Alabama, and Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property in the Steele&#39;s Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sumers Lodge in Glenwood Springs, Colorado is a rustic log house built in 1935 for New York financier George Sumers. It was designed by Chilson Aldrich, and some of its furnishings were designed and made by Thomas C. Molesworth.</p><br>
<p>The Sumers Lodge is a large two story rectangular log structure with a projecting sun porch on the entrance side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The McAlester Scottish Rite Temple, also known as Masonic Temple or the McAlestor Consistory, is a building in McAlester, Oklahoma that was built in 1907 and 1928–1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is the oldest Masonic building in Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>The 1928–1930 construction yielded an "impressive" brick and stone building. It was built around a consistory that dated back to 1907.</p><br>
<p>Wyoming Mercantile, also known as the Aladdin General Store is a preserved small-town general store in Aladdin, Wyoming. The store, which remains in operation, was built in 1896 by Amos Robinson as Wyoming Mercantile. Robinson died the same year, and the store went to Mahlon S. Kemmerer, who placed his properties, including the Wyoming and Missouri Valley Railroad, under the Wyoming Mercantile umbrella. Railroading continued until 1927. The store has continued, serving as a post office, bar, freight station and gas station.</p><br>
<p>The wood framed store consists of a two-story gabled main section with a one-story shed addition on the left side. The gable is covered by a squared false front that hides most of the main gable and all of the shed. A light roofed porch spans the front of the ground floor. The interior of the ground floor consists of five rooms: the general store, liquor store, post office, store room, and the addition, which is also used for storage. The walls and ceiling in the post office are covered with matchstick paneling, while the counter is matchstick paneled in the store. The store retains its original fixtures. The addition is a plain enclosure with dirt floors and no interior cladding. Upstairs are five rooms and a hallway, all with plaster walls, all used for storage.</p><br>
<p>The population of Aladdin, never much more than 50, has declined to about twelve. The store still serves the community.</p><br>
<p>The town of Kemmerer, Wyoming was named after Mahlon Kemmerer.</p><br>
<p>The Aladdin General Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Dundee Township Historic District is a set of sixty-five buildings in Dundee Township, Kane County Illinois. Buildings in the district are found in East Dundee, West Dundee, and Carpentersville. The district represents the development of the upper Fox River Valley from 1870 to the 1920s. Dundee Township became an important industrial area, especially following the construction of the Dundee Brick Company in West Dundee and the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company in Carpentersville. Also included in the district are a variety of Queen Anne, Italianate, and Greek Revival style houses and Gothic Revival churches. The majority of the historic district lies within the boundaries of West Dundee. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>West Dundee was first settled in 1834 by Jesse H. Newman. Shortly afterward, Newman&#39;s travel mate Joseph Russell erected his house on the east side of the Fox River, effectively becoming the first settler of East Dundee. Charles W. and Daniel G. Carpenter settled in what would become Carpentersville in 1837. Both East and West Dundee were platted in the early 1840s, and Carpentersville was platted in 1851. The Dundee Brick Company was an important early employer, starting in 1852. West Dundee was incorporated in 1867 and East Dundee followed four years later. The Illinois Iron and Bolt Company opened in Carpentersville in 1870. Dairy production became an important source of income for East and West Dundee in the 1870s. The period presently reflected in the historic district stretches from 1870 to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Most of the properties in the district are within the bounds of West Dundee. The Dundee Cemetery first saw use in 1841, though it did not officially become a cemetery until 1862. A Baptist church was built in 1865 on the corner of Fourth and Main Streets, which later was sold to the Methodist congregation. Union School was originally built by Richter & Morris in 1873, but was destroyed in a fire five years later. It was reconstructed that year in the same design, and is now used by School District #300. Several important commercial properties were established along Main Street starting in the 1870s, including the First National Bank, Dundee State Bank, the Cleveland Drug Store, and the Dundee House Hotel. The First Congregational Church was also built on this strip in 1902, as did the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in 1912. St. James Episcopal Church was built in 1904 to serve the local Episcopalian congregation. In 1909, West Dundee constructed its Village Hall based on plans by George F. Morris of Elgin. St. Catherine&#39;s Catholic Church and School (1914, school added 1926) was an important church for Italian immigrants wishing to practice their faith while working for the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company.</p><br>
<p>In East Dundee, the Spring Mill was first built in 1837, though only one large black storage building remains. Most of the mill was demolished following financial troubles during The Great Depression. The Haeger Pottery Plant was built in 1871 for David H. Haeger. It initially provided bricks for Chicago following The Great Chicago Fire and later produced art pottery. Immanuel Lutheran Church was built in 1886 to serve German immigrants. It had the largest membership in Dundee Township.</p><br>
