<p>Fairmount Historic District is a national historic district located in the Fairmount neighborhood of York in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 101 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a residential area of York. The neighborhood was developed between 1889 and about 1915, and includes notable examples of the Queen Anne and Second Empire styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Northwest York Historic District is a national historic district located in the Northwest York neighborhood of York in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 815 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in a residential area of York. The neighborhood was developed between 1882 and 1930, and includes notable vernacular examples of various Late Victorian styles, Colonial Revival, and American Foursquare.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Sinking Springs Farms is a historic farm and national historic district located at Manchester Township in York County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 32 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 17 contributing structures. The district includes the Manor House Demesne, four farmsteads, and a Radio Broadcast Complex. The manor house dates to 1900, and is a -story, Colonial Revival-style dwelling modified between 1936 and 1941.</p><br>
<p>Farmstead #1 includes the earliest buildings, dated to about 1841. Farmstead #2 includes a Shingle Style dwelling designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1893. Farmstead #3 has a -story, banked Pennsylvania German dwelling built about 1845.</p><br>
<p>Farmstead #4 has a -story, banked Georgian-plan dwelling built about 1845. The Radio Broadcast Complex includes a -story, brick Colonial Revival-style office building and four radio towers, and used as a radio station from the 1940s until 1990.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
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<p>The Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters is a customs station on the Canada–United States border in Glacier County, Montana. Located on Montana Highway 17, the station is operated seasonally, primarily for tourist traffic between Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. The station is named after Chief Mountain, a prominent peak in the vicinity. The station is owned by the General Services Administration and operated by USA Customs and Border Protection, and is located within the boundaries of Glacier National Park. The station is a notable example of the National Park Service Rustic style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Chief Mountain International Highway was completed in 1936. The customs station was built in 1939, designed by A. Paul Brown of the National Park Service. The -story structure is built of wood frame on a rubble stone foundation. The lower level is framed with posts and beams, while the upper portion is of light frame construction. The station is now sheathed in aluminum siding that mimics wood lap siding. The wood shingle roof was stained green, but has weathered to a natural gray. There are four stone chimneys. The interior retains much of its historic fabric, although almost all light fixtures have been replaced.</p><br>
<p>The main building is built into a hillside sloping away from the road. Built roughly in the form of a T, the building&#39;s roof extends over the road to form a large porte-cochère. The main level features a lobby with immigration and customs desks on the side facing the road, with two one-bedroom apartments on the rear extension. The second floor contains two studio apartments and a one-bedroom unit. The basement houses utility spaces and prisoner holding cells. A garage housing inspection bays with pits for the inspection of the undersides of vehicles is nearby.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Chief Mountain Customs Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Status</h2><br>
<p>The Chief Mountain crossing is typically open only from mid to late May to late September or October, during daylight and evening hours, based on weather conditions.</p><br>
<p>The Lewistown Armory is an historic National Guard armory that is located in Derry Township, Mifflin 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>Built in 1938, this historic structure is a one-story, "I"-plan brick building with an exposed basement. Designed in the Colonial Revival style, it consists of a front administrative section with a drill hall and former stable area behind. The front and stable buildings have hipped roofs, while the drill hall has a gable roof. The drill hall measures sixty feet by ninety feet.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Mifflin County Historic Courthouse is an historic, American courthouse building that is located in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1842 and 1843, this historic structure is a two-and-one-half-story, brick building that was designed in the Greek Revival style, and is three-bays wide. The original building measured forty-eight feet by eighty-two feet. It was enlarged by forty-eight feet to the rear in 1878. It features a pedimented entryway with two engaged pilasters and prominent cupola.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse has been updated and restored, with the second floor courtroom restored to a late nineteenth-century appearance. An elevator was installed during the 1979 restoration, for accessibility to the courtroom. The building features large art works of local significance, and hosts the offices of the Mifflin County Historical Society, the Juniata River Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Juniata River Valley Visitors Bureau.</p><br>
<p>McCoy House is a historic home located at Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, across from the Mifflin County Courthouse. It was built between 1836 and 1843, and is a -story, brick and frame dwelling in the Federal style. It has a gable roof and a double chimney linked at the base. Frank Ross McCoy was born in the house in 1874.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>McCoy House is now owned by the Mifflin County Historical Society and serves as a museum of local history.</p><br>
