<p>The Pocahontas Fuel Company Store was a historic Pocahontas Fuel Company company store building located at Switchback, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was designed by architect Alex B. Mahood, and built in 1917. It was a two-story brick building with a one-story wing that housed the business office. It had a flat roof, sat on a high stone foundation, and featured Neoclassical detailing. It had a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete entablature with dentils.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Peerless Coal Company Store is a historic company store building located at Vivian, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was designed by architect Alex B. Mahood and built in 1921, and the main block of the brick store building is two-stories with one-story flanking wings. It has a concrete parapet that defines the facade&#39;s roofline on both the two and one-story sections. It features a modern design, irregular plan, stone foundation, and simple decoration.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Wilson County Courthouse and Jail are located in Floresville, Texas. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas in 1978 and the courthouse as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Architect Alfred Giles used local brick for the Italianate design. The courthouse was remodeled in the 1930s, when the bricks were plastered over, and again in the 1950s. Giles also designed the Brooks County Courthouse, Fredericksburg Memorial Library, Live Oak County Courthouse, Presidio County Courthouse, Webb County Courthouse as well as courthouses in the counties of Goliad and Kerr. In 1909, Giles designed the facade of the Kendall County Courthouse. He also designed the 1885 Llano County courthouse, which burned down in 1892.</p><br>
<h2>Jailhouse Museum</h2><br>
<p>In use until 1974, the white brick and stucco cubic jail was designed in 1887 by James Riely Gordon and built at the NE corner of the square. Contractor B.B. Reid erected the building for $14,000. General living quarters are on the ground floor, with the prisoner cells on the second floor separated from the second-floor bedrooms. Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company manufactured the pre-fab cell blocks.</p><br>
<p>The jail is now operated by the Wilson County Historical Society as the Wilson County Jailhouse Museum. Visitors can view the original jail cells. The museum is open the first Saturday of the month and for special events.</p><br>
<p>The United Brick Corporation Brick Complex, also known as the New York Avenue Brickworks, is a historic industrial site. It is located on the 2800 block of New York Avenue, NE in Washington, D.C. on the grounds of the United States National Arboretum. The site sits on federal land, and access by the public is restricted.</p><br>
<p>The kilns represent the only remaining brickyard in Washington, D.C., and one of the few extant examples of the rounded "beehive" kiln style. The structures are constructed of red common brick, lined with heat-resistant firebrick and capped with arched, brick roofs. The complex also contained eight exhaust stacks. There is a small gauge rail system, with a standard rail siding. A factory building and drying shed, which contains 38 drying tunnels, are also still visible on the site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rectangular brick kilns were originally built on the site going back to at least 1909. It wasn&#39;t until 1927–1931 that nine of the now-iconic, circular beehive kilns were constructed. Three additional kilns were built at a later date. A number of companies operated at the site, including the Hudson Brick and Supply Company and the United Clay Products Company. Locally, the West Brothers Brick Company also manufactured bricks using beehive kilns, but that operation was closed in 1942 for the construction of the Pentagon.</p><br>
<p>The complex permanently closed in 1972, and was transferred to the United States Department of Agriculture in 1976. On October 3, 1978 the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Hanoverton Canal Town District is a historic district in Hanoverton, Ohio, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district covers a 23 acre area along USA Route 30. It is characterized by examples of canal-era architecture of the early to mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>The town of Hanoverton was settled and platted in 1813.</p><br>
<p>Within the district, there are 30 brick and frame houses built between 1817 and 1874, which have remained unchanged over the years. The simple frame houses were originally built during the construction of the Hanoverton and the Sandy and Beaver Canal.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the NRHP August 3, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Richards DAR House is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The Italianate style house was completed in 1860 for Charles and Caroline Richards. It is a contributing property to the De Tonti Square Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 1972. It is noted by architectural historians as one of Mobile&#39;s best preserved and elaborate examples of mid-19th century domestic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1860 for Charles G. Richards, a steamboat captain, and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Steele. It remained in their family until 1946, when it was purchased by the Ideal Cement Company. That company renovated it for office use in 1947. It was turned over to the city of Mobile in 1973, which then leased it to the Daughters of the American Revolution for operation as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The exterior of the two-story brick house is Italianate in style. The rectangular main block is offset at the rear with semi-octagonal bays. It features an elaborate cast iron veranda, with allegorical figures representing the four seasons, across the three bays of the main front elevation. The deck of the veranda is marble and granite. Bracketed cornices and paneled soffits at the roof line are topped by a shallow hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The interior is divided on a side-hall plan. Notable ornamental features are a curved staircase, marble mantels, the original bronze chandeliers, and floor-length windows overlooking the veranda.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer Memorial Library is located at 115 W. Main Street, Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, in the USA state of Texas. Designed by Alfred Giles, it was built in 1882 to replace the original 1855 courthouse, and was later superseded by the current 1939 courthouse designed by Edward Stein.</p><br>
<p>The first floor houses the Children&#39;s Section, while the second floor houses the Adult Section, Texas Room, and newspapers and magazines. It is also called the McDermott Building because of the 1967 and 1984 restorations funded by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene McDermott. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The native limestone structure was designed in 1882 by architect Alfred Giles in the Romanesque Revival style. Giles also designed the Brooks County Courthouse, Live Oak County Courthouse, Presidio County Courthouse, Webb County Courthouse and Wilson County Courthouse, as well as courthouses in the counties of Goliad and Kerr. In 1909, Giles designed the facade of the Kendall County Courthouse. He also designed the 1885 Llano County courthouse, which burned down in 1892. On November 28, 1881. Giles was commissioned for $1,000 by the Gillespie County Commissioners. Built of local limestone, the Dietz Quarries supplied the limestone for the main structure, while John Dechert Quarries of Luckenbach supplied the limestone for the trim. Building contractors John Heinen & James A. Courtney erected the structure at a cost of $23,000.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>When a new courthouse was built in 1939, the old building served a variety of uses, until its state of disrepair forced it to be condemned in 1963. The building was restored in 1967 as a home for the library, a gift from Texas Instruments founder and Dallas philanthropists Mr. & Mrs. Eugene McDermott. Eugene McDermott died in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw in Houghton, Michigan, is a non-collecting museum that houses changing exhibits about local cultural and natural history.</p><br>
<p>The building has two stories and is made of red brick with a red Jacobsville base. Furthermore, its name originates from being built with a 1908 grant from Andrew Carnegie. It served as the public library for Houghton, Michigan from its opening in 1910 until 2006. It is the former building of the Portage Lake District Library. The building was built in 1909, at the site originally occupied by the Armory Building for Company G of the Houghton Light Infantry, using a $15,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. The museum opened in fall 2006 after the library moved to its new location.</p><br>
<p>The building was declared a Michigan State Historic Site on June 18, 1976, listed as the Houghton Public Library. On December 30, 1987, the Shelden Avenue Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the library as a contributing property. The building is built in the Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>In October 2013, the museum became a Heritage Site of the Keweenaw National Historical Park.</p><br>
<p>The Columbiana County Infirmary is located near Lisbon, Ohio. The four building complex provided care for the poor and mentally ill of the county. In 1829, The county commissioners, on the belief that the best environment for the indigent population was farm labor, a farm consisting of 200 acres was purchased. By 1861 a large T-shaped building was constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Infirmary is now closed. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June 1979.</p><br>
<p>The limestone Kendall County Courthouse and Jail are located in the San Antonio suburb of Boerne in the USA state of Texas. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and the courthouse as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was built as one storey in 1870 on land donated by local surveyor John James, and the limestone blocks came from local quarries. Philip Zoeller and S. F. Stendeback were the designers. In 1886, a second storey was added by Charles Buckel. Alfred Giles was contracted to add the 1909 front facade. The courthouse was in service until 1998, when Kendall County built a new courthouse across the street.</p><br>
<p>The 1887 limestone jail was designed and built by Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>The Jesse Knight House, also known as the Knight Mansion, is a historic house in Provo, Utah, United States built for Jesse Knight. It was built in 1905, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This home was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Register on June 19, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Jesse Knight</h3><br>
<p>Perhaps the wealthiest man in Provo at the time, Jesse Knight was born in 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois. Knight&#39;s family migrated west, and reached Utah in 1850. Eighteen years later Knight married Amanda McEwan and soon began a ranch in Payson, Utah. Following an impression that he had, Knight began a mining operation in the Eureka area and became rich. He subsequently bought other mines, founded a bank, purchased real estate in Provo, bought the Provo Woolen Mills, and started farming and cattle interests in Canada. Throughout all of these efforts Jesse remained an active supporter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his mines were called the "cleanest mining camps in the west" (Utah State Historical Society p. 2). Knight died in 1921, designating much of his amassed fortune to BYU and various other institutions.</p><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>Two-and-a-half storeys tall, the Jesse Knight House was built in the Colonial Revival Style. Possessing a symmetrical facade, the detailing of the home exhibits "a broad entablature with a boxed cornice with egg and dart ornament and dentils on the frieze, swan&#39;s neck pedimented dormers, Ionic capitals on quoins that are meant to resemble pilasters, pilasters on the corners of the dormers and flanking the first floor windows, and the Ionic columns" (Utah State Historical Society p. 2).</p><br>
