<p>City Hall in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, is a historic building built in the early 18th century. It is now the oldest public building in continuous use in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Perth Amboy City Hall and the Surveyor General&#39;s Office were added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1981, for their significance in architecture and politics/government.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the building began in 1714 and was completed in 1717. It served as the local courthouse and jail, and was also used by the Provincial Assembly until 1775. The building has twice been rebuilt after being badly damaged by fire; first in 1731, rebuilt until 1745, and again around 1765 following an arson attack believed to have been committed by a former inmate who was imprisoned on debt charges. It was rebuilt a second time in 1767.</p><br>
<p>City Hall has undergone three renovations, most recently in 2006, although some of the original structure remains. The building is now Victorian in style.</p><br>
<p>The two-room Surveyor General&#39;s Office was built adjacent to City Hall in 1867, which was used by the General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>Notable events</h2><br>
<p>On November 20, 1789, the State of New Jersey became the first to ratify the United States Bill of Rights.</p><br>
<p>On March 31, 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson (1824–1904) became the first African American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.</p><br>
<p>On February 22, 1896, the terra cotta statue of George Washington by Nels N. Alling is dedicated in Market Square, next to the City Hall. It was a gift of the Scandinavians of Perth Amboy.</p><br>
<p>Ravisloe Country Club is a public and located in Homewood, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>The country club was established in 1901 by mostly Jewish members of Chicago’s Standard Club, on the site of the Briggs farm, only after the first property choice belonging to a Dutchman named Ravisloot. The membership decided on Ravislow, eventually settling on the name Ravisloe.</p><br>
<p>The original golf course, designed by James Foulis and Theodore Moreau in 1901, as a 9-hole course. An additional 55 acres were purchased and 9 more holes were designed and overseen by William Watson from 1910 to 1913. Donald Ross supervised a renovation, carried out from over the span of years 1917–19. Updates continued until 1924.</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the Spanish Mission styled clubhouse was designed by George Nimmons, the same architect behind Olympia Fields’ clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>Ravisloe operated as a Jewish private country club in the early 20th century. Illinois had the second-highest number of Jewish country clubs, mostly in the Chicago metropolitan era. Due to antisemitism, many Jewish people were locked out of cultural institutions like country clubs so they created their own. Early members of Ravisloe tended to be German Jews.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>In 2001, club membership commissioned David Esler to restore the course features in the same style as Donald Ross.</p><br>
<p>In late 2008, Ravisloe closed due to financial concerns and declining membership. In February 2009, the club was sold to Dr. Claude Gendreau, a veterinary surgeon, who reopened it to the public.</p><br>
<p>The club was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Notable golfers</h2><br>
<p>One of the early pioneers in women&#39;s golf was Elaine Rosenthal, who played at Ravisloe. She was inducted to the Illinois Golf Hall Of Fame in 1995.</p><br>
<p>In 1913, Harry Vardon and Edward Ray won a match 3 and 2 against Chick Evans and Warren Wood.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, Chick Evans won the US Open and the US Amateur; he won the US Amateur again in 1920. On June 8, 1918, Evans and Wood teamed up again to play Jerome Travers and John Anderson in a four ball match for the Red Cross at Ravisloe.</p><br>
<p>Other notable members include:</p><br>
<p>Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears Roebuck</p><br>
<p>Max Adler</p><br>
<p>Judge Julian W. Mack</p><br>
<p>Salmon O. Levinson</p><br>
<p>Morris Fishbein</p><br>
<p>Milton Reynolds, inventor of the ballpoint pen</p><br>
<p>Philip M. Klutznick</p><br>
<p>The McCook Family Estate  is a historic mansion located at 5105 Fifth Avenue in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It was built during 1906 and 1907 for Willis McCook and his family. McCook was a prominent businessman and lawyer who represented Henry Clay Frick.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>An extensive renovation of the house was completed in 2012, when it opened as a boutique hotel called the "Mansions on Fifth Hotel". It is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h3>Placement of this property on local and national historic registries</h3><br>
<p>The house was added to the list of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The nomination materials for placement of the McCook Family Estate on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania&#39;s Historic Preservation Board on February 1, 2011, at 9:45 a.m. at the Labor and Industry Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Also considered for National Register placement at this meeting were: the Robb Farm in Huntingdon County, the John A. Brashear House and Factory in Pittsburgh, the Montrose Historic District in Susquehanna County, the Quakertown Historic District in Bucks County, Wilpen Hall in Sewickley, the Alden Villa in Lebanon County, and the Tindley Temple United Methodist Church and Marian Anderson House in Philadelphia, as well as multiple historic African American churches in Philadelphia that were presented together on a "Multiple Property Documentation Form."</p><br>
<p>The historic residence and its eight-acre property were then officially added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Park Residential Historic District is a historic district in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Almost 2,000 buildings are in the district, most of them residences. Many of the houses in this district were built from the 1860s into the 1930s, and are constructed in several Victorian and early 20th century styles.</p><br>