<p>The Wollner Building is an historic, American commercial building that is located in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, on Monument Square across from the Mifflin County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1906, this historic structure is a three-story, vernacular, brick building with a chamfered corner that measures approximately thirty feet by ninety feet, sits on a rusticated stone base and has three wood storefronts. Its significance lies in its architecture, its connection with the urbanization of Lewistown, and its association with Calvin Greene, a prominent local businessman and founder of the Lewistown Trust Company, which was housed there for many years.</p><br>
<p>Many locals remember the ground floor as Headings Drug Store. It operated at this location into the 1960s. Currently, the building houses the Seven Mountains Medical Center on the first floor with private apartments on the second and third floors.</p><br>
<p>This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Brockway station is a historic railway station located at Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1913 by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building with Colonial Revival-style details. It sits on a poured cement foundation and has a hipped roof covered in red ceramic tile.</p><br>
<p>The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad operated both daytime and nighttime trains through the station on the BR&P route between Lackawanna Terminal in Buffalo and Baltimore and Ohio Station in Pittsburgh. Additionally, the company operated a local Buffalo to DuBois, Pennsylvania train, making stops at the station. B&O passenger service to Brockway continued up to 1955, the final year of service on the BR&P line. It is the only surviving passenger station in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Brockwayville Passenger Depot, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The Gray-Taylor House is an historic, American home that is located in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Brookville Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1882, this historic structure is a three-story, brick dwelling with a two-story rear wing. Designed in the Second Empire style, it features a three-story projecting bay window, a mansard roof, and a one-story open porch across the front facade.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Brookville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph E. Hall House, also known as the Hall House, is an early historic home that is located on Main Street in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Brookville Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1848 by pioneer lumberman Joseph Hall, this structure is thought to be the oldest surviving residence in the town, and is considered one of the few superb examples of the Greek Revival "temple with wings" style to still exist in mid-western and north-central Pennsylvania. The facade features a two-story portico with four fluted Ionic order columns that were constructed of solid trees and a classical pediment (similar to the north facade of the White House).</p><br>
<p>After a century as a private residence, the house was deeded in 1956 as the Rebecca M. Arthurs Memorial Library, and then served as the town&#39;s public library until the late-1970s when it again became a residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Brookville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Phillip Taylor House, also known as the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, is an historic, American home that is located in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1841, this historic structure is a two-story, brick dwelling with a rear two-story addition and flanking wood-frame ell that was designed in the Italian Villa style. The main building has a hipped roof and belvedere. The front facade is five-bays wide and features an elaborately ornamented open porch. It was acquired for use as a soldier&#39;s convalescent home in 1889, and was used for that purpose into the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Heltne Oil Company is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Havre, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 16, 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1939 by the Northwest Refining Company of Cut Bank, Montana and was leased by Danfield Heltne; the business stayed in the Heltne family through the date of NRHP application. The building is described in its NRHP nomination as "an outstanding example of the transitional period of gas station design between the more ornate styling of the early 1930s and the porcelain-enameled oblong box so dominant after the war." It has two-toned decorative brickwork, which, "together with ornamental pilasters blend nicely with the more modern and functional aspects of the design. Large windows to display company products and accessories together with more spacious enclosed service bays reflect the changes taking place in the service station industry during the late 1930s."</p><br>
<p>It was deemed "significant for its association with automobile travel along US 2 from the late 1930s through the early post-war era, as well as for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>Turkey Creek Community Historic District is a settlement established by emancipated African Americans during the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War. The community is situated in north Gulfport, Mississippi, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1866, a group of emancipated African Americans settled along Turkey Creek on about 320 acres (130 hectares) formerly owned by Arkansas Lumber Company. Freed slaves, Thomas and Melinda Benton, acquired enough land so that their holdings comprised 50 percent of the community. Later settlers purchased property from the Bentons. Many residential lots originally adjoined Turkey Creek, which served as a transportation route for early settlers. Residents often planted gardens, grew fruit trees, and raised livestock on their property.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic Turkey Creek community is surrounded by large urban developments that include the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport to the south, USA Route 49 to the west, and an industrial seaway on the north. The Historic District is a residential area situated along Rippy Road and is associated with freshwater marsh and coastal hardwood forest. The principal forest cover type is live oak (Quercus virginiana) with common associates that include Myrica cerifera, Ilex vomitoria, Vaccinium arboreum, and Serenoa repens. Houses consist of one-story cottages typical of vernacular architecture. In addition to residential houses, the community contains religious and educational structures. The primary natural feature is Turkey Creek which meanders along 12.9 miles (20.8 kilometers) to Bayou Bernard.</p><br>
