<p>William Syphax School, now known as Syphax Village, is a historic former school building in the Southwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. that now houses condominiums. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The William Syphax School historically served African American students. It was named for William Syphax, the first president of the Board of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and Georgetown. He supported the notion of a unified public school system and supported equal educational standards. He was responsible for the construction of the Charles Sumner School and the Thaddeus Stevens School.</p><br>
<p>A building for the school was completed in 1901 and was expanded in 1941 and again in 1953. It ceased serving as a school in 1994. Three years later, residents complained that it had become a drug market and crack house. The Southwest Neighborhood Assembly began to aggressively seek out a developer and found one, which purchased the school in 1999. The old school building was officially declared a historic landmark in 2003, and the newer buildings were razed starting in 2001. Manna redeveloped the school building into a condominium development, which opened in 2005 as Syphax Village.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Colonial Revival style. The D.C. Office of the Building Inspector commissioned its construction. It was designed by the architectural firm of Marsh & Peter. Municipal Architect Nathan C. Wyeth designed the 1941 addition. The original building is two and a half stories and is topped with a hipped roof. The exterior features a red brick façade arched windows and white terra cotta trim. The additions are also covered in red brick but have flat roofs, multi-paned windows, and limestone trim.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Mission Church is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Townsend, Montana. It was added to the Register on November 5, 1998. Originally a Catholic church, the building is now a museum known as Canton Church Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>The church was built during 1875–76. According to its NRHP nomination, it is "the oldest extant example of secular Roman Catholic church architecture in Montana. It is also a rare example of Colonial Style architecture. The addition of a belfry and steeple in 1902 somewhat altered the church&#39;s Colonial appearance, but still carried forward its earlier design features."</p><br>
<p>The church building was moved to its current location in 1954 by the USA Bureau of Reclamation in order to save it from demolition.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church at in Phoenix, Arizona, was built in 1929. While local architects Fitzhugh & Byron "prepared the working drawings and supervised the building&#39;s construction," it was mainly designed by supervising architect George Merrill "of the Department of Architecture of the American Baptist Home Mission Society in New York."</p><br>
<p>It was designed in an Italian Gothic style, but includes Moderne and other architectural elements.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church moved to a new location in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The Toston Bridge is a site on the National Register of Historic Places spanning the Missouri River, on an abandoned segment of old USA Route 287, at Toston, Montana. It was added to the Register on July 20, 2005.</p><br>
<p>It is a steel, three-span riveted Warren through truss bridge supported by two reinforced concrete piers and by reinforced concrete abutments. It is 525 ft long, with three 175 ft-long spans.</p><br>
<p>It crosses the Missouri River in an area where the river flows north.</p><br>
<p>Bradley&#39;s Covered Bridge, also known as the Long Cane Covered Bridge, was a covered bridge located near Troy, South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Until its fiery destruction by vandals, the Long Cane Covered Bridge, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, was one of three covered bridges in South Carolina. The bridge was constructed in 1892 by Y.P. Reagan to replace an earlier bridge, which had been washed away in January 1892. The new bridge was originally called "Bradleys Bridge" because it was close by John Bradleys mill.</p><br>
<p>The covered bridge was built in the Howe style, a type of construction, which introduced iron rods into the bridge trusses. That popular design served as a transition from wooden bridges to those built of iron and steel. The bridge was 30 feet high and spanned 163 feet over Long Cane Creek. It rested on two stone abutments with four supporting piers in the creek bed. The bridge consisted of thirteen boxed X-panel trusses with stabilizing iron turnbuckles. Vertical board and batten siding covered the X-panel trusses and was irregularly cut and remained unpainted. The bridge portals were covered with unpainted wooden clapboards, and the roof was covered with tin.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was destroyed by an arsonist on July 8, 1979, and was subsequently removed from the National Register on August 31, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Savage-Stewart House is one of the oldest buildings in Athens County, Ohio, United States. Located a short distance southeast of Canaanville along USA Route 50, it features many architectural details typical of expensive buildings constructed in early Ohio, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Also known as the "Ackley Farm", the farm includes buildings constructed as early as 1804. The land comprising the farm was given to Abijah Savage, a Continental Army captain from Connecticut, as compensation for his military service in the American Revolution. Throughout the history of the farm, its owners have generally been more prosperous than many of their neighbors, due to the property&#39;s location along the rich bottoms of the Hocking River.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall and built of brick on foundations of sandstone, the house features elements such as an ornamental balustrade along the staircase in the hallway, a cornice with sawtooth-shaped molding, and fluted columns. Although the house falls into no distinct architectural style, these and related elements are typical of more expensive buildings constructed in Ohio soon after statehood.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the house and five outbuildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of their place in the areas history and because of their distinctive historic architecture. Although the house has largely been abandoned and overgrown, it was deemed historic partially because of the presence of antique farm equipment manufactured before 1930, which at that time was still secure in some of the farms sheds.</p><br>
