<p>The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and extensive trading post. A National Historic Landmark, the site of Point du Sable&#39;s homestead is now partially occupied by and commemorated in Pioneer Court, off DuSable Bridge at 401 N. Michigan Avenue in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Point du Sable likely settled near the mouth of the Chicago River sometime around the 1780s and sold the property in 1800. He lived here with his wife, Kitihawa, and children. The 1800 bill of sale was rediscovered in 1913 in an archive in Detroit, Michigan. The property included a house, two barns, a horse drawn mill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy, and a smokehouse. Their house was a 22 x log cabin filled with fine furniture and paintings.</p><br>
<p>Following Point du Sables departure from Chicago, the home became the property of John Kinzie. In 1834 the land owned by Kinzie was platted and sold. The "Kinzie addition" to Chicago, which is assumed to be coterminous with Point du Sables estate extended from the banks of the Chicago River north to Chicago Avenue, and from State Street east to Lake Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Monument</h2><br>
<p>A commemorative plaque, struck in 1937, was installed on a marble block at Pioneer Court after its 1965 dedication. It reads, "KINZIE MANSION / Near this site stood Kinzie Mansion, / 1784-1832, home of Pointe Du Saible, / Le Mai, and John Kinzie, Chicagos / "first civilian," here was born in 1805, / the citys first white child Ellen Marion Kinzie". While the plaque is correct that Ellen Marion Kinzie was the first white child born in the city, Du Sable&#39;s granddaughter, Eulalie Pelletier, was the first non-native to be born in the city, in 1796.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Court was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976. At this site in 2009 the City of Chicago and a private donor erected a large bronze bust of Point duSable by Chicago-born sculptor Erik Blome. In October 2010 the adjacent Michigan Avenue Bridge was renamed DuSable Bridge in honor of Point duSable.</p><br>
<p>The Shawnee Street Overpass  is an overpass in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. The bridge allows traffic Shawnee Road to go over South 7th Street, a section of USA Route 169. It was completed in 1932; the engineer of the bridge is unknown. It was added to the Register of Historic Kansas Places on August 27, 1983. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was fully rebuilt in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Judge Louis R. Gates House is located at 4146 Cambridge Street in Kansas City, Kansas. Clarence E. Shepard was the architect of this example of a Prairie School residence. It was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 3, 1979, and on the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980. It was designated a Kansas City Historic Landmark on August 26, 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Prairie School house with a hipped roof, wide eaves, and a side entrance porch. The main portion is 25x38 ft in plan; a 7x15 ft one-story extension to the rear holds a breakfast room and a rear entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Temple is located at 803 North 7th Street Trafficway in Kansas City, Kansas. It was designed by architect W. W. Rose. Construction began in 1908 and it was completed in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmark on December 1, 1983. It was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on May 4, 1985. The Wyandotte Nation&#39;s 7th Street Casino opened in the building on January 10, 2008.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story brick and stone building.</p><br>
<p>It was the largest meeting place in Kansas City until the 1924 construction of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building (also designed by W.W. Rose, also NRHP-listed).</p><br>
<p>The A. Porter Davis Residence, also known as Castle Rock, is a historic house located at 852 Washington Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas. The house was built in 1938 for Dr. A. Porter Davis, a prominent African-American physician. Davis began practicing medicine in Kansas City in 1913; as he could speak Spanish, he mainly focused on serving Mexican immigrants at first. In 1920, Davis founded a maternity hospital for unwed African-American women, a badly underserved patient population due to racial segregation. Davis later held several public health positions in Wyandotte County and became president of the National Medical Association in 1953. In addition to his medical career, Davis was one of the first African-Americans to obtain a pilot&#39;s license.</p><br>
<p>Architect Raymond J. Buschhusen designed the French Eclectic style house. The two-story house has an L-shaped plan and was built from rusticated limestone. A conical tower tops the front entrance, a key feature of the style. The second floor has several projecting wall dormers with steel casement windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 18, 2000. It is also listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places and is a Kansas City, Kansas Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Trowbridge Archaeological Site is located in the vicinity of North 61st Street and Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas. Discovered in 1939 by amateur archaeologist Harry Trowbridge in his backyard, it was inhabited by the Kansas City Hopewell culture.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1971, and placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 1, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Gruene Family Home is a Victorian-style house that was constructed in 1872. The Gruene Family Home, though not listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places, is a contributing property to Gruene Historic District, which was listed in 1974. Presently, the home operates as the Gruene Mansion Inn in the Gruene Community of New Braunfels, Texas. Deep in tradition, the mansion was one of the first buildings in Gruene, in 1872. The Gruene Mansion Inn began as H.D. Gruene&#39;s historic Eastlake Victorian home and cotton plantation. All current accommodations are century-old barns and homes restored to our own Victorian Rustic Elegance - A combination of antiques, fine fabrics, and handmade furniture. Every room has a unique character and offers details such as clawfoot tubs and deep pedestal sinks. Gruene Mansion Inn is listed as one of the top inns in the state of Texas.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church Graveyard is the oldest graveyard in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Established in the 1790s, the graveyard contains the graves of some of Knoxville&#39;s most prominent early residents, including territorial governor and Constitutional Convention delegate William Blount and Knoxville founder James White. In 1996, the graveyard was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>While platting Knoxville with his son-in-law, Charles McClung, in 1791, White ordered at least one lot to be set aside for a church and cemetery. The cemetery spot may have been used as early as the 1780s for burials, and the cemetery contained several graves by 1799, but the earliest marker is Blount&#39;s, dated 1800. While the First Presbyterian congregation was active in the 1790s, the first church was not built on the site until 1816. The graveyard was used for burials for nearly sixty years, its most active period being during the Epidemic of 1838, in which hundreds of Knoxvillians died from an unidentified illness.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1790, after his fort was chosen as the capital for the newly created Southwest Territory, James White asked his son-in-law, surveyor Charles McClung, to lay out a new town, named "Knoxville" after Secretary of War Henry Knox. McClung initially divided the town into 64 half-acre (0.2-ha) lots, and added additional lots in 1795, with the cemetery lot being included in the later additions. While the cemetery was not officially platted until 1795, historians speculate that burials likely occurred before that date. When Moravian missionary Frederick de Schweinitz passed through Knoxville in 1799, he reported that the cemetery already had numerous burials.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian congregation was organized by the Reverend Samuel Carrick in the 1790s, and the first church was erected adjacent to the cemetery in 1816. Shortly after the church&#39;s completion, disputes arose over several matters, including the renting of pews, and a doctrinal dispute between "Old Calvinists" and "Hopkinsians". A portion of the congregation split from First Presbyterian, and founded Second Presbyterian Church circa 1818.</p><br>
<p>In 1838, hundreds Knoxvillians died when an unknown illness (possibly malaria) swept through the town. Approximately one-tenth of the marked graves in the graveyard are dated "1838"&mdash; more than any other single year&mdash; and one tombstone mentions "the fever." During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers (who occupied the town 1861&ndash;1863) kept horses in the cemetery, and Union soldiers (who occupied the town 1863&ndash;1865) used the church as a hospital and barracks.</p><br>
<p>Humorist George Washington Harris (1814&ndash;1869), an ardent Presbyterian, served as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church during his years in Knoxville. Two of his children, Harriet (1838&ndash;1846) and George (1841&ndash;1842), are buried in the graveyard.</p><br>
<p>In the 1870s, the graveyard had an indirect effect on the career of future newspaper publisher, Adolph Ochs. Ochs, then a young teenager working after hours as a "printer&#39;s devil" for the Knoxville Chronicle, feared walking past the graveyard at night, as many locals believed it to be haunted. Rather than leave work after his shift (which ended close to midnight), Ochs stayed until daylight, spending the extra time learning the typesetting and printing trades.</p><br>
<p>The present First Presbyterian Church, constructed in 1903, is a Neoclassical building, with a Tiffany-style stained glass window.</p><br>
<h2>Layout and marker styles</h2><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church Graveyard resembles a traditional early Anglo-American cemetery, with graves crowded together and marked by relatively simple headstones. Most of the headstones are polished, upright stones, although a few (such as the Blounts) are flat stones. Most are adorned with simple inscriptions noting the deceaseds name, date of death, and number of years lived. A low iron fence surrounds the graveyard&#39;s perimeter, and crude stone walkways allow access.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Abner Baker (1843&ndash;1865), a Confederate veteran lynched for killing a Union veteran at the Knox County Courthouse in September 1865.</p><br>
<p>William Blount (1749&ndash;1800), Governor of the Southwest Territory (1790&ndash;1796), USA senator from Tennessee (1796&ndash;1797), signer of the USA Constitution. His wife, Mary Grainger Blount (c. 1761&ndash;1802), is buried next to him.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Carrick (1760&ndash;1809), the church&#39;s founder; first president of Blount College (now the University of Tennessee), 1794&ndash;1809.</p><br>
<p>John Craighead (1783&ndash;1826), church elder and early Knoxville alderman, builder of the Craighead-Jackson House.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Humes (1767&ndash;1816), church elder and early Knoxville businessman, builder of the Lamar House Hotel building (now houses the Bijou Theatre).</p><br>
<p>Hugh Lawson White (1773&ndash;1840), USA senator (1825&ndash;1840), presidential candidate in 1836 (Whig Party). Buried adjacent to his father, James White.</p><br>
<p>James White (1747&ndash;1821), Knoxville&#39;s founder. The Daughters of the American Revolution placed a bronze plaque on his headstone in 1932.</p><br>
<p>John Williams (1778&ndash;1837), USA senator (1815&ndash;1823).</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic church located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1843 by James and John Moses. After its first baptismal service in nearby First Creek, the church had 46 members, including 20 African-Americans. The church organized its first Sunday School in 1845. The first building was constructed on Gay Street in 1844. The second building was built at the same location in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The third (and present) building was completed in 1923 at the Main Street location, three years after Dr. Frederick Fernando Brown became pastor. A four-manual Hook & Hastings organ was installed, featuring an echo organ located in the tower played from a separate keyboard. This architecturally-significant structure, noteworthy for its Neoclassical design and octagonal sanctuary, was designed by Dougherty & Gardner of Nashville, Tennessee, and is modeled on St Martin-in-the-Fields of London. The exterior of the church sanctuary is sheathed in marble, although the adjoining education space is brick. The congregation is moderate, and is member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a mainline denomination in the South.</p><br>
