<p>Plano Station, Texas Electric Railway, now known as the Interurban Railway Museum, is a historic train station at 901 E 15th Street in Plano, Texas. It is still served by the Downtown Plano station of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail, which reutilized the right of way of the interurban.</p><br>
<p>The Mission Revival/Spanish Revival style station was completed in 1908 at the opening of the Texas Electric Railway. The railway operated from 1908 to 1948. The station stood vacant until the City of Plano renovated it into the Interurban Railway Museum in 1990. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2005. The museum also displays Car 360, a restored railcar of the Texas Electric Railway, on the grounds.</p><br>
<h2>Management</h2><br>
<p>The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation, Inc. has managed the Interurban Railway Museum since 2001 in partnership with the City of Plano. In an agreement with the City of Plano, the Plano Conservancy was allowed to operate the Museum in exchange for office space. During the first year of operation, the Plano Conservancy established enough credibility to receive funding under the hotel/motel tax provisions of the City of Plano.</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 14 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgTexas Electric Railway Car 360 on display outside the museum</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 13 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgInterior of the railway post office section of Car 360</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 09 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgInterior of the passenger section of Car 360</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 07 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgDriver controls of Car 360</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 20.jpgMuseum interior</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 18.jpgMuseum interior exhibits</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 19.jpgMuseum interior exhibits</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 21 (Home Runs & Heartaches).jpgHome Runs & Heartaches baseball exhibit</p><br>
<p>Farrandsville Iron Furnace, also known as Lycoming Coal Co., is a historic iron furnace located at Colebrook Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania about 6 miles northwest of Lock Haven. It was built between 1836 and 1837, and measures 43 feet square by 54 feet high. It is a rare example of an early attempt to adopt coke as a blast furnace fuel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Capitalists from Boston financed the furnace&#39;s construction starting in 1836. John Thomas likely supervised construction and John P. Salmon was the master mason. It was equipped with Scottish machinery installed by Scot James Ralston, and produced fifty tons of pig iron per week. Bituminous coal was mined at nearby Minersville and transported by inclined plane. Transportation of iron ore was from over 100 miles away via canal, but this proved difficult, as did transportation of flux from the Nittany Valley.</p><br>
<p>The financial Panic of 1837 forced the furnace to close in 1838. A brick furnace was then built on the same property and was later owned by Harbison-Walker Refractories Company who deeded it to the Clinton County Historical Society in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The Rich-McCormick Woolen Factory is an historic, American woolen mill that is located in Dunnstable Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1830, this historic structure is a three-story, brick building that sits on a coursed stone foundation, has a gable roof, and measures thirty-two feet by fifty feet, six inches, and four bays by seven bays. It was built as a woolen mill and remained in operation until 1845, after which it was used for storage. The building was converted to residential use in 1930.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Logan Mills Gristmill is a historic grist mill located at Logan Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It was built in about 1840, and is a 3 1/2-story, coursed stone building with a tin-covered gable roof. It is three bays by four bays. It includes most of its original machinery. It was powered by water diverted from Fishing Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Logan Mills Covered Bridge is an historic, American wooden covered bridge that is located in Logan Township in Clinton 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>This historic structure is a 55 ft 12 ft, Queen post truss bridge. Built in 1874, it crosses the Fishing Creek, and is the only remaining covered bridge in Clinton County. It is one of the principal attractions in Sugar Valley.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Harvey House is a historic home located at Mill Hall in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built about 1804, and is a two-story, rectangular stone dwelling, seven bays wide. It has a gable roof and exemplifies Georgian style design characteristics. It features a full-width front porch. It was built by Mill Hall&#39;s first settler and founding father Nathan Harvey.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac A. Packer Farm is an historic American home and farm complex which is located in Woodward Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built in 1885, and is a -story, L-shaped stone dwellingwhich was designed in the Victorian Gothic style. The house is built from sandstone in hues of purple and gray. Also located on the property are a contributing three-story bank barn (1905), a stone lime kiln, and a well (1886).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Wildman and Jennie  Brookhart House, now a part of the United Presbyterian Home, is a historic building located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. He married Jennie Hearne in 1897, and they had four sons and two daughters.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Clausen designed the house in a simple American Craftsman design, with an unadorned exterior and interior. It was completed in 1910. The two-story "fireproof" house is constructed of concrete, hollow ceramic tile, steel rods, steel mesh, and brick. Noteworthy is the double front porch. A broad single story porch stretches the width of the main facade, while the separate central portion of the porch reaches to the second floor. Originally the house was located on a small farm outside of town, but Washington grew to include the property. It became the offices of the United Presbyterian Home in 1946. The home&#39;s south wing, Sherman Hall, was built onto the back of the Brookhart house in the 1950s. Stewart Hall was added around 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Rockford Morning Star Building, located at 127 N. Wyman St. in Rockford, Illinois, is a historic building originally used by the Rockford Morning Star.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1927–28, the building was designed by Davenport, Iowa, architecture firm Clausen, Kruse & Klein. The firm designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The buildings terra cotta exterior is segmented by pilasters with decorative capitals. Decorative panels situated near the buildings entrance feature Art Deco and Egyptian elements, including rows of chevrons and a guilloché of lotus buds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first newspapers in Rockford, Illinois were The Rock River Express and the Rockford Star, both first published in 1840. Both papers lasted only a year. The Winnebago Forum, renamed The Republican in 1845, was the first city paper to have a lengthy publishing period (1842-1862). The Rockford Morning Star first published in 1888. It merged with the Rockford Daily Register-Gazette in 1928. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms purchased the paper two years later, and again split the two papers, publishing the Morning Star as a morning daily. The paper was purchased by the Gannett Company in 1967, who merged the last two remaining Rockford papers in 1979 to create the Rockford Register Star.</p><br>
