<p>The Demarest–Atwood House is located at 84 Jefferson Avenue in the borough of Cresskill in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was built in 1793 according to tradition. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, the house was likely built by a member of the Demarest family in 1793. George Demarest lived here in 1861. It was later known as the Atwood House, since Arthur and Daniel Atwood lived here.</p><br>
<p>The Van Blarcom House is a historic stone house located at 834 Franklin Lake Road in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built around 1770–1790 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The one and one-half story house features a gambrel roof. Peter Van Blarcom owned it in 1861. A fire destroyed it around 1900 and D. E. McKenzie likely rebuilt it.</p><br>
<p>The Knabb-Bieber Mill is located in Oley Township, Pennsylvania. The mill was built in 1809 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This grist mill was built in 1809 for John Knabb and was acquired around 1875 by John Bieber by his marriage to Maggie Knabb. Their fourth son, Effinger Bieber, bought the property at auction. He married Mary Moyer. They had 11 children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. They shut down all mill operations shortly after Effenger fell and hit his head on macadam in the early 1990&#39;s. Like Effinger, she was in her 90s when she died.</p><br>
<p>The mill sits on a property of approximately twenty-five acres on Bieber Mill Road in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania. Its equipment is powered by water from the Monocacy Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center is a former hospital located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It was built in the Kirkbride Plan style and first opened to patients in 1890. Over the next century it operated as one of the state&#39;s main hospitals for the mentally ill and also worked with people with developmental disabilities and chemical dependency issues. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The hospital closed in 2007. Various proposals have been made to repurpose the site and buildings since its closure.</p><br>
<h2>Background and design</h2><br>
<p>By 1885, Minnesota&#39;s state institutions for people with mental illnesses were badly overcrowded. The State Board of Health declared in 1872 that the facilities at the St. Peter Hospital for the Insane were appalling and a disgrace to the state. Even after a second hospital was established in Rochester in 1877, conditions remained inadequate. In response, the state legislature commissioned the Third Minnesota State Hospital for the Insane in 1885. Since the existing hospitals were in southern Minnesota, the new hospital was to be north of the Twin Cities. Among the potential locations considered were Brainerd, Fergus Falls, Sauk Centre and Alexandria. On December 14, 1886, Fergus Falls was selected as the hospital site by a vote of 4-1. The name of the institution was changed accordingly to the Fergus Falls State Hospital.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was designed on a model established by physician Thomas Kirkbride. Kirkbride believed that building design was an important part of patient treatment programs. The typical Kirkbride structure consisted of a central administrative structure in the middle, with long, straight wings that radiated from it. Patients lived in the wings, which were uniform, precise, and austere. The bare façade was supposed to bring discipline into patients&#39; lives. Kirkbride asylums were designed to provide "moral treatment." That included exercise, farming, entertainment, and classes like reading and sewing. Activities like farming and sewing provided occupational therapy and useful goods, but patients complained that they felt like chores.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect Warren B. Dunnell, the Fergus Falls State Hospital was one of the last Kirkbride structures built in the United States. The hospital had a sprawling campus and large stately buildings in accordance with the Kirkbride Plan. Only the West Detached Ward was finished in time for the hospital&#39;s opening in 1890. The other wings and the main building were finished by 1912.</p><br>
<p>When the hospital opened its doors on July 29, 1890 it received two men from an Otter Tail judge. The next day it received 80 patients transferred from the St. Peter hospital. The first patients were all men, and most of them were farmers or laborers. Women were not admitted to the institution until 1893, when 125 women were transferred from St. Peter. By the late 1920s the hospital&#39;s population was around 1,700 making it the largest mental health hospital in the state. As the institution grew, so did the town. The population in Fergus Falls more than doubled between 1890 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>The Fergus Falls State Hospital quickly became overcrowded, even though it had been intended to solve overcrowding problems. Patients could be admitted voluntarily but many were sent by court order. Most stayed for life. Over the course of the twentieth century, hospital leaders were on forefront of treatments like occupational therapy and shock treatment. Still, the court system treated the hospital as simply a convenient way to isolate social outcasts. Most patients were poor and had few resources in times of trouble.</p><br>
<p>After World War II, drug therapy led to better outpatient care, and the entire Minnesota hospital system was scaled back. In 1971, the hospitals mission changed. The Fergus Falls State Hospital became Minnesotas first multi-purpose regional center. That meant that it served patients based on where they lived, rather than what services they needed. Since its founding, the Fergus Falls institution had primarily served people with mental illnesses. After 1970, the institution began accepting patients with developmental disabilities and chemical dependencies as well because they lived in Northwestern or West Central Minnesota. In 1985, the hospital&#39;s name was changed to the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center to reflect its new mission.</p><br>
<h2>Closure and redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>The Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center closed in 2005 after gradually moving patients to smaller, community-based facilities for two decades. The state sold the land to the city of Fergus Falls in 2007. After its closure the building&#39;s future was uncertain. Preservationists have fought to save the main building. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and it is one of the only remaining examples of the Kirkbride plan. Yet the city of Fergus Falls argued that the building was too large for a small town to redevelop or maintain and has considered demolishing it.</p><br>
<p>In October 2012, Colliers Real Estate listed the building for sale. In May 2013, the City Council considered plans to renovate the building for residential and commercial use by two different developers, including one with experience in preservation of historic properties. A plan was ultimately approved to develop the site and buildings into a hotel, a spa and restaurants.</p><br>
<p>This plan proceeded but later encountered roadblocks over financing. In October 2014 the developer asked for an investment of $700,000 from the city toward the project. In November 2014, after the city and the developer had appeared to reach an impasse, a citizens group launched a fundraising drive to raise the $700,000 needed to proceed with the development. The group had until December 31 to reach its goal. On January 18, 2018, however, city officials unanimously voted to seek state funding for demolition of the campus, citing doubt that sufficient funds could be secured for reuse of the facility. Fergus Falls officials requested $8.9 million of the state&#39;s bonding bill to preserve the vacant tower building, which would be the only structure of the site left standing. The state granted $3.5 million for the project in May 2018, and demolition began with the mid-century administration building, constructed in the 1950s. The removal of this building is outlined in the first phase of a two-step plan for demolition, and Mayor Ben Schierer has indicated that the city may still be open to practical suggestions for renovation of the original Kirkbride building.</p><br>
<h2>Current use as artist space</h2><br>
<p>In 2014, Minnesota non-profit arts organization Springboard for the Arts received a $100,000 grant to establish a community development and artists residency program, Hinge Arts at the Kirkbride. Selected artists reside in apartments which were formerly a nurses&#39; dormitory, creating a variety of art projects that often reflect on the history of the building and comment on the past and present of mental health treatment. Springboard hosted an annual Kirkbride Arts & History Weekend from 2013 to 2017, featuring tours, music, and speakers focusing on mental health and historic preservation.</p><br>
<p>Hendrik Winegar House was a historic home located at Amenia in Dutchess County, New York. The structure was demolished after decades of neglect. It was a -story, rectangular house on a high basement built of thick fieldstone and brick walls, built about 1761. It had a steeply pitched gable roof. It was coated in stucco applied about 1850.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin C. Tousey House, also known as "The Willows," is a historic home located at Clinton in Dutchess County, New York. The property includes six contributing buildings and one contributing structures. They are the main house, a stone cottage with garage in the basement, a stone garage, a frame lodge, two frame sheds, and a gazebo. The main house was built in 1914-1915 and is a compactly designed, two story rectangular house with arelatively low pitched roof. The ground floor is clad in wood shingles and the upper floor in stucco and half timbers. It features a complex arrangement of balconies and terraces and is representative of the American Craftsman style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Windswept Farm is a historic home located at Clinton in Dutchess County, New York. The main block of the house was built about 1823 and is a Federal-style dwelling. The main block is a 2-story, five-bay timber-frame house. A -story gabled addition was completed about 1840. Also on the property are two barns and a cider mill.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Chads House , which was built by John Wyeth Jr. for John Chads , is located in Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The house was built after 1712 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1971. John Chad&#39;s widow, Elizabeth, stayed in the house while it was in the line of fire during the Battle of Brandywine. The city of Chadds Ford relied on the spring ford on the property, and thus the city was named after John Chads.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Francis Chadsey came to Pennsylvania in 1685 and bought 500 acres in Birmingham Township, then in Chester County, in 1696, from Daniel Smith who had bought the land from William Penn. Chadsey did not take possession of the land until 1702, but then built a grist mill and a millrace on the land. He married Grace Stanfield in 1695 and they had six children before he died in 1713. Grace remarried in 1714 to Guyen Stevenson and died in 1727. Chadsey&#39;s oldest son, John Chads, reached legal majority in 1717. and inherited the property.</p><br>
<p>The initials J.W. Jr. are carved in the front of the house, and appear to indicate that the house was built by John Wyeth Jr. Wyeth likely built the house for Chads sometime between 1713 and 1727. It is a "bank house" having been built into the side of a hill and remains essentially in its original condition.</p><br>
<p>John Chads started a ferry service across the Brandywine in 1731 and operated it until his death in 1760. The ferry continued in service until 1828 when a bridge was built nearby.</p><br>