<p>The Atlantic Flour Mills, built in 1846, are the oldest buildings in Carpentersville. The 1871 Illinois Iron and Bolt Company building was one of the major employers of the town. The Star Manufacturing Company was built in the early 1870s to make agricultural supplies and farm machinery. The Carpenter Store was built in 1877 and owned by the Carpenter family. Union Church Congregational and Parsonage was donated by Angelo and Mary Carpenter and was built in 1884. Library Hall was built in 1895 as a memorial to Angelo Carpenter, and is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The earliest homes in the district express some Greek Revival influence. As the population of the valley increased in the 1880s, Italianate homes became a major architectural style. The other important style of homes in the district is Queen Anne. There is one large Georgian Revival residence that was later converted into a bank. Most churches in the district are in the Gothic Revival style. The factories are Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival in design. Most buildings were built with locally fired brick from the Dundee Brick Company, which is notable for its unusual yellow color. The Dundee Township Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Library Hall in Carpentersville, Illinois, also known as Administration Building, Dundee Township Park District, is a Romanesque architecture style building built during 1895–1897. It was built as a memorial to Julius Angelo Carpenter, donor of the Union Congregational Church and Parsonage in Carpenterville. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Also it is included in Dundee Township Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Library Hall building was dedicated by Mary Carpenter Lord to her late husband and the residents of Carpentersville. Lord&#39;s husband, Angelo Carpenter, founded the settlement in 1851. Carpenter opened a store and built a bridge across the Fox River. Carpenter was instrumental in attracting a foundry for the Illinois Iron & Bolt Company, which provided many jobs for Carpentersville citizens. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1870.</p><br>
<p>The design was inspired by a trip that Mary Carpenter Lord took abroad; Lord sought to design a building unlike anything else in the area. The building was dedicated on January 2, 1897. Ownership of the building fell into the hands of the local Congregational Church, who sold it to the Dundee Township Park District for use for the public. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and listed as part of the Dundee Township Historic District two years later. Federal funds secured following the National Register listing allowed the park district to rehabilitate the building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Library Hall is considered to be an example of Romanesque architecture, designed by Elgin firm Turnbull & Jones. The exterior walls were constructed with St. Louis pressed brick with Bedford Limestone trimmings. The gutters are made of copper, which have oxidized. The front of the building features beveled glass while the rear has stained glass art windows. Stone steps lead to the entrance. The floors are hard maple, wainscoted with Georgia Pine. The first floor featured two reading rooms, a reference room, and a stock room. The fireplace on the floor includes a decorative tile hearth. Also on the floor was a ladies&#39; parlor, which was used by parishioners when the building was owned by the church. A finished basement, also used by the church, included a lecture room, a steam heater (now replaced by an HVAC unit), a dining room, and a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building is an industrial loft building located at 2545 West Diversey Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is also known as the Cooper Lamp Building and as of 2010 is slated to house the Green Exchange, a combination business incubator and office space. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, and as of 2010 is being redeveloped into the Green Exchange, a site for small businesses dedicated to natural products and the environment.</p><br>
<h2>Vassar Swiss Underwear Company</h2><br>
<p>Near the end of the 19th century, the form-fitting union suit was growing in popularity. Starting with $10,000 the trio set up a manufacturing operation in Chicago to produce Rutledges union suits as well as other high-quality mens undergarments.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, with labor troubles looming, Vassar Swiss moved their production 80 mi west to Rochelle, Illinois. The company grew in size, and in 1912, Northwestern Knitting Company (later Munsingwear) purchased the firm. Shortly after the sale, Northwestern decided to ramp up production and move Vassar Swiss back to Chicago. The company contracted real estate developer Stewart Hodges, a specialist in factory construction, to build a new plant, which Vassar Swiss would lease. Hodges chose a site on Diversy, near the rail lines and adjacent to the Maplewood station. Hodges also contracted his father-in-law, Lawrence G. Hallberg, to design the new factory. A building permit was issued in September 1913, and construction was completed in April of the following year.</p><br>
<p>Vassar Swiss prospered in its new location. Rutledge, now a vice-president at parent company Northwestern, joined with other company designers to improve his original union suit design. In 1923, the company constructed an addition on the western portion of their building, again designed by Hallberg, to house their box factory and shipping.</p><br>
<p>Over the next four decades, the company shifted focus and products. Union suits became less popular, and briefs soon became the companys leading product. Vassar Swiss purchased the building from Stewart, after having leased it since construction. In 1967, production operations were moved from Chicago to Paris, Texas, and as of 2010 the Vasarette name is owned by Vanity Fair Brands, and produces womens underwear.</p><br>
<h2>Later Building History</h2><br>
<p>After Vassarette&#39;s departure, the building was purchased by the Frederick Cooper Lamp Company, a manufacturer of high-quality lamps. As of 2010, the redevelopment is unfinished.</p><br>
<h2>Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building Description</h2><br>
<p>The Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building is an excellent example of a four-story reinforced concrete industrial loft building, built in two architecturally identical sections that are seamlessly integrated. The original 1913 portion of the building is 160 ft by 300 ft and the 1923 addition is 103 ft by 204 feet; the entire building houses 250,000 square feet. The building is U-shaped in plan, with wings of unequal length backing onto the diagonal railroad track in the rear and flanking a narrow central courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The reinforced concrete construction can be easily seen in the exterior detailing, with obvious horizontal and vertical elements. Although the building is quite long, architectural emphasis on the vertical pilasters, capping them with stylized Arts and Crafts ornamental detail, de-emphasizes the horizontal dimension of the building. The corner bays are further ornamented with taller pilaster capitals projecting through the parapet, and inset stones above the windows.</p><br>