<p>Since 1895, Fountain Park has hosted an annual Chatauqua to promote religious, social and educational activities. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on.</p><br>
<p>At one time there were an estimated 85 Chautauquas in Indiana alone. Of these, only six continue the Chautauqua tradition including the cities of Columbus, Jeffersonville, Madison, Merom, Remington, and Rome City. Most host weekend festivals for art competitions, music, crafts, and historical re-enactments. Fountain Park Chautauqua continues in the tradition of a two-week event, which includes Sunday School, church services as well as family-oriented entertainment including singing groups and bands, speakers, art classes, talent shows and other recreational activities. Fountain Park is one of a few with permanent structures that built specifically for the Chautauqua. These include a tabernacle, recreational building, hotel and seventy cottages.</p><br>
<h2>Chautauqua</h2><br>
<p>The Chautauqua is significant in our nation&#39;s social history as a movement to provide cultural and educational enrichment to the people. The movement which began in 1874, spurred a tremendous popularity of the Chautauqua throughout the country. At the height of the movement, historians estimate that Chautauquas may have involved as many as 30 million people in 12,000 communities in a given summer. The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 in Chautauqua, New York, as a training camp for Sunday school teachers. The idea was that of a Methodist minister and Sunday School Superintendent, John H. Vincent and Lewis Miller respectively. The two men cofounded the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly Program. This program was aimed at religious education, but expanded to include music, art, and secular education. The first Chautauqua was so successful that the idea spread quickly throughout America. Independent Chautauquas, modeled after the "Mother Chautauqua" in New York, sprang up all over the country. The Chautauqua movement hit its peak about 1924-1925. From the 1880s to the Great Depression, Chautauqua was the window to cultural and educational enrichment for thousands of isolated towns from New England to the Rocky Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Chronology</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1895, a mile north of Remington in Jasper County, Indiana, Remington Bank&#39;s president, Robert Parker, envisioned an annual assembly to discuss various topics, including religion, science, and literature. In 1893, he purchased the land for Fountain Park.</p><br>
<p>Recreational activities were part of program with boating, swimming, shuffleboard, and athletic contests. Parker purchased 70 acre of land in 1893 and "saw its natural beauty as an ideal place for an annual, out-of-doors assembly to be held for the people of Northwestern Indiana to meet to discuss religious, scientific and literary subjects."</p><br>
<p>Before the first session, in 1895, Parker built a tabernacle and restaurant. The assembly lasted ten days at a cost of $1.00 per person. The Fountain Park Company was organized in 1897 with Parker as president. By 1898, a 36-room hotel had been built and a dam on Carpenter Creek to create a small lake for boating and swimming. The dam was removed because it obstructed water flow to Remington and other areas.</p><br>
<p>Between the close of the fourth session and the opening of the fifth session, the first permanent cottage was built by the Sherman "White family of Brook and the George Ball family of Kentland. As the number of cottages was growing, the owners expressed the wish that all tents and cottages be placed on the outer side of the grounds and that the grove be preserved intact. Fountain Park was becoming a popular destination with amenities which included telephone service, mail pickup and delivery, grocery service, mineral water from natural springs, tenting privileges, a hotel and restaurant. Its location, a 1 mi from Remington, and its stop on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad line made it accessible from Chicago. Hacks operated from Remington on a schedule during the assemblies.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, the Pennsylvania Railroad offered special excursion rates. Its people were beginning to realize that the assembly brought into their midst advantages. Nationally known Temperance speakers, evangelists, politicians, poets and musicians performed at the Assembly, including ex-USA Senator John Ingalls, Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan (on four occasions), Paul Harvey, Governor Robert M. La Follette, World War I hero Pat OBrien, and Mrs. Billy Sunday, the widow of the late Billy Sunday also delivered a short address. William Jennings Bryan and Pat OBrien had the highest attendance ratings in Fountain Parks history. An address by one Senator described Fountain Park by saying, "Under the shadow of the trees, in this happy little grove, in that rude structure (tabernacle) where nothing has been done for show during these past scores of years has been gathered annually the very best and brightest men and women the world has known, and their sweetest and brightest thoughts have been expressed for us who come to listen and to learn. Here was freedom; rest for the weary, pictures of a bright future; reminiscent of joys of the past. I don&#39;t believe there ever was another thirty acres in the world where so many great and good men and women met and gave free expressions to so many great and good thoughts in the same length of time. Religion, history, romance, right living, higher aims, education, music, good fellowship; everything except the sordid aim to accumulate money, here at its highest and best.".</p><br>
