<p>The Middletown United Methodist Church is a historic church at Madison and Main Streets in Middletown, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The church was established in 1800. The second building was built in 1899 by William Benjamin Wood, a local builder. It is a brick structure on a stone foundation.</p><br>
<p>The parish is now located in a newer building on Old Shelbyville Road.</p><br>
<p>A sign on the lawn in 2014 identified the building as the Middletown Community Center (per photo).</p><br>
<p>Pennsylvania Run Presbyterian Church is a historic church near Okolona, Kentucky. It was built in 1840 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was then named Smyrna Missionary Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1799. A log building was replaced by its 1840 building, which is a one-room frame building with a gable roof. It has a one-story square tower with steeple and an open belfry.</p><br>
<p>South Louisville Reformed Church is a historic church at 1060 Lynnhurst Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1908 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is a frame Gothic Revival style church.</p><br>
<p>In 1908 it was built as the South Louisville Reformed Church; it was renamed to Lynnhurst Reformed Church in c.1925 after the area was annexed by Louisville and the street it was on was renamed to Lynnhurst, from Sycamore.</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church is a complex of historic buildings in the Shelby Park neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The main church at 1207 South Shelby Street was purchased by Sojourn Community Church in 2010, which has since rehabilitated and occupied it as Sojourn Midtown. Several related properties were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<p>The main church was designed by D. X. Murphy in the Gothic Revival style. In 1886, a rectory was added, a brick Italianate structure. Also contributing to the property is the former St. Vincent DePaul School, located across Shelby Street. Designed by Thomas & Bohne in the Classical Revival style, it was completed in 1911. The St. Ursula Home, completed in 1915, reflects classical, American Craftsman, and Italianate influences. The oldest property is 1214 Logan Street, an Italianate structure built in 1884 as a home for sisters who were instructors at the school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1800s, the still-rural area was mostly populated by German Catholic immigrants. The cornerstone for the first parish church was laid in 1878, a two-story brick building, with services offered in German. The congregation quickly outgrew this facility and in 1886, the cornerstone for a larger church was laid. The Archdiocese of Louisville closed the church in 1996, though it continues to use the former elementary school, now called the Maloney Center, for a variety of offices.</p><br>
<p>Sojourn Community Church purchased the building from the archdiocese in 2010 for $535,000 and undertook a renovation estimated to cost $3.4 million, to rehabilitate the structure and make it suitable for evangelical Southern Baptist worship. The Italianate marble altars and several statues were to be installed at the new St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Norton Commons, and statues of St. Peter and St. Paul were given to parishes of those names in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<p>St. Therese of Lisieux Church is a historic Catholic church in Louisville, Kentucky. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville. The church, along with the associated school and rectory, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The historic listing includes the St. Therese School, built in 1906–08, which is a plain brick building that is the oldest building of the complex.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s German Evangelical Church is a historic church at 1231 W. Jefferson Street in Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1894 in Late Gothic Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "an excellent example of the late Gothic Revival style in ecclesiastical architecture in Louisville. The building is one of the most beautifully detailed works of the prominent Louisville architectural firm of Clarke & Loomis."</p><br>
<p>The church was organized in 1847 to serve the large German population in the western part of Louisville, and English was not used in the church until 1893. The current building was built during 1894–1895.</p><br>
<p>The former St. Patrick&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located at 1301-1305 West Market Street in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The church built in 1860 is a large 3-story steepled redbrick Romanesque Revival building, while the rectory next door is a 2-story redbrick structure. In 1991 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville leased the building for 25 years to Dismas House Charities to be use as a rehabilitation center known as "Dismas House".On March 17, 2004, over 600 attended a the 150th celebration. The original 1854 Church and school which was situated behind the church on 13th Street were torn down without a demolition permit in June 2004 by its owner, Cardinal Insulation, shortly before the time the Xaviarian Brothers would celebrate their 150th anniversary. Despite all three structures being added March 1, 1982, to the National Register of Historic Places former parishioners were in shock and vowed to seek local Louisville Landmark status for the 1862 Church and rectory. A complete history of the church was written by Doris Batliner and published to secure the needed funds to pay for the designation. On March 17, 2006, the church became a local Louisville landmark.</p><br>