<p>The building is topped with a distinctive four-story tower concealing the roof water tank. The tower is constructed of brick, terra cotta, and concrete, and is topped with a stepped parapet. It originally had a clock on each face.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Cathedral, now named the Scottish Rite Theatre, is church-style building in Peoria, Illinois that houses the Scottish Rite Bodies of the Valley of Peoria. The building is at 400 NE Perry Avenue, at the corner with Spalding Avenue. The cathedral is listed as a contributing property to Peoria&#39;s North Side Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Bodies of the Valley of Peoria was established in Yates City, Illinois on February 25, 1867, and moved to Peoria in 1869. The body had 3 meeting locations in downtown Peoria before the Scottish Rite Cathedral.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Hewitt, Emerson and Gregg architectural firm constructed the building at a cost of $400,000. Herbert Hewitt of this firm was known designing the First National Bank Building, the highest building in Peoria at the time. The cornerstone for the Scottish Rite Cathedral was laid on May 7, 1924. It was dedicated in a public ceremony on January 13, 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic architecture was inspired by Edward Ulysses Henry&#39;s travels to Europe. and 900 seats.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>The Masonic membership in the Valley of Peoria was near 15,000 at one time, but had dropped to 1,200 by 2019, and was having trouble affording the maintenance of the building. Kim Blickenstaff, who grew up in nearby East Peoria, bought the Cathedral on April 26, 2019, for $490,000, with plans to put it in a trust, operate it as a community venue, and allow Scottish Rite members to use the venue in perpetuity.</p><br>
<p>Plans to open the theatre were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but construction work continued. In 2020, the Peoria Historical Society awarded the KBD group a Historic Preservation Award.</p><br>
<p>In January, 2023, the KBD group announced the venue would close on January 15. The building was listed for sale in April 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Cathedral is a Masonic building in Omaha in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Begun in 1912 and opened in 1914, it remains in use by the Scottish Rite.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Neoclassical Revival by Omaha architect John Latenser Sr. A native of Liechtenstein, Latenser studied in Stuttgart, Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1879. After working in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he moved to Omaha in 1887. His early work in Nebraska and Iowa consisted largely of designing cottages; but his reputation grew, and he was eventually appointed a Superintendent of Public Buildings during the administration of President William McKinley. His two sons joined his firm, which became John Latenser & Sons. The firm&#39;s work pervaded Omaha: "n the 1930s, 89 of 98 blocks in Downtown Omaha contained at least one building designed by John Latenser and Son".</p><br>
<p>Latenser designed buildings in a variety of revival styles. For the Scottish Rite Temple, he turned to the principles of classical Greek design, using Ionic columns, which are significant in Masonic symbolism. The building is described as "the pinnacle of works in the Neoclassical Revival style".</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Cited in its nomination to the Register were both its architectural significance and the prominence of Freemasonry in Omahas business and governmental leadership in course of the buildings history.</p><br>
<p>The John and Emma Lacey Eberts House is a private house located at 109 Vinewood Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Eberts Jr. was born in 1843 in Detroit. In 1870, he purchased two lots in Wyandotte where this house now stands. In 1872 he married Emma Lacey, and that same year the couple hired Raphael R. Thomas, a cousin of Emma&#39;s, to build this house. The couple moved into the house in late December of the same year. They raised five children in the home (Edith, Elsie, Harry, Frank, and Walter), and John Eberts started a coal business supplying homeowners in the area.</p><br>
<p>In 1892, the house was extensively rebuilt, adding a Queen Anne finish to the exterior. By that time, John Eberts had retired from the coal business and begun other business ventures. In 1895, Harry Eberts re-purchased his father&#39;s coal business, and was soon joined by his brother Frank and then Walter. In 1909, both Walter and Frank were still living in this home with their parents. John and Emma Eberts occupied this house until their respective deaths: John in 1929 and Emma in 1941. After that time, the house passed to their daughters Edith and Elsie, who occupied it until their deaths in 1956 and 1962, respectively.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, the Eberts family sold the house to Ralph Lubaway and his wife Wilma, who raised eleven children in the house. The Lubaway family owned the house until 2005. In 2006, the Blankenship/Granzeier family purchased the house and completely restored it.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the house was sold to the Martin family, who reside there to this day.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The John and Emma Lacey Eberts House is a two-story gable-front Queen Anne structure clad with clapboard and shingling. The front facade has a small turned-post entry porch with a three-section bay window. The upper-story windows are double hung one-over-ones in plain frames. The tall front gable is finished with wood shingles, and contains a paired window with a decorative board frame surround. The side elevation features another small turned post entry porch and a two-story, slant-sided bay window with gabled top, added to the house in approximately 1900–1912. The bay area between the lower and upper windows is shingled. A single-story ell at the rear of the house contains the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>On the interior of the house, the main floor contains an entry foyer, a large living room with a decorative Arts and Crafts fireplace, a large dining room, a half-bath and small "alcove," and a large kitchen with separate "kitchen nook" at the rear. On the second floor, there is a large master bedroom with a separate small nursery, and three other mid-sized bedrooms. The attic is open and unfinished. The interior throughout contains the original wood trim, window frames, doors, baseboards and moldings. The pine flooring and wooden staircase is also likely original.</p><br>