<p>The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Alpha Terrace Historic District is a historic district in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The site consists of twenty-five stone rowhouses, which were built between 1889 and 1894 using a heterogeneous mix of Queen Anne and Romanesque revival architectural influences. Until they were subdivided and individually sold in the 1950s, the properties were part of a single block of upper-middle-class rental units; for a time, USA Steel leased a number of the homes for use by corporate executives.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1985. In 1979, it was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks, and in January 1996, the district was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations.</p><br>
<p>The Fourth Avenue Historic District is a historic district in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The district was the center of finance and banks for the city during the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Many structures still exist from that era, including the location of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street from 1864 to 1903, the now vacant lot of its location at 229 Fourth Avenue from 1903 to 1962 and the still standing structure of the Exchange from 1962 until it closed in 1974. It is roughly bounded by Smithfield Street, Third Avenue, Market Square Place, and Fifth Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The period of significance for the District is from 1871, when the initial phase of the Dollar Bank building construction was finished, to 1934, 50 years before preparation of the nomination to the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>Some of its structures are:</p><br>
<p>Dollar Bank, 340 4th Ave. (1871)</p><br>
<p>Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, 333 4th Ave.</p><br>
<p>Arrott Building, 401 4th Ave. (1902)</p><br>
<p>Benedum-Trees Building, 223 4th Ave. (1905)</p><br>
<p>The Carlyle, 306 4th Ave. (1906)</p><br>
<p>Skinny Building, 241 Forbes Ave. (1926)</p><br>
<p>Investment Building, 239 4th Ave. (1927)</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985. A boundary increase was added on March 20, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Armstrong Cork Company  was a cork manufacturer which was located at 2349 Railroad Street in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Armstrong Cork Company eventually moved its headquarters to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company&#39;s product lines evolved from cork products and Linoleum, to vinyl floors, acoustical ceiling products, and glassware in each of which industries it was at one time a leading producer and brand.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The company&#39;s building was designed by architect Frederick J. Osterling and built circa 1901. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 2005, and to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Since 2007 the building has been maintained as loft apartments, known as "The Cork Factory " ("Cork Factory Lofts", and "The Cork Factory - Loft apartments on the river").</p><br>
<p>109–115 Wood Street  are two buildings located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>109–111 was built in 1897, and 113–115 was built in 1902, and both buildings were designed by American architect was Charles Bickel.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1975, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 4, 1996. They were included in the boundary increase of Firstside Historic District on May 8, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The houses at 2501–2531 Charles Street, which are located in the Perry South neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, were built in 1885.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This row of homes originally included twenty-five nearly identical houses, which were thirteen feet wide and thirty-five feet deep. All but two of the buildings survive. They each have two rooms on the first floor, a parlor and a kitchen, and two bedrooms on the second floor. A third bedroom comprises the third floor behind the mansard roof. The houses rise gradually with the street, stepping up about two feet every fifth house. Every fifth house also has a large decorative gable over the mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>These row houses were built by William A. Stone, who later became governor of Pennsylvania. In 1887 Stone built a similar set of rowhouses on Brightridge Street. The Charles Street row was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The houses at 838–862 Brightridge Street which are located in the Perry South neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, were built in 1887 on both sides of what was then called Brighton Place.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Twelve houses were built on the north side of the street and thirteen were built on the south side. They are of similar size and floor plan to the row houses on Charles Street that were also built by William A. Stone, who later became governor of Pennsylvania. The Brightridge Street row houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The William Penn Snyder House is an historic building, which is located at 850–854 Ridge Avenue in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>A three-story, late French Renaissance-style brownstone, which was built on "Millionaires Row" in 1911 at a cost of $450,000, it was described by The Pittsburgh Press in 1976 as "the citys sole example of the small town palace."</p><br>
<p>Presently more than a century old, the building was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1972, the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on March 15, 1974, and the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed for iron industry millionaire William Penn Snyder by George Orth, with construction beginning in 1911, the William Penn Snyder House was completed in early January 1912, and received significant media coverage of its opening when the Penn family hosted a combined housewarming for their new residence and a debutantes&#39; ball in honor of their daughter on January 19, 1912.</p><br>
<p>The William Penn Snyder House was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1972, the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on March 15, 1974, and the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Located in the historic, Pittsburgh neighborhood of Allegheny West, the home was proposed for inclusion in a new city historic district by the Pittsburg Historic Review Commission at its meeting in early September 1989.</p><br>
<h3>Present day</h3><br>
<p>Babb, Inc., an insurance brokerage firm currently owns and occupies the building.</p><br>
