<p>Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church at 305 W. Maple Street in Fayetteville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Church was organized in 1873 by former slaves and sons of slaves. The land for the church building was purchased that same year.</p><br>
<p>The current church building was built in 1902 after an earlier building was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Fayetteville, Tennessee, United States, located at 521 W. College Street.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was established as the "African Church" in 1824, The original church location was on Rock and Stigall Hill (now Reservoir Hill), about 0.75 mi northeast of the current church building.</p><br>
<p>The church moved to its present location on West College Street in 1867. The church&#39;s current brick building was completed in 1913. Oral histories indicate that the women of the church delivered brick to the site by carrying bricks in their aprons. When built, the church facade featured three large circular windows; after a fire damaged the building, the circular windows were replaced by rectangular double-hung windows.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 following research by Middle Tennessee State University.</p><br>
<p>Craigs Chapel AME Zion Church is a historic church in Greenback, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Craigs Chapel is one of several historic African-American churches in rural Tennessee that had a black school and a cemetery located alongside the church, on the same plot of land. The church was built in 1896 and was followed by an elementary school in 1899 and the cemetery in 1903.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Loudon Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic church of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination, located on College Street in Loudon, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was established in Loudon in August 1853, although its official records begin in March 1855.</p><br>
<p>The church building, which was the congregation&#39;s third home, is a Carpenter Gothic design. The building was completed and dedicated in 1882. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 899 Steam Mill Ferry Road in the Madison Hall community of rural Madison County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The gable-front church was built in 1894 for the benefit of Presbyterians in the local area who often were unable to cross the river to get to Jackson to attend church. The building had no alterations until the 1950s, when an addition was built and new light fixtures and other modern features were installed.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for its local architectural importance.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 309 E. Baltimore Street in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. The congregation was formed in 1832, the first of five new Episcopal congregations planted in West Tennessee that year after Mrs. Mary Hayes Willis Gloster of La Grange had traveled to Nashville to ask Bishop James H. Otey to bring the Episcopal Church to West Tennessee. The church building dates to 1845, although it was only partially completed that year. It was consecrated by Bishop Otey on May 14, 1853.</p><br>
<p>The churchs bell and its hand-pumped organ were installed in 1852. The church has a brass altar cross that is a copy of a cross in a Westminster Abbey chapel. The cross and a brass alms basin were presented to St. Lukes in 1867 by Bishop Charles Quintard, who had received them as gifts from a duchess he met in England.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church building at 503 Betsy Pack Drive in Jasper, Tennessee, that was formerly the home of the McKendree United Methodist Church and is now home to Faith Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1875 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>McKendree United Methodist Church is now located at 106 Highway 150 in Jasper.</p><br>
<p>Primitive Baptist Church of Sweetens Cove is a historic Primitive Baptist church in Marion County, Tennessee, located in the Sweetens Cove area in the Sequatchie Valley, about 7 mi north of South Pittsburg.</p><br>
<p>Sweetens Cove, which is identified as Sweedens Cove in some old maps and documents, was an area of early settlement, primarily by members of the Beene (Bean) and Raulston (Roulston) families. The church was established around 1821 as Union Primitive Baptist Church. It adopted its current name in 1834. The church building was completed in 1853.</p><br>
<p>On June 4, 1862, Sweeten&#39;s Cove was the site of a minor battle between Union Army forces under General James Negley and a Confederate cavalry unit led by Colonel John Adams. Twenty unidentified Confederate soldiers who died in the battle are buried in the Bean-Roulston Cemetery, which is about 0.7 mi north of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Bear Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, also known as Bear Creek Community Church, is a historic church in an isolated rural setting in Marshall County, Tennessee, near the village of Mooresville.</p><br>
<p>The Bear Creek congregation was organized in 1814. Its founder, the Reverend Samuel King, was one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.</p><br>
<p>The church building is a brick structure in a vernacular Victorian design. It was built in 1897 and dedicated in 1898. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The church is privately owned and has been vandalized several times. After this last vandalism the church lost several of its historic windows. Alarms are being installed. It is not open to the public. Vandals will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.</p><br>
<p>Verona United Methodist Church, originally Verona Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a historic church on Verona-Berlin Road in the Verona community of Marshall County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded and built in about 1880 as one of two successors to the former Cave Spring Methodist Church, which had been built in the 1840s or 1850s. The Cave Spring church closed and its congregation was divided to form new churches in Farmington and Verona. After the Cave Spring Church was torn down, some of its materials were recovered for use in the new Verona church. The pews and bell from the Cave Spring church were installed in the Verona church. A wooden cross that hangs in the Verona church was made from the cedar door-steps of the Cave Spring church.</p><br>
<p>The church building was expanded in the 1930s and the 1950s, when Sunday School rooms were added. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>For many years, the church shared a pastor with the Berlin, Caney Spring, and Farmington United Methodist churches. The Farmington church was administratively separated from the others in 2003. The Verona United Methodist church closed in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The church is now called Reformed Baptist Fellowship.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church of Columbia, also called Columbia First United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 222 W. 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee, United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was officially formed in 1820 as the First Methodist Society, with 7 congregants. Its first church building was a frame church on South Main Street, completed in the fall of 1821 under the supervision of church member Nathan Vaught, who was a master builder. Vaught also supervised the construction of the congregation&#39;s next building, built in 1836 at the site of the present church. That church building burned in 1874 and was replaced by the present building, which was started in 1875 and completed in 1876.</p><br>
<p>It has a stained glass of James K. Polk, the 11th president acknowledging him as the 10th. When it was added they did not recognize John Tyler as the 10th president but merely finishing up the rest of William Henry Harrison&#39;s term, the first president to die in office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and is also within the Columbia Commercial Historic District which was created the same year.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church on USA 31 in Spring Hill, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter Gothic church building was constructed in 1876–7 and dedicated in 1878 by Charles T. Quintard, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Nashville architect P. J. Williamson designed the building, which was completed at a cost of $1,800. The building interior contains a small narthex, a nave that seats about 100 people, a chancel and altar, and a small sacristy. There is a single belfry with one bell that is labeled “England 1839.”</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 311 W. 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1860 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s was the second Episcopal Church established in Tennessee, being formally organized on June 16, 1828, one year before the Diocese itself was formed. The first church building was located on Garden Street.</p><br>