<p>By the mid-1950s, infrastructure development in the form of industries, highways, airports and housing construction, associated with the expansion of Gulfport, began to encroach on the Turkey Creek Community. Although the Turkey Creek Community predated the founding of the City of Gulfport, it was annexed by that City in 1994. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005, business expansion accelerated northward, away from the coastline, and into the Turkey Creek Community, garnering national attention. In response, the Turkey Creek Community Initiatives was formed and received assistance from the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain and Audubon Mississippi to protect the remaining natural and cultural resources of the Turkey Creek Watershed from further degradation caused by commercial encroachment. In 2021, Turkey Creek (the river that runs adjacent to the community) by American Rivers as one of America&#39;s 10 Most Endangered Rivers due to the continuing threat of development.</p><br>
<p>The Too Close for Comfort Site is an archaeological site located in Havre, Montana, United States. The area was used as a buffalo jump. The site, also known as Wahkpa Chu&#39;gn has yielded artifacts from three Native American groups.</p><br>
<p>Between 2000–1500 years ago, the site was inhabited by the Besent peoples, followed about 200–300 years later by the Avonlea peoples for a brief period of time, and lastly by the Saddle Butte peoples who were using the site until about 600 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Wahkpa Chu&#39;gn was discovered in 1962 by John Brumley, followed by further excavations in the 1960s and 1970s by the Montana State Archaeological Society and the Milk River Archaeological Society. John Brumley took over the excavations in the late 1970s, and in 1992 he and his wife began managing the site as an extremely experiential "non-sterile" archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>The site is open to the public, operated by the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Young–Almas House is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Havre, Montana.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by local architect Frank Bossuot, following photos taken by Mr. Young of a plantation house in Cuba. It was built in 1914 with masonry and terra cotta roofing by contractor Chris Fuglevand. It has also been known as Eliason Funeral Home, which was housed in an addition. It was also added to the Register on October 14, 1980. It is a stucco building in the Spanish Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Daniels County Courthouse, located at 213 Main Street in Scobey, is the county courthouse serving Daniels County, Montana. The building was erected in 1913, the same year Scobey was relocated to a site on the Great Northern Railway, and originally functioned as a hotel. The two-story building, which had a false front, was the largest in the city at the time. Over the next seven years, the hotel passed through several hands; it became known as "One-eyed Molly&#39;s House of Pleasure" after its most notorious proprietor, a glass-eyed woman known as One-Eyed Molly who supposedly ran a brothel from the hotel. When Daniels County was established in 1920, the newly formed county purchased the hotel to use as its courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Big Run Baptist Church and Cemetery, also known as Franklin Township Historical Society, is a historic Baptist church and cemetery located at 6510 South Franklin Road in Franklin Township, Marion County, Indiana. The church was built in 1871 as a Baptist meeting house and served the church congregation until 1977. It is a one-story, gable front brick building with Italianate style design elements. The associated cemetery was established in 1854, with one stone dated to 1841. The most recent burial was in 1986. Also on the property is a contributing privy constructed about 1920. The Franklin Township Historical Society acquired the property and now uses the building as a historical museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel A.M.E. Church, known in its early years as Indianapolis Station or the Vermont Street Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. Organized in 1836, it is the citys oldest African-American congregation. The three-story church on West Vermont Street dates to 1869 and was added to the National Register in 1991. The surrounding neighborhood, once the heart of downtown Indianapoliss African American community, significantly changed with post-World War II urban development that included new hotels, apartments, office space, museums, and the Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis campus. In 2016 the congregation sold their deteriorating church, which was repurposed into part of a new hotel. The congregation built a new worship center at 6417 Zionsville Road in Pike Township in northwest Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel AME congregation has a long history of supporting the citys African American community. It is especially noted for its activities on behalf of the antislavery movement in the years before the American Civil War; its support of the Underground Railroad, which provided protection to slaves en route to Canada; and its commitment to education and community outreach. Bethel also served as the mother church to several AME congregations in Indiana and as a public meeting place in Indianapolis for social activists. Local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Indiana State Federation of Colored Womens Clubs were organized at the Vermont Street church in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Indianapolis became home to several African Methodist Episcopal Church congregations, but Bethel is the city&#39;s oldest African American congregation. Originally established in 1836 and known as Indianapolis Station, it had adopted the name of Bethel AME Church by 1869.</p><br>
<h3>Origins</h3><br>
<p>Augustus Turner, a local barber, organized a small group of African American Methodists in 1836. The congregations first meetings were held in Turners log cabin on Georgia Street. A new house of worship was constructed on Georgia Street in 1841. When the congregation sought affiliation with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, William Paul Quinn, an AME circuit rider from Cincinnati, Ohio, who later became an AME bishop, was the first AME minister to serve the Indianapolis Station. Quinn also helped it achieve membership in the AME Churchs Western Circuit. Elisha Weaver began serving as the churchs first full-time minister in 1850. The congregation adopted the name of Bethel AME Church in the late 1860s. Although the congregation continued to expand into larger buildings and extend its outreach programs to the area&#39;s African American community, it faced financial challenges throughout its early history.</p><br>
