<p>The Pink Palace, also known as the Mrs. Marshall Field House and the Inter-American Defense Board, is a historic house located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991. George Oakley Totten Jr. was the architect for the structure that was completed in 1906. Additions were made to the house in 1912 and 1988. It has served as the seat of the Inter-American Defense Board since 1945.</p><br>
<p>Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>The Marktown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The community of Marktown was founded by Clayton Mark, a pioneer maker of steel in the United States. The renowned architect hired to design the community, Howard Van Doren Shaw, created a unique design in which the streets serve as walkways and the cars are parked on the sidewalks, as noted in Ripley&#39;s Believe It or Not!.</p><br>
<p>Shaw previously designed Mark&#39;s estate in Lake Forest, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>Only 10% of the original design was built, as the building of the community was terminated due to the aftereffects of World War I and the sale of the Mark Manufacturing Company. The industries in East Chicago expanded to the borders of Marktown, surrounding the historic residential island with one of the densest industrial complexes in the world. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was listed as one of the seven wonders of Northwest Indiana.</p><br>
<p>Marktown is regarded as an important cultural resource of architectural and historical significance. In the words of the Marktown Revitalization Plan commissioned by the city of East Chicago in 2008, "Marktown is significant as it is a major work by a significant American architect, Howard Van Doren Shaw, for its association with the driving economic force of industry that served as an identity of the region, and is representative of the planned industrial community movement of the late 19th and early 20th century."</p><br>
<p>As late as 2011, all of the originally constructed homes in Marktown still stood. However, since then some properties have been bought by BP and demolished. The homes are being evacuated due to air pollution and concerns regarding safety in the vicinity of the expanding crude tar sands processing facility.</p><br>
<p>In 2022, East Chicago began a Marktown Neighborhood Housing Study to consider renovations of the historical district.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. George Raabe House in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a 1.5-story dwelling listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1902, it was added to the register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The house, which combines elements of the American Craftsman, Shingle, and Colonial Revival architectural styles, was home to Captain George Raabe, who piloted steamships on the Columbia and Willamette rivers for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N). Features include a broad side-gabled roof with a half-tower, classical columns that support the front porch, and fluted pilasters by the main entrance. Originally a single-family dwelling, the house was converted to two dwellings in the 1940s. The first floor apartment has five rooms, and the upstairs apartment has three. A second front door, added in the 1983, leads to stairs to the second floor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Raabe, born in Norway in 1852, moved to California with his parents in 1866 and to Oregon about two years later, after which he went to work for OR&N. Raabe was made captain of the steamship Old McMinnville; later he supervised construction of William H. Hoag. In 1880, he built Salem and later commanded Multnomah. In 1898, he went to Alaska during a gold rush to pilot steamers on the Stikine River.</p><br>
<p>Returning to Portland in about 1900, Raabe bought the house from the estate of James C. Hawthorne, a prominent East Portland physician. Once again piloting steamers on local rivers, Raabe lived in the house until he sold it to John H. James in about 1907. He later returned to Alaska to pilot boats on the Yukon River between White Horse and Dawson.</p><br>
<p>Bright Angel Lodge is a hotel complex at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Designed by architect Mary Jane Colter, the lodge is a complex of cabins around a central lodge building, directly on the edge of the canyon. The rustic lodge complex is a major contributing building in the Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District. In 2022, Bright Angel Lodge is also a member of Historic Hotels of America, an official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first accommodation at the location was established by James Thurber in 1896 at the head of the Bright Angel Trail leading into the canyon. Thurber ran a stagecoach line from the Grandview area to this new location to the west in 1896, building a small wood-frame hotel. At about the same time, Buckey ONeill built his cabin nearby, calling it ONeills Camp. Thurber acquired the ONeill cabin at about the time O&#39;Neill died in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. Thurber expanded the operation, establishing a tent camp for tourists and calling the complex the Bright Angel Hotel and the Bright Angel Camps.</p><br>
<p>Thurber sold the Bright Angel operation to Williams, Arizona hotelier Martin Buggeln, in time for the Grand Canyon Railroad to be completed to the South Rim in September. The railroad, which claimed most of the lands at the South Rim, including the Bright Angel site, cooperated with Buggeln while the railroad&#39;s El Tovar Hotel was being built immediately to the east of the Bright Angel Hotel, then bought out Buggeln when the new hotel was completed in 1905. The railroad renovated the older hotel and built cabins to replace the tents.</p><br>
<p>The Red Horse Station was originally built as a stage coach stop about 16 mi south of the South Rim. When the railroad was extended to the South Rim, Ralph Cameron disassembled the post and moved it to the South rim and rebuilt it just to the west of the Buckey ONeill Cabin in 1902, adding a wood frame second floor to the log first floor and calling it Camerons Hotel. From 1907 it housed the park&#39;s post office.</p><br>
<p>By the 1930s the Bright Angel operation needed renovation. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which owned the Grand Canyon Railroad and the South Rim concessions, asked architect Mary Colter to design a replacement. Colters initial designs resembled her Hermits Rest and Lookout Studio structures, both located nearby. The Park Service did not approve of such extensive use of stone for the new lodgings, and Colter revised the design to wood-frame construction, Colter kept the O&#39;Neill Cabin and the Red Horse Cabin (removing its incongruous second floor) and replaced the tent cabins with new rustic cabins of log and local stone construction, completed in 1935. Colter took particular pains to integrate the new complex into the landscape, using a scale model to study the design.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lodge is a large structure with a simple shallow-pitched gable roof. The roof overhangs at the main entry to form a gabled porch supported by peeled log posts. Colter used shed-roofed appendages to create a layered effect for the mass of the main lodge. Interior finishes included hand-adzed logs, adobe and local limestone. The stone fireplace materials reproduce the strata found in the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel Trail in their correct sequence from bottom to top. The semi-detached cabins are laid out in the space between the lodge and the canyons rim, with some directly overlooking the canyon. Cabins were furnished with antiques and reproductions hand-picked by Colter. The lodges cocktail lounge features murals by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Bright Angel Lodge and cabins are significant contributing structures in the Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District. The historic district, created in 1975 without Bright Angel Lodge being included, was expanded in 1982 to include the Bright Angel Lodge and its cabins, according to the 1996-dated National Historic Landmark Nomination document.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The Howell Opera House is an opera house located in Howell, Michigan. The site is listed as historic by The Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. It is also listed on The National Historic Register as part of the Howell Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Howell Opera House is a Victorian-style building with a seating capacity of 1,000 people. Plans for the theater were drawn and executed by Detroit architect, Almon C. Varney at the cost of $10,000. Construction began in 1880 by Hunter and Holmes Contractors and doors were opened to patrons on December 30, 1881. The building is located at 123 W. Grand River.</p><br>
<p>As the central part of the town, the edifice served not only for artistic performances but as a venue for several local occasions such as high school commencement. The theater also served, for a short duration, as home to the Livingston County Circuit Court in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The Howell Opera House was first owned by the Stair Brothers, E.D. and Orin, who assumed ownership in 1884. The theater was later purchased by Arthur Garland in 1893 who utilized a portion of the space to produce custom-tailored suits.</p><br>
<p>In 1923, the building was closed by the fire marshal. This brought an end to its intended use as quarters for entertainment. For more than 70 years, The Howell Opera House served as storage for a local hardware store.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>In 2000, The Livingston Arts Council purchased The Howell Opera House with plans to restore the patronage to function, once again, as a theater. Renovations began in 2001 with a slow start due to lack of funding. In 2007, the first installment of the development plan had been completed.</p><br>
<p>Renovations were made solely to the first floor. These renovations include refinished flooring and walls as well as new stairways. Plans have also been made for restoration of the second floor which houses the stage and balcony.</p><br>
<p>The renovated first floor of the Opera House is now available to rent for special events such as weddings and parties.</p><br>
<p>The West Marion Historic District is a historic district in the city of Marion, Alabama. The historic district is bounded by West Lafayette, Washington, College, Margin streets, and Murfree Avenue. It features examples of Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Greek Revival, and regional vernacular architecture. It spans 200 acre and contains 108 contributing properties. One contributing building of special significance is Reverie. The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1993.</p><br>
