<p>The Ebenezer Alden House is a historic house on Common Street in Union, Maine, United States. Built in 1797, it is an unusually high quality and high style Federal period in an area that was very much a frontier at the time. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Alden House stands on the south side of Common Road, a short way west of its junction with Maine State Route 131 in the center of the rural community of Union. It is a -story brick-and-wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, and clapboarded sides with quoined corners. A single-story shed-roof addition and -story ell extend from its east side. It has three principal facades with entrances at their centers. Two of them have surrounds of pilasters topped by half-round transoms and gabled pediments, while the third has an entablature and flat cornice. Windows are sash throughout, and the end gables are pedimented. The interior of the house features high-quality carved woodwork, executed by the builder and owner, master carver Ebenezer Alden.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Alden in 1797, when Union (settled in 1774) was little more than a frontier settlement. Its designs appear to be based in part on plans from plate 40 of William Pains Practical House Carpenter, published in 1794. Other design elements may have been derived from Aldens work on Montpelier, the mansion of General Henry Knox in nearby Thomaston. It is said that General Knox was dining here in 1806 when he swallowed a chicken bone, leading to infection and his eventual death.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the hands of Alden&#39;s descendants until 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Conway House is an historic house and museum in Rockport and Camden, Maine. Probably built in the 1770s, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Knox County. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Conway House stands near the southern border of Camden and the northern border of Rockport, on the northwest side of United States Route 1 between it and Conway Road. Its access road is on US 1. The house is a -story Cape style wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a central chimney. It was apparently built on the foundation of an older house, possibly dating to the early 18th century. The timber framing of the house is rough, with tree bark evident on some of its beams, and axe and adze markings on the beams and some trim elements.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Conway House was built around 1770 by Robert Thorndike, the first White settler in Camden. Thorndike&#39;s son Robert Jr. was born in the house in 1773, who was one of the first White children born in the area. He bought the lot for $65 and lived in the home until 1825, when Frederick Conway bought the home. It was the home of US Navy quartermaster William Conway. The property stayed in the Conway family until 1916.</p><br>
<p>By 1961, the property was in rundown condition and was purchased by Ambrose Cramer and donated to the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, who subsequently restored and furnished the building with 18th and early 19th century items. It was opened to the public as a museum in 1962. The Camden Garden Club landscaped the property and restored the plants common to the area prior to 1860.</p><br>
<h2>Conway Homestead & Cramer Museum</h2><br>
<p>Today the Camden-Rockport Historical Society operates the museum as the Conway Homestead & Cramer Museum. The property includes the Conway House, the Cramer Museum with displays from the Society&#39;s collections of local historic artifacts, a barn with a display of carriages, sleighs and tools, a blacksmith shop, a maple sugaring house, and an education center.</p><br>
<p>District School No. 1, also known as Cedar Hill Schoolhouse, is a historic school building located in the Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, New York south of the capital. It was built in 1859 and expanded in 1907. It is a one-story, rectangular brick building, seven bays by three bays in the Italianate style with later Neoclassical details. It features an elaborate domed cupola. School use ceased in 1962. Since 1965 it has housed the Bethlehem Historical Society and museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>District School No. 7, also known as "The Little Red Schoolhouse", is an historic one-room school building located at Coeymans Hollow in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1879 and is a single-story, rectangular brick building, three bays by three bays in the Italianate style. It features a shingle-clad gable roof surmounted by an open belfry. It features overhanging roof eaves and ornate door and window hood molds. School use ceased in 1957. It houses the Little Red Schoolhouse Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Israel Shear House is a historic home located at Ravena in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1810 and is a -story, rectangular heavy timber-frame dwelling on a rubble foundation. It is in the Federal style. The center entrance features a broad nine-panel door framed by Corinthian columns and side lights.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Knox District School No. 5 is a historic one-room school building located within Thompson&#39;s Lake State Park in the town of Knox in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1898 and is a one-story 20 by rectangular frame building on a dry laid stone foundation. School use ceased in 1940, and it has been vacant since 1999.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Hayes House is a historic home on Fairview Avenue in Altamont in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1910 and is a large -story, square frame dwelling on a stone foundation. The front facade features an enclosed porch on the first floor and balconies on the second and third. Miles Hayes  commissioned plans for this classical revival house in 1912.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by carpenter Earl W. Teter for a miller named Miles Hayes (1856-1925) and was preceded on the property by a less impressive house. Hayes had the earlier house moved to another location on his property. The new house&#39;s side porch faced his grain mill, and allowed him to oversee operations at the mill. From 1970 to 2003 it was owned by the Altamont Fair, to be maintained as a museum. It is again privately owned.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Bryan&#39;s Store is a historic saloon and general store located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built originally as a saloon and moved to its present location in 1862, after which it was converted for use as a store and post office. It is a two-story, frame building with a slate roof on a brick foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1979.</p><br>
