<p>The Courthouse of American Samoa, formerly Administration Building, Navy No. 21, is a historic building near Pago Pago Harbor in Fagatogo, American Samoa. It is a two-story wood-frame building mounted on concrete piers, with a two-story veranda on three sides. A concrete vault is located at the back of the building. The court house was reported by the local commander to have been completed about 1904.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and Historic Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Historical Commission could not find any record showing the exact time the Courthouse was erected. In July 1890, however, a careful research was conducted of the USA Navy’s projects and activities in American Samoa. Rear Admiral Kimberly USAN. was ordered to administer the survey of an establishment of a USA Coaling Station in Pago Pago. The following report is, therefore, based on the results of this research.</p><br>
<p>The Navy Department on August 5, 1898, commanded Civil Engineer Frank T. Chamber USAN., to advance to American Samoa for duty in connection with the erection of a wharf, a coal house, and other buildings at Pago Pago, Tutuila. The Commission is completely persuaded that the Courthouse was one of the establishments which were built under Chamber’s mission.</p><br>
<p>In March 1899, the Navy Department ordered Commander B.F. Tilley, USAN., Commanding Officer of the USS Abarenda (AC-13) which reached Pago Pago in the same year, to regard the instructions issued to the Civil Engineer Chamber. At the same time, the incumbent President of the United States sent several Americans to help with the construction of the wharf and buildings. Two of these men were Mr. Charles C. King and Mr. Joseph J. Jewett. Admiral Tilley who on 07 December 1899 left for Auckland, New Zealand to get materials for the implementation of the wharf and the buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Navy Department was notified on 25 July 1900 by the USA Post Office Department that a Post Office had been authorized at the USA Naval Station, Pago Pago, Tutuila. The Post Office was opened on 01 October 1900. Mrs. Hudson who was the wife of Chief Boatswain Hudson, USAN. became in-charge of the post office. She became the first Postmaster for Tutuila which is now known as American Samoa. Underneath the earliest Samoan hospital, the Post Office was built at Malaloa. 40 or 50 feet to the Pago Pago side of the Post Office stood Jewett’s house.</p><br>
<p>E.W. Gurr was a New Zealand lawyer and barrister. He was appointed by the Commandant as Secretary to the Commandant and also as Judge and Legal Adviser on 4 August 1900. Gurr’s services with the government of the island came to an end in 1908.</p><br>
<p>Interviews with a number of people whose ages from 55 to 93 years in both American Samoa and Western Samoa, denoted that the Courthouse took about three years to complete; and that numerous people from Western Samoa worked as carpenters in its construction.</p><br>
<p>When the Civil Engineer Chamber was assigned to erect the wharf, coal house and other buildings in Pago Pago in 1898, to October 1, 1900 when the first USA Post Office was opened by Mrs. Hudson, to the tour of duty of Commander E. B. Underwood, USA Navy, which started on May 5, 1903 and ended on 20 January 1905. It would be a close estimation that the construction of the Courthouse began some time in 1900 and completed either in the last part of 1903 or early in 1904. In arriving at this time estimate, the Commission also considered the employment of Mr. Gurr as a judge in August, 1900. He presided over cases which were held in nowhere else but the Courthouse for the Commission found no records to show that early trials had been held elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>After the completion of construction of the Courthouse, it was used at the time of the administration of the USA Navy, to house the offices of the Commandant-Governor, Chaplain, Disbursing Officer, Library, Aide to the Governor, in the upper floor. In the ground floor, there were offices of the Judge (who was also the Secretary of Native Affairs), the Attorney General, the Prosecutor, the Head of the Police Department), the Court Clerk, the Tax and Passport Clerk, the captain of the yard, and one spacious Courtroom.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the Courtroom was used as an Assembly Hall or Meeting Place for the chiefs, leaders, and representatives from each village, county, and district of Tutuila and Manua, for their annual meetings called the FONO. This continued until the Enlisted Men’s barracks was assigned to the Legislature of American Samoa in 1954.</p><br>
<p>At present, the Courthouse is assigned to the exclusive use of the Court, or Judicial Department. It accommodates 2 papalagi Justice (Chief and Associate), and five Samoan judges. The building has two additional court rooms now, the old one is court room no. 1.</p><br>
<p>It is amazing that the Courthouse, one of the oldest buildings in American Samoa, has withstood the 20th Century in such good shape. It has been through a couple of World Wars, dozens of hurricanes, thousands of inches of tropical torrential downpours, millions of ants and cockroaches, termites and bugs.</p><br>
<p>The Friedensfeld Midlands Moravian Church and Manse are historic buildings in Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands.</p><br>
<p>The present church building was built in 1854, replacing a structure that had been dedicated on February 12, 1819. The 4 acre property, with its two contributing buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1976. It has an associated cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The two-story church, with its central section about 55 x in plan, was one of the largest wood-frame structures in the USA Virgin Islands, and was deemed to be "significant for its unusual combination of combination of Carpenter&#39;s Gothic and Classical Revival elements.</p><br>
<p>The church may have been prefabricated in Germany and assembled by German craftsmen plus local builders.</p><br>
<p>The manse building is about 70 x in plan, and is connected to the church by a stone pathway. It was built in c.1810.</p><br>
<p>GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW OF NAVE, TAKEN FROM WEST BALCONY, SHOWING PULPIT AND ALTAR - Moravian Church, Friedensfeld, St. Croix, VI HABS VI,1-FRIE,1-5.tifGeneral interior view of the nave</p><br>
<p>DETAIL OF SOUTH STAIR TO BALCONY IN THE ENTRANCE HALL OF THE CHURCH, TAKEN FROM NORTH STAIR - Moravian Church, Friedensfeld, St. Croix, VI HABS VI,1-FRIE,1-7.tifSouth stair to the balcony</p><br>
<p>DETAIL OF WOODEN POST AND RAILING OF BALCONY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTH (LEFT) AND WEST (RIGHT) BALCONIES - Moravian Church, Friedensfeld, St. Croix, VI HABS VI,1-FRIE,1-6.tifRailing of balcony</p><br>
<p>GENERAL VIEW FROM THE SOUTHEAST OF PART OF SOUTH FACADE (LEFT) AND OF EAST GABLE WITH PROJECTING SACRISTY (RIGHT) - Moravian Church, Friedensfeld, St. Croix, VI HABS VI,1-FRIE,1-4.tifEast gable with projeting sacristy</p><br>
<p>New Herrnhut Moravian Church is a historic Moravian church in Saint Thomas, USA Virgin Islands.</p><br>
<p>The Moravians, a Protestant religious group based in the town of Herrnhut in Saxony, began missionary work in 1732 in St. Thomas and were the first Protestants to begin missionary work among slaves and free Blacks in the Danish West Indies. Missionary work on St. Thomas was initially opposed by planters who didn&#39;t want slaves to receive education or religious instruction.</p><br>
<p>The Moravians purchased the New Herrnhut site (then Bazuinenberg or (in German:) Posaunenberg) in 1738 and established it as the Brethrens Plantation or the s Heeren Tutu, until renaming it New Herrnhut in 1753. The hurricane of 1867 destroyed much of the then-working plantation, but the church and bell tower survived.</p><br>