<h3>The Victorian Mansions of Provo</h3><br>
<p>Built between the years 1893 and 1908 in Provo, Utah, this group of Victorian mansions are historically significant and represent not only fine architecture but some of the most successful men of the city and state at the time. These mansions include the Charles E. Loose House, the William H. Ray House, the Knight-Allen House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Mangum House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. All of these homes derive from the high style: Eastlake, Shingle, Craftsman, Italianate, Classical, Moorish, Colonial, and Romanesque. Made primarily of brick, these homes exhibit the finest architecture and most ornate detailing to be found in the city of Provo.</p><br>
<h3>Jesse Knight and the Tintic Mining Industry</h3><br>
<p>The successful commercial mining of precious metals and minerals transformed Utah&#39;s economy from basically an agrarian base to a more industrialized state. Within this development the Tintic Mining District, located approximately 30 mi southwest of Provo, was founded in 1869 and by 1899 became the leading mining center in Utah with a value of output placed at $5 million. A central figure in Tintic success was Jesse Knight and the Knight family who resided in Provo. Jesse Knight attained wealth with his Humbug mine in the mid-1890s. The large silver producer allowed Knight to develop other mines in the East Tintic area. Knightsville grew around the workings and became touted as the only saloon-free, prostitute-free, privately owned mining camp in the USA His strict adherence to doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made the town one inhabited primarily by members of that Church.</p><br>
<p>Jesse Knight was able to expand farther than the tintic mines, reaching to the power plant in Santaquin, the Tintic drain tunnel project, the Knight Dry farm, and the smelters at Silver City. The Bonneville Mining company, the Knight Woolen Mills, Ellison Ranching Company, The American-Columbian Corporation, The Springville-Mapleton Sugar Company, The Spring Canyon Coal Company, Utah Savings Bank, The Layton Sugar Company, and the Tintic Drain Tunnel Company all represent facets of the Knight Investment Company. The architects Walter E. Ware and Alberto O. Treganza either separately or together were engaged in the construction of the Jesse Knight House.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a multiple property submission that nominated seven and listed six Provo houses. The listed houses are the Knight-Mangum House, the John R. Twelves House, this, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Allen House, the William H. Ray House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House. The seventh, the Charles E. Loose House, was determined to be NRHP-eligible but was not NRHP-listed due to owner objection.</p><br>
<p>Captain Nathan Hale is a bronze statue of Nathan Hale , a schoolteacher from Connecticut, who enlisted in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was stationed in Boston, but was later transferred to the New York City area. While in New York, Hale acted as a spy against the Kingdom of Great Britain&#39;s army. He posed as a teacher and was able to cross enemy lines to obtain military information. He left the area and before he could return home, his cousin, a Loyalist, informed the British about what Hale had done. He was captured and sentenced to death, with the hanging occurring the following day. While Hale was on the gallows, he gave a speech which ended with his famous quote: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."</p><br>
<p>The statue of Hale that stands in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, near the northwest corner of 13th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., was originally created in 1914 for Yale University, Hale&#39;s alma mater. The statue is a life-sized figure based on a design by sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt, with assistance from architect Douglas Orr and Roman Bronze Works. The cast for the duplicate statue was made in 1930. There are several of these statues located throughout the USA The cast of the statue in Washington, D.C., which was donated by attorney George Dudley Seymour, is bronze and the pedestal is granite. It was dedicated in April 1948.</p><br>
<p>The statue is one of 14 American Revolution statues in Washington, D.C., that were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1978. The statue is also a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site, also listed on the NRHP, and the Federal Triangle Historic District, listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Biography</h3><br>
<p>Nathan Hale was born in 1755 in Coventry, Connecticut. He and his brother attended Yale College, and Nathan later graduated from Yale University. After graduating, Hale became a schoolteacher in New London, Connecticut. When news reached of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775, he resigned from teaching and reportedly said "Let us march immediately and never lay down our arms until we obtain our Independence." Hale then joined the Continental Army and was commissioned an officer. He was stationed in Massachusetts to defend the city against the Kingdom of Great Britain&#39;s military forces, but the British were temporarily successful in capturing Boston in January 1776.</p><br>
<p>Hale was then stationed in the New York City area, when the British were in control of the city itself. In September 1776, Hale offered to work as a spy, gathering intelligence about the British forces on Long Island. To cross enemy lines, Hale posed as a schoolteacher and even carried his diploma as evidence. He was able to obtain some information and began his journey back to George Washingtons headquarters. After he left enemy territory, he was betrayed by a Loyalist cousin and was arrested for spying before he could reach colonial forces. British Commander William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, had Hale searched, and found military information Hale had gathered. The commander told Hale he would be hanged the following day. The statue depicts Hale on September 22, 1776, as he stood defiantly on the gallows. Before he died, Hale reportedly made a speech that ended with the phrase hes most known for in USA history: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."</p><br>
<h3>Memorial and dedication</h3><br>
<p>In 1893, the Sons of the Revolution dedicated the first statue to honor Hale, which was created by sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies. It was installed in New York Citys City Hall Park, incorrectly chosen as the place where Hale was hanged. Bela Lyon Pratt was selected to create another sculpture of Hale, on behalf of Yale University, and it was installed in front of Hales former dormitory, Connecticut Hall. Pratt used Crary Brownell, a local man, as a model for the statue because Brownell "closely resembled the profile that was on the door at the Nathan Hale home in Coventry." It wasn&#39;t until 1912 that the Hale Monument Commission (HMC) approved the statue and awarded Pratt a $15,000 prize. Afterwards, Pratt sent all members of the HMC small bronze replicas of the statue.</p><br>
<p>Pratts statue was completed in 1913 but was unveiled the following year. A cast was made in 1930, one of several for various groups and government agencies. One of the statues stood in front of the Nathan Hale Homestead in Connecticut. It was installed by attorney George Dudley Seymour, who had purchased the homestead in 1914. In 1945, Seymour gifted the statue to the USA government. It wasnt until 1948 that the statue was installed and a dedication ceremony took place.</p><br>
<p>On April 18, 1948, Charles Seymour, president of Yale University, presented the statue to USA Attorney General Tom C. Clark in Washington, D.C. Amongst those in attendance was Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, who served as master of ceremonies due to his authoring the Senate resolution which authorized the USA government to receive the gift. Also in attendance at the ceremony was fellow-Connecticut Senator Raymond E. Baldwin. Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives joined government officials and veteran groups at the event. During the ceremony, Clark said: "His heroic sacrifice has thrilled youth throughout the years. Every citizen of the United States has a sacred duty to guard and help preserve, in times of peace as well in time of war, the freedom for which Nathan Hale and other Americans have fought, and for which many of them have died."</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>The United States Postal Service used Pratt&#39;s statue on a 1925 postage stamp. The following year, a commemorative medal was created.</p><br>
<h2>Location and design</h2><br>
<p>The statue is located in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, near the northwest corner of 13th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Historian and author James Moore Goode described its location as "awkwardly situated" and that it "appears to be somewhat lost." The statue depicts Hale as he prepares to die for spying on British forces during the American Revolutionary War. His hands and feet are bound by rope, but Hale is standing straight up and staring ahead. Hale is wearing a coat, vest, britches, and a pair of shoes adorned with large buckles. His hair is in a ponytail. The bronze statue is 76 inches (193 cm) tall, resting on a granite pedestal that is 49.25 inches (125.1 cm) tall.</p><br>
<h3>Inscriptions</h3><br>
<p>The inscriptions read:</p><br>
<p>(Statue, near figure&#39;s proper left foot:)</p><br>
<p>(Statue, near figure&#39;s proper right foot:)</p><br>
<p>(Statue, around bottom rim:)</p><br>
<p>(Base, front:)</p><br>
<p>The Presidio County Courthouse is located in Marfa, Presidio County in the USA state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>San Antonio architect Alfred Giles beat out eighteen other competitors to submit the winning bid on designing the 1886 courthouse at a cost of $60,000. Giles modeled the Second Empire style building after the El Paso courthouse he also designed in 1886. When the structure was completed, the county held a celebratory grand ball on January 1, 1887.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse can be seen from almost any location in Marfa. Designed of brick and stone quarried in Marfa, the exterior is of pink stucco with Lady Justice sitting atop the central dome. The tower is spanned by Roman arches. Interiors are designed of pecan wood. Dormers extend over the roof, with triangular pediments and iron cresting. The building has entrances on all sides, meeting in a central rotunda. When designed, the district courtroom took up the entire east side of the second floor. The grand jury room was on the third floor. A remodeling took place in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was preceded by a facility, no longer extant, in Fort Davis from 1880 to 1885 when the county seat was relocated from Fort Davis to Marfa.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Jay Inn, located in Buffalo Creek, Colorado is a late 1880s building that has served as a boarding house, a girls retreat, and as an inn and a restaurant. On October 1, 1974, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original structure, then named the Buffalo inn, was built in 1886. The building was renamed The Blue Jay Inn after being purchased by John L. Jerome in 1900 and enlarged with the addition of a second building moved onto the property and set at a 90-degree angle to the original building.</p><br>