<p>D. D. T. Moore Farmhouse is a historic home located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1850 and is a -story, colonial style frame dwelling. Porches were added and general renovations occurred during the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Purchased in 1845 at 52 acres, the farm expanded to 2500 acres reaching to Corporate Woods. Known as Middlebrook State Premium Farm Peach Orchard, in 1851 it was awarded the best farm in New York State. The property still maintains wooded areas of Eastern Hemlock, Red Maple, Elm and American Beech trees. Daniel Moore a renowned abolitionist, investor, and superintendent of the West Albany stockyards died in 1858. In 1860, portions of the property were sold to familiar Loudonville names including the Osbornes, Aspinwalls, and Ross’s.</p><br>
<p>The house was sold to "William And Sarah Sprague" and remained with their family until 1920 when sold to the Leslies of Leslie Credit Company. The Daniel McNamees well known in Albany stock brokerage and social circles purchased the estate home in 1950. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Attorney’s Charles Roemmelt and Dale Pager have been the stewards of the property since 1980. The white Greek Revival house is located on the corner of Leslie Court and Rte.9 in Loudonville NY.</p><br>
<p>Gorham House, also known as Elliot House, is a historic home located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1926 and is a 2-story, five-bay Colonial Revival–style brick dwelling with flanking -story wings. It was built partially of recycled materials from the 1806 Hegeman house in Vischer Ferry, New York.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Hughson Mansion was a historic home located in the Hamlet of Loudonville, Town of Colonie, County of Albany, State of New York. It was built between approximately 1866 and 1883 and was a large -story Second Empire style frame dwelling. It featured a mansard roof with dormers, bracketed cornice, and window surrounds with Baroque details.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1953, the mansion was gifted by Mrs. Frank Hughson to Loudonville Community Church. Loudonville Community Church used the mansion to conduct services and Sunday school until 1959, when a new sanctuary was built adjacent to the mansion. From 1959 until the early 2000s, the mansion was used for Sunday school. The mansion was demolished to make way for Loudonville Community Church&#39;s new sanctuary, which was completed in June 2002.</p><br>
<p>Springwood Manor is a historic home located at Loudonville in Albany County, New York. It was originally built about 1890 and is a -story, five-bay, masonry dwelling with a mansard roof. It was extensively remodeled in 1912 in the Colonial Revival style. Also on the property are a barn, carriage house, shed, and gardens with a spring fed pond .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Bethlehem House, also known as the Rensselaer Nicoll House, is a historic home located on Dinmore Road in Bethlehem, Albany County, New York. It was originally built about 1735 and expanded in 1796, 1810 , and 1830 . It is two and one half stories high with two and one story additions in the rear. It is constructed of brick with a gambrel roof and three chimneys. It features a one-story Victorian-era entrance porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Teunis Houghtaling House, also known as Vredehuis, is a historic home located at Clarksville in Albany County, New York. It was built in two stages: the -story main block was built about 1770, expanded to a five-bay dwelling about 1790, at which time a 1-story addition was also completed. It is constructed of hand-hewn timber framing. Also on the property are two frame outbuildings and a small family cemetery with burials dating to the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Ariaanje Coeymans House is a historic home located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built in c.1690 and has a 2- to -story main block with a 1- to 2-story wing. It is constructed of stone and brick and has a gambrel roof. Ariaanje Coeymans  was the heiress of a 17th-century flour and saw milling fortune. Her father, Barent Coeymans, held title to the land patent and died in 1710 intestate. Also on the property are the archaeological remains of mills and outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Abraham Houghtaling House is a historic home located at Coeymans Landing in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a two-story, rectangular, heavy timber frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It features a projecting center entry bay and a single story porch. It has a rubble stone foundation and a broad, overhanging gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing smoke house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Coeymans-Bronck Stone House is a historic home located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1769 and is a -story, rectangular, rubblestone dwelling topped by a gambrel roof. A modern -story wing is attached to the south elevation. The entry features a broad, finely paneled Georgian-style split  door.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The St. Charles Odd Fellows Hall is historic Odd Fellows hall located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. It is a -story, brick Second Empire-styled building that was built in 1878. A small two-story rear addition was constructed about 1900. It served historically as a clubhouse, as an auditorium, and as a financial institution.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is included in the St. Charles Historic District, and is located across from the BPOE No. 690.