<p>Bemis Eye Sanitarium Complex is a historic sanatorium complex located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. The complex was built between about 1893 and 1902 and consists of eight contributing structures. The architect was Ephraim Potter. There are five boarding houses built for the sanitarium, as well as two previously existing residences and a carriage house that were converted for sanitarium use in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Edward Herbert Bemis built the complex for the treatment of eye diseases. The sanitarium closed after his death in 1901.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>At least two of the buildings of the complex, on Sherman Avenue, were later re-purposed as the Sherman Square Apartments. These buildings suffered a severe fire on May 8, 2014. The interior was gutted, but the exterior was salvaged, and the apartment complex was expected to be eventually re-opened.</p><br>
<p>Dr. James Ferguson Office is a historic medical office building located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1870 and is a small, square -story Second Empire–style building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The building was slated for demolition in 2017 by the city of Glens Falls. A grass-roots restoration campaign resulted in the building&#39;s preservation. It was awarded the Excellence in Historic Preservation Award in 2020 by the Preservation League of New York State.</p><br>
<p>Glens Falls Home for Aged Women is a historic residential building located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1903 and is a large, T-shaped, -story brick institutional building topped by a gambrel roof in the Colonial Revival style. It features a central entrance pavilion with a gambrel-roofed cross gable and a semi-circular entrance portico.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, Rocco Andrew Musumeci, Sr. purchased the home for his family as a summer home. After a decade of personal use, the Glens Falls Home For Aged Women has inadvertently become a local home of acceptance and refuge for disadvantaged and disabled persons. Rocco Musumeci and his family continue to care for the local community and for the Home’s guests by their own good will and generosity.</p><br>
<p>The Joubert and White Building is located at 77-79 Warren Street  in Glens Falls, New York. The property was acquired in 1864 to be the corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility for Joubert and White Company - manufacturers of high-grade buckboards. The building is located at the corner of Warren and Jay streets.</p><br>
<p>The Joubert and White Building is a three-story, flat-roofed, brick factory structure above a cut limestone foundation. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1864, after borrowing $50, Edward Joubert and J. Huyler White formed a partnership and began to develop a 18,000 ft&sup2; manufacturing building at what was then 45-47 Warren Street (now 77-79 Warren Street)</p><br>
<h2>Joubert and White Company</h2><br>
<p>Joubert and White began the manufacture of high-grade buckboards in Glens Falls in 1865. They were the innovators and inventors of a famous model that was known for its suspension system and was sought by many wealthy people here and abroad. Notable owners of the buckboard included Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, J. Pierpont Morgan, Louis Tiffany, Spencer Trask, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. A standard buckboard was constructed by running two planks of wood between the front and rear axles and mounting the passenger seat body on the planks. The only shock absorption was in the flexibility of the planks. When riding on the rough roads of their day, passengers felt like they were riding a bucking horse, hence the name. Joubert devised a way to attach two steel leaf springs, bowed upwards to the planks, with the passenger seat attached to the top of the springs. The seats moved vertically on the springs and also rocked forward and back, making for a more cushioned ride. In 1880, Joubert patented his suspension design in 1880. Some 50 carriage and sleigh models by Joubert and White were considered to be of superior quality. A good buggy would sell for $50 to $75, while the Joubert and White buckboard might cost $500 to $800 with some as high as $1000 or more if customized.</p><br>
<p>By 1897 the company had 35 employees, made 75 vehicles annually and reached $50,000 in sales. Joubert handled the manufacturing details for the firm before he died in 1890. White, who handled sales, kept the business and traveled the country as the "Buckboard King" taking mail orders by catalog. Production continued into the 20th century, only falling off with the coming of the gasoline-powered automobiles. When White died in 1916, the company went out of business with assets of $100,000, which were divided among the heirs of Joubert and White.</p><br>
<h2>Empire Automobile Company</h2><br>
<p>Starting in 1910, the Joubert and White Building also housed the Empire Automobile Company owned by D.H. Cowles and Frank M. Starbuck. Catering to the affluent of the Saratoga Springs, New York-Adirondack Mountains resort-touring season, Cowles and Starbuck provided an automobile storage and repair facility. Patrons had the opportunity to have their autos serviced overnight, before continuing via auto or carriage to their destinations in the Adirondacks. In 1933, Empire Automotive began to share their space with Comac Sales, Inc. - another automobile dealership. Empire Auto remained in business until 1935, dealing in such brands as Chevrolet, Cadillac, Essex, Hudson, and LaSalle automobiles, as well as GMC trucks.</p><br>
<h2>Decline and Rehabilitation</h2><br>
<p>After the closing of Empire Automobile Company, Comac Sales, Inc., a Chevrolet dealer, occupied the building until 1956 when it changed ownership and became Whiteman Chevrolet. Whiteman remained in the Joubet and White Building until 1957, when they moved to their current location on Dix Avenue in Glens Falls. The Joubert and White Building remained vacant until it was occupied by Campbell Wholesale Plumbing and Heating Corporation in 1960. The Joubert and White Building housed various businesses after the closing of Campbell in 1970, including Armando Candle Mill Inc., a Parts Plus auto part store, an H&R Block tax preparation store, and a martial arts studio, before then becoming warehouse space for Glen Street Associates in 2008. In 2011 the building was renovated and leased for commercial and residential use under the name Warren Street Square.</p><br>
<p>Peyser and Morrison Shirt Company Building is a historic industrial building located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1893 and is a square, two story brick industrial structure with a highly embellished street facade in the Romanesque style. It is the only extant industrial structure designed by prominent local architect Ephraim B. Potter .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Spencer Wilcox Building is a historic building in Līhuʻe, Kauai, Hawaii. Originally a library when it opened in 1924, it was later converted into the Kauai Museum. It has exhibits on the history of the island of Kauai. It was added to both the Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Library</h2><br>
<p>The first library on the island of Kauai was probably established by Reverend John Mortimer Lydgate in 1900 at his church in Līhuʻe. After moving to a temporary home in 1921, a permanent home was needed. On February 3, 1922, Emma Kauikeolani Wilcox, widow of businessman and politician Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919) offered US$75,000 for a public library on Kauai. In October 1922 architect Hart Wood was selected to design the building named in honor of Wilcox. Built with John Hansen as general contractor, it opened in 1924 to house the first public library on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>In April 1954 a committee started raising funds for a museum to be built next to the library. Juliet Rice Wichman was chair of the committee. A granddaughter of businessman and politician William Hyde Rice, she had married Frederick Warren Wichman after the death of her first husband Holbrook M. Goodale. The new building was designed by architect Kenneth Roehrig and named for Rice. Wichman became the museum&#39;s first director, and would later co-found the National Tropical Botanical Garden and donate land to become the Limahuli Garden and Preserve to the garden. The first manager of the museum was Dora Jane Isenberg Cole (1917–1988), a second cousin of Wichman sharing great-grandfather William Harrison Rice (1813–1862) but Paul Isenberg (1837–1903) as her paternal grandfather.</p><br>
<p>On December 3, 1960, the museum opened to the public in the Rice building. In 1969 the state of Hawaii built a new library building, and the Wilcox building was converted to house additional exhibits of the Kauai Museum, opening in December 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Wilcox building was listed on the Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places as state historic site 50-30-11-9344 on February 17, 1979. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on May 31, 1979, as site 79000760.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 4428 Rice Street, 21&deg;58&prime;29&Prime;N latitude, 159&deg;22&prime;6&Prime;W longitude in Līhuʻe.</p><br>
<h2>Family tree</h2><br>
<p>Glens Falls Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It was established in 1853 as a 13-acre cemetery and expanded in 1871, 1888, and five times between 1913 and 1973 to a total of 38 acres.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1853, the village purchased 13 acres from Andrew Porteus of Queensbury, New York for the sum of $1000, with $500 set aside for grading and fencing. The first burial took place in 1855, but there are several older markers which were moved here from the old West Street Cemetery in the early 1870s.</p><br>
<p>After several expansions, the cemetery now spans 32 acres with over 12,000 burials.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Harry Elkes (1878–1903), was a champion bicycle racer who died during a race in 1903</p><br>