<p>Whitehill-Gleason Motors at 5815 Baum Boulevard in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in the 1920s on the site of the first drive-in filling station in the United States .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1999, and was granted a Pennsylvania Historical Marker on July 11, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In December 1913, the Gulf Refining Company opened its first drive-in facility, where motorists could purchase gasoline and oil and lubricant maintenance services for their automobiles, as well as road maps. Located on Pittsburgh&#39;s Baum Boulevard in the same neighborhood where multiple automobile dealerships were located, the station also offered free air and water and became so successful that additional drive-in filling stations were opened by Gulf and other gasoline retail companies nationwide.</p><br>
<p>The James Scott House , which is located at 5635 Stanton Avenue in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1900 in the Colonial Revival style. A carriage house was added two years later.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>James Scott was an executive for USA Steel and an immigrant from Scotland. The construction of his house was the starting point of an elopement that was covered by the national press. Scott&#39;s daughter Helen eloped on October 10, 1906, with Frederick Fairbanks, son of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks. The couple were married on October 11 in Steubenville, Ohio and their story made the front page of the New York Times the next day.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Phipps–McElveen Building at 525–529 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1896 by Henry Phipps Jr., an early business partner of Andrew Carnegie, real estate developer, and philanthropist.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the location of the McElveen furniture store for about 20 years. By 1919 it was occupied by a clothier, Oppenhiem, Collins & Company, who stayed there until the late 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Thereafter it was occupied by Walgreens, another furniture store, and a recreation center.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick J. Osterling Office and Studio at 228 Isabella Street in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1917. This Gothic Revival building was designed by architect Frederick J. Osterling, and was used as his office and studio in 1918.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The New Granada Theater, which is located at 2007 Centre Avenue in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built between 1927 and 1928.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This Art Deco theater was designed by architect Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger, and originally was a Pythian Temple, a meeting place for the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia (a fraternal order and secret society). This structure served as the lodge for a group of African American construction workers known as the Knights of the Pythian.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, the building was sold to Harry Hendel, who moved two blocks from his old Granada Theater to this New Granada Theater. The building was remodeled in 1937 and 1938 by Alfred M. Marks, and it then became a movie theater, as well as a place for live entertainment, music and dancing. Jazz legends Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, and Cab Calloway performed here.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on October 8, 2004, the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2007, and the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The John Morrow Elementary School  is located at 1611 Davis Avenue in the Brighton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1895, this historic structure was expanded with additions in later years, including during 1922.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Samuel Thornburg McClarren (1862–1940), who also designed the Woolslair Elementary School in Bloomfield.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1986, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel F. B. Morse School is located at 2418 Sarah Street in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1874, it was named in honor of Samuel Morse, commonly credited as the inventor of the telegraph.</p><br>
<p>Today, it is an apartment building known as "Morse Gardens".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built in 1874 and dedicated on January 15, 1875.</p><br>
<p>It was named after Samuel Morse, credited as one of the main contributors to the invention of the telegraph. The school originally served an area of German, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh immigrants, who floated a $66,000 bond issue in order to build the school.</p><br>
<p>The school closed in 1979 and was sold to the Pittsburgh Housing Authority, which converted it to a 70-unit senior housing facility called Morse Gardens. The former school building houses 30 apartments, while the other 40 are in a five-story addition which replaced a former school annex building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Morse School is a three-story brick building in the Italianate style. It was designed by Welsh-American architect Thomas D. Evans (1844–1903), who was particularly known for school buildings. It has been speculated that Evans also designed the Springfield Public School in the Strip District based on the similarity between the two buildings.</p><br>
<p>The front elevation is seven bays wide, with a projecting, three-bay center section. The original front entrance is set behind an arcade of three pointed arches supported by Corinthian columns. The gable above the main entrance is marked with a stone bearing the name of the school. The windows are arched, with Italianate trim. The roof is hipped with central gables on three sides and a prominent cornice. The original belfry has been removed, but the school bell is still displayed inside the building.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the school had thirteen classrooms, along with a third-floor auditorium, organized around intersecting central hallways with a stairwell at either end. During the conversion to residential use, each classroom was turned into two one-bedroom apartments and the hallways were opened up into a three-story atrium.</p><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium, also known as the Hartington Municipal Building, is a city-owned, brick-clad, 2-story center in Hartington, Nebraska. It was designed between 1921 and 1923 in the Prairie School style by architect William L. Steele .</p><br>
