<p>The Thomas C. Wilkinson House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was built for Thomas C. Wilkinson, who had been a bricklayer in St. Louis, Missouri. He retired to Davenport in 1854 and moved to Rose Hill Farm. He had this house built in 1860. His wife was Ellen McManus Atkinson whose father was Judge James McManus, and he lived on a farm just to the east. On Christmas Eve in 1876, Wilkinson committed suicide in the house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas C. Wilkinson House is an Italian Villa style home that sits on a large lot high above street level. The two-story house is frame construction with a front gable, L-plan main block. It features a three-stage, square tower. The third level is not original to the house. The windows on the west wing appear to be from the turn of the 20th-century and suggest this portion of the house was built later than the rest of the structure. The house features a bracketed cornice on the main block, an entrance porch with a spindle frieze and wrought iron railings. The main façade has two round-arched windows on both levels. The lower-level windows are taller than the upper-level windows and they all feature muntins. There are two circular windows above the ground level in the basement.</p><br>
<p>The Westphal–Schmidt House is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The residence has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This house was one of five summer homes that were built in this area in the 1850s, and the only one that retains its historical integrity. The first people to occupy the home were John and Dorathea Westphal. By the early 1860s, the home was owned by Fred T. Schmidt. He raised grapes and made wine with his brother Carl on their farm west of Black Hawk Creek, which was outside the city limits at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Westphal–Schmidt House was designed in the Tuscan Italianate style. The two-story gallery on the main façade, although not the original, is a unique feature for Italianate houses built in Davenport. Another unique feature of this house compared with other historic houses in the city is the slope of the property. Normally the property slopes to the back creating a walk-out basement. This property slopes toward the front making the main level of the house the basement level. The windows on the second floor are tall and narrow, which is typical of main floor windows in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>There is also a small brick structure to the southwest of the house that was believed to be used for the Schmidt&#39;s wine-making business. Although it has been altered it remains an interesting example of early brick and stone construction in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray 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>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Murray built this house in 1881 shortly after his marriage to Eva Daniels. He had worked as a surveyor for Scott County for more than a decade. Murray was working as Davenport&#39;s City Engineer when this house was built.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray House is typical of the Italianate style houses that were being built in Davenport after the American Civil War. It forsakes the simplicity of Greek Revival decorative elements that were found in earlier Italianate houses for the verticality and millwork embellishment of the Victorian expression. The house features a square form, hipped roof with deck, roof cresting, projecting side pavilions, and a prominent bracketed wrap-around porch. The cornice has brackets and a scalloped motif that is applied to the frieze.</p><br>
<p>The Walter–Gimble House is a historic building located in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bernhart and Agnes Walter lived here beginning in 1890 and lived here for a few years. He worked as a brewer at the Kohler & Lange Brewery. J.J. Gimble, who was a blacksmith, and his wife Mary lived here after the Walters. The city directories do not list who the previous occupants of the house were.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house appears to be an expansion of the three-bay McClellan style, which was popular in Davenport after the Civil War. The four-bay house follows a rectangular plan. There is an entrance on the second floor, which suggests the house may have been a duplex from its early years.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Henry Hotel is a Colonial Revival former hotel listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Located at 617 South Jefferson Street at the southern end of Downtown, the Patrick Henry was designed by William Lee Stoddart and opened in 1925. The building now serves as apartments, office space, and a restaurant in the former lobby rebranded simply The Patrick Henry. It is located in the Roanoke Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the years following World War I, Roanoke continued to develop as a boomtown due to the growth of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and as such, the city needed additional lodging options for persons traveling to the city. In 1923, local business leader William Wise Boxley chartered The Hotel Corporation to serve as the developer of the Patrick Henry. Later in the year, Boxley selected William Lee Stoddart as the project architect with James Stewart & Company of New York selected as the general contractor. With overall construction costs rising, in 1924, Boxley chartered the New Hotel Corporation to raise additional capital needed to complete the hotel. Taking its name from the American Founding Father Patrick Henry, the 300-room hotel celebrated its grand opening the following year on November 10, 1925, with over 2,000 people in attendance.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Henry name was chosen in a naming contest eventually won by a young Roanoker, John Payne, who went on to become a Hollywood star in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its opening, the Patrick Henry was operated by the hotel management firm of Meyer Hotels of Birmingham, Alabama; Meyer operated the hotel through 1954. In the interim, the hotel received its first major renovation in 1938 under the design of local architects Edward G. Frye and Frank F. Stone. A local management company operated the hotel for a few years, and in 1961 the American Hotel Corporation took control when the Patrick Henry was auctioned off to pay off ownerships debts; American Hotel ran the hotel until 1968. It was at this time the Monterey Corporation of Parkersburg, West Virginia, renovated the original 300 rooms into 121 hotel and apartment units.</p><br>
<p>The building was operated as both apartments and a hotel though the 1980s. In 1990 Affirmative Equities of New York purchased the hotel and spent $3 million to renovate the structure and rebrand it under the Radisson name. After several attempts to foreclose on the property, by the late 1990s, Affirmative Equities was considering options on converting the hotel into senior living units. With the final resident having moved out by 2005, the hotel closed its doors in 2007 and the structure was subsequently condemned as it was non-compliant with fire code. After being foreclosed on in 2009 for failing to pay back taxes, the property was purchased by Potomac Realty Capital of Boston for $2 million and subsequently resold to Roanoke developer Ed Walker the following October.</p><br>
<p>Its transformation into apartments began in late 2009. In December 2010. the Jefferson College of Health Sciences announced they would reserve 56 of the units for use by their students. The $20 million renovation was completed in June 2011 and includes 134 apartment units, a restaurant, and retail/office space.</p><br>
<p>The Governors Mansion in Shawnee, Oklahoma was built in 1903, on the speculation that Shawnee would be selected as the state capital and that this structure would become the Governors official residence when Oklahoma became a state. However, Oklahoma did not attain statehood until 1907, and the Legislature chose Guthrie as the first capital, before naming Oklahoma City as the permanent state capital in 1910.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in an area known as Shawnee&#39;s first neighborhood, "...where the first generation of merchants, town leaders and early professionals lived."</p><br>
<p>The house was never used as the Governors Mansion. Once it was clear that Shawnee would not become the state capital, the mansion became just another private residence. It is also known as the Giza House, because it was once owned by Zygmund O. Giza. It is still considered a local landmark and local residents still refer to it as the Governors Mansion. It was registered with the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The footprint of the three-story house is about 60 feet by 70 feet. It sits on a city lot about 1 acre in area. Most of the rooms have ceilings that are 12 feet high. The house has a brick foundation, clapboard siding and a gabled wood shingle roof. The architectural style has been called neoclassical.</p><br>
<p>The east and south sides of the house are decorated with Ionic columns. The front has a bay window decorated with an open balcony on the first and second stories, which extends into a gable on the third story. The first two stories are rounded on the south end extend into a turret on the third story. A balcony across the second story on the front of the house extends from the bay window to the rounded portion of the house. Except for the windows in the gables, all other windows are double hung. Those in the gables are four by six fixed type style.</p><br>
