<p>The Haring–Blauvelt House is located at 454 Tappan Road in the borough of Northvale in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built around 1810 based on architectural evidence and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The land was owned by the Haring family. In 1809, Catharine Haring married John J. Blauvelt, who likely built the house, according to the nomination form. One side of the house is frame, the rest is rough cut sandstone.</p><br>
<p>Stone House by the Stone House Brook, also known as Old Stone House, is located at 219 South Orange Avenue in South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the oldest extant structures in New Jersey, the original portion house built prior to 1680. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1991, for its significance in historic archaeology, education, community planning and development, and politics/government.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest reference to the Stone House by Stone House Brook dates to September 27, 1680, when it was mentioned in the minutes of a Newark town meeting to discuss and distribute land grants. It would have been built sometime after 1660 when the Dutch settled Bergen. A group of Pilgrims settled Newark in 1666 but the English or New England colonial houses of this period were generally built of wood.</p><br>
<p>Dutch (or Flemish) colonial houses were usually built of brick, clay, or stone. The original house was one-and-a-half stories with a foundation of native rubble stone. Three of the original walls are still visible from the exterior of the greatly expanded house and a fourth wall is visible from the interior.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Wheeler is the first owner, circa 1680, for whom records exist. Dr. Bethuel Pierson, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful mill operator, owned the property 1773-1791 and enlarged it in a similar style using rubble stone. The house was purchased by William Augustus Brewer Jr. in 1866 and occupied by his family 1867–1916. Brewer became President of Washington Life Insurance Company in New York City and was influential in the development of the Village of South Orange as an early President of the board of trustees for two terms 1877–1880. Brewer greatly enlarged the house and turned it into a Queen Ann shingle-style mansion. Brewer named the house Aldworth. In 1915, the house was sold to Dr. George C. Albee. The house was sold to the Village of South Orange in 1953 and was used as offices for the school district until 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 1953 the Village of South Orange used the western portion of the property to form the parking lot for the relocated police station. In 1991, much of the remaining land was sold for $1 to the South Mountain Bnai Brith Federation for development of HUD-approved senior housing. In 2008, stabilization work was done on the Old Stone House. In 2013, the Township of South Orange Village attempted to sell the landmark without success.</p><br>
<p>Preservation New Jersey included it on the list of. The is fund raising to preserve the landmark for cultural and educational uses.</p><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows Temple is a community building located at 81 Chestnut Street in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wyandotte&#39;s Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge 172 was established in 1871 by men employed at the Eureka Iron and Steel Works. In 1893, IOOF Lodge 172 purchased the "Old Brown School," an 1856 school building that was once located at this site, to hold meetings. However, by 1910, the IOOF membership had outgrown the school building and the school was moved. Construction on the current building began in 1911. Financing issues caused the construction to be done in phases; the basement and first floor were built in 1911-1912 and the building opened for use. Over the next eight years, membership in the Wyandotte IOOF grew steadily (from 240 in 1912 to 780 in 1920), and in 1921 the upper stories of the building, containing an auditorium, were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows used the building until 1938, when financial difficulties caused foreclosure on the building. It was leased by the state of Michigan for a few years, but in 1942 the Wyandotte Masons purchased the building. The Masons moved in in 1943, and in 1948 extensively renovated the building. The Masons used the building until 2005, when the local Masons merged with another chapter. In 2008 the city of Wyandotte purchased the building to preserve the structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows Temple is a rectangular three-story Commercial Style brick building with Neoclassical and Renaissance stylistic elements, measuring approximately 50 feet by 120 feet. The main facade is built of dark red brick, with a limestone stringcourse, cornice, and parapet. The raised front entrance, reached by a split staircase, is surrounded by decorative detailing. On the first floor, two groups of three windows flank the entrance. On the second and third floors, there are single groups of three windows in the center above the entryway, and groups of two windows to each side. A low gable tops the facade.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the entryway leads to a foyer with grand staircase. In addition to the foyer, the first floor contains administrative office, ticket office space, ladies and men&#39;s restrooms, anteroom, check room and lodge rooms, in the same configuration as originally constructed. The foyer and administrative office contain original, unpainted wood trim and doors. The second floor houses a large auditorium with balconies along three sides and a stage on the fourth. The stage opening was walled up in 1948. The auditorium features extensive ornate plastering, and stairs leading up to the balcony level. Behind the stage are a number of dressing and storage rooms. The basement was originally a fellowship space, and contains a cafeteria, a kitchen, billiard room, and other recreational spaces, as well as bathrooms and spaces for mechanicals.</p><br>
<p>Fort Bonneville was a fortified winter camp and fur trading post near present-day Pinedale, Wyoming established in 1832 by Captain Benjamin Bonneville. Bonnevilles party was engaged in the exploration of Wyoming, crossing the South Pass with 110 men and about 20 wagons. Bonneville completed the stockade on the Green River on August 9, 1832. Heavy fall snows caused Bonneville to reconsider the site, and the party abandoned it, leading the place to become known as Bonnevilles Folly or Fort Nonsense. Bonneville moved on to the Salmon River in Idaho for the winter. The Green River site functioned as a rendezvous until the party returned east in 1835.</p><br>
<p>No structure remains at the site, which is marked by an inscribed boulder placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The stockade was described as 100 ft square palisade of 12 in cottonwood logs, 15 ft high with blockhouses on opposite diagonal corners.</p><br>
<p>The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel School was built in Daniel, Wyoming by contractor A.F. Atwood in 1920. The rural school served Daniel and its surrounding area, replacing improvised school facilities. In 1939, the Daniel district was consolidated, and students were bused to Pinedale for classes. Following consolidation, the Daniel School stood empty until the Daniel Homemaker Club acquired and renovated the building. It is a representative of a typical one-room schoolhouse from the early 20th century, and it has been the object of field trips by classes seeking to experience the historical learning environment.</p><br>
<p>The school was built to a design from an architectural plan book with a single main room that could be divided by a movable partition. The one story building features a hipped roof and is entered from a closed porch that is topped by a bell tower. The original bell remains in place. The school housed about twenty students. The original privies remain, one each for boys and girls, about 15 ft from the main building.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel School was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse, also known as the "Northwoods Lighthouse", is a historic lighthouse on Grand Lake St. Marys, a reservoir in the far western part of the USA state of Ohio. Located east of the city of Celina in Mercer County, the lighthouse was built in 1923,</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A predominantly concrete structure, the lighthouse rests on a stone foundation. Measuring 50 ft from foundation to pinnacle, it is covered with a dome of bronze and glass that surrounds the beacon; the dome is crowned with a decorative weathervane.</p><br>
<p>Although the lighthouse was built partially for ornamental purposes, it has also served as an active lighthouse. In its earliest years, it operated in a standard lighthouse role between April and November under a license from the USA Coast Guard. Grand Lake St. Marys was built to provide water for the Miami and Erie Canal; although the canal had ceased operations by 1923, there was still sufficient lake traffic to warrant the use of a lighthouse on this peninsula, Today, it is one of three lighthouses on Grand Lake St. Marys: the Celina Rotary Club erected an operating lighthouse in 1986, at the lakes northwestern corner, and a third lighthouse was completed on the lakes southern shore in 2003. Unlike the other two lighthouses, the Northwoods Lighthouse is completely inaccessible by land, as surrounding property owners have completely blocked public access.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. Key to its inclusion was its unusual location — western Ohio is a flat, landlocked region far from major bodies of water. It is the only historic lighthouse in the region, and until the construction of the Rotary Club lighthouse in 1986, there were no other lighthouses in the region at all.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Ranch, 16 mi southwest of Boulder, Wyoming, USA, was established by the Danish immigrant Metinus Jensen in 1905. It passed from the family as a working ranch after three generations. The ranch features a 1918 American Foursquare house as its central element, surrounded by accessory ranch buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Ranch was established in an unpromising section of Sublette County in sagebrush land. It typifies an early 20th-century ranching operation, that became a successful beef cattle and sheep operation.</p><br>