<p>The present edifice, begun in 1860, was not completed until 1871, after the Civil War. In 1926 the church interior was renovated to appear as it does today, with the enlarged split chancel, rood beam, and the carved lectern and pulpit. The parish house was erected in 1924. Additional classrooms and offices were added in 1964. St. Peter&#39;s was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Six former rectors have served the Church as bishops: James Hervey Otey, Bishop of Tennessee; Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana; Thomas Carruthers, Bishop of South Carolina; Fred Gates, Suffragan Bishop of West Tennessee; Frank Allan, Bishop of Atlanta; and Robert Tharp, Bishop of East Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters cares for, and uses, St. Johns, Ashwood, a former plantation parish in rural Maury County, for its annual Whitsunday (Pentecost Sunday) service, as well as various other occasions. The church cemetery contains the remains of several bishops of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Beth Salem Presbyterian Church is a historic African-American church in Athens, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1866 with support from white missionaries, making Beth Salem the first African American church in the three-county farming region of McMinn, Meigs, and Polk counties.</p><br>
<p>At first, the congregation held its services under a brush arbor. After a local white woman donated land for a building, a log church was built. It also housed a public school. After the log building was destroyed by fire around 1920, the current building was built using donated lumber and the volunteer labor of both black church members and their white neighbors.</p><br>
<p>The 1920 church building is a one-story, one-room, rectangular frame structure with a gable front entrance, weatherboard siding, and a metal roof. It typifies a vernacular architectural tradition common in rural African-American churches during the Jim Crow era. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Clear Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church is a historic church of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination in McMinn County, Tennessee, about 6 mile southeast of Calhoun. The church building, which is no longer in use, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Clear Springs congregation formed in the late 1830s or early 1840s, originally calling itself Pleasant Hill Church. The "Clear Springs" name was adopted in the 1850s. Before completing its church building in 1860, the congregation conducted services in a large camp meeting shelter. When the church was in active use, it was heated by a pot-bellied stove that sat in the center of the sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The congregation became inactive in the decades before and after World War II, although its building continued to be maintained and saw periodic use for weddings, homecomings, and other special occasions. In 1976, the building was taken over by the denomination&#39;s presbytery. It continues to be used occasionally for funerals and other events. The church, its cemetery, and a baptismal pool located at a spring on the church grounds were added to the National Register in 2007. Its listing recognized it as "a rare unaltered example of a modest rural church building" that typifies the characteristic "functional and unadorned style" of churches in the area.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Springs Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on 3rd Avenue in Bethel Springs, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was established in 1829 and is the oldest church still in operation in McNairy County. The Colonial Revival-style church building was constructed in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. A cemetery located next to the church includes burials of Confederate soldiers.</p><br>
<p>Bethlehem Methodist Church  is a historic church located on Gholson Road southeast of Clarksville, Tennessee. Construction on the church began in 1899, and it was dedicated in 1900. The church was the second building used by its congregation, which originally met in a log church that also served as a school. The congregation had met since at least 1836, the year of its first records; however, the oldest graves in the church cemetery date back to 1821.</p><br>
<p>Carpenter Alex F. Simpson planned the Gothic Revival church. The one-story frame church features a square tower at both of the front corners. Each tower has a louvered lancet arch window above the first story, which is demarcated by a belt course; the towers are both topped by pyramidal spires with finials. A bargeboard with decorative moldings covers the gable between the two towers; the front entrance, added below the gable in 1958, features a matching bargeboard. The sides of the church each feature three lancet arch windows; while the windows originally had plain glass, stained glass was installed in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1994. The church&#39;s adjacent cemetery is a contributing property to its listing; in addition to its historical association with the church, it contains historically significant boxed grave markers.</p><br>
<p>Clarksville Methodist Church is a historic church building at 334 Main Street in Clarksville, Tennessee. Currently, the building isn&#39;t used as a church.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1831, the first permanent church building in Clarksville and one of the city&#39;s first brick buildings. In the 1880s, it ceased being used as a church and was converted into residential apartments. It is the only church building in Clarksville that was built before 1850 and is still standing.</p><br>
<p>The former church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. At that time, it still housed residential apartments. A National Register nomination document stated that the building retained "much of its original architectural character" in spite of renovations.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 213 Main Street in Clarksville, Tennessee. The congregation is currently affiliated with the Presbyterian Church .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Clarksville was incorporated in 1784 and by the early eighteenth century was a village of forty families. Dr. Gideon Blackburn, an itinerant Presbyterian minister, preached outdoors in a place south of Clarksville called Tompkins Grove. He organized First Presbyterian Church on May 25, 1822. The first congregation of fourteen initially worshipped in private homes and later in the new brick Court House on the downtown square. The Court House served as the meeting place for the church for almost 20 years. By 1835 the congregation had outgrown that venue, and worshippers wanted their own church building. They raised $2,300, and Lucinda Elder donated land at the present site of Third and Main Streets. In 1840 the first church building opened and, by 1844, the membership had reached 120.</p><br>
<p>As the congregation continued to grow it became obvious a new larger structure was needed. Under the direction of Dr. J.B. Luton, minister from 1872-1897, the old walls were removed to make way for a neo-gothic building of pressed brick and stone. The new church housed a sanctuary with stained glass windows which included a beautiful rose window, the pews, pulpit, communion table and chandeliers, all featuring Christian symbols. Below the sanctuary was a lecture hall. In 1876 the cornerstone was laid, and two years later the building was completed for $43,285.15.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian was part of the Southwestern Presbyterian University until that school moved to Memphis in 1925. The University provided ministers when the regular pastors were absent. Ministerial students from the University often taught Sunday school. The church benefited from this rich intellectual connection.</p><br>
<p>By 1950 once again First Presbyterian needed to expand and included construction of the Education Building and the Chapel on the west side of the 1878 sanctuary. During the 1960s, rooms were added to the north end of the education building, and the sanctuary underwent a significant renovation including air conditioning. Additionally, the kitchen was remodeled and the Memorial Garden created.</p><br>
<p>Reverend George Gracey became the pastor in 1974 and served First Presbyterian for over 30 years. With much admiration and respect, the congregation bestowed the honor of Pastor Emeritus on Reverend Gracey in 2009, the only time in its history. Beginning in 1990, the congregation began a capital campaign to address not only church needs but important community needs as well. While the extensive renovations to the church were being completed the church met at the American Legion Building. By June 1992 the congregation returned to the beautiful sanctuary. In 1993 the congregation voted to purchase the old Clarksville City Street Department at 215 Foster Street, near the church. In 1996 the church voted to use this location to build the Activities and Outreach Center. The AOC has a basketball court, Sunday school rooms, a Boy Scout meeting room, and a kitchen and dining area. It houses Loaves and Fishes, which today serves over 50,000 meals annually.</p><br>