<p>Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historically significant church in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 2008. The original building was burned during the Tulsa race massacre on June 1, 1921. According to the Tulsa Preservation Commission, "... Mount Zion Baptist Church remains a testimony to the perseverance and tenacity of its congregants and the black community in Greenwood." The church building was rebuilt in 1952 on its original site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Genesis</h3><br>
<p>In 1909, a religious study group led by Reverend Sandy Lyons organized the Second Baptist Church in a school in the 300 block of North Hartford in Tulsa. The group soon renamed their church as Mount Zion Baptist Church, bought a lot at 419 North Elgin and began planning to raise money for a permanent church building. Reverend R. A. Whitaker became pastor in 1914. About this time, the landlord of their rented building told the congregation that it was no longer available to them and gave them three days to move. The congregation moved to temporary quarters in a former dance hall on North Greenwood Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Whitaker led a campaign that raised $42,000 toward a permanent facility, far short of the estimated cost of $92,000. A local Jewish contractor offered an unsecured loan of $50,000. This enabled construction to begin in 1916. Completion took five years, and the first service was held in the new building on April 4, 1921.</p><br>
<h3>Destruction</h3><br>
<p>The Tulsa Race Massacre broke out on the night of May 31 - June 1, 1921. The new Mount Zion Baptist Church was deliberately burned by a mob of white men, who had heard a rumor that blacks were using the building to store rifles that had been brought there in caskets. No evidence of such storage ever surfaced. However, it was true that some armed blacks used the structure as a vantage point for firing on rioters that were attacking nearby houses. The whites could not dislodge the blacks until some local guardsmen brought up a truck with a machine gun and opened fire. This more powerful weaponry began knocking bricks out of the building, and it was soon in flames.</p><br>
<p>The building was a total loss. Furthermore, the insurance policy contained an escape clause that eliminated coverage for damages due to riot or rebellion. Additionally, as noted above, the congregation was already in debt for $50,000. The church had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. This action allowed the church to continue as an organization. Reverend Whitaker resigned because of ill health. A series of interim pastors followed before a Reverend Hamilton took over in 1928. The congregation soon split over the issue of whether to repay the $50,000 debt. Hamilton, and those who agreed with him, believed this was not a legal obligation because it was a loan in good faith and unsecured by any physical assets. Opponents contended that the loan should be repaid. Hamilton and his supporters resigned to form a new church, known as New Hope Baptist Church. The opposition remained as members of Mount Zion and began trying to repay the loan.</p><br>
<h3>Recovery and rebuilding</h3><br>
<p>Reverend J. H. Dotson became pastor in 1937. He brought in new members and raised $3,000 toward debt repayment within six months. He continued a vigorous fundraising campaign. The result was the full repayment of the old mortgage on November 23, 1942. Dotson then began raising funds to build a new building on the site.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Dotson closely supervised the construction of the new church building, which was designed by W. S. and J. C. Latimer. The Latimers were brothers, trained architects and members of Mount Zion. The new church building was dedicated in November 1952, twenty-five years after Reverend Dotsons arrival. At Dotsons request, the church called Reverend Calvin G. McCutchen as assistant pastor. McCutchen succeeded Dotson as pastor in 1957 and served until his retirement in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Clifton Terrace are historic structures located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. Frank Russell White and Albert Moreland Schneider designed the three building apartment complex in the Colonial Revival style. They were inspired by the garden city movement. Harry Wardman built the complex from 1914–1915 along the 14th Street streetcar line. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The buildings are also known for forming the backdrop of Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (D.C. Cir. 1970), a landmark case establishing the warranty of habitability in landlord-tenant law.</p><br>
<p>Daves Texaco is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Chinook, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 16, 1994. The building was a gas station and has also been known as Daves Exxon and as Dave&#39;s Conoco. The building is made of stucco on a concrete foundation and with an asphalt roof.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1927 on USA Route 2 which has since been rerouted two blocks away. It sold Texaco products exclusively until 1978 when Texaco ceased doing business in Montana. Its third owner, David Sprinkle, operated the business from 1938 until at least 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Provo Downtown Historic District is a 25 acre historic area located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district is composed of four blocks of Center Street (100 East to 300 West) and one and a half blocks of University Avenue. The NRHP listing included 43 contributing buildings. The majority of the buildings in this district were built between 1880 and 1930, however there were buildings constructed all the way through the seventies. Many of the buildings, particularly the older ones, required some fashion of remodeling. Within the district, twenty structures are considered architecturally or historically significant, and twenty one structures are considered contributory.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the year 1849, a group of about 150 people arrived in and settled what is now the city of Provo. This group was sent by the president of the LDS church at the time, Brigham Young, for purposes of colonizing the area. The following year, the city was surveyed as a plot one square mile surrounded by several acres of land designated into eight lots. Brigham Young encouraged the settlers to build their homes and businesses in the proposed town site, and church leader George Albert Smith relocated to Provo to help encourage the city&#39;s development.</p><br>
<p>The first merchant of Provo, Andrew J. Stewart, owned and ran a store out of his home on 5th West. He eventually relocated his business to Center Street. By the end of 1852, two years after the arrival of the settlers, Provo had several operating businesses including a pottery, two grist mills, three cabinet shops, three shoe shops, one meat market, two lime kilns, one sash factory, one wooden bowl factory, two tailor&#39;s shops, two hotels, and two storehouses. The businesses dotted 5th West and Center Street.</p><br>
<p>Profits for merchants in Utah were fairly high during the 1860s. However, the farmers and LDS members who subsisted through agriculture did not receive much of a profit, if any, and began to resent the merchants for their success. Young instructed members to “Cease paying exorbitant prices demanded by disinterested persons...and hundreds of thousands of dollars may be saved annually by the saints". Young encouraged cooperative trading among the members of the church in order to ensure fair trade. The Provo West Co-op was the first cooperative store which was built, and it was built in the same building that Stewart operated and lived out of.</p><br>
<p>There was a large influx of buildings into Provo in the late 1860s. Many businesses came in and located along Center Street. These buildings were built primarily of wood or adobe. Commercial buildings that developed during this time included Provos first kiln, W. Allens brickyard, and the Provo West Co-op. The Liddiard Brothers, the sons of Samuel Giddiard, continued their father&#39;s cement business, contributing to many of the structures on Center Street. E. J. Ward and Sons, established in 1889, became a major competitor with the Beebe and Smooth Lumber Companies. The Provo Foundry and Machine company produced heat and plumbing still apparent in the town. The Taylor family established several successful businesses on the west side of the downtown, including the Taylor Furniture Company.</p><br>
<h2>Tintic Mining industry</h2><br>
<p>The successful commercial mining of precious metals and minerals transformed Utahs economy from basically an agrarian base to a more industrialized state. Within this development, the Tintic Mining District, located approximately thirty miles 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 Tintics success was Jesse Knight and the Knight family who resided in Provo. 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 LDS church made the town one inhabited primarily by Mormons.</p><br>
<p>The Tintic mining effort had a large effect on Provos commercial district. Jesse Knight, Charles E. Loose, and other entrepreneurs, made wealthy due to the mining industry, made Provo their home and set about to improving it. Loose spent his money buying up a large part of Provos commercial property, such as the Loose Block. Knight established the Knight Block (bordering Center Street and University), in addition to the Knight Mansion.</p><br>
<p>Provo continued to grow. In 1883, construction began on a new LDS Tabernacle. In 1887, a chamber of commerce was organized. In 1889, the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company developed and secured a twenty-year franchise. The Provo Lake Resort was also established on Utah Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Update</h2><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Lodgepole Community Hall is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Lodgepole, Montana on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. It was added to the Register on February 24, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>A historic placard at the site reads:</p><br>
<p>The Lodgepole Community Hall was dedicated in November 1936 in a ceremony the Harlem News called an interesting mix of "Indian tribal tradition and modern governmental activity." In fact, that mix can be seen in the hall itself. Works Progress Administration (WPA) crews built the hall with timber likely logged in the Little Rockies by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Both the WPA and CCC were New Deal programs aimed at putting people to work in the midst of the Depression. The halls log walls — now concealed by exterior siding — reflected the Rustic style often favored by the WPA. Inside the hall evenly spaced vertical logs line the walls to provide structural stability. An eighteen-foot-ceiling shelters the expansive dance floor, which is also marked out for a basketball court. Bleachers overlook the dance floor and a raised stage sits at one end. The halls irregular shape echoes the shape of round halls built on Fort Belknap at the turn of the century. These, in turn, mirrored the temporary arenas Assiniboines created for dances by circling their wagons. In the 1930s, the hall was the site of children&#39;s programs, basketball games, "white dances," and such feature films as Call of the Rockies and Last of the Mohicans. Such programs nurtured the community by providing opportunities to gather. So, too, did the frequent traditional feasts and dances — including weeklong dances held at Christmastime — that played an essential role in sustaining Assiniboine cultural traditions.</p><br>