<p>The gable on the south side of the third floor is similar to the one on the front of the house. The north side of the house has a bay window on both the first and second stories that extend into a third-story gable. The second-story bay window is decorated with spindles. The north side of the house has an attached porte-cochere that is supported by Doric columns and decorated with two small gables.</p><br>
<p>The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971. The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University, was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only property he ever owned. Fuller, a prolific architect and engineer, popularized the geodesic dome as a building design, and his house was one of the first geodesic dome residences to be constructed. The home was built and designed by Al Miller of the Pease Woodworking Company. While living in the home, Fuller was awarded nine patents, published eleven books, and designed the Montreal Biosphère, one of his most famous works.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Non-profit</h2><br>
<p>The Fuller Dome is a project of RBF Dome NFP, a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring Buckminster Fullers legacy. The boards vision is to further Buckys work, principles, and commitment to addressing humanitys most basic needs. This is done by preserving his artifacts and providing programming in the spirit of Fuller&#39;s hope for "omni-successful education and sustenance for all of humanity."</p><br>
<p>The Fuller Dome is led by a board of directors composed of educators, architects, designers, artists, professors emeriti, community organizers and leaders representing a diverse confluence of individuals who are dedicated to manifesting Bucky&#39;s ideals today.</p><br>
<p>The Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District is a 70 acre historic district in Beckley, West Virginia, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The listing included 100 contributing buildings, including one or more designed by architect Alex B. Mahood.</p><br>
<p>In a 2010 interview, David Sibray, chairman of the Beckley Historic Landmarks Commission, said the commissions purpose is to protect the citys historic resources, and it oversees the development of downtown Beckleys. Sibray noted there are several motivations for preserving Beckleys history, including maintaining the historic aesthetic.</p><br>
<p>In 2015 the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia (PAWV) declared the district among the most endangered historic resources in West Virginia. The recognition was the result of years of inappropriate alterations to contributing buildings in the district, which the State Historic Preservation Office concluded had threatened the district&#39;s integrity. The alliance declared in its assessment that the threat was the result of the nonfeasance of the city landmarks commission.</p><br>
<p>The Universalist Church is a historic building located in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1868 with a membership of thirty-five people. The first officers were: Thomas Mitchell, Moderator; Barlard Slate, Clerk; and Tillie Mitchell, Treasurer. The deacons were W.S. Jones, A. Rothrock and Pauline Weeks. Pastors included: W.W. King, T.C. Eaton, J.R. Sage, A. Vedder and F.W. Gillette. The church building was erected at a cost of $2,000.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1868, it is the oldest documented building in Mitchellville. It is considered an "outstanding example of an early church design based on examples found in small New England towns." The building also served the town as its first school building. After the congregation disbanded they sold their property to the state of Iowa to use for weddings, funerals, and appropriate functions. The church building, along with two outhouses on the property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is a congregation of the United Church of Christ located in Eldora, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1868 and the church building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. In 2010 it was included as a contributing property in the Eldora Downtown Historic District in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building was designed in the late Victorian, Romanesque Revival style by Charles Durham and was built from 1893–1894. The church is constructed of LeGrand hammer dressed limestone. It measures 47 by 90 feet and the tower rises 57 and a half feet above the cornice line. The door sills and steps are made of blue stone and the interior is finished in antique oak and hard pine. Stained glass windows help to illuminate the interior.</p><br>
<p>Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church is located north of Waterville, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the autumn of 1850, the meeting was held to organize a Christian school and a place for worship by the first Norwegian immigrant settlers to the Paint Creek area of Allamakee County. The school was organized in March the following year with Ole Larson as the first teacher. The first church services were held in July in the home of Thomas Anderson by Pastor Claus Lauritz Clausen from Rock County, Wisconsin. The schoolhouse was completed by November 1851 and was used for church services as well.</p><br>
<p>Initially, the congregation had only visiting ministers. They sent a Letter of Call to Norway for their own pastor. It was answered by the Rev. U. V. Koren, who arrived in late 1853 and stayed until 1862 when he returned to Norway. All of East Paint Creek&#39;s early pastors were from Norway. In July 1855 it was decided to build a log structure for a church, which was completed in 1857. The congregation grew in size and divided into two separate churches, East Paint Creek Church and West Paint Creek Church, because of the poor roads in the area.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the present church was laid on May 24, 1869, and the church was dedicated on August 24, 1870. W.A. Eriksen constructed the Gothic Revival style building. The Rev. Ove Jacob Hjort (1827–1879) was the pastor at the time. A cemetery, which pre-dates it, surrounds the church building. Services were conducted in Norwegian, at least partially, into the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>In 1880, a controversy over predestination erupted among Norwegian Lutherans which affected the congregations in the Paint Creek area. A small group broke away from the original churches and became known as the East and West Synod Lutheran Churches. To distinguish between the two groups, the original churches were renamed Old East Paint Creek Church and Old West Paint Creek Church. Old East Paint remained in the "anti-Missouri" synod of the church until 1890, when they affiliated with the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Another split in the congregation occurred in 1907 that resulted in the establishment of the Waterville Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1917, Old East Paint Church changed its affiliation to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation has now moved to the town of Waukon, Iowa, as King of Grace Lutheran Church and the old church building is unused.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main church follows a rectangular plan, measuring 64 by. The exterior is composed of locally quarried limestone covered with stucco. The projecting central pavilion is capped with a frame bell chamber and spire that rises to a height of 100 ft. The main entrance, also located in the central pavilion, is located within an elliptical arch that is framed by a Gothic portico. The side elevations feature five lancet windows that are symmetrically placed.</p><br>
<p>A vestry was added later to the rear of the church sanctuary. Its exterior is also composed of limestone that is laid in random coursed ashlar without a stucco covering. It may indicate the appearance of the main church without the stucco. A new basement and foundation were built beneath the church and vestry from 1949 to 1952. Matching additions with shed roofs were built on each side of the vestry in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The interior features its original wooden altar, pulpit, baptismal font, pews, altar rail, and a two-tier brass chandelier. The stained glass windows date from 1957. The original balcony stairs were replaced in 1970. The sanctuary interior is capped with a pressed tin ceiling.</p><br>
<p>Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is located outside of Tipton, Iowa, United States. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized on March 1, 1841 by Scotch Presbyterian settlers in Cedar County, Iowa. It is the first Presbyterian Church founded in Cedar County and the twelfth in the state of Iowa. The ten charter members of the church include: Robert Dallas, Miss Sarah Dallas, John and Isabella Ferguson, John Safley, John Chappell, Samuel Yule, Robert and Elizabeth Pirie and Elizabeth Dallas. The organizational meeting was conducted by the Rev. Michael Hummer, who was an itinerant Presbyterian missionary. By November 1847 the congregation grew to 22 members. For the first ten years the congregation had no pastor and was severed by traveling missionaries.</p><br>
<p>In 1851 the congregation requested that its location be changed to Tipton. The Presbytery granted its permission and it became known as the First Presbyterian Church of Tipton. In the meantime the people in Red Oak Grove built a church and requested a separate organization. The Presbytery granted its request in October 1859, and the Presbyterian Church of Red Oak Grove was organized. The following year the relationship between the churches was dissolved and Red Oak Grove began a working relationship with the Presbyterian Church in Mechanicsville, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Henry Britcher donated land north of the church where the present manse was built in 1899. The Rev. J.C. Fawcett was the first pastor to occupy the home in 1901.</p><br>