<p>Prairie School architecture is rare, and this rural Nebraska specimen is particularly unusual for being designed and built in the 1920s, subsequent to the Prairie Style&#39;s rapid loss of popularity after 1914.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed city offices, a fire house, an armory, and an auditorium. It is currently used for events, meetings, sports, recreation, and social functions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land which would become Cedar County, Nebraska was held for thousands of years by various Native American tribes, most recently by the Omaha, with the Ponca somewhat to the west and the Yankton Dakota generally north of the Missouri River. On March 16, 1854, the Omaha were forced to surrender Cedar County and most of the rest of their territory, and were restricted to what by 1882 would become their reservation, now primarily within Thurston County, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>This paved the way for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (later Chicago and North Western Railway) to build westward to Cedar County, which in turn led to the founding of Hartington in 1883. As the railroad reached Cedar County, it first founded Coleridge as one of the locations needed every seven to ten miles (7 to 10 mi) for trains to take on water and fuel. After laying down seven more miles of track, the railroad founded Hartington as its next stop, naming it after the English statesman Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. In a hotly contested election on January 20, 1885, just less than a year after incorporation, Hartington wrested the county seat from St. Helena, 16 mi north on the banks of the Missouri River.</p><br>
<p>For over 35 years, Hartington had no large indoor venue. In 1919, after a series of prosperous years resulting from high grain prices during and immediately after World War I, voters passed a bond issue of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a new city hall with multiple uses, including an auditorium. When that amount proved insufficient, a second bond issue of $25,000 was approved in 1920.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, the city council selected William L. Steele to be the architect for the building. Trained at the University of Illinois (now University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Steele had worked as a draftsman in the offices of renowned progressive architect Louis Sullivan from 1887 to 1900, and then in four more conservative offices, before settling in 1904 in Sioux City, Iowa, about 60 mi east of Hartington. By the time Hartington chose him, he was the most prominent architect in the region.</p><br>
<p>Known to work in a number of styles, Steele had recently been concentrating on the Prairie School style of architecture originally developed by Frank Lloyd Wright and others inspired by Sullivan. Upon first arriving in the region, Steele had been unable to convince any of his clients to try his progressive designs. However, beginning with his Prairie-influenced Ben and Harriet Schulein House (Sioux City, 1913), he had begun tentatively moving in the Prairie School direction.</p><br>
<p>Steele’s skill with Prairie Style designs and his success in interesting clients had markedly increased as a result of his three-year collaboration with famous Minneapolis-based architect George Grant Elmslie. With Elmslie as principal designer and with some assistance from Elmslie&#39;s partner William Gray Purcell, Steele had erected the Prairie Style Woodbury County Courthouse (Sioux City, 1915-1918). About 100 mi northwest in Lake Andes, South Dakota, Steele had designed the Charles Mix County Courthouse (1916-1917), also in the Prairie Style. Steele’s success is particularly noteworthy since the Prairie School was in decline by this time, losing ground rapidly to a resurgence of more conservative styles after about 1914, and particularly after World War I.</p><br>
<p>The leaders of Hartington would have been familiar with these and other Steele-designed Prairie School style buildings; there would be no surprise in what they were getting. What is surprising is that they agreed to the progressive design. There was considerable public outcry against the Woodbury County Courthouse just five years earlier (including demands from one group for “a courthouse of ordinary and usual design”), but no record of dissent in Hartington. This design “as compared to other known civic buildings in the surrounding counties, stands as a progressive building in an otherwise conservative community.”</p><br>
<p>Steele drew up initial plans in 1921, then made revisions at the request of the city council. The council accepted the revised plans in January 1922, including space for the auditorium, city offices, fire house, and the National Guard armory that doubled as a gymnasium.</p><br>
<p>Guarantee Construction Company of Sioux City obtained the contract and began work in the spring of 1922, with the cornerstone laid on June 7. Henry Mahlsted served as Guarantee&#39;s superintendent of construction, hiring local labor to do most of the work. The building was completed in January at a cost of $65,000, and the city council officially accepted the building on January 16, 1923. This was followed on January 30 by the official dedication ceremonies, featuring speeches, displays of local talent, and a free dance. On February 1, the Hartington Herald gushed that it had been a “most important event...attended by thousands of people.... The new building is one of the finest of its kind in the state... and will be a credit and an ornament to this community for many years to come.”</p><br>
<p>Over the decades, the auditorium has hosted dances, athletic competitions, theatrical, musical, and other events. County-wide eighth grade graduation ceremonies were held there until the late 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The building is still owned by the City of Hartington, and has recently been renovated. Over the years, many of the windows have been filled in with white stucco, and a new entrance door leading to the basement has been cut into the south facade. The upper auditorium level is currently used primarily for basketball, volleyball, and other recreational activities, while the lower armory level now consists of a meeting room with adjacent kitchen, available for rent through the city. The National Guard armory, city offices, and volunteer fire department have relocated. The new fire house is next door to the east on Centre Street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Plan and principal facades</h3><br>
