<p>Tanglewood is a historic house on the western side of Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1826, it features a combination of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles of architecture,</p><br>
<p>A Catholic clergyman, John McClean, arranged for the house to be built; however, he sold it to Richard Douglas, a local lawyer, before construction was complete. Douglas owned the property little longer than did McClean, dying soon after it was finished. Mr. Douglas son, Dr. Albert Douglas, Sr., inherited the property from his father and was active in the regions Underground Railroad. The recorded oral history of a former worker at the residence sets forth that Dr. Douglas hid numerous escaped slaves in the attic, making many trips late at night to the next stop with them hidden within the hay wagon. Tanglewood earned the designation of Historic Underground Railroad Site from The Friends of Freedom Society, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s most prominent resident was William Edwin Safford, who lived there as a boy; growing to adulthood, he developed a strong reputation as a leading naturalist in the islands of the South Pacific Ocean, and he was later appointed to be the first Vice-Governor of Guam after the United States conquered the island in 1898.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick on a stone foundation, it is covered with a roof of asphalt, and it features various other elements of brick and iron. Tanglewood is an elaborate two and one-half story house with many fine Greek Revival elements. Among its details are multiple pillared porches featuring capitals of the Ionic order, an ornate frieze above the windows, and some elements of the Italianate style that was only just beginning to come into popularity in the middle of the nineteenth century.Tanglewood may have been named for the hundreds of feet of Virginia Creeper, ivy and grape vines which twist their way through the surrounding woods.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, Tanglewood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. It is one of at least two Ohio monitor houses that is listed on the Register, along with one in the village of St. Paris that is known simply as the "Monitor House." Tanglewood remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The John Davey House is a historic structure located in Kent, Ohio, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 29, 1975. An example of Second Empire architecture, the house is best known for being the home of John Davey, a pioneer in the science of tree surgery and the founder of the Davey Tree Expert Company. It is located on a hill at 338 Woodard Avenue in northwest Kent and was built around 1880. Davey called the house "Birdmount."</p><br>
<p>The Charles Kent House, also known as the Palmer House, is a historic structure in Kent, Ohio, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 23, 1978. An example of Gothic Revival architecture, the house also features elements of the Greek Revival and Carpenter Gothic architectural styles. It is at 125 North Pearl Street in central Kent, immediately north of the West Main Street District. It was built in 1843 as the home of Charles Kent, son of Zenas Kent and brother of Marvin Kent, the namesake of the city of Kent. In 1909 it was moved by owner Henry Green 150 ft north of its original location along West Main Street to the site on North Pearl Street. Martin L. Davey, who would later serve as mayor of Kent, followed by USA Representative, and eventually as Governor of Ohio, persuaded the owner to move the house to avoid demolition. Owned for many years by Dr. Maurice and Louisa Palmer, it also was known as Palmer House when it was listed on the National Register. It was painted white with blue shutters. The present color scheme was changed following its sale by the Palmer estate in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The Harris Dental Museum is a small brick building in the village of Bainbridge in Ross County, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<p>A native of Pompey, New York, John Harris settled in the Ohio community of Madison in 1819; after practicing medicine with a specialty in dental work, he moved to Bainbridge and soon embarked on training young doctors. Unlike most teachers of medicine at this time, Harris paid great attention to dentistry. In later years, his students continued his enthusiasm for the subject by establishing several more permanent dental schools; among these students was his brother Chapin, who founded the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first formal dental college in the United States. Today, Harris is recognized as the pioneer of American dental education because of his emphasis on teaching dentistry, and his former dental school is a museum operated by the Ohio Dental Association. Purchased by the association in 1938, it opened as a museum in 1968 as the Dr. John Harris Dental Museum. As such, it has been restored to an almost original condition, and tours are given to members of the public.</p><br>
<p>The museum structure is a small brick building on Bainbridges western side. One story tall with an ell on one side, In recognition of its historic significance, the dental school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 under the name of "Dr. John Harris Dental School." One of four places in or around Bainbridge to be included on the Register, it has been rated as being significant throughout Ohios history.</p><br>
<p>The Kent Jail, also known as the Old Jailhouse, is a historic structure located in Kent, Ohio, in the United States. It was first added to the National Register of Historic Places August 10, 1978, while still located at its original location of 124 West Day Street, near downtown Kent immediately south of Haymaker Parkway. In December 1999 the building was moved to 497 Middlebury Road to make way for a Walgreens drug store, and was subsequently delisted from the register July 20, 2000. It was re-added on August 22, 2001 after undergoing an extensive US$120,000 restoration. It is owned by and adjacent to the offices of the Kent Parks and Recreation Department and is used by the department as a rental location for small gatherings. It was originally built in 1869, just two years after Kent incorporated as a village. It is an example of late Victorian architecture and is one of three known remaining small town jail buildings in eastern Ohio. The jail was used for incarceration until the 1930s and later served as home of the city&#39;s service director and engineer until the 1940s. After a period of vacancy, it was purchased in 1950 and used as a private home by various owners until it was moved in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Vine–Oakwood–Green Bay Road Historic District is a residential historic district in Lake Forest, Illinois. The district contains twenty houses on Oakwood Ave., Vine Ave., and Green Bay Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Patrick Conlin built a house on a well-drained region of what would become Lake Forest, Illinois in 1856. The next year, the eastern portion of the town was platted by Jed Hotchkiss. The Vine–Oakwood–Green Bay Road community was first planned at this point as part of a simple grid system west of the Chicago and North Western Railways tracks. Eastern Lake Forest gradually became known as a retreat for the wealthy citizens of Chicago, who built estates on the curving, tree-lined streets. The Vine–Oakwood–Green Bay Road region, however, was reserved for individuals of more moderate socio-economic statues until at least the 1890s. A business district developed in the 1910s and the Vine–Oakwood–Green Bay Road neighborhood became ideally located.</p><br>
<p>Houses are generally of modest size and are dominated by historical revival styles. An Italianate house at 481 Oakwood Avenue is among the oldest remaining houses in Lake Forest. It was built in the 1860s for Joseph Barnett. Kate McLaughlin, who would be named Lake Forest postmistress in 1887, built a house in 1883. It was later enlarged in 1919. Her successor, High Smith, built a house in 1891. Early settler John J. McIntyre built a house in 1884 after selling his farm and retiring. John Dean is thought to have built three houses in the district in the mid-1890s. Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, rented a house for about a year at 494 Oakwood Avenue. Lars Nielson built a duplex at 469-471 Oakwood Avenue in 1910 and lived in one of the units. The most architecturally notable house in the district is the William E. Clow, Jr. House at 461 North Green Bay Road, designed by David Adler in 1913.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was listed by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1980, amid concerns that the commercial district would expand south through the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The East River Road Historic District is a historic district located along East River Road near the Grosse Ile Parkway in Grosse Ile, Michigan. The district is a small island community composed of eleven structures, including seven houses, two outbuildings, St. James Episcopal Church, and the Michigan Central Railroad depot. The district stretches from St. James Episcopal Church on the south to Littlecote on the north.</p><br>
<h2>Houses</h2><br>
<p>The East River Road Historic District contains several homes built between 1840 and 1870, many of them by Gordon W. Lloyd.</p><br>
<p>The houses in the district are all situated along East River Road facing the Detroit River with pleasant views and large yards. They are primarily Gothic Revival and Swiss Chalet in style, of both limestone and wood, and heavily ornamented with gingerbreading.</p><br>
<p>These homes were built for Detroits affluent families, who sought clean and peaceful locations to spend the summer out of the unhealthy city atmosphere. Lloyds Gothic Revival designs contributes to the ambience of the island, making it an attractive location for many of Detroit&#39;s most prominent 19th century families. The residents and architects who built these houses were strongly influenced by Andrew Jackson Downing and his publications Cottage Residences and The Architecture of Country Houses.</p><br>
<p>Among these houses are:</p><br>
<h3>Dallas Norvell House</h3><br>
<p>This house was constructed of native stone from the quarry on Grosse Ile in 1851 for Dallas Norvell,</p><br>
<h3>Samuel T. Douglass House</h3><br>
<p>The Samuel T. Douglass House, also known as "Littlecote," was built in 1859 for Judge Samuel T Douglass and his wife Elizabeth Campbell Douglass. It is a Gothic Revival cottage designed by Gordon W. Lloyd. The house is constructed of grey stone, and has an ornamental chimney, intersecting gables with pierced bargeboards, numerous porches, and an oriel window.</p><br>
<h3>Anthony Dudgeon House</h3><br>
<p>The Anthony Dudgeon House was built in 1859. It is a Gothic Revival structure designed by Gordon W. Lloyd. Shipping tycoon William Livingstone also lived in this house, calling it "Rio Vista."</p><br>
<h3>Samuel Lewis House</h3><br>
<p>This house was built in 1859 for Samuel Lewis, a prominent Detroit banker. It is one of Michigan&#39;s finest examples of a Gothic Revival villa. The house is built of brick with a wooden board and batten veneer exterior. It has an ornamental chimney, intersecting decorative bargeboards, and a large veranda. Formerly known as "The Lilacs" due to a lilac hedge on the property, it is now known as "the Wedding Cake House." After Lewis, Detroit mayor Kirkland C. Barker lived in the house, after which it passed to Frank Osburn. The house has never been remodeled.</p><br>