<p>The Marx House is a private house at 2630 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was built in approximately 1862 for Warren Isham. In 1921, the house was purchased by John Marx, the city attorney and scion of a local brewery owner. In 1974, John Marx&#39;s children Leo Marx and Mary T. Polley gave the house to the city of Wyandotte. The house was opened to the public in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Marx House is a two-story Italianate townhouse built of red brick and sitting on a stone foundation. The facade features a double entrance door and tall windows topped with semicircular brick-and-stone hoods. A truncated hipped roof, with ornamental ironwork at the perimeter of the uppermost flat area, caps the structure. A two-story frame wing with a single-story addition is connected at the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Van Rensselaer House at 149 Mulberry Street between Grand and Hester Streets in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built c.1816 in the Federal style by Stephen Van Rensselaer III. It was originally located on the northwest corner of Mulberry and Grand, but in 1841 was moved down the block to its current location. The two-story dormered house is typical of Federal-style row houses which were common at the time in Manhattan below 14th Street.</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1969, and in 1983 was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart is a building in East Village, Manhattan, New York City. The building was constructed in 1903-04 to the designs of Jardine, Kent & Jardine in the Beaux-Arts Style. It originally served as a horse auction mart that catered to New York&#39;s elite families, including the Vanderbilts and Delanos. Each Tuesday and Friday, Van Tassell & Kearney held auctions in the building. Though carriages remained an important part of the business, most advertisements and newspaper stories about the mart concerned the sale of horses, particularly high-priced ribbon winners, polo ponies, hunters, and thoroughbreds. Other sales were devoted to breeding stock and coach horses, including a large group of horses co-owned by Alfred W. Vanderbilt and Robert L. Gerry in 1906.</p><br>
<p>As automobiles and other forms of public transit became much more common after World War I, the practical need for horses and stables decreased. The auction mart ceased functioning in the 13th Street building. It served as an assembly-line training center for women during World War II. From 1978 to 2005, artist Frank Stella owned the building and used it as his studio. His nearly 30-year stewardship of the building resulted in the facade being cleaned and restored.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, after discovering plans of a new owner to demolish the building and replace it with a condo development, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) asked the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to hold an emergency hearing on the structure. There was significant support for designation, including City Councilmember Rosie Mendez. Playing on the history of the building as an assembly line training center for women during World War II, GVSHP used the iconic "We Can Do It!" image (often associated with Rosie the Riveter) on stickers, flyers, and T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "We Can Save It! Landmark 128 East 13th Street" as part of the campaign to secure landmark designation for the building.</p><br>
<p>In January 2010 after an extensive renovation, Peridance Center opened here at its new location. That facility included a performance venue, the KnJ Theater.</p><br>
<p>The David S. Brown Store at 8 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1875-76 for a soap manufacturer. It was designed by J. Morgan Slade in the Victorian Gothic style, as influenced by John Ruskin and French architectural theory. The building has been called "An elaborate confection of Romanesque, Venetian Gothic, brick, sandstone, granite, and cast-iron parts..."</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1978, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows Hall is a building at 165–171 Grand Street between Centre and Baxter Streets, in the Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1847–1848 and designed by the firm of Trench & Snook in the Italianate style, one of the citys earliest structures in this style, which Joseph Trench had brought to New York with his design for 280 Broadway in 1845. His partner, John B. Snook, was responsible for many cast-iron buildings in SoHo. The mansard roof was an addition, designed by John Buckingham and built in 1881–1882. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows used the building until the 1880s, when they moved uptown with the citys population. The building was afterwards converted for commercial and industrial use.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Schermerhorn Building is a historic structure at 376–380 Lafayette Street, on the northwest corner with Great Jones Street, in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1888–1889 by William C. Schermerhorn on the site of the Schermerhorn mansion, and rented by him to a boys&#39; clothing manufacturer. The Romanesque Revival loft building was designed by Henry Hardenbergh, architect of the Plaza Hotel and The Dakota. The building is constructed of brownstone, sandstone, terra-cotta and wood, and has dwarf columns made of marble.</p><br>
<p>The building has been a New York City Landmark since 1966, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Sundance State Bank, also known as the Bid Building, was built in 1914 on Main Street in Sundance, Wyoming. It is unusual as a stone building in an era where brick construction was more popular. It was built of local sandstone taken from nearby Reuter Canyon.</p><br>
<p>The Sundance State Bank was founded in 1888 as Stebbins, Fox & Company, becoming the Bank of Sundance, then in 1895 the Sundance State Bank. Surviving banking crises in the 1890s, the bank prospered during the agricultural boom of the first decades of the 1900s. It was able to continue on through the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>The Sundance State Bank Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Sundance School, also known as Old Stoney, was built in 1923 in Sundance, Wyoming to serve both the elementary and the high school students of Crook County School District #1. The two-story sandstone building is one of the largest buildings in Sundance. It served the community as a school until 1971.</p><br>
<p>The school measures about 57 ft by 89 ft on a raised basement story, with two principal stories and an attic under a steep cross-gabled roof. It had its own electrical generating plant in the basement, fueled by coal. The basement also featured the toilet rooms and play rooms. The first floor had four classrooms, a laboratory, a domestic science room, two commercial rooms and an assembly room. The stone is buff-colored Minnelusa sandstone from a quarry 4 mi distant. Construction was by the Marshall Engineer Company of Deadwood, South Dakota; the architects were Link & Haire of Billings, Montana.</p><br>
<p>The Sundance School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Seppman Mill  is a former windmill in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States, now preserved in Minneopa State Park. It was built by Louis Seppmann, a German immigrant, between 1862 and 1864 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The sails and internal machinery have been removed.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Seppmann was born in Westphalia, Germany in 1835 and emigrated to the United States at age 17. He settled in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, five years later, in 1857. He made his living as a stonemason. In 1862 he used his earnings to begin constructing a wind-powered gristmill on his own land. Seppmann was only somewhat familiar with windmills from his homeland, but drew on his "considerable natural talent for mechanics and invention."</p><br>