<p>During the Battle of Brandywine General Wilhelm von Knyphausens division feigned a direct attack across the Brandywine near the ferry and exchanged cannon fire with George Washingtons forces in fortified positions above the house. Chads&#39; widow Elizabeth remained in the house throughout the battle, watching troop movements from her attic windows, she survived until 1791.</p><br>
<p>Along with providing water, the nearby Springhouse served as a school from 1837 to 1844. Both the John Chads&#39; House and Springhouse were privately owned until 1968, after which they were restored by architect John Milner, and opened as a museum in 1971. The beehive oven in the basement of the house was rebuilt in 1981 and continues to operate to the present.</p><br>
<p>Marquardt Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Wurtemberg in Dutchess County, New York. The main house was built about 1810 and is a traditional two story, five-bay, center hall Federal style dwelling. The rectangular frame structure sits on a partially exposed stone foundation and topped by a gable roof. It has a one-story frame wing. Also on the property are three barns, a carriage house, stone walls, a machine shed, well / wellhouse, and summer kitchen. The barn group includes a large "H" frame Dutch barn and two smaller barns.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>John H. Traver Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Württemberg in Dutchess County, New York. The main house was built about 1876 and is a two-story, five-bay, center hall frame dwelling. It is sheathed in clapboard siding and has a low pitched hipped roof with broadly projecting eaves. It features a verandah with square support posts and ornate scroll sawn knee braces. Also on the property is a Dutch barn, a carriage house, shed, and stone walls.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Granby Center Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district encompassing a portion of the village of Granby Center in Granby, Connecticut. The village developed in the 18th century as a farming center, and a now includes a variety of architectural styles from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Granby was settled in the 17th century, and was part of Simsbury before incorporating in 1786. Granby Center, located in the eastern part of the town due to the later separation of East Granby, is one of three villages that arose in the town, and has historically been its principal civic center. Land use practice of the period was to place houses in the village, with agricultural lands in the outlying areas, and it was along what is now South Salmon Brook Street. This stretch of road, now designated Connecticut Route 10 and United States Route 202, retains a tree-lined streetscape of wide lawns and well-spaced houses. Most of the village&#39;s early civic and commercial buildings have not survived, in part due to a major fire in 1876, and were not rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends from the town center at the junction of Salmon Brook Street, Granby Road, and Hartford Avenue, south roughly to a modern fire station.</p><br>
<p>It has 35 properties historic properties, includes two buildings dating to the 18th century, 24 dating to the 19th century and 8 dating to the 20th century. The buildings are in a mixture of styles, including Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, Georgian and Federal. Most of the buildings were used as dwellings, including the building at 4 East Granby Road. The building at 2 Park Place was originally a dwelling, then a hotel, and then reverted to a dwelling. One building, a former schoolhouse, served as the town hall between 1951 and 1964.</p><br>
<p>Pultz Farmhouse is a historic home located at Wurtemberg in Dutchess County, New York. The house is a three part, one story rectangular dwelling. The central section dates to about 1750 and is a five bay, center hall plan building. The two bay north wing was attached about 1800. The saltbox wing was also added about 1800. Also on the property is a contributing machine shed.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office and Courthouse in Ogden, Utah, United States was built during 1905 to 1909, with Classical Revival style. It served historically as a courthouse and as a post office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Descriptions</h2><br>
<p>It was built as a five-bay wide, three-story sandstone building at cost of $320,000 during 1905 to 1909. It had a central, pedimented three-bay projection on each side. It was doubled in size in 1930 with addition of four bays to the west and one to the north. Attached Corinthian columns were added to the projections.</p><br>
<p>Its interior features a marble main floor lobby and two-story courtrooms which had, as of 1978, their original wood paneling.</p><br>
<p>The Old Bennington Post Office is a historic government building at 118 South Street in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Also known at one time as the USA Federal Building, it is a Greek Revival building built in 1914, and now houses the Bennington Police Department. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Bennington Post Office is located in downtown Bennington, at the northeast corner of Union and South Streets (United States Route 7). It is a single story masonry structure, set on a raised basement, its walls structurally built out of concrete and brick, and faced in Vermont marble. The main facade, facing South Street, is nine bays wide, with a recessed entry area that is defined by six large fluted Doric columns and flanking square corner pilasters. Similar square pilasters articulate the bays at the rear of the recess. The building is topped by entablatures, one adorned with Roman patterns, with a cornice and broad parapet above. The south facade, facing Union Street, has six window bays, also articulated by pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The post office was built in 1914, and was one of the last works prepared by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department during the tenure of James Knox Taylor. It served as a post office until 1967, at which time its interior was gutted and converted into federal government offices. It now houses the Bennington Police Department.</p><br>
<p>The John Calvin Stevens House is an historic house at 52 Bowdoin Street in the West End neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Built in 1884, it was the home of architect John Calvin Stevens, and was one of Portland&#39;s earliest examples of Shingle style architecture. The house was prominently used by Stevens in promotion of the style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stevens House is set on the south side of Bowdoin Street, abutting Portland&#39;s Western Cemetery to the south, and a short way east of the Western Promenade. The house is stories, with a rusticated brick first floor topped by a large gambrel roof, which shelters a full second story and an attic level. The gable ends are finished in wooden shingles. The north-facing main facade originally had the main entrance, sheltered by a slightly projecting porch at the left corner, but this has been enclosed, and the main entrance is now on the west side. The windows at the attic level of the north side are square fixed-pane units, with a decorative panel between. The east and west facades each have a large wall-plane dormer, with smaller gabled dormers projecting from the upper slope of the roof. The current entrance is sheltered by a rectangular porch, and opens into what was originally the dining room. Although some of its spaces have been repurposed and altered over time, the house retains many original finishes.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1884 to a design by John Calvin Stevens, and was his home until 1919. Stevens and his architectural partner at the time, Albert Winslow Cobb, included illustrations of the house in their Shingle style survey, Examples of American Domestic Architecture, first published in 1886. It received international notice after its construction, with reviews by American Institute of Architects and The British Architect.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic House, also known as the John J. Brown House, is a historic house at 387 Spring Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1845, it is one of Maine&#39;s finest and earliest known examples of Gothic Revival architecture. Although virtually unaltered, it was moved down Spring Street in 1971 to avoid demolition. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic House is located in Portland&#39;s West End neighborhood, on the north side of Spring Street, a short way east of the Western Cemetery. Spring Street is part of the Spring Street Historic District, a cluster of well-preserved 19th-century residences. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, wooden siding that resembles rusticated stone, and a modern concrete foundation. The main (south-facing) facade is three bays wide, with a central projecting section housing the main entrance. Topped by a steeply-pitched gable, that section has a two-pointed Gothic arched window on the second level and the entrance, sheltered by a Gothic-detailed porch on the first. Windows in the flanking bays are diamond-paned casement windows. The main gable in front and the smaller gables on the side elevations are all decorated with bargeboard trim.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Irish immigrant Henry Rowe (1812–1870), a major proponent of the Gothic Revival, and built in 1845. It is believed to be Rowes first commission in the state, The design is based partly on examples published in Andrew Jackson Downings 1842 Cottage Residences. The house was originally located approximately a mile east of the present location, closer to the city&#39;s port area. As it was demolished in 1971, the structure was moved further down Spring Street, and a Holiday Inn hotel was constructed in the former location.</p><br>
<p>A bronze and brass Gothic chandelier that once hung in the house&#39;s parlor was on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from April to September 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Harrison Bird Brown House is an historic house at 400 Danforth Street in the West End of Portland, Maine, United States. It was built in 1861 for Harrison Bird Brown , one of Maine&#39;s best-known painters of the late 19th century, and was his home and studio until 1892. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Brown House stands on the south side of Danforth Street, near the southernmost tip of Falmouth Neck, the peninsula on which downtown Portland and its harbor facilities are located. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, bracketed deep cornice, clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its main facade faces north, and is three bays wide, with a projecting two-story ell in the left bay, and the entrance at the center bay, set in a projecting enclosed vestibule topped by a simple balustrade. A two-story ell projects to the rear of the house, overlooking the Fore River, which housed Harrison Bird Brown&#39;s studio space.</p><br>
