<p>The Morgan Mansion is a historic residence in and the current city hall of Wellston, Ohio, United States. Built in 1905,</p><br>
<p>Morgan entered the iron and coal business in Wellston in 1884, when he established the Wellston Coal and Iron Company. By 1905, he had become sufficiently wealthy to commission the design of his home from leading Columbus architect Wilbur Mills. Mills&#39; design was a brick building with a stone foundation, an asphalt roof, and elements of stone and iron. Rather than being of a single architectural style, the two-and-a-half-story house is a mix of Jacobethan and Spanish Mission Revival architecture. The various structural elements combine to make the Morgan Mansion more architecturally significant than any other building in the city. Morgan himself died just three years after the house was erected.</p><br>
<p>Thirty years after Morgan arranged for its construction, the house was purchased by the city of Wellston and converted into its city hall, a purpose that it continues to serve to the present day. In 1979, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and its place as the home of a leading local citizen. It is one of three National Register-listed buildings in the city, along with the Clutts House, the home of another prominent mining executive, and the Harvey Wells House, the home of the city&#39;s founder.</p><br>
<p>The Tioga Pass Entrance Station is the primary entrance for travelers entering Yosemite National Park from the east on the Tioga Pass Road. Open only during the summer months, the entrance station consists of two historical buildings, a ranger station and a comfort station, built in 1931 and 1934 respectively. Both are rustic stone structures with peeled log roof structures, and are examples of the National Park Service rustic style employed at the time by the National Park Service. Two log gate structures that had been removed since the sites original construction were rebuilt in 1999; the stone piers that supported them remain. The use of stone at Tioga Pass set a precedent for the extensive employment of stone construction in other park buildings in the Yosemite high country. Civilian Conservation Corps workers assisted in the entrance stations construction.</p><br>
<p>The ranger station is a stone building, about 28 ft square, set into the slope of the hillside with a porch extending across most of the front. The interior features a lobby space with a substantial stone fireplace, along with living quarters consisting of a bedroom, bath and kitchen. The masonry is oversized, with similarly heavy log porch and roof framing. Window lintels are single massive shaped timbers. The bases of the walls step outward in a reverse corbel. The roof is a simple gable. The comfort station is of similar design, with battered (sloping) stone walls, measuring about 11 ft by 26 ft, with a steeper roof pitch and partly hipped gables at the ends.</p><br>
<p>The Tioga Pass Entrance Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Historic Portland Fire Station No. 23 in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a two-story structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in Italianate style in 1913, it was added to the register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Fire Station No. 23 occupies a narrow lot in a block that was known as "Firehouse Row". The lot was the site of one of East Portland&#39;s earliest firehouses, home to Grant Engine Company No. 2 (later Hose Company No. 3) as early as 1884. In 1913, Fire Station No. 23 replaced the earlier building. In September of 2023 a different building, also on Firehouse Row, was brought into operation under the name Fire Station 23. The rest of the block, dating to the late 19th century, consisted of houses built for firefighters and their families.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular fire station, typical of many Portland Fire Bureau buildings constructed on the east side in the early 20th century, has masonry walls and a flat roof with a full parapet. Exterior features include a facade of buff-colored brick, four wooden doors, arch windows topped by brick voussoirs, a bullseye window, and the original fire station signs. The first floor of the interior originally included the engine room, two offices, a hallway, and a half-bath (toilet and sink). The second floor consisted of a large room in front, with two smaller offices, a kitchen, bathroom, and hallway in back.</p><br>
<p>Lee Gray Holden (1865&ndash;1943) was for many years associated with Fire Station No. 23 and its predecessor building. Although it is not known if he designed this particular building, he is credited with designing 24 Portland firehouses and fire boats. A native of Illinois, he moved to Oregon in 1885 and joined Grant Engine Company No. 2, a volunteer company, in 1887, before East Portland became part of Portland. In 1891, he became the first paid firefighter on the east side. Despite being fired for political reasons by Mayor Sylvester Pennoyer in 1896, he was re-hired as fire battalion chief of the east side in 1898, after Pennoyer left office. Retiring to the mountain community of Zigzag to design and build a hotel in 1908, he returned to Portland in 1911 to become battalion chief of the citys southeast fire district. In that post, he was stationed at Fire Station No. 23 from 1913 to 1923. In 1923, Holden became Portlands assistant fire chief and, three months later, fire chief, a position he held until his retirement in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The Yosemite Valley Chapel was built in the Yosemite Valley of California in 1879.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The wooden chapel was designed by San Francisco architect Charles Geddes in the Carpenter Gothic style. It was built by Geddes&#39; son-in-law, Samuel Thompson of San Francisco, for the California State Sunday School Association, at a cost of between three or four thousand dollars.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was originally built in the "Lower Village" as called then, its site at the present day trailhead of the Four Mile Trail. The chapel was moved to its present location in 1901, as the old Lower Village dwindled.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>As stipulated in the organization&#39;s application for permission, the chapel is an interdenominational facility. The L-shaped frame chapel covers an area of about 1,470 ft&sup2;. It is clad in board and batten siding with a prominent steeple. It seats about 250 people.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was restored in 1965, when its foundations were raised in response to a 1964 flood, but was damaged in the 1997 Yosemite Valley floods and required repair. The chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Yosemite Village Historic District encompasses the primary built-up section of the Yosemite Valley as it was developed by the National Park Service for Yosemite National Park. The district includes visitor services areas, park personnel residences and administrative facilities. It is located to the north of the Merced River. The district includes the National Historic Landmark Rangers&#39; Club.</p><br>
<h2>Settlement</h2><br>
<p>The Yosemite Village area was settled beginning about 1865, when James Mason Hutchings built a so-called winter cabin for his family as a permanent residence. Hutchings was a successful publisher, and had visited the valley as a tourist in 1855. Nine years later he moved there, successfully lobbying the federal government to cede the valley to the State of California as a park. Hutchings built a mill and planted an apple orchard. No buildings remain from the Hutchings place, but apple trees and a depression that may have been a mill flume remain. The present built-up area was established in 1918, and includes several older buildings that were moved to Yosemite Village from elsewhere. Four buildings were built by the USA Army during its tenure as the custodian of Yosemite National Park prior to the establishment of the National Park Service. The other buildings were built from 1918 on as the Park Service moved personnel and services out of the old Yosemite Village that had grown awkwardly around the Sentinel Hotel in the middle of the valley. Most of the structures in the historic district are houses. A portion of the park&#39;s administrative district is included in the historic district, including the park headquarters. The period of development in the historic district extends until 1951.</p><br>
<h3>John Muir</h3><br>
<p>J.M. Hutchings had bought a hotel near the present historic district in 1863. In 1869 he hired John Muir to mill wood from downed trees for new cabins. Muir stayed at first with the Hutchings, then built his own cabin. The location of this cabin is not known with certainty, but is believed to be within the historic district. Muir lived in the cabin for two years, during which time he developed his philosophy of wildland preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Significant structures</h2><br>
<p>The most significant building in the historic district is the Rangers&#39; Club, built at the personal expense of Park Service director Stephen T. Mather in 1924 to house rangers. The National Historic Landmark structure is an early example of the National Park Service rustic style in the park.</p><br>
<p>Early residences used wood shingles and natural materials, and were rustic in character. From the mid-1920s, following the construction of the Rangers Club, houses were more explicitly rustic. The Park Superintendents Residence was built a little apart from the other houses in 1912 by the Army. The Superintendent&#39;s Residence was extensively remodeled in the 1920s to National Park Service rustic standards. The residential district was laid out in an informal style by Park Service landscape architect Charles Punchard.</p><br>