<p>The Rockford Morning Star Building was constructed during negotiations for the 1928 merge. However, the building was only used for two years; after its acquisition by Simms, a new tower was built on the other side of the Rock River. The building remained in the possession of the Simms family, who leased it to the George Rogers Clark Mutual Company. It was eventually absorbed into the Pioneer Life Insurance Company. The company bought the building from the Simms family in 1946. The company moved to Schaumburg in 1993 and henceforth only used the Rockford building for storage and mailing. The company merged into Conseco, Inc. in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It was listed as a contributing property to the West Downtown Rockford Historic District in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Max Petersen House, also known as the Petersen Mansion, is a historic building located on the west side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. In 2004 it was included as a contributing property in the Marycrest College Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Max Petersen was the son of J.H.C. Petersen, who was an immigrant from the Duchy of Schleswig, which was then in the Kingdom of Denmark. He eventually established a retail store in Davenport. His sons entered business with him and they took over the business in 1892. The business continues to exist as the Von Maur department store. Max was the oldest of the three brothers, and he had Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen design a Queen Anne style home for his family in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Henry Rohlman of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport commissioned the Rev. Thomas V. Lawlor from St. Ambrose College to look for property to start a college for women. In 1937 he acquired the property, which was then called Clifton Hill, for $50,000. The donors for the project included members of the Petersen family. The property included the house and 7.5 acre. Marycrest College was established on the property in 1939, and the Petersen home initially became the sister&#39;s residence. Over the years it served other functions for the college. After the college was disbanded in 2002 it was acquired by Chris Ales and became part of the Marycrest Senior Campus.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 2½-story house is basically square in shape, however, it is narrower and a little lower in the back. The brick structure rests on a rock-faced stone foundation. It is capped by a high hip roof. Both the east and west sides of the house feature projecting gable ends. A turret with a conical roof is located on the southwest corner of the main façade. The southeast corner features a rectangular shaped corner bay with a second floor porch and its own hipped roof. In the center is a tall projecting tower. Single story porches with flat roofs are located on the front and east sides of the house. At the roofline is a narrow cornice. Three string courses encircle the house flush with the brick surface. Decorative elements are restrained. They are mainly found on the large dentils on the cornice, the turned Eastlake post and punched frieze on the second story porch, and a wall dormer on the central tower that has an elaborate projecting sill and triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Covered Bridge is an historic, American wooden covered bridge that is located in Armstrong Township in Indiana 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>This historic structure is a 52 ft, Town truss bridge. Built in 1879, it crosses Crooked Creek and is one of four remaining covered bridge in Indiana County. It was erected by members of the Martindale family of Presque Island Peninsula, who were also credited with constructing the famous Presque Island Lighthouse in Erie, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Bridge in West Wheatfield Township is a historic stone arch bridge located at West Wheatfield Township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1911, and is a 75 ft bridge, with a semi-circular arch spanning 30 ft. It is built of rough, rock faced ashlar with a concrete parapet. It crosses Richard&#39;s Run.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Blairsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins & Co. It was built in 1909, and is a T-shaped, two-story, three-bay-wide and nine-bay-deep, castle-like building in the Romanesque Revival style. The front section is the flat-roofed administration building, with a gable roofed drill hall behind. It front facade features a central arched entrance with a five-sided, two-story bay window on the right side.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Indiana Armory is an historic National Guard armory which is located in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Joseph F. Kuntz of Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins Co., the drill hall was built in 1922, and is a one-story structure with a gambrel roof. The administration building was added in 1929, and consists of a two-story section with a recessed one-story portion. The building is a modified "T"-plan in the Moderne style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building is an historic municipal building which is located in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1912, this historic structure is a -story, three-bay by five-bay brick building, which was designed in the Dutch Colonial Revival-style. The front facade features a uniquely shaped, stepped and arched parapet and elongated arcaded windows. It is reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch Town Halls.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriffs Office is an historic, American jail and Sheriffs office complex that is located in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This complex consists of two structures that were built between 1887 and 1888. They are brick buildings that were designed in the Italianate-style. The jail is attached to the rear of the Sheriffs Office, also known as the Sheriffs House. They are connected to the Old Indiana County Courthouse by a second floor pedestrian bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Indiana station is a historic American railway station which is located in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Indiana Passenger Station.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway in 1904, this historic structure is a -story, wood-frame building with weatherboard siding which was designed in a railroad vernacular-style. It features a generous overhang on all four sides. It housed a restaurant named Tazé until mid-2016.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 as the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Indiana Passenger Station.</p><br>
<p>The Silas M. Clark House, also known as Clark Memorial Hall and the History House, is an historic, American home that is located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecturl features</h2><br>
<p>Built from 1869 to 1870, this historic structure is a three-story, brick building with a cross-gable roof that was designed in the Italian Villa style. It features round-headed windows, a central tower and an arched entryway, and housed the local chapter of the American Red Cross from 1918 to 1930. Since 1951, it has housed the Indiana County Historical and Genealogical Society.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>"Breezedale", also known as Sutton-Elkin House, is an historic home located on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1865 and 1868, by John Sutton, a local businessman, Breezedale has a two-and-one-half-story, twenty-by-thirty-foot, brick main building, which was designed in a Late Victorian-Italianate-style.</p><br>
<p>Attached to the main section are a twelve-by-eighteen-foot wood addition and two brick extensions. The home features a classic portico and cupola.</p><br>
<p>After the Suttons, the house was occupied by John Pratt Elkin, a lawyer and politician who ended his career as a justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, hence its alternate name, the "Sutton-Elkin House".</p><br>
<p>Since becoming a part of the university sometime after 1915 the house has been used as a dormitory and for classroom space.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, it is now home to the Breezedale Alumni Center.</p><br>