<p>Brown was one of Portlands best known painters during the late nineteenth century. He had this house built in 1861, and lived and worked here until 1892, when he moved to England, where he died. He met with immediate success in the painting of landscapes, and he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City. His painting of White Head on Cushing Island in Casco Bay, where he maintained a studio, was exhibited in the Maine pavilion at the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>The A. B. Butler House is an historic house at 4 Walker Street in Portland, Maine, United States. Built in 1868, it is a remarkably little-altered high-quality example of Second Empire architecture, and one of two surviving designs in the city of architect Matthew Stead. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is set in Portlands West End neighborhood, just south of Congress Street on the east side of Walker Street. It is a -story wood-framed structure, with a mansard roof providing a full second story. The roof is finished with diamond-cut slate shingles, in bands colored beige and red. The building is finished in wooden clapboards, with corner pilasters, and a dentillated and paneled entablature with paired brackets below the roofline. The front facade is symmetrical, with projecting polygonal bays on either side of the entrance, and gabled dormers in the roof line with decorate scrollwork in the gable peaks. The main entrance is sheltered by a bracketed hood. A rear ell, built with sympathetic styling, houses modern amenities, while the main house interior retains original woodwork and finishes, including a remarkable set of trompe-lœil frescos in its central hall and stairwell.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1868 for Albert Berry Butler, a prominent local dry goods merchant. It was designed by Matthew Stead, an architect from New Brunswick who produced many designs in the wake of Portlands devastating 1866 fire. This house is one of only two of his local designs to survive; the other is the commercial Merchants Exchange building.</p><br>
<p>The Leonard Bond Chapman House is an historic house at 90 Capisic Street in Portland, Maine. Built between 1866 and 1868, it is a fine and distinctive local example of Second Empire architecture, and is notable as the home of one Portland&#39;s leading historians of the period, Leonard Bond Chapman. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Chapman House is located in Portland&#39;s western Rosemont neighborhood, on the south side of Capisic Street, between Bancroft and Frost Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof providing a full third floor. At the northeast corner of the house is an inset three-story square tower, topped by a mansard roof that has an unusually small center and widely flaring eaves. The main cornice is studded with paired brackets in the Italianate style, and a porch wraps around the front and side of the corner with the tower. The porch roof is supported by carved round posts, and also features brackets. To the rear of the property stands a period carriage house with similar styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was built between 1866 and 1868, and represents a locally unusual example of the Second Empire mansard-roofed style. It was built for Leonard Bond Chapman, a Portland native who was professionally a nursery owner. His avocation, however, was as an antiquarian and collector of manuscripts, particularly on the subject of Portland history. He was a longtime active member of the Maine Historical Society, for which he wrote numerous treatises on all aspects of the city&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Q. Clapp House is a historic house at 97 Spring Street in central Portland, Maine. Built in 1832, it is one of Maine&#39;s important early examples of high style Greek Revival architecture. Probably designed by its first owner, Charles Q. Clapp, it served for much of the 20th century as the home of the Portland School of Fine and Applied Art, now the Maine College of Art. It is now owned by the adjacent Portland Museum of Art. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clapp House is located on the north side of Spring Street in Downtown Portland, behind the main bulk of the Portland Museum of Art, and immediately adjacent to the McLellan-Sweat Mansion, a National Historic Landmark that is also part of the museum complex. The house is two stories tall, with brick walls set on a raised granite foundation, and capped by a wood-frame gabled roof. Its front facade faces south, and is divided into three bays, with fluted Ionic columns at the outside and fluted Ionic pilasters framing the center bay. The center bay has a large sash window on the first floor, set in a recessed rectangular panel, with a smaller three-part window on the second floor characterized by its flanking oval windows with elaborately carved surrounds. The side elevations each have a recessed porch supported by three Ionic columns, with colored tile floors laid in geometric patterns. Each porch is accessed via a separate granite stair leading to it on the main facade.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1832, and was probably designed by Charles Q. Clapp, its first owner. Clapp was the son of Asa Clapp, who was one of Portlands wealthiest businessmen. Charles Q. was engaged in real estate development in the city. Some of the designs on the inside and outside of the house are traceable to popular works describing Greek Revival style, including Asher Benjamins The Practical House Carpenter and Edward Shaws Civil Architecture. In addition to this house, Clapp is credited with making Greek Revival alterations to the McLellan-Sweat Mansion (which he lived in during the 1820s), and for construction of the Charles Q. Clapp Block, one of Portlands oldest surviving commercial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house was owned in the 1860s by Portland mayor Augustus Stevens, and survived the citys devastating 1866 fire. In the aftermath, bank and city records were stored here, and it is probable that city business was also conducted here, the city hall having been one of the fires casualties. In 1914, the building was acquired by the Portland Society of Art, and converted for use as an educational facility with design assistance by John Calvin Stevens.</p><br>
<p>Mulhern House was an historic home located at Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1815 and was a two-story, frame double residence. Also on the property was a contributing shed. It is the only workers&#39; residence that survived intact from the initial period of industrial development at Wappingers Falls. The building was destroyed in a gas explosion in February 1994. A residential building was subsequently constructed on the property at the end of Market St. where it intersects with Franklin and Fulton Streets.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Howard Mansion and Carriage House is a historic mansion and carriage house in Hyde Park, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909) and built in 1896. It is a two-story, six-bay, eclectic dwelling built of uncoursed fieldstone. The house is rectangular in plan and has a wood shingled roof with overhanging twin gables. The front entrance is a Dutch door and features a portico supported by two square, bracketed columns. The carriage house is a two-story, wood frame, stucco covered, Tudor style building built in 1901. It features a two-story, polygonal bay with a polygonal roof. Frederick W. Vanderbilt had the house built for his nephew, Thomas H. Howard.</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was completed in 1933, and was renamed in honor of United States Representative and District Court judge L. Richardson Preyer in 1988. It is located at 324 West Market Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Built pursuant to the Public Buildings Act of 1926, the Preyer Building was designed by the Washington architectural firm of Murphy & Olmsted with supervision by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore. The George H. Rommel Construction Company of Louisville, Kentucky, acted as General Contractor.</p><br>
<p>The Greensboro building was built as a post office, courthouse and Federal Building. The people of Greensboro had anxiously awaited construction of a new, badly needed facility. Construction was begun in December 1931, and when the building was dedicated on July 6, 1933, more than 5000 people attended the dedication ceremony. After the postal service moved out completely in the late 1980s, the entire first floor work space was converted to courts and related offices. As of 2010, the building serves primarily as a courthouse for the Middle District of North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The site of the building has some significance. Prior to the construction of the Federal Building, the Sloan House, a house built of timbers of the original Guilford County Courthouse stood on the site for 100 years. It was said that the armies of General Green and Lord Cornwallis fought around this house during the Revolutionary War. Later the house was reported to be home of Greenboro&#39;s first mayor. The site is at the edge of the downtown commercial are and directly across the street from the Guilford County Government complex.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is an Art Deco style building. The main entrance is on the south elevation with auxiliary entrances on the north and west. The building is 202 ft at the west and east elevations and 150 ft at the north and south elevations. Originally, entries to the building were on the south, north and west for the postal lobby. At the present time, the south entry is used as the main entry; the west entry is closed and the north entry, at the basement level, is used on a limited basis.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Building and USA Courthouse is a four-story structure with a fully occupied basement and an attic (vacant). Resting on a Mount Airy granite base, the walls above are clad in Indiana limestone. The ornamentation is also limestone. The south, main, elevation consists of fifteen bays with the five central bays projected at the entry pavilion. The entry pavilion facade consists of the three entry doors at the first-floor level with a set-back at the third-floor level, and another set-back at the attic level. Ornamentation consists of a carved denticulated panel of the lotus motif. Windows at the second and third floors are slightly recessed and hung in pairs. They are separated by aluminum spandrel panels ornamented by a diamond motif.</p><br>
<p>The projected entry pavilion at the south elevation provides the main entry to the building. Granite steps and Crab Orchard stone terraces lead to the three-bay entry. The three-bay entry projects slightly from the pavilion. Flanking the entry doors to the east and west are carved open stone grilles. The second and third floor levels are set off by four fluted engaged pilasters with carved caps featuring the lotus motif flanked by the scrolled motif. Carved panels between the pilasters feature lotus panels separated by unornamented shields. The reveals of the recessed windows feature elongated carved panels. Aluminum separating second and third floor windows there feature the seals of the Treasury Department, Post Office Department, Department of Justice, War Department, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Labor. The fourth-floor level of the entry pavilion consists of a three-bay set-back delineated at the east and west sides by projected triangular pilasters. Scored pilasters separate the windows within the pavilion. These pilasters feature carved eagles&#39; heads atop Federal shields.</p><br>
<p>The west elevation reveals the U-shape plan of the building. The basement level is revealed by windows at this elevation. Ornamentation is similar on this elevation as on the south. The same fretwork band as on the south elevation runs above the third floor level. The replacement double aluminum doors have a polished granite surround with paterae on the panels and an elaborate pediment. The pediment features a lotus flanked by heavy floral carving with palmetta acroterions. Open, geometric granite grilles flank the entry door. Three bays above the entry door feature open limestone, geometric grilles delineated by pilasters with carved lotus-motif panels at the third and fourth-floor levels. Decorative terra cotta and pieces from the terra cotta roof are revealed at the fourth-floor level on this elevation.</p><br>
