<p>The Willis House is an historic, American home that is located in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The builder of this historic residence, William Willis (1726–1801), was a Quaker who received 480 acres from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Sr. in 1752. His grandfather, John Willis, was born in 1668 in Great Britain. In 1675, the family migrated to Westbury, Long Island, New York. His son, Samuel Willis (1778–1848), is frequently mentioned in local histories as "kindly Friend Willis," and was a major figure in the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1762, this historic structure is a -story, banked brick dwelling with a partly exposed basement. It measures 30 feet long by 31 feet wide and has a steeply pitched gable roof. The interior is laid out in a variation of a Georgian center hall plan.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The York Dispatch Newspaper Offices is an historic, American commercial building that is located in York, Pennsylvania, York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural feature</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1887, this historic structure is a four-story, four-bay brick building that was designed in the Italianate Revival style and was used as the office space of the editors and reporters employed by The York Dispatch newspaper.</p><br>
<p>The building consists of two independent sections connected by an overhead walkway. The front facade was built using cast iron and pressed metal and features decorative pilasters and long, slender windows.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The United Cigar Manufacturing Company building is a historic building that is located in York, York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed as a cigar factory in 1907 by the United Cigar Manufacturing Company of New York City.</p><br>
<p>United Cigar was formed in 1902 by the consolidation of Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer; Hirschhorn, Mack & Company; and Stratton & Storm Company. It was subsequently incorporated in New York under the same name in 1906. As of 1907, the company owned and operated nineteen factories in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and manufactured 400 million cigars annually for the wholesale market. It became the General Cigar Company about 1917.</p><br>
<p>The cigar factory was operated for an undetermined period as the York City Cigar Company. After 1932, the building housed printers and clothing manufacturers and is currently used as an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>This three-story, brick building sits on a stone foundation and has a low-pitched gable roof. The main facade is eighteen bays wide and has a four-bay-wide, one-bay-deep, center pavilion. The building measures 174 feet wide by forty-one feet deep.</p><br>
<p>Peabody Hall is a mixed-use academic and residential building located on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The original building, known as Seminary Hall, was built in 1855, and was the central building of Western College for Women. That building burned down in 1860 and was rebuilt the following year, only to become damaged by an 1871 fire. The building was rebuilt again that same year, and was renamed Peabody Hall  in 1905. Peabody Hall is one of two residential buildings on Miami&#39;s Western Campus still used for their original purposes. It is one of 15 contributing buildings to the Western Female Seminary National Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peabody Hall is located on Western College of Miami&#39;s campus. Western College was founded in 1853 and it modeled the Mt. Holyoke of Massachusetts “system” with its low cost yet high-quality education for women. Helen Peabody, for whom Peabody Hall is named, was principal of the Western Female Seminary when it opened for classes on September 20 of 1855. In 1904 Western went from being named A College and Seminary for Women to “The Western College for Women.” From the Western College Memorial Archives website, it states that “For the next fifty years, Western remained a general liberal arts college, primarily under the presidency of William W. Boyd. With the arrival of President Herrick B. Young in 1954, an international focus began. Many international students and faculty were recruited, international travel seminars were instituted, and a global emphasis was added to the curriculum.” Another major decision for the college came in 1971 was men were admitted to Western college as well. Due to financial difficulties, Western College closed in 1974 and the physical facilities merged with Miami University, thus where it stands today. In this year of the Miami University-Western College merger, Peabody was remodeled. Peabody Hall burnt down in 1861, was rebuilt, then burnt down once again in 1871, and was once again rebuilt. A declaration for “Present Properties Needing Change or Improvement was obtained from an unknown source and author from the Western College Memorial Archives. One of the buildings that addressed a plea to improve the buildings safety was Peabody. The short document quotes, “It is a large, dignified structure of high ceilings and wide halls, with an atmosphere which it is desirable to preserve. However, it is not a fireproof building; students are forced to climb its high flights of stairs several times a day—a situation not often conducive to the physical well-being of all young women. And so even though parts of the building can continue, with alteration, to serve admirably for administrative and academic purposes, it is no longer suitable for dormitory use. The elimination of the housing use of Peabody Hall will necessitate the erection of new dormitory facilities.”</p><br>
<h2>Helen Peabody</h2><br>
<p>From the Western College Memorial Archives, “Helen Peabody was born in New Hampshire in 1826. She was the youngest of fourteen children. Helen Peabody graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1848 and remained as a teacher for five years. She moved to St. Louis to be with her brother; however, in 1855 she was encouraged to become the first principal of the Western Female Seminary. Having been a student of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke, Miss Peabody was qualified to establish a "Mount Holyoke in the West." She was principal from 1855 to 1887 when she took a leave of absence for a year. She presided over the 1888 commencement and announced her retirement after thirty-seven years at Western. Miss Peabody moved to California where she died in 1905.” She is buried in the Oxford Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Peabody today</h2><br>
<p>Today, Peabody Hall is only one of the three buildings once used to house students of Western still housing classrooms and offices. Along with administrative offices in the building lies a theatre where children and adult plays were once presented. Student rooms and utilities are all modern and the parlors and guest rooms are furnished with 19th-century antiques. In 1996 an article was released in The Cincinnati Enquirer discussing that the renovation of the 125 –year-old hall was nearly complete. The renovation was a $7 million project. The article goes on to describe how although the building looks as if something from a Dickens novel on the outside, the inside now models everything of the 21st century with its new rooms carved out, a computer room and video production studio added, and most room being hard-wired to a computer network. But to still keep some of the buildings character from the 1800s when it was only a part of Western College, designers pick particular paint colors and wallpapers to achieve the historical accuracy. In this year the “new Peabody” also developed a renovated Leonard Theatre, the Windate Writing Center and the Western College Alumni Association Memorial Archives. To this day, witnesses of Peabody Hall claim the building is haunted. Workers on site during the renovation claim that they saw the “ghost” of Helen Peabody. Today, Peabody Hall still makes in the list of the most haunted buildings on Miami Universitys campus.</p><br>
<p>Glenwood is a historic plantation with a Greek Revival house and several outbuildings, located near Enon, Yadkin County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Tyre Glen or Tyree Glenn (1800–1875) built one of the largest plantations in western North Carolina in Enon. The estate, known as Glenwood, once had 360 slaves and 6,000 acre. The 15-room house, with its Doric columns, was completed in 1837. The soapstone foundation for the house came from Glens own quarry. The house was restored in the second half of the twentieth century, and is a privately owned residence. Glens original property included a dam, gristmill and a ferry at the Yadkin River.</p><br>
<p>Glen spent his early career as a slave trader and land broker, helping set up plantations in Mississippi. Glen&#39;s papers are available at the Rubenstein Library, Duke University and have been cited in recent books on the Civil War period. Among the records, is a price table from the early 1850s that values slaves based on their ages. Glenwood was a center for culture in the area. Prominent visitors included North Carolina Gov. Zebulon Vance; and North Carolina Chief Justice Richard M. Pearson. Glen was married to Margaret Ann Bynum (June 8, 1816 - July 3, 1871) daughter of Hampton Bynum and Mary Coleman Martin.</p><br>
<p>In 1863, a company of 50 uninvited Confederate troops of the 8th Battalion Georgia Infantry descended on Glenwood. In April 1863, Glens rants against Secession angered the officers, who instigated a plot to lure him from Glenwood and hang him as a traitor. The officers plot was stopped by heavy rains that washed away the bridge at Deep Creek, and Glen returned to his home.</p><br>
<p>In July 1864, William Alexander Conrad, a founding member of Enon Baptist Church and member of the Home Guard, was shot at Glenn&#39;s Ferry trying to catch what he thought were three deserters who were crossing the river in a small boat. Conrad died several months later. Years after the war, it was learned that the men were Union soldiers who had escaped from prison and were on their way to Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Glenwood was raided several times during the American Civil War. By the last raid in April 1865, most of the slaves had fled, and there was neither a horse nor a head of cattle left. As the Confederate army disbanded, troops marched along the ferry road that ran through the estate. For weeks, long tables were erected at each side of the house and family members and the few remaining freedmen gave food to all who stopped.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Jarratt (1812–1875), one of Glen&#39;s partners in the slave trade, also settled in the Enon area. Jarratt, who served as a drummer boy during the War of 1812, bought the Davis Durrett plantation in 1835. Many of the Jarratt family papers, including letters and slave receipts, are located in the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the Civil War, Isaac Jarratt was captain of the Yadkin County Home Guard.</p><br>
<p>The Jarratt family is also tied to the families of Thomas Lanier Clingman and through marriage to Richard Clauselle Puryear of nearby Huntsville, North Carolina. The Durrett-Jarratt House, on Old USA Highway 421, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Old Town, also known as the Thomas Brown House, is a house in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, at the Old Town Archeological Site that was built by Thomas Brown starting in 1846. It is a two-story frame structure built on an "I-House" plan, an example of vernacular architecture showing Greek Revival influences. The Thomas Brown House is among the best two-story vernacular I-house examples in the county .</p><br>