<h3>Frederick Anderson House</h3><br>
<p>This house was built in 1881 for Dr. Frederick Pope Anderson and his wife Mary Campbell Douglass (the daughter of Samuel T Douglass). It is a stick-style Victorian house, and boasts a secret passage and hidden bedroom.</p><br>
<h2>St. James Episcopal Church</h2><br>
<p>St. James Episcopal Church was constructed primarily with funds willed for the purpose by Lisette Denison Forth, a former slave. Forth had worked for some time in the household of Detroit mayor John Biddle and become friends with Biddle&#39;s wife Eliza. When Lisette Forth died, she left the bulk of her estate, some $3000, to build a church.</p><br>
<p>The resulting church is a front-gable, Carpenter Gothic frame structure. 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. The red doors of the structure are dedicated to the memory and benevolence of Lisette Denison Forth.</p><br>
<h2>Michigan Central Railroad Depot</h2><br>
<p>In 1873, Canada Southern Railway established a freight system across Grosse Ile, ferrying goods and passengers from nearby Amherstburg, Ontario to Stony Island, then transporting them via rail across Grosse Ile along a track laid where the present-day Grosse Ile Parkway runs and thence to the mainland. Canada Southern built a passenger station and other facilities on Grosse Ile, on land purchased from the widow of Senator John Norvell, Isabella Hodgkiss Freeman Norvell and her son Dallas Norvell. However, the railroad soon ran into financial difficulties, and about 1880 the Michigan Central Railroad purchased Canada Southern. Michigan Central already operated a ferry service in Detroit, and phased out the operation in Grosse Ile. However, the population of affluent residents on Grosse Ile was growing, and the railroad expanded its passenger service, running as many as three round trips form Detroit to Grosse Ile.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the Michigan Central Railroad constructed this depot to replace the earlier frame structure. The depot is built of yellow brick with contrasting base, window surrounds, and quoins made of red brick. The depot has been used since 1967 by the Grosse Ile historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The location of the station is cited upon land originally belonging to Isabella Hodgkiss Norvell, wife of US Senator John Norvell of Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>USA Customs House</h2><br>
<p>The Customs House was built in 1871 at what is now 7799 Macomb Street to service the ferry and freight line being constructed by Canada Southern Railway. With the stoppage of freight traffic, the customs house closed in 1883. The building later served as Grosse Ile&#39;s first post office, and in 1904 it was converted to a private house. In 1979, it was restored and moved to its present location behind the depot. The Customs House was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1982, and the building is currently used by the Grosse Ile Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Flowers Building is a historic building constructed in 1902 in Columbus, Georgia. Its Chicago style design is by architect T. Firth Lockwood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It has also been known as the Flowers Building.</p><br>
<p>It is a four-story Chicago school-style commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The building was deemed significant "as a turn-of-the-century Masonic Temple, which later became a major commercial center in downtown Columbus, housing offices of leading professionals and businessmen", and as "the only example of the Chicago Commercial building in town. It is Sullivanesque in the use of the tall vertical pilasters and over all upward thrust of the facades. It also shows some influence of John Wellborn Root in its Romanesque detailing, such as the granite piers on the first floor, the rounded arches on the 3rd floor, and the heavy cornice on the parapet."</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1902 as meeting hall for local Masonic lodges (with commercial retail and office space rented on the floors not occupied by the Masons). The Masons sold the building to a Mr. Flowers in 1940 and moved to the Columbus Masonic Center, 1127 2nd Ave, Columbus, GA. Under his ownership it was used as an office building. Miller & Gallman Developers later converted it into an apartment complex.</p><br>
<p>Columbian Lodge (as an organization) was chartered in 1828.</p><br>
<p>The name "Pythagoras Lodge No. 41, Free and Accepted Masons" is used by the National Register of Historic Places when referring to a historic building located in Decatur, Georgia. The building is also known as Pythagoras Masonic Temple and occasionally known as Decatur Masonic Temple. Built in 1924, the building is a work of William J. Sayward , an architect who was a member of the Masonic lodge, and who partnered with William A. Edwards in the firm Edwards and Sayward. It was designed and built in Beaux Arts architecture style.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed as a Masonic hall by Pythagoras Lodge No. 41, Free and Accepted Masons, one of several Masonic Lodges which meet in Decatur. The Lodge received its charter in 1844, and has functioned continuously since then.</p><br>
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<p>The Hailey Masonic Lodge refers to a historic building, which was built in 1937 in Hailey, Idaho. The building was constructed as a meeting hall for Hailey Lodge No. 16, a local chapter of the Freemasons. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>"The National Register designation was awarded for the building&#39;s sustained use as a gathering place for leaders of the community, as well as for its architectural significance."</p><br>
<p>The building is a one-story brick building "covered in red brick brought from Salt Lake City. An arched medallion with the Masonic square and compass is centered over the double-door entryway." The interior includes a dais, a podium, a kneeler and other accoutrements. It includes 20 portraits of past Lodge Masters. The property includes two spruce trees flanking the front entranceway, and, along Bullion Street, mature maple trees.</p><br>
<p>Hailey Lodge No. 16 was formed in 1884. It grew from 11 men to a peak of 225 during World War I or II. Its first hall was destroyed in 1889 in a fire that burned most of Hailey. Its second hall was also destroyed by fire, in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The current hall was built in 1937 by John M. (Jack) Rutter, a Mason originally from England, who also built many other Hailey buildings including "The Liberty Theatre, Rialto Hotel, Guyer Hot Springs hotel and pool, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, St. Charles Parish Hall, the Christiana Club, Blaine Manor and Hailey Medical Center, the Harris Block furniture store and apartments and even Hailey’s city water system" over a 70-year career.</p><br>
<p>It was still a Masonic meetingplace in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain House is a historic Gothic Revival house in western Chillicothe, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<p>The two-story Mountain House mixes various architectural styles and materials. Although it is primarily a Gothic Revival structure, with details such as Gothic arches for windows and doors, it also includes a significant number of Romanesque Revival elements. and the interior may be accessed through large wooden doors.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the Mountain House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for this distinction both because of its well-preserved historic architecture and because of its connection to Hunter, who was seen as a significant person in local history. Today, the house remains in use as the offices of the Mountain House Press.</p><br>
<p>The Canal Warehouse is a historic warehouse at the intersection of Main and Mulberry Streets in downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1830,</p><br>
<p>After it ceased to operate as a canalside warehouse, the building was converted into a clubhouse for the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Today, the warehouse has been recognized as a leading example of canal-related architecture; few warehouses built for the Ohio and Erie Canal survive in comparable condition. In recognition of its place in local transportation history, the Canal Warehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Additionally, it lies within the boundaries of the Chillicothe Business District, a historic district that was added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Spring–Douglas Historic District is a set of 496 buildings in Elgin, Illinois. Of those, 455 buildings contribute to the districts historical value. It is a residential district following Spring Street and Douglas Avenue from Kimball Street in the south to River Bluff Road to the north. The lands that now comprise the district were originally settled by Phineas J. Kimball and Vincent Lovell in the 1830s. Kimballs property eventually became the southern part of the district, which mostly housed working-class citizens. Lovell&#39;s subdivisions became housing for wealthier managers and doctors. The lower district is noted for its vernacular architecture, mostly gablefront houses, while the upper district represents a wide array of late 19th and early 20th century styles, mostly Queen Anne.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elgin, Illinois was first settled in 1835. Located on the Fox River, it was an important site for travelers on the Galena-Chicago trail. The land that now comprises the residential district was originally claimed by Phineas J. Kimball and Vincent Lovell, two of Elgins earliest settlers. Kimball was the brother of Elgins second settler, Joseph Kimball, who had claimed the west side of the river to build a mill. Phineas Kimballs property was immediately to the east of his brothers, and he soon built a cabin at what is now the northwest corner of Douglas Avenue and Kimball Road. Douglas Avenue was paved on the west side of the plots, and Spring Street was laid on the east side, both roads traveling north and south.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portions of the district are on the southern end, between Kimball Street and Franklin Street. These houses were mostly vernacular and served the lower class. Elgin&#39;s first major commercial development was opened in the 1840s a few blocks to the south at Chicago Avenue, making the southern portion of the district attractive to the working class. In anticipation of the 1850 completion of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad through Elgin, Kimball subdivided most of the southern portion of his property into residential developments. Initially, the subdivision did not grow as expected, with only twelve houses built by 1860. However, the 1864 opening of the Elgin National Watch Company caused a great demand for working class housing. A wagonway was extended to the district from the Watch Company, making it a convenient choice for workers.</p><br>