<p>Non-residential buildings include the Administration Building (1924) designed by architect Myron Hunt, the Post Office (1925), and the Museum Building or Valley District Building (1926), both designed by Park Service architect Herbert Maier. All are rustic in character. Other buildings in the area include the Pohono Indian Studio (1925), which is used as a gift shop, and the Ansel Adams Gallery, a complex of five buildings incorporating what was first known as Best&#39;s Studio.</p><br>
<p>The Yosemite Village district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1978.</p><br>
<p>James F. Murray House, also known as Murray-Abrams House, is a historic home located at Chester, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built 1904–1905, and is a blond brick, L-shaped dwelling in a combined Classical Revival / American Foursquare style. It featured a deep wraparound porch and porte cochere and slate covered intersecting hipped roofs. Also on the property is a large -story frame barn built in 1903. It was the home of James Fraser Murray, , an individual important in the Northern Panhandle&#39;s developing oil industry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Marshall House, also known as McNeil House, is a historic home located at New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built in 1887 and is a -story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It was built by West Virginia State Senator Oliver S. Marshall  and remained his home until his death.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The house is operated as the Hancock County Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Awbury Historic District is a historic area in the East Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses the former summer homes and farms of the extended Cope family, who moved to the area starting in 1849 and the entire Awbury Arboretum, which occupies most of the district&#39;s area, as well as adjacent properties developed and occupied by Henry Cope , son and successor to prominent Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker merchant Thomas Pym Cope , his close relatives, and his descendants. The district, which has been described by Philadelphia area historians as "visually distinct from the densely-built urban blocks that surround it on three sides, and from the level, open landscape of the city park to the northwest," features buildings which were designed in the Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Shingle, and Colonial Revival styles of architecture between 1849 and 1922.</p><br>
<p>This district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. In 2010 it was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The Awbury Historic District in Philadelphias East Germantown neighborhood encompasses the former summer homes and farms of the extended Cope family, who moved to the area starting in 1849, as well as the entire Awbury Arboretum, which occupies most of the districts area. In addition, it also includes properties which were developed and occupied by Henry Cope (1793-1865), son of the prominent Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker merchant Thomas Pym Cope (1768-1854). An irregularly shaped district, its boundaries are described as follows by the City of Philadelphia&#39;s list of historic districts:</p><br>
<p>"Beginning at the northwest corner of Ardleigh Street and E. Washington Lane, the boundary moves southeast along Ardleigh Street to the rear property lines of the homes on the northwestern corner of Ardleigh and E. Haines Streets; then travels southwest along the rear of properties of E. Haines Street; then travels along the eastern, southern, and western property lines of 999 E. Haines street; then travels southwest to Devon Place; then travels along Devon Place and the front property lines of 5913-23 and 5925-31 Devon Places; then travels north to the rear property lines of the houses on Devon Place; then travels southwest, then south, and then southeast along the rear of the property lines along Devon Place to E. Haines Street; then travels southwest along E. Haines Street to the northern corner of Avonhoe Road; then travels north and west along Avonhoe Road to the northeast corner of the property at 6060 Avonhoe road; then travels along the eastern and southern property lines of 6060 Avonhoe Road and comes to Chew Avenue; then travels southwest on High Street until it reaches the SEPTA R7 railroad line; then travels along the eastern edge of the railroad line, crosses Washington Lane, and reaches the northwestern corner of the Awbry Arboretum property line; then travels northeast along the rear of the properties of the 900 and 1000 E. Washington Lane to Ardleigh Street; then travels southeast along Ardleigh Street to the point of origin."</p><br>
<p>"Visually distinct from the densely-built urban blocks" and open, city park landscape around it, this district&#39;s structures were designed between 1849 and 1922 in Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Shingle, and Colonial Revival styles of architecture.</p><br>
<p>The grounds of the Awbury Arboretum were designed by William Saunders, the prominent landscape architect who designed the Gettysburg National Cemetery and helped to design Fairmount Park. A Victorian-style garden was also created near the Francis Cope House through the joint efforts of the Philadelphia Garden Club and the Weeders Garden Club.</p><br>
<h3>Placement of this district on the National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>In August 2000, Philadelphia area newspapers reported that representatives of the Awbury Arboretum had submitted the necessary paperwork to initiate the creation of the Awbury Historic District and secure its placement on the National Register of Historic Places. That paperwork was then reviewed for its suitability for the NRHP by Pennsylvanias Historic Preservation Board at its March 13, 2001 meeting at 9:45 a.m. at the State Museum in Harrisburg. Also considered for NRHP status at this time were the: Protection of the Flag Monument in Athens, Pennsylvania; Normandy Farm, George K. Heller School, and Upper Roxborough Historic District in Montgomery County; Harris/Laird, Schober & Company Building in Philadelphia; Michael Derstine Farmstead in Bucks County; Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District in Delaware County; John Nicholas and Elizabeth Moyer House in Berks County; William Shelly School and Annex in York County; and the Zeta Psi Fraternity House in Northampton County. This district was then officially added to the National Register in May 2001, an achievement that was recognized on September 23 of that year with a day of free educational activities for the public, including tours of several of the districts most prominent homes.</p><br>
<p>This district was then also officially added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>There are 31 contributing buildings, including 24 homes, as well as other buildings.</p><br>
<p>Awbury Arboretum</p><br>
<p>Francis Cope House (1860)</p><br>
<p>Jonathan & Rachel Cope Evans House (1872)</p><br>
<p>Alexis T. & Elizabeth Cope House (1882-3)</p><br>
<p>Cope/Evans Double Houses (1885-6)</p><br>
<p>William Draper Lewis House (ca. 1892–3)</p><br>
<p>Alfred G. & Mary Scattergood house (1909)</p><br>
<p>William C. Kimber house (1914)</p><br>
<p>Shippen & Esther Lewis house (1921)</p><br>
<p>The Yosemite Valley Bridges are eight bridges in the Yosemite Valley of Yosemite National Park, most of them spanning the Merced River. Five of them were built in 1928, with the remainder built between 1921 and 1933. The bridges feature a concrete structure faced with local stone, in an elliptical or three-centred arch configuration. They are notable for their uniform character and for their conformance to tenets of the National Park Service rustic style. Design work for the seven newer bridges was by George D. Whittle of the San Francisco District Office of the USA Bureau of Public Roads for the National Park Service. Concrete bridges were chosen at the urging of Thomas Chalmers Vint of the Park Service, in lieu of alternative designs for steel truss bridges, or suspension bridges suggested by the park superintendent.</p><br>
<h2>Individual bridges</h2><br>
<p>The Yosemite Creek Bridge is the oldest, carrying Northside Drive and spanning Yosemite Creek below Yosemite Falls. Built in 1922, it spans 50 ft in a single arch of reinforced concrete faced with granite. The bridge is 24 ft wide, and was built at a cost of $32,000. The bridge originally featured lanterns on the buttresses at either end of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Ahwahnee Bridge was built in 1928 across the Merced with three arches, one spanning 42 ft and the others spanning 39 ft, for a total length of 122 ft. The bridge is 39 ft wide with a 27 ft roadway, a 5 ft sidewalk and a 7 ft bridle path. It carries the Mirror Lake Road, framing a view of Half Dome for eastbound traffic. Cost was $59,913.09.</p><br>
<p>The Clark Bridge was also built in 1928 with a single 75.5 ft semi-elliptical main span over the Merced flanked by two round-arched subways for horse-and-rider traffic, 7 ft wide by 11 ft high through the bridge&#39;s abutments. Cost was $40,061.22. The bridge carries the 27 ft Curry Stables Road, a 5 ft sidewalk and a 7 ft bridle path.</p><br>
<p>The Pohono Bridge (1928) spans 80 ft over the Merced, carrying the 27 ft Southside Drive and a 5 ft bridle path, at a cost of $29,081.55.</p><br>