<p>From 1907 through 1947, the Blue Jay Inn was run by Girls&#39; Friendly Society. The inn was purchased in 1947 by Lizzetta Davis and her daughter Katherine, whose family had summered in the area for several years. They reopened the Blue Jay Inn in 1948 and Katherine Davis Ramus kept the dining room and hotel in summer operation until 1998.</p><br>
<p>The building had minor preservation work done in 2008 following an assessment by Colorado Preservation and being awarded $17,500 by the South Platte Enhancement Board.</p><br>
<p>The West Saint Clair Street Historic District is a residential historic district located along 124–328 West Saint Clair Street in the village of Almont in Almont Township in southeast Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site and also added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Almont was first settled in 1834, when Daniel Black built a log tavern in this area. By 1838, the settlement had a school, store, blacksmith shop, shoe shop, and grist mill. In 1843, the local logging industry was picking up, and the firm of Beach, Imlay and Morse built a sawmill in Imlay City and a connecting plank road to Mt. Clemens running through Almont. The access to reliable transportation was a boon to the local economy, and a pearlash factory, fulling mill, and foundry opened in the next few years, with a sawmill, fanning mill, and another foundry following close behind.</p><br>
<p>With the boom in industry, the town prospered, with new commercial buildings being constructed. At the same time, new Greek Revival and Italianate houses were being built for the town&#39;e newly prosperous and prominent citizens; many of those were in the district along West Saint Clair Street. By 1865, Almont had over 800 citizens, and in 1866 a local bank was formed, and a number of factories using the still-abundant local lumber were established in the area. By 1882, the lumber industry was slowing, but the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway built a line through the village, which gave the area easy access to cheap transportation for agricultural goods. Later introduction of the automobile in the twentieth century shifted the output of local factories to make automotive parts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Located just west of Almonts central business district along M-53, the district consists of 15 residential houses and one library located along a single stretch of West Saint Clair Street that intersects with Church, Cherry, and Day Street—although the district contains no properties along these side streets. The district contains a variety of architectural styles, including Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, Late Victorian, and Queen Anne. The district also contain the Henry Stephens Memorial Library, which is a contributing property that was listed in its own right as a Michigan State Historic Site on May 16, 1991. Located at 213 West Saint Clair Street, the Colonial Revival structure was funded and built in 1918 by Albert Stephens, who was the son of one of Lapeer Countys earliest settlers and lumber pioneers, Henry Stephens.</p><br>
<p>The King Estate  is located at 5501 Elgin Street in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1880, Alexander King was the original owner of this Second Empire style house. It was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on November 12, 1992, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Brooks County Courthouse is located in Falfurrias, in the USA state of Texas. The structure was designed by Alfred Giles in 1914 in the Classic revival style. Prior to the erection of the brick county courthouse, local government housed itself in rented space. The courthouse was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1977. Renovation began on the courthouse in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>First attempt to build a courthouse</h2><br>
<p>After Brooks County was formed from Starr County in 1911, officials met first in a hall, and later in a two-story building in downtown Falfurrias.</p><br>
<p>The county commissioners court set a November, 1912, date for holding a bond election for a courthouse and new roads. Although the bonds passed 344 to 9, the Texas attorney general failed to approve the bond issue, in part because precinct 4 voters were actively seeking to separate from Brooks County. Brooks County voters would not vote on the issue again until after their reorganization—after the legislature allowed precinct 4 voters to separate and create Jim Hogg County. San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres was to design the structure.</p><br>
<h2>The 1914 courthouse</h2><br>
<p>Brooks County voters voted again on the bond issue in February 1914, and it passed. Noted Texas architect Alfred Giles was selected to design the courthouse. He was actively involved in three other courthouse projects in the region at the time, Cameron County, Jim Wells, and Kleberg Counties.</p><br>
<p>Judge James A. Brooks, who had been a state representative instrumental in helping Brooks County separate from Starr County, was honored at the structure&#39;s opening ceremonies. Opening day was celebrated with a public picnic and a parade led by the local high school band.</p><br>
<p>Brooks County was named after Judge Brooks, who was also a captain in the Texas Rangers.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, formerly the Social Security Administration Building, is a historic building at 330 Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C., United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Charles Zeller Klauder and the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, in the Stripped Classical style in 1939. The building has Egyptian elements as well.</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed in 1940, but Social Security did not become the buildings first occupant. Instead, the threat of war created a need for space for defense agencies, and the building was made available to the War Department and the National Defense Commission. After the war, the Federal Security Agency, under which the Social Security Board had been placed in 1939, moved into the building. In 1953, FSAs successor, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, part of which became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980, became the primary occupant.</p><br>
<p>On April 28, 1988, the building was renamed the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in honor of the Social Security Boards first professional employee and the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. On July 6, 2007, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Voice of America and the USA Agency for Global Media are the buildings principal occupants. VOA has been headquartered in the building since 1954.</p><br>
<p>Victoria Hall  at 201 South Winebiddle Street in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built for Henry J. Lynch in the late 1860s. It was acquired by the Ursuline Sisters in 1894 and used as a Catholic girls&#39; school, the Ursuline Academy for Young Women from 1895 to 1981. The school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original architect of this Second Empire style house was possibly Isaac Hobbs, the architect of the Dollar Savings Bank on Fourth Avenue in Pittsburgh. Hobbs and Henry J. Lynch worked closely together when Lynch sat on the bank&#39;s board of directors from 1864 to 1906. The house was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on August 20, 1982, and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The mansion has 21 rooms, stained-glass windows, 14-foot-high tin ceilings and carved corbels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ursuline Sisters raised the money to buy the building for a school in the 1890s, and then defended the school&#39;s independence against the Diocese of Pittsburgh and it Bishop Phelan. They made a number of additions to the original structure, including an auditorium/dormitory, chapel, and a dining hall. They sold the building in the early 1990s.</p><br>
<p>From 1993 until 2002, it was known as "Victoria Hall", and was a venue for weddings and parties. Currently, the building is the Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, a part of the larger Waldorf education movement.</p><br>
<p>Students in the architectural studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, led by their teacher Jeff Slack, researched and wrote the first draft of the National Register of Historic Places nomination form in 2008 and 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building is a federally owned office building located at 330 C Street SW in Washington, D.C. in the United States. The Egyptian Revival structure was originally named the Railroad Retirement Board Building. It was designed by Charles Klauder and Louis A. Simon and completed on September 15, 1940. Although intended for the Railroad Retirement Board, its first occupant was the United States Department of War. By Act of Congress, it was renamed the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on October 21, 1972, becoming the first federal building to be named for a woman.</p><br>
<p>The Switzer Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Genesis</h2><br>
<p>The Railroad Retirement Board Building was first proposed in 1938 as part of a massive federal construction effort in the District of Columbia and around the country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the construction projects both as a way of providing employment to the millions of Americans out of work due to the Great Depression but also as a means of meeting the office space needs of the rapidly expanding federal government. Those needs, especially in Washington, D.C., had gone unmet for nearly a decade. On February 9, 1937, Roosevelt named an informal committee to study federal office space needs. The committee was chaired by United States Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, and included Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Oklahoma); Representative Ross A. Collins (D-Mississippi); Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, United States Navy; and Frederic A. Delano, chair of the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission.</p><br>
<p>The President&#39;s Special Committee on Public Buildings recommended in April 1938 construction of a new headquarters for the Railroad Retirement Board,</p><br>
<h3>Design</h3><br>
<p>Progress on construction was quite rapid. Design of the building was overseen by Louis A. Simon, the Supervising Architect in the Office of the Supervising Architect in the United States Department of the Treasury, which had oversight of all federal construction. The primary architect was Charles Zeller Klauder, a designer who worked in a variety of styles.</p><br>
<p>On July 28, 1938, Simon and Klauder presented their design for the two structures to the United States Commission of Fine Arts, which had the authority to review all new public buildings erected in the District of Columbia. and have 900,000 ft&sup2; of internal space (of which the railroad building had 590,000 ft&sup2;). A two-story penthouse contained mechanical and HVAC systems. The commission was greatly pleased by Klauder&#39;s alternative treatment, and approved it on July 28, 1939.</p><br>