<p>The Hanover Heights Historic District area was developed between 1912 and 1930. It is a 15.5 acre district containing 90 contributing buildings located between State Line Road and Rainbow Boulevard to Olathe Boulevard and West 43rd Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. It was placed on Register of Historic Kansas Places on December 2, 1989. It was placed on National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1990.</p><br>
<p>In September 2012, it became the center point for The Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV), an entrepreneur-led, organic, grassroots initiative helping to solidify Kansas City as a premiere startup city in America. The KCSV operates under the Twitter username and hashtag.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Judge Louis R. Gates Residence (c. 1922–1923), a Prairie style residence at 4146 Cambridge Street, designed by Clarence Shepard, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Smith House is a historic home located on Albany Post Road in Town of Montgomery, Orange County, New York, approximately two miles north of NY 17K and a mile southwest of Walden. In 1759 one of the town&#39;s original settlers, Wilhelm Schmitt  built a stone house on the site. His descendants replaced it in 1850 with a Greek Revival-styled house that incorporates some of the original fabric.</p><br>
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<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Mill Ruins Park is a park in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, standing on the west side of Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River and running from 3rd Ave. S. to about 9th Ave. S. The park interprets the history of flour milling in Minneapolis and shows the ruins of several flour mills that were abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The park is the result of an archaeological study of the Saint Anthony Falls Historic District. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 1983, a project was being considered to extend West River Parkway along the west side of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis. Scott Anfinson, then the municipal county highway archaeologist for the Minnesota Historical Society, developed a plan to assess archaeological sites along the riverfront. A number of test excavations along the route revealed a wide variety of sites containing items of interest. In the Bassett&#39;s Creek area, for example, the foundations of two sawmills and the remains of a railroad roundhouse were found, while near Hennepin Avenue, the investigation found the footings of the Great Northern Railway Union Depot and the tower bases of the first and second Hennepin Avenue Bridges. In the milling district, archaeologists found clues suggesting that there were still extensive remains of the foundations of the mills and waterpower system.</p><br>
<p>The first round of archaeological surveys in the 1980s was intended to save the ruins from destruction as a result of road construction projects. Later, in the 1990s, the focus shifted from environmental impact assessment to exposing ruins for their interpretive value. As the ruins were made visible to the public, the goal was to create assets for education, tourism, and commercial development. The excavations for Mill Ruins Park began in 1998 and continued through 2001. The process also involved stabilizing the remains of the Washburn "A" Mill, which had burned in 1991. The Washburn "A" Mill became part of the Mill City Museum.</p><br>
<p>Along with the remains of about 20 flour mills and other industrial buildings, the park also contains two stone piers and several iron girder piers that held a trestle for the Minneapolis Eastern Railroad. The tailraces from the waterpower canal are also clearly visible, and the water flow has been restored through the canal. Signs posted along the walkways interpret the ruins and the history of the area.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago&#39;s South Side. It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. The building now houses the Chicago Bee Branch of the Chicago Public Library. The building was named a Chicago Landmark on September 9, 1998. It is located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago Bee was founded by the African American entrepreneur Anthony Overton in 1926. This building was Overtons affirmation of his confidence in the viability of the State Street Commercial district. This three-story building was one of the most picturesque in the district, and the one designed in the Art Deco style of the 1920s. All of Overtons enterprises shared this building until the early 1940s when the newspaper went out of business. The cosmetics firm continued to occupy the building until the early 1980s. The City of Chicago purchased the building and it is now a Chicago Public Library. It originally had upper-floor apartments. It also housed the offices of the Douglass National Bank and the Overton Hygienic Company, during the 1930s. The Overton Hygienic Company was nationally known as a cosmetics firm.</p><br>
<p>Overton Hygienic went out of business in the early 1980s. In the mid-1990s, the building was reused as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur H. Compton House is a historic house at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1905 and designed by architects Holabird & Roche, it was the residence of physicist Arthur Compton  from 1928 until 1945. Compton discovered the Compton Effect in 1923, proving that light has both a particle and a wave aspect. Compton received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for this discovery. His house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arthur H. Compton House is located in Chicagos Hyde Park neighborhood, northeast of the University of Chicago campus. It is located on the east side of South Woodlawn Avenue, between East 56th and East 57th Streets. It is an architecturally undistinguished -story brick building with a gabled roof. A flat-roof single-story enclosed porch extends across the front, with a chimney rising in front of the ridge between the porch and main block. The main entrance is on the right side of the house. The interior follows a central hall plan, and has been little altered since Comptons period of ownership.</p><br>
<p>Compton, a native of Wooster, Ohio, was educated at Wooster College and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in physics. In 1919, as a fellow of the National Research Council, he spent a year in England, where he participated in X-ray scattering experiments at Cavendish Laboratory. In 1923 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he continued to research X-ray scattering, and in 1923 published his groundbreaking paper on the Compton Effect. He later supported the efforts of Enrico Fermi to harness nuclear power, supporting advances for its use in both military and civilian applications.</p><br>
<p>The Prairie Avenue District is a historic district in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the 1800 and 1900 blocks of South Prairie Avenue and the 1800 block of South Indiana, and 211-217 East Cullerton. It was the site of the Battle of Fort Dearborn and became the city&#39;s most fashionable residential district after the Great Chicago Fire. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on December 27, 1979. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1972. The John J. Glessner House, designed and built by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1885–1886 at 1800 S. Prairie Avenue, has been restored as a historic house museum, and is open for public tours. In 2006, the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance, a non-profit organization was formed to provide representation for thousands of South Loop residents, including the Prairie Avenue District, Central Station, Museum Park, Motor Row, and the South Michigan Avenue Corridor, as well as other areas of the Near South Side.</p><br>
<h2>Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance</h2><br>
<p>The Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance (PDNA) is a non-profit resident organization in Chicago. The PDNA provides support and benefits to residents, condominium and town home associations, businesses, cultural institutions, and organizations who reside within the area and who agree to and support the purpose of the alliance.</p><br>
<h3>Activities</h3><br>
<p>On September 6, 2008, the organization hosted the Festival on Prairie Avenue, with Mayor Richard M. Daley in attendance. The festival took visitors back to the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in recognition of the street&#39;s restoration to its 1890s appearance; and was attended by over 1,200 residents.</p><br>
<h3>Achievements</h3><br>
<p>The PDNA and its residents banded together to successfully save the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum building at 1801 S. Indiana Avenue, a cultural pillar of the neighborhood, from being sold privately and converted into a night club. Instead, the building was purchased by the city of Chicago and conveyed to the Chicago Park District to become a new community center. The PDNA presented recommendations to the Commission on Chicago Parks and the alderman to name an important new park which is located near 18th and Calumet Avenue, the site which marks the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre.</p><br>
<p>On August 15, 2009 (the anniversary of the battle), the PDNA joined with the community to commemorate and officially name the site the Battle of Fort Dearborn Park; and unveiled an historic marker outlining the site&#39;s significance. The PDNA aims to bring much needed infrastructure and retail to the area.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1836 and untouched by the great Chicago fire of 1871, the Clarke House is Chicago’s oldest house and is a classic example of the Greek revival style. Moved twice, and opened as a house museum in 1982, it features 19th century furnishings depicting life on the urban frontier. The John J. Glessner House was designed in 1885 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in late 1887. Both properties were designated Chicago landmarks on October 14, 1970. The Clarke and Glessner houses are key PDNA partners.</p><br>
<p>With such rapid growth in the South Loop, residents who live within the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance boundaries have become increasingly concerned about the quality of new development and the quality of work performed on properties being converted to residential use. Condo boards and residents have begun to band together to make their voices heard. A few have achieved high-profile status. Additionally, the PDNA and area residents work with the city government to actively review proposed development projects in an effort to encourage smart growth. This is to protect the architectural character of the historic Prairie Avenue district.</p><br>
<p>The Yenowine-Nichols-Collins House was once on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgetown, Indiana. A fire took place on October 31, 2005, due to Halloween arson, and the building was torn down in 2008. As of 2008, First Harrison Bank had plans to use materials from the building in a new bank branch. The house was built in 1832, and was a two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It had a rear ell, low gable roof, and gable end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The last of the descendants of the builders, Mabelle Collins, in 1983 created a "preservation easement" that required that the house be kept in historical condition. This stopped the owners since 1994, Charles and Lynda Meyer, in their attempts to use or sell the building as they wished.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana is helping with the recovery. This, after taking measures in 2004 to stop the moving of the building. HLFI offered $10,000 for the arrest of the arsonist, but the Meyers refused HLFI&#39;s demands that they add to the offer; the arson occurred two months after HLFI successfully sued the Meyers to use their own money to restore the house. At the time of the fire, the Meyers still had not done anything to restore the house, despite the ruling. The Meyers stated they want the House to be considered a total loss.</p><br>
<p>In December 2007, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana announced that it had reached an agreement with First Harrison Bank that would guarantee the reconstruction of the Yenowine-Nichols-Collins House. The bank intended to purchase the structure (which was damaged beyond repair), salvage the bricks and other material and rebuild the home to its original appearance as part of a new bank branch.</p><br>
<p>On March 6, 2008, the House was removed from the National Register, as it had been torn down.</p><br>
<p>File:Yenowine-Nichols-Collins 2.jpgCloseup of the fire damage on the second floor</p><br>