<p>The James Mitchell House is a historic home located at Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The front section was built about 1850, and is a -story brick building with a gable roof in a vernacular Federal-style. It measures six bays by four bays. It has a -story frame rear wing, making for an L-shaped building. The house was used as an inn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Graff&#39;s Market was an historic, commercial building that was located in the community of Indiana in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1887 and 1892, Graff&#39;s Market was a three-story, wood building that was erected on a stone foundation in Indiana, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Designed with a cast-iron storefront in a High Victorian Italianate-style, the building measured thirty feet by fifty-seven feet, six inches, and had a flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The building housed the Graff family business for more than ninety years.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The structure has since been demolished; a modern two-story brick office building was erected in its place.</p><br>
<p>Mayer Red Brick Schoolhouse is a building in Mayer, Arizona. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is considered the longest used schoolhouse in Arizona, having been in operation for over eighty years. Due to its physical mass and prominent hillside location, it is "the most visible and identifiable building" in the small unincorporated town and the town&#39;s largest building.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect W.S. Elliott and constructed by Prescott, Arizona contractor Joe Petit for $9,000 to $10,000 on land donated by the towns founder, Joe Mayer. Since its completion in 1915, it was continuously used as a school, except for 1982–1987, until 2002 when it was condemned by the fire marshal. It became a fully accredited high school in the 1930s with the installation of indoor plumbing. It was not used as a high school after 1981. Elementary students continued to attend from 1988 to 2002. When constructed, the building faced the towns main street (called Main Street) but the street was later moved to the rear of the building. It also faced the tracks of the Prescott and Eastern Railroad until they were removed in 1949. After a historic restoration in the early 2000s, the building is now used for Mayer Unified School District administrative offices and as a Sheriff&#39;s substation.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The building is a typical school building of the era in which it was built. It has a hipped roof and concrete foundation with walls at least 13 in thick, many windows, and a bell tower on the roof. It has a prominent entrance on the north side featuring double doors with sidelights and a transom in an elaborate arched opening. Exterior walls are red brick, hence the name Red Brick Schoolhouse. The interior has maple-strip flooring and an oak staircase.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>School enrollment increased rapidly in the early 1910s, prompting the Yavapai County Superintendent of Schools to conclude that the existing school was overcrowded and a larger school building was needed. The citizens passed a municipal bond to pay for a new school. The new school was to be located on the site of the existing school, the hilltop location previously donated by Joe Mayer. This necessitated the moving of the existing wooden school. Construction of the new building began in 1914 and was completed the next year. The bricks used were made in Mayer. The building had coal-fired heating, a ventilation system, electric lights, and initially served eighty students in four classrooms. Three classrooms taught students in two or three grades and the fourth was for high school students (grades nine and ten initially and nine to twelve beginning in the 1930s). The first high school graduation took place on May 19, 1933, with two graduates.</p><br>
<p>The 1930s brought the addition of an outdoor basketball court built by the Yavapai County highway department and saw the building used for town entertainment as weekly movies were shown in the large second floor.</p><br>
<h2>Lunchroom</h2><br>
<p>Local legend states that the building originally had no basement until local hard rock miners excavated under the completed building. They were motivated to do this in order to provide space for the students to eat as there was no other space for a lunchroom and the community had no funds for expansion. Their volunteer effort, thought impossible by some, was done over several months when they were not at work in the local mines.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In the 1990s, the school district decided the building was no longer suitable for use as a school. Partial remodeling done in 1987 did not overcome original design issues, and further modernizing was not considered financially viable. The school district initiated the process for listing the building by commissioning an assessment by architects Gerald A. Doyle & Associates. Their report concluded the building was no longer "ideal" for use as a school but had "significant architectural and historical significance". The report documented original features including floors, stairs, brickwork, window and door frames, ceilings, interior walls, chair rails, picture moldings, slate chalkboards, light fixtures, and the school bell. Restoration of these features was estimated to cost $411,000.</p><br>
<p>In December 2000, the school district received funding from the Arizona School Facilities Board to construct additional elementary classroom space allowing the relocation of the remaining elementary classes from the Red Brick Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The district approved the renovation plan in February 2003 and began interior renovation later that year. The project architect was Swan Architects of Phoenix. Historic renovation was funded by a federal emergency repair and renovation grant from the United States Department of Education, state grants, and private donations. The building was converted for administrative use, with historic displays and the original school bell remaining. A 2003 $22,000 grant from the State Historic Preservation Office funded replacement of the roof and repair of the chimney and windows. This phase of the restoration, which was delayed due to the discovery of asbestos and the difficulty in finding historically accurate bricks to repair the chimney, was completed in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The renovation was delayed when the building was officially recognized as historic. Renovation plans were updated since some current building codes were no longer applicable to a historic structure. On June 30, 2005 a plaque was unveiled to commemorate the listing of the schoolhouse on the NRHP. The plaque is located in the first floor entryway due to fear of vandalism if it were on the outside of the structure. Restoration work was funded by state and federal grants totaling over $200,000 received by the district in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, restoration of the exterior, funded in part by a Heritage Park Restoration grant, was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Current usage</h2><br>
<p>In 2013 the ground floor was leased for $1000 per month for five years to the Yavapai County Sheriffs Office as the Mayer substation. All school district offices were relocated to the second floor. The Sheriffs substation opened in June 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Rectory in Prescott, Arizona, United States is a complex of buildings that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2016, it serves as the Prescott Center for the Arts, formerly the Prescott Fine Arts Association. It is the former home of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, founded in 1871 now located at 150 Fleury Avenue in Prescott.</p><br>
<p>The church is asserted to be "one of the best examples of nineteenth century religious architecture in Arizona". It was designed by architect Frank Parker and was built in 1915. It had a steeple until it was destroyed in a storm in 1930. The buildings served the parish until 1969.</p><br>