<p>Orange Ferriss (1814–1894), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>Franklin Johndro (1835–1901), a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor</p><br>
<p>Frederick A. Johnson (1833–1893), US Congressman</p><br>
<p>George Merrill (1847–1925), was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor</p><br>
<p>"Broncho Charlie" Miller, the last Pony Express rider, died in 1955, claiming to be 105 years old.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Russell (1800–1875), US Congressman</p><br>
<h2>Notable structures</h2><br>
<p>The Memorial Chapel (1946) is a small, front gabled stone building with a slate roof. The cemetery office (1950) is a concrete stucco finished building with a peaked slate roof. The cemetery includes a number of notable burial monuments and mausoleums.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>18th Separate Company Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It is a brick and stone castle-like structure built in 1895, designed to be reminiscent of medieval military structures in Europe. It was designed by State Architect Isaac G. Perry. It is a monumental rectangular brick and stone structure covered by hipped slate roofs. It has a large drill hall. The building features a crenelated tower and narrow recessed windows with stone lintels.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Elias Abel House is a historic building in western Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Built in the Greek Revival style in 1845, it was once the grand home of one of Bloomington&#39;s leading citizens. After many years of use, it fell into disrepair and was endangered by the possibility of destruction, but restoration has led to its designation as a historic site due to its authentic period architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Elias Abel</h2><br>
<p>Born in 1800 in Wythe County, Virginia, Abel moved to the Bloomington vicinity in 1824 and began to farm. At this time, southwestern Indiana was very rural; Bloomington likely had no more than six hundred residents in 1824, but it was the most prosperous town in its region of the state. Between 1841 and 1862, he was active in local politics; he served multiple terms as the Monroe County treasurer, and he was elected to serve in the Indiana General Assembly from 1856 to 1857. After finishing his Bloomington house in 1845, Abel lived on the property until 1856; After residing elsewhere for four years, he purchased a nearby house now known as the Blair-Dunning House; in 1862, he sold it to the future wife of Paris C. Dunning, later Governor of Indiana. Into his old age, Abel continued to be both healthy and prominent in the community, keeping his reputation as one of Monroe County&#39;s leading Democrats into his mid-eighties.</p><br>
<h3>After Abel</h3><br>
<p>Following several decades of use as the residence of its owners, the house was converted into a rental property in 1923; it soon began to deteriorate due to a lack of necessary maintenance. During this time, the porch was expanded, the exterior was covered with poor-quality brown asphalt siding, and the original exterior woodwork deteriorated; by the late 1970s, both the original and the later elements were crumbling.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>The structure of the house is typical of the design known as the "I-house" — its two stories are each divided into two rooms, one on each side. Such a plan is typical of the vernacular architecture of Monroe County in the middle of the nineteenth century: the areas early settlers generally favored the "I plan", finding it simple and sufficient for their needs without sacrificing elegance. Few such houses remain in a condition closely resembling their early years; despite the changes made to it, the Abel House has been named Bloomingtons best extant "I"-house.</p><br>
<p>Major structural elements of the house include a pitched roof made of composites and wooden eaves, a large basement with limestone walls and a fruit cellar, and multiple brick chimneys. During its history, the house has received two additions on its western (rear) side: a saltbox-style on the southwestern corner, and a simpler style on the northwestern corner. Individuals may enter the house through a central main entrance; flanked by two windows on each side, the door is surrounded by transoms that may include some original glass.</p><br>
<h3>Details</h3><br>
<p>The house has been ranked as a fine example of the popular version of the Greek Revival style of architecture. A frame structure two stories tall, the house was built with a small portico at the entrance; when it was later expanded to a large porch, almost all of the original portico was removed. Some original elements survived the modifications of the twentieth century; the most important of these are the pilasters on the corners of the house.</p><br>
<p>Inside, many more original elements survive than on the exterior. Significant among these are the rail, balusters, and steps of the main staircase, which are made of hand-planed cherry wood, and the mantel over the main fireplace. Other distinctive features include transoms over all interior doorways in the house&#39;s southern portion and a walnut log in the attic, which was a traditional element used to bring good luck to the house.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>A renaissance began for the Abel House in 1976, when the city of Bloomington designated it a historic site, thus preserving it from almost certain demolition; one year later, it was purchased by a couple who soon began to renovate it and applied for loans to aid in restoring it. In 1982, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture; key to its inclusion was its place as the citys best example of an "I"-house and as the home of one of the most prominent residents of early Bloomington. Fifteen years after the house was added to the Register, much of the citys west side was designated a historic district, the Bloomington West Side Historic District; the Abel House was named one of the most important of the district&#39;s hundreds of contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Fredella Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It includes eight contributing buildings. They are multi-story concrete residential buildings built as speculative housing for Italian immigrant families. They are built of molded concrete block and decorated with cast concrete trim and characterized by two story porches with concrete fluted columns. They were built between 1914 and 1918 and located based on their proximity to local stone quarries.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Three Squares Historic District is a national historic district located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. It includes 75 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing object. It encompasses Glens Falls historic and contemporary commercial center. The buildings generally consist of brick commercial, office, and institutional structures between two and five stories in height. Because of devastating fires in 1862 and 1902, the majority of the buildings were built between 1902 and 1930. Notable buildings include the Italianate style Cowles block , Neoclassical style Rogers Building , Beaux-Arts style Empire Theater , and Neoclassical style Glens Falls City Hall .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, with boundary changes approved in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Spencer Wilcox Beach House was a home of Albert Spencer Wilcox. Located on Weke Road in Hanalei, Hawaii, it was listed on the Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places in 1987 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is a Folk Victorian-style building, with roofed lānai connecting the rooms. A 22 acre property, including five contributing buildings and four other contributing structures, was listed.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant architecturally, and for its association with Albert Spencer Wilcox, and for its association with development of Hanalei as a recreation site.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, it was deemed significant "as a good, surviving example of a late nineteenth/early twentieth century house in Hawaii. Its rambling design and separation of social, cooking and sleeping functions into detached rooms connected by a lanai is typical of the period. This house and the Gay residence (Hawaii and National Register of Historic Places) are the only known turn-of-the-century houses on Kauai to retain such a feature. The use of shiplap siding, tongue and groove walls and ceiling, paneled doors, and the quality of workmanship reflect the period of construction. The orientation to the outdoors and the living space provide by the lanais, as well as the numerous windows and openings for light and ventilation, attest to the builder&#39;s understanding of the location and the type of lifestyle enjoyed in Hawaii. The house is also representative of the growth and changes within the Wilcox family; the house incorporates additions which provided more space for the growing family."</p><br>
<p>Applethorpe Farm is a historic farmstead in northeastern Ross County, Ohio, United States. Located along Whissler Road north of the unincorporated community of Hallsville,</p><br>