<p>Seppmann, with help from some fellow masons, built the first 10 ft of the walls before being interrupted by financial difficulties and the outbreak of the Dakota War of 1862. He resumed work the next summer, joined now by neighbor Herman Hegley. Using a ramp and a wheelbarrow to convey material up the growing structure, they finished construction in 1864. Seppmann carved most of the wooden machinery himself with an axe, except for two metal cog wheels and the millstones, which had to be purchased from St. Louis for $600.</p><br>
<h2>Physical description</h2><br>
<p>The stone walls are 32 ft high and conical. At the base the diameter is 30 ft and the walls are 2 ft thick, but taper to 20 ft across and 6 in thick at the top. The mill is capped with a wooden dome that could be pivoted on a track to catch the prevailing winds. There was a small platform on the outside of the dome where the miller liked to sit and smoke his pipe. The wooden arms, covered with sailcloth, spanned 72 ft. The mill had five floors, though some were very short and only held machinery.</p><br>
<h2>Starting the mill</h2><br>
<p>Seppmann was not a farmer, so to test the finished mill he had to borrow money and buy grain. As the American Civil War was still raging, grain was quite expensive and the bank charged him 25% interest in advance for his loan. Seppmann also needed to hire an expert to start up the mill and show him how to operate it. However, there was no wind for four or five weeks and the expert eventually gave up and went home. The first light wind didn&#39;t blow until a Sunday, but Seppmann was opposed to working on the Sabbath until his partner Hegley convinced him that if God had provided the first wind in over a month on a Sunday it must be okay.</p><br>
<p>However without the experts help, Seppmann and Hegley immediately clogged the millstone. Thinking more speed would help, they put on full sail. Instead the rising wind set the arms spinning so fast the operators couldnt stop it. The wooden parts grew so hot that the windmill was in danger of catching fire. Meanwhile, a crowd of onlookers had gathered outside, eager to see Seppmanns curiosity finally in operation and surprised that it seemed to be running so fast it might tear itself apart. In desperation Seppmann tossed something into the gears, but it shattered and a piece was flung away with such force that it shot a hole through the rim of Seppmanns hat. At last Seppmann and Hegley were able to unfurl some of the sails and halt the mill. Ultimately they learned that the clog was due to poor dressing of the millstones and after making improvements, including a better brake, were operational by late September.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>In a good wind the mill could grind 150 bushels of wheat in a day, producing fairly good quality flour. Farmers came from as far 30 mi away to have their grain milled. In 1866 Seppmann married and bought out his partner Hegley, giving shares instead to his new in-laws. The Seppmanns initially lived in a small stone house next to the windmill, which was converted to a warehouse in the 1870s after they moved to a new home.</p><br>
<p>Lightning struck the mill in June 1873 and blasted off two of the arms. Seppmann replaced them, but seven years later a tornado knocked off two arms again. By then technological advances and competition from other mills made it unprofitable to repair. Seppmann continued to operate the mill with the two surviving arms, making animal feed. Finally a storm in 1890 damaged the remaining arms and Seppmann ceased operations.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>Over the next 40 years the mill deteriorated and the warehouse was torn down entirely.</p><br>
<p>The mill site was originally separated from the state park by over a mile and public access was difficult. The Minnesota State Highway Department built a parking area off Highway 68 in the mid-1950s. In the late 1960s Seppmann heirs and other landowners sold the intervening land to the state so the park could be expanded into one contiguous property. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources spent $65,000 carrying out repairs to the mill and reconstructing the warehouse. The mill&#39;s exterior was repaired, interior structures refurbished, doors and windows replaced, and the roof reshingled.</p><br>
<p>The internal mechanisms have been dismantled, and neither the mill nor the warehouse interiors are open to the public. Park managers hope someday to restore the machinery and the arms.</p><br>
<p>The Marsh Foundation School is an alternative school in Van Wert, Ohio, United States. Housed in a complex of historic buildings along the former Lincoln Highway,</p><br>
<p>Born in 1833, George H. Marsh settled in Van Wert at the age of twelve with his father. Growing to adulthood, he erected the present farmhouse in the first half of the 1860s; a two-story brick structure, it is a built in the plan of a cross. As the years passed, Marsh became very wealthy, and he became determined to use his wealth to help others. According to locals, Marsh and his family were returning home from Fort Wayne, Indiana on a winter night and saw two impoverished children, and consequently his wife Hilinda suggested dedicating their estate to children such as those two.</p><br>
<p>After Marsh&#39;s death, his will provided more than $5,000,000 for the establishment of a foundation to administer the school. In 1923, the trustees contracted with Langdon, Hohly, and Gram, a Toledo architectural company, to build six school buildings on the Marsh farm. Since that time, the school and home have served the community of Van Wert, while the original house has been converted into a museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Marsh homestead and school buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places; twenty-one buildings across the complex qualified as contributing properties. The property qualified for inclusion on the Register both because of its distinctive architecture and because of its connection to Marsh: he was one of Van Wert&#39;s leading citizens, and the school buildings are among the best Jacobethan structures in western Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Alna School is located on Alna Road in the town of Alna, Maine. Built in 1795, it is one of the oldest surviving school buildings in the state. It has also housed Alna&#39;s town offices. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Alna School is located in central Alna, a rural community in Lincoln County, Maine. It is set on the west side of Alna Road (Maine State Route 218), north of its junction with Golden Ridge Road and south of the historic Alna Meetinghouse. The school is a single story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hipped roof topped by an open octagonal cupola with bell. Its exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, and it rests on a brick foundation. There are two windows on each side, with the main entrance set near one corner. A small single story addition, of 20th-century origin, has been added.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1795, by either Moses Carlton or Samuel Averill, each of whom was contracted by the newly incorporated town to build a school; it is not known which of the two built this school. The cupola was added in the early 19th century. The building served the town as a school well into the 20th century. It is the second-oldest school in Maine; only the Old Schoolhouse in York is older (1755).</p><br>
