<p>The Barns-Brinton House is an historic brick house located between Hamorton and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was constructed in 1714 by William Barns, who operated it as a tavern from 1722 until his death in 1731.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History and features</h2><br>
<p>The tract with the house and additional land was subsequently purchased by two others, the latter of whom, James Brinton, was the property owner when the house was endangered by the 1777 approach of Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, as he marched his British troops to the Battle of Brandywine during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>It remained in Brinton&#39;s family until 1859, then passed through several owners until the property was purchased and restored by the Chadds Ford Historical Society in 1969.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h3>Present day</h3><br>
<p>The house is owned and operated by the Chadds Ford Historical Society as a historic house museum, as well as the John Chads House.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Church of Gilberts is a historic church in Gilberts, Illinois. The Catholic church was built for the increasing population in the town in the late 19th century. The church is an excellent example of the rural Stick Style designs that some churches developed in the 1880s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gilberts, Illinois developed shortly after the construction of the Chicago and North Western Railroad in 1851. An early increase in the number of Catholic locals required the construction of a much larger Catholic church. A church (the second Gilberts church with the St. Marys name) was demolished in 1882 to make room for a new one. The present St. Marys Church of Gilberts was built later that year at a cost of $2,800, using some of the materials from the previous church. A local carpenter, Oliver Kelly, designed and built the church in the Stick Style. Uncertainty remains about how the church leaders decided on that style, but it may have been due to pattern books distributed to church leaders in the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was built on the northwest corner of Mattesen St. and Union St. (now Galligan Rd.). The design of the church is consistent with rural interpretations of the Stick Style. The front of the one-story church faces the southeast. The rectangular frame structure features a steep gable roof but no steeple. This asphalt shingle roof is accentuated with dormers and window hoods and has wide eaves on either side. Large stained glass rose windows adorn the front and rear ends of the church, each with a large pointed arch above it and five smaller window arches below it. The front and two sides have additional stained glass windows with pointed arch openings. The front side had an additional quatrefoil window in the gable. Concrete steps with iron railings lead to the entrance, which features oak paneled double doors. Additional doorways are located on the east and north sides; the east doorway is the only entrance to the basement, which was built in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The interior resembles a simple basilica with a high nave, a vestibule, and low aisles. A stairway on the left leads to the choir loft. A second set of wooden doors separated the vestibule from the rest of the interior. The interior walls are covered with plaster in shades of yellow. Statues, the altar table, and the tabernacle were restored in 1990. The altar is painted white with gold trim. The floor is pine, covered with linoleum under the pews and with carpet and sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>The Hugh W. and Sarah Sample House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Hugh Sample became the mayor of Keokuk in 1858 and had the house built the following year. He lived in the residence until his death in 1870. The 2½-story structure was designed in the Italianate style and is considered the finest and most intact example of that style in Keokuk. It follows an irregular plan and features tall narrow windows capped with elaborated crowns, a low pitch gabled roof, and wide bracketed eaves. At one time the house had an ornate cupola. The rooms on the interior have 12 ft ceilings The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Sandy Second Ward Chapel  is a location in Sandy, Utah listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by the architect Don Carlos Young, a son of Brigham Young. It was later sold by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</p><br>
<p>It is built of dark maroon brick on a concrete foundation. A parapet mostly hides the building&#39;s low roof. It has</p><br>
<p>four Tuscan columns made of granite-like cast aggregate at its front entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Justice Samuel Freeman Miller House is a historic building in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It is now operated as the Miller House Museum by the Lee County Historical Society. The significance of this house is its association with Samuel Freeman Miller who had it built. Originally from Kentucky, he was a physician and a lawyer with a national reputation. Miller was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln to serve on the United States Supreme Court in 1862. His was the first nomination to the court of a person who resided west of the Mississippi River. He served on the court for 28 years. Although he lived here for only two years, Miller always considered this his home.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story structure designed in the Italianate style. It has an exposed basement on the rear of the structure. The brick residence is capped with a low-pitched hip roof and bracketed eaves. The bracketed porch on the main level features a balcony on the second floor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Mary Smith House is a house on the National Register of Historic Places in Draper, Utah, United States. It was listed in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The house was built around 1883 by Lauritz Smith for his first wife, Mary Kristine Mickelsdotter Smith, to avoid prosecution under the Edmunds Act. Since this law made "cohabitation" illegal, the theory was that if he created a new house for Mary and had his second wife Hannah in his main house he would avoid prosecution.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story brick house built on a granite foundation. It has a cross-wing plan and intersecting gable roofs.</p><br>
<p>The Keokuk Young Women&#39;s Christian Association Building is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The local YWCA was organized in 1905 and initially leased space for their activities. The land for this building was donated by Gerard Huiskamp. Completed in 1913, the building was designed by local architect Harry E. Ratcliffe. It is representative of transitional architecture in the early 20th century. The two-story brick structure is built on top of a full basement. It features Art Deco tile ornamentation. The exposed basement level is concrete that is designed to look like stone.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the YWCA, the building served as a hub for social activities in the community. It was home to the YWCA for nearly 50 years until it merged with the YMCA, which sat across the street. From 1953 to 1975, both buildings were used by the combined organization. In 1975 a modern facility replaced the two older buildings, and the former YMCA building, which had been built in 1899, was torn down that year. In 1976 the first floor of the former YWCA building was renovated for use as the courthouse for southern Lee County. Those functions were transferred to the former United States Post Office and Courthouse in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The C. R. Joy House, also known as The Grande Anne Bed & Breakfast, was a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was destroyed by fire in July 2018. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was significant as one of the largest and most ornate residences in Keokuk, and its association with the Knoxville, Tennessee architectural firm of George Franklin Barber & Company, which designed it. Clyde Royal Joy, who had this Queen Anne style house built in 1897, was a local businessman that served as the national director of the YMCA. He employed the Cleveland decorating firm of Hungate & Bowman to design the house&#39;s interior. The lot across the street was once part of this property. It was planted as a formal garden, and offered views of the Mississippi River from the house. Joy sold the property to Karl and Irene Madden in 1945, and he died in 1951. It was the only Queen Anne-style house in the historic district that retained all of its details.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 2½-story residence featured a balloon frame built on a foundation of locally quarried stone. The interior diameter of the three-story corner tower was 11 ft. The first floor exterior was faced with a light buff sandstone laid in rock-faced broken ashlar with cut stone trim. The second floor was faced with white pressed brick manufactured by the St. Louis Pressed Brick Company. The house was capped with a hipped roof with cross gables and three chimneys. The asymmetrical wrap-around porch featured a turret at its north end and a pediment over its entry from the front walk.</p><br>
<p>Lattingtown Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Lattintown, Ulster County, New York. The meeting house form building was built about 1810 during the Federal period. It is a two-story, heavy timber-frame structure with queen post and purlin roof framing. It was extensively renovated during the 19th century to add an eclectic blend of Gothic and picturesque-inspired elements. Also on the property is the church cemetery, with burials dating to 1817; privy; and stone walls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Camak House, at 279 Meigs Street, Athens, Georgia, was built in about 1834 by James Camak and featured in Georgia&#39;s early railroad history. An example of Federal architecture, it has a number of features unusual for its period, including a kitchen within the raised basement, and closets. Both main floors have four rooms; the stairwell has a mahogany railing, and moldings and trim were made using a Greek key pattern. After long service as a family home, it was used as a Masonic Lodge before being bought by Coca-Cola Enterprises. In 1975 Camak House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but the building had by then fallen into disrepair. It was restored and used as the offices of a law firm. As of December 2011, it is for sale.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and early history</h2><br>
<p>Built atop a hill,</p><br>
<p>The floors were constructed using "knot-free heart-pine", and solid mahogany was used for the railing of the stairwell. Details include silver-plated doorknobs, "hand-forged locks and latches", and "a simple but visually striking Greek key pattern" for moldings and trim. Camak House was built with closets – a very unusual feature for the time.</p><br>
<p>Camak House was the location for a meeting to organize what became "the first successful railroad company in Georgia and only the third such company in the United States". James Camak was named president of the company, and later served as the first president of Georgia Railroad Bank.</p><br>
<p>Five generations In 1949, the house was purchased to serve as the Mount Vernon Lodge No. 22, F. & A. M (Masonic lodge); then in 1979 by the Athens Coca-Cola Bottling Company.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration and current use</h2><br>
<p>Albert Sams was president of the Athens Coca-Cola Bottling Company when it acquired Camak House.</p><br>
<p>The house and grounds had fallen into decay by 1993, when the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the law firm of Winburn, Lewis and Barrow formed a partnership to purchase Camak House from Coca-Cola Enterprises. The trust added protective covenants before selling the property on to the law firm, one of whose partners was John Barrow, who served as the "prime mover in these negotiations". A local company, S&W Development Corp, whose owner, Smith Wilson had been working in historic preservation for 18 years, was contracted to carry out the restoration work. The original floor plans, which had been altered during the Masons tenure, were reinstated; Wilson was able to use drawings made of Camak House during the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administrations documentation of historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s restoration for use as law offices has been described by Elizabeth Dalton of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation as "an excellent example of adaptive use".</p><br>
<h2>Historic status</h2><br>
<p>Camak House was listed as a "point of interest" in the WPA Guide to Georgia (which characterized the architecture as Georgian Colonial). The Athens Historical Society dedicated a historical marker on the grounds in 1963. The Historic American Buildings Survey documented Camak House (GA-14-67); on July 7, 1975, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places; on March 6, 1990, it was locally designated a Historic Landmark; and recognized by the Georgia Historical Marker Program (029–10).</p><br>
<p>The Frank J. Weess House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Built from 1880 to 1881, it is considered a fine, although a rather restrained, example of the Second Empire style. The relative restraint of the rest of the house allows the architectural focus of the structure to be its rather elaborate main entrance and front porch. The two-strory brick structure is capped by a mansard roof with bracketed eaves and pedimented dormer windows. The windows on the rest of the house are capped with stone hoods. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Frank J. Wees was a native of the Netherlands and came to the United States in 1849. He was a butcher by trade and by 1860 he established a successful meat business in Keokuk. He also owned considerable amounts of real estate in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Alois and Annie Weber House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. The significance of the three-story house is its association with the period of industrial growth in the city when it was built and as a fine local example of the Second Empire style. It features an asymmetrical concave mansard roof, decorative brackets, and pedimented dormer windows. The house is noteworthy for its tall narrow windows and high ceilings. Two additions were added to the rear of the house not long after the main house was built. The Queen Anne-style wraparound porch is supported by 14 classical columns. It also features a balustrade and spindlework along the beadboard ceiling. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Alois Weber founded A. Weber & Co., a hardware business and was known throughout the Midwest. He ran the business until his death in 1917. His wife Annie owned a millinery shop from 1856 to 1887. She died in 1898.</p><br>
<p>The John N. and Mary L.  Irwin House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally built by James F. Daugherty who bought the property from Judge Charles Mason in 1856. Its historical significance is its association with John N. Irwin. He was a lawyer and local businessman who served two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, five terms as mayor of Keokuk, territorial governor of the Idaho Territory, and the Arizona Territory. He also served as the USA minister to Portugal. Irwin bought the house and raised his family here with his wife Mary after his time in Idaho. He lived here until he died in 1905.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>This is the oldest house in The Park Place-Grand Avenue Residential District. It reflects a combination of architectural styles, namely Greek Revival, Italianate, and Neoclassical. It is not known what the house looked like when it was originally built, but it is thought the Greek Revival elements on the lower part of the house may be an indicator of its style. The 2½-story structure is composed of brick with a limestone foundation and a hip roof with a bracketed cornice. A large dormer with a Palladian window is located in the center of the main facade. The front porch is not original and is thought to date to the turn of the 20th-century. Other changes were made during Irwin&#39;s ownership. A ballroom was located at the top of the house, but on warm summer evenings the parties were moved to the backyard, which was all brick at the time. It has subsequently been landscaped. The house is located at the crest of a bluff that overlooks the Mississippi River and Lock and Dam No. 19.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Iowa, now known as the Historic Hotel Iowa, is a historic building located in downtown Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was built from 1912–1913 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A consortium of interests known as the Hotel Iowa Company, including the Mississippi River Power Company who had recently built the Keokuk Dam, planned for and built the hotel. The seven-story structure was designed by St. Louis architect Guy C. Mariner, and built from 1912 to 1913 by the Guaranty Construction Company of Chicago. The Hotel Iowa Company continued ownership until 1926 when it was sold to Ward B. Brown and his wife. For most of its history, the building has served as a hotel until it was converted into a commercial building. However, storefronts housing a variety of commercial interests have always existed on the first floor. The building is significant as the best example of the Chicago Commercial architectural style in the city. It was also the largest hotel in Keokuk and the only one built with "modern" construction methods utilizing "fireproof" and new structural building techniques.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building follows a rectangular plan that measures 140 by. From the second to the seven floors the building is U-shaped. There is an eighth-floor level that houses the elevator machinery. The building is capped by a flat roof that has a raised parapet around its perimeter. The structure is supported by fifty-seven full height reinforced concrete columns. It also features concrete floors and roof with an exterior composed of brick and tile curtain walls. Sullivanesque ornamentation is featured on the main level, and a decorative belt course is located between the six and the seventh floors. The marquees above the Main Street and Fourth Street entrances are believed to be original.</p><br>
<p>The E. H. Harrison House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was designed in a combination of Federal, Greek Revival, and Second Empire styles by local architect Frederick H. Moore, and built in 1857 by local builder R.P. Gray. It is believed that this is the first house in Iowa to have a Mansard roof, which is its Second Empire influence. The Federal style is found in the building&#39;s large windows, the elliptical doorway arch, the bowed two story front bay, and the brickwork. The</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival style is found in the offset doorway. Its interior features a unique open, two-story, self-supporting staircase that is said to be one of seven in existence in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The man who had the house built was Enos H. Harrison, who was a successful businessman originally from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He and his family settled in Keokuk in 1849. In Iowa, he helped establish the Keokuk Branch of the Iowa State Bank where he served as its first president. He also helped to establish the waterworks in Keokuk and the Iowa State Insurance Company. Harrison was involved with other business interests and the local Unitarian Church, which was located next door. He also served four terms as First Ward Alderman in Keokuk. Harrison died here in 1877, and the family sold the house. It was converted into offices around 1967. The building is said to be haunted by a friendly ghost, although it reportedly chased out one of the building&#39;s tenants. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Gen. Samuel R. Curtis House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. Samuel R. Curtis was an engineer, congressman and served as mayor of Keokuk in the 1850s. He was the hero of the Battle of Pea Ridge during the American Civil War. Curtis was the first Major General from Iowa during the war. Curtis had this Greek Revival house built about 1849. The significance of the house is its association with Curtis, who died in 1866. It remained in the Curtis family until 1895 when it was sold. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story rectangular limestone structure. When it was built it was L-shaped, but an 1857 renovation brought it to its current shape. It features a full-width front porch supported by Ionic columns and Adamesque details that was part of a later renovation. It has a walk-out basement in the back. In the back of the property is a two-story carriage house, which is not a part of the houses historic designation because it was built after Curtis death.</p><br>
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<p>The Gen. William Worth Belknap House is a historic building located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. William Worth Belknap moved to Keokuk from upstate New York in 1853 to practice law. He built this Greek Revival style house the following year. It is a two-story brick structure with a single-story wing. The two story section is original, while the single-story section is an addition, built shortly afterward. The house features narrow window openings with simple stone lintels and sills. It is built on a stone foundation covered with concrete and capped with a low-pitched gable roof whose ridge is parallel to the street. The front porch is not original. Belknap resided here with his mother and two sisters.</p><br>
<p>The significance of the house is its association with Belknap. During his ownership, he was involved in several battles during the American Civil War and was brevetted a major general. He served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. Belknap was impeached by the House of Representatives for improper conduct by selling army post traderships. After he resigned his cabinet post, he sold this house and moved to Philadelphia. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Park Place-Grand Avenue Residential District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The area was where successful Keokuk businessmen built their homes. It was known as the "best place to live in Keokuk." and still holds that distinction. The Park Place/Grand Avenue Historic district features 146 years of architecture from 1856 until 2002. In 1856, Charles Mason, a former Chief Justice of the Iowa Territory, platted Mason&#39;s Upper Addition to the city of Keokuk. This area extends from 10th avenue on the north to the river bluff edge on the south. The city was in the midst of a building boom at the time, and half-dozen houses were built before the Financial Panic of 1857. After the Panic, there was a slow development of Park Place from 4th to 5th and Grand Avenue from 6th to 10th. As individual businessmen prospered, they built houses along the Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The houses along Orleans and Park Place on the southern end of the district are generally smaller and built on more compact lots than those further north along Grand Avenue. Most of the newer homes are located north of Tenth Street. It is believed that most of the homes are architect-designed even though only a few names are known, and they follow a variety of architectural designs that were popular at the time they were built.</p><br>
<p>The John N. and Mary L. (Rankin) Irwin House (1856) and the C. R. Joy House (1897) are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.(The Joy house was destroyed by fire in 2018).</p><br>
<p>Other homes of interest include the home built by Samuel T. Marshall, co-founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, a home designed by Barry Byrne (a student of Frank Lloyd Wright), the Corydon Rich mansion built in 1918 on part of the former J.C. Hubinger estate, and the residence of Jean (Mrs. Felix) Hughes, grandmother of Howard Hughes. The home was built without closets because Mrs. Hughes believed that closets bred moths and disease</p><br>
<p>Keokuk was a vital hub for the Union during the Civil War. More than 80,000 soldiers from throughout Iowa were staged at some point in Keokuk as they were shipped off to the various western fronts of the war and was the home of General Samuel Curtis, mayor of Keokuk 1856-1861. The city became the location for four Union army camps and four hospitals to care for wounded troops from April 17, 1862, until October 1, 1865. After the war ended, many veterans returned to Keokuk to settle and start businesses along the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. One pre-war resident was Samuel Clemons, who worked in his older brother Orion&#39;s printing business in 1855-1857 and he gave his first after-dinner talk in January 1856 before he became an author with the pen name Mark Twain. He also purchased a home for his mother, Jane Clemons, in Keokuk in 1889 and she lived there until her death in 1890.</p><br>
<p>The Spud Drive-In Theater is a drive-in theater between Victor and Driggs, Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Located in a potato-farming region, the theater&#39;s entrance sign features a giant potato on the back of a 1946 Chevrolet flat-bed truck. The drive-in was built by Ace Wood in 1953. The theatre has also hosted concerts, including a 2010 concert by the band Widespread Panic. Financial difficulties in 2011 threatened to close the drive-in, but arrangements were made to continue its operation.</p><br>
<p>On the evening of April 4, 2022, the original screen structure was destroyed in a windstorm. Manager Katie Mumm said that it would be rebuilt in the same colors as the original structure and that they will probably need to replace the screen.</p><br>
<p>In August 2023, MD Nursery purchased the Spud. MD Nursery owns the surrounding land and operates a commercial landscaping company. The new owners plan to keep the theater in operation.</p><br>
<h2>SpudFest Family Film and Music Festival 2004-2008</h2><br>
<p>Spud Drive-In Theater was the home base for the film screenings, music performances and parties of The SpudFest Family Film and Music Festival, which was an annual film festival from 2004 to 2008. It was established in the summer of 2004 by Dawn Wells, the original Mary Ann from Gilligan&#39;s Island and founded as a natural outgrowth of the Idaho Film and Television Institute and Film Actors Boot Camp.</p><br>
<p>SpudFest was discontinued in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ is located in Denmark, Iowa, United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Denmark Congregational Church in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The church building is a brick structure with a truncated square tower. A tall, slender spire had been completed in 1871, but was lost in a storm in 1953. Instead of replacing it, the crenelations were created at the top of the tower instead. A pedimented vestibule is located at the base of the tower. The side elevations are three bays long with a round-arch window in each bay. The interior of the church is plain. An education wing was built to the west of the church in 1958, and a vestibule on the east side (date unknown) replaced a previous vestibule.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Marlboro, Ulster County, New York. The church was designed by architect Richard Upjohn and built in 1858 in the Gothic Revival style. It is built of dark red brick with contrasting brownstone detailing. It features a square entry tower and polygonal apse with steeply pitched roofs, with polychrome slate shingles on the main section. It also has a notable collection of stained glass windows designed by D. Maitland Armstrong . Also on the property is the church rectory  and cemetery, with burials dating before 1840.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Barton Heights is a streetcar suburb neighborhood and former town in the Northside area of Richmond, Virginia. The area was primarily developed between 1890 and the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Begun as an area of development in Henrico County, Virginia in 1890 by James H. Barton, Barton Heights rapidly developed as the result of being linked via streetcar in 1894 across the deep ravine of the Bacon&#39;s Quarter branch of Shockoe Creek, which flows into the Shockoe Valley. The area incorporated as a town in 1896, and was annexed by the city of Richmond in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The Town of Barton Heights Historic District encompasses 367 contributing buildings (305 main</p><br>
<p>buildings and 62 outbuildings). They are primarily spacious wood-frame houses, most built in the first quarter of the 20th century, and sited on 50-foot-wide lots. The houses are largely built in the Queen Anne or Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Joel H. Hubbard House, also known as the Ferson–Butler–Satterlee Home is a historic residence in St. Charles, Illinois. The Greek Revival structure is constructed of wood on a stone foundation with an asphalt roof. It remains structurally similar to its original 1854 design with the exception of a sunroom addition. Joel H. Hubbard was a carpenter who originally designed this house and lived there for at least a year. The next owner was George Ferson, a member of the Kane County Board of Supervisors. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Six Mile Run Reformed Church is located at 3037 New Jersey Route 27 in Franklin Park  of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1879, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 2009, for its significance in architecture and music.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation met at the Church of the Three Mile Run, which was built in 1703.</p><br>
<p>As the congregation grew, new churches were split off with a portion of the congregation. The Six Mile Run congregation emerged in 1710.</p><br>
<p>In 1720, Reverend Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen became the permanent pastor. He was sent from Holland to take charge of the Dutch churches of Middlesex, Somerset, and Hunterdon counties.</p><br>
<p>The first building on the present site was built in 1745.</p><br>
<p>The first building was replaced by a new building in 1766 and was later replaced in 1817 by a third structure on the same site. The current building replaced the 1817 church that was destroyed by fire on January 7, 1879. Within a year the current building was erected and dedicated.</p><br>
<p>The Frelinghuysen Memorial Chapel was added in 1907. Electricity was installed in 1926. In 1958 Fellowship Hall was dedicated and the Frelinghuysen Memorial Chapel was renovated.</p><br>
<h2>Pastors</h2><br>
<p>1983, H. Eugene Speckman.</p><br>
<p>1720, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen. He was the first pastor of the Six Mile Run Reformed Church.</p><br>
<p>Johannes Arondeus</p><br>
<p>Hotel Broadalbin is a historic hotel at 59 W. Main St. in Broadalbin, Fulton County, New York. The property was recently renovated and reopened in July 2019 as a full-service hotel. It features a restaurant, bar and lounge, and operates year round.</p><br>
<p>The historic structure is a two-part building consisting of a two-story, brick block building built in 1854, when it was built as a glove store, and clapboard clad frame block added in 1881 when it was converted into a hotel. The brick block measures 30 feet by 90 and frame addition is 55 feet by 65 feet. Both have gable roofs and features a two-story, hipped roof verandah added about 1881.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Crandall Marine Railway is a historic dry dock facility located at Heart&#39;s Bay, 3 mi southwest of Ticonderoga in Essex County, New York. It was built in September 1927 by the Lake George Steamboat Company as its primary facility for building, repairing and maintaining its fleet. Contributing structures on the property are the head house, tracks and a cradle.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Glick–Sower House, also known as the Susie Sower House, is located in Marshalltown, Iowa. The house was built in 1859 for Dr. George Glick and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993. It is operated as a historic house museum by the Historical Society of Marshall County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Glick, an early founder and promoter of Marshalltown sold his home to the George Sower family in 1870. George Sower emigrated from Germany in the 1840s and worked in the newspaper business, founding the Marshall Times, now known as the Marshalltown Times Republican. The home was owned by the Sower family until 1952, when Susie Sower willed the estate to the citizens of Marshall County.</p><br>
<p>Forestburgh Town Hall is a historic town hall located at Forestburgh in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1929 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in novelty wood siding. The building measures 30 feet long and 20 feet wide. It has a gable roof and sits on a concrete foundation. Also located on the property is a small privy built in 1924. The town hall is almost an exact replica of the previous town hall building that stood in the same spot from 1895 until it burned in 1928. It remains virtually unchanged since its construction.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Forestburg Town Hall outbuilding.jpgOutbuilding at the town hall</p><br>
<p>Interior of Forestburg (NY) Town Hall.jpgInside the town hall</p><br>
<p>The Prentis Building and DeRoy Auditorium Complex consists of two educational buildings, the Meyer and Anna Prentis Building and the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium, located respectively at 5201 and 5203 Cass Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, on the campus of Wayne State University. The buildings were built at the same time, and were designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki to interrelate functionally, spatially, and architecturally. The buildings were constructed at a critical point in Yamasaki&#39;s career when he was experimenting with ornamentation, light and shadow, and the use of pools and gardens to soften perception of standard International Style architecture. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In August 1955, Wayne State University hired architect Minoru Yamasaki to design the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The commission came after Yamasaki&#39;s long convalescence and subsequent trip to Japan, and was his first opportunity to put into practice his re-envisionment of architecture.</p><br>
<p>Both the McGregor Center and the campus master plan were completed in 1958. The McGregor Center opened to immediate accolades from architectural magazines who called it "delightful" and "refreshing," The building solidified Yamasaki&#39;s reputation as a masterful International Style architect.</p><br>
<p>Yamasakis campus master plan called for closing off streets to auto traffic and constructing a campus around pedestrian courts. Although the entirety of Yamasakis vision was never realized, he did design a total of four buildings on the campus: the aforementioned McGregor Memorial Conference Center in 1957-58, the College of Education Building in 1960, and the two buildings in this complex, the Prentis Building and adjoining Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium, in 1962-1964.</p><br>
<p>Yamasaki began work on both the Prentis Building and the DeRoy Auditorium in the late 1950s. The buildings were to be located directly across from the Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library, on a site that was then an open mall, known as the War Memorial Mall. The mall had been only recently completed (in late 1956). Part of the mall, on which the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium now sits, had been occupied by the childhood home of Michigan governor G. Mennen Williams.</p><br>
<h3>Meyer and Anna Prentis Building</h3><br>
<p>The Meyer and Anna Prentis Building was constructed to meet the needs of Wayne State&#39;s growing Business School. The school had been organized in 1946 with 459 undergraduates. By 1964, that number had grown to over 1400 undergraduates and 429 graduate students, with 55 faculty members.</p><br>
<p>Groundbreaking on the structure occurred on August 1, 1962, and the new home for the business school opened on January 28, 1964. The $2.3 million construction cost for the new building was supported through the philanthropy of Federick Meyer Stuart (Stennett) and Anna Mae Prentis (McDonald). A year-and-a-half after the opening, the building was rededicated as the Meyer and Anna Prentis Building. The building was used as the home of the Business School from its opening until the school relocated to a new location by Little Caesars Arena in 2018.</p><br>
<h3>Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium</h3><br>
<p>The Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium was constructed at the same time as the Prentis Building. It was built by the firm of Darin & Armstrong for a cost of approximately $600,000. The design and construction of the building was partly financed by a $323,000 gift from the Helen L. DeRoy Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Groundbreaking for the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium occurred on August 1, 1962, concurrently with the Prentis building, and the auditorium opened on March 3, 1964. It was built to serve the Business School, but has always been used more broadly as a lecture hall for the University as a whole.</p><br>
<h3>Meyer Leon Prentis</h3><br>
<p>Meyer Prentis was born as Meyer Leon Prensky in 1886 in Lithuania. At age two, he immigrated with his parents to St. Louis, where he attended grade school, high school and finally Jones Commercial College, where he specialized in accounting, finance and commercial law. After graduation, he worked first for a large mercantile firm, and then starting in 1904 at the Laclede Gas Light Company. His supervisor boss at Laclede, C. A. McGee, left to become the controller for the newly formed General Motors Corporation, and in 1911 recruited Prentis to be General Motors&#39;s chief accountant. In 1919, Prentis was elected treasurer of General Motors, a position he held until his retirement in 1951.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, Meyer married Anna Sylvia Steinberg, a secretary at General Motors. The couple had four daughters. Meyer Prentis spent significant time on philanthropy. He was a founder of the United Foundation of Greater Detroit, an early leader of the Jewish Welfare Federation, a trustee and president of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a trustee of the Temple Beth El, and a founding member of the Advisory Committee to Wayne State&#39;s new business school. Meyer Prentis died in 1970, and his wife Anna died in 1974.</p><br>
<h3>Aaron and Helen DeRoy</h3><br>
<p>Aaron DeRoy was born in 1880 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in dentistry. His wife, Helen Lowentritt DeRoy, was born in 1882 in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Her father earned a fortune in the oil industry, making Helen a wealthy young woman.</p><br>
<p>Aaron DeRoy changed careers when he became interested in automobiles. He sold first electric cars, then gasoline-powered ones, and eventually became a distributor for Studebaker. In 1922, having made a considerable fortune, he decided to retire. The DeRoys moved from Pittsburgh to Detroit, but in 1923, rather than retiring, Aaron founded the Aaron DeRoy Motor Car Company, which distributed Hudson-Essex automobiles. Aaron DeRoy continued to lead the DeRoy Motor Car Company until his death in an automobile accident in 1935.</p><br>
<p>After Aaron&#39;s death, Helen DeRoy assumed full responsibility for all of his financial operations, including the DeRoy Motor Car Company. She sold the firm in the early 1940s and subsequently established and directed the Helen L. DeRoy Foundation. The Foundation funded numerous major projects, including expanding the Jewish Community Center located on Woodward Avenue at Holbrook Street, construction of a theater at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, and a contributing to a number of Wayne State buildings. The Foundation also established a number of scholarships for deserving students at different universities. Helen DeRoy lived until 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Prentis Building and Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium are built directly adjacent to one another, with the Prentis Building situated on Cass Avenue directly across from the Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library. The DeRoy Auditorium sits approximately 30 yards behind the Prentis Building. The two buildings are connected by a tunnel.</p><br>
<h3>Meyer and Anna Prentis Building</h3><br>
<p>The Prentis Building is a rectangular, International Style, three-story steel-frame structure with a flat roof. A wide, off-center walk-through at ground level separates the building into north and south wings, and provides a view of the DeRoy Auditorium from Cass Avenue. The first floor is faced with buff-colored travertine marble, and the second and third stories are faced with cast concrete panels. Narrow windows are inset between the panels. The outer edges of the first floor are recessed back from the edge of the upper stories. Thin freestanding columns clad in marble-flecked concrete ring the lower floor, and meet the upper section at its edge, serving to support the two upper floors. The columns continue upward, terminating at the top of the building in a projecting finial.</p><br>
<p>On the north side of the first floor is a story-and-a-half study hall enclosed in glass panels, with a mezzanine to the north. The southern side of the first floor houses administrative offices, and the off-center walkway separating the two sections houses planters and a bench. The second and third floors are used for office space. Two double glass doors off the walkway open onto a double-turned staircase leading to the basement level. This level contains classrooms and lockers for the Wayne State School of Business Administration. The building contains a total of 65,000 ft&sup2; of classroom space, some of it underneath the surrounding mall. A basement-level tunnel connects the building to the Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium.</p><br>
<h3>Helen L. DeRoy Auditorium</h3><br>
<p>The DeRoy Auditorium is a nearly square two-story windowless steel-frame building with a flat roof with broadly projecting eaves. The façades are clad in narrow gray-colored cast concrete panels with white marble chips. On all four sides, raised ribs are overlaid on the panels, terminating in Gothic arches just beneath the eaves. The ribs project about four inches at ground level, but gradually increase in depth toward the top of the building until they project almost two feet near the top. The broad eaves and curving, projecting ribs create striking shadows. The gothic arch treatment on the DeRoy Auditorium is strongly similar to Yamasakis design of the United States Science Pavilion at the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, a commission he received while working on the DeRoy Auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The building is completely surrounded by a reflecting pool approximately three feet deep and twenty-two feet wide. Planters and benches line the pool (now dry), and shallow stairs allow access on the north and south sides. Bridges on the eastern and western sides of the building, as well as a tunnel from the Prentis Building, provide access. The bridges are paved with an aggregate containing marble chips, differentiating it from the surrounding sidewalk.</p><br>
<p>Inside, a small entrance lobby allows access to either the first floor auditorium or the auditorium on the lower level. The first floor auditorium seats 400 people, and the basement auditorium seats 300 people. Both auditoriums rake downward toward a front stage, and contain seating arranged in three sections, with two intermediate aisles. Restrooms are located on the lower level, as well as underground access to the Prentis Building.</p><br>
<h3>Context</h3><br>
<p>In the 1950s and 1960s, the Detroit area was a hotbed of Modernist architecture, with not only Yamasaki, but also Eero Saarinen, Alden Dow, and the designers at Cranbrook working in the area. Yamasaki was working to differentiate himself by exploring ornamentation and the use of historical forms like arches and columns, as well as the use of light and shadow, and integral pools and gardens. These buildings represent Yamasakis honing of his vision, and were built at a time when he was becoming increasingly famous, garnering commissions for the United States Science Pavilion at the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle and, in 1963, the World Trade Center.</p><br>
<p>The Werner–Gilchrist House was a historic house located in the University Heights neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built in 1908 as one of the earliest structures on the East Mesa, it was considered a pioneering building in Albuquerque&#39;s 20th-century suburban growth. It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 by Laura Werner—an employee of real estate developer and future mayor D.K.B. Sellers—and her son-in-law Ralph Gilchrist. Located on a corner lot in Sellers newly platted University Heights Addition, the house was originally surrounded by empty scrubland with no other buildings nearby except for the University of New Mexico campus to the northwest. Gilchrist and Werner died in 1920 and 1930, respectively, but Gilchrists widow (and Werner&#39;s daughter) Nora Gilchrist continued to live in the house until her own death in 1981.</p><br>
<p>After remaining vacant for decades, the decrepit house came to the attention of the city in 2005 when its owners applied for a demolition permit. Recognizing the historical importance of the building, the city denied the permit and designated the house a City of Albuquerque Landmark, which would protect it from being demolished without permission. However, the continuing deterioration of the home made it cost-prohibitive to renovate and it remained in limbo until safety concerns brought the issue to a head in 2011. The city ended up issuing a demolition permit, and the house was razed beginning on November 19, 2011. Three UNM architecture graduate students, Bron Heintz, Hilary Noll and Bailey Porter, intervened in the conventional demo-to-landfill process of building demolition by carefully disassembling and salvaging as much of the building as possible, and diverted over half of the materials from the waste stream for reuse.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Werner–Gilchrist House was an example of the "hipped box" style, with a wood-framed hip roof and dormer windows on all four sides.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Like many locations in Albuquerque, the Werner–Gilchrist House made an appearance in the AMC drama Breaking Bad. In the season two episode "ABQ", it portrayed a crackhouse nicknamed the "Shooting Gallery" due to the heroin addicts that "shoot up" heroin within. Before its demolition, the owner of the house offered to let it be blown up on the show, but the producers declined.</p><br>
<p>Hazard H. Sheldon House, also known as the Sheldon-Benham House, is a historic home located at Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York. It was built about 1857 and is a -story, L-shaped dwelling built of native gorge stone in the Italian Villa style. It has a low pitched gable roof with deep overhanging eaves. From 1857 to 1900, it was the home of Hazard H. Sheldon , an important figure in the early civic affairs of Niagara Falls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Engine House No. 2 and Hook and Ladder No. 9, also known as Jersey Street Firehouse, is a historic fire station located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1875 and is a -story, L-shaped brick building with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. A hook and ladder bay was added in 1897. The building was rebuilt in 1917 after a fire caused severe damage. The station was active until 1997, when it was closed as part of a consolidation in the Buffalo Fire Department. As of May 2011, the building was occupied by the paving contractor Beartooth Industries, LLC.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The McDonald Ranch is a historic ranch complex located 14 mi southwest of Chugwater in Laramie County, Wyoming. Donald McDonald, a Scottish immigrant, founded the ranch in 1881. McDonald developed his ranch using his personal savings, which was uncommon in a region where most ranches could draw upon outside capital or inheritances. However, his ranch became one of the most successful in northern Laramie County; by McDonald&#39;s death in 1925, the ranch was worth over $180,000 and had acquired portions of three other major ranches.</p><br>
<p>The ranch complex includes seven buildings, six of which are contributing buildings. The one-room log cabin McDonald built when he established the ranch still stands on the property. In 1890, McDonald built a stone ranch house to accommodate his growing family; the house, the main building on the ranch, is typical of the period and region, as the lack of local or imported timber made stone construction popular. Other contributing buildings on the ranch include two connected stock barns with gambrel roofs, a bunkhouse, a garage, and partially collapsed root cellars.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Clemson University Historic District I is a collection of historic properties on the campus of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The district contains eight contributing properties located along the northern portion of the campus. Included are some of the oldest academic buildings on campus. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Schieffelin Hall is a building from the American Old West in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the largest standing adobe structure still existent in the United States southwest. It was built in 1881 by Albert Schieffelin, brother of Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin, and William Harwood as a first class opera house, theater, recital hall, and a meeting place for Tombstone citizens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When the hall opened on the corner of Fremont and Fourth Streets on June 8, 1881, it seated 450 on the floor and 125 more in the gallery. The stage drop curtain was painted with a scene from Colorado and was considered a work of art. The building was the center for city entertainment and social events in Tombstone with formal balls and theatrical performances. When it opened, it was "the largest, most elaborate theater between El Paso, Texas and San Francisco, California." The first play, Tom Taylor&#39;s five-act drama, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, was staged on September 15, 1881. The Hall was scorched by a large fire that burned many blocks in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Schieffelin, his brother Ed, and their mining engineer partner Richard Gird formed a partnership, shaking hands on a three-way deal that was never put down on paper. The company they formed, the Tombstone Gold and Silver Mining Company, held title to the claims and worked the mines. They brought in two big strikes, the Lucky Cuss and the Tough Nut. The company produced millions of dollars of wealth for the three owners.</p><br>
<p>Along with the other claims, the three men owned a piece of the Grand Central mining claim which they shared with Hank Williams and John Oliver. The Schieffelin called their claim The Contention because of the many harsh words and legal fights over the legality of Williams and Oliver&#39;s claim. In early 1880, Gird lined up buyers for their interest in the Contention which they sold for $10,000. It would later yield millions in silver. They also sold a half-interest in the Lucky Cuss, and the other half turned into a steady stream of money. Later in 1880, Al and Ed Schieffelin sold their two-thirds interest in the Tough Nut for $1 million each to investors from Philadelphia, and sometime later Gird sold his one-third interest for the same amount. Al Schieffelin used a portion of his wealth to build Schieffelin Hall.</p><br>
<p>King Solomon Lodge #5, one of five founding Masonic Lodges in Arizona, was organized upstairs in the Masonic Hall on March 14, 1881. Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer, who figured prominently in exonerating the Earps and Doc Holliday of murdering Cowboys during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, was the first Master of the lodge.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The main entrance on Fourth Street is 119 ft long and 59 ft long. The adobe walls are 16 in thick. Overall, the building is 40 ft tall. The main entrance is a 12 ft high and 30 ft long that gives access to the 39 by auditorium with a seating capacity on the main floor of 450, and a gallery capacity of 125. The stage is 30 by. The curtain width of the stage is 24 ft wide and 21 ft high. The scenery loft is 16 ft high.</p><br>
<p>The building facing Fremont Street is 59 ft long has a secondary entrance. The first story is 14 ft high and 30 ft deep. The second story is 16 ft high and contains a 27 by Masonic Hall with three small ante-rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Investors from Detroit, Michigan, led by attorney Harold O. Love, bought the O.K. Corral, along with The Tombstone Epitaph, the Crystal Palace Hotel, and Schieffelin Hall in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Schieffelin Hall hadnt been maintained since 1917, and in 1963 it was restored and renovated by Historic Tombstone Adventures, which was formed to preserve many of the towns landmarks. On October 15, 1966, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1979 Historic Tombstone Adventures deeded it to the city. During 1990–1994, portions of the exterior were restored, the foundation was stabilized, window frames were replaced, and the outside was painted. In 1999, the adobe walls were repaired, the lobby and auditorium floors were refinished, and the rear of the building was covered with a metal roof. In 2015, the Arizona Department of Transportation undertook a project to replace sidewalk in a three-block area in front of the historic Schieffelin Hall and to rebuild a porch on the front of the building that has been missing for many years. The restorers manufactured 300 bricks using original techniques to match the original construction.</p><br>
<h2>Current uses</h2><br>
<p>Al Schieffelin&#39;s great-niece Mary Schieffelin Brady reopened the hall in 1964 and it remains an attraction in Tombstone. It is the largest standing adobe structure in the southwest United States.</p><br>
<p>Gird block tombstone.jpgThe Gird Block Building at left in 1880. Schiefflin Hall is to the right.</p><br>
<p>Tombstone1909.jpgSchieffelin Hall, the large white building, in 1908 from the roof of the county courthouse</p><br>
<p>T-Schiefflin Hall.jpgSchiefflin Hall as it currently appears</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office is a historic building located in downtown Iowa Falls, Iowa, United States. Built in 1914, the structure was designed in the Neoclassical style, with Oscar Wenderoth as the supervising architect. The 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago was a major influence in the building&#39;s design. The foundation is composed of North Carolina granite, while the walls are dark red brick that is laid in an English cross bond. The main entrance is framed by a portico that is held up by four columns of the Doric order. The interior features woodwork of white oak, a marble-terrazo floor, and a vaulted ceiling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The W.R.C. Hall is a historic building located in Iowa Falls, Iowa, United States. Built in 1898, the building has segmented arched windows and a bracketed metal cornice, which are features of the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>W.R.C. stands for the Womans Relief Corps, which was created to serve the needs of American Civil War veterans, widows and orphans. The local group was organized as the Payne Post #48 in 1886. They organized such events as Easter programs, entertainment, oyster suppers, flower sales, and they cared for veterans graves. As their numbers declined the W.R.C. deeded the building to the American Legion, who eventually deeded it to the city of Iowa Falls. They sold it to a local person and it has been used as a commercial building. It is now used as an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Gray–Watkins Mill or Gray&#39;s Mill is a historic structure in Montgomery, in the USA state of Illinois. The building was an early turbine mill on the Fox River, and was later used by an automobile parts manufacturer. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gray–Watkins Mill is located on the southeast corner of River and Mill Streets in Montgomery. Built in 1853, its original purpose was as a water-powered turbine flour mill on the Fox River. It operated until 1916, when ice in the river destroyed the dam. Electricity allowed the mill a replacement power source until it shut down in 1922. For the next several decades, the mill stood empty. In 1945, Ernest Anfinsen purchased the building to manufacture automotive parts. The building was again abandoned following Anfinsen&#39;s death in 1971. It was acknowledged as a historic site by Montgomery and nearby Aurora and was renovated in 1976. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The mill is rectangular in shape, with an asphalt shingle gable roof. It stands four stories stall (plus a loft) and is supported with 15 columns per floor. The main entrance is on the west side, which also features a concrete dock. An oak board porch with a wood shake roof was later constructed on top of this dock. Additional doors are found on the north side (added in the 1950s) and the east side (where the mill race used to be, now covered in concrete). There is a total of 43 windows, most of them 6 x. A storage until beneath a dormer houses supplies and machinery for the elevator, which is no longer in use.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the main staircase is on the west side of the building, altered to comply with modern building codes. A wrought iron bannister was also added from a demolishing project from Chicago. The interior walls were originally stone, but were covered with cement and plaster some time during its manufacturing years. During the 1976 restoration, insulation, drywall, and furring was added. The main level features a cherrywood floor. New light fixtures were added in the 1976 renovation.</p><br>
<p>The Oneida Stake Academy was a secondary school operated by the Oneida Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  from 1888 to 1922. The academy building was constructed in Preston, Idaho, in 1895, after the stake headquarters moved from Franklin, Idaho, in 1889.</p><br>
<p>Among its alumni were Ezra Taft Benson and Harold B. Lee, both of whom later served as church presidents. Medal of Honor recipients Mervyn S. Bennion, Leonard Brostrom, and Junior Van Noy also attended the school.</p><br>
<p>Following the emergence of the church&#39;s seminary program and better-equipped public schools, the LDS Church decided to close its system of secondary academies. In 1922, the Oneida Stake Academy was dissolved, although the public school system continued to use the building until 1990.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the building was moved using funds raised by the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation to a new site called Benson Park that had been donated by the LDS Church.</p><br>
<p>The Sturgeon House is a saltbox house dating from around 1838 in Fairview, Erie County, in the USA state of Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Sturgeon House is operated as museum by the Fairview Area Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Sturgeon House is located at the intersection of Water Street and Avonia Road (Pennsylvania Route 98). The house is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania, as well as a house with a recessed side porch. The house is constructed of "stone foundation walls and topped with heavy timber sills which are notched to receive log form beams." The roof of the house is slanted at an angle of 30 degrees. The front door is framed by a cornice and Federal-style entablature and pilaster.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jeremiah and William Sturgeon were the earliest settlers of what is now Fairview Township, who acquired land from the Pennsylvania Population Company in 1797. The Sturgeons operated "coach stops and taverns" in the area for travelers after the first road was cut from Erie to Cleveland, Ohio in 1805. They founded the community of Sturgeonville, which eventually became Fairview. The house was built around 1838 by Samuel C. Sturgeon and is one of several built by the Sturgeons. The southern addition of the house was possibly constructed in the early 1850s. The Sturgeon House was sold to the Fairview Area Historical Society in 1979 by a descendant of the Jeremiah Sturgeon. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station  is a former station of the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard. It is located in Rodanthe, North Carolina, on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks, on the east side of what is today Highway 12. Today, the surviving buildings of the station form a museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the USA Life-Saving Service and the United States Revenue Cutter Service merged in January 1915 to create the USA Coast Guard, Chicamacomico became a USA Coast Guard facility. Under Coast Guard control, it remained active until 1954. After its decommissioning the facility was transformed into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The CLSS is perhaps best remembered for the 1918 rescue of the British tanker Mirlo on August 16 1918. Mirlo was struck by a German torpedo fired by U117, about 5 miles offshore during World War I. Forty-two crew members of the Mirlo were saved from the burning tanker by Keeper John Allen Midgett Jr. and his</p><br>
<p>crew; Numerous accolades and awards were bestowed upon the 6 life-savers including gold medals in their honor presented by King George V of the United Kingdom and the Grand Cross of the American Cross of Honor. To date only eleven Grand Cross of the American Cross of Honor awards have been bestowed in the history of the United States with six being bestowed upon the members of the CLSS.</p><br>
<p>Today, Chicamacomico forms the most complete USLSS site in the nation, and still presents the reenactment of the historic Beach Apparatus Drill every Thursday during summer tourist season. This drill includes during the historic Lyle Gun and rescuing a live victim from the simulated ship wreck.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office, now known as the Springer Cultural Center, is a historic government building located at Randolph and Church Streets in Champaign, Illinois, United States. Built in 1905, the building originally served as Champaign&#39;s post office. The office of Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor designed the Beaux-Arts building. The brick building features extensive limestone and terra cotta ornamentation. The front facade has four pairs of Ionic pilasters separating the entrance and two sets of windows. A frieze reading "UNITED STATES POST OFFICE" and a dentillated cornice run above the pilasters. A balustrade runs along the front edge of the roof; a large scrolled cartouche marks the center of the balustrade. In 1966, the post office was converted to a federal building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is also a Local Landmark.</p><br>
<p>It was deeded to the Champaign Park District in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office, located at 1701 Charleston Ave., is the former main post office of Mattoon, Illinois. The post office was constructed in 1913 by Mangnus Yeager & Son, a building company from Danville, Illinois. The building was designed in the Classical Revival style and features Renaissance Revival influences; James K. Taylor was the Supervising Architect for the building. The front of the building features seven arches in front of a portico containing the entrance, which is located at the top of a marble staircase. The three central arches are topped by a carved frieze, and marble cartouches separate each pair of arches. The building served as Mattoon&#39;s post office from its construction until 1980, when a new post office opened.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Kingfisher Post Office, also known as The Old Post Office, is the historic former post office in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The post office was built by the Dieter & Wenzil Co. of St. Louis, Missouri; work on the building began on October 1, 1912, and finished on September 1, 1913. The stucco building has a red-tile hipped roof and cornices on each side. The post office operated until a larger post office opened in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Museum District, alternately known as West of the Boulevard, is a neighborhood in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is anchored by the contiguous six-block tract of museums along the west side of Boulevard, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, hence the name.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly bounded by the Boulevard (and the Fan District) on the east, I-195 on the west, Monument Avenue and Broad Street on the north, and Carytown on the south. Much of that is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the area had been in active use as farmland into the late 19th century, and though part was notably used as a Civil War veterans home at that time, it was primarily developed between 1895 and 1940. It is largely populated with townhouses in styles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though much of the district is residential, there are several schools, religious facilities, and other institutional uses throughout, as well as local restaurants and stores, especially in the "Devils Triangle" area Carytown generally serves as the shopping district for the area, and in fact the distinction between Carytown and the Museum District is fairly blurry.</p><br>
<p>The Devil&#39;s Triangle is the largest business district in the neighborhood, outside of the streets adjoining Carytown, but there are many small corner stores and restaurants throughout the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Hall is a historic home located in Greene County, Georgia, just east of the city of Union Point, at 6041 Union Point Highway . Since 1989 the property has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is easily visible from the road, but is currently in private hands and is not open or accessible to the public.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1818 or 1830 (county and historical records differ on this point), Jefferson Hall is an example of Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Big Traverse Bay Historic District is a historic district located east of Lake Linden, Michigan at the mouth of the Traverse River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site on which the Big Traverse Bay Historic District now stands was originally a logging camp owned by the Hebard Lumber Company, dating from the last two decades of the 19th century. A substantial number of Finnish emigres moved into the area, working in the lumber, mining, or fishing industries. By 1920, Big Traverse Bay had developed into a primarily fishing community. in the 1950s, construction of a breakwater and changes to the harbor resulted in the demolition of a number of houses, as well as a footbridge across the river. The community remains an active, and relatively isolated, fishing community.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Big Traverse Bay is a small Finnish fishing community located on a peninsula and adjacent mainland at the mouth of the Traverse River on Lake Superior. The community includes approximately 40 small, single-story, gable-roofed houses with aluminum siding an undeveloped yards. Vintage gasoline pumps, net reels, cedar shake-covered fishing buildings, ice houses and saunas are still in use.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer Sod House, now known as the Wheat Ridge Museum and Sod House in Wheat Ridge, Colorado is a sod house built in 1886 or perhaps well before. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Blue Spruce Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution installed a marker "in commemoration of the Bicentennial" and planted a mature Blue Spruce Tree near the sod house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>Pioneers began to settle in present-day Wheat Ridge in 1859. James H. Baugh, who had come to Colorado Territory from the plains, chose to build a house with prairie grass and sod, based upon his experience. The house was well-insulated against the cold winter and hot summer weather. In the 1860s, Baugh and Jacob Brown created irrigation ditches for farming.</p><br>
<p>The 30 in walls of the house were built of native prairie grass and sod, held in place by hog wire. The L-shaped house, built 31-feet wide by 31 feet long, has three rooms with plastered and wallpapered walls. Originally the house had wooden floors, but in 1938 the floors were covered in cement. The exterior walls are stuccoed with chicken wire and plaster.</p><br>
<p>Sod houses were rare in the Denver area, as lumber was available, and this is likely the only one surviving.</p><br>
<h3>Land grant</h3><br>
<p>When Baugh settled in the Clear Creek Valley, there were no land offices or procedures for purchasing land. He squatted on the land until 1867.</p><br>
<p>On October 1, 1867, President Andrew Johnson awarded a bounty of land in Colorado to New Mexico Volunteer veterans who fought against Navajo people during the Navajo Wars. after he was paid $500 for the land.</p><br>
<h3>Age</h3><br>
<p>While the nomination for the National Register of Historic places asserts it was built in 1886, James H. Baugh purchased the land that his sod house stood on in 1867.</p><br>
<p>It was more or less continuously occupied as a residence from 1886 to the summer of 1972.</p><br>
<h3>Subsequent owners</h3><br>
<p>Bert White moved onto the property in the early 1900s with his family of 13. In 1910, White built a five-room brick house for most of the family and his boys lived in the sod house. He farmed the land, experimenting with varieties of fruits and vegetables for the Agricultural College in Fort Collins, later Colorado State University.</p><br>
<p>The Whites grew Pascal celery, asparagus, beets, carrots, parsnips, lettuce, and green beans. The Whites cultivated fruit, including white grapes, raspberries, gooseberries, and dew berries.</p><br>
<p>Bert and his wife Etta lived in the brick house until 1933 when they died. Their son Frank lived in the sod house and another building with six of his twelve children. The Whites sold the property in 1939. Three families owned the property after the Whites and until 1970s.</p><br>
<h3>1863 log cabin</h3><br>
<p>A log cabin that was previously located at Johnson Park was relocated to the site of the sod house at the Wheat Ridge Historical Park. It was Colorado Territory&#39;s first registered homestead, built at 48th Avenue and Teller Street.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The interior of the sod house is decorated as it may have appeared in the late 1800s. The building is used by the Wheat Ridge Historical Society, who hold events like Cider Days and the May Festival.</p><br>
<p>The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas, is a sod house that was built c. 1907.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story building with a gabled rectangular section about 48 by with 2 ft sod brick walls, plus a 16 by wood-frame lean-to section, all covered by a corrugated, galvanized metal roof. The exterior is cement and stucco in the two sections.</p><br>
<p>It was used as the first post office of Minor, Kansas, with first postmaster Tom Minor. A grocery store built by Minor not far away then served as the post office, then it returned to the soddy when the grocery store closed, until the post office itself closed in November 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It served historically as a single dwelling and as a post office.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace W. Waterman Sod House near Big Springs, Nebraska, United States, is a sod house built in 1886. It was modified in 1925 for continued use, including a layer of concrete being applied to the exterior walls. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The listing included two contributing buildings, the second being a small outbuilding from 1925.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wallace W. Waterman and his wife, Libby King Waterman moved to Nebraska&#39;s High Plains region from Pennsylvania. They built the 25 X 29 foot house in 1886 at the southern end of a settlement known as Day, Nebraska. The house was divided into 3 rooms and had two foot wide walls. Of the three other houses in Day, one was constructed of stone, one was wooden, and the last was also constructed of sod. The settlement also had a Methodist church, a school, a post office (from 1890 to 1903), and a few businesses. No traces of Day or these other buildings survive except for the Waterman house. Modern grain storage facilities are located immediately west of the house, across Day Road. Otherwise cropland surrounds the house for miles around.</p><br>
<p>In 1925 the house was modified by Virgil and Helen Burke Waterman to prevent deterioration of the sod walls. A gable roof was added with the loft being divided into two bedrooms. A 10 X 16 foot porch and a cistern were added to the southern side and the walls were covered in concrete. A cellar was dug beneath the kitchen. The improvements did not include running water, but the kitchen was equipped with a hand pump for water and a modern stove.</p><br>
<p>Members of the Waterman family lived in the house until 1989. In 1993 the house was donated to the Deuel County Historical Society with the provision that it be used for historical or educational purposes.</p><br>
<p>A roadside historical marker describing the house is located nine miles south of the house in Big Springs.</p><br>
<p>In 1994 the Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey knew of 14 other extant sod houses in the High Plains</p><br>
<p>region. All but one had their exterior walls covered with stucco or concrete for protection. Only four were still being used as residences.</p><br>