<p>The hall is one big 18 ft tall room.</p><br>
<p>The Anna Scherlie Homestead Shack is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Turner, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on November 5, 1998.</p><br>
<p>A historic placard at the site reads:</p><br>
<p>The Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 brought settlers to Montana and to this area called the Big Flat. Neil J. Scherlie was among the first to file a homestead claim and over the course of four years, three sisters and two brothers made claims nearby. Thirty-two-year-old Anna Scherlie arrived in 1913, becoming part of a long tradition of women homesteaders in Montana. In fact, in the four surrounding townships, women made up about one-fourth of the total homestead applicants. By 1916, Anna had forty acres planted in wheat, oats, and flax. Isolation on the Big Flat led many settlers to winter elsewhere and Anna followed suit. Legend has it that she went to St. Paul to work for the family of railroad magnate James J. Hill. Over the decades, Anna made few changes to her small wood frame shack, adding only a vestibule for use as a summer kitchen, a storage shed, and laundry. Droughts, depression, and two world wars passed. Anna remained here long after her neighbors had built modern homes, insisting that she was "too old for modern conveniences." The Spartan lifestyle seems to have been Anna&#39;s preference. When she died in 1973, an estate of more than $100,000 was divided among eighteen nieces and nephews; her ashes were scattered beneath a lilac bush on the property. Leon and Nellie Cederburg purchased the homestead when its seasoned resident moved to Havre in 1968. Rather than return the site to crop land, the Cederbergs maintain the homestead exactly as Anna left it.</p><br>
<p>The homestead building is a 14.5 x woodframe building with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>Glenside Memorial Hall often abbreviated "Glenside Hall" is a historic meeting hall located in the Philadelphia suburb of Glenside, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Glenside Hall was built in 1926, and is a -story, T-shaped, red-brick Colonial Revival-style building with limestone trim. It sits on a raised stone foundation and has a slate-covered gable roof. It was to honor the veterans of World War I. Today, it is used primarily for banquets, meetings, and other social events.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Davis Avenue Recreation Center is a historic recreation facility in Mobile, Alabama. The facility was established in 1921 as the first public leisure center for African Americans in segregated Mobile. Initially known as the Davis Avenue Community House, it also featured tennis courts, a swimming pool, and a small park. The need for a larger facility was soon realized, and in 1936 the current structure was completed. It was the only public recreation facility in Mobile built using Works Progress Administration funds. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 27, 2011, due to its significance to the African American history in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Redden Forest Complex is located in Redden State Forest, Sussex County, Delaware. Now known as the Redden Forest Education Center, the complex includes three Shingle style buildings built in 1900-1902 as a hunting retreat for Pennsylvania Railroad heir Frank Graham Thompson. The complex was served by a specially built railroad siding in Redden Crossroads. The camp fell into disuse during the Great Depression and was acquired by the state of Delaware in the 1930s. It saw use by the Civilian Conservation Corps, then the complex and the surrounding property were designated Redden State Forest in 1937.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The present complex comprises three buildings, all of wood frame construction using cypress timber frames. The stable and forester&#39;s house are at the entrance to the property. The lodge is about 1,400 ft to the east, about 800 ft from the rail line. The lodge is a shallow V-shape in plan, of 1-1/2 stories on a brick foundation with no basement, with cypress shingle siding. The roof, originally covered with wood shingles, is now covered in asphalt shingles, with broad overhanging eaves. The central portion is seven bays wide, flanked by wings of seven bays each. The center portion contains a large lobby with exposed roof structure and two large brick fireplaces. This space is flanked by a dining room and a smaller gun room. The dining room contains wood paneling reputedly taken from an 18th-century Long Island house. The lodge retains its original Mission style furnishings, although the south wings was reconstructed following fire damage from a 1970 lightning strike. Cedar shingles replaced the cypress in the reconstruction.</p><br>
<p>The stable is T-shaped. The front of the stable is a projecting porch under a deeply hooded hipped roof, with a large arched doorway leading into a carriage house. On either side wings extend under the extended roof with additional storage on the north side and a tack room on the south side. Stabling was to the rear, with the original eight stalls now removed. The attic space over the entry is finished. An octagonal cupola tops the center of the roof. A matching kennel formerly stood to the rear of the stable, but was demolished after 1937.</p><br>
<p>The forester&#39;s house differs from the stable and the lodge, with Colonial Revival detailing added to the shingle style. The house has a gambrel roof with three dormers on each side and a full basement. A porch extends across the central portion of the rear of the house, accessed by two French doors The interior comprises a living room, dining room, hallway and kitchen on the first floor, with six bedrooms on the second floor. A nearby garage matches the house.</p><br>
<h2>Present use</h2><br>
<p>The Redden Forest Education Center houses displays and classroom space for school activities and tours. It is managed by the Delaware Department of Agriculture Forestry division.</p><br>
<p>The Redden complex was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The International Longshoremans Association Hall is a historic labor union meeting hall in Mobile, Alabama. The International Longshoremens Association established the Mobile chapter in 1936 in order to represent the city&#39;s African American longshoremen. The hall was built in 1949 in the Art Moderne style. Many prominent African-American entertainers performed in its auditorium. It became a gathering place during the Civil Rights Movement. On January 1, 1959, it became the only place in Mobile to host a speaking engagement by Martin Luther King Jr. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 27, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion, also known as the Levi P. Morton House is a historic Beaux-Arts home, located at 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Logan Circle neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1879, to the designs of architect John Fraser, and comprehensively remodeled in 1912 by architect John Russell Pope.</p><br>
<p>The Beaux-Arts style building originally served as the private residence of John. T. Brodhead, and Jessie Willis Brodhead.</p><br>
<p>Between 1939 and 2016, the building served as offices for the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association (now known as the American Coatings Association).</p><br>
<p>Former occupants include Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, USA Vice President Levi P. Morton, the Embassy of Russia, and USA Secretary of State Elihu Root.</p><br>
<p>The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.</p><br>
<p>In February 2016 the Mansion was purchased from American Coatings Association by Hungary to move the Embassy of Hungary there later in the year.</p><br>
<p>The Jerome Bonaparte Pillow House  is a historic house at 718 Perry Street in Helena, Arkansas. Architect George Barber designed the house, and it was built by Jerome B. Pillow in 1896. The building was donated to the Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas Foundation and was restored by that body as well as several members of the community who were successful in restoring the property to its original Queen Anne beauty. The Thompson-Pillow House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and was opened after restoration in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Pillow - Thompson House exhibits many key characteristics of Queen Anne architecture, and is one of the finest examples of the style in Helena. The wraparound porch, overhanging gables, ornamented eaves, spindel work, polygon tower, and terra cotta roof tiles are all common in homes of the period built in the Queen Anne style. The exterior columns and balustrades are also common in similar structures.</p><br>
<p>Sebastopol station was an interurban train station in Sebastopol, California. It was served by the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad and was adjacent to the railway&#39;s powerhouse. Official operations ceased in 1932 with the rest of P&SR passenger service. It was leased as retail space for a time before being converted to a museum. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as Sebastopol Depot of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway.</p><br>