<p>It was located on the Harpeth River branch of the Natchez Trace.</p><br>
<p>Singer Jimmy Buffett owned the house in the late 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It is built amidst and named for, Old Town, a village site of Mississippian culture with mounds. It is located near Old Town Bridge, the remains of a Natchez Trace bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Original Owner</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Brown was born in Virginia in 1800 and moved to Williamson County, Tennessee in 1822. Brown became a prominent farmer and purchased a large amount of land from William O&#39;Neal Perkins in 1840. Brown began construction of this two-story frame house in 1846 with builder Prior Lilly acting as contractor. Little is known about Lilly but he is also the attributed contractor of the H.G.W. Mayberry House (MW-676), a brick central passage plan residence built ca. 1856. Thomas Brown was listed in 1860 with real estate valued at $25,000 and personal property of $34.500. At his death in 1870, he owned 546 acres of valuable land along the Harpeth River. Brown had six children and his daughter, Bethenia Brown Miller, lived at the house until her death in 1913.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>Old Town is a two-story frame central passage plan antebellum residence with Greek Revival detailing. On the main (east) facade is an original two-story portico with square columns and Doric capitals. On the second story balcony is a lattice railing and in the gable field is dentil molding. The main entrance has an original four panel frame door, two light sidelights with frame lower panels, and a two light transom. Dividing the door and sidelights are fluted Doric motif plasters. The door has rectangular frame panels and a dentilled cornice.</p><br>
<p>On the central bay of the second story is an original door with features to match the main entrance. Windows on the main facade are original paired four-over-four sash with 19th century shutters. Over the windows are dentiled cornices and dentils are also located along the roof cornice. The house has weatherboard siding, exterior end brick chimneys, a gable roof of composition shingles, and a stone foundation. On the south facade are original four panel doors which open onto a ca. 1960 one-story porch with square Doric motif columns. The rear two-story ell also has a brick chimney. The rear and side facades have original six-over-six sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The Farmers Bank of Petersburg is a historic building in Petersburg, Kentucky; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 6, 1989. The building is an excellent example of vernacular commercial architecture of the early 20th century .</p><br>
<p>Farmers Bank of Petersburg was founded in 1903 and closed in 1970. It was the fourth bank organized in Boone County, after Burlington, Walton, and Hebron, and was the only bank serving the western portion of Boone County.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural details</h2><br>
<p>The boomtown facade indicates commercial use of the one-story gable-front building. The upper portion of the facade rests on a stone string course. Lintels and sills are made of smooth cut stone and the facade parapet is capped with tin.</p><br>
<p>District School No. 3 is a historic one-room school building located at Castleton-on-Hudson in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1870 and is a one-story, rectangular massed, brick building in the Italianate style. It remained in use as a school until 1951. Also on the property is a gable roofed garage , a coal / wood shed, and a stone capped well.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>East Nassau Central School is a historic school building located at East Nassau in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a two-story, steel frame and concrete block building with a brick veneer in the Classical Revival style. It sits upon a raised concrete foundation and has a flat roof concealed behind a low parapet wall with concrete capstones. It features a small entrance portico of brick with concrete trim and a wrought iron balustrade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Haskell School was a historic school building located at Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1894 and was a T-shaped, three-story, red brick building on an elevated limestone basement in the Renaissance Revival style. It had a flat roof with a massive metal cornice. It featured a majestic front entrance with a gated arch rising two stories over a tiled vestibule. The arch included the inscription "Haskell School" in a terra cotta frieze. It was used as a school until 1975, then converted to apartments after 1977.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and was delisted in 2023.</p><br>
<p>After being vacant for several decades and several attempts to, in May 2020 the building was purchased with another plan on converting the building, this time into 20 residential apartments. Located on the east side of 6th Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets, it was named for Board of Education President Robert Haskell. It replaced the Fourth Ward School.</p><br>
<p>However, this redevelopment never went forward, and on August 2, 2023, the building was demolished pursuant to an emergency order by Troy mayor Patrick Madden, citing its poor condition. The listed owner of the building at the time was Save the Haskell of Garden City, Nassau County.</p><br>
<p>Public School No. 10 is a historic school building located at Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1898 and is an H-shaped, three-story, hard-glazed orange brick building on an elevated basement in the Georgian Revival style. It has limestone and terra cotta trim. The entrance features a projecting terra cotta portico on a raised brick-and-limestone base. It was converted to multi-family housing in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>W. P. Irwin Bank Building is a historic bank building located at Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was originally built in 1873 and is a 2-story, rectangular flat-roofed, masonry structure on a stone foundation. A -story, four-bay flat-roofed brick rear wing was added in 1905. The building exhibits a number of Gothic Revival details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Billmeyer House, also known as York House, is a historic home located at York, Pennsylvania, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1860, and is a three-story, brick Italian Villa style dwelling. It consists of a "head house" with rear wing, and topped by flat roof with a 10 feet square cupola. The interior features a parlor ceiling and walls decorated by noted artist Filippo Costaggini .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Stevens School is an historic, American school building that is located in York, York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built between 1889 and 1890, this historic structure is a two-and-one-half-story, red-orange brick building that was created in the Romanesque Revival style. Built in the shape of a Latin cross, it has a slate covered hipped roof and features terra cotta ornamentation. It was named for Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868). The building was converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The York Central Market, also known as Central Market York, is an historic, American public market that is located in York, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built in 1888, this historic structure is a large, two-story, brick building that was created in the Romanesque Revival style. It has a hipped roof with steep gable dormers and projecting front pieces. The front facade features two three-story square towers with pyramidal roofs projecting on each side of the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Sheads House, also known as Oak Ridge Seminary, is an historic, American home that is located in Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1862, this historic structure is a -story, T-shaped,brick dwelling that was designed in the Gothic Revival style. It sits on a granite foundation, has a cross gable roof, and features an ornamental fascia board and porches with ornamental balustrades. Shortly after it was built, it housed the Oak Ridge Seminary, a girls&#39; school.</p><br>
<p>During the Battle of Gettysburg, it was used as a hospital for Confederate States Army wounded.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Sheads House Gettysburg PA shell in wall.jpgShell embedded in the wall to the left of the window</p><br>
<p>The John Abbott House is an historic house located on King Street in Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story wood, stone and brick building. It consists of the original log dwelling dated to about 1740, and sheathed in clapboard, with an extension added between 1830 and 1850, incorporating the original stone kitchen and brick addition. A one-story wood lean-to was added between 1915 and 1930. The house measures 28 ft by 67 ft. The house operated as a tavern between 1750 and about 1763.</p><br>
<p>Restoration work was completed on the home in 1981 by the home&#39;s owner, Yvonne Nace; Thomas Spiers, her consulting architect; her contractor, Edward H. Nace; William Helker, carpenter; and Ralph Miller, painter.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Adams County Courthouse is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1858, the Adams County Courthouse was first occupied in 1859. The architect was Stephen Decatur Button of Philadelphia, with John R. Turner of Carlisle implementing its construction.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is two stories high, three bays wide, six bays deep and constructed of red brick, which was originally painted gray. Rear wings were added in 1895. A large clock tower reaches about 70 ft above ground level. During the Battle of Gettysburg the building served as both a command post and as a hospital, for both Union and Confederate armies.</p><br>
<p>The Adams County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Crystal Falls Dam and Power Plant is a utility located on the Paint River off Powerplant Road, on the north side of Crystal Falls, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The section of the Paint River where the dam is now located was once a series of falls and rapids that gave Crystal Falls its name. However, in 1891, the village of Crystal Falls constructed the Crystal Falls dam and power plant, effectively submerging the rapids. They were leased to C.T. Roberts from 1891 to 1896, after which the village took over management of the plant. The plant was expanded in 1907, and new generators were installed in 1914 and 1924. The plant was expanded several times; however, the output could not keep up with demand, and starting in 1929, Crystal Falls purchased supplemental power from the Wisconsin Energy Corporation.</p><br>
<p>After 1929, the power plant and dam were upgraded multiple times, including a 1931 installation of a new concrete dam installed containing the rollway and tainter gates and a 1996 resurfacing of the spillway. The Crystal Falls Power Plant is still operational, and is likely the oldest hydro-electric plant still in operation in the Upper Peninsula. It provides roughly 1/3 of the power demanded by the residents of Crystal Falls.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Crystal Falls Power Plant is a two-story structure measuring approximately thirty feet by sixty feet with a hipped roof. The power plant is constructed of yellow brick with sandstone trim and sits on a concrete foundation. The adjacent concrete dam spanning the Paint River measures approximately seventy-five feet long and fifteen feet high, and has four spillway sections.</p><br>