<h2>Red Oak Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The North Cemetery was organized in 1848 and the plat was made by A.L. Safley. The South Cemetery was plotted in May 1907.</p><br>
<p>Hillside is a historic house at 310 Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. The house was built in 1908 for an heiress of the Remington Arms business fortune, and is one of the most spectacular designs of Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who designed many summer properties in the community. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hillside is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the east side of Litchfield Road. It is set on a lot of 45 acre, most of which is wooded. The house occupies a ridge site with expansive views facing northwest, at the end of a winding drive at some remove from the road. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, with its basement and first floor built of fieldstone, and the upper level of half-timber and stucco. A central section is flanked by larger wing sections, each topped by a roof that has a gable section above a Craftsman-style jerkin-headed gable end. Its interior includes a large main hall with timbered ceiling 40 ft in height, and a walkin fireplace and inglenook.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 for Helen Hartley Jenkins, who was heir to the Remington Arms fortune.</p><br>
<p>The property was renovated and added to at the turn of the twenty first by the talented artist and designer Arden Harriman Mason, using the designs of Richard Allen. Mason was the son of artists Frank Herbert Mason and Phyllis Harriman Mason and grandson of banker E. Roland Harriman.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is located in Burlington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The church is also a contributing property in the Heritage Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1838. The Rev. Horace Hutchinson was the first pastor and the congregation met in the home of James G. Edwards who was the publisher of the Burlington Hawk-Eye. He was succeeded by the Rev. William Salter who served here for 64 years (1846-1910). The congregation was involved in social ministry, civil rights, public education, and free libraries. Under Salter&#39;s leadership, it was a champion of the abolition of slavery and was a stop on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>When the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches merged with the Evangelical and Reformed Church and formed the United Church of Christ, First Congregational Church joined with about 200 other Congregational Christian churches in choosing not to join the merger, mainly because of the issue of congregational polity. It became a part of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, which was created in 1955. The church is a member of the National Association, the Iowa-Nebraska Association of Congregational Churches and the Burlington Area Council of Churches.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building was constructed from 1867 to 1870. It is a Gothic Revival built of dressed dolomite. It is dominated by a tall, square, crenelated corner tower. It rises in three stages, which are separated by belt courses.</p><br>
<p>Hilton in Columbus, Georgia was built in 1843 for Dr. Lovick Pierce, who bought the land in 1838. It was built as a "comfortable" four-room house on its own city block, with a driveway avenue of cedar trees leading to it from Macon Road.</p><br>
<p>He was a medical doctor in Philadelphia and became a Methodist minister.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The NRHP listing included 6 acre with two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Its architecture is described as "Italian Villa" style, which may relate to Italianate architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was restored in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport, a village on the Des Moines River near Keosauqua, in Van Buren County, Iowa, was recognized in 1972 for being very little changed since its historic heyday as a thriving steamboat port in the mid-1800s. A 35 acre historic district covering 16 original blocks in the historic center of the village was then approved for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The district also included waterfront property and the village&#39;s historic wagon bridge across the river to the village of Vernon.</p><br>
<p>The village was platted in March, 1836, and was located at the first dam and locks on the Des Moines River authorized by the state in 1839. Soon it had two grist mills and a saw mill. It was named "Benton&#39;s Post" for Thomas Hart Benton and once had a population of about 1,000. It declined after the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad reached Des Moines in 1866. The river became non-navigable in 1870 and the dam and locks deteriorated, with the dam "failing" in 1879. The Bentonsport bridge opened in 1883 and is the oldest wagon bridge of its type in the county.</p><br>
<p>The population was 150 in 1940.</p><br>
<p>Today the village has 40 residents, many of them artists and bed & breakfast keepers.</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport is home to the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Memorial. Erected in 2007, it is Iowa&#39;s only Confederate memorial.</p><br>
<p>Its historic district includes:</p><br>
<p>Cowles House, 1840s</p><br>
<p>a blacksmith shop, 1840s</p><br>
<p>I.O.O.F. Hall, 1840s, the oldest and perhaps first Odd Fellows Hall in Iowa</p><br>
<p>Mason House Inn, 1846</p><br>
<p>Sanford House, 1852</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport Academy, 1851, perhaps Iowa&#39;s oldest high school</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church, 1855</p><br>
<p>Methodist Parsonage, 1855</p><br>
<p>Methodist Church, 1857</p><br>
<p>Herman Greef House, 1863</p><br>
<p>Greef Dry Goods Store, 1865</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport General Store</p><br>
<p>Bentonsport Bridge, 1882</p><br>
<p>The district includes Federal, Gothic Revival, and "Steamboat Gothic" architecture.</p><br>
<p>A rich history of Bentonsport was compiled by the 1940 Iowa Writers Program, a project of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) during the New Deal era. Written just after Bentonsport&#39;s 100th anniversary, and called, it includes a variety of stories, observations, and facts that provide a compelling look into this historic town.</p><br>
<p>The Fairmount–Southside Historic District is a 340 acre historic district  that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990. The district is roughly rectangular in shape.</p><br>
<p>Structures in the district represent Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture, and Late Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Meredith Benton House, the Johnson-Elliott House, and the South Side Masonic Lodge No. 1114 which were previously listed on the NRHP. The Benton House and Masonic Lodge are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks along with the Grammer-Pierce House, the Gunhild Weber House, and the William Reeves House.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes 1,013 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>It is asserted to be the largest historic district designated in the southwestern United States.</p><br>
<p>The webpage title for the entity describes itself as "Fairmount National Historic District", while the webpage itself names it "Fairmount Historic District".</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Governor L. G. Hardman House is a historic house located at 208 Elm Street in Commerce, Georgia. It is locally significant architecturally as a "fine example" in Georgia of the Mediterranean Revival style of architecture applied to a residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1921, the house was designed by architect Leroy C. Hart in Mediterranean Revival architecture, one variety of Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture. It was originally built as the home of Georgia governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman (1856–1937), who governed during 1927–1931. The 5 acre listing included two contributing buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Governor L.D. Lewelling House is a historic house located at 1245 North Broadway in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story house was built in about 1894. It was deemed significant for its association with Lorenzo D. Lewelling while he served as governor of Kansas and architecturally as "a good example of a Colonial Revival-styled four square with Queen Anne and Shingle style influences."</p><br>
<p>Blue Bend Forest Camp, also known as Blue Bend Recreation Area, is a historic recreational area near Alvon, West Virginia. The site was planned and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1936 to 1938 and is one of four CCC-built recreational areas in Monongahela National Forest. Anthony Creek runs through the camp, and a pool on the creek known as Blue Hole is a fishing area and one of the main features of the site. Blue Bend Forest Camp also includes log picnic shelters and twenty-one campsites. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The August Holver Hilton House in Socorro, New Mexico was built in 1912. The house was deemed historically important as the home of August Holver Hilton, father of Conrad Hilton. The father, born in 1856 in Norway, was successful as a merchant in San Antonio.</p><br>