<p>Guildfield Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American church on Guildfield Church Road in South Guthrie, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was started in 1868 with meetings at a home in South Guthrie. It was formally organized in 1869 and affiliated with the Consolidated American Missionary Baptist Convention, a forerunner to the National Baptist Convention. Land for a church was acquired in 1871. The congregation completed a new frame church building before 1882. It was replaced at the same location by a second frame building in the 1880s and a third frame church in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The church building was completed in 1922, replacing the building at the same location that had been built in the 1890s. Church deacon Edward Warfield raised much of the money for construction of the new church. In the same year, Warfield also led a successful community fund-raising effort for building of a new Rosenwald school to replace a black school in South Guthrie that was destroyed by a tornado. The $500 raised in the local African American community was combined with $300 from the Rosenwald Fund and $700 from government sources to pay for construction of a two-teacher Rosenwald school, also completed in 1922. The school, which came to be known as the Warfield School, currently houses a community center.</p><br>
<p>The church is a two-story brick building on a concrete foundation with a gable-front entrance. Romanesque Revival elements are prominent in its design. There are two large Romanesque arched colored glass windows in the center of its eastern facade, flanked on either side by brick towers with double doorways in the shape of Romanesque arches. Brick buttresses with triangular white capstones are on the north and south corners of the towers and on the buildings long north and side walls. The churchs red brick walls have been painted red since 1980.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Its size and architecture are unusual for an African-American church of its era. In the National Register nomination, historian Carroll Van West wrote that no other extant rural African-American church in Middle Tennessee "match the size, the brick</p><br>
<p>masonry, and architectural distinctiveness of this building."</p><br>
<p>Madison Street United Methodist Church is a historic church at 319 Madison Street in Clarksville, Tennessee. The church is a brown brick building that exemplifies Gothic architecture of the Victorian era. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is a fellowship of the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of the Madison Street location, worship of the local body of Methodists that would become the congregation of Madison Street UMC commenced in 1831 when the first brick church was constructed on Main Street. This location was later outgrown by the congregation and the fellowship moved to a larger building on Franklin Street. This location was soon outgrown as well, and construction began on the Madison Street church building on September 26, 1882.</p><br>
<p>This church was established as Madison Street Methodist Church, South. The church fellowship has remained at this location since this date, with various additions being made to the original 1882 structure.</p><br>
<p>Much of the original structure, including the sanctuary and iconic twin steeples, was destroyed by an F3 tornado which struck downtown Clarksville on January 22, 1999. The church was rebuilt in 2000 by Everton Oglesby Architects who paid homage to the original structure but did not reconstruct the building exactly as it had been pre-1999. Most notably, the steeples were replaced with copper-clad, structural steel outlines of the original towers.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church at 317 Franklin Street in Clarksville, Tennessee. The church and its rectory are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Trinity Church and Rectory.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal parish is one of the five oldest Episcopal parishes in Tennessee, established in 1832. Its first church building was completed in 1838. It was the second permanent church building in Clarksville, preceded only by a Methodist church built a few years earlier.</p><br>
<p>The church remained open through the Civil War, including the Union Army occupation of Clarksville. Its rector, the Rev&#39;d Samuel Ringgold, convinced Union leaders to allow it to remain open, telling them that the value of "decent and orderly" worship should transcend both politics and war.</p><br>
<p>The original building was demolished in 1873 and replaced by the current Romanesque-style building, which was completed in 1877 and is faced with rough-cut gray stone. The rectory was built in 1883 and a parish house was added in 1916. Renovations in the 1920s and 1980s maintained the historic integrity of the original design.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church and Rectory were added to the National Register in 1982. A tornado on January 22, 1999, destroyed the parish house, knocked over part of the steeple and severely damaged the church roof. Subsequently, the church building was restored and a new parish house was built.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Zion Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly Mt. Zion Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic African-American church in Union City, Tennessee, at the corner of North Greenwood and East College Streets.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Zion congregation was organized in 1870, the same year that the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was formed as a new denomination by African Americans who had been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In its early years, the congregation worshiped in a frame church in Union City&#39;s African-American neighborhood. By the 1890s, the growth of the congregation and the increasing prosperity of its members led it to start a larger brick church building. The new church was constructed by church members and dedicated in 1896. Its architecture is a vernacular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style popular in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The original 1896 brick building houses the church sanctuary. It is a symmetrical basilica design with gable ends and a bell tower. A notable feature of the interior is its unusual hipped ceiling. The ceiling, which is elevated about 30 ft above the floor, has three sections formed of narrow wooden planks suspended from the rafters. The center section of planks is parallel to the floor. The side sections angle down to the brick walls. Overhead lighting in the sanctuary comes from four Victorian-era branched metal fixtures, originally made for gas lighting and converted to electricity around 1920, that hang from the hipped ceiling. Each fixture has sixteen bulbs; their light is directed by a large open circular shade mounted above the bulbs. As of 1996, the church still had its original pews. Panels on the ends of the pews are embellished with Gothic arches, echoing the shape of the windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the Mt. Zion church sponsored the building of a new schoolhouse for African-American children. The new brick schoolhouse, named Miles School, was built on North Greenwood Street directly across from the church. Together, the church and the school functioned as important centers for the local African-American community. The original Miles School building was replaced by a newer building in the 1950s or 1960s, but the location continued to be the site of Union City&#39;s segregated black school. The location continues to be used for education; as of 2014 it is the site of the Miles Early Head Start center.</p><br>
<p>A community and classroom building was added onto the rear of the church building around 1940. In 1956, when its denomination changed its name from "Colored Methodist Episcopal" to "Christian Methodist Episcopal", the Mt. Zion church adopted its current name. The congregation disorganized in 2005, but it was restarted in 2007 under the pastoral leadership of Darrell Turner, who had grown up in the church.</p><br>
<p>When the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, it was described as Union City&#39;s "oldest remaining architectural artifact of African-American craftsmanship of the late Victorian era."</p><br>