<p>Vincent Lovell was a merchant who settled in Elgin in 1837, purchasing 160 acres east of the river. Lovell was an important figure in the founding of the Elgin Academy, although he did not live long enough to witness its opening. The area of land between Douglas and Spring, and north of Jefferson Avenue to River Bluff Road was recorded as Lovells Addition in 1868. Elgins population skyrocketed in the 1880s, further increasing residential demand. The wagonway was also extended north to Slade Avenue in 1881. Nine years later, the wagonway was replaced by an electric streetcar that ran all the way north to River Bluff Road.</p><br>
<p>German immigrant William Grote was the first major real estate developer in the north district and also persuaded several industries to locate in Elgin. He co-developed Grote and Waldrons Second Addition in 1881 on the east side of Spring Street between Lincoln and Slade Avenues, which was directly advertised to those working at the factories he lured. Immediately north of this development was owned by fruit grower Steven Slade, who developed a residential district there in 1881. The Lovell family owned the land to the west of these developments, which became a popular picnic location. Lovells descendants eventually recorded these areas as residential developments in 1893 (Jefferson to Slade Ave.) and 1913 (north of Slade Ave.). Unlike the southern portion of the district, the northern part features more ornate styles of architecture. These buildings were mostly erected for prosperous Elgin citizens between 1868 and 1913, and thus reflect popular architectural trends of the time. The northern part of the district provided homes for dentists and physicians from Sherman Hospital.</p><br>
<p>The earliest residences in the district are mostly gablefront houses in the southern district. There are thirty-one typical gablefront houses, twenty-one Gable Ell designs, nineteen Cross-Forms, eight L-forms, and five T-forms. The most common style of house in the northern district is Queen Anne, with forty-eight examples. The Shingle Style is represented with eleven buildings and the Italianate style with twelve. As architectural trends changed in the early 20th century, so did new buildings in the district. Such buildings include six Dutch Colonials, three Neoclassicals, and three Tudor Revivals. Most of these builds are on the 800-1000 blocks of Douglas Ave. Twentieth century trends are also noticed in the southern district, with fourteen Foursquares, four bungalows, and three ranch houses. The majority of the district is single-family housing, although there are fifteen multi-family residences, including eight apartment buildings. A gas station and a Salvation Army building fall within the district but are considered non-contributing.</p><br>
<p>The Renick House, also known as "Paint Hill", is a historic house in western Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1804, The house&#39;s sandstone façade is pierced by six openings: three windows on the second story and the door and two windows on the first.</p><br>
<p>This "Virginia-style" Federal house was built under the direction of Presley Morris. Its first inhabitant was prominent Chillicothe resident George Renick, who contributed to one of Ohios first cattle drives; under his leadership, ninety-six cattle were moved from the Scioto River valley to Baltimore, Maryland. Among the houses later owners was a Presbyterian congregation, which used it as a manse for its minister. In 1904, the house was modified by the addition of an ell on one side.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the Renick House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was eligible for the Register both because of its well-preserved historic architecture and its connection to George Renick. One lesser building was sufficiently closely associated with the house that it qualified for inclusion with the house as a contributing property.</p><br>
<p>The Elgin Historic District is a set of 697 buildings in Elgin, Illinois. Of these, 429 contribute to the district&#39;s historical integrity. The district is the oldest portion of the city, and contains mostly residences and churches. Other buildings in the district include an art museum, a masonic temple, and the Elgin Academy. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the district also contains three properties that were already individually listed: the academy , the First Universalist Church , and Gifford-Davidson House .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers arrived in Elgin, Illinois in April 1835. James Talcott Gifford built his cabin on what is now a triangular park between Fulton, Villa, and Geneva Streets. A dam was constructed two years later, and the first plat of Elgin was recorded in August 1842. Gifford marked a road from Elgin east to Meacham&#39;s Grove, and west to Belvidere. Roads from those towns connected to Chicago and Galena, respectively. This Galena-Chicago trail became an important early stagecoach line. The first Elgin school, on the northeast corner of DuPage and Chapel Streets, began classes in 1847. Gifford built a second home on Prairie Street in 1850. This cobblestone house resembles houses in his home state of New York and resembles the Second Empire style. It is independently listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>In 1850, Elgin was connected to the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, enabling the city to export freight. Elgin became a major supplier of dairy products to Chicago. The Elgin Academy, independently listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), was completed in 1856. Gail Borden, Jr., the inventor of condensed milk, opened the worlds largest condensed milk factory in the world in the 1860s. Elgins first bank, the First National Bank of Elgin, was founded in 1865. The Elgin Board of Trade opened in 1872 and was tasked with setting the national price of butter. A second major industry arrived in Elgin in 1867 with the opening of the Elgin National Watch Company. The company became the nations largest producer of pocket watches and employed 2,700 of the citys 17,823 residents in 1890. Company superintendent George Hunter planned the First Universalist Church with his nephew. The church is listed independently on the NRHP, and attracted speakers such as Lincoln Steffens, Norman Thomas, and Samuel Porter Jones.</p><br>
<p>The D. C. Cook Publishing Company, the nation&#39;s largest interdenominational publishing house, moved from Chicago to Elgin, providing a further stimulus of jobs. An influx of German immigrants led to the construction of a German Evangelical church in 1892, built on Center Street in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The freemasons constructed a 2,500-seat stone temple on Chicago Street in 1924. Also that year, the Laura Davidson Sears Academy of Fine Arts opened on Academy Place. Housing works of art by John Singleton Copley, George Inness, Benjamin West, John James Audubon, and other American artists, the museum was dedicated by Albert Rosenthal and Lorado Taft. The historic district was added to the NRHP on May 9, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church in Elgin, Illinois was built in 1892. It was designed by George Hunter to resemble a pocket watch in Richardsonian Romanesque style. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was subsequently included as a contributing property in the Elgin Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Universalists of Elgin, Illinois first founded a church in the city in 1866. The building, Unity Hall, was erected on the same site as the present church. The National Watch Company factory was also completed that year, and the two institutions have since had an intertwined history. Silvanus Wilcox, a member of the church, was one of four Elgin citizens to donate lands for the construction of the factory. The National Watch Company became Elgin&#39;s largest employer and produced over 4,000 watches a day.</p><br>
<p>By 1890, the Universalist congregation had grown to a point where a larger building was necessary. They turned to church member George Hunter, who was one of the "Seven Stars" who had originally come from the east to start the factory. Hunter conceived the idea that the new church building should resemble a pocket watch. The body of the church corresponded to the case, the roof was the cover, the choir loft was the hinge, and the tower was the snap. The pulpit was placed where the numeral XII would be found on the face of the watch.</p><br>
<p>Thanks to wealthy donors from the factory, the church was able to afford high-quality furnishings. The $3000 tracker pipe organ was manufactured by John W. Steele & Sons from Springfield, Massachusetts. It features fourteen ranks of pipes and is only one of ten of its kind built.</p><br>
<p>The church became an important community center. The Universalists often allowed newly organized religious groups to worship there until a permanent location could be found. The building also housed many community and cultural events.</p><br>
<p>The Elgin National Watch Company factory was demolished in 1966. Aside from the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory, there are few other structures associated with the factory left in the city. Elgins watch-shaped First Universalist Church is now an important reminder of Elgins industrious past. As a result, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1980. On May 9, 1983, it was also added to the register as a contributing property to the Elgin Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Christian recording artist Rich Mullins and the Kid Brothers of St. Frank used the church to rehearse in September 1997, for what was to be Mullins&#39; fall tour. Mullins recorded demos for his upcoming album on a cassette recorder on September 10, nine days before his death in an auto accident. These songs would eventually be released posthumously as part of The Jesus Record.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story masonry structure was built to resemble a pocket watch. The building is found on a triangular lot at the southeast corner of the intersection of Villa and Dupage Streets. The building&#39;s design is strongly influenced by the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The body of the church has sixteen sides with a tented roof, and a tower with a conical roof rising to the same height as the body. This tower is connected to the body with entrances on both sides. The entranceways have gabled roofs and pediments, a design similarly found on the two centrally-located bays of the body on the northeast and southwest. The church features a 4 ft stone base and water table. Eight bays feature flanking pilasters with a wide arch window. The windows of the building are the original stained glass designs.</p><br>