<p>As situated at the intersection of Broadway and Centre Streets, the two principal facades are the front (west) facing Broadway and the south facade facing across Centre to the brick Romanesque Revival Cedar County Courthouse. The front facade is two stories above the raised basement. However, Centre Street slopes downward as it moves east away from Broadway, so that the basement level is fully above grade at the back, presenting a three-story east facade.</p><br>
<h3>Prairie School design</h3><br>
<p>Prairie Style architecture was primarily originated by Frank Lloyd Wright, inspired by the ideas of Louis Sullivan, who served as mentor to Wright, Steele, and many other practitioners of the Prairie School. As developed by Wright, George Grant Elmslie, William Gray Purcell, Marion Mahony, Walter Burley Griffin, and others, the Prairie School of architecture rejected historical revival styles and was inspired by the flat terrain and horizon of the prairies of the Midwest. Prairie Style features crisp, rectilinear geometries with an emphasis on horizontal lines set off by occasional vertical counterpoints. Ornament should develop from the structure itself or express it rather than being added to it as an embellishment, and the architect should rely on construction materials honestly used as themselves, rather than imitating something else. A buildings internal structure should determine its exterior and be clearly expressed on the outside, in keeping with Sullivans famous motto of “form follows function”.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium “is an outstanding representation of the Prairie Style in Nebraska”. It represents a rare civic Prairie School building, and its importance is heightened given that Steele was able to build such a progressive design at a time when conservative architecture was overwhelming the Prairie Style. After about 1914, interest in progressive architecture in general and the Prairie School in particular waned in the big Midwestern cities, such as Chicago and Minneapolis, that had earlier embraced it. By 1915, H. Allen Brooks states, Prairie School “architects were having difficulty obtaining commissions, despite the fact that the quality of their work remained steadfastly high, and the building industry continued active.”</p><br>
<p>The Hartington City Hall and Auditorium is a good example of Steeles successful construction of Prairie Style buildings. It came at the midpoint of the 18 years during which he designed in that style, from his Ben and Harriet Schulein House (Sioux City, 1913) to his Williges Building (Sioux City, 1929–1930), “one of the last manifestations of the...Prairie Style in the United States.” Steeles ability to persist in selling clients on the Prairie Style at these late dates, especially in rural Nebraska and neighboring South Dakota and Iowa, is remarkable.</p><br>
<p>The Walker-Ewing Log House is an historic, eighteenth century loghouse located in Collier Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Owned and managed by the Pioneers West Historical Society beginning in the 1990s, the home and land were acquired by the Allegheny Land Trust in 2020 with oversight responsibility for the building&#39;s preservation and easement given to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction on the log cabin began circa 1762 and was completed circa 1790. The home of Gabriel Walker, the structure was built on property that was originally part of a 437-acre tract of land that had been rendered as payment for military service performed during the American Revolution. Archives at the Pioneers West Historical Society hold a copy of an 1817 deed to the property, which had been owned by descendants of the Walker and Ewing families in an unbroken line of transfer for more than two hundred years.</p><br>
<p>Gabriel Walker, who had relocated with his brother, Isaac Walker, from Lancaster County to Allegheny County sometime prior to the Revolutionary War, fought beside his brother during the war and was subsequently arrested with him in 1794 for involvement in the Whiskey Rebellion. The Ewing family was added to the homes line of owners when Edward Ewing Glass, a descendant of Isaac Walkers daughter and her husband, William Ewing, became involved with the property.</p><br>
<p>The house, which is located roughly two miles northwest of present-day Rennerdale, Pennsylvania, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 1976, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1970.</p><br>
<p>As of 2020, the loghouse and land were owned by the Allegheny Land Trust with oversight responsibility for the property&#39;s building preservation and conservation easement held by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.</p><br>
<p>Lewisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings and are representative of the development and evolution of Lewisburg, over a period of more than two centuries . Notable buildings include log cabins dating to the period 1755–1769, "The Barracks," Mount Esperance , Williams-Henning Store/house , Welch-Bell House , John W. Dunn House , John Withrow&#39;s Store/ House , Greenbrier Valley Bank Building , and Carnegie Hall . Located in the district and separately listed are the Old Stone Church, Greenbrier County Courthouse and Lewis Spring, John Wesley Methodist Church, Gov. Samuel Price House, Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Supreme Court Library Building, James Withrow House, and John A. North House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Maple Street Historic District is a national historic district located on "Gospel Hill" at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings, all single family residences. They are stylistically "worker&#39;s houses" of the type that are to be seen in many coal and timber company towns throughout West Virginia. They are one and two story frame dwellings with gable or hipped roofs, built about 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>South Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings, including three single family residences built between 1908 and 1918. They are representative of the Queen Anne and Bungalow styles. Each of the houses has a contributing garage on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Ronceverte Historic District is a historic district in Ronceverte, West Virginia, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district encompasses 215 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures located in the commercial district and surrounding residential section. It includes residential and commercial buildings, along with several churches, a historic train depot and locomotive coaling tower, one historic bridge, and several historic brick-paved streets. The oldest building is "Edgarton," built about 1832 and heavily remodeled in the 1880s. Other notable buildings are the old Ronceverte City Hall, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation (1886), Trinity Methodist Church (1880s), Grand Theater (1937), and C&O Passenger Depot (1915).