<p>By 1840, John Buchwalter, Jr. owned the property; in that year, he decided to construct a new farmhouse. Erecting an elaborate structure in the popular Greek Revival style, he built its two-story walls of brick with sandstone details. The house is generally a very symmetrical structure: the west-facing facade features an entrance in the central of five bays, and twin chimneys rise above each end of the structure. Among its most distinctively Greek Revival elements is the classical portico around the main entrance; it features a triple entablature with square columns, and the doors it shelters are heavy and constructed of multiple large components.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the Buchwalter house and the rest of Applethorpe Farm were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As well as the house, two agricultural outbuildings qualified as contributing properties within the area designated as historic. Key to the farm&#39;s recognition was the architecture of the farmhouse, which was seen as an exceptionally well-preserved example of the rural interpretation of the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Royal C. Peabody Estate, also known as Wikiosco , is a historic lakefront estate located at Lake George, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1905 and is a -story, asymmetrical Tudor Revival–style summer residence. It is a stuccoed frame structure above a raised basement and first story sheathed in rough-cut granite. It was originally built for Royal C. Peabody the founder of Brooklyn Edison now part of Con Edison.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Sanford House is a historic home located at Queensbury, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1797 and is a formal, five-by-two-bay 2-story Federal-style house with Georgian-inspired details. It is of post-and-beam construction with wide clapboard sheathing. It features an elaborate center entrance porch with a second-story Palladian window. It is located adjacent to the Asa Stower House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Asa Stower House is a historic home located at Queensbury, Warren County, New York. It was a -story, five-by-two-bay, 2-story, side-gabled residence, with a rear ell wing and slate roof in a Federal style. It was built in four phases: a pre-1806 original frame residence incorporated into the rear ell; the c. 1806 main block; renovations dated to about 1850 that added Greek Revival elements; and the Italianate-style front porches added about 1870. It is located adjacent to the Sanford House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Merrill-Magee House, also known as The Merrill Magee Inn, is a historic home located at Warrensburg, Warren County, New York. It was built in three phases: the original -story, Greek Revival–style farmhouse built about 1835; the 2-story main block with giant portico added about 1855; and the 1911 addition of a -story farmhouse, originally built in 1815, attached to the west end of the original dwelling. Also in 1911, a shed-roofed frame kitchen was added. Also on the property are a woodshed , ice house , smokehouse , carriage barn , garage / servant&#39;s quarters , swimming pool , chicken coop , and the landscaping. It has been used as a restaurant and inn since the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Mixter Blacksmith Shop is a historic blacksmith shop located at Warrensburg, Warren County, New York. It was built about 1840 in the Greek Revival style to house a commercial operation and modified about 1890 in the Queen Anne style to accommodate mixed use activities. It is a two-story building built into a slope. It is constructed of load-bearing local granite and topped by a medium pitched roof clad in raised seam metal.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, also known as The Sembrich and the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Studio, is a historic teaching studio located at Bolton Landing, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1922-24 as a teaching studio for New York Metropolitan Opera diva Marcella Sembrich . The studio building is a one-story, rectangular, stucco walled wood-frame building with a hipped roof and glassed in porches in the Spanish Revival style. Additional contributing features on the property are a bathhouse, curator&#39;s cottage, a lookout, stone retaining walls along the shoreline, stone walls, three piers flanking the entrance, wrought iron fencing and entrance gate, and landscape features. The property was converted to a museum shortly after the death of Marcella Sembrich in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Sembrich hosts summer concerts, lectures, films and performances.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Benton Grange No. 458 is an historic Grange hall at 29 River Road in Benton, Maine, USA. Built in 1915, it is one of the rural community&#39;s largest buildings, serving for many years as a social and civic venue for the town. From 1915 to 1990 it housed the annual town meeting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Benton Grange is located in the village center of the town, at the northeast corner of River Road and School Drive. It is a long rectangular two story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete block foundation. The narrow front facade is three bays wide, with a hip-roofed single-story porch extending across it, supported by bracketed turned posts in the Queen Anne style. Above the porch three sash windows are symmetrically placed, and there is a hip-roof dormer projecting from the roof above, adorned with a wooden panel identifying the building and its year of construction. The interior houses a lobby, with restrooms, cloakroom, and ticket booth, with a dining room behind, and a large auditorium on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The Benton Grange was organized in 1906, and its early meetings were held in the local school, but had by 1910 decided to build a dedicated meeting hall. The present hall was built in 1915 to a design by Fairfield architect Frank M. Gifford. The hall continues to be a meeting and social venue for the community, and its Grange chapter continues to be active, despite a general decline in agricultural activities in the community.</p><br>
<p>The Garland Grange Hall is a historic Grange hall on Oliver Hill Road in Garland, Maine. Built in 1891, it is one of the finest 19th-century Grange halls in the state, exhibiting a combination of Greek Revival and Italianate features. It has served as a social center for the community since its construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Garland Grange Hall stands on the west side of Oliver Hill Road, in the rural communitys dispersed village center, a short way north of its junction with Maine State Route 94. It is a -story wood-frame building, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and granite stone foundation. The buildings corners are finished with Greek Revival paneled pilasters, with paired Italianate brackets at the top, supporting a broad eave. The front (east-facing) facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance sheltered by a hood with Italianate brackets. Windows are six-over-six sash, except for the window in the gable, which is fixed and has a round-arch top. Beneath the overhanging edges of the roof is a band of decorative rosettes. The interior has retained original wooden finishes. It is laid out with a dining hall and kitchen on the ground floor, and an auditorium on the second floor. Original 19th-century tables and chairs remain in use.</p><br>
<p>The Patrons of Husbandry (more commonly called the Grange) was organized in Maine in 1873. The Garland Grange chapter was established the following year, and this hall was built by its members in 1891. It is one of the oldest Grange halls in the state to exhibit any significant degree of architectural sophistication, and exhibits a common thread of Maine&#39;s 19th century architecture, retaining older styles after they have passed out of fashion elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeside Grange No. 63 is a historic Grange hall on Main Street in Harrison, Maine. Built in 1905, it has served as a major community meeting space since then, notably surviving a 1907 fire that destroyed part of the town&#39;s center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lakeside Grange is located in the village of Harrison, on the southwest side of Main Street (Maine State Routes 35 and 117), at its junction with Lincoln Street. It is a large rectangular -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. It is essentially vernacular in style, with ornament limited to the brackets support the hip-roofed hood extending across the front. The first floor has an irregular and asymmetrical arrangement, with a pair of display windows to the left of the off-center entrance, and a single sash window to its right. On the second level there is a centered pair of narrow windows, with sash windows in the outer bays. A Palladian-shaped sign is mounted in the gable. The interior was historically divided into a commercial space in the front, with meeting spaces behind, with a large auditorium space on the second floor. The auditorium has a balcony, and raised stage with backstage area.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeside Grange was organized in 1874, a time when Harrison was a largely agricultural community, and originally met in the towns Odd Fellows hall. It was one of several agriculturally-oriented organizations in the town (including an older Grange chapter in another village), and the chapter folded in the 1890s. It was revived in 1901, and had by 1905 outgrown all of the available community spaces. This hall was built in 1905, providing among other features the towns first performance venue with stage. It served as the town&#39;s primary community venue until the construction of larger spaces (the VFW hall and the Deertrees Theater). In 1907 a conflagration destroyed all of the larger buildings in the town, except for this one. It continues to be used as a community resource.</p><br>