<p>Until 1902, the Assembly was operated as a Christian church project. That year it was incorporate with a capital stock of $24,000. In 1904, a Certificate of Incorporation was signed at capital stock of $30,000, which made it a joint stock company. The Fountain Park Company then leased the 30 acres from Robert Parker and his wife for the fee of $50 per year over the next 25 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1907, automobiles were first admitted. The original driveway used for hacks delivering patrons to the park was on the east side of the property where the fairgrounds were. With increasing use of automobiles, the gate on the west side of the park was opened in 1912 for autos only. Eventually both of these gates were closed and the north gate became the only way to enter or exit the grounds. In 1908, the founder, Robert Parker, resigned. In May 1909 Christian and Margaret Hensler purchased the property and leased approximately 30 acres of it for the use of Fountain Park. Later a lawsuit between the Hensler heirs and Fountain Park Company divided the 30 acre down to the current 17.3 acre. The Women&#39;s Improvement Association was organized to help in beautifying and improving the grounds and buildings in 1911. The following year, an electric light system was installed.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Park stayed open during the Great Depression and throughout both World Wars. During World War I all lights were turned off after the evening programs of 1918. The Great Depression the 1933 session pushed forward one week. In 1942, it was decided that Fountain Park would go on that year. Rationing due to World War II held down attendance in 1943.</p><br>
<p>Between 1956 and 1961 major changes occurred. The old food stand was replaced, a new tabernacle was constructed, a new entrance gate was built on the north side, a new fountain was designed, and a new recreation hall was constructed.</p><br>
<p>Fowler Methodist Church holds a family each year, the Boy and Girl Scouts and area schools, have used the grounds for day camps and other events.</p><br>
<h2>The Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The Fountain Park Chautauqua is located north of Remington, Indiana, in a predominantly agricultural area of Jasper County. The 17.3 acre are heavily wooded with oak, hickory, walnut and wild cherry trees and run along Carpenter Creek. The camp contains small cottages with a few larger buildings for educational, recreational, and residential purposes. The main entrance is on the north side of the circular drive, which circles the camp. Six cottages and a few outbuildings, including two of the early privies, remain outside the loop created by the road.</p><br>
<p>At the center of the camp is a fountain and gazebo, thus the name "Fountain Park". Radiating around the interior circle created by the cottages are the Tabernacle, Recreation Building, Food and Candy Stands, the Art Colony and museum, and the Well House and Brick Shelter. Interspersed are the shuffleboard/bowling lanes, a basketball court, a playground, a series of benches/swings, and a variety of flower planters, two stone ones date back to 1932. The only public structure not located within the circle of the other public buildings is the hotel. It is on the west side of the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The design of the grounds contribute to the integrity of the district. The meandering perimeter road and the siting of cottages along the perimeter road has shaped a distinct space. Catalpa trees were planted to shade individual cottages. Catalpas were a popular in the 1800 and 1900s. Their broad leaves provide good shade and their flowers give a pleasant sweet scent in early summer. By 1917 there were forty-eight cottages located on the grounds. The cottages are built on small lots and placed very close together. The standard construction was a one and a half stories with a gable front and a one-story open front porch. The front facade usually contained a door and a window on the main floor and a single window centered in the gable above. Because of the small lots, the cottages were usually twice as deep as they were wide. Cottage number 32 is a good example of this style. Little decoration was used although a couple do have Gothic Revival: bargeboard trim, window hoods and arched windows. Because of the limited use, few of the cottages have fireplaces or chimneys.</p><br>
<p>Over time variations in style have developed. Most of the newer construction has been confined to the south on the far side of the road. Not all of the cottages are officially viewed as "contributing". These changes reflect the history of Fountain Park Chautauqua over the 105-year existence.</p><br>
<p>Non-contributing buildings on the grounds are not out of scale with the historic structures. More recent cottages may have a lower roof pitch, or are constructed of concrete block. One structure is an A-frame design. All of the non-contributing cottages are sited on lots intended for dwellings and thus have similar presence on the site to the historic ones. In 1895, the association built a wooden rectangular tabernacle on the location of the current tabernacle. In 1960, they demolished the old tabernacle and built the current one. The current tabernacle, however, is wooden-sided, gable-roofed building of roughly the same dimensions as its predecessor.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Brick Shelter is an open-air structure with a concrete foundation. It was built early in the history of Fountain Park. No exact date is known. There are four brick piers that support the exposed king post trusses of the gable roof. Originally there was a water tank and pump, which has been moved to create a public gathering area.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel was constructed in 1898 on the northwest side of the camp. It had 36 rooms, reduced by 5 for the installation of indoor bathrooms, and a 130-seat dining room. It is L-shaped with seven bays on the south and east facades. One bay marks a doorway with a transom light above and the other six bays are four over four windows. It has a hipped roof, with two dormers at the ends of the east-west section. A two-story open porch that surround the building. There is an exterior stairway at the southwest corner of the porch that has the same square post railing as the porch upstairs.</p><br>
<p>The Tabernacle is not the original structure. It site in the same location as the original from 1895. It is a rectangular-shaped building with vertical wood siding and a gable roof. The sides can be removed to allow for better ventilation. Large red, white, and blue awnings are extended to provide additional shelter for large groups. The main entry is on the west facade and opens onto a central aisle, leading to the stage. The stage if from the original tabernacle. The theater style seats hold 232 audience members. The ceiling is a series of open bowstring steel trusses and are painted white. There are modern fans and lights suspended from the trusses. The tabernacle was built in 1960 to replace the 1895 structure.</p><br>