<p>Jensen was born on January 14, 1874, in Bramminge, Denmark. He migrated to the United States at the age of nineteen with two brothers. He lived and worked for a time in Nebraska. There he met his wife, a Nebraskan widow named Hannah Percilla Dodd, who already had two children of her own. The Jensens moved to Wyoming in 1900 and eventually had nine more children. he found a job with the Union Pacific Railroad, working at several locations in Wyoming. He obtained a homestead on Muddy Creek in 1905, which had grown to 630.72 acres by 1910. The ranch passed to his son Otto in 1945, when Metinus and Hannah moved to Rock Springs. The ranch by then extended to 2,700 acres with 350 to 400 cattle.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge is a bridge located on Parke Lane Road over the Thorofare Canal in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Some time near the beginning of the twentieth century, Grosse Ile Township constructed a hand-operated swing bridge at the intersection of Park Road (now Parke Lane) with the Thorofare Canal. However, by 1929, the old bridge was deteriorating and the increasing volume of traffic and weight of vehicles had rendered the lightweight swing bridge obsolete. In 1929/1930, the Wayne County Road Commission replaced the old bridge with a concrete cantilevered-arch span.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was eventually heavily damaged and closed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge is 99 feet long, with a span length of 51 feet and a width of 36 feet. The traditional arch bridge design requires a complete arch; in contrast, the cantilevered arch design is divided into two structurally independent half-arches which are each cantilevered from one side. A slab is suspended between the two cantilevered sections; in the Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge, this section is 18 feet long. Close inspection of the sidewalls of the bridge reveals two seams marking the end of the cantilevered arms.</p><br>
<p>A concrete balustrade with urn-shaped spindles runs along each side of the roadway, terminating at each end in an octagonal lamp stand. Orange pebble aggregate is included in the spindle concrete mix for color and texture.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>This bridge is significant as an outstanding product of the Wayne County Road Commission&#39;s bridge engineers because of its aesthetically pleasing design matched to the surroundings and as a representative of the unusual concrete cantilevered-arch construction.</p><br>
<p>Marble Community Church, formerly called St. Pauls Church, is a historic Episcopal church at 123 State Street in Marble, Colorado. The churchs main building was originally the building of the St. John&#39;s Episcopal Chapel, which was built in Aspen, Colorado in 1886. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction and early History</h3><br>
<p>By the beginning of the 20th century, Marble was home to an active childrens sunday school, though the town lacked a church building for which to hold the school. In 1908, the one-room St. Johns Episcopal Chapel in Aspen was no longer required and the diocese made it available for relocation to Marble. The chapel, originally constructed in 1886, was dismantled and moved by railroad car to Marble where it was reassembled on two lots of land at 123 State Street that had been purchased with a $2500 donation from the Episcopal Womens Guild. The new church was renamed and dedicated as St. Pauls. Shortly after the establishment, an extension was carried out to enlarge the church through the addition of two side rooms. Further enlargement of the church was carried out in 1911, with the addition of a belfry containing a 500-pound bell.</p><br>
<h3>Re-establishment</h3><br>
<p>St. Pauls Church was a center for religious and social activities and provided for three congregations: Episcopal, Union Congregational, and Catholic, as well as acting as a meeting place for other groups. The imminence of the approaching World War II however, brought about the closure of the towns local marble quarries and Marble Company mill. As a result, the town saw a decline in its population which resulted in the closure of the church in 1941. The building was left empty and unused for a number of years and was given over to the care of a local family, the Williams brothers.</p><br>
<p>The church would remain empty for more than ten years, until the early 1950s, when permission was granted to reuse the old building to hold prayer meetings and services. Renewed interest in these services grew, and shortly after a congregation had formed and adopted the name Marble Community Church. George A. Drake, who would later become a president of Grinnell College served the congregation throughout 1960 and 1961. In 1974, the congregation received permission to move back into the old church in exchange for assuming responsibility for the care and maintenance of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, The Marble Community Church became incorporated under the laws of Colorado and after negotiation the Rev. Fr. Cyril Coverly of the Episcopal Diocese was able to present the deed to the building and land back to the congregation on July 7, 1985. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as a Historic Place in Gunnison County, Colorado.</p><br>
<p>The church represents an example of an early religious structure in a mining community and is the town&#39;s only example of Gothic architecture. In 2002 renovations were begun to update the original church building as well as to add a fellowship hall. The project was subsequently completed in 2004, at which time a breezeway to connect these two buildings was also carried out. The church celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Church and Cemetery also known as Old St. Pauls Lutheran Church or St. Paul&#39;s Lutheran Church is a church in Newton, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a Historic Place in Catawba County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Church, Newton is a two-story log weatherboarded church built in 1818. It features a Federal style interior with carved sounding board and moldings and a separate, now repurposed, slave balcony. The building is one of the oldest existing churches in North Carolina west of the Catawba River. The graveyard headstones date to the late 18th century. The St. Pauls Reformed Church at Startown formed from this congregation in 1904.</p><br>
<p>The York Lodge No. 563 is a historic Masonic lodge building on the northern side of Columbus, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was home to the first Masonic lodge in its part of the city. Its architecture makes it a prominent part of the local built environment, and the building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Masons established their first Columbus presence in the downtown area, but the northern neighborhoods were harder to penetrate; multiple attempts to start a northern lodge were made, but the first efforts failed. York Lodge 563 finally broke this trend, becoming the first northern lodge to last more than a short time. When their strength had grown to the point that they could construct their own lodge building, they contracted with the architectural firm of Stribling and Lum to design the present building, which was completed in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick with elements of limestone and metal, the lodge building is typical of early twentieth-century variants of the Italianate style. Few modifications have been made to the ornamental interior, and the original stained glass windows have likewise been preserved. The most distinctive elements of the exterior are components such as -worked limestone trim and decorative brickwork. This exterior causes the building to be greatly different from its neighbors, commercial buildings with substantially smaller setbacks from the street.</p><br>
<p>In July 1984, the York Lodge No. 563 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. Critical to its historic site status was the lack of modification either inside or out, and its architect was also related to designation: although Stribling and Lum operated from 1902 until 1933, almost none of their buildings comparable to or grander than the lodge building have survived.</p><br>
<p>The Wallischeck Homestead is a historic group of farm buildings in southwestern Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The family of Philo Wallischeck, all natives of the Grand Duchy of Baden, settled on the site in 1855. For their first ten years, they lived in a log cabin along the road; this arrangement ended when Philo bought a substantially larger area of land in 1866. Starting in that year and continuing until 1880, the family erected a complex of buildings that survive, virtually unchanged, into the present day.</p><br>