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Willis House is a historic home located at Coeymans Landing in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1852 and is a two-story frame dwelling in a transitional Greek Revival / Gothic Revival style. The rear elevation has a large two-story wing with enclosed porch. It features broad eaves supported by ornate brackets and broad paneled corner boards. The steep gable roof has a central dormer with smaller flanking dormers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Sharon Lodge No. 28 IOOF is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows clubhouse located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was designed and built in 1897, by noted West Virginia architect H. Rus Warne . It is a five-story, masonry building in an eclectic Romanesque Revival style. It features a deep Chateauesque hip roof, fronted by two stepped gable parapets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Cornelius and Agnietje Van Derzee House is a historic home and farm complex located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1765 and is a rectangular two-story rubblestone dwelling with brick gables. The front facade is five bays with a Greek Revival style central entrance. A craftsman inspired porch was added in 1915. A two-story gable roof wing was added to the south elevation about 1890 and a large, two-story Greek Revival era wing is on the west. It has a moderately pitched gable roof. Also on the property are eleven contributing outbuildings and the agricultural setting. They include a tenant house , large upper barn , hog barn and chicken coop , barn , wagon house , cow barn , wood shop , corn crib , fruit barn , paint house , garage , and brooder house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Mull House and Cemetery is a historic home and cemetery located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1825 and is a rectangular, -story timber frame dwelling on a stone foundation in the Federal style. It is topped by a gambrel roof. The cemetery includes approximately 12 extant markers. Also on the property is a barn dated to about 1890.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Tobias Ten Eyck House and Cemeteries is a historic home and cemeteries located at Coeymans in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1758 and is a rectangular, -story brick dwelling on a coursed stone foundation. It is topped by a gambrel roof and end wall chimneys. The property includes two burial grounds; one for the Ten Eyck family and another for the family slaves.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>C. Van Der Zee House is a historic home located at Coeymans Hollow in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1850 and is a rectangular, two story heavy timber frame dwelling on a random coursed rubblestone foundation. It has a one-story gable roofed wing. It has a Greek Revival style recessed entry door. Also on the property are a barn , fruit barn , barn foundation , shed , and a chicken coop .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Jared Cone House is a historic house at 25 Hebron Road in Bolton, Connecticut. Probably built around the turn of the 19th century but also including an older ell, it is one of the rural community&#39;s finest examples of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jared Cone House is located a short way south of Bolton center, on the west side of Hebron Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with two interior chimneys and an attached single-story kitchen ell. The central bay of the main facade is dominated by a substantial Palladian window on the second level, whose elements are framed by pilasters. The window is above the main entry, which is flanked by pilasters and topped by a semi-circular transom window. The interior follows a fairly typical Georgian central hall plan, and retains original moulding and fireplace surrounds for seven fireplaces, as well as a massive fireplace in the kitchen ell.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this house is the kitchen ell, which has a construction date of about 1770. The main block of the house is almost certainly a later construction, based on the large amount of Federal style woodwork, as well as the Palladian window, which appears to be integral to its construction and not a later alteration. Local lore is that Cone bankrupted himself building the house, and sold it in 1804 to Saul Alvord. The house was home to Boltons post office for a time, with Alvord as the first postmaster, followed by his son Henry. The houses property originally included what is now the adjacent Herrick Park, donated to the town by owners in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm is a historic farm property at 1455 Cider Mill Road in Cornwall, Vermont. Its 3.5 acre property, which includes five contributing buildings, was listed as Glen Dale on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Farmed since the 1770s, the farm achieved prominence in the second half of the 19th century as one of the nation&#39;s top breeding sites of merino sheep.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Significant features of the English barn include hand-hewn, post-and-beam, hardwood timber frame, with flared columns and half dovetail tenons on the girts. Sheathing boards visible from the inside appear to be original as they are up to 2 feet wide and fastened with hand-wrought nails. In the 18th century, this structure would have been a general-purpose barn, sheltering grain and hay crops as well as farm animals. The construction materials and remarkable joinery in the English barn speak eloquently of this period in local history.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm attained its present appearance under the ownership of Milo B. Williamson, a breeder of Merino sheep and "gentlemans driving horses". The present Italianate style farmhouse and additional barns are pictured in Burgetts 1876 Illustrated and Topographical Atlas of the State of Vermont. The barn complex is remarkably intact when compared to the Burgett illustration and constitutes one of the best surviving examples of nineteenth century stock and sheep farms in the state.</p><br>
<p>The English barn is the second from the left as pictured in the Burgett lithograph. The two larger barns in front were built to house horses and carriages. The ventilated cupolas and the raking eaves trim are typical of barns built in Vermont during the 1870s and 1880s. The rearmost structure is the sheep barn, one of the few remaining unaltered such buildings in the state.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership</h2><br>