<p>The north elevation is ornamented the same as the south except the central projected entry pavilion features only one entry door accessed by two sets of granite stairs at the stone terraces. The central stairs are flanked at the basement level by recessed entry doors leading to the north basement lobby. The polished granite surround is the same as on the west elevation, and the reveal features the same carving. Distinctive stone hexagonal light standards differ slightly at each elevation.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building retains significant spaces in the courtroom and the south lobby. The third-floor courtroom remains in nearly original condition. Marble wainscot and original doors and furnishings highlight this area. The south lobby lost much of its character when the postal service moved out and all the boxes and windows were filled in. However, the entry foyer with its elaborate ceiling, marble walls, and original light feature is an important feature of the interior. Second and, particularly, third floor corridors add to the character of the building with original floors and door surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The Blair–Dunning House is a historic house on the west side of Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Built in the 1820s as a farmhouse, it now lies at the heart of one of the citys neighborhoods, and it is one of Bloomingtons most prominent houses. Once the home of the Governor of Indiana, it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The first settler on the grounds of the present house was Robertson Graham, who began farming there in 1817. He inhabited the land for a short time, selling it to the town of Bloomington in 1819. Construction of the Blair–Dunning House was a gradual process that lasted from 1822 to 1845, costing approximately $1,200. Its builder and first resident, Enos Blair, was one of Monroe Countys most prominent citizens: among the areas first settlers, he served as the first jailer for the city of Bloomington and later held the offices of sheriff and Justice of the peace. Blair died in 1845; over the next twenty years, the house passed through many hands, including those of state representatives Elias Abel and Ransom Akin.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original part of the Blair–Dunning House is a rectangular brick structure with a stone foundation, two stories tall and covered with a gabled roof. It is a linear quadruple-pen structure, measuring far longer east–west than north–south. Because the house occupies a hilly lot, the foundation under the front of the house is visible above the surface of the ground. Prominent elements of the exterior include large rectangular double-hung windows with limestone sills and lintels, a frieze with cornice, and corbelled chimneys on the eastern and western ends. The various elements of the house&#39;s design combine to form a structure that mixes the Greek Revival and Federal styles of architecture.</p><br>
<p>When the house was built, its front door faced north; this situation changed in the late 1860s, when wings were added both to the northern side and to the southern side of the original portion. As a result, the size of the house nearly doubled, and its main entrance was moved to the eastern end of the original house. Both additions are single-story structures with an individual room that measures 26 by. Architecturally, they closely resemble the original portion of the house, with brick walls, corbelling, gabled roofs, stone window sills and lintels, and end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the Blair–Dunning House is primarily a wooden building; yellow poplar wood is used throughout the building. Among the distinctive elements of the six-room interior are baseboards 18 in tall, fireplaces in every room with massive mantels, and a basement.</p><br>
<h2>After Blair</h2><br>
<p>Paris C. Dunning bought the former Blair House in 1864. By this time, Dunning had established a reputation as a leading Indiana politician: he had served in the state legislature, been elected to the position of Lieutenant Governor, and served as Governor from 1838 to 1850. He only lived on the property for five years before selling it to grocer Jacob Young in 1869, who in turn sold it to businessman Matthew Dillon two years later; Dillon&#39;s family owned the farm for the rest of the century and into the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Although the Blair–Dunning House was constructed in the middle of open countryside, the city of Bloomington has grown to surround it; the house now occupies a double lot within the city, and the only original structures remaining around the house are a pump and two cisterns. Today, the house occupies a hill at the end of Third Street, one of the city&#39;s most significant thoroughfares; as a result, it is visible from a great distance.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-1980s, a community foundation known as Bloomington Restorations led the restoration of the Blair–Dunning House. Problems such as water damage had destabilized the houses structure, almost causing the roof to collapse, while some of the bricks used in the walls had crumbled and weakened these walls significantly. As a result, one of the wings had to be removed, although the bricks were preserved and used to rebuild the wing. The exterior walls had changed significantly: they were originally painted red, but by the 1980s, they had been changed to grey, and for a time in the 20th century, the bricks were covered with stucco in order to protect them from the elements. Before the process began, it was estimated that the restoration of the exterior alone would cost nearly $50,000. Owner Lingle Craig enabled the restoration effort by donating the property to Bloomington Restorations in 1984; restoration or destruction of the house had been proposed for several years, but never accomplished. The foundation ultimately needed a loan of $90,000 to accomplish the restoration; besides the restoration and repainting of the wall bricks and the rebuilding of the wing, this renovation accomplished the rebuilding of a large rear porch and the reinforcement of the houses walls with steel rods.</p><br>
<p>At the end of 1985, the house was sold to a group of investors from Miami, Florida, who bought it with plans to rent it as commercial offices or as room for businesses in the arts and crafts fields. Today, the house is occupied by the law firm of Bauer and Densford. In 2010, the house was badly damaged by a short but fierce fire. Shortly after midnight on July 10, flames erupted in many portions of the house; sprinklers reduced the fires impact, and a rapid response by the city fire department stopped the burning. Many Bloomington residents, recognizing the houses place in the community, offered aid to the owners in restoring the building, and the law firm promised that the damage would be completely repaired.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>Local historians have pronounced the Blair–Dunning House the most important house in the city of Bloomington, except perhaps for buildings on the Indiana University campus. In recognition of its status, the house was designated a historic site by the city of Bloomington on July 5, 1979. This designation, which was granted in response to a request from the owners, prohibited significant modifications without permission from the city planning commission. At that time, the city was considering extending Third Street through the western side of the city; this designation prevented such an extension. As a result, the designation was controversial; some officials mildly opposed this designation, and others saw this opposition as a rejection of the very idea of historic preservation. Four years later, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due primarily to its status as the home of Paris Dunning, the only Indiana politician to have held every elected executive and legislative office in state government. Today, the Blair–Dunning House is seen as the most important part of the Prospect Hill Historic District; added to the National Register in 1991, Prospect Hill encompasses one of Bloomington&#39;s oldest neighborhoods.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Sheppard Arnold United States Post Office and Courthouse is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas. Completed in 1932, in 2003 it was renamed for Court of Appeals judge Richard S. Arnold. It is located at 500 West Capitol Avenue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as Little Rock USA Post Office and Courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>After the Civil War ended, the city of Little Rock prospered as a cotton and lumber market and as the chief center of trade for Arkansas. The population had grown from 3700 in 1860 to 88,000 by 1940. During the growth period of the 1930s, the need arose for a larger post office. Thus, the United States Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock was built in 1931–32, during one of the most difficult periods of American history, the Great Depression of the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The passage of the Public Buildings Act of 1926 precipitated a period of building construction that was unprecedented in the United States. The Public Buildings Act specified that the office of the Supervising Architect of the Department of the Treasury would be responsible for the design and construction of all public buildings. James A. Wetmore was Acting Supervising Architect at the beginning of this period of construction. Since he retired in the early 1930s this may have been the last federal building whose construction he supervised. Though pre-dating the economic problems of the 1930s, the Public Buildings Act was the catalyst for the vast federal building program of the period and for providing jobs for thousands of construction workers around the country.</p><br>
<p>Wetmore signed the construction drawings for the design of the new postal facility in May 1931. Construction was completed by December 1932. The east wing of the building was extended to the north in 1941 with an addition designed by Louis Simon as Supervising Architect of the Treasury and W.G. Noll as Chief of Architecture. The 1941 extension replicated the exterior of the original building. The west wing of the building was extended to the north in 1987. The 1987 addition is an abstraction of the original design.</p><br>
<p>The building is located along the axis of the Arkansas State Capitol building and functions in both a visual and practical capacity to enhance the monumental quality of the state&#39;s capital city. It was renamed in honor of judge Richard Sheppard Arnold 2003. The building is symbolic of the federal presence in Little Rock and is a reminder of the growth of the federal government as evidenced in the building period of the 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The monumental five-story limestone building was designed in the Academic Greek Revival style. The original 1932 building is approximately 251 wide and 151 deep; and the east wing addition of 1941, and west wing addition of 1987, extend the depth by 114 to approximately 265. The composition of the main elevation consists of two projecting Greek distyle pavilions at the east and west ends resting upon a two-story rusticated base. The major horizontal zones of the building are clearly differentiated. The foundation and basement are gray granite, above which rise a first floor and mezzanine level of horizontally incised, rusticated limestone veneer, above which rise three floors of smooth finished (honed), flush jointed limestone which gives a monolithic appearance, except for fenestration and pilasters as described below.</p><br>
<p>The two Greek distyle temple pavilions consist of slightly projecting pediments, each supported by a pair of three-story, fluted Doric engaged columns, resting on the rusticated two-story base. Each end of the main elevation contains a main entrance beneath a raised temple front. A frieze of alternating limestone triglyphs and terra cotta metopes extends around the west, south and east elevations of the 1932 and 1941 buildings. The terra cotta metopes are composed of various configurations of tiles creating palmette and leaf and scroll motifs. The tiles are polychrome with a buff color relief, matching the limestone, on a gold or sienna field. Each tympanum has a central spread eagle cartouche, with the eagle heads reversed in order to face each other across the building. The recessed front elevations are very planar, consisting of alternating vertical window bays and fluted engaged pilasters at the third through the fifth floors resting, like the temple fronts, on the rusticated two-story base.</p><br>