<p>The Tranquility Grange No. 344 is a historic Grange hall on Maine State Route 52  in Lincolnville, Maine. Built in 1908, it exhibits restrained Craftsman styling, and has been a social and civic center of the community since its construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tranquility Grange Hall stands on the south side of Maine State Route 52, about one mile northeast of Lincolnville Center. It stands on a sloping lot, presenting a single story to the street, and a fully exposed basement to the side and rear. It is topped by a hip roof with a front-facing hipped dormer, and its walls are clad in wooden shingles. The front is symmetrical, with a recessed entrance in the center and paired sash windows to either side, each grouping topped by an entablature and shallow cornice. There are narrow corner boards at the building corners, rising to a broad entablature that extends to the sides. The interior of the main floor has an entrance vestibule, cloakroom, and a small kitchen at the front, with the main hall taking up most of the rear. It has a stage at the far end, and has hardwood flooring and wainscoting, with the upper walls and ceiling finished in pressed tin. The downstairs has the dining room, a larger kitchen, and restrooms. Access to the lower level is gained by either stairs beside the stage, or via a secondary entrance on the exposed west side of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Grange hall was built in 1908, and was the third built by the organization, which was founded in 1898. The first two halls were both destroyed by fire, and this one was built on the site of the second one. The building has, since its construction, been a civic and social meeting point for the rural community, and played host to its town meetings until the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Chestertown Historic District is a national historic district located at Chestertown, Warren County, New York. It includes seven contributing buildings. It includes the Fowler Homestead and related outbuildings, the Church of the Good Shepherd , Chester Town Hall, the Fowler cemetery, and centennial monument . The Fowler Homestead is a Greek Revival style home constructed in the mid-1840s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>"Melrose", also known as the Old President&#39;s House, is an historic home that is located on the campus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in Cheyney, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure is a -story, vernacular, stone residence. It has three sections: the original section that was built before 1785, a three-bay addition that was built in 1807, and a two-bay addition that was built circa 1850. The 122-acre farm for which the house served as the main residence, became the basis for the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania campus. The house served as the President&#39;s House from 1903 to 1968.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Warrensburg Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Warrensburg, Warren County, New York. It includes 58 contributing buildings and four contributing structures. It encompasses a number of mill complexes and homes related to the development of Warrensburg. It includes a mill dam, Emerson Sawmill , grist mill, early shirt factory , later shirt factory , office building , coal storage shed , grain warehouses, and 51 wood residences and one brick residence. Also within the district are the Osborne Bridge , and Woolen Mill Bridge .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
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<p>Hamlet of Warrensburgh Historic District is a national historic district located at Warrensburg, Warren County, New York. It includes 351 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and five contributing structures. It encompasses the historic commercial core on the north side of the Schroon River and historic industrial core on the south side of the river of the hamlet of Warrensburgh. It includes more high styled residences and notable civic and religious properties on the north side and vernacular residences on the south side. Notable commercial buildings include the Woodward Block , Wills Block , bank building at 138 Main Street , and the former Sturdevan&#39;s Bakery . Three historic churches within the district are the Church of the Holy Cross , First Methodist Church , and United Presbyterian Church . Civic buildings located within the district are the Richards Library  and Warrensburgh Central School . In addition, the Floyd Bennett Park and Bandstand , named for Warrensburg native Floyd Bennett, is within the district.</p><br>
<p>The St. Cecelia&#39;s Cemetery and Warrensburgh Cemetery are also within the district boundaries. Located within the district is the separately listed Merrill MaGee House and Warrensburg Mills Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The John B. Russwurm House is an historic house at 238 Ocean Avenue in the Back Cove neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Built about 1810, it was the residence of American abolitionist and Liberian colonist John Brown Russwurm. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Russwurm House is located on the northwest side of Ocean Avenue (Maine State Route 9), between Gleckler and Wellington Roads. It is set back from the road, just south of the Church of the Holy Spirit. It is a typical Federal period -story wood-frame structure, with a five-bay front facade and side gable roof. It is one room deep, and has a center entrance with a modest Greek Revival surround that includes sidelights and pilasters. A single-story ell extends to the rear on the left side, its gabled roof perpendicular to the main roof. The interior has a narrow stair in the entrance vestibule, with a Greek Revival parlor to the left and a Federal period parlor to the right.</p><br>
<p>This house was built about 1810, and was from 1812 to 1827 intermittently the home of John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851). Russwurm was born in Jamaica to white plantation owner, John R. Russwurm, and an enslaved black woman. His father died in 1815, and his stepmother, Susan, lived there with her third husband, local miller William Hawes, after their marriage in 1817.</p><br>
<p>Educated at Hebron Academy and Bowdoin College (where he was the first African-American to graduate), he was co-editor of Freedom&#39;s Journal, the first newspaper in America owned and published by African-Americans. He was active in abolitionist circles, and was a proponent of returning blacks to Africa. In 1836 he was chosen to serve as the first black governor of Maryland in Africa, a colony which eventually became part of Liberia. This house is the only known property in the United States associated with his life.</p><br>
<p>Gates Homestead is a historic home located at Bolton, Warren County, New York. The property includes the main house, ice house, carpenter shop, and two barns. All structures  were built between about 1830 and 1880 and moved to their present location in 1919. The main house was built about 1830 and is a -story, post and beam, five-by-two-bay late Federal / early-Greek Revival–style residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Stony Creek, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1858-59 and is a vernacular Greek Revival style frame church with a gable roof. It is 32 feet wide and 48 feet deep and sits on a stone foundation. It features a square, hip roofed bell tower added in 1874. The stained glass windows date to the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Cadet shipwreck is an archaeological site located in Lake George near Bolton in Warren County, New York. It is the site of the shipwreck of the 1893-built Olive ex Cadet steam launch. It was a 48-foot-long, 9.6-foot-wide wooden steamboat with a pointed bow, and was found submerged in approximately 50 feet of water. The ship was discovered by Bateaux Below Inc. in 1997. In 2005, the ship was reported to be in fairly good condition, with its hull mainly intact.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Mohican II is a historic steel riveted hull excursion steamboat located at Lake George in Warren County, New York. She was built in 1907-08 for the Lake George Steamboat Company by the T.S. Marvel Shipuilding Company of Newburgh, New York. She measures 117 ft in length, 26 ft in beam, and 8.3 ft depth of hold. She was designed for use on Lake George as an excursion vessel, has been in continuous use for over 100 years and is the oldest passenger vessel in the United States.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Wiawaka bateaux are a cluster of shipwrecks in Lake George, New York State. The seven British and colonial bateaux were scuttled in 1758 during the French and Indian Wars, with the intention of recovery in 1759. This never happened, and their wrecks were discovered between 1963 and 1964 by archaeological diver Terry Crandall, working under the auspices of the Adirondack Museum. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Odd Fellows Temple in Pasadena, California is a historic building that was built in 1933 at 175 N. Los Robles Ave. The temple served as a meeting place for Odd Fellow Lodge No. 324, the Pasadena branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows established in 1885. Pasadena architect Kenneth Gordon designed the building; its design incorporates the Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean Revival styles. The temple is the only Spanish Colonial Revival building in Pasadena which was built for a fraternal organization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a large building but was nonetheless moved in 1987, after its NRHP listing, to 120 N. El Molino Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Wakamiya Inari Shrine at Waipahu Cultural Garden in Waipahu, Hawaii, is the last surviving example of Inari Shrine architecture on Oahu. Unlike most Shinto shrines, which are unpainted, those dedicated to the fox deity Inari, the god of the harvest, are painted bright red. This shrine thus represents not just the religious heritage of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, but also their principal early roles as agricultural laborers on sugarcane and pineapple plantations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 8 January 1980.</p><br>
<p>The simple wood frame building measures 19 by 26 feet, with wooden steps leading up to a raised floor with a balustraded verandah that wraps around the sanctuary. Long eaves of the irimoya (hip-and-gable) roof extend over both the front steps and the verandah. The sanctuary is enclosed by sliding doors with latticework tops and contains an inner altar behind a bell rope and a box for offerings. The building has been carefully restored but still lacks the chigi (forked finials) above the ornamental ridgepole.</p><br>