<p>File:Yenowine-Nichols-Collins 3.jpgCloseup of the fire damage of the ground floor</p><br>
<p>File:Yenowine-Nichols-Collins 4.jpgBackside of the house</p><br>
<p>The Sweet Gum Stable, also known as Farmer&#39;s Feed and Supply, was located at the southeast corner of Main and W. Seventh Street in New Albany, Indiana. The property was a stop of the Underground Railroad, ten blocks west of another stop, the Town Clock Church, and a mere block away from the River Jordan for fugitive slaves, the Ohio River. The stable was built in 1877, and consisted of a balloon frame stable with an attached small brick and frame dwelling constructed about 1836. A feed store was added to the building in 1886. The structured measured 60 feet by 120 feet and encompassed the entire lot.</p><br>
<p>The house on the property was built by steamboat captain Thomas Riddle. After the American Civil War, Riddle&#39;s heirs sold most of the property to William Robison and James Payton. From them Frank Howard bought the property, and built the Sweet Gum Stable on the grounds of the original livery stable.</p><br>
<p>In early 1996, the stable was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In late 1998, it was sold at auction, and on May 22, 1999, was torn down. A feed store is in its place. The stable was removed from the National Register in December 2011.</p><br>
<p>Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. This YMCA facility served as an important social center within the Black Metropolis area, and it also provided housing and job training for African Americans migrating into Chicago in the early 20th century. In 1915, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, one of the first groups specializing in African-American studies, was founded during a meeting at the Wabash Y.</p><br>
<p>Louis Gregory, a traveling speaker for the Bahá&#39;í Faith and often attending national conventions of the religion held in Chicago area, is known to have stayed there in the spring of 1918 and gave talks to clubs while in town.*</p><br>
<p>Black contralto Marian Anderson gave one of her early performances here in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The Black Metropolis area in Chicago, centered on the area of 35th Street and State Street, was a city within a city developed by the black community as an alternative to the restrictions, exploitations, and indifference of the city at large. Wabash Avenue YMCA was opened in 1914, supported by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company at the time. Rosenwald had a philanthropic interest in black-oriented causes. YMCA provided job training programs such as auto repair and manual training. The Black Metropolis district thrived through the 1920s, but competition from white-owned businesses on 47th Street and the effects of the Great Depression led to the closure of many of the black-owned businesses. Declining membership and deterioration of the building led to its closing in 1981. In the late 1990s, however, a nine-million dollar renovation project was undertaken by to return to the building to its rightful condition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Old Pike Inn is a historic inn and tavern located at New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story brick building with a hipped roof. The building was damaged in a tornado on March 23, 1917, and the building rebuilt. It remained a working tavern until 1997, when the owner decided to shut down and start working for Caesars Indiana.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The One North LaSalle Building or One LaSalle Street Building is a building in the LaSalle Street corridor in the Loop community area of Chicago managed by MB Real Estate. It was for some time one of Chicago&#39;s tallest buildings. Built in 1930 by architects Vitzthum & Burns, it replaces the Tacoma Building by Holabird & Roche. The building is located across Madison Street from Roanoke Building. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999. Its 5th floor relief panels depict the explorations of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.</p><br>
<h2>Height and Ranking</h2><br>
<p>The Chicago Board of Trade Building was the tallest building in Chicago for some 35 years by conventional definitions. At 530 ft and 48 stories, One North LaSalle was the fourth tallest building (fifth tallest after the completion of the LaSalle National Bank Building) structure for approximately the same period. Other sources, however, claim this building was the tallest structure for approximately the same period defined by excluding items on top of the main building such as the Board of Trade Building&#39;s statue and pyramidal top, the steeple of the Chicago Temple Building, the pyramidal top of the Pittsfield Building, and the mansard roof of the Civic Opera House. The height differences are easily seen in scale depictions.</p><br>
<p>The William Dean Howells House is a house built and occupied by American author William Dean Howells and family. It is located at 37 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was designed by Howell&#39;s wife, Elinor Mead, and occupied by the family from 1873 to 1878. Authors including Mark Twain, Henry James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich visited the Howells in this house, as did President James Garfield, and Helen Keller lived there afterwards while attending school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As early as August 1872, William Dean Howells wrote to his brother-in-law that he had purchased land on Concord Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 33 cents per square foot. The family moved into their new home there on July 7, 1873. Howells and his wife agreed it was "the prettiest house in Cambridge" and intended to live there for the rest of their lives.</p><br>
<p>The Howells family left the home in 1878, after which they moved to Redtop in Belmont, Massachusetts. By 1900, they had purchased a home near Gloucester, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>After the death of his wife Elinor Mead Howells in May 1910, Howells considered moving back to the Concord Avenue home with his daughter Mildred. Without Mrs. Howells, however, they found it "dreadful in its ghostliness and ghastliness" and, further, that the area had become noisy since the addition of two trolley lines nearby.</p><br>
<p>Before moving to the Concord Avenue house, the Howells family had lived in other Cambridge homes. From 1866 to 1870, they lived in a house (built in 1857) a few blocks north of Harvard University, at 41 Sacramento Street and from 1870 to 1872 they lived at 3 Berkeley Street. The Sacramento Street house is not on the National Register of Historic Places, but does have a city of Cambridge historic landmark designation.</p><br>
<h3>Recent history</h3><br>
<p>In recent times, this house fell into very serious disrepair, but was in 2011 restored by a local historic-restoration-specialist builder, after consultations with the City of Cambridge Historical Commission.</p><br>
<p>The Lusk Home and Mill Site was the first development in present Turkey Run State Park, Indiana&#39;s second oldest state park.</p><br>
<p>Vermonter Salmon Lusk was awarded this land for serving in the Battle of Tippecanoe under William Henry Harrison. The Lusks were largely self-sufficient. Captain Lusk built a log cabin in 1822 and lived there with his spouse and eight children until 1841. Then he and his sons made bricks, carved walnut woodwork, and built the brick house. He dug a coal mine to heat his house. Lusk built a gristmill in 1826 with a foundation of stone-cut stone. A horizontal waterwheel was powered by water diverted by a dam down a race. A settlement grew around Lusks house and mill, until a Sugar Creek flood on New Years Day, 1847, washed away every building except Lusks brick house. Salmon Lusks wife lived there until 1880, when John Lusk inherited the property. He was inactive managing the site except for preventing woodcutting.</p><br>
<p>After John Lusk died in 1915, the property was put up for sale. A logging company, Hoosier Veneer, paid US$30,200.00 for the site. Richard Lieber and the State Parks Commission raised $40,000.00 to buy the land from the lumber company after last minute support from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on November 11, 1916. The Lusk parcel was the first land obtained for Turkey Run State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Lusk Home is open for tours during the summer. There is a fee for parking vehicles within the state park. Visitors pay an entrance fee at the main gate of the park, then hike or drive to the Lusk Home. The coal mine is a bat habitat today.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church in Innis, Louisiana, United States. The church was built in 1848 and was consecrated by Bishop Leonidas Polk. It is the oldest brick edifice in Pointe Coupee Parish. Past communicants include Major General John Archer Lejeune and Dr. Tichenor. It is also home to a cemetery with a monument to a Confederate Unknown Soldier, erected in 1901. This church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 1974 with the help of Father Lyle Franklin Parratt who was the priest there at the time.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church is an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. The Rev. John Miller now serves as Priest-in-Charge.</p><br>
<p>The Huddleston Farmhouse Inn in Cambridge City, Indiana, is a historic inn that once served travelers along the National Road. It was owned by former-Quaker John Huddleston who, with his wife Susannah, and 11 children, offered lodging, cooking materials, and a place for their horses to rest for the night.</p><br>
<p>The house is three stories high, using 125,000 bricks. The property consists of 78 acre. On the land includes the main house, spring kitchen, smoke house, and two barns. Some recents research on the property suggests that there may have been another building built on the property as well by the Huddlestons.</p><br>
<p>The main house is three stories. Before renovations the basement consisted of three separated rooms that could only be entered from outside. Two of the rooms were lodging for guests. The middle room was John&#39;s shop where he would sell items to travelers passing through. On the middle level there is a kitchen, a family room, a dining room, and a formal parlor. The third floor was where the bedrooms would have been.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased by Indiana Landmarks in 1966 with funds provided by the organization&#39;s founder, Eli Lilly. The house, barn, and other outbuildings were restored and served as a combination museum and eastern regional office of Indiana Landmarks until the property was sold to private owners in 2023. The property was sold with Indiana Landmarks’ protective covenants to safeguard its architectural character.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Smiths Castle, built in 1678, is a house museum at 55 Richard Smith Drive, near Wickford, a village in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Smiths Castle is one of the oldest houses in the state. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 as Cocumscussoc Archeological Site due to the artifacts and information that digs have yielded in the area. It is located just off USA Route 1 in Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Smiths Castle was built in 1678 to replace an earlier structure which the Narragansett Tribe destroyed during King Philips War. The land on which the house was built was known as Cocumscussoc (or Cocumscossoc) and was near the original site of Roger Williams&#39; trading post. Williams was the founder of Providence Plantations and a prominent Baptist theologian. He built the trading post on the site in 1637 to trade with the Narragansetts after receiving the land from the tribe. Eventually, he sold the trading post to Smith to finance his trip to Great Britain to secure a charter for Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>Smith constructed a large house which was fortified, giving the house its nickname as a castle. His son Richard Smith Jr. inherited the plantation in 1666 and invited militias from Massachusetts and Connecticut to use the property during King Philips War. The house was burned in retaliation for the Great Swamp Fight, and the present structure was built in its place, originally as a saltbox house, and later modified into its current form. Approximately 40 soldiers were buried on the property during King Philips War. Additionally, the only incident of an individual being hanged, drawn, and quartered on American soil took place at Smith&#39;s Castle in 1676. Joshua Tefft, an English colonist found guilty of having fought on the side of the Narragansetts during the Great Swamp Fight, was executed by this method.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, the property was transferred to the Updike, Congdon, and Fox families. Among the Updikes who lived there were Lodowick and Abigail Updike, whose daughter Sarah Updike Goddard and grandchildren Mary Katherine Goddard and William Goddard were all notable colonial-era printers and publishers. It was the site of a large dairy farm into the twentieth century until it became a museum. In the early twentieth century, preservationists Norman Isham and John Hutchins Cady stabilized the house and performed several minor restorations.</p><br>