<p>It is of Bungalow/Craftsman architecture. It is also denoted ID#664 and SR Site #631. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Governors Mansion at 621 S. Marshall Ave. in Marshall, Michigan is a historic house built in 1839 with elements of Greek Revival architecture. It is also known as Governors Mansion Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. In 2017, the house is a museum owned and operated by the Mary Marshall Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1839, Marshall citizen James Wright Gordon, recently elected to the state senate, began agitating for Marshall to be designated as the state capital. In expectation, Gordon purchased land across from where the Capitol was proposed to be built and constructed this house. It has been referred to as the "Governors Mansion" since its construction. Gordon became lieutenant governor, and then acting governor of Michigan in 1841. However, Lansing was chosen as the new state capital in 1847, dashing Marshalls hopes.</p><br>
<p>Gordon was later appointed to the consular service in South America by Zachary Taylor, and died there in 1853. Gordon&#39;s widow owned of the house until 1882, when it was purchased by Mrs. Flory Palmer, a local resident. She and her daughter, Bertha Palmer Brady, lived in the house for many years. In 1967, the Brady heirs donated the property to the local Mary Marshall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The chapter converted the house into their meeting hall and as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The "Governor&#39;s Mansion" in Marshall is a two-story white frame Greek Revival building built in a side-hall plan. It has a single-story rear addition. The main section of the house has clapboard siding on the sides and horizontal plank siding on the front. In the front is a wide Doric portico with a Greek entablature above. Under the portico are two vertically elongated sash windows, and a front entrance framed by pilasters decorated with carved acanthus leaves. A dentiled cornice runs across the main portion of the house.</p><br>
<p>Governors Inn is a historic inn at Maumee, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1836 by Levi Beebe. Before it served as an inn, the building was named the Commercial Building and held local stores and a post office. When the Miami and Erie Canal opened, it became a lodge for canal and stagecoach travelers. The inn went by many names before the Governors Inn, including the Neely House, the Eagle, the Schieley House, the Bismark, the Seurin Hotel, the Langley Inn, and the Old Plantation Inn. It is now home to a whisky bar.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Governor&#39;s Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It was the fifth place in Maumee to receive this designation.</p><br>
<p>The Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1943.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The foundation was created by Harrison M. Sayre. Sayres father was involved in philanthropy in Newark, Ohio. As Sayre became more involved in the community, he felt he could benefit it with the community foundation. Sayre and Russell Cole met with Huntington Bank and City National Bank executives to establish the foundation on December 29, 1943. In 1947, the Ohio National Bank joined the foundation. At Sayres death, the organization received about 150 donations in his honor.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Columbus Foundation is housed in the Old Governor&#39;s Mansion at 1234 E. Broad St., built in 1904. Also known as the Ohio Archives Building or as the Charles H. Lindenberg Home, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972,</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the foundation demolished the Joseph F. Firestone House, neighboring the organization&#39;s headquarters and built c. 1900. The house had been vacant for years, and the foundation considered saving it, but the structure was deemed too impractical and expensive to be converted for further use. The building was a part of the East Broad Street Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. It was replaced with a surface parking lot and green space.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Athens Historic District is a historic area in the Downtown Athens neighborhood of Athens, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Its boundaries were revised twice, in 1984 and 2006, and additional documentation was filed in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The original listing area includes Early Commercial architecture, Renaissance architecture, and Greek Revival architecture in 82 contributing buildings and two contributing buildings in a 40 acre area roughly bounded by Hancock Ave., Foundry, and Mitchell. It includes work dating back to 1833. It includes the Franklin House, which is separately listed on the National Register, and the Clarke County Courthouse. Historic functions served include rail transportation, dwelling, and commerce/trade.</p><br>
<p>The most prominent resources in the original listing include:</p><br>
<p>Clarke County Courthouse (Athens, Georgia) (c. 1914), E. Washington Street, in yellow brick, designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown</p><br>
<p>Franklin House (c. 1845), 464-474 E. Broad Street, Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>Whitmire Furniture Company, 382 E. Broad, (1896)</p><br>
<p>Athens Refrigeration and Appliance Company (1889), 312 E. Broad Street</p><br>
<p>Old National Bank Building (c. 1866), 295 E. Broad Street, "Gothic-inspired", stuccoed but in pattern resembling masonry</p><br>
<p>Athens Savings Bank (c. 1885), now the Charles Parrott Insurance Agency, 283 E. Broad Street, Richardsonian Romanesque</p><br>
<p>stone obelisks, one to commemorate Elijah Clarke and the Revolutionary War, one to commemorate the Civil War and veterans from Clarke County who died in the War, in the center of Broad Street</p><br>
<p>Kenwin Building (c. 1890), 125 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Haygood Building (c. 1885), 151 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 216-220 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Michael Brothers (now Davison&#39;s) (1921), 320-350 E. Clayton Street, designed by Neel Reid</p><br>
<p>Austin Furniture Company, 361 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 351 E. Clayton Street</p><br>
<p>Building at 263-288 Lumpkin Street and 104-106 E. Washington</p><br>
<p>The Georgian Hotel (c. 1908), 247 E. Washington Street (photo 20 in 2006 documentation), five-story Classical Revival building designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown</p><br>
<p>Athens Fire Station No. 1 (1912) still functioning as a fire station in 1977</p><br>
<p>Athens City Hall, a two-story yellow brick Renaissance Revival style building with a clock tower (photo 18 in 2006 documentation)</p><br>
<p>United States Post Office and Courthouse (1941), in Stripped Classical style (photo 22 in 2006 documentation)</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church (1856), Greek Revival-style (photo 22 in 2006 documentation</p><br>
<p>and more on College Avenue and elsewhere, including a double-barreled cannon.</p><br>
<p>The boundary increase of 1984 added buildings on the west side of Lumpkin Street. Its seven contributing buildings are two-story commercial buildings with party walls, in a 1 acre area. One was the Georgia Theatre, an Art Deco movie theater from the 1920s, and the other buildings then held retail stores, offices, a printing shop, and a laundry.</p><br>
<p>The revision in 2006 added new area, removed some area, and added additional documentation. The increased area, roughly bounded by Dougherty St., Thomas St., Hickory St., Broad St. South St. and Pulaski St., was 24 acres, with 25 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure. It includes Federal and Greek Revival architecture, and some work of architect A. Ten Eyck Brown and some property controlled by the USA Postal Service. Historic functions included: domestic; commerce/trade; government; religion; recreation and culture; industry/processing/extraction; health care</p><br>
<p>Historic subfunction: single dwelling; business; city hall; religious structure; theater; communications facility; clinic.</p><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block, also referred to as the Boesch-Hummel-Maltzahn Block, is an historic building in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. The private commercial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on December 31, 1979. The building is significant for the extensive features of the front facade as compared to the other "Main Street" buildings in New Ulm and surrounding communities.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block is a two-story structure located on the north side of New Ulm&#39;s main commercial thoroughfare, consisting of 6, 8, 10 and 12 Minnesota Street North. The street level facade has been remodeled several times over the years, but still maintains the cut stone dividing members. The second story facade features relief-laid brick and four, large copper-roofed bay windows. Cut stone is also used as decoration on the second level as well as for a railed balcony over the stairway entrance on the northern section of the facade. Panels carrying the names of the persons first associated with the structure, as well as its completion year, are incorporated into an elaborate metal cornice. The rear of the building, which once had wooden stairways and two levels of covered walkways, now has metal stairways for building access.