<p>Among the buildings in the farm complex are a brick butchering structure, a brick chicken coop, wooden sheds and rabbit hutches, a brick outhouse with a kitchen and watch house, a wooden grain barn, and the brick farmhouse. This house is a symmetrical one-and-one-half-story structure that features a single central recessed doorway with two windows on each side. Inside, the residents walk along walnut woodworking and are greeted by stencilling on the walls. Like the rest of the buildings on the homestead, the house has changed very little in the past century and a half, remaining in a condition almost identical to that of its youth.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the Wallischeck Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Key to its inclusion on the Register was its well-preserved historic architecture, which was seen as being a fine example of German vernacular architecture; additionally it also qualified for its place in Ohio&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance School was built in the coal mining community of Reliance, Wyoming in 1923-27. The building was designed by James L. Libby, a Union Pacific Railroad employee. The school was built by the Union Pacific Coal Company to serve Reliance, which existed almost entirely to serve the Union Pacific mines. The gymnasium, also designed by Libby, was completed in 1931. Together, the buildings served as an educational and social center for the isolated community.</p><br>
<p>The brick school building is set on a high daylight basement with one main floor. The entry is offset to the left, at the top of a flight of stairs. The entrance is marked by a Tudor arch, with a projecting battlement-like form enclosing it, crowned by parapet with stylized crenelations. Brickwork is marked by diaper patterns, and trimmed with gray granite.</p><br>
<p>The gymnasium is set into a slope with two stories visible at the from, and one to the rear. It is 68 ft wide and 82 ft deep, with brick walls and steel sash windows glazed with semi-obscure wire glass. The interior walls are finished in the same manner as the exterior, with brick interior surfaces laid with white mortar. The ceiling is covered with wood fiber board in a decorative pattern. The maple floor is laid in a log cabin pattern. A stage at one end doubles as a spectator seating area.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 1959, when declining enrollment due to a slackening of mining activity led students to be bused to Rock Springs, 7 mi away. It was used by the Western Wyoming Community College from 1959 to 1969, when the college relocated to a new campus. A renewed mining boom, this time for coal and trona led to the reopening of the school in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance School and its gymnasium were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Philadelphus Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located near Philadelphus, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built during the Antebellum era, in 1858, by carpenter Gilbert P. Higley. The new church by Higley was constructed in the Greek Revival style with an in antis portico  and was able to accommodate a two-story sanctuary and gallery.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Church, also known as St. Pauls Lutheran Church and Day School and St. Peters Lutheran, is a historic Lutheran church located at New Melle, St. Charles County, Missouri. It was built in 1860 by A. Carl Schlottmann and is a one-story rectangular limestone rubble block building on a limestone rubble foundation. It features a projecting bell tower added in 1881. St. Pauls Lutheran Church was founded by German immigrants in 1844 and was the first Lutheran Church in St. Charles County.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Marble Schoolhouse is a Greek Revival style schoolhouse in Eastchester, New York that was built in 1835. The stone of its facade was quarried in nearby Tuckahoe, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The building was moved to its current location in 1869.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse features exhibits of local history and is open by appointment with the Eastchester Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Kaumakapili Church is a Gothic Revival church located at 766 North King Street in the Kapālama neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was originally established on April 1, 1838, at the corner of Smith and Beretania Streets as a Protestant church for common people; the only existing church, the Kawaiahao Church, was attended by nobility. A new brick and wood frame church building with two steeples was built for the church from 1881 to 1888; however, that building was burned along with large areas of Chinatown in an attempt to control an outbreak of bubonic plague. Construction began on a third church building at the current site in 1910; this church, which is still in use, was dedicated in 1911. A $2.4 million restoration project conducted by Mason Architects in 1993 rehabilitated the church, which had been extensively damaged by nature and vandalism.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 2008.</p><br>
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<p>The St. James Episcopal Church is a church located at 25150 East River Road in Grosse Ile, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Lisette Denison Forth</h2><br>
<p>Elisabeth (Lisette) Denison Forth was born as a slave in 1786 near Detroit. Her family was owned by William and Catherine Tucker; when William Tucker died, her parents were freed, but Lisette and her brother were not. Later, following a newly established legal precedent, Lisette and her brother crossed into Canada to establish residency and gain their freedom; the two returned to Detroit in approximately 1815.</p><br>
<p>In 1831, she joined the household of John Biddle, mayor of Detroit and founder of Wyandotte, Michigan. During this time, Lisette purchased land and invested her savings in business ventures, reaping a tidy profit. Lisette spent much of her time at Biddles Wyandotte estate, eventually following the Biddles to Philadelphia in 1849 and later to Paris at the request of Biddles wife, Eliza. In fact, Lisette had become good friends with Eliza Biddle, and the two women, both Episcopalians, made a vow to eventually build a chapel.</p><br>
<p>Lisette returned to Michigan in 1856, entering the employ of John Biddles son, William S. Biddle, at his estate on Grosse Ile, She died on August 7, 1866 (shortly after Eliza Biddles death), and is interred in Elmwood Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When Lisette Denison Forth died, she willed a portion of her estate to her family and the rest, some $3,000, James Biddle also built an altar cross, and a kneeling bench and reading stand for the minister.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Samuel Allen McCoskry consecrated the church in July 1868; in his later report to the diocese, he stated:</p><br>
<p>In 1898, a large Tiffany glass window was installed in the church, donated by Col. John Biddle (William&#39;s son) in memory of his mother Susan. A larger church was constructed on the site in 1958, and the 1867 structure serves as a chapel for the new church. The red doors of the structure are dedicated to the memory and benevolence of Lisette Denison Forth.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Saint James Episcopal Church is a front-gable, Carpenter Gothic frame structure. The walls a vertical board and batten, and pierced vergeboards line the gables. The entrance is located on one side under a gable, and a frame steeple tops the church. The building has stained glass lancet windows, including the 1898 Tiffany window, Angel of Praise, which measures 11 feet by 5 feet 6 inches (3.4 m by 1.7 m). In the years since its construction, the church has undergone several repairs and had multiple additions, but the main structure remains substantially original and in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Building is a historic commercial building located at 44 East Main Street in Champaign, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1916, the five-story, Commercial style building was designed by architect Harry Roberts Temple. The five-story brick building features a copper cornice and terra cotta decorations. The buildings facade is divided into a first-floor base, shaft, and capital at the top, a feature of Commercial style buildings modeled after Classical columns. The first two floors of the building feature large sash windows, with storefront windows on the first floor and display windows on the second; the upper stories have smaller double-hung sash windows. The buildings interior features terrazzo floors, marble accents, and wood trim.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Warren Lodge No. 32 is a historic Masonic lodge which meets in a Masonic temple located on Centre Road in Schultzville, New York. The Lodge was named for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren . Warren Lodge was chartered on June 10, 1807 by DeWitt Clinton, Grand Master of Masons in New York and is the oldest existing lodge in Dutchess County.</p><br>
<p>It was first located in Millerton and over its first 50 years met in several locations Dutchess County. In 1864, the lodge settled in Schultzville, where Theodore Schultz had left the lodge land and $2,000 to build a lodge hall. The lodge has the distinction of being the New York&#39;s only remaining Full Moon Lodge, whereby its monthly meeting date is the "Thursday before every full moon", rather than on a set calendar day. In 2007, the lodge celebrated its bicentennial.</p><br>
<h2>The Masonic Hall</h2><br>
<p>Warren Lodge&#39;s Masonic Hall, is an historic two-story wooden-frame building built in 1865 in the Italianate style of architecture with a central hexagonal cupola. The first floor is a social hall while the lodge room is on the second. In the early 1900s a one-story addition was made on the rear of the building. As of 2007, the building was owned by the Town of Clinton Historical Society, which uses it for its social functions and other events and rents it out to other groups. Warren Lodge No. 32 is still able to use the building for its meetings and functions. On June 5, 2007, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Warren Masonic Lodge #32".</p><br>
<p>The building was moved in 2011 to the nearby Town of Clinton office campus. It is located on Centre Road in Schultzville, New York.</p><br>