<p>The church, which is still in use, is a one-story building made of plaster and rubble, with a hipped roof and semi-elliptical arched windows and doors.</p><br>
<p>This church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Rull Men&#39;s Meetinghouse  is a historic meeting house in Rull, a village on the island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is a large rectangular structure, set on a raised stone platform. The flooring consists of treated betelnut palm trunks, and has a steeply pitched roof made of bamboo supports with various types of tropical leaves tied in place using coconut fiber. The faluw, although not the first built on this platform, has historically occupied a central place in the civic life of the community, serving as a place where the men of the village could meet in seclusion, and as a place for social rites.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, when the region was part of the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.</p><br>
<p>Twinsburg Congregational Church is a historic church building on Twinsburg Public Square in Twinsburg, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival building was constructed in 1848 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The religious community that would later erect the First Congregational Church in Twinsburg in 1848 originally formed in 1822, and the members worshipped in various places for nearly a quarter century. The populating of Twinsburg preceded the organization of the church people by only half a decade. The church members used to meet in personal homes and the superior level of the gristmill at Old Mill Road and Ravenna Road prior to 1822. In 1822 the members congregated in a log school house constructed on the public square the same year. For a time later on, the church met in a frame church and school on the square, but the building did not survive because town government representatives concluded construction on the town square was illegal. In the 1830s another church building was constructed that was also near the square, but the current building in its present location was constructed in 1848. The charging for pews generated the funds to build the church, priced at $3,300. The church experienced a problem with the steeple when wind caused it to detach around 1856 or 1857, but it was repaired. People coming to church by horse constructed shelters for their animals at the back of the church&#39;s property, but these were dismantled in the mid-1920s and repurposed for storage. Eventually an addition for classrooms in 1954 replaced the storage area.</p><br>
<p>The Whitelaw Hotel is a historic structure located in the U Street Corridor  in Northwest Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Whitelaw was built in 1919 as an upscale apartment hotel during the segregation era. The building was designed by architect Isaiah T. Hatton, who was one of the nation&#39;s first African American architects. Hatton designed the hotel using a classical Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style. Construction costs totaled $158,000. It was named for the mother of its builder, entrepreneur John Whitelaw Lewis who also founded Industrial Savings Bank.</p><br>
<p>It was completely financed and built by African American entrepreneurs, investors, designers, and craftsmen as a place of meeting and public accommodation for prominent African Americans during segregation. The hotel was listed in Victor Greens, a guide for African American travelers. Entertainers, such as Cab Calloway, who performed on U Street stayed at the Whitelaw as well as other African Americans who came to Washington for meetings of national black organizations and could not stay in the citys other hotels. Its large public spaces allowed the Whitelaw to become an important social center.</p><br>
<p>The end of legal Segregation in the United States and the rise in drugs in the neighborhood led to the decline of the Whitelaw. It was closed by the city in 1977 and was slated for demolition. Manna, Inc bought the building in 1991 and used historic tax credits to renovate it into low- and moderate-income housing. It re-opened in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Heirline Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered bridge which is located in Harrison Township and Napier Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It crosses the Juniata River, and is one of fifteen historic covered bridges which are located in Bedford County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1902, this historic structure is a 136 ft, Burr Truss bridge with a medium pitched gable roof. It crosses the Juniata River, and is one of fifteen historic covered bridges which are located in Bedford County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Diehls Covered Bridge, also known as Turner&#39;s Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Harrison Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is a 88.3 ft, Burr Truss bridge with a shallow gable roof, constructed in 1892. It crosses the Raystown Branch Juniata River. It is one of 15 historic covered bridges in Bedford County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Diehl&#39;s Bridge is featured in the opening scenes of the anthology television series that was created by George A. Romero, Tales from the Darkside.</p><br>
<p>The Halls Mill Covered Bridge is an historic, wooden covered bridge which is located in Hopewell Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This structure is a 91 ft, Burr Truss bridge with a medium pitched gable roof, and was built in 1872. It crosses Yellow Creek, and is one of fifteen historic covered bridges in Bedford County.</p><br>
<p>The Fichtner Covered Bridge, also known as Palo Alto Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Londonderry Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is a 56 ft, Kingpost Truss bridge with low side walls, constructed in 1880. It crosses Gladdens Run. It is one of 15 historic covered bridges in Bedford County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Cuppett&#39;s Covered Bridge, which was built by Cuppett brothers William & Philip on September 14, 1882, is a historic covered bridge that is located in Napier Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and Features</h2><br>
<p>Privately owned by the Cuppett family from the day it was built, the bridge took just five months to build for a total cost of $780. John Wayde did the masonry work and Jeremiah Thompson completed the carpentry.</p><br>
<p>Crossing Dunnings Creek, the 70 ft bridge is a unique design with unusually low arches and low side walls which highlight the patented Burr Arch Truss system.</p><br>
<p>The Cuppett&#39;s Covered Bridge was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1980 by the United States Department of the Interior.</p><br>
<p>The Ryot Covered Bridge is an historic, American wooden covered bridge that is located in West St. Clair Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecturalfeatures</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure is a low to medium Burr Truss bridge with a shallow gable roof. It is one of fifteen historic covered bridges that are located in Bedford County. It was damaged by fire in 2002, and reconstructed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A request to remove the bridge from the National Register was submitted after it was badly damaged by a fire in 2002.</p><br>
<h3>Rehabilitation, fire and restoration</h3><br>