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places May 6, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Erin–Warren Fractional District No. 2 Schoolhouse, also known as the Halfway Schoolhouse, is a school building located at 15500 Nine Mile Road in Eastpointe, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school classes offered in the village of Halfway (now the city of Eastpointe) were held in 1838 in the home of German farmer Christian Gerlach. A log building was used as a classroom in the 1840s, and in 1850 a red frame schoolhouse was built, serving children in Erin and Warren townships. In 1872, the earlier school was replaced with this structure, built facing Grove Road at Nine Mile. A wing was added to the school in 1901, and it was used for school classes until 1921,</p><br>
<p>After the school was closed, it was sold to Kaiser Fuel and Supply, who moved it to the southeast corner of Nine Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue and used the structure as a warehouse, although it remained essentially unaltered. In 1984, the East Detroit Historical Society purchased the building, and moved it once more to within 60 feet of its original site. The historical society restored the building to its original appearance, and in 1987 added a small rear annex housing lavatories.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Halfway Schoolhouse is a one-story front-gabled structure with clapboard siding trimmed with cornerboards and surmounted with a frieze. The front facade is symmetrical, with a double-door entry with fanlight and an arched hoodmold, flanked by sash windows. A roundel containing the school name and date of construction is placed high above the door. A pyramid-roofed belfry with flag staff sits atop the cedar-shake roof. Each side of the structure has four windows identical to the front windows, and the rear has a small modern gabled annex.</p><br>
<p>On the inside, the walls are plastered and wainscoted, and the original hardwood floor is still in place. A cloakroom is located to the left of the entrance, and the original wood stove is located toward the rear of the building. The room is furnished with pupil&#39;s desks, kerosine reflector lamps, and a slate chalkboard.</p><br>
<p>The structure is an excellent example, essentially unaltered, of a vernacular one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Deitz Farm, also known as General Robert E. Lee Headquarters, is a national historic district located near Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The house was built about 1840, and is a two-story side gabled red brick residence in the Greek Revival style. It features a three bay, one-story wooden porch across the front of the house. Also on the property are two contributing wooden outbuildings and earthworks associated with the property&#39;s role as General Robert E. Lee Headquarters during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The trench-like earthwork were built by the Confederates in 1861. On September 21, 1861, Confederate General Robert E. Lee arrived at Meadow Bluff and assumed command of the Confederate forces then operating in the area under General John B. Floyd. Lee and Floyd occupied the Deitz House as headquarters for two days, at which time he moved his camp to Big Sewell Mountain. Lee returned to the Deitz farm on October 21, remaining until October 29. During the War, the property was used as a camp for both Confederate and Union forces and the house used as a military hospital and command center. In addition, the property contains the burial site of a number of soldiers who died here during the War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hopkins Mountain Historic District is a national historic district located in the Monongahela National Forest near Alvon, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. It includes the Mountain Tower Road , fire tower and the fireman&#39;sresidence. They were all constructed by the members of Camp Alvon of the Civilian Conservation Corps  in 1935. The house is a Bungalow style, gable roofed dwelling measuring 14by20 ft. Located nearby is a contemporary privy with board-and-batten siding and a gable roof, also built by the CCC. The property also includes the Civil War Trail. It was used by the Virginia 26th Battalion under the command of Lt. Colonel George M. Edgar for its retreat from the Battle of Droop Mountain on November 6 and 7, 1863. Also on the property is a logging tramway in use from about 1908 to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>North River Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at North River Mills, Hampshire County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and five contributing sites. The district lies along Hiett Run, which</p><br>
<p>empties into the North River, a tributary of the Cacapon River. It has become an industrial ghost town, now visited only by summer residents and tourists. The contributing buildings include the Hiett House (c. 1770) with shed and privy; Croston House (c. 1840) and barn (c. 1910); North River Mills Grocery (c. 1810, c. 1920); Shanholtz House (c. 1930), also known as North River Mills Society for Antiquarian Arts and the Diffusion of Knowledge; North River Mills School (c. 1880); Miller House (c. 1790) and associated outbuildings; United Methodist Church (c. 1893); Kump House (c. 1805); and the Moreland House (c. 1880). Contributing sites are the cemetery associated with the Kump House, Miller Mill Site (c. 1880), Shanholtz Mill Site (c. 1930), mill pond (c. 1880), and millrace (c. 1880).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Henry Funkhouser Farm and Log House is a historic home located at Baker, Hardy County, West Virginia. Located on the property are the contributing log cabin; a log barn ; and a cellarhouse . The log cabin was built about 1845, and is a two-story, side gable, single-pen house. A kitchen addition was built about 1900. Also on the property is the Funkhouser family cemetery. The property remains in the Funkhouser family. Tater and Biscuit are notorious Funkhouser family Corgis.