<p>The All Saints Catholic Church in Taylorsville, Kentucky is a historic church on the east side of Jefferson Street between Park Alley and Red Row Alley. It was built between 1830 and 1843. It was added to the National Register in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It has some elements of Gothic Revival in style.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as "one of the oldest extant Catholic churches in the Louisville archdiocese and as one of the early examples of Gothic Revival architecture used for church construction in the small towns of the region."</p><br>
<p>Bethel Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church near USA Route 68 in Fairview, Kentucky. It occupies the site where Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, was born in 1808. The current structure was built in 1901 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation first formed on January 22, 1814, when fourteen members of West Fork Baptist Church branched off to form a new church. It was officially organized on March 22, 1816, with the first church located near Salubria Springs in Christian County. In 1823 the church relocated to a new site between the communities of Fairview and Pembroke.</p><br>
<p>By 1884 the church had outgrown its building, and members decided to split into two churches for Fairview and Pembroke. After 70 Pembroke members formed their own church on July 3, 1884, the remaining congregants determined to buy the old Davis family property, where President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis had been born in 1808.</p><br>
<p>The church was struck by lightning and burned down on August 23, 1900. The current building was erected on the same site; it was dedicated on September 29, 1901. It followed a similar Gothic Revival design as the original, being constructed of various materials and including ornate detailing and a complex roof line. The most notable difference was the addition of a rear wing. Bethel Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1977.</p><br>
<p>Smiths Grove Baptist Church is a historic church at Main and 5th Streets in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. It was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a cruciform-plan one-and-a-half-story brick church. "In his arresting composition the designer-builder showed an awareness of the picturesque and even startling effects possible in Gothic styling."</p><br>
<p>The St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a historic church at 434 Church Street. It was built in 1859 and added to the National Register in 1975. It has also been known as St. Joseph&#39;s Church.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Sites</h2><br>
<p>Half the population visits historical sites because of an emotional connection to a past experience. The other half of the population visits historical sites because they would like to experience history in a personal way by being "taken back" to that time period.</p><br>
<h2>Foundations (1853–1888)</h2><br>
<p>In 1853, Louisville Bishop John Martin Spalding requested the twenty-two-year-old seminarian, Father Joseph DeVries, to continue the evergrowing mission. Father DeVries and eight other missionaries were ordained in 1855. The Church began its foundations in 1859 when a small frame building was constructed for a school of boys but was used for Mass on Sundays. The Church&#39;s deed stated that the Church is designated for the Catholic people of Warren County. Francis Leopold Kister, a master German architect began designing and building the structure. The walls were not yet plastered when the first Easter Sunday Mass was held. The Church was completed in 1889 because the Civil War created interruption to the building process.</p><br>
<h2>Early days (1889-1930)</h2><br>
<p>The second pastor, Father Thomas J. Hayes on August 10, 1889, because of the unexpected death of Father DeVries. Father DeVries was buried under the main altar of the Church marked by a marble slab on the sanctuary walls. On Easter Sunday in 1902, the church was badly damaged in a fire. This led to the leaders of the church deciding to decorate the interior of the church with fresco paintings, originally done by Charles and Guido Leber (artists from Louisville, Kentucky). In 1903, additions to the exterior of the church were added. A small stoop was added to the rectory and the churchs walls were extended to the street. In August 1912, it was decided that St. Josephs Catholic Church should open a school. The School and the convent for the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth was built right next to the church. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth staffed the school for 55 years and the school remained open until 1965 with eight grades.</p><br>
<h3>World War I</h3><br>
<p>During the years of World War I, St. Josephs Parish was active in contributing aid by selling handmade paper carnations made by the disabled veterans for about 25 cents each (red if the mother was living and white if the mother was deceased) In 1923, the steeple was destroyed by a cyclone and replaced by the current pyramidal structure which rises to about 87 ft. This same year the churchs street was paved.</p><br>
<h2>The Depression, World War II, and the 50s (1930-1965)</h2><br>
<p>In 1931, columns were added floor to ceiling and finished with faux marble. However, it was not until 1937 that the interior was redecorated. Father Raymond G. Hill conducted a drive to fund the Leber family to redecorate the interior of the church after 34 years. At this same time, new Gothic lanterns replaced existing chandelier light fixtures. "Pew rent" was also introduced that year which was a way for parishioners to pay for their families to have a special seat for Sunday Mass. In the late 50s, Knights of Columbus celebrated their 50th anniversary at St. Josephs Catholic Church. Later that next year in 1959, St. Joseph&#39;s parish celebrated its 100th anniversary with a banquet at a local restaurant called Old Fort Restaurant. The Centennial Mass took place on December 7, 1959. However, before the mass Fr. Bowling had the same artist come back and redecorate the interior 21 years after the 1937 redecoration. The majority of the original frescos were painted out because of finances and a new rubber tile floor was installed.</p><br>
<h2>Late Twentieth Century (1966-1990)</h2><br>
<p>Reverend Charles P. Bowling retired in March 1971 after 24 years of service. Father Richard Powers stepped in to fill the position with a music and welcome party. When the parish sent in information to the National Register of Historic Places, it was noted that the original organ from 1898 was still intact. The grand organ has 18 ranked pipes and encases of white quarter oak.</p><br>
<p>The State Street Baptist Church, formerly the First Colored Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church at 340 State Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The church was the first formally organized church for blacks in Bowling Green. It was formed in 1838 from slaves from the First Baptist Church. The present church building, built in 1898, is a -story brick Gothic Revival-style church with buttresses.</p><br>
<p>Fairview Methodist Church is a historic church near Oakland in Warren County, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story frame church. Its Kentucky Historic Resources evaluation notes:The significance of this church lies in its fine state of preservation and in its strength of design, perhaps the best in the county&#39;s late nineteenth century frame churches. It is traditional in form and representative of vernacular wooden church architecture. Because of its siting on a flat, intensively cultivated plain, it is a visual focus on the landscape for miles around.</p><br>
<p>Burton Memorial Baptist Church  is a historic stone church on Cemetery Road in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The stone church is described as having "outstanding architectural design and workmanship". A one-story frame caretaker&#39;s home is a second contributing building on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Church was organized December 28, 1850 by Mordecai F. Ham Sr., originally under the full name of "The United Baptist Church of Jesus Christ called Drakes Creek". Mordecai Ham Sr. was buried after his death at the Church Cemetery. His grandson, Mordecai F. Ham Jr., who is perhaps best known for leading Billy Graham to Christ, would later be ordained into ministry at then Drakes Creek Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>Drakes Creek became Burton Memorial in memory of founding member William Burton and in appreciation to the generous offer to build a new sanctuary by his grandson. The current stone sanctuary was constructed in 1911 and the education wing was added on in 1950.</p><br>
<p>Burton Memorial is a cooperating church with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Kentucky Baptist Convention.</p><br>
<p>The current pastor of Burton Memorial is Dallas Goebel, who has served in this position since August 2014.</p><br>