<p>Glen Dale owner Milo B. Williamson was a prominent figure in the Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders&#39; Association. He was treasurer of the association in 1879-1881, and president in 1882-1883. In partnership with Jerome P. Cherbino of Middlebury, he owned and bred Spanish stock Merino sheep during the period when Addison County dominated the world market.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to Mathews’ History of the Town of Cornwall, Solomon Linsley settled the land that Glen Dale Farm occupies in 1774. The Town of Cornwall received its original charter from the Governor of New Hampshire dated November 3, 1761. The names of sixty-five original grantees are endorsed on the back of the charter, which is still preserved among the archives of the town. The first non-aboriginal settlers within the original bounds of the Town of Cornwall arrived in 1774. There were fourteen of them but Linsley was the only one whose name is on the original charter. It is recorded that Gamaliel Painter of Middlebury surveyed 100 acres for Solomon Linsley on October 23, 1774. Although the original farmhouse does not stand, Linsley probably built the existing English barn around 1775, as it is representative of the first major type of agricultural buildings constructed in Vermont.</p><br>
<p>Glen Dale Farm is a local landmark in the Town of Cornwall and surrounding environs. The 1871 Beers Atlas of Addison County shows the prominent location of the M.B. Williamson property on Cider Mill Road. John Axtell in the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Historic Sites and Structures Survey commented that Glen Dale Farm "... on its ridgetop site is and ought to be preserved as an accurate and invaluable document of post-Civil War agricultural life in Vermont." Considerable effort has been made to stabilize the barn structures with assistance from the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Division for Historic Preservation&#39;s book The Historic Architecture of Addison County lists the Glen Dale barns as being on the Vermont State Register of Historic Places. The farm is mentioned specifically in the introduction to the section on Cornwall, describing it as one of several model stock farms operating in Cornwall during the second half of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was one subject of a 1991 study of historic agricultural resources in the state.</p><br>
<p>In July 2002, Glen Dale Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Col Ballroom is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties as the Saengerfest Halle.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Saengerfest Halle</h3><br>
<p>Davenports strong music tradition is due in large part to the influx of German immigrants into the city starting in the late 1840s. They founded numerous music groups in the city before 1900. The groups with longer staying power included: the Liedertafel (founded in 1848), Maennerchor (1851), Strassers German Union Brass Band (1856), Germania Band (1883), and three other groups founded in the 1850s included Gesang Chor Der Turngemeinde, Deutscher Saengerbund, and Onretti Verein. There were also short-lived music organizations: Germania Saengerchor, Gesang Verein Teutonia, Eintracht Glee Club, Claus Groth Singing Society, Thalia Verein, Harrigaria Maennerchor, and the Davenport Saengerbund.</p><br>
<p>The largest music event in Davenport&#39;s history took place in 1898 when it hosted the 18th annual Saengerfest. It brought together ten local German singing groups as the United Singers of Davenport. Together they organized and hosted the event. The festival included 1,200 singers from Davenport, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Elgin, Illinois, Elkader, Iowa, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Manning, Iowa, Moline, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The event drew German-Americans from throughout the Midwest, and Western Union added extra German operators so as to get news of the festival out over the wires. An estimated 100,000 people attended the four-day event. The festival ended with an outdoor concert at Schuetzen Park that was attended by 12,000 people.</p><br>
<p>Preparations for the festival included building a 4,000-seat auditorium for the event. A holding company built the wood structure for $4,500. After the festival ended the hall was used as a warehouse. In 1906 a second floor was added by new owners and the building was dedicated as a dance hall called The Coliseum. It was destroyed by fire on October 21, 1913.</p><br>
<h3>The Coliseum</h3><br>
<p>In November 1914, the new Coliseum was opened by owner Leo Kerker. The building has a steel frame covered with brick. It has an arched roof, and individual tiles across the top of the façade each have a letter that spells out the word "Coliseum". The structure also features two-story corner pavilions and brick pilasters on the side elevations. A sign with the name "The Col Ballroom" hangs over the main entrance. The words are in the shape of a heart. In the early 1990s, the building was extensively renovated both inside and out. Ownership of The Col was passed to Don Wachel. The Quad Cities Mexican American Organization took over ownership in 1995. The building has operated as a ballroom and concert venue ever since. Lee Neece took over the ownership in 2014 and Leigh Macias Reitz in 2015.</p><br>
<p>A back wall of the building has the autographs of performers who played there. Artist who performed at The Col include: Duke Ellington, B.B. King, The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Slipknot, Danzig, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Col Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1998, and it was inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Music Association hall of fame in 1999. The venue is slated to close as a ballroom and performance venue on October 29, 2018.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office and Courthouse, also known as Texarkana USA Post Office and Federal Building and as Texarkana USA Post Office and Courthouse, is located on State Line Avenue in Texarkana, straddling the border between Arkansas and Texas. It is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1933 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The first courthouse built on this location was completed in 1892, serving as a courthouse until 1911, when it was succeeded by the erection of a separate courthouse entirely in Texas. The Texas-only courthouse later became the Texarkana Regional Arts Center. The earlier, border-straddling building continued to serve the Arkansas district alone until it was razed in 1930 to make way for the new construction, which was completed in 1933.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Since its construction in 1931, the United States Post Office and Courthouse has remained the most prominent structure in Texarkana, due in no small measure to its location. The regularity of the downtown street grid is interrupted by the north–south path of State Line Avenue, which separates Texas and Arkansas. Located between Fifth and Sixth Streets, the federal building ensures its pivotal presence by occupying the sole site in the center of State Line Avenue. By straddling the boundary between two states, the building uniquely evinces its federal nature and function; no other federal building in the country is sited in two states.</p><br>