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>"Lighthorse Harry" Lee Cabin, also known as Lee Cabin, is a historic home located in Lost River State Park, near Mathias, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built probably around 1820 by Charles Carter Lee , the son of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III  as a summer retreat. The property remained in the Lee family until 1879. The State of West Virginia acquired it in the 1930s as a portion of Lost River State Park and the state operates it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>John Mathias House, also known as the Mathias Homestead, is a historic home located at Mathias, Hardy County, West Virginia. It consists of two sections, one built about 1797 and the second about 1825. The two hewn-log sections are joined by a frame "dog trot," or what has been referred to locally as the "entry." The older section is two stories with a double porch and lightly taller than the newer section. It was home to the Mathias family for 165 years before being deeded to the Mathias Civic Center Association in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Judge J. W. F. Allen House, also known as "Ingleside," is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in 1842, and is a two-story brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It features eight foot high windows. The interior features a semi-circular staircase. A two-story rear addition was built in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Maslin House, also known as Mortimer Gamble House and Maslin-Gamble House, is a historic home located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story brick dwelling with a vernacular Federal style. It features a single-bay, pedimented portico supported by paired Ionic order columns. Above the four panel entrance is a semi-elliptical fanlight. Also on the property is a contributing two story, brick servant&#39;s quarters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>"The Willows", also known as Randolph House, is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in three sections in a telescoping style. It consists of One small log house, a middle section of frame, and a brick mansion all connected end-to-end. The oldest section is the -story log structure built before 1773. The main section is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style mansion house. It features a square columned entrance porch. During the American Civil War, McNeills Rangers used the farm for care of some of their horses. In the last year of the War, McNeills Rangers commander Major Harry Gilmore used "The Willows" as his command.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Wilson–Kuykendall Farm is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style dwelling. It also has Gothic and Italianate stylistic influences. It features a central roof tower with a "widows walk" flanked by paired chimney stacks. Also on the property are a contributing frame carriage house with multiple gables and a barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Mill Island, also known as the Seymour Family House, is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The original brick cottage was built in 1798. In 1840, a two-story, brick Greek Revival style mansion was appended. The -story building features a one bay, temple style entrance porch and a "widows walk" on the roof peak. The porch columns are in the Corinthian order. The interior features a great ballroom, reception hall, parlors, and a huge dining room. During the American Civil War, it was used as a hospital by the McNeills Rangers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Buena Vista Farms is a historic home located near Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The main house at Buena Vista Farms was built in 1836 and is a brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a large Gothic Revival style frame bank barn dated to 1904. The house is one of four significant Van Meter family dwellings — the others being Traveler&#39;s Rest, Fort Pleasant, and the Garrett VanMeter House.</p><br>
<p>"Willow Wall", also known as McNeill Family House, is an American historic home located near Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in 1811–1812, and is a two-story, U-shaped brick dwelling in the Georgian-Tidewater style. It has a double Georgian porch, outlined by Ionic order columns. The two wings have double Palladian windows on the front gable ends. The interior features the French hand-printed wallpaper "The Passing of the Chase." The property was first settled in between 1760 and 1770 by Daniel McNeill. During the American Civil War the McNeill properties were centers of activity for McNeill&#39;s Rangers and the Willow Wall residence was used as a hospital for wounded men.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Moorefield of August 7, 1864 (also styled the Battle of Old Fields) began outside Willow Wall. It followed Jubal Earlys Confederate raid upon Washington, and his cavalry under McCauseland and Johnsons ensuing burning of Chambersburg, PA. General Johnson was staying in a second-floor room of Willow Wall, and he escaped out a window. The Confederate losses suffered in the battle left them unable to control the Shenandoah Valley and marked the increasing Union dominance in the Valley.</p><br>
<p>Daniel McNeill, who died 1844, is buried in a tomb across the road and about 50 yds. to the south near a pond.</p><br>
<p>Willow Wall has strong architectural and historical connections to four nearby Van Meter family dwellings: Buena Vista Farms, Traveler&#39;s Rest, Fort Pleasant, and the Garrett VanMeter House.</p><br>
<p>Willow Wall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Garrett VanMeter House  is an historic home near Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA.</p><br>
<p>The house is a two-story brick I house dwelling with a two-story rear "ell". It has Greek Revival stylistic elements. Attached to the ell is a one-story summer kitchen. It has a side gable roof and sits on a stone foundation. It features a centered entrance portico.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1830 to 1835 by Garrett VanMeter (1804-1856) who had inherited the land from his father, Colonel Jacob Vanmeter. Colonel Jacob Vanmeter was the son of Colonel Garrett Vanmeter. The Vanmeters were the first white settler (1744) in the area. The Colonel (he had commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War) was one of the wealthiest farmers in the region. He owned several hundred head of cattle and about 30 slaves. (No land records, or other corroborating documents, are available to confirm the dates of construction, which are estimates.)</p><br>