<p>Woolen Mills Village Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 2010. The district is in Albemarle County, Virginia and also in Charlottesville, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Its area includes parts of Chesapeake, Franklin, Steephill, 18th NE, and East Market Streets and Riverside Avenue in the City of Charlottesville; and parts of Row and Marchant and East Market Streets in Albemarle County. The district includes Woolen Mills Chapel, previously listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters is a commercial office complex at 900 Cottage Grove Road in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2010. Built between 1954 and 1957, it is an important early example of suburban commercial office architecture, and one of the state&#39;s best examples of the International style of architecture. It continues to serve as the corporate headquarters for Cigna, as the company is now known.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The current Cigna headquarters complex occupies about 30 acre (out of what was originally about 280 acre), on the south side of Cottage Grove Road in southwestern Bloomfield. Former elements of the campus include the Gillette Ridge Golf Club, developed in 2004. The main building, now called the Wilde Building, is a large three-story structure, with a steel frame and largely glass exterior. The building is about 600 ft long, with six interior courtyards, laid out so that no interior space is more than 30 ft from a window. The steel framing elements are on the outside and courtyard walls, and serve as mullion-like separators between the window units. The interior floor plan is broken up by service cores, which house stairwells, elevators, and restrooms as well as other building infrastructure. There are escalators at roughly opposite ends of the building, providing additional access between the floors. A single-story cafeteria wing projects to the south.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, on a 280 acre campus, and was completed in 1957. According to the architecture firm, "The bucolic site, campus-like plan, and extensive amenities, including a full service cafeteria and after-hours programs, reflected a desire to offer a highly civilized and satisfying office environment to Connecticut General employees. The building set new standards for flexible space planning, efficiency of operation, economy of construction methods, maintenance programs, and planning for future expansion." The project won various architectural and landscape awards. The grounds, including two of the interior courtyards, were landscaped by sculptor and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi. The interiors of the building were designed by Florence Knoll. The campus was the first of its type to be designed for a large corporate employer as office space, and was described by architect Michael Crosbie as an "inspiration for a generation of office parks".</p><br>
<p>The Wananalua Congregational Church is a historic 19th-century building on the remote coast of Maui in Hawaii.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wānanalua was the name of a traditional land division (ahupuaa) on the eastern coast of the island of Maui.</p><br>
<p>The name means "double prophecy" in the Hawaiian language.</p><br>
<p>The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions established a mission at the site in 1838. First residents were Daniel Toll Conde, and his wife Andelucia Lee Conde. Reverend Mark Ives (1809–1885) served at the station until 1840. In 1841 William Harrison Rice and his wife arrived, who stayed until 1844.</p><br>
<p>In 1848 the Condes moved to the Kaahumanu Church in Wailuku, and in 1855 after the death of his wife, Conde moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. Eliphalet W. Whittlesey (1816–1889) was stationed at the church from 1844 to 1854, and William Otis Baldwin from 1855 to 1860.</p><br>
<p>Sereno Edwards Bishop (1827–1909) and his wife Cornelia A. Sessions Bishop served the station from 1855 to 1865.</p><br>
<p>When land titles were formalized in the Mahele, 27.64 acre were recorded as awarded to the church.</p><br>
<p>The modern church boundary area of 3.7 acre was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on November 23, 1988 as site 88002533.</p><br>
<p>It is located at the corner of and the Hana Highway (Route 31) at 20&deg;45&prime;6&Prime;N latitude, 155&deg;59&prime;12&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>Across the street is the Hotel Hana-Maui, originally called the Kauiki Inn.</p><br>
<p>It is named for the cinder cone Kauiki, which is the site of a rare Red Sand Beach, and a fortress from the time of ancient Hawaii where several historic battles were held. It was also the birthplace of powerful civil leader Queen Kaahumanu.</p><br>
<p>The J. F. Slater Memorial Museum, also known as Slater Memorial Museum, is a historic building and art museum on the grounds of the Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, built in 1885 and dedicated in 1886. It is designed in Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and is said to be the finest work of architect Stephen C. Earle.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property in the Chelsea Parade Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The museum was presented to the Norwich Free Academy by William A. Slater, son of John Fox Slater, who had endowed the school.</p><br>
<p>The museum features a gypsotheque, a collection of plaster casts of famous Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Renaissance statues. The museum also exhibits colonial and local historic artifacts, as well as 18th-to-20th-century American paintings and decorative arts, 17th-to-19th-century European paintings and decorative arts, African and Oceanic sculpture, and Native American objects. The adjacent Converse Art Gallery hosts six changing exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery, built in 1906, was designed by the leading local firm of Cudworth & Woodworth.</p><br>
<p>The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.</p><br>
<p>Casa Belvedere is a cultural center devoted to Italian studies, located at 79 Howard Avenue, Grymes Hill, Staten Island, New York City. The mansion was constructed in 1908, and is an Italian Renaissance style building with Arts and Crafts detailing. It is a -story, stuccoed masonry structure with a -story service wing and attached conservatory. It features an overhanging clay tile hipped roof with bracketed eaves and a portico with Ionic order columns and Doric order corner piers. Also on the property is a contributing former garage.</p><br>
<p>Over the years it housed a number of different families, including for several years being the official residence of the President of Wagner College. It was declared a New York City Landmark in 2006 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 as the Louis A. and Laura Stirn House. In 2008 it was purchased by Gina Biancardi and Luciano Rammairone, and turned into a cultural center. In this role it hosts Italian language classes for both adults and children, wine tastings, lectures, films, cooking lessons, book signings, displays of Italian-made motor vehicles (e.g. Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini, and Vespa), and art exhibits, all with an Italian orientation.</p><br>
<p>The John F. Slater House, also known as the Elks Club, is a historic building in Norwich, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>It was built in brick for John Fox Slater around either 1827 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as part of the Downtown Norwich Historic District as "the most elaborate Greek Revival building in the downtown", and it is fronted by a monumental Corinthian portico. The design of the house has been attributed to John Bishop, a builder from New London who was responsible for the Huntington Street Baptist Church. The house was later owned by the local lodge of Elks, who used the building as their clubhouse. In 1914-15 they built a large but complementary rear addition, designed by architects Cudworth & Woodworth and contractors Doyle & Murphy, the same team that would build the Willimantic Elks Club ten years later.</p><br>
<p>The building was vacant as of January 2014.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Teresa Church is located in downtown Albany, Georgia, on Residence Avenue. It is the oldest church building in Albany. The name Old St. Teresa Catholic Church was given, because it changed to a new location in Albany. The church was kept in use and at least one Mass is a held every week.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction on the church began in 1859, on land that was given by Colonel Nelson Tift, the founder of Albany. The bricks that make up the building were handmade by enslaved workers on a plantation near Newton, Georgia. Due to the Civil War, construction of the church was halted before the interior was completed. It was then used as a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers. After the war, the building was completed and dedicated under the patronage of St. Teresa of Ávila on November 19, 1882, by William Hickley Gross, who was the Bishop of Savannah at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>A new larger parish church was dedicated in 1958, but the downtown location was kept as a second church. A Mass is conducted every Wednesday at noon at the Residence Avenue address.</p><br>
<p>The Eagles Home is a historic building located in Evansville, Indiana. It was designed by Evansville architect Harry Boyle and was built in 1912. It has served as a clubhouse, college, and law firm at various points throughout its history. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and it currently serves as the Evansville office of the Jackson Kelly law firm.</p><br>
<h2>Fraternal Order of Eagles</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Evansville architect Harry Boyle and was constructed in 1912 for a local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Originally made up of those engaged in one way or another in the performing arts, the Eagles grew and claimed credit for establishing the Mothers Day holiday in the United States as well as the impetus for Social Security. Their lodges are known as "aeries". The organizations success is also attributed to its funeral benefits (no Eagle was ever buried in a potter&#39;s field), the provision of an aerie physician, and other membership benefits.</p><br>
<p>The local chapter was successful enough that in 1940 a rear addition was completed on the building, giving the building 32,000 square feet on three floors. By 1965 the group began discussions about moving to a new location. However, the Eagles&#39; restrictive (and often racist) membership policies caused delays in a proposed move to another downtown location. By 1968 it had identified a new location at a building on a 21-acre tract just west of Burkhardt Road on Boonville Highway.</p><br>
<h2>Lockyear Business College</h2><br>