<p>At least twelve buildings, including the original USA Post Office and Courthouse and the Central Christian Church, were demolished or relocated to accommodate this new federal building, which significantly altered the street pattern. Witt, Seibert & Halsey of Texarkana, in association with Perkins, Chatten & Hammond of Chicago, were responsible for the building&#39;s design, with James A. Wetmore the acting supervising architect for the Treasury Department. R. O. Jameson prepared the original structural engineering drawings; R. F. Taylor was the mechanical engineer.</p><br>
<p>No large-scale occupancy relocations have occurred and the building has retained most of its original functions, maintaining the stability of its connection with the community. The first floor post office, third floor courtrooms and judicial spaces, as well as many of the offices, still serve the purposes for which they were intended. Though modifications to the postal screen walls were made twice within eight years of construction, the building did not undergo significant change until new air conditioning, plaster soffits, and suspended fluorescent fixtures were added to judicial rooms in 1957. The following year a conveyor areaway and stair were added leading to the basement on the Arkansas side. The 1970s brought more changes to the postal screen walls, as well as the addition of air conditioning equipment and ductwork with suspended acoustic tile ceilings to the offices on floors two through five. It is critical to the life of the building that its current functions be maintained.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>Though occasional Art Deco features betray its date of construction, the USA Post Office and Courthouse in Texarkana is steadfastly Beaux Arts in form and organization. Symmetrical with respect to the state line, the gray Arkansas Limestone building is a rectangular steel and concrete structure composed of five stories, a full basement, and a service penthouse. The basement and ground floors form a rusticated plinth with a base of Texas Pink granite and recessed joints in the limestone ground floor walls. On the south side, three arched openings penetrate this plinth, expressing depth and serving as the main entry to the building. Limestone walls in running bond pattern clad floors two, three, and four, where windows reveal the presence of each level. The east and west sides of this massive intermediate section of the building are articulated by the projection of the three outer bays at either end and by the presence of Doric pilasters between the seven central bays. Seven Tuscan pilasters likewise march across this portion of the north facade, while on the south elevation four Ionic columns extend upward from the plinth to a limestone entablature that wraps the building at the level of the fifth floor. Above the cornice on the west, north, and east sides, the building steps back considerably from the street facade. On the south, or front, side, this narrower fifth floor remains in plane with the street facade. In addition the fifth floor is capped by a service penthouse at the south end. This means that roughly one third of the height of the main facade exists above the cornice, affording it a much greater prominence than the other facades. The extra mass above the cornice, unusual in a Beaux Arts design, is inscribed with the building&#39;s name and is banded with a repeating Art Deco relief pattern in the stone.</p><br>
<p>With exceptions, the original plan strategies are clearly evident in the building today. The second through fifth floors are for the most part organized as a series of perimeter offices opening into a ring of corridors which in turn surround a core consisting of restrooms, service spaces, and a small but effective light court. Two large double-height courtrooms occupy the north end of the third and fourth floors and remain close to original condition. Many of the perimeter spaces have suffered a loss of volume and character from the installation of suspended acoustical tile ceilings. New gypsum board partitions have intruded into the second and fifth floor offices, while one third of the fifth floor corridors have been overtaken as work space.</p><br>
<p>The elevator lobbies on all floors remain largely intact. Although the postal lobby, located immediately beyond the first floor elevator lobby, has undergone repeated modifications since construction, including the introduction of an inappropriate post office box "hut" and customer corral, it retains much of its original character. Those areas borrowed from the lobby for adjacent postal work rooms continue to exhibit the original plaster ceilings and wood wainscots. Ancillary postal spaces on the building&#39;s west side best exhibit the original wood trim, plaster ceilings, and door and transom treatment, though these features can be found in smaller quantities elsewhere in the building.</p><br>
<p>Dr. John Babcock House is a historic home located at Becker&#39;s Corners, Selkirk in Albany County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1851 and consists of a three-by-three-bay, two-story red brick main block with a one-story summer kitchen addition. It represents a transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style. The main block has a hipped roof and sits on a limestone ashlar foundation. It has a modern for the time cistern, water collection tank, in the basement along with a fireplace which served as the winter kitchen. Behind the house is a barn dated 1840 used for livestock, horses and carriages. Dr. Babcock married Hester Vanderzee whose parents owed the abutting farm.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2003.</p><br>
<p>In May 2023 the house was sold to its third family to own it since it was built.</p><br>
<p>The Fred B. Sharon House is a historic building located in the Cork Hill neighborhood of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Fred B. Sharon</h2><br>