<p>The Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as the Country Tea Room, is a historic restaurant  in unincorporated Dundee Township, Kane County, Illinois, United States. It was originally a farmhouse for Increase C. Bosworth, who operated the farm as a creamery. He sold it to Max McGraw in 1926, who converted into a teahouse restaurant. To meet the demands of the changing tastes of travelers in the 1930s, the teahouse was converted into a full restaurant, featuring game from McGraw&#39;s nearby game preserve. The main building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The northern Fox River Valley was first settled in the 1830s. Originally profiting from its natural resources, the region eventually expanded into manufacturing, even earning connections to the Chicago and North Western Railroad in Carpentersville. Increase C. Bosworth, a wealthy businessman from Chicago, settled in the area in 1837. He purchased a 136 acre property from a Mr. Clark in 1860. He constructed a farm by the 1860s that featured a farmhouse, windmill, and creamery. The house was in the gablefront style with Italianate details.</p><br>
<p>Illinois State Route 25 was to be built in the early 20th century to serve the east side of the Fox River, running from Oswego to Algonquin. Bosworths residence was located on grounds adjacent to the planned highway. Seeing an opportunity for development, Max McGraw purchased the property in 1926. He added a single-story extension later that year. Route 25 was opened in 1929, and the Country Tea Room, like many roadside restaurants in its day, flourished. The road was an important shipment route for dairy products and provided a route for tourists seeking to visit Wisconsin to the north. Customers enjoyed toasting their own bread with McGraws invention, and some bought Toastmasters for their own homes. When the restaurant first opened, dining options for automobile travelers were limited to picnics or fancy hotels. Roadside restaurants filled the need for other options for travelers in the 1920s and 1930s. McGraw also maintained the dairy operations of the farm until 1939.</p><br>
<p>By the end of the 1930s, roadside eateries were spread throughout most major highways. To stay competitive, restaurants needed to provide variety for their patrons, to stand out from other establishments. The Country Tea Room initially struggled with this change, but was able to reinvent itself as the Milk Pail Restaurant, a full restaurant with unique entrees. Part of the property was converted into The Fin &#39;n Feather Catalogue, which sold smoked game, some of which featured on the Milk Pail menu. McGraw bought the surrounding land, named it the McGraw Wildlife Foundation, and opened it as a private game preserve. The main building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1999. Today, the Milk Pail remains open and is a popular local location for wedding receptions.</p><br>
<p>The original building faces east while the 1926 addition faces south. The barn, creamery, and stable that once served the farm still stand to the southwest, although they have been modified throughout their existence and do not contribute to the sites historical value. A parking lot lies to the main buildings north and east. The two-story house as a small one-story addition that was built before the early 1900s. The Country Tea House extension in 1926 was built on the west side of the house. The vernacular, wood panel house sits on a stone foundation. A chimney is found on the north side of the building. Windows on the east and south elevations feature wooden pediments, those on the north side do not. Asphalt shingles adorn the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Ferry Street Bridge or Ferry Street–Thorofare Canal bridge is a bridge located at Ferry Street over the Thorofare Canal in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1947, the Wayne County Road Commission replaced the 85 ft Pratt truss bridge that had previously spanned the Thorofare Canal with the current structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ferry Street Bridge has a main span length of 26 ft, a structure length of 95 ft, a roadway width of 36 ft, and a structure width of 28 ft. The railings are solid concrete, and marble plates mounted at the northeast and southeast corners of the bridge note that the bridge is Job 413 of the Wayne County Road Commission.</p><br>
<p>Merrillsville Cure Cottage, also known as Merrillsville Town Hall, is a historic cure cottage located at Merrillsville in the town of Franklin, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1900 as part of a tuberculosis curing facility that also included a main lodge and numerous tent platform. It was moved to its present site in 1920. It is a small, rectangular one story frame building, sheathed in dark brown cedar shingles. It is topped by a gable roof with exposed wooden rafters. It features a full-width, glass-enclosed cure porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Paul Smith&#39;s Electric Light and Power and Railroad Company Complex is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake in Franklin County, New York. It contains two contributing buildings  and two contributing structures . The powerhouse was built in 1908-1909 and is a one-story, single room brick building on a stone foundation measuring 40 feet by 55 feet. The office building was built in 1927 and is a three-story steel and masonry building with a terra cotta exterior. It is three bays wide by four bays deep. The Main Street Bridge is a concrete slab bridge built between 1924 and 1931. The Lake Flower Dam and Power Flume was built between 1936 and 1938 with Works Progress Administration assistance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Berkeley Square Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake  in Franklin County, New York. It consists of 22 contributing buildings; the 1926-28 Harrietstown Town Hall and 21 commercial buildings constructed between 1867 and 1932. Most of the buildings are three stories with cornices. Styles range from a group of three Second Empire style structures dated to the late-1860s-early 1870s, late 19th century business blocks, and early 20th century buildings reflecting the various revival styles of that period. The Harrietstown Town Hall is a flat roofed building with parapet and features a domed cylindrical tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Cottage Row Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake  in Franklin County, New York. It includes 27 contributing privately owned single-family dwellings built between 1900 and 1940, with the majority constructed between 1907 and 1917. They are mostly two- or three-story, wood-framed structures, with gable or gambrel roofs, dormers, and wood siding or shingles. Most of the residences were operated as commercial, private tuberculosis sanitorium, with characteristic architectural features of the "cure cottage," including second story sleeping porches, extra wide doorways, and call bell systems.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Mifflin School, built in 1825, is the oldest surviving school building used in the Philadelphia public school system. It is a two-story, two-bay red brick building, which now has its side walls stuccoed over. In the first phase of the development of the public school system in Philadelphia, 1818–1850, simple school buildings were built by local authorities in a decentralized system. During this period 49 buildings were built by seven local school boards; only four of the buildings survive.</p><br>
<p>The Fort is a prominent historic house in the central portion of the USA state of Ohio. Located northeast of the village of North Lewisburg in Union County, Built in 1877, it is a square structure, measuring five bays wide on each of its sides. Its foundation is built of ashlar stone, while the hip roof is constructed of imbricated slates of multiple colors. The houses hilltop location makes it visible from a vast distance in all directions. Many of its impressive Italianate architectural elements, such as the ornamental cornice and carven stone lintels, can be distinguished from far away, especially as the house is surrounded by farmland rather than woods. Porches are located on both sides of the houses front of the house, with a two-story bay window placed in the middle of the facade. Chimneys stand at the tops of both side walls.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, The Fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its well-preserved historic architecture, for it has been rated as one of the best Italianate buildings in rural Union County. It also qualified for its place in local history, for it was home to horse breeder Shepard Clark. The son of one of the earliest settlers in Allen Township, Clark was regarded highly throughout Ohio for his breeding operation.</p><br>
<p>Camp Intermission, also known as William Morris House, is a historic Great Camp located on Lake Colby just outside the village of Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1928 for theatrical agent William Morris, designed by William G. Distin. The property includes the main house and seven contributing outbuildings. The house is a -story, rectangular wood and stone dwelling with a rear kitchen wing. The house features elaborately patterned stone arches and sills and a "cure porch." The outbuildings include a wood shed, machine shed housing a wood cutter, wellhouse, root cellar, ice house, barn, and a caretaker&#39;s house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Ames Academy Building is a historic school building located at Ames, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1835 and is a two-story, rectangular, gable roofed, stone masonry building five bays long and two bays wide. The walls are constructed of cut limestone blocks. The Ames Academy received a charter from the New York State Board of Regents on February 5, 1839. It was used as a school until 1959. Since 1987 it has housed a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Guy Park Avenue School is a historic school building located at 300 Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1902 and is a two-story, square brick building on a raised stone foundation. It features a round arched entrance portal of cast stone and a triangular pediment highlighted by an oculus and wag ornamentation. It ceased use as a school in 1968.</p><br>
<p>From 1968 to 2001 it housed the Walter Elwood Museum, with exhibits about local history and culture. The museum later moved to the nearby Guy Park mansion, also a historic site. The old school is now an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>51 Market Street, also known as the William and Rosamond Clark House, is a historic house located between Madison and Monroe Streets in lower Manhattan in New York City. The two-story gambrelled house was built in 1824–25 in the late Federal style at a time when the Lower East Side was an affluent residential neighborhood. The original owner was apparently William Clark, a grocer. The upper two stories were added late in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>51 Market Street was designated a New York City landmark in 1965, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Boisaubin Manor is a historic brick house located on Treadwell Avenue in the Convent Station section of Chatham Township, southeast of Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Built sometime between 1822 and 1834, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1976, for its significance in art and architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Vincent Class Van Schal-Kwyck Boisaubin (1755–1834) was born in Port-Louis, Guadeloupe. He was educated in Paris and became a member of the Garde du Corps of King Louis XVI of France. He fled during the French Revolution and purchased land near Morristown. The manor house was built sometime between 1822 and 1834 with Greek Revival style. His son, Amidee Boisaubin, inherited the property and in 1851 sold it to Alfred Treadwell. By 1890, the illustrator A. B. Frost bought the property and named it Moneysunk. In 1910, Henry W. Shoemaker purchased the property and called it Kresheim.</p><br>
<p>Elmwood Place is a historic farmstead in the southwestern corner of Union County, Ohio, United States. Located along State Route 161 near the community of Irwin, the farmstead comprises six different buildings spread out over an area of 9 acre.</p><br>
<p>In 1858, the property where Elmwood Place sits — then open fields — was purchased by James Fullington. One of Union County&#39;s most prominent landholders, Fullington soon began construction of the present farm buildings. First to be completed was the farmhouse, finished in 1861; a carriage house and a large barn were completed, and the remaining buildings — two small frame sheds and a cottage for tenants, which was moved from its original location — were all erected by 1877.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse at Elmwood Place is a large brick building with a porch. It was constructed with many Italianate details, such as the cornices, the arched windows and doors, and many interior elements. Because both the house and the other buildings remain in a fine state of preservation, Elmwood Place has been named one of Union County&#39;s best examples of 19th-century rural architecture. In recognition of its status, the farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in late 1979; it is one of seven places in the county to have been recognized.</p><br>
<p>The Butler-McCook Homestead is a historic house museum at 396 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1782, it is one of the city&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is now operated as the Butler-McCook House & Garden by Connecticut Landmarks.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Butler-McCook Homestead is located south of downtown Hartford, on the east side of Main Street at the Pulaski Mall. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, clapboarded exterior, and twin interior chimneys. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a shallow projecting portico with round columns, hip roof, and projecting cornice. The front roof face is pierced by three dormers, two small ones flanking a large central one. The houses rear structure contains a colonial kitchen on the first floor, and the structures second floor was added in the 19th century. The house stands on about 2 acre of land, part of which has formal gardens created by landscape architect Jacob Weidenman, the principal designer of Hartford&#39;s Bushnell Park. Attached to the right side of the house is a late 19th-century single-story structure.</p><br>
<p>The main house was built in 1782 for Dr. Daniel Butler, a physician who kept his consulting room here. Another resident of the house was Rev. John James McCook (professor) who was a professor at Trinity College (Connecticut) and the rector at St. Johns Episcopal Church in East Hartford. His son, Dr. John Butler McCook, added the wing to the right to serve as his office in 1897. The house remained in the hands of Butler descendants for about two centuries, prior to its conversion to a museum. Its rooms now include displays of family memorabilia. The house reflects two centuries of ownership by one family, with furnishings and decorative items ranging from the Colonial through the Victorian eras. The house also features the Main Street History Center, with exhibits about Hartfords history.</p><br>
<p>The Webster Hotel is located in New York City. The building was built in 1902 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1984. It was designed by the architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout, and built in the Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It functions today as The Midtown Executive Club, it is also marketed as a hotel to the general public under the name Club Quarters, Midtown.</p><br>
<h2>Famous visitors</h2><br>
<p>Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez stayed with his family in the Webster Hotel during a period when he moved from Havana to New York City to work for Cuban press agency Prensa Latina.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was the first marital home of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor while he attended Columbia Law School.</p><br>
<p>The William H. Moore House, also known as the Stokes-Moore Mansion and 4 East 54th Street, is a commercial building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is along 54th Street&#39;s southern sidewalk between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. The building was designed by McKim, Mead & White and constructed between 1898 and 1900 as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The house is a six-story, rectangular stone building in the Renaissance Revival style. It has an English basement on the first floor, which is clad with rusticated blocks of the stone. There is a balustrade and overhanging cornice above the fifth floor. A sixth floor, recessed from the street, was added in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The house was commissioned by developer William Earle Dodge Stokes and purchased by financier William Henry Moore before its completion. Although William H. Moore died in the mansion in 1923, his wife Ada resided in the house until her death in 1955. Afterward, the house contained offices for organizations and companies such as the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Banco di Napoli, as well as a store for fashion company Kiton. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 4 East 54th Street as an official landmark in 1967, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The William H. Moore House is at 4 East 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is on the south side of 54th Street between Madison Avenue to the east and Fifth Avenue to the west. The land lot covers 3,615 ft2 with a frontage of 36 ft on 54th Street and a depth of 100.42 ft. Nearby sites include the residences at University Club of New York and The Peninsula New York to the northwest; Aeolian Building and the St. Regis New York hotel to the north; 19 East 54th Street to the east; Saint Thomas Church and 666 Fifth Avenue to the southwest; and Paley Park one block south.</p><br>
<p>Fifth Avenue between 42nd Street and Central Park South (59th Street) was relatively undeveloped through the late 19th century. The surrounding area was once part of the common lands of the city of New York. The Commissioners Plan of 1811 established Manhattans street grid with lots measuring 100 ft deep and 25 ft wide. Upscale residences were constructed around Fifth Avenue following the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>4 East 54th Street is designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by McKim, Mead & White. The building is clad with stone and is structurally supported by masonry-bearing walls. It is five stories tall, with the ground story treated as an English basement. The original facade is divided horizontally into three sections: the ground-floor English basement, the three center stories, and the fifth-story attic. Russell Sturgis, writing for Architectural Record in 1900, described 4 East 54th Street as "tranquil, simple, and not ineffective", but he thought that the balcony outside the second floor should have been placed at a greater height.</p><br>
<h3>Facade</h3><br>
<p>The facade is made of white limestone. The main facade on 54th Street is five stories tall with three bays of vertical openings. The first story is faced with rusticated stone blocks, and it contains flat-arched display windows on the left and right bays, topped by keystones with volutes. The main entrance is through the center bay and has a carved cartouche above it. A balcony runs across the bottom of the second story. The keystones on the left and right windows, as well as four additional console brackets, support the balcony.</p><br>