<p>Plans are underway to return the 1854 Church cornerstone to the site of its former location March 17, 2014 for the church&#39;s 160th anniversary.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Francis of Assisi Complex in Louisville, Kentucky is a historic church at 1960 Bardstown Road. It was built in 1926-28 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It includes the St. Francis of Assisi School and a rectory, both designed by Fred T. Erhart (1870–1951).</p><br>
<p>The school was deemed "an outstanding example of the Spanish Mission style and one of very few of this type constructed in the Louisville area."</p><br>
<p>St. Boniface Catholic Church  is a historic church at 501-531 E. Liberty Street in Louisville, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>Established in 1836, St. Boniface was the first German Catholic parish in the city. It is also the oldest, continuously existent, Catholic parish in the city of Louisville. The present structure was built in 1899 and added to the National Register in 1982 as St.Bonifacius Kirche Complex.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Saint Boniface was named for the “Apostle of Germany.” Diocesan clergy staffed Saint Boniface from its founding until 1849 when Bishop Martin John Spalding asked the Franciscan priests of Cincinnati, Ohio to take responsibility for the parish because of the high influx of German Catholic immigrants moving into the surrounding neighborhood, and the availability of German-speaking Franciscan priests. After 148 years, in 1998, the Archdiocese of Louisville resumed responsibility for the parish.</p><br>
<h2>Nativity Academy at St. Boniface</h2><br>
<p>Founded in August 2003 by Fr. Tim Hogan, at that time pastor of St. Boniface parish, and administered by Sr. Paula Kleine-Kracht, OSU, Nativity Academy at St. Boniface was established as an independent private middle school in the Catholic tradition to educate urban youth. Along with the sponsorship of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, and the Xaverian Brothers, Nativity Academy teaches formal religion classes within the Catholic Faith. All students participate in ecumenical and Catholic prayer services, but are not required to be, or become Catholic.</p><br>
<p>The former St. Anthony&#39;s Catholic Church is a redbrick historic Roman Catholic steepled church complex located at 2222-2238 West Market Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by noted local architect William H. Redin in the Gothic Revival style of architecture, it was built in 1887. After a disastrous fire on January 26, 1939, which caused extensive damage to all buildings in the complex except the rectory to the left of the church, architect Walter C. Wagner Sr. designed the reconstruction of the complex which was done by Skilton and Sullivan Construction Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the parish school was merged with St. Cecilia School and Our Lady of the Port Academy to form Community Catholic School on the St. Cecilia campus. On March 1, 1982, the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2011, the Archdiocese of Louisville closed the church, merging its boundaries into those of the nearby Good Shepherd Parish. The centennial was celebrated on June 17, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near Keene, Kentucky is a historic church.</p><br>
<p>It began meeting in 1791 as part of the South Elkhorn Baptist Church community, was established as independent in 1801, with the current sanctuary being built in 1877 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "one of the few buildings remaining by the local builder A. M. Young", and as the best example of Romanesque Revival style among Jessamine County&#39;s rural churches.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic church on College Street in Paintsville, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original building was built in 1907 in a Late Gothic Revival style and added to the National Register in 1989. It was located on the corner of Fourth and College Street. The church occupied the building on Fourth Street until October 1, 1967, when the church congregation moved into the present structure on the corner of Third and College Streets.</p><br>
<h2>Associations</h2><br>
<p>First Baptist Church Paintsville is associated with the Enterprise Association of Southern Baptists, Kentucky Baptist Convention as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and is a member of the Paintsville Ministerial Association.</p><br>
<p>Oil Springs Methodist Church is a historic church at the junction of KY 580 and KY 40 in Oil Springs, Kentucky. It was built in 1893 and added to the National Register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story frame church with a two-story pyramidal-roofed tower. It was designed and built by Ben F. Mahan. It was deemed notable as "Johnson County&#39;s best example of a late 19th century Gothic Revival frame church."</p><br>
<p>St. Augustine Catholic Church is a historic church located at 1839 Euclid Avenue in Covington, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the St. Augustine parish began with the immigration of Germans to the Northern Kentucky area in the 1840s, and cresting in the 1890s. The German influx of immigrants to the area was attributable to economic hardship, religious persecution and the harsh treatment by the Prussian government. In addition, advertising of attractive prices for pork played a large part in enticing the Germans to the Ohio River Valley of Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati.</p><br>
<p>Initial settlement concentrated in the Main Strasse neighborhood of Covington, but by the 1860s and 1870s, the Germans began to move into the southwestern part of the city, a separate entity known as the City of Central Covington. St. Augustine was the fifth Catholic parish established in Covington and the original St. Augustine church was built in 1870. The Reverend Father Joseph Goebbels led the church in the 1870s and organized a wire nail factory to pay back the debt incurred in constructing the church. The enterprise was not successful, in part because of the Panic of 1873, and a number of parishioners lost their life savings in the venture.</p><br>