<p>Exterior ornamentation is limited to the pilasters, the window system, the frieze described above, a terra cotta fretwork band separating the rusticated base from the smooth upper floors, and a shallow projecting cornice. The window system is designed to promote verticality in the bays. The windows are three light vertical steel casements whose light-colored vertical mullions are a visual design element. On the upper three floors, the windows are connected vertically by three-panel marble spandrels whose dividing rails form extensions of the window mullions. This presents an extremely vertical appearance where the two mullions extend upward continuously for three floors, separating the three-story pilasters.</p><br>
<p>A 50 wide, 114 long, east wing addition was added in 1941. This addition is indistinguishable from the original building, making the east elevation appear to be a contiguous 265 elevation. In 1987 however, another similar sized wing was designed not to replicate the original. While matching the original building in height and material, the west wing has no fenestration on its outer walls, and appears as a monolithic mass extending northward from the 1932 west wing. While it picks up the horizontal fretwork band (as a slightly decorated limestone band) and the frieze (as a band of plain white pre-cast concrete), the west wing lacks any vertical elements to complement the verticality of the 1932 structures window system and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>Internally the building plan is typical of such post office and courthouse buildings of the period. It has a rectangular footprint on the first floor to accommodate the postal function (i.e. the large open work floor). Upper floors are gradually reduced in size via an E-shaped plan on the second and third floors, and the elimination of the central leg on the fourth and fifth floors to create a U-shaped plan.</p><br>
<p>Interior spaces consist of a grand postal lobby; postal offices and work areas; double-loaded public corridors with elevator lobbies, several courtrooms including the main ceremonial courtroom on the fourth floor; standard tenant office spaces throughout; and a utilitarian basement. Each of these areas is described in detail in their respective zone descriptions.</p><br>
<p>The site is bordered on all sides by public streets and sidewalks. Grading slopes downhill from the front (SE) on Capital Street to the rear (NE) on Fourth Street. On the east elevation the grade is lowered to partially expose the granite base course and basement windows; on the west elevation the grade level was maintained at the first floor level and the basement is lighted by areaways along the west side. Landscaping generally consists of a lawn border along the west, south and east elevations with two large evergreens flanking each front entry (the easternmost tree of the east entry has been lost), and assorted shrubs at the corners. Original Deco lighting standards flank all the entries of the 1932 and 1941 elevations.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Dyer House is an historic house at 168 York Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1803, it is one of the city&#39;s oldest surviving brick houses, rare for the building material and for its scale, which is for a middle-class family of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dyer House is located on the Portland peninsula, south of the main commercial port area, overlooking the Fore River at the northeast corner of York Street and the approach road to the Casco Bay Bridge. It is a -story masonry structure, built out of brick laid in Flemish bond on the front facade, and in English bond elsewhere. The main facade is five bays wide and symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by Federal style pilasters and topped by a half-round transom and entablature. A two-story brick ell extends back from the right rear. The interior has a central hall plan, with a narrow central hall that houses a winding staircase. The staircase newels are not original, but are from the same period as the house, taken from a nearby house also owned at one time by the Dyers. The woodwork is generally modest Federal period woodwork, about 90% original, with crown molding in the rightside parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1803 for Nathaniel Dyer, who had earlier settled in nearby Cape Elizabeth, and was engaged in shipbuilding and shipping. At the time of its construction only 26 of Portland&#39;s 576 houses were brick, and most were more elaborate. This house remained in the family until 1959.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel How House is an historic house at 23 Danforth Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1799, it is one of the oldest surviving residences on Portlands Neck, notably surviving the citys great 1866 fire. It is an excellent and well-preserved local example of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel How House stands on the north side of Danforth Street, near its eastern end just uphill from Portlands commercial waterfront. It is a -story brick structure, built from locally sourced bricks laid in common bond. Windows have brownstone lintels, and the main entrance is a sympathetic recreation of a period entrance, the original having been lost. The buildings interior retains most of its original woodwork and flooring, with a particularly fine central staircase. The house was used for many years as a tenement, and underwent a major restoration in the early 1970s.</p><br>
<p>At the time Daniel How built his house, it directly overlooked the waterfront and Casco Bay to the northeast, and Commercial Street, which parallels Danforth on the waterfront, did not exist. Located behind the house on Pleasant Street are two slightly later houses, which were built by other members of the How family. They have in the intervening years been hemmed in by later commercial development, but the cluster of three homes is a well-preserved reminder of the area&#39;s early 19th-century appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Holt Ingraham House, also known as the Churchill and Dole House, is an historic house at 51 State Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1801, it is an important early design by architect Alexander Parris. State Street, on which the house stands, was laid out by its first owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ingraham House is located on the east side of Portlands West End neighborhood, on the northeast side of State Street, a short way south of Danforth Street. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main facade is five bays wide, with symmetrical arrangement. The main entrance is at the center sheltered by a hip-roofed portico with Doric columns. The entry is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by an elliptical fanlight. Above the entrance is a three-part rectangular window on the second level, with a three-part half-round window on the third floor. Windows are otherwise sash, with smaller windows on the third floor. The interior of the house has little historic integrity; much of its original paneling was removed in the early 20th century, and was installed in Washington, D.C.s Blair House.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Alexander Parris, then early in his career, and was built in 1801 for Joseph Holt Ingraham, a silversmith and businessman. The house, one of the oldest on the Portland peninsula, is one of three surviving works of Parris in the city, where he lived 1801-09 before achieving fame for his work in Boston and elsewhere. Later owners of the house include William Pitt Preble, a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and James M. Churchill, a merchant and shipowner. In 1908 the house was converted into boarding house (called "The Churchill"); it is presently a multiunit apartment house.</p><br>
<p>The William Minott House is a historic house at 45 Park Street in Portland, Maine. It is one of Portlands few Federal period houses, notably surviving the citys devastating 1866 fire. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1805 by William Minott, a housewright, and was enlarged by him in 1807 into a three-family, providing space for the families of his two sons. The house is somewhat typical of houses in the area prior to Portland&#39;s 1866 fire. It has remained as a multiunit residence to this day, although it deteriorated and was threatened with demolition in 1976, prior to a major restoration.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the east side of Portland&#39;s West End, at the northern corner of Park and Nye Streets. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with low-pitch hip roof, four end chimneys, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A two-story ell extends to the rear and extends beyond the sides of the main block by one bay on each side. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-oval transom. On the second floor above the entrance is a three-part window, with narrow sections flanking a central fixed pane. The projecting bays of the rear addition also have entrances in the front-facing bays, with similar Federal styling. The interior of the main block reflects a typical Federal period central hall plan.</p><br>
<p>The Springfield Baptist Church, formerly Trinity Methodist Church, is a historic church in Beacon in Dutchess County, New York. It was originally constructed about 1849 as the Associate Presbyterian Church. It was expanded and improved in 1864, 1887, 1891, and 1895. The church consists of a large nave with a steeply pitched gable roof. The main facade features an offset multi-stage bell tower with spire.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Second Baptist Church of Dover is a historic Baptist church in Dover Plains in Dutchess County, New York. It was originally conceived and erected in the 1830s. It is a heavy timber-frame structure on a foundation formed of dressed ashlar marble. Renovations occurred in 1868 and 1887. It has a gable roof and features a three-stage bell tower with steeple and crowning weather vane.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Allgates is a historic estate which is located in Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built for financier Horatio Gates Lloyd and his wife Mary Helen Wingate Lloyd.</p><br>
<p>Much of the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1979; the Federal School was listed separately and added in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built for financier Horatio Gates Lloyd, who was simultaneously a partner in Drexel and Co. and J.P. Morgan and Co. and president of the Commercial Trust Co. of Philadelphia, and his wife Mary Helen Wingate Lloyd, this large estate contained nineteen buildings, including the Frog Tavern, which was built in 1731, and the Federal School, which was built in 1797.</p><br>
<p>The Mansion House, which is the largest of the structures, was designed by Wilson Eyre and completed in 1912. The area was landscaped the Olmsted Brothers (1911-1915). Additions to the garden were made by Ferrucio Vitale. The gardens, however, ultimately did not survive.</p><br>
<p>This complex of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1979, and the Federal School was listed separately in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Since Allgates listing on the NRHP, the estate has been developed with several new large residences. Both the Mansion House and the Federal School remain, however.</p><br>