<p>Algood United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church at 135 West Main Street in Algood, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1899 as a Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Land for the church was donated by brothers Alfred and Henry Algood, whose father was a circuit-riding Methodist minister. It is an example of the Carpenter Gothic architectural style. In 1909, a tornado caused extensive damage to the building. Restoration after the tornado included relocating the bell tower to the right-hand side of the building and installing the bell that still hangs there.</p><br>
<p>In its early years, the church building served as an unofficial community center for Algood and was sometimes used for worship services of other denominations.</p><br>
<p>The Algood Methodist Church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Broad Street Church of Christ, originally Central Emmanuel Baptist Church, is a historic church in Cookeville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally Baptist. It is now used by the United Methodist Church and has been renamed Wesley Chapel. It was built in about 1920 in a Romanesque design and has a corner tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>New Bethel Baptist Church is a historic church on Bethel Valley Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in about 1900. One of the concrete steps that leads to the church entrance is inscribed with the date "1924," but this is not thought to be an original part of the church. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1851. The church ceased operation in 1942 when the land was taken over by the USA federal government for Manhattan Project facilities. A large stone marker was erected behind the church in 1949 to commemorate the church and its congregation. It is inscribed "The church having been left in extended session in 1942, this monument was dedicated and the final church session closed at Memorial Day services May 29, 1949."</p><br>
<p>The church building is a frame, gable-front, three-bay structure with weatherboard siding, resting on a poured concrete foundation.</p><br>
<p>Highland Chapel Union Church is a historic nondenominational Protestant church on Highland Avenue in Ridgetop, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, before the church was established, children in the community attended Sunday school in their school building. Preachers of various different denominations conducted worship services from time to time, establishing a local pattern wherein congregants were unconcerned with denominational identity.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 this led to construction of the community&#39;s first church building, called Oak Dell Church. That church was destroyed by a fire in 1904 and replaced by the current church, which was built in 1906. In 1920 its name was changed from Oak Dell to Highland Chapel Union Church.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Murfree Springs Presbyterian Church was founded in 1812 in a log cabin. In</p><br>
<p>1818 it changed its name to First Presbyterian Church and in 1820 moved to a brick meeting house on East Vine Street. First Presbyterian Church currently is a historic church at 210 N. Spring Street in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Murfreesboro was the capital of Tennessee from 1818 to 1826. In 1822, the</p><br>
<p>Rutherford County courthouse, where the legislature met, burned. The legislature then</p><br>
<p>met at the First Presbyterian Church, the largest building in town, with the House</p><br>
<p>meeting in the lower floor and the Senate in the expanded gallery. Present during those legislative sessions where Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, James K. Polk and Davy Crockett. Andrew Jackson was nominated by the state legislature to be President of the United States in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Union occupation of Murfreesboro during the Civil War saw the church</p><br>
<p>building used as a hospital, for storage, billeting and as a stable. In 1864, the Union</p><br>
<p>forces tore down the church to use the bricks at Fortress Rosecrans.</p><br>
<p>The scars of the war experience caused the church to relocate three blocks away</p><br>
<p>to its present location at College and Spring Streets. A German gothic-style structure was</p><br>
<p>erected in 1867. A tornado tore through downtown Murfreesboro in April, 1913, doing</p><br>
<p>considerable damage to the Sanctuary, thus a new building, this time in the classic</p><br>
<p>revival style with a dome, was built on the old foundation in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places with a recorded completion date of 1914, corresponding to the post-tornado reconstruction. The new building was designed by Nashville architect D. Anderson Dickey and built by local contractors Maugans & Bell. A new education building was added in 1955, and a third section with a large “common room” with classrooms were finished in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Barton Chapel Congregational Church is a historic church in Robbins, Tennessee. The church building on USA Highway 27, built in 1926, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational church in Robbins was established in 1885 as the Pilgrim Church. It was renamed Barton Chapel in honor of its first minister, William E. Barton. After attending Berea College, he spent two years as a circuit-riding preacher serving the church in Robbins as well as churches in Glenmary, Deer Lodge and Lancing. He left Robbins to continue his education at a seminary in Ohio. When the Congregational church in Robbins built a new building in 1926, the building was dedicated to Barton, who attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony.</p><br>
<p>The church is built from brick produced in Robbins, which was a center for brickmaking. The brick for the church was donated by the Southern Clay Manufacturing Company; the church walls were laid three bricks thick. Interior furnishings in the church include a podium and two altar chairs from Barton&#39;s church in Oak Park, pews donated by the women of the Oak Park church, and light fixtures donated by a friend of the Barton family.</p><br>
<p>Tregaron Estate, formerly known as The Causeway, is a country house and estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>The estate, built in 1912, was designed by architect Charles Adams Platt and landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman.</p><br>
<p>The original owners, Alice and James Parmelee, lived at the estate from the time of its construction until 1940.</p><br>
<p>From 1942 to 1958, it was occupied by Joseph E. Davies, who had served as United States ambassador to several countries, and his second wife, Post Cereal Company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.</p><br>
<p>Today the estate is occupied by a campus of the Washington International School and the Tregaron Conservancy.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The estate covers 20.5 acre. In addition to the mansion, it includes a carriage house, greenhouse, gardeners residence, and a Russian-style dacha added by Ambassador and Mrs. Davies. The estate is notable for its varied architectural styles and landscape architecture by architect Charles A. Platt, who used the natural characteristics of the site in designing the estate. The mansion sits at the highest point of the grounds and provides views of the city to the south and the affluent Cleveland Park suburb to the north. Stone retaining walls line the driveway, which is carried by a large stone bridge over a small stream, "The Causeway", from which the propertys original name was derived.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property, originally part of a larger estate, "Twin Oaks", was bought in 1888 by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National Geographic Society, and named "The Causeway". His daughter Mabel married Alexander Graham Bell and inherited the property, which she sold to James Parmelee, a Cleveland financier. Parmelee hired Charles Adams Platt to design a country house for the property. Platt employed Ellen Biddle Shipman as landscape architect for the project.</p><br>
<p>After Parmelee&#39;s death, the estate was purchased in 1940 by Joseph E. Davies and his wife. Davies was the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; American ambassador to the Soviet Union (1936-1938); ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg (1938-1939); a lawyer (1937 Law Firm: Davies, Richberg, Beebe, Busick and Richardson); and special advisor to President Harry Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes, with rank of ambassador at the Potsdam Conference. Davies renamed the place "Tregaron" (the town of Saint Caron) after the town where his father, Edward Davies, was born in Ceredigion, Wales.</p><br>
