<p>Rehoboth is a historic former barn located on Aldridge Road in Chappaqua, New York, United States. It is a concrete structure that has been renovated into a house with some Gothic Revival decorative elements. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed and built in the mid-19th century by newspaper editor and activist Horace Greeley as one of the agricultural experiments he dabbled in, testing whether concrete would make a good building material for farms. It was one of the first concrete structures in the country, and the first concrete barn. Greeley was so satisfied with the result he predicted that he would be remembered for it if nothing else.</p><br>
<p>Two decades after Greeleys death, his daughter Gabrielle and her husband, the Rev. Frank Clendenin, pastor of a New York City Episcopal church, commissioned architect Ralph Adams Cram to remodel it into their house, which he named Rehoboth. They lived there for the rest of their lives, the remodeled house becoming one of the centers of Chappaquas social life as the community completed its metamorphosis from country town to suburb. It has remained a private home since then.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s 1.8 acre lot is on the east side of Aldridge, a dead-end street,</p><br>
<p>Aldridge traverses a hill that rises steeply from the west, where downtown Chappaqua is located on one of the few level areas amid this generally hilly portion of Westchester County. To the east are similar residential lots on South Bedford Road (New York State Route 117). West, at the base of the hill, are Robert E. Bell Middle School and the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, another Register-listed property that was built by the Greeleys in memory of a daughter who died in childhood.</p><br>
<p>The driveway begins south of the house, goes east then turns north towards a carport, then east again. The house itself is set further back than its neighbors, at an angle slightly offset to the east. It is a three-story structure of two-foot-thick (2 ft) load-bearing concrete walls topped with a steep gabled roof covered in shingles. Two chimneys pierce the roof. A small modern two-bay garage is attached to the north end. A two-story enclosed porch projects from the north end of the east (rear) facade.</p><br>
<p>Fenestration on the west (front) facade consists of three six-over-six double-hung sash windows on both stories, one near the north end and the other two closer to the south. They have plain sills and lintels. In the bay above the main entrance, on the second story, is an eight-over-eight double-hung sash window half the height of the others.</p><br>
<p>On the north and south facades there are two similar windows on the first and second stories, spaced closer on the lower floor. In the gable apex are three smaller pointed-arch windows. A metal ladder descends from the easternmost on the north facade. The south facade is similar but has a double window on the west side and a projecting two-story bay window on the east.</p><br>
<p>Just south of a single exposed basement window, wooden steps climb up to enter a projecting gabled vestibule from the north. It has four-over-four double-hung sash on all three sides, and glass in the west side of the gable. The entrance doors are in pointed arches.</p><br>
<p>They open into a large reception hall with tiled floor, and curving staircase. The pointed-arch motif is repeated in the door panels, banister spindles and on the chimney breasts of the fireplaces. The living room is the size of a ballroom, with exposed beams on its 13 ft ceilings and an exposed chimney.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1850s, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and a former congressman, bought a house in Chappaqua near the New York and Harlem Railroad station. In addition to giving his family a quiet and cool place to escape the city during hot summers, he also bought some land in the vicinity to use as a small farm, where he tested experimental agricultural techniques he had become aware of. His weekly column in the paper on the results of these tests made the Tribune one of the most widely read papers in rural America at that time.</p><br>
<p>One of the things he also wanted to test was whether concrete would be a good material for ancillary farm buildings, such as barns. At the time it was not known whether it would be able to withstand colder winters common in places like Chappaqua. Despite his lack of architectural experience, Greeley designed a dairy barn for his property to be built of concrete. He took advantage of the slope of the land to construct a building with entrances at all three of its levels—the top for hay, the second for cattle, and the ground floor for storage and waste removal. The model saved labor and money, and would be widely copied by others.</p><br>
<p>The barn became an attraction, drawing people to visit Chappaqua from far away. Greeley was proud of it, and considered it his finest accomplishment. "I calculate that this barn will be abidingly useful," he wrote in his autobiography, "long after I shall have been utterly forgotten." It remained standing and sound after his death in 1872, following his unsuccessful run for president.</p><br>
<p>Twenty years later, Greeleys daughter Gabrielle and her husband, the Rev. Frank Clendenin, who had (when in Chappaqua) been living in the familys old farmhouse in what is now downtown, decided to move. They commissioned architect Ralph Adams Cram, who at that time had just completed the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, to remodel the barn into a house.</p><br>
<p>On the exterior, his changes followed the neo-Gothic style of the church. He added a stepped gable and put shed dormer windows in the roof. He also added the pointed-arched attic windows, and put the same motif on the interior decor. Clendenin, pastor of another Manhattan Episcopal Church, St. Peter&#39;s, suggested the Biblical name "Rehoboth", meaning "wide open place" in Hebrew.</p><br>
<p>The Clendenins&#39; move into the completed house mirrored the changes that were taking place in Chappaqua as a whole. The country town she had moved into with her family as a child was becoming a suburb, its farms being subdivided into homes for prosperous individuals who commuted by train to their jobs in the city, much as Gabrielle Greeley finally sold the remnant of her family farm to developers in the late 1920s who turned it into what is now downtown. Rehoboth, and especially its large ballroom, became the site of a number of important social events in the changing community, from dances and parties to political lectures and community meetings. The Clendenins lived there until their deaths in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>In 1954, a later owner had the stepped gable and shed dormers removed, restoring to some extent the building&#39;s appearance when it had been a barn. At some point since its listing on the Register, the rear porch was added.</p><br>
<p>The Aaron Copland House, also known as Rock Hill or Copland House, is the former home of composer Aaron Copland for the last 30 years of his life, and now also a creative center for American music. Located on Washington Street in Cortlandt Manor, New York, United States, and built in the 1940s, the house and its garage were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and five years later, in 2008, they were designated a National Historic Landmark, the only one in the country connected to a figure from the world of classical music. The grounds below Copland&#39;s home consist of a two-tiered garden ringed by natural woods, and in 2009, the National Wildlife Federation designated the property a Certified Wildlife Habitat.</p><br>
<p>Copland began retreating to the country during weekends and summers in the 1930s. He found the experience of rural living beneficial to his composing, and after a series of residences, purchased the modernist ranch-style house in the 1960s to live there full-time. Its style has been described as consistent with Copland&#39;s music. After his death in 1990, the Copland Heritage Association, now Copland House, Inc., was established to preserve the building.</p><br>
<p>Its composer-in-residence program, known as the Copland House Residency Awards, began in November 1998 and is an official project of the federal Save America&#39;s Treasures program. It awards six to nine emerging or mid-career American composers the opportunity to work and reside, one at a time, at Rock Hill. Composers who apply and are approved, are afforded three-to-eight-week stays in the house, with an allowance for food and the use of a car, while they work. They may share the house with spouses or partners, but not children or dogs. Allen Shearer was the first composer in residence in late 1998. Other previous winners include Pierre Jalbert, Richard Danielpour, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Robert Paterson, Judith Lang Zaimont, Andrew Norman, Derek Bermel, Du Yun, Henry Threadgill, Alvin Singleton, Dave Douglas, Christopher Theofanidis, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann and Hannah Lash.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, Copland House initiated its resident chamber ensemble Music From Copland House (MCH), the USA&#39;s only wide-ranging American repertory ensemble, which made its debut at the Opening Night of Merkin Concert Hall’s 1999&ndash;2000 season.</p><br>
<p>In September 2009, Copland House at Merestead, the organization&#39;s regular mainstage concert series, was established at the historic Merestead Estate in Mount Kisco, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The 2+1/2 acre Rock Hill property is on the south side of Washington Street in the Town of Cortlandt, 1 mi east of the hamlet of Crugers on the Hudson River. Amalfi Drive circles around the rear. Its driveway is opposite Laura Court. The surrounding neighborhood is residential, with larger, newer houses on large lots amid the gently rolling, wooded terrain.</p><br>
<p>A curving driveway leads up from Washington Street, where a rock with metal letters spelling out "Rock Hill" and a plain white metal mailbox, to a parking area at the west. The wooded property has several landscaped areas and rock gardens scattered around it. Several species of trees uncommon to the area have been planted within.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is at the highest point of the property, a rock promontory in the middle of the wooded, terraced lot. It is a one-story, L-shaped timber frame structure on a stone and mortar foundation, exposed on the north and south sides, on the latter of which it projects several feet to accommodate Copland&#39;s studio, which has a wooden deck on the east side. Vertical clapboard siding rises to an asphalt roof, vaulted with a small flat area at the northwest corner. Stone chimneys rise on either end. There is a small kitchen wing on the northeast corner.</p><br>
<p>Fenestration consists primarily of picture windows arranged around the exterior. The projecting studio on the south side has glass walls on the south and west. On the west end, slate steps rise to a slate terrace, where the main entrance is located. A second stone stair rises from the parking area on the northwest to a wood staircase which ends at a secondary entrance on the kitchen wing.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the rectangular house has approximately 2,300 ft&sup2; of floor space. It has six rooms altogether, divided by a full-length central hall. Each room has at least three windows, either double-hung sash or picture windows. On the walls is artwork from Copland&#39;s collection, primarily work of artists he was friends with.</p><br>
<p>The most significant of the rooms is the 17 by studio, with carpeted hardwood flooring, the dramatic views to the south and west through the glass walls, and bookshelves with much of Coplands personal library on the east side and a collection of recorded American music. Its main furnishing is Coplands grand piano, his work desk made for him by a local farmer, a wooden chair given to the composer by Harvard University and an upholstered armchair in which he was sometimes photographed.</p><br>
<p>Across the hallway is the 12 by master bedroom. It has a queen-size bed with two adjoining tables and lamps and plaster walls. In bookshelves under the windows are Coplands collections of music journals, dating back to the September 1924 issue of The Musical Quarterly, which had Coplands first published article. The adjacent similarly sized library has full-height bookshelves, some of which are large enough to hold full scores of compositions by Copland and the composers who have resided here since. There are also regular books on music and other subjects from Coplands collection. Its walls are otherwise covered in textured wallpaper from Coplands residency.</p><br>
<p>At the west end of the hall is the living room. It is sided in vertical knotty pine paneling and has a large fireplace, as well as several chairs of Copland&#39;s and a dining area. To its north, the kitchen wing has linoleum flooring and ridged wood paneling and drywall. It houses several kitchen appliances and a small table and chair set.</p><br>
<p>Elsewhere on the central hallway are guest bedrooms and bathrooms. Stairs lead from the kitchen wing down to the partially finished basement. Copland and his assistants used the rooms there for archival and office purposes.</p><br>
<p>Near the house is a two-story garage with an attached one-bedroom apartment. It is similar in exterior and interior styling to the main house. It has not been altered since Coplands time, and is considered a contributing resource to the propertys historic character.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in Brooklyn, Copland lived in cities for the early years of his professional life. After returning from three years in Paris in 1927, his career as a composer and critic took off. He traveled widely, but always returned to New York City, where he lived near what is now Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side.</p><br>
<p>As a boy, he had spent one summer at a camp in Pennsylvania&#39;s Pocono Mountains, an experience he recalled fondly in his later autobiography. The experience and the memory began leading him to spend some time each summer in the countryside outside of the city. Starting in 1929 with a month in Briarcliff Manor, it grew into six months the next year, when Copland and his then-partner Gerard Sykes took up residence in another Westchester County country town, Bedford. During that stay, he finished his early Piano Variations.</p><br>
<p>Later years of the 1930s took him to other country towns, such as Woodstock; Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Bernardsville, New Jersey. Every time, he found the experience had a beneficial effect on his composing. In 1947 he realized he would have to have a country place of his own, and took out a three-year rental on a Colonial-era house in the Rockland County hamlet of Palisades. He found it the perfect balance between the country life he desired and the proximity to the city he needed.</p><br>
<p>After two years as a visiting professor at Harvard and then Tanglewood Music Center, Copland in 1952 bought his first house, Shady Lane Farm in Ossining. There, he wrote more of the works that defined his middle career, such as the Orchestral Variations and the opera The Tender Land. By 1960, he had outgrown it, and began looking for another country home.</p><br>
<p>Victor Kraft, his partner at that time, found Rock Hill. It had been designed by a local architect 20 years earlier. "One look at the grounds," Copland said, "and I was sold! When I first saw the studio I said it looked like a room where a composer could write music. His datebook for November 1, 1960, the day he closed on the house, proudly proclaims "HOUSE BOUGHT!" He lived there for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>The houses aesthetics complement Coplands music. Both have what one writer calls his "simplicity, quiet dignity and rugged elegance." It blends well into the surrounding natural environment, with its prominent exterior wood (painted dark green) and stone. The stone foundation seems to blend seamlessly into the natural rock ledge underneath. The large picture windows connect the interior of the house to the surrounding woods. His only significant change was the 1962 addition of the guest apartment on the garage.</p><br>
<p>Copland maintained a regular daily schedule. He awoke, had a light breakfast, and took care of his correspondence in the morning. After lunch he received visitors, including the many younger composers he aided over the years, a personal generosity that led to him being called "The Dean of American Composers". Dinner would come in the evening, and only at night, when he felt it was better to do so, did he actually compose. In this way he composed Connotations and Inscape, large orchestral works for the New York Philharmonic, and Duo for Flute and Piano, his last major work, in 1971. Shortly after moving in he wrote his last film score, for the 1961 independent film Something Wild. In his later years Rock Hill served primarily as a base for his travels, which included many appearances guest-conducting his work at performances all over the world, and receiving honorary degrees and awards.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1980s his health declined, and he was unable to keep to his previous schedule. He died at a hospital in nearby North Tarrytown late in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Copland Heritage Association, newly formed to manage the house, decided to sell it. But residents of the Town of Cortlandt organized a grassroots effort to save it. As a result, the association was able to raise the $150,000 necessary for repairs. The town worked out an arrangement where it owns the house and leases it to the Copland Heritage Association (now Copland House, Inc.) for $1 a year. Once that was concluded, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, executor of the composer&#39;s estate, and the town worked out the details of the composer-in-residence program.</p><br>
<p>Under the program, American composers who apply and are approved get three-to-eight-week stays in the house, with an allowance for food and the use of a car, while they work. They may share the house with spouses or partners, but not children or dogs. Allen Shearer was the first composer in residence in late 1998. Others have included Richard Danielpour, Derek Bermel, Robert Paterson, Michael Brown, Michael Gilbertson, Joel Hoffman, and Judith Lang Zaimont.</p><br>
<p>Hyatt-Livingston House was an historic home located at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York, at the corner of Colonial Avenue and Broadway . Originally constructed as part of the Philipsburg Manor around 1690 by land baron Frederick Philipse, the house was at first a smaller tenant-farmers dwelling. In 1705, Hyatts daughter Elizabeth, who originally brought that family name to the area and perhaps started the ferry for which the village is named . In the early 18th century, the house was enlarged to a five-bay, -story dwelling that then formed the central part of the house. It was of wood-frame construction, with a gable roof, and sat on a fieldstone foundation.</p><br>
<p>Ownership changed as a direct result of the American Revolution. The Philipse family were loyal to the British Crown. By a state confiscation act affecting them and other loyalists, the entire huge estate and the land was auctioned off or, in some cases, turned over to the tenant farmers. The house and adjoining property was acquired by Philip Livingston, a wealthy New York merchant.</p><br>
<p>The elegant 2-story west wing was built by Peter Van Brugh Livingston, brother of Philip Livingston, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Peter was the first New York state treasurer, and made his fortune from the Atlantic slave trade.</p><br>
<p>A monument in front of the house, placed in 1895, falsely claimed that, during the American Revolution, the house served as George Washington&#39;s headquarters for a period in 1781.</p><br>
<p>, a New York socialite, purchased the house in 1916. It was in poor condition then, but he restored it and filled it with period furniture and George Washington memorabilia. Kendall died in 1959.</p><br>
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<p>The Croton aqueduct passed right behind the mansion, and a little brook was piped under the aqueduct to feed the small swimming pool behind the mansion.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house was destroyed by fire on September 1, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The monument in front with the false inscription about the house having been Washington&#39;s headquarters was corrected in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Odell House is a historic home located at Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. The farm served as the headquarters of Count de Rochambeau and campsite for the French expeditionary forces under his command during the American Revolutionary War, from July 6 to August 18, 1781.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house consists of a -story central section erected in 1732, with flanking wings. The east wing was built in 1765 as a -story structure and raised to a full two stories in 1785. The central section and east wing are of wood-frame construction, covered with cedar shingles, and rest on a fieldstone foundation. The two-story stone west wing was built between 1853 and 1855. The house features three divided Dutch doors. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>In 2020, the house was deeded to the Town of Greenburgh, NY. The Friends of Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters (www.odellrochambeau.org) are working with the town to restore the property and create a museum. Construction began in March 2021 and is expected to last two years.</p><br>
<p>Romer-Van Tassel House is a historic home located at Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1793 and is a -story, rectangular stone dwelling, topped by a gable roof. The coursed stone foundation may be the remains of an earlier dwelling and date to about 1684. The house was renovated in the 1920s and the -story wood-frame kitchen wing dates to that time. The house served as the first Greenburgh town hall from 1793 into the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument is a public monument in Portland, Maine&#39;s West End. Located on the corner of State and Congress Street, it honors poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was born in Portland in 1807. The intersection built around the monument is known as Longfellow Square.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Henry Wadsworth Longellow Monument occupies a triangular plaza formed at the southeast corner of Congress and State Streets in central Portland. The southeast side of the plaza is occupied by One Longfellow Square. The monument consists of a bronze statue of Longfellow, as seen late in his life, in a seated position, which is mounted on a granite pedestal. The pedestal is about 10 ft in height, and has carved tablets on two sides, decorated with swags and garlands that frame the name "LONGFELLOW". Above these is a frieze band of anthemion and vines, with a cornice above that. The bronze statue is about 7 ft in height, with Longfellow seated in a chair whose arms end in lion&#39;s heads, and a stack of books underneath. Longfellow wears an overcoat, and a cape is draped over his lap and one shoulder. One hand holds a manuscript, while the other is propped on the chair back, while Longfellow gazes at passersby.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Franklin Simmons began the design and construction of the monument in 1885, three years after the poets death, with a pedestal designed by Francis H. Fassett. The monument was unveiled on September 29, 1888. The monument is considered to be one of Simmons major commissions. The monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Deering Street Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown and Parkside neighborhoods of Portland, Maine. Encompassing all of Deering Street and much of State Street, as well as adjacent portions of Congress and Mellen Streets, it is a cohesive collection of high quality architect-designed buildings from the second half of the 19th century, that were originally predominantly residential in nature. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Deering Street is a short two-block street running parallel to Congress Street, the principal east-west street in downtown Portland. It is bisected by State Street, a major road which provides access to Congress Street from points north. At Deering Street&#39;s western end is Mellen Street. The historic district includes the entire length of Deering Street, all of State Street from Congress Street to Deering Oaks, and Mellen Street between Deering and Congress. It also extends a short way west of Mellen on the north side of Congress.</p><br>
<p>This area was mostly farmland until the mid-19th century, the city center to its southeast, and the port and major commercial area further east on the Falmouth peninsula. Development pressures prompted Nathaniel Deering, the landowner, to begin subdividing the area, and a few Greek Revival and Italianate homes were built in the area. Development pressure increased after Portlands great 1866 fire, after which other previously-residential areas were redeveloped commercially. With its proximity to the downtown, the Deering Street area became a fashionable residential address for merchants, businessmen, and politicians. Many houses were built on speculation, and most were designed by prominent local architects, including John Calvin Stevens, Francis H. Fassett, and George M. Harding, the latter of whom made his home on Deering Street. Notable houses in the Deering Street Historic District include 52 Deering Street (1884), an early example of Stevens important Shingle style work, The William H. Roberts, Jr. House at 15 Mellen Street (1898), one of the few remaining single family John Calvin Stevens homes on the Portland peninsula that retains its original floor plan, and the National Historic Landmark Thomas Brackett Reed House, designed by Fassett in 1876.</p><br>
<p>Towanda Masonic Lodge No. 30 A.F. and A.M. is a historic building located in Towanda, Kansas, built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Originally constructed by Towanda Lodge No. 30 (which no longer exists), the building was used as a meeting hall until 1996, when it was sold to the City of Towanda and converted into a local history museum, the "Towanda Area Historical Museum".</p><br>
<p>The Arkansas Valley Lodge No. 21, Prince Hall Masons is a historic building in Wichita, Kansas. The lodge was chartered in 1885.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the Arkansas Valley Lodge was laid on April 3, 1910. The Architect and Contractor for the building was Joshua (Josiah) Walker. Joshua (Josiah) Walker was an experienced plasterer, bricklayer and contractor as well as the operator of a real estate office and a boarding house. He was a man "well though of" and a pillar to the local black community. He had three sons Richard, Reuben and Edward. Joshua died July 24, 1923, but not after he had designed and built many other churches around 1900 including the Baptist church at Elm and Water in Wichita. Walkers brother, Sam Jones, completed the construction of the Arkansas Valley Lodge, one of the buildings built during Wichitas second "Boom Age," which began in the 1880s. The original building as designed by Joshua Walker was to consist of a 26 x 80 feet building with "thirteen inch thick walls and a concrete foundation." At the time, the Wichita Eagle simply listed J. Walker as a Plasterer and the black newspaper The Searchlight lists him as the Architect of Record.</p><br>
<p>The Beacon and the Wichita Eagle both contain accounts of the cornerstone laying from April 2 and 3 1910 in which a "daily paper, lodge archives, coins and all the accepted articles thus encased in a corner stone." were included. The items in the cornerstone was discovered by Bradley Hardin an intern at Law Kingdon Architects in Wichita during its renovation. The items are now in display in the lobby of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was completed with three floors. The first floor was rented to various businesses, the second floor was used as a recreation and community center and the third floor was the meeting room of the lodge, complete with a skylight. Local historian, Gerald Norwood and Mr. A.E. Titchenor a General Chairman of the lodge recount that the building originally had hardwood floors, tin ceilings and painted green window frames. According to Mr. Titchenor, the low budget for the project didn&#39;t allow for high end items with the exception of the first floor that had some chandeliers. The doors were originally trimmed in wood and the walls were white painted plaster. The Lodge underwent many renovations over the years including a plumbing renovation in 1912, the addition of a fire escape and skylight repair in 1919, a reflooring of the tile in 1955 and a new roof added in 1969.</p><br>
<p>It is unclear at what point the building went from a three-story structure to a two-story structure.</p><br>
<p>On April 29, 1974, the Urban Renewal Authority purchased the building for $28,875. The building was scheduled to be torn down in 1975, but a visiting professor at Wichita State University named Maya Angelou, the now famous poet, offered a challenge to her students to "explore black history, the forgotten history of Wichita." As a product of this movement, and after much resistance, the building was put on the local historic register in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Constructed to be a local Prince Hall Freemasons Lodge in 1910, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It has also been known as Black Masonic Lodge.</p><br>
<p>The Union Implement and Hardware Building is a historic building in Independence, Kansas. Constructed in from 1900, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The building was a joint venture by the Union Implement and Hardware Company (a seller of agricultural implements). and Fortitude Lodge No. 107 (a local Masonic Lodge). The company&#39;s showrooms and offices occupied the first and second floor, while the lodge occupied the third and fourth floors. Union Implement went out of business in 1930, and the lodge moved to new premises in 1957.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Temple in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky is a historic building from at least 1852. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Originally the building was jointly owned and used by two Religious denominations (the Fisherville Christian Church, and the Fisherville Baptist Church) and the local Masonic lodge (Philip Swigert Lodge No. 218). The Christian Church sold its shares to the Baptist Church in 1881. The Masons and the Baptist Church continued to share the premises until 1951, when the Baptist congregation sold its share to the lodge. In 1975 the Masons moved to a new building and sold the property. It is now in private hands.</p><br>
<p>It appears that the building has been destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Hall in Smithland, Kentucky , is a historic building constructed in 1860 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It was originally constructed as a meeting hall for the local Masonic lodges . During the American Civil War it was used by the Federal Government as a Commissary office and store house. The basement of the building was occupied by the First Baptist Church from 1887 to 1913. The Masons sold the building in the 1960s and it became a restaurant. Since 1980, it has housed the Second Baptist  Church.</p><br>
<p>The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Temple in Louisville, Kentucky, also known as the Scottish Rite Temple, is a building completed in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "an important example of the pure Neo-classical Revival style. Both the interior and exterior are unaltered and, as such, the building represents one of the finest examples of its type in Louisville."</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Cathedral is a historic building located at 725 Cotton Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was designed in 1915 by architect Edward F. Neild in Beaux Arts style.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It also became a contributing property of Shreveport Commercial Historic District when its boundaries were increased on.</p><br>
<p>The Cathedral was completed on July 1, 1917. The grand opening ceremony was held on Monday, November 12, 1917, amid great fanfare and local interest. As part of the dedication ceremonies, the masons and their wives were treated to two organ recitals, one at 3:30 PM and the other at 8:00 PM. The guest organist was John Allen Richardson, organist and choirmaster of the St. Pauls Episcopal Church of Chicago, Illinois. Following the second recital, a dance was held with music provided by the Shriners El Karubah Band and Orchestra.</p><br>
<p>Edward F. Neild, a member of the Shreveport Scottish Rite, was the architect of the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Among Mr. Neilds many other notable achievements were his architectural contributions to the renovation of our nations capital in Washington D.C, the White House, and the Truman Memorial Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. In addition, he is credited with the design of the Shriner&#39;s Hospital for Crippled Children, also in Shreveport and the first of its kind in North America.</p><br>
<p>The building measures 1331" by 1105" and the final cost to construct the building in 1917 was $186,477.28.</p><br>
<p>The Shreveport Scottish Rite Cathedral is one of the most historic and beautiful buildings in the Shreveport area. It includes a three level auditorium with a seating capacity of five hundred, a wardrobe room, a marble lobby, a pair of matching marble staircases, a kitchen, a banquet hall, a masonic library, numerous offices, a DeMolay room, a basement, and a section where children receive help through a Speech and Language Clinic Charity.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Hall is a historic commercial and fraternal society building at 313-321 Water Street in downtown Augusta, Maine. Built in 1894, it is a significant work of Boston architect John Spofford, and a good local example of restrained Renaissance Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Masonic Hall is located on the east side of Water Street, Augusta&#39;s principal downtown thoroughfare, a short way south of the junction with Winthrop Street. The building is a four-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with some granite trim. The ground floor has five storefronts, each with display windows and a recessed entrance to one side. Near the center of the building is the main entrance, set in a round-arch opening flanked by fluted pilasters. The second floor has rectangular keystoned window openings, each of which has a recessed polygonal bay window. Windows on the third and fourth floors are grouped together in columns, with patterned brickwork between, and a rounded arch above. A patterned entablature separates the upper windows from a simple cornice. The windows above the main entrance are more ornately decorated than the others.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built in 1894 to a design by Boston architect John Spofford, and is a modest and restrained interpretation of the Renaissance Revival. Spofford was at the time already well known for several commissions in Maine, include an expansion of the Maine State House, the Former Augusta City Hall, and the ornate Vickery Building, also in downtown Augusta.</p><br>
<p>The E.S. Swayze Drugstore in Otisville, Michigan, United States, also known as Otisville Mason Lodge No. 401, is a building from 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This building was constructed to replace a previous store that burned in 1874. The second floor meeting hall was used by the Free Methodist Church for services from 1887 to 1890. In 1903 Otisville Lodge #401 (a local Masonic lodge) purchased the building, and used it as their meeting hall. It was owned by the Masons until 1970. The lodge has moved to other premises. The building remained vacant until at least the 1980s, but was then refurbished.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The E. S. Swayze Drugstore is a two-story red brick structure constructed in a vernacular Italianate style. The first floor has a double, five-panel door next to a Palladian-inspired window. Both window of which feature are set in rounded brick archways with keystones. A secondary cornice separates the first floor from the second. The second floor consists of a series of panels, containing four windows similar in to those at the first floor level. Brick corbelling runs across the cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic and Town Hall, located at 20 North Ridge Street in Port Sanilac, Michigan, was constructed as a Masonic Lodge constructed in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Currently, no Masonic lodge meets in the building</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Port Sanilac was first settled in about 1840. In 1852, the first sawmill was established, and by 1866 Port Sanilac was a thriving village. Local Masons were meeting as early 1866, and in 1868, Sanilac Lodge No. 237 was organized with fifteen members. The Lodge met in rented quarters, and likely continued to do so through the early 1880s. In 1883, the Masons first began discussing the construction of a new Lodge building, and considered proposing a cooperative arrangement with the township that would let both parties share a single building. A member of the organization donated the land, and the Masons came to an agreement where the township would construct the foundation, and the Masons would construct the remainder of the building.</p><br>
<p>In early 1884, the Masons began advertising for bids for construction, and the cornerstone was dedicated in July. Construction was completed by July 1885.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Hall is a rectangular, two-story red-orange brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It has a front gable roof, hidden by a false front topped with an iron cornice. The main facade is divided into four bays by vertical brick piers. The bays have a broad, round-head sections, two of which have windows, and two of which have double doors. One set of doors leads to the first floor township offices, and the second to the upstairs Masonic lodge. The second floor facade has segmental-arch-head windows with slightly projecting two-course high brick hoods, with the original windows being two-over-two units. Dark brown bricks accent the second story of the facade.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church is an Anglo-catholic church in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is a Gothic style church built c.1907-1909 that was designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram. It was dedicated January 17, 1909 as Trinity Memorial Church and was renamed to St. Andrews in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The church had its beginning as Trinity Memorial Chapel, initially organized as a mission school by the St. John&#39;s Church Sunday School, and located near 26th and Curtis streets in Denver. The cornerstone for the chapel was laid on March 18, 1874 by Bishop John Franklin Spalding, making that structure the second Episcopal church building in Denver. The bishop named the Rev. Walter H. Moore as its first rector. Father Moore had graduated from General Theological Seminary a few years earlier. The Rev. Charles H. Marshall served as rector from 1880 to 1895. Father Marshall enlarged the building to a capacity of 350. His successors, the Rev. D.L.V. Moffett and the Rev. C. Y. Grimes, paid off the remaining debt, and established an excellent choir.</p><br>
<p>The distinguished architect Cram, of Cram and Ferguson in Boston, Massachusetts, was commissioned to design the building for Alexis Dupont Parker as a memorial to his wife. Parker was a magnate of the Colorado and Southern Railway who was educated in the Episcopal ministry, and was president of the board of the Colorado diocese of the Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Expanded in 2008 to a design in keeping with Crams original plans for a larger church, St. Andrews now seats 175 in a sanctuary that includes works by Denver artists Marion Buchan and Albert Byron Olson. The parish house is by Denver architect Jacques Benedict.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Methodist Church is a Late Gothic Revival church in Monticello, Iowa whose church building was completed in 1950. It is now the Monticello Heritage and Cultural Center. It is the only church in Iowa designed by nationally prominent architects Cram & Ferguson, who specialized in ecclesiastical architecture.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation sought high design quality and, as recorded in the NRHP nomination for the church, the local newspaper reported in 1949 thatIt was felt that the church building could never be better than its design so an effort was made to secure the ablest architects available and the world famous firm of Cram & Ferguson of Boston were selected. This firm was the designers of the Great Episcopal Cathedrals in New York (Cathedral of St. John the Divine) and Detroit (Cathedral Church of St. Paul), St. Thomas Church and Christ Methodist in New York, Calgary Church in Pittsburgh, the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, the famous Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago and hundreds of other churches throughout the eastern part of the nation. This is, however, their first church in Iowa. (Monticello Express 1949 "Drawing of the New Methodist Church")</p><br>
<p>How the building committee of St. Luke&#39;s Church got connected to the Boston architectural firm is not known, but may have been through Rev. Dr. Daniel L. Marsh (1880-1968). Marsh, president of Methodist-affiliated Boston University, obtained Cram & Ferguson to design Marsh Chapel and many other campus buildings which were widely covered in Methodist publications.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1858 and built its first church, on this site, in 1863, at cost of $1,750.00. The original was replaced in 1899 by a second that suffered design problems. The 1949-1950 church is the third Methodist church. After its completion the congregation had 350 members, but eventually declined and in the 1990s joined up with the local Congregational church to form the United Church of Monticello. The combined church alternated worship services in the two churches for a time. The St. Luke&#39;s church was eventually provided to the Monticello Heritage and Cultural Center, a group interested in its preservation, which obtained a grant from the Historic Site Preservation Grant Program of the State</p><br>
<p>Historical Society of Iowa in 2000, enabling it to purchase the property. In 2001, the building was being used as a performance venue, for cultural programs, and as a history museum.</p><br>
<p>There was a design challenge in the small church&#39;s requirement for a large community room, as a steeply pitched roof consistent with Late Gothic Revival styling could have required a very high roofline, higher than on the main church area. This was solved by designing a somewhat complex roof system that had ups and downs. Gothic Revival styling is also apparent in building materials choices and in many architectural details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It was deemed significant as an illustration of how the Cram & Ferguson architects adapted Late Gothic Revival styling to the design of a small church.</p><br>
<p>The Kennett City Hall and Masonic Lodge, is a historic building located at Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri, USA. It has also been known as the Dunklin County Museum. As originally constructed in 1903, the first floor was used exclusively as Kennett&#39;s City Hall and the second floor was occupied by several local Masonic organizations. The Masons moved to a new building in the 1950s, and in 1976 the city vacated the premises as well.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the building was housing the Dunklin County Museum, an historical museum for the county.</p><br>
<p>It is 85x25 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Negro Masonic Hall in St. Louis, Missouri  was a historic building built in 1886. Originally constructed as a commercial building, it was purchased by the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Missouri  in 1909 and remodeled as a meeting hall. While the Grand Lodge itself moved to a new location in 1951, several of its subordinate lodges continued to meet in the building until the 1986s. At this point the building was abandoned and deteriorated.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It was demolished after a devastating fire in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple in Lincoln, Nebraska is a building from 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It is a massive, grand building designed by architects Berlinghof & Davis. It has a "colossal order of ten fluted Roman Doric columns on the west front, set in antis between blocky end pavilions. The south side is the only other fully developed, limestone-clad facade, with five bays separated by shallow paired, Roman Doric pilasters. Both the west and the south facades have full entablatures. On the west, the frieze above the pavilions has Greek and Latin inscriptions, while above the colonnade the frieze is inscribed "TEMPLE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY". The south frieze reads "HUMANITY LIBERTY FRATERNITY". Above the denticular cornice is a parapet pierced with balustrades, corresponding with the intercolumnation. The attic story is recessed from the north, west, and south facades, masking its buff brick walls behind the parapet when viewed from the west or south. The attic is crowned with an ornate gray terra cotta cornice which closely mimics the limestone below."</p><br>
<p>The Crawford County courthouse in Knoxville, Georgia served as such from 1832 to 2001. Until the time it was removed from service, it was the oldest courthouse still in use in Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In an act of December 23, 1822, the legislature authorized Crawford Countys initial inferior court to select a site to serve as county seat and provide for construction of a courthouse with a provision that such site "be as near the center of the county as convenience will admit." (Ga. Laws 1822, p. 23) The same act provided that until a courthouse could be built, Crawford County courts and elections would be held at the home of Imlay Vansciver. In December 1823, the legislature designated Knoxville as the county seat. At some point thereafter, Crawford Countys first courthouse was built. That structure burned down in 1829 or 1830. The following year, construction of a new courthouse began. The new building was completed in January 1832. Since then, there have been numerous repairs and remodeling, with extensive interior renovations and construction of a small addition in the late 1960s. Around 1890, a new railroad was built through the middle of Crawford County following a north-south route. For whatever reason, the railroad&#39;s path came near to, but skipped, the county seat of Knoxville. The historic structure is now the home of the Crawford County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h3>A new courthouse</h3><br>
<p>In 2001-02, a new courthouse was built one block behind the old courthouse, as the previous structure was built long before elevators were invented for the disabled. The new courthouse has a clock tower on top of it, which sunk into the roof shortly after completion, causing major damage. It has since been repaired, although some residents of Knoxville remain wary of it.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today the courthouse serves as a museum, and is also home to the Crawford County Historical Society. The flag that flies outside of the courthouse is derived from the Lone star flag, the state flag of Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Simeon Deming House is a historic residence in western Washington County, Ohio, United States. Located along Kern Road northeast of the community of Watertown,</p><br>
<p>The present structure is one of Ohio&#39;s oldest extant Federal houses, featuring brick walls that rest on a foundation of sandstone with a full basement. Two-and-a-half stories tall, the walls are built in Flemish bond. Central to the four-bay symmetrical facade is a rounded-arch main doorway with a transom and the original fanlight. A brick smokehouse is the only remaining original outbuilding remaining on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Simeon Deming House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house qualified for inclusion on the Register for two different reasons: because of its association with Deming and because of its locally significant historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Columbia County Courthouse in Appling, Georgia is a building from 1812 with extensive additions made to the structure in 1856. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with Italianate brackets at its eaves.</p><br>
<p>As of 1980, the courthouse&#39;s condition was identified as "good", it was in use by the county, and there had been plans by the county government to restore the building.</p><br>
<p>The Shubel Smith House, also known as Stonecroft, is a historic house at 515 Pumpkin Hill Road in Ledyard, Connecticut. It was built in 1807 as the estate of Shubel Smith, a sea captain, and is one of Ledyard&#39;s finest surviving farmhouses from that period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The listing included three contributing buildings on a 6.5 acre area, including the Georgian Colonial house and the "Yellow Barn" as well as a smaller outbuilding. Both of the large buildings have modernized interiors, serving as a bed and breakfast called Stonecroft Country Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Shubel Smith House is located in a rural setting of southeastern Ledyard, on the west side of Pumpkin Hill Road. The propertys built infrastructure is basically that of a 19th-century farmstead, with the main house, a barn, and a shed/garage building. The barn is a 20th-century structure built on an older foundation; the original was destroyed in the New England Hurricane of 1938. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide and symmetrically arranged, with a center entrance set in a projecting gabled vestibule. Building corners are adorned with pilasters. A two-story ell extends to the left side at a recess, with a modern bay window filling in part of the corner. The interior follows a modification to the typical center chimney plan: because of the larger entrance vestibule, the chimney stack is set further forward than normal, and the kitchen (placed behind the chimney) is thus larger than usual. The interior retains a number of original period features, and includes a loom in one of the second-floor chambers that appears to date to the houses construction.</p><br>
<p>The property is a small portion of a once-larger estate purchased in 1795 by Charles Smith for his son Shubel, apparently in anticipation of the latter&#39;s marriage the following year. Shubel Smith raised livestock for sale in the West Indies, and it is thought that some of the many stone walls on the property are related to penning the animals. He apparently first occupied the house then standing on the property, building this one in 1807 and recycling materials from the other one. The property remained in the hands of the Smith family until at least 1896.</p><br>
<p>Side view of Yellow Barn, Shubel Smith House, Ledyard, CT.JPGSide view of the "Yellow Barn"</p><br>
<p>Plaque, Shubel Smith House, Ledyard, CT.JPGNRHP plaque on the house</p><br>
<p>Chimney detail, Shubel Smith House, Ledyard, CT.JPGBrick reading "1807" in the chimney</p><br>
<p>The Cook County Courthouse in Adel, Georgia is a building built in 1939. It was designed by Atlanta architect William J. J. Chase and was built by the Ray M. Lee Company. The Public Works Administration provided 45% of the funds. It is a two-story brick building with limestone in the Stripped Classical style. The steps a made of granite from Stone Mountain. The original layout was a cross plan, with halls going to exterior doors on all four sides. It has a flat roof and concrete foundation. The county jail was originally south side. The building was extended in 1973. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The SOWEGA Building or Southwest Georgia Melon Growers Association Building  in Adel, Georgia at 100 South Hutchinson Avenue , at the corner with Fourth Street.  It was built in 1930. It is three stories tall and made of red brick, built in a commercial style. It has a roof deck and a basement. It is made of concrete reinforced with steel. Terracotta trim accents the exterior. The base is finished in marble. It features unique green terracotta watermelons in terracotta lozenges in a broad diamond, which represent the SOWEGA trademark. The third floor was remodeled in the early 1960s and the ground floor was remodeled in 1988. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The Adel-Cook County Chamber of Commerce currently uses the building.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Atlanta architects Daniell & Beutell.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The United States Post Office in Adel, Georgia is a building built in 1939. It is at 115 E. 4th Street  at the intersection with Parrish Avenue. It is square, one story tall and is in the Colonial Revival style. It was built by the Public Works Administration. The main entrance has broad granite steps with a cast-iron railing. The original wood double doors have been replaced. It served ZIP Code 31620 and was used as a post office until 2001. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 as "United States Post Office-Adel, Georgia". It is now houses the Cook County Historical Society Museum & Genealogical Library.</p><br>
<p>The post office included a New Deal mural, titled "Plantation Scene" painted by Alice Flint in 1941. The mural now hangs in Adel&#39;s new, nonhistoric post office.</p><br>
<p>Milky Way Farm in Giles County, Tennessee, is the former estate of Franklin C. Mars, founder of Mars Candies. The property is named for the company&#39;s Milky Way candy bar.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Franklin Mars and his second wife, Ethel V. Mars, purchased the 2,800 acre property in 1930, shortly after establishing a southern office of Mars Candies in Nashville. Architect James F. Drake was hired to design the Tudor Revival manor house and farm facilities for breeding Thoroughbred horses and Hereford cattle. Construction peaked between 1931 and 1933. With 800 workers during construction, Milky Way Farm became the largest employer in Giles County. During construction, many of the workers lived on the farm with their families. Mars is reputed to have been generous to his workers, who received free candy bars, as well as small loans and other forms of assistance.</p><br>
<p>Mars died in 1934, too soon to see the success of the farming operations. He was buried in a mausoleum on Milky Way Farm. His widow, Ethel Mars, oversaw the planned livestock operations. Milky Way Farm produced prize-winning Hereford cattle and thoroughbred horses that were winners on the racetrack, beginning with the farms first racing season in 1934. Winnings in 1936 totaled $206,450, making the Milky Way Farm stable the seasons most successful owner on the USA thoroughbred racing circuit. In 1940, Milky Way Farm&#39;s Gallahadion won the Kentucky Derby.</p><br>
<p>In March 1945, when Ethel Mars was in declining health (she died in December 1945), the farm was sold. In the subsequent decades it fell into disrepair until new owners stepped in to save the historic property.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 25,000 ft2 Tudor Revival manor house has 35 rooms, including 21 bedrooms, and 12 original bathrooms. The house was designed for entertaining, and many of the individual rooms are unusually large. The living room features exposed beams and a 40 ft ceiling. The Mars&#39; dining room table is reputed to have been the largest private dining table in Tennessee. The house was surrounded by landscaped grounds, including magnolia trees, and had an outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts.</p><br>
<p>Outbuildings included 70 cottages, 30 barns, and a horse-racing track. Local limestone was used in most of the farm buildings, which have been described as having Spanish-inspired architecture. In Ethel Mars day, the property had 35 mi of fences and 20 mi of roads. Outbuildings that were still intact as of 2007 included the groundskeepers cottage; several of the barns, including an octagonal barn; stables; and well-houses. Although Franklin Mars&#39; remains were reinterred in a Minnesota cemetery, his mausoleum at Milky Way Farm still stands.</p><br>
<p>Milky Way Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1984. It was described as significant for its role in sustaining the local economy during the Depression, its association with Franklin Mars, and its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Milky Way Farm Today</h2><br>
<p>In 2007 the property was sold for a reported price of $10 million. The buyer announced plans for a $400 million development of a luxury residential community to consist of 750 to 900 homes, an equestrian club including a horse track and polo field, a golf course, and equestrian trails. Ferrier became ill and the property went into foreclosure in May 2009. Beginning in 2010, Milky Way Farm was purchased in sections by a father and daughter until over 1100 acres of the original property were reconstituted. With the assistance of the Tennessee Land Trust, the front acreage was placed in permanent agricultural easement, and slowly improvements began to once again protect the property. The historic Manor House, barns, roofs, roads, and stone walls have each received attention. In 2017, the reins were passed to the daughter and her sister to continue to care for this Tennessee landmark. Revenue from events, tours, weddings, corporate meetings, trail runs, farming, guided hunts, and seasonal festivals help operate and restore the property. It has been home to events such as the Warrior Dash, Tough Mudder, Green Beret Challenge, and the Spartan Race. Current renovation projects include improvements to the Show Barn, Manor House, roads, and the historic race track.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Forks Near Southside Historic District is a 182 acre historic district in Grand Forks, North Dakota that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Many of the districts subdivisions were platted in 1878 in anticipation of railroad construction. Development was spurred by the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad in 1880 and a branch line of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1885. The construction of Belmont Elementary School in 1887 and South Junior High School in 1932 were important developments in the areas later history. Significant growth of the district ended circa 1942.</p><br>
<p>Architectural styles in the district include Mid 19th Century Revival and Late Victorian architecture. Joseph Bell DeRemer is among the architects who designed district buildings.</p><br>
<p>When first listed, the district included 423 contributing buildings, one contributing structure and one contributing object. Also included are 183 non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Clutts House is a historic residence in the city of Wellston in Jackson County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1902,</p><br>
<p>Born in 1861, Joseph Clutts moved to Wellston in 1882. Within a short period of time, he embarked on a path to make himself one of the region&#39;s most significant citizens: he purchased the nearby Wellston and Milton blast furnaces, bought a share in the ownership of the Spring Valley Iron Company, and acquired wide areas of woodland to provide fuel for his furnaces. In 1896, with Henry Adam Marting and Lewis Vogelsong, he organized the Wellston Iron and Steel Company, which operated two more blast furnaces. Along with a partner named Willard, Clutts bought out his former partners in 1898.</p><br>
<p>Clutts arranged for the construction of the present house in 1902. Measuring two-and-a-half stories tall, the resulting structure features buff-colored brick walls, No single architectural style can be said to dominate the house, but its size and details make it one of the city&#39;s most architecturally prominent residences. Most houses in Wellston, whether contemporaneous with the Clutts House or constructed at other times, are significantly smaller buildings erected for common workers.</p><br>
<p>Following Clutts&#39; death in 1927, his home became known as the "Reese Building." Since that time, it has ceased to be used for residential purposes; the present occupants are the law firm of Oths, Heiser, and Miller, which has converted it into their law offices. Little has changed inside or outside the house in the century since its construction: although it has ceased to be used as a residence, the home still features most of its original decorative details and structural elements. In 1980, the Clutts House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its connection to Clutts himself and because of its well preserved and historically significant architecture. It is one of three buildings on the Register in the city of Wellston, along with the Morgan Mansion and the Harvey Wells House.</p><br>
<p>The Electric Construction Co. Building is or was a property in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was removed from the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It was built or has other significance in 1908. The listing described Early Commercial, Vernacular, and other architecture. The listing was for an area of less than one acre with just one contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The property was covered in a 1981 study of Downtown Grand Forks historical resources.</p><br>
<p>Its listing status is "RN", which means removed from National Register.</p><br>
<p>Dinnie Block was a property in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was removed from the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Along with Wright Block, the Telephone Co. Building, the Clifford Annex, and Golden Square, the Dinnie Block was one of many "commercial vernacular brick buildings with classical revival details" that were built during a major building boom, with high quality brickwork. The Dinnie Block was built in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The National Register listing covered Early Commercial, "Vernacular-Classical ornamen"(tation?), and Other architecture. The listing was for an area of less than one acre with just one contributing building.</p><br>
<p>Its listing status is RN, which means removed from National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Masonic Hall in Waynesville, North Carolina is a historic Masonic Lodge constructed in 1927 as a meeting hall for a local area Masonic Lodge.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story, Classical Revival-style steel frame and brick building. The Masons lost the building through bankruptcy in 1930. The building was renovated in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing building in the Waynesville Main Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>At a later date it was a private club and catering venue named "Gateway Club".</p><br>
<p>Haywood County Register of Deeds records show that on April 12, 2019, Mandir Street LLC purchased the building for an estimated $885,000. The company, owned by Shan Arora and Satish Shah and named for a Hindi word that refers to the Church Street address, planned to use the building in a similar manner to the Gateway Club while respecting the history.</p><br>
<p>The Three Seven is now a meeting and venue space offering Mason Hall on the first floor, Suites at the Three Seven on the second floor with offices for professional meetings, and the Grand Ballroom on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Lights Masonic Lodge in Cooperstown, North Dakota is a building from 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant in the context of local architecture prior to 1937. It possesses an outstanding collection of stylistic elements which typify the Craftsman style. In addition, the level of its interior and exterior integrity matches the quality of its stylistic expression."</p><br>
<p>The Ashland Masonic Lodge Building is a historic building located in Ashland, Oregon. Constructed in 1909 as a meeting hall for a local Masonic lodge, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1880 as a two-story brick building in Italianate to a design by local contractor L.S.P. Marsh. It was expanded in its second floor in 1909 with design by local architect Frank C. Clark, and Clark also designed a third floor added in 1928 along with a remodeling of the building facade into Georgian style. The remodelling added a "a pilaster strip colonnade with stylized Corinthian capitals and full entablature</p><br>
<p>framing the central five bays".</p><br>
<p>With a 50 ft frontage, and its superior height of three stories, the building came to "dominate" the block of</p><br>
<p>buildings defining the west side of Ashland&#39;s town square.</p><br>
<p>Renovations on the first floor followed a fire in 1959.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for National Register listing in part as its main assembly hall, an upstairs "clear span space 45 feet wide and 55 feet long" with detailed ceiling beams, cornice moldings, pilasters and an encircling entablature, "is one of the few intact lodge rooms of pre-World War I vintage remaining in southern Oregon, and it is replete with historic furniture and equippage."</p><br>
<p>It was included again on the National Register in 2000 as a contributing building in the Ashland Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Barnum Hotel, also known as the Hotel Grand, is located in Medford in the USA state of Oregon.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by noted southern Oregon architect Frank Chamberlain Clark and built in the heart of Medford&#39;s railroad district in 1914-1915 as a business venture of William S. Barnum, owner of the Rogue River Valley Railway Company. Building costs were estimated at $75,000.</p><br>
<p>The four-story American Renaissance Style building was designed to serve railroad travelers and local residents who desired modest accommodations.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was owned by William S. Barnum until December 14, 1927, when it was sold to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Goswick and renamed the Hotel Grand. It changed ownership several times between 1948 and 1955, and in 1955 was purchased by the Grand Hotel Company who operated it until April 1980. Hotel operations ceased in 1980 and the building remained vacant until 1984. In 1984 it was purchased by developers, extensively remodeled, and converted into low-income apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the in May 2009 for $850,000. It was refurbished and renamed Grand Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Umatilla Masonic Lodge Hall is a Masonic building in Echo, Oregon. It is one of the oldest edifices in Umatilla County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The hall was built in Umatilla City in 1868 and disassembled and moved by railroad to its present location in Echo in 1901, after Umatilla City declined economically due in part to railroad development. It was deemed significant for association with development of rail transportation in Echo and Meadows area. And it was deemed significant as "an excellent example of an Italianate False Front style building".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Rogue Elk Hotel is a historic building in Trail, Oregon.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was constructed in 1915 by W.G. McDonald, a Canadian artist and his brothers. Designed by Charles Power it reflects Colonial Revival and Stick architectural styles. The Rogue Elk Inn held its grand opening on July 22, 1916, with an event attended by 200 Rogue River Valley residents. Notable guests have included Herbert Hoover, Zane Grey and Clark Gable. In the 1950s McDonald died, his widow sold the building a period of decline began. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Moriah Masonic Temple is a historic building in Kadoka, South Dakota. It was constructed in 1917, as a meeting hall for Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 155 . The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as Mt. Moriah Masonic Lodge No. 155. It has also been known as the Kadoka Masonic Hall.</p><br>
<p>It has a two-story pedimented portico with Doric columns and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Lodge and Library of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Sioux Falls, South Dakota is a building from 1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The National Register nomination describes its importance as "the purest example of Neo-classic style in Sioux Falls. The combination of classic elements and internal structural innovations of the early twentieth century, such as steel doors and trim painted to resemble wood and a nine-ton glass floor, enhance the architectural importance of the structure. The use of steel and glass were unique at that time in the city."</p><br>
<p>The building has one of the largest Masonic libraries in the United States. The library has more than 22,000 volumes. The building also has a museum on its second floor.</p><br>
<p>The All Saints School is a historic private school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. William Hobart Hare, the first Episcopal bishop of South Dakota, founded the school to serve as a girls boarding school for the children of Episcopal missionaries. The schools main building, a four-story granite Prairie Gothic structure with a distinctive bell tower, was built in 1884. A cupola sits atop the buildings front entrance; Hares personal quarters was near the cupola, and he was known to watch the city from the cupola in the evening. A -story chapel is located on the west side of the main building.</p><br>
<p>The school&#39;s main building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is also part of the All Saints Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Colfax Elementary & Middle School is a public school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Its building, built in 1911, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The school&#39;s Principal is Dr. Tamara Sanders- Woods and the Vice Principal is Joan Murphy . The school is one of oldest schools still open in the City of Pittsburgh. The school added a new building with a glass bridge connecting the two buildings, in 2007 circa. The school is under Pittsburgh Public Schools direction, and led by Superintendent Anthony Hamlet.</p><br>
<h2>Proximity and students</h2><br>
<p>The school presides in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood and attracts students from all over the city mostly including Squirrel Hill and East Hills (Pittsburgh). The school is made up of a lot of students from around the world including Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa, there is also a large Jewish population within the school. The school is prominently diverse and also includes the ESL program for non-English speaking students. Most students who attend Colfax K-8 will proceed to Taylor Allderdice to continue into high school.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The school hosts various events including a carnival celebrations, ice skating, sports events and ballroom dancing, year round. They also raise money through different fundraisers and events including Party 4 Play and their own PTO organization. They also participate in ski club at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, running marathons, musical plays, movie nights, talent shows, VIP Day (involves bringing a parent or close one to school, to see how students are in class) and a variety of other things. The school has won a lot of consecutive awards for the "African American Bowl Challenge", and tons of champion awards in reading and literature.</p><br>
<p>The Dilworth Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a historic school building, completed in April 1915. it is a traditional Magnet school for pre-kindergarten through the fifth grade in the Pittsburgh Public Schools system. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school is named for the Dilworth family. William Dilworth (1791-1871) is credited with providing a school and teacher on Mt. Washington in the 1820s. Mary Parry Dilworth, widow of descendant John S. Dilworth later donated the land on which the Dilworth school was built. The architects, Martin U. Vrydaugh and Thomas B. Wolfe, also designed churches and homes for wealthy patrons, including the Calvary United Methodist Church. The school was designed three years after the Pittsburgh and Allegheny City school boards where merged.</p><br>
<p>The building is brick, H-shaped, and stories high. It was a consciously elegant design, stylistically unique in the city when built, echoing European school designs. It included kindergarten and basement play spaces as were becoming essential at the time; but here the playrooms did not receive as much design attention as such elements would later on, and were not particularly functional. An auditorium was added in 1927 and was well designed for its intended use with a full stage, and directly accessible without entering the main portion of the school.</p><br>
<p>The Ewart Building is a historic commercial skyscraper located at 921-925 Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1891 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style for a wholesale grocer, Samuel Ewart. His family continued to run the business until 1925 and owned the building until 1969. It is built on part of the site of old Fort Fayette.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Fulton Building is an historic structure in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named after inventor Robert Fulton, the building was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and completed in 1906. Construction was funded by industrialist Henry Phipps.</p><br>
<h2>History and features</h2><br>
<p>On May 26, 1943 the building hosted America&#39;s first night-court for gasoline war ration violators.</p><br>
<p>Since 2001, it has been the home of the city&#39;s Renaissance Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Greenfield Elementary School is a historic school in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school was designed by the firm of Kiehnel and Elliott and opened in 1922. It is part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools district and serves students in Pre-K through 8th grade.</p><br>
<p>The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is also a City of Pittsburgh historic structure and a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Pennsylvania also has an Albert M. Greenfield Elementary School in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built in 1921–1922 as a replacement for the old Greenfield School at Greenfield Avenue and Tunstall Street and the Forward Avenue School on what is now Saline Street in Four Mile Run. These schools were built under the old ward-based sub-district system—Greenfield in 1880 by the Peebles (23rd Ward) sub-district, and Forward Avenue in 1886 by the Colfax (22nd Ward) sub-district—and were outdated and crowded by the early 20th century. In the Board of Public Education&#39;s annual report for 1914, the condition of the Greenfield School was rated as 285 out of 1000, which was the worst in the entire school system, with the Forward Avenue school also in the bottom fifteen.</p><br>
<p>The school board began planning for the replacement school in 1916, purchasing a site on Alger Street and selecting a plan by Kiehnel and Elliott. However, construction was delayed due to World War I. The board resumed construction after the war, breaking ground on three projects simultaneously: Greenfield Elementary, Perry Elementary, and Westinghouse High. Construction of Greenfield Elementary began in September, 1921, and the completed school opened for the fall term in September, 1922. The total cost was about $700,000. It was formally dedicated on March 22, 1923.</p><br>
<p>Greenfield Elementary was the first Pittsburgh school designed to operate on the "platoon" plan, where students went to a different room for each subject instead of remaining in the same room throughout the day. The school board believed that it would benefit elementary students to follow the same system used in higher education.</p><br>
<p>The school remains in operation as Pittsburgh Public Schools Greenfield PreK–8 as of 2024.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Greenfield School was designed by the Pittsburgh firm of Kiehnel and Elliott in one of their last commissions before relocating to Miami. Architecturally, the building combines Chicago school and European modernist influences which are particularly evident in Kiehnel and Elliotts distinctive style of geometric terra cotta ornamentation, which according to the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation "shows a specific awareness of Frank Lloyd Wrights work."</p><br>
<p>The building consists of a rectangular main block with shorter projecting wings on three sides. Due to its location on a steep hillside, the school rises two stories above grade in the front and four stories in the rear. The main block is symmetrical and seven bays wide with projecting entrance pavilions at either end. The central bay contains the main entrance, which is set in a stone surround with undulating pilasters and marked with the name of the school. The outer bays each contain four 15/1 sash windows on each story with stone sills and lintels.</p><br>
<p>The main section of the school contains about 30 classrooms with a central hallway on each level and several stairwells. The projecting rear wing contains an auditorium on the top two floors, a gymnasium on the next lower level, and a swimming pool and garage on the bottom level, with a sub-basement boiler room underneath.</p><br>
<p>Saint Lukes Lutheran Church, once known as The German Evangelical Lutheran Saint Lukes Church, is a historic Lutheran church located on Restaurant Row at 308 West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s was founded as a Dutch Reformed congregation in 1850, first meeting in rented rooms on the third floor of a building on 35th Street and 9th Avenue. It reorganized as a Lutheran congregation in 1853.</p><br>
<p>The church moved several times, acquiring its first owned building, a former Baptist church on 43rd Street, in 1863. It moved in 1875 to 233 West 42nd Street, into the former Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church. Finally, the congregation acquired property at West 46th Street to build its current church. The cornerstone was laid in October 1922 and the church dedicated in September 1923.</p><br>
<p>For many years, Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and teacher on the radio program, The Bible Study Hour (now known as Dr. Barnhouse & the Bible), held a Bible class on Monday evenings at the church, which lasted until his death in 1960.</p><br>
<p>An independent congregation without synodic affiliation since 1880, St. Luke&#39;s joined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Playhouse 46 at St. Lukes, formerly St. Lukes Theatre, is located on the church&#39;s premises.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in 1922–23 to the designs of Edward L. Tilton of Tilton & Githens, with the facade of the nave featuring windows designed by Francis Xavier Zettler. The building was completed in 1923. The architecture has been described as a happy marriage between the Gothic Revival and Art Deco styles. A four-story parish house at 308–316 West 46th Street was built 1922 to designs by architect Francis Keally of 141 East 45th Street at the cost of $150,000.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The North Cove Historic District encompasses a historic waterfront community on North Cove Road in Saybrook, Connecticut. Laid out in the 17th century, the area has housing stock mostly built between 1700 and 1855, a period in which it flourished as a port and shipbuilding community. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Saybrook Colony was settled in 1635, by colonists sent by John Winthrop Jr. The colony was located on Saybrook Point, a readily defensible narrow peninsula projecting eastward at the mouth of the Connecticut River. The north side of the peninsula is a cove that was found be an adequate harbor for the young colony, and North Cove Road was laid out from the palisaded fort at the tip of the peninsula to the mainland. Early buildings along North Cove Road have not survived; the oldest surviving building is the Robert Bull House, built about 1700 near the western end of the road. The waterfront area remained commercially viable until 1870, when a railroad was built across the mouth of the cove. After this time, the houses in the area were for the most part adapted as summer residences.</p><br>
<p>The district is 37 acre, extending along North Cove Road east of Church Street. Most of the housing stock in the area was built between 1700 and 1855; there are only a small handful of relatively unsympathetic 20th-century intrusions. The district includes the Black Horse Tavern and the William Tully House, both separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