<p>Entry Gate was built in 1960. It is a small rectangular shed with an exterior of limestone and vertical wood siding. It has a shallow pitched, hipped roof with extended overhangs. The gates to either side of the driveways have matching limestone piers with wood railings.</p><br>
<p>The fountain located near the center of the camp is not original. There has been a fountain throughout history of the park. An Indiana State Historical Marker is located next to the fountain commemorating the site.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Davies, Sandra, Kathleen Kelley, Freda Koch, et al. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Lancaster Methodist Episcopal Camp Ground Historic District. Completed 1987.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Park Chautauqua Preserving Tradition for 100 Years. 100th Anniversary Newspaper. Remington, IN: The Remington Press. July 31, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Park Lease Agreement November 9, 1954. Copy filed in Jasper County, Indiana Recorder&#39;s Office.</p><br>
<p>Kandur-Smith, Karin Lynn, Hosier Chautauquas: Learning and sharing wisdom around^ Indiana, Outdoor Indiana, May/June 1996.</p><br>
<p>Miles, Frank, Chautauqua in Indiana, Madison, Indiana, 1988</p><br>
<p>Nelson, Sharon. "Highlights of 100 Years of Fountain Park" Printed in Fountain Park 100 Anniversary Book, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Normand, Kipp Alien. Zion of Summer: The Winona Assembly and Sumner School Association 1895-1915, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1989.</p><br>
<p>Stanley, Karen. "The History of the Fountain Park Hotel" Compiled 1998.</p><br>
<p>Tapk, John E., Circuit Chautauqua: From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America. Jefferson, N.G, McFarland, cl997.</p><br>
<p>Walker, Amy. Series of interviews with Karen Stanley conducted July 6, 2000; July 13, 2000; July 27, 2000; August 4, 2000.</p><br>
<p>Wooden, Helen O&#39;Riley. Fountain Park Chautauqua: Oldest in Midwest 1954.</p><br>
<p>The Cornish House is a historic house at 1800 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a -story brick structure, with a side gable roof, and a project center gable at the front, sheltering a porch with granite balustrade and posts. A porte-cochere extends north of the building, and a sunroom south. The house was built in 1917 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Theodore Sanders, and is a well-preserved local example of Tudor Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Boone House is a historic house located at 4014 Lookout in Little Rock, Arkansas.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story masonry structure, built out of a combination of fieldstone, brick, and stucco. It is constructed in a rusticated Tudor Revival style. The structure was built in 1927 following a design by Thompson & Harding. It has a wide variety of textures to its exterior, and uses earth tones to blend into its relatively rural and wooded landscape.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick P. Currier House is a private residential structure located at 231 East Saint Clair Street in the village of Almont in Almont Township in southeastern Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on April 5, 1975, and soon after added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1854, the -story house was designed in the octagon style, which was popular at the time. However, not all eight of the structure&#39;s sides are equal length. The front, rear, and side walls are 24 feet (7.3 m) long, and the four diagonal walls are only six feet (1.8 m) in length. The first floor also has a higher ceiling at 11 feet (3.4 m) high and contains a wraparound porch. The house is not a unique structure in itself but remains one of the oldest such structures in the state of Michigan. It was built by carpenter Frederick P. Currey, who was a prominent businessman in several other fields in Lapeer County. His descendants maintained the house until 1961 until selling it to another private owner.</p><br>
<p>A plaque was dedicated on the site that reads, "Frederick and Mary Currier built this house around 1854, inspired by Orson Fowlers A Home for All, which promoted the octagon form as a healthy place to live. The tall windows, which admit light and air, and the five octagonal rooms reflect Fowlers philosophy. The Curriers came to Almont from New England in 1847. A machinist by trade, Currier (1812–1900) at one time owned farms and factories, and invested in banking and lumbering. The house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places."</p><br>
<p>The Brown House is a historic house at 1604 Caldwell Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with Colonial Revival and Queen Anne features. It has a tall hip roof, from with gables project, some finished in decoratively cut shingles. It has a wraparound porch supported by Ionic columns with a balustrade of urn-shaped spindles. It was designed by prolific Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built about 1900.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The John E Bush House is a historic house at 1516 Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a front gable roof and clapboard siding. A single-story gabled porch, its gable nearly matching that of the main roof, projects from the front, supported by fieldstone columns. The gable ends feature half-timbering effect typical of the Craftsman/Bungalow style. The house was designed by Thompson & Harding and built in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Estate Little Princess is a historic plantation site located northwest of Christiansted in Saint Croix, USA Virgin Islands. It was first owned by governor Frederik Moth in 1738 and rests on 25 acres of land . As of 2011 the estate is under ownership of The Nature Conservancy and serves as headquarters for the Eastern Caribbean/Virgin Islands programs. The property has been turned into a nature preserve and historical tours are given as well. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1980.</p><br>
<p>There are many buildings on the property, including a building that served as a Danish hospital and the great house, which was built in the 1800s. Both have been partially restored. Estate Little Princess was primarily a sugar and rum factory hundreds of years ago. There are many ruins (such as a windmill and remnants of the factory) located on the grounds of the estate.</p><br>
<p>In the great house, a small exhibition with photographs, maps and other documents tells the history of the estate.</p><br>
<p>Access is via the minor road leading north-west from the intersection of VI75 (Northside road) and VI74 (Rattan road) 2km northwest of Christiansted.</p><br>