<h3>Georgia Street church</h3><br>
<p>In 1841 the congregation had its first church built on Georgia Street between the Central Canal and Mississippi Street (present-day Senate Avenue). The Bethel AME congregation continued to use the small, frame structure until 1857, when it bought the first Christ Church building from the citys Episcopal congregation. (The Episcopal parishioners had decided to replace their wood-frame church with a new stone structure on its site on Monument Circle.) The AME congregation had the small church moved to their site on Georgia Street; however, the church was destroyed by fire in 1862. It is believed that the AME congregations open support of the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, which provided protection to slaves en route to Canada, may have led some pro-slavery advocates to burn the church. The congregation raised funds and had the frame church rebuilt in 1867. The replacement structure served the congregation until its brick church on West Vermont Street was built in 1868–69. The congregation sold a lot it owned at the corner of Michigan and Tennessee Streets (present-day Capitol Avenue) for $3,000 and used the funds to purchase another lot for $5,000 on West Vermont Street that served as the site for the new church.</p><br>
<h3>Vermont Street church</h3><br>
<p>The church&#39;s West Vermont Street site, located in the northwest section of downtown Indianapolis, has historically been the heart of the African American community. The neighborhood included a mix of residential, retail, commercial, and light industry.</p><br>
<p>Post-World War II development and the declining nearby neighborhood caused the area to change, but the Bethel AME congregation remained in its aging church, which was renovated in 1974 in order to make more space for outreach activities. Eventually, urban development dominated the surrounding area, which included hotels, apartments, museums, and office space along the Central Canal to the east, north, and south. The sprawling IUPUI campus was established west of the church.</p><br>
<p>Bethel AME Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991; at that time it was the only African-American church building in Indianapolis to receive that recognition.</p><br>
<h4>Sale and redevelopment</h4><br>
<p>In 2015 the Bethel AME congregation initiated a capital campaign to raise the $2 million to $3 million needed to repair the deteriorating building, but it proved to be unsuccessful. Without the major funding needed to proceed with the church repairs, the congregation began considering offers to buy the Vermont Street property. In early 2016 the congregation reached an agreement with Sun Development and Management Corporation, an Indianapolis-based developer, to sell the property for an undisclosed amount and relocate. Sun Development, who agreed to preserve as much of the structure as possible, planned to build a hotel on the property. Under the terms of the sale, the congregation had to vacate the property by August 2016. See also:</p><br>
<p>In February 2017 Indiana University announced that its School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI had received a grant from the university to create a three-dimensional virtual reality model of the historic Vermont Street church. IUPUI students collected 3,000 images for use in the modeling project. When completed, the model will be accessible to the public through IUPUI&#39;s School of Informatics and Computing. Digital images used to create the model will be housed at the IUPUI Library; the digitized archive, along with other archival records from the church, will be held in collection of the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, the congregation&#39; opened a new church building on Zionsville Road in Pike Township in northwest Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>A seven-story hotel with 231 rooms opened on the site in December 2021. It is co-branded as Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites and includes a swimming pool, rooftop patio, and other amenity spaces.</p><br>
<h2>Building description</h2><br>
<p>The Vermont Street site originally consisted of a three-story church and an adjacent two-story parsonage that connected to the main building by an enclosed passageway. The church and parsonage date from 1867 to 1869; the parsonage was converted to a church office at a later date. The churchs four-story tower, east gable, and west cross gable were added as part of a major renovation to the church in 1894. A false façade of metal framework and stucco was added to the churchs and parsonages south façade in 1973–74. The churchs original brick façade and its main entrance was partially obscured by the 1974 update; however, the building retained many features dating to its construction in 1869 and the renovation in 1894.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior and plan</h3><br>
<p>The three-story church and its square, four-story tower were constructed of red brick over a limestone foundation and contained some Romanesque Revival features. Only the northeast corner of the tower was attached to the church. The tower had paired windows on the second story, multiple round arches above the third-floor windows, and a round arch flanked by pairs of pilasters at the fourth-story level. The tower&#39;s hip roof was topped with a cross finial.</p><br>
<p>The churchs main entrance, facing south toward Vermont Street, had a false façade of stucco that included a single arch over the main entrance and two narrow arches on either side. The churchs east elevation, partially obscured by the adjacent parsonage, had a cross-gabled section with tall, round-arched windows and two-story arched windows that divided into two lancets at the second-story level. The churchs west elevation had vertically aligned window openings and one doorway on the south. (Another door on the north of this elevation was enclosed.) The west elevations second and third stories each had five, round-arched windows; its cross gable had a lunette window. The north (rear) elevation had a gabled section with two arched windows on the first story, one round-arched window on the second story, and two round-arched windows on the third floor. A hip-roofed section at the rear had an arched doorway and a window on the ground floor with a two-story arched window that divided into two round-arched lancet windows above. The rear elevation also had an exterior chimney.</p><br>