<p>A slab table belonging to Lodowick Updike is currently in the Newport Restoration Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island. The table was possibly made by John Goddard in the 1760s at Goddard and Townsend.</p><br>
<p>The Albert H. Sears House, also known as "Robin&#39;s Nest," is a house in the USA city of Plano, Illinois. It is an example of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States. The house was constructed in 1881 for prominent Plano businessman Albert H. Sears. The home sits on nearly two acres of forested land and is considered a good example of Queen Anne style and the elegance surrounding that era. The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Albert H. Sears was born just north of Plano, Illinois on May 14, 1856. His father was a surveyor and one of the first residents of Kendall County. Sears attended Plano High School and the Aurora Seminary. After graduating in 1877, he took a job as the head of shipping for the Deering Harvester Company. A year later, he became a traveling salesman for the burgeoning company. When the company moved to North Chicago, founder William Deering moved to Evanston. He then sold his newly completed house to Albert Sears.</p><br>
<p>Sears remained in Plano and co-founded the Plano Manufacturing Company, using the former Deering plant. The company manufactured farm implements and employed 70 people. Sears was on the board of directors and was General Superintendent of the plant until 1883. Starting in 1883, Sears ran the Sears Bank. The Plano Manufacturing Company moved to West Pullman in 1894. Sears again stayed in Plano and again purchased the former Deering plant. Sears opened it the next year as the Sears Manufacturing Works, producing farm implements. It was sold to the Independent Harvester Company in 1910. Sears died in his home on April 2, 1917.</p><br>
<p>The President James K. Polk Home & Museum is the presidential museum for the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk , and is located at 301 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee. Built in 1816, it is the only surviving private residence of United States President James K. Polk. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As President Polk&#39;s primary historic site it is open daily  for guided tours.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The James K. Polk Home is located just west of the commercial central downtown area of Columbia, at the southwest corner of West 7th and South High streets. It is an L-shaped brick building, two stories in height, with a gabled roof. The front facade, facing West 7th Street, is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, recessed in a segmented-arch opening. The door is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-oval transom window with tracery, and the interior walls of the recess are paneled. The other bays house windows, which are topped by lintels of brick and a stone keystone. The interior retains finishes period to its construction, but has otherwise been adapted for museum displays. The property includes a reproduction of the kitchen outbuilding that would have been present during Polk&#39;s residency; none of the outbuildings from his time survive.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1816 by Samuel Polk, and was the home of his son, USA President James K. Polk, for six years as a young adult. It is the only private residence associated with President Polk to survive. James lived in the house until 1824 on and off again, when he left to read law in Nashville under Felix Grundy, and for a time after his return to Columbia, where he opened his law practice. He would move into a home down the street with his wife Sarah Childress around the same time in 1824 where they spent the longest duration of their lives together. (That home was destroyed by fire in the late 19th century, and is currently a funeral home parking lot.) The president would own the Home after his fathers death in 1827 while his mother lived in the home until her death in 1852. One of the presidents younger brothers William Hawkins Polk was the last Polk to directly live in the home, and his son would be the last Polk to own it until 1871. It passed through several owners before its acquisition by the president&#39;s great-great niece along with the state of Tennessee in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The museum is operated by the James K. Polk Memorial Association, but is entrusted to the organization by the state of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Some exterior items were moved to the site after Polk Place, the president&#39;s later home, was demolished including the fountain, garden urns, and other pieces.</p><br>
<h2>History of the museum</h2><br>
<p>Shortly after the president&#39;s death his wife Sarah Polk fostered a great niece, Sallie Fall. Sallie stayed in Nashville with Sarah for a large portion of her life. Sarah would leave the contents of Polk Place along with personal belongings of the president to Sallie after her death.</p><br>
<p>Sallie opened her own home in Nashville to the public throughout the early 1900s for people to come and see the belongings of the president that she had inherited. Along with her daughter, Mrs. Saidee Grant, they founded the James K. Polk Association in 1924. In 1929 Mrs. Grant, along with the state of Tennessee, purchased the home, and moved the contents of Polk Place that she had inherited from her mother to the site.</p><br>
<h2>Relocation of tomb</h2><br>
<p>On March 27, 2017, the Tennessee Senate voted 20–6 to relocate the remains of President Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk from the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to the Polk home. On March 3, 2018, the bill passed the State Government Committee and went before the floor of the state legislature, when the State Senate approved an amendment that was added on to the resolution. Though it subsequently failed the state legislature on March 19, 2018, it went before the house Calendar & Rules Committee where they allowed to let it go before the floor again on April 9, 2018, where it passed by 51–47. (Shortly after Governor Bill Haslam allowed the bill to go into effect without his signature. ) The next steps included the Tennessee Historical Commission, the Capitol Grounds Commission and after it will go before a Chancery Judge before it is finalized.</p><br>
<p>Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is a former estate near Katonah, New York United States, approximately 50 miles  north of New York City. Today it serves as a live music venue for symphonic, opera, chamber, American roots, and jazz, performances. The estate and its historic home are legacies of their original owners, Walter and Lucie Rosen. The Caramoor Summer Music Festival is held there every summer. It also runs educational programs, and can be rented for events such as: weddings, pre and post-concert receptions, meetings and retreats, corporate and cultivation dinners, and photo and film shoots.</p><br>
<p>The Rosens built the estate and Tuscan-style villa gradually during the 1930s, importing many architectural and decorative items from Europe. The informal musical performances they hosted evolved into the beginning of Caramoor&#39;s current offerings in 1945, and their collection of Renaissance-era and Chinese artworks, some rare, is on display throughout the estate. Lucie Rosen later donated it to the private organization that runs it today. In 2001 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, Caramoor Center hired Acoustic Distinctions for an acoustic study to inform and support a $1M renovation of the historical Rosen House Music Room. Honoring the legacy of the Rosen Family’s creation of a unique haven for culture, artists and the arts in the early 20th Century, the music room to this day hosts a variety of events. Performances include live music performances of small ensembles with piano accompaniment, an annual cabaret show with full lighting and educational field trips for school children interested in percussion and music composition. The room seats between 150-220 patrons. Some performances utilize amplification systems.</p><br>
<p>Acoustic Distinction’s team attended several on-site meetings and collected sound measurements during multiple performances in the room. The team analyzed data to evaluate the Music Room’s acoustical attributes and provided programming assistance to architects and engineers. Achievable acoustic design criteria within practical, cost-effective design and construction means were established. Design input was provided for room design in conjunction with installation of new seating and risers. Appropriate noise control and sound isolation and separations were verified pertaining to changes to the toilet rooms and courtyard winterization.</p><br>
<p>Recommendations included the addition of retractable acoustic curtains to enable the room to be adjusted or ‘tuned’ to the type and size of the performing ensemble.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>Caramoor is an 81 acre parcel on Girdle Ridge Road just east of the NY 22 state highway east of the hamlet of Katonah in the Town of Bedford. The area is primarily residential, with houses on similarly large lots amidst wooded, gently rolling terrain. The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark, is a short distance to the northwest along Route 22.</p><br>
<p>The Caramoor estate became a center for the arts and music following the death of the son of owners Walter and Lucie Rosen during World War 2. The couple donated the property in their son&#39;s memory, and it quickly became an established summer festival. There are 12 total contributing resources on the estate—seven buildings, one site, and four structures. An additional building, the Venetian Theater, was built after the estate became the performing arts center.</p><br>
<h3>Rosen House</h3><br>
<p>A curving driveway leads past modest stone entrance posts and through an electric entrance gate at a high deer fence through Caramoor&#39;s wooded perimeter into a central cleared area, dominated by the Rosen House on a slight rise to the south. A branch leads to other outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>The Rosen House is a stucco building rising two stories a poured concrete foundation with a red tiled roof in a variety of asymmetrical gable and hip configurations and irregular fenestration. A high curved wall at the southwest corner connects to the servants quarters in that direction. A terrace with stone balustrade extends from the dining room on the east; another terrace is located off the master bedroom on the southeast. The caretakers apartment, its small yard surrounded by a high wooden fence, is located at the southwest corner. A south wing, built after the Rosens&#39; deaths to house rooms from their apartment in New York is non-contributing.</p><br>
<p>At the center is the Spanish Courtyard, surrounded by a cloister with 12th-century Byzantine columns, reached by a large stone arched entryway in the center of the south wall. The cloister, a one-story colonnaded open walkway, to allow the courtyard&#39;s use as the primary entrance to the house. In the center is a large fountain; a clock is on the second story near the main gate.</p><br>
<p>Rooms are mostly entered from the courtyard or narrow hallways along the exterior walls. Most are finished in the style of the house, with stucco walls and coved ceilings. Much of the furniture and decoration, sometimes comprising entire rooms, was brought by the Rosens from England, France, Italy and Spain. The second floor, less extensively decorated and primarily bedroom space, is also mostly original. The basement, under the kitchen wing, has storage space and a garage.</p><br>
<p>Among the rooms with notable furnishings and decor are the Burgundian Library. It has a vaulted blue ceiling decorated with 13 Biblical scenes, and 65 other paintings on the doors and walls. The Cabinet Room has lacquered panels originally created for the Palazzo Riccasoli in Turin during the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Chinese wallpaper made for the European market in the 18th century decorates the dining room, complemented by one of the only two eight-fold Chinese jade folding screens in the world, a Qing Dynasty work depicting the Taoist Hills of Immortality in 40 panels with a gilded teak frame. Around the table are red lacquered chairs made by an English cabinetmaker for a Spanish castle. More Chinese wallpaper is found in the Reception Room, with furniture from a Venetian dress shop. In the master bedroom is a gilded bed that once belonged to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII.</p><br>