<p>The Sugar Pine Bridge (1928), also historically known as the Kenneyville Bridge No. 2, spans 106 ft at a five-degree skew across the Merced, with a 27 ft roadway, a 5 ft sidewalk and a 7 ft sidewalk. It carries the Mirror Lake Road. The longest span of the eight bridges, the cost was $73,507.44. The bridge was named for a large sugar pine that grew to the north of the eastern bridge abutment.</p><br>
<p>The Tenaya Creek Bridge (1928) spans Tenaya Creek with a single 56.75 ft arch at a 25-degree skew on the Happy Isles-Mirror Lake Road. The bridge carries the standard roadway, bridle path and sidewalk. Cost was $37,749.16.</p><br>
<p>The Happy Isles Bridge on the Happy Isles Road over the Merced was built in 1929 with one span of 75 ft and two equestrian subways in its abutments similar to those of the Clark Bridge, its near twin. The bridge&#39;s total length is 126 ft. Cost was $46,673.03.</p><br>
<p>The Stoneman Bridge (1933) resembles the Clark and Happy Isles bridges, with a 72 ft main span over the Merced carrying the 27 ft Northside Drive and two 6 ft sidewalks. The equestrian subways in the abutments were slightly enlarged in width to 8.5 ft and were extended out from the surface of the wing walls for greater emphasis. It is located at the Camp Curry intersection. Cost was $71,675.08.</p><br>
<p>The bridges were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Future status</h2><br>
<p>The National Park Service will release a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for their Merced River Plan in October 2012. The DEIS may contain a proposal to remove the Ahwahnee, Stoneman, and Sugar Pine bridges. The Merced River was included into the Wild and Scenic River system by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. The NPS is required to consider several alternatives before implementing a final plan to maintain a free-flowing river as described in the law. One option being considered is the removal of the three bridges, but it is not certain the bridge removal option will be included in the Merced River Plan DEIS. Once the DEIS is released, there will be a 90-day public comment period.</p><br>
<p>The Wawona Covered Bridge is a covered bridge spanning the South Fork Merced River near Wawona, California, in Yosemite National Park. The open bridge  was built by Galen Clark, the steward of what was then called the Yosemite Grant, in 1868, without its cladding. The open bridge was a component of Clarks proposed new road from Wawona to the Yosemite Valley. Clark was unable to complete the road, which he sold to the Washburn Group of investors along with his stopover lodging  in 1874. In mid-1875 the Washburn Group completed the road to Yosemite Valley. It is one of twelve remaining covered bridges in California.</p><br>
<h2>Covered bridge</h2><br>
<p>The modified queen post truss was covered with Douglas fir cladding in 1878, enclosing the Ponderosa pine structure and its iron tie rods. The bridge served automobile traffic until 1937, when a new bridge was built about 200 m to the southwest. The bridge was repaired by Civilian Conservation Corps labor the same year. In 1955 the bridge was damaged by flooding. Marked for replacement on account of the damage and its poor general condition, the bridge was instead reconstructed after National Park Service landscape architect Thomas Chalmers Vint intervened in its favor. Work was funded as part of the Park Service&#39;s Mission 66 program, using the bridge as the centerpiece of an interpretive exhibit on the history of the Wawona area. The Pioneer Yosemite History Center was established nearby. The bridge was repaired, with damaged elements replaced in kind. Since 1957 the bridge has had a number of repairs and replacements as materials have deteriorated.</p><br>
<p>The Old Isle of Wight Courthouse was built in 1750-51 and was used as the main courthouse for Isle of Wight County, Virginia until a new courthouse was built at Isle of Wight, Virginia in 1800. It is located in the Historic District in the town of Smithfield.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During its 50 years of use as the county courthouse, it was considered the center of life in Isle of Wight and in the town of Smithfield, which was incorporated in 1752. It was constructed by William Rand, and featured a distinctive semi-circular apse and conical roof found in many English churches of the period and echoing the Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg. An adjacent clerk&#39;s office was constructed in 1799, although it was only in use for its intended purpose for a year, before the new courthouse at Isle of Wight was constructed.</p><br>
<p>The old Smithfield courthouse was later modified into a family residence. To do so, the arcade was blocked and the roof converted to a gable.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse and clerk&#39;s office were acquired by Preservation Virginia in 1938 and an extensive restoration project was completed in 1959.</p><br>
<p>A second restoration of the courthouse was undertaken in the late 1990s with the help of Colonial Williamsburg consultants and craftsmen, in which the interior was modified to more accurately recreate the appearance of a typical Virginia courthouse of the period.</p><br>
<p>The building is one of four remaining examples of arcaded colonial courthouses.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, ownership passed from Preservation Virginia to the non-profit Historic Smithfield, and on May 18, 2024 the property was officially deeded to the 1750 Courthouse Board, which for the past 11 years has operated as a semi-independent group under Historic Smithfield, tasked with raising funds for the historic building’s upkeep.</p><br>
<p>The Hodgdon Homestead Cabin was built by Jeremiah Hodgdon in 1879 in the Aspen Valley area of what became Yosemite National Park. The two-story log cabin, measuring 22 ft by 30 ft, was located in an inholding in the park, owned by Hodgdon&#39;s descendants. In the 1950s the family proposed to demolish the structure. The National Park Service acquired it and moved it to its Pioneer Yosemite History Center at Wawona, where the restored cabin is part of an exhibit on early settlement and development of the Yosemite area. In addition to housing Hogdon, the cabin housed workers on the Great Sierra Wagon Road in the 1880s, as a patrol cabin for USA Army troops who managed the new national park in the 1890s, and as a historic landmark at the old Aspen Valley Resort.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is built of peeled logs, saddle-notched, with split log wedge chinking. A shed addition to the rear gives the structure the shape of a saltbox and is a frame structure covered with wood shingles. The cabin is fronted by a porch.</p><br>
<p>The Hodgdon Cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Chris Jorgensen Studio is a one-room log building, built in 1904 as an artists studio for Chris Jorgensen in the Yosemite Valley. Jorgensen, an instructor and assistant director of the California School of Fine Arts, arrived in Yosemite in the 1890s. Jorgensen studied and depicted local Native Americans from 1899, collecting native basketwork. The National Park Service acquired the Jorgensen Studio in 1919, calling it the Yosemite Museum. Jorgensen donated his basket collection to the museum in 1923. Jorgensens widow, Angela Ghiardelli, donated many of Jorgensen&#39;s works to the museum following his death in 1935.</p><br>
<p>From the 1920s the Park Service worked to remove what were regarded as intrusive structures in the center of the valley. The Jorgensen Studio was moved to the Wawona area in 1962 to become part of the Pioneer Yosemite History Center as part of a Mission 66 program to assemble historic structures at the location.</p><br>
<p>The one story cabin measures 22 ft by 37 ft with a steep gable roof that extends beyond the front of the cabin to form a porch. The gable over the porch is decorated by a vertical log infill pattern, with a sleeping loft within. a massive stone fireplace dominates the left side elevation</p><br>
<p>The Jorgensen Studio was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable are associated with the Yosemite Valley Railroad , which ran from Merced, California to El Portal at the entrance to Yosemite National Park. The railroad operated from 1907 to 1945.</p><br>
<p>The structures now located at El Portal were built in Bagby, and were moved from that location in 1966 when the townsite was to be inundated by the filling of Lake McClure behind New Exchequer Dam.</p><br>
<h2>Stationhouse</h2><br>
<p>Bagby Stationhouse is a rectangular wood-frame structure measuring 16 ft by 40 ft. The two-story building was designed for a narrow site between the railroad tracks and the Merced River at Bagby. The hipped roof overhangs by 3 ft. The downstairs portion of the station comprises three rooms, a waiting room at one and a freight room at the other, separated by an office. The second floor was built as living accommodations for the stationmaster, with a living room, bedroom, kitchen, bath and enclosed porch. The station is now used by the Yosemite Conservancy.</p><br>
<h2>Water tanks</h2><br>
<p>There are two water tanks at El Portal, salvaged from Bagby. The wood tanks stand on a timber structure and are 30 ft high overall. A gabled standing seam metal roof runs over both tanks, whose wood sides are held with iron bands. The support framing is 12" x 12" timber.</p><br>
<h2>Turntable</h2><br>
<p>The turntable was built at Bagby. It is reputed to be the last manually operated gallows-frame standard-gauge turntable left in the United States. The turntable was built of heavy timber, tied together with iron rods. The central gallows is a 16 ft timber frame, with a king post truss composed of one-inch iron rods from the frame to the ends of the turntable.The turntable pivoted on wheels running on a single circular rail, 8 ft in diameter.</p><br>