<p>The shrine was founded by Reverend Yoshio Akizaki, a Shinto priest who had studied in Tokyo in 1912. Originally built in 1914 in Honolulus industrial area of Kakaako by a Japanese architect known only as Haschun, it was relocated in 1918 to 2132 South King Street in Moiliili, the heart of the citys Japanese community. After the death of the founder in 1951, his son Takeo inherited both the property and the priesthood. After Takeo&#39;s death, the property was sold and the shrine was relocated to Waipahu Cultural Garden in 1979 to make way for a sporting goods store.</p><br>
<p>The relocated shrine is in a rural rather than urban setting and the surrounding garden lacks several of its original elements, including its water purification basin (chōzuya or temizuya), its paired stone images of guardian lions and fox deities, and its original torii, although a new torii has been reconstructed at the new site. For its 100th anniversary in 2014, it received a new roof and won a Historic Preservation Honor Award.</p><br>
<p>The Former Machias Valley Grange, No. 360 is a social and civic meeting hall at 1 Elm Street in Machias, Maine. Built in 1907, it features a distinctive design that eliminates support posts in its dining hall and auditorium. Now owned by a local artists&#39; cooperative, it continues to function as a social and civic meeting space. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Machias Grange hall is set on the south side of the Machias River, opposite the town&#39;s downtown area, at the junction of Obrien and Elm Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and concrete foundation. Its main entrance is set at the eastern end of the long side facing Elm Street, under a hip-roofed portico supported by turned posts. The facade facing Obrien Street is distinguished by a deeply overhanging second story, with the overhang supported by large Queen Anne-inspired brackets. There are two pairs of sash windows on each of the main floors on this facade, and a single sash window at the attic level.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance opens into a foyer area that extends along the east side of the building, with stairs leading to the auditorium upstairs, and doors leading to the dining area that occupies most of the downstairs. The kitchen occupies the northeastern corner. The upstairs auditorium has a simple raised platform stage (with no backstage area) at the far end. The dining room ceiling is supported by a combination of heavy wooden timbers, with metal rods oriented laterally to them, eliminating the need for supporting pillars. A similar support system is also used in the ceiling of the auditorium, but it is obscured by a suspended tin ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Machias Grange was organized in 1903, and met in the towns Pennell Block until it built this structure in 1907. Records of the period have not survived, so the buildings architect is not known. Because of the buildings sizable dining room and kitchen, it quickly became an important local venue for social and fraternal events, dances, and religious services. When the towns last movie theater closed, the Grange also screened films here. With the Granges membership in decline, the building was sold in 2001 to the Beehive Cooperative, an artists cooperative, which has restored the building and continues to offer it as a social and community meeting space.</p><br>
<p>The Monticello Grange No. 338 is a historic civic building on United States Route 1 in the heart of Monticello, Maine. Built in 1922 by the local Grange organization, it served the town for many years as its only performance space, hosting social events, town meetings, and school graduations, and is still used for some of these purposes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Grange hall is located on the east side of US 1 in the main village of Monticello, just north of School Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, and an exterior sheathed in its original tin siding. The west-facing front facade has a centered entrance, with asymmetrically placed windows on either side. The second level has one window above the entrance and a second above the left window; there is a single window in the gable end. The interior begins with a small vestibule, with a coat room on the left and stairs to the right. A door leads into a large dining room, with bathrooms to the rear and a kitchen behind the coat room. The second floor houses the lodge hall of the Grange, with the stage at the east end of the hall.</p><br>
<p>Monticellos Grange chapter (the Patrons of Husbandry) was founded in 1899, and its first meeting hall was built that year. That building was destroyed by fire in 1921, and this building was built to replace it the following year. For many years the hall housed a variety of functions, including town offices and town meetings as well as a wide variety of social functions. Because the communitys school had no large meeting space until 1974, graduations and school events were held here. Town offices were moved to an adjacent building in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Atlas Grange Hall in Atlas, Michigan is a historic building located at 8530 Perry Road in Atlas, Michigan that served as a Grange Hall, as a Town Hall, and as a post office.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Atlas (then known as Davisonville) was founded in 1831 by Judge Norman Davison. A small settlement grew up at the location, evolving into a local market and agricultural processing center. Growth, however, was limited after 1873. This Grange Hall was built at some point in the nineteenth century; the exact date is not known. It served as a meeting place for the Knights of the Maccabees, an agricultural society. In later years, it was reportedly used as a town hall and post office.</p><br>
<p>The group nomination mentions that an Atlas Town Hall building has been converted into a library and community center, but that is a different building 2.8 mi away within the Hegel Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Atlas Grange Hall is a two-story, wood-framed structure with simple Classical detailing. It is rectangular, with a gable end facade three bays wide. The facade is symmetrical, with a double door entryway in the center and four-over-four double hung window units surrounding. At the top of the gable end is an unusually shaped, single</p><br>
<p>pane window. The building is significant due to its similarity to the New England meeting house design.</p><br>
<p>The Dolley Todd House or Dolley Todd Madison House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a house constructed by carpenter John Dilworth 1775. The house was the residence of Dolley Madison, who lived in the home with her first husband John Todd Jr. prior to his death in 1793. It is located at 341 Walnut Street in the Society Hill neighborhood of the city.</p><br>
<p>The 18th century Georgian house is part of Independence National Historical Park, and daily tours are available by ticket from the park&#39;s visitor center. The tour also includes the Bishop White House.</p><br>
<p>203 East 29th Street is a historic house and carriage house located between Second and Third Avenues in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, one of a small number of wooden houses that remain on Manhattan Island. The year the house was built is uncertain, having been variously dated from as early as around 1790 to as late as 1870.</p><br>
<p>The house, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982, is privately owned and not open to the public. The architect was James Cali, and the restoration architect was John Sanguilano.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport Hotel was a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was an apartment building called The Davenport. A rear portion of the building collapsed in 2023. The majority of the building was demolished on June 12, 2023. Several remaining sections were demolished over the next three days.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stockholders incorporated the Davenport Hotel Company in 1905 to construct a modern hotel that was roughly equidistant from the citys two passenger depots. It replaced the Kimball House as Davenports finest hotel. The other hotels that belong to this era are the Dempsey Hotel (1913), the Hotel Blackhawk (1915) and the Hotel Mississippi (1931). It was considered the first "modern" hotel in the city, and was touted as one of the finest hotels in the Mississippi River Valley when it opened. It was also the first of Davenport&#39;s "tall buildings."</p><br>
<p>The Davenport was built a block away from the new Rock Island Railroad station making it convenient for travelers. However, it was undermined by the Dempsey Hotel, which was built next to the station and provided moderately priced rooms. The hotel was damaged in a large fire in 1939.</p><br>
<p>The building remained a hotel into the 1960s, but it eventually became an apartment building. It was extensively renovated in the mid-1980s at a cost of $5.5 million.</p><br>
<h2>Partial collapse</h2><br>
<p>On May 28, 2023, the building partially collapsed, calling the building&#39;s future into question. The back part of the building, overlooking a parking lot, had displayed signs of dilapidation and suffered a 6-story collapse causing millions of dollars in damage. Complaints had been made by residents which had led to brick work and other repairs being made to the structure. At the time of the collapse repair work was under way, but the brick work had been completed and deemed structurally sound by an outside engineer. Additional damage had occurred to the building after a derecho in August 2020, which had resulted in some residents having to evacuate the building.</p><br>