<p>The bridge was set on fire by teenage arsonists in 2002. Most of the wooden parts of the bridge were badly damaged. The Ryot Bridge was rehabilitated only seven years earlier, so most of the added steel supports remained intact, along with the stone abutments. The bridge was restored by P. Joseph Lehman, Inc., at a total cost of $300,000.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Block is an historic commercial building in downtown Portland, Maine. Located at 50 Monument Square, it is a fine local example of commercial Romanesque Revival architecture. It was built in 1881 and enlarged in 1908; it is named for Lancaster, New Hampshire, the hometown of its builder, J. B. Brown. it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lancaster Block is located on the south side of Monument Square in central Portland, at the southeast corner of Center and Congress Streets, anchoring the southwestern end of the square. It is a six-story masonry structure, built mostly out of red brick, with terra cotta and granite trim elements. The main facade faces north, toward Congress Street and the square, and is seven bays wide, with a center building entrance flanked by storefronts of wood and glass. Windows on the second and third floors are paired sash, set in segmented-arch openings, while on the fourth floor the individual sashes, still two per bay, are set in individual arched openings. A band of terra cotta paneling (the former building cornice) separates the fourth and fifth floors, with a gable above the central bay. Fifth-floor windows are set in rectangular openings, while those on the top floor are set in rounded-arch openings, two per bay.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the partnership of John Calvin Stevens and Francis Fassett, and was built in 1881 for developer John B. Brown, then one of the citys leading businessmen. Originally only four stories were built; the upper two floors, which are stylistically sympathetic to the original, were added in 1908, their design credited to Fassetts firm.</p><br>
<p>The West Line Historic District is a residential community in central Austin, Texas, United States. The district encompasses an approximately 90-block tract of land located west of downtown. Bounded by Baylor Street to the east, Fifth Street to the south, Thirteenth Street to the north and Texas State Highway Loop 1 to the west. It is located south of the Old West Austin Historic District and southeast of the Clarksville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The district comprises more than twenty-five subdivisions platted between 1871 and 1948, out of the George W. Spear League and Division Z of the government lands west of the original city center. Early settlement in the area consisted of expansive estates, later subdivided in response to the citys burgeoning population. After the 1887 construction of the West Sixth Street Bridge over Shoal Creek, the West Sixth Street streetcar line, commonly referred to as the West Line, extended into the district from downtown and facilitated the development of suburban tracts. Due to the piecemeal development and hilly topography of the area, the streets form an irregular rectilinear grid. A number of notable nineteenth-century residences and institutional buildings exist throughout the district, but the preponderance of resources consist of Craftsman and Classical Revival-influenced bungalows built during the height of the areas development from the 1910s-1930s. In keeping with the original developers’ intentions, the historic district maintains strong residential characteristics.</p><br>
<p>The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It includes the neighborhoods of Raymond Heights, Raymond Plateau and Shelley Heights.</p><br>
<p>Canaan is a village and census-designated place  within the town of North Canaan in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. Formerly known as Canaan Depot, the village is more commonly known as Canaan Village to distinguish it from the town of Canaan located to the south of North Canaan. The Canaan Village Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 1,212, out of a total population of 3,315 in the town of North Canaan.</p><br>
<p>The historic district comprises about 93 acre, covering the central business district and surrounding residences of the village that preserve the period from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Canaan village developed as a regional commercial center, first by the construction of the north–south Housatonic Railroad, and then by the arrival of the east–west Connecticut Western Railroad. This junction made the village a major transit point for bringing the area&#39;s commercial goods to market. The district includes the Canaan Union Depot, built in 1872 to serve the two railroads.</p><br>
<p>The Canaan Fire Company was established in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Canaan village is in the northwestern corner of the town of North Canaan. The CDP is bordered to the west, across the Housatonic River, by the town of Sheffield, and to the north by the town of Sheffield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The Blackberry River, a tributary of the Housatonic, forms the southern edge of the CDP. The eastern border of the CDP follows (from north to south) USA Route 7 (Ashley Falls Road), North Elm Street, Granger Lane, Daisy Hill Road, Lime Kiln Road, East Main Street (USA Route 44), and Elm Street (US 7 south) to the Blackberry River.</p><br>
<p>According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.5 km&sup2, all land.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>As of the census of 2000, there were 1,288 people, 597 households, and 337 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 289.1 /km2. There were 622 housing units at an average density of 139.6 /km2. The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.96% White, 1.48% Black or African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.78% from other races, and 1.24% from two or more races. 4.11% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.</p><br>
<p>There were 597 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.5% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.4% were non-families. 38.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.89.</p><br>
<p>In the CDP the population was spread out, with 22.5% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 20.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.5 males.</p><br>
<p>The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,438, and the median income for a family was $44,000. Males had a median income of $31,861 versus $23,375 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,816. 6.7% of the population and 5.2% of families were below the poverty line. 3.5% of those under the age of 18 and 6.2% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.</p><br>
<p>Bridge in Snake Spring Township, also known as the Narrows Bridge, is a historic concrete arch bridge located at The Narrows in Snake Spring Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1934, and is a 580 ft, open spandrel concrete arch bridge with five arches. The roadway is skewed and carries US 30, the Lincoln Highway, over the Raystown Branch Juniata River.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Defibaugh Tavern, also known as Willow Grove Tavern, is a historic tavern building located at Snake Spring Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1785, and is a -story, log-and-frame building with a double stacked porch. The original section was built of logs and it was expanded in the early 19th century. It has a -story frame kitchen ell. Also on the property is a small log barn dated to the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Howard Pyle Studios are two historic buildings used for painting and teaching by illustrator Howard Pyle. The studios are located in a densely populated neighborhood near Brandywine Park and the Delaware Avenue Historic District. The building used by Pyle as his own studio was built in 1883, mainly in brick with a Tudor Revival half timbered gable. The smaller studio, that Pyle used for teaching, was built in a similar style in 1900. After Pyle&#39;s death in 1911, the buildings were owned by Stanley Arthurs, until 1950, and then by Ellen duPont Wheelwright until 1964. The Studio Group acquired the studios in 1964 and continues to use them as art studios. In 1978, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Pyle&#39;s interest in English history was reflected in the 1883 studio, which was built in a style variously described as Tudor Revival, Queen Anne style, or</p><br>