<p>By the late nineteenth-century, a few business colleges operated in downtown Evansville, probably spurred by the recent invention of the typewriter. Melvin H. Lockyear co-founded Columbian Business College at Second and Main streets in 1893, and four years later the school was incorporated as Lockyear Business College. The school relocated to 209 NW Fifth St. where a new facility was built in 1911 (immediately adjacent to the Eagles Home in what is now a parking lot). In 1968 the college acquired the Eagles Home nearby and used it as the students&#39; union.</p><br>
<p>Besides offering traditional business courses, the Lockyear Business College offered a popular Dale Carnegie salesmanship development program that graduated over 6,000 by 1962. Lockyear was approaching its centennial when it closed in April 1991 after the schools owners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In March 1992 the Eagles Home building was sold to National City Bank at a sheriffs sale after foreclosing on $400,000 in loans made to former officials of Lockyear. The original college building was razed in 1993 to make way for a 41-space courtyard parking lot, but the Eagles Home remained standing.</p><br>
<h2>Professional and law office use</h2><br>
<p>In 1994, the building was converted into office space and used by an accounting group and a law firm. About 6,500 square feet was occupied by Kemper CPA Group. About 5,700 square feet on the second floor was used by the law firm of Mattingly, Rudolph, Fine and Porter (later more commonly known as Rudolph, Fine, Porter & Johnson, LLP ("RFPJ") until 2014 which merged with the Jackson Kelly law firm). By 2006, the entire building was occupied by RFPJ and Lockyear Title until the merge with Jackson Kelly.</p><br>
<p>The Eagles Temple was a prominent Fraternal Order of Eagles building in downtown Akron, Ohio, United States. With its high-styled Art Deco architecture, it was home to an organization with thousands of members, and it was designated a historic site when not yet sixty-five years old.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Akrons Eagles aerie arranged for the construction of the building in 1917, contracting with the architectural firm of Boenisch, Kraus, and Helmkamp for the design. Founded in 1904, its new occupants were among the oldest local chapters of the FOE, which itself was established just six years before the Akron chapter. The original building was a large Neoclassical structure with a traditional masonry facade. Little more than a decade passed, and the members were no longer satisfied with the appearance of their meeting place; they rehired the original contractor to convert its appearance to the new Art Deco style with its early modern architecture influences. Construction was completed in 1930, by which time the Great Depression had begun, but the aerie remained financially strong. As the members saw it as their duty to help the poor in such dire times, the building was opened to assist non-members, and aerie money was spent on financing dinners for the indigent. In some months, the kitchens served more than eighteen thousand charity meals. Following the Second World War, the aerie continued to grow, with a membership roll surpassing eight thousand at points in the 1950s. By the late 1960s, the original building had become insufficient for the aeries needs, due largely to transportation: the early members had commuted via streetcars, but with the rise of the automobile, there was nowhere for thousands of cars to be parked. A new building was finished in 1968, with extensive parking space, and the Temple was left empty. A Christian youth organization bought the building and ran a haunted house in it for five years, but left in 1974. The group sold the building in early 1987, and it was demolished in May of the same year.</p><br>
<p>Following the reconstruction of 1930, the Eagles&#39; Temple was primarily a terracotta structure; the sides remained brick-faced, but the facade was covered with terracotta tiles. Stark vertical elements divided the three-story facade into five bay. A tall belt course, several feet high, separated the first-story doors from the second-story windows, while elaborate artwork was placed between the second- and third-story windows. Some elements of metalwork and stonework were placed for additional decoration. The basic design remained that of the original structure, although modified so thoroughly that its Neoclassical origins were no longer apparent.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the former Eagles Temple was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its significant architecture and its place in local history. Another Register-listed building, the Akron Post Office and Federal Building, sits on the opposite side of Market Street. Although more than a quarter century has passed since the temple&#39;s demolition, it officially remains listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The Fraternal Order of Eagles Building is a historic Fraternal Order of Eagles clubhouse located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1914, and is a three-story, three bay by six bay, rectangular brick building in the Neoclassical Revival style. In 2005, the building was renovated into apartments with a commercial space in the basement.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Eagles Temple or Eagles&#39; Temple in Canton, Ohio is a Spanish Colonial Revival building designed during 1927–28. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a five-story building designed by architect Albert Thayer. It is the only building built for the Canton Aerie 141, which was founded in 1901, and was the oldest chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Teeple Barn was a historic structure in Elgin, Illinois. It was a sixteen-sided barn designed by W. Wright Abell for Lester Teeple, a dairy farmer. In 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the only surviving sixteen-sided barn in Illinois. The barn was destroyed on May 27, 2007, following a storm. It was delisted from the National Register in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lester Teeple was an early settler in the Elgin, Illinois, vicinity. He ordered the construction of the barn to store lumber in 1885. Teeple wanted to construct an octagon barn, a style typical in the area, particularly with Flemish immigrants. However, the lumber he intended to use to build it was not long enough to allow such a construction. W. Wright Abell was tasked with designing the barn, which was given sixteen sides instead of eight; the barn was his last known standing building. Teeple&#39;s farm provided dairy products to the Midwest. Hay would be distributed throughout the barn by a fork pulley system that allowed the hay to be dropped anywhere in the barn. Teeple Barn was renowned as the largest barn in the Elgin area, and one of the first designed with a professional architect. The barn remained in the Teeple family for over a hundred years, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1979. In 1996, a non-profit group, AgTech, was created to restore the barn, and managed to restore the cupola in 1999. The group raised over $300,000 for repairs to the barn, which was the last sixteen-sided barn remaining in Illinois. On May 25, 2007, Teeple Barn was destroyed in a severe storm, and the remains were demolished a few days later.</p><br>
<p>Unlike an octagon barn, the silo was located outside the main structure. The interior of the barn featured X-bracing to support the many sides. The roof was supported by a Howe truss. The building was 85 ft tall and had a diameter of 85 ft. A locally fired brick floor was laid on a fieldstone and concrete foundation. A red and white cupola topped the building until 1973, when a tornado struck the building; it was restored in 1999. Concrete buttresses were installed in 1952 to provide support for modern machinery.</p><br>
<p>William McEchron House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1891 and is a -story, asymmetrical stone-and-frame residence that incorporates elements of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival design. The first story is built of rock-faced, random ashlar sandstone. It features a pair of stone arches at the entrance and a massive stone arch at the porte cochere.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>George H. Parks House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a three-story, substantial, asymmetrical Queen Anne style residence covered by a slate hipped roof. It features a first story wraparound porch and porte cochere. It also features a massive cylindrical tower surmounted by a bell-cast slate roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>John E. Parry House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a rectangular -story frame residence that incorporates transitional Queen Anne / Colonial Revival–style design elements. The house incorporates stone, clapboards, and shingles in its exterior. It features a broad, bracketed porch with pediment. The architect was Ephraim Potter.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Ephraim B. Potter House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, United States. It was built in about 1900 and is a square 2½-story frame residence that incorporates transitional Queen Anne- / Colonial Revival-style design elements. It is topped by a gambrel roof. It features a raised, one-story covered porch with balustrade and rounded entrance pediment. The architect was Ephraim Potter.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Enoch Rosekrans House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1855 and is a rectangular -story brick residence that incorporates transitional vernacular Greek Revival / Italianate style design elements. It features a five-bay facade with central entrance sheltered by a portico with pediment and denticulated cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Sherman House is a historic home located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It is a large pink brick building with a profusely bracketed roof and octagonal cupola. It consists of a -story rectangular block to which has been added four porches and three wings. It is thought to date to the 1840s. The front verandah and rear wing date to about 1900 when it was occupied by the Bemis Eye Sanitarium.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The William Ruth Mansion House is a historic house in Leipsic, Delaware. Originally built for William Ruth, a merchant and trustee of the first free school in Delaware, the house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Ruth bought the property in 1807 and started his "Mansion House" soon thereafter. His house-builder used Owen Biddles 1805 pattern book, The Young Carpenters Assistant, for some of the designs, specifically the step end brackets of the main stair, which match the pattern book exactly (see photo). The house has been added to and renovated a number of times. The north section was added ca. 1841. The house contains 9 fireplaces, 6 in the original brick L-shaped section, including a large kitchen fireplace with original crane intact.</p><br>
<p>The main section had a second floor bay window added during the Victorian period, and the main section was renovated in the 1910s, adding a new newel post and main front door in the entrance hall, as well as sliding double doors into the main parlor, and French doors between the main parlor and the new dining room in a new frame addition to the rear, and a new front porch. The new front door and newel post are very similar to designs published in the Sears catalogues in the 1910s. An open porch behind the 1920s kitchen was enclosed in the 1950s. There are a number of shed additions to the rear of varying dates.</p><br>
<p>William Ruth was a merchant who bought local produce and shipped it to Philadelphia from the port of Leipsic, Delaware, then known as Fast Landing, which was renamed Leipsic in 1814. He died in 1822, willing the property in two halves, splitting the house in half.</p><br>
<p>Tanpopo Ramen and Sake Bar  is a historic diner in Albany, New York, built in 1941 and located at 893 Broadway, one of the oldest streets in Albany. Used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed, which starred Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1929, the site was occupied by a lunch cart that provided hot food to workers in the area. It was succeeded by a prefabricated diner built by the Ward & Dickinson Dining Car Company. The current building was erected in 1941 and originally called Lil&#39;s Diner. It is a "Silk City Diner model, manufactured by the Paterson Vehicle Company in Paterson, New Jersey, one of the leading diner manufacturers of the time. The building is typical of the prefabricated diners that were common from the 1920s through the 1940s, built to resemble railroad cars and incorporating elements of Art Deco design. With its interior of cherry wood and porcelain enamelled steel and a geometrically tiled floor, it is one of the few pre-World War II diners in the United States in near-original condition. The interior was depicted by the photorealist artist Ralph Goings in his 1993 painting Miss Albany Diner.</p><br>
<p>The diner changed hands over the years and was called successively Elaines, the Firehouse Diner, and the Street Car Diner. The "Miss Albany" name was shared by a chain of several now defunct Miss Albany Diners owned by Stillman Pitts which were popular in Albany during the 1920s, one of which (on Central Avenue) is explicitly mentioned in William Kennedys novel Roscoe. When Kennedys earlier novel Ironweed was made into a film in 1986, the diner was restored for use as one of the films principal locations and given the name "Miss Albany Diner". At the time, a product placement bidding war ensued between Pepsi Cola and Coca-Cola over whose logo would be on the top of the diner.</p><br>
<h3>Cliff Brown years</h3><br>
<p>In 1988, after the filming of Ironweed ended, the diner was bought by Cliff Brown and his wife Jane. Cliff Brown, a former Albany resident and retired insurance salesman for New York Life, gave it the name used in the film, which it has retained to the present day. In late 2009, Brown was 82 and wanted to retire. The diner was put up for sale, but as of 2010, it had still not been sold and continued to be run by Jane Brown.</p><br>
<p>The Miss Albany Diner served breakfast, lunch and coffee on a "cash only" basis and was open Tuesday through Sunday until 2:15 pm, with both waiter and take-out service. Its signature dishes included:</p><br>
<p>Georgian Eggs (eggs any style over sweet potatoes and scallions and topped with peanut sauce)</p><br>
<p>Mad Eggs (a toasted English muffin, topped with eggs, scallions and curry sauce)</p><br>
<p>Calamity Jane (omelette with tomatoes, onions, peppers, swiss cheese, sausage and Tabasco sauce)</p><br>
<p>Mad Irish Toast (two thick slices of French toast made from challah bread, filled with pecans and cream cheese and covered in a sauce made from Irish whiskey and butterscotch).</p><br>
<p>The dishes were created by the owners&#39; son Bill Brown, who had been a chef at the diner for many years. Mad Irish Toast was named one of the "Best Bites of 2002" by the Chicago Sun-Times.</p><br>
<h3>Later years</h3><br>
<p>In February 2012, two years after Clifford Browns death, the diner was purchased by Matthew Baumgartner, the head of a property company that owns a nearby beer garden and several other restaurants in Albany. Baumgartner said that the diners structure would be retained when he and his partners develop the site, but that there were no plans to run it as a diner. Jane Brown and her son retained the rights to the "Miss Albany Diner" name and its signature recipes. The Miss Albany served its last meal as a diner on February 10, 2012.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the diner re-opened under new owner David Zheng as Tanpopo Ramen and Sake Bar, with new booths, seating about 45 for lunch and dinner daily.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank Building is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2020 it was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District. The building is now known as the US Bank Building, its main tenant.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the National Banking and Currency Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1863, First National Bank in Davenport was the first bank in the country to open under its provisions. The bank was headed by Austin Corbin, who had previously been a partner in Macklot and Corbin in Davenport. A $12.60 check written by Henry Hess was the first check in the country to clear the new banking system. The bank suffered some financial difficulties in the 1870s and was re-chartered in 1882. In the 1920s First National Bank merged with Iowa National Bank and maintained the name of the former. After the Bank Holiday in 1933, Union Savings Bank and Trust assumed control of First National Bank. The upper floors of the building remained occupied after the bank&#39;s failure, but the main banking room was not occupied by another bank again until the late 20th century. In the meantime, the main floor had been used for retail. Tenants on the upper floors are mainly professionals such as dentists, medical doctors, attorneys, and insurance agents.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The First National Bank Building is the third building on the same site for the bank. It replaced a building that was destroyed by a fire. The building was designed by Chicago architect O.H. Breidert with the firm Childs & Smith in the Renaissance Revival style. It rises 144 ft above the ground and includes nine floors with a steel frame and brick construction. The structure is built on a concrete foundation and is faced with stone. Its form is restrained, but the decoration on the lower level of the building is not. The stylistic details evoke the Renaissance Revival style and combines classical precedents with forms that are associated with the sixteenth century Italian Renaissance. These stylistic elements are combined with the technological advances of the Chicago School.</p><br>
<p>The building can be divided into three sections: a two-story base; five floors of offices; and a two-story section at the top that terminates in a bracketed cornice. The lower level of the building is a tall arcade of round arches and pilasters with detailed capitals. The capitals feature carvings of eagles and buffalo among floral motifs. The main entrance on Second Street is in a recessed rounded arch in the center of the building. An ornate bronze screen above the doors is covered with urns, floral designs and Grecian or Roman figures.</p><br>
<p>Above the doorway arch are two reclining figures by Adolph A. Weinman, who was also responsible for the pediment over the Jefferson Memorial entrance in Washington, D.C., and the frieze in the courtroom of the USA Supreme Court. Carved figures by Corrado Parducci occupy the inside of the archway. The figures on the left depict labor, agriculture, industry, and commerce and on the right are depictions of law, philosophy, security, and banking. An inscription above the third floor of the building notes that the building housed the first National bank in the United States.</p><br>
<p>A clock originally mounted on the Scott County Savings Bank building was placed on the northeast corner of the building in 1994. The clock was made of copper in 1918 and weighs 600 lbs. An awning was built on the west side of the building to cover the lanes of the motor banking facilities and ATMs. The first-floor interior has been modified from its original appearance and it retains little of historic importance.</p><br>
<p>The five floors of office space that make up the second section provide a contrast with the base of the building and except for the quoins, are unadorned. The windows in this section are set close to the exterior wall plane. A narrow cornice divides the second and third sections. Its two-story pilasters emphasize the structure&#39;s vertical thrust, but the dark, recessed spandrels counteract the effect. The building culminates in a wide, bracketed, overhanging cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building was one of five 1920s-era structures voted as the 50 Most Significant Iowa Buildings of the 20th Century by the Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.</p><br>
<p>Taos Inn is an historic inn located in Taos, New Mexico. It is made up of several adobe houses dating from the 19th century, one of which was a home of Thomas "Doc" Martin which hosted the formative meeting of the Taos Society of Artists in 1915. After Doc&#39;s death, his widow Helen Martin converted the houses into a hotel, which opened on June 7, 1936 as Hotel Martin. The name was changed to "Taos Inn" by subsequent owners.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1981 and to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Taos Inn was acquired by Imprint Hospitality group in January 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Doc Martin&#39;s restaurant</h2><br>
<p>Taos Inn is home to Doc Martins, a restaurant located in the former offices of Doc Martin. Doc Martins has won 29 annual Wine Spectator "Awards of Excellence".</p><br>
<p>Doc Martin&#39;s is famous for its Chile Rellenos and Award Winning Green Chile.</p><br>
<p>The Crawford-Dorsey House in Lovejoy, Georgia was first begun by William Crawford in circa 1820. The area was then Henry County. Then in the mid-1850s Mr. Stephen Dorsey bought the home. He then moved his home on log rollers to the site of the Crawford home and connected the two homes together to form one residence. In 1858, this part of Henry County became Clayton County. Mr. Dorsey also became a Judge for the county. He was married to Lucinda McConnell.</p><br>
<p>By the time of the Civil War in 1861, he had amassed 2,400 acres of land in Clayton County and 500 acres in Henry County. He also possessed 41 slaves which made him one of the largest land and slave owners of Clayton County. The Civil War came to his home on July 28, 1864, during the McCook-Stoneman Raid. Judge Dorsey was hidden for fear of capture by the Union soldiers. Then the next incursion to his property was on August 20, 1864, during the Kilpatrick Raid to Lovejoy Station. The fighting began at Lovejoy and spread across Judge Dorseys land on into Henry County. Then the Union Soldiers returned when General Hardee of the CSA lost at Jonesboro on August 31-September 1, 1864. Then General Hood CSA also abandoned Atlanta to move into Lovejoy where he stayed for approximately two weeks. Then the last time the Union forces came to Lovejoy and Mr. Dorseys land was when General Kilpatrick came through on the March to the Sea and drove General Iverson CSA to Griffin.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, in 1867 a group of women from Griffin brought a train of flat cars to Lovejoy and recovered approximately 700 skeletons to take to Griffin to start the Confederate Cemetery. Lovejoy and the Dorsey property would not change much. Mr. Dorsey filed for reparations from damages done during the war, but by 1881 he had gotten nowhere. By the time the 20th century would come around the Hastings Seed Company would come to the area to grow flowers, shrubs, and trees to be shipped everywhere. Even the Dorsey family had gotten in on the Nursery business and they still to this day have a tree farm in Henry County.</p><br>
<p>The old Crawford-Dorsey House and family cemetery were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984. The Clayton County Historical Society was thinking of restoring the old home for an attraction when it mysteriously burned in December 1984. From 1979 to 1984 there was extensive archaeological and artifact recovery done and shipped to the Atlanta Historical Society. The property had become part of the Clayton County Water Authority to be used as a spray field. The cemetery remains as well as the earthworks from the Civil War out behind where the old house once stood.General references are:</p><br>
<p>The Clayton County Citizen Newspaper of July 1984 & December 1984.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, online.</p><br>
<p>The History of Clayton County, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Mother of Counties, 1971, Vessie Rainer</p><br>
<p>The Official Records of the War Between the States, Archives.</p><br>
<p>The Atlanta Historical Society 1984 Edition</p><br>
<p>The Atlanta Historical Society 1985 Edition</p><br>
<p>Notes of Archaeological Study, 1983, Moon.</p><br>
<p>1993 Archaeological Study by State of Georgia</p><br>
<p>2009 Archaeological Study by State of Georgia</p><br>
<p>Biography of William T. Sherman, 1889.</p><br>
<p>Flint River Report, Dan Elliott, 2007</p><br>
<p>Nash Farm Report, Dan Elliott 2007</p><br>
<p>The Old La Grange Schoolhouse in La Grange, California is a Vernacular Greek Revival architecture building built in 1875 and modified in c. 1900, when its tower and porch were added. It was LaGranges first school. "Both the 1875 Greek Revival and the ca.1900 picturesque details present on the buildings exterior are indicative of major stylistic trends in California at these periods."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Elm Grange, also known as Evergreen Acres, was a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1840, and was a -story, five-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling with a two-story rear wing. It had a center hall plan. It had a gable roof with dormers and the front facade featured a tetra-style porch with fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The house was demolished between 2007 and 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Cochran Grange, also known as John P. Cochran House, is a historic home located in Middletown, Delaware, United States. It was built between 1842 and 1845, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, main block with a two-story wing. The design is influenced by the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Georgian styles. The house features a two-story porch supported by Doric order columns and a flat roof surmounted by a square cupola. Cochran Grange was the home of John P. Cochran, 43rd Governor of Delaware .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>La Grange, also known as Samuel Henry Black House, is a historic home located near Glasgow, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1815, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style manor house. The front facade features a pedimented entrance portico. Attached to the house are two dependencies. The western wing is a former smokehouse and the eastern wing is a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Grange Hall in Somerset Township, Jackson County, Illinois, is the historic meeting place of Somerset Townships chapter of The Grange. Built in 1912, the building was Somerset Grange #1553s second meeting hall; the first building was built in 1876 and burned down in 1909. The red brick building was built by contractor W. A. Pitman in the Commercial style. The Grange Hall served as a meeting place for local farmers to discuss agricultural affairs and propose farm policy to legislators. The National Farmers Union&#39;s newspaper, the Union Farmer, was published from the Somerset Grange Hall until 1914. The building also served as a local social center and hosted township elections, club meetings, and community events. The hall was rehabilitated in 1988; it still serves as a township polling place.</p><br>
<p>The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Horace Belden School and Central Grammar School are a pair of architecturally distinguished Late Gothic Revival occupying a single campus at 933 Hopmeadow Street and 29 Massaco Street in Simsbury, Connecticut. The Belden School was built in 1907 as the first Simsbury High School, and now serves as Simsbury Town Hall. The Central Grammar School, built in 1913, is now called the Central School. The buildings were listed as a pair on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for their architecture and their role in the town&#39;s educational system.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two school buildings are located north of Simsbury&#39;s central business district, on a parcel of land bounded on the north by Massaco Street and the east by Hopmeadow Street (United States Route 202), with commercial property occupying the street corner. Both are two-story buildings, with ashlar brownstone walls, and predominantly Gothic Revival styling. The former Belden School, now Town Hall, faces Hopmeadow Street. It has its main entrance in a Gothic-arched recess, and has bands of sash windows topped by transom windows set into separate openings. There are broad projecting sections in several parts of the facade, and large gabled dormers with slightly flared roof lines projecting from the hip roof. The main section of the school was built in 1907, with an additions in 1927 and 1961. It has served as the town hall since 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Central School faces north to Massaco Street. Its original section, built in 1913, is L-shaped, and also has entrances set in Gothic openings. Its roof gables are adorned with parapets. Unlike the Belden School building, whose interior has been extensively altered, its interior retains many original finishes. A Colonial Revival extension was added in 1949-50.</p><br>
<p>Both schools came about through the financial support of Horace Belden, a Simsbury native whose grandfather had made a fortune in merchant trade with the West Indies. Beldens philanthropy, in addition to funding the schools, also paid for the local water company, and for the improvement of town roads. The schools were built as part of the towns consolidation of district schools into centralized facilities, and were designed at a time when schools were expected to be monuments to education, and to reflect European educational traditions. The Collegiate Gothic style in which these are built was seen to fulfil these expectations.</p><br>
<p>The Belden School originally served as the town&#39;s high school, and also served the students of surrounding towns. Overcrowding in the mid-20th century prompted construction of a high school wing onto the junior high school in 1955, and Belden was converted into a grammar school, a role it served until 1980. Shuttered for a number of years, it was adapted for use as town hall in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Anson Grange No. 88 is a historic commercial building and Grange hall at 10 Elm Street in North Anson, Maine. With a construction history dating to 1849, it is North Anson&#39;s oldest commercial building, and the only one to survive a pair of fires that devastated the community in 1863 and 1913. Since 1906 it has served the local Grange chapter, and the community in general as a social venue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Grange hall is a 2-1/2 story structure built in two stages. The front of the building, which was built first, is a brick structure, three bays wide and also three deep, with a granite foundation, while the rear section is a wood frame structure two bays deep, resting on a fieldstone foundation with granite caps. The building is set on a steep hillside overlooking the Carrabasset River, and has a full basement under about 2/3 of the full structure, which was originally used as a stable.</p><br>
<p>The interior has been completely altered from the building&#39;s original commercial orientation to provide facilities for the organizations that use it. These were substantially completed in 1905, and include a ticket window, kitchen, and large dining room, with an auditorium occupying most of the second floor. These alterations fairly seamlessly integrated the two portions of the building.</p><br>
<p>The front portion of the hall was built c. 1849 by Joseph Merry, who leased the premises to a dry goods merchant. In 1863 a fire swept through North Anson, destroying most of the village center but stopping just short of this building. In 1883 Merry sold the building to M. Steward, who operated a livery stable and harness operation. It was purchased by the recently established No. 88 Grange in 1901, and was renovated to meet their needs over the next few years. The Grange has opened its hall to all manner of community organizations, as well as hosting private functions such as dances and weddings.</p><br>
<p>The Cochran–Rice Farm Complex, which included the Dr. Pierce&#39;s Pleasant Pellets Barn, is located in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1991. The barn was demolished in 2012 following the expiration of a 20-year easement held by the local historical society. With</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1852, John Cochran settled his Donation Land Claim near what is now Cottage Grove, Oregon. Cochrans land included 643 acres. However, by 1902, Chochrans son, Robert Cochran, owned 23 acres, and this remaining acreage was deeded to Robert&#39;s daughter, Martha Rice.</p><br>
<p>At the time of NRHP listing in 1991, the property included a bungalow style house built in 1910, a garage built in 1989, a shed built in 1900, and a flattened, prairie style barn constructed in 1900. The farm complex included 2.5 remaining acres. The house, shed, and barn were listed as contributing resources in the historic site designation.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, the barn was painted with an advertisement for Dr. Pierce&#39;s Pleasant Pellets. Ray V. Pierce had sold patent medicines in an era prior to the Pure Food and Drug Act, and he relied upon barns and other easily noticed surfaces for low-cost advertising. In exchange for the advertisement, an owner might be compensated with a free coat of paint on a barn. The barn was repaired and repainted prior to NRHP listing.</p><br>
<h2>Barn demolition</h2><br>
<p>In 2008, new owner Doug Stout acquired the farm complex through foreclosure. At that time, the size of the property had decreased to 1.7 acres. Stout tried to sell the barn to anyone who would move it off his property. He also tried to sell the barn plus 1.3 acres. His attempts to sell the barn were unsuccessful; in 2012, he demolished the building.</p><br>
<p>The Cochran–Rice Farm Complex remains on the NRHP, although absent its historic barn with the advertisement, "For your liver, Dr. Pierce&#39;s Pleasant Pellets."</p><br>
<p>The Morton Homestead is an historic, American homestead that is part of Morton Homestead State Park, which is located at 100 Lincoln Avenue in Prospect Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This homestead was founded in 1654 by Morton Mortenson, a Finnish immigrant, while the area was still part of the New Sweden colony. Mortenson&#39;s great-grandson, John Morton, signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Parts of the current house date back to the 1698 with a large addition constructed during the eighteenth century. The Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin was originally on this plantation.</p><br>
<p>The East Weatogue Historic District is a 490 acre historic district in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It then included 102 contributing buildings, 10 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and one other contributing object.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Simsbury was settled in the 17th century and incorporated in 1670. None of its early buildings survived the ravages of King Philip&#39;s War in 1676, and it was not resettled until the early 18th century. East Weatogue, located in the plains between the Farmington River to the west and a low mountain ridge to the east, is one of three early village settlements from that period. Three houses from the first map of the area (dated about 1730) are still standing. The area has remained largely agricultural, and its land use is still reflective of early methods of use. At that time, farmers built houses in a village cluster, and typically worked land that was nearby; this resulted in the present arrangement of the village.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly centered on the junction of East Weatogue Street and Hartford Road (Connecticut Route 185). Houses are set lining these two roads, having in a few instances grown into substantial farm complexes. Most of the principal buildings in the district are wood-frame houses, between one and stories in height. The largest single architectural style is the colonial-era Georgian style, which continued to be built here into the 19th century. There are smaller numbers of Federal and Greek Revival houses, and later Victorian and 20th styles appear in only a few instances.</p><br>
<p>The Mississippi Lofts and Adler Theatre is an apartment building and theater complex located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name, the Hotel Mississippi and RKO Orpheum Theater. The Hotel Mississippi was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2005. In 2020 the complex was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel Mississippi and RKO Orpheum Theater</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Mississippi was the last large-scale hotel to be built in the third phase of hotel construction in downtown Davenport after the Davenport Hotel in 1909 and the Hotel Blackhawk in 1915. The hotel and theater were designed by A.S. Graven of the Chicago architectural firm of Graven & Mayger. Henry Dreyfuss of New York City, an art consultant for the RKO chain, was involved with the theater but it&#39;s not exactly clear how. Contemporary accounts suggest he "was to provide an aesthetic sensibility and theatrical functionality to the theater derived from his years as a theatrical set designer." Its developer, George Bechtel, organized one of the first investment bond houses in Iowa in 1891. The complex was built by the Lundoff-Bicknell Company. It is situated on the site that was occupied by the Davenport Block, a commercial block built by Col. George Davenport, one of the founders of the city of Davenport and its namesake.</p><br>
<p>The hotel opened in November 1931 with 200 guest rooms and 50 apartments. It was initially operated by the Black Hawk Hotels Corporation of Davenport. The hotel struggled financially in the 1930s with an occupancy rate of about 25%. The hotel&#39;s restaurant and kitchen were located in the basement. Businesses such as a coffee shop, drug store, a clothier, realtor, floral shop and a beauty salon have been housed on the first floor over the years. By the 1970s the complex was owned by the Verdi Corporation, which was owned by prominent local realtor Mel Foster, Jr. and contractor Dudley Priester. The Mel Foster Company had its corporate headquarters in the building until the 1980s in what had been a Walgreens drug store location. By the early 1980s, the building had been converted into an apartment building. During this time period the local chamber of commerce leased space on the first floor of the building.</p><br>
<p>The RKO Orpheum Theater was a 2,700-seat theater that was built at the same time as the hotel, which surrounds the theater to the south and west. It was one of five RKO Orpheum Theaters to open that year. It was also Iowas largest movie house. The theater featured then up-to-date cinema equipment and a fully equipped stage that could accommodate vaudeville shows, concerts, and Broadway roadshow productions. The planned pipe organ, however, was never installed. Its grand opening was held on November 25, 1931, with Ginger Rogers sending a telegram from Hollywood to begin the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Her movie, Suicide Fleet, and five vaudeville acts accompanied by the theaters house orchestra were the opening night entertainment. Because of its size and modern facilities, the Orpheum became the Tri Cities cinema showplace, and it hosted all of Hollywood&#39;s major releases. Entertainers such as Tallulah Bankhead, Paul Robeson, Imogene Coca, Dorothy Lamour, Phil Ford, Forrest Tucker, John Barrymore, Liberace, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Jack Benny, Sammy Cahn, Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Dean, Stan Kenton, The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher, The Supremes, and The Pointer Sisters and KISS, Alive! Side 3, performed in the theater live. The original ticket booth and seven display advertising cases remain in place at the main entrance.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>The hotel portion of the facility is a ten-story L-shaped brick and granite building surrounding the seven-story theater. The ten-story portion of the building is 119.51 ft high. Three passenger elevators provided access to the upper floors. All of the hotel rooms faced out from the outside of the "L." There were no interior facing rooms. The verticality of the building is established by way of the vertically aligned windows that are separated by decorative panels. The Art Deco style is employed throughout the building, including the theater interior. Overall, the façade is void of excessive ornamentation. However, the stylized geometry indicative of the Art Deco style is found on the horizontal banding that defines the tenth floor. Decorative terracotta panels with a floral motif are also used to define the mezzanine level of the lower stories.</p><br>