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Hummel was born on October 22, 1832, in Neuffen, Württemberg, then a part of the German Confederation. He was reared by his paternal grandparents His grandfather was a tanner by trade. From age seven to twelve, he attended school and in 1844, his parents immigrated to the United States, taking him along. The voyage was difficult, with various problems leading to spending 138 days on a ship. Of the more than 300 German immigrants in their group, 28 died on the trip and seven babies were born. They arrived in New Orleans in early March 1845, and soon his family moved to Cincinnati where they began work at an uncles vineyard. After the harvest, the family returned to New Orleans where they began trade in food stuffs. After a year of success, Hummels father died of yellow fever. This caused serious financial hardship for his mother and four siblings. As the oldest, Hummel began working at a drug store, receiving at the time $8.00 per month and board. After a time he was sent back to Cincinnati to learn a trade where his uncle taught him to be a harness maker. Soon after there was a cholera outbreak, shutting down businesses and causing Hummel to look for new work. Finding employment as an apprentice trunk-maker, he was able to earn a stable living. In 1850 he joined the Cincinnati Turner Society, reemerging himself in German customs and language. The Turner Society appealed to Hummel, particularly because of its advocacy of intellectual freedom. He began working on the steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, earning more money and seeing more parts of the country. In 1852, he arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, where he found maternal relatives who convinced him to stay and find work. Six months later, he moved to Chicago and continued his involvement in the local Turner Society.</p><br>
<p>Hummel moved to New Ulm in 1856, soon after its founding, and helped form its own Turner Society and taught gymnastics in the new hall. He tried making a living in several areas including farming, operating a drug store and running a saloon, before co-founding the New Ulm Creamery Company in 1880 and finding success. With the profits he opened a general store on Minnesota Street in downtown New Ulm. By 1890 he was one of the most successful businessmen in the city, he joined Werner Boesch and Edward Maltzahn to open a new business block. They hired architect Carl F. Struck of Minneapolis, who had previously designed the Brown County Courthouse. When the structure was built in 1890, the structure was part of the second generation of masonry blocks built to house retail establishments in New Ulm and the surrounding area; it is considered to be the most visually striking of that generation. Hummel continued running the store until 1903.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block is noted for being the most elaborately detailed Main Street commercial building in the area. Similar buildings are commonly stripped of features such as cornices and projecting bay windows over time and various renovations. The wide, four-storefront facade, resulting in repetition add to the structure&#39;s impact on the local streetscape. The building was originally designed to house commercial storefronts on the first level with apartments on the second; the building continued to be used in this way at the time it was listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>The Governor Leslie Jensen House, at 309 S. Fifth St. in Hot Springs, South Dakota, was built in 1899 for Christian Jensen, and it was the longtime home of Christians son and South Dakotas 15th governor Leslie Jensen .</p><br>
<p>It is a "simplified vernacular Queen Anne cottage built of brick, with some decorative Stick Style and Eastlake details. Also known as The Jensen House or the Christian Jensen House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Governor John L. Pennington House, at 410 E. Third St. in Yankton, South Dakota, was built in 1875. Also known as South Dakota Magazine Office in 1987, it is a simplified Italianate-style building. It was registered with the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It was home during 1875 to 1891 of Dakota Territory governor John L. Pennington who served as governor for a four-year term from 1874 to 1878.</p><br>
<p>The Westerman Lumber Office and House is a historic building in Montgomery, Minnesota, United States. The private, commercial structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on March 15, 1982. The structure is considered an outstanding example of the brick buildings built in the area of Montgomery and New Prague during the late 19th century, using bricks manufactured in the Minnesota River Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Westerman Lumber Office and House is located in Montgomery&#39;s principle business district on the east side of First Street. An L-shaped building, it has an intersecting gable roof which folds at a 45-degree angle over the front facade. The structure was first constructed as a small, wood-frame office building in the 1880s. In 1895, a back section was added and the entire structure was veneered in a buff colored brick. Brick pilaster strips are located at the corners of the building and between the bays of the front ell. The west (front) facade uses rectilinear windows with green wood trim featuring a stylized floral design in the wood lintels, and double-hung windows are used on the second level. The windows on the north facade use arched brick hoods and decoractive panels composed of exposed brick corners beneath the sills.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry E. Westerman settled in Le Sueur County in 1873, and moved to Montgomery to start a sawmill when the town was founded in 1877. He established the Westerman Lumber Company in 1889. The building was constructed in the 1880s as a small, wood frame office building. Westerman purchased the structure in 1891 to use as an office. He added to the back of the structure in 1895 so it could house his family, and at the time had the structure veneered in brick. Westerman&#39;s company outgrew the building and it was sold in 1915; at that time the original entrance was bricked up. By 1996 it was being used as a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The building was later restored by former airline pilot John A. Grimm, who also restored Montgomery&#39;s other NRHP building, Hilltop Hall.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses a Pizzeria.</p><br>
<p>The Houston Memorial Library, previously the Governor George Smith Houston House, is a historic residence in Athens, Alabama. It was built in Federal style in 1835. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the house stands was purchased in 1818, and passed between several owners before being purchased by Micajah Thomas. Thomas is believed to have built the house in the 1830s, although the exact date of construction is not known, and it may have been built around an earlier log structure. Then-USA Congressman George Smith Houston moved to Athens from Lauderdale County and purchased the house in 1845. He served in Congress from 1841 until 1849, and again from 1851 until 1861. Following Reconstruction, Houston was elected Governor of Alabama, serving from 1874 until 1878. He was elected to the USA Senate in 1878, serving until his death on December 31, 1879. His widow, Ellen, lived in the house until her death in 1909. The house was later rented by the Kiwanis Club, and in 1938, the Houston family donated the house to the city to be used as a public library.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Houston House is a two-story, wooden house built in the Federal style. Four square columns support a two-story portico and second floor balcony. The balcony extended across the entire front of the house by Ellen Houston, but was truncated after her death. Side-by-side front doors open into separate rooms, a layout repeated on the upper balcony. A dining room was added on the north side of the house in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Governor&#39;s Club, located at 11866 Magnolia St. in Magnolia Springs, Alabama, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is of "Coastal Cottage" architecture.</p><br>
<p>It stands on property assembled by Chicago businessman Frank Brunell during 1901 to 1908. It has also sometimes been known as "Brunell House," but there is a different house of that name, also NRHP-listed, also in Magnolia Springs, on Jessamine St.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the house was valued at $4.79 million.</p><br>
<p>Along with Sunnyside Hotel, Governor&#39;s Club is one of two resort hotels from the 1920s era of resorts and vacations in the area. "With its spacious wrap-around porch enhanced by turned posts and balusters, floor to ceiling windows, and great interior details, the Governor’s Club stands as an important architectural survivor of Baldwin County’s early 20th century resort years."</p><br>
<p>It is also included in the Magnolia Springs Historic District, as a contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The National Musical String Company is a defunct music string factory located at 120 Georges Road in the city of New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1898 and was designed by the architect Ben C. DeKamp. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1982, for its significance in architecture, industry, and music.</p><br>
<p>The company was to make the first harmonicas in America, and became the world&#39;s largest producer of steel strings.</p><br>