<p>Heritage Farmstead Museum  is a historic farm museum at 1900 West 15th Street in Plano, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The late-Victorian farm-house was built in 1891 on a 365-acre farm belonging to Mary Alice Farrell and her husband Hunter Farrell, a landowner and businessman whose family had moved to Texas from Virginia. The Farrells divorced in 1929 and eventually their daughter Ammie took over management of the farm and became an award-winning livestock breeder before her death in 1972. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 1986 the farm opened as a living museum utilizing the remaining 4.5 acres surrounding the home. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.</p><br>
<p>The Astoria Victory Monument, also known as the Doughboy Monument or Soldiers&#39; Monument, is a monument located in Astoria, Oregon, in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The concrete, Spanish Revival monument designed by Charles T. Diamond was constructed in 1926, incorporating a cast of a sculpture by John Paulding. The structure was recognized individually by the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and as part of the Uniontown–Alameda Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places recognized the monument individually on November 15, 1984, and later included the structure as part of the Uniontown–Alameda Historic District on August 25, 1988.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-2000s, the monument received a $10,000 grant from the State Historic Preservation Office to repair lights and windows, replace doors, renovate the restroom facilities and install new plumbing and toilet fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The Albert W. Ferguson House is a house located in Astoria, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Albert W. Ferguson (August 29, 1821 – February 21, 1891) was an Oregon carpenter and architect. He built many now-historic houses and other buildings in Oregon, particularly in Salem and Astoria. He moved to Astoria in 1876. While living in Astoria, he designed and built several homes and other buildings, including the first city hall, built in 1878, and the NRHP-listed Capt. J. H. D. Gray House. His youngest son, James Ernest Ferguson, built his fathers house, but Albert W. collaborated with his son on the houses design.</p><br>
<p>James Ernest Ferguson later partnered with Charles Houston to found Ferguson & Houston, an Astoria architectural and construction firm. The company designed and built many area homes and other buildings, including the Old Astoria City Hall, which was designed by Emil Schacht.</p><br>
<p>Albert W. Ferguson, who was already ill at the time of the houses construction, resided in the house from its completion in 1886 until his death in 1891 from inflammatory rheumatism. Another son, Edward Z. Ferguson, was living in the house at that time and continued to do so until 1910. Alberts daughter, Ada, moved into the house with her husband, John N. Griffin, in 1910 and resided there until her death in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The George Diehl Homestead is an historic, American home that is located in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1840, this historic structure is a -story, rectangular, hewn-log building with a gable roof. It measures eighteen feet, six inches wide and twenty-eight feet, four inches long, and features mortise and tenon jointing, also known as corner-post construction, for the log structure. A fourteen-foot by twenty-eight-foot, four-inch, shed-roofed addition was built circa 1850.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The John B. McCormick House is an historic American home that is located in South Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The original section was built between 1817 and 1829, and is a -story, three-bay, stone building with a gable roof and massive gable chimney. It was expanded between 1905 and 1905 by John B. McCormick. At that time, a large, two-story hip and gable roofed addition was built on the rear. Attached to that is a one-story, shed roofed addition with a parapet. The original house was modified with the addition of a three-story stone tower, porch with Doric order supporting columns, and dormers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The house is named after John Buchanan McCormick (1834-1924), who had a varied career. In 1870 he moved from Pennsylvania to Holyoke, Massachusetts where he designed, using the flumes at John Wesley Emerson&#39;s plant, what would later become the Hercules water turbine. The McCormick water turbine was considered a breakthrough in hydrodynamics. Under various names, including the Hercules brand, and patents, it was manufactured in Holyoke, Dayton, Ohio, and Glasgow, Scotland and Imatra, Finland. In 1890, a McCormick turbine took first place honours at the Edinburgh Exposition.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Indiana Historic District is a national historic district located at Indiana in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 86 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Indiana. The district includes notable examples of buildings in the Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne styles. Notable buildings include the Federal-style William Houston House , Clawson Hotel , Thomas Sutton House, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Zion Lutheran Church, First United Presbyterian Church, and First Methodist Episcopal Church. The contributing site is Memorial Park, established as a burial ground in the early 19th century. Located in the district and listed separately are the Silas M. Clark House, James Mitchell House, Old Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building, Indiana Armory, and Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff&#39;s Office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Newberry House, also known as the Judge Shaw House, is located on Lake Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a wooden structure in the Shingle Style built around 1890. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with other properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It incorporates an unusual carriage house into its overall design, the only house in Aspen to do so. In 1922 William Shaw, an attorney who had specialized in water law, moved in, following his ascension to the city&#39;s judgeship the previous year. He remained in the house until 1969, during which time Aspen went from a depressed former mining town to a bustling, glamorous ski resort, a process he played a small role in.</p><br>
<p>After his tenure, the house passed to other owners, eventually becoming one of several Aspen properties owned by Jack Nicholson, one of the celebrities who had early on been drawn to Aspen as a retreat, until he sold it in 2013. It has remained intact with few alterations.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house occupies a 0.27 acre lot on the north side of Lake Avenue, the northernmost street in Aspen&#39;s predominantly residential West End, at the oblique three-way intersection Lake makes with North First and West Smuggler streets. The terrain is generally level, sloping slightly towards the Roaring Fork River to the north. To the south and west are houses generally of a similar scale, or larger, and more modern construction. On the north and east is a small lake and woodlands, and north of them the river. Tall mature trees shade many of the houses.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-and-a-half-story wood frame structure on a brick foundation. It is sided in clapboard on the first story, shingles on the second and fishscale shingles in the attic gable field. At the top is a complex gabled roof pierced by a brick chimney. A low iron fence and gate separates the house from the street.</p><br>
<p>On the three-bay south (front) facade, the western two bays are on a small projecting section. A veranda begins here and wraps around the house&#39;s west side. It has a wooden rail with regular turned posts supporting the slightly flared upper story. Behind it are a double-hung one-over-one sash window and plain wooden door. The upper story has a double one-over-one sash. A wide overhanging eave at the roofline sets off its projecting nested gable, decorated with half-timbers.</p><br>