<p>The structures are located on National Park Service-owned property in El Portal, just outside Yosemite National Park proper, and are administered by the park. The ensemble was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Johnston-Truax House is a historic home located at Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia. The original log section was built in 1785, and expanded about 1850 and in 1886. It is a -story building with a one-story wing. It has log walls covered with clapboard and in turn with siding. It features a full porch with a shed roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Dr. George Rigas House is a historic home located at Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built in 1936, and is a five-bay, -story wood-frame house with clapboard siding and a side gable roof. It has an eclectic style. It features a gable-roofed portico centered on the main elevation and supported by four Tuscan order columns and two pilasters. The house is associated with Dr. George S. Rigas, a prominent local physician who practiced medicine in Weirton.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>People&#39;s Bank is a historic bank building located at Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built in 1930, and is a small Classical Revival building constructed of concrete, steel, brick and stone. The building is one story with a lower level. It consists of a higher front portion than the rear due to the interior space of the main lobby. The front facade is of cream glazed brick with Indiana limestone details. The building closed in 1962, due to expansion into a larger building with drive-through windows, and sat undisturbed until it was renovated in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank is a historic commercial building located at New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia. The building has also been known as the Graham Building and the Ross Building. It was built in 1903, and is a two-story, four bay blond brick building with an elevated basement. It features an elevated recessed corner entry with a Doric order column at the corner. It was originally occupied by the First National Bank, until it failed in 1927. For 61 years, from 1929 to 1990, the first floor space housed Graham&#39;s Department Store.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Marland Heights Park and Margaret Manson Weir Memorial Pool is a historic park and swimming pool located at Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia, United States. The Park was dedicated in July 1934 and is a contributing site. It has two contributing structures and one building; the Margaret Manson Weir Memorial Pool, a large wood timber and stone picnic shelter, and a tool shed. The ovoid-shaped pool was built in 1934, with funds from the David Weir Estate and maintenance support from the Weirton Steel Corporation. The main entrance to the pool features Art Deco style design features.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It was demolished in December of 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Soda Springs Cabin is a historic structure in Yosemite National Park in the US, built over Soda Springs. It was built around the year 1889 by John Baptist Lembert, the first white settler on the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite. Lembert had filed a claim to 160 acre in Tuolumne Meadows in 1885 after spending three summers in the area with a flock of angora goats. He built a log cabin directly over the largest soda spring in the area. Although the property was within the park boundaries, Lembert received a patent to the property in 1895. Lembert&#39;s cabin was built along the Great Sierra Wagon Road over the Sierra Nevada. He also became a guide for tourists in the high country, gaining a reputation as a naturalist and entomologist. He spent the winter months near Cascade Creek in the Yosemite Valley.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of the cabin are located directly over the gaseous spring and are thought to have functioned as a spring-house, rather than as a dwelling, preventing livestock from fouling the spring. The cabin measures 9 ft by 11 ft. Its walls extend to about 7 ft. There is no roof. The cabin had no windows and one door in the north side. The logs are laid with V-notched joints.</p><br>
<p>Lembert had spent his early life in New York and received a classical education reading Latin. He was murdered in his Cascade Creek cabin in the winter of 1896–1897 in a robbery. His obituary appeared in Entomological News. The site was operated as a private campground for Sierra Club members until 1972, when the club signed over the land to the National Park Service. The Park Service operated the campground for the public until 1976, when it was closed down.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Smithfield is a plantation house in Blacksburg, Virginia, built from 1772 to 1774 by Col. William Preston to be his residence and the headquarters of his farm. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plantation site was part of 120,000 acres originally granted to James Patton by the British Crown. Patton was killed in the Drapers Meadow massacre in July 1755. The property was purchased by Pattons nephew, William Preston, who built the house from 1773 to 1774. Preston was an important colonial political figure, and may have been the author of the Fincastle Resolutions. He remained on the property, despite frequent threats from nearby Tories and Loyalists and Native Americans and the disruptions of the American Revolutionary War until his death from a stroke at a 1783 local militia muster.</p><br>
<p>The property then passed to his wife, Susanna Smith Preston, who lived there until her death forty years later.</p><br>
<p>James Patton Preston, Virginia Governor, inherited the farm from his mother. It was also the birthplace and home of his son, William Ballard Preston, who worked with Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s in Congress as part of a group of legislators known as "The Young Indians" and later authored Virginia&#39;s Articles of Secession in 1861. Descendants of William and Susanna Preston included four Virginia Governors – James Patton Preston, John Floyd, James McDowell, and John Buchanan Floyd – and numerous other legislators. In addition, descendants were instrumental in the founding and growth of several universities, including Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Tech and University of South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is L-shaped, with high ceilings and large rooms. The detailing and proportions of the house are unusual for frontier homes. More unusually, the master bedroom is placed between the parlor and the dining room on the first floor, implying that Preston wanted to impress his guests with his ornate bedroom furniture.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The former I.O.O.F. Hall, located at 613-615 Iowa Avenue in the original commercial block of Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, is an historic two-story pedimented red-brick building built for local members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Also known as the Odd Fellows Hall, it was used by Golden Rule Lodge No. 178, IOOF founded in 1869 and Guiding Star Encampment No. 68, IOOF, a higher body founded in 1874. Like many American lodge halls of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it had business and commercial space on the ground floor while the lodge hall was upstairs. In 2009 it was renovated for its owner Brad Gross, CPA, who now uses it for his professional office. On June 23, 2011, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The North Shore Historic District is a historic district in North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, United States. The district is roughly bounded by 87th Street, Collins Avenue, 73rd Street, and Hawthorne Avenue. The architecture in the district is primarily of the Miami Modernism style, unique to greater Miami. Other architectural styles are reflected in the district, including Mediterranean Revival, Art Deco, and Moderne.</p><br>
<p>The Shannon-Williamson Ranch, is located in Antioch, California. The Williamson family settled in Antioch in 1867. They were granted a homestead in 1874 signed by then USA President Ulysses S. Grant. The original house burned down in 1895. The current house that stands is the one that was rebuilt after the fire. The ranch operated from 1875 to 1949. The ranch was saved in 1987 by the efforts of one of the inhabitants of the house Donald Williamson. The once 4,000 acre ranch raised crops such as wheat, barley, hay, and livestock. The ranch currently retains approximately 3 acres of the former ranch including a two-story Italianate house, 3 barns and several other buildings including outbuildings and a small orchard. The ranch is currently closed to the public and there are currently no plans for the future of the house and property. The surrounding area has been named after the ranch such as the housing subdivision and the shopping mall directly across the street from it. The ranch property has a fence that surrounds the entire property.</p><br>