<p>The second through fifth stories facing 54th Street each contain three rectangular windows, which are surrounded by increasingly simple moldings on higher floors. These stories are mostly clad with flat stone, but the extreme ends of the facade contain rusticated quoins. Above the second story are individual cornices supported by brackets. The center window on the third story has a rectangular balcony, with a railing made of carved ironwork, and it is topped by a rounded pediment. The fourth and fifth floors are separated by a horizontal band course with dentils. Above the fifth floor, there is an entablature with dentils and scallop details. There is also a large cornice supported by console brackets. Above the cornice is a balustrade, behind which is the flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The sixth floor, added in the 1990s, was built atop that roof and is not visible from street level. When the house was completed, there had been windows on three sides. The western wall had windows since, at the time of the house&#39;s construction, the building did not abut anything to the west.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The house has 23,000 ft2 of space,</p><br>
<p>4 East 54th Street is one of several "American basement plan" residences on 54th Street, where the entrance is placed at ground level, rather than on a stoop slightly above ground as in other rowhouses. This type of design enabled the ground-floor reception area to have a central staircase, rather than on one side. and it was clad in marble. The reception room was on the left side of the entrance, while an office was to the right. The hallway had marble columns, pilasters, and walls and led to the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>A broad staircase curves up to the second floor, The fourth floor was entirely dedicated to bedrooms, and the fifth floor had bedrooms for the servants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Earl Dodge Stokes was born in 1852 and helped develop many buildings on the Upper West Side in the late 19th century. His family headed a mining company called Phelps, Dodge & Company. In 1895, Stokes married 19-year-old Rita Hernandez de Alba Acosta after becoming enamored with Ritas picture in a window on Fifth Avenue. The wedding was held at 47 West 48th Street, the Midtown mansion where Rita Acostas parents Ricardo and Micaela lived. Initially, the couple lived on the Upper West Side. By the late 1890s, many smaller mansions were being developed on side streets near Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.</p><br>
<h3>Residence</h3><br>
<p>In June 1898, Caroline S. Reed sold two rowhouses at 4 and 6 East 54th Street for about $140,000. The buyer&#39;s name was initially not publicized, but William Stokes hired McKim, Mead & White to design a five-story brick-and-stone residence on the site shortly after the sale. The original plans for the house were announced that June, when the house was projected to cost $100,000. The next month, William Stokes decided to instead erect a limestone-clad house. William Stokes had specifically planned the house for his wife: a short article in The Sun, published in October 1898, stated that William and Rita Stokes "expect to move into their new house at 4 East Fifty-fourth Street on Jan. 16". The marriage was short; by mid-1899 Rita Stokes had filed for divorce, with the proceedings finalized by the finalized the following April.</p><br>
<p>The house had not been completed when, in December 1899, William Stokes sold it to financier William Henry Moore, who paid either $225,000 or $325,000. William and his wife Ada temporarily lived in the Holland House until the following March, when the house was completed. In 1901, the Moores signed an agreement with Charles W. Harkness regarding an "encroachment" onto Harknesss adjacent property at 2 East 54th Street (685 Fifth Avenue). As of the 1910 United States census, the residents included not only the Moores but also nine servants, eight of whom were immigrants from Scotland, Sweden, Finland, and Ireland. Williams grandson Paul Moore Jr., a bishop of the Episcopal Church, recalled that the house was filled with "Persian rugs, Victorian furniture, etc."</p><br>
<p>William H. Moore died at the house on January 11, 1923. His estate was divided equally between Ada, who continued to live at the house, and the couples two sons, who lived elsewhere. After William Moores death, Ada used the house for several events, such as a pre-Lent lecture, a tea for the Society of Woman Geographers, and a reception for Metropolitan Opera singers. As the neighborhood became more commercial in nature, the Stork Club restaurant opened directly behind the house. Paul Moore Jr. recalled that his grandmothers butler called the Stork Clubs owner Sherman Billingsley regularly to complain about the noise from the restaurant. Ada Moore died at the house on January 30, 1955.</p><br>
<h3>Late 20th century</h3><br>
<p>Harry and Sydney W. Waxman, builders from the company Waxman Brothers, purchased the house in May 1960 from Ed Benenson. The buyers were planning to convert the building to a headquarters of the Waxman Foundation, a charity, for $1 million. The renovations included air-conditioning and a new elevator. The Waxman Brothers had moved into the house by July 1960, when the company formed a new mortgage firm, the Jefferson Funding Corporation, with offices in the building.</p><br>
<p>The America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), a group founded by violinist Isaac Stern, acquired the house in 1966 and converted the building into its headquarters. An arts-and-crafts center and an Israeli-art gallery were placed on the ground floor. The second floor had a reception foyer, a lecture/film room, and a board room.</p><br>
<p>Joseph P. Famolare purchased the house in 1978 for use as the headquarters for his company Famolare Shoes. Famolare had initially intended to demolish the interior to make way for "white walls and sleek-looking insides". Famolare discussed the renovation with his tax lawyer, who said he may be eligible for a tax credit if he preserved the interior, leading him to replace his architects. The mahogany and stained glass interiors were thus retained, becoming Famolare Shoes sales offices and showrooms. Among the companys customers was Isaac Stern. Famolare sold the house to Four East Fifty-fourth Street Associates in 1984, and the house was transferred the next year to the government of Indonesia. By 1986, the house was known as the Indonesian Pavilion. That year, the government of Indonesia opened a furniture store called Sarinah on the lowest three floors; this was the Indonesian government&#39;s first store outside Indonesia.</p><br>
<p>The Italian bank Banco di Napoli purchased the building for $12.8 million from the Indonesian government in May 1993. The bank renovated the building and added the sixth floor for $7 million. The renovation was planned by SCR Design, which had proposed constructing two floors. Because the house was a city landmark, the LPC had to determine whether the additional floors were allowed to be developed, even though the proposed exterior design was similar to the original five floors. The LPC also had to approve a proposed fire stair in the side yard. Christopher Gray of The New York Times said the addition "completely negates any suggestion that the building is any longer a mansion but it is in no way offensive".</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>After Banco di Napoli was acquired in Sanpaolo IMI Bank in 2000, it placed the building for sale in 2001 for $28.5 million. In late 2002, Italian fashion company Kiton bought the house for $25 million. The companys chairman, Antonio de Matteis, said that company officials had admired the house, visible from their office at the Aeolian Building across the street, for several years. The company planned to use the first floor for mens clothing and the front of the second floor for women&#39;s clothing. At the same time, the rear of the second floor was to be used for custom-fitted menswear. The upper stories would be used for wholesaling, but Banco di Napoli had installed partition walls there, which Kiton planned to remove., the building was still owned by Kiton.</p><br>
<p>The Vermont Masonic Hall, also known as the Vermont Hardware Store Building, is a historic Masonic Lodge located on North Main Street in Vermont, Illinois. The hall was built in 1891-92 for Vermonts Lodge No. 116 of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, which was formed in 1852. At the time the hall was built, secret societies were enjoying a wave of popularity in America, with the Masons preeminent among them; Vermont was no exception to this trend, and its Masons played an important role in the citys social life. The hall was a two-story commercial building; the Masons leased the second floor, while a hardware store operated on the first. The brick building features an elaborate iron storefront; its design, along with the lodge itself, led it to be considered of the best Masonic lodges in western Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Farmers and Merchants Bank-Masonic Lodge a is historic commercial and fraternal building at 288 North Broadway in Booneville, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, with Colonial Revival and Early Commercial architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It originally hosted a bank on its first floor and a Masonic meeting hall on its second floor. The buildings cornerstone indicates the Masonic association, but not the banks. The local Masonic lodge met there from 1906 to 1985.</p><br>
<p>Bradford Public Library, formerly known as the Byers Masonic Lodge and Bradford City Hall, is a historic building in Bradford, Arkansas. Built in 1934 jointly by the Masonic lodge and the city government, the building originally functioned as the city hall and as a Masonic Hall until the lodge moved in 1960. The city hall later moved in 1995. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and has been used as a library since 2009.</p><br>