<p>The Campbell Building is small historic commercial building in Crafton, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1911 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Campbell was an unsuccessful real estate developer who used the building as a sales office from about 1911 to 1915. He may have built it at the current location, which was owned by his major financial backer, Mrs. Adelia Silk, or he had it moved from another location. It is built in the Colonial Revival style, with a hipped roof and a neoclassical entrance porch, which reflect the contemporary styles in both local residential and commercial buildings. Nevertheless, it was designed to be noticeable, and its size, red tile roof and original white stucco walls set the building off from the rest of the buildings in the town&#39;s commercial district.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Silk died in 1913, and Campbell died in 1915 after selling fewer than 12 building lots. About 1925 the building was raised up on a new brick foundation. It has been used as millinery shop, a furnace display room, a magistrate&#39;s office, a craft shop, a lunch counter and a weight-loss clinic. When it was threatened with destruction in the 1980s, local residents fought to preserve the building and list it on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Coraopolis station is a disused train station in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The train station was built in 1896 by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and designed by architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in Richardsonian Romanesque style.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>According to the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, the "use of this particular style in the Pittsburgh area, especially work by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, represents an important aspect of the architectural history of the Pittsburgh area."</p><br>
<p>The building and its sister stations in Glassport and New Castle were constructed in the late 1890s as part of an expansion of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad&#39;s commuter line into the suburbs of Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>The building was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1978. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1979. At the time, the building was still owned by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and was occupied by an auto equipment dealer.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the Coraopolis Economic Revitalization Corporation, Inc. (CERC) proposed using the railroad station as the basis for a future development, including a museum and a "Coraopolis Station Square". The station was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks on December 10, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Plans have been made to convert the historic station to a trailside cafe seating 75 and a history museum. In 2014, it was estimated that $1.2 million would be needed for that purpose. In 2015, the Coraopolis Community Development Foundation raised $5000 for structure stabilization, work which officially began October 24, 2015. The foundation has submitted an application for a $250,000 Community Infrastructure and Tourism Fund grant through the Allegheny County Economic Development office to move the project forward. The station sits adjacent to the future Ohio River Greenway Trail which will connect it to the Montour Trail Extension. at Coraopolis/Neville Island Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Brownlie House, also known as the Sod House, is a historical structure located in Long Grove, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The significance of the Brownlie House is found in its development as rural architecture from the pioneer era to the early 20th century. Alexander Brownlie and his brother James settled this part of Scott County in the late 1830s. The first section of the house was completed by Alexander Brownlie in 1839 on a foundation of coursed limestone. The structure was composed of bricks made of molded clay and grass. Lathe was then attached to the bricks by using square nails and it was covered with plaster. The exterior was covered with clapboard.</p><br>
<p>An addition was built onto the east side in 1846. It was a -story frame structure with brick nogging. The original chimney was removed and replaced with a connecting doorway between the original house and the addition. The main entrance into the house was moved to the right, yet it remains on the original structure. A third addition was added after 1893 on the north side, which gave the structure an L-shaped floor plan. It too was of frame construction. In subsequent years the second floor and the third addition have been removed.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Klindt House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Henry Klindt</h2><br>
<p>Henry Klindt was born in 1839 in Fiefbergen, Holstein, in present-day Germany, to Thies and Wiepke (Mundt) Klindt. He came to the United States in 1856 and settled on a farm in Scott County, Iowa. He fought for the Union in the Civil War. After the war he opened a feed and grain store in Davenport before he took over the operations of the Eagle Brewery. He sold his interest in the brewery in 1891 to his son George, and became president of the Malt and Grain Company. Klindt married Catherina Schnoor in 1863 and they had one son.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Klindt built this house in 1890. It was one of three houses built on Marquette Street for the partners of the brewery. George Mengels house was at 826 and the George Klindt House, his sons house, at 902.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This 2½-story, clapboard house was designed in the Queen Anne style. It features a hip roof, full height gable projections, a polygonal bay on the south side, and a porch on the east and south sides. The gable ends have a sunburst motif and dental moldings on the front and above the main entrance. Shingling is located between the floors of the polygonal bay and on the front gable. The porch features an Eastlake balustrade. The house is situated on a high hill above the street with large trees in the yard.</p><br>
<p>The James E. Lindsay House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>James E. Lindsay</h2><br>
<p>James Lindsay was a native of Essex County, New York and grew up working in his father&#39;s lumber mill. In 1856 he moved and purchased land in Wisconsin. He moved to Davenport in 1861 where his Wisconsin timber was rafted down the Mississippi River and sawed into lumber. He went into business with John B. Phelps. The two bought a mill on the east side of Davenport, which they named the Lindsay & Phelps, Co. His interests in lumber eventually led him to ventures in Arkansas, Minnesota, Washington State, Oregon, and Louisiana. In some of these ventures he joined with Frederick Weyerhaeuser from Rock Island, Illinois. In 1858 he married Mary Helen Phelps and they raised three children.</p><br>
<p>Lindsay built this home for his family in 1876. W.T. Waterman acquired the house from Lindsay&#39;s estate in the early 20th century. He was an associate in the law firm Lane and Waterman, which his father C.M. Waterman was one of the founding partners.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Lindsay House is one of several Italianate style houses in the Fulton Addition. The two-story frame house is influenced by the Victorian styles of the era. It features an irregular roofscape, progressive setback of projecting masses, a bracketed cornice, window trim, double-door entry, and its original front porch.</p><br>
<p>The Oscar C. Woods House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Oscar C. Woods</h2><br>
<p>Oscar Woods was born in Passumpsic, Vermont in 1835, the son of Riley and Lydia (White) Woods. He was educated in the local public schools and attended St. Johnsbury Academy. He first moved to Chicago and then to La Moille, Illinois where he married Qeora Holbrooke in 1864. They had one child who died young and adopted a daughter. Woods was involved in the dry-goods business with his brother while he was in Illinois and then raised livestock. After he settled in Davenport in 1883 he purchased, with others, a wholesale fruit business, which he organized as The Martin Woods Company. Woods would build a larger house on East Locust Street in 1900. It is a contributing property in the Oak Lane Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story, frame house built on a stone foundation is an example of a popular 19th-century Vernacular house style in Davenport known as the McClelland. It features a front gable, a three-bay facade with an entrance to one side, and a projecting polygonal window bay on the south side. Some of the embellishments that gave this house interest have either been covered with vinyl siding or have been removed entirely. One of the removed elements was an Adamesque-style porch from around the turn of the 20th-century. It was decorated with swags and ribbon motif in the pediment, and columns in the Tuscan order. It also featured ornamental shingling of the gable ends on the front and on the south side window bay. At one time the window surrounds had small bracketed cornices and heads with incised decorations.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Kuno Struck House, also known as Clifton Manor, is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1996. The house, along with its garage, became a part of the Marycrest College campus and they were both listed as contributing properties in the Marycrest College Historic District in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Dr. Kuno Struck</h2><br>
<p>Kuno Struck was born in Davenport in 1883 to Henry C. and Johanna (Wessel) Struck. He graduated from the local schools and received a medical degree from the State University of Iowa. He specialized in bacteriology and pathology. He started a practice in Davenport after a year with his cousin in Moline, Illinois, Dr. Arp. Dr. Struck married Norma Petersen, the daughter of Max D. Petersen who was one of the owners of the J.H.C. Petersens Sons Store. However, Struck stopped practicing medicine shortly after the United States entered WWI in 1917. He served as a vice president at Davenport Bank and Trust and on the boards of a variety of local organizations. Struck had interests in painting, playing the violin, ornithology, and wild flowers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by the Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Kruse in the Jacobean Revival style after Dr Struck saw in England a first century English Tudor mansion and had this home built as a replica. It is the only house built in this architectural style in the city. The house was completed in 1911 and called Clifton Manor. Norma&#39;s family home Clifton Hill was on the property next door. Dr. Struck lived here until his death in 1947. Norma, and their only child Dorothy and her husband, continued to live in the house. Dorothy was married at least twice, to William Mundy and James H. Bell. A gardener and chauffeur were also a part of the household. Lavish parties were held in the house in the 1950s and the 1960s. Norma died in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The family sold the house before it became a part of Marycrest College in 1978 and served the college as a community center. It also housed a variety of offices for the school in subsequent years. In 1984 area designers transformed the house for a Decorators&#39; Show House fundraiser for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra. After the college closed the rest of the campus was converted into Marycrest Senior Living, but the Struck House has remained separate from that development. It was sold to Marlene and Donald Talbot in 2005 and to Randy and Mary McDonald in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is 2½-stories and follows a rectangular plan. The main façades are on the long sides of the structure, and it is capped with a hipped roof. The north façade is asymmetrical while the south façade follows a symmetrical plan with gabled end pavilions that flank a semi-circular terrace. The exterior is covered in a pink-red brick and a rock-faced stone that is smoothly dressed.</p><br>