<p>Originally a high school teacher from New York City, Fred B. Sharon became a prominent businessman, newspaper publisher and postmaster in the city of Davenport. Together with his brother Thomas, Fred Sharon arrived in Davenport in 1882 to publish the Messenger. After his brother&#39;s death six years later, Fred took over sole management of the paper, renamed it the Iowa Catholic Messenger and guided it for nearly fifty years. The paper contained news pertaining to the Catholic Church as well as Irish and German nationalistic writings. In 1931 Pope Pius XI conferred upon him a Papal honor as a Knight of St. Gregory, upon the nomination of Bishop Henry Rohlman. Because of financial problems related to the Great Depression, he was forced to sell the paper in 1936 to the Diocese of Davenport, who then published it in national and diocesan editions as The Catholic Messenger.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the paper, Sharon also was an incorporator of several banks, including the Home Building Loan and Savings Association, Union Savings Bank, and Citizens Trust. He also served as the incorporator of the Hibernian Hall Association. Sharon was a charter member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Davenport and the Loras Council of the Knights of Columbus. President Woodrow Wilson appointed him the Davenport postmaster in 1913 and he served in that capacity for almost nine years. Sharon died on July 10, 1949, and he is buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Sharon&#39;s home is a three-story, brick, Second Empire structure. It follows a T-plan with a prominent center tower and a side wing. The elegant mansard roof is topped with decorative wrought iron cresting. The windows on the first and second floors are rectangular in shape while those on the third floor are arched. The tower itself features a large window area. Because of its late date it possess overall symmetry of form. Its strong verticality and its richly ornamented roofscape are clear indications that it was built during the Victorian era. The front porch is a replication of the original.</p><br>
<p>The McManus House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James McManus, who built this house, moved to Davenport in the 1840s. He was engaged in farming and retail. McManus was elected to the Iowa General Assembly and served as a Scott County supervisor. His son Parker took over the estate when James died. Parker continued to operate the farm and he was also elected to the state legislature. At one time there were several estates in the West End that lined Telegraph Road at the base of the bluff and were home to prominent families such as the Putnams, Koenigs, Glasspells, and the Fejervarys. The McManus House is the only one that remains.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This house exemplifies the combination of the Italianate and the Greek Revival styles that were popular in Davenport in the mid-19th century. A porch wraps around the front of the house to the east side. It was built 40 to 50 years after the house and adds the Neoclassical style to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball–Stevenson House is a historic building located just north of downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1873 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is thought to have been constructed by Davenport builder Thomas McClelland, who owned it briefly in 1873. The house was home to railroad, banking and industry executives. They include Abel Kimball, who was the Superintendent of the Iowa Division of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Dr. John Stevenson. From the early 1900s and into the 1940s the house served as a brothel. It was best known as Geraldine&#39;s Place. It is thought to be the only known brothel on the National Register of Historic Places. In the years following the house fell into disrepair until it was purchased by attorney Michael Liebbe who restored the building for his law office in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house is built of brick in the Italianate style. The house&#39;s layout is somewhat irregular and features gabled projections and a window bay on the front. Bracketed eaves run along the top of the house. The front entrance into the house projects forward and the wall extends beyond the roofline giving the suggestion of a tower.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange Farmstead is a historic home located at Slingerlands in Albany County, New York. It is a frame dwelling that encompasses five phases of construction. The oldest section was built about 1780 and the second about 1790. Construction in 1835 yielded the -story kitchen and wood shed addition. A -story, shed-roofed addition on the north side was completed about 1860. The final addition was completed in about 1985. Also on the property are two heavy frame barns dated to about 1835 and 1879 and a frame corn crib.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the Farmstead stands was originally settled in the early 1700s by Omie de LaGrange and his brother Isaac, near the Normanskill. The last LaGrange owner of the land was Ella LaGrange McBride. It passed out of the family in 1956.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Henry H. Smith/J.H. Murphy House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry H. "Variety" Smith was a successful Davenport merchant and a member of the city council. He and his wife Mary moved to Davenport in 1850. His downtown store, Smiths Philadelphia Variety Store, was known for its “splendid stock of fancy goods from numerous buying trips to the East.” Mary served as the stores assistant manager and was the citys first female clerk. It is believed he hired one of Davenports first professional architects, Willett L. Carroll, to design his house in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The Smith&#39;s sold the store in 1867 and moved to East Davenport where they were engaged in agriculture. After it sat empty for a short time, the house was purchased by J.H. Murphy who was a partner in the law firm of Martin, Murphy and Suksdorf.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed based on the philosophy of Orson Fowler, a leading phrenologist, who held that the octagon was the closest thing to a circle and it was conducive to good health. While it is one of several octagon houses in the state of Iowa, it is the only one left in Davenport. It is the earliest of the remaining octagon houses in Iowa that was built to the precepts of Fowler who recommended that they employ "plank wall" construction and a plan adapted from the Howland House, which he published in A Home For All in 1853. The house exhibits features found in the Italianate style: hipped roof, bracketed eaves, and a small belvedere on top, which has subsequently been removed. The entrances into the house are on the main floor, which sits atop a raised basement level. They are all covered by columned porches and are located on the four cardinal points of the compass. The grounds of the estate also featured a carriage house, stable, grape vines and a picket fence, all of which are now gone.