<p>The Gifford–Davidson House, also known as Stone Cottage, in Elgin, Illinois was built in 1850 and expanded in 1871. The Gifford–Davidson House is unusual due to its cobblestone construction and Second Empire style details. This design would have been more typical in James Gifford&#39;s original home of New York City. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1980. Also, it is a contributing property in the Elgin Historic District, which was listed on the NRHP in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Talcott Gifford, a native of central New York, was a founder of Dundee, New York. In 1835, he left Dundee to head west to Kane County, Illinois, where he helped to found the town of Elgin. Like Dundee, Gifford named the settlement after a community mentioned in a Scotch hymn. Gifford built a log cabin on what is now a park between Fulton, Villa, and Geneva Streets. Gifford constructed roads connecting Elgin to nearby communities—to the east to Bloomingdale and to the west to Belvidere. He left Elgin for a period to found the town of Port Ulao, Wisconsin. Gifford sold wood to steamships on a 1000-foot pier he constructed. He started a plank road from Port Ulao west to the Wisconsin River; although only three miles were built, it was the basis of Wisconsin Highway 60. In 1849, Gifford returned to Elgin a much wealthier man. He built this cobblestone house, which was designed by Edwin F. Reeves. Reeves, a native of New York, also designed Old Main at the Elgin Academy. Gifford died in 1850, the same year the house was completed.</p><br>
<p>The Gifford–Davidson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1980. On May 3, 1983, it became a contributing property to the Elgin Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The cottage stands two stories tall. The first story walls are constructed of cobblestone, while the second story is a frame mansard roof. The mansard roof was added at an unknown date, but is estimated to have been added prior to 1871. The approximately 2,000 ft&sup2; house was remodeled in 1903 for renting. The west side of the building was the original front of the house, though a new entrance was built on the north side along Prairie Street during the remodel. The house is decorated with gray limestone quoins. Windows have high lintels and thick sills, also made of limestone.</p><br>
<p>The South Salem Academy is a historic former school in South Salem, Ohio, United States. Built in 1842,</p><br>
<p>Throughout nineteenth-century Ohio, churches played a major part in founding educational institutions. Because no upper-level schools were present in southwestern Ross County in 1842, a local Presbyterian minister, Hugh Stewart Fullerton, called a meeting to remedy the situation. Both the members of his congregation and the remaining local residents responded heartily to his proposal; by the end of the year, the present structure had been constructed. It is a two-story rectangular building of cut limestone, The Salem Academys first classes began meeting in 1842, After the academy came under the supervision of the Chillicothe Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in 1859, students pursued a two-year course of instruction and, upon graduation, departed for other schools. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the school declined. Many students left to fight in the Civil War in the 1860s, and rising numbers of high schools elsewhere in the area reduced the demand for a school in South Salem. After the academys doors closed in 1922, the building was sold to the Buckskin Township Board of Education. Among its 1,500 alumni was Joseph B. Foraker, a future Governor of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The academy was expanded in 1903. When its original four rooms — two per floor — became too small for the school, two concrete block wings were added to the building. Despite this modification, it was designated a historic site in 1979, being added to the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for inclusion on the Register both because of its well-preserved historic architecture and because of its leading place in local history.</p><br>
<p>The James New York – NoMad  is a hotel at 22 East 29th Street, at the southwest corner with Madison Avenue in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The original 12-story hotel on Madison Avenue was completed in 1904 to designs by Harry Allan Jacobs. The 11-story annex to the west was designed by Charles T. Mott and completed in 1907, while a three-story annex at 88 Madison Avenue to the south was finished in 2004 and designed by the Rockwell Group. The hotel is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The original portions of the hotel were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. The facade is divided horizontally into three sections and is largely made of brick, terracotta, and limestone above the first story. Each facade is also split vertically into bays, with ornamentation such as balconies and curved metal windows. The hotel&#39;s original public rooms, which included a lobby and restaurants, were in the basement and first floor; many of these spaces have since been modified. The modern-day lobby is within the annex at 88 Madison Avenue and leads to restaurant spaces. The upper stories contain 360 guest units, which face either the street or three interior light courts.</p><br>
<p>The developer Maitland E. Graves began constructing the hotel in 1901 and named it the Seville, but he ran out of money before the hotel was finished. A syndicate that included Louis C. Raegener took over the project in 1903 and opened the Seville Hotel the next year. The Seville was extremely popular among visitors soon after it opened, prompting Raegener to add an annex between 1906 and 1907. Raegener and his company, the Roy Realty Company, continued to operate the Seville until 1946. The Hotel Seville&#39;s popularity began to decline in the mid-20th century as businesses and entertainment venues relocated uptown, and it became a single room occupancy hotel in the late 20th century. The Seville was renamed the Carlton in 1987. The Wolfson family bought the hotel in the late 1990s and renovated it extensively in the early 2000s and in 2010s. The GFI Capital Resources Group bought the hotel in 2015 and renovated it again, reopening it as the James NoMad Hotel in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The James New York – NoMad is at 22 East 29th Street, at the southwest corner with Madison Avenue, in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The land lot is L-shaped, wrapping around another structure at the northwest corner of 28th Street and Madison Avenue, and measures 205,132 ft2. The original hotel and annex have a frontage of 75 ft long on Madison Avenue to the east, on 29th Street to the north, and on 28th Street to the west. and the Emmet Building and the Redbury New York to the east.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the present hotel&#39;s construction, the site had been occupied by the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, built in 1844. This was replaced in 1875 by the Rutgers Presbyterian Church, which moved uptown in 1890. The Scottish Rite Hall acquired the Rutgers Presbyterian Church building in 1887. The structure was used as a Masonic Hall until 1901, when it was sold.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The James New York – NoMad (originally the Seville Hotel) is designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It consists of the 12-story original hotel at the corner of Madison Avenue and 29th Street, as well as an 11-story annex in the middle of the block on 28th and 29th Streets. There is also a three-story annex in the middle of the block on Madison Avenue, which includes the hotel&#39;s lobby. The original portion of the hotel was one of the first buildings designed by Harry Allan Jacobs, who was also responsible for the Hotel Marseilles and the Andrew Freedman Home. The 28th and 29th Street annex was the work of architect Charles T. Mott, who specialized in row houses in New York City.</p><br>
<h3>Form and facade</h3><br>
<p>The facade is vertically divided into four bays on Madison Avenue, three on 28th Street, and nine on 29th Street (six in the original building and three in the annex). A chamfered corner with one bay connects the Madison Avenue and 29th Street elevations of the facade. Each elevation is divided horizontally into three parts; a base, midsection, and capital. The base consists of the basement and first three stories; the midsection comprises the fourth through tenth stories; and the capital consists of the eleventh and twelfth stories. Most of the windows have been replaced over the years.</p><br>
<p>The original part of the building is U-shaped with a light court facing south, while the annex is I-shaped with light courts facing west and east.</p><br>
<h4>Original building</h4><br>
<p>The basement is clad in granite ashlar with rectangular windows. Much of the first story contains a facade of rusticated limestone blocks, while the corners are decorated with limestone quoins. The Seville Hotel&#39;s original main entrance is through a slightly protruding portico on 29th Street, The portico consists of Ionic columns in antis, with Tuscan or Doric pilasters on the outside, all of which support an entablature. The chamfered corner has an entrance, topped by a round arch with a keystone, balustrade, and rough stone blocks. The northernmost bay on Madison Avenue and the easternmost bay on 29th Street include a rectangular metal-framed window at the first story, which is divided into six panes by mullions and a transom bar.</p><br>
<p>The second and third stories of the original building have limestone-framed rectangular window openings. Some of these openings retain their original windows, which consisted of double-hung sash windows flanked by sidelights, Almost all of the second-story windows on 29th Street and Madison Avenue have protruding limestone balconettes with decorative iron railings. There are guttae and keystones on the second-story windows lintels. Some of the bays are wider than the others and contain large console brackets below the balconette. On the third story, there are oval terracotta cartouches depicting lions heads and foliage between each of the windows. Each bay includes rectangular windows with iron railings and is flanked by brackets. The chamfered corner has similar decorations, except that the third-story window is a round arch. A cornice with modillions and dentils runs above the third story.</p><br>
<p>On the fourth to tenth stories, the facade of the original hotel is largely made of brick with limestone or terracotta trim, and the window arrangement is similar to that on the base. These metal bays are flanked by quoins and are decorated with curved cornices and guilloché panels above the fifth and eighth stories. Above the tenth story runs a cornice with a Greek key pattern, as well as curved hoods that protrude from each of the wide bays.</p><br>
<p>The original hotel&#39;s top two stories constitute the crown and are clad in red brick. Each bay contains a masonry frame that surrounds flat-arched windows the eleventh and twelfth stories; there are also keystones above the eleventh stories. Double-height vertical panels are placed between each bay. Above the twelfth story are large console brackets and dentils, as well as a protruding metal cornice with modillions.</p><br>
<h4>Annex</h4><br>
<p>The annex faces both 28th and 29th Street; on both streets. the facade is three stories tall. The facade of the annex is similar in design to that of the original building, although it is only 11 stories tall and lacks some of the original building&#39;s details. On 29th Street, the basement is recessed from the areaway and has rectangular windows. The ground story contains a rusticated-limestone facade with three round-arched windows, similar to those in the original building. On the second through eleventh stories, the central bay includes rectangular windows with slightly protruding frames, while the outer bays have curving metal windows, similar to in the original building. The limestone-and-brick strips of the original building extend to the second and third floors of the annex, and there are cartouches between the third-story windows. The fourth through eleventh stories are clad in brick. A cornice with a Greek key pattern runs above the tenth story, and a protruding metal cornice with modillions runs above the eleventh story.</p><br>