<p>The house is situated on a large lot with a circular drive that connects it to West Twelfth Street. The single-story garage sits to the northeast of the house. It is composed of brick and features both double and single car bays of the south side of the structure.</p><br>
<p>The George W. Gordon Farm is an historic home and farm which is located in Whiteley Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1879, the farmhouse on this historic property is a two-story, five-bay brick dwelling, which was designed in the Italianate style. It features a one-story, three-bay porch, which was added sometime around 1920.</p><br>
<p>Also located on the property are a number of contributing farm outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1915, the Heber Second Ward Meetinghouse, originally built as a place of worship for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is of historical significance to Heber City, Utah. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1978. Bishop Joseph A Rasband served as the Heber Second Ward&#39;s first bishop in the meetinghouse, and his first counselor James Heber Moulton was the superintendent that oversaw the building of the meetinghouse. Joseph Nelson was the architect. Construction of the building was begun 16 Mar 1914; it was dedicated by Francis Lyman on December 26, 1915 and served the Second Ward into the 1960s when it was sold. The building is now the St. Lawrence Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Pacific Hotel  is a historic building in Seattle, Washington, United States. It located at 1115-1117 1st Avenue between Spring and Seneca Streets in the city&#39;s central business district. The building was designed in July 1889 and constructed in 1890 during the building boom that followed the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. Though designed as an office building, the Grand Central had served as a Single room occupancy hotel nearly since its construction, with the Ye Kenilworth Inn on the upper floors during the 1890s. The hotel was refurnished and reopened in 1900 as the Grand Pacific Hotel, most likely named after the hotel of the same name in Chicago that had just recently been rebuilt. It played a role during the Yukon Gold Rush as one of many hotels that served traveling miners and also housed the offices for the Seattle Woolen Mill, an important outfitter for the Klondike.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Pacific Hotel is a substantial four-story brick-and-stone building designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and remains a rare surviving example of its kind outside of the Pioneer Square district. The Building was designed by one of Seattle&#39;s most important 19th century architects, William E. Boone, and is one of his earliest surviving projects. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 around the same time as the adjacent Colonial Hotel and both are Seattle city landmarks. The two hotels were interconnected during restoration in the early 1980s and today are collectively known as the Colonial Grand Pacific.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Lewis Starr</h3><br>
<p>The Grand Pacific Hotel was one of hundreds of substantial brick buildings put up in the aftermath of the Great Seattle Fire. It was constructed as the Starr Building for the estate of the late Lewis M. Starr by his widow and executrix of his estate Eliza Jane Starr. Captain Lewis M. Starr was a prominent west coast mariner and businessman, who by the late 1870s was the regional contractor for the USPS and controlled the principal steamboat business in Puget Sound started by his brother George E. Starr, whose name was memorialized on the line&#39;s flagship steamer. Starr would sell the steamship business to the newly formed Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company in 1880, the payout from which he would use to purchase his numerous Seattle real estate holdings and build a mansion in Oakland, California, as well as becoming proprietor of the Ætna Iron Works in San Francisco. He spent the next decade traveling up and down the coast from his home, buying and developing investment properties and businesses in Seattle as well as Portland, Oregon, where he helped establish a bank and where another one of his brothers, A. M. Starr was mayor. Lewis Starr had constructed several large buildings in downtown Seattle with more proposed before passing away in October 1887 after an extended illness.</p><br>
<h3>The Building</h3><br>
<p>Prior to the fire this property was occupied by a four-story (two stories above 1st Avenue, two below) brick building built in 1885 by lessee David Gilmore for his newly established bakery the Northwestern Cracker Company. They would relocate operations to 6th and Pine Streets after the fire. Many of Starrs Seattle properties would be rebuilt after the great fire with buildings bearing his name. While the Starr Estate had commissioned Elmer H. Fisher to design their building (co-owned with W.P. Boyd) on Pioneer Square, for this project they hired William E. Boone, Seattles leading architect prior to the fire, and one who would hold his own into the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>With the foundation and retaining walls begun in late 1889, the Starr Building was completed at a cost of $75,000 ($ in dollars) by contractor James McKendrick and as reported in the summer of 1890, $12,000 in stone, $3,000 in iron 1.2 million bricks and 3,000 ft of lumber had gone into its construction. Due to the dramatic slope of the property towards Elliott Bay, the four-story building had two additional floors below 1st Avenue, facing Post Alley, which housed various industrial enterprises. The Galt Brothers, a tile and fireplace accessory dealer, would first occupy the space in 1891 and The Seattle Woolen Mills would locate their offices in the lower floors during the Yukon Gold Rush.</p><br>
<p>For most of the decade the Starr Building stood out as the only fully-built structure on the block. Though designed for office space with 66 suites on its upper floors, contemporary reports of high demand for office space in Seattle turned out to be greatly exaggerated and as early as 1891, the building&#39;s upper floors were occupied by the Ye Kenilworth Inn, a Single resident occupancy hotel operated by Minnie Hayward. The Kenilworth was closed and its furnishings liquidated in November 1892 but was back open within a month under the proprietorship of Mrs. L.M. Kinnaman. In 1897 the hotel was purchased by Denver realtor Henry Harding for his sister-in-law to run. Harding turned out to be a prolific conman wanted in several states for theft and fraud and when it was discovered that the checks he had cashed with the Dexter Horton Bank were fraudulent, the hotel was surrendered to the bank to pay off the debt. By this time Harding had disappeared, having fled the country under the guise of a business meeting in Vancouver. He was eventually captured in Regina, Saskatchewan. After a succession of shady owners, the hotel was re branded around 1899 as the Grand Pacific Hotel, named after the recently remodeled hostelry in Chicago, which it is best known as today.</p><br>
<h3>Later Owners and Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 1913 the Starr estate sold the building to real estate investor A. Rodgers for $125,000. In March 1914 the body of a young man was discovered in room 48, dead from an apparent suicide by ingesting Carbolic acid. A.J. Johnson, the proprietor of the hotel at the time would commit suicide just over a year later. In 1931 the building was nearly gutted by an early morning fire originating from one of the basement floors, then occupied by a wholesale fish company, that vented through the hotel&#39;s central court, where flames were said to shoot 75 feet into the air. All 67 guests were either able to escape or were rescued by firefighters.</p><br>
<p>The hotel continued to serve long-term guests up until October 1966, when Seattle slum clearing policies instituted by the newly formed Nuisance abatement board forced the now run-down hotel to close. Citing prohibitive repair costs, the buildings then owner, Kerry Timber Co., evicted all the residents and closed off the buildings top floors indefinitely. Beginning in the late 70s, The Grand Pacific and other historic buildings in the area were restored and redeveloped by Cornerstone Development Co, a subsidiary of Kerry Timber successor Weyerhaeuser as part of the Waterfront Center project, which combined new construction with older buildings restored for housing. During restoration, The Grand Central Hotel was interconnected with the Colonial Hotel to the north. The Grand Pacific Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Clark–Dearstyne–Miller Inn is a historic inn and tavern located at Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1791 and is a -story, rectangular, gable-roofed heavy timber frame building. It rests upon a fieldstone foundation. There is a 2-story, shed roof addition to the rear. It features an ornate, bracketed, raised porch along the front facade added about 1880. The building exhibits a number of vernacular Federal details.</p><br>
<p>Excerpt from Raymond W. Smith&#39;s National Register of Historic Places Register form; "The inn was operated by a series of hotelkeepers into the early twentieth century. From 1839 to 1867, James Dearstyne was the owner/proprietor. The Dearstyne family remained until the late 1890s, when the business was known as the Dearstyne Miller Hotel. The inn continued to function as the Miller Hotel at least until the 1920s. During its early decades, the hostelry accommodated travelers crossing the Hudson via the North Ferry and rail passengers arriving at the Bath station in front of the hotel. Tenant farmers who journeyed from rural farmsteads to pay their rents to the Van Rensselaer agent at Bath also were frequent patrons of the inn. At various periods during the nineteenth century, the building also housed local government offices for the village of Bath and the town of North Greenbush. According to tradition, the body of President Lincoln was housed temporarily in the hotel in 1865 while awaiting ferry transport to the capitol at Albany.</p><br>
<p>A historic photograph taken in the early twentieth century depicts President Theodore Roosevelt before the porch of the Miller Hotel. From the 1950s to its abandonment in the 1980s, the former Clark–Dearstyne–Miller Inn was operated as a neighborhood tavern. Although the historic building currently is vacant, it is an important example of an unusual building type that remains a significant link to the early history of Bath-on-Hudson."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Aiken House is a historic home located in Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1816 and is a -story, rectangular, brick townhouse dated to the Federal period. It has a -story rear wing. It features stepped gable sides. It was built by the founder of the City of Rensselaer, William Akin, and designed by noted Albany architect Philip Hooker .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Beverwyck Manor is a historic home located at Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built between 1839 and 1842. It is constructed of stucco over brick and consists of a three-story, three bay wide central block with the central bay recessed. The central block is flanked by two story, single bay extensions. It has a restrained Neoclassical facade and features a one bay portico with stone steps and four Ionic order stone columns. It was built by William Paterson Van Rensselaer and later became part St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary, a Franciscan Seminary.</p><br>