<p>The theaters two-story grand lobby features a ceiling that rises to about 22 ft, a grand staircase, and a mezzanine to access the balcony seats. Mirrored openings and curved edge pseudo balconies on the east wall of the lobby match the real balconies and openings on the west side. The lobby ceiling is a series of recessed stepped pyramid openings that are arranged in a large rectangular panel. Two large chandeliers with crystal strands form geometric patterns that are consistent with the theaters Art Deco style.</p><br>
<h2>Mississippi Lofts and Adler Theatre</h2><br>
<p>The theater had deteriorated over the years and by the 1970s the RKO Orpheum was rarely being used because of its large size and the advent of multiplex movie theaters. The last movie shown in the theater was Cleopatra Jones on September 11, 1973. The theater was used on occasion for road shows and rock concerts. In 1981, an effort began to restore the theater. The Davenport Chamber of Commerce bought the theater and donated it to the RiverCenter For The Performing Arts, a non-profit group that was established to raise money to restore the theater and operate it as a performing arts center. The theater restoration project lasted from 1985 to 1986. The Davenport architectural firm of Scholtz-Kuehn and Paul S. Veneklasen, an acoustics consultant from Santa Monica, California were responsible for the plans. The project included restoring the original crystal and glass chandeliers and rebuilding and reupholstering the original seats. New carpeting was reproduced in England using a roll of the original floral woolen carpeting that was found during the remodeling project.</p><br>
<p>The renovated theater is a part of the adjacent convention center complex called the RiverCenter that opened in fall 1983. The convention center connects the Adler Theatre with the Hotel Blackhawk. A passageway with a new box office connects the theater and convention center at the theater&#39;s entresol. It was at this time that the theater was renamed the Adler Theatre after E.P. Adler and his son Phillip D. Adler. They had been newspaper publishers and philanthropists in Davenport and the decision to rename the theater was based on a $1.3 million endowment from Lee Enterprises, the company they led.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the City of Davenport bought the former Hotel Mississippi for $739,000 for the expansion of the Adler Theatre. The theater&#39;s stage was expanded from a depth of 29 ft to 41 ft into what was the west wing of the hotel. The renovations also included a new loading dock, additional dressing rooms, improved sound and computerized rigging systems. The architect for this renovation was Van Dijk, Westlake, Reed, & Leskosky of Cleveland, Ohio, led by principal architect Paul Westlake. The theater is home to the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Quad Cities, and hosts a Broadway tour series annually.</p><br>
<p>At the same time as the theater was being renovated, the Hotel Mississippi was undergoing an $8.5 million renovation. The last tenants were moved out of the old hotel in 2004 and 56 new apartments were created primarily on the south side of the building. The project was completed in spring 2007. J&T Development LLC of Chicago was in charge of the renovation. In addition to creating new apartments, the lobby area was restored to its past appearance. The project restored its multi-colored terrazzo floors, Art Deco-style elevator doors, and walnut and teak wood paneling. The loft managers office was created from the hotels former check-in desk.</p><br>
<p>In November 2010, a new temporary marquee facade was installed above the main entrance of the theater. It replaced one that was installed in 1997, but used its frame. The 2010 marquee was replaced in April 2018 by a new $340,000 structure designed by Michigan architect Eric Larsen and built by Wagner Electric Sign Company of Elyria, Ohio. It features two 30 ft angled panels with LED screens that advertise upcoming shows, and a 36 ft vertical blade sign with the theaters name. The inspiration for the new marquee was the theatres original 1931 RKO Theater marquee. The City of Davenport and private donations paid for the project.</p><br>
<p>The Forrest Block is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Forrest Block was constructed in 1875 by John Forrest as a commercial block. Forrest was a capitalist who invested his financial resources in several buildings downtown. This is the location of the homestead where he lived for 33 years before he redeveloped it. It is one of a number of large commercial buildings in Davenport that were designed in an elaborate Italianate style during the decade after the American Civil War. Prominent Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen designed the building and J.H. Whittaker was the general contractor. The building is designed to have retail businesses on the main floor and professional offices on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Over the course of its history, the building has housed small retail businesses, doctors offices, a billiards parlor, a tavern, and an adult movie theater. The second floor was the location of the citys YMCA organization in 1886. The Ancient Order of United Workmen (AOUW) was located on the third floor. The post office occupied the corner storefront from 1889 to 1996. Other organizations that have been housed in the building include the Davenport Health Institute, the Tri-City Institute of Osteopathy, the Davenport Cooking School, and the Woodmen Hall. Dr. Jennie McCowen, a physician and a locally prominent leader for women’s rights, had her office in the building for many years. The second and third floors housed apartments in its more recent history. The building was called the Henley block for a while starting in 1910. The Forrest Block had not been occupied since the 1980s and was nearly torn down in 1991 to make way for a parking lot, but the city council blocked demolition because of protests by historic preservationists. Although it deteriorated over the years, the building remained structurally sound because when it was constructed it was "over-built" with extra floor bracing and other heavy-duty construction elements. The building&#39;s owners in 1999 received a state grant to install a new roof that helped stabilize the building as well.</p><br>
<p>Highland Brothers bought the building for $130,000 in 2005. The following year they announced plans to convert the building into 10 luxury condominiums and commercial space on the first-floor. Work began on the renovation project, but soon ended. In 2009 the building was bought by Restoration St. Louis, who also owned the Hotel Blackhawk, which they were in the process of renovating at the time. They started renovating the Forrest Block building in March 2010. The $3.5 million renovation turned the building into 24 market rate apartments. Four of the units are live-and-work spaces. The building, which is 36,000 ft&sup2, was divided into one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Some of the apartments face an interior courtyard. The project was completed in January 2011. A rooftop garden was also added to the building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Forrest Block is a three-story, brick structure built on a stone foundation. On the Brady Street elevation the building features a pavilion which projects from the façade. It contains oversized Roman arched windows and a segmented cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Hatfield House is an historic house which is located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1854, Dr. Nathan L. Hatfield, of the University of Pennsylvania, bought the residence; it then remained in the possession of his family for seventy-five years.</p><br>
<p>This house appears on the 1843 Ellet Map of Philadelphia County, on the south side of Nicetown Road (Hunting Park Avenue), east of the Philadelphia and Germantown Rail Road and west of the Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike (Germantown Avenue).</p><br>
<p>By the time that the 1855 Barnes Map was created, the city&#39;s street grid was also shown, although few of the streets yet existed. By 1862, a horse-drawn streetcar line passed a block east of the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1925, the Simon Gratz High School was built directly east of the house. Four years later, Major Henry Reed Hatfield donated the house to Fairmount Park Commission.</p><br>
<p>In 1930, the building was dismantled and moved one story at a time to its present site at 33rd Street and Girard Avenue. Architect Erling H. Pedersen, of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, managed the relocation.</p><br>
<p>Hatfield House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Widow Maloby&#39;s Tavern is an historic, American tavern building that is located in the Queen Village section of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Part of the South Front Street Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1764 in Philadelphias former Southwark district for Thomas Maloby (alternate spelling "Mallaby"), a rigger in Philadelphias large shipping industry, this historic structure was owner-occupied in 1765, according to zoning records held by the city of Philadelphia. The owners, Maloby and his wife, Christiana, operated a bar room in the buildings front parlor and a dining room in the back parlor, which also served as their familys personal dining room. That back parlor was erected adjacent to a small kitchen area at the back of the home during the home&#39;s original construction period.</p><br>