<p>The largest room, the Music Room, is located at the north end. It is 40 by with a 30 ft ceiling. Originally the living room, the furniture has been moved to the west side and removable seating installed on movable risers. A large stage is located at the west end. It seats 172 and is used for music year-round. Its art includes a 16th-century Florentine cassapanca, an extensive collection of Urbino majolica, a 13th-century head of Guan Yin, a Lucas Cranach the Elder painting and tin-enameled terra cotta reliefs from the studio of Andrea della Robbia.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings and gardens</h3><br>
<p>Attached to the Rosen House via a connecting wall is the servants quarters. Architecturally similar, the two-story building has its own entrance to the courtyard, and serves today as the Caramoor Centers offices.</p><br>
<p>The second-largest building on the property is the Venetian Theater, along the main entrance drive. It was added in the late 1950s expressly as an additional music venue by enclosing a brick stage already in the garden with a colonnade. A large tent roof is in place to shelter the audience, and a restroom wing similar to the Rosen House projects from the west end. It seats 1,546 and is the principal venue for musical performances.</p><br>
<p>Near it is the Sunken Garden, a holdover from the estate owner who preceded the Rosens. It was planted around 1912, making it the oldest feature of the estate native to it. It is enclosed by stucco walls on three sides, with stairs and intersecting walkways leading to its flower beds. The large planted "Medieval Mount" at the rear has built-in concrete benches.</p><br>
<p>The Venetian Circle on the east of the garden is framed by a pair of 17th-century Swiss gates. They are topped with Pegasus heads sculpted by Malvina Hoffman. Two paths lead to and through other gardens. From the Juliet Gate, manufactured in 17th-century Italy, the Cedar Walk leads 300 ft path through the high eastern and western cedars of the Woodland Garden to the Italian Pavilion, formerly the viewing area for a nearby tennis court, now bricked over. The Butterfly Garden there, based on a Filippo Brunelleschi design, features plants that support all stages of butterfly development. Nearby is the Cutting Garden, just outside the greenhouse and cottage, where Caramoors horticultural staff cultivates cut flowers for planting. A longer wooded path leads through the Theater Gardens tall trees to a large Victorian urn.</p><br>
<p>A former dovecote, moved from the Spanish Courtyard to a location south of the house, has been converted into a fountain. It now serves as the center of the Sense Circle, designed to be enjoyed by the visually impaired. The fountain makes pleasant sounds, and the plants around it appeal to the other three senses, with some even being edible.</p><br>
<p>Other outbuildings around the property include a stable, two cottages, accompanying garages and a storage shed. All are contributing, dating to the 1930s, and are architecturally similar to the Rosen House. The landscaping is included in the Register listing as well.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Berlin, Walter Rosen emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1885, at the age of 10. He was well-educated, developing an early interest in music and art, and graduated from Harvard three years after entering it at a young age. Three years later, he became one of the founding partners of the law firm of Underwood, Van Vorst, Rosen and Hoyt. After another three years, in 1901, he left to join a client, the Ladenburg Thalmann bank.</p><br>
<p>He remained there for the rest of his life. In 1914 he married Lucie Bigelow Dodge, a woman who had grown up in an affluent New Jersey family and shared his passion for music and art. On vacations and business trips to Europe, they collected many of the artworks that are now at Caramoor.</p><br>
<p>They bought the property in 1928. John Hoyt, one of Walter Rosens former law partners, knew they were looking for a country retreat and told them about his mothers estate, named Caramoor as a contraction of her name, Caroline Moore Hoyt. The Rosens visited and were greatly taken by the Sunken Garden and its cedars, meant to imitate the cypresses of Italy.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the Rosens intended to tear down all but the garden and build a Florentine-style palazzo. The Depression forced them to reconsider those plans, and instead they slowly remodeled the existing farm buildings on the site into the current estate, which at one point was 117 acre. By 1939 that work was complete. Architect Christian Rosborg is credited with the design, closely supervised by the Rosens, whose townhouse on Manhattan&#39;s East Side had been redone in a French Renaissance style before they moved in.</p><br>
<p>In 1940 they began hosting musical performances for their friends in the Music Room. Four years later, when their only son Walter died in World War II while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, they decided to dedicate the remainder of their own lives to preserving Caramoor&#39;s musical legacy. They established the Center in 1946 and began hosting performances open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Seven years after Walter Rosen died in 1951, the performances had become so popular it became necessary to add the third venue, the Venetian Theater, near the Sunken Garden the Rosens had preserved from the prior estate. The house was opened to public tours in 1970, two years after Lucie Rosen died. Architect Mott B. Schmidt designed a new wing in 1974 to house rooms from the Rosens&#39; New York City apartment and expand the art collection on display.</p><br>
<p>The tent roof and floor were added to the Venetian Theater later to allow its use in inclement weather. The restroom wing was added later. The Sense Circle was created after the dovecote was moved to its following pigeon problems in the late 1980s. There have been few significant changes to the buildings and gardens other than those.</p><br>
<h3>Lucy Rosen and her theremin</h3><br>
<p>Caramoor founder Lucie Bigelow Rosen (1890-1968) was already an accomplished musician when she first heard the futuristic electronic musical instrument known as the theremin, calling it “a new sound in the world.” The theremin, named after its inventor, Soviet scientist and spy, Leon Theremin, captivated her attention and she became one of its earliest evangelists, performing throughout Europe and the United States. Walter and Lucie Rosen met Theremin at a soirée in 1929 in New York City and were impressed by the inventor and his ground-breaking instrument. Made from a wooden box with two metal antennae, it is played by the movement of hands through their electromagnetic fields without any physical contact.</p><br>
<p>The Rosens offered Professor Theremin the use of one of their three brownstones on West 54th Street, New York, at a greatly reduced rent, as his studio and residence. Lucie Rosen set out to master the instrument, becoming one of Theremins best pupils as well as his patron and advocate. Her first performance was as a member of Theremins Carnegie Hall ensemble in 1930. By 1932, Lucie Rosen was performing frequently in New York as a soloist, but it wasn&#39;t until 1935 that she made her official New York debut with a recital at Town Hall. “Mrs. Rosen wove with eloquent hands the magical-seeing spell,” the New York World-Telegram wrote, “and the theremin responded to her summons with some of the most strictly musical sounds it has yet produced in our concert rooms.” The New York Times described how “the instrument got out of gear and its inventor, Leon Theremin, was called onto the stage to set it right... Mrs. Rosen was in command of its resources all evening. She plays the theremin, not only with an awareness of its possibilities, but with a knowledge of music.” Reviews such as these were quite satisfying to Lucie, proving that the theremin was indeed a serious instrument and she was no dilettante.</p><br>
<p>That same year, Lucie Rosen gave a successful concert in London, deciding then to return the following year with a grand European tour. She played to enthusiastic reviews in Naples, Rome, Venice, Zurich, Munich, Budapest, Hamburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London. Lucie also continued performing in the United States giving numerous concerts in New York City and throughout the Northeast, again to rave reviews. “Lucie Rosen is one of the most original women in New York’s social world,” The New York Evening Journal observed. “She has a very curly blond hair which fuzzes out into a wide halo around her delicate and ethereal face... her robe de style evening gowns are said to be designed by Mr. Rosen.”(February 3, 1936) By late 1938 the Walter Rosen was reconsidering his support for Leon Theremin. The inventor had a significant amount of unpaid taxes, the FBI was monitoring him, and his personal life was in shambles. He was also seriously behind in his rent payments. Later that year Mr. Rosen, in his typically gentlemanly tone, wrote Theremin a letter demanding he vacate the brownstone.</p><br>
<p>“... With all the good will in the world, it is impossible... to permit you or the Teletouch Corporation to occupy number 37 West 54th Street.... I ask you to be good enough to leave everything... that belongs to Mrs. Rosen or myself.”</p><br>
<p>Just before Leon Theremin fled the country, he completed a new instrument for Lucie Rosen. She named the September Theremin and it remains the most powerful and technologically advanced instrument ever built by Theremin. The September Theremin is on display at Caramoor&#39;s Rosen House, alongside a Moog Music Etherwave Theremin. Lucie made absolutely certain she knew every detail of the instrument, each placement of tube and wire, so that she could tune and repair the instrument as she believed she would never see Professor Theremin again. Her detailed “Theremin Notebook” contains schematics, specifications, and RCA part numbers for replacement tubes. Many of these spare parts are still stored at the Rosen House.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s and beyond, the theremin was becoming very popular in the United States and Europe. Lucie continued to maintain a very active performing schedule here and abroad. While other theremin performers preferred to play classical music, Lucie encouraged composers to write music specifically for the theremin and she commissioned many works by such composers as Edward Mates, Ricardo Valente, Jenö Szanto, Jenö Takács, Mortimer Browning, John Haussermann, and Bohuslav Martinü. Much of this original material is in the archives at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.</p><br>
<p>In April 1950 the Rosens traveled to Europe for Lucie Rosens third and last European tour, (her second tour took place in 1939) again crisscrossing the continent with performances in London, Amsterdam, the Hague, Zurich, Geneva, Rome, and Vienna. Her last concert took place in 1953 in Celina, Ohio. After his release from the Soviet camps, Theremin briefly took a teaching position at a music conservatory, but was soon expelled by the authorities. He contacted Lucie several times before her death in 1968, wishing to visit with her once more and show her his newest inventions, but it was not meant to be. When her beloved Walter died in 1951, Lucie dedicated herself to establishing the Caramoor Music Festival, determined to see it grow and thrive. Caramoor remains a destination for theremin scholars, historians, and artists who find our archives of Lucies correspondence and original scores to be a valuable and comprehensive resource for their research.</p><br>
<h2>Programs</h2><br>
<p>Caramoors offerings are primarily classical (the Orchestra of St. Lukes has been in residence there since 1979) and operatic. During the Caramoor Summer Music Festival, on Thursdays through Sundays from June to August, jazz, bluegrass and popular artists have performed as well. Concerts continue year-round presented in the Music Room. (Lucie Rosen, an enthusiast of the theremin, was an accomplished performer on it herself, and she and her husband were for a time Theremins patrons. The centers collection includes some of her instruments, including a highly advanced one Theremin gave her shortly before leaving the USA in 1938).</p><br>
<p>Caramoor also has extensive educational programs. Since 1986, an average of 5,000 students have in some way been involved through these education efforts. They range from programs for schoolchildren that, in addition to music, introduce them to Renaissance culture and Chinese art. Programs for musicians include mentoring from distinguished artists and the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence.</p><br>
<p>Picnic lunches are available for visitors who wish to wander the grounds before a performance. The facilities can be rented out for events such as corporate retreats and photo shoots; weddings are a particularly popular use, with The Knot having chosen Caramoor as one of its favorite places for the ceremony and reception.</p><br>