<p>The parish was returned to a sound financial footing by Father Paul Abeln who was pastor from 1883 until his death in 1911.</p><br>
<h3>Pastors</h3><br>
<p>A history of the parish&#39;s pastors is provided by the parish website:</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The existing church was designed by local architect David Davis (1865–1932), who also designed the 1910 Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington. Little is known of Davis, considering he designed two prominent churches in the city. Construction began on the Euclid Avenue structure in 1913 under the direction of Father William Kathman and the church was dedicated by Bishop Camillus P. Macs on December 20, 1914. The church stands 60 high, 52 wide, 92 in the transept and 160 long. Seating capacity is 1000. Its 100th anniversary was in 2018. The school held a celebration for that.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the existing school building, built of the same dark red brick as the church, began in 1915, and was completed in September 1916.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Church and School Complex—Latonia is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington at 3612 Church Street in Covington, Kentucky. The campus straddles Church Street with the sanctuary and rectory on the east side and elementary school, high school and convent on the west. The church was constructed between 1906 and 1908 with the elementary school added in 1914, rectory in 1924, the high school in 1930 and the convent in 1941. The complex was added to the National Register in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was carved from a portion of the parish of St. Augustine in the adjacent Peaselburg neighborhood in 1889. Residents of Latonia first petitioned Bishop Camillus Paul Maes for a more convenient place of worship in 1887; however, he denied their request because St. Augustine&#39;s was facing financial problems. By 1889, the crisis eased and the bishop approved the new parish.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the first church began August 24, 1890 and the structure was complete in March 1891 on the west side of Church Street (then known as Longworth Street). By 1903, the congregation was already outgrowing the facilities and the parish began to acquire additional land for a new building. Construction of the current sanctuary began July 16, 1906 and it was dedicated November 29, 1908.</p><br>
<p>The Nolynn Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in Hodgenville, Kentucky. It is located on Kentucky Route 222 southeast of its junction with McCubbin-Harned Rd. It was built in 1810 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story, front-gable, three-bay church built in 1895. It is surrounded on three sides by a cemetery with more than 200 grave sites, with the oldest dated 1810.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church of Louisa, Kentucky is a historic church built in c.1850. It is located at 204 W. Main Street in Louisa. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed notable as "one of the best examples of Gothic Revival church architecture in the Big Sandy Valley of Eastern Kentucky. Built around 1850, it is today one of the oldest existing buildings in the town and one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Methodist Church in the Big Sandy Valley Area."</p><br>
<p>Louisa United Methodist Church is a historic church at Main Cross and Madison Streets in Louisa, Kentucky. It was built in 1916 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The present church, built in 1916, is the third building for the congregation. Little is known about the previous buildings and the current building&#39;s plans, reportedly because records about the church are stored within its cornerstone and hence unavailable.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Run Methodist Church is a historic church in Russellville, Kentucky. It was built in a Gothic Revival style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was built before an 1877 atlas documented its existence. The original Pleasant Run Methodist Church, built c.1808-13, was demolished before 1877. It has a two-stage central entrance tower.</p><br>
<p>It is located on the west side of Kentucky Route 663, 2 mi south of Corinth, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory is a historic Shaker building on USA 68 in South Union, Kentucky. It was built in 1822 and added to the National Register in 1974. Located within the building is the Shaker Museum at South Union.</p><br>
<p>South Union was one of 24 villages built up by the Shakers. During the village&#39;s 115-year history, the Shakers constructed over 200 buildings, worked 6,000 acre of farmland, and produced garden seed, fruit preserves, brooms, baskets, rugs, linen, hats, bonnets and silk to be used both within the community and sold to the outside world. One of the best known Shaker songs today, "Love is little," originated at South Union during the 1830s.</p><br>
<p>The Shaker community there was disbanded in 1922, and the property sold to the Benedictines in 1949. There, they established an interracial monastery, the first of its kind in the United States.</p><br>
<p>As of 2010, there was only one Shaker community remaining active, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village located at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Kirksville Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church building in Kirksville, Kentucky. It was built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kirksville congregation of Disciples of Christ was founded in 1849, with the present frame building constructed in 1878. The Gothic Revival church features a steep gable roof with narrow angled brackets under the eaves and at the gable ends. One gable end forms the front facade that contains two Gothic-arched windows with stained-glass, a Gothic-arched double-leaf entrance, and a pointed lunette. On each side facade three pointed-arched windows also contain stained glass. Although replaced in 1975, the design of the glass is based on that found in two original windows in the apse on the rear facade. The pipe organ, used in the First Christian Church of Lancaster, Kentucky, from 1904 to 1952, originally was pumped by hand.</p><br>
<p>Viney Fork Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church near Speedwell in Madison County, Kentucky, at the intersection of Kentucky Route 374 and Kentucky Route 499. It was built in 1802 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story cut sandstone building. Its gable end has a short, squared wooden bell tower. It was deemed "an example of a rural country church notable for its use of windows whose blunted arched shape represent a local interpretation of the Gothic style."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation of Viney Fork Baptist Church was organized on March 25, 1797, under the guidance of Peter Woods and Christopher Harris from Dreaming Creek and Andrew Tribble and Isaac Newland from Tates Creek. The initial log structure, likely the first church building constructed by white settlers in Kentucky, was replaced by the current sandstone building in 1802.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded as and remained a Primitive Baptist congregation until 1845, when it transitioned to a Missionary Baptist Church. The upstairs balcony of the church, used as a school during the week and as a place for slaves to worship on Sundays, was removed in 1866. Following the Civil War, the church supported the establishment of Goodloe&#39;s Chapel for freed slaves, which remains an active black Baptist church today.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Zion Christian Church in Richmond, Kentucky, was completed in 1852 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Church attendees included slaveholders and their slaves.</p><br>
<p>It has cannonballs embedded in its south wall, from the American Civil War&#39;s Battle of Richmond on August 29 and 30, 1862. The church was used as a hospital.</p><br>
<p>It is a brick structure, with brick laid in double-stretcher Flemish bond and in American bond. Its facade has three pilasters supporting an entablature which gives a pedimented appearance, consistent with Greek Revival style, but the church&#39;s Jack arches are elements of Federal style.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Pleasant Christian Church in Richmond, in Madison County, Kentucky is a historic church. It was built in c.1849 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "as an example of how Madison County builders used some of the elements of the Gothic Revival style such as the steeplypitched roof and double-lancet windows to ornament a rural church building."</p><br>
<p>The Foreaker Covered Bridge, with the first word sometimes spelled Foraker, and also called the Weddle Covered Bridge, is located on Monroe County Road 40, three miles east of Graysville, Ohio. The property was listed on the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Foreaker Bridge was built over the Little Muskingum River in 1886 in order to help ease traffic heading from the inner communities of Monroe County to the county seat at Woodsfield. The area is surrounded by large hills and steep valleys causing these agrarian families to circle around to a lower level of passage, while the water has cut a deep channel under the site of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Foreaker family owned the land around the south end of the bridge when it was built.</p><br>
<p>One of two extant covered bridges in Monroe County, the Foreaker Bridge is a single-span structure with a king post truss core. The white oak walls are vertically sided and covered with a metal roof; its builder was anonymous, although the stone abutments are known to have been constructed by Isaiah Cline. When the bridge was erected, it took the name of a family named Foreaker, which owned an adjacent farm; the Foreakers sold the property in 1925 to a Mr. Weddle, and the bridge has also sometimes been known as the "Weddle Bridge".</p><br>
<p>The bridge was reinforced in 1938 for automobile traffic and has been well maintained by the county. The bridge is still open to automobile traffic. In 1971 a large section of the roof was blown off in a windstorm and led to the entire roof being replaced with sheet metal. Currently, the bridge is repainted every year and inspected. The abutments have been reinforced with concrete to add stability.</p><br>
<p>The floor is made of oak planks with additional beams and supportive I-beams added later.</p><br>
<p>The B.P.O. Elks Lodge is a historic fraternal lodge building at 34 Prospect Street in Hartford, Connecticut. It is a Classical Revival architecture building designed by John J. Dwyer, and built in 1903 for the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hartford&#39;s Elks Lodge is located south of Downtown Hartford, on the east side of Prospect Street across from the back of the Wadsworth Atheneum. It is a -story yellow brick building with egg-and-dart moldings, and brownstone and limestone detailing. The interior features rich woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The lodge was built in 1903 to a design by John J. Dwyer, a local architect who is credited with a number of significant institutional buildings in the city. The lodge has one of the city&#39;s finest unaltered interior spaces of the period, with a series of paneled assembly rooms on the ground floor separated by arched and columned openings. The main staircase, ascending to the main meeting hall, is of dark mahogany, with a skylight providing natural light. The meeting hall itself is richly appointed in Baroque woodwork. Many original technical features remain in the building, including a large iron lever for dimming the hall lights.</p><br>
<p>The BPOE Elks Club is a historic social club meeting house at 4th and Scott Streets in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a handsome three-story brick building, with Renaissance Revival features. It was built in 1908 to a design by Theo Saunders. Its flat roof has an extended cornice supported by slender brackets, and its main entrance is set in an elaborate round-arch opening with a recessed porch on the second level above. Ground-floor windows are set in rounded arches, and are multi-section, while second-floor windows are rectangular, set above decorative aprons supported by brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Club, also known as Community House, is a historic fraternal society clubhouse at 67 West Main Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1911 by S. A. Keedy, a local contractor.</p><br>
<p>It has an irregular layout, with a two-story main block and a side single-story wing with a porch on its flat roof. The main entry is centered in the two-story block, sheltered by a porch supported by brick posts and Doric columns. It was built for the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, who occupied it until financial constraints force its sale in 1934. It was acquired by the city in exchange for the payment of the outstanding mortgage, and was first occupied by the city library, with its second floor ballroom used as a community function space. The space occupied by the library is now used by the local chamber of commerce.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Lodge is a historic clubhouse at 500 Mena Street in Mena, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof, marble trim, and a granite foundation. Its Colonial Revival styling includes corner quoining, porches along the front and side with square supporting posts, and a diamond-pattern balcony balustrade above. It was built in 1908 by the local chapter of the Elks fraternal organization and has long been a local social venue. Between 1935 and 1951 it housed the local hospital, after which it returned to the Elks. It is also one of the community&#39;s finest examples of commercial Colonial Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Greene Mansion is a historic home located at 92 Market Street in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1881 as a residence for Henry Eckford Greene, who died two months after it was completed and never lived in it. Henry Greene was one of two sons of William Kimball Greene, who founded the Greene Knitting Mills, the first carpet factory in Amsterdam. The Greene family built a number of beautiful houses on Market Street, of which the Greene Mansion is one.</p><br>
<p>The mansion is a large two story, irregular brick building with a steeply pitched slate roof and attic gables. It features an oriel window, covered wooden balconies, and porches.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Samuel and Johanna Jones Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1840 and is in the Greek Revival style. It consists of a 2-story main block, three bays wide and three bays deep, with a 2-story rear wing. Attached is a -story "tee" wing, with a 1-story wing. It features an oriel window, covered wooden balconies, and porches. Also on the property are a cowbarn, milkshed, a chicken coop, a machine shed, and an outhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Sweet Canal Store is a historic commercial building located at 65 Bridge Street in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built c.1847 to service barges on the Erie Canal, as both a store and a forwarding warehouse for goods shipped across the Mohawk River.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story, rectangular building measuring approximately 30 feet by 70 feet built of rough cut, pale grey limestone and has a shallow pitched gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Iron Building is a historic building at the Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, New York. It housed the Watervliet Arsenal Museum until it was closed in fall 2013 for security reasons. Despite the support of the city government and the Watervliet Historical Society for a reopening, the USA Army Center of Military History decided it would not be possible to continue allowing public access to the museum within a secure military base.</p><br>
<p>The Iron Building was built in 1859 and is "an outstanding example" of pre-fabricated cast iron construction. It is also the only building at the Arsenal to have a strong degree of Italianate styling.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Architectural Iron Works of New York constructed the prefabricated cast iron structure.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Building in Stockton, California is a 5-story U-shaped Chicago style/Commercial Style building built during 1906–08. Located at the corner of Sutter and Weber Streets, it has a copper cornice over those two streets.</p><br>
<p>It is unusual, structurally, due to reports from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake about which types of buildings survived earthquake and fire. Ergo it is built from steel and concrete on the first two floors, although from there up has timber framing with two-foot thick brick masonry exterior walls. A March 1906 newspaper report had stated the building was expected to be built from brick masonry; a May 1906 newspaper report said its construction would change.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, also known as the Elks Civic Building, is a historic building in Montrose, Colorado, United States. It served as an Elks lodge from construction in 1927 until 1969, and has since housed a college and city offices. In 2017 it was, and in 2019 still is, the location of the citys Visitors Center. The building is listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elks Lodge 1053 was first organized in Montrose in late 1906 as an affiliate of Ouray Lodge 492. In 1926, work on building the historic lodge building began. Architect J.H. Antrobus created plans in mid-1926 and the construction contract was awarded to firm White and Okey on August 13, 1926. The cornerstone was laid on November 18, 1926, to an audience of seventy-five Elks members, and construction began in early 1927. The lodge was built at a cost of $34,600 and was officially occupied on May 26, 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building served as an Elks lodge until 1969, when the group moved to a new building that was constructed downtown. The former lodge was then used by Colorado Western College until this educational establishment closed in 1972 for lack of funding. Montrose County Social Services used the building from 1976 to 2003. The building was bought in 2003 by the City of Montrose for $400,000. It underwent renovation to house city offices and was renamed the "Elks Civic Building".</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties on March 10, 2004. It was nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for its role in social history as an Elks Lodge and Criterion C for its architectural significance. It was listed on the National Register on April 6, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building features an eclectic mixed style with elements of Mission Revival, Pueblo Deco, and Late Gothic Revival styles. The facade consists mostly of blond brick in running bond with accents of red brick. In the curved portion of the parapet is a stone block inscribed with "1053", and the letters "BPOE" are formed by red bricks below.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Temple in Boise, Idaho was built during 1913-1914 and expanded during 1923–34. It is a four-story, five-bay building in "Italian Palazzo Style". It has served as a clubhouse of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel and has an unusual cornice, plus an elk head on its front facade with light bulbs at the antler tips (elk head was removed when the Boise Elks relocated to a new temple); it is a Boise landmark, and according to its NRHP nomination is "one of the citys better buildings from the pre-World War I period." Its interior was heavily damaged in a 1943 fire.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior was described by the Sunday Capital News as "...a modern adaptation of the Renaissance. The first story is treated with a modern store front over which is a wide frieze and sill courses of stone. The second and third stories are divided into large panels by wide pilasters of brick with stone caps and bases. over these pilasters forming the sills of the fourth story windows is a heavy moulded band of stone. The top of the building is finished with a wide overhanging cornice in the Renaissance style, supported by large brackets and modillions. The parapet wall of the building above the cornice consists of heavy brick piers with panels of brick and wrought iron balustrades between. The two street elevations are faced with dark red pressed brick and light gray Boise sandstone."</p><br>
<p>The Litchfield Elks Lodge No. 654, also known as Elks Club, is an Elks building located at 424 N. Monroe St. in Litchfield, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1923 for Litchfields Elks lodge, which formed in 1901. Architect Oliver W. Stiegemeyer designed the building in a Classical Revival plan with a significant Beaux-Arts influence, particularly in its form. The main section of the front facade has five bays and features terra cotta pilasters along the corner bays. The buildings front porch, which projects from the three center bays, has a balustrade supported by three arches and decorated with terra cotta. The red tile mansard roof has five dormers and a bracketed cornice along the bottom.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Calhoun–Ives Historic District, or more formally the Calhoun Street–Ives Road Historic District, is a locally and nationally designated rural agricultural historic district in the town of Washington, Connecticut. It is located a mile north of the village of Washington Depot, Connecticut. It runs along Calhoun Street and Ives Road. It is characterized by modestly scaled 18th and 19th century farmhouses, together with accompanying agricultural outbuildings, farm fields, and fruit orchards, set along roads lined by stone walls. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Calhoun-Ives area of northwestern Washington was first settled in the 1730s, when it was part of the towns of Woodbury and Kent. The earliest settlers, members of the Calhoun, Ives, and Averill families, purchased land from Native Americans. At first, the local farmers engaged in subsistence farming, but by the mid-19th century a trend toward market-driven dairy farming took hold, and is reflected in the changed layouts and outbuildings of the district&#39;s farm properties.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses virtually all of the properties fronting in Calhoun Street and Ives Road. Including the agricultural fields, the district is about 475 acre in size, including a land area extending to Baldwin Hill Road in the south, Kielwasser Road in the north, and in part to Bee Brook Road in the east. The oldest house, built by James Calhoun c. 1765, is at 156 Calhoun Street. There are many examples of 19th-century barns and other farm outbuildings, and several of the house are high-quality examples of Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Mansion, also known as the Smith–Cadbury Mansion, is located at 12 High Street in the township of Moorestown in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The historic house was built in 1738 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1976, for its significance in architecture and military history.</p><br>