<p>The property is being redeveloped by Pioli Properties as a mixed-use site with the primary National Music String building renovated for commercial retail uses on the first level, and 38 residential apartment units on the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>Sherman Park is a sixty-acre park in the New City neighborhood of South Side, Chicago.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by renowned landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and celebrated Chicago architect Daniel Burnham. It opened in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The park&#39;s recreational facilities include two gymnasiums, a fitness center, a swimming pool, as well as outdoor space for basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer and football.</p><br>
<p>The park was named for John B. Sherman, Burnhams father-in-law and a founder of Chicagos Union Stock Yards.</p><br>
<p>The park was designed specifically to enrich the immigrant, working class residents of the surrounding neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Murals</h2><br>
<p>In 1912, eight students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago painted murals in the Sherman Park fieldhouse that came to be known as the American History Series. These murals commemorate events such as the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the Marquette-Joliet Expedition of 1673, and George Rogers Clark&#39;s Illinois Campaign of 1778.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the murals became severely damaged due to accumulated soot and varnish. In 2004, restoration on the murals commenced with the park&#39;s inclusion in the Mural Preservation Effort, a joint project between the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Conservation Center. The restoration of the Sherman Park murals was completed in mid-2005.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Alvarado Ranch is a historic park and museum in Jurupa Valley, California, USA, and is operated by the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District. It can be accessed from 4350 Riverview Drive, and is the oldest non-adobe structure in the Inland Empire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen settled in Agua Mansa around 1854 where he ran a store, and he married Californio Mercedes Alvarado soon thereafter. Some years later, Jensen bought a part of the Rubidoux ranch. Jensen and Alvarado bought land in Agua Mansa in 1865.</p><br>
<p>They built their Danish vernacular style home between 1868 and 1870 on a ranch of 300 -. Their home, which served as the areas general store, post office, and stage stop, was built next to the towns chapel. The ranch, valued at one time at approximately $30,000, was the second-most valuable in Riverside County.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The homes architectural style, Danish vernacular, reflected Jensens Sylt birthplace, while also incorporating a front porch, which reflected Mercedes influence as a Californio. The house was the first kiln-fired brick building in the county. It was also one of Californias first clay brick buildings, The house has high ceilings, but only one closet.</p><br>
<p>There are several other brick buildings on the ranch, including a winery, which now serves as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Agriculture</h2><br>
<p>In addition to apricot and orange orchards, growing wheat, and raising sheep on the Agua Mansa ranch, the Jensens had another 400 acre in Temecula. While Riverside was a temperance city, the Jensen&#39;s Agua Mansa ranch, on the other side of the Santa Ana River, had a vineyard; 2,000 gal of wine were produced and sold each year.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The ranch and home are part of the 32 acre Jensen Alvarado Ranch Historic Park and Museum, an 1880s living history interpretive museum administered by. Tourists are led by interpreters, dressed in period clothing, who demonstrate butter churning and cooking tortillas.</p><br>
<p>The property is a registered California Historical Landmark (Cornelius and Mercedes Jensen Ranch, No. 943)</p><br>
<p>Babbs Beach is a municipal public recreation area located at 435 Babbs Rd. in Suffield, Connecticut. It is the former site of what was known as Babbs Beach Amusement Park, a small amusement park that was active in the first half of the 20th century. At its height in the 1930s, the surviving dance hall hosted dances for up to 3,000 weekend patrons. The property, owned by the town since 1977, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Babb&#39;s Beach is located in northwestern Suffield, on the eastern shore of the Middle Pond of the Congamond Lakes, which separate Suffield from Southwick, Massachusetts. The property is about 7 acre in size, and has 375 ft of shoreline that is mostly beaches. The beach is separated from the balance of the property by a low bluff. The remainder of the property is an open grassy area, with the surviving buildings of the amusement park era on the northern edge. A split-rail fence separates the property from the road, with an opening and a short gravel drive leading to an informal parking area.</p><br>
<p>The most significant building is a large dance hall; other surviving buildings are an arcade, a shooting gallery, and a small generator shed. The dance hall is a single-story wood frame structure, with a central hip-roofed element ringed on three sides by extensions for services, and with a smaller projection on the north side for the stage area.</p><br>
<p>The Congamond Lakes began to develop as a leisure and recreational destination beginning in the 1850s, following the construction of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad along the former route of the Farmington Canal, which had used the lakes as part of its route. Curtis Babb capitalized on the increasing popularity of the lakes as a destination by building a series of small cabins on the lakefront, and offering steamship service to the train on the far shore. Babb&#39;s son Nelson took over the property in the 1910s, and expanded its facilities. He converted a horse barn into a dance hall, and also built a bathhouse and boathouse on the waterfront. Facing competition from other lakefront amusement operators, he also offered a variety of rides, including a merry-go-round that was built on a platform in the lake. The dance hall proved a major draw, and was eventually replaced by a larger structure. Performers at the venue included Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Kay Kaiser.</p><br>
<p>Business declined during the Great Depression, which Nelson Babb sought to counter by offering more amusements. He built an arcade, and adapted the dance hall to permit roller skating. The hall became known as one of the regions finest for that activity. Business declined after World War II, and was dealt a significant blow by Hurricane Diane, which destroyed the parks waterfront facilities in 1955. Babb turned the property over to the town in 1977, but continued to operate the dance hall as a roller skating facility until 1997.</p><br>
<p>Saint Mary of Good Counsel Catholic Church is an active church building located at 305 Division Street in the city of Adrian in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adrian&#39;s first Roman Catholic congregation was founded in 1840s and the first church constructed in 1852. That structure, however, was quickly outgrown, and in 1853 Father Peter Kindekins, then Vicar General of the Detroit Diocese, purchased land near the edge of town to construct a new church. By 1856, the site had a frame church, rectory, school, and convent. However, these buildings were completely destroyed by fire in 1863. Rebuilding was delayed over a debate on the site of the church. Eventually, the parish purchased this site, closer to the center of town, for a new parish complex.</p><br>
<p>The parish hired renowned Detroit architect Gordon W. Lloyd to design the new church. Construction began in 1872. The current church building was consecrated in 1871 and is recognized as an important landmark of Romanesque Revival architecture. Lloyd engaged Ignace Schott, an ecclesiastic artist, to execute several murals of important saints for the decoration of the interior. A new grade school was constructed in 1912, and a high school, Catholic Central High School, was constructed in 1953. The high school closed in 1968, and the grade school closed the following year. The church continues to serve the Catholic residents of Adrian.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Saint Mary of Good Counsel Catholic Church is a red-orange brick Italian Romanesque structure with stone trim, a sandstone foundation, and a partly projecting, centrally positioned, square, pyramid-roof bell tower. It has wooden cornices. Three front entrances are topped with round-headed, recessed panels with wooden relief carving.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the church has a main vestibule and two smaller vestibules on the sides. Three sets of doors enter into the nave. In the auditorium, the interior is divided into nave and side aisles by four columns.</p><br>
<p>The Schoolcraft Furnace site is an abandoned iron furnace site located just east of Munising, Michigan, within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near the Munising Falls Visitor Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is also known as the Munising Furnace.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Munising was founded in 1850 as a resort village by the Munising Company, but the company&#39;s capital was over extended and their plan never came to fruition. furnace machinery was brought in from Newburgh, New York, and about 500 people were employed cutting cordwood.</p><br>