<p>The 28th Street elevation of the annex is also three bays wide and is a simplified version of the 29th Street elevation. At ground level, there was an entrance flanked by storefront windows. The central second-floor window formerly had a molded frame with a cartouche above it, but this cartouche was removed in the mid-2010s, when double-height openings were added to all three bays. Above the base, the facade is made of brick. The central bay contains rectangular windows with slightly protruding frames, while the outer bays have angled metal windows flanked by quoins. There is an additional, smaller rectangular window on each story between the central and easternmost bays. A cornice runs above the eleventh story.</p><br>
<p>The western elevation of the annex can be seen from a neighboring plaza on 28th Street. This elevation has a plain brick facade, within which are three bays of angled metal windows. There are also several bays of rectangular windows in varying sizes, which are flush with the facade; they are mostly double-hung windows. The eastern elevation also has two angled metal bays within a plain brick facade.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Originally, the hotel&#39;s main public rooms were in the basement and first floor, while the upper stories housed the guestrooms. There was a main entrance on 29th Street, as well as a side entrance at the corner of Madison Avenue and 29th Street (which led to the basement). The three-story annex that was completed in 2004 covers 17,000 ft2.</p><br>
<h4>Lower stories</h4><br>
<p>The first floor originally included the lobby, main hotel office, dining room, and womens parlor. The entirety of the first floor had a Siena marble wainscoting on the walls. There was another dining area south of the lobby, with ceiling moldings and mosaic floor. The dining area has a 168 ft2 art glass dome that was covered in the 20th century and restored in 2005. A "Tudor room", with Gothic Revival plaster decorations on the ceiling, was located in the middle of the annexs first floor, though the ceiling has been covered up.</p><br>
<p>The basement originally housed a barber shop, mens cafe, and hair salon. The basement retains some of its original details, including marble floors and a mens cafe with wooden ceiling beams. The mens cafe was accessed from the corner of Madison Avenue and 29th Street. The annexs 28th Street entrance originally led to a Jacobean lobby in the basement with mosaic-bordered marble floors, plaster columns, a paneled low ceiling, and a niche facing the entrance. The second lobby also had a curving marble staircase with white treads and yellow walls, which ascended to the lobby.</p><br>
<p>The annex at 88 Madison Avenue includes the modern-day lobby, which was built in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Part of the basement and first floor were combined in 2004 to form a double-level restaurant space next to the modern lobby, covering 7,000 ft2. the space was illuminated by crystal chandeliers on the upper level and translucent fabric cubes on the lower level., the James New York – NoMad housed an Italian restaurant named Scarpetta, as well as a cocktail lounge named the Seville; both spaces were designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen. There is also a 40 ft mural by Domingo Zapata near the bars entrance. The restaurant space retains elements of the hotels original design, such as wooden beams, as well as modern elements including a curving ceiling around the restaurant&#39;s edges.</p><br>
<h4>Upper stories</h4><br>
<p>Four staircases lead from the first story to the top story, of which two staircases extend to the basement. Each staircase has white marble steps, iron balustrades, and wooden handrails. There is an additional staircase in the eastern portion of the original lobby, which has marble-and-tile walls and an arched plaster ceiling. There was a roof garden as well.</p><br>
<p>The modern-day hotels upper stories are divided into 360 units, of which 28 are suites and two are penthouses. Four suites, themed to various eras of New York Citys history, were added to the hotel in 2012; one of the suites had a bar and poker table hidden behind a bookcase.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, the surrounding area was largely rural, with cottages and farms. New Yorkers began establishing mansions and row houses north of Madison Square Park during the mid-nineteenth century. Several churches were built nearby, including the "Little Church Around the Corner" and the Marble Collegiate Church. A commercial boom followed with the growth of hotels such as the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Gilsey House, and Grand Hotel, as well as restaurants, Broadway theaters, the second Madison Square Garden, and office buildings. The opening of the New York City Subway&#39;s first line (now the IRT Lexington Avenue Line) one block east, in 1904, spurred further development in the area. The 28th Street subway station was two blocks southeast of the intersection of Madison Avenue and 29th Street, and there were many stores and entertainment venues nearby, so the area was highly attractive to hotel developers.</p><br>
<h3>Development</h3><br>
<p>Real estate developer Myer Hellman bought the Scottish Rite Hall at Madison Avenue and 29th Street in April 1901 for $175,000. who hired Harry Allan Jacobs to draw up plans for the hotel. Graves wanted an elaborate structure facing onto Madison Avenue, though the main entrance was relocated to the longer 29th Street frontage in the final plans. The structure was supposed to have 410 guest units, including 300 bathrooms. In early 1902, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company loaned Graves $475,000 for the hotel&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was nearly completed in early 1903, when several contractors placed mechanic&#39;s liens on the property. and he lost the hotel to foreclosure. The hotel was sold at an auction in July 1903 to a syndicate headed by P. Henry Dugro, who paid $489,000, Raegener completed the hotel, which opened as the Seville March 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Seville was extremely popular among visitors soon after it opened, and he hired Charles P. Mott, his brother-in-law, to draw up plans for a 12-story annex there. The annex was to have 19 bedrooms per floor, but Raegener could not start construction until the next year because they had to wait for an existing lease to expire. Mott filed plans for the annex with the Manhattan Bureau of Buildings in January 1906. The annex was finished in September 1907, doubling the amount of usable space in the hotel, which had 400 guestrooms and 300 bathrooms. In addition, the annex provided more capacity for business visitors, since business in the area was also increasing.</p><br>
<h3>1910s to 1950s</h3><br>
<p>The Sevilles operators acquired the neighboring four-story row houses at 86 and 88 Madison Avenue, collectively occupying a 50 by lot, in July 1913. The Sun reported that the houses were a "big factor to the financial success of the hotel" merely because they existed, since their presence allowed natural light and air to enter the hotel from the south. The number of short-term guests at the hotel continued to increase during the 1910s, and many patrons chose to live there year-round. The Sevilles owner, Louis Raegener, also lived at the hotel with his wife for over twenty years. Advertisements for the hotel praised the structure&#39;s fireproof construction and described the nearby entertainment venues, stores, and transportation. According to an undated brochure for the Seville, the hotel was a "Modern Hotel with a homelike atmosphere..."</p><br>
<p>Raegener bought the 50 by land lot under the annex, at 15–17 East 28th Street and 18–20 East 29th Street, in May 1920. That December, Raegeners firm Roy Realty Company bought the 10-story apartment building at the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 28th Street, south and east of the hotel. This gave Raegener full ownership of the western side of Madison Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets. which would preserve the hotels natural light exposure. After Raegener died in 1928, the executor of his estate indicated that the hotel had not made a net profit in several years. His company, the Roy Realty Company, retained ownership of the hotel.</p><br>
<p>Permanent residents and short-term guests continued to patronize the Seville after Raegener died. The Roy Realty Company continued to operate the Seville until 1946, when Roy Realty sold the hotel to the Seville Realty Corporation. The buyers also acquired the commercial building on 28th Street and Madison Avenue, around which the Seville wrapped. and another undergarment company opened a showroom on the first floor in 1950. An investment group known as the Seville Syndicate bought the Hotel Seville in May 1955 at an assessed valuation of $800,000. The buyers also took over a $723,000 mortgage that had been placed on the hotel.</p><br>
<h3>1960s to 1990s</h3><br>
<p>The Hotel Sevilles popularity began to decline in the mid-20th century, along with that of other hotels in the neighborhood, as businesses and entertainment venues relocated uptown. The Seville remained popular with theatrical personalities who hosted their weddings there. The hotel was advertised to visitors attending the 1964 New York Worlds Fair. and the hotel underwent further upgrades in the early 1980s.</p><br>
<p>During 1985, New York University rented the top six stories of the Seville Hotel and used them as dormitories for transfer students and freshmen. The hotel had closed to visitors entirely by then, and a new owner bought the Seville and renovated the rooms. The hotel was renamed the Carlton in 1987. The Carlton functioned as a single room occupancy hotel with 371 rent-regulated apartments until the 1990s, Some of the Carltons 29 remaining rent-regulated residents sued the hotels operators in 1997, claiming that the operators were harassing them while renovating the hotel to accommodate short-term guests. The Wolfson family acquired the hotel in the late 1990s and began renovating it. Around the same time, the owners of the Carlton sold the site&#39;s unused air rights to the developer of a neighboring skyscraper.</p><br>
<h3>2000s to present</h3><br>
<p>Carol Bullock-Walter took over as the hotels manager in the early 2000s and began converting it into a four-star hotel. As part of the project, a three-story annex with a new main entrance was built at 86–88 Madison Avenue, and the guest rooms were refurbished. The Rockwell Group designed both the lobby and the hotels restaurant, which was renovated concurrently. During the renovation, the hotels managers rediscovered and restored the first-story bars original glass dome, which was extremely dirty and had dozens of broken glass panes; before the renovation, no one had realized that the dome still existed, as it was hidden above a dropped ceiling. The Country restaurant opened in October 2005 and was ranked by Travel + Leisure magazine as one of the world&#39;s five best new restaurants that year. The hotel had 316 rooms by the late 2000s,</p><br>