<p>The Mohrman-Jack-Evans House is an historic building located at 342 Columbus Avenue in Lebanon, Ohio, United States. Built in 1850 in the Greek Revival and Italianate styles of architecture, it was originally a single-family house. On October 10, 1984, when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, it was serving as the meeting place of First Church of Christ, Scientist. Today, it is the office of an insurance agency. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lebanon is now Christian Science Society and meets at 109 West Mulberry Street in Lebanon.</p><br>
<p>The DXN Bridge over the Little Missouri River is one of a group of thirty-one bridges in Wyoming that were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places as excellent examples of steel truss bridges of the early 20th century. The DXN Bridge is located in Crook County, Wyoming. It is a single-span of about 72 ft, an 8-bay Pratt pony truss on Crook County Road 18-200 . It was built about 1920. The bridge is unique in lacking inclined end posts.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming bridges were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Van Wert County Courthouse is a historic governmental building in downtown Van Wert, Ohio, United States. Located at 121 E. Main Street, the courthouse is a Second Empire structure built in 1876. It is Van Wert County&#39;s third courthouse: when the county was established, the village of Willshire was designated the county seat; Van Wert was made the seat in 1838, and a courthouse-and-jail complex was built in that community in the following year.</p><br>
<p>Designed by T.J. Tolan, Tolan employed multiple groundbreaking construction techniques throughout the structure, such as pressed steel; his success in using these innovations earned recognition for both him and the courthouse in a national trade journal. Rising above the front of the courthouse is a clock tower with a statue of Justice placed in a niche. Made of zinc, the statue is 8 ft tall; before its installation at the courthouse, it was awarded first place in a Philadelphia sculpture competition.</p><br>
<p>Today, county officials continue to use the courthouse for everyday operations. Among the offices in the courthouse are those of the county treasurer, the county recorder, the county auditor, and the Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Some other county agencies maintain offices in other locations, such as the county sheriff and the county commissioners.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Van Wert County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, becoming the first building in the county to receive this distinction. It qualified for inclusion because of its well-preserved historic architecture, which was seen as significant statewide.</p><br>
<p>Sweet Briar is a historic farm house located near Geneseo in Livingston County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main house was built about 1898 by George and Isabel Valle Austen on land that had been previously owned by Horatio Jones and the Wadsworth family. It was then the home of Winthrop and Margaret Ward Terry Chanler. It is a -story frame building with clapboard siding and a hipped roof with dormers. It is in a "U" shape and features a grand Tuscan colonnade. Also on the property are contributing gate posts, a stable, fountain, two tenant houses, and the Chapel of St. Felicitas. The chapel was built in 1913 and is a small stucco building with a slate roof and stained glass windows. The structure was later moved to the neighboring home near Fall Brook. The main house (with ten acres) was sold in 2004 and operated as a bed and breakfast, wedding venue, spa and yoga studio until 2014. Currently Sweet Briar is a private residence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Thomaston Opera House is a historic performance venue and the town hall of Thomaston, Connecticut. Located at 153 Main Street, it was built in 1883-85, and is a good local example of Romanesque architecture. The theater in the building has served as a performance and film venue since its construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The opera house&#39;s principal tenant is now the Landmark Community Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thomaston Opera House is prominently sited in Thomaston&#39;s downtown, at the southwest corner of Main and Clay Streets. It is a large three-story brick building with Romanesque features and a hip roof. Its dominant feature is a multi-stage square tower, rising through five levels to a clock stage, open belfry with triple-arched openings, and crowning pyramidal roof and weathervane. The roof cornice is adorned with dentil moulding and modillion blocks. The third-floor windows are set in round-arch openings with contrasting brick and stone arches.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Robert Hill of Waterbury and built in 1883-85 on land donated by Aaron Thomas, the son of the town&#39;s namesake, Seth Thomas. It was used as a venue for theatrical performances and social events until the 1930s, when it was converted for a time into a movie house. It was closed down due to safety code violations in the 1960s, and underwent restoration, reopening with town offices on the first floor and the theater continuing on the upper floor. It is now used for live theatrical productions and other events.</p><br>
<p>The Migeon Avenue Historic District encompasses a group of elegant residential properties on a one-block stretch of Migeon Avenue in Torrington, Connecticut. Consisting of five properties and four contributing primary buildings, this area was home to some of Torrington&#39;s leading businessmen at the turn of the 20th century. The houses are of high architectural quality, and original landscaping was done by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Migeon Avenue Historic District is located northwest of downtown Torrington. It consists of two properties on the east side of Migeon Avenue between Gleason and Forest Streets, one just north of Forest Street, and another two on the west side opposite Forest Road. The three properties on the east side are characterized by their landscaping and setback of the main building, except for the northernmost, where the original main house has been torn down and replaced by a modern assisted living facility. The two properties on the west side are on smaller lots and set closer to the road.</p><br>