<p>Detailed architectural and engineering designs were immediately begun.</p><br>
<p>By November 1938, the cost of the two buildings had fallen to $10.815 million.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the two buildings proved very important to the District of Columbia. Prior to 1939, most federal office buildings were clustered in Federal Triangle or areas close to the White House. The District&#39;s building boom was driven in great part by the needs of the United States Department of War, which was adding tens of thousands of workers. Roosevelt had adopted a policy of mobilization, to prepare the nation for possible entry into World War II. But most military officers and upper-level civilian workers lived in Northwest Washington and the Virginia counties across the Potomac River from it. To ensure that these tens of thousands of War Department workers could get to their jobs quickly and easily, War Department office buildings were planned for the northwest section of the city. This left no room for the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Board buildings in that part of town. Because workers for the Social Security Administration and the Railroad Retirement Board were low-wage workers without an urgent need to get to their jobs in a timely fashion, the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Board buildings were deliberately sited in Southwest Washington. This started a trend of federal construction of office buildings in Southwest Washington, leading to the creation of Southwest Federal Center.</p><br>
<p>The Railroad Retirement Board Building and the Social Security Administration Building were the first federal office buildings constructed in Southwest D.C.</p><br>
<h3>Construction speed-up and defense assignment</h3><br>
<p>Construction on the two structures began in May 1939. Both the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) agreed not to strike contractors working on the two buildings.</p><br>
<p>However, by June 1940, the space shortage affecting the War Department was so acute that PWA officials began speeding up construction on the Railroad Retirement Board Building. Already, rumors were swirling around Washington that the War Department, not the retirement board, would occupy the structure. The talks with contractors over speeding up construction proved effective, and the new deadline for completion of both buildings was fall of 1940. Agencies scheduled to take up residency in the two buildings included the National Defense Advisory Commission (an informal body established in June 1940 to promote the conversion of industry to a wartime footing), the Army Quartermaster Corps, the Army Corps of Engineers, and other War Department units. Despite these moves, the original names of the buildings remained attached to each.</p><br>
<p>To handle the massive influx of military workers, city officials began working with the Capital Traction Company and the private companies providing public bus service to plan new streetcar and bus lines to serve the structures.</p><br>
<p>Only a single major accident was reported during the building&#39;s construction. On July 4, 1940, 43-year-old construction worker Roy Trowbridge suffered a fractured spine when scaffolding he was standing on gave way and he fell four stories to the ground.</p><br>
<p>By early July, the $14 million buildings were due to be completed by September 1, 1940.</p><br>
<h3>Strikes</h3><br>
<p>Despite the earlier pledge by AFL and CIO officials to not strike war-related construction, strikes plagued the work on the two buildings in the summer of 1940. The first strike occurred when 250 workers at the Smoot Sand & Gravel walked out to protest a job classification by the federal Wage and Hour Division. The men worked on barges dredging gravel, and wanted to be classified as seamen so they could qualify for overtime and work more than the federally approved 42-hour work week. The strike began on July 9, lasted five days, and idled more than 6,500 workers (including those working on the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Board buildings) as no concrete could be delivered. The men won reclassification as seamen, a 10 percent wage increase, and pay for five days they were idle.</p><br>
<p>A second strike hit the construction site on July 18. This jurisdictional strike involved 250 carpenters, who were involved in a dispute with the plasterers over who had the right to build sawhorses. More than 2,000 of the 3,000 workers on the two-building job site were idled as the strike continued. The strike ended on July 19 after both labor unions agreed to allow the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) of the AFL to arbitrate the dispute.</p><br>
<p>A third strike hit the site on August 2. This jurisdictional strike involved 180 plasterers and cement finishers, who walked off the job in a dispute over who would install more than 750,000 ft&sup2; of acoustic ceiling tile. The strike didnt idle many workers, just 60 lathers and plasterers assistants. In the past, the carpenters performed 50 percent of all acoustic tile work, with the bricklayers and plasterers installing 25 percent of the tile. Under the new agreement, the three unions shared equally in the work. Because the acoustic tile wasn&#39;t due to be installed yet, the strike created no real delay in the work.</p><br>
<p>A fourth jurisdictional dispute also threatened to disrupt work at the site. Bricklayers and glaziers both wanted to install structural glass in each building&#39;s lavatories. But, to the relief of federal officials, no strike ever occurred.</p><br>
<h3>Completion</h3><br>
<p>The Railroad Retirement Board Building was completed on September 15, 1940. Three floors of the Social Security Administration Building were finished on October 1, and the rest of the structure on November 1. The total cost of construction for both was $14.25 million. Due to the large number of employees to be housed in the two structures, more than 1,800 telephone lines had to be installed. To accommodate the lines, the Department of War had to have its own telephone exchange (REpublic 6700) assigned to it for the first time. The two buildings were joined by a tunnel, and each had special loading docks to speed deliveries to them. To air condition the buildings, seven 600 ST cooling units were purchased from the Carrier Corporation and installed on-site. The two buildings were among the first in buildings in the District of Columbia to feature air conditioning, acoustic ceiling tile, and fluorescent lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Quartermaster Corps occupied the Railroad Retirement Board Building on October 2, 1940, and the Corps of Engineers moved into its quarters in December 1940.</p><br>
<p>After the end of World War II, the Railroad Retirement Board Building was turned over to the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The building was colloquially known as "HEW-South".</p><br>
<h2>Renaming</h2><br>
<p>On October 16, 1971, Mary E. Switzer died. Switzer became director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1950 and the first administrator of HEW&#39;s Social and Rehabilitation Service in 1967. She retired in 1970 as the highest ranking female bureaucrat in the federal government.</p><br>
<p>In December 1971, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota) introduced legislation in the Senate to have the Railroad Retirement Board Building renamed in honor of Switzer. On October 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed Public Law 92-520 into law. Section 26 of the law redesignated the Railroad Retirement Board Building as the "Mary Switzer Memorial Building". The structure was formally rededicated on January 16, 1973. It was the first federal building to be named for a woman.</p><br>
<p>On July 6, 2007, the Switzer Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations</h2><br>
<p>By 2002, three agencies occupied space in the Switzer Building. The United States Department of Education took up 60 percent of its space, while the United States Department of Health and Human Services had 30 percent and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the body which governs the Voice of America and other USA government broadcasting bodies) had the remainder.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the General Services Administration announced an $81.7 million renovation of the Switzer Building. HNTB, an architectural and engineering firm, was selected to oversee the upgrades. Construction was scheduled to begin in early 2005, and proceed in two phases. Phase I would renovate half the building and end in early 2007. Phase II would renovate the other half, and be complete in summer 2008. Renovations included an entirely new HVAC system, fire suppression system, and emergency electrical power plant; a new telecommunications system; security upgrades; and refurbishment of the main lobby. Because modern mechanical and HVAC equipment was much smaller than the units it replaced, the two-story mechanical penthouse was reclaimed and converted into office space. Phase II of the project began in July 2009. Another 18,000 ft&sup2; of mechanical space was reclaimed in the sixth and seventh floors (the former two-story mechanical penthouse), the elevator shafts extended to the two topmost stories, and new elevators installed. Windows throughout the building were replaced with modern energy-efficient ones, and a green roof placed atop the structure.</p><br>
<p>While construction continued, the Switzer Building served as the headquarters for the second inauguration of George W. Bush.</p><br>
<p>In April 2014, the General Services Administration said it would spend $10.38 million to renovate the Switzer Building into open workspace. This would allow 1,627 employees in five HHS divisions to move into the structure. The agencies scheduled to move into the Switzer building after the renovation are the Administration for Children and Families, the Administration for Community Living, the Departmental Appeals Board, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.</p><br>
<p>Headquarters House, also known as the Colonel Tebbetts place, is a historic house museum at 118 East Dickson Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Built in 1850, it saw action in the American Civil War, serving as a headquarters for both the Union and Confederacy. During the action at Fayetteville, the house was attacked by Confederate troops while serving as a Union outpost. The building was donated to the Washington County Historical Society as a museum in 1967 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was constructed by Judge Jonas Tebbetts and his wife in the Greek Revival architectural style. It was completed by 1853. This beautiful home would come to play a significant role during the Civil War. Many of the residents of Fayetteville supported the South. However, Judge Tebbetts was an outspoken supporter of the Union. He was arrested in March 1862. Tebbetts was taken to Fort Smith by Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch. Tebbetts was released at the time of General McCulloch&#39;s death which occurred during the Battle of Pea Ridge. Tebbetts fled to Fayetteville where he learned of a price on his head. He and his family quickly evacuated to Missouri leaving their beloved home. That was the last time the Tebbetts Family inhabited the home. After the Tebbetts house was abandoned, the Union Army took it over and used it for their Headquarters.</p><br>
<h2>Action at Fayetteville</h2><br>
<p>The Headquarters House was the intended target of a Confederate attack on April 18, 1863. Union forces were using the house as a base for their northwest Arkansas operations. With a successful capture of the Headquarters House the Rebels could sweep the Union from northwest Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The Rebels attacked at 6:00 am in east Fayetteville, drawing fire while artillery climbed East Mountain and fired into the city. One cannonball struck the front door of the Headquarters House, and the house sustained substantial damage throughout the battle. The Union rallied and began to push the Confederates out of Fayetteville later in the morning. Despite a desperate charge up Dickson Street, the Confederates finally decided they could not take the Headquarters House and withdrew. The door and cannonball remain and are now displayed within the museum.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Headquarters House exhibits many key characteristics of Greek Revival architecture. The porch&#39;s fluted columns and dentil trimmed eaves are common in similar structures. The parlor fireplace is also typical of Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>James C. Dent House is a historic home at 156 Q Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C., in the Buzzard Point neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>James C. Dent was born a slave in 1855, in southern Maryland. He was a laborer, and married Mary, a seamstress; in 1885, they helped found the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>It served as a Community Assistance Center. Pepco owns the property. Living Classrooms Foundation began operating the facility in 2019 as a community center to deliver hands-on education and workforce development programming serving residents of all ages living in the surrounding public housing communities of DC&#39;s Ward 6.</p><br>
<p>Randall Junior High School is a historic building at 65 I Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school opened in 1906 as Cardozo Elementary School and expanded to its 80,000 ft&sup2; size in 1927 in the process of becoming Randall Junior High School. Singer Marvin Gaye attended Randall and graduated in 1954. The school closed in 1978. Then it became a high school career development center called Dix Street Academy until 1981. After that, it served as a homeless shelter until 2004, and as artist&#39;s studios, the Millenium Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the Corcoran Gallery of Art purchased the building from the City of Washington for $6.2 million. The initial redevelopment with developer Monument Realty LLC fell through. In 2010, a Telesis/Rubell group bought the property for $6.5 million and planned to redevelop the property beginning in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The District had the option to reacquire the property in 2018, but did not do so.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, the Rubell Museum, a Miami-based private contemporary art museum, announced the opening of a second museum location, to be sited in the Randall School building. The museum owners purchased the property and renovated the main school building for the new museum, adding a multi-story apartment building next to the original structure. The museum opened in October 2022.</p><br>
<p>Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., Inc., also known as the Old Masonic Temple, is an historic building at 901 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The French Renaissance Revival building was designed by Adolf Cluss, and Joseph Wildrich von Kammerhueber in 1867. Construction began in June 1867; the cornerstone was laid in May 1868, by President Andrew Johnson; it was dedicated on March 20, 1870.</p><br>
<p>The building cost $100,000, but a mansard roof fifth floor, was not completed because of lack of funds. There is a full basement. First-floor stores were leased, and a grand ballroom on the second-floor was rented out.</p><br>
<p>Julius Lansburgh purchased the Old Masonic Temple in 1921.</p><br>
<p>The building was painted white in 1922,</p><br>
<p>and operated as a furniture store.</p><br>
<p>After Lansburgh&#39;s closed in 1970, it was listed as an historic building in 1974.</p><br>
<p>In December 1979, the District of Columbia refused to issue a demolition permit in accordance with its historic preservation law.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated in 2000, at a cost of $33 million.</p><br>
<p>It serves as the headquarters of the Gallup Organization.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Marys Academy Building is a historic building in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1854, it is a notable example of Greek Revival architecture and one of the neighborhoods only surviving buildings dating to the pre–Civil War era. It was the first structure built by St. Marys parish, the first Catholic parish in Lawrenceville, and was originally used as both a church and school. In 1874, a new St. Marys Church was built next door. St. Mary&#39;s merged with three other Lawrenceville parishes  in 1993 to form the new Our Lady of Angels parish. The St. Mary church buildings remained in use for a few years but closed in 2004.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the property was sold to the Catholic Cemeteries Association, which administers the adjacent St. Mary Cemetery. The association planned to raze the Academy building to provide more room for burials, but the building was nominated as a Pittsburgh historic landmark to protect it from demolition. The building was given landmark status on December 30, 2008. It remains vacant as of 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Centre Avenue YMCA Building located at 2621 Centre Avenue in the Middle Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1922. A sign on the building says the following: "Centre Avenue YMCA - This building was erected in 1922 to house the only YMCA for African-Americans in Western Pennsylvania. The Centre Avenue YMCA served not only as one of the only recreational areas facilities for African-Americans from the 1920s through the 1950s, but was also a center of social and cultural life in the community, and was famous for free symposiums held here during the 1930s and &#39;40s with nationally prominent African-Americans. Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission. Marker dedicated 1994." The building was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on August 8, 1995, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Webb County Courthouse is located in Laredo in the USA state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>In 1907, Webb County placed ads in local newspapers announcing a contest to design a new courthouse. Famed San Antonio architect Alfred Giles submitted the winning bid on February 27, 1907. The courthouse was completed in 1909 for $46,918.</p><br>
<p>The Beaux-Arts building features a curved judge&#39;s bench. A stained glass window features "Justice" holding the scales. Tile floors are in the Mediterranean style. Alamo Iron Works produced the wrought iron staircases. Interior doors are solid wood with brass knobs. Mansard roofed terminal pavilions feature stone-carved rams head accents. The building features yellow brick with dressings of white stone and red tile mansard roofs. The landscaping includes pecan trees and citrus trees. A cornerstone records the contractor, H. Sparbert, and architect, Alfred Giles, 1909.</p><br>
<p>Many of Alfred Giles&#39; buildings have been demolished over the years. This fine example of his work shows why he continues to have the respect of architects, historians, and laymen alike.</p><br>
<p>In November 2010, the county held an art contest to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the courthouse. County Judge Danny Valdez and Javier Santos of the Fernando A. Salinas Charitable Trust Fund unveiled the winning design on November 12, 2010. The winning design was submitted by Jocelyn Rivera, and became a stained glass window on the third floor of the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Commandants Office in the Washington Navy Yard, also known as Building One, Quarters J, or the Middendorf Building is the USA Navys oldest active office building, which historically housed the offices of the Commandant and other officers of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. It sits at the south end of Dahlgren Avenue, the Yard&#39;s main road, two blocks south of the Latrobe Gate near the Anacostia River. After a renovation in 1993, it became offices for the Naval Historical Center. Since 2005, the building has been restored to its historical use as the office of the Commandant. It was likely built from 1837 to 1838 and first appeared on a Yard map in 1842. In 1973 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A building for officers&#39; use at the Yard was first proposed in 1828 and is shown on an 1842 map. Though clear records of the construction have not been found, proposed improvements of $2,500 in 1837 and $2,000 in 1838 were made for a "Building for officers."</p><br>
<p>George Watterson described the building in 1842 in his New Guide to Washington as "a neat and beautiful building of brick, two-stories high, with verandas running all around it, has lately been erected as offices, for the officers and others doing business in this establishment." A trophy park just south of the building "consisted of a semi-circle of captured Naval cannons graduated from the center by size with other guns and stacks of round shot placed between this semi-circle and the office." The park was built before 1842 and eliminated about 1945.</p><br>
<p>Commandant John Adolphus Dahlgren, who was given command of the Yard just before the Civil War, gave up the Commandant&#39;s House where he had lived, for the use of the officers of the 71st New York Regiment. He then slept and dined in the room across from his office in Building One. President Abraham Lincoln often visited Dahlgren at his offices, stating, "I like to see Dahlgren. The drive to the Navy Yard is one of my greatest pleasures. When I am depressed, I like to talk with Dahlgren. I learn something of the preparations for defense, and I get from him consolation and courage."</p><br>
<p>In 1873, the building was renovated and expanded. In 1941, it became a post office and communications center. In 1948, it was remodeled to serve as officer quarters and renamed Quarters J. In 1976 the building became the Yard&#39;s visitors center and housed the Navy Sea Cadets. It returned to use as offices after a 1993 renovation. In 2005, it was restored as the Office of the Commandant of Naval District Washington.</p><br>
<p>The Malta Temple  is located at 100 West North Avenue in the Central Northside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on August 5, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1927, this historic building was once the home of a fraternal order known as the Order of Malta. It then became a Salvation Army building. In a five to two decision, the Pittsburgh Planning Commission voted to save this building from demolition in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on August 5, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Main and Third Street Cluster is a group of three historic buildings in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Named for its location on the northeastern corner of the intersection of Main and Third Streets,</p><br>
<p>Three buildings compose the cluster:</p><br>
<p>The Anderson Building, which faces Main, was built in the Victorian style in 1893.</p><br>
<p>The former McMicken School of Design, located on the corner, is an Italianate structure completed in 1862.</p><br>
<p>The Burkhardt Building, which faces Third, is a Neoclassical building; it was erected in 1910.</p><br>
<p>Although the ages of the three buildings are nearly fifty years from oldest to newest, they nevertheless compose an architecturally important unit; architectural historians have ranked both the McMicken School and the Anderson Building as premier examples of their styles, due in part to their high-quality construction methods and artistry. Although the Burkhardt Building is of lesser significance, it remains a good example of Neoclassical architecture. Together, the three buildings are typical of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century architecture, which combined a range of styles in the same geographical area.</p><br>
<p>Due to their location very close to the shoreline of the Ohio River and to the oldest parts of Cincinnati, the cluster occupies land that formerly held other important buildings. Chief among these is a previous occupant of the land under the McMicken School of Design: during the 1830s, the building on the site was used as offices for young lawyer Salmon P. Chase; a well-regarded book about Ohio law that he wrote while working at Third and Main helped propel him to prominence in Ohio politics and eventually to the position of Chief Justice of the United States. In 1983, the Main and Third Street Cluster was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historic architecture and because of its place in local history. In late 2012, the cluster was expanded by the addition of buildings as far north as 318 Main Street; the addition was given the name of "Main Street Buildings".</p><br>
<p>The Clinton House is a historic house museum at 930 West Clinton Drive in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Built in 1931, it was the first home of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham while they both taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law and was where they married in 1975. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Upon completion in 1931 in the Tudor Revival architectural style the house was inhabited by H. H. Taylor, owner of the Fayetteville Daily Leader. Later the house was bought by Gilbert C. Swanson, who was married to Roberta Fulbright, sister of J. William Fulbright. On August 11, 1975, Bill Clinton purchased the house for $17,200.00. Both Bill and Hillary were teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1975, and they were married in the living room on October 11, 1975. Bill became Arkansas Attorney General in January 1977 and they rented the home to law students until they sold the house in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Clinton House Museum</h2><br>
<p>The house operates as a museum and contains some pieces of Clinton election memorabilia dating to prior to his run for United States President, rooms interpreted for the 1970s, and temporary exhibits related to local history or the Clinton legacy of public service and civic engagement. There is also a replica of Hillary&#39;s wedding dress. The house is located on what was once California Boulevard; the street was renamed Clinton Drive in 2010. The museum is a stop on the "Billgrimage", which includes the Clinton Birthplace in Hope, Arkansas, and the Bill Clinton Presidential Library, among other sites.</p><br>
<p>The James Buchanan Memorial is a bronze, granite, and concrete memorial in the southeast corner of Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D.C., that honors USA President James Buchanan. It was designed by architect William Gorden Beecher, and sculpted by Maryland artist Hans Schuler. The memorial was commissioned in 1916, but not approved by the USA Congress until 1918. The memorial features a statue of Buchanan bookended by male and female classical figures representing law and diplomacy, engraved with text from a member of Buchanan&#39;s cabinet, Jeremiah S. Black: "The incorruptible statesman whose walk was upon the mountain ranges of the law."</p><br>
<p>Buchanan had served in various roles for the USA government until his election as president in 1856. His term was fraught with several crises, including his inability to stop the Civil War. He is often rated as one of the worst USA presidents. His niece, Harriet Lane, served as First Lady during Buchanan&#39;s term since he was a bachelor. Later in her life, Lane bequeathed $100,000 for the government to erect a memorial honoring Buchanan in Washington, D.C. After years of debate and delays in constructing Meridian Hill Park, the memorial was finally unveiled and dedicated in June 1930.</p><br>
<p>The memorial is a contributing property to the Meridian Hill Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. The historic district was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1964 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Biography</h3><br>
<p>James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791, in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson College and graduated in 1809. Buchanan showed a keen interest in law and was admitted to the bar in 1812. During the War of 1812, Buchanan was one of the early volunteers to fight the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following the war, Buchanan was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he served for two years. Five year later in 1821, he was elected to the USA House of Representatives, where he served for ten years. After his tenure in the House, Buchanan served as USA Minister to Russia from 1832 to 1834.</p><br>
<p>Buchanan was elected to the USA Senate in 1834 and served until 1845 when he was chosen to be USA Secretary of State. He served in that role until 1849 and was chosen to be Minister to the United Kingdom from 1853 to 1856. Buchanan was elected to be President of the United States in 1857. He only served one term and his presidency is considered one of the worst in USA history.</p><br>
<p>Historian Edward L. Widmer described Buchanan&#39;s presidency as the following: "Repeatedly, he made terrible decisions, and when presented with various options, pursued the most extreme pro-slavery position (despite the fact that he came from Pennsylvania). He chose a Cabinet dominated by corrupt slave owners who lined their own pockets and stole government assets. When crises came, he had no answers, because he didn’t think the federal government should intervene. As more people questioned his choices, he angrily dismissed their criticism." The biggest failure of his presidency is often cited to be his inability to avert the Civil War.</p><br>
<h3>Memorial</h3><br>
<h4>Planning</h4><br>
<p>Harriet Lane was the niece of Buchanan, and as Buchanan was a bachelor, acted as First Lady of the United States during his presidency. She died in 1903 and in her will bequeathed $100,000 for the federal government to erect a memorial of her uncle. There was a stipulation that it had to be accepted by USA Congress within 15 years of her death, or the money would return to her estate.</p><br>
<p>The deadline was drawing near when in January 1916, Senator Blair Lee I introduced a joint resolution to erect a memorial to Buchanan. Later that year, the United States Commission of Fine Arts approved the memorial&#39;s design. In December 1916, members of the Pennsylvania Society asked Congress to pass the resolution to erect the memorial, honoring the only president who was from Pennsylvania at that time.</p><br>
<p>There was a contentious debate amongst members of Congress who supported a memorial or those who strongly opposed. From 1916 to 1918, there was a concerted effort to stop a resolution passing Congress. Amongst the members of Congress who fought against the memorial were Representative Clarence B. Miller and Senators Irvine Lenroot, Reed Smoot, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Miller stated "I would like someone to tell me, if he can, what distinguished services Buchanan rendered anybody that will justify erecting a monument costing the enormous sum of $100,000 to be paid for by anybody, in Meridian Hill Park, one of the showplaces-to-be of the land." Lenroot said "The best thing we can do for Mr. Buchanan is to forget him."</p><br>
<p>Despite this opposition, on June 27, 1918, Congress passed the legislation to erect the memorial, with the House of Representatives voting 217 to 142 and the Senate voting 51 to 11. President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill into law that same day. The main statue and the two additional statues on the memorial were sculpted by Maryland artist Hans Schuler. William Gordon Beecher, also from Maryland, was the project&#39;s architect and Roman Bronze Works acted as the founder.</p><br>
<p>In July 1929, the main statue was delivered to Washington, D.C., after the two statues on each end of the memorial had arrived. At that time, the memorial dedication was planned to occur in October of that year. Due to bureaucratic debates about the memorial, and delays in construction of Meridian Hill Park, the dedication ceremony did not take place until June 26, 1930.</p><br>
<h4>Dedication</h4><br>
<p>Amongst those in attendance at the dedication ceremony were government officials, including Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Dwight F. Davis, and many Pennsylvanians. The invocation was given by Godfrey Chabot, pastor of Sixth Presbyterian Church. The opening statement from Lawrason Riggs, who was a trustee of the Buchanan Memorial Fund, was followed by the unveiling of the statue by one of Buchanan&#39;s cousins. During the unveiling, the United States Marine Band played and a member of the American Legion sang the national anthem. The sculptor and architect were then acknowledged.</p><br>
<p>Ambassador Roland S. Morris formally presented the memorial to the USA government and gave a biographical speech about Buchanan. This was followed by President Herbert Hoover speaking to the crowd about Buchanans life and his many years of service to the government. The audience then sang My Country, Tis of Thee, homing pigeons were released, and wreaths were laid. The benediction was given by Bishop William Fraser McDowell.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>The memorial is a contributing property to the Meridian Hill Park Historic District, which was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 19, 1994. The historic district had earlier been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on November 8, 1964, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Location and design</h2><br>
<p>The Buchanan memorial is the largest monument in Meridian Hill Park and the city&#39;s only memorial to the former president. The memorial is one of several works in the park. The others are Serenity by Josep Clarà, Dante Alighieri by Ettore Ximenes, and an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc by Paul Dubois, the only equestrian statue of a woman in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>The memorial is located on the southeast corner of Meridian Hill Park, near the park&#39;s reflecting pool, in an area where Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, and the U Street Corridor intersect. The closest street intersection is 15th and W Streets NW and the memorial is to the right when entering the park from the south. The statue of Buchannan is bronze, but has faded to green due to patina. The statues on each end of the memorial are granite, and the base is Milfor pink marble.</p><br>
<p>Buchanan&#39;s statue is 6-feet 2-inches (1.9 m) tall and the width is 6-feet 7-inches (2 m) wide. He is depicted sitting in a chair and wearing a suit. Draped across his lap is a robe. His left hand is holding papers which Buchanan is reading. The marble base is 5.8-feet (1.8 m) tall and 5.75-feet (1.8 m) wide.</p><br>
<p>Extending on each side of Buchanan&#39;s statue is a stone exedra. At each end of the exedra is a concrete sculpture, one representing Law and the other Democracy. The male statue of Law is shirtless and his legs are crossed. A piece of fabric is draped over his lap. He is holding a fasces with his left hand. The female statue of Democracy is topless and also has fabric draped over her lower half, part of which hangs from her right arm.</p><br>
<p>The inscriptions on the memorial, which includes a quote by a member of Buchanan&#39;s cabinet Jeremiah S. Black, include the following:</p><br>
<p>(above the statue)</p><br>
<p>BVCHANAN</p><br>
<p>(left wall)</p><br>
<p>JAMES BUCHANAN OF PENNSYLVANIA</p><br>
<p>PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES</p><br>
<p>MDCCCLVII-MDCCClXI</p><br>
<p>(right wall)</p><br>
<p>THE INCORRUPTIBLE STATESMAN WHOSE</p><br>
<p>WALK WAS UPON THE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF</p><br>
<p>THE LAW</p><br>
<p>(corner of statue)</p><br>
<p>Hans Schuler 1929</p><br>
<p>The Central National Bank, also known as the Dorothy I. Height Building, or Apex Building, is the national headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women. It is located at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1860, it operated as the St. Marc Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased by the Central National Bank, and the west front was renovated in 1887, to the designs of architect Alfred B. Mullett.</p><br>
<p>In 1945, the ground floor was leased by the Apex Liquor store.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, it was renovated by Sears.</p><br>
<p>The Late Victorian-style Dorothy I. Height Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, the building is designated as a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and the Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Jail is a historic former civic building at 90 South College Avenue in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Built in 1896, this building was the fourth to serve as county jail, and was in use until 1973, making it the longest tenured in county history. The Romanesque Revival building was designed by W. B. Reese, and is locally unusual and distinctive for its medieval appearance. It is built out of load-bearing stone, square cut and laid in irregular courses, with a rough quarry-cut finish. Most of the building is of darker shades with trim in lighter shades. Nominally two stories in height, the rightmost bay has a square tower with crenellated parapet.</p><br>
<p>The building, which is now in private hands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Potomac Palisades Site is an archaeological site in Washington, D.C., United States. Measuring about 1 acre in area, along the Potomac River. It is one of many archaeological sites in the present-day Potomac Palisades; a 1984 field survey revealed evidence that supported earlier ideas of the archaeological richness of the northern bank of the Potomac in this area.</p><br>
<p>Among the artifacts found during excavation at the site is a triangle-shaped projectile point. The primary use of the site appears to have been during the Late Archaic period, during which time it was heavily used as a lithic workshop. In recognition of its archaeological value, the Potomac Palisades Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Charles Schreiner Mansion is located in Kerrville in the USA state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kerr County, Texas in 1975. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962. The mansion is currently the home of the Hill Country Museum. In 1984, Mrs. E. C. Parker was awarded a Jefferson Davis Certificate of Meritorious Service for Preservation and Restoration, in honor of her work in converting the mansion into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The mansion is now home to the Hill Country Museum, which is operated by Schreiner University.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Texas Ranger and Confederate States Army veteran Charles Schreiner, Sr., was descended from French nobility. His father Gustav had been born in a castle in Alsace. The Schreiner family moved to San Antonio in 1852. Schreiner became a wealthy rancher, merchant and philanthropist in Kerrville. Schreiner commissioned San Antonio architect Alfred Giles to design the mansion in 1879. The original six-bedroom, two-story house was the first limestone building in Kerr County. In 1895, Schreiner had Giles add a more elaborate porch. The combined styles of Romanesque Revival and Chateauesque were a result in part of the labor force being brought from Germany, and pink granite columns imported from Italy. In 1927, the Schreiner heirs transferred ownership of the mansion to the Kerrville Masonic Lodge, which sold it in 1972 to a private owner.</p><br>
<p>Watterston House is a Federal rowhouse, located at 224 2nd Street, Southeast, Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 17, 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was named for George Watterston, a Librarian of Congress.</p><br>
<p>It was the headquarters of the Cato Institute from 1982 to 1993.</p><br>
<p>It is the headquarters of the National Indian Gaming Association.</p><br>
<p>Warder Public Library is a historically significant building in Springfield, Ohio, United States. A robust example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, it was a gift to the city from industrialist Benjamin H. Warder, and served as the main branch of the Clark County Public Library from 1890 to 1989. It now houses the Clark County  Literacy Center.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Warder (1824–1894) was president of Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company (established 1879), headquartered in Springfield, manufacturers of Champion harvesters and farm machinery. In 1902, Warder&#39;s company merged with four others &mdash; McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Deering Harvester Company, Milwaukee Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Company &mdash; to form International Harvester.</p><br>
<p>Warder and his business partners, Asa S. Bushnell and John J. Glessner, each hired Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson to design a house: the Warder Mansion in Washington, DC. (1885–88); the Bushnell Mansion in Springfield, Ohio (1885–88); and the John J. Glessner House in Chicago, Illinois (1885–87). Richardson died in 1886, but architects in his office completed the houses and formed a successor firm: Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. Warder hired them to design the library.</p><br>
<p>The L-shaped building is located at the southwest corner of High Street and Spring Avenue. It is constructed of Ohio buff sandstone trimmed with Worcester brownstone, under a red slate roof. The east wing features an arcaded entrance porch; at the juncture of the wings is a tower that contains the staircase. The main reading room features a massive stone fireplace, 18 feet tall and 12 1/2 feet wide. In plan and massing, the building is closely related to Richardson&#39;s Converse Memorial Library (1885) in Malden, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Warder donated the building as a memorial to his parents. A plaque reads:</p><br>
<p>In 1989, the Clark County Public Library moved to a modern facility at 201 South Fountain Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The Warder Public Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Washington and Georgetown Railroad Car House, also known as the Navy Yard Car Barn, or Blue Castle, is an historic building, located at 770 M Street, Southeast, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Romanesque Revival building was designed by Walter C. Root in 1891. The most distinctive features are on the southeast facade, including towers that mimic a medieval castle. The building was enlarged in 1909 to fill the western half of the block with a one-story addition that is not as stylistically ornate, but mimics the original design.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The car barn was one of four facilities designed by Root for the Washington and Georgetown Railroad when it was planning an expansion of its cable car service in the 1890s. The car barn was used to turn around the cars and ready them for their next trip across the city.</p><br>
<p>The railway was acquired by the Capital Traction Company in 1895, and after a fire destroyed the main powerhouse in 1897, the cable cars were replaced with electric. in the electric car era, the barn was primarily used for storage, and it was expanded for this purpose in 1909.</p><br>
<p>Streetcar service in DC ended in 1962, and several of the retired streetcars were stored in the Navy Yard Car Barn. The tracks leading into the car barn were paved over in 1963, whereupon the building was used as a bus garage. The building was later sold, was leased by the United States Department of Labor and was used to store records until the mid-1970s. The building was then abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service added the building to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 14, 2006. It is only Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company building to survive the cable car era, which was one of the reasons that the NPS decided to add it to the NHRP.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>The 770 Limited Partnership of Bethesda, Maryland purchased the building during the 1990s, whereupon the structure was used for office space and a small restaurant. During that time, the building was painted bright blue.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, Preferred Real Estate Investments, Inc., bought the building and made plans to use it for retail space. At the time, the building held three charter schools.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, Madison Marquette sold the building to the National Community Church. The new owner then began to renovate the building, which it renamed "The Capital Turnaround". The church also made plans to repurpose the building for use as an indoor marketplace, a child development center and an event space in which the church would conduct services.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, a church spokesperson stated that the organization would restore the building&#39;s historic coloration, rather than retain its blue tint.</p><br>
<p>An 850-seat event space opened in the building in the summer of 2021, with bookings run by Union Stage. Comedian Hannibal Buress was the inaugural show at the venue in August 2021.</p><br>
<p>In October 2021, a child development center opened in the building.</p><br>
<p>The William D. Alexander House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is asserted to be the only period example of Stick Style architecture in the state of Utah.</p><br>
<h2>William D. Alexander House * 91 West 200 South * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>The William D. Alexander House was built in 1891 by William Denton Alexander. This home is perhaps the only example of Stick Style architecture in Utah. "The overall design of the house integrates Eastlake porch details and Queen Anne wall shingling on the upper story with the dominant ground level Stick Style to form a complete, cohesive, architectural composition... The visual complexity of the house is further accentuated by the mixing of hip and gable roof forms, the use of projecting wall dormers, and the presence of clipped corners on the house body and wing (National Park Service p. 1)." The William D. Alexander House was designated to the Provo Historic Landmark registry on March 7, 1996.</p><br>
<h3>The Stick Style</h3><br>
<p>A turquoise blue, the William D. Alexander house is one of the most unusual homes in the city of Provo, Utah, and it is significant for more than Its color. The Alexander house emphasizes an architectural style known as "The stick style." An expression very popular in America throughout the nineteenth century, the Stick Style was an architectural expression which left the frame system of the home exposed. "The development of the balloon frame advanced the articulation of the structural skeleton and eventually the style became a conscious multiplication of sticks as decorative elements. The Alexander House demonstrates this decorative (more than structural) application, with horizontal and vertical sticks that frame the ground floor windows and doors, and the dormers of the second story. The geometric pattern of crossing horizontal and vertical sticks on this house is reminiscent of Japanese framing as seen in the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia which influenced the Stick and later Prairie styles, and may have been an influence in this house (Hartman p. 1)." The home is still very well preserved and stands strong today. The exterior has been repainted different colors over the years.</p><br>
<h3>William Denton Alexander</h3><br>
<p>Born on December 4, 1851, to Horace Martin Alexander and Catharine Houston, in Salt Lake City, Utah, William Denton Alexander came to Provo in the 1860s. In the year 1878 he was married to a woman by the name of Helena Coray. Due to her death he later remarried to Prudella Allman in 1906. Alexander was an influential man in the Provo area. A contractor and builder by trade, Alexander also served on the Provo City School Board, as a justice of the peace, and as a city councilman. Also active in the LDS church, William previously served as a missionary to the Hawaiian Islands from 1878 to 1881. The William Alexander House still remains with and is occupied by the Alexander family.</p><br>
<p>John J. Lincoln House is a historic home located at Elkhorn, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1899, and is a -story, L-shaped, frame dwelling on a stone foundation. It features a multigabled roofline, half-timber decoration, and a hipped roof wrap-around porch. Also on the property is a contributing two story I house and hipped roof, clapboard-sided dairy house. It was built for John J. Lincoln, an influential leader in southern West Virginia&#39;s coal mining industry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The H. J. Heinz Company complex, part of which is currently known as Heinz Lofts, is a historic industrial complex in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The buildings were built by the H. J. Heinz Company from 1907 through 1958. The complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places  and five of the buildings are listed as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The complex contains eleven buildings, nine of which are contributing buildings of the NRHP listing. The contributing buildings, built between 1907 and 1937, are the Administration Building (1907), Bean Building (1913), Power Building (1914), Shipping Building (1915), Meat Building (1923), Cereal Building (1926), Reservoir Building (1927), Service and Auditorium Building (1930), and the Administration Annex (1937). The Administration Building is built of terra cotta, stone, and brick in the Beaux-Arts style and its annex is built of blond brick in the Commercial style. All the other contributing buildings are built of red brick and stone in the Romanesque Revival style. The two non-contributing buildings in the complex are the Riley Research Building — an International style building from 1958 — and a guard booth.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Heinz Company was founded in 1876 and leased several buildings until 1890. In 1884, German-American Henry J. Heinz purchased several lots on the north bank of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. From 1888 through 1906, approximately twenty buildings were built or purchased, mostly of wood and beam construction. From 1906 through 1930, new buildings in the complex were made of steel and concrete instead of wood. The buildings from this period reflected Henry Heinz&#39;s Romanesque Revival influence, in contrast with the modern industrial style at the time, even after his death in 1919.</p><br>
<p>Through the 1930s and 1940s, many surrounding houses and small commercial buildings were demolished to accommodate parking lots for the plant. In the 1950s, several of the Romanesque Revival buildings were demolished and new buildings were built in modern industrial and International style. From 1999 to 2001, Heinz built a 70,000 ft&sup2; warehouse on the east side and moved its headquarters to downtown Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<p>By 2001, many of the historic buildings had been vacant for five to eight years. Heinz had no long-term plans for the buildings and sold them to a residential developer. On July 10, 2002, the historic complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "H.J. Heinz Company". In 2005, the complex was documented as part of the Historic American Engineering Record.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the Cereal, Bean, Meat, Reservoir and Shipping Buildings opened as Heinz Lofts. The Shipping Building houses a parking garage and the other four house apartments. In 2007, the five buildings of the Heinz Lofts were listed as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. In 2014, Heinz Lofts sought to expand by purchasing the Service Building. In 2016, a different residential developer purchased the Administration Building, the Administration Annex, and the Riley Research Building.</p><br>
<p>James Ellwood Jones House is a historic home located at Switchback, McDowell County, West Virginia. It is a two-story, frame dwelling with an irregular plan. It features a classically detailed, pedimented porch, and stained glass windows. Also on the property are a contributing swimming pool dated to the 1920s, a detached covered patio, a circular fountain, terraced garden, and greenhouse. It was built for James Ellwood Jones, an influential leader in southern West Virginia&#39;s coal mining industry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Ellwood Jones (1874-1932) was born in Trevertown, Pennsylvania. He was the general manager of the Pocahontas Fuel Company which was founded by his father, Jenkin B Jones, the namesake for the coal town of Jenkinjones, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Welch Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia. The district includes 56 contributing buildings and one contributing structure in Welch&#39;s central business district. It includes a variety of retail stores, banks and offices, with some having apartment rental on their top floors. Also on the district is a municipal parking garage built in 1941. Notable buildings include, the Flat Iron Building , Babalis Building , Odd Fellows Temple , Carter Hotel-Tyson Tower Building , Wyoming-Elkhorn Apartment Building , McDowell County National Bank , and McDowell County Courthouse Annex Building .</p><br>
<p>The McDowell County Courthouse, built in 1893 and expanded in 1909, on the north side of Wyoming Street in Welch, was listed on the National Register in 1979. The district starts across Wyoming Street and runs west to the Tug Fork (aka Tug River) and south to Elkhorn Creek, covering the main commercial area of the town.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and its boundaries were increased in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The 1911 Asher and Mary Isabelle Richardson House is located on USA Highway 83 in the Dimmit County community of Asherton in the USA state of Texas. The southeast-facing home is also known as Bel-Asher, deriving the "Bel" from "Isabelle". It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dimmit County, Texas in 1988. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Asher Richardson (1855–1914) was a Dimmit County rancher and horticulturist who founded Asherton, Texas. A native of Snow Hill, Maryland, Richardson settled in Dimmit County after his 1877 discharge from the United States Army. In 1881, Richardson and Mary Isabelle Votaw (1865–1941) were married in Bexar County.</p><br>
<p>Richardson contracted with San Antonio architect Alfred Giles to design the two-story family home as the centerpiece of Asherton. The Beaux-Arts and Prairie School style house was constructed of hand-cut local sandstone and features large projecting eaves. The interior of the house features brick fireplaces. Richardson&#39;s focus on fire safety possibly influenced the design of two doors on each room. A barn and cottage are situated behind the main house. The home has remained in the family and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Col. William Henderson French House, also known as "Legend Valley Farm," is a historic home located near Athens, Mercer County, West Virginia. It was built about 1855, and is a three-story, frame dwelling with an ell with Greek Revival overtones. It sits on a sandstone foundation and features porches with small, rounded columns and railings of various designs.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Easley House, also known as "The Breezes," is a historic home located at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. It was designed by architect Alex B. Mahood, and built between 1919 and 1922. It is a stone, -story, Tudor Revival-style dwelling with a one-story conservatory wing. It has irregular massing and a projecting gable. Also on the property is a two-story side gable stone garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Cedarville Opera House is a historic theater in the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1888 on Main Street in downtown Cedarville,</p><br>
<p>Built of brick with elements of stone, the opera house is a Romanesque Revival structure that has served a wide range of purposes in the community. Besides its primary function as a home for the performing arts, the two-and-a-half-story building has housed the offices of Cedarvilles mayor and village council, its jail, its fire and police departments, its waterworks, as well as the township trustees office for Cedarville Township. When Cedarvilles was built, the opera house as an institution was a center of social life in rural Ohio: the public sphere was nearly nonexistent except for the village opera house, which typically served as a meeting place for travelling vaudeville acts, political events, musical performances, and graduation ceremonies. Because the first floor has always been used as offices for the various organizations that used the building, public events were typically held on the second floor, which has been little modified by the years; it is one of Ohios least changed historic performance halls.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the Cedarville Opera House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in local history. It is one of two National Register-listed properties in Cedarville and one of two National Register-listed opera houses in Greene County, along with the Harper Mausoleum and George W. Harper Memorial Entrance and the Jamestown Opera House respectively.</p><br>
<p>President&#39;s House, also referred to as Hatter Hall, is a historic home located on the campus of Bluefield State University at Bluefield, West Virginia. It was built in 1930 and named after President Hamilton Hatter, and is a brick, -story, Colonial Revival-style dwelling. It has one bay side wings and a hipped roof. Also on the property is a stone garage. The house was used as the residence for the college president until 1966.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Dr. James W. Hale House, also known as the Hale-Pendleton House, "Temple Knob," and "Temple Hill," was a historic home located at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia. Built about 1885, it was a large, two-story plus basement brick house. The house had many Gothic Revival features, such as pointed-arch windows with panes divided by simple geometric tracery, gingerbread bargeboards, and a large verandah completely around the west and south elevations. The verandah roof was supported by more than 12 fluted columns and a cornice with dentil molding in the Greek Revival style. The house sat atop Temple Knob, a small rise said to have been used as a signal point by both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