<p>Caldwell Hall occupies a central position on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It is a large, T-shaped two-story brick building with Late Gothic Revival features, which was built in 1928 to a design by the noted Arkansas architectural firm Thompson, Sanders, & Ginocchio. Its central entrance section has Art Deco features in stone panels above the entrance, and fluted stone piers that rise to streamlined finials.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Campbell-Chrisp House is a historic house at 102 Elm Street in Bald Knob, Arkansas. It is a -story structure, supposedly designed by Charles Thompson, in a Romanesque style with Colonial Revival details. Prominent features include a large round-arch window on the first floor, above which is a three-part window with tall sections topped by round arches. A porch supported by Ionic columns wraps around the front and side of the house. The house was built in 1899 for Thomas Campbell, a local businessman.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Galloway Hall is a residence hall on the campus of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. It is a large Tudor Revival three story brick building, designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1913. Its central portion has a gabled roof, with end pavilions that have hip roofs with gabled dormers, and stepped parapet gables, with limestone trim. It is the oldest dormitory building on the campus. It was named to honor Bishop Charles Betts Galloway.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Central Presbyterian Church of Little Rock was located in the Quapaw Quarter area of Little Rock.</p><br>
<p>The original Central Presbyterian Church building is Christ Temple Cathedral, formerly the home of Central Presbyterian Church, is a historic church building at 1921 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was built in 1921 to a design by Thompson & Harding in Late Gothic Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman style. Its exterior is clad in yellow brick, with half-timbered stuccoed elements in its gable ends. Its main entrance consists of three segmented-arch openings, set in a projecting section between two brick piers with stone banding. The present church congregation using this building is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>in 2014 a church plant named Central Presbyterian Church (PCA) was started in the Hillcrest Neighborhood and was renamed in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The Clark County Library is located at 609 Caddo St. in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It is located in a Classical Revival single-story brick building designed by Charles L. Thompson, a noted Little Rock architect, and built in 1903. It is one of the oldest institutional library buildings in Arkansas. It was built by the local Women&#39;s Library Association, and transferred to county control in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Dean House is a historic house off USA Route 165 in Portland, Arkansas. The -story house was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built c. 1910. Stylistically, it is a Creole cottage, a simple rectangular shape mounted in a foundation with brick piers. The roof extends over a wraparound porch, which is supported by Tuscan columns. The roof is pierced by a pair of gabled dormers that are decorated with fish-scale shingles.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Clark House is a historic house at 1324 South Main Street in Malvern, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, roughly rectangular in plan, with a side-gable roof, projecting front-facing cross-gable sections on the left side, and a hip-roofed porch extending to the right. The roof extends over a recessed porch, with exposed rafter ends and brick pier supports. It was built in 1916 in Bungalow/Craftsman style to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Columbia County Jail is a historic structure at Calhoun and Jefferson Streets in Magnolia, Arkansas. The brick two story structure in Columbia County was designed by Thompson & Harding and was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Italian Renaissance architecture. It is faced in cream-colored brick, and has a terracotta hipped roof. It has an entrance portico with round arches supported by slender columns and gargoyles at its corners.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its architecture; it was still used as a jail at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Cotton Belt Freight Depot is a former freight depot of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2004 and named "Best Old Building" by the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>Since 2002, the Cotton Belt Freight Depot has been the usual location of Artica, an annual grassroots outdoor and multidisciplinary arts festival.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, artists completed a large mural on the building&#39;s eastern side, visible from the nearby bridge over the Mississippi River.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building has no formal tenants or function. There are occupants camped in the far North and South ends of the building, where they have built makeshift homes out of found materials like pallets and tires. The upper floors of the building are inaccessible other than by rope or ladder through the open elevator shafts. Windows and doors have been destroyed and the building is open to the elements from its sides. Its primary use today is as a site for graffiti and graffiti art. Its interior walls are an ever-changing canvas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. Louis Southwestern Railway, known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply Cotton Belt, was a USA Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis and various points in the states of Arkansas and Texas from 1891 to 1992.</p><br>
<p>The railroad began building the five-story freight depot in 1911 to help move freight. The depot opened on January 1, 1913, with two miles of house, team, and storage tracks.</p><br>
<p>It has been vacant since 1959. When it was closed, the freight forwarding company, Acme, moved its operations to East St. Louis to be closer to Valley Junction Yard.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is notable for its long, narrow shape. The concrete building stretches about 750 ft on its east and west elevations and 30 ft on the north and south. The five stories include a series of loading dock doors on both sides that are sheltered by a concrete awning. Widely spaced metal-frame industrial-type windows line the upper stories. A slightly taller cornice line marks the section of the building where the company offices were located. Most of the buildings detail is reserved for this section where the companys name is displayed in two levels over a bay window.</p><br>