<p>Lemley-Wood-Sayer House is a historic home located at Ravenswood, Jackson County, West Virginia. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, cruciform plan, Italianate style dwelling. It is constructed of brick and sits on a stone foundation. It features a wraparound porch supported by seven columns that are heavy with ornamental bracketing, or gingerbreading.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Clerc-Carson House is a historic home located at Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia. It was built about 1880, and is a two-story, asymmetrical, brick dwelling with a T-shaped plan in the Italianate style. It features a low hipped roof with wide eaves, eaves brackets and cornice dentils, and the original shutters in working order.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Ripley Historic District, listed in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The McCauley and Meyer Barns in Yosemite National Park are the last barns in the park that retain their original characteristics as structures built by homesteaders. The McCauley barn and the two Meyer barns represent different construction techniques and styles of design.</p><br>
<p>The McCauley Barn was built about 1883 by Irish-born James McCauley, who operated hotels in the Yosemite Valley. McCauleys ranch was to be his winter home, since Glacier Point, where he operated the Glacier Point Mountain House, was not suitable for winter living. McCauley purchased the land in 1883 and began to live full-time at the ranch in 1897. McCauleys son Fred inherited the ranch after James&#39; death in an wagon accident in 1911. Fred dispersed the property, which became known as "Foresta" and was unoccupied after 1955. The National Park Service acquired the ranch in 1974. The barn is a wood structure, with a log cribwork core using V-notched joints, measuring 40 ft by 80 ft. A long center bay is flamed by two more open bays along the long axis of the barn. The overhanging gable roof structure is peeled logs, once covered with wood shingles but now covered with sheet metal. The logs were not chinked, and are presently sheathed with vertical boards. The design is unusual. The "Mormon Pole Barn" style dates to the 1850s in the Genesee Valley.</p><br>
<p>George Meyer operated a homestead established by his brother Henry in the 1870s in Big Meadow. A ship carpenter in Germany, Meyer married James McCauley&#39;s niece Elizabeth in 1900, acquiring the McCauley Ranch in 1923. Meyer Barn No. 1 is a saltbox-shaped timber-framed structure built in the early 1880s. The principal portion of the barn measures 30 ft by 20 ft, with a lean-to addition 30 ft by 16 ft. The barn is sheathed in vertical wood siding with a steeply-pitched metal roof. The framing is believed to have been built flat and raised into position in five bents.</p><br>
<p>Meyer Barn No. 2, nearby Barn No. 1 in Big Meadow, is similar in character to the McCauley Barn, measuring about 50 ft square, with a hipped roof. It was built in the late 1870s. The center consists of a 25 ft high saddle-notched log crib that supports the center of the steep roof. The crib was surrounded by stalls for livestock on three sides. The exterior wall is a frame structure covered in vertical board sheathing. The log roof structure was covered with shingles, now by sheet metal.</p><br>
<p>The barns were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Theater  is an historic theater located at 1676-1708 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1926 out of part of the grand Massasoit House hotel at a cost of over $1 million, the Paramount Theater was the most ornate picture palace in Western Massachusetts. As of 2011, The Paramount is in the midst of a $1.725 million renovation to once again become a theater after decades as a disco and concert hall, , when it was the center of Springfields club scene. In 2018 the buildings owners, the New England Farm Workers Council, announced plans to redevelop it in tandem with a new adjacent hotel building. In a push to renovate the Paramount along with Holyoke&#39;s Victory Theater, in October 2018, the administration of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced a $2.5 million grant to assist the project, on top of a $4 million federal loan guarantee. However, the New England Farm Workers Council would subsequently announced plans to sell the building on July 30, 2024. An auction was slated for August 20 of that year before being delayed to September 23.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1926 until the 1960s, The Paramount changed names several times—including a brief stint as the Julia Sanderson Theater, honoring a famous actress from Springfield. However, it remained a movie theater until the 1960s, when it began to find use as a mixed use venue for movies, rock concerts, and other live performances. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the venue was purchased and restored by Steven Stein and Michael Barrasso of Paramount Realty Investment LLC/Creative Theater Concepts. At that time, it was turned into a lavish nightclub and performance space. The venues main floor seats were removed; however, the 1,100 balcony seats were retained and restored. The theater underwent a $1.3 million renovation in 1999, and was reopened as the Hippodrome. The original organ was restored and the marquee was changed to reflect the theaters new name.</p><br>
<p>The Hippodrome became a popular nightclub and concert venue during the 2000s. In 2011, the theater was purchased by the New England Farm Worker&#39;s Council. As of 2011, the Paramount Theater is in the midst of a $1.725 million renovation to once again become a theater and performance space.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transport Building of Oregon and Washington, also known as East Side Terminal and Eastbank Commerce Center, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a four-story commercial structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1924, it was added to the register in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Occupying an entire block of the Central Eastside Industrial District, the 64,892 ft2, U-shaped structure has a flat roof, large industrial windows, and a plain interior with concrete floors and walls. The original building, an open warehouse with a few offices on the second floor, has since been divided into spaces for light industry, business, and office work.</p><br>
<p>The original building was part of an industrial complex that developed on the east bank of the Willamette River in the early 20th century. As Portland grew, freight shipments delivered to receiving stations on the rivers west side were slowed by heavy traffic on the citys bridges and in the central downtown. Pressure from business owners and civic groups over two decades led to construction of a central eastside receiving station, the Auto Freight Transport Building. The building, served by huge river docks located about 100 ft to the west and by rail lines and surface streets, was capable of handling and storing a wide variety of cargo for transhipment to its ultimate destination. In addition, many small freight companies used it for office and lounge space for their employees.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transportation Association of Oregon and Washington, a group of small trucking companies, operated the terminal jointly until 1938, when the group changed its name to East Side Terminal, Inc., and moved to another building in the Central Eastside Industrial District. Subsequently, the building became a warehouse used by a variety of freight companies.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transport Building had a small built-in service station. However, around 1930 an adjunct building called the Auto Freight Terminal Service Station, across Southeast Water Avenue, was constructed to provide fuel and mechanical repairs to vehicles using the Transport Building. It continued to function as a service station until the early 1940s.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, relocation of Interstate 5 from the west bank of the Willamette to the east led to removal of the docks and other waterfront structures of the industrial district and demolition of many old industrial buildings. The Auto Freight Transport Building is the best-preserved historic waterfront building in the 680 acre district.</p><br>
<p>Peabody Historical Library Museum, also known under the older name of Old Peabody Library, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Peabody, Kansas. The building has state significance because it was the first free tax-supported library in Kansas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Library</h3><br>
<p>The city of Peabody was named in 1871 after F.H. Peabody, of Boston, formerly vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company.</p><br>
<h3>Moved</h3><br>
<p>In 1914, the library was moved, and the Peabody Township Carnegie Library was constructed on the original location. The building was initially moved to the Peabody City Park, then later it was moved to south of the old Peabody Grade School near the railroad tracks. It was restored in 1927. The building was used for club meetings and stood idle for a number of years.</p><br>
<h3>Museum</h3><br>
<p>In 1960, while planning for the 1961 Kansas centennial celebration, local citizens organized to move the structure to a lot near its original location (east of the Carnegie library). The old library building was converted and dedicated as a museum on July 3, 1961.</p><br>
<p>Hours</p><br>
<p>As of 2011, it is open from Memorial Day to Labor Day on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month and each federal holiday (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day). The hours are 1 pm to 3 pm on each of these days.</p><br>