<p>The Seminary closed in 1989. The manor was used as a retreat center for a time, and then converted to a residence for staff and retired Franciscans.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Patroon Agent&#39;s House and Office, also known as the Casparus Pruyn House and Office or Whish-Hull House and H. V. Rector office, is a historic home and office located on the Hudson River at Rensselaer in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built and first occupied Nov. 29, 1839 and consists of a -story rectangular brick residence with an attached 1-story rectangular brick office in the Greek Revival style. It was built by the Van Rensselaer family as a home and office for Casparus F. Pruyn, rent collection agent for William Van Rensselaer who had inherited the "East Manor" in 1839, consisting of Rensselaer County from his father Stephen. Today, the Patroon Agent would be considered the Chief Operating Officer of a corporation; also, several other Patroon Agent Houses have been located in and around Albany over the 200+ years of the patroonship.</p><br>
<p>The properties face the Hudson River and are visible across the river from Interstate-787 on Albanys west bank. Located in what was originally settled as Bath, then later Bath-on-Hudson (incorporated into the City of Rensselaer in 1903), the property is situated at the riverfront southern boundary of Beverwyck, William Paterson van Rensselaers estate situated facing the river on the ridge northeast of the Bath ferry landing. The house features an operating water-collection system for the many mineral springs that percolate in the area that was originally used for indoor plumbing; this system includes brick and cast-iron cisterns, channels with brick walls and ash-plank linings and an outflow now connected to the city storm-sewer system channeling the constant flow of 52 F water. In February 2013, a City contractor installing new sewer lines south on Forbes Avenue discovered a substantial underground water spring flow mid-street, between # 5 and 7 Forbes Avenue. After excavating 18 ft deep, a dewatering system of crushed stone and perforated drainage pipes was installed between Tracy and Central Avenues to divert this flow south to the city storm sewer system. This diversion—thought to be from an underground diagonal streamflow across the hillside between Forbes and Broadway—relieved virtually ALL groundwater inflow in all basements along Forbes Avenue, including drying up completely the springs and drainage system in the cellar of this subject structure. Years later, the spring water has returned to its channels, at a lower volume.</p><br>
<p>The center-hall interior is formal with two large rooms deep on either side of the hall that features an oval, glass-paned oculus skylight at roof level atop the three-story galleried staircase with turned mahogany bannisters. This stairwell originally rose open from the cellar to the servants quarters, now the attic, but was partitioned when the house was divided into north and south duplex units after the van Rensselaer family first sold it in 1865. Later, central heating replaced the use of 8 faux-grained black marble fireplaces and the two kitchen hearths in the cellar. The duplex layout consists of the north half containing the center hall, and the south using the side (Central Avenue) entrance and a perpendicular simple mahogany bannister servants staircase to access the three floors and cellar.</p><br>
<p>The north, rear, first floor (dining) room features a pair of built-in corner closets with concave-curved doors; the front (living) and back (dining) rooms are divided by sliding pocket doors. All interior doors are grain-painted mahogany and feature original brass hardware, stamped "A. Wollensak, Albany." All rooms feature heavy plaster moulding at the 14&#39; ceilings and deep wood-paneled trim and folding casement shutters at all windows. The formal first-floor rooms now have grain-painted floors, but were originally covered with tan, red and black over-plaid ingrained wool carpet, a swatch of which survives. The ground floor is lined with a course of bricks between the sub-flooring and finished, plastered cellar ceiling providing insulation and fire resistance from the kitchen areas below. The exterior walls are constructed in an envelope fashion with an air space between the heavy brick exterior and the heavy plaster interior walls. This air space "breathed" through warm or cool air circulation from the cellar upwards and across the rafters and exited out the oculus cupola windows atop the roof. The cupola was lost during the Hurricane of 1938, which also precipitated a water-borne collapse of a section of the north end of the east cellar wall.</p><br>
<p>The adjacent (north) Patroon Agent&#39;s Office, separated from the house property in 1865, has an elaborate set of heavy cast-iron security features, including doors, interior window shutters, iron bars and drop-down panels at the interior windows of what was likely a vault. An open cistern area in the main office floor has now been covered over to provide floor space in the large, elegant vaulted-ceiling room. This area was rehabilitated and decorated as offices in the early 1990s for a prominent general contractor, Henry V. Rector and is now owned and occupied by Kot Electrical Contractors.</p><br>
<p>Pruyn resided and conducted the Patroons business here between 1839 and 1844. Several signed rent receipts, acknowledging cash, pounds of wheat, fowls and other agricultural products "on account of rent" are in the collection of the current Agents House owner. Pruyn was a central figure in the Anti-Rent War at Rensselaerswyck. Pruyn previously resided at Colonie at what is now known as the Casparus F. Pruyn House.</p><br>
<p>Further detail and pictures are provided in the compilation book "Three Villages, One City" by Douglas L. Sinclair, edited by Raymond W. Hull, encompassing a reprint of The Yankee Doodle Series by Josephine M. Fraser (1976) all published by the City of Rensselaer Historical Society in 1992. The house has also been featured in the Troy Record, May 28, 1979, and the Albany Times Union, June 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse is a school located at the corner of Third and Center Streets in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, United States. It is significant as the location where Justus H. Rathbone was first inspired to write the ritual which was the basis of the Order of the Knights of Pythias. The schoolhouse was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is also known as the Pythian Shrine and as the Rathbone School.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse was constructed in 1853 by local builders, and opened to serve the community&#39;s children that same year. It was the first schoolhouse built in the area.</p><br>
<p>In about 1859 or 1860, Justus H. Rathbone began a stint as schoolmaster at the school. Rathbone had moved to the Keweenaw Peninsula in 1857 on the advice of his doctor, and taken a position as schoolmaster and part-time clerk at the Central Mine. He later moved on to schools at the Northwest Mine, Eagle River, and to this schoolhouse in Eagle Harbor. While teaching at Eagle Harbor, Rathbone and his friends formed a dramatic society and staged plays, including John Banim&#39;s Damon and Pythias. The themes of friendship in the play inspired Rathbone; according to him:</p><br>
<p>During his time teaching in Eagle Harbor, Rathbone wrote the ritual which became the basis for the Order of the Knights of Pythias. Rathbone himself stayed in the Keweenaw only until 1861, when he learned of the death of his father. The Order of the Knights of Pythias was officially founded three years later in Washington, D. C., and was dedicated to the principles of "friendship, charity, and benevolence."</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse continued to serve the community until 1892. In the 1920s, the Pythians purchased the schoolhouse and added a gable roof to the existing belfry. A bronze memorial to Rathbone was erected nearby in 1931, and the building currently functions as a Pythian shrine. In 1971, the historical importance of the site was recognized by its designation as a Michigan State Historic Site, and the following year it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the schoolhouse was deeded to the Keweenaw County Historical Society. The Society furnished the interior as a period school, and included exhibits related to the Knights of Pythias. The building is open to the public during the summer and early fall.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse is a square building with gabled roof measuring 24 ×. The structure is covered with clapboard siding pierced by sash windows covered with shutters. The shingled gable roof has cornice returns, and a gabled belfry frame sits on one end of the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis M. Fisher House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Lewis M. Fisher</h2><br>
<p>Fisher was born and raised in Clayton County, Iowa where he was educated in the local public schools. His father, Maturin, had been president of the Iowa Senate. He did his undergraduate work in Wisconsin and received a law degree from the State University of Iowa, where he graduated valedictorian of his class. He moved to Davenport where he entered a partnership named Heinz & Fisher. The firm provided legal services, loans, and real estate services. From 1885 to 1891 he served as the city attorney. Fisher married Laura Provost in 1883 and they raised three children. They started living in this house in 1896.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis M. Fisher house sits prominently on a corner lot that features a steep a terrace. The plan and the massing of the house, along with the three-story corner tower, reflects the Queen Anne style. The gable-end pediments and the Palladian window are Neoclassical decorative elements. Combining these elements in a single structure was common of houses built in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Charles S. Simpson House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Charles S. Simpson</h2><br>
<p>Simpson was born in Miami County, Ohio in 1856, the son of David W. and Fannie (Martin) Simpson. He was educated in the local public schools of Troy, Ohio and when he finished his education he was involved in the nursery business and agriculture. He came to Scott County, Iowa in 1894. That same year he married Amelia Gross of Le Claire, Iowa. They had two children, one of whom died young. Charles was one of the organizers of the LeClaire Savings Bank in 1901 and was elected its president. For eleven of the fifteen years he lived in LeClaire he served as an alderman.</p><br>
<p>Simpson built this Georgian Revival home in Davenport in 1910. He maintained his position as the bank president in Le Claire after the move, but also served as treasurer of the Midland Supply Company, a vending machine and cigar lighter dealership.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Simpson house is a fine Davenport example of the renewed interest that the United States had in Colonial Revival architecture around the turn of the 20th-century. This particular house was designed in Georgian Revival idiom of the Colonial style. The two-story brick house features a high hipped roof with curved dormers, a six-bay front, a porte-cochere, and a full height entrance. The single-door entrance is framed by columns in the Doric order, a semicircular pediment, and sidelights.</p><br>