<p>The Hinds House is a historic building in Santa Cruz, California. It was built in 1888 and 1889 by Alfred J. Hinds and his wife Sarah. Its Victorian style has been preserved and it is the largest surviving Stick-Eastlake house in Santa Cruz County. Today the Hinds House is a historical inn with rooms rented out to guests visiting or relocating to Santa Cruz.</p><br>
<h2>Colonel Alfred J. Hinds and family</h2><br>
<p>Alfred Joseph Hinds was born in 1845 in Chester, England. In 1848 his family moved to France and then the United States, eventually living in Iowa. During the California Gold Rush in 1850 they moved to San Francisco, although his mother died on the trip. In 1852 they moved to Santa Cruz, where he started school. In 1866 he opened a book and stationery shop in downtown Santa Cruz. On June 8, 1869, he married Sarah Lee Howe from San Mateo, California.</p><br>
<p>His sister Amelia Hinds married Duncan McPherson, publisher of the local newspaper Santa Cruz Sentinel.</p><br>
<p>In 1875 Hind started to develop real estate in the city of Santa Cruz. He would buy up large tracts of land on the edges of town and subdivide and sell them. He was the secretary and trustee of the First Congregational Church since 1875 and one of the first trustees of the Santa Cruz Public Library.</p><br>
<p>He was active in the California Republican Party and helped organize the Avalon Lodge number 89 of the Knights of Pythias. In 1888 he was appointed "Colonel" in the Knights, and he became known by that title. He was also active in other fraternal orders.</p><br>
<p>Alfred Hinds and his wife Sarah had four children who were all lost when a diphtheria epidemic swept Santa Cruz in 1876. They started a new family and at least three children survived.</p><br>
<p>Sons included Leland Foye Hind, Wendell McPherson Hind, and Theron Winfred Hind.</p><br>
<p>Hinds died in 1921 at age seventy six.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the Hinds House</h2><br>
<p>Hinds hired Santa Cruz architect John H. Williams to design the house, which was constructed in 1888 and 1889. Williams designed over sixty local buildings between 1876 and 1892. Williams was known for his Stick-Eastlake style, a popular style of Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>In the 1890s, one of the first electric lights in Santa Cruz was installed in the house. Electricity came from Fred Swanton&#39;s new power plant fifteen miles up the coast from Santa Cruz in Davenport, California. The fixture was put in at the base of the grand stairway, where it remains in use today.</p><br>
<h2>The House after the Hinds</h2><br>
<p>After Alfred&#39;s death, his children and grandchildren eventually moved away and nobody lived in the home. In 1930 the house was bought by two female school teachers. They operated the house and rented out rooms to guests until 1960. Between 1960 and 1980 the house continued to function as an inn under the ownership of two more people. The interiors of the house were also fixed up in this time, including the renovation of the sitting room and parlor on the first floor as apartments. In 1981, Sandra and Stan Mock bought the house and restored it to its original Stick-Eastlake style, restored the original common rooms, making it an example of the Victorian influence in Santa Cruz. In 2004 Brion Sprinsock and Kristine Albrecht purchased the property and operate the Hinds Victorian Guest House offering weekly lodging in downtown Santa Cruz.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, the Santa Cruz Historical Society designated the Hinds House a historic landmark. On August 25, 1983, the house was put on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, California by the United States Department of the Interior.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The Hinds House has been a historic bed and breakfast inn since 1982 and today it is the best example of William&#39;s Stick-Eastlake style buildings in Santa Cruz County. The current innkeeper of the Hinds House is Brion Sprinsock, and the house has ten rooms for guests, including the attic. The ground floor has common rooms, including the dining room, the sitting room, and the parlor. The original woodwork throughout the house is intact and polished. Outside, to either side of the house, there is a large Norfolk pine and a 125 ft Coastal Redwood. Rooms are rented by the week. The largest percentages of guests (33%) are visiting the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Hinds House is near the center of downtown Santa Cruz at 529 Chestnut Street.</p><br>
<p>The Noble–Seymour–Crippen House is a mansion located at 5624 North Newark Avenue in Chicago&#39;s Norwood Park community area. Its southern wing, built in 1833, is widely considered the oldest existing building in Chicago. As well as the 22nd oldest in the state of Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The southern wing of the house was originally used as a farmhouse by Mark Noble Sr., an English immigrant. The frame structure was approximately 25 x and the main entrance was in the center of the south-facing end, facing Talcott Road. It was built with white pine on a brick foundation. The center of the building featured a fireplace and there was probably a basement. A window was found on each side of the main door; there were probably also two windows along each of the long sides.</p><br>
<p>In 1868, Thomas Hartley Seymour of the Chicago Board of Trade purchased the house and surrounding land. He immediately added an Italianate style northern wing to accommodate his large family and servants. He also raised the roof on the older section, the south wing, to build a second floor. This also allowed for the implementation of round, arched windows. A small, wood frame summer kitchen was added to the south gable of the south wing. The family used the first floor of the former Noble house as a large dining room and they used the second floor as servants&#39; quarters. To ensure architectural harmony with the newer section, a frieze was added to this wing below the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate addition has a typical floor plan for the era. A side entry hall with a stairway opens to a parlor, library, and dining room (the latter being the former Noble house). The second floor was used for bedrooms with a connecting door to the servants&#39; quarters. In the 1890s, Seymour built a wood porch stretching from the south wing entrance to the Italianate entrance. Porticoes were installed over each door.</p><br>
<p>The Seymour family lived at the site until 1916, when they sold it to Stuart and Charlotte Allen Crippen, a concert pianist and an actress. During the 1920s, the Crippens installed indoor plumbing and electricity and added a second stairway to the Noble wing. The Crippen children and grandchildren sold the building to the Norwood Park Historical Society in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Noble–Seymour–Crippen House received Chicago Landmark status on May 11, 1988. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2000.</p><br>
<p>Since 1998, the building has served the Norwood Park Historical Society Museum and community center.</p><br>
<p>The Branciforte Adobe, also known as the Craig-Lorenzana Adobe, is the only remaining dwelling from the Villa de Branciforte, the settlement that was established in 1797 at the time of the Mission Santa Cruz.</p><br>
<p>The only remains from the settlement of the Villa de Branciforte is the two room Craig-Lorenzana Adobe which stands on the southwest corner of Branciforte and Goss Avenues in Santa Cruz. It is the oldest single-family dwelling in Santa Cruz.</p><br>
<h2>Description of structure</h2><br>
<p>The Branciforte Adobe has 2 ft adobe mud plastered walls which are still remaining, a tile roof classic to the Spanish era later changed to redwood shake, and a veranda on the front rebuilt in the 1980s. The original adobe structure surviving from the Villa de Branciforte was one large rectangular room with two covered corridors (porches) on both length-wise sides of the house. The rear corridor ended adjacent to the fire pit and cooking area.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the house was modified many times; the most significant modifications were done by Jose Lorenzana in 1848. Lorenzana partitioned a small bedroom from the main room so that he and his wife could sleep separately from their reported 21 children. He "fancied up" the house adding doors, hinges, wallpaper and molding. Jose Lorenzana lived in the house until his death in 1863, ending the reign of Spanish inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1870s Andrew Craig lived in the house. He became the district attorney and opened a law school in it. Craig was followed by the Winchester family who covered the adobe walls with redwood. After the Winchester family two men, Jim Hawley and Jim Hammond, resided in the Branciforte Adobe. They rebuilt the exterior and porch, and altered the roof to a redwood shake one.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Branciforte Adobe was continuously inhabited since its construction and never unroofed, abandoned or moved. It is one of only two adobe structures left in the City of Santa Cruz and the only one remaining from the Villa de Branciforte.</p><br>
<p>The house was then bought in the 1970s by Edna Emerson (née Cleave) Kimbro (25 June 1948 - 26 June 2005), a bachelor of art history from the University of</p><br>
<p>California, Santa Cruz, 1974, named Monterey District historian for the California</p><br>
<p>Department of Parks and Recreation, and her husband, Joseph Rushton Kimbro (August 29, 1943 - June 30, 2011) who continued the restoration by stripping chicken wire and plaster from the exterior and restored the original adobe. This gave her the opportunity to examine the adobe and the wooden pieces used in the construction. At this point they added two additional bedrooms and two functional bathrooms. Edna Kimbro became very interested in preserving examples of early California History. She sold the Branciforte Adobe and moved on to restore the Castro Adobe, a two-story adobe in the Watsonville area which was built in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>Edna Kimbro&#39;s work on the Branciforte Adobe was a very deliberate and detailed restoration which yielded information compatible with other classic adobe structures as well as revealing other unique characteristics. The Branciforte Adobe remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Christopher Erb House is a stone house finished in 1799. It stands in Silver Run under a Westminster, MD zip code . It is on a 38 acre property, split in two, and borders on Big Pipe Creek. The house has experienced two small fires, multiple hits from Black Locust trees in Hurricane Isabel, and detrimental building practices inside and outside the stone walls. The house is historically significant as an example of Pennsylvania German architecture and it reflects the influence of Pennsylvania Germans in Carroll County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The main house, finished in 1799 as evident by the date stone in the western gable, was constructed as a two family German style house. However, the exterior is in the Georgian style, with the southern elevation symmetrical and minimal decorative elements at the doorway. The southern elevation, the original front of the building, has more cut stone, although most of the house is constructed of field stone. Further down the slope of the knoll the main house sits on is a two-story spring house, the original house on the property. This is constructed as a traditional German colonial house, with a spring room and kitchen room on the bottom level. This house is listed in the 1760 tax records, and is assumed to be constructed between 1755 and 1760.</p><br>
<p>The New York State Inebriate Asylum, later known as Binghamton State Hospital, was the first institution designed and constructed to treat alcoholism as a mental disorder in the United States. In 2015, Binghamton University announced it had taken stewardship of the building and will proceed with plans for rehabilitation of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former New York State Inebriate Asylum building is located high on a prominent hilltop in eastern Binghamton, at 425 Robinson Street. It is a large and imposing Gothic Revival stone building.</p><br>