<p>An adjacent, two-story parsonage east of the church was erected at the time of the churchs initial construction (1867–69). The red brick parsonage connected to the church on the first and second floor and was later converted to a church office. Its gable front (the main façade facing Vermont Street) was covered with a false façade in 1974. Openings in the south façade were blocked in, probably when the false façade was added. A gable-roof porch covered the parsonages main entry. Originally, the south elevation had arched openings with a door and two windows on the first floor and three windows on the second floor. The east elevation had a two-story gabled main section and a shed-roofed section in the rear. The main section had two windows on the first floor, one on the second; the shed-roof section had one window.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The church&#39;s cube-shaped interior included a sanctuary and meeting rooms; its tower housed a staircase. The church had two entrances, one on its south elevation facing Vermont Street and another in the tower. A narrow lobby across the main building had doors in the north side that lead to a meeting room. Smaller rooms were established along the west wall. The lower level included a kitchen. The main stairway to the second-floor sanctuary was accessed from the east side of the first-floor lobby.</p><br>
<p>The sanctuary was remodeled in 1894 to a two-story space with the altar on the east wall. A balcony along the west wall was accessible from staircases in the sanctuary&#39;s southeast and northwest corners. Auditorium-style seating faced the altar. (This arrangement altered the original plan, which may have placed rows of pews facing an altar located on either the north or south wall.) Two tiers of windows on the west and north walls lighted the sanctuary; tall windows lit the altar. The coved ceiling was covered with beaded wood board and had a square coffer at the center.</p><br>
<p>Later changes to the building included enlarging its choir loft, installation of a pipe organ and stained-glass windows, and updates to the buildings heating, lighting, and electrical systems. In 1961 pastor C. T. H. Watkins and architect Walter Exxell redesigned the churchs chancel. The congregation also renovated the church building and adjoining parsonage in 1974. Window openings in the sanctuary&#39;s south wall were covered over and the related woodwork was removed due to the addition of the false façade on the exterior.</p><br>
<p>The front door of the parsonage/church office led to a side staircase and hall. A first-floor room was converted to an office. In addition, smaller rooms or offices were made on the parsonage&#39;s first and second floors.</p><br>
<h2>Mission</h2><br>
<p>The Bethel AME Church elevated its role in the community as the citys black population increased. Before the American Civil War, the congregation became active in the antislavery movement and supported the Underground Railroad. At that time Indianapoliss black population comprised less than three percent of the citys total population. In 1860, when Indianas statewide population reached 1,338,710, its African American population was 11,428. However, as the war progressed, the number of blacks coming to Indianapolis from the South and Indianas rural areas continued to rise, nearly doubling the states African American population by 1870, a few years after the Bethel AME church was erected on Vermont Street. By 1900, shortly after the church underwent a major renovation, African Americans comprised nearly ten percent of the city&#39;s population.Emma Lou Thornbrough, "African-Americans," in</p><br>
<p>Bethel, the citys only AME congregation for thirty years, became the mother church to several congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal churches in Indiana, The Bethel congregation also served in the development of the AME church. In 1854, 1859, and 1864, Bethel hosted the denominations annual conference. In addition, it hosted an AME bishop&#39;s conference and a general conference in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Education was also an important mission of the church. The congregation established its first school for African American children at the church in 1858. (Before the mid-1870s, Indianapolis&#39;s public schools did not allow African American children to enroll.) Later, the congregation operated a kindergarten at the church and a day school.</p><br>
<p>The Bethel church also became a public meeting place for social activism, as well as a venue for organizing and implementing social services including providing money, clothing, and temporary lodging to African Americans immigrating to the city from the South after the Civil War. Over the years the church provided other social programs such as a credit union, counseling services, a well-baby clinic, and day-care services for children and adults. The church also served as a venue for organizing local associations that were instrumental in achieving better housing, education, and equal rights for African Americans. Local chapters of several organizations were created at Bethel, including the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the early 1900s and the Indiana State Federation of Colored Woman&#39;s Clubs on April 27, 1904.</p><br>
<p>During the twentieth century, Bethel AME Church continued to support the citys black community living northwest of the downtown area. The congregation operated a food pantry, youth and senior citizens programs, and clothing drives, among other activities. Throughout civil rights activism of the mid-twentieth century, Bethel provided a space of racial solidarity and continued its long tradition of offering community outreach services to the citys African Americans. In 2013 the church became a member of the Indianapolis Congregation Action Network (IndyCan) and has served as headquarters for the network&#39;s Mass Transit Campaign.</p><br>
<h2>Membership</h2><br>
<p>The congregation began in 1836 with a few members meeting in a log cabin. By 1848 the small group had grown to 100 members and was meeting in a small frame church on Georgia Street. Over the next century the membership continued to increase. By the early 1990s the congregation had an estimated 1,200 members; however, its membership declined in subsequent decades. The congregation&#39;s membership was estimated at 120 to 150 when the West Vermont Street property was sold in 2016.</p><br>