<p>"Shavian Manorial", because of its similarity to works by English architect Richard Norman Shaw.</p><br>
<p>The original studio was set back eighty feet from the street and has a steeply pitched roof. One gable forms the main facade of the studio framing the entry porch and a triple casement window.</p><br>
<p>The brick studio school was built in 1900 in a similar style. It fronts on the street and occupies the south side of the property. Pyle&#39;s students attended at no charge. A total of 75 students attended between 1900 and 1911, including N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Harvey Dunn, Stanley Arthurs, and George Harding.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C., is a two-story, brick Colonial Revival-style house built in 1955, with a screened porch and a one-car garage. It is significant for its association with gay rights activist Franklin E. Kameny , having served as his home and office, and as a headquarters for gay civil rights organizing.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kameny, who is said to have "spear-headed the new militancy in the gay rights movement," Kameny moved into the house in 1962, and it remained his residence for nearly 40 years. According to the National Park Service, the Kameny House</p><br>
<p>According to The Washington Post staff writer, Petula Dvorak, it was from his house on Cathedral Avenue that Kameny led his campaign against sodomy laws, helped overturn the American Psychiatric Associations definition of homosexuality as a mental illness, lobbied against the federal governments refusal to grant security clearances to homosexuals, and became "the first openly gay candidate to run for Congress".</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the building was designated as a D.C. Historic Landmark, because, "for 13 fiery years, it was the epicenter of the gay rights movement in the nation&#39;s capital." The nomination, written in 2006, stated that it was unusual as a NRHP nomination in that the person for whom the property is significant was still alive. Kameny died at his home on October 11, 2011, less than a month before the house was finally listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<p>Convent de Bon Secours is an early-20th century residence located in the Tenleytown neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. It has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours was founded in France in 1824. They came to the United States in the 1880s and came to Washington in 1905 during a typhoid epidemic to provide healthcare. They were particularly beneficial during a Spanish flu outbreak after World War I.</p><br>
<p>Upon arriving in Washington, D.C., in 1905, the Sisters moved into the old rectory at St. Ann&#39;s Church in Tenleytown. Between 1927 and 1928, the Italianate style convent was constructed to be the chapter house for the Washington, D.C., location for the Sisters. The -story structure clad in buff-colored brick was designed by Irish-born architect Maurice F. Moore. The building is composed of a main dormitory section with a hipped roof, a chapel, a small arcaded tower, and rear loggias that are reminiscent of a Renaissance cloister.</p><br>
<p>The Cathedral Mansions Apartment Buildings are historic structures located at 2900, 3000, and 3100 Connecticut Avenue NW in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Constructed from 1922 to 1924, architect Eugene Waggaman designed the Connecticut Avenue apartment buildings in the Classical Revival style for developer Harry Wardman. Architect Mihran Mesrobian&#39;s initials appear on a drawing for one of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were added to the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites on May 17, 1989, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Avalon Theatre, formerly Chevy Chase Theatre, is an historic structure located in the Chevy Chase neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. The Classical Revival building was designed by the architectural firm of Upman and Adams and completed in 1922. The Avalon is a rare example of a neighborhood movie house in Washington; it is the oldest in continuous use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>As of 2021, it hosts the Washington metropolitan area&#39;s third-largest commercial movie theater screen, after the National Air & Space Museum and the AFI Silver in Silver Spring, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The Juniata Woolen Mill and Newry Manor, also known as the Lutz Mansion and Woolen Mill, Lux Vista, Lutz Mill, and Lutz Factory, is an historic, American woolen mill building and manor house located in Snake Spring Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The site includes a small German colonial manor house that dates to 1803 with a large brick addition dating to 1858 and an attached log house, and a stone woolen mill that date to 1805. The original 1803 manor house is a two-and-one-half-story, three-bay wide building. Attached to it is the two-and-one-half-story, late-federal-style, brick addition, with the early nineteenth century, two-story log house attached to it. The log house was restored in 1950. The woolen mill is two-and-one-half stories with four working levels. The mill was in operation for more than a century, beginning in 1808.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>New Enterprise Public School is a historic school building located at South Woodbury Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1881, and is a two-story brick building, three-bays wide and four bays deep. It measures 28 feet, 2 inches, by 42 feet, 2 inches. It sits on a cut coursed stone foundation. It features a circular cartwheel window on the front gable and a wood frame bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Old Custom House is a historic customs house located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It was built in 1721 and is a two 1/2-story brick Colonial building with a hipped roof. It has a corbeled brick interior end chimney. An extensive restoration project was undertaken by Richmond architect W. Duncan Lee in 1929. Also on the property are a contributing kitchen, necessary, and a brick wall, all added during the restoration.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Custom House is now a museum operated by the Comte de Grasse Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. It is open on Sundays from June to October.</p><br>
<p>Barclay House, also known as the Bedford Mansion or Barclay Mansion, is a historic home located at Bedford in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1889 and is a -story, brick dwelling with Gothic and Italianate style details and a jerkin-head gable roof. It once housed the Bedford County Public Library. It is the current location of the Bedford Fine Art Gallery which features 19th century art.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Russell House, also known as the Pate Funeral Home, is an historic, American home that is located in Bedford in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1815 and 1816, this historic structure is a -story, five-bay by three-bay, brick dwelling that was designed in the late-Georgian style. A two-story rear ell was added sometime between 1840 and 1845. The tin-covered gable roof has three gable-roof, frame dormers.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Filler was hired to design and build the house.</p><br>