<p>The furnace used iron ore shipped in via rail from Negaunee and Ishpeming to Marquette, and thence by boat to Munising. Charcoal was made in kilns within a few miles of the furnace; seventeen of these have been located. The furnace also used limestone shipped in from the Lake Erie region. A small steam engine was operated to crush the ore and a larger one supplied air to the furnace.</p><br>
<p>However, after the first fire, the furnace was run only irregularly. Problems with wet charcoal and shortages of ore or charcoal forced several shutdowns. Despite this, by 1869 the furnace was putting out an average of 20 tons of pig iron per day. However, finances for the furnace were shaky, and poor business decisions in 1870 increased the Schoolcraft Iron Company&#39;s debt until it collapsed into bankruptcy in October 1870.</p><br>
<p>Peter White organized a new company, the Munising Iron Company, and purchased the furnace in 1871. The furnace was reopened in the fall of that year, and ran for 12 months, making a total of 2500 tons of iron. It was shut down in the fall of 1872 to add a hopper and bell, improving efficiency. The furnace was back online in May, but only four months later the Panic of 1873 hit, driving down iron prices. The furnace was online again for 24 weeks in 1875 before a lack of iron and charcoal shut it down again. In 1876, the furnace was leased to Henry Pickands, who ran it until November 1877, when it was leased to Daniel Rankin. Rankin intended to fire the furnace in 1878, but was no able to, and the furnace was shut down for good.</p><br>
<p>The final closing of the Schoolcraft Furnace devastated Munising, and many people in the town left to seek work elsewhere. In 1901, the furnace machinery was purchased by the Lake Superior Iron and Metal Company of Hancock, Michigan; much of the equipment was melted down as scrap and remade into machinery for the copper mines of the Keweenaw Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The Schoolcraft Furnace was placed on the National Resister of Historic Places in 1977. The remains of the site are difficult to distinguish; the old road trace is now a hiking trail, and some of the rubble pile can be identified in the now-wooded area. The ruins of what might have been a corduroy road are visible in the creek. The area is publicly accessible from the Munising Falls Visitor&#39;s Center.</p><br>
<p>The Strong House, now the Strong-Porter Museum, is a historic house museum at 2382 South Street in Coventry, Connecticut. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a center entry and two interior chimneys. The oldest portion of the house is estimated to date to 1710, early in the period of Coventry&#39;s settlement, and retains a significant number of period features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is now owned and operated by the Coventry Historical Society as a museum. In addition to exhibits in the house about local history, visitors can tour the carpenter shop, 19th century privy, carriage sheds and barn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Strong-Porter Museum is located in southwestern Coventry, on the north side of South Street, on the eastern fringe of Nathan Hale State Forest and just west of the Nathan Hale Homestead, also a museum. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior chimneys, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a slightly off-center arrangement around a nearly-centered entrance. The entrance has a wide panel door framed by a plain surround with back molding. The window placement on either side does not extend the typical width of a house of this age, with wide blank spaces between the outer windows and the building corners. The interior of the house is reflective of its construction history, with the oldest portion east of the entrance. The main parlor on that side has exposed beams, wide paneled wainscoting, and a fireplace cupboard that suggests a chimney stood here that was once much larger. The western parlor shows original woodwork, doors, and hardware suggestive of a later 18th century construction date, c. 1770.</p><br>
<p>The east portion of the house appears to have been built about 1710. The house was later extended to its present width, and the rear leanto was also added later, giving the house a classic saltbox appearance. The Strong house at one time belonged to the grandparents of American Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, whose homestead is nearby. Both houses were restored in the 1930s by noted antiquarian George Dudley Seymour, and represent some of Connecticut&#39;s earliest efforts at the historic preservation of colonial architecture. Seymour left this house, as well as land making up part of the adjacent state forest, to the state. The house is now managed by the local historical society as a museum.</p><br>
<p>Nerstrand City Hall is a historic city hall building in Nerstrand, Minnesota, United States, constructed in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  on April 6, 1982, for having local significance in the theme of politics/government. It was nominated for being representative of Nerstrands early growth, and for being Rice Countys best example of municipal buildings of the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>Nerstrand City Hall is a two-story red brick building located in the small community of Nerstrand. Located on the south side of Main Street, it is the most architecturally distinctive building in the community.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the St. Paul firm of Thori, Alban, & Fisher, it was constructed in 1908. It features a symmetrical facade and is capped by a wood cornice with modillion blocks and a central bell tower. The central bay features a double doorway framed by brick pilaster strips and dentillated wood cornice. The main door is flanked by large two part windows with stone sills and headers. A large stone bearing the words "CITY HALL" separates the door from three rectilinear windows in the second story bay; these are flanked by small oval windows. The open bell tower shelters a bell and features a dentillated cornice and domed roof capped by a flagpole. Spherical finials flank the bell tower at the corners of the building.</p><br>
<h2>History and significance</h2><br>
<p>The city of Nerstrand traces its history to the 1870s, but the town was not platted until the Chicago Great Western Railway reached the area in 1885. It incorporated in 1897. The turn of the 20th century was a period of maturation for Rice County, characterized by various civic improvements, city halls, water systems, etc. Nerstrand&#39;s first city hall, built at the time of incorporation, proved too small within a few years. A lot was purchased for the new building in 1907 and it was finished the following year.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor of Nerstrand&#39;s City Hall originally housed city offices, fire equipment and a jail; and a large community room occupies the second floor. A new fire station was built adjacent to the structure in the 1980s. At the time the building was listed on the NRHP, it was being used as the public library.</p><br>
<p>The building is significant for its association with Nerstrands early growth as well as being one of Rice Countys best examples of the municipal buildings that were constructed in the first decades of the twentieth century. It reflects a period of increased civic-mindedness and prosperity.</p><br>
<p>The Osmund Osmundson House is a historic house in Nerstrand, Minnesota, United States. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on April 6, 1982. The house is significant for its association with a prominent Rice County pioneer and town founder.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Osmund Osmundson House is located in the northeast of the small town of Nerstrand, east of what were the rails for the Chicago Great Western Railway, since removed. The white, two-story gabled brick house was completed in 1880. The sprawling structure consists of two sections: each with an intersecting gable roof with wooden shingles. The south section, the left section of the front facade, is two bays by two bays and has portions that date to 1856. The north section measures three bays by two bays with a -story extension added to the rear (western) facade. Two over two windows are regularly spaced and slightly arched. The structure has two porches: an enclosed porch topped by a balcony on the rear (northwestern) corner as well as a modified front porch across the front section&#39;s three bays facade. The building originally had an elaborate balustraded full front porch and a red brick color.</p><br>
<h2>History and significance</h2><br>
<p>Osmund Osmundson was born in Nedstrand in Tysvær, Norway in 1826 and immigrated to the United States in 1850. He settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before joining the California Gold Rush. In 1856 he moved to Wheeling Township in Rice County, Minnesota. He homesteaded the present site of Nerstrand, and began to envision a town on the site. In 1877, he built a store on what became the right-of-way for railroad tracks on what is now Main Street. In 1885, the Minnesota and North Western Railroad (later the Chicago Great Western Railway) was constructed and Osmundson platted the town on the line, naming it after his hometown. The area surrounding Nerstrand and Wheeling Township became a close-knit Norwegian American community. Osmundson went on to be active in county and state government, serving as Rice County commissioner for two terms and in the Minnesota State Legislature; he died in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The home was built to replace a log house built at the time he settled in the area, as well as a wood-frame house built in 1861. At the time the building was listed on the NRHP, it was owned and occupied by the third generation of Osmundsons.</p><br>
<p>The Chester County Courthouse is an historic county courthouse building located at 133 East Main Street, Court Square in Henderson, Chester County, Tennessee. Built in 1913 in the Classical Revival style of architecture. it is the third courthouse that Chester County has had, the previous ones having burned down. It is a two-story redbrick structure with a colonnaded front portico and a cupola in the center of its gabled roof. The original building has been added onto with an architecturally complementary extension on the rear. In 1973, it was featured in the movie Walking Tall, based on the life of McNairy County sheriff Buford Pusser. On March 26, 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Bonde Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse located in Wheeling Township in Rice County, Minnesota, United States, approximately 1 mi from Nerstrand. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on April 6, 1982. The farmhouse is significant both for its association with a prominent Norwegian immigrant family as well as its local limestone construction and outstanding integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Bonde Farmhouse is located off County Road 27 and Minnesota State Highway 246, just outside the town of Nerstrand. The building&#39;s siting on a hilltop location, alongside its stone masonry construction, make it a focal point for the farmstead and landmark in the area. The -story house is constructed of Nerstrand and Faribault limestone and its two sections form an L-shape. All windows and door opening on the west (front) side of the north ell are located below the central cabled roof while wider spaces are located between other openings. The two-over-two windows have stone sills and lintels. Small, slightly arched windows are centered in the gable ends. The front porch features turned posts, turned brackets and spindles along the porch frieze and is topped by a metal railing; it extends across the west side of the north ell. In 1960 a basement garage and 1-story addition were added to the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>Four of the farm buildings located near the house comprise the core of structures built by Tosten Bonde during the 1870s and 1880s; Bonde&#39;s journal recorded the construction dates. These structures include a gambrel-roofed barn, built in 1870 and remodeled at the turn of the 20th century; an 1883 machine shed that was later turned to a garage; an 1886 granary; and an 1887 milk house. These buildings were included in the original nomination to the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>History and significance</h2><br>
<p>The site was originally homesteaded by Einer Bonde, who emigrated from Norway with his family in 1854 to farm in the Midwest. After a year in Iowa, in 1855 the family settled among the loosely organized Norwegian settlers in Wheeling Township. Einer&#39;s son Tosten acquired the farm in 1865 and built the large farmhouse in 1875, the same year his father, Einer died. Tosten Bonde kept thorough records of farm statistics, building improvements and family and local notes in a journal he kept in the 1880s. Tosten Bonde was a successful farmer and figured prominently in the history of the Norwegian community centered on Nerstrand.</p><br>
<p>The Bonde Farmhouse reflects the success of early Norwegian farmers who cleared and farmed the land of the area. At the time of its listing on the NRHP, Bonde family descendants still headed the Wheeling Mutual Insurance Company, farmed the original homestead and resided in the stone house.</p><br>
<p>Hollywood, also known as The Burrus House, is an antebellum Greek Revival plantation house near Benoit, Mississippi that was constructed for John C. Burrus between 1858 and 1861. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Burrus House is the only surviving structure in Bolivar County, Mississippi associated with the once-prominent Burrus family.</p><br>
<p>The film Baby Doll was filmed there in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The Francis H. Holmes House is a historic house at 349 Rocky Hill Ave. in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1906–08, it is an architecturally eclectic brick building, designed by a prominent local architect for the owner of a local brickmaking business, as a showcase for the latter&#39;s wares. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francis H. Holmes House is located in southeastern New Britain, at the northwest corner of Rocky Hill Avenue and South Street. It is a two-story brick structure, with a flared hip roof and brownstone trim. It exhibits an architecturally eclectic mix of styles, with the Jacobethan use of triple windows and gables predominating. Also present are elements of Shingle style and Craftsman woodwork. The roof is pierced by large gabled dormers with brownstone parapets. An enclosed porch wraps from the east-facing facade to the south, and a similarly styled former porte-cochere, now also enclosed, is on the north side.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Walter P. Crabtree and built in 1906-08 for Francis Holmes, who owned a local brickyard. Crabtree was a prominent local architect whose credits include the local Masonic lodge, the Elks building, and numerous commercial and residential buildings in New Britain and Hartford. Holmes owned a brickyard just to the south in Berlin, and was instrumental in founding the Central Connecticut Brick Company, a consolidation of several regional brickyards.</p><br>
<p>The Wadsworth Electric Manufacturing Company was formed by George B. and Harry Wadsworth in 1904. George received his first patent for an electrical service entrance safety switch in 1907. This device reduced the likelihood of accident or fire and enabled homeowners to replace their own fuses. He received an additional 15 patents in the field between 1907 and 1925. Harry Wadsworth left the business in 1910.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>The company incorporated in 1918 and moved from an address on Madison Avenue to a Pike Street address. By 1922, the company had grown to 100 employees and $1.5 million in sales. That year, the company announced the construction of a new building on 11th Street, Covington, Kentucky. The building was completed in March 1923. In 1925, George Wadsworth sold his rights to 16 patents to a Cincinnati company and resigned from Wadsworth Electrical Manufacturing. David Wadsworth, Georges brother, was appointed vice president and chief engineer in 1927 and continued Georges record of innovation until his death in 1937.</p><br>
<h2>Personnel</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Feltman, a local banker, was president of the company at the time of David Wadsworth&#39;s death. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Leo Kuhlman who continued as president until 1981. The company was apparently successful during this period with employment reaching 300 during the 1950s. Products included breaker boxes, fuses, wiring ducts, power outlets and other electrical devices.</p><br>
<h2>Closure</h2><br>
<p>Kuhlman was succeeded by his sons, John and Joseph, who ran the company until it was liquidated in December 1990.</p><br>
<p>Moore-McMillen House is a historic home located at Egbertville, Staten Island, New York. It was built in 1818 as the rectory for the Church of St. Andrew. It is a modest, two-story frame farmhouse set on a fieldstone foundation with a gambrel roof. It features a small covered porch along the length of the main section.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Poillon-Seguine-Britton House was a historic home located in Great Kills, Staten Island, New York, near Great Kills Harbor. The original section was built about 1695 for the French immigrant Jacques Poillon, with a 2-story addition completed about 1845 after the home was sold to Joseph Seguine, and a final major expansion in 1930 for Richard Britton. It was a substantial, -story, stone-and-wood structure in the local vernacular style. The interior had some notable Greek Revival style details.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a New York City landmark in 1981 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, only to be burned in 1989 and demolished in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Hamilton Park Community Houses are three historic homes located at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. The Pritchard House  is a large, 2-story L-shaped brick building coated with rusticated stucco. No 32 Park Place  is a two-story, brick dwelling with a mansard roof. It features an Italianate style cornice. The Hamilton Park Cottage  is a -story red brick house. It features central triple arched porch over the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Neville House  is a historic home located at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. It was built about 1770 and is constructed of red, quarried sandstone. It is in two sections: a -story main section and -story east wing, each covered by a gable roof. It features a 2-story verandah.</p><br>
<p>It was designated as a New York City Landmark in 1967. It was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>LaTourette House is a historic home located at New Springville, Staten Island, New York. It was built in 1836 in a late Federal / early Greek Revival style. It is a large, sturdy gable roofed brick farmhouse with stone trim. In 1928 the house and 500 acres were purchased by New York City for a golf course and the house was converted to a clubhouse. The large, white L-shaped wood porch and one story extension were added in 1936 as part of a Work Projects Administration restoration project.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