<h3>Notable members</h3><br>
<p>Reverend Willis Revels, a pastor at Bethel AME Church in the 1860s, encouraged African Americans to enlist in the Union army during the American Civil War</p><br>
<p>Doctor Samuel Elbert, a physician, was the first African American graduate of the Medical College of Indianapolis and served as the secretary of the Indiana Board of Health</p><br>
<p>Madam C. J. Walker, a prominent African American hair care and beauty products entrepreneur, who was also philanthropist and activist in the early twentieth century</p><br>
<p>Doctor Joseph Ward, an Indianapolis physician, served as director of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center at Tuskegee, Alabama</p><br>
<p>Mercer Mance was Indiana&#39;s first elected African American judge</p><br>
<p>The Ironwood Memorial Building, also known as the Ironwood Municipal Building or the Ironwood Memorial/Municipal Building, is a government building located at the corner of McLeod Avenue and Marquette Street in Ironwood, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The city of Ironwood had plans to build a new municipal building since at least 1917. The building was intended to be a Memorial Building, housing municipal offices and serving as a memorial to veterans. The cornerstone of the building was laid in November 1922 in a ceremony honoring veterans of World War I. The building was completed in August 1923 It was used for municipal business, as well as social and recreational uses, such as banquets, plays, basketball games, and education.</p><br>
<p>The Ironwood Memorial Building was remodeled in 1996. The building continues to serve as Ironwood&#39;s City Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Memorial Building is a two-story Neoclassical structure built of concrete in a pentagonal shape. The first floor is raised, providing light to the basement level. The two front facades are faced in grey terra cotta and coursed stone, while the remaining elevations are faced with brick. The heavy bronze door entrances are approached with wide granite steps and are flanked by Ionic columns. Above each entrance, clocks are inset into the terra cotta. A balustrade runs around the roof edge. Multipaned windows separated by pilasters and topped with arches run around the first floor, and rectangular windows with architrave trim are used on the second.</p><br>
<p>Inside the building are municipal offices (including a court room and council chambers), community facilities, a 1,500-seat auditorium, a statue of World War I doughboy, and bronze tablets listing area men who served during the Civil War, Spanish–American War, and World War I. A mural by artist Carl Frezell depicting local iron mines was funded by the Works Progress Administration. The Ironwood Women&#39;s Club has a private clubroom in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop is a visitor services building in the Lake McDonald district of Glacier National Park, Montana. The coffee shop was built in 1965 as part of the National Park Service&#39;s Mission 66 program to upgrade visitor facilities, in order to increase visitor dining capacity. Under the Mission 66 projects, visitor facilities were usually comprehensive in nature, providing a range of visitor services. Specialized concession buildings like the Coffee Shop were unusual in Mission 66. It was leased to the Glacier Park Company for operation, in anticipation of the construction of lodging facilities by the company.</p><br>
<p>The Coffee Shop was designed by Burt L. Gewalt of the Kalispell, Montana architectural firm of Brinkman and Lenon. Gewalt designed the roofline to echo individual design elements of the nearby Lake McDonald Lodge, using compatible paint and trim materials.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, the Coffee House was remodeled and reopened as Jammer Joes, a pizza shop with to-go food. Part of a Glacier Park Red Tour Bus is affixed to the wall. Jammer Joes is named for a well loved "Jammer", or Red Bus Driver, who gave tours in Glacier Park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Coffee House is located a little to the east of the Lake McDonald Lodge, between the Lodge and the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The 40 ft by 100 ft rectangular one-story shop is set on a small hill, surrounded by a lawn with mature conifers shading the site. The building is clad in white stucco over plywood and battened cedar panels. The roof structure is composed of glued laminated timber frames on steel columns, supporting a modified hipped roof. The roof is the building&#39;s most significant detail, with clipped ends to echo the main lodge structure, and a louvered roof monitor along the ridge, designed to conceal ventilation equipment in an open roof well. The present monitor has been modified from the original cap structure, which did not cope well with the heavy snow loads at the site. The eaves extend from the building at either end. The stucco panels near the entrance feature metal sculpture designed by Gewalt to express the surrounding mountains.</p><br>
<p>The interior is arranged with the main dining room in the north end, the kitchen in the middle, and the employees dining room at the south end. A lunch counter was originally located next to the main entrance near the center of the building. The employees dining room has been converted to office and storage use. Interior finishes were stained cedar batten panels and vinyl asbestos tile, with an open ceiling space. Original light fixtures by A.W. Pistol remain.</p><br>
<p>Gewalt drew his design inspiration from the lodge building and from Welton Beckets design for the Canyon Village Lodge at Yellowstone National Park. Gewalts design has been compared to the "Coffee Shop Modern" style by author Alan Hess, using many of the same structural effects and transparent design elements, as well as conspicuously modern design features. Hess describes Coffee Shop Modern as an offshoot of Googie architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architects and contractors</h2><br>
<p>Brinkman and Lenon was founded shortly after World War II, continuing after the death of the founding partners in 1961 until the firm was sold to the Architects Design Group in the 1990s. The firm designed the Logan Pass Visitor Center and the Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations at the eastern side of the park as well as other structures at West Glacier, Saint Mary and Rising Sun.</p><br>