<p>The Russell House was purchased in May 2017 by the Bedford County Chamber of Commerce, with plans to create a Business & Education Center to serve the Bedford County region. When renovated, the building is expected to house as many as twenty-four new businesses in accelerator and shared-workspace operations. Additional features will include: community art exhibits, historical displays, a community meeting space, a heritage garden, and a veranda adjacent to Veterans Grove.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Chalybeate Springs Hotel, also known as The Chalybeate, is a historic 19th and early-20th century resort hotel located at Bedford Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It consists of the original two-story, three-bay Federal-style brick dwelling built about 1851. In 1867, the front wing of the hotel was added. It is a two-story, brick structure with front and rear porches and second story gallery porches. The L-shaped rear wing was added about 1885, and is a two-story brick structure with porches and second story gallery porches on both sides. A separate ballroom building was built in 1903. The hotel was in use until 1913. In 1946, it was restored and refurbished. It operated as a hotel until 1956, when it was converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Church is a Catholic parish in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, in the North Delta deanery of the Diocese of Little Rock. It is located at 123 Columbia Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Serious missionary work was undertaken in the early 19th century by the Lazarists. The first Catholic church in Helena was burned down in 1854 by the Know Nothings, replaced with a wood-frame church in 1856. The community did not gain a resident parish priest until July 18, 1858, when Bishop Andrew Byrne, first Bishop of Arkansas, appointed Rev. Patrick Behan.</p><br>
<p>The parish roll grew as Irish American immigrants settled in the area. In 1857, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth arrived at the invitation of Bishop Byrne, who purchased 10 acres of land in Helena for them to build a convent and a Catholic school, which would become Sacred Heart Academy.</p><br>
<p>The school would move to a new building in 1918, but facing declining enrollment after World War II, it closed in 1968. The building was razed in 1973, and the Sisters donated the land to the parish that is now used as the church&#39;s parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The frame church was replaced with a brick church in 1889 near the school, which served the parish until 1934, when construction began on the large brick church which stands today.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s closed its boarding school in the 1950s and its day school in 1968, and the Sisters of Mercy donated the land to the parish.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>At the behest of Fr. Thomas Martin, the church was designed by Charles Eames with his partner Robert Walsh in 1934; the team had also designed St. Mary&#39;s in Paragould, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>Although Renaissance Revival architecture was in vogue at the time, Eames designed this church in a more austere style he believed was typical of churches in the early Christian era. The church is brick, painted dusky rose. The nave is flanked by stained glass windows by Emil Frei. Behind the sanctuary is a large mural in earth tones painted by Charles F. Quest.</p><br>
<p>The church was pivotal in Eames&#39; career. The pews may have been his first experience with producing furniture in volume. More importantly, a writeup of the church was published in Architectural Forum, which caught the attention of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen wrote a congratulatory letter to Eames and offered him a fellowship at Cranbrook Academy of Art to study architecture.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Valley School in Orderville, Utah was built in 1935–36, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a yellow brick building, built as a Public Works Administration project. It originally held the Orderville Elementary School on its upper, main floor, and had the adjoining high school&#39;s home economics and shop departments in its raised basement. It was designed by architects Scott & Welch in PWA Moderne style.</p><br>
<p>The Chevy Chase Arcade is an historic structure located in the Chevy Chase neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building is a unique example of a small-scale commercial arcade in Washington. Built in 1925, it is located along Chevy Chases commercial strip, Connecticut Avenue. The area was planned by the Chevy Chase Land Company as one of four commercial areas along the street that are separated by apartment blocks. The Arcade is an example of providing elegant and convenient shopping venues in the citys prestigious suburban neighborhoods.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Classical Revival building was designed by Louis R. Moss. The exterior features a limestone façade with monumental pilasters, large windows to display the merchant&#39;s wares to pedestrians as they pass by and an arched entry way to the central arcade of shops and the offices on the second floor. The interior of the building features a vaulted ceiling, clerestory lighting, a black and white marble floor, plaster ornamental moldings and sylvan bas-relief panels.</p><br>
<p>The National Metropolitan Bank Building is an historic structure located at 655 15th Street, NW in Downtown Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>B. Stanley Simmons of the architectural firm of Gordon, Tracy & Swartout designed the Beaux-Arts style building. It was built from 1905 to 1907.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, its façade was incorporated into a new office building, Metropolitan Square, designed by Vlastimil Koubek and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.</p><br>
<p>The Second National Bank is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bank was organized in 1872 and this building served as its second headquarters. It was designed by Washington architect Appleton P. Clark Jr. in the Italian Renaissance Revival style and was built from 1927 to 1928. The banking room was on the main floor of the building and it had rental office space above.</p><br>
<h2>Architect</h2><br>
<p>The building is an example of the flattened neoclassicism that was popular in the 1920s. The exterior of the building is faced with limestone and features bronze infills.</p><br>
<p>Waggaman-Ray Commercial Row consists of four historic structures located in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C.: 1141, 1143, 1145 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. The buildings are two and three stories and utilize restrained classical architecture to project an image of sophisticated elegance. The buildings feature planar facades with classical design motifs in low-relief.</p><br>
<p>They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally designed by renowned architects, Clarke Waggaman and George N. Ray of "Waggaman & Ray Architects," the commercial row was meant to rival New York City&#39;s Fifth Avenue and establish Connecticut Avenue as a premiere shopping district for Washington, D.C. Built in 1915, the buildings are one of the first projects completed by the partnership of Waggaman & Ray. The architects were known for their interest in Classical Revival and incorporated styles from the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the City Beautiful Movement.</p><br>
<p>The Lohman Block is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Chinook, Montana. It was added to the register on March 19, 1980. The building previously housed a department store.</p><br>
<p>The building is named for businessman and rancher Andrew S. Lohman who built the block. Originally a general merchandise store, with living quarters, the 1910 two-storey addition added several other businesses. The large brick building spurred commercial growth in early Chinook.</p><br>