<p>The oldest section of the house was built in 1738 by Joshua Humphries. It was extended in the lates 1760s. Samuel Smith, treasurer of the Province of West Jersey, purchased the property in 1766. His son, Richard S. Smith, inherited it in 1775. During the American Revolutionary War, General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and his Hessian troops occupied the property on the night of June 19, 1778, while retreating from Philadelphia. British merchant Edward Harris Sr. purchased the property in 1798. His son, Edward Harris Jr., inherited it in 1822. He was a friend and benefactor of John James Audubon. The house was purchased by John and Rachael Cadbury in 1924. The Historical Society of Moorestown purchased it in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Smith–Cadbury Mansion serves as the headquarters of the Historical Society of Moorestown.</p><br>
<p>The White House in Brentsville, Virginia was built in 1822. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as "the finest example of Federal, residential architecture in Brentsville, Virginia" and is probably the oldest surviving house in the village. It was first the home of a prominent widow, said to have been the first post-mistress in either Prince William County, or the State of Virginia, and is believed to have been a social gathering place. Lived in from 1941 through the 1990s by Agnes Webster and her family (rented to the John Curd family in 1959–1962)</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story Federal style gabled brick building, with double chimneys at each end. The brickwork is Flemish bond on the front and 5 course American bond in the rear.</p><br>
<p>In April 2022 the house was purchased by Prince William County. Work began clearing the house in June 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Lodge Building in Flint, Michigan, also known as Old Elks Building, was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elks Lodge 222 was organized in Flint in 1891. They first met in a block of rooms in the Ward - Building in downtown Flint, and in 1900 moved to larger quarters in the Judd Block. At that time there were 28 members of the Lodge, but membership quickly expanded, and in 1902 the Elks moved into a floor in the newly completed Dryden Building. However, by 1912, membership had increased to over 1000 people, and the Lodge was forced to look for a larger and more appropriate home. The Lodge began a fund-raising campaign under the leadership of founder William C. Durant, and in 1913 purchased the lot on which this building sits. They hired the Detroit firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham to design a new building, and the Battle Creek firm of H.V. Snyder & Son to construct it. The building opened in March 1914.</p><br>
<p>Early members of the Elks Lodge 222 included not only William C. Durant, but his partner J. Dallas Dort, Walter P. Chrysler, Buick president Harry Basset and founder William S. Ballenger Sr., Charles Barth, Doc Treat, Charles W. Nash, and Charles Stewart Mott. According to Edward Soloman, head of a history committee for the Flint Elks Lodge 222, at one time "Back then, everyone who was anyone was part of the club." However, the club experienced a slow decline in membership, and by the early 1970s it had decreased significantly. The club voted in 1971 to sell the lodge building, and it moved to its current location in Grand Blanc on East Maple Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The building was available for sale in 2015, listed at $375,000.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Flint Elks Club is a two and a half story brick structure, three bays wide, with a hip roof covered in glazed tile. The building is of a simplified Second Renaissance Revival design. On the first floor, the main entryway is in the center bay, with the door planked by a smooth facing of limestone and topped by a spandrel of glazed earth-toned tiles. Small four-over-four double-hung sash windows are on each side of the doorway, and twin four-over-six double hung sash windows are in the bays to either side. The second story level is greater in height than the first, and has twin tall rounded-arch windows in the side bays. Five narrow windows are in the center bay. The third story is shorter, and contains a decorative frieze accents the front facade which wraps around to the side.</p><br>
<p>Murphysboro Elks Lodge, also known as Murphysboro Event Center, is a historic meeting hall and former Elks lodge in Murphysboro, Illinois. The lodge was built in 1916 for Murphysboro Elks Lodge No. 572, which was chartered in 1900. Architect Rudolph Zerse Gill designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The red brick building features a limestone foundation and terra cotta decorations. The front entrance is topped by an oval containing an elk head and decorated with fruit garlands. The second story features a porch supported by classical columns. A dentillated and bracketed entablature encircles the front half of the building above the porch.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Elks-Rogers Hotel, also known as Park Hotel of Clear Lake, was a resort hotel in Clear Lake, Iowa built in 1901. It was "a classic piece of late Victorian architecture often found in the trans-Mississippi West." It had brick walls , fan windows, and a large porch with Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. At the time of its nomination to the National Register, it was the last surviving resort hotel of its era in the state, because the others had been demolished.</p><br>
<p>This structure has been demolished. A neighboring business location reported that it was torn down in about 1997. A modern brick structure replaced it and is the location for the VFW.</p><br>
<p>It is still listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Elks Athletic Club, also known as YWCA, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an eight-story building that was built in 1924. It was designed by Joseph & Joseph in Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was sold and adapted into use as a hotel four years after it was built. It served as a hotel until 1963, then became a YWCA.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Temple Building in Cadillac, Michigan was built in 1910 as a lodge meeting hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Cadillac Elks Lodge was organized in 1901. The Cadillac Elks held their meetings in the Maccabee Hall, but soon began sharing another building with the Knights of Pythias. In 1910, the Elks began planning for their own building. They obtained a site, and contracted with the Grand Rapids architectural firm of Osgood & Osgood, which specialized in designing similar buildings for fraternal organizations. Osgood & Osgood both designed and constructed the building. Construction was started in 1910, and completed in 1911 at a cost of $53,000.</p><br>
<p>Although multiple stores have been housed on the ground floor, the Elks Temple Building remains the meeting place of the local lodge.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Cadillac Elks Temple is a four-story Classical Revival red brick building with a flat roof and cream terra cotta trim. The front facade has central stairhall entrance flanked by storefronts on the ground level. The upper three stories are divided into three bays each by piers. A classical cornice and parapet runs across the top. Windows in each bay of the upper stories were originally all paired, double-hung, six-over-one type, but have been replaced with paired or tripled double-hung one-over-one type windows.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the temple has two retail spaces on the street level. The center entrance leads to a staircase to the upper part of the building, which has hardwood floors with wooden doors and window trim. The second floor contains a large dining room with a</p><br>
<p>bar and a card and billiard room. The dining room/bar area was likely refurbished in the 1950s. The third floor contains the lodge rooms, the lodge office, and storage spaces. The fourth floor contains a single large room. The lodge room is a rectangular area, with walls subdivided by stained wood pilasters. Benches are lined along the walls to face a central altar. At one end is a triple chair, set beneath the head of an elk. The room&#39;s</p><br>
<p>furnishings likely date from the time of the building&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>Bragdon-Lipe House is a historic home located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. It was built about 1860 and is a two-story, timber-frame vernacular Italianate style residence. The main block is nearly square and has a two-story kitchen and service wing in the rear. It features an ornate two-story, polygonal wall bay and an enclosed square belevedere at the center of the roof. Also on the property is a carriage barn dated to about 1870.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is located in the Canajoharie Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Van Alstyne Homestead is a historic home located at Canajoharie in Montgomery County, New York. It is a long, low rectangular house with a steeply pitched gambrel roof in the Dutch Colonial style. The original fieldstone house was built before 1730 and has three rooms  with a garret under the roof. A -story frame addition runs across the rear.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the Canajoharie Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Brief History</h2><br>
<p>First constructed by Martin Janse Van Alstyne before 1730 the home also functioned as a tavern and meeting place with the start of the American Revolution. By 1775 it was owned by Goshen (Goose) Van Alstyne and was a frequent meeting place for the Tryon County Committee of Safety. It was here that the Mohawk Valley&#39;s patriots first debated the merits of liberty and the new American Tryon Militia was born. Nicholas Herkimer accepted his new commission here as Chief Colonel and was later appointed General of the all volunteer force of American frontier soldiers.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The historic Dutch homestead and tavern houses the Rufus Grider collection of historically accurate drawings documenting 18th century homes, farms and life across the Mohawk Valley. Rufus Grider, a Moravian immigrant and late 19th century artist, purchased and renovated the old homestead in 1885 to create one of New York&#39;s first museums of its kind. Today it is run by the Van Alstyne Homestead Society and is open to the public for tours during the summer season on Saturdays.</p><br>
<p>Walter Butler Homestead, also known as Butlersbury, is a historic home located near Fonda in Montgomery County, New York. It is a -story, 40-foot-long, 30-foot-wide, 18th-century farmhouse. It has a limestone block foundation and cellar and attic. The dwelling was built by Lt. Walter Butler , father of John Butler .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Club Lodge No. 501 is a historic Elks Lodge located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. It was built in 1904–1905, and is a two-story brick and stone hip roofed building designed in Colonial Revival / Georgian Revival architectural styles. It measures 102 feet by 62 feet and features a columned portico flanked by two slightly projecting bays accentuated by limestone quoins.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Club in East Liverpool, Ohio was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building was addressed in a study assessing historic resources in East Liverpool&#39;s central business district which resulted in the NRHP listing of several clubhouse buildings (including also Masonic Temple (East Liverpool, Ohio), Odd Fellows Temple (East Liverpool, Ohio), and YMCA (East Liverpool, Ohio)).</p><br>