<p>The Riverview Union High School was the first high school built in Contra Costa County. Located at 1500 W First Street in Antioch, California. Charles Appleton Hooper donated the land to end a dispute between Antioch and Pittsburg over land that was used for the school. The school opened November 4, 1911. Students from as far away as Oakley and Pittsburg attended this high school. The last class that graduated from the high school was in 1931. A new high school replaced this one located on D Street in Antioch. The building was then occupied by the Bureau of Reclamation during the design and construction of the Central Valley Project. In 1947, the Fibreboard Corporation bought the building for its research. The riverview Fire Protection District acquired the building in 1965 for its headquarters, until leaving it unused in 1994. The Antioch Historical Society bought the property in 1999, and they now use it as their main headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel, also called the Stone Hotel, is a former hotel built in 1826 in Waterford, Erie County in the USA state of Pennsylvania. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1933 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1977. The first floor of the Eagle Hotel is used by the Sugar &#39;n Spice restaurant, with the second and third floors used as a museum by the Fort Le Boeuf Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel is located on High Street (USA Route 19) in the borough of Waterford. The hotel is a 2-story, L-shaped building constructed out of fieldstone from a nearby quarry. The main, front portion of the Eagle Hotel is 40 x with "five bays across and four bays deep", while the rear portion is 36 x. The architecture of the Eagle Hotel "exceeds that of a typical hotel" of the period, with decorative stone features like "corbel ends" and quoining.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel was constructed in 1826 by Thomas King. It was built at a time when "plank road, turnpikes, canals and later railroads went through or near Waterford." Also, the Waterford was used as a "terminal and distribution point" for the developing salt industry in New York. The Eagle Hotel was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1933. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1977. The hotel was purchased by the Fort Le Boeuf Historical Society to preserve it and to prevent it from being demolished. The Eagle Hotel was renovated and the kitchen modernized from October 1997 to February 1998. A restaurant was opened in the hotel but closed several months later. In October 1998, the Eagle Hotel was leased by the owners of the Sugar &#39;n Spice in Titusville, Pennsylvania to open another location of the restaurant in the hotel. The hotel was designated a contributing property to the Waterford Borough Historic District on March 9, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Gainesville Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a historic section of Gainesville, Alabama, United States. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 25, 1976</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gainesville lies on the south bank of the Tombigbee River in southwestern Alabama. It reached its zenith prior to the American Civil War; when it was an important inland port, before the wide-scale introduction of railroads.</p><br>
<p>The Gainesville Historic District is one of two historic districts in the town, the other being the Main–Yankee Street Historic District. The district is bounded by North Carolina, Church, School, Lafayette, and Webster streets. It is bisected down the center north to south by McKee Street, now overlain by Alabama Highway 39. Architectural styles present include Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and other Victorian types. The Sumter County Historical Society owns and utilizes one historic contributing property, Aduston Hall, as a welcome and visitor center for the district.</p><br>
<p>Aduston Hall is a historic antebellum plantation house in the riverside town of Gainesville, Alabama.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property to the Gainesville Historic District. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 25, 1976, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985. Now owned by the Sumter County Historical Society, the house is operated as a visitor welcome center for the historic district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aduston Hall was built as a summer home for Amos Travis from 1844 to 1846. Travis, a resident of Mobile, used the house as a refuge from the heat, humidity, and disease that plagued Mobile during the summer months. The property was a largely self-sufficient plantation complex. Five 19th-century outbuildings remain at the site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one-story wood-frame house is composed of a rectangular central main block and H-shaped side wings. The roof of the central portion runs parallel to the front of the house. The center of this block is fronted by a temple-like pedimented Doric portico projecting several feet out from the main Doric porch under the main roof. The central front entrance door is derived from designs published by Asher Benjamin. The main block is abutted on both sides by front gabled side wings projecting past the central portion to the front and rear of the house. These are ornamented with Doric pilasters. With its H-shaped plan, the house provided excellent cross ventilation for all of the major rooms.</p><br>
<p>Historically, there were three other very similar houses known in the vicinity of Aduston Hall. The Travis-Derryberry-Harwood House (also built by the Travis family as a summerhouse), which also survives in Gainesville, the Norwood Plantation in Faunsdale, Alabama, destroyed in the 1930s, and the Van de Graaff home which was located in the Virginia Hill area of Gainesville.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Rodgers Farm, or Rodgers Ranch, is a historic home and ranch located in Pleasant Hill, California. In 1991, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1868, Patrick Rodgers and his family moved to this area from the Sierra Nevada region to what was then a 149 acre farm. Patrick Rodgers died in 1891 leaving the ranch to his heirs. 16 years later the property was divided among his heirs. Alice and James Rodgers received a 38 acre portion containing the house and barn which were constructed in the 1860s.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, the ranch was sold to Rollo Hough, a partner in the Luther Burbank Company, to become a demonstration farm, but because of financial difficulties it never came to be. A few years later the property was reduced to 18 acre and remained that size until the area was developed. In 1937, author Alice Hobart purchased the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1942, the ranch was sold to Kaho Daily, who maintained it as a working ranch until 1978. A development for single family homes was approved in 1987. The Pleasant Hill Historical Society stepped in to save what remained of the ranch and the property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Tucker House is located in Martinez, California. Originally located at 40 Escobar Street, this luxurious 4 story, 4 bedroom, 2 bath mansion was built for Captain John Tucker, a former sea captain from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who settled in Martinez, become a wheat farmer and built a mansion atop the hill on Escobar Street in 1877. The persons who moved into the house included not only the Captain, but also his wife, Mary Swain Tucker, Marys brother, Sylvester Swain, Swains wife and daughter, and a Chinese servant known only as Vu. On Halloween, October 31, 1880, Captain Tucker died. The house was moved to 110 Escobar St. in the 1920s by City Postmaster Franklin Glass. After the house had been moved, it had served as a bordello for a while during the 1920s and 30s.</p><br>
<h2>Revealing mysteries</h2><br>
<p>According to a 2010 article in the San Jose Mercury News, a Martinez couple, Joey and Linda Piscitelli, both general contractors who restore houses for a living, decided to buy Tucker House in 2005. When they started cleaning up the old house, they began to discover various mysteries. When they opened the attic, they found that it had been divided into eight separate cubicles, each containing a mattress. This led them to do further research into the history of the house, revealing the secret of its use as a bordello.</p><br>
<p>The new owners found scores of old medicine bottles, in addition to an 1879 medical almanac. Researching historical records, the Piscitellis learned that the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal had reported in 1874, that Martinez had experienced an epidemic of Scarlatina (better known today as scarlet fever). Only two of these cases were classed as serious. A young child who contracted the disease had died. The other case was Captain John Tucker, who survived.</p><br>
<p>The Port Costa School was built to serve the community of Port Costa, California. Residents voted to fund the school with a bond in April 1911, and construction began later that year. The classic revival style building was designed by architect William Wilde, who immigrated to America from Denmark. The school opened in 1912 and closed in 1966 due to a declining population. At this point, it had become part of the John Swett Unified School District.</p><br>
<p>The school building now serves as an event space and is maintained by the Port Costa Conservation Society.</p><br>