<p>A carriage house/garage is located along the alley northeast of the house. The two-story frame structure was built in the combined Queen Anne and Shingle styles. It has been adapted for use by automobiles. It features a steeply pitched roof that sweeps down to flared eaves, and it has a cupola on top. Other architectural features of the carriage house were removed when it was renovated.</p><br>
<p>The George Tromley Sr. House is a historic building located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. It is also a contributing property in the Cody Road Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>George Tromley Sr.</h2><br>
<p>Tromley sailed the Mississippi River before the advent of the steamboat. He began his career on the river floating log rafts, which were common before the Civil War, and he built the first raft boat on the river at Le Claire. Eventually he sailed the river as a captain. Tromley and Thomas Doughty, a local engineer, took the small steamer the Le Claire upriver where they conducted an experiment to use a steamboat to push a log raft. The Le Claire was not powerful enough to control the raft, but the experiment led to a major development in being able to transport logs from the northern forests to the mills further south. Samuel Van Sant of Le Claire was able to use its results to build a boat that was large enough and had enough power to tow a log raft in 1870. George Tromley Sr. married Katherine McCaffrey and they raised three children. The house of their eldest son, George Tromley Jr., is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The George Tromley Sr. House is a two-story structure that was built in two sections. The older section of the house is in the front and is constructed of brick, that is now painted white, and is capped with a low pitched hipped roof. It features a three-bay front with the main entrance to the left that is sheltered by a small gable roofed porch. It is probably a later addition. The windows have lintels with nearly flat pediments. The newer section was built of frame construction on the back of the older section, and it is also capped with a hipped roof. Its windows are set in flat enframements and are topped with narrow cornices. A single-story porch with pent roof is located in the angle formed by the two sections. It is supported by slender turned posts. A two-story rectangular bay, with a small pent roof separating the two stories, protrudes from the south side of the older section. A single-story polygonal bay is located on the southeast corner of the newer section.</p><br>
<p>The George Tromley Jr. House is a historic building located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.</p><br>
<h2>George Tromley Jr.</h2><br>
<p>Tromley was born in 1857 at LeClaire to George and Katherine (McCaffrey) Tromely. Like his father, he worked as a river pilot on the Mississippi River. He married Alice LaCock and they had an adopted daughter. His parents&#39; home, the George Tromley Sr. House, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The George Tromley Jr. House is a 1½-story frame structure that was built in 1865. The house is noteworthy because of its use of the jerkinhead gable roof with a large jerkinhead dormer centered on the main facade. The exterior is faced with narrow clapboards. There is a one-story porch that curves around the southeast corner of the house and it connects with a one-story, gable-roofed section on the northeast corner. This section may have been used as a summer kitchen. The house is located on a raised lot that is surrounded by a stone retaining wall.</p><br>
<p>Montgomery Park is an office building and former Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog warehouse and department store located in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1920. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name Montgomery Ward & Company Building. The building is located on property once used for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, of 1905. It was occupied by Montgomery Ward from 1920 until 1985, although the majority of the company&#39;s operations at this location ended in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and original uses</h2><br>
<p>At the time of its completion, in September 1920, the building was the largest in the city, as measured by floor space, which was approximately 569,000 ft2 originally. A 229,000 ft2 wing was added to the building&#39;s northwest corner in 1935–36, changing what had been an L-shaped building to a roughly U-shaped one. The building has nine floors plus a basement. The 4th through 9th floors were used almost exclusively as warehouse space, while most portions of the 2nd and 3rd floors functioned as office and mail-order workspace. The first floor was used primarily for loading and unloading of freight arriving and leaving by truck or rail and temporary storage of such goods. Three rail spurs served the facility, extending into the ground floor. Among other things, the building is known for its large steel-framed roof sign, the largest sign in Portland, which was constructed in 1925.</p><br>
<h3>Retail store</h3><br>
<p>Retail service at this location was relatively limited in its first years. A 1936 expansion added retail space, covering a variety of goods, occupying a new mezzanine floor and parts of the 2nd and 3rd floors. A tire store was opened in an adjacent annex. In the post-World War II years, the Vaughn Street stores business declined steadily. An increasing proportion of the stores customers were attracted to new suburban shopping malls, and in the early 1970s Montgomery Ward began to follow the same path itself, opening stores at Mall 205 and Jantzen Beach Mall, along with a stand-alone store in Beaverton. The Northwest Portland store closed in July 1976, and the building remained in use only for warehouse and mail-order functions and as a "catalog overstock outlet". In 1978, the company built a new warehouse in Portland&#39;s Rivergate Industrial District, and in 1982 it closed the Northwest Portland warehouse, eliminating 500 jobs at the site. Only the small "clearance outlet" store continued to operate, and following the 1984 sale of the building, that store closed finally in July 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>In 1984, the building was acquired by the Norcrest China Company, a Portland property development company owned by Bill Naito and his brother Sam Naito. As part of the renovations, the building was renamed "Montgomery Park". The "notoriously frugal" Bill Naito liked the new name, because it meant that only the "W" and "D" of "Ward" in the huge 14-letter neon rooftop sign needed to be altered, with "P" and "K" letters. The sign was changed in May 1986, at which time most of the renovations also were completed and the building opened for regular use for trade shows, among other uses.</p><br>
<h2>Foreclosure</h2><br>
<p>A lender initiated foreclosure proceedings on a loan tied to the Montgomery Park office complex, owned by Unico Properties. The borrowers owed nearly $150 million, according to a paperwork filed with Multnomah County Recorder’s Office on September 29, 2023.</p><br>
<p>In August 2024, Montgomery Park was sold for $33 million to Menashe Properties, a family-owned real estate firm. The Menashe family has acquired several other buildings in Portland, including the J. K. Gill Company Building and the historic Portland American Bank Building, taking advantage of reduced prices amid challenges in the city&#39;s commercial property market.</p><br>
<p>The Peoples Gas Building at 122 South Michigan Avenue on the corner of Adams Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The 265 ft 21-story office building was built from 1910 to 1911 and was designed by D.H. Burnham & Company.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and is also a contributing property for Chicago&#39;s Michigan Boulevard Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Since 1999 the building hosts National Louis University.</p><br>
<p>Since November 5, 2012, the building&#39;s sixteenth floor has hosted the chancery of the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>Axa Assistance</p><br>
<p>The Harland Sanders Café is a historic restaurant located in North Corbin, Kentucky. Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, operated the restaurant from 1940 to 1956. Sanders also developed the famous KFC secret recipe at the café during the 1940s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After moving to Corbin in 1930, Sanders started a Kyso service station across the street from the present location of the Harland Sanders Café along USA Route 25. Sanders served meals for travelers in the back of the service station at his own dining table, which seated six people. By 1937, the culinary skills of Sanders became well known and he built the Sanders Café, which seated 142 people. Two years later, the restaurant was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after the fire in 1939, construction began on the present Sanders Café, along with the addition of a motel.</p><br>
<p>Business continued to boom as it was located along USA 25, the main north–south route through central Kentucky. This soon changed with the relocation of the USA Route 25 split into US 25E and US 25W from being in the literal middle of his properties, to a new US 25E roadbed a mile north, in order to allow better access to US 25E from the recently proposed Interstate 75. This resulted in US 25E bypassing the restaurant and city entirely for traffic going to and from the Carolinas and Georgia coasts, and Interstate 75 (when completed through the area in the early 1970s) doing the same for traffic heading towards Atlanta and Florida. Sanders sold the café in 1956 and began selling franchises for KFC. At some point after KFC franchising began, a franchised KFC was sited in the building, using the original kitchen, but converting the model motel room into larger restrooms. This KFC franchise remained in operation until 1988, when it was closed for renovation into the current structure.</p><br>
<p>The Harland Sanders Café was renovated and reopened in the fall of 1990 as a museum. A modern KFC kitchen was also built adjacent to the café on some of the former motel land, and the two structures attached by an entrance lobby that contains many of the smaller museum displays. The model motel room was restored to its original state as part of the renovation, and modern restrooms added to the back of the original structure. While at the museum, visitors can tour the office of Harland Sanders, see the kitchen where Sanders developed the KFC secret formula, and view KFC memorabilia.</p><br>
<p>Fort Sullivan  was a 19th-century military fortification in Eastport, Maine. It lay opposite New Brunswick, Canada, and served as an important coastal defense for the easternmost United States of America during the 19th century. As part of the establishment of New Ireland during the War of 1812, British Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet conquered the fort in 1814 and renamed it Fort Sherbrooke after John Coape Sherbrooke, the Governor of Nova Scotia.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1808, the United States Army decided to build a fort in Eastport, Massachusetts (now Maine), to protect against possible threats from Britain and other European powers then engaged in warfare. In 1808 or 1809, Major Lemuel Trescott oversaw the construction of the garrison atop Clark&#39;s Hill in the village. The fort contained a four-gun circular earthwork, a wooden blockhouse, and barracks. Fort Sullivan reportedly took its name circa March 1813.</p><br>
<h2>British control</h2><br>