<p>Other details include terra cotta medallions on the corners bearing the name "Cotton Belt Route&quot a Classical-style frame around the office door; keystones that decorate the windows near the buildings north end; and copper lions heads that join the awning poles to the building.</p><br>
<p>CottonBeltMural.JPGAfter the "Migrate" mural</p><br>
<p>CottonBeltExterior.jpgBefore the "Migrate" mural</p><br>
<p>Cottonbeltdepot1.jpgAlternative name on the Western facade</p><br>
<p>The Croxson House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story frame structure, with a side gambrel roof that has wide shed-roof dormers, and clapboard siding. A porch extends across the front, supported by heavy Tuscan columns, with brackets lining its eave. The house was built in 1908 to a design by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson. It is well-preserved example of Thompson&#39;s Dutch Colonial designs.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was included in an enlargement of the Governor&#39;s Mansion Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Darragh House is a historic house in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a -story frame structure, its exterior finished in brick and stucco, with a side gable roof pierced by broad shed-roof dormers, giving it a Dutch Colonial feel. The roof hangs over a recessed porch, supported by oversized Tuscan columns. Built about 1916, the house is a distinctive local example of the work of noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Davis House is a historic house at 212 Fulton Street in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame American Foursquare structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a foundation of rusticated concrete blocks. The roof has flared eaves with exposed rafter ends, and a front-facing dormer with a Flemish-style gable. The porch extends across the front and curves around to the side, supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built about 1905 to a design by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Deener House is a historic house at 310 East Center Street in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a -story Bungalow/Craftsman style house that was designed by noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912. It has the low-slung appearance typical of the Bungalow style, with a side gable roof that extends across its full-width front porch, where it is supported by fieldstone piers, and shows exposed rafters. Three small gable-roof dormers are closely spaced near the center of the otherwise expansive roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Hicks-Dugan-Deener House, next door at 306 E. Center Street, is also listed.</p><br>
<p>The Hicks-Dugan-Deener House is a historic house at 306 E. Center St. in Searcy, Arkansas. It is a single story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, a cross-gable projecting section at the right side, and a four-column Greek Revival gable-topped entrance portico. Built about 1855, it is one of Searcys few surviving pre-Civil War houses. Its first owner, William Hicks, was the son of one of Searcys first lawyers, Howell Hicks, and served as a lawyer and state representative. Walter Dugan, the next owner, was a prominent local businessman, owning the local telephone company.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Domestic Science Building is a historic school building at 11th and Haddock in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. It was on the old campus of Arkadelphia High School, used for domestic science  courses until the 1980s. It is now unused, but remains the property of the Arkadelphia School District.</p><br>
<p>It is a single-story brick building, designed by Thompson & Harding and built in 1917. The building features an eclectic combination of Prairie Style and Colonial Revival elements; its geometric parapet is in the former style, and its columned entrance portico is stylistically the latter.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Girls&#39; Domestic Science and Arts Building is an academic building on the campus of the Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. It is a -story masonry building, with a tile hip roof, and walls finished in brick and stone. The roof is pierced by hip-roofed dormers on both the long and short sides. It was built in 1913 and extensively renovated in 1935. It is now known as the Old Art Building. The Public Works Administration provided funds for school construction in January 1934, of which $7,500 was allocated for renovating this building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle House is a historic house at 217 Ash Street in Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a large two story Bungalow/Craftsman style house, with a cross-gable roof configuration, and an exterior of yellow brick and half-timbered stucco. A long single-story porch extends across the front, supported by brick piers and large curved brackets. The house was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1915.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Joe P. Eagle and D. R. Boone Building is a historic commercial building at 105-107 West Front Street in downtown Lonoke, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick building, with a sloping flat roof obscured by parapet, and a brick foundation. It is divided into two sections, articulated by brick pilasters. The left half has an original storefront on the first floor, with plate glass display windows flanking a recessed entrance, while the right half has a more modern  appearance, with a central display window, with the store entrance on the right and a building entrance to the upper floor on the left. The second-floor on both halves has tripled sash windows, the center one larger, all topped by transom windows. The building was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson and built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Blake McFall Company Building, also known as the Emmett Building, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon, is a five-story commercial warehouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by McNaughton & Raymond of Portland and built in 1915, it was added to the register in 1990. The 100 by structure is representative of a group of timber-framed loft warehouses built in the early 20th century on the east side of the Willamette River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Completion of the Steel Bridge over the Willamette River in 1888 had established a rail link between downtown Portland and East Portland. During subsequent decades, an industrial area developed along the river&#39;s east bank to store and re-ship merchandise arriving by rail and river steamer. Companies like John Deere, International Harvester, and Blake, Moffitt & Towne built multi-story warehouses in this area. The Blake McFall Company Building, near the east ramp of the Burnside Bridge, was at the northern edge of the warehouse district.</p><br>