<p>After Davies&#39;s death in 1958, the Washington International School purchased 6 acre of the 20 acre, and the Tregaron Limited Partnership, an Israeli corporation, purchased the remaining 14 acre. Attempts to develop the space were opposed by the "Friends of Tregaron", a community group. In 2006, an agreement was reached whereby 13 acre of the estate are to be conserved as open green space and managed by Tregaron Conservatory.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is a two-story brick building in the Georgian style. In addition to the primary central block of about 30 ft by 170 ft, a one-story octagonal conservatory sits to the east, and to the west is a two-story service wing; though this wing is also two stories high, it is not as tall as the central block. Renovations undertaken in 1941 by the Davies family included small additions to the service wing and other aesthetic improvements. Further revisions in the early 1980s were undertaken in order to convert the estate into a school. The dacha, added in 1945, provides a view of Washington National Cathedral. A farmhouse dating back to 1890 sits at the edge of the estate and was converted to office space for the International School. A schoolhouse building was constructed in 1988 and was designed to complement the existing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Filming location</h2><br>
<p>The Tregaron estate mansion was extensively used for both interior and exterior scenes in the 1962 film Advise and Consent and the 1993 film The Pelican Brief.</p><br>
<p>The humor coach scene in the 2006 film Borat was filmed in the Mansion (Room 205) of the Tregaron Campus. This room is usually used for Economics.</p><br>
<p>The Jewish Museum of New Jersey, at Ahavas Sholom, is located at 145 Broadway in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The Museum was founded in 2003 and the museum&#39;s inaugural opening was in 2007. The historic building in the Broadway neighborhood is the longest continually operating synagogue in the city. It was built in 1923 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 2000, for its significance in art, religion, and social history. The two-story brick building features Classical Revival architecture. It is one of fifty synagogues that once stood in Newark, serving a Jewish population of 70,000, once the sixth largest Jewish community in the United States.</p><br>
<p>From the gallery space of the Museum, one has a view of the majestic Aron Kodesh, or Holy Ark. Constructed in the 1870s for Congregation Beth-El, later Rodeph Sholom, at their second location on Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street in New York City, the hand-carved wooden Aron Kodesh was installed at its present location in Newark in the 1920s and is the oldest in the state of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The Museum creates and curates rotating and traveling exhibitions, utilizing photographs, paintings, panel displays, artifacts, text, music and multi-media. The Museum also features topics such as local Holocaust survivors, Jewish Immigration in the state, and history of Sephardim in New Jersey. The Museum is open for special exhibits and programs, as well as by appointment.</p><br>
<p>New Jersey has the fourth largest Jewish population in the country and it can trace back its Jewish roots to the 17th century. Mr. Joseph Selzer, the founder and former board president had taken a visit to the Jewish Museum of Florida which is located in a restored 1936 synagogue. Selzer realized that despite New Jersey having such a high population of a practicing Jewish population, there was no Jewish museum to preserve the state&#39;s Jewish history.</p><br>
<p>There are over one-half million people in New Jersey who are Jewish and the creation of the museum will create the first centralized location with permanent, rotating, and traveling installations for the research, presentation, and exhibition of more than 400 years of Jewish History in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Charleston County Courthouse  is a Neoclassical building in Charleston, South Carolina, designed by Irish architect James Hoban. It was a likely model for Hoban&#39;s most famous building, the White House, and both buildings are modeled after Leinster House, the current seat of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.</p><br>
<p>President George Washington visited Charleston on his Southern Tour in May 1791, may have met with Hoban, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia, the national capital at the time, in June 1792. The following month, Hoban was named the winner of the design competition for the presidential mansion, later named the White House, in Washington, D.C. He later altered his design under Washington&#39;s influence.</p><br>
<p>In 1883–1884, the courthouse underwent a large renovation performed by Kerrigan & Grant.</p><br>
<p>The Courthouse remains in use, located in the historic district near the park at Washington Square. It was built on the site of and incorporated the ruins of the South Carolina Statehouse (1753, burned 1788), the capitol building for the Colony of South Carolina under British colonial rule. Hoban also designed a new statehouse building nearby, which was burned down during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Old Allen County Jail is a former jail in Iola, Kansas, United States. Built in the late 1860s, it operated as a detention facility for nearly a century before a replacement opened; today, it is the Old Jail Museum, operated by the Allen County Historical Society, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The jail is a stone rubble masonry structure, two stories tall and constructed of large blocks of limestone. Its walls are approximately 2 ft thick. As originally designed, the jail contained living space for the jailer on the second story and prison space on the first story; the cells were built of steel bars and placed on the solid stone floor. The facade includes two second-story windows and a central door on the first story. Although it was called the finest jail in southeastern Kansas at the time of its completion, it was never secure; over the course of its history, many prisoners escaped by removing bars from windows or cutting holes in the roof.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>As a result of disputes between residents of different areas of the county, Allen County lacked a jail for its initial years. The situation was resolved in 1868 after voters approved a $10,000 bond for the erection of a jail in Iola. Under the direction of the local contractors White and Hays, the building was finished in October of the following year at a price of $8,400; it was the first public building to be erected by the county government. Due to its reputation as the region&#39;s best jail, two other southeastern Kansas counties contracted with Allen County to use the structure for their own prisoners during the 1870s.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>By the middle of the twentieth century, the original design of the jail had become insufficient for the county&#39;s needs. No more did the jailer live in the jail; the first floor cells were abandoned, and the prisoners were confined to the second floor. In the late 1950s, county officials came to the decision that a new jail was needed; a contract for the construction of such a structure was signed in early 1957, and the new jail opened in January 1959. During this process, many local citizens expressed a desire to see the old jail preserved; the 1957 Kansas Legislature passed a law to permit the county to convey to the Allen County Historical Society, which has since converted it into a museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the jail was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its significant place in local history; key to its inclusion was its place as the first building erected by Allen County and its service as a rural jail for nearly ninety years. It was Allen Countys only National Register property for over twenty-five years, until Iolas Northrup House was added to the Register in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The current Allen County jail was built in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Davenport Bank and Trust Company was the leading bank of the Quad Cities metropolitan area for much of the 20th century and for the surrounding region of eastern Iowa and western Illinois. It was once Iowas largest commercial bank, and the headquarters building has dominated the citys skyline since it was constructed in 1927 at the corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Davenport, Iowa. It was acquired by Norwest Bank of Minneapolis in 1993 and now operates as part of Wells Fargo following a 1998 merger of the two financial institutions. The historic building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 under the name of its predecessor financial institution American Commercial and Savings Bank. In 2016 the National Register approved a boundary increase with the Davenport Bank and Trust name. It was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District in 2020. It remains the tallest building in the Quad Cities, and is today known as Davenport Bank Apartments as it has been redeveloped into a mixed-use facility housing commercial, office, and residential space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Lischer and H.H. Anderson formed German Savings Bank in 1869. Davenport had a large German community and it contributed to the banks success. By the 1890s the city had become the financial center of the region and the state. German Savings Bank took over Citizens National Bank in 1906, and it merged with the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in 1910. By 1916 it was the largest bank in Iowa. Because of anti-German sentiments that resulted from World War I the banks name was changed in 1918 to American Commercial and Savings Bank.</p><br>