<p>The Old Borges Ranch is a 1,035 acre historic district in the Mt. Diablo foothills within the 2,600 acre Walnut Creek Open Space in Contra Costa County, California. A former cattle ranch, Old Borges Ranch includes multiple historic buildings, a ranger station, farm animals, and access to trails.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1899, Portuguese immigrant Francisco "Frank" Borges purchased 700 acre for a cattle ranch and home for his family: wife Mary Borges and their children. The ranch&#39;s farmhouse, constructed of redwood, was built in 1901. The family also built barns, a blacksmith shop, and a windmill. Five generations of the Borges family ended up living and working at the ranch.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, the ranch fell into disrepair. In 1974, voters in Walnut Creek approved a $6.75 million bond measure to preserve open space in the Diablo foothills, and in 1976, the city of Walnut Creek purchased the Borges Ranch. Ron White, previously with the National Park Service, was hired as Walnut Creek Open Space&#39;s first ranger and moved with his family to the property in 1978. After restoration, the ranch was added to the National Register of History Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The Old Borges Ranchouse, built in 1901, is a five-room redwood structure. It was restored as a historic house museum, with period furnishings and artifacts, including a cast-iron stove, and historical displays of the area in the early 1900s. It serves as a visitor center for the Walnut Creek Open Space parks.</p><br>
<p>Visitors can also see the original barns, blacksmith shop, windmill, antique tractors, and farm animals, including those raised by the Pleasant Hill 4-H.</p><br>
<p>A ranger station and ranger residence are also onsite.</p><br>
<p>The Don Fernando Pacheco Adobe is located at 3119 Grant Street in Concord, California.The Fernando Pacheco Adobe is the only Concord landmark listed in all three Historical Registries: entry on the National Register occurred on June 6, 1980; the California Registered landmark number is 455; and the Concord Historical Landmark designation is 1-26-26/5458. The Adobe was built by Don Fernando in the early 1850s as the base of operations for his growing ranch activities, and as his familys formal residence. Fernando was the oldest son of Don Salvio Pacheco. He was born on May 30, 1818, while his father was assigned to a Militia-Guard unit at the Pueblo of San Jose. At age 17, he was sent to take possession and mark the boundaries of his fathers 17,921 acre land grant. Fernando was given 1,500 acres as initial share of the rancho. He subsequently married Pasquala   – a widow. Their six children: Pedro, Bonifacio, Cipriana, Maria Asuncion , Librada and Bersabe were raised at the Adobe. Don Fernandos family enjoyed a reputation as gracious hosts. They were famous for their generosity and extensive fiestas on Adobes then lush, well irrigated grounds. The Adobe&#39;s 32” thick walls were built of local adobe – mud.</p><br>
<p>Ownership remained with Don Fernandos descendants until 1918. The land and adobe were then sold to the California Water Service Company; it then was essentially abandoned. In 1940 title to 2 and 1/2 acres and the deteriorated adobe structure transferred to Contra Cost County, which leased it to the Horsemens Association. The Horsemen undertook a major rehabilitation, and used the then remote facility and corral for their headquarters. In 1979, the country transferred the Adobe and its grounds to its current owner, the City of Concord. In the early 1980s the Horsemen, the city, and the Concord Historical Society completed another restoration effort to stabilize the landmark Adobe. The Horsemen&#39;s Association continues activities on site. The Fernando Pacheco Adobe is located at 3119 Grant Street, now well within the city limits. It is adjacent to Hillcrest Park and the De Anza Expedition Memorial marker.</p><br>
<p>The Moraga Adobe is located at 24 Adobe Lane in Orinda, California. It was built by Don Joaquin Moraga who was the grandson of Jose Joaquin Moraga an early Spanish explorer in California who founded the city of San Jose, California. In 1835, Mexico granted 13,326 acre, El Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados, to Joaquin Moraga and his cousin Juan Bernal. Six years later in 1841, Joaquin built this house, which is the oldest of the five surviving adobe houses in Contra Costa County. The adobe sits on a knoll at the center of the 20 acre property of what is left of the original land grant. The house has been restored and remodeled twice since it was photographed for HABS, first in 1941 when Katharine Brown White Irvine of Oakland, California purchased the old adobe, making additions such as adding three bedrooms and a veranda, and covering the adobe walls and again in 1964 when it was incorporated into a private home. The house is not accessible to the public and it is fenced off. However, it was photographed in 1922 for the Historical American Building Survey . Today, the Moraga Adobe is privately owned and unoccupied. The overall condition of the original adobe section and the more modern addition is neglected, but the building appears sound. The surrounding property was recently purchased, and the new owners have boarded up the windows to prevent vandalism and trespassing. The Moraga Adobe has been designated as a Historical Landmark by the City of Orinda and the State of California. A campaign has been started to purchase the property and restore the house to its 1848 configuration, to be used as a museum and educational site.</p><br>
<p>The Charles W. Merrill House is a 6,000-square-foot residence built in 1938 and located in Orinda, California. Designed by regionally prominent architect Walter H. Ratcliff, of Berkeley, California for mining engineer and San Francisco businessman Charles Washington Merrill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1938, the house&#39;s architecture reflects elements of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house and grounds were designed as a small country estate. The house occupies a hillside location and is sited on two stonework terraces, pierced by three stone staircases placed among gardens designed by landscape architect Mabel Symmes in 1938–1939.</p><br>
<p>The house is significant under Criterion B for its association with the final stage of Charles W. Merrills long and distinguished career. Merrill lived in the house during the period in which he presided over a highly diversified engineering corporation, with worldwide influence, that had grown from Merrills pioneering patents and discoveries of the 1890s and 1900s. The house also is significant under Criterion C as an example of the eclecticism that architect Walter H. Ratcliff brought to his architecture. Built in the mature phase of Ratcliffs career, the Merrill House with its elements of Spanish Colonial Revival and Monterey styles reflect Ratcliffs distinctive blend of academic eclecticism and keen awareness of regional topography, climate, and setting.</p><br>
<p>The William T. Hendricks House, at 218 Center Ave in Pacheco, California, is a one-story house upon a raised basement, built in 1857. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 William Hendrick purchased a tract of land from a Mr. Loucks and on it erected a dwelling house and a flour mill. This mill was the only flour mill ever operated in Contra Costa County.</p><br>
<p>The house as built in 1857 in Queen Anne style was a rectangle 20x40 ft in plan with a porch all around; a detached kitchen was behind. The house was expanded in the 1890s to the west with an addition having a slanted bay window on its front, bringing the plan to 42x40 ft.</p><br>
<p>The raised basement has gained a door and three windows which were not part of the early house.</p><br>
<p>The Bernardo Fernandez House is a Victorian mansion located at 100 Tennent Ave in Pinole, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The house is wood frame in French Second Empire style, an unusual architectural style in the area, with elements of Queen Anne and Northern Italian. The main structure is decorated with stick trim panels; brackets above the tall two-over-two windows on the first floor support window hoods and eaves, and the central pavilion has a mansard roof with arched dormer windows. A full-height slanted bay on the left side has a pedimented gable roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bernardo Fernandez, a pioneer resident of Contra Costa County, had the house built as his third residence in about 1894; its predecessors were destroyed by a flood and a fire. Dr. Joseph Mariotti bought the house in 1969; the family still lives there, raising chickens, geese, and ducks on the grounds, which also house a 1965 Ford Thunderbird, a 1950 Bentley, and Fernandez&#39;s 52-foot schooner Carlotta, named for his wife, which sank at the dock in the early 1900s and was raised in 1976 by the Ship Lifters of Pinole (SLOP).</p><br>
<p>The house was listed in 1973 on the Contra Costa Inventory of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Danville Southern Pacific Train Depot in Danville, California is located at 205 Railroad Ave. and W Prospect Ave. It was built in 1891 on land donated by John Hartz which was erected when the Martinez line was extended south to San Ramon. The first train came on June 7, 1891. Passenger service ended in 1934. The Southern Pacific Railroad trains continued to pass through town with freight until 1978 when the line was abandoned. The building was sold in 1951 for the Danville Supply and Feed store. In June 1996, it was purchased and moved 100 yards.</p><br>
<p>It was a passenger and freight station built to the design titled "Combination Station No. 22" out of standard designs of the Southern Pacific.</p><br>
<p>In 2018 it houses the Museum of the San Ramon Valley. It lies along the Iron Horse Regional Trail, a rail trail formed from the converted Southern Pacific right of way.</p><br>
<p>The MacDougal–Sullivan Gardens Historic District is a small historic district consisting of 22 houses located at 74–96 MacDougal Street and 170–188 Sullivan Street between Houston and Bleecker Streets in the South Village area of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.</p><br>