<p>The Young Brothers Chevrolet Garage is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Chinook, Montana. It has also been known as AAA Garage, as Taylor Motor Company, as Tilleman Chevrolet, and as Precision Auto Body. It was added to the Register on August 16, 1994. It is a stucco building with an asphalt roof.</p><br>
<p>A placard reads:</p><br>
<p>A garage/automotive business has served the motoring public at this location since 1912, establishing a long pattern of similar use rarely found in Montana buildings. Although the building was possibly built as a livery stable, it was soon converted to an auto garage, which catered to US 2 travelers and local residents. In 1929, brothers Neil and Hollis Young bought the business, known in the 1920s as the Triple A Garage, and moved their automotive shop here from across the street. The Youngs owned the local Chevrolet dealership, and within five years they had also purchased Pontiac and Oldsmobile franchises, offering Chinook residents a fine choice of General Motors products. Typical of most small-town dealerships, gasoline and petroleum sales supplemented automotive sales and repair. Primarily an outlet for Conoco, the pumps also dispensed Grizzly gas from Cut Bank and Silver gas from Great Falls. In 1939, S. L. Taylor purchased the business and it remained the Taylor Motor Company until 1977. The gas pumps were removed and the franchise closed under owner Mike Tilleman in 1979. Former Tilleman employee Wesley Bevis purchased the facility in the early 1980s and opened his own business, Precision Auto Body, continuing the long tradition of auto service at this location. The building itself is an outstanding example of the Mission style, an architectural form not often found in the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains region. A splendid curvilinear parapet, capped pilasters, horizontal relief banding, and a smooth stucco exterior provide excellent expression of this style; its bold modernity reflects the spirited progressiveness of the early automotive era.</p><br>
<p>It sold Conoco, Grizzly, and Silver gas products in the 1930s, and it operated as a gas station into the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Crow Creek Water Ditch is a historic water transportation system which brought water from Eureka Creek to where it was needed in gold placer mining in the Indian Creek drainage area where gold was discovered in 1866. It is located near Townsend, Montana. It was built between 1866 and c.1875 originally to support gold mining, which required water, then later was used for farm and ranch irrigation.</p><br>
<p>Over its 11 mi length it dropped from 6,300 ft to 4,000 ft elevation. Along most of its length, in two sections, it was a hand-dug ditch about 3 ft wide and 1 ft deep that was dug using shovels, picks and axes. One section was a "spectacular" 1,578 ft wooden flume which brought it along walls of Hassel Canyon. It also included a 3 mi section where it ran down natural gullies where no digging was needed.</p><br>
<p>An approximately 8 mi portion of it--the two hand-dug sections--was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The listed area also includes remnants of a wooden flume, and a rubble stone dam.</p><br>
<p>In 1918 the Crow Creek Irrigation District was formed by farmers and ranchers for irrigation. With the creation of Canyon Ferry Lake the need for the canals decreased.</p><br>
<p>The Ponce de Leon Apartment Building is a historic structure located in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. David L. Stern designed the structure in a combination of the Mission Revival and the Spanish Revival styles. The building was completed in 1928. It is an example of 1920s exoticism in a prominent apartment corridor in the city. The exterior features diapered brickwork, terra cotta tile roof, limestone portico and trim, and Moorish arch motifs. The interior features an intact lobby with a decorative plaster ceiling and a terrazzo floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The S.S. Grand View Point Hotel, also known as the Ship Hotel or Ship of the Alleghenies, was a historic hotel and roadside attraction in Juniata Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built in 1927 as a hotel, but did not become the Ship Hotel until the additions which made it look like a ship were completed in 1932. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, but after the hotel burned down in 2001 it was delisted in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1927, but was not transformed into the Ship Hotel until an expansion in 1932. Louis Franci and Emilio Rosso, Italian immigrants living in Allegheny County&#39;s Turtle Creek Valley, were hired as the construction managers. Rosso was a World War I veteran who had fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in 1917.</p><br>
<p>Herbert Paulson, a Dutch-born man, their supervisor, had the idea for what would become the landmark. The architect, Alfred Sinnhuber, was born in or around Berlin, Germany, and arrived in the USA in 1903. He often referred to himself as a "building designer" or architect and lived in Turtle Creek, but he also worked as a "checker" and lathe operator at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. He was married to Elsa Marie Kristen and his children joined him in the plant. Working in the Westinghouse plant was the norm for those living in Pittsburgh and its suburbs, with Franci and Rosso likely working there at some point as well. All of these individuals would work together to build the Ship Hotel expansion. Allegedly, Paulson invited Franci and Rosso on a hunting trip, proposing to these two men the idea of expanding his existing hotel into the Ship Hotel.</p><br>
<p>As local historian Brian Butko notes, Paulson chose these two men, who lived near the Westinghouse plant where he (and they likely) worked, assuming that folks living in Turtle Creek Valley "knew all about building on steep hillsides." As Sinnhuber designed the new hotel and reportedly supervised the construction, Franci and Rosso were the construction managers. Paulson, who was a tool- and die-maker in the Pittsburgh plant, reportedly told the state government: "It&#39;s my property, either you let me build it or you buy the property!"</p><br>
<p>Butko, The Ship Hotel, 35.</p><br>
<p>The construction itself began in October 1931. The ship design was chosen since fog in the valley reportedly looked like the sea. Paulson told them that they had from October until May of the following year to expand the hotel, a time frame of less than eight months, mostly in cold and snowy weather. A former owner of a car dealership in the area, Walter T. Matthews, told Butko that the ship needed over 63 tons of steel and cost about $125,000 to build, which was borrowed at 16% interest. Matthews further claimed that Franci and Rosso went broke in attempting to build the base of the hotel, having to drill down 32 feet to find rock. Additionally, the site was over 2,400 feet above sea level and 500 feet below the Allegheny Mountain summit, making it hard to build. Specifically, there was burrowing under the Lincoln Highway, or USA Route 30, in order to insert the three heavy I-beams, with embedded huge concrete piers allowing the ship to "ride." Other than the cement and 18 steel piers, numerous carloads of lumber were used for the 3/4-inch thick wood that was overlaid with metal siding, coming from at least 22 junked car frames, to cover the hotel&#39;s exterior. Also, nails and 72 tons of steel, by some counts, went into the construction of the expanded 5-floor-hotel, coupled with water piped from half-a-mile away.</p><br>
<p>While Franci and Rosso did manual work to build the expanded hotel, they had a crew which helped them with the laborious process of construction.</p><br>
<h2>Grand opening and later years</h2><br>