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Slingerland House is a historic home located at Slingerlands in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1840 and is a 2-story, frame Greek Revival–style dwelling. It consists of a 2-story, gable-front main block with a -story side ell with a projecting porch. Also on the property are two 2-story frame barns dated to about 1840 and a brick smoke house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Wupperman Block/I.O.O.F. Hall is a historic building located just north of 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 building dates from 1859 when Hermann A. Wupperman built it to house his grocery store. He was in partnership with William P. Hall and their business was named Wupperman and Hall. The third floor was known as "Union Hall" before it was leased to Davenport Lodge No. 7 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.), who occupied the building for over one hundred years. During the Great Depression the Odd Fellows shared their space with other fraternal organizations. The storefronts on the first floor have been occupied by various businesses over the years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Wupperman Block is a three-story, brick building that was built on a stone foundation. It is an early attempt at Renaissance Revival architecture in Davenport, which up until this time was dominated by the Greek Revival style. The structure is rectangular in shape and has a side-gable roof. The two storefronts on the first floor are largely intact. The main façade of the building is divided into three sections: the storefront, the upper wall and the cornice. Although the building has been renovated it maintains its cast iron shop fronts and flanking brick piers.</p><br>
<p>The upper floors of the building contain seven windows that are evenly distributed. The windows are all rectangular in shape, but each is topped with a curved cornice. The windows on the third floor are taller than the ones on the second, which gives the building a vertical orientation. At one time the windows on the third floor were stained glass and depicted symbols of the I.O.O.F. These windows have been removed.</p><br>
<p>When it was built, the building had a projecting cornice that has been replaced by a cornice of corbelled brick. The side-gabled roofline is unusual for a building in Iowa and suggests a European influence in its design. The building remains a good example of pre-Civil War commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>Van Schaick House is a historic home located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1735 for Anthony Van Schaick , and is a -story, brick dwelling with a gambrel roof. Plans were made at the mansion for the Battle of Saratoga and the house was used by Governor Clinton as the New York State Capitol from August 22 to 25, 1777.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Patterson Farmhouse is a historic home located at Delmar in Albany County, New York. It was built around 1840 and is a two-story, side gabled frame dwelling two rooms deep with a kitchen wing. The front entry is Greek Revival in style; surrounded by narrow sidelights and a rectangular line of transom lights above.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Van Derheyden House is a historic home located at Delmar in Albany County, New York. It was built in three phases. The original dwelling was constructed in 1804 as a "half house," expanded to the present five-bay form in the 1820s, and a large 2-story Greek Revival style rear addition was built in the 1850s. The main block is a -story center hall plan, Federal-style dwelling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Henry M. Sage Estate, also known as "Fernbrook," is a historic estate home located at Menands in Albany County, New York. The main house was built in the 1890s and remodeled in 1920. It is an asymmetrical three-story, Georgian Revival style mansion sheathed in limestone. It has a hipped roof and dormers. It features a large, two-story, pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. Also on the property are a carriage barn and caretaker&#39;s cottage dated to the 1890s. The estate was bequeathed to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Cornelia Cogswell Sage, widow of Henry M. Sage. She retained use of the property until her death in 1972. The estate was costly to maintain so the Institute sold the property in 1973 to Albany International Corporation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Bennett Hill Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at New Scotland in Albany County, New York. The original section of the main house was built in 1821 and is a three-by-two-bay, -story dwelling. In the 1830s, a large Greek Revival style -story, three- by two-bay addition was completed. Contributing farm buildings include the main barn , animal barn , wagon shed , fruit barn , smoke house , and tenant house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Sidney White House is a historic home located at Preston Hollow in Albany County, New York. It was built about 1841 and consists of a main block with addition. The main block is a five bay, two story gable ended building with a medium pitched roof. The addition, originally a wood shed, is one and one half stories in height with a medium pitched roof. It is of heavy timber-frame construction on a rubblestone foundation. Interior treatments are Greek Revival in style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church in New Scotland and the New Scotland Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located in New Scotland in Albany County, New York. The church was built in 1849 and extended in 1868. It is a 2-story, three-bay-wide, rectangular frame structure with a -story front projecting vestibule / entrance block. It features a large, two-stage square central projecting tower. The education wing was completed in 1957. The cemetery includes about 500 burials dating from the 18th to 20th century. The congregation was founded in 1787 and the present structure is its second building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Hiram Griggs House is a historic house located at 111 Prospect Terrace in the vicinity of Altamont, Albany County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1873 by Robert L. Zeh, it is a two-story, Italianate-style frame dwelling that is five bays wide and two bays deep, standing on a limestone foundation. It is named for its original owner Hiram Griggs (1836-1909) who is historically significant as the first mayor of the village of Altamont, holding that position for eight consecutive one-year terms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver White Tavern is a historic former tavern at 2 Brandy Street in Bolton, Connecticut. Built approximately 1750 as a residence, it is a good example of Georgian architecture. The tavern is historically significant because of its association with the march of Rochambeau&#39;s army during the American Revolutionary War, on their way to the Battle of Yorktown. The building, now a private residence, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Oliver White Tavern is located a short way east of the village center of Bolton, at the southeast corner of Bolton Center Road and Brandy Street. The house is oriented facing west, toward the town center, and is directly across the street from a large field. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, center chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance topped by a seven-light transom window, and framed by simple stepped moulding.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was built about 1750, and is a well-preserved example of domestic Georgian architecture. The land where the house stands was purchased by Oliver White in 1741. He sold the land with a house in 1743. It was used as a dwelling until sometime between 1753 and 1764, when it was converted for use to a tavern. The building was no long owned by Oliver White when it became a tavern, but it was traditional at that time to keep the original owner&#39;s name even after sale, so it became known as the Oliver White Tavern.</p><br>
<p>The tavern is significant for its association with the historic march of the French Army from Providence, Rhode Island to Yorktown, Virginia in 1781. Records show that the army made its fifth camp in the field across Bolton Center Road. A map prepared by French engineers identifies a building at this site, marked as a tavern. It was typical of the period for soldiers to camp in the fields, with officers typically housed in local taverns or houses of prominent local residents.</p><br>
<p>Matton Shipyard is a historic shipyard and canal boat service yard located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It consists of eight extant buildings, various surviving features, and archaeological remains dating to the period 1916 to 1983 when the site functioned as a shipyard, repair facility, and towboat operation on the New York State Barge Canal and Champlain Canal. Extant buildings include the office / stores , watchman&#39;s building , sheet metal shop , carpenter shop , stores building , pipeshop , pitch building , garage , and electric building. Also on the property are a flagpole , dock, steel launching ramps, fence, and camels. Numerous ruins also occupy the property. The motor ship Day Peckinpaugh is berthed here.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1916 John E. Matton moved his ship building business south from Waterford to Van Schaick Island, and the shipyard would continue to build canal boats, barges, tugboats, and police boats until closing in 1983. The motor ship Day Peckinpaugh is berthed here and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Valley Paper Mill Chimney and Site is a historic chimney and archaeological site located at Alcove in Albany County, New York. It consists of the surviving 1844 Valley Paper Mill chimney and the site of the former straw pulp paper mill. The chimney is a rectangular brick tapered structure measuring 9.5 feet by 9.5 feet at its base and rising 110 feet. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1891 and the site leveled and filled. A significant portion of the site remains undisturbed from the time of the fire.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Harmony Mill No. 3, also known as the "Mastodon Mill", is a historic mill located at Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1866–1868 and expanded 1871–1872. It is a four-story red brick structure on a stone foundation, with an additional story under the distinctive mansard roof. It features twin six story towers topped by mansard roofs and cast iron grillwork. It was known as the "Mastodon Mill" for the skeleton of a mastodon found while excavating the north section. It is the centerpiece of the Harmony Mills Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>St. Lawrence Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. It is located in rural Jackson County, Iowa, United States, in Otter Creek Township. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The parish&#39;s first church building was a small stone structure completed in 1866. It soon became too small and a frame Methodist Church nearby was bought to house the growing congregation. The present church building, completed in 1883, was designed by Dubuque architect Fridolin Heer. It is constructed in limestone in the Gothic Revival style. The rectangular structure measures roughly 51 by with a 15 by projecting tower on the main facade. The tower is capped by an octagon-shaped belfry and spire. There is a Gothic arched window in the tower above the main entrance and in each of the six bays on the sides. The main facade is the south elevation and on the opposite side of the church is a rose window.</p><br>
<p>Lainhart Farm Complex and Dutch Barn is a historic farm complex and Dutch barn located at Altamont in Albany County, New York. The farm was originally leased from the Dutch settler Stephen Van Rensselaer by Michael Leonhardt who emigrated from Pfaltz, Germany. Michael Leonhardt signed a deed with Van Rennselaer granting Michael "inheritable rights" to the property, which would pass on to his offspring. The cost of the lease was five shillings and a yearly rent of 22 skepples of winter wheat, four "fat fowls," and one day of providing transportation for the Van Rensselaers—with carriage and horses—on the second day of January of each year.</p><br>
<p>Michael Leonhardt was killed by a falling tree in March 1796 leaving behind three sons and seven daughters and his wife Maria. The tombstone listing Michael&#39;s cause of death can be found in the Lainhart cemetery on the property. The farm has remained in the possession of the Lainhart family ever since.</p><br>
<p>The complex includes the farmhouse (ca. 1851), smoke house (ca. 1851), wagon house (ca. 1851), horse barn, (ca. 1851), Dutch barn (ca. 1819), and family burial ground (ca. 1796). The farmhouse is a two-story, timber framed, gabled "L", Greek Revival style dwelling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