<p>The district was designated a New York City landmark in 1967 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land under what would become the historic district was purchased in 1796 by Nicholas Low, a prominent New York merchant. The houses were built in 1844 (MacDougal Street) and 1850 (Sullivan Street) by Low&#39;s estate, in the fashionable Greek Revival style. The original plans for the houses called for street level retail space and dormered roofs.</p><br>
<p>Over time, the houses became run-down, until they were bought in 1920 by William Sloane Coffin Sr., a director of the furniture and rug retailer W. & J. Sloane, who formed the Hearth and Home Corporation to do so. Coffins intention was to create an affordable development for middle-class professionals in what had become a slum; the project would be the most extensive such effort to that time. Coffin engaged architects Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde, who converted the houses into apartments &ndash; a five-room duplex, a four-room apartment, and two "non-housekeeping" apartments &ndash; and re-faced the buildings in Colonial Revival style while retaining some of the original Greek Revival elements. They removed all the buildings stoops, altered the doorways and entrances to the basement level, and combined the rear yards to make a common garden which included a playground for children.</p><br>
<p>The renovation of the buildings was completed by 1921, and the garden by 1923. The houses were sold to individual owners in 1924, with the integrity of the project maintained by the MacDougal–Sullivan Gardens Association.</p><br>
<p>Coffin&#39;s development was influential in its time, inspiring other developments such as that which is now the Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District, and remains a "model for urban city housing".</p><br>
<p>The Fayetteville Historic Square , in Fayetteville, Arkansas, includes the original Fayetteville post office, the Old Bank of Fayetteville Building, the Lewis Brothers Building, the Mrs. Young Building, and the Guisinger Building. These buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. There are several more recent buildings located on the Square.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is defined by Center Street on the north, Mountain Street to the south, Block Avenue to the west and East Avenue to the east. The block within these one-way streets contains the Old Post Office, and formerly, the County Courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Old Post Office</h2><br>
<p>The Old Post Office, built in 1911, is the centerpiece of the Historic Square. The lot contained the Washington County Courthouse until 1905, when a new structure was built 1½ blocks away. The building has been renovated and now serves as a restaurant, Cheers at the Old Post Office.</p><br>
<h2>Old Bank of Fayetteville Building</h2><br>
<p>The Old Bank of Fayetteville Building, sometimes called the Eason Building, anchors the northwest corner of the Historic Square. Built in the Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles, the building held the Bank of Fayetteville and First National Bank upon their merger in 1915. The modern Bank of Fayetteville, located across the street in the Lewis Brothers Building, was founded in 1980, and has no affiliation to the Bank of Fayetteville of the 1915 merger.</p><br>
<h2>Lewis Brothers Building</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis Brother Building located directly south of the Old Bank Of Fayetteville Building was constructed in 1908. Built in the Queen Anne and Classic revival styles, the building housed the Lewis Brothers Hardware Store from 1912. The hardware store has since closed, and the building now contains the main branch of the modern Bank of Fayetteville ( founded circa 1980, and unaffiliated with the original Bank of Fayetteville ). The brick exterior of the building was filmed in the television program Evening Shade.</p><br>
<h2>Mrs. Young Building</h2><br>
<p>The Mrs. Young Building, built in the Italianate style in 1887, is one of the older building on the Square according to National Register of Historic Places information.</p><br>
<h3>Eponym</h3><br>
<p>Mrs. Young and her husband came from Illinois in the 1870s. She was a photographer, and her husband was a travelling dental surgeon. She purchased a lot for a home in 1881. After receiving a divorce in 1883, Mrs. Young built a two-story studio on the town square in 1887. The second floor was home to her photography studio. The first floor was, at various times, a grocery and a bank. With the money from her business plus the rent, she was able to retire.</p><br>
<h2>Guisinger Building</h2><br>
<p>The Guisinger Building is located in the southeast corner of the Fayetteville Historic Square. Built in 1886, the building consists of brick walls, a marble base, and pressed tin ceilings. It was constructed by William Crenshaw, a Fayetteville native in the hardware business. Now housing a law firm, the building was recently remodeled.</p><br>
<h2>Non-NRHP listed buildings on the Fayetteville Historic Square</h2><br>
<p>The University of Arkansas Global Campus offices are located on the northeast corner of the square. The East Square Plaza constitutes the east side of the Square. The east half of the south edge of the Square hosts the Fayetteville Town Center. The building was constructed in 2001</p><br>
<p>Two blocks west of the Square on Mountain Street is the Fayetteville Public Library (Blair Library).</p><br>
<h2>Parking on the Square</h2><br>
<p>Parking is free for any consecutive two hours within a four-hour time period, despite nearby Dickson Street&#39;s 2010 change to pay parking. Nearby pay lots are available for Square patrons who plan on staying over two hours.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The Fayetteville Farmers’ Market - Saturdays April–November, includes around 60 vendors selling a wide variety of locally-grown flowers, produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, plants and arts and crafts.</p><br>
<p>Lights of the Ozarks - November–January Fayetteville Parks and Recreation workers spend over 3,300 hours decorating the Downtown Square with over 400,000 lights.</p><br>
<p>First Thursday - On the first Thursday of the month, the city&#39;s historic downtown square transforms into an outdoor arts district featuring visual artists who create items in a variety of mediums.</p><br>
<p>Trick or Treat on the Square - On October 31 trick-or-treaters and their families can visit booths by business owners on the square and representatives from city departments to trick or treat.</p><br>
<p>Fayetteville Film Fest - Hosted each October for films and filmmakers entering the marketplace, the festival includes full, 3-day schedule of panels and other events designed to complement nearly 80 film screenings.</p><br>
<p>Block Street Block Party - Every May, Block Street Avenue turns into a local party. With 5 outdoor beer gardens, over 60 local bands and 150 vendors.</p><br>
<p>Olean School No. 10, now known as Ivers J. Norton School, is a historic school building located at Olean in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was designed and built in 1908–1909, in the Prairie School style. It is three stories, nine bays wide and four bays deep. It is constructed of brick and stone and topped with a flat roof with deep overhangs. It features "Boys" and "Girls" entrances and large brick engaged columns on the front facade. It remained in operation as a school building until 2012, when it  was closed as a result of budget cuts implemented in the wake of New York&#39;s property tax cap. In late 2014 the school was purchased by a pastor and turned into a church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Peabody Township Library, also known under the older name of Peabody Township Carnegie Library, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1987. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Peabody, Kansas, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1875, the original library was constructed. The library was useful but within a few decades of use had become too small.</p><br>
<p>A committee of the Commercial Club, applied for a Carnegie library grant, and by the spring of 1913, the Carnegie Corporation had agreed to a grant of $10,000. The building plan agreed upon will resemble that of the Carnegie library of Galena, Illinois. The original library building was moved to the Peabody City Park, and the new Carnegie library was built on its site. On April 18, 1914, the doors were open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Later, the original library was moved again and became the Peabody Historical Library Museum.</p><br>
<p>Since 2008, two computers have been available for high-speed T1 internet access, and free WiFi access allow patrons to browse the internet. The library is a member of the, which provides an inter-library book loan service between its members.</p><br>
<p>William E. Wells House is a historic home located at Newell, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built in 1907 and extensively remodeled in 1934–1935. It is a three-story Colonial Revival-style dwelling finished in locally quarried rock-faced ashlar. It features a multiple-pitched slate roof. Also on the property are two garages , two stone entry portals , and a stone sidewalk, portals, and walls . William E. Wells was general manager of the Homer Laughlin Pottery Company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Green Tree Tavern, also known as the Marlborough Inn, is a historic building in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The tavern had claimed to be the oldest operating tavern in Philadelphia, established in 1849, but is now closed. As of 2012, the property was occupied by a kick-boxing and martial arts studio.</p><br>