<p>Eight people were rescued and about a dozen others were escorted out of the building, with additional search and rescue delayed until water and gas utilities could be shut off. On May 29, the city initially stated that there was no credible information that anyone was missing and that they would move forward with demolition plans the next day. However, after a over 150 person search effort that used thermal imaging, drones and search and rescue dogs, a missing resident was discovered alive and rescued from her fourth-story window. Five tenants were still unaccounted for, two of which were reportedly in the building during the collapse and were still reportedly missing after a search on May 30 where several animals were rescued from the building. On June 3 the body of one of the missing tenants was recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building. On June 5, the remains of two other victims were recovered.</p><br>
<p>Multiple people protested at the site, with signs such as "Save Lives Not Property" in regards to the multiple people still reportedly missing. The City of Davenport filed a new enforcement action against the building owner, Andrew Wold, and he was fined $300 for failure to maintain the structure and $95 in court fees.</p><br>
<h3>Demolition</h3><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Davenport Hotel was designed by a local architecture firm, Temple and Burrows with P.T. Burrows as the architect in charge. They were also responsible for the Hotel Blackhawk, the Union Savings Bank and Trust (1924), and the Federal Court House (1932–1933).</p><br>
<p>The building was six stories in height and was constructed in brick over a steel structure. It most likely had a concrete and brick foundation. The buildings character was defined by its form as its decorative elements are more reserved. The six-story "towers" surrounded a two-story entrance in the center, which created a sense of mass and enclosure. The buildings exterior decorative elements were confined to a cornice, which is now gone, and the main entrance. It&#39;s possible the cornice was lost in the 1939 fire. The first floor of the building contained retail space and apartments on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>St. Katherines Historic District is located on the east side Davenport, Iowa, United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the location of two mansions built by two lumber barons until it became the campus of an Episcopal girls school named St. Katharines Hall and later as St. Katharines School. The name was altered to St. Katharine-St. Marks School when it became coeducational. It is currently the location of a senior living facility called St. Katherines Living Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is a campus of 9.37 acre. At the time of its nomination to the National Register, it was made up of six buildings. Two of the buildings were built as houses, Cambria Place and the Renwick Mansion. The other buildings include a large combination classroom and dormitory building, a chapel, and a combination classroom and gymnasium building. The sixth building was a modern dormitory that was not a contributing property and has subsequently been torn down. The district is located in the southeast corner of the LeClaire Reserve. The landscaped grounds are on the side of a hill overlooking a mixed residential and light industrial area along the Mississippi River to the south. To the east is the Bridge Avenue Historic District, a residential neighborhood dating from the 1870s to the 1910s. The LeClaire Reserve, which is largely made up of residential neighborhoods, is located to the north and west.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1883 the Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, the second Bishop of Iowa announced his intention to build a school for girls in Davenport. The diocese already operated Griswold College in Davenport. It was founded on the property of the former Iowa College, now known as Grinnell College after it moved to Grinnell, Iowa. The school had been founded in 1859 by the Rt. Rev. Henry Washington Lee, the first Bishop of Iowa. A high school for boys, called Kemper Hall, was created later on the campus in 1885. The school was officially closed in 1899. The college property today is the location of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Davenport Central High School.</p><br>
<p>St. Katharines Hall replaced Trinity School for girls, which was located in the parish hall of the cathedral. The diocese was able to consider opening a new school for girls based on the will of Sarah Burr from New York City. She had bequeathed $30,000 for such a purpose. They chose a residence on the east side of Davenport called "Cambria Place," the former home of John L. Davies, for the location of the school that opened in 1884. Adelia Rice was the schools first principal. Its initial enrollment was 25 students. The institution was considered a "superior" church boarding school with a college preparatory curriculum. It also allowed day students from the area to enroll. The school grew quickly and an addition, called St. Mary&#39;s Hall, was built in 1885 and 1886. By its third year, there was room for 60 boarding students. While most of the students were Episcopalian, there was no such requirement for admission to the school.</p><br>
<p>The school continued to grow. In 1888 the Richardson Observatory was built. It was said to contain the finest telescope in Iowa. In 1902 the administration of the school was taken over by the Sisters of St. Mary. St. Marys Chapel and a gymnasium were built in 1903 and the neighboring Renwick House was added to the campus in 1909. It was renamed St. Margarets Hall.</p><br>
<p>A former teacher at St. Katharine&#39;s, Marion Crandall, was the first American woman killed in World War I. She had taught French at the school and went to work for the French Canteen. Crandall was killed by an exploding shell in France on March 27, 1918.</p><br>
<p>Major changes came to St. Katharine&#39;s in the second half of the 20th century. The school became co-educational in 1966 and discontinued accepting boarding students in 1968. With the addition of boys, the name of the school was changed to St. Katharine-St. Mark. In 1973 it moved to the Joseph F. Bettendorf House in neighboring Bettendorf, Iowa. The school amicably broke its ties with the Episcopal Church in 1980. In 2000 the name of the school changed to Rivermont Collegiate.</p><br>
<p>When the school moved to Bettendorf, the St. Katharines property was sold and became a nursing home complex. The buildings started to fall into disrepair until they were bought in 1997 by historic property developer Chris Ales, who converted the complex into a senior living center in 2001. The facility was transformed into 38 low-income senior citizen apartments. The Renwick House was renovated by Ales for his companys headquarters, but he was forced to sell the property to Dr. Joseph Seng in 2007. It was turned into a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>Mass Mound</h2><br>
<p>There is a legend in the city of Davenport that it will be spared from destruction by a tornado because of the Mass Mound. In 1835 after a period of intense storms a Jesuit missionary, the Rev. Charles Van Quickenborne, SJ, led the first Christian service in what would become the city of Davenport. He erected a crucifix made from native black walnut on a crude altar placed on top of what he called a Mass Mound. It was located on the side of the hill on what would become the St. Katharine&#39;s property. He gathered both the white settlers and the Native Americans in the region, regardless of their faith, and celebrated Mass for a week. On the last day, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was held and Van Quickenborne blessed the area to preserve it from storms and tornadoes.</p><br>
<p>The early settlers in Davenport considered the spot a sacred place. Rev. J.A.M. Pelamourges, the first pastor of St. Anthonys Church in Davenport regularly meditated at the site and was known to spend the night in prayer there before the cross before major decisions or when problems arose. Eventually, the crucifix fell apart and was taken away. In time lumber baron John L. Davies built his home on the property before the Diocese of Iowa bought the property for St. Katharines.</p><br>
<p>A fire erupted at several lumber mills on July 24, 1901, in the Village of East Davenport. It destroyed 20 acre of land, 250 people were left homeless, and businesses suffered $1.25 million in losses. When the fire got to St. Katharine&#39;s the wind shifted towards the river. The Mass Mound was credited for sparing the rest of the city.</p><br>
<p>A shrine was erected in 1928 at the Mass Mound site to the southwest of where the main building is located. It was blessed by the Rt. Rev. Theodore N. Morrison, the third Bishop of Iowa. An altar dedicated to St. Joseph was blessed by Dean Philbrook of Trinity Cathedral on April 29, 1931. The altar was moved to Bettendorf when St. Katharine-St. Mark&#39;s School relocated to the Bettendorf Mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Both Cambria Place and the Renwick Mansion were designed by John C. Cochrane, who was one of Davenport&#39;s first professional architects. His most famous work was the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Both houses were built in the Italian Villa style, which Cochrane introduced to Davenport. The additions were designed by Davenport architect Edward S. Hammatt, who also designed several other buildings for the Diocese of Iowa, including Kemper Hall. The additions were designed to match Cambria Place.</p><br>
<h3>Cambria Place</h3><br>
<p>The principal significance of this building comes from its association with lumber baron John L. Davies. Davies moved to Davenport in 1841. After ten years he entered a partnership in a planning mill with B. F. Coates. In 1859 he bought the Cannon and French Sawmill with George H. French as his partner. He continued to expand his lumber interests in Wisconsin and Iowa. Politically, Davies belonged to the Republican Party and was an ardent abolitionist. He had Cambria Place built in 1872.</p><br>