<p>The Langdon Estate Gatehouse is a historic home located in Hyde Park, New York. It was built in 1876 and is a -story, two-bay dwelling in the Renaissance Revival style. It has a rectangular main block with a kitchen wing covered by steeply pitched, slate-covered, hipped roofs with round-head dormers. The house&#39;s elegant ceiling molding, oak hardwood floors, high ceilings and wooden mantles reflect the wealth of the estate.</p><br>
<p>The home was built as the gatehouse for the Langdon Estate which was the home of Walter Langdon and Dorothea Astor Langdon, the daughter of wealthy New York City businessman John Jacob Astor. Walter Langdon built the gatehouse as a wedding gift for Emily Astor Kane, his favorite niece.</p><br>
<p>Emily Astor Kane married Augustus Jay, the great-grandson of the nation&#39;s first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Jay, and the newlyweds moved into the home. Notably, Augustus Jay served as Secretary of the American embassy in Paris from 1885 to 1893.</p><br>
<p>When Walter Langdon, Jr. died, the entire Langdon Estate was purchased by Frederick W. Vanderbilt. The New York Times reported the estate acquisition in an article on August 29, 1895, in which the reporter described the estate as "the finest place on the Hudson between New York and Albany."</p><br>
<p>As part of Vanderbilt&#39;s extensive redesign of the grounds, he commissioned the construction of a new stone gatehouse. Vanderbilt ordered the Langdon Estate Gatehouse to be moved 50 yards south to the edge of the estate grounds where it now sits at 4419 Albany Post Road.</p><br>
<p>The Gatehouse and property around the Vanderbilt Estate was eventually sold to private individuals and the remaining 211 acres of the Vanderbilt Estate were donated by the Vanderbilt family to the USA government and is now preserved by the National Park Service as the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>The Gatehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Gatehouse was historically restored in late 2015 and early 2016. The project was overseen by Handcrafted Builders of Rhinebeck. They applied a "built-by-hand" approach to the project - restoring even the smallest of details inside and outside the home.</p><br>
<p>Archibald Rogers Estate, also known as "Crumwold," is a historic mansion located at Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York. It was designed by noted New York architect Richard Morris Hunt. The house is currently owned by the Millennial Kingdom Family Church, a Christian group.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1842 the land was owned by Elias Butler who gave the place the name "Crumwold". The Miller and Hoffman families resided on a portion of this property. Archibald Rogers purchased it in 1889.</p><br>
<p>In his book "Colonel Archibald Rogers And the Crumwold Estate" author Carney Rhinevault, Hyde Park Town Historian, provides the following details. Crumwold Hall was occupied by the 306 Military Police from 1942 to 1945, as they protected President Roosevelt, who lived next door. When the President died in 1945, the MPs were transferred to the coach house at the Vanderbilt mansion to guard the Presidents grave. In 1947, Daniel Trosky purchased the mansion and sold part of the estate to provide the money needed to begin building homes on quarter-acre lots. In 1948, Trosky attempted to create the FDR school at Crumwold Hall, but that effort lasted only a couple of years. The school continued to exist when, in 1952, due to space problems it was moved to Shippan Point in Stamford CT. The school remained open and successful until 1984. In 1948, Trosky sold about 900 acres and thirteen outbuildings to John Watson Golden and his partners, and construction on what became known as Crumwold Acres began.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, the building was purchased by the Catholic Church and Eymard Seminary High School was formed. In the 1970s, the Catholic Church decided to sell Eymard Seminary (Crumwold Hall). The property was purchased by J. Homer Butler.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a three-story dwelling constructed of coursed Maine granite with sandstone trim in the Chateauesque style. It is topped by a hipped roof and has eight stone chimneys and a center parapet. It features three towers, two with conical roofs and the third with a pyramidal roof. Also on the property are a carriage house and cottage.</p><br>
<p>The Crumwold Estate exists today, but instead of supporting only one family in Victorian grandeur, over 500 families, mostly in their own single-family homes, now live on Crumwold lands. Crumwold Hall is today owned by an ecumenical religious group called the Millennial Kingdom Family Church, which purchased the building and 69 acres from J. Homer Butler in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The George Rymph House is a historic house located on Albany Post Road  in Hyde Park, New York, United States. It is a stone house built during the 1760s by a recent German immigrant. In 1993, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary houses in Hyde Park, the oldest stone house, in the town.</p><br>
<p>It served as a cottage for the camp&#39;s caretaker until the early 21st century, when the land conservation organization Scenic Hudson bought the property. The house has been vacant since then. Scenic Hudson has been trying to sell or lease the house to a party interested in restoring and preserving it.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the west side of the road roughly 1.4 mi north of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site at the north end of downtown Hyde Park and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the hamlet of Staatsburg. The surrounding terrain is gently rolling, just east of a 100-foot (30 m) rise up from the Hudson River a quarter-mile (0.25 mi) to the west. It is extensively wooded, with a few clearings for a nearby yacht club to the south, the former summer camp on the property, and the Anderson Center for Autism a thousand feet (300 m) to the north. On the opposite side of the road, is a large tract of unbroken woods extending almost to New York State Route 9G two miles (3.2 km) to the east.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s main block is a one-and-a-half-story three-bay structure of uncoursed fieldstone on an exposed stone foundation. It is topped with a cross-gabled roof sheathed in asphalt shingles and pierced by brick chimneys on either end. There are additions on the north and west sides, and small porticos sheltering both entrances.</p><br>
<p>On the east (front) facade, the stone has been covered with stucco, which was later scored to suggest a smooth-cut ashlar pattern. It has begun to flake and spall near the roof and foundation lines on the south of the main entrance. A short set of unpainted wooden steps leads up to a porch of the same material, with guardrails on the sides. Two plain square pillars support the gabled portico roof, with clapboard in the gable field. To its sides, each bay has one double-hung six-over-six sash window with paneled wooden shutters. A wide plain frieze with simple cornice and bracketed eaves mark the roofline. The gable field above the main entrance is built of timber frame. It, too, is faced in clapboard. In its middle, is an arched two-over-two double-hung sash window. Its roofline has a similar treatment as the one below, except for having smaller brackets in pairs.</p><br>
<p>On the south, the windows, entrance and facade treatment of the first story are identical to that of the east. The portico-roof is supported by narrow metal poles, but is otherwise the same as its larger counterpart on the east. The gable field above it similarly set in clapboard, however, has two smooth-arched one-over-one double-hung sash windows. The roofline treatment matches that on the east cross-gable.</p><br>
<p>The stone on the west elevation is not stuccoed, only painted. A single narrow one-over-one separates the south corner from a shed-roofed addition with modern siding and paired storm windows in each face. On the north is another, similar addition, larger and with a smaller gabled roof. It has almost continuous screened windows, serving as a sunroom. There is no stucco on that side of the main block, either.</p><br>
<p>A plain molded surround, topped by blocks with bulls-eye centers, sets off the main entrance door. Above it, on the lintel, is carved "GR 1769". The door itself has four lights on its top and four wooden panels below.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the house has many of its interior features intact. It has a central hall with wide planked wooden flooring. In the rooms are original mantels; the kitchen has a large stone fireplace with wooden lintel. Many of the original wooden four-paneled doors remain. The original ceiling hand-hewn exposed beams are still present, and the staircase to the garret features an original wooden newel post and balustrade, among many other original wooden and plaster finishes in the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From its establishment in the first years of the 18th century, Hyde Park, named for Edward Hyde, the provincial governor who granted the land, was largely undeveloped woods with a few tenant farmers. John Bard, a New York City physician, inherited through marriage 3,600 acre of the original Fauconnier patent between Crum Elbow Creek and the Enderkill in 1763 as a retirement property. Financial problems five years later forced him to offer the property for sale.</p><br>
<p>He never sold the entire property, but did sell some of it. Johannes George Rymph (sometimes spelled Rim in records from the era), a who had come to the Hudson Valley from Wittenburg, Germany, a few years earlier, bought a 215 acre land lot stretching west from the river. The following year he built the house, carving his initials and the year 1769 in the lintel above the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>At that time it looked somewhat different. It was limited to the current main block, and did not have its porticoes, either. The fieldstone walls and foundation were visible and unpainted on all sides. The size and form of the house, as well as features of the roof like the steeply pitched gables, framed ends, and chimney placement are typical of the vernacular architecture built by most European settlers of the time. the house&#39;s center-hall, double-pile interior plan, topped by a garret, is more common on the west side of the Hudson, however.</p><br>
<p>Rymph eventually expanded the farmstead to 600 acre. On his death in 1791, the house and land were left to his wife and ten children. They remained on the land, gradually subdividing it over the 19th century. Around 1850, the house was altered for the first time, when the Gothic Revival dormer window over the main entrance was added. At some point after that, the interior was remodeled to contemporary Victorian tastes and the exterior likely stuccoed, according to a local historian who believes that the house reflects that era to a much greater extent than it does the time of its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Rymphs owned the house until 1915, when they sold it to the Dominican Order. It was then used as the caretakers cottage on the 50 acre summer camp they established with the remaining portion of George Rymphs original 1768 purchase. They also remodeled it in a Colonial Revival style, adding the north and west wings and two porticoes with Doric columns and further obscuring its original appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Dominicans still owned the property when it was added to the National Register in 1993,</p><br>
<p>Two years later, the town planning board granted Scenic Hudson a lot split, putting the Rymph House on its own 2.1 acre parcel. This allowed the organization to offer the property for sale or lease the following year to a person or entity willing to restore and preserve it.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office and Courthouse–Billings, in Billings, Montana, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It includes Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture and Second Renaissance Revival architecture. Also known as Billings Post Office and Courthouse and as Billings Downtown Station, it served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, and as a post office. The courthouse functions have since been relocated to the James F. Battin USA Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s construction was touted as a great thing for Billings, and its opening was a matter of great pride for the city. The building was expanded and renovated in 1932.</p><br>