<p>Blake McFall was a wholly owned subsidiary of Blake, Moffitt & Towne, which at that time was the leading wholesale paper distributor on the Pacific coast. It bought and re-shipped products ranging from newsprint to writing papers, wrapping, and bags. Served mainly by rail, the warehouse received large shipments that were subdivided in Portland and sent to the company&#39;s seven divisions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. A warehouse in Seattle gradually replaced some of the Portland-based functions, and by the 1940s shipping by truck had rendered the Portland warehouse obsolete. Blake, Moffitt, & Towne abandoned the building in 1957.</p><br>
<p>Jeff and Lauri Gordon bought the building from the FDIC in 1992. They went on to create the first legal work spaces on Portland&#39;s east side and named the building Towne Storage.</p><br>
<p>Since 2019, software company Autodesk occupies the building.</p><br>
<p>The England House is a historic house at 2121 Arch Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a broad two-story brick building, capped by a hip roof with gabled dormers. The main facade has a porch extending across its facade, supported by large brick piers. Its basic form is reminiscent of the Prairie School of design, but the house has Classical elements, including its  south side porch, which is supported by large Tuscan columns. The house was built in 1914 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and is included in Governor&#39;s Mansion Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Exchange Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 423 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a five-story masonry structure, built in 1921 out of reinforced concrete, brick, limestone, and granite. It has Classical Revival, with its main facade dominated by massive engaged fluted Doric columns. It was designed by the noted Arkansas architectural firm of Thompson & Harding, and is considered one of its best commercial designs.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Farmers State Bank is a historic commercial building at 1001 Front Street in Conway, Arkansas. It is a two-story masonry structure in the Classical Revival style. Its side walls are finished in brick, and most of its facade is in stone. The dominant feature of the facade are four massive engaged Tuscan columns, which support an entablature, cornice, and parapet. The main entrance is set in the central bay, with a bracketed hood above. It was designed by Thompson & Harding and built about 1918.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 123 West Third Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a three-story Classical Revival masonry structure, built out of concrete faced with limestone. Its main facade features a central entry set in a recess supported by four monumental engaged Doric columns. The entrance surround includes a carved eagle. Above the colonnade is a band of metal casement windows, with a low parapet at the top. The building was designed by noted local architect Thompson & Harding and built in 1924. The building was occupied by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Little Rock Branch until 1966.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank of Morrilton is a historic commercial building at Broadway and Moose Streets in Morrilton, Arkansas. It is a narrow five-story masonry building, occupying a prominent location at the city&#39;s main downtown intersection. It was built in 1925 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson, and has Classical Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman features. The short Broadway Street facade features a recessed entrance with Classical features, while the upper floors are relatively unadorned red brick, with Craftsman motifs in tile around the top floor windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 213 Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a large stone building, designed by Charles L. Thompson in Late Gothic Revival style and built in 1907. It has a square tower with pronounced buttressing at the corners set on the right side of its front facade, and a lower tower at the left side, with a gabled entry section at the center. The entrance is set in a broad lancet-arched opening, and is topped in the gable by a three-part stained glass window. The main sanctuary space is set perpendicular to the main facade, with a large stained glass window set in a recessed round-arch panel at the end. An entrance into the tunnels underneath hot springs is also located here.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was designed by architect John Parks Almand and was built in 1921. It is a high quality local interpretation of the Gothic Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>John Parks Almand had worked in the firm of Charles L. Thompson prior to this design commission. It was done for a congregation established in 1828, the oldest Presbyterian congregation in the state.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church is a historic church building at Jefferson and Cross Streets in DeWitt, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick structure, designed Thompson & Harding and built in 1923. It has a Classical Revival style portico supported by six unevenly spaced Tuscan columns. The triangular pediment is fully enclosed, with a central oculus window. The building is the third built for a congregation established in 1854–55, and the first built of brick.