<p>The Carlton was renovated again in 2010. The Country restaurant was replaced by seafood restaurant Millesime, which opened in late 2010. The Carlton became part of Marriott Internationals Autograph Collection brand in early 2012, and several specialty suites opened at the hotel later the same year. In October 2015, GFI Capital Resources Group bought the Carlton from the Wolfson Group for $162.1 million. GFI borrowed $153 million to pay for the hotel. After the purchase, GFI announced in November 2016 that it would renovate the Carltons lobby, create a 4,500 ft2 retail space, and rebrand the hotel as the James New York – NoMad. Thomas Juul-Hansen was hired to redecorate the lower-story spaces and all the guest units. The hotel reopened in February 2018, with the Seville cocktail lounge and the Scarpetta restaurant at its base.</p><br>
<p>The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) hosted hearings in February 2018 to determine whether the James New York – NoMad and the nearby Emmet Building should be designated as a city landmarks. About a dozen people spoke in favor of both landmark statuses, During the late 2010s and early 2020s, the James New York – NoMad employed a "witch in residence", as well as services such as reiki, astrological readings, and tarot readings. The James New York – NoMad became part of Sonesta International Hotels&#39; The James hotel brand in early 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Critical reception</h2><br>
<p>A writer for The Austin Statesman wrote in the early 1940s that the Seville was "one of the older, conservative hotels of, with high ceilings and spacious lobby". In 1983, the Boston Globe wrote: "It has spacious rooms, shabby furnishings in some of them, but luxurious marble baths in the manner of a European hotel."</p><br>
<p>The New York Times wrote in 2007 that the Country restaurant and "the cheer of the well-trained staff" were positive qualities but that the hotel lacked a gym or exercise room, "a glaring omission". A writer for The Daily Telegraph praised the hotel for being "elegant and formal without being stiff or old-fashioned" but criticized the lack of service and the fact that her room overlooked a brick wall. When the hotel was renovated into the James New York in the late 2010s, a writer for The Globe and Mail said: "The rooms are spacious and as well-appointed as one would expect from a hospitality group that made its name in SoHo." A reviewer for Condé Nast Traveler praised the hotel&#39;s location and public spaces, saying, "Saying a hotel has a "sense of place" is a pretty tired trope at this point, but this one really hits the mark".</p><br>
<p>The hotel building itself received mixed reviews. Brendan Gill of The New York Times wrote that the hotel building "has a restless incoherence very unlike the handiwork of either McKim or White", contrasting the buildings architecture with that of structures designed by architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. When the hotel was renovated in 2007, a writer for the New Haven Register said the Wolfson familys "vision has produced stunning results throughout, but the showstopper is an original stained glass dome that illuminates the elegant dining room". Alfred and Joyce Pommer, who wrote a book about Murray Hill, Manhattan, in 2013, described the former Hotel Seville as having "altogether a robust design". The hotel building has also been shown in several TV shows, including Blue Bloods, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Smash.</p><br>
<p>The Society for the Lying-In Hospital was a maternity hospital situated at 305 Second Avenue between East 17th and 18th Streets in the Stuyvesant Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Now known as Rutherford Place, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Lying-in is an archaic term for childbirth .</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1902 and designed by architect R. H. Robertson in the Renaissance Revival style, with a Palladian crown at the top. Swaddled babies decorate the windows of the 5th floor and the spandrels of the building, which was converted to offices and apartments in 1985 by Beyer Blinder Belle.</p><br>
<p>As the years passed, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. was concerned about the long-term stability of the hospital his father had so generously provided for. He recruited John D. Rockefeller Jr. George F. Baker, Sr. and George F. Baker Jr. to join forces in establishing an association with New York Hospital. Upon the subsequent opening of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1932, the Lying-In Hospital moved out of the Second Avenue building. It became the more modern-sounding Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, which is still part of New York–Presbyterian Hospital.</p><br>
<p>This hospital was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan." Some of their staff did medical research.</p><br>
<p>The Red House is a 1903 apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built on land owned by Canadian architect R. Thomas Short of the Beaux-Arts firm, Harde & Short. He and his firm designed and built the building in a free eclectic mix of French late Gothic. and English Renaissance motifs, using red brick and limestone with bold black-painted mullions in the fenestration. The salamander badge of Henri II appears high on the flanking wings and in the portico frieze. The center is recessed, behind a triple-arched screen.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Academy Hall is a historic former school building at 785 Old Main Street in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Built in 1803, it is a well-preserved example of a Federal style academy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It presently houses the Academy Hall Museum of the Rocky Hill Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Academy Hall building is located in the center of Rocky Hill, on the west side of Old Main Street at Center Street. It stands between the town office building to the north and the Rocky Hill Congregational Church to the south. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a side gable roof. It is eight bays wide and two deep, with entrances in the outer bays of the long facade. Ground floor windows and doorways are topped by splayed brownstone lintels, while the second-floor windows are set close to the eave. The brick is laid mainly in Flemish bond, with a belt course projecting slightly between the floors. The interior has been repeatedly altered over time and little original finish survives.</p><br>
<p>The academy was built in 1803 by Abraham Jaggars, and is one of only a few surviving early 19th-century school buildings in Connecticut. It is believed to be one of few original Federal style buildings in Connecticut that has seen little alteration to its exterior. The building served as a school from its construction until 1941. Originally a private school, it became a public school after it was gutted by fire in 1839. The public school operated in the ground floor until 1916, the upper level serving as a community center. After the adjacent Center School (now the town offices) was built in 1941, this school housed town offices, and later also hosted the local American Legion chapter. In 1963, the building, then in deteriorated condition, was leased by the Rocky Hill Historical Society, which undertook its restoration. The society museum opened in 1965.</p><br>
<p>Boyd School is a brick Italianate style one-room school house built in 1889, in Holmes County, Ohio. It was used as a schoolhouse until 1962. The brick building replaced another building that was built during the American Civil War. It is the only preserved one-room schoolhouse in the county. It is located northwest of Berlin on the Fryburg-Fredericksbury-Boyd Road.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Log Cabin at present-day 1805 Hancock Street in Bellevue, Nebraska was built in the 1830s, and is commonly acknowledged as the oldest building in Nebraska.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A trapper built the log cabin around 1835 in the Missouri River floodplains, and around 1850 it was moved to its present-day location. It was used as a residence until 1954, occupied by just three families from 1856 to 1950.</p><br>
<p>The building was one and a half stories tall with a bedroom in the loft. Hand-hewn cottonwood logs surrounded a dirt floor and fireplace. In 1906 a kitchen and pantry were added to the east side; in 1972, a basement was dug and the main floor was restored. Today, the Sarpy County Historical Society maintains the building in near-original condition as a memorial to the living conditions of the pioneers.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Francis Farm Petroglyphs are a group of petroglyphs in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States. Located on a boulder in Jefferson Township in the northwestern portion of Fayette County, the glyphs have been known to archaeologists since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. Despite damage in the 1930s, they remain an important archaeological site, and accordingly, have been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Creation</h2><br>
<p>Although it is certain that the Francis Farm site was produced by Native Americans, a more precise identification is believed to be impossible. Archaeologists have proposed that the creators were such peoples as the Monongahela or the ancestors of the Shawnee, both of whom are known to have inhabited southwestern Pennsylvania during the latter portions of the Woodland period.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The petroglyph site is located on a large outcrop in Jefferson Township, approximately 2.6 mi west of Perryopolis and 5.2 mi north of Brownsville; its elevation is 1,140 ft. This outcrop is a roughly rectangular piece of Dunkard-series sandstone, measuring 6.3 m from north to south and 5.7 m from east to west. Its upper surface, upon which the petroglyphs are carven, slants toward the ground; the western end rises 3.2 m above the surface, while the eastern edge is level with the surface of the ground. Several similar boulders lie in the petroglyphs immediate vicinity, although none feature Native American petroglyphs. The site lies in the middle of woodlands; trees and brush grow up to the stones edge.</p><br>
<h2>Petroglyphs</h2><br>
<p>Six different outcrops on the Francis Farm have been used for the creation of petroglyphs, although only one today bears Native American carvings. One other boulder, located to the east of the primary stone, once bore similar Native American carvings, however, local residents have reported that it was destroyed in the 1930s, while the surrounding land was being quarried for the construction of a road. Incisions on the other four stones remain in fine condition; however, they are clearly modern works, for among their inscriptions are various Latin letters and depictions of firearms.</p><br>