<p>The Hart Building is an historic commercial building which is located at 26-30 West 3rd Street at the corner of Court Street in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1895, this historic structure is a three-story, steel frame building, which measures approximately 80by50 feet. Exterior decorative elements include pressed brickwork, terra cotta, carved stone, wood window sash and frame, and pressed metal cornice and window trim. It was designed by noted Williamsport architect Amos S. Wagner.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Herdic House is an historic, American home that is located at 407 West 4th Street between Elmira and Center Streets in the Millionaire&#39;s Row Historic District of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Millionaire&#39;s Row Historic District was listed in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1855 and 1856, this historic structure was designed for Peter Herdic, a notable figure in the early development of Williamsport who served as the city&#39;s fourth mayor, beginning in the fall of 1869, and who later invented the Herdic, a horse-drawn carriage which became so popular that it was used to create systems of inexpensive mass transportation in multiple major metropolitan across the United States, including the Herdic Phaeton Company in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The Peter Herdic House is a -story, brick building that was coated in stucco. Designed in the Italian Villa style, it features three bay windows on each floor and a distinctive cupola atop the roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Millionaire&#39;s Row Historic District was listed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Williamsport Armory is an historic National Guard armory complex that is located at 1300 Penn Street in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This complex consists of a main armory building and separate auxiliary building. The main armory building has a two-story, brick administration section that was designed in the Art Deco style, with an attached drill hall, taking a T-shaped plan. The drill hall was built in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The auxiliary building was built in 1927. It consists of a -story stable with an attached one-story gun shed.</p><br>
<p>This complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Old City Hall is an historic, American city hall that is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as the Williamsport City Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1894, this historic structure is a four-story building that was made from yellow brick trimmed in stone, with molded brick ornamentation and terra cotta columns. It was designed in an eclectic Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival style, and features a large rectangular tower and a smaller octagonal tower.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as the Williamsport City Hall.</p><br>
<p>Williamsport City Hall, formerly the United States Post Office, is a historic building located at 245 West 4th Street between Government Place and West Street in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1888 and 1891, and is a 2 1/2 to 3-story building, with a two-story addition and six-story tower. The exterior is faced with rough-faced gray limestone ashlar. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of William A. Freret.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as a post office.</p><br>
<p>The James G. Blaine Mansion, commonly known as the Blaine Mansion, is a historic house located at 2000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The imposing house was completed in 1882 for James G. Blaine, a Republican politician from Maine who served as Speaker of the House, and later as a US Senator and US Secretary of State. He was also a presidential candidate who was narrowly defeated by Grover Cleveland in the 1884 United States presidential election.</p><br>
<p>In addition to Blaine, the mansion has served as the residence of other prominent individuals, including wealthy businessmen Levi Leiter and George Westinghouse, and French ambassador Jules Patenôtre des Noyers. During World War I it was used as a meeting space for the newly formed United Service Club. Following the war, diplomatic occupants including the Japanese embassy and Colombian Ambassador Enrique Olaya Herrera leased the building. The mansion was used as office space for the Rural Electrification Administration during the Great Depression and by New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia during World War II when he led the Office of Civilian Defense. The United Nations leased part of the building as office space for the Food and Agriculture Organization in the late 1940s and Information Center in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The lower floors of the mansion have remained in use as office space for various businesses since that time. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the building was completely renovated after it was purchased by diplomat and attorney John R. Phillips and his wife, journalist and Obama administration official Linda Douglass. The renovation included converting the upper floors into a penthouse, renovating an adjoining commercial space fronting P Street, and constructing a narrow luxury residential building and underground parking deck on land adjoining the mansion.</p><br>
<p>Designed by noted architect John Fraser, the mansion is a combination of the Châteauesque, Queen Anne, and Second Empire architectural styles. The mansion was one of several large residences that once stood on the perimeter of Dupont Circle, a traffic circle and small park at the intersection of 19th Street, P Street, Connecticut Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue, and New Hampshire Avenue. The other remaining large homes on the circle are the Patterson Mansion and Wadsworth House, more commonly known as the Sulgrave Club. The Blaine Mansion was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1964. The building is a contributing property to the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1974, and the Dupont Circle Historic District, listed on the NRHP in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Original owner</h3><br>
<p>James G. Blaine (1830–1893) was a teacher and newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania who became wealthy from investments in coal mines. He and his family moved to Maine in the 1850s and it was here where Blaine became active in politics. He served as a delegate to the first Republican National Convention in 1856. Two years later Blaine was elected to the Maine House of Representatives and became chairman of the Maine Republican Party in 1859. As a fervent supporter of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, Blaine was involved with organizing assistance to local soldiers from the Union Army. It was during the early years of the war when Blaine was elected Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.</p><br>
<p>Blaine was elected to Congress in 1863 as a Representative. Six years later he was elected Speaker of the House by an overwhelming margin. He remained as Speaker until the Republican Party lost control of the House in the 1874 and 1875 elections. Blaine narrowly lost the nomination at the 1876 Republican National Convention to be the Republican presidential nominee. That same year he was appointed to the US Senate where he served until being offered the role of US Secretary of State in 1881. He stepped down from this role a few months after President James A. Garfield was assassinated.</p><br>
<p>He lost another party presidential nomination at the 1880 Republican National Convention but was successful at the 1884 Republican National Convention, where he defeated President Chester A. Arthur. In the general election, Blaine narrowly lost to President Grover Cleveland. After President Benjamin Harrison was elected to office, he offered Blaine the position of US Secretary of State. Blaine served in this role until 1892. Following the deaths of his wife and three of his children, and due to his own failing health, Blaine retired in 1892; he died the following year.</p><br>
<h3>Building history</h3><br>
<h4>Construction and architect</h4><br>
<p>The Blaine family originally planned on building their residence on 16th Street NW near Scott Circle and the site had even been graded before Blaine changed his mind on the location. Blaine&#39;s wife, Harriet, wrote to their son Emmons in May 1881 describing the ordeal: "your Father...has conceived a sort of disgust with the Sixteenth Street place, on account of the vicinage of stables, and although he has that immense tract graded, is not going to build on it, and fastening his affections on a lot on Massachusetts Avenue, P and Twentieth Streets, he comes upon the surprising fact that Mr. Phelps is the owner thereof." The land where the mansion was built, the site of the former Hopkins Brickyard, was purchased from a family friend, William Walter Phelps. The building permit No. 1379 was issued in June 1881. The site on 16th Street was later sold to Senator George H. Pendleton.</p><br>
<p>With the help of money earned from his book, Twenty Years of Congress, Blaine chose John Fraser (1825–1906) to design his home. Fraser was a Scottish-born architect who emigrated to the United States in 1845. During his 50-year career, Fraser designed several prominent buildings in Pennsylvania and later Washington, D.C., where he opened a practice in 1871. He continued his practice in the city until around 1890 when he returned to Philadelphia. During his time in Washington, D.C., Fraser designed the Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion, the British Legation (demolished), the St. Johns Episcopal Church rectory, Kanns Department Store (demolished), two fire stations (both demolished), and prominent houses in the present-day Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District, Greater U Street Historic District, and Sixteenth Street Historic District. The Blaine Mansion is Fraser&#39;s best known design in Washington, D.C. Construction of the Blaine Mansion began in 1881 at a cost of $90,000. The family moved into their new residence in December 1882.</p><br>
<h4>Private residence</h4><br>
<p>The family quickly learned the large house was expensive and difficult to maintain. The Blaines only held one large social event in the house, the wedding of James and Harriets daughter, Alice, to Colonel John Joseph Coppinger in February 1883. Later that same year Blaine leased the furnished mansion to wealthy businessman and cofounder of Marshall Field & Company, Levi Leiter. Leiter leased the mansion at a cost of $10,000 a year, which was noted at the time as being the most expensive rent paid for a residence in the city, and much more than the Chinese Legation paid to rent the nearby Stewarts Castle. In 1889, Harriet sold two lots on the property to Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company manager Samuel T. Bryan for $50,000. While the mansion was being leased, the Blaines lived in the Windom House on Scott Circle before moving into the Rodgers House at 17 Madison Place, a one-block street lining Lafayette Square.</p><br>
<p>On the morning of New Year&#39;s Day 1891 a fire broke out in the house. News reports at the time said thousands of onlookers came to witness the event. The fire was believed to have started on a lower floor, but spread on the third floor via the elevator shaft. Leiter and his wife were home at the time, but escaped unharmed. Valuables were removed from the third floor before they could be destroyed and the fire was completely extinguished by around noon, but there was smoke and water damage to much of the building. An Evening Star reporter wrote: "The result, however, was deplorable for the mansion. The rear staircase was a mass of charred timbers, while the cupola on top seemed about to fall. The entire upper floor except the front room was burned to some extent, while everything in the house was more or less damaged by the water, which poured in a constant and damaging stream from the top to the bottom." Although Blaine had insurance on the home, Leiter did not have any for his belongings. The house was repaired by Philadelphia contractor Jacob Meyers.</p><br>