<p>After 1931, the Ship Hotel blossomed. At noon on May 29, 1932, after it was announced in the local Bedford Gazette, the ship opened, offering tours, staff inspections, and concerts. On that day, the Bedford American Legion Junior band, a local German band, and the Bedford High School band played, while a plane flew overhead dropping flowers on the ships deck and a stilt walker entertained guests. The hotel was described as having "one of the most significant scenic views on the North American continent" with views of a fertile region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and of Marylands rolling hills. The main claim was that you could see three states and seven counties from the ship, with no official list of what one could see from the ship itself.</p><br>
<p>As years went by, the hotel stayed on despite difficulties. The Paulson family lived on the ship and kept it running for many years, with Clara Paulson having the distinction as the only person who was born on the ship. Day-to-day entertainment included a local comedian, a grand orchestra, and much more, even when it was snow-bound in the winters. The ship was remodeled numerous times and thrived even with the building of the PA turnpike, suffered the brunt of anti-German discrimination during World War II, and stayed busy until the 1970s when public interest in roadside attractions began to wane.</p><br>
<p>By 1954, reportedly 2 million people had visited it, covering 20 volumes of registers, including those living in 62 foreign countries and possibly famous celebrities such as Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, the hotel made much of its money in souvenirs and refreshments, starting in 1932 and until Paulson&#39;s death in 1973.</p><br>
<p>After 1978 the ship was turned into "Noah&#39;s Ark" by another family, the Loyas. From then on, the ship fell into disrepair, burning down in October 2001, reportedly due to lights kept on in the decaying structure to dissuade squatters.</p><br>
<p>The Bedford Historic District is a national historic district located in Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The district includes two hundred and ten contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Bedford.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and features</h2><br>
<p>The buildings date between 1750 and 1930, and include notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate and Federal style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the oldest building in Bedford County: Fortified Bedford House (1758), Fort Bedford Museum (in the style of the 1750s ~ the building itself was constructed in 1958), Neptune House (c. 1880), G. C. Murphy Company Building (c. 1875), Arnold Building (c. 1870), Victoria House (1876), Bedford Cafe (c. 1875), Talvin Lodge (1880), Penn Bedford Hotel (1922), Ford Garage (1922), and St. Thomas the Apostle Church (c. 1817). Located in the district and listed separately are the Barclay House, Espy House, Russell House, and Chalybeate Springs Hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Pilsen was formally founded in 1878 making the neighborhood a factor in the political and economic change planned in Chicago. In the late 19th century Pilsen was inhabited by Czech immigrants who named the district after Plzeň , the fourth largest city in today&#39;s Czech Republic. The population also included in smaller numbers other ethnic groups from Austria-Hungary including Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats and Austrians, as well as immigrants of Polish and Lithuanian heritage. In 1934 majority of Poles, Croatians, Lithuanians, and Italians sustained Pilsen, making it an ethnic working-class neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>During the year 1945, the Committee on Minority Groups established a Subcommittee on Social Services for Mexican Migratory Workers due to the increasing migration of Mexican migrant contract workers (braceros). The Czechs had replaced the Germans, who had settled there first with the Irish in the mid-19th century. Although there was a growing Mexican American presence in the late 1950s, it was not until 1962-63 when there was a significant increase in the numbers of Mexican Americans in Pilsen due to the destruction of the neighborhood west of Halsted Street between Roosevelt and Taylor Streets to create room for the construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The destruction closed nearby factories where Mexican migrants worked. Other contributing factors to the increasing numbers include the state-sponsored mass labor importation programs in the United States of majority Mexican and Puerto Rican migrants.</p><br>
<p>Although this area was predominantly Italian American, it was also an important entry point for Mexican immigrants for several decades. Latinos became the majority in 1970 when they surpassed the Slavic population. The neighborhood continued to serve as port of entry for immigrants, both documented and undocumented, mostly from Mexico. In a 2003 case study, Mexican residents remember the early experience of living in early Pilsen. Signs that read ‘No dogs or Mexicans’ were put up all around businesses from the 1950s to 1960s, during the major influx of Mexican immigrants. Other experiences included banks refusing to give mortgages because Pilsen had the largest population of Mexican immigrants.</p><br>
<p>Since 2000, the Mexican population in Pilsen had decreased. Still, the 2003 case study, addressed that Pilsen was 93% Mexican-American leading to the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce identifying Pilsen as "an authentically Mexican neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>On February 1, 2006, Pilsen became a National Historic Register District.</p><br>
<p>PIlsen is home to Chicago&#39;s largest migrant shelter, located between Cermak Road and the southern branch of the Chicago River, opened in fall 2023. People living at the shelter have described it as having "harsh shelter conditions, including cramped living quarters, mistreatment from workers, freezing temperatures, and unsanitary bathrooms," with an analysis by Borderless magazine concluding that the shelter "fails to meet the basic standards for emergency shelter laid out by the U.N. Refugee Agency." In December 2023, several children staying at the shelter became ill, with one of them dying.</p><br>
<h2>Gentrification</h2><br>
<p>As early as 1985, Pilsens proximity to the downtown area and its low-value property became an ideal neighborhood for gentrification. Pilsen residents and community institutions mobilized against two major redevelopments Chicago 21 Plan (the mid-1970s) and Chicago 1992 Worlds Fair (early to mid-1980s). The neighborhood&#39;s long-lasting defense is prompted by its alliance of local developers, Pilsen homeowners, and the city. As of 2014 growing community activists like The Pilsen Alliance, an organization from 1998 that mobilized against the expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in Pilsen, continued to display an extensive stronghold against developer and city plans.</p><br>
<p>In 2016 a recent uprise of Pilsen as a neighborhood experiencing gentrification led to the displacement of residents, the shutting down of businesses, and a cultural change in the historically Mexican neighborhood. According to the Chicago Sun-Times as of 2023 Pilsen community organizations are protesting the increasing property taxes that continue to force residents out of their homes.</p><br>
<p>Everett Historic District is a national historic district located at Everett, Pennsylvania. The district includes 300 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Everett. The buildings date between about 1830 and 1952, and include notable examples of Gothic Revival and Federal style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the USA Post Office , Everett Free Library, Zion Lutheran Church, Grace Brethren Church, Barndollar Methodist Church , Everett Hardware Company Building , foundry on North Juniata Street , and Everett Manufacturing Company .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Schellsburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses ninety-two contributing buildings that are located in the crossroads community of Schellsburg. They were built roughly between 1810 and 1949 and include notable examples of Prairie School and Federal-style architecture.</p><br>