<p>At least sixteen different carvings are present on the primary outcrop, divided into seven different categories: artifacts, geometric figures, the human body, mammals, reptiles, a shape resembling the letter "W," and various small pits. Some of the carvings include multiple parts; for example, design 13 is composed of seven small pits, also known as "nut-cracker holes". The most common subject is the human body; designs 2 and 10 depict a complete human form, while designs 1 and 15 are images of human heads. Other images include what is believed to be the mythological "spirit otter" (design 5), a four-footed animal (design 6), and a rattlesnake (design 11). What has been called the letter "W", which also has been found at other petroglyph sites, may be an abstract form; archaeologist James L. Swauger called it a "W" for the sake of simplicity. A small number of carvings, such as arrows and hook-like shapes, are believed to be the work of recent vandals.</p><br>
<p>The presence of amorphous shapes among the carvings is typical of Native American petroglyphs. Although their meanings are not known, their resemblance to shapes found at similar sites elsewhere in the upper Ohio River valley indicates that many of these sites were produced by the same, or similar cultures. Other designs common to these petroglyphs include the shapes and the footprints of birds, humans, and other mammals.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>The Francis Farm Petroglyphs have been known since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. Written in 1843, Sherman Day&#39;s Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania makes reference to the site, as do authors from 1893, 1930, and 1934. Carnegie Museum of Natural History archaeologist James Swauger officially documented the site in late 1958. Despite this widespread documentation, the site has remained remarkably free from damage; natural processes have eroded it somewhat, and Swauger was unable to find certain elements documented by previous surveys, but these aspects are exceptions: almost all designs present in early renditions of the site remain easily distinguished today.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the European settlement of southwestern Pennsylvania, several petroglyphs were present within Fayette County&#39;s present boundaries. Among the sites that survived into modern times were ones known as the New Geneva Petroglyphs, the Petroglyphs Opposite Millsboro, and the Dunn Farm Petroglyphs. Many sites in the upper Ohio River valley, including several in Fayette County, were destroyed in the late twentieth century, making the Francis Farm site extremely valuable for future students of Native American petroglyphy. Because of their archaeological value, the Francis Farm Petroglyphs were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The La Blanche Apartments is an historic, American building that is located in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1910, this historic structure was designed in the Georgian Revival style. Part of the second wave of a housing boom in West Philadelphia that started with the completion of the Market Street Elevated line in 1907, this building was also one of the first large apartment buildings ever built in Philadelphia. It helped give the rising middle class better access to housing. Originally, this four-story building housed just twenty-six apartments, but as the neighborhood became less fashionable, the apartments were subdivided into a total of forty-nine units.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Lafayette, also known as the Lafayette Hotel, is a historic hotel building located in Buffalo in Erie County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History and features</h2><br>
<p>It is a seven-story steel frame and concrete building designed in the French Renaissance style. It is composed of several rectangular building units completed between 1902 and 1926. It features decorative vitreous red brick and white terra cotta trim. The hotel is the masterpiece of Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913), the first professional woman architect in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The original building was designed by the firm of Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs and built between 1902 and 1911. Additions from 1916–1917 and 1924–1926 were completed by Esenwein and Johnson. The lobby was decorated in 1942 in the Art Moderne style. In its prime, the Lafayette Hotel was considered one of the 15 finest hotels in the country. Besides elevators, every room featured hot and cold water and a telephone. A 97 m antenna is attached to the building. From September 29 to December 19, 1953 it was home to the short-lived television station WBES-TV.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, it was owned by Tran Dinh Truong, under whose tenure the hotel became a "quasi crack house".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h3>2012 renovation</h3><br>
<p>In 2012, the completion of a $35 million rehabilitation project restored the hotel to its original beauty. The hotel now contains 92 one & two bedroom apartments, 57 hotel rooms, several bars, restaurants and banquet facilities. The renovation was conducted by Buffalo property developer Rocco Termini, along with architect Jonathan Morris and his team at Carmina Wood Morris PC.</p><br>
<p>The John F. Kamman Building is a historic commercial building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It designed by Buffalo architect F.W. Caulkins and built in 1883. A four-story brick building, it was designed in the Romanesque Renaissance style. The Kamman Building is located within the Hydraulics Neighborhood, Buffalo&#39;s oldest manufacturing district. A post office substation was located in the building starting in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>A 4-story building of "7-rank brick" and Medina sandstone it has a ground floor storefront featuring cast iron pilasters, a lion head ornament and a "The Kamman" sign above the door.</p><br>
<p>The property was owned by the Kamman family until 1916, when it was sold to the Larkin Company.</p><br>
<p>The buildings location in the Hydraulics area was near the large livestock yards and rail lines booming in the nineteenth-century (Buffalo was second only to Chicago in the number of cattle and hogs it handled). German butchers such as the Kamman family (immigrants who arrived in the mid-1800s) established themselves. Henry Kamman ran a butcher shop at 573-575 Seneca Street and Jefferson Avenue while brother John F. Kamman purchased property in the 700 block of Seneca during the 1850s and early 1860s and built the J. F. Kamman Slaughterhouse including barns, processing buildings, and sheds. The family also lived on the property. The Kamman Building was constructed around 1886 by John F. Kamman at 755-757 Seneca Street. John H. Kamman (son of Henry) continued the trade and the John H. Kamman Company was built into one of the citys largest meat markets and grocery store chains (including more than 30 stores). The Kamman Building at 757 Seneca Street was home to one of the markets in 1903.</p><br>
<p>Gravel Hill is a historic plantation house located near Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Virginia. It was built in 1847, and is a two-story, three-bay frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. A two-story frame addition was built in 1912. It features a two-story pedimented Doric order portico. Also on the property are a contributing -story, log guest house typical of the picturesque "rustic lodge" structures of the 1920s; large wooden barn on a stone foundation; and smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Ferrey House, also known as the Winan Snyder House, was a historic structure located at 5058 Sunnybrook Road in the southern part of Kent, Ohio, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1974. The house was an example of Carpenter Gothic architecture and a rare complete use of a design by early 19th century landscape designer and Gothic Revival advocate Andrew Jackson Downing. The design was a nearly-exact replica of Design III in Downing&#39;s 1850 book, The Architecture of Country Houses, with an upper porch included instead of an extra room. It was named for Aaron Ferrey, a New England brick manufacturer who brought his business to the Franklin Mils area  in 1842, before settling in the area himself in 1846. After living and running his sizable operation in Kent for 20 years, Ferrey constructed the house in 1866, also maintaining a brickyard on the property until 1880.</p><br>
<p>It was demolished in 2017 for unknown reasons, after standing for over 150 years.</p><br>
<p>St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church is parish of the Episcopal Church in Aiken, South Carolina. It is noted for its historic church at Pendleton and Richland Streets.</p><br>
<p>Aiken is a planned community, and land for the church had been set aside in the original plan by the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. The cornerstone for the original church was laid September 5, 1842. This building was subsequently renovated and expanded over the years, and additional buildings added to the campus. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Current Parish Leadership</h2><br>
<p>Parish Leadership</p><br>
<p>The current parish leadership at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church includes:</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Dr. Marshall A. Jolly, Rector</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Joseph Whitehurst, Associate Rector</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Jane Hostetter, Deacon</p><br>
<p>Cross Roads Presbyterian Church and Cemetery and Stainback Store are historic buildings near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1876, and is a 1 1/2-story, brick vernacular church building. The Stainback Store, across from the church, was built about 1888, and is a simple two-story gable front frame structure built from materials of the original church building and session house from about 1792. Located near the church is the contributing cemetery established about 1792.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a Baptist church located at 400 S. Broad Street in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The church was built in 1922–1924, and is a two-story, brick Neoclassical Revival style church building with stone ornamentation. The front facade features an Ionic order hexastyle portico. The educational building was added in 1939 and a Sunday School and chapel wing in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church of Burlington is a historic church located at 415 S. Church Street in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1920, and is a Neoclassical Revival style church building with an Akron Plan interior. The building features two main temple facades and a dome. A three-story educational building was constructed in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Spring Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina. The fourth and current meeting house was built in 1907, and is a small rectangular frame one-story gable-front building. It features Gothic Revival style lancet windows and a short, plain rectangular cupola with pyramidal roof. Spring Friends Meeting is an active congregation of Quakers from the Alamance, Chatham, Orange, Guilford and Randolph County area of North Carolina. Members of the Religious Society of Friends first started "meeting at the spring" around 1761, with the congregation formally recognized by North Carolina Yearly Meeting in 1773. The adjacent contributing cemetery dates from the founding of the meeting, about 1761. It contains the graves of some of the earliest Quaker settlers in Alamance County, as well as the unmarked graves of</p><br>