<p>As the 1920s began, Davenport had 11 banks. American Commercial and Savings Bank absorbed the Security Savings Bank at this time. They had this building constructed in 1927. The new building reflected the significance of the bank in the community, and it has dominated the city&#39;s skyline since it was built. As a result of the Great Depression, it absorbed Iowa National Bank, the Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, and the Farmers and Merchants Bank and was one of five banks in the city that was still active when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Act in 1933. The others included: Bechtel Trust Company, Northwest Davenport Savings Bank, Union Savings Bank and Trust, and Home Savings Bank. It was one of only two banks to re-open in Davenport. The bank changed its name at this time to Davenport Bank and Trust Company under the direction of E.P. Adler. By 1936, it rebuilt itself to become the second largest bank in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>V.O. Figge became associated with the bank in 1931 as a bank examiner and served as vice-president, president and CEO into the 1990s. The banks assets were at $1.5 million the year this building was completed and they grew to $100 million by 1960, once again making this the states largest bank. In 1966, Davenport Bank built a Modern Movement drive-in banking facility on its surface parking lot at the northeast corner of Third and Main Streets. To replace the surface lot, a modern parking structure and additional space for the bank were built adjacent to the west side of the building in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Davenport Bank & Trust was sold to Norwest Bank of Minneapolis in 1993 and became part of Wells Fargo following the merger of the two large banks in November 1998. In 2005 the building was purchased by Financial District Properties. A $7.5 million renovation project in 2013 converted the building&#39;s fifth, ninth, tenth and eleventh floors into 29 market rate apartments. Wells Fargo Bank remained alongside other commercial and residential tenants until the weekend of April 23–24, 2016 when it moved its operations to the redeveloped Putnam-Parker Block. The building was renamed Davenport Bank Apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main bank building was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Weary & Alford. It was built by Walsh-Kahl Construction Company from 1926 to 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building has retained its original banking room, a multi-story space with an elaborately painted ceiling. The space is lit by the large Roman arched windows on the east elevation. The ceiling is a canopy of groin vaults and is painted in a multi-colored design. A painting by Davenport artist Hiram Thompsen depicting the signing of the treaty between the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes and the US government after the Black Hawk War has hung prominently on the south wall since 1928. The original wrought iron teller "cages" remain and the rest of the interior features dark wood and marble elements.</p><br>
<p>The six-story parking structure with additional space for the bank was designed by the Detroit engineering firm Richard C. Rich & Associates. The addition follows the New Formalism style of architecture. It is made up of five stories of parking comprising 250 parking spaces, and a sixth floor that cantilevers over the lower floors. The top floor originally housed office space. The panels that hold up the structure are cast concrete and the screen is made of aluminum. A continuous circular ramp located in the center provides access to all of the parking levels. The parking structure is connected to the bank/office building by a three-story hyphen that reflects the modern parking structure architecturally. Its north elevation is primarily glass</p><br>
<h2>Artwork</h2><br>
<p>The ceiling decoration of the main banking room was designed by Chicago artist Alexander Rinoskopf and was executed by the Davenport decorating firm of Hartman and Sedding. Ten men created the stencils on 85 yd of paper and two artists rendered the work in oils. The Italian Renaissance style of work features spirals, rosettes, festoons, griffins, swans and masks. In addition, there are also ten murals that are 6 ft high, which provide a chronological history of Davenport from its earliest times to the American Civil War. The murals depict the arrival of the first Europeans to this part of the Mississippi River Valley (1654); the Sauk warrior Black Hawk (1812); the battle on Davenports Credit Island in the War of 1812 (1814); the last bison chased from what is now the Quad Cities (1816); the construction of Fort Armstrong on what is now Arsenal Island (1817); the first steamboat up the Mississippi River (1823); the establishment of Davenport and immigration to the new town (1836); Davenports first school (1838); the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River (1856); and the Civil War training camps that operated in Davenport (1861).</p><br>
<p>The largest mural occupies the south wall of the building and depicts the signing of the Black Hawk Treaty in September 1832. The treaty was signed at what is now Fifth and Farnam Streets in Davenport. Hiram Thompsen, who created the painting, was a native of Cincinnati and studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He was a commercial artist who went on to do advertising artwork for Davenport-based Gordon-Van Tine and Montgomery Ward. The painting measures 15 by. It features the likenesses of General Winfield Scott, his interpreter and Davenport founder Antoine LeClaire, and the Native American chiefs Keokuk and Pashapaho.</p><br>
<p>The Edward W. Bok Technical High School was a public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Irwin T. Catharine and named after literary figure Edward William Bok, editor of the Ladies Home Journal. It was completed in February 1938 by the Public Works Administration  as a vocational high school at 8th & Mifflin Streets. As part of the Philadelphia Public Schools Multiple Property Submission, the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December, 1986. Bok High School was reorganized in 2006-2007 to prepare students for jobs in modern technology. After the 2012-2013 school year, the school was closed. In 2014, the school was renovated to become a home for over 200 businesses including restaurants, art studios, daycares, and hair salons.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed from 1935-1938 based on the designs of Philadelphia School Board architect Irwin Catharine. The main body of the school is built of limestone-trimmed yellow brick, with a limestone low-rise section abutting the higher brick section. Piers and pilasters emphasize verticality in the Art Deco design. Carved cartouches show people at work. Classrooms adjoin one of two central light courts. At the time of its construction, the building represented a new trend in vocational education. Rather than just teach carpentry skills, the school taught, and had dedicated space for, subjects such as brick laying, plastering, plumbing, machine building, tailoring, and hairdressing.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for Edward Bok (1863–1930), a Dutch born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who edited the Ladies Home Journal for thirty years.</p><br>
<p>Following the school&#39;s 2013 closing, some of the classes moved into the South Philadelphia High School (SPHS or Southern) building, 5 blocks away, prior to the start of the 2013-14 school year. Bok was scheduled to merge with South Philadelphia High. The building itself remained open for maintenance & operational reasons for at least 1 additional heating season as the boilers supply heat to Southwark School across the street.</p><br>
<h3>Sale and Redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>In Summer 2014, Bok was put up for auction by the School District and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC). Scout was selected as the developer in September 2014 and proposed converting the building into a new destination for makers, creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs. The building was redeveloped for commercial use in the creative sector, including both offices and workshops, as well as restaurants and a bar.</p><br>
<h2>Academic programs</h2><br>