<p>Cambria Place is an eclectic version of the Italian Villa and exemplifies the extravagant Late Victorian architecture found in Davenport. It is a 2½-story structure that features asymmetrical massing and an entrance tower. The house was constructed of red brick, with a hipped roof covered in slate, ornamented eve brackets, decorative gabled dormers, and different window shapes. The dormers and gable ends feature round arch windows while the windows on the first floor have wide, nearly flush stone lintels of irregular shapes. On the west side of the house are two full height, projecting polygonal bays. The brick porch and the bay window to the right were added in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h3>Renwick Mansion</h3><br>
<p>The Renwick Mansion is significant by its association with another lumber baron, William Renwick. He also moved to Davenport in the 1840s. He began his working career in 1850 when he joined his father in the grain commission business. They entered a partnership to manufacture lumber under the name Renwick & Son in 1852. By the end of the decade, William continued the business as a sole proprietor named Renwick & Company. He entered into a partnership in 1875 with George S. Shaw and Edward S. Crosset, and they operated the lumber manufacturing firm of Renwick, Shaw & Crossett. In terms of production and workforce, it was the third-largest mill in the city. Around 1884 they sold the business to Friedrich Weyerhäuser and his partner Frederick Denkmann. The mill buildings were destroyed in the 1901 East Davenport fire. Renwick is associated with two other structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Davenport, his previous home Renwick House (1867) and the Renwick Building (1897).</p><br>
<p>Renwick had this house built by T. W. McClelland in 1877, and H.G. Braunlich designed the landscaping. It is considered the finest example of the Italian Villa style in the city. The two-story house features a tripartite, symmetrical facade that is clad in rock-faced limestone. Projecting polygonal bays flank the main entrance and a columned porch. The entrance itself is in a large three-story entry tower with ornate iron cresting. In the frieze of the cornice are small rectangular windows in groups of three at the front. It is capped with a hipped roof and ornate iron cresting. The interior features 12 ft to 14 ft high wood parlor doors, eight fireplaces, and a three-story staircase.</p><br>
<h3>Classroom/Dormitory</h3><br>
<p>The Classroom/Dormitory building, also known as St. Mary&#39;s Hall, was built as an addition to Cambria Place from 1884 to 1885. It is a two-story, rectangular plan structure built on a high basement. Designed in a late Victorian Eclectic style, it is capped with a high hipped mansard roof. It features large gabled wall dormers and small wood roof dormers. Round arch windows are found in the roof dormers below a pediment. Both the wall and the roof dormers have gable roofs that are flared at the eaves. The cornice is broad and it is decorated with large fan-shaped wooden brackets.</p><br>
<h3>Classroom/Gymnasium</h3><br>
<p>The Classroom/Gymnasium addition was added onto St. Mary&#39;s Hall from 1902 to 1903. It is a three-story brick structure that follows a largely rectangular plan and it is capped by a hipped roof. The lower half of the wall buttresses are faced with concrete. This addition is much plainer than the rest of the facility and it suggests the move from the picturesque forms of the late 19th century to a more utilitarian form. The triangular-headed windows suggest the Gothic Revival style. Large brick wall buttresses divide the length of the building into five bays. The gymnasium was located on the third floor and is indicated on the exterior by the tall windows. A two-story addition was built later onto the north side.</p><br>
<h3>St. Mary&#39;s Chapel</h3><br>
<p>St. Marys Chapel was added at the same time as the Classroom/Gymnasium addition. It too was designed in the late Gothic Revival style. Constructed in brick, the chapel features a square bell tower on the south side that is crenelated at the top. The bargeboards are flared at the gable ends. The chapel is five bays in length and divided by buttresses. The nave is indicated by lancet windows. It is connected to St. Marys Hall by a hyphen.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Hospital was a hospital building on a bluff overlooking downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties and the National Register of Historic Places. It has subsequently been torn down.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1892 the Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, the second Bishop of Iowa proposed the establishment of a hospital in Davenport. The diocese had previously started hospitals in Des Moines (1878) and in Cedar Rapids (1884). Funding for the new hospital in Davenport came from money left in an account for the defunct Iowa Christian Home, which amounted to $10,176.45. With the money, the Trustees of the Iowa Christian Home purchased the Daniel Newcomb residence on Eighth Street. A 20-bed hospital was created after spending $1,600 to remodel the house.</p><br>
<p>Of the 22-member Board of Managers for the hospital, 13 members were women, with Mrs. Walter Chambers serving as its first president.</p><br>
<p>St. Lukes was the citys second hospital after Mercy Hospital, which was founded by the Sisters of Mercy of the Catholic Church in 1869. St. Lukes was meant as an emergency facility to complement Mercy, which was a long-term care faculty. The operating room for the hospital was on the second floor. The days weather determined if surgery would be held on any given day. If it was sunny there was enough light and surgery would proceed. If it was overcast, surgery had to be postponed. Doctors and nurses did not wear surgical masks and a relative of the patient was allowed into the room during surgery in street clothes.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport Training School for Nurses was begun at the hospital on August 27, 1895, and changed its name to St. Luke&#39;s Hospital Training School two years later. In 1903 the hospital added space for an additional 50 patients as well as modern operating rooms. By 1909 the hospital was treating 356 patients. Changes in the operating rooms included doctors and nurse wearing surgical gowns, gloves and the instruments were sterilized. The fee for major surgery had doubled to $10 from the 1895 rate.</p><br>
<p>The hospital became a charter member of the American Hospital Association in 1918. It also expanded the same year by building a new facility at Bridge and High Streets. The Eighth Street location was abandoned when the new hospital opened in December 1919. The old building was converted to apartments. Major expansions occurred at the hospital in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s. St. Luke&#39;s worked toward consolidating with Mercy Hospital in 1975 and 1976, but in the end, they remained separate. Finally, in 1993 it was decided to merge the two hospitals. On May 24, 1994 Genesis Health System was created.</p><br>
<p>This building remained an apartment building, with 28 units, into the 21st century. It was acquired by Palmer College of Chiropractic and torn down in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Newcomb House, which became St. Luke&#39;s Hospital, was built in the Italianate style in 1850. It is built of red brick with a shallow hipped roof, bracketed eaves, and a belvedere on the top of the roof. The 1903 addition was built to complement the older building. The pitch of the roof, however, is steeper and it includes dormers at various points. It is also a little simpler in design without the bracketed eaves. The T-plan wing nearly tripled the available floor space, and at the same time the house probably lost many of its notable exterior features.</p><br>
<p>Searcy First Methodist Church is a historic church at the junction of Main and Market Streets in Searcy, Arkansas, United States. It is a large single-story brick structure, with a front-facing gable and square tower projecting from the front. It has English Gothic massing with Late Victorian decorative elements, including buttressing, lancet-arch stained-glass windows, and a main entrance with a stained-glass lancet transom. The church was built in 1872, and is the only example of English Gothic architecture in White County.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Searcy First Methodist Churchs ministry focuses on four main areas: Engaging in Ministry with the Poor, Improving Global Health, Developing Principled Christian Leaders and Creating New and Renewed Congregations. Narrowing their focus to these four areas allows churches to use their resources effectively as they live out Gods vision for the church. Searcy First is a Christian-based worship center with an obligation to bear a faithful Christian witness to Jesus Christ, the living reality at the center of the Churchs life and witness. To fulfill this obligation, they reflect critically on biblical and theological inheritance, striving to express faithfully the witness we make in todays time.</p><br>
<p>Bountiful Tabernacle is a historic Mormon tabernacle building at Main and Center Streets in Bountiful, Utah, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Greek Revival building was designed by Augustus Farnham and was begun in 1857. Work was suspended that year during the time of the Utah Expedition, also known as Buchanan&#39;s Blunder. But the structure was finally completed in 1863, including its mural of Joseph Smith, commissioned by Brigham Young and painted by Daniel Waggelund.</p><br>
<p>The Bountiful Tabernacle was dedicated by Elder Heber C. Kimball on 14–15 March 1863. Church leaders including Brigham Young and "150 persons and 100 horses" stayed overnight at the nearby Anson Call residence to celebrate the completion and dedication.</p><br>