<p>approximately 25 American Revolutionary War soldiers killed in the 1781 Battle of Lindley&#39;s Mill. The battle itself was waged around the meeting house, with governor Thomas Burke and other officials held prisoner in the original meeting house during the battle.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Hawfields Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church complex located near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. The congregation was established by settlers in the 1700s. The complex consists of the original church building, the classroom to the rear of it, the Session House, and the cemetery. The current Greek Revival-style Flemish bond brick church building was constructed between 1852 and 1855.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>In the cemetery "a plaque...hangs in memory of the faithful slaves who once worshipped there and are buried nearby."</p><br>
<p>David Ealy has served as the church&#39;s pastor since October, 2010.</p><br>
<p>St. Athanasius Episcopal Church and Parish House and the Church of the Holy Comforter is a historic Episcopal church complex located at 300 E. Webb Avenue and 320 E. Davis Street in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Athanasius Church is a small Carpenter Gothic chapel designed by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel and built in 1879–1880. Adjacent to St. Athanasius is the Parish House (1887). In 1911, the Neo-Gothic Revival style Church of the Holy Comforter was designed by Hobart Upjohn and built west of St. Athanasius. The Neo-Gothic Revival style Parish House was added in 1926. The Parish House addition and Great Hall were added in 1963. Between St Athanasius Church and Church of the Holy Comforter is a cemetery with graves dating to 1882.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The former First Baptist Church, now the Valleytown Cultural Arts Center is a historic Baptist church building at 101 Chestnut Street in Andrews, Cherokee County, North Carolina. The Classical Revival brick structure was built in 1923 for a congregation founded in 1902; it was their second building on the site. The building was used by the congregation until c. 1987, when it was sold to a local nonprofit corporation for use as an arts center.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery is a historic Methodist chapel and cemetery at Church and Central Streets in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joshua Harshaw, a prominent early settler in the area and slaveholder, purchased the property during the sale of Native American land in 1838. The first person buried on the site was Nancy Elizabeth Crump Hayes, the first wife of North Carolina politician George Washington Hayes. She was buried in 1839. Other early prominent settlers are also buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>In 1844, Harshaw donated the cemetery to Methodist trustees to erect a church. A chapel was completed on the site on May 1, 1869. The chapel was built out of locally-made brick in the vernacular Greek Revival style and has a pinewood floor. The Murphy Methodist Cemetery surrounds it.</p><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, electric lights were added to the building. In 1924, the Methodist congregation built a new two-story church, Murphy First United Methodist Church, in downtown Murphy. Harshaw Chapel was leased to Murphy&#39;s Free Methodist congregation during the 1940s until their own structure was finished. The chapel has received little use since. Around 1965, a new roof was added to it.</p><br>
<p>Harshaw Chapel is the oldest surviving structure in Murphy, the oldest church building in Cherokee County, and the only surviving example of mid-nineteenth century brick architecture in the entire county.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. By the start of the 21st century, the chapel was in disrepair. The roof was sagging, the steeple was leaning, and timbers in the attic and bell tower had rotted. There were fears the roof might collapse. In December 2019, the chapel&#39;s steeple was removed and roof covered until funds could be raised to make repairs.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Felix Axeley (1802–1858), Murphy&#39;s first lawyer, who entered the county before the Cherokee removal</p><br>
<p>Felix Porter Axeley (1863–1908), North Carolina state legislator and Confederate Army captain</p><br>
<p>Abram Enloe (1770–1840), rumored but unconfirmed biological father of Abraham Lincoln</p><br>
<p>George Mercer Fain (1820–1893), first president of the Georgia and North Carolina Railroad</p><br>
<p>Joshua Harshaw (1795–1855), prominent early settler for whom the chapel is named</p><br>
<p>Nancy Elizabeth Crump Hayes (1809–1939), first wife of North Carolina politician George Washington Hayes</p><br>
<p>Samuel Henry (1819–1899), established Murphy&#39;s first hotel</p><br>
<p>Mary Turnbill (1823–1904), mother of the first pioneer child born in Murphy</p><br>
<p>Long Street Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Fayetteville in Hoke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1850, and is a two-story rectangular frame building five bays wide and three deep. It is set on fieldstone and concrete foundation piers and has a hip roof. The front facade features a full height porch and Palladian window in the Classical Revival style. In 1921 the United States Government purchased the church and six acres of land as part of the Fort Bragg Military Reservation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Lake View Drive and Weber Street in Trenton, Jones County, North Carolina. It was built in 1885, and is a small, rectangular board-and-batten frame Carpenter Gothic style building. It rests on a low brick foundation and has a gable roof topped by a steeple. The church was consecrated on June 12, 1892.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 12 W. Fort Streets in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. The congregation was established in 1845, and the current church building was constructed in 1923. It is a one-story plus balcony Classical Revival style brick building set on a raised basement. The front facade features a monumental Ionic order tetrastyle pedimented portico.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 289 S. Main Street in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, Carpenter Gothic style frame church. It has a steeply pitched gable roof, board and batten exterior walls, lancet windows, and an elaborate bell tower added in 1903. St. Johns is one of the few buildings that survived the 1894 fire on Main Street. St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a vibrant spiritual Community with roots formed more than a Century ago.</p><br>
<p>The St. Johns Episcopal Church, Marion, NC dates back to May 24, 1881, with the first two years of St. Johns, services were held in private homes and other church buildings. Since 1883 the church has congregated at the same location on South Main Street.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthew&#39;s Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located at 307 W. Court Street in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1935 and is a one-story, vernacular Late Gothic Revival-style church constructed with river rocks. The building features lancet windows and flying buttresses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Resurrection is a historic Episcopal church located at 302 High Ridge Road in Little Switzerland, Mitchell County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1912 as a memorial to Fr. DuBose, an Episcopal priest. In the 1930s the church was moved from its original location 100 yards uphill, closer to the Blue Ridge Parkway. The church is not open year-round, but only from May through October with a summer vicar in residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Oconaluftee Baptist Church, also known as the Smokemont Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Cherokee, North Carolina. It is located off United States Route 441, overlooking the Smokemont Campground of the park. It is a basically rectangular wood-frame structure, 30 ft wide and 50 ft deep. The churchs tower projects from the front of this main block, and rises about 10 ft above the level of the gable roof; it does not have a spire or steeple, and its uppermost section is a louvered belfry. This church building was built in 1912 for a congregation organized in 1836. The congregations records  form a valuable documentation of local history. The church remained in active use until the area was made part of the national park in 1935, and has seen occasional use since then.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The church was the site of a fatal stabbing on March 29, 2015, which occurred inside the building.</p><br>
<p>Rehoboth Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Skinnersville, Washington County, North Carolina. It was built between 1850 and 1853, and is a one-story, temple-form, Greek Revival style frame structure with a front gable roof. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a pair of double-door entrances.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Belgrade and St. Davids Church, also known as Pettigrews Chapel, is a historic Episcopal church and home located at Creswell, Washington County, North Carolina. St. David&#39;s Church was built over a number of years. It is a cruciform, weatherboarded frame structure with a cross gable roof. It features a late-19th century two-part bell tower with a four-faced, pyramidal, bell-cast spire. Belgrade was built about 1797, and is a small one-story Georgian style frame dwelling with a steep gable roof. It was the home of the home of Charles "Parson" Pettigrew, first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Worth&#39;s Chapel, also known as Creston United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist chapel located at 175 Three Top Road in Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina. The original main building was built in 1902, and is a square, frame building with Gothic and Romanesque design elements. It features a tall comer tower and tall arched windows. The smaller portion was added in the 1990s.The Land was donated by the Pernas family in the late 1990s in order to build the smaller portion that now stands there today. It is used as the parish hall for community events.</p><br>
<p>It was built by the Worth family. As was popular of the time, the family owned a summer home on the hill just behind the church. Other members of the Worth family also built homes on the adjacent road. It became listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Crossnore Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on US 221/NC 194 east side, opposite the junction with Dellinger Road in Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina. It was built between 1924 and 1926, and is a one-story, "T"-plan rock building with American Craftsman influences. Also on the property is a contributing stone arch  and non-contributing church cemetery established about 1929.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