<p>During the War of 1812, in an effort to establish New Ireland, the British forced the American garrison to surrender Fort Sullivan to a British fleet under command of Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, on 11 July 1814. British naval forces ultimately took control over the entire coast east of Penobscot Bay, renaming it New Ireland. Even after the war, Britain claimed that Moose Island, Maine, (including Fort Sullivan and the entire village of Eastport) lay on the British side of the border separating United States of America from their loyal colony of New Brunswick and so left eight hundred troops in the fort, which they renamed Fort Sherbrooke after John Coape Sherbrooke, to hold the territory. The British demanded that the inhabitants of Eastport take oaths of allegiance to their crown; some complied, others evaded, and many removed to undisputed American territory. Through negotiations with the British in 1817, Americans renounced their claims to larger islands farther east and regained control over Eastport on 30 June 1818.</p><br>
<p>Two active battalions of the Regular Army (1-5 Inf and 2-5 Inf) perpetuate the lineage of the old 40th Infantry Regiment, which was on garrison duty at Fort Sullivan when it was captured by the British.</p><br>
<h2>Coastal fort</h2><br>
<p>The post surgeon began meteorological observations at the fort in 1822.</p><br>
<p>The Army stationed officer Nathaniel Dana in the 1st USA Artillery at Fort Sullivan on 15 April 1822, when and where his wife bore his son, future major general Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana.</p><br>
<p>First Lieutenant George Sears Greene, who would serve as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was noted for his defense of Culps Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg, commanded Fort Sullivan from 1831 until 1835. Tragically, Greenes wife and three children died of tuberculosis during his assignment to Fort Sullivan.</p><br>
<p>The fort had a small garrison until the late 1830s, when disputes over the border with New Brunswick in northern Maine threatened to break out into war. The Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute.</p><br>
<p>During American Civil War, the Army constructed earthwork batteries in the area. Company C of the Maine Coast Guard mustered in at Eastport on 16 May 1864, stationed at Fort Sullivan, and mustered out 6 September 1865, under Captain Thomas P. Hutchinson.</p><br>
<h2>Decommissioning</h2><br>
<p>In 1873, the Army ceased using and occupying Fort Sullivan. In 1877, the government sold the property at Fort Sullivan. The new owners moved the northernmost barracks quarters to its present location at 74 Washington Street. Other parts of the fort collapsed over time. Ruins of an old powder magazine still exist off McKinley Street, and are the only surviving in situ remains of the fort.</p><br>
<h2>Barracks Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Border Historical Society now owns and operates one of the remaining early 19th century officers quarters as the Barracks Museum, a site listed in National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Maine. Exhibits include the history of Fort Sullivan, the area sardine and ground fishing industries, local history and genealogy. The museum is open in July and August.</p><br>
<p>Sharpe Homestead and Cemetery is a historic home and cemetery located at Defreestville in Rensselaer County, New York. The house was built about 1740 and is a -story rectangular frame dwelling, 20 feet by 40 feet, topped by a steeply pitched gable roof covered with standing seam metal. It rests on a low fieldstone foundation. The family cemetery contains approximately a dozen stones marking the graves of the Sharpe and Barringer families.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>John Evert Van Alen House is a historic home located at Defreestville in Rensselaer County, New York. The house was built between 1793 and 1794 and is a two-story, five-bay wide, room and a half deep, frame dwelling with a two-story, three-bay wide addition in the Federal style. The addition dates to about 1840–1854. It is sheathed in clapboards and is topped by a gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing L-shaped barn and the Van Alen family burial ground. The original owner John Evert Van Alen served in the USA House of Representatives from 1793 to 1799.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Craver Farmstead was established circa 1790 consisting of 225 acres with a farmhouse and a barn. Today, the Craver Farmstead is both architecturally and historically significant. The farmhouse was built prior to 1790 and stands as one of the oldest and best preserved examples of Federal-style architecture in upstate New</p><br>
<p>York. The Federal style evolved as the dominant classicizing architecture in North America between 1780 and 1830 as the new republic of the United States sought to define itself as independent in literature, art, and architecture just as it was politically.</p><br>
<p>Craver Farmstead is located on Craver Road in southern Rensselaer County, New York at the northeast corner of the town of East Greenbush, NY near the hamlet of West Sand Lake, NY. The one-mile county road bearing the site&#39;s name ("Craver Road") stretches across the original historic site to connect two more recently developed roadways. Historians agree that Craver Road was at first simply a horse trail leading to the then-new farmhouse during the mid-to-late 18th century. Soon afterward, Craver Road became a personal carriageway for the Craver Family as one may think of the modern driveway. The barn located at Craver Farmstead originally served as a private draft horse stable and carriage house for the exclusive use of the Craver family far prior to the advent of the horseless carriage.</p><br>
<p>Historically, the Craver Farmstead represents the agricultural heritage of 18th and 19th century rural New York. It serves as a landmark of the region&#39;s agrarian past as well as a tangible link to the hardy folks who settled upstate New York.</p><br>
<p>The Craver Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as certified by the USA Department of the Interior.</p><br>
<h2>Farmhouse</h2><br>
<p>The Craver</p><br>
<p>farmhouse is a fine vernacular example of the Federal style of</p><br>
<p>architecture. The Craver farmhouse also provides</p><br>
<p>a rich historical example of the type of home in which generation after</p><br>
<p>generation of upstate New York farmers resided and reared their families and retains</p><br>
<p>a high degree of integrity of location, feeling, association, materials, and</p><br>
<p>craftsmanship.</p><br>
<p>In the spirit</p><br>
<p>of Federal-style architecture, the Craver farmhouse is characterized by balance</p><br>
<p>and symmetry in design, lightness and elegance in mood, and delicacy and</p><br>
<p>finesse in execution. It retains a high level of historic integrity with its</p><br>
<p>original fenestration and fabric largely intact. The house is a five-bay center-entrance building. It is a two-story side-gabled dwelling of post-and-beam</p><br>
<p>construction with cedar clapboard siding. The front entrance features a gabled</p><br>
<p>porch with a vaulted ceiling and sidelights composed of three vertical panes. The</p><br>
<p>doors and windows of are in strict symmetry. The front windows feature</p><br>
<p>twelve-over-twelve double-hung sashes, original shutter mounts and simple</p><br>
<p>surrounds. The farmhouse has flush raking eaves and five frieze windows across</p><br>
<p>the front.</p><br>
<p>The interior of</p><br>
<p>the Craver farmhouse contains graceful decorative ornament, including a hand-carved</p><br>
<p>wooden fireplace mantel featuring Federal detailing. Board and batten doors</p><br>
<p>with wrought iron hardware are featured in rooms throughout the home. An open balustrade staircase leads to the</p><br>
<p>upper level, which features the original wide pine plank flooring. The walls</p><br>
<p>throughout the house are mostly plaster and contain lath, both sawed and</p><br>
<p>split.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse</p><br>
<p>faces south, standing over a one-room deep hand-dug earth basement with a</p><br>
<p>bedrock floor. The house is supported by a stone-rubble foundation featuring</p><br>
<p>original hand-hewn beams. It stands on the north side of Craver Road, flanked</p><br>
<p>by a quarter-acre pond to the west, a large 19th-century heavy timber-frame,</p><br>
<p>English-style barn to the south and a producing apple orchard to the east. An old stone fence runs in an east–west</p><br>
<p>direction on the northern boundary of the property.</p><br>
<p>The remnants of one</p><br>
<p>stone and mortar foundation are located about 100 feet east of the barn. There</p><br>
<p>are also remnants of a second stone-and-mortar foundation adjacent to the</p><br>
<p>farmhouse on its northern side which is believed to have once been the site of</p><br>
<p>the kitchen as separated from the main dwelling. The foundations are considered</p><br>
<p>unevaluated archeological resources.</p><br>
<h2>Barn and stable</h2><br>
<p>The barn,</p><br>
<p>with its original slate roof and hand-hewn post and beam construction, is typical</p><br>
<p>English period design with center wagon doors and horizontal clapboarding. It is a side-gabled form. Its long side, or axis, is parallel to a</p><br>
<p>hill. Its appearance is of massiveness and simplicity, with heavy mortised,</p><br>
<p>tenoned and pegged beams. Resting on a stone foundation, the lower level</p><br>
<p>contains remnants of dairy and draft horse stalls, while the upper level appears</p><br>
<p>to have been used for hay storage.</p><br>
<h2>Agricultural legacy</h2><br>
<p>The Craver Farmstead consists of rolling farmland and woodlands. Flora in evidence today</p><br>
<p>including apple trees, asparagus, rhubarb, and climbing roses are believed to</p><br>
<p>result of plantings by previous occupants from 100 to 225 years ago.</p><br>
<p>The apple orchard at the Craver Farmstead currently produces three varieties. New York State census</p><br>
<p>records from 1875 confirm that the Craver family had hundreds of apple and pear</p><br>
<p>trees in addition to other crops. The existing orchard consists of</p><br>
<p>approximately 30 producing trees and is the only surviving plot of fruit trees planted</p><br>
<p>by the Craver family more than 100 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Detailed History</h2><br>
<h3>Background</h3><br>
<p>Earliest</p><br>
<p>records of the Craver Farmstead indicate construction of the farmhouse sometime</p><br>
<p>prior to 1790. The home appears on a</p><br>
<p>survey map drawn by Evert Van Alen. Whose comments included the farm being</p><br>
<p>"under good improvement" with a "sufficiency of</p><br>
<p>timber." A lease of same farm, some</p><br>
<p>225 acres, called "This Indenture," was dated February 1, 1790. The owner was patroon "Stephen Van</p><br>
<p>Rensselaer, Efquire, Proprietor of the</p><br>
<p>Manor of Renffelaerwyck." The</p><br>
<p>tenants were Johannes and Henrick Miller.</p><br>
<p>On the reverse side of the lease appears a rent release dated December 14,</p><br>
<p>1863, to Peter Reynolds and John W. Craver.</p><br>
<p>The lease</p><br>
<p>itself carries historical significance. Alexander Hamilton, who was Stephen Van</p><br>
<p>Rensselaer&#39;s brother-in-law, designed a lease that bound the new tenants</p><br>
<p>permanently to the estate, thereby adroitly sidestepping the issue of</p><br>
<p>feudalism, which had been outlawed in New York State in 1782. The 1790 “Indenture” which originally created</p><br>
<p>the Craver Farmstead, was such an agreement. Under the terms of the lease, the</p><br>
<p>tenant had to pay all taxes, and was to use the land for agricultural purposes</p><br>