<p>To the east the single rectangular bay is also on a projecting section. It has a rectangular picture window with decorative muntins along the sides. Above a molded cornice continues from the porch roofline to the east side of the projection. A similar, plainer cornice marks the bottom of the flaring on the second story, where the projection narrows to not much wider than the single one-over-one double-hung sash on that floor. Three smaller one-over-ones are in the main gable apex.</p><br>
<p>On the west side there is a single-pane window under a pent roof next to the porch. Above it is a section with a hip roof and four casement windows. At the rear the carriage house, with four sliding doors, projects from the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aspen went from a rough settlement of tents and log cabins in the late 1870s to a bustling silver mining boomtown of around 10,000 by 1890, when the house is believed to have been built. While the citys entire street grid pattern had been plotted out early, most development was concentrated in the citys eastern section, where its commercial and civic center was and is. Residents who had made their fortune from mining or related businesses chose to build their houses in the undeveloped West End.</p><br>
<p>The area where the house was built was known as Hallam&#39;s Subdivision, after an early developer of the town who bought it in the early 1880s with the intention of building a park with walks, drives and pavilions. The lake was to be stocked with trout. Other than the pavilions, none of this ever came to pass and houses were built on the tract instead. From the use of the Shingle Style, it is likely that the Newberry House was built in the early 1890s, when that became popular. The attached carriage house is a unique feature in the city.</p><br>
<p>Prosperity came to an abrupt end with the Panic of 1893. In response to the crisis, Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which had required the federal government to buy silver to support the dollar, to ease fears of inflation. Aspen had been unaffected by the crisis itself, but with the silver market limited to private purchasers, most of its mines became unprofitable. Residents began leaving for more promising opportunities elsewhere, such as Cripple Creek, Colorado. The city&#39;s population steadily declined, beginning a period of several decades known as "the quiet years".</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings from Aspen&#39;s glory years went vacant and neglected. Some succumbed to either fire or the harsh effects of long and severe mountain winters at almost 8,000 ft above sea level. The Newberry House endured, and in 1922 it was purchased by William Shaw, a local water-law attorney who had become a Pitkin County judge the year before. There is no record of the seller, Mrs. Alex Tompkins, other than this transaction.</p><br>
<p>In the years before World War II, when the citys population had declined to a few hundred year-round residents, some downhill skiing enthusiasts who chanced on Aspen noticed that the mountains around the city had slopes that would make an ideal place for their hobby, then beginning to establish itself as a recreational activity. Before the war, some had cut trails and built a primitive ski lift from leftover mining equipment. This was put on hold when the United States became involved in World War II in 1941, but Aspen continued to attract interest as a winter-sports destination when members of the Tenth Mountain Division, the Armys "soldiers on skis", who trained at nearby Camp Hale, visited the city when on leave. After the war, many of the Tenth&#39;s veterans became involved in the development of skiing, and some returned to Aspen to do so.</p><br>
<p>At the same time, Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corporation of America, on vacation elsewhere in Colorado, visited Aspen at the behest of his wife Elizabeth. She had gone there with some friends to sample the skiing, and found it an ideal place for the classical-music festival the couple were looking to start as an American counterpart to the Salzburg Festival in Austria. The mountain location was comparable, and the remaining Victorian houses and commercial buildings added a great deal of charm, although many would need to be restored.</p><br>
<p>In order to discreetly acquire those properties, many of which had been foreclosed and were available for the small sum of unpaid property taxes, Paepcke retained Shaw as his local attorney. As a county judge, Shaw was able to smooth over the transfer of some properties which lacked clear title. Eventually the Paepckes acquired many of Aspen&#39;s landmarks, such as the Hotel Jerome and Wheeler Opera House, as well as many of the houses in the West End, and hired Bauhaus architect Herbert Bayer to refurbish them.</p><br>
<p>Paepcke invested heavily in the new Aspen Skiing Company, and was eventually able to start the first Aspen Music Festival in 1949. With the founding of the Aspen Institute, the city became an attraction for corporate executives and intellectuals. Movie stars began to find Aspen a pleasant place to stay as well, and Shaw would officiate at the 1965 wedding of Kim Novak and Richard Johnson in a mountain meadow at the ski resort.</p><br>
<p>After Shaw died in 1969, the house eventually became the property of another Hollywood celebrity drawn to Aspen. Jack Nicholson and his friend, record producer Lou Adler, had bought homes in the city after learning to ski in Gstaad. Neither one, it turned out, was located in an area with good television reception. After finding out that the Judge Shaw house did get a good signal, they split the purchase price in order to have a place in Aspen where they could watch Los Angeles Lakers basketball games together. They sold the house in 2013 to a Beverly Hills-based limited liability corporation.</p><br>
<p>The house is largely the same as it was in a 1919 photo. A 1981 renovation added screens to the porches. Some of the exterior windows may not be original, either.</p><br>
<p>The Courthouse Plaza Historic District is a historic district in Prescott, Arizona that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places  in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It includes 26 contributing buildings including the Yavapai County Courthouse (already separately listed on the NRHP) and the Masonic Temple, in a 17 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The most significant buildings are:</p><br>
<p>Bank of Arizona Building</p><br>
<p>Knights of Pythias Building</p><br>
<p>Prescott National Bank Building</p><br>
<p>Levy Building</p><br>
<p>Palace Hotel</p><br>
<p>St. Michael Hotel</p><br>
<p>Masonic Temple (1907), three-story 50x95 ft building with colossal columns, pilasters, and pediment</p><br>
<p>Goldwater Mercantile</p><br>
<p>Electric Building</p><br>
<p>Conyn-Van Rensselaer is a historic home located on Stone Mill Road in the town of Claverack, New York. It is a gambrel-roofed structure of brick, two and a half stories high, and was eventually owned by A. H. Van Rensselaer, a descendant of Hendrick Van Rensselaer. It has recently undergone extensive restoration. The property also contains barns and outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>Kasparus Konyn was a captain in a provincial regiment, and warmly espoused the American cause in the Revolution. In 1776 he erected this large house. The Conyns were among the Palatine Germans who immigrated to the Germantown area of Columbia County, New York in the 1700s seeking religious freedom. He married Mildred (Joan Gardner) Yates who was a member of another local family, for whom a nearby road is named.</p><br>
<p>The area was well settled by members of the Van Rennselaer family who eventually acquired the farm upon Conyn&#39;s demise and have held it since.</p><br>
<p>The historic home of Hendrick I. Van Rensselaer is nearby on Yates Road in the town of Greenport.</p><br>