<p>There are seventy-three residences, three historic churches, one former school, fifteen commercial buildings, three mixed use buildings, and fifteen barns.</p><br>
<p>This district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Arvon Township Hall is a public building located on Park Road in Skanee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Huron Bay Iron and Slate Company, located in Arvon, was a major employer in the area in the late 1800s. The Township offices were located in its headquarters from 1874 to 1878. In 1878, a one-room schoolhouse with associated township office was constructed just in front of where the current township hall stands. However, the community continue to grow, and by the turn of the century there were 650 male voters on the rolls; with women and children the actual township population was likely far higher. A new school was constructed in 1910, and in 1914, the community decided to build a new town hall.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, this hall was constructed by Fred Carlson of Hancock, Michigan, based on a design by Charles W. Maass, also from Hancock. At the time the hall was built, the area was still a sparsely settled frontier, and the township government played an important role in the local community. The hall was used as a community center and hosted public meetings. It continues to be used for meetings, as well as amateur theatrical productions, community pageants, ethnic music festivals and other recreational activities.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Arvon Township Hall is a symmetric two-story rectangular building of frame construction on a concrete foundation. The first story is covered with brown-stained shingles and the second with yellow painted horizontal board siding. The hipped roof features a decorative six-sided cupola, dominating the facade, topped with pyramid roof and an iron finial. A central entrance pavilion contains a second story bay over a recessed porch. The entrance is framed with large square pillars, and the porch contains decorative gingerbreading. The windows are symmetrically arranged on both the first and second floors.</p><br>
<p>Inside the building is a large meeting hall with an associated kitchen, a smaller meeting room, and a hallway containing stairs leading to the second floor. On the second floor is a large auditorium/gymnasium with dressing rooms, a coat room, and a ticket booth. A balcony is overhead.</p><br>
<p>The Barrio Santa Rosa is a neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona that is also a historic district listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2011. It includes 124 buildings, built in adobe, brick, wood and other materials, in a variety of architectural styles. Architectural styles represented includes traditional Sonoran, Postwar Territorial , Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Mission/Spanish revival, and modern ranch.</p><br>
<p>It was named "Best New City Neighborhood" in Tucson by lifestyle magazine Sunset.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Lustron Home No. 02102 is a historic enameled steel prefabricated Lustron house located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>In 2004 it was deemed significant as one out of just nine surviving Lustron Homes installed in Cedar Rapids, and out of 143 installed in Iowa. Per the NRHP nominating document, it is "an example of the Lustron Corporation&#39;s innovative contributions to the prefabricated housing industry and its efforts to incorporate modem architecture and the latest domestic technologies into the lives of everyday Americans."</p><br>
<p>The Canyon Falls Bridge is a bridge located on US Highway 41  over the Sturgeon River in L&#39;Anse Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During 1947–48, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) contracted for the construction of eleven different trunkline bridges in the Upper Peninsula. Five of these bridges were required because of reconstruction to US 41. The Canyon Falls Bridge was designated Bridge No. B2 of 7-4-5 C2 by the MSHD. The steel arch bridge was designed by MSHD engineers and constructed for $116,389.42, plus an additional $58,200 for structural steel. The bridge was completed in the middle of 1948, and has remained in use in essentially unaltered condition since.</p><br>
<p>This bridge is significant because the steel arch design is relatively rare in the state, due largely to the fact that few river crossings afforded the required vertical distance. The Canyon Falls Bridge is a visually striking construction, representing the Highway Department&#39;s focus on aesthetics.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Canyon Falls Bridge is constructed of a two-hinged, girder-ribbed arch. The span is 128 ft long, with 52 ft approach spans on each end for an overall structure length of 232 ft. Five ribs support a 45.4 ft deck, of which 38 ft is used for the asphalt roadway. The ribs rest on massive concrete pedestals.</p><br>
<p>The configuration of the bridge is highly simplified, with some minimal decoration on ancillary components. Guardrails have ornamental steel rails and balusters, and a decorative concrete pylon tops each arch pedestal. The appearance of the pylons and the profile of the arched ribs gives the bridge a distinctive Art Moderne look.</p><br>
<p>Canyon Falls Bridge MI C.jpgRoadway surface</p><br>
<p>Canyon Falls Bridge MI B.jpgGirder work underneath the bridge</p><br>
<p>The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This was the third building C&P Telephone built in downtown Washington and the second in a two-year period of time. This seven-story structure housed the company&#39;s new dial switching equipment that could not be accommodated in its existing facilities. It was designed with Art Deco detailing and ornamentation by the New York architectural firm of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker. The company began its first conversion to dial telephone service on May 3, 1930, when 60,000 telephones in downtown Washington were switched over from the old manual system.</p><br>
<p>The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Old Main Building is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As the number of businesses in Washington increasingly relied on telephone service, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company built this building as its new main exchange. Designed by architect Leon Eidlitz, it was the first of a complex of buildings the company would construct at this site. The building houses what was considered to be the largest telephone switchboard at the time. It began operations in September 1904 and served 6,000 at the beginning. The new system eliminated the multiple rings on party lines and the need for an operator to interrupt the line to determine whether a subscriber had completed a call or wanted to receive calls.</p><br>
<p>Commercial National Bank is an historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bank was organized in 1904 and grew to become the fourth largest bank in the city by the 1920s. Its capitol was frozen at the value of its building when it failed in 1933. The building, completed in 1917, was also designed to house Western Union.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Washington architect Waddy B. Wood. It is an early example of the simplified and stylized classicism that became popular in the 1920s. The exterior of the 11-story structure features strong corner massing, limestone facades with flattened porticos, a plain ashlar middle section and a prominent cornice. Greek Doric motifs are featured in its austere decoration. The interior of the building has a three-story banking lobby that features monumental columns.</p><br>