<p>The asylum was chartered in 1854, but site work and construction on this campus did not begin until 1857, in what were then the rural outskirts of Binghamton. The asylum admitted its first patients in 1864, but the building was not completed for another two years. It was the first large-scale public facility in which alcoholism was treated as a medical condition. It served this function until 1879, when it was converted to a mental hospital. The facilities were significantly enlarged in the 1880s, with the addition of many buildings that have since been demolished. The building remained in use as a mental hospital or psychiatric services center until 1993, when it was closed due to inadequate maintenance.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, SUNY Upstate Medical University took over the vacant building, with plans rehabilitate the main building and to establish a satellite campus on the grounds. Due to a general economic downturn, the university never developed the building beyond stabilizing its condition. In 2015, Binghamton University announced it had taken stewardship of the building and published plans for rehabilitation of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Historic District is a USA historic district located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was added to the register in 1978 and roughly bounded by Southlane Drive, Walnut, Third, and Parrett Streets. It consists of 1,010 acre and 425 buildings. It is also known as the Riverside Neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Located in the heart of the historic district is the Reitz Home Museum. It was built in 1871 and is noted as one of the finest examples of French Second Empire architecture in the United States. Other notable buildings are in the Italianate, Colonial Revival, and Renaissance Revival styles and include the Viele-Koch House (1856, c. 1872–1873), John Morford Stockwell House, Garvin House (c. 1860), St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church (1886), Nisbet House (1878), Sonntag-Bayard House (1863), Bosse House (1916), Duke House (1892), First Presbyterian Church (1873), Zurstadt House (c. 1853).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Bremond Block Historic District is a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, constructed from the 1850s to 1910.</p><br>
<p>The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. Six of these houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles. They are located within the square block bordered by West Seventh, West Eighth, Guadalupe, and San Antonio streets. The district also includes several houses on the west side of San Antonio and the south side of West Seventh, at least three of which were built or altered by the North family. The John and Pierre Bremond houses are currently owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, and the John Bremond house serves as the headquarters for the association.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings in the Bremond Block Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The historic district consists of eleven structures.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Macrina is the site of the largest pilgrimage among Ruthenian Byzantine Catholics in North America. It is also home to the monastery of Byzantine Catholic Order of Sisters of St. Basil.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Established in 1933 by Mother Macrina Melnychuk (1879-1948) near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the pilgrimage takes place each Labor Day weekend on the grounds of the Basilian monastery there, drawing more than 30,000. Mount Saint Macrina, named for Saint Basil&#39;s sister, Saint Macrina, was formally dedicated in 1934.</p><br>
<p>Once named Oak Hill, it was the estate (more than 1,000 acres) of coal baron J.V. Thompson (Josiah Van Kirk Thompson), a leading figure in the great coal and coke boom of the late 19th century. Financial misfortune forced him into bankruptcy, and in 1933 the Byzantine Catholic Order of Sisters of St. Basil acquired the property. The Thompson mansion, visible from USA Route 40, is now the Sisters&#39; retreat center.</p><br>
<p>The monastery for the community of sisters is a five-story yellow brick building at the north end of the property. An international Order, other groups of the Sisters of St. Basil are spread throughout the world. The newest building on the property is Mount Macrina Manor Nursing Home, dedicated in 1971. Today, the Thompson Mansion serves as a retreat center.</p><br>
<p>Brothers of Prayers previously held their weekly prayer gathering on the Mount Saint Macrina grounds originally in the Trinity Center and eventually the House of Prayer chapel. The Brothers have moved to St. Thérèse de Lisieux Church, 61 Mill Street, Uniontown, PA. Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:15 PM EST.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the Department of the Interior named Mount Saint Macrina to the National Register of Historic Places under its old name of "Oak Hill Estate."</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>Basil Takach, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Stephen Kocisko, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Thomas Dolinay, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Basil Schott</p><br>
<p>George Kuzma</p><br>
<p>Albert N Skomra - who lived nearby and loved to go for a run on the grounds- is now buried there</p><br>
<p>The Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments Historic District, built between 1916 and 1921, is located at Jones Street from 20th to 23rd Streets in Midtown Omaha, in the USA state of Nebraska. Built in combined Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival and Prairie School styles, the complex was designated a City of Omaha Landmark in 1978; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1980. The historic district originally included 6.5 acre with 19 buildings. In 2014, boundary of the historic district was expanded by 0.74 acre include three additional buildings, and decreased by 3 acre to remove open space and parking that had been re-purposed, for a new total of 4.24 acre. The district was also renamed to Drake Court Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>Located in the formerly affluent and prosperous mixed-use neighborhood west of downtown Omaha, the Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments were built between 1916-1921 by William B. Drake, a prolific builder who held more than four million dollars&#39; worth of apartments throughout Omaha in 1925. These particular buildings were built in both Georgian Revival and Prairie School styles. With beautiful landscaped grounds, marble floors in a number of units and a surrounding park-like atmosphere scattered throughout a mixed-use neighborhood, Drake Court was once a highly desired property.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings in the historic district include the Monroe Apartment Building, built in 1920. A four-story structure, it was rehabilitated in 1987. The Madison Apartments, built in 1927, were rehabilitated in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Three buildings were added in the 2014 expansion, the Ansonia, Ainsworth, and Beverly Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historic District, including several brick structures built in Italianate and other styles, was built for the USA Army between 1881 and 1894. Located in South Omaha between Hickory and 22nd Streets, Woolworth Avenue and the Union Pacific Railroad main line in Omaha, Nebraska, the depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1979. The depot previously operated as United States Army Reserve facility. The facility is considered surplus by the GSA and was put up for auction in the fall of 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1892, the depot commissary from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, moved to Omaha. The USA Army&#39;s Department of the Platte used the depot as a storage and distribution source for military outposts for 20 years, including its peak activity during World War I. During that period, the depot supplied camps and National Guard units throughout the Midwest.</p><br>
<p>During the Great Depression, the depot was activated as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt&#39;s New Deal program as a supply base for Civilian Conservation Corps camps across the United States. The depot previously operated as United States Army Reserve facility. On November 19, 2013, the property was put up for auction by the General Services Administration.</p><br>
<p>The South Omaha Main Street Historic District is located along South 24th Street between M and O Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Home to dozens of historically important buildings, including the Packer&#39;s National Bank Building, the historic district included 129 acre and more than 32 buildings when listed.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>The site of a historically vital commercial district in the History of Omaha, the South Omaha Main Street Historic District once comprised the urban core of the City of South Omaha, Nebraska. It includes businesses, the former South Omaha City Hall, a correctional facility, banks, a post office, professional offices, and specialty stores.</p><br>
<p>Renowned for its cultural influences, including the historic location of Omahas Greek, Russian, Polish and Czech immigrant communities, as well as the citys current growing Latino community, including Mexicans.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Carpenter Building is one such building in the South Omaha Main Street Historic District, built in 1916 as a one-story brick structure. The building housed a hardware store, until a fire in 1988. A rehabilitation in 1990 allowed the building to continue being used. Packer&#39;s National Bank Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Founded in 1891, the bank served employees of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha and the associated meat packing industry in South Omaha.</p><br>
<p>The Vanous Block, built in 1892, is a three-story contributing property for the district that was originally a warehouse. A 1992 rehabilitation converted it into a commercial and rental residential space. The Stockman Publishing Company building is a two-story building constructed in 1890 that was converted to office and residential space in 1992. The Brandes Block is a three-story brick building that was built in 1889. The building was converted to a mixed commercial and rental residential use in 1991. The Roseland Theater, built in the 1920s, was a theater through the mid-1980s. In 1991 the building was converted into commercial and rental residential use. The Commercial Building is a one-story brick building that was originally a livestock supply dealership. The building was converted to retail and warehouse space in 1994.</p><br>
<h3>Notable locations</h3><br>
<p>The Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain, also known as A Song to Nature, is a 1918 landmark public sculpture in bronze and granite by Victor David Brenner. It sits in Schenley Plaza at the entrance to Schenley Park and directly in front of the University of Pittsburgh&#39;s Frick Fine Arts Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The fountain is designated as a contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The work of art comprises two major figures: a reclining Pan, the Greek god of the wild, shepherds, and flocks, and above him a female singer playing a lyre. From crevices along the fountain&#39;s rim four turtles spew water into the basin. An inscription on the pedestal reads, "A Song of Nature, Pan the Earth God Answers to the Harmony and Magic Tones Sung to the Lyre by Sweet Humanity." The basin of the fountain is 15 feet high, above which the figures rise another 15 feet.</p><br>
<p>The fountain honors Mary Schenley, a major philanthropist to the city of Pittsburgh. In 1889, after intensive lobbying by Edward Manning Bigelow, director of parks for the City of Pittsburgh, Schenley donated the land for the park named in her honor. Upon her death in 1903, Pittsburgh City Council sponsored a national competition for the memorial. The judges selected the design by Brenner, who is famous for his design of the still-circulating Lincoln cent.</p><br>
<p>In June 2008, restoration efforts were begun that included repairs, cleaning, plumbing, paving, and landscaping. A gift from the Benter Foundation will provide lighting for the fountain and plaza.</p><br>
<p>The Snead Building located at 815 W. Market St. is a multi-use facility housing two working glass studios : a Walk-In Workshop and tours by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1850 to 1901, at least seven different glass manufacturing factories operated in Louisville. Six were utilitarian bottle houses, and the other manufactured window and plate glass. In 1850 the first glass bottle and jar-making firm, known as the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which, by 1855, was being referred to under the name "Louisville Glass Works". ("Louisville KY Glass Works" is the actual wording on some of their embossed whiskey flasks of the 1850s and 1860s era). That bottle making firm was located on the southeast corner of Franklin and Clay Streets. However, that firm was defunct by 1873, and bears no relationship to the much later glassmaking business that operated in the old Sneath building under the name "Louisville Glassworks".</p><br>
<p>In 1896 Edwin Penna began operation, and has gone under five generations of Penna ownership.</p><br>
<p>The downtown location has historically been known as the Snead Manufacturing Building, and was put on the National Register in 1978. Snead was responsible for building many iron buildings around the country, including on Louisville&#39;s "Whiskey Row" on Main Street, and supplied the decorative ironworks for the State, Navy and War Building in Washington, DC. After the old building burnt down, the architect was told to build a "first-class fireproof power building".</p><br>
<p>The Louisville Glassworks business closed its doors in 2012, but glass continues there today.</p><br>
<p>Since 2012, The Louisville Glassworks building has been home to Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery, who relocated there from their previous location in the NuLu district, and also the home of the Mark Payton Glass Center, The Foundry at Glassworks, and various other businesses on the top floors.</p><br>
<p>The Glassworks building still boasts one of the largest privately owned hot glass studios in the country, and a nationally recognized glass art gallery which showcases artists from across the globe.</p><br>
<p>The Morewood School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 30 South Mountain Road in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Built in 1843, it was converted to a vacation cottage in the 1980s after serving for 130 years as a schoolhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Originally located on 4 acre around 1825, the lot has been reduced to 1 acre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Named after the Morewood family who owned "Broad Hall", the current Pittsfield Country Club, the schoolhouse was built around 1843. According to a record book retained by the Berkshire County Historical Society kept by Jesse Oliver Howard, who attended the school in 1865, the original school house burned in June 1841 when several classmates started a fire in the playground during the noon time recess. When Jesse Howard attended the school, the pupils ranged in age from 4–16 years old sitting in benches with no backs. Until 1925, water was drawn from the Howard brook in the wood next to the school. Morewood educated the children of the local early families such as the Howards, Luces and Melvilles. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and three other novels while living with his family in the nearby Arrowhead farm from 1850-1863.</p><br>
<p>Horace Mann accepted the position of First Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts in 1837 when Edward Everett was governor. He took office at a time when glaring weaknesses existed in public education in Massachusetts. He went to Pittsfield in the Berkshire Hills, in western Massachusetts to hold a "teachers’ institute," or convention. He reached the town, in the morning, only to find that no arrangements had been made, and that the little red schoolhouse in which the institute was to be held was in no presentable condition.</p><br>
<p>When Governor Everett saw the condition of the schoolhouse, both he and Mr. Mann were determined to conquer what the secretary called "the arctic regions of Pittsfield" (because of its lack of interest); so, while the secretary was "putting things to rights", the governor made a raid on the nearest dwelling house, borrowed two brooms, and when the aroused and curious inhabitants strolled into the schoolhouse, they stood open-eyed with wonder to see the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the secretary of the State Board of Education sweeping and dusting the schoolroom, so that everything might be presentable when the hour for the institute arrived.</p><br>
<p>Several of the schools that he established still remain standing today in Berkshire County. It is very likely the Morewood School, the only surviving one room "red school" house, is the same school used for Horace Manns historical teachers institute.</p><br>
<p>The school house has the longest continuous use as a school in New England, seeing continuous use for 130 years. It was used as Pittsfield&#39;s USA Bicentennial Headquarters in 1975. The building was sold to Bob and Karen Clydesdale in 1984 and modernized while retaining the unique Greek revival exterior design features. It is now used as a vacation rental cottage.</p><br>
<p>The Montgomery Street School, also known as the Emma Dolfinger School and located at 2500-2506 Montgomery Street, Louisville, Kentucky, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1852, and once used as a Civil War hospital, it has been a school since 1869. It has since been expanded and renovated. It was formerly the Emma Dolfinger School, a public elementary school. Until 2008, the building was used by Portland Christian School as an elementary school, but Portland Christian has since consolidated the elementary school into its Portland Ave. campus one block to the south.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building is known as "the Dolfinger", and houses offices and artist studios. This development is part of the efforts of the Portland Investment Initiative.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon H. Pond House is a historic house in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Pond-Dakota Mission Park, which also includes the Oak Grove Mission site , a cemetery, and the remains of the Pond family farm and orchards. The site is significant within the history of the Minnesota River valley, the Dakota tribe, and Bloomington. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Gideon Hollister Pond (1810&ndash;1878) and his brother Samuel came to Minnesota with a mission to teach Christianity to the Indians and to teach them agriculture. The Ponds received permission in 1834 from Major Lawrence Taliaferro, the Indian agent at Fort Snelling, to establish a mission school near Bde Maka Ska (Lake Calhoun), where a band of Dakota spent their summers. Pond started work on writing a Dakota language dictionary. After a war broke out between the Dakota and the Ojibwa in 1839, the band of Dakota moved to a village near the Minnesota River, and Gideon Pond moved with them. He established a mission along the river bluffs. The area served as a mission between 1843 and 1852, when the Dakota were sent to a reservation further up the Minnesota River as a result of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. At that point, Pond bought this land and became a farmer. He also served as a member of Minnesota territorial House of Representatives 7th District, 1849&ndash;1850. Later, Pond started the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, which was originally located on land which is now the Bloomington Cemetery. The church later moved its building to the corner of Penn Avenue and Old Shakopee Road.</p><br>
<p>The home, located at 401 East 104th Street in Bloomington, is constructed of red brick and features chimneys serving each room. The home was occupied by Gideon and his wife Sarah, and is now open to the public on a limited basis.</p><br>
<p>Electric Tower  is a historic office building and skyscraper located at the corner of Washington and Genesee Streets in Buffalo. It is the seventh tallest building in Buffalo. It stands 294 ft and 14 stories tall and is in the Beaux-Arts Classical Revival style. It was designed by James A. Johnson and built in 1912. The tower was based upon an earlier Electric Tower constructed for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition; as with most of the buildings constructed for that event, the original was only temporary and demolished shortly after the fair ended. Additions were made in 1923 and 1928. The white terra-cotta clad was originally built as the Niagara Mohawk Building and features an octagonal tower which steps back three times to terminate in a large lantern. It is also known as Iskalo Electric Tower, for the real estate development company that owns the building.</p><br>
<p>The decorative symbols featuring aspects of electricity production are considered precursors to subsequent art deco design.</p><br>
<p>Like One M & T Plaza, the spire of the tower is illuminated with different holiday colors at night throughout the year. Both buildings are illuminated blue and gold for the Buffalo Sabres during the National Hockey League playoffs.</p><br>
<p>The Electric Tower hosts the annual Buffalo Ball Drop on New Years Eve, one of the continents largest ball drops outside the New York City ball drop. Crowds gather in Roosevelt Plaza to celebrate the New Year. The Buffalo Ball Drop is accompanied by live performances and a firework show.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Heck-Andrews House was finished in 1870 and was one of the first houses in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina to be constructed after the American Civil War. It is located at 309 North Blount Street. It was created by G.S.H. Appleget for Mrs. Mattie Heck, the wife of Colonel Jonathan McGee Heck. It is on the National Register of Raleigh Historic Property. The house has a dramatic central tower capped with a convex mansard roof with a balustrade. The central part of the -story, Second Empire style frame dwelling is enclosed with a concave mansard roof with patterned slate.</p><br>
<p>The house was owned by the Heck family until 1916 and was sold to A.B. Andrews. In 1948, Andrews heir sold the house to Julia Russell. The North Carolina government bought the house in 1987 planning to refurbish the structure. The exterior refurbishment was completed, however the State sold the house to the North Carolina Association of Realtors in January 2016 who plan on using it as an office building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Capehart House is a Queen Anne style house built circa 1898 by Charles P. Snuggs for Lucy Catherine Capehart and her second husband, B. A. Capehart. Located on 424 North Blount Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, it is one of the best examples of Queen Anne style architecture still standing in Raleigh. The Capehart House has an irregular skyline made of towers, turrets, dormers, and pediments, and luxurious facades ornamented with stained glass and decorative wooden designs.</p><br>
<p>After Capehart&#39;s death, H. H. Crocker owned the home, which was used for apartments, until 1947. The state bought the house in 1971, and has been used as governmental office space since. In 1979, the house was moved from its former location at 403 North Wilmington Street to 424 North Blount Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Dodd-Hinsdale House was built in 1879 for the family of the Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, city mayor. It was constructed in the Italianate style, with some Second Empire embellishments.</p><br>
<h2>Background and early history</h2><br>
<p>The Dodd-Hinsdale House was fabricated in 1879 in Raleigh, North Carolina, for city mayor, William H. Dodd. It is a brick house with bracketed eaves, narrow Segmental arch windows, porches, and carved millwork—which are all characteristic of the Italianate style. The shallow gable roof is also an Italianate feature, but the tower with concave mansard roof and ornate dormers is distinctly "Second Empire" in style. Despite the mix of features, Virginia and Lee McAlester classified the house as Italianate with an uncommon mansard roof. The design is very similar to an 1875 wood house at 304 Oakwood Avenue which was constructed by the same builder. The structure is a surviving example of the luxurious and prestigious houses built on Hillsborough Street in the late 19th century, many of which have since been replaced by modern commercial buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, Dodd sold the house to John W. Hinsdale. The house was kept in the Hinsdale family until 1971. For a couple of decades the fate of the house was uncertain—despite its 1971 listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a Raleigh Historic Property. At the end of the 1980s, the owners attempted to renovate the house—but failed to complete it—leaving the house vacant and partially gutted. On September 9, 1997, it was bought by a private company and turned into a luxury restaurant named "Second Empire," giving recognition to its past and architectural design.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Harris, Linda L., et al., An Architectural and Historical Inventory of Raleigh, North Carolina; Raleigh; City of Raleigh Planning Department and The Raleigh Historic Properties Commission; 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon Pelton Farm is a Registered Historic Place located on Rockafellow Lane in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York. Pelton settled the area in the 1770s and built the house soon afterwards. A stone wing was built on it before the end of the century, and in the 1830s a large frame section was added in the then-popular Greek Revival style that gave the house its current character. It continues to be used as a farmhouse to this day. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Tweddle Farmstead is a Registered Historic Place located on Beaverdam Road in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York. Built in the early 19th century by Bercoon van Alst, it was added to significantly in the 1830s in the Greek Revival style. This gave the house its current front. Thomas Tweddle bought the house in 1868, and it has remained in his family since.</p><br>
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<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