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Fletcher House is a historic house at 909 Cumberland Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a two-story American Foursquare house, with a dormered hip roof, weatherboard siding, and a single-story hip-roofed porch across the front. Built in 1900, it is a well-kept version of a "budget" Foursquare developed by architect Charles L. Thompson. It has simple Colonial Revival style features, including the porch columns and balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Fordyce Home Accident Ins. Co. is a historic building at 300 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas. It was designed by architect Charles L. Thompson in Classical Revival and Romanesque styles and built in 1908. The two-story building occupies a prominent position in Fordyce&#39;s downtown area, standing out because of its corner tower, capped by a terra cotta finial.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Fordyce House is a historic house at 746 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that has large cross-gabled gambrel dormers projecting in each direction. It has a curved wraparound porch supported by Tuscan columns. It was built in 1910 to a design by architect Charles L. Thompson, and is an excellent local example of Colonial Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>English Lutheran Church is a historic church at 1040 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It was built in c.1870 and expanded in 1900. It was added to the National Register in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story church built of rusticated limestone on a limestone block foundation. It is about 46x78 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>"Still woven into the threads of the downtown&#39;s built environment, the church is a proud reminder to our citizens that older buildings should be savored not only for their contribution to the past, but also for their potential contributions to the future." Cathy Ambler, Chair Historic Resources Commission</p><br>
<p>It was built in Gothic Revival style in 1870 by pioneer Kansas architect John G. Haskell (responsible for many Lawrence landmarks as well as the Douglas County Courthouse and Kansas State Capitol). It was at one point slated for demolition, but after a 4-year legal dispute, was purchased by Ashlar LC and restored, through efforts of the Lawrence Historic Preservation Alliance and Kansas State Historical Society. Craig Patterson and Associates architectural firm rehabilitated it and adapted it to reuse as modern office space. On Nov. 6 1993, Governor Joan Finney ceremonially reopened the building to its new life. In 1995, it was placed on the National Historic Register. The building next to the old church is the original parsonage.</p><br>
<p>The Fairmount Congregational Church in Wichita, Kansas was a historic church at 1650 N. Fairmont. Its building was built in 1910 and added to the National Register in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It is Richardsonian Romanesque in style. When it was built in 1910, its south wing incorporated an earlier church on the site, the Mayflower Congregational Church, which had been built in 1887 and had been moved to this site in 1907.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, after years of declining attendance and deferred maintenance, the congregation closed. In 2020, the building was sold to a developer who intended to turn it into a nonprofit community center. In 2022, efforts to dispose of the building&#39;s stained glass windows were blocked by local authorities.</p><br>
<p>The Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Wichita, Kansas, later known as Grace United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 944 S. Topeka. It was built in 1910 and added to the National Register in 2006.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story Classical Revival-style church designed by architect C. W. Terry, and was built at a cost of $65,000.</p><br>
<p>C.W. Terry also designed the J.E. Raymond House in Girard, Kansas. It too is NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Topeka, Kansas was built during 1924 to 1926. It was designed by architect Charles Cuthbert in Late Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination describes: "As with most Late Gothic Revival structures, Westminster&#39;s design is quieter, smoother, less ornate and "top heavy" than that of the high Victorian Gothic period. There is little tracery and ornamentation is kept to a minimum."</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Lutheran School  is a historic Lutheran school building at 315 W. 4th Street in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It was built between 1919 and 1922 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Until 1949 it was home to the present-day Topeka Lutheran School.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "primarily significant as an exceptionally-intact example of the institutional architecture of Frank C. Squires, a prominent Topeka architect who practiced in the early decades of the twentieth century. Additionally, it is locally significant for its historical contributions to education in Topeka."</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Baptist Church is a church at 826 Riley in Atchison, Kansas. It was built during the period from 1911 to about 1923. In 1911 they benefited from the generosity of either Andrew Carnegie or John Rockefeller to acquire their pipe organ. They had written to both men; and the organ company received a check, but from whom remains unknown .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Amelia Earhart Birthplace is a historic building and museum that was the birthplace of aviator Amelia Earhart. It is located at 223 N. Terrace St. in Atchison, Kansas, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1861 in a Gothic Revival style and is on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. There was one major addition to the home in 1873, during which the formal dining room, cook&#39;s quarters, and a back porch were added. In 1897 Amelia Earhart was born in the home, which belonged to her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), a former judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank, and a leading citizen in Atchison. The Earhart family attended nearby Trinity Episcopal Church, where Amelia was baptized. The birthplace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and is now a museum featuring memorabilia and artifacts about Amelia Earhart. The house served as a private residence until 1984 when a local citizen, Dr. Eugene J. Bribach, contributed $100,000 to the Ninety-Nines to acquire the property. Since 1984 the building has been maintained by the Ninety-Nines, an international group of female pilots of whom Amelia was the first elected president.</p><br>