<p>Following her husband&#39;s death in 1893, Harriet listed the house for sale at a cost of $165,000. A newspaper ad for the listing described the house as having "twenty-three large rooms, exclusive of six bathrooms, closets, etc., and is particularly adapted for the use of a Foreign Legation or for anyone desiring to entertain largely." The following month it was announced newly appointed French Ambassador Jules Patenôtre des Noyers would be leasing the house. By 1895 Harriet was reportedly living in the mansion, but was rarely seen socially due to being in mourning. Their former home on Madison Place was demolished and replaced with the Lafayette Square Opera House, later known as the Belasco Theatre.</p><br>
<p>In late 1895, Harriet leased the furnished house to wealthy businessman and engineer George Westinghouse, whose wife was known for hosting popular social gatherings. After the sale, Harriet had all of her furniture and other valuables moved from the mansion to her new residence on K Street. In 1903 Westinghouse had a passenger elevator installed in the house.</p><br>
<h4>Apartments and office space</h4><br>
<p>During World War I the house was used as a meeting house for the United Service Club, a social gathering place for military officers when the Army and Navy Club became too crowded. In late 1920, the house was sold by Gladys O. Mitchell to Henry B. Spencer for $90,000. The following year Spencer converted the building into an apartment house with servants&#39; quarters on the top floor. During the renovation, there were significant changes to the interior and exterior designs. The main staircase was removed, the porch facing the west side of the property was removed, and the entrance on 20th Street was removed. Spencer added a four-story glass addition to the northwest corner of the house and plans were made for seven storefronts to be added. Only three of these were built, facing P Street, in a newly built one-story addition designed by architect George N. Ray.</p><br>
<p>Following the renovation, the Japanese Embassy leased part of the building in 1921 and remained there until 1925. The building was advertised in 1922 as having apartments each with 14 rooms including 4 bathrooms. In 1923, Colombian Ambassador Enrique Olaya Herrera and counselor for the Danish Legation, Kai Helmer-Petersen each leased an apartment in the building. One of the non-diplomatic residents who rented an apartment in the mansion at this time was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who would later become a senator and ambassador.</p><br>
<p>The mansion continued to serve as an apartment building until 1935 when the newly formed New Deal government agency, the Rural Electrification Administration, leased the property during the Great Depression. The agency continued use of the building until early 1941 when all staff were moved to a single facility a few blocks south, the Longfellow Building. Later that year New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia used the mansion as office space for the Office of Civilian Defense, a temporary government agency created during World War II. The annual cost of the lease was $15,000. Additional office space for the agency was in the nearby Dupont Circle Building, where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt&#39;s office as assistant director of the agency was located. During this time a minor alteration to the exterior of the building included removal of the top section of the chimneys.</p><br>
<p>Following the war, the United Nations leased part of the building as office space for the Food and Agriculture Organization and Information Center. There was a major renovation done to the building during these years when the remaining interior space was converted to offices and the west side of the property was graded to street level to provide parking spots. The renovations were completed by Maurice S. May</p><br>
<p>The adjoining commercial building on P Street housed the same small business retailers for decades until a major renovation was announced in 2006 after a business partnership, including ambassador and attorney John Phillips, purchased the entire property for $6.2 million. The renovation and expansion, designed by Van Dusen Architects, was expected to cost around $20 million and include the construction of 6,000 ft&sup2; of retail space, a three-story underground parking garage, and a narrow six-story condominium building adjoining the mansion. The top two floors were converted into a 7,000 sq ft (650 sq m) penthouse for Phillips and his wife, journalist and former Obama administration official Linda Douglass, while the lower floors continued to be used as office space. The condominium building includes five units, one of which is a multi-million dollar two-level penthouse. On top of the condominium building is an outdoor rooftop pool that connects to the mansion penthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 2023 Phillips and Douglass listed the mansion for sale. The asking price of $29.95 million would set a new record for a house sale in the city. Potential buyers would have the option to retain the penthouse or convert it into additional office space. The leasing of office space on the lower floors brings in almost $1 million a year. Phillips and Douglass, who previously owned the Chemosphere house in California, also own a small village in Tuscany, which includes several villas that are available to rent. Due to their service in the Obama administration, the couple often hosted political gatherings. President Obama visited the house many times, as did Joe Biden when he was vice president. The Secret Service was often stationed at the house in preparation for these visits and a hardline phone was installed in the garage so that Obama could make or receive calls if needed.</p><br>
<h4>Historic landmark</h4><br>
<p>The Blaine Mansion is one of three palatial homes still standing on or near Dupont Circle. The others are the Patterson Mansion at 15 Dupont Circle and the Wadsworth House, home to the Sulgrave Club, at 1801 Massachusetts Avenue NW. The Blaine Mansion was added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on November 8, 1964. It was designated a contributing property to the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on October 22, 1974, and the Dupont Circle Historic District, listed on the NRHP on July 21, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Location and design</h2><br>
<p>The James G. Blaine Mansion is located on Lot 1 on Square 95 at the intersection of 20th Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and P Street NW on the west side of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. A small triangular lot separates the building from the traffic circle. The address for the main building is 2000 Massachusetts Avenue NW. The adjoining commercial buildings have the addresses 2000 and 2003 P Street NW. The address for the adjoining residential building is 2002 Massachusetts Avenue NW.</p><br>
<p>The design of the mansion is a combination of the Queen Anne and Second Empire architectural styles, the former being a popular design in the United States from 1880-1910 and the latter from 1865-1880, with Châteauesque details. Many of the original interior and exterior details have been removed or altered since the mansion was first built.</p><br>
<p>The mansion is a red brick building with the main entrance on Massachusetts Avenue. The original design included an entrance for carriages on Massachusetts Avenue with a large stained glass window above and a separate stone entrance with brass railings facing Dupont Circle. A fireplace stood at the end of a large wood-finished hallway measuring 15 ft wide and 45 ft long as one entered the Dupont Circle entrance. Off this main hallway was the reception room on the right and parlors, the dining room, and library on the left. The dining room was not large compared to the size of the house and included a dumbwaiter. There were many elaborately decorated rooms in the house including a bathroom featuring a Victorian Turkish bath and a billiards room in the basement. Every room in the house had a fireplace, many of which were accented with mantelpieces and mirrors. There were 64 windows allowing natural light throughout the building and an oak stairwell decorated with elaborate carvings.</p><br>
<p>Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ was a congregation of the United Church of Christ located since 1880 in the Shaw neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. The original congregation established as Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church. A church building was completed in 1928 and is a historic structure that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The church is also listed on the city&#39;s African-American Heritage Trail.</p><br>
<p>Due to changing demographics in the neighborhood, the church membership declined. It held its final service on September 30, 2018.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation can trace its roots to the Lincoln Industrial Mission, which was founded as an educational and social aid mission after the American Civil War. The mission was built on this site in 1868-1869.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 ten members of First Congregational Church established Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church at the mission. The congregation merged with Park Temple Congregational Church in 1901, and they took the present name.</p><br>
<p>The American Negro Academy (ANA), the first major African-American learned society in the United States, was formed by the Rev. Alexander Crummell and other intellectuals in 1897. It held its inaugural address in the church.</p><br>
<p>Walter B. Hayson, one of the founders of the ANA and a protege of Crummell, directed the choir. Notable 20th-century musicians such as Jessye Norman, Marian Anderson and Roberta Flack have sung at the church. Preachers and scholars such as Julian Bond and Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. have spoken from its pulpit.</p><br>
<p>Many in the congregation were active during the civil rights era. The church allowed people attending the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to camp out in the church&#39;s auditorium. The church distributed clothes and food to people in the neighborhood during the riots that followed the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.</p><br>
<p>Because of the churchs long significance in the District of Columbia, it has been listed as a site on the citys African-American Heritage Trail.</p><br>
<h3>Final years</h3><br>