<p>The shop was built by the Collins Construction Company of Kalispell at a cost of about $107,000.</p><br>
<h2>Master plan</h2><br>
<p>The Coffee Shop was to be the first element in expansion of the Lake McDonald site with additional visitor services. The Mission 66 plan for Lake McDonald in 1955 envisioned the removal of all structures in the area except for the lodge itself and the construction of a series of one and two-story lodging units with 20 to 70 rooms each. These plans were scaled back, and were further reduced after the Great Northern Railway, which at the time owned the Glacier Park Company, objected to the plans as too costly. The Great Northern sold their Glacier Park operations to Glacier Park, Inc., operated by Don Hummell. By 1963 plans had been reduced to the construction of a "grill" at the site.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The Lake McDonald Coffee Shop was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 2008, Until its designation it was considered a non-contributing structure in the Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The W.C. Child Ranch also known as the Kleffner Ranch and the Child-Kleffner Ranch is a national historic site located on state highway 518, south of East Helena, Montana, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was purchased by W. C. Child about 1885, and was originally named "White Face Farm". In 1888 he also built an octagonal-shaped house on the property, with the second floor given over to an open ballroom.</p><br>
<p>Child lived in Helena and used the home only for meetings and parties. He went bankrupt as a result of the Silver Panic of 1893 and died in October, 1893, after which the ranch was sold to a number of different owners over the next fifty years. The property&#39;s condition deteriorated, until Paul Kleffner obtained the ranch in 1943, first leasing it and then buying it outright in 1946. Kleffner and his family owned the ranch until 2005, when it was bought by Denis and Stacy Young. The site is now primary used as a venue to host events such as weddings.</p><br>
<p>The Wagner Houseboat, also known as The Old Boathouse, is a historic floating home in Seattle, Washington. It is located in Lake Union at 2770 Westlake Avenue, near the Aurora Bridge. Built in 1912, it is named after Richard Wagner, who bought it in the 1950s. Wagner and his wife Colleen later founded the Center for Wooden Boats, which was based out of their houseboat.</p><br>
<p>As one of Seattle&#39;s oldest houseboats, the Wagner Houseboat was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Wagner Boathouse commemorates the transition of South Lake Union from industrial use to a residential community. The houseboat is one of few remaining relics of the once-prominent floating resort communities on Lake Washington.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of houseboats and other floating structures became popular in the Pacific Northwest during the late 19th century, beginning as a cheap shelter for laborers in the lumber and fishing industries. The antisocial behavior of these floating home inhabitants quickly gave houseboats an unfavorable image due to the illegal activity that often took place on the water&#39;s edge.</p><br>
<p>The Wagner Houseboat was built in 1912 and originally docked near Madison Park.</p><br>
<h3>Wagner&#39;s Ownership</h3><br>
<p>In the late 1950s, during a summer internship, Dick Wagner "fell in love with Seattle". His mission was to make sailing accessible to the public and to teach them sailing through hands of experience. Dick died at his home on April 20, 2017.</p><br>
<p>Also, a strong advocate for hands-on learning, Colleen had a degree in fine arts and was a talented artist. Along with her husband, Colleen was co-founder of the Center for Wooden Boats with a strong passion for maritime history. Colleen was also the founder and executive director of the Discovery Modelers Education Center. For her impact on the preservation of maritime history, Colleen was awarded the Association of King County Historical Organizations&#39; Board Legacy award in 2019. After her husband Dick died in 2017, Colleen continued living in the Wagner Boathouse until her death on January 2, 2020. Colleen is remembered for her welcoming spirit and passion for maritime history and preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Center for Wooden Boats</h2><br>
<p>The Wagner Houseboat was the birthplace of the Center for Wooden Boats. In the late 1950s, Dick and Colleen Wagner began collecting and restoring old wooden boats; storing the collection behind their home. Then, using their collection of small restored wooden boats, the couple decided to create a non-profit boat rental center out of their home by hanging a sign that says, "The Old Boathouse" on the dock in front of their houseboat. After this, the Center for Wooden Boats museum was born. Eventually, friends of the Wagner&#39;s began spending time at their home helping them restore these old wooden boats. This group of friends continued to grow both in numbers and in their devotion to preserving the history of wooden boats. They became so committed that they’d end up staying late night after night helping the couple with their restoration process and joining in the effort of the mission created by Dick and Colleen.</p><br>
<p>Once the couple realized the strong devotion of others in the community, it became apparent to the couple that this group of volunteers could support a nonprofit organization guided by their mission. Therefore, on February 3, 1976, Dick and Colleen decided to begin plans to open the Center for Wooden Boats as a way to maintain the history of sailing and wooden boats. This mission also aimed to get anyone and everyone, no matter their physical ability or financial ability, out on the water and given the chance to learn to sail. When the Center for Wooden Boats was officially created, operations were moved out of the Wagner Houseboat and into an official Center for Wooden Boats nonprofit location.</p><br>
<p>The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) then grew into a large and committed group of volunteers. As a result, other nonprofit leaders around the country have focused on how CWB could build such a devoted community and have tried to model their success. Currently, close to 75,000 people visit CWB annually to engage in the various maritime actives they provide.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Wagner Houseboat was built as a summer home on Lake Washington near Madison Park. It was designed in the "Cottage Style" and constructed from locally sourced wood; it reflects historic building techniques of early houseboat design.</p><br>