<p>The largest of the properties, Laurelhurst, was first acquired and developed as his residence by Henry Migeon, an textile manufacturer. Migeon&#39;s son Achille had the present large Shingle-style house built in the late 1890s, and retained the Olmsted Brothers to landscape the property. Achille sold the parcel just north of Laurelhurst to Thomas Bryant, who built a Colonial Revival house and also hired the Olmsted Brothers to do landscaping. The Bryant house was demolished in 1966 to make way for the nursing home. The parcel south of Laurelhurst was sold by Achille to Luther Turner, who also built a large Shingle-style house. The two houses on the west side of Migeon Avenue are elegant Colonial Revival houses, built by Harlow Pease, a local builder, and Frank Travis, president of the local water and electric companies.</p><br>
<p>The Griffith Breese Farm is a historic farmstead in southern Allen County, Ohio, United States. Established in 1840, the farm is one of the oldest white settlements in a formerly Native American area of northwestern Ohio, and it has been designated a historic site because of its unusually good degree of preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Griffith Breese</h2><br>
<p>The son of John Breese, Griffith was a native of Wales who immigrated to the United States in 1798. He married a Pennsylvania native, Mary Mowen, who bore him a son George in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, before they moved to Ohio. Breese bought six sections of land in present-day Shawnee Township, on lands that had once been part of the Hog Creek Indian Reservation. Moving his family to Section 10 of the township in 1834, they found that their new home was a former apple orchard: eighty apple trees and seven cabins of the Shawnee former residents occupied the site. During their first winter, they lived in the reservations former council house, and Breese was elected to the first group of trustees of the Shawnee Township. By 1840, Breese had grown sufficiently prosperous that he was able to establish the present homestead. The first of the four Federal buildings on the property were erected in that year, and he bought additional land in northwestern Allen Countys Marion Township five years later. Breese continued to live on the farm until his death in 1848.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Griffith Breese Farm is a major historic site in Shawnee Township. With the decline in Lima&#39;s economy, Shawnee Township has become a suburban area; small shopping malls and modern housing developments surround the farm, and no other pioneer homestead in the township has been so well preserved.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of its historic architecture, the Griffith Breese Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Four buildings, spread out over an area of 65 acre, qualified as contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>St. Roses Catholic Church  is a historic Catholic church in St. Rose, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>Catholics near the community of St. Rose began meeting for worship in 1837; they built a log church building in the following year, In 1844, these individuals were erected into a separate parish, which was dedicated to St. Rose. At that time, the parish encompassed a significantly larger area than it does today; five other parishes — Nativity in Cassella, St. Sebastian in Sebastian, Precious Blood in Chickasaw, St. Aloysius in Carthagena, and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Montezuma — were partially or entirely formed from territory originally included in St. Rose parish.</p><br>
<p>Mass was celebrated at the church sporadically for its first eight years; only in 1845, after several priests from the Congregation of the Precious Blood began serving St. Rose and several surrounding parishes, were the parishioners able to have regular services. By the 1850s, the log church building had become too small, so a replacement brick structure was constructed at a cost of $6,000 and consecrated in mid-1854. Measuring 42 ft by 75 ft, it was periodically modernized; by 1907, it featured such improvements as acetylene lighting. However, this structure in turn was becoming too small by this time; four years later, a third church building was begun, and it was consecrated in September 1912.</p><br>
<p>Today, St. Rose&#39;s remains an active parish of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is part of the Marion Catholic Community cluster, along with Precious Blood parish in Chickasaw, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin parish in Cassella, St. Sebastian parish in Sebastian, and St. John the Baptist parish in Maria Stein. The entire cluster is a part of the St. Marys Deanery.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The parish owns three buildings located adjacent to each other: the church, a rectory, and a former one-room school.</p><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>St. Rose&#39;s Church is a High Gothic Revival structure, three bays wide on the front and five bays long on the sides. Built in the shape of a Latin cross, the church is a single-story brick building; it rests on a foundation of blue Bedford limestone with a basement and is covered with a gabled roof of asphalt. Among its leading architectural elements is its octagonal steeple, topped with a louvered belfry. The two corners of the facade feature tall, thin windows and are topped with miniature square towers. Inside, the sanctuary is decorated with multiple white reredos and many statues; the interior is illuminated by light from lancet windows, one of each which is found in each of the side bays. Throughout the building, the architectural elements include high pointed arches. A small cemetery sits behind the church.</p><br>
<p>Architectural historians have divided the Precious Blood-related churches of western Ohio into four generations. Constructed in 1912, St. Rose&#39;s is a member of the fourth generation, although it resembles many third-generation churches because of its Gothic Revival architecture that features a single central tower. It is one of three extant churches from the fourth generation that were designed by the DeCurtins family. Although the construction date of the previous church building places it in the middle of the first generation, it more closely resembled second-generation churches such as Holy Family in Frenchtown.</p><br>
<h3>Rectory</h3><br>
<p>Located adjacent to the church on the west is a three-story rectory. Built in 1905 at a cost of $6,000, it is a rectangular brick building that rests on an ashlar foundation; it is covered with a slate roof. Three bays wide on the front and four long on the sides, it features gables on the front and sides, a large verandah-style front porch, and two bay windows. Individuals enter the house through an ornate recessed front door, which is ornamented with details such as an elliptical fanlight with a keystone, a bevelled window, and recessed sidelights. Before the rectory&#39;s construction, St. Rose parish was served by priests who lived at the nearby Gruenwald and Maria Stein Convents.</p><br>