<p>The Washington Post cites retirement of its longtime pastor, the Rev. Benjamin E. Lewis, in 1994 as the beginning of the church&#39;s decline. This also coincided with demographic changes in the surrounding Shaw/Logan Circle neighborhoods, which went from 65 percent African-American population in 1990 to 29 percent in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The congregation attempted to appeal to the changed neighborhood, becoming an open and affirming church. It sponsored Saturday evening concerts with performances by the National Symphony and the Gay Men&#39;s Chorus, but concert-goers failed to return for Sunday services the next morning.</p><br>
<p>Revised regulations that extended on-street parking restrictions to Sundays were also cited for the decline in church attendance.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The present church building was designed by Howard Wright Cutler in the Italian Romanesque Revival style. It was completed in 1928. The building features a basilican plan with arched windows. The exterior has variegated brick and a gabled roof. The west façade of the church is dominated by a rose window and an arcaded portico. The portico features stone columns with foliate Byzantine capitals, corbelled frieze and a tile roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Quanah Parker Star House, with stars painted on its roof, is located in the city of Cache, county of Comanche, in the USA state of Oklahoma. It was added in 1970 to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Comanche County, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After Comanche chief Quanah Parkers surrender in 1875, he lived for many years in a reservation tipi. Parker decided that he needed living quarters more befitting his status among the Comanches, and more suitable to his position as a spokesperson for the white cattle owners. In order to accommodate his multiple wives and children, this two-story ten-room clapboard house with ten-foot ceilings and a picket fence was constructed for Parker. Request for financial assistance was denied by the United States Government. Parkers friends in the cattle business, in particular 6666 Ranch owner Samuel Burk Burnett, financed the building of the house, circa 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The cost of construction was slightly over $2,000 ($48,000 in 2010, adjusted for inflation). In his formal wallpapered dining room with its wood-burning stove, Parker entertained white business associates, celebrities and tribal members alike. Among his celebrated visitors was Theodore Roosevelt. Parker was a founding supporter of the Native American Church. His home was often the scene of practitioners who sought him out for spiritual advice. Parker fed hungry tribal members in his home and was known to never turn away anyone.</p><br>
<h2>After Parker&#39;s death</h2><br>
<p>The structure was purchased by his daughter Laura Neda Parker Birdsong upon Parkers 1911 death. Originally located near the Wichita Mountains north of Cache on Fort Sills west range, Birdsong moved the house from its original location to Cache and sold it to Herbert Woesner in 1958. Although no one can be certain why Parker painted the stars on his roof, lore has it that he meant it as a display of rank and importance equal to a military general. The current owner, Woesners nephew Wayne Gipson, offered the explanation told to him by Parkers descendants that the Chief had been to Washington D.C. to speak with Theodore Roosevelt, and while there had stayed in a "five star hotel". Parker had 10 stars painted on his roof to explain to Roosevelt upon his arrival that he would have better accommodations with ten stars instead of five. The Preservation Oklahoma organization has listed the Star House as endangered.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Star House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also on Oklahoma&#39;s list of Most Endangered Historic Places. A storm in 2015 further damaged the already crumbling house, but stimulated efforts to preserve and reconstruct it, although preservation efforts are complicated by the fact that the house is in private ownership. A grant from the National trust for Historic Preservation enabled an assessment of the condition of the house and developed a plan to maintain it. The cost of restoring the house was estimated at more than one million dollars.</p><br>
<p>Perry County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Linden in Perry County, Tennessee, United States. It was built in 1928, having replaced an earlier courthouse that was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first courthouse in Linden was a log cabin, built circa 1845, after Decatur County was split off from Perry County and Linden became the county seat. That log courthouse was replaced in 1849-50 by a new two-story wood-frame building. The second courthouse was burned down by Union Army soldiers on May 12, 1863.</p><br>
<p>The Perry County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Catholic Church is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wibaux, Montana. It was added to the Register on March 14, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>An inscription on the original stained glass window in the sacristy reads: "Through the generosity of Pierre Wibaux this church was dedicated to St. Peter in 1895."</p><br>
<p>For the centennial celebration of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings in 2004, a photo catalogue of parishes was published, containing comments about the old St. Peter&#39;s Church.</p><br>
<p>Several years later the building ceased to be used for catechesis, and the nave and sanctuary have since been restored to their original form. Those who wish to visit the interior may contact the Wibaux Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The John and Sarah Sheffield House, also known as Paradise Springs Farm, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon, is a two-story dwelling listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1866 as a farm house, it was added to the register in 1991. It is one of the oldest remaining homes in its neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Located on the western slope of Mount Tabor, the house is in a residential part of the Sunnyside neighborhood. Built in a Classic Revival architectural style with Italianate decorative elements, the two-story structure was augmented in the early 20th century by two single-story additions to the rear. The original house plan is based on two gables set perpendicular to one another. Constructed of heavy timbers, the house is balloon-framed and is supported by brick columns and by timbers that rest on bricks and stones. Most of the original sash windows contain wavy glass with air bubbles. Interior features include the six original rooms, three on each floor, with ceilings that are 107 in high downstairs and 103 in high upstairs. These rooms have original baseboard with crown molding and four-panel doors. A staircase with a banister and a turned newel post connects the two levels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1849, Perry and Elizabeth Prettyman settled a Donation Land Claim of 620 acre in East Portland. In 1866, the Sheffields bought 10 acre of this property from the Prettymans and built the T-shaped house, which they sold in 1872. At the time the Sheffields bought the property, East Portland was sparsely settled except for businesses along the east bank of the Willamette River. Most residents further east were farmers who lived in small cabins or were engaged in building the first homes. Though many changes occurred in the neighborhood after the house was built, the Sheffield house has retained most of its original features.</p><br>
<p>The Donald and Helen Olsen House, in Berkeley, California, was built in 1954.</p><br>
<p>It is a Modernist, International-style house designed by architect Donald Olsen. Olsen is a native of Minnesota who studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard and established an architecture practice in Berkeley in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The house is situated on a slope in the North Berkeley Hills near John Hinkel Park. The structures main floor was built above ground level to maximize the sites views of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. However, the view has been obscured over the years by the growth of mature trees on the property. The National Park Service described the houses style as follows: "The houses design is specifically the International style popularized in Europe by architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier. The Olsen House displays the geometries, ethos, strict formalism and rigor that embody this utopian style." The house also includes a mural by artist Claire Falkenstein.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 2010. In its write-up, the Park Service called Olsen "an important mid-20th-century Bay Area architect."</p><br>
<p>The Hatch Homestead and Mill Historic District encompasses two properties associated with the locally prominent Hatch family on Union Street in Marshfield, Massachusetts. It includes an early Georgian colonial house , and a 19th-century water-powered mill, both located on sites that had seen similar use since the 17th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hatch Homestead and Mill are located in northern Marshfield, on the west side of Union Street opposite its junction with Pine Street. Both buildings are set well back from the street. The mill is located down a gravel drive directly opposite Pine Street, while the house is located nearly 1/3 of a mile west of the Union Street, and is now accessed via a drive to the south. To the south of the mill is the site of the mill pond, which was created by damming a stream flowing west to the North River. The house is located on the south side of the stream, at a distance below the dam.</p><br>
<p>The mill is a roughly T-shaped wood frame structure, with a heavy timber frame on a fieldstone foundation. It houses an original water-powered driveshaft, which was used to drive an up-and-down saw blade. The building has undergone a number of restorative actions, and is (as of 2016) in another phase of restoration by the town.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2-1/2 story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof and central chimney. Single-story wings extend to either side of the main block. Although this house was traditionally given a construction date of c. 1647, architectural analysis indicates the use of 18th-century construction methods in building it. The property was acquired in 1647 by Walter Hatch, who built a house on this property, and was probably responsible for damming the stream and establishing a mill, although none of his buildings are now believed to survive. The house was probably built by Hatchs son or grandson. The Hatch family owned both properties until the 1960s. Author Sarah Messer grew up in the house, and featured the house in her book, Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New Englands Oldest Continuously Lived-In House.</p><br>
<p>The Kinter K. Koontz House is a historic house and gardens located at 7620 N. 7th Street in Phoenix, Arizona. It was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>Historic preservation</h2><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 2011, as part of a multiple property listing study titled "North Central Phoenix Farmhouses and Rural Estate Homes, 1895–1959, MPS".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the City of Phoenix&#39;s historic register, and thus given historic preservation overlay zoning by Phoenix in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The D. E. Frantz House is located on West Bleeker Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a wooden frame house constructed for a local lumber magnate during the 1880s in the Queen Anne architectural style. It has remained a private residence ever since and is largely intact. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with other historic properties in the city. Included in the listing is a small barn in the back, although the date of its construction is not known.</p><br>
<p>It is the only Victorian house in Aspen that retains its oriel window. The extension of the gabled roof on one side to shelter the porch is also a unique feature within the city. At the time it was listed it was owned by a longtime community leader.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is on the southwest corner of the intersection of West Bleeker and North Third Street, a block north of West Main Street (State Highway 82). To the west, on the opposite side of the street, is Pioneer Park, also listed on the Register. Another listed property, the Smith–Elisha House, is a block away on West Main. The neighborhood is at the point where the hotels on the edge of downtown Aspen, to the east, give way to the residential enclaves of the city&#39;s West End. Tall shade trees are interspersed among the houses, which are mostly of more modern construction. The terrain is level, on the plain between Aspen Mountain to the south and the Roaring Fork River to the north.</p><br>
<p>A white picket fence separates the front yard from the sidewalk. The building itself is a one-and-three-quarter-story wood frame structure on a foundation of peachblow sandstone. It is topped by a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof. The main entrance is to the west of the front section, on the north face of the crossing section, on a porch with turned posts and brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s siding is clapboard, with wide plain belt courses marking the top and bottom of the large one-over-one double-hung sash window in the center of the first story. Wood shingles are used on the section of the north (front) facade that overhangs the walkway on the east side to the front entrance. The oriel window on the second story has two smaller versions of the first-floor window with a sunburst design on the two panels above, topped by fish scale shingles in the gable apex. Vergeboard decorated with geometric patterns runs along the roofline.</p><br>
<p>The rear elevation has a French door as its entrance and a rectangular window in the gable apex. Inside, the rooms feature unpainted wooden trim and high ceilings. In the rear is a one-story gabled barn. It is considered a contributing resource to the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1886, during Aspens original silver-mining boom years. According to one account, it was built by Copeland George, manager of a local sampling works. It became better known as the home of Frantz, a local lumber magnate, although it is not certain that he ever actually lived there although the wood did come from his sawmill. The date of the rear barns construction is unknown.</p><br>
<p>It has remained a private home since then. The rear window in the gable apex may have been added later, and the picket fence was erected in 1972. Other than that it has not been significantly altered, and its colors are true to the period in which it was constructed. The oriel window is the only one remaining on a Victorian house in Aspen.</p><br>
<p>Knapps Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge that was erected over Browns Creek in Burlington Township, Bradford County in the USA state of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1853 and is 95 ft long. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and had a major restoration starting in 2000. Named for a local family, it is also known as the Luthers Mills Covered Bridge (for the nearby village of Luthers Mills) and as the Brown&#39;s Creek Covered Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Luce County Sheriff&#39;s House and Jail was originally built as a correctional facility and government building at 411 West Harrie Street in Newberry, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Newberry was founded in 1882, and was the only settlement of any size in the area when Luce County was founded five years later. Newberry was named county seat, A grandiose Victorian courthouse was erected in Newberry in 1890. A few years later, the Luce County Jail and Sheriff&#39;s Residence was constructed, designed by the Marquette firm of Lovejoy and Demar as a counterpoint to the nearby courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Luce County Historical Museum</h2><br>
<p>This structure served as the jail and sheriff&#39;s residence for over 70 years. In 1975, the nearby courthouse was torn down, but the Luce County Historical Society rescued the jail and restored the building. In 1976, it reopened as the Luce County Historical Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Luce County Jail and Sheriff&#39;s House is a three-story structure built with three wings in an irregular plan. Two side wings adjoin the main front section, with a third two-story wing, housing the jail, attached at the rear. The structure sits on a split fieldstone foundation. The first story is faced with Jacobsville sandstone, the second is faced with red, sand-molded brick, while the upper story is covered with fishscale shingles. The roofing was originally wood shakes but is now asphalt shingling. A metal-roofed cupola is on one corner of the building. Romanesque detailing on the building include the cut stone, arches over the windows and doors, and the polished granite columns supporting the front porch overhang.</p><br>
<p>The building remains essentially unaltered from its original construction, and is an effective reminder of the opulence of the surrounding community in the Victorian era.</p><br>
<p>The Ten Curves Road–Manistique River Bridge was a bridge carrying Ten Curves Road over the Manistique River in Germfask Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and was demolished in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Michigan State Highway Department developed standard plans for long-span concrete through girder bridges with arched girders on cantilevered brackets in 1921-22. The first bridge of this type constructed in the state was a 90-foot span in Tecumseh, built in 1922. Another early version of this type of bridge was the 90 foot span, designated Bridge Number 750 02, built in 1923 for the Germfask crossing of the Manistique River.</p><br>
<p>The Germfask bridge was part of the construction of M-98 between Germfask and the nearby Luce County line. The MSHD awarded Harry Erickson, a contractor from Manistique, the contract to build the bridge this bridge. Erickson completed the structure in 1923 for a cost of $26,190.81. The previous trunkline is now downgraded to a county road, but the bridge over the Manistique River remained essentially unaltered until its demolition.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ten Curves Road–Manistique River Bridge in Germfask consisted of two 90 foot, arched concrete through girders sitting on concrete brackets cantilevered from concrete abutments. The roadway was 22.3 feet wide, with an overall structure width of 25.3 feet. Twelve concrete floor beams, integrally cast into the deck, ran between the main spans. The walls of the bridge were punctured with five small arched cutouts. Guardrails had been installed at each end of the bridge. Prior to the bridge&#39;s demolition, the concrete walls of the bridge were severely spalled, but the bridge remained structurally sound.</p><br>
<p>The Reading-Halls Station Bridge is an historic, American, Howe pony truss railroad bridge that is located in Muncy Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1846 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, this historic structure is a single-span bridge that measures approximately 70 ft long. It is the oldest bridge of its type still in operation in Pennsylvania. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It is likely that Richard B. Osborne, chief engineer for the railroad, designed and built the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Houseknecht Farm is an historic house and farm which are located in Moreland Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The historic buildings located on this property are the farmhouse, which was built sometime around 1890, a three-gabled barn, which was also built circa 1890 and then later expanded, a three-bay, late nineteenth-century, machine/corn shed, a late nineteenth-century granary with small attached garage that was erected circa 1915, a small machine shed that was also erected circa 1915, a smokehouse that was built circa 1890, and a summer kitchen/butcher house that was also built sometime around 1890, and which has an attached woodshed. The farmhouse is a two-story, four-bay, two-door house with a two-story ell.</p><br>
<p>The Jersey Shore Historic District is a national historic district located in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 286 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Jersey Shore. Most were built during the period 1830 to 1860, and are representative of Victorian, Greek Revival, and Federal style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Borough of Jersey Shore had its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary War days, according to newspaper accounts of the town&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>Dean R. Wagner, who prepared the form which helped secure the Jersey Shore Historic Districts placement on the National Register of Historic Places, the present day Borough of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania confirmed in 1975 that the town is located on lands which were part of initial land grants made to 17th and 18th-century settlers along the western branch of the Susquehanna River, roughly 15 miles south of what is, today, the city of Williamsport in Lycoming County. Those land grants, from north to south, were: Forrest Situate, Richmond Situate, Richland Situate, and Forge Hammer. A portion of Forrest Situate was then subsequently purchased by Jeremiah and Reuben Manning who, sometime around the year 1800, had left the shore of New Jersey where they were residing to relocate to Pennsylvania. After purchasing their land, they then laid out a town north of what is, today, Allegheny Street, and initially named their new town Waynesburg. That year, there were just four houses inside the towns boundaries, but the town was ripe for expansion because there were multiple businesses located outside of town, including lumber and flour mills.</p><br>
<p>Twelve years later, William B. Smith purchased land south of what is now Allegheny Street, and laid out a new section of town there in 1813. Initially reachable by wagon and stagecoach, the town became even more accessible when it became a stop on the West Branch Canal in 1834. Further growth was impeded during the mid-1800s, however, when planners chose to build the incoming railroad on the other side of the river, rather than closer to or through the town.</p><br>
<p>The name of the town was officially changed to Jersey Shore in 1826.</p><br>
<p>This historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Notable architecture</h2><br>
<p>Notable buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Abraham Lawshe House, which was the home of the owner of Jersey Shore&#39;s largest tannery</p><br>
<p>Gallagher-Webb House</p><br>
<p>Mark Slonaker House, which was the home of one of the men who collaborated on the construction of a pig iron furnace on the Upper Pine Bottom Run in 1814</p><br>
<p>Stone-Nice House</p><br>
<p>Bailey-Allen House</p><br>
<p>Sanderson-Sebring House</p><br>
<p>Samuel Humes Building (1852), which was named in honor of a member of the board of directors of both the Jersey Shore National Bank and the Lewisburg Turnpike and Bridge Company</p><br>
<p>Moran-Trump House (1855)</p><br>
<p>West Branch Dormitory Building (1856)</p><br>
<p>McHenry-Cline House.</p><br>
<p>The Muncy Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 298 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Muncy. The buildings date back as early as 1798, and are representative of Victorian, Georgian, and Federal styles of architecture. Notable buildings include the St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Muncy Presbyterian Church, William McCarty Residence, Walton-Weaver Residence, Gray-Bodine Residence, Boal-Griggs Building, Clapp-Muncy Historical Society Building, Jacob E. Cooke Row Houses, Clapp-Smith Building, Rankin-Brindle Building, Lloyd Building, Lycoming County Mutual Fire Insurance Building, Fahnestock-Petrikin Building, Muncy Valley House, and the D.O. Snyder Building. The St. James Episcopal Church, designed by Richard Upjohn, is listed separately on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Millionaire&#39;s Row Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 263 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in a residential area of Williamsport. The buildings date back to as early as 1855, and are representative of Victorian-style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the Trinity Church and Parish House, First Church of Christ-Scientist, Weightman Block, Park Home, and the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church. Way&#39;s Garden is the contributing site; it was established in 1913. Located in the district but separately listed is the Peter Herdic House.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church is located in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It is an active parish of the Archdiocese of Newark, in Deanery 13. It is noted for its historic parish church, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 2011, for its significance in architecture and art.</p><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1894, primarily serving Irish, Scottish and German immigrants in the area. In 1905, the congregation moved from the rented hall it had been using to a new wooden Gothic Revival church. In 1927, work began on the current Lombardy Romanesque church, which was completed in 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by the ecclesiastical architectural firm Maginnis & Walsh of Boston. The granite Romanesque Revival style structure replaced the older Gothic structure, which was deemed impractical. There are more than 40 stained glass windows in the church and rectory that were made in Dublin, Ireland in the Harry Clarke Studio, in order to tell the history of the parish. No other examples of his work survive anywhere in North America.</p><br>
<p>The organ was built by the Hinners Organ Company in 1930. It originally had electro-pneumatic action and was rebuilt in 1993 with a computerized/digital system in 1993.</p><br>
<p>As a tribute to the early Irish parishioners that were the cornerstone of the Church the workers carved a Celtic cross in a cut-stone found at the top of the Church&#39;s front facade.</p><br>
<p>The Old Washoe Club  is a three-story brick structure in Virginia City, Nevada, USA, located in the Virginia City Historic District. The first story is currently occupied by commercial properties while the upper stories are unoccupied at this time. The building is an un-reinforced masonry building and, as such, has several deficiencies relative to its ability to resist seismic events. The building can be accessed through the main entrance on C Street. The Washoe Club was featured on Ghost Hunters.</p><br>
<p>Hilltop Manor, now known as The Cavalier, is an historic structure located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. This building is one of several developments between architect Harvey H. Warwick and developer Morris Cafritz, and is one of the first cooperative apartment buildings in the city. The building was opened in 1927 along the 14th Street streetcar line. Its size and density shows the rapid growth Washington experienced along major thoroughfares after World War I. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Lafayette Apartment Building is an historic structure located in the Shaw neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. George S. Cooper was the architect for this building, which was one of the earliest apartment buildings in Washington. Built in 1898 it incorporated elements of the Queen Anne style into an affordable middle-class development. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Lindens, also known as the King Hooper House, is an historic three-story house located in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the oldest house in Washington  and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1969.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1754 as a grand summer home for Robert "King" Hooper, a leading shipowner and merchant in Marblehead, Massachusetts, who sided with the Tories before the Revolutionary War and lent the house for four months to Thomas Gage, the reviled British governor. Hooper lost the house to creditors. After passing through several other owners, including one who used it as a boardinghouse, the house was purchased in 1860 by Francis Peabody Jr., who restored and added to it.</p><br>
<p>It was again sold in 1933 to antiques dealers Israel Sack and Leon David, who sold the paneled drawing room to a Kansas City museum. The remainder of the house was sold the next year for about to George and Miriam Morris, who were seeking a period house to showcase their collection of early American furniture.</p><br>
<p>The Morrises had the house dismantled and shipped to Washington, with the pieces numbered, in six railroad boxcars. Under the direction of the key architect at Colonial Williamsburg, it was slowly reassembled from 1935 to 1938 on a concrete foundation, supported by steel beams. Over the next 45 years, some 50,000 visitors passed through the house, greeted by the owners in period costume. In 1983 it was sold to Norman and Diane Bernstein, who modernized and updated the kitchen and plumbing. At that time, some of the furnishings were auctioned for $2.3 million at Christie&#39;s. In 2007 it was resold for $7.2 million, and in 2016 the house was listed for sale again.</p><br>
<p>The house measures 8,250 ft&sup2, with 11 fireplaces, and has nearly 12 foot ceilings, interior columns, stenciled floors, and wallpaper designed in Paris in the early 1800s.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Nelson Page House is an historic house located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. The building currently serves as headquarters for the American Institute for Cancer Research.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Georgian Revival mansion was designed by Stanford White of the prominent architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. It is a notable example of an adaptation of 18th century English-American residential architecture with consideration given to late-19th century needs of space, scale and function. The residence was completed in 1896 for writer Thomas Nelson Page and his second wife, heiress Florence Lathrop Field Page. It was the center of Washington&#39;s literary and social life in late 19th and early 20th centuries. The contents of the house were put up for auction by C.G. Sloan & Co. of Washington, D.C. in 1923.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The -story mansion is situated on a polygonal corner site along a street with other imposing residences. The facades of the building are composed of Harvard brick timed in limestone and white-painted wood. The exterior features an Ionic portico, a fanlight doorway, a side loggia, a piano nobile with iron balconies and arcaded windows. The ceremonial interiors are arranged around an open stair hall. White was also the architect when the loggia was enclosed in 1903 to create vaulted garden room with lattice ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Second Church in Boston  is a historic church building at 874 Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1914 in Colonial Revival style to designs by the firm of architect Ralph Adams Cram.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Second Church, Boston congregation was founded in 1649, as the second Congregational church in Boston. Later the congregation adopted a Unitarian theology. After moving to several meeting houses, the congregation constructed the Beacon Street building in 1914. In 1970 the Second Church congregation merged with First Church in Boston, and the Ruggles Baptist Church, an American Baptist Churches USA congregation, acquired the Beacon Street building. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The San Dionisio Church Ruins are a historic ruins on Route 2 in Umatac, Guam. They are the remains of a church that was built in 1862 and destroyed by an earthquake in 1892. It was built out of manposteria , and the surviving elements including buttresses rising to a height of 13 ft. The ruins are the only surviving remnant of the Spanish colonial headquarters complex that stood in this area. The first San Dionisio Church was constructed in 1681, but rebuilt after a fire three years later. That church was destroyed in 1849 by an earthquake, and portions may have been used in construction of the 1862 building. A new church was built in 1939. The ruins were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