<p>Programs were designed to develop students into well-rounded individuals. In addition to regular academic and vocational course offerings, there were specialized programs in Business Technology</p><br>
<p>Computer Assisted Design (CAD), Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Computer/Networking, Health Related Sciences, Process Technology and Welding.</p><br>
<p>Auto mechanics was also an elective. The 1967 alumni class included known Mixologist, John C. Lackey.</p><br>
<p>Bok offered mens and womens interscholastic sports including: football, baseball, basketball, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball, badminton, cheerleading, drill, team, and weight training. After School Clubs provided special enrichment activities for students. Bok was the only community high school in the city housing programs such as Sunrise of Philadelphia, Inc. and Variety the Children&#39;s Charity</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>As of 2010, Bok had achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for 5 years straight. It has since been determined that their principal, Arthur "Larry" Melton, altered test answers to obtain that distinction. Their scores predictably returned to pre-scandal levels once Melton was convicted of cheating on the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment).</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Willie McClung (1930–2002), former NFL player</p><br>
<p>Joseph Tarsia (1934–2022), recording engineer</p><br>
<p>Sherman Hemsley (1938–2012), Actor</p><br>
<p>Bunny Sigler (1941–2017), Philly Soul singer, songwriter and producer</p><br>
<p>Jihad Ward (born 1994), NFL player</p><br>
<p>The Atascosa County Courthouse is a historic courthouse built in 1912 on Circle Dr in Jourdanton, Texas. The Mission Revival Style architecture building was designed by San Antonio architect Henry T. Phelps. The building contract was awarded to the Gordon Jones Construction Co. of San Antonio, based on a bid of $65,000. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 30, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Atascosa County was formed in 1856. The first Atascosa County Courthouse was a log building erected in Amphion in 1856. The second a frame building raised in Pleasanton in 1857. The county built a larger frame courthouse in 1868. The fourth courthouse, built in 1885 was made from red stone and served as the Pleasanton City Hall when the county seat was moved to Jourdanton.</p><br>
<p>The current Atascosa County Courthouse is the fifth structure to serve as the seat of Atascosa County government. The Mission Revival style courthouse has towers, balconies and a Spanish-tiled roof. It is finished in red-brown brick and cast stone. Originally, the lower floor was open for the storage of wood. It was enclosed in the late 1920s to create more office space. The courthouse sits on a circular plot of land in contrast to the typical Texas courthouse square. The Atascosa County Courthouse is the only existing Mission Revival style courthouse in Texas.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church is a historic rural African-American Primitive Baptist church located near Brogden, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1920, and is a vernacular one-story, gable-front, three-bay, light timber-frame building. The building was also used as a one-room school until the early 1930s. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery with burials dating from the 1910 to 1987.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church in College Hill, Kentucky. It was built in c.1812-1813 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story brick structure, with brick laid in common bond, built on a fieldstone foundation. It has a two-bay front gable facade, and is three bays along the sides.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1803 as part of the Great Awakening, and built a log church structure that year. This brick church, built on land donated later, is the oldest church building in Madison County. The church belonged to the North District Association of Separate Baptists.</p><br>
<p>The church is located on College Hill Road, about 8 mi east of Richmond, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>Old Kingsport Presbyterian Church  is an historic church located in Kingsport, Tennessee. The church was organized May 20, 1820 as the Boatyard Congregation. It is the oldest one of any denomination in the city of Kingsport. It is a member of the Presbyterian Church .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1820. It originally met in a log structure located in the present-day Old Kingsport Presbyterian Church cemetery. The cemetery remains in use and contains several graves from the nineteenth century in its oldest section.</p><br>
<p>The first pastor was the Rev. Robert Glenn (1820–1826).</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Dr. Frederick A. Ross, owner of Rotherwood Mansion in Kingsport, was minister from 1826 to 1852. He did not receive compensation for his service. Under Ross&#39; leadership, the church grew rapidly, quickly outgrowing its log building. Dr. Ross financed the construction of the current church building in 1845, with the labor of his own slaves; the building was dedicated on July 18, 1846. Ross also donated the church the large brass bell that still calls people to worship; the bell was made in West Troy, New York, by the famous Meneely Bell Foundry. The building is considered a fine example of Greek Revival architecture and is one of the oldest extant structures in Kingsport.</p><br>
<p>The American Civil War led to a period of decline in both Kingsport and the church. Membership slowly declined in the decades following the war, with a long series of pastors each serving for brief periods during this time (1865–1910).</p><br>
<p>Railroad tracks were laid just north of the church property in 1910, requiring the building to be moved a few yards south and rotated to face east; it had originally faced north.</p><br>
<p>When the City of Kingsport was created in 1917, most of the remaining members left the now-Old Kingsport Church in order to form the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Kingsport. Only five members remained on the roll, and the church served as a community center for the next two decades. The Sunday School remained active through the 1920s and 1930s, however.</p><br>
<p>The church was re-organized in June 1937 and began to slowly rebuild its membership. The first pastor of the re-organized church was Rev. Albert H. Mutschler. He oversaw the building&#39;s renovation, as well as the construction of three levels of Sunday School rooms attached to the back of the old sanctuary, as well as a basement. A fellowship hall was dug out under the sanctuary in 1950.</p><br>
<p>The church building was moved to its current location off of Stone Drive (USA Route 11W) in the summer of 1953 to land donated by Mrs. Octavia Patton.</p><br>
<p>The 1950s and 1960s were a time of quick growth; during this time, the church had a number of programs and a large number of youth and younger people. The church reached a peak of membership (190) in the early 1970s. Since that time, it has seen a declining membership total, as well as an aging congregation, both of which are trends experienced by mainstream denominations in general over the same time period.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. David Hambrick served as interim pastor from 2003 to 2015. The current pastor is Mr. Jeff Morelock, who began his service on August 1, 2016. In recent years, the historic building has received a number of repairs and updates, plus quite a bit of beautification, inside and out. After nearly two centuries, the Old Kingsport congregation, though small, remains active in the Kingsport area.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Rozendaal, John H. Old Kingsport Presbyterian Church. Kingsport, the church, 1982. 37 pp.</p><br>
<p>Princeton Free Will Baptist Church, formerly Thankful Baptist Church, is a historic church building at 104 Water Street in</p><br>
<p>Johnson City, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The brick church was built in 1912 to serve Thankful Baptist Church, an African-American congregation. Thankful Baptist Church moved to a new location on Watauga Avenue in 1975. In 1977, the congregation sold the Water Street church property to Princeton Free Will Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Old Newburgh Presbyterian Church  is a historic church at N. State and W. Main Streets in Newburgh, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>Following the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes, a desire sprung up in the town for new houses of worship. In 1841, a new church was built at 10 W Jennings Street with the generosity of a Mr. Phelps, a prominent businessman whose wife Frances was a member of the first Presbyterian in Newburgh. This house of worship became Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was later the location of the Delaney School.</p><br>