<p>The Hillandale estate comprises a pair of historic structures located in the Burleith neighborhood in Washington, D.C. They have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The estate was originally the home of heiress Anne Mills Archbold, a daughter of Standard Oil executive John D. Archbold, who was a prominent Washington socialite. She donated much of the land that became Glover-Archbold Park. The buildings are the only known Washington works of Boston architect Josephine Wright Chapman. They were built from 1922 to 1925 in the Italian Villa style. The 42.1 acre site included the gatehouse and wall that was along Reservoir Road, NW with the main residence near the top of a hill. The building exteriors feature stucco facades, terra cotta tile roofs, balconies and loggias. The interior of the main residence includes a frescoed vestibule and music room with a vaulted ceiling. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s the estate was subdivided and 28 single family residences and 238 townhouses were built in a gated community. The main residence was converted into two single-family dwellings</p><br>
<p>Twin Oaks is a 17-acre estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States. It was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States before the United States broke off diplomatic ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The historic residence, completed in 1888, was designed by Francis Allen for Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a founder and first president of the National Geographic Society and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephones.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Twin Oaks was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1983, the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and is a contributing property in the Cleveland Park Historic District. The estate was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States from 1937 until 1979 when the United States switched diplomatic recognition to the People&#39;s Republic of China.</p><br>
<p>The Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), currently represented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington in place of an official embassy, continues to own the property and uses it for official receptions.</p><br>
<p>On 1 January 2015, the flag of the Republic of China was raised for the first time since the end of diplomatic relations in 1979. The ceremony was held by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the USA, a move symbolizing significant progress in Taiwan–United States relations. Representative Shen Lyu-shun said that they not only returned, but they did it with dignity, respect and honor.</p><br>
<p>The Obama Administration&#39;s State Department spokesperson responded at the daily press briefing that "The ceremony is not consistent with USA policy. We remain fully committed to the USA One China Policy, based on the Three Communiqués and the Taiwan Relations Act. No USA Government personnel attended the event in any capacity."</p><br>
<p>In April 2021, the Biden administration loosened restrictions on contacts between USA government officials and their Taiwanese counterparts. As a result, USA officials are now allowed to attend events at Twin Oaks, subject to certain conditions.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built to house the Acacia Mutual Insurance Company, which was the only federally chartered life insurance company. It was incorporated in 1869 as the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia. The Federal government took possession of the building in 1934 to house the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which is how the building acquired its name in 1937. It was a New Deal program that supported home ownership.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>George E. Mathews of the architectural firm of Hoggson Brothers was the original architect for the building. Louis A. Simon of the Public Works Branch in the Department of the Treasury was the architect for an addition that was built from 1935 to 1937. The building exemplifies early-20th-century Classical Revival intuitional office architecture. The exterior features facades covered with limestone with classical detail. The interior features an ornamented lobby.</p><br>
<p>Federal-American National Bank is an 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 formed as a merger between two other banks in 1923. Hamilton National Bank inhabited the building after the banking crisis of 1933. More recently it housed the National Bank of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architects Alfred C. Bossom and Jules Henri de Sibour designed the building. The exterior of the structure is covered in limestone and features a Classical Revival facade, large arched windows, engaged columns and sculptural embellishment. The interior features a bronze vestibule and a Renaissance Revival banking room with a marble entrance stair, mezzanine, elaborate polychrome coffered ceiling, chandeliers, ornamentation in classical motifs, and innovative open counter design The building is somewhat unusual in that the main banking room is on a raised main floor and storefronts on the ground level.</p><br>
<p>Germuiller Row are historic structures located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The collection of three buildings was designed by Washington architect Julius Germuiller. They are an example of the coordination of residential and commercial architecture in the late 19th century. The earliest of the three buildings is a row house at 302 H Street, NW. A commercial building at 300 H Street, NW features a mortar and pestle on the cornice and was completed in 1890. The building at 748 3rd Street is the last of four identical row houses that were completed in 1891.</p><br>
<p>Harris & Ewing Photographic Studio is an historic structure located in downtown Washington, D.C. It was built in 1924 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building housed Harris & Ewing, which in the early 20th century was the largest news photo service in the United States. They also served as the official White House photographer and the city&#39;s most noted portrait photographers from 1905 to 1955. This building with its Italian Renaissance Revival limestone façade replaced an earlier building built by Harris & Ewing in 1905. It was designed by the architectural firm of Sonnemann & Justement.</p><br>
<p>Today the building houses advertising agency Don Schaaf & Friends, Inc. (ds+f).</p><br>
<p>Harrison Apartment Building is an historic structure located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building is the oldest known surviving conventional apartment building in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The architectural firm of Johnson and Company designed the building with a Romanesque Revival façade. It features rhythmic bays that facilitate increased light and air circulation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Harrison Apt Blg 3rd and G NW DC.jpgIn 2008</p><br>
<p>Harrison Apartment Building.jpgWest side of building</p><br>
<p>The Luzon Apartment Building, also known as The Westover, is an historic structure located in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The building is one of the last surviving structures from the formative period of apartment buildings in the city. The Romanesque Revival building was designed by Nicholas T. Haller and completed in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The W. B. Hibbs and Company Building, also known as the Folger Building, is an historic structure located at 725 15th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in Downtown Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jules Henri de Sibour designed the building, which was completed in 1906.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites, on November 8, 1964.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>France Memorial United Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 3rd and Cedar Streets in the city of Rawlins, Wyoming.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1882 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is built of stone quarried from mountains north of the city. Its 2 ft walls enclose a 30 by space. It has a three-tiered tower with the top tier made of wood.</p><br>
<p>Shoshone-Episcopal Mission  is a historic mission and school in Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The school was built from 1889 to 1890 by Rev. John Roberts, the minister and teacher on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Roberts built the boarding school to teach the Shoshone girls living on the reservation; as many of the students lived up to 20 mi away from the school, it was necessary to build a boarding school to teach them. The school later became the headquarters of the entire Episcopal mission on the reservation.</p><br>