<h3>School</h3><br>
<p>Located adjacent to the church on the east is a single-story former parish school. Erected in 1892, it was the second school in St. Rose; it replaced a previous building that was destroyed circa 1900. Built as a one-room school, the building was modified in 1941 and converted into a two-room school. It operated until closure in 1957, due to the enactment of a law by the Ohio General Assembly requiring all school districts to provide a four-year high school education. Since that time, local students have attended the schools of the Marion Local School District.</p><br>
<p>After its closure, the old school was modified to be a parish hall and a recreation center.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1977, St. Rose&#39;s Church, its rectory, and its school were studied by the Ohio Historic Inventory, a historic preservation program of the Ohio Historical Society. All three buildings were found to be in good condition without any threats to their continued survival. At that time, the church was deemed eligible for addition to the National Register of Historic Places, and all three buildings were added to the Register together in 1979. They were part of a group of more than thirty different Precious Blood-related churches and other religious properties listed on the Register at the same time, including at least one building owned by each of the Marion Catholic Community parishes. The tall Gothic Revival architecture of many churches in this part of far western Ohio has become the namesake of this region, which is nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>The Matthias Gast House is a historic building in Maria Stein, Ohio, United States. Built in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was the home of one of Mercer County&#39;s most prominent early citizens, and it has been designated a historic site because of its importance in local history.</p><br>
<h2>Gast</h2><br>
<p>A native of France, Matthias Gast was born in 1813 and immigrated to the United States in 1828. One of Marion Townships earliest settlers, he opened the communitys first shoe store in 1833 and soon began to expand his business into other nearby communities. As the years passed, Gast became prominent throughout Marion County, serving as one of its earliest county commissioners.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gast House is a rectangular structure, five bays wide on the front and two bays wide on the sides. Both the foundation and the two-story walls are built of brick. Gast erected two structures around his house: a frame store to the west and a frame summer kitchen; before the store was built, he operated a store and hotel out of his house. In later years, younger members of the Gast family built a substantial addition to the rear of the house to accommodate increasing numbers of relatives. Among the later owners of the property was Martha Gast, who used the store as a room for storing hardware.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the Gast property — parts of which had been sold to other families — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for inclusion on the Register for three different reasons: as the home of a leading member of local society, as a leading element of local history, and as a well-preserved example of historic architecture. The complex is one of three groups of buildings in Maria Stein that are listed on the Register, along with the Maria Stein Convent and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The Concklin–Sneden House is located in Rockleigh, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1796 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Built about 1796 by Jacob Concklin, Jr., a "wheelwright", the house is an example of Dutch Colonial architecture. Erected on the site of an earlier Conklin homestead, it stands on a 166 ½ acre farm purchased in 1748 by Jacob Conklin, Sr. Later owners, all descendants of Conklin&#39;s, were the Samuel Sneden and Samuel Beasley families who lived here until 1902. The house since has been enlarged and remodeled.</p><br>
<p>The dwelling is a spacious, rectangular, five-bay, 1½ story gambrel-roof sandstone structure. The architectural style is "Dutch Colonial" with a gambrel roof. The side and rear walls are the original. The exterior sandstone front wall was refaced circa 1961. A small one-story sandstone wing on the south side of the main structure houses the present-day kitchen. A similar sandstone wing on the north side has been converted into a garage.</p><br>
<p>The front door opens into a center hall which traverses the dwelling to a rear door. There were one or two rooms on each side of the center hall. The main floor includes living room, dining room and small rear chamber. The garret above is finished into four bedrooms and two baths. The house has its original floorboards. Above the eaves the gable ends are clapboard. The large open garret was divided into rooms. Later alterations include front dormers, additional windows on the front facade, exterior chimney, and a full-length rear shed dormer.</p><br>
<p>The cellar, fully excavated, was another large, open space and at each end were stone arches to support the weight of the fireplaces and chimneys above. Access to the cellar, for storage of crops, was by way of two outside hatchways (since removed) built into the front foundation.</p><br>
<p>The present south wing is a modern addition that partially stands over a previous smaller wing (possibly dating to circa 1750) of which only he cellar excavation remains. The original small wing may have served as the kitchen for the main house. This small wing also may have been the older original structure before the main house was built circa 1796.</p><br>
<p>Sited in an easterly direction on two acres of land on the west side of lower Rockleigh Road, the dwelling is in good condition.</p><br>
<p>In recent times, the facade was altered by placing three windows at each side of the entrance. In addition, the sandstone wall was refaced, probably "in situ", from the usual smooth dressed stone to what is now "rock-faced". Roof dormers were added as well as a rear addition which widened the original structure.</p><br>
<p>The De Gray House is located at 650 Ewing Avenue in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1785 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, the house was built by a member of the De Gray or related Geroe families. Daniel De Gray was born here in 1789. His daughter married John Snyder. Their son, William J. Snyder, was born in 1834, and lived here until his death in 1904. The house was then sold to a Philadelphia architect, Charles</p><br>
<p>Merric Gay, in 1906. He enlarged the house and developed the property into the Juglans Farm.</p><br>