<p>Construction of a new building, which would later be known as the Old Newburgh Presbyterian Church, began in 1851 at a cost of $4,000. The land donated by Mr. Phelpsand was dedicated June 25, 1853.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War the church bell tower was used to signal to call the Home Guard when danger threatened. The rope ran from the belfry to a house next door.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 the Newburgh High School held graduation services there for four graduates. In 1906 the congregation voted to withdraw from the Cumberland denomination. The new name was given as Newburgh Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was remodeled in 1927 and again in 1938, when the cornerstone was removed. In the 1937 flood, the building was headquarters for the National Guard. In 1965 the building was sold for $14,000 to the town of Newburgh and referred to as TOWN HALL. Several remodeling projects were completed from 1968 to 1973. It was placed in the National Register of Historic Places 1978.</p><br>
<p>West Hill School is a historic school building located at Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. It was designed by prominent local architect Archimedes Russell  and built 1891–1893. It is a -story, stone masonry institutional building. It features a stone tower with open belfry containing the original school bell. It continued in educational use for over 100 years. It was constructed on the site of the Canajoharie Academy, where in 1846, Susan B. Anthony began a teaching position as head of the girls division.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is located in the Canajoharie Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Nelliston School is a historic school building located at Nelliston, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1869 and is a two-story, square shaped brick institutional building. It has a shallow pitched gable roof. It served the educational needs of the community until 1971.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, the New Montgomery County childcare facility was put in the old Nelliston School building.</p><br>
<p>Amsterdam City Hall is a historic city hall complex located in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. The complex includes the former Sanford Mansion, laundry building, and carriage house. The Sanford Mansion was built in 1869 as the home of Stephen Sanford, an industrialist, rugmaker and philanthropist. The mansion was deeded to the city for use as a city hall upon the death of John Sanford in 1932. As the city hall, the original house was expanded considerably with a three-by-ten-bay addition, completed in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The former Sanford Mansion is a 3-story, brick Classical Revival building designed by Albert W. Fuller which was extensively remodeled in 1913–1917. It features a massive portico with six fluted columns topped by Corinthian order capitals. The former laundry house is a simple -story brick building with a slate-covered gable roof. The former carriage house was built about 1869. Some landscape features dating to the 1917 remodeling remain on the property.</p><br>
<p>Amsterdam City Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Vrooman Avenue School is a historic school building located at 400 Vrooman Avenue in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1918 and is a two-story, H-shaped, yellow brick institutional building. It features a slight projecting central pavilion at the main entrance and an elaborate stone carving depicting a child&#39;s head and a swag draped around an open book. A gymnasium was added to the main structure in 1925. The school closed in June 1975, and is now an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The US Post Office-Amsterdam is a historic post office building located at 12-16 Church Street in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1935–1936, and was designed by Louis A. Simon, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a -story, symmetrically massed brick building with 1-story side wings and a large rear wing in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a pair of 1939 murals by Henry Schnakenberg .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Canajoharie is a historic post office building located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1937, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with Doric order pilasters and round-arched vent openings. The interior features a 1942 mural by Anatol Shulkin  titled Invention of the Paper Bag in Canajoharie.</p><br>
<p>Both the Library and the Mural are. "The New Deal" refers to a series of domestic programs (lasting roughly from 1933 to 1939) implemented during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the USA economy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is located in the Canajoharie Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Legg House is a historic former farmhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Built in the middle of the nineteenth century, it has experienced a range of uses, culminating in its present status as an Indiana University office building. After a period of deterioration, it was restored to its original condition, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>A farm occupied the present site of the Legg House at least as far back as 1820. At that time, it lay on the edge of the city; the nearby Third Street was the only road that connected Bloomington to the outside world. Landowner George M. Legg built the original portion of the house in 1848, using a variant of the Greek Revival style of architecture. At the time of construction, it was a small house: just one story tall, it was divided into only two rooms. In later years, the house was modified significantly: a porch and frame wing were added during the 1870s, and elements throughout the house were covered during the twentieth century with elements such as drywall.</p><br>
<h2>Usage</h2><br>
<p>By the early 1870s, the house had passed out of Leggs possession, being occupied by the parents and grandparents of William Lowe Bryan. At this time, it still lay at the citys edge, but the location became more central after 1883: in that year, a fire destroyed the buildings of Indiana University at Seminary Square, and the trustees chose to move the campus to property immediately northeast of the Legg House. Within a few years of the university&#39;s move, the house was converted into a boarding house, a status that it held when visited by Bryan, by that point the president of the university, in 1890. This use continued into the late twentieth century; even after the university purchased the house in 1964, it was employed as student housing. Insufficient funding ensured that the house was not properly maintained; it was boarded up in 1993, and the university initially considered demolishing the structure before preservationists and city officials began to negotiate for its preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In April 2001, the Legg House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture. Later that year, as a result of this designation, the city and university were awarded a grant of $27,000 from the historic preservation division of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and renovation began in 2002. During its nine years of vacancy, the house deteriorated greatly; although the original woodwork of the interior was in satisfactory condition, the exterior had suffered such damage as broken windows, a collapsing porch, and rotting window sills. Among the elements restored by Greenfield company Advance Restoration were the foundation, the brick chimney, and the many wooden walls; workers removed both old paint applied by previous owners and significant amounts of graffiti applied by recent vandals. Today, the Legg House is actively used by Indiana University, serving as the location of the university&#39;s housing office.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Fort Plain is a historic post office building located at Fort Plain in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1931, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under James A. Wetmore. It is a two-story, symmetrical brick building with a one-story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style. It features a shallow projecting frontispiece framed by four brick pilasters and a pair of Grecian style lamps with glass globes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It is located in the Fort Plain Historic District.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-St. Johnsville is a historic post office building located at St. Johnsville in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It was built in 1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, symmetrical brick building on a stone watertable in the Colonial Revival style. It features a copper clad gable roof with a square, flat topped cupola with a weathervane. The interior features a 1940 mural by Jirayr H. Zorthian  titled "Early St. Johnsville Pioneers." Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