<p>The mission was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.</p><br>
<p>On March 17, 2016, the building was destroyed by a fire.</p><br>
<p>Union Congregational Church and Parsonage, built in 1886, is a historic church located at 110 Bennett Street in Buffalo, Wyoming. It was the first church built in Buffalo, and one of the first two churches established in the northern part of the Wyoming Territory.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>In December 1883, the Reverend Addison Blanchard, superintendent of missions for the Colorado and Wyoming Congregational Church, visited Buffalo. He spent three weeks preaching, and visiting almost every family in town. He found that there were a few families who wanted to participate in a "union church" on the "simple basis of pure Christianity in which minor differences of opinion and forms should be tolerated...."</p><br>
<p>In February 1884, Buffalo&#39;s first resident pastor, Revenend George C. Rock of Philadelphia arrived, and he preached during the next eight months. On October 13, 1884, Superintendent Blanchard organized the Union Congregational Church of Buffalo, with ten founding members. The congregation met for services in the log schoolhouse located at what is now 138 North Main Street. However, they purchased some land from Mrs. Juliet Hart, and began to plan for their own building.</p><br>
<h2>Church building</h2><br>
<p>The plans for the new church were drawn up by Thomas Hutton in 1885. Hutton was also hired to do the grading, build the foundation, and oversee the construction by the contractor, S. Sherrill. The church was built during the summer and fall of 1886, and was ready for occupancy on December 12, 1886. The cost of the building was $2469.87.</p><br>
<p>The National Register nomination includes a description of the building:</p><br>
<p>"Situated on the top of a steep hill, the church was a plain, gable-roofed, rectangular, frame structure about 26 x 29 feet, with the length running north south. The exterior finish was unusually narrow beveled siding (less than three inches weather exposure) which is preserved on the present church. On the south end of the building was an entry hall with a three-sided truncated hip roof. This entry ran the width of the building and was about 10 feet wide. There were two pairs of tall six-paned windows on the west, south, and east sides of the church, a main door on the south in the center of the entry hall/and a small belfry on the south end of the gable roof. The builders added some decoration in the exposed rafters which were carved and pierced and backed by a dentate-carved board, still visible today on the east side of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>The church building was expanded in 1911 and 1912. A basement was dug on the lower slope of the hill to the west, and the church building was moved onto the new basement. The basement was 14 feet wider than the sanctuary, so it was possible to add another 14 feet to the room above. The gable roof over the addition runs west from the north–south alignment of the original roof. The north–south gable roof was extended to cover the entry hall, and the door to the building was moved to the east end of the entry hall. The two gables formed an angle where a belfry tower was built to a height of about two feet above the roofs. The square tower provides an entry to the basement, and a stairway to the church above. The basement, which opens out to the west, has space for meetings and social activities along with Sunday School classes.</p><br>
<p>In 1913, the stained glass windows were added to the sanctuary. A fire in 1922 damaged the interior of the first floor, and destroyed the large stained glass window on the west side of the sanctuary. All of the other windows are original. Two other rooms were added north of the sanctuary in 1938 and 1958. In 1974, the exterior of the basement walls were faces with sandstone flagstones from an outcrop about 60 miles southwest of Buffalo.</p><br>
<h2>Parsonage</h2><br>
<p>The parsonage, built in 1910, is built on a level with the west side of the basement of the church. It is a frame structure with a gable roof and tall paired windows. There is a shed-like roof on the south side of the parsonage. Originally, it must have looked like a small replica of the church.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church at Fort and N. Adams Streets in Buffalo, Wyoming, United States. The church was built in 1899, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is located at the corner of Adams Avenue and Fort Street in Buffalo, Wyoming.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church in Buffalo was organized on October 7, 1892, with the appointment of the first minister, Reverend H.A. Toland. Reverend E.J. Robinson was appointed as minister in 1895, and he supervised the construction of the church building. The building was built by members of the congregation, and the total cost was $2075.00.</p><br>
<p>The design of the church probably came from an architectural pattern book. The cornerstone was laid on August 17, 1898, and laid within the stone were a Bible, a hymnal, a copy of the Church Discipline, several church papers, and some coins. The stone was made and presented by Z.T. Stocks, a stonemason. The interior of the church building follows the Akron Plan, which typifies many Methodist churches in the American West. The plan, which originated in Akron, Ohio, emphasizes good acoustics, good sight lines, and flexibility, with a focus on the pulpit and communion table. The elevated platform for preaching is placed in the corner of the audience room, with the seating in a circular pattern. The main room of the church measures 22 by 36, the lecture room measures 14 by 12, and the bell tower is 40&#39; tall.</p><br>
<p>The pews were obtained from the Methodist Church in Sheridan, Wyoming. The pulpit was donated by Dave Muir and the "Scotch Boys." A basement was built in 1906 so that a hearing plant could be added. The stained glass windows were donated in 1916. An electric organ was donated by members of the church in memory of relatives. On December 19, 1923, a fire damaged the rear part of the building. When the basement the church was restored after the fire, the building was lengthened by addition 16 feet to the north. A small choir room was also added.</p><br>
<h2>Church History</h2><br>
<p>A Social Center was added in 1917, and that was connected to the main building in 1993. In 1939, the church&#39;s name was changed to the First United Methodist Church. A Sunday school building was added in 1959. The church is the current home of a congregation now known as the First United Methodist Church of Buffalo Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 178 South Main Street in Buffalo, Wyoming, United States. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Early days</h2><br>
<p>St. Lukes Episcopal Church, as well as several other early Buffalo churches, had its beginning in the Sunday School which was held in the local schoolhouse in 1883. In 1884, Bishop John Spalding organized an Episcopal mission developed into the congregation. The first service was held in a private home in September 1884, and a group of wardens was chosen. Other services were held at the schoolhouse, and at a local hotel. Chaplain G.W. Simpson from Fort McKinney held services every Sunday at three oclock. The first resident minister, Reverend F.C. Elred, served from 1887 to 1891.</p><br>
<h2>Church building</h2><br>
<p>In 1888, the congregation decided to build a church on Main Street, and acquired several city lots. The deeds were recorded on October 31, 1888. The cornerstone was laid in 1889. A local woman described the new building:</p><br>