<p>The building is a two-story structure finished in fieldstone on the first level and stucco on the second. Its gable roof has exposed rafter ends, giving the building a bit of Craftsman styling.</p><br>
<p>The South School is a historic school building at 362 South Main Street in Torrington, Connecticut. It is a Beaux Arts architecture building, designed by Wilson Potter and completed in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The building has been renovated for use as residential apartments. In 2010, a sign describes it as "South School Garden View Apartments".</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South School is located in a mixed residential-commercial area south of downtown Torrington, at the southwest corner of South Main Street and Brooker Street. It is a large two-story brick building, with a flat roof, granite foundation, and terra cotta trim. The basement is elevated, with a stringcourse of trim separating it from the main levels. The main facade is broadly divided into three sections, with a central section with bands of sash windows flanked by a slightly projecting end sections with blank walls adorned by patterned brick and trim. The corners of the end sections have brick quoining, and the building is topped by a low parapet with wide stepped crenellations highlighted by a terra cotta border. The main entrance is set at the center of the basement level, in a richly decorated segmented-arch surround.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1915 to a design by Wilson Potter, a prominent New York City architect known for his school designs; Potter was also credited with the design of the 1914 Torrington High School, now much altered and no longer the high school. This building was the first large-scale elementary school for the city, and served as a prototype for schools it built through the 1930s. The building was used as a school until 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Pilgrim Holiness Church, also known as the Baled Hay Church or the Baled Straw Church, is a church built in 1928 in Arthur, Nebraska. At a time and place in which conventional construction materials were expensive or unavailable, it was built out of baled rye straw. For its unique mode of construction, associated with the history of settlement of the Nebraska Sandhills, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Settlement of Arthur County</h2><br>
<p>Arthur County lies in the Nebraska Sandhills, a region of grass-stabilized sand dunes.</p><br>
<p>Rainfall percolates readily into the sandy soil, recharging the aquifer and giving rise to hundreds of permanent lakes; but the sandy soil is poorly suited for cultivation, and the area is chiefly used for cattle ranching.</p><br>
<p>Much of eastern Nebraska was settled under the provisions of the 1862 Homestead Act, which allowed settlers to obtain a quarter-section (160 acres, or 65 ha) of government land for a nominal fee. In the Sandhills, this was not enough land to support a family, and the usual pattern of development was one of large cattle ranches on federal land,</p><br>
<p>with the ranchers using the homestead laws to secure lakes and streams for their operations.</p><br>
<p>The 1904 Kinkaid Act allowed homesteaders in 37 western Nebraska counties to claim a full section (640 acres, or 260 ha) of government land.</p><br>
<p>This, combined with the opening of a forest reserve in 1911, led to rapid population growth in what is now Arthur County. The county itself was created by the Nebraska legislature in its 1912-13 session, and the townsite of Arthur was designated the county seat in 1913. By the 1920 census, the county had a population of 1412, compared to an 1890 population of 91 for what is now Logan and Arthur counties.</p><br>
<h2>Straw bale construction</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers on the Nebraska prairies found few trees there, necessitating a search for locally available construction materials. In other parts of the state, the soil proved suitable for dugouts and sod houses.</p><br>
<p>However, in the Sandhills, the soil generally made poor construction sod</p><br>
<p>No railroad lines reached Arthur County, so importing construction materials would have been expensive and difficult.</p><br>
<p>The mechanical hay baler had been invented in the 1850s, and was in widespread use by the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The first documented use of hay bales in construction in Nebraska was a schoolhouse built in 1896 or 1897; unfenced and unprotected by stucco or plaster, it was reported in 1902 as having been eaten by cows. Between 1896 and 1945, an estimated 70 straw-bale buildings, including houses, farm buildings, churches, schools, offices, and grocery stores had been built in the Sandhills. In 1990, nine surviving bale buildings were reported in Arthur and Logan Counties.</p><br>
<h2>Pilgrim Holiness Church</h2><br>
<p>In 1927, a group of Congregationalists in Arthur began planning a church. The building, constructed in the following year, was constructed of stacked and baled hay with walls 2 feet (60 cm) thick. The building is now stuccoed on the outside and plastered on the inside, but in the course of renovations in 1976, it was determined that it had originally been plastered on both sides with locally obtained "gumbo mud".</p><br>
<p>Pilgrim Holiness Church is the oldest known straw-bale church in North America, and one of three known to exist today. The others are a church built in 1954 near Sexsmith, Alberta, and St. Francis in the Redwoods, built in 2007 in Willits, California.</p><br>
<p>Regular services are no longer held in the church, which is now owned and operated by the Arthur County Historical Society. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Old Masonic Hall, also known as Benicia Masonic Hall, is a historic building in Benicia, California. Constructed by Benicia Masonic Lodge No. 5 in summer 1850, on land donated by Alexander Riddell and with lumber donated by Benicia founder Robert Semple, it was the first purpose build Masonic Hall in California. It was occupied by the lodge October 14, 1850, and formally dedicated December 27, 1850.</p><br>
<p>In 1850 Benicia was the original County seat of Solano County, and the first floor of the Hall was used as the Solano County court room and offices prior to the completion of Benicia&#39;s city hall. The second-floor rooms, with remarkable ornate woodwork made by California frontier craftsmen, was used for the Lodge.</p><br>
<p>The Benicia Lodge No. 5, founded on March 6, 1850, included many of the important Benicia pioneers, among them Robert Semple, W. B. Nurse, L. B, Mizner, and Alexander Riddell. The building served as the Masonic Temple for Benicia Lodge No. 5 until 1888, when the Lodge outgrew the premises and constructed a larger one adjacent to it. The building was then sold to be used for community purposes; it housed a boys&#39; club prior to World War I and the American Legion shortly after the war. In 1950, one hundred years after it was erected, it was reacquired by Benicia Lodge No. 5. The building was listed on the California Historical Landmarks in 1935 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>One of the earliest surviving public buildings in Benicia, the Old Masonic Hall is an excellent example of 19th-century Greek Revival architecture. The moderately pitched front gable roof has a molded fascia and a plain verge board. A cornice is found on both the gable end and the eaves. The fenestration is symmetrically arranged. The gable entry porch covering extends beyond the building on the west side. Cladding is lap siding with wooden pilasters with capitals at the corners of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building is still in use.</p><br>
<p>The Hornitos Masonic Hall No. 98 is a historic Masonic Hall building in Hornitos, Mariposa County, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1855 by Italian stonemasons who worked in the gold mines of the Mother Lode of the California Gold Rush. It is classified as an unreinforced masonry building because its walls have no metal support. All rock, granite, and brick materials came from local sources.</p><br>
<p>During the first twenty years of its existence, the building served many different purposes, operating as a photography studio, a jewelry and watch store, tailor shop and finally as the Fashion Saloon.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased by Masons in August 1873 for $220, and they renovated it for a Masonic Hall. Sometime in early 1875, the Masonic Hornitos Lodge No. 98 began holding regular meetings in the building and have occupied it ever since.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Stanley Y. Beverley Lodge #108 building , is a historic building located in Suisun City, California, built in 1855. It was designed by Hiram Rush. The building served as a Prince Hall Masonic Lodge and as a business. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as "Suisun Masonic Lodge No. 55". The building has also been known locally as the Stanley Beverly Lodge&#39; building.</p><br>
<p>The building was named after the Freemasons lodge that originally occupied the upper floor of the building. The lower floor was rented as retail space. The first commercial tenant of the two-storey brick building was the Moses Dinkelspiel & Co. dry goods store. Over the years, a variety of businesses have come and gone from the commercial space - it has housed a pool hall, an auto parts store, and a hair salon.</p><br>
<p>Suisun Lodge no longer meets in the 623 Main St. building, having sold it in 1965 to Stanley Beverly Lodge No. 108 (a Prince Hall Affiliate Lodge).</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Block in Fargo, North Dakota, also known as Dakota Business College or Watkins Block, is an Early Commercial style building built in 1884. It was designed by Fargo architects Daniels & Proctor.</p><br>