<p>The Bountiful Tabernacle was Farnham&#39;s most significant work, and became known worldwide. In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas is an affiliate of the United Church of Christ that was established in 1854, months after the Territory of Kansas was opened to settlement. The present-day church building, built in 1870, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The architect was John G. Haskell who was among the architects of the Kansas State Capitol.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Territory of Kansas was opened to settlement by the Kansas–Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854. The first service of Plymouth Congregational Church was held by Lum on October 1, 1854 in a mudbrick boarding house, also called the "hay tent," with settlers who had come from New England.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Richard Cordley became pastor in 1857, when the congregation moved into its first permanent building, called the "Stone Church," though it was not completed until 1862. Cordley was an abolitionist and supported the free state movement. Cordley was influential in documenting such events in the early settlement of Kansas.</p><br>
<h3>The Brick Church</h3><br>
<p>The present-day building, also called "The Brick Church," was designed by architect John G. Haskell, who also worked on other churches, schools, and the Kansas State Courthouse. Construction began in 1868 and was completed in May 1870 at a cost of $45,000. The sanctuary windows were made in England. Services have been held regularly in the building since 1870. In 1916, the "Parish House" was added to the structure under then-Pastor Noble Elderkin. It was damaged by fire in 1955, but rebuilt and expanded. Additional renovation work was carried out to different parts of the church in 1992 and 2001.</p><br>
<p>On July 16, 2009, the building was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places by the Kansas Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 2009. The building&#39;s architectural style is described as "an eclectic Victorian-era church building with Gothic and Romanesque Revival characteristics."</p><br>
<h2>Notable members</h2><br>
<p>Barbara Ballard - Member of the Kansas House of Representatives since 1993.</p><br>
<p>Paul Davis - Member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. Democratic candidate in 2014 Kansas gubernatorial election.</p><br>
<p>Tom Holland - Member of the Kansas senate since 2009. Democratic candidate in 2010 Kansas gubernatorial election.</p><br>
<p>Alan Mulally – The president of the Ford Motor Company called the late Rev. Dale Turner "a mentor and an inspiration." Turner, who later moved to the University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle, Washington, stayed in contact with Mulally, who also moved to the city to work at Boeing.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick W. Neef House is a house in Denver, Colorado, United States that was built in 1886 and is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is unclear why the house was incorrectly named, as Frederick Neef&#39;s middle name was Fredolin.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed historically significant for its association with early Denver businessman Frederick W. Neef and for its architecture. Frederick Neef was German and arrived in Denver in 1873. He and his brother Max owned saloons and wholesale businesses in liquor and tobacco. Together they built the Neef Brothers Brewery, reportedly one of the West&#39;s largest. Frederick bought out Max from the brewery and operated it until selling it in 1917.</p><br>
<p>Fred Neef arranged to have this house built and lived with his family in it for 31 years. The NRHP nominator termed the house to be "a fine example of late 19th century architecture in Denver" and suspected that it was not locally designed, but rather was a design from an architect&#39;s pattern book, however it was not possible to find the source. Writing in 1979, the nominator went on to note thatIn all events, the Neef House is a well-executed version of the popular Queen Anne/Eastlake style, probably the finest surviving example in Denver. It clearly demonstrates the Victorian preoccupation with complex volumes and roof forms, and their love for elaborate detail. Of particular note is the east facade which has a strongly sculptured aspect and, in spite of the profusion of elements, displays a rich unified composition which is at once pleasant and dynamic. The original craftsmanship was of a high caliber and survives well despite an obvious lack of maintenance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Shulz-Neef House at 1739 E. 29th St. in the Whittier neighborhood, a Denver Landmark, was purchased by Frederick at auction in 1883 and served as home for his brother Max and family.</p><br>
<p>The North Jay Grange Store is an historic Grange Hall and store on East Dixfield Road  in the village of North Jay in Jay, Maine. It was built in 1895 by North Jay Grange No. 10 to replace its hall on the same site which had burned down earlier that year. Part of the building was later set aside for a Grange store. Closed in 1976, the Grange Store claimed to be the last of its type in the nation. On October 23, 1974, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North Jay Grange Store is set at the junction of Maine State Routes 17 and 4 with Jay Hill Road, which is the main junction of the village of North Jay. The store, which faces northeast, is a -story wood-frame building, with a front gable roof, clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the front. The porch is supported by metal posts with metal balustrade between. Two sets of stairs and an accessibility ramp on the left side give access to from ground level. Under the porch, the facade has a commercial store front with plate glass windows and recessed entry on the left, and a double doorway on the right, from which stairs lead to the hall above. Above the porch there are three sash windows on the second level, and two in the gable. The first floor of the building housed the store, and the second floor contains an open meeting space with stage. The third floor houses a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The North Jay Grange was organized in 1874, and its first building was built in 1889. Destroyed by fire in 1895, it was replaced by the present building the same year. The first floor was remodeled to accommodate the store at a later date; the organization is known to have operated a store since 1882, originally at another location. The store closed in 1976; it had billed itself (by its sign on the front) as the "Last Grange Store".</p><br>
<p>The Oakfield Grange was an historic clubhouse and community meeting space at 89 Ridge Road in Oakfield, Maine. Built in 1906 by the local chapter of the Patrons of Husbandry , the building was for many years the sole social meeting space of any size in the small rural community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It has since been demolished, and was delisted in 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Oakfield Grange was located at the southwest corner of Ridge Road and Thompson Settlement Road, a short way east of Oakland&#39;s rural village center. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a main block measuring about 30 x, and a smaller ell attached to the east side of the rear. The roof was gabled at the rear and gable-on-hip at the front. The building was sheathed in wooden clapboards.</p><br>
<p>The local Grange chapter was organized in 1903, and built this hall in 1906 after two years of planning and fundraising. The hall was the largest meeting space in town, and held all manner of social events, including dances and private parties, were held there. From 1910 to 1964 the town held its town meetings there, and it was also used as its polling place. From 1935 to 1970 it was also used as a gymnasium by Oakfield High School, and its stage hosted performances of school theatrical and musical productions. The buildings condition declined beginning in the 1980s, as agriculture in the town declined and Grange membership languished. The membership stopped holding meetings in the building in 1987. At the time of the buildings listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the Grange organization had only twelve members. The building has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>La Prairie Grange Hall No. 79, also known as the La Prairie Town Hall, is a historic two-story wooden Grange hall built in 1874 in La Prairie, Rock County, Wisconsin. One of the oldest remaining Grange halls in the USA, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry was formed in 1867, a fraternal organization of farmers organized initially to protect them against railroad monopolies. Like Freemasons, the Grange had secret rituals. Unlike the masons, the Grange admitted women the same as men. Over the years their efforts shifted to eliminating middlemen, and advocating free rural mail delivery, and rural electrification.</p><br>
<p>The Grange in La Prairie was organized in 1873 as chapter no. 79. The chapter built their meeting hall the following year. The town of La Prairie provided the land and $700 and the Grange provided the building, with the agreement that the town would "have and own a room... on the first floor and to front on the road." The Grange could use that room as a dining hall when not in use by the town, along with the rest of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building is a simple two-story wooden structure clad in white clapboard and green trim, with a rather low-pitched gable roof. The windows are tall four over four, evenly spaced. Inside, the first story consists of a large meeting room and dining hall in front and kitchen in back. Upstairs, reached by a staircase in the back is the larger hall, used for Grange meetings, dances, and 4-H plays. The walls are covered with the original vertical tongue and groove paneling, crossed by a chair rail. The building cost $1,938.50.</p><br>
<p>Ever since, the local Grange has been a social center in La Prairie, hosting card parties, dancing, church services, educational events, and meetings. In 1960, the town relinquished its ownership interest in the property, but continues to share its use with the Grange, which uses it as its meeting place.</p><br>
<p>Today the La Prairie Grange Hall is the oldest left standing in Wisconsin and one of the oldest in the whole USA</p><br>