<p>only. The patroon reserved to himself timber, water and mineral rights, and had</p><br>
<p>the right to enter the tenant&#39;s property to exploit those resources. The tenant</p><br>
<p>couldn&#39;t sell his property, but only the lease, to another. If he wished to sell the "quarter sale</p><br>
<p>clause" restricted the tenant further, by Van Rensselaer having the option</p><br>
<p>of collecting one-fourth of the sale price or taking full title to the property</p><br>
<p>by paying three-quarters of the market price.</p><br>
<p>In the 1790 lease The Millers agreed to a yearly rent of 24 1/2</p><br>
<p>skipples of winter wheat, four fat fowls, and one day&#39;s service with carriage and</p><br>
<p>horses, due on January first of each year.</p><br>
<p>By 1797 the</p><br>
<p>original leased property had been transferred to and divided into two 112.5</p><br>
<p>acre parcels by William and Henry Coon,</p><br>
<p>the Craver farmstead standing on the</p><br>
<p>William Coon portion. On November 6, 1841, Elizabeth Craver, having inherited the property</p><br>
<p>from her late husband, William Coon, for consideration of $50, signed over her interest in the farm</p><br>
<p>to her son John W. Craver (she had been remarried to William Craver in 1799), whose family</p><br>
<p>owned the Craver farmstead longer than any other tenant or owner.</p><br>
<h3>The Craver Years</h3><br>
<p>John W.</p><br>
<p>Craver was born in Rensselaer County,</p><br>
<p>New York on March 6, 1801, and resided in the Craver farmhouse his entire</p><br>
<p>life. By 1830 Craver, had married and together</p><br>
<p>with his wife Catharine, had two daughters, Almira and Emily, who grew up on</p><br>
<p>the Craver Farmstead. By 1855, New York</p><br>
<p>State Census records indicate that Craver was the 54-year-old head of a six-member family. On April 3, 1855, during</p><br>
<p>the first annual Clinton (now East Greenbush) Town Meeting, held at the home of</p><br>
<p>William R. DeFreest, Craver was elected as an "Overseer of the Poor".</p><br>
<p>Overseers of the Poor were</p><br>
<p>responsible for assisting people in need, supervising admissions to the Poor House, and</p><br>
<p>certifying that freed slaves were</p><br>
<p>capable of caring for themselves.</p><br>
<p>By 1875,</p><br>
<p>Craver was a widower, 74 years old, and farmed 112 acres, 90 of which were</p><br>
<p>improved, 29 plowed, 24 pasture, and 20 meadow.</p><br>
<p>Craver produced hay, oats, rye, corn and potatoes. He cultivated 150 apple and 100 pear trees</p><br>
<p>(the descendants of which are in evidence today) and strawberries. He raised</p><br>
<p>livestock, including cattle, horses, poultry and pigs. Craver Farmstead produce</p><br>
<p>included butter, eggs, pork, and cider.</p><br>
<p>In 1874, on only 90 acres of improved farmland, Craver had grown 16</p><br>
<p>acres of oats, 4 of Indian corn, 16 of winter rye, and 8 of potatoes, which</p><br>
<p>yielded 400 bushels of oats, 75 of corn, 190 of rye, and 750 of potatoes. His 24 acres of pasture accounted for 50 tons</p><br>
<p>of hay. Additionally, 150 apple and 100 pear trees yielded 200 and 30 bushels</p><br>
<p>of fruit, respectively. Farm production included 500 pounds of butter, 400</p><br>
<p>gallons of milk, 1200 pounds of pork, 8 barrels of cider, and $15 worth of eggs</p><br>
<p>sold. Craver valued his farm at $12000, and the farmstead at $1500. Additional</p><br>
<p>children included Albus, Sylvester, Caroline, Catherine, and Elizabeth. Upon</p><br>
<p>John W. Craver&#39;s death on January IS, 1888, intestate, ownership of the Craver</p><br>
<p>farmstead was assumed by Albus, who, on March 6, 1896, passed the property on</p><br>
<p>to his son, Irwin Craver. On April 15, 1929, Irwin died, and willed the property</p><br>
<p>to his surviving wife, Cylvie A. Craver, who sold the Craver farmstead and</p><br>
<p>acreage in 1942.</p><br>
<p>The Craver Farmstead was accepted for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The John Carner Jr. House is a historic house located at 1310 Best Road in East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in about 1800 and is a two-story, five-bay wide, two-bay deep, heavy timber-framed dwelling designed in the Federal style. It is sheathed in clapboards and is topped by a medium pitched gable roof. It has a two-story rear kitchen wing, believed to be an earlier structure incorporated into the newly built house. It was last modified in the 1930s. Also on the property is a contributing three-bay English barn, two smaller barns, a potting shed, a corn crib, and a well house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Breese-Reynolds House is a historic house located at 601 South Street in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in about 1825 and consists of a -story, five-by-three-bay, gable-roofed brick main block with a rectangular, -story wood-framed wing. The wing was added in the mid-19th century. The main block has a slate roof. It is an example of a transitional Federal/Greek Revival–style dwelling.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 2007.</p><br>
<p>The David Mathews House, also known as the State Line House, is a historic house straddling the state line on New York State Route 67 and Vermont Route 67 in Hoosick, New York and Shaftsbury, Vermont. Built about 1800, it is an imposing brick example of Federal architecture. The building is the subject of a number of tales, some of dubious authenticity. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mathews House stands on the north side of NY/VT Route 67, just west of State Line Road in southwestern Shaftsbury and northeast of Walloomsac, New York. The house is a three-story, five bay wide, brick Federal style dwelling with a gable roof. It features pattern brick bonding, laid in a modified Flemish pattern, and a full Doric order frieze and cornice. As built, its main facade was originally to the north, but it has essentially identical northern and southern entrances, set in round-arch openings with fanlights above and flanking sidelights. The interior retains much original woodwork, including paneling, fireplace surrounds, and moulded door surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1800 by David Mathews, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and has a significant number of unusual high-style Federal period features for what was then (and is still now) a fairly remote rural setting. Mathews served in the Continental Army. He has often been confused with Loyalist David Mathews who served as Mayor under the British and had owned property nearby which was subsequently seized.</p><br>
<p>One apocryphal story associated with the house is that, during the war, Mathews stole some 3,000 gold coins from Friedrich Baum, a Hessian serving with the British Army during the Revolutionary War, and buried them in the house&#39;s basement; as the house was built somewhat later, it is almost certainly false. The building saw use in the 19th century as a tavern, occasionally hosting judicial proceedings. Its position on the state line, it was said, made it impossible for a New York judge to convict a defendant on the Vermont side of the house.</p><br>
<p>Tibbits House, also known as Tibbits Hall, is a historic home located at Hoosick in Rensselaer County, New York. The house was built about 1860 and -story, rectangular Gothic Revival–style building. It is constructed of cut ashlar sandstone blocks and has steeply pitched gable roofs covered with fishscale slate. It features projecting porches, bay windows, changes of rooflines, dormers, chimneys, and two towers. The existing house on the property was originally owned by USA Congressman George Tibbits ; his son George Mortimer Tibbits  built the Tibbits House. At the time the property was bought by the Tibbits it was the location of a wooden house built before the Revolution by a Loyalist named Pfister. The Tibbits estate was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The building was acquired by Hoosac School in 1952 and is used as a dormitory, classrooms, and for administrative offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District is a historic stamp mill  located on M-26 near Torch Lake, just east of Mason in Osceola Township. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Original stamp mill (1860–1888)</h2><br>
<p>The original Quincy Stamp Mill was built in 1860 on Portage Lake This facility, however, dumped an enormous amount of sand tailings into the lake, and the sand soon threatened to encroach on the navigable channel of the lake. and eventually filed suit against the Quincy Mine for dumping in Portage Lake.</p><br>
<p>Stamp mills require a large amount of water to operate, and so are invariably located near a large body of water; this limited the range of sites in which a new mill could be placed. After some analysis, the Quincy management decided on Torch Lake as the site for the new mill and purchased 300 acres on the shore, some six miles east of the previous location.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of stamp mill (1888–1894)</h2><br>
<p>Work began on the new stamp mill in 1888. In 1889, six substantial frame buildings were constructed on site, as well as a railway connecting the stamp mill to the mine, and stamping equipment was installed. The pump and boiler house were located on the south side of the roadway that is now M-26. An elevated conduit carried water and steam over the road to the mill, and handling facilities were built at the dock. The facility was completed and opened for milling in 1890. The site originally had two stamps; a third was added immediately after opening, and two more were added in 1892.</p><br>
<p>More structures were added to the site over time, beginning with extensions to the dock in 1890 and 1891, an addition to the boiler house in 1891, and additions to the mill in 1891 and 1892. In all, the Quinct Mine spent $457,000 between 1888 and 1894 in constructing and equipping their new mill site, of which $182,000 went to the mill and its stamping equipment.</p><br>
<h2>Second mill and additions (1894–1922)</h2><br>
<p>However, as early as 1894, mine production outstripped the capacity of the mill, and a new mill was planned.</p><br>
<p>The second stamp mill was built just north of the first; It was constructed in 1899 by the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company at a cost of $22,450. Over the next two decades, minor alterations were made to the structures of the complex (including the erection of a new 175-foot smokestack for the boilerhouse in 1916) while the milling process and machinery were continuously refined.</p><br>
<p>However, the rise in the price of copper during World War I provided both impetus and resources for expansion of the site. Reinforced concrete and brick additions to both stamp mills were constructed in 1919; the addition to mill no. 1 was 123 feet by 215 feet, and the addition to mill no. 2 was 91 feet by 132 feet. Construction on the new building, a brick structure measuring 36 feet by 38 feet by 45 feet high, began in 1921; the turbine was online in 1923.</p><br>
<h2>Decline (1922 – present)</h2><br>
<p>However, the mill began to decline after the end of the war. In 1922, the second mill was closed. However, the Great Depression hit the mining industry hard, and the Quincy Mine closed in 1931, shuttering the Stamp Mills.</p><br>
<p>As the Depression wound onward, copper prices rebounded, and the mine and mills were refurbished in late 1937 and re-opened on a limited scale in early 1938. However, the mine was only barely profitable, and after World War II ended, and with it the price guarantees from the federal government, the mine and stamp mills closed permanently.</p><br>
<p>Mill number two was demolished early, as well as the original portions of mill number one, but the later additions to mill number one remain.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