<p>The building gets its name from the fact that one of the original tenants of the building was a local Masonic lodge. The lodge rented the third floor of the building, which it used as a meeting hall (the lodge met in the building for only four years, from 1885 to 1889).</p><br>
<p>Despite the name, the building is better known for its subsequent educational function. It housed Fargo College from 1887 to 1890, and the Dakota Business College from 1891 to 1978.</p><br>
<p>Today it is used as a purely commercial building. It is one of few commercial structures in Fargo that survived a fire in 1893.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The listing included one contributing building, on an area of less than 1 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Times Square Hotel is located in New York, New York. The building was built in 1922 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Built by the developer Henry Claman in 1922, as president of the West Forty-eighth Street Realty Company. Claman had purchased from the Charles A. Christmas estate some buildings that had been at the corner of 43rd Street and 8th Avenue and added them to a lot Claman already owned on 43rd. It was originally called the Claman Hotel (catering to single men). The hotel was soon acquired by Manger Hotels, who changed the name to the Times Square Hotel in 1923, with one floor reserved for women.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, four room options, priced between $2 and $8 per night, were available at the hotel; room with running water, connecting bath, private bath or double room with bath.</p><br>
<p>A partnership headed by Arthur Schwebel ran the building from 1962 to 1981. In 1963, Shwebel changed the name of the hotel to the "Times Square Motor Hotel," adding the word "Motor "because there was a need for moderately priced hotel accommodations with free parking."</p><br>
<p>In the early 1970s, the hotel became home to the mentally ill and troubled Vietnam War veterans, and New York City subsequently placed welfare recipients there. After a period of deterioration, Covenant House acquired the building in 1984 as real estate investment. Vietnamese-American hotelier Tran Dinh Truong purchased the hotel in 1988. The hotel quickly ran up more than 1,500 safety and building code violations, leading to its takeover by the city in January 1990.</p><br>
<p>Common Ground, offering affordable housing for working professionals and the formerly homeless, some of whom live with HIV/AIDS, mental illness, or physical disabilities, acquired the building in 1991 as its flagship supportive housing residence.</p><br>
<p>The Slovenski Dom in Rock Springs, Wyoming was built as a community hall for Slovenian fraternal organizations in 1913. The Slovenski Dom, or Slovenian National Home, was one of a number of similar halls built in places with large ethnic Slovenian populations. The organizing charter stipulated that the hall be known as the "Slovenski Dom", its name in Slovenian, rather than by its English translation. It is the only example of its kind in Wyoming and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Several Slovenian Lodges – formed originally to provide hospital and death benefits to the miners and to provide a social outlet for their families – joined together to contract with the Superior Lumber Company to construct a building for their meetings and social events. The building cost $9,440 and was financed primarily through the sale of building bonds in the community. It was finished in time to hold the New Year&#39;s Eve dance on December 31, 1913. It is the only one in Wyoming and is still owned by the original organizations.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior and interior</h2><br>
<p>The exterior was originally wooden shiplap and was covered by asbestos siding in the 1980s. The original roof was wooden shingles. Today&#39;s interior of the building is much as it was in 1913. There are few original furnishings left in the building. Originally, each lodge had its own desk, but only two remain. There are a number of the green wooden slat benches that provided seating in the main hall. Above the stage is a large screen mounted on a roller with a scene of a Slovenian castle on an island which dates to the 1950s when it was painted to replace an earlier screen listing local businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>The Dom immediately became a center of community activity and helped preserve the ethnic identities of those who practiced their religion, music, language, and other customs there. It was the site of ethnic large meetings including Slovenian, Croatian, and Italian lodges as well as the local chapters of the United Mine Workers. Also, it was used for dances, humorous skits in Slovenian, and raffles. Other events at the Dom included fundraisers and benefits for various causes. The Dom was the original location of the Grape Festival or Wine Arbor Festival, a celebration of the harvest. The hall would be decorated with fruit and leaves; there was ethnic dancing and skits. The first Grape Festival was held in 1922 and the last in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Music in the Dom</h2><br>
<p>The Slovenski Dom helped preserve Slovenian musical traditions. Music for the dances was provided by local bands such as the Willie Yugovich Orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s and Elsie Frolic&#39;s band in the 1950s and 1960s. Made up of button accordions, tubas, clarinets, pianos, and drums, these bands were the forerunners of the bands that now play at the annual polka festival.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today Slovenski Dom is not used for its original purpose. It is rented to a company selling local artists&#39; products.</p><br>
<p>The Plaza de España  located in central Hagåtña, the capital of the United States territory of Guam, was the location of the Governors Palace during the island&#39;s long period of Spanish occupation. Most of the palace was destroyed during the shelling of Hagåtña during the reconquest of Guam in World War II. There are three structures still standing including the three-arch gate to Almacen , the azotea or back porch, and the Chocolate House. The plaza was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>In the middle of Hagåtña, the Plaza de España served as the colonial Spanish Governors Palace from 1734 until the invasion of World War II. The surviving or restored structures include the Azotea, Chocolate House, Tool Shed, Siesta Shed and Spanish Walls. The Governors Palace housed the office and residence of the Spanish Governor. It was destroyed in 1944 during the liberation of Guam, but portions of the foundation may still be seen.</p><br>
<p>The Governor&#39;s Palace, called Casa Gobierno under Spanish rule, was reconstructed in 1885 to replace the original structure built in 1736. The two-story stone building featured a cantilevered balcony and clay tile roofing. Living quarters were upstairs while the first floor spaces were utilized as the office of the Sargento Mayor de la Plaza, weapons storerooms, and clerical offices.</p><br>
<p>American rule brought changes in the Palace, including pouring a cement floor and converting the lower storerooms into administrative office spaces. The second floor contained a reception area, the dining room, galleries, and the private residence of the governor and his family. The kitchen facilities and the servants&#39; quarters were located in the rear of the Palace.</p><br>
<p>The elevated Azotea, also of stone construction, survived World War II. It was originally the Palace&#39;s open-air terrace porch, with a clay tile roof added after the war.</p><br>
<p>Under Spanish rule the Plaza de España served as the center stage for many government and civic activities on Guam. The principal structure in the complex of buildings, gardens, and a park, the Casa Gobierno, or Governor&#39;s Palace, was originally constructed in 1736, and was first occupied by colonial Spanish Governor Francisco Cardenas Pacheco.</p><br>
<p>The complex was originally named the Plaza de Magalahes (Governor&#39;s Plaza), and was later changed to Plaza de España. Its appearance has also changed during the years. In 1885 the original palace was replaced with a larger building by Governor Don Enrique Solano. After the Spanish–American War in 1898, when Guam became an American possession, the Plaza continued as the headquarters of the American administration and official residence of the Naval Governor.</p><br>
<p>Under American administration the plaza was expanded to include a baseball field and badminton court. Today the Kiosko (bandstand) stands in what was once the baseball field. World War II brought more changes to the Plaza. On December 10, 1941 after a brief battle in Agana, the Governor, Captain George J. McMillin, USAN, surrendered the island to the Japanese from the Plaza. Later, while the seat of Japanese occupation, the Plaza was extensively damaged by the July 1944 bombardment of Agana shortly before Guam&#39;s liberation. The existing structures were subsequently repaired but an extensive restoration project was completed only in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Plaza de España today continues to be the site for numerous social and civic functions, including the inauguration of the Governor of Guam – emphasizing its significance in Guam&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The West Main Street District is a historic district in Kent, Ohio, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district encompasses 25 buildings, most of which are houses, on both sides of West Main Street from its intersection with North and South Mantua Streets on the east to the intersection with North and South Chestnut Streets. It was listed June 17, 1977. Included in the district is the Kent Masonic Center, itself listed on the register in 1974, as well as the home of Martin L. Davey, who served as Governor of Ohio from 1935–1939. Architectural styles represented in the district include Commercial style, Eastlake, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style.</p><br>