<p>The Garrett VanMeter House is one of four significant VanMeter family dwellings; the others are Traveler&#39;s Rest, Fort Pleasant, and Buena Vista Farms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Lost River General Store, also known as Lost River Store House, is an historic general store located on the grounds of The Inn at Lost River at Lost River, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in 1898, and is a two-story, front-gable, wood-frame building with a one-story front porch. The front section measures approximately 20 feet by 40 feet. The store building was renovated in the 1990s. From the early 1900s  until 1979, the building also housed the Lost River Post Office. Also on the property is an outhouse that may have been built in the 1930s by a Works Progress Administration  crew.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Temporarily closed in 2020, the store and the inn reopened in 2021 under new ownership.</p><br>
<p>Old Hardy County Courthouse, also known as "First" Hardy County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse building located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in two sections, the first built in 1792-93 and the extension added about 1833. It is an L-shaped brick building painted white. The original section measures approximately 25 by and the 1833 extension 50 by. The original section has Federal style detailing and features a cupola atop the gable roof. The building was remodeled in 1972. It served as the courthouse and clerks office until the 1860s. It was subsequently occupied by a girls day and boarding school and offices.</p><br>
<p>Following a remodel by architect Marjorie Pierce in 1972, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Old Stone Tavern is a historic home and tavern located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The original fieldstone section was built in 1788. Attached to it are three frame sections added about 1840, 1860, and 1900, and a cinder block apartment built in the 1950s. It features a front porch. It was built by early resident Thomas Parsons and is one of the earliest buildings in Moorefield.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Francis Kotz Farm, also known as The Kotz Place, is a historic home located near Wardensville, Hardy County, West Virginia. The house was built about 1860, and is a two-story, four-room Greek Revival style brick house, with side gable roof. A two-story addition was built about 1875. The house sits on a stone foundation. Also on the property is a three-story frame building built as the original Kotz family home in the 1850s. It also housed a wood-working shop. The contributing barn was built about 1865.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Switzer House, also known as The Old Stone House and "Switzerland," is a historic home located near Wardensville, Hardy County, West Virginia. The house was built in 1788, and is a two-story I-house with a lower-level and attic constructed of uncoursed fieldstone. It sits on a stone foundation and has a side-gable, standing seam metal roof. The rear elevation features a two-story porch built about 1880. The Switzer family were Swiss German immigrants.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Moorefield Historic District is a national historic district located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 171 contributing buildings. It consists of a mix of commercial, residential and civic structures, ranging in age from</p><br>
<p>the mid 18th century to the early 20th century. Predominate residential styles are Greek Revival and Queen Anne. The commercial buildings are Italianate style. Notable buildings include the Hardy County Court House (1914), City</p><br>
<p>Hall, and Emmanuel Episcopal Church (1879). Located in the district are the separately listed Old Stone Tavern, Thomas Maslin House, and Old Hardy County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Stump Family Farm is a national historic district located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site. It includes a cabin constructed of rough hewn white oak with a top log of pine, built about 1775. Also on the property is a barn , well house , and the Stump family cemetery. The property commemorates pre-revolutionary pioneer life in America. Michael Stump purchased the property about 1781 and it remained in the family until 1972.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Clarksburg Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 119 contributing buildings in 16 blocks of the central business district of Clarksburg.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>1st Methodist Church (1909)</p><br>
<p>1st Presbyterian Church (1894)</p><br>
<p>County Courthouse (1932)</p><br>
<p>Empire Bank (1907)</p><br>
<p>Goff Building (1911)</p><br>
<p>Nathan Goff Jr. House* (1883)</p><br>
<p>Masonic Temple (1914)</p><br>
<p>Merchant&#39;s Bank (1894)</p><br>
<p>Post Office (1932)</p><br>
<p>Robinson Grand (1930)</p><br>
<p>Stealey–Goff–Vance House* (1807)</p><br>
<p>Waldo Hotel (1904)</p><br>
<p>Waldomore* (1839)</p><br>
<p>Individually listed</p><br>
<p>Glen Elk Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 131 contributing buildings north of the central business district of Clarksburg. The area was developed after 1898, and contains a mixture of residential and commercial buildings. They include commercial warehouses built of brick and stone, small commercial buildings, housing specialty shops and eateries, and frame dwellings. Located in the district is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Quality Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States. The district encompasses 33 contributing buildings in the East Main Street and Jackson Square areas. They are mostly residential buildings date from 1880 to 1910. The oldest dates from about 1850, the Burton Despard house. They reflect a variety of popular architectural styles from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Maxwell-Duncan House , Virgil Highland House , and Robinson-Haynes House/American Red Cross .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Salem Historic District is a national historic district located at Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 28 contributing buildings in the central business district developed after a devastating fire in 1902. The district is almost exclusively commercial, with the exception of a few residences. Notable buildings include the B & O Railroad Station , Cozy Corner , Salem Baptist Church , First National Bank , USA Post Office , Brissey Insurance Building , Wilson Building , and the Queen Anne style Pearcy-Randolph House , former home of Senator Jennings Randolph.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