<p>The Adam P. Leighton House is an historic house at 261 Western Promenade in Portland, Maine. Built in 1903, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture, and is further prominent as home to Adam P. Leighton, who was "considered the father of the American postcard industry", and served as the Mayor of Portland from 1908 to 1909. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Leighton House is located in Portland&#39;s West End, near the northern end of the Western Promenade, a public park. It is set overlooking the park on the east side, between West and Pine Streets. It is a -story brick building, with a dormered hip roof with bracketed eaves. The front facade is three bays wide, with an asymmetrical arrangement. The left bays are in a rectangular projection with single sash windows, and the right bays form a rounded projection with three window bays on each level. The entrance is at the center, sheltered by a portico supported by modified Doric columns. Corners are laid in brick that emulates quoining, and the windows have keystoned lintels.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1902–03, to a design by local architect Frederick A. Tompson. Adam P. Leighton, for whom it was built, had made a fortune publishing "view books" (books containing lithographs), and then individual half-toned photographs, which were the first postcards. By the time this house was built, Leighton was a prominent local businessman, serving on bank boards and in elective offices. He was Portland&#39;s mayor for one term, 1908–09.</p><br>
<p>The Sparrow House is an historic house at 35 Arlington Street in the Woodfords Corner and Back Cove neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Built in 1852, it is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sparrow House is set on the northwest side of Arlington Street, a residential street between Forest Avenue and Back Cove in Portland&#39;s Woodfords Corner neighborhood. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof and vertical board siding. The side gables and a front-facing gable above the entrance are decorated with intricate bargeboard. The front gable has a Palladian-style three-part window formed out of narrow lancet-arched windows. A single-story (ell) extends to the right of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1852, when the area was part of Deering, and was for a number of years the only house in the area. It was built for Warren Sparrow, a Portland businessman who operated a dry goods store and insurance business, and was one of the early organizers of Portlands streetcar system. It is along with The Gothic House in Portlands West End, one of the finest examples of Gothic residential architecture in the city. Its architect is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The Judge Isaac C. Parker Federal Building, also known as the Fort Smith USA Post Office and Courthouse, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was built in 1937 in Classical Revival style. It served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and as a post office. It was renamed in 1996 for the famous "hanging judge" Isaac C. Parker, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>From the early 19th century Fort Smith was a main stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from Tipton, Missouri, to San Francisco. The area also had the reputation of being "the end of civilization", and the gateway to the West and the Indian territories of Oklahoma. As such, the federal court under Judge Isaac C. Parker (historically known as the "hanging judge") was active, trying 13,000 cases in 21 years. Judge Parker&#39;s court was headquartered at the barracks of the second Fort Smith, a few blocks from the present building, now part of Fort Smith National Historic Site. Fort Smith evolved into an area of great federal activity in the 19th century, and $100,000 was allocated for a federal courthouse and post office building in 1887. The building, completed in 1889, was located at Rogers Avenue and Sixth Street. The imposing Romanesque structure served as the main post office and as the federal courthouse until the present structure was built in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The present building was constructed less than thirty feet behind the 1889 building on the same site, and workers moved from one building to the other before the 1889 building was demolished. It is not clear why the federal government decided to demolish one building and build another to fulfill the same purpose. Perhaps there was a need for more space and Fort Smith became part of the intense federal building activity in the 1930s. In 1964, the building was expanded with the addition of two wings which were designed to complement the 1936 structure.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is a three-story red brick, Classical Revival style building with limestone trim. It consists of an original 1937 building, 151 wide, flanked by two 63 wide symmetrical projecting wings added in 1964. The wings are only two stories high, which leaves the original building rising in the center of the elevation. Limestone detailing is simple and concentrated on the original building elevation. Red brick in a common bond pattern rises from a smooth finish limestone base; a series of six engaged pilasters, with Doric capitals, rise two stories above the first floor base to a plain, 5&#39; high limestone cornice and frieze which borders the entire building, except the rear light court. The words "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE AND COURT HOUSE" are incised into the entablature. There is also limestone trim around the three central entry doors, limestone window sills and lintels, and a limestone stair platform with plinths or cheekwalls, all smooth-finished. A long handicapped ramp with a return visually dominates the approach to the main entry. It is bounded by iron rails which match the ones on the original areaways flanking the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Three double doors are located in the center of the original main elevation. Original doors have been replaced with pairs of single light aluminum storefront-type commercial entry doors. Aluminum panels face the recessed jambs. Windows are generally multipane (12/ 12) aluminum, single-hung except for a series of 1/1 triple glazed, double hung units (these have false muntins between the glazing in a 12/12 pattern) in the third floor, southwest wing judge&#39;s suite. A few original double-hung 12/12 wood windows are located at the second floor southwest wing of the original building, and a few small steel windows are in the roof penthouse.</p><br>
<p>A copper-clad hipped roof rises from the center of the original building over the projecting pavilion. Originally, the roof had a wood "widows walk" atop it. The widows walk was encased in aluminum siding, though the original wood structure remains in place. The remainder of the roof of the original (1936) building and the 1964 wing is built-up tar and gravel.</p><br>
<p>The first floor interior consists of a 90x 18 postal lobby with polished St. Claire Genevieve Golden Vein marble wainscotting, terrazzo floors and a simple fretwork plaster frieze. The terrazzo floors consist of black and light brown tiles set on a diagonal (see Zone 2B for description). The lobby originally was 106 long, but 16 have been captured into a Marshals office at the northeast end. The lobby is distinguished by a series of five free-standing glass-topped cast aluminum 2x6 postal desks with lion headed legs and claw feet. There is also a large polychrome compass rose with zinc edge strips and zinc letters. The lobby has been sub-divided by two aluminum framed glazed curtain walls (one at each end) into a postal service lobby to the southwest, a central box lobby, and a Marshals office/checkpoint to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>The second floor is largely office space, with double loaded corridors which originally had simple finishes: asphalt tile floors and plaster walls. There is an original Magistrate&#39;s Hearing Room in the rear center wing, with two original restrooms.</p><br>
<p>The third floor houses the main courtroom (see Zone 1A for description), and judge&#39;s suite. The hallway outside the courtroom serves as a courtroom lobby but it is a modest architectural space. The original courtroom entry doors are oak with reeded jambs, a composite ornament at the corners, and diamond panels (some glazed) in the doors.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Hanson Block is a historic commercial building at 548-550 Congress Street in Downtown Portland, Maine. It was built in 1889 to a design by local architect Francis Fassett in partnership with Frederick A. Tompson, and is one of a small number of surviving commercial designs by Fassett in the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Asa Hanson Block is located on the south side of Congress Street, Portland&#39;s main commercial thoroughfare, at the southeast corner with Oak Street. It is a three-story brick building, seven bays wide, with a low sloping flat roof. The roof is obscured by a projecting cornice that has a gable above the center bay. The ground floor has two storefronts flanking the main entrance, each with three large-panel windows and a recessed entrance, with articulating paneled metal posts. Second-floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings, with a brick stringcourse above. The third-floor windows are set in rectangular openings, with brickwork panels below. The upper bays are grouped in sets of three flanking the center bay, with pilasters between the groups rising to decorative brickwork banding below the cornice.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1889 to a design by Francis Fassett, a prolific architect who was much in demand after a major fire devastated the city in 1866. Of eighteen commercial buildings he is known to have designed in the city, this is one of only seven that survives, and retains most of its exterior design. (The interior of the building has been repeatedly altered, and no longer has historical significance.) Asa Hanson, for whom it was nominally built, was an agent for J.B. Brown, a leading local industrialist. The name "Perry" appears in a panel on the building because it was built by Charles Perry, a real estate developer.</p><br>
<p>The North School is an historic former school at 248 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1867, it was the first primary school in the state to separate students by grade, and was the largest primary school in the state when built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was converted into subsidized housing for seniors by the City of Portland.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The North School is located in Portland&#39;s East Bayside India Street neighborhood, on the southeast side of Congress Street, just west of the Eastern Cemetery. It is a three-story brick building with Italianate styling. A four-story tower projects from its southwest-facing front facade, capped by a square turret with clock. Windows in the tower are predominantly tall round-arch windows, while windows elsewhere are in part similar, with some replaced by bands of rectangular sash. When built, the building also had a mansard roof; this was removed in 1920-22, when the windows were also altered.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1867 to a design by Levi Newcomb, in the wake of Portland great 1866 fire, and was the city&#39;s largest municipal project of the period. It was the first school in the state to implement the principles of education reformer Henry Barnard, which included the separation of students by grade. In 1894 its attic was fitted with woodworking apparatus for vocational education, and its 1920-22 alterations were designed by John Calvin Stevens. The school remained in use as a primary school until the mid-1970s. It has since been converted into subsidized senior housing.</p><br>