<p>During its first months of operation, the tavern supplemented the shipping industry wages that Maloby brought in, but this soon changed when he died in 1765. Ownership of the property was subsequently transferred to his widow, who continued to operate the tavern until her death. Ownership of the property was subsequently transferred.</p><br>
<p>Sold to different owners during the late nineteenth century, those owners opted to use the residential structure as an income property, but did not live there. They did, however, renovate it to remove the kitchen and add an extension at the back of the structure.</p><br>
<p>A three-and-one-half-story, three-bay by two-bay, brick rowhouse that was originally painted yellow, it remained a tavern and community gathering place for more than a century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. The tavern is also part of the South Front Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>700 Front HABS 1961.jpgThe 700 block of South Front Street in 1961 with Widow Maloby&#39;s Tavern first on the right</p><br>
<p>700-704 S Front Philly.JPG700-704 S. Front in 2013, the tavern is on the right</p><br>
<p>The Henry Montague House in Kalamazoo, Michigan was built in 1861. It includes Greek Revival and Italianate stylings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Montague arrived in Kalamazoo in the 1830s from Massachusetts, and was closely involved with the abolitionist movement. He was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1854, and advocated that the state Insane Asylum be located in Kalamazoo. He was ultimately successful, and when the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital opened in 1859, Montague served as its first steward, a post he held until 1884. In 1861, Montague built this "simple but spacious brick home" on land he had purchased adjacent to the Asylum. During his time here, Montague entertained friends in the abolitionist movement, including Sojourner Truth. Montague lived in the house until his death In 1909. After that time, the house served as the residence of various state hospital officials.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Montague House is a two-story brick structure with a broad, symmetrical facade, including a projecting, veranda-fronted central section. It has square-head windows and a simply detailed transom-and-sidelight entrance, giving the house a Greek Revival look. However, the broadly projecting</p><br>
<p>eaves of the house and hip roof show an Italianate influence. The house serves as the office for Western Michigan University&#39;s Association of American University Professors.</p><br>
<p>The Terry&#39;s Plain Historic District is a 325 acre historic district in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The district is significant as a preserved rural landscape. It included 27 contributing buildings of various architectural styles, including Greek Revival, Federal and Late Victorian architecture, and 17 non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Thirteen houses that were parts of farm complexes and 14 agricultural outbuildings ranging from sheds to large tobacco barns.</p><br>
<p>Contributing sites include:</p><br>
<p>A field where the militia drilled in 1683 (or 1685)</p><br>
<p>24 Ferry Lane, barn from, house non-contributing (see #2 in photos accompanying NRHP nomination)</p><br>
<p>Lucius D. Goodrich House, 36 Ferry Lane, Federal/Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>64 Terry&#39;s Plain Road, Late Victorian</p><br>
<h2>Traine Band (Militia)</h2><br>
<p>Simsbury was founded as a town in 1670. Not long thereafter, the town established a militia, then known as a "traine band". The date of establishment of the militia is not known, but records of assemblies date to 1673. The Grand Committee of the Militia met in Hartford on August 11, 1673 to organize militia against a potential attack by the enemy. The Committee ordered the raising of 500 "dragoones" from the state, of which 160 were to come from Hartford County. At that meeting, Simon Wolcott and John Griffin of Simsbury were appointed to command the Simsbury Traine Band, which at that time numbered seven "dragoones".</p><br>
<p>The Committee included the following order:</p><br>
<p>Two years later, John Griffin was confirmed as sergeant of the Traine Band and placed in command.</p><br>
<h2>First home and first ferry</h2><br>
<p>The first home in Simsbury was located in the Terry&#39;s Plain area. The land where the house would be built was granted in 1653 to Thomas Ford, although a house would not be built until approximately 1660, when Captain Aaron Cook, the son-in-law of Thomas Ford, built the first home in Simsbury.</p><br>
<p>In the same general area, a ferry was established to facilitate crossing of the Farmington River. The exact date of the origin of the Pent Street Ferry is not known, but a road to the ferry was commissioned in 1668.</p><br>
<h2>First school</h2><br>
<p>The first school in Simsbury was located in Terrys Plain. The town agreed, at a town meeting on December 17, 1701, to "agree with and appoint a school master". The first day of school commenced on the first day of January 1702. The town discussed whether the school should be located on the east or west side of the river, and chose both, with the first three months to be held at a location in Terrys Plain, and then at a location in "Weatoug" on the west side.</p><br>
<p>The Black Horse Tavern is an historic tavern on Searsport Avenue in Belfast, Maine. Built in 1795, it was the city&#39;s first tavern located on the eastern side of the Passagassawakeag River, and is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period architecture. The building, now a private residence, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building known in the 19th century as the Black Horse Tavern stands on the north side of Searsport Avenue (United States Route 1), near the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River and between Old Searsport Avenue and Stephenson Lane. It is a -story wood-frame Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and stone foundation. Its main facade faces roughly east, and the main entrance, located at the center, has no trim. A single-story ell, a 20th-century replacement for an older ell, extends to the north, with two gabled dormers projecting from the roof. The interior of the main house is well preserved, with wide pine wainscoting, large fireplaces in both front rooms, with simple vertical-board partitions in the rear. Original doors and frames are still generally in use.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1795 by Jerome Stephenson, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War who moved to Belfast in 1784. Stephenson was prominent in local civic affairs, serving as selectman in 1785. Although he built the house for his family, he converted it into a tavern in 1800, a role it fulfilled under is son and grandson, until about 1852. The sign used to identify the tavern is now stored in the house.</p><br>
<p>The Kettle Falls Hotel is a historic hotel in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the USA state of Minnesota. It opened in 1913 deep in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, at the juncture of Namakan and Rainy Lakes. Today it is the only lodging operating inside the park, and remains accessible only by water.</p><br>
<p>In 1976 the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its state-level significance in the themes of commerce, entertainment/recreation, industry, and transportation. It was nominated for its long history of providing lodging and refreshment to fishermen, lumberjacks, traders, and tourists at a key portage deep in a roadless area. Two years later the hotel was included as a contributing property to the Kettle Falls Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was first patented as a homestead in 1910 by Ida May Winslow. The property passed to Minneapolis surgeon Frederick A. Dunsmoor, who in turn sold the land to William E. "Big Ed" Rose, a timberman, in 1913. Rose is reputed to have built the north–south wing of the hotel in 1913. Rose sold his Kettle Falls holdings to Robert Sloan Williams in 1918 for $1,000 and four barrels of whiskey. Williams operated a hotel and nightclub in Ranier, Minnesota, with the Kettle Falls Hotel as a sideline. Williams had a number of run-ins with the law, charged with selling illegal whiskey in Ranier and Kettle Falls, and later operated stills and a smuggling operation. The hotel was electrified by 1935. An annex, called the "big house", was built behind the hotel in 1946. Bob Williams died in 1956; his widow Lil and step-son Charlie and his wife Blanche continued to run the hotel. Lil Williams died in 1961. The National Park Service acquired the hotel from the Williams family, who continued to operate it, in 1976. The hotel was extensively renovated in 1986-87.</p><br>
<p>Argent Apartments is a historic apartment house located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1895 and is a rectangular, three story, frame building covered by a slate mansard roof and clapboard sheathing. At the corners are three story towers with open galleries. It features two tiered porches with turned posts and balustrades.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Smith Flats is a historic apartment house located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1895 and is a square, three story, flat roofed building faced with brick veneer. It features projecting three story bay windows, bracketed three tiered porches with turned posts and balustrades, and a bracketed pressed metal cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