<p>Another advantage to the Wagner Houseboat construction is the fact that, due to any undesired circumstances, the home can simply be moved to another location along the water. The Wagner Houseboat was forced to relocate in 1938.</p><br>
<p>This feature is becoming increasingly desirable because of the rising sea levels and increased flooding across the globe. If this home was attached to solid ground rather than floating, simply moving the structure from one location to another would have been impossible. This feature of a houseboat construction helps us understand the environmental advantage of floating homes because without its unique floating construction, the inhabitants of the Wagner Houseboat would have had to abandon their home and construct another one in their new location. In a houseboat construction, there is no need to commit to an exact geological location, therefore one can maintain peace of mind knowing they can detach their home and move to a preferred location if needed.</p><br>
<p>The Immaculate Conception Church is a historic church and former cathedral at 115 N. Cushman Street in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1904, it was the first Roman Catholic Church erected in Alaskas interior. The church was originally located on Dunkel Street, but in the winter of 1911–12, the church was moved across the Chena River to its present location so that it would be closer to St. Josephs Hospital, which closed in the 1960s. After the move, the basement of rough frame structure was enlarged to provide a parish hall, it was wired for electricity, and a parish house was built adjacent. The steeple and vestibule were added in 1914, the roof was raised, and the choir gallery added. Its stained glass windows were added in 1926–28.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Eklutna Chapel, is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Eklutna, Alaska. It is about one mile inland from the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet.</p><br>
<p>The church, built of hewn spruce logs, is about 5 x in plan, and was built in about 1894. It was moved to its current location in 1900.</p><br>
<p>A new church was built next to the old in 1962. and Historic American Buildings Survey.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Eklutna, Anchorage, AK.jpgOld St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (1870s) at Eklutna</p><br>
<p>Nouvelle eglise eklutna.jpgNew St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (1962) at Eklutna, in 2009</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas Chapel , commonly known as Russian Orthodox Church, is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Seldovia, Alaska, United States. The church was most likely built in 1891 and replaced a log church. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s design features a bell tower with an octagonal, partly open belfry; the tower is topped by a tall cross. The church has a gable roof with a four-sided cupola in the middle, which is topped by another cross.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Nanwalek, Alaska. It is named for the Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>The settlement (first known as Alexandrovsk, and later as English Bay) was established during 1784-86 but its first church building was not built until about 1870. The current church building was built in about 1930 or before, and has been described as "a study in economical use of existing materials" and as having "no architectural distinction". It consists of two small rectangular buildings joined together; the nave section was possibly once a dance hall and the altar section was possibly once part of a local store. It is argued nonetheless that the building "is an unusual example of adaptive use, and retains the integrity of its use over the past half century as the community R.O. church."</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The United Protestant Church, also known as The Church of a Thousand Trees, is a historic church located at the corner of South Denali Street and East Elmwood Avenue in Palmer, Alaska. It is a rustic log two-story structure, in the shape of a cross. A small bell tower with a dormer roof rises just above the main entrance. The interior is shaped from rustic log elements, with carved pews. The church property includes a manse and garage, built from similar materials.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The First Lutheran Church in Ketchikan, Alaska is a historic church at 1200 Tongass Avenue. It was designed by architect W.G. Brust of Seattle and was built in 1930 by Ketchikan local builder Carl Foss. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a three-story tower at its southwest corner. The windows along the sides are rectangular sash windows on the first level, and narrow Gothic lancet windows on the taller second level grouped in threes in rectangular openings. The main entry is in through an arched opening in the tower, with the door topped by a multi-light transom window.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>St. Michael the Archangel Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church along Lake Avenue, in Cordova, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>It is a rectangular wood-frame structure with a moderately pitched roof, and a small entrance vestibule whose roof echoes the main roof line. The exterior is largely unadorned, owing to frequent windy conditions in the area. It was built in 1925 and has a modest appearance, in the generally simple style of the earlier Russian Orthodox church at Belkofski. The church interior was completely rebuilt and modernized in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Ascension of Our Lord Chapel  is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel in Karluk, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>It is believed that an original church was built in Karluk in the 1700s. The current church was built in 1888, with design and building "attributed to one Charles Smith Hursh". Its architecture shared some with its contemporary Russian Orthodox church at Belkofski, but has "a more fully realized design for a small church, embodying eclectic features of one main stream of R. O. rural church design."</p><br>
<p>Its design was largely copied in the design of the Nativity of Our Lord Chapel in Ouzinkie, Alaska.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the church was relocated from a bