<p>The Morgan Building is an office building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Morgan was home to Theodore Kruses Rainbow Grill, which opened in October 1913. Kruse had closed his Louvre restaurant, a hotspot in the gay community, after it was a focal point of the 1912 Portland vice scandal. The Rainbow advertised "fat, juicy, delicious" oysters and a "Special Mens Grill" with meat of the diner&#39;s choosing. It closed in June 1915.</p><br>
<p>The Multnomah Hotel, located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, is a historic hotel building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It currently operates as the Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Downtown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 700-room hotel was built by local entrepreneur Philip Gevurtz and opened on February 8, 1912. The nine-story building filled an entire city block. It was operated by Western Hotels, now known as Westin Hotels & Resorts, from 1931 until it closed in 1963. At the time of its closure, The Oregonian wrote that the Multnomah had been "one of the most famous hotels on the Pacific Coast". reopening in 1997 as the Embassy Suites Portland - Downtown. The hotel is currently a member of, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Famous guests</h2><br>
<p>The hotel has hosted Paramahansa Yogananda,Queen Marie of Romania, Charles Lindbergh, Rudolph Valentino, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Stewart, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Elvis Presley, and every president from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Nixon.Maurice Ravel and Lisa Roma concert in Ball Room Feb.15, 1928 8:30 pm</p><br>
<p>The Neighbors of Woodcraft Building, also known as the Tiffany Center, is a building located in southwest Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction of the building was commissioned by the Neighbors of Woodcraft , a non-profit fraternal benefit society based in Oregon since 1905 and operating in several western states, for use as a national headquarters and clubhouse. The building was completed in May 1929 and dedicated in June. In 1993, NOW sold the building and moved out of its remaining office space there. The building was added to the National Register in February 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Peck Bros. and Bartle Tire Service Company Building, also known as the Photo Art Building, is a building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Charles W. Ertz to serve the Peck Bros. and Bartle company, a tire sales and service firm. It was renovated in 1973 to serve the Photo Art Commercial Photographers.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story flat-roofed building with a basement, and is about 65x69 ft in plan, with its main entry at the corner cut at an angle. It had a tire sales area and a large garage area for tire and auto service on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Yamhill Historic District, located in downtown Portland, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>From 1914 to 1934, the area included part of the Carroll Public Market.</p><br>
<p>The area covered, between the commercial center of Portland and the Willamette River, is within a 22-block section destroyed in the Great Fire of 1873; it includes the Northrup and Blossom-Fitch Building (1858) from before the fire. Rebuilding after the fire got into "full swing" in 1878; the district includes 17 Italianate-style buildings built between 1878 and 1887.</p><br>
<p>Selected buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Leon Chung Company Building</p><br>
<p>Rensselaer Block, built by W.S. Ham</p><br>
<p>Strowbridge Building, an Italianate masonry building</p><br>
<p>Mikado Block</p><br>
<p>Moy Building (1910). the six-story Chicago School-style, also known as the Bellevue Hotel.</p><br>
<p>H.W. Corbett Building, 124 SW Yamhill</p><br>
<p>Willamette Block</p><br>
<p>The Anna P. Bolling Junior High School is an American educational institution in Petersburg, Virginia, built in 1926 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The school building was designed by architect Charles M. Robinson and is considered to be an "impressive example" of Second Renaissance Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for Anna Peyton Bolling, who started as a high school teacher in Petersburg when the city&#39;s public schools were established and served as the high school principal from 1876 to 1907. The school that was named for her was used as a school until 1974, after which time it housed city offices, then became vacant. As of 1998 it was being converted to become moderate-income apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Robinson-Hiller House in Chapin, Lexington County, South Carolina, was built in 1902. It is significant as a Queen Anne house and for being associated with Charles Plumber Robinson , a businessman who founded C.P. Robinson Lumber Company and other enterprises, and his wife Sarah "Eddie" Smithson Robinson, a "social activist and officer of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union." In 1919, after the Robinsons left Chapin, the house was acquired by James Haltiwanger Hiller.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is currently a commercial spa.</p><br>
<p>Beam Dormitory was the first permanent building at the American Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. It was built on the highest point in Columbia in 1911 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. The structure was built by Wise Granite Co. It included a chapel, housing, refectory, classrooms, and faculty offices. Beam Hall is now used as a dormitory and also contains office suites, meeting rooms, and an exercise facility. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Zion Lutheran Church is a church located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Architect Pietro Belluschi employed a number of innovations in this 1950 church, an example of the application of modern architectural principles to a religious building. Using local materials, influences, and artists and craftsmen, it represents the Northwest Regional style of modern architecture, which Belluschi (along with colleague John Yeon) originated and developed. The low-relief angels in hammered copper on the sanctuary doors were designed by sculptor Frederic Littman.</p><br>
<p>Salem Veteran Affairs Medical Center  is a Veterans Affairs hospital located in Salem, Virginia. Health care services are provided to veterans living in a 26-county area of Southwest Virginia. In addition to the main facility in Salem, there are affiliated services in three community-based outpatient clinics. These clinics are located in Danville, Lynchburg, Tazewell, Wytheville, and Staunton.</p><br>
<h2>Roanoke Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Roanoke Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District is a national historic district encompassing 34 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 17 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. Construction began on the Roanoke (now Salem) VA Hospital in 1934, and various additions were constructed through 1950. The Main Building (1934) is situated on a raised elevation over the front lawn and serves as the focal point of the historic district. Other buildings include the Administration Building (1934), Dining Hall/Attendants’ Quarters (1934), Recreation Building (1934), Colored Patients’ Building (1934), four Continued Treatment Buildings (1938, 1941, 1940, 1938), and Neuropsychiatric Infirmary Building (1936). The buildings exhibit the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architectural styles that were nationally popular at the time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Athenaeum is a gallery of fine arts and a performance venue in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. It is also home to the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association since 1964. The building is an important example of Greek Revival architecture. The Athenaeum has a long history and has served several purposes during its lifetime. The building is now part of the Virginia Trust and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the edifice hosting the museum was built belonged to William Fairfax; it was surveyed by George Washington. The building was constructed between 1851 and 1852 at the intersection of Lee and Prince streets to serve as the office of the Bank of the Old Dominion, where it is reported that Robert E. Lee had an account. The bank was at the head of the Captains&#39; Row, a block of 18th-century buildings that still face the cobblestone street.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of the Old Dominion operated at the site until the Civil War, when Alexandria was occupied by the Union forces and the building became the abode of the USA Commissary Quartermaster. The Bank of the Old Dominion closed its doors in 1862, but the building again hosted a bank, this time the First Virginia Bank, in the years from 1870 to 1907. In 1907 the building started to be used by the pharmaceutical wholesalers Leadbeater and Sons, one of the oldest Alexandria firms. In 1925 the property passed to the Free Methodist Church of North America, which used it until 1964, when the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (NVFAA) purchased the building. The NVFAA still owns the property, which is used for several purposes, mainly for fine arts exhibitions. It was formerly a satellite office to the Washington School of Ballet.</p><br>
<p>The Athenaeum is part of the Virginia Trust and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, also known as the Old Dominion Bank Building, is one of the few privately owned buildings in Alexandria open to the public and thus depends largely on community donations for its survival.</p><br>
<p>The St. James Lutheran Church is a church and historic church building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1889 by missionaries as Portland&#39;s first English-speaking Lutheran church. The first pastor was Rev. M. L. Zweizig. The cornerstone for the present building was laid in May 1907. Many of the original fixtures are still in use in the building, including the marble baptismal font and oak pews. The church grew and thrived through the first half of the 20th century, and in 1956 added an educational annex, with space for classrooms and offices. The church was forced to remove the tower of the main building in 1951 due to structural deterioration. The tower was replaced in 1974 using historic photographs to match the original style and design as far as possible.</p><br>
<p>The St. James building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Ministries</h2><br>
<p>St. James is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has unique programs and uses the traditional liturgy. In addition, it is home to a yearly series of concert vespers featuring the church cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach embedded into a worship service, as they were originally designed to be performed.</p><br>
<p>The Charles J. and Elsa Schnabel House is a house located in southwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its location on 2375 SW Park Place is in the King&#39;s Hill section of Goose Hollow.</p><br>
<p>Two large windows installed in the tradesman entrance (verified by Bosco and Milligan) were originally from the (Ferdinand) Smith Family Mansion in what is now Lair Hill Park. Two other sets of modern geometric art glass windows in the dining room and staircase landing are attributed to Povey Brothers based on inspection by Polly Povey Thompson, daughter of designer David Povey.</p><br>
<p>The Selling Building, also known as the Oregon National Building, is a building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built in 1910 for Ben Selling & Associates, composed of Ben Selling and partners Charles Moore and Moses Blum.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, when the Oregon National Life Company became a new, major tenant, the Selling Building was renamed the Oregon National Building.</p><br>
<p>The Selling Building is owned and managed by Schlesinger Companies.</p><br>
<p>The Sherlock Building, also previously known as the Forbes and Breeden Building, is a building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the Sherlock Building was purchased for $6.8 million by the Church of Scientology, with plans to turn it into the headquarters for its Portland chapter. The Church had previously purchased the nearby Stevens Building, but had decided that it would not be suitable without costly renovations.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>At the time of the buildings purchase in 2010, Ruths Chris Steak House was a tenant.</p><br>
<p>The Stevens Building is a commercial and office building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 12-story building was designed by Whidden & Lewis. The design is similar to the Failing Office Building  and Wilcox Building , also by Whidden & Lewis. Construction began in August 1913 and was completed in 1914, with the building opening on May 1, 1914.</p><br>
<p>Most of the buildings original tenants were doctors and dentists and their patient clinics, and the buildings design was adapted for that use. The building was renovated in 1954 to designs by architect Pietro Belluschi.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, it was purchased by the Church of Scientology for $5.38 million, with the expectation of becoming the headquarters for its Portland chapter. In 2010, they bought the Sherlock Building, also located in downtown Portland, after learning that the Stevens Building would be too expensive to renovate for their purposes. The Church sold the building in October 2013 for $4.35 million to Arthur Mutal Investments LLC, who plan to turn it into a hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>As of September 2011, one of the ground-floor tenants of the building is Finnegan&#39;s Toys & Gifts, who moved to 820 SW Washington Street after occupying the Blanchard Building at 922 SW Yamhill Street since 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Swetland Building is a building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Camera World was headquartered in the building from 1977 until the late-1990s, with its retail store occupying the ground floor at SW 5th and Washington until 1995, when it moved to the 400 SW Sixth Avenue building. The company&#39;s administrative offices and mail-order operations remained on other floors until at least 1997.</p><br>
<p>The United States National Bank Building in downtown Portland, Oregon was designed by A. E. Doyle in a Roman classical style, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The four-story building&#39;s first section, facing Sixth Avenue, was completed and opened in 1917. The building features a four-story Corinthian colonnade at its eastern end  and makes extensive use of glazed terracotta. The interior is also decorated extensively with highly textured materials.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed for the United States National Bank of Portland (USNB), which ultimately became part of USA Bancorp, whose retail banking division operates as USA Bank. An extension westward to Broadway was added in 1925, approximately doubling the buildings size such that it now occupies half a city block. It continues to serve as the banks main branch in the city.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The United States National Bank of Portland, the predecessor of present-day USA Bancorp, was established in Portland in 1890, opening for business in February 1891. During the following three decades, the bank experienced significant growth. It weathered the Panic of 1893 better than many of its competitors, and later acquired some of the competing Portland banks, including the Ainsworth National Bank (in 1902), the Wells Fargo Bank (in 1905), and the Lumbermen&#39;s National Bank (in 1917). With the 1902 acquisition, USA National Bank moved its headquarters into a larger space formerly occupied by Ainsworth National, in the Ainsworth Building, then located at S.W. Third and Stark streets in downtown Portland. By the 1910s, the bank had outgrown its space. The firm purchased a quarter-block of land at the northwest corner of Sixth and Stark streets in early 1916 and hired Portland architect A. E. Doyle to design a new, dedicated headquarters building.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1916 and was completed in 1917; the building opened to the public on July 30, 1917. Although the building now extends a full block along Stark Street, with entrances on both 6th Avenue and Broadway, it originally faced only 6th Street (now 6th Avenue) and extended only about halfway to Broadway.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 (another source says 1920), the bank purchased the building that had occupied the quarter-block immediately to the west from the Elks organization which would allow the 1917 bank building to be expanded west to Broadway. (The Elks were preparing to move to a new building elsewhere in downtown.) Originally, a new 24-story building was planned for the site, but the bank ultimately decided to expand its existing building, keeping the same design and height for the new section. Shortly after demolition of the old Elks Building in early 1924, construction of the bank building&#39;s expansion began. which had been established in 1859, and was the first financial institution in the Pacific Northwest. This acquisition made USNB "the largest financial institution north of San Francisco and west of Minneapolis".</p><br>
<p>In 1946, USA National purchased the Wells Fargo Building (since 1922 known as the Porter Building), a multistory office building located directly adjacent, immediately to the north, to expand its downtown Portland headquarters. United States National Bank of Portland changed its name to United States National Bank of Oregon in 1964. By 1970, the bank was operating 119 branches. The first of these was a seven-story building (the USA Bank Plaza, at 5th & Oak), completed in 1974. But the headline structure was the USA Bancorp Tower, a 42-story building that opened in 1983 (having already been part of the bank&#39;s long-term site plans in 1970, Notwithstanding this major expansion, the firm continued to own and use its landmark 1917 building, which company president LeRoy Staver, in a 1970 Oregonian article, called "a jewel of a banking property and one that will never be duplicated".</p><br>
<p>In a 1979 article, The Oregonian wrote that, "The 1917-vintage USA National Bank, 321 S.W. Sixth Avenue, retains nearly all its original features, inside and out, a rare trait among Portland landmarks." The USA National Bank of Oregon was honored by the Portland Historical Landmarks Commission in that year for its longstanding commitment to maintaining the building in nearly original condition.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, which provides consumer banking under the USA Bank name. One hundred years after its opening, the 1917-built, 1925-expanded original United States National Bank Building continues to serve as the main branch of USA Bank in Portland in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building is five stories tall including a mezzanine level and, after its 1925 expansion, occupies a 100 x area, along the north side of SW Stark Street from Sixth Avenue to Broadway. The eastern façade, facing Sixth Avenue, features six freestanding Corinthian columns, each 54 ft in height. These support a portico that is topped by a large and richly decorated Roman frieze, a cornice and balustrade. Decorations on the cornice include lion heads and palmettes. At the back of the portico, and behind the columns, are two Corinthian pilasters, at the far left and right ends of the façade. Between these are "five vertical bays separated by piers made of coursed, rusticated terra cotta. Window openings are set in cast-bronze frames." The five windows at the second-floor level are topped by cast-bronze segmental pediments. There are three entrance doorways in the three central bays, although originally there was only one. The central entrance features a pair of large bronze doors with highly decorated bas relief panels, surrounded by detailed terracotta, including replicas of early Greek, Roman and USA coins in the decoration framing the door, and a heraldic eagle in a pedimented cornice above the doorway. The bronze relief panels were cast in 1931, replacing the 1917 door panels. Designed by Avard Fairbanks, they "depict noble concepts of American life, such as Knowledge and Service, Domestic Welfare, Progress through Direction, and so on." Fairbanks also designed bronze relief panels for the building&#39;s western façade, built in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The overall exterior design was modeled closely on a 1904 bank building, the headquarters of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, in New York City.</p><br>
<p>The southern façade, along Stark Street, is 200 ft long and features a line of 14 Corinthian pilasters. The 12 window bays on this side have frames made of cast iron. Above the pilasters and fourth-floor windows are a cornice and balustrade with a design similar to that used at the eastern end. The Stark Street side includes one entrance, which was present from 1917, located at what was then the far back corner of the building, but its position became approximately midway along the Stark Street side following the 1925 expansion.</p><br>
<p>At the buildings west end, constructed eight years later and facing Broadway, the façade is similar to the eastern one, but the main body of the building extends to the corners of the lot, and instead of a full-width portico there is a recessed portico with only two columns in the center. Six pilasters line the eastern façade, three to each side of the columns, all topped by Corinthian capitals, the same as on the buildings other two exposed sides. Another difference from the eastern façade is that, on the western façade, "United States National Bank" is inscribed in the central section of the frieze, in place of the rinceau decoration there at the building&#39;s opposite end. Ornamental bronze lanterns flank the central entrance, which features bas relief panels cast in bronze in 1926–27 and designed by Avard Fairbanks. The panels at the western entrance "depict pivotal events in the historical development of the Columbia Basin".</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The ground floor holds the main banking room (the Portland branch of USA Bank), and a grand room measuring 100 x with 30 ft ceilings. The interior is extensively decorated with highly textured materials. Square columns of polished marble topped by Corinthian capitals that incorporate an eagle motif line all four sides of the main public space. The coffered ceiling is intricately detailed. The marble floor is patterned, and the teller windows are divided by Hauteville-marble pillars detailed with bas reliefs. A recessed mezzanine floor runs along the north and south sides, behind the columns. The bank vaults are in the basement, where the public space also has a marble floor.</p><br>
<p>The third and fourth floors are office space, centered around a courtyard. A remodeling of the fourth-floor offices in 1948, based on designs by Pietro Belluschi, incorporated Oregon myrtle in the paneling and custom furnishings. The bank&#39;s board room, located on the third floor, includes a marble fireplace and stained glass windows by the noted Portland company, Povey Brothers Studio. The room is located in the southwest quadrant of the floor, in the 1925-built section, and is 55 x in size. Its walls are covered in dark walnut. Ornamental lighting fixtures with brass wall mountings adorn the east and west ends of the room, and a bronze ring chandelier hangs above the center.</p><br>
<h2>Immediate surroundings</h2><br>
<p>At its east end, the United States National Bank Building stands directly across 6th Avenue from another A. E. Doyle-designed bank building, the Bank of California Building, of 1925. The aforementioned buildings Italianate style contrasts sharply with the USA National Bank Buildings classical design. The northbound Portland Transit Mall passes in front of the buildings east end, and during the malls construction in 1976–77 the plain concrete sidewalk there was resurfaced in brick, and street trees were added. MAX light rail trains have passed in front of the building&#39;s east end on 6th Avenue since 2009, following a 2007–08 rebuilding of the transit mall.</p><br>
<p>The Cora Bryant Wheeler House, also known as the Mrs. Coleman H. Wheeler House, is a historic house located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Architect A. E. Doyle designed this 1923 Arts and Crafts house to take full advantage of its prominent and demanding ridgetop location. The land was purchased by Coleman and Cora in 1918 from the Frank Dekum family. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Cora died in 1951. Their daughter, Marguerite, still resided in the house, selling it in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The Walter S. Zimmerman House is a historic house located in Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland architect Wade Hampton Pipes  was the most prominent advocate of the English Arts and Crafts movement in Oregon and established a wide, exclusively residential, body of work in the English Cottage style during his active career . This 1931 house, designed for the logging and railway businessman Walter Zimmerman, represents a transitional step in the evolution of Pipes&#39;s work, moving from traditional stucco walls to brick and adding other Modern details.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Canterbury Castle, also known as Arlington Castle, was a private house located in southwest Portland, Oregon and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed during 1929–1931, the house was designed by Jeter O. Frye to resemble England&#39;s Canterbury Castle on the exterior and to evoke the Art Deco styling of Hollywood of the 1920s on the interior. The house included castle features such as a moat, drawbridge and turret and attracted paying tourists immediately following its completion.</p><br>
<p>Canterbury Castle, Portlands only castle structure built in the 1930s, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The property was also designated as a Portland Historic Landmark. The house underwent major renovation efforts in the 2000s, but those efforts were not completed, and the house was demolished in 2009 after failing to meet municipal safety codes. The razing of Canterbury made Piggotts Castle the city&#39;s only remaining castle. Canterbury Castle was removed from the National Register of Historic Places in October 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Canterbury Castle was a private 6,000 ft2, three-story house located in Arlington Heights near Washington Park, offering views of downtown Portland. Constructed from basalt stone quarried from Rocky Butte, the house featured characteristics of a castle such as a moat, a drawbridge and a copper-topped turret. The wooden drawbridge covered a moat seven feet wide by more than three feet deep. A single-car garage, built into the hillside, was constructed during the same time as the house. The concrete foundation supported a rectangular ground plan. Canterbury featured "buttressing wing walls, cylindrical corner bays and a crenellated parapet of uncut stone". Round, arched and straight-topped frameless windows were often fitted with steel sashes. Doorways were also frameless, narrow and round or parabolic in shape. Doors had wrought iron hinges, handles and lock plates. The leaded glass slit window at the stair towers top level featured a spiderweb pattern, a signature element of castle designer Jeter O. Fryes work. Windmill palms surrounding the property added to its exotic appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Art Deco-style interior, meant to evoke a 1920s Hollywood style, featured mahogany woodwork, tile floors and chandeliers. The inside also contained Spanish-style white stucco, spiral staircases and wrought iron features including stair rails, built-in cabinetry door and window hardware and lighting fixtures. The house included a basement pool (which eventually closed due to water leaks), a stone fireplace 10 ft in width, and small square windows. Also in the basement were the furnace, a storage room, and spaces for laundry and billiards. The main floor housed the garage, a kitchen and breakfast bay, the living and dining rooms and a music room. The master bedroom was adjacent to a deck above the dining and music rooms at the southwest corner of the property. Fireplaces and hallway floors featured brown ceramic tile; black glazed ceramic tile was used in the master bathroom, while black, red and yellow tiles were used in the breakfast bay. One of the castles bathrooms was said to be modeled on Charlie Chaplins. The interior was arranged around a central stair tower capped with a conical roof clad in copper. Chimneys vented the centrally located furnace and rose from fireplaces in the house&#39;s west hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Canterbury Castle was designed by Jeter O. Frye and constructed between 1929 and 1931. Immediately following construction, Frye was unable to sell the house and left Portland in bankruptcy to resume his career in California. Visitors immediately showed interest in touring the house. The castle attracted paying tourists and school groups, became a stop on the Washington Park bus tour and hosted Halloween parties for a local radio station. The house became known as Canterbury Castle over time due to the plat and name of the street on which it was situated. The terraced garden was eliminated in the 1950s when a portion of the land was sold. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 under the ownership of Dale and Karen Bernards, who had submitted an application for listing one year prior.</p><br>
<p>Sidney Lynne and John Hefferin purchased the house for $469,900 in 2004 after it had been unoccupied for more than a year. By then, the structure had developed leaks and displayed cracks along the foundation, walls and ceiling. In 2006, a falling tree caused stones to break away, damaging the houses main gas line. The couple spent $200,000 over four years to reinforce the walls. Lynne and Hefferin also constructed exterior stairs and an underground retaining wall. However, the renovation process was not completed, as they were unable to pay for all repairs required by the city, which had issued $20,000 in fines on the property. The couple also struggled to pay for costly landslide prevention efforts, rising property taxes and high heating bills. Canterbury Castle was listed for sale in the summer of 2008 for $2 million. Lynne invited local interior design students and contractors to upgrade the houses interior, without success. The couple left the house in January 2009, and ownership was turned over to JPMorgan Chase. Lynne began a "one-woman crusade" to save the castle, seeking assistance from Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard and from home improvement expert and This Old House host Bob Vila. In February 2009, the city&#39;s bureau of development services found that unstable soil and the risk of stones separating from sheeting underneath posed a landslide risk. The property had missing stones and thick cracks several feet long, which presented hazards to residents and the street below. Rumors of demolition began to surface in March 2009.</p><br>
<p>In April 2009, the house was purchased by Robert Stansel, who had lived next door to the house for several years, at a foreclosure auction for $280,000. Demolition began in May 2009; the house was considered "structurally unsound" by the local government, a determination that permitted demolition despite the houses listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Lynne said of the house and its demolition: "Its totally like a death and completely unnecessary. It&#39;s a magical property that invokes hope and imagination in people. We had a really great time with it." Residents shared mixed feelings about the demolition. Stansel was able to salvage 21 tiles with neo-Aztec designs. In 2009, The Oregonian reported that Stansel would wait until the economy and housing market improved before deciding whether to sell the land or build a new structure.</p><br>
<p>Canterbury Castle was removed from the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2010. The demolition of Canterbury Castle made Piggotts Castle in southwest Portland the last remaining castle in the city. The property had also been listed as a Portland Historic Landmark and was the citys only castle structure constructed in the 1930s. Two stones from Canterbury Castle serve as steps in the zen garden of Stansel&#39;s home in East Hampton, New York.</p><br>
<p>The Charles F. Adams House is a historic house located in northwest Portland, Oregon, United States. It was designed by the eminent firm of Whidden and Lewis, one of a trio of adjacent residences designed by that firm. Built in the Georgian Revival style in 1904 and expanded in 1918, it was extensively restored in 1979. The original owner was Charles Francis Adams , a scion of the family of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and a prominent Portland banker, art collector, and patron of the Portland Art Museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Albers Brothers Milling Company building is a historic mill and contemporary office building located on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, the German-immigrant Albers brothers built the largest flour and feed milling enterprise on the West Coast, headquartered in Portland and comprising operations in four states. This combined milling, warehousing, shipping, and office facility, built in 1909–1911, is the oldest remaining flour or feed mill in the city. The silos built into the south elevation of the building are painted with representations some of the mill&#39;s products as advertisements.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was unoccupied at that time, as the milling company had already left.</p><br>
<p>Albers was also well known in the San Francisco Bay Area for its prominent grain elevator and neon sign located at the foot of the ferry pier ("mole") of the Southern Pacific in Oakland, now the site of the Port of Oakland container ship facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Eastman–Shaver House is a house located in northwest Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 32-room house was built in 1928 for Watson Eastman, who founded Western Cooperage Company, a pioneer of mechanization in the forest products industry, and also owned Hawley Pulp and Paper Company. Its second owner was Leonard R. Shaver, who was affiliated with the Shaver Transportation Company, serving as its vice president starting in 1922, and later becoming its president in 1950 and chairman of the board in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The property sold in January 2018 for almost $7 million. The sale set a new record for the highest amount ever paid for a home and property in Multnomah County.</p><br>
<p>The property includes formal gardens designed by noted landscape architect George H. Otten.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Goodman House is a house located in northwest Portland, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was added on the list in 1973.</p><br>
<p>It dates back to the mid 1880s when it was originally built to serve as a grocery store. The building was built for Joseph Goodman, who was a prominent local grocer. Goodman operated his store in the said building until 1924.</p><br>
<p>The buildings upper floor housed Jacob Bicklers German and English Academy, which was an elite preparatory school and operated approximately from 1892-1896.</p><br>
<p>The Natt and Christena McDougall House is a house located in northwest Portland, Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Ellis Lawrence in Arts & Crafts and Tudor Revival style, and is one of his early works.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes the garage as another contributing building and a stone wall as a contributing object. The wall is a random rubble basalt wall along the sidewalk, which rises from 2 ft to 15 ft above the sidewalk. In 1998 there was an ivy-covered wood and wire fence along the top of the wall.</p><br>
<p>The Meier & Frank Delivery Depot, located in northwest Portland, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built for Portland retailing company Meier & Frank, the building was designed by Sutton & Whitney and constructed in 1927. From 1986 to 2001, the building was owned by the Oregon Historical Society, for processing of items and storage of its collections.</p><br>
<h2>Post-Meier & Frank usage</h2><br>
<p>In 1986, the four-story building was acquired by the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), to house its collections and process new acquisitions. OHS remodeled the building&#39;s third and fourth floors. and ultimately accepted one. OHS sold the former Delivery Depot for $12.7 million in 2000 and moved to a new warehouse in suburban Gresham during the first half of 2001.</p><br>
<p>The building then entered a long period of disuse. As of October 2007, it had been vacant since the departure of OHS almost seven years earlier.</p><br>
<p>In 2011–12, the building was renovated for use as the new Portland headquarters building of Danish company Vestas Wind Systems, whose USA headquarters had been in Portland since 2002, but at a different location. Gerding Edlen Development Company, of Portland, purchased the building in 2007, and Vestas began leasing it in 2010. The renovations cost $66 million, and the company moved into the building in spring 2012. The company is hoping to receive Platinum LEED certification for the renovated building.</p><br>
<p>The North Bank Depot Buildings, in central Portland, Oregon, United States, are a pair of buildings formerly used as a freight warehouse and passenger terminal for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway . Formed in 1905, the SP&S was commonly known as the North Bank Road  during the period in which these buildings were in use. The Portland buildings&#39; passenger facilities were also used by the Oregon Electric Railway after that railway was acquired by the SP&S. Located in what is now known as the Pearl District, the buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The two matching, two-story brick buildings face one another on opposite sides of NW 11th Avenue immediately north of Hoyt Street, the east building being at 1029 NW Hoyt Street and the west at 1101 NW Hoyt. Historically, they were known as the East and West Freighthouses of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. but alternatively was known by various other names, including North Bank depot, Hoyt Street depot, Hoyt Street terminal, 11th & Hoyt Streets depot, 10th & Hoyt depot, or similar. Each building measures 50 ft by 200 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The SP&S was formed jointly by the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) and Great Northern Railway in 1905, originally as the Portland & Seattle Railway, to build and ultimately operate new railroad lines connecting Portland with Seattle and with Spokane, but was renamed Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway in early 1908, before opening any track sections. The planned new railroad was commonly referred to as the "North Bank road" (road being short for railroad or railroad line), or North Bank line, East from Portland, the south bank of the Columbia already had a rail line, owned by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (later absorbed by Union Pacific Railroad).</p><br>
<p>By September 1905, Northern Pacific had already acquired the property for the future terminal buildings and rail yard—a strip of land two blocks wide, from 10th to 12th avenues, and stretching north from Hoyt Street to the Willamette River. Construction of the railroad itself began in early 1906. The new company needed freight storage and handling facilities in Portland, and to this end it built the two "freight houses" at 11th Avenue and Hoyt Street, in 1908. SP&S passenger train service was originally expected to terminate at Union Station, located about 1,600 ft to the east, but lengthy negotiations between SP&S and Union Station&#39;s operator, the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, eventually reached an impasse. The Terminal Company was only partially owned by SP&S parent Northern Pacific Railway, and partially by competing railroads. With only a few weeks to go until passenger service to Portland was to be started, it was reported that SP&S would instead equip one of its new freight houses for use as a passenger station, in place of access to Union Station, at least temporarily.</p><br>
<h2>Period of active use</h2><br>
<p>Passenger trains began using the new station—the east building, at 1029 NW Hoyt Street—in November 1908. The west building, used exclusively for freight, came into use at the same time, as SP&S initiated its operations in Portland. Trains operating from this station served routes within the Pacific Northwest, including to Seattle, Spokane and Seaside via Astoria. The Portland–Spokane train, named the Inland Empire Express, connected in Spokane with Great Northern&#39;s Oriental Limited to and from Chicago and was advertised as the "Portland–Chicago" service.</p><br>
<p>SP&S began shifting some of its passenger trains to Union Station in 1920, and additional trains were shifted in 1922, after new platforms and train sheds were constructed at Union Station for that purpose. However, only some trains used Union Station, including the long-distance services to Chicago (which began carrying through sleeping cars, Portland–Chicago, at this time), while other trains continued to use the Hoyt Street station for a time. SP&S inaugurated passenger service between Portland and Vernonia in March 1923, with two round trips per day; a passenger-only train ran to and from Union Station, but a mixed freight-passenger train operated instead from the Hoyt Street station.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, OE was owned by SP&S Electric interurbans departed from this station on journeys west to Hillsboro and Forest Grove, and south through the Willamette Valley to Salem and Eugene.</p><br>
<p>The last OE service to this station operated on June 19, 1931, Just two years later, in May 1933, the Oregon Electric discontinued all its remaining passenger service, becoming exclusively a freight railroad.</p><br>
<p>SP&S was merged with other railroads in 1970 to form Burlington Northern Railroad (BN). The former North Bank Depot Buildings continued to be used by the railroad for freight purposes until the 1980s, and then were vacant for a time, until at least the mid-1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation and conversion</h2><br>
<p>During the course of the 1980s, usage of the railroad yards adjacent to and north of the two now-Burlington Northern-owned warehouses declined to the point of their being nearly vacant. Redevelopment of the area as a mixed-use neighborhood with residential and retail uses was envisioned, and in 1989, the Portland Planning Commission approved a rezoning of a 40 acre tract, along with a master plan to foster such change. By then, the Glacier Park Company, a property-development subsidiary of Burlington Resources, had taken over the former North Bank Depot Buildings from BN, and it was reported that the new master plan for the area would include renovation of these two Hoyt Street warehouses.</p><br>
<p>In November 1990, Glacier Park sold the 40-acre site to a Portland-based development company, Prendergast & Associates. It was determined that extensive clean-up of contaminated soil from decades of industrial use would be needed before most redevelopment could proceed. Prendergast & Associates were predicting an approximately 20-year timeframe for redevelopment of the entire area of former railyards and associated buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Oregon Cracker Company Building is a historic structure located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built around 1897 as a food processing plant, and expanded in 1901, it is one of Portland&#39;s finest Romanesque Revival buildings. The building also includes early examples of structural features that were innovative for the time, but which later became common. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Buddhist Church, located in northwest Portland, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church was important to the Japanese-American community that once thrived in Northwest Portland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded by Rev Shozui Wakabayashi of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Mission of North America in 1903, the Oregon Buddhist Temple was created to serve the growing Japanese American community in Portland. When the building on Tenth Street was completed in 1910, the congregation counted over 500 members.</p><br>
<p>The property held many of the community&#39;s belonging as they were incarcerated during World War II. Then Rinban Tansai Terakawa would be sent to Minidoka along with many of the congregation. Sadly, Terakawa would never return, passing away at the camp in 1944. Rev Hojun Sugimoto would return to the church and lead the community in its efforts to rebuild their lives.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Buddhist Church served the congregation for over 50 years until a new temple was built in Southeast Portland in 1966, and continues to serves the community today.</p><br>
<p>The McCullough–Price House is a 1938 pueblo revival home in Chandler, Arizona. The Chandler Museum is located in the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built as a winter residence for William D. McCullough of Detroit in 1938, but it was acquired by Arthur and Louise Price in 1950. (Louise Price was the niece of Dr. A. J. Chandler, who founded the city named after him.) In 2001, their daughter, Suzanne Price Propstra, donated the home to the city. By this time, it had been vacant and had become run down. Meanwhile, around the pueblo, major development was occurring, as Chandler Fashion Center was under construction (to open in October 2002). The city began to renovate the property into a state-recognized visitors center which opened in 2007 after $850,000 had been spent on improvements. But financial troubles and "fail to connect with an audience" (according to the city museum administrator Jody Crago) forced its closure in 2009. That same year, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It reopened in 2011 as an archive research center focusing on local history, office space for museum staffers (moving from the museum in downtown Chandler) and satellite exhibition space.</p><br>
<p>The George H. Williams Townhouses, commonly known as "The Lawn" apartments, located in northwest Portland, Oregon, United States, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The three-unit townhouse structure was built for, and originally owned by, George Henry Williams, a former United States Attorney General, United States Senator , and Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice. Later, Williams also served as mayor of Portland. The townhouses were built as a business investment, and Williams did not reside in the building. The structure was moved in 1922. Although always situated within the block bounded by NW 18th and 19th Avenues, and NW Couch and Davis Streets, it was originally in the block&#39;s northwest corner, i.e. at the southeast corner of the intersection of NW 19th and Davis. In 1922, it was moved east within the same block, to the corner at NW 18th and Davis.</p><br>
<p>The History of Louisiana Tech University began when the Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana was founded in Ruston, Louisiana in 1894. The institute was founded to develop an industrial economy in the state of Louisiana. Four years later, the school was renamed the Louisiana Industrial Institute when Louisiana adopted the Constitution of 1898. When the Constitution of 1921 was passed, the school changed its name again to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute to reflect the school&#39;s evolution from a trade school into a larger and broader technical institute. Although the university was informally called Louisiana Tech for about five decades after the 1921 name change, it was not until 1970 when Louisiana Polytechnic Institute officially changed its name to Louisiana Tech University. Over the course of its history, the school grew from a small industrial institute with one building to a university with five colleges and an enrollment of around 11,800 students.</p><br>
<h2>Establishment of the University</h2><br>
<p>After the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana in 1877, the only two notable universities in the state were Tulane University and Louisiana State University (LSU). A few small colleges populated the rural areas of north Louisiana, such as Mount Lebanon University in Mount Lebanon, Keatchie Female College in Keachi, and Ruston College. The Louisiana state government began to support the creation of higher education colleges and universities across the state including the establishment of Southern University in 1880 and Louisiana State Normal School in 1884.</p><br>
<p>On May 14, 1894, one year after a fire destroyed the old Ruston College, the Lincoln Parish Police Jury held a special session to outline plans to establish an industrial institute for Lincoln Parish and to introduce the plans during the upcoming session of the Louisiana State Legislature. The police jury decided at the meeting to move forward with the plans and called upon the local State Representative George M. Lomax to introduce the legislation during the next session. During the legislative session, State Representatives Lomax and J. T. M. Hancock from Jackson Parish, and lawyer and future judge John B. Holstead fought for the passage of the proposed bill. On July 6, 1894, the legislature passed the bill as Act 68 of the General Assembly of Louisiana. The act established The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana to be located in Ruston, LA. The institute was established "for the education of the white children of the State of Louisiana in the arts and sciences". The original skills to be taught at the industrial institute included telegraphy, stenography, drawing, industrial applications of designing and engraving, needlework, and bookkeeping. Because the school was the only state college north of Natchitoches, admission standards were lenient. Students who were admitted into the general preparatory class were required to be fourteen years of age and to be able to read, write, speak and spell with "tolerable correctness."</p><br>
<p>The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana named Colonel Arthur T. Prescott as the institutes first president in 1894. Colonel Prescott, the former commandant of the student cadet organization at the University of Virginia, moved to Ruston to oversee the establishment of the industrial institute in Ruston. After the school secured $20,000 from the Louisiana Legislature, Lincoln Parish, and the City of Ruston and twenty acres of land through a donation by Francis P. Stubbs, Prescott led the schools efforts to construct the first buildings on the Tech campus. The first building constructed on the Tech Campus, The Old Main Building, was a two-story brick building that contained eight large classrooms, an auditorium, chemical laboratory, and two offices. Prescott also set aside a reading room in the Old Main Building furnished with tables, chairs, and 125 books donated from his own personal collection to serve as the school&#39;s first library A frame building was also built near the Old Main Building to be used for the instruction of mechanics. In 1898, Hale Hall was constructed as a two-story girls dormitory.</p><br>
<p>During Colonel Prescotts five years at the institute, the schools student enrollment grew and the first diplomas were awarded. On September 23, 1895, the school held its first classes with six faculty members and 212 students from 22 parishes. Although there were no classes offered for music studies at first, student demand led to the administration offering courses in piano, voice, and violin. For the 1897–1898 academic year, the student enrollment grew to 300 students while the faculty expanded to 12 teachers. In the spring of 1897, Colonel Prescott awarded the school&#39;s degree to Harry Howard. Harry Howard received a Bachelor of Industry degree after two years of study. Mr. Howard would become an instructor at the college as well as the College Treasurer and the Director of the Business Department for over 25 years. The first graduation ceremony was held in 1898 when ten graduates received their diplomas at the Ruston Opera House.</p><br>
<h2>Louisiana Industrial Institute (1898–1921)</h2><br>
<p>In 1898, the state of Louisiana passed the Constitution of 1898. Article 256 of the new constitution changed the name of the school from "The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana" to the Louisiana Industrial Institute. The following year, Colonel Prescott resigned as the institute&#39;s president to return to his alma mater, LSU, where he became a professor of government and the first head of the Government Department. W. C. Robinson, one of the original faculty members in 1894 and a professor of mathematics, succeeded Prescott as President of the Louisiana Industrial Institute in 1899.</p><br>
<p>The Louisiana Industrial Institute suffered in its early years as a result of politics and inadequate financial support from the state government. Although the student enrollment and faculty grew through the first decade of the 1900s, the Louisiana Industrial Institute had frequent changes in its faculty and presidents as a result of low salaries and the state&#39;s inadequate support of the school. From 1899 to 1907, the institute installed four presidents. Of the four presidents during the eight-year period, only one, James B. Aswell, served longer than two years.</p><br>
<p>In 1900, the Louisiana Industrial Institute reorganized the academic studies curriculum into two years of preparatory work and three years of college level courses. Students could select the general business course, the mechanical course, or the domestic science course after they completed the two years of preparatory studies. High school graduates were admitted into the third year of studies (first college level year) without examination. By 1905, the minimum age for admission was raised for incoming students. Young ladies had to be at least fifteen years old to enter the First Year. Young men had to be at least sixteen years old to enter the First Year, fifteen years old to enter the Second Year, and fourteen years old to enter the Third Year. By 1909, all young men had to be at least sixteen years old to gain admission to the institute.</p><br>
<p>Student life continued to develop at the school as the student enrollment expanded to over 800 students in the 1904–1905 school year. About 250 female students lived at the Hale Hall Girls Dormitory while 125 male students lived at the Boys Hall. Four literary societies were organized by the higher classes as part of their English studies. The Young Mens Christian Association and the Kings Daughters were the two Christian organizations on the campus at that time. The students and faculty assembled at the chapel before the start of each school day for Bible reading, prayer, and singing. Every student was required to attend the Sunday service at the church of their choice and encouraged to attend one of the Sunday School services conducted by the institutes faculty members at one of the local churches. The school also maintained football and baseball teams on the newly purchased athletic field. In 1905, the first edition of The Lagniappe, the schools yearbook, was published.</p><br>
<p>The Mechanic Arts Building was constructed in 1904 following a rapid period of growth of the Mechanical Arts Department. The building would house the Mechanical Arts Department and the School of Engineering until the erection of Bogard Hall in 1940. The Ropp Center, the original Presidents home, named for president Ralph L. Ropp and the oldest existing structure on the campus, was constructed in 1911. The Italian-style, wood-frame building was the home of Louisiana Techs presidents for nearly sixty years.</p><br>
<p>Starting in the late 1910s, the Louisiana Industrial Institute started to reorganize some of the degree programs, including engineering. As a result of the changes, bachelors degrees were offered in the fields of engineering, business administration, education, and home economics. In 1919, the trustees enlarged the curricula and started granting a standard baccalaureate degree. On June 15, 1921, the first bachelors degree, the Bachelor of Industry in General Engineering, was awarded to a graduate.</p><br>
<h2>Change to the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (1921)</h2><br>
<p>The state of Louisiana adopted a new constitution on June 18, 1921. The Constitution of 1921 changed the name of the school from the Louisiana Industrial Institute to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute. After the name change, the institute continued to reorganize its courses of study. In 1926, the curricula of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute was organized into three schools: The School of Education, The School of Engineering, and the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.</p><br>
<h3>Growing Pains</h3><br>
<p>By the mid-1930s, the institute was beginning to show "growing pains". Student enrollment grew by almost 60% from 1933 to 1937 while funding from the state increased by only 17% during the same period. The on-campus dormitories and dining hall struggled to meet the needs of the growing student body. The situation was so bad that the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the schools accrediting agency, placed the school on probation in 1937. Among the factors cited by the agency were a high student-teacher ratio, crowded classrooms, library facilities that failed to meet the minimum standards, and a low teaching cost. Additional problems included turning away male students from admission into the agriculture department as a result of inadequate farm facilities and a decrease in the operating budget of the School of Engineering between 1933 and 1937 despite a 268% increase in student enrollment. After the probation was imposed on the school, the student body and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute President Edwin Richardson sought additional appropriations from the State legislature to expand the infrastructure at the schools campus.</p><br>
<p>The first major construction project on the Tech campus would be the construction of a new administration building to replace "Old Main". On January 6, 1936, a fire completely destroyed the Old Main Building, the home of the institutes administrative offices and the first building constructed on the Tech campus. The building was completed in 1937 and named after Richard W. Leche, the Governor of Louisiana at the time. Around 1940, the building was renamed Keeny Hall in honor of John Keeny, a former president of the school from 1908 to 1926 who had died the previous year. Another reason for the buildings name change was due to Governor Leche having been imprisoned along with a number of state officials in the infamous Louisiana Scandals of 1939.</p><br>
<h3>Building Boom of 1939–1940</h3><br>
<p>Despite the completion of the Keeny Hall in 1937, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute still faced problems as it tried to fit the growing student body onto the undersized campus. For years, the school lobbied the State Legislature in order to obtain increased funding from the state government. School officials also sought the assistance of the Federal Government through appropriations from the New Deal relief funds. The school&#39;s initial proposal was to build twenty new buildings on campus which would have doubled the number of buildings at the school from 20 to 40. Although the initial proposal was scaled back due to high demand for Federal funds, many of the major buildings were approved with about $2,000,000 to be used for the construction of the six campus buildings.</p><br>
<p>The new buildings constructed on the Tech campus between 1938 and 1940 were: Howard Auditorium, a 3,000 seat auditorium and classroom building named after Techs first graduate Harry Howard; Bogard Hall, the large three-story building for the School of Engineering that marked the first expansion of the engineering schools facilities since 1905; Robinson Hall, a mens dormitory; Tolliver Hall, also known as Toliver Dining Hall, a large dining hall designed to serve 800 students compared to the old dining hall which only seated 250 students; Reese Hall, also known as Reese Agriculture Building, a two-story classroom and lab building for the school of agriculture; and Aswell Hall, a womens dormitory. Most of the new buildings were built in the heart of the old campus in the Colonial Revival style. The only exceptions were Reese Hall which was built on the Tech Farm campus and Howard Auditorium which was a Streamlined Moderne building.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, the Student Government Association was formed as the governing body of the institute&#39;s students. Four years later, the Student Union (now the Union Board) were created to build campus spirit, promote a well-rounded campus program, and assure personal development for every Tech student.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, all these buildings were individually added, along with Keeny Hall and the former Prescott Memorial Library (now University Hall), to the National Register of Historic Places as part of "The 1930s Building Boom at Louisiana Tech" Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<p>The Heryford Brothers Building  is a historic commercial building in Lakeview, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1913 by William P. Heryford, a local rancher and businessman. The building has changed hands several times over the years, but it has remained in continuous use since it was constructed. Today, the Heryford Building is an active commercial structure for a number of small businesses. Because of its importance to local history, the Heryford Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Lakeview was established in 1876. The community grew slowly because of its isolated frontier location. In May 1900, a large fire destroyed 64 of the town&#39;s 66 buildings, leaving 700 residents homeless. However most of the homes and business structures were replaced by October of that year. Much of the reconstruction was financed by Doctor Bernard Daly, a local physician, banker, and businessman.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, a new county courthouse was built in the center of town on the south side of Center Street (the towns main east-west street) between E Street and F Street (the towns main north-south streets). In 1911, the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway reached Lakeview, spurring commercial growth in the community. In the two years following the arrival of the railroad, over $200,000 was invested in Lakeviews downtown business area. Almost half of that investment was made by William P. Heryford, a local rancher and businessman. In 1913, Heryford commissioned the construction of a new three-story commercial building on the north side of Center Street, across the street from the Lake County courthouse. Heryfords building cost approximately $100,000 to construct. When it was completed, the building was the largest and most expensive structure in Lakeview. It was also the most modern, with its own power generator, central stream heat, elevators, electric lights, hot water, and telephones.</p><br>
<p>The Heryford Brothers Building was dedicated on 14 March 1913. Over 600 people attended the ceremony. After the dedication ceremony, Heryford hosted a community party that lasted from 7:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m the next morning. According to the Lake County Examiner, the event was "without a doubt the largest assemblage of beautifully gowned women ever gathered in Lakeview". The Examiner went on to speculate that Lakeview would never witness another such affair.</p><br>
<p>The Heryford building was the largest structure in Lakeview when it was built in 1913, and it is still one of the city&#39;s most important commercial building today. Because the Heryford Brothers Building played an important role in the commercial development of Lakeview, the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 30 April 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Heryford Brothers Building is a three-story Classical Revival style structure with 54,000 ft2 of interior floor space. It was designed by San Francisco architect F. S. DeLongchamp, and constructed by I. A. (Andy) Underwood, a prominent Lakeview builder. When it was opened, the first floor was occupied by the Lakeview Mercantile Company, Lakeview&#39;s post office, and the Hall and Reynolds drug store. The United States Land Office and the local Elks Lodge occupied the second floor with professional offices on the third floor. The building included many features that were considered very modern, especially in an isolated eastern Oregon community in the early 20th century. These features included an electric power generator, central stream heat, elevators, telephones, electric lights, and hot water throughout the building.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the first floor has been extensively remodeled to accommodate new commercial tenants. The mercantile store was replaced by a restaurant, and then new commercial space. Later, the Elks Lodge expanded to the first floor. The first floor modifications include dropped ceilings, new sheetrock walls, wood paneling, and new bathrooms. The first floor space occupied by the drug store has changed hands several times, but retains its original configuration. With the exception of fire code modifications the second and third floors generally retain their original configurations as well.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Heryford Brother Building occupies Lot A, Section 15, Township 39 South, Range 20 East of the Willamette Meridian in Lake County, Oregon. It is located on the north side of Center Street between E Street and F Street in Lakeview, Oregon. The building faces the Lake County Courthouse in the center of town.</p><br>
<p>Rauch House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA. It was built in 1898 and is a two-story, brick Victorian Gothic-style residence. It measures three bays wide and six bays deep and has a steeply pitched hip roof with projecting gables. Also on the property is a barn , smokehouse , chicken house  and pen building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Robinson-Tabb House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is a two-and-a-half story Federal-style residence. The original section was built about 1818 of logs, with brick added between about 1840 and 1844. It has a double-gallery recessed porch on the north side and a stone outbuilding dated to about 1818. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Henry J. Seibert II House, also known as "Seibert Villa," is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1867, and is a two-story, L-shaped brick dwelling in the Late Greek Revival-style. It measures 36 feet wide by 76 feet long and sits on a stone foundation. It features a three-bay, one-story hip-roof porch added about 1890. Also on the property are two contributing outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin H. Snyder House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built about 1925, and is a -story, Arts and Crafts-style bungalow. It is built of concrete with weather board finished gables and the remainder finished in stucco. The front facade features a recessed, arcaded front porch. Also on the property are a concrete block garage , retaining wall , and a concrete obelisk memorializing an 18th-century ford of Opequon Creek known as an Old Pack Horse Ford .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Adam Stephen House is a historic home located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built between 1772 and 1789, and is a -story, stone house measuring 43 feet, 5 inches, by 36 feet, 3 inches. It was the home of Adam Stephen . Built of shaped limestone, it stands on a prominent stone ledge, with two outbuildings in stone and log. After falling into near-ruin, iIt was restored in the 1960s by the General Adam Stephen Memorial Association and is open as a historic house museum. The house was built over a natural cave, with stone steps leading down from the basement. A local caver&#39;s organization has worked since 2002 to excavate the cave, which had become plugged with earth, and the excavation is available for tours on open house days.</p><br>
<p>The site also includes the Triple Brick House, a brick two-story building built into the embankment next to the railroad tracks that run close to the site. It was built about 1875, and was primarily for residential use, but may also have been a kitchen for dining cars on the B&O railroad line.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is located within the South Water Street Historic District, listed in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Stone House Mansion, also known as the John Strode House, is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The main house was built in 1757, and is a two-story, stone house with a slate gable roof. Porches were added during the 20th century. Also on the property is a stuccoed brick ice house , bunk house , and a barn / garage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Bemidji station is a former Great Northern Railway depot in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States. It opened in 1913, replacing a wooden structure built in 1898. It was the last depot commissioned by railroad magnate James J. Hill.</p><br>
<p>The depot served passengers until the late 1950s and continued as a freight depot until the mid-1980s, when it was closed, boarded up, and abandoned. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Great Northern Depot for its local significance in the themes of exploration/settlement and transportation. It was nominated for being Bemidji&#39;s only intact early-20th-century railroad building, symbolizing the rail access that transformed the settlement into a logging boomtown and regional trade center.</p><br>
<p>Empty and deteriorating, the building was slated for demolition in the late 20th century. It was saved by a nearly $2 million adaptive reuse effort and now houses the Beltrami County History Center, operated by the Beltrami County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is a one-story structure of brick and limestone, with a hip roof. The architecture is generally neoclassical, as evoked by the arched windows, doors, and façade, but it also has influences of the Arts and Crafts style, as shown by the wide eaves and the design of the windows.</p><br>
<p>The interior, measuring 7,000 ft&sup2, contained separate waiting areas for men and women. Each waiting room had settees, and the ladies&#39; room had several rocking chairs. The center of the building housed the ticket office, and the east end had baggage rooms and a freight room. A small, windowed projection on the south side allowed views of the tracks from both directions. All wires entered the new structure from the rear, so as not to distract from the aesthetics of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>Bemidjis first Great Northern Depot was a wooden structure built in 1898 and enlarged in 1901. In 1903, electricity was added, and in 1905, a baggage room, but the old depot was still insufficient. By 1907, the Bemidji Commercial Club had started a push for a new station. The old depot was too small, not well ventilated, and couldnt handle the traffic that was coming through Bemidji.</p><br>
<p>In June 1911, pleas went out to the Great Northern Railway to build a new depot. Governor Adolph Olson Eberhart and Louis W. Hill, president of the railway and son of James J. Hill, visited Bemidji. The Bemidji Commercial Club treated them to dinner at the Markham Hotel and took them by boat around Lake Bemidji. Afterward, local businessmen rode with Louis Hill in his private coach on the train for further discussion.</p><br>
<p>In January 1912, James J. Hill, chairman of the board of the Great Northern Railway, came to Bemidji. He spoke at the Armory on Bemidji Avenue; the Commercial Club entertained him at the Markham Hotel and escorted him around the city.</p><br>
<p>On April 25, 1912, a headline in the Bemidji Daily Pioneer announced: "Hill Promises a New Brick Building". Work was to start immediately. Plans that had been drawn up the previous year were re-examined because they called for an expensive "Permanent Type A depot, usually built for towns of 20,000 or more." But when Hill visited Bemidji, the first thing he noticed when he stepped off the train was an impressive new brick Minnesota and International Railway depot just down the tracks to the east. "We will build a depot and a good one," he said. The original plans were approved for a 217 ft, 7,000 ft&sup2; building with a red brick and sandstone exterior.</p><br>
<p>Most of the work on the depot was completed before the end of 1912. Thousands of people toured the depot for its grand opening on January 16, 1913.</p><br>
<p>Hill returned to Bemidji by train for the grand opening and spoke at a banquet at the Markham Hotel that evening. He told the crowd hed taken special care to see to the depots completion since it would be his last.</p><br>
<h2>Beltrami County History Center</h2><br>
<p>The depot served passengers until the late 1950s and continued as a freight depot until the mid-1980s, when it was closed, boarded up, and abandoned. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, but without a tenant, the building was damaged by water seepage and vandals and dirtied by pigeons, bats, and rodents. The depot had become a liability to the railroad company, by then the Burlington Northern Railroad. Orders were sent to demolish the building.</p><br>
<p>Thanks to railroad superintendent Roger Mackenroth who put the demolition orders on hold, the hard work and fundraising of a devoted Historical Society Museum Committee, and a state capital bonding bill for $650,000, the building was saved and renovated at a cost of nearly two million dollars. It reopened as the home of the Beltrami County Historical Society in October 2000.</p><br>
<p>The rail line is still in active use by the BNSF Railway.</p><br>
<p>The Russian ambassador&#39;s residence in Washington, D.C. historically known as the Mrs. George Pullman House, is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Downtown neighborhood. Until 1994, the building served as the Embassy of Russia .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1910, to the designs of architects Nathan C. Wyeth and Francis P. Sullivan, the Beaux-Arts mansion is designated as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In addition, the building is listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.</p><br>
<p>Former occupants include Frank O. Lowden, Natalie Hammond (spouse of John Hays Hammond), and since 1913, Russian ambassadors to the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Beginning in 1970, a vigil was held there, over Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, USA Navy communications specialist John Anthony Walker walked into the embassy. In 1980, Ronald Pelton, a National Security Agency communications analyst, walked into the Soviet Embassy.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, during glasnost, Tom Clancy among others were invited to receptions there.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, there was a protest over events in Lithuania.</p><br>
<p>The Strayer-Couchman House, also known as the Couchman House or Susan Couchman House, is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built around 1850 and is a two-story, L-shaped, clapboard-sided log house in the Greek Revival style. The house features a gable roof and a one-story, one-bay entrance porch with a flat roof. The oldest section of the rear ell was constructed around 1810 and was connected to the main house between 1860 and 1880.</p><br>
<p>The Strayer-Couchman House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Jacob VanDoren House, also known as "Allen Dale," is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built between 1830 and 1836, and is a -story, stucco coated stone house in the Greek Revival style. It has a hip roof with balustraded deck and measures 49 feet wide by 44 feet deep. It features a one-story, one bay, entrance porch with a hip roof supported by Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Nathan VanMetre House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1872, and is a two-story, eight bay wide rectangular brick house with a steeply pitched gable roof, in the Greek Revival style. The main section of the house is five bays wide. Also on the property is a small brick smokehouse , large bank barn , garage , two silos , and chicken house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Orndoff-Cross House, also known as the Henry Orndoff House, is a historic home located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built about 1796 and consists of a log house with additions. The earliest addition dates from about 1830 and the latest from the 1990s. It is a two-story vernacular residence topped by a standing seam metal, side gable roof. Also on the property is a meat-hanging shed of log construction .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Thomas VanMetre or Vanmetre House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA. It was built in 1838 and is a two-story, five-bay, red brick vernacular "I"-house. It has a side gable roof and a single bay, pedimented portico supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property is summer kitchen .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>McPike Mansion, or Mount Lookout, is a mansion in Alton, which is part of the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area in the USA state of Illinois. Built in 1869 by Henry Guest McPike , it is situated on Alby Street on a site of 15 acre, one of the highest points in Alton, which was called Mount Lookout.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction began in 1869 by the architect Lucas Pfeiffenberger. In that year, McPikes Rulander was considered one of the finest in quality at an exhibition of the Mississippi Valley Grape Growers Association, while his Diana grapes were best on exhibition. McPike served as mayor of Alton and was a notable local businessman, involved in real estate and box making. He also served as the Librarian of the Alton-Southern Illinois Horticultural Society in the late 1880s. He died in 1910.</p><br>
<p>In 1925 or 1936, the mansion was purchased by Paul A. Laichinger, who rented rooms out to others and lived there until his death in 1945 or 1951. While the house was abandoned for years thereafter, there was some interest in demolishing it and converting the land into a shopping center, though this fell through due to zoning issues. In the meantime, the house was ransacked for what was left behind, including its furnishings, wooden banisters and even the toilets, becoming a victim of vandalism and negligence.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 17, 1980, but was left derelict for many years, before being purchased by Sharyn and George Luedke in an auction in 1994. Despite this, the Luedkes have overseen a restoration process, funded through donations and tours. In 2017, the Alton Historical Commission presented them with an award in preservation for work done on the front porch and conservatory.</p><br>
<h3>Haunting</h3><br>
<p>According to the owner, the mansion is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a former owner and a former domestic servant. It frequently is a part of the area&#39;s many haunted tours.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was completed in 1871. It is a three-story red brick and white building, with white pillars supporting the porch. It contains 16 rooms and a vaulted wine cellar.</p><br>
<p>Situated on Alby Street on a site of 15 acre, one of the highest points in Alton, McPike was an avid horticulturalist and added extensive gardens with orchards, shrubs and rare trees. Only 4.4 acre of the original estate remain of Mt. Lookout.</p><br>
<h2>In the media</h2><br>
<h3>Television</h3><br>
<p>McPike Mansion was featured on an episode of Ghost Adventures entitled "McPike Mansion" that aired as a special in 2019 on the Travel Channel. The team of paranormal investigators explored the home and its property, which is said to be haunted by its former inhabitants. The structure also appeared in the series Scariest Places on Earth. It was also featured on Season 1, Episode 7 of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, and an episode of Ghost Lab.</p><br>
<p>Miller Tavern and Farm is a historic home and farm located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The main house is L-shaped and consists of a vernacular tavern building, built about 1813, to which is appended a Greek Revival-style "I"-house built about 1831. The house of painted brick and wood construction. It has an intersecting gable roof structure clad in standing seam metal. Also on the contributing property is the Dr. John Magruder House , privy , smokehouse , barn , bank barn , and two sheds .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Smoketown School was a historic one-room school located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1869, and is a one-story, brick building in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It was used as a school until 1940, and the property was later sold to the Greensburg United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The building was condemned in June 2012 and razed the next month.</p><br>