<p>The Southington Center Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places district covering a major portion of the center of Southington, Connecticut. The area includes a considerable number of resources, many of which are buildings, commercial, governmental, religious and residential, but the list also includes monuments, and the town green. The district was added to the National Register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings in the district date to Colonial times. Southington became a town in 1779, but European settlers first came to the area in 1698. Many of the commercial, religious and government buildings lie along Main or North Main, on either side of the town green. There are some residential buildings on the two main streets, but the majority of the residential buildings are on Vermont and Berlin streets, adjacent to Main Street.</p><br>
<h2>Monuments</h2><br>
<p>The district includes four monuments, each of which is located on the town green, in the center of town.</p><br>
<p>The monuments are:</p><br>
<p>A Civil War monument</p><br>
<p>A World War I monument</p><br>
<p>A World War II- Korea - Vietnam monument</p><br>
<p>A granite fountain commemorating Amon Bradley, a 19th-century industrialist.</p><br>
<h2>Residences</h2><br>
<p>One of the oldest residences in town is that of Jonathan Root, whose house was used both as a dwelling and a tavern. This building is within the district, but is also separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Cyrus C. Chamberlain House, at 114 Main Street, is an example of a residential building in the center of town. It was built in 1823, in the Federal style.</p><br>
<h2>Commercial, religious and governmental</h2><br>
<p>The Congregational Church, at 37 Main Street, was built between 1828 and 1832 in the Federal style. The Federal Post Office, at 125 Main street, dates to 1939, although it has an addition built in 1964. The style is Georgian Revival.</p><br>
<p>The Meriden Avenue–Oakland Road Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places district covering a residential section of Southington, Connecticut, located south of the center of town. At the time of the listing, in 1988, there were 113 buildings within the boundaries of the district, of which all but 22 are considered contributing. The period of significance for the district is 1860–1936. A residence built after 1936, or altered substantially qualifies as building as non-contributing. Only one building is deemed non-contributing due to extensive modelling.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural styles</h2><br>
<p>There are a variety of styles of architecture within the district. Styles represented:</p><br>
<p>Italianate</p><br>
<p>Queen Anne</p><br>
<p>American Four Square</p><br>
<p>Bungaloid</p><br>
<p>Georgian</p><br>
<p>Dutch Colonial</p><br>
<p>Cape</p><br>
<p>An example of the Italianate style is the Mary Gridley Stevens House on 107 Meriden, built in 1870.</p><br>
<p>Some of the styles in the district are hybrids. The Byron & Ann Eliza Twiss House, located at 180–182 Meriden, is an example of a building with the influence of both Queen Anne and Stick architectural styles. The original owner, Byron Twiss, owned a wood turning factory, which may account for the "exceptional millwork".</p><br>
<p>The house at 173 Meriden is also a hybrid, with elements of Stick style, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<p>The two Beckley houses—the Moses W. Beckley House at 145 Meriden and the Charles W. Beckley House at 155 Meriden are both example of a combination of Queen Anne and Colonial revival styles.</p><br>
<p>There are several examples of the Italianate style in this area. The house at 133 Meriden Avenue is described as a "larger cube-form version with a shallow-pitched hip roof".</p><br>
<p>The house at 104 Meriden, built in 1880, is an example of Vernacular Queen Anne.</p><br>
<p>The house at 119 Meriden, owned by J. Frank Pratt, is an example of American Four Square style architecture.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Cornelius Nase Campbell House is a historic home located at Stanfordville in Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1845 and is a gable-ended, 2-story timber-frame dwelling with -story kitchen wing in a vernacular Italianate style. It has a cross-gable, bay windows, and a cupola. It features a full-length verandah on the front facade and patterned slate shingles. In 1872, it became the "President&#39;s House for the Christian Bible Institute. In 1909 it again became a private residence and a boarding house until abandoned in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Pulver-Bird House is a historic home located at Stanford in Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1839 and has a two-story center block with flanking one-story wings in the Greek Revival style. It features a monumental tetrastyle portico supported by four Doric order columns. Also on the property is a frame ice house and frame barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Elias Titus House is a historic home located at Red Oaks Mill in Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1840 and originally consisted of a -story, gable-roofed main block and -story kitchen wing. The main block is three bays wide and four bays deep. It features a temple front elevation in the Greek Revival style. It is a tetrastyle portico supported by fluted Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Graham-Brush Log House is a historic home located in the Town of Pine Plains, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in about 1776 and is a two-room log structure with a wood frame lean-to on its rear elevation. It measures roughly 39 feet long and 18 feet wide. It is one and one half stories with a gable roof; the lean-to addition is one story. The Brush house was acquired in 1997-1998 by the local historical society, the Little Nine Partners Historical Society. In 1998 it was damaged by an arson fire.</p><br>
<p>Lewis Graham came from Westchester County where the British had burned his house. He came to Pine Plains because his father had been one of the Little Nine Partners in the local land patent. About 1776, he built a one-room log cabin without a cellar to which he soon added a center hall with stairs to the loft and another room with a fireplace, all of logs. The log addition was built over a cellar with an outside entrance. The simple lap joining of logs, without dovetails, relates its construction methods to the military garrisons being built at that time to house troops.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office and Courthouse in Eureka, California is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Completed in 1910, this historic building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Its architecture, designed by James Knox Taylor, is mixed, reflecting several styles. It initially served as a customhouse, in addition to being a courthouse and post office.</p><br>
<h2>Murals</h2><br>
<p>Notable examples of New Deal art were created for the building. Mining and Forestry and Water and Land, two tempera on canvas murals by Thomas Laman, were commissioned in 1938 by the Treasury Relief Art Project and were on display in the post office until the building was sold to a private party in 2002. The murals were restored and are currently on display in the new United States Courthouse (McKinleyville, California).</p><br>
<p>Federal Land Office is a former government building in Steubenville, Ohio where the federal government sold public lands to settlers. It is now on the property of a museum beside reconstructed Fort Steuben. In 1973, while on another site about a mile away, {{coord|40|22|31|N|80|36|47|W|name=old}}, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical significance. It was later moved to its present location.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1800, Congress passed the Harrison Land Act, titled An Act to amend an act entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River". Section 1 established four land offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chillicothe, Ohio, Marietta, Ohio, and Steubenville, Ohio. The Steubenville office was responsible for the Steubenville Land District, lands in the northernmost 48 miles of the Seven Ranges, and in the Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges. Each office was under the direction of an officer called "Register of the Land Office", appointed by the President with consent and approval of the Senate. Section 4 directed sales to begin at Steubenville in 1801. Section 6 created the position "receiver of public monies" at each office. The act allowed payment for land to be spread over several years, and it was the duty of the officers to keep meticulous records of buyers, property location, and payments, and issue patents when paid in full.</p><br>
<p>President Adams named David Hoge as Register. He purchased a plot of land on the west side of Third Street from Bezaleel Wells, founder of Steubenville, and built a two-story log cabin as home and office. In 1809, it was moved and 12 years later encased in a brick structure, where it was discovered in 1940, and preserved by citizens of Jefferson County, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Act of March 3, 1807 established a land office for the Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges that ended up in Canton, creating the Canton Land District. This reduced the size of the Steubenville Land District.</p><br>
<p>David Hoge served as Register from 1801 to 1841. In the nineteenth century, several hundred Federal Land Offices were established in the Public Lands states.</p><br>
<p>The Webster Grammar School is an historic former school building at 95 Hampshire Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1915-16 to a design by Harry S. Coombs, it was one of the first junior high school buildings in New England, and is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture. The building is now apartments and a community center, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Webster Grammar School stands in a residential area northwest of downtown Auburn, on a lot bounded by Hampshire, Willow, and Webster Streets. It is a U-shaped two-story brick building, with a flat roof and Colonial Revival features. Its original main entrance faces southwest toward Hampshire Street, and is distinguished by a projecting section with four two-story engaged Doric columns. The bays between the columns have keystoned rounded-arch openings, with the center one housing the recessed entrance. A modern entrance has been built at the center of the U, which is on what was the rear (Webster Street) facade.</p><br>
<p>The school&#39;s first building (45 Spring Street) was built in 1874, and designed by Fassett & Stevens of Lewiston. It was a simple High Victorian Gothic building, since demolished. The present building was built in 1915 to a design by Harry S. Coombs, a distant successor to Fassett & Stevens. The concept of a junior high school was introduced in the early 20th century, and the state of Maine introduced more rigorous curriculum requirements in the decade before this school was built. The school provided facilities for a more practical and hands-on education, particularly directed at students who were likely to leave school after the eighth grade. It served as a junior high school until 1981, when it was converted to serve grades 4-6. It was closed in 2006, and has been converted into housing and a community center.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Charles B. Carter (1880-1927), professional football player and member of the Maine Senate.</p><br>