<p>"St. Lukes Church was built of red brick, the bricks made and burned in the brickyards of Curran Brothers. Its builder was Thomas Hutton, an ardent churchman as well as an artisan. The style of St. Lukes is Gothic It is considered the most perfect form of Gothic in the state. People from far and wide have stopped while passing through to study the architecture. The furniture of the chancel, the altar, and hangings were given by the Vanderbilit family of New York. This is the history of the gift. As you know, the officers of Fort McKinney helped to start St. Lukes. A young man, a Lieutenant Webb, was related to the Vanderbilt family. He knew that he could get the financial aid to buy the chancel furnishings. He wrote to New York with splendid results. The massive beams in the ceiling of the church were hewn in the sawmill of Martin Woodard who had his mill in the forests of the Big Horns. They were brought down from the mountains over steep and rugged roads by Yorkie&#39; Waters who had a large freighting outfit."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the Johnson County War, several important funerals took place at St. Lukes. When Deputy Marshall George A. Wellman was murdered by the “Taylor Gang”, known as the “Red Sashes”, the outlaws did not want the lawman to have the honor of a Christian funeral at St. Lukes. The outlaws, however, did not reckon with the courage and determination of The Rev. Charles Duell, members of St. Luke&#39;s and the Masons, all of whom carried concealed weapons during the funeral. The funeral took place on May 13, 1892.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, Dr. H.U. Onderdonk came to St. Luke&#39;s Parish as a lay reader. He studied for Holy Orders, and was ordained in 1900. Dr. Onderdonk served not only as physician and a clergyman, but also as a chemist, mathematician, nurse, and editor. The church hall, built in 1925, is named "Onderdonk Hall" in his memory."</p><br>
<p>On March 19, 1919, St. Luke&#39;s Church became a self-supporting regular parish. The church building is basically the same as it was when completed in 1889. Care has been taken to retain its basic design while maintaining it in excellent condition. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Services are held every Sunday.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 4th and Center Streets in Douglas, Wyoming. Built in 1898, the church is the oldest church in Douglas as well as the only wooden church remaining in the city. G.W.G. Van Winkle designed the church in the Gothic Revival style. The church&#39;s design features a bell tower, a steep roof, lancet windows with stained glass, and external buttresses. In addition to its religious function, the church has also hosted community and volunteer groups and social activities.</p><br>
<p>The church, together with its rectory, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Old US 41–Backwater Creek Bridge is a bridge located on an abandoned section of US Highway 41  over Backwater Creek in Baraga Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1913, the state of Michigan authorized the construction of trunkline roads through the state. A main trunkline route through Baraga County was designated, extending from Michigamme to Chassell. By 1915, the trunkline had been completed, and the Baraga County Road Commission spent the remainder of the decade slowly improving the route, regrading segments and replacing some bridges.</p><br>
<p>One of the improvements along the route was the construction of a bridge across the end of Keweenaw Bay, 2 mi south of Baraga. The Michigan State Highway Department designed a long-span pony truss bridge for the crossing, designated State Trunk Line Bridge No. 86. In 1917, the department awarded contracts for the construction of the bridge: Smith-Sparks Construction Company was awarded $5,414.20 to fabricate the concrete substructure, and the Northwestern Bridge and Iron Company fabricated and installed the truss for $4,536.00. The structure was completed in 1918.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, the trunkline road was incorporated into US 41. Traffic along the route increased, and eventually a replacement bridge was built nearby. The original bridge remains, in essentially unaltered condition, and is now a privately owned structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Old US 41–Backwater Creek Bridge is a rigidly connected Warren pony truss, 80 ft long with an 18 ft roadway. The deck is constructed of I-beams bolted to the verticals and support stringers, over which a concrete roadway is laid. The trusses are supported by concrete abutments on all four corners, having angled wingwalls.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is historically important as an early part of the region&#39;s infrastructure, and is technologically noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of a standard highway department pony truss design in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Saltsburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Saltsburg in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses 118 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, and fifteen contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Saltsburg, including notable examples of buildings that were designed in the Federal and Late Victorian styles. Most of the buildings were built between the 1830s and 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the William McIlwaine House and Store (1820–1829), the Dr. James Crawford House (1830–1839), Dr. McFarland&#39;s Drug Store and Office (1840), the Saltsburg Hotel (1870s), the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Station (1864), the Saltsburg Presbyterian Church (1874), the Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Church (1878), the Altman Feed Mill (1893), the First National Bank Building (1927), and the DeLisi Theater (1923).</p><br>
<p>The contributing site is a former canal/railbed of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad and Lock #8 that is now occupied by Canal Park. The contributing structures are the retaining walls of the railroad. The contributing objects are canal markers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Saltsburg PA Presby PHS547.jpgSaltsburg Presbyterian Church</p><br>
<p>The Lt. Robert Andrews House is an historic house at 428 South Bridgton Road in Bridgton, Maine, United States. Built in 1805 by John Kilborn, Jr., a local master builder, it was the home for many years of Robert Andrews, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and an early settler of the Bridgton area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Andrews House stands close to the east side of South Bridgton Road (Maine State Route 107) in a rural area of southern Bridgton. The house is a rambling connected series of wood-frame structures, with the main house block at the southern end, and ells extending along the road to the north and behind the house to the east. The main block is a -story structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. Decorative elements are minimal, with the central entrance framed by pilasters and a fanlight, with a dentillated cornice above. A shed-roof porch extends across the southern facade, supported by fluted Doric columns. A -story four-bay addition, its front flush with that of the main block, extends north, with another section extending further north to join the house to a carriage barn. On the east side a series of two ells join the house to a livestock barn.</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Robert Andrews, a native of Boxford, Massachusetts, was one of several American Revolutionary War veterans from that town to receive grants of land from the state in 1780 in the area of what is now Bridgton. His first house location is not known, but he commissioned construction of this "mansion house" in 1805 from John Kilborn, Jr., another war veteran with a reputation for high-quality workmanship. Andrews was a major benefactor and civic actor in the town, serving as town selectman, and donating land and funds for churches and schools. A bachelor, he shared the house with younger relatives as he got older, building the four-bay ell on the north side as his living space. This arrangement ultimately led to the division of the house as a two-family after his death in 1845; the house was returned to single-family use in the 1990s. The extensive series of additions in two directions is a consequence of this division. One family Andrews shared the house with was with his niece and her husband, Sophia and Thomas Cleaves. Their son Henry, who later served as Governor of Maine, was born in this house in 1840.</p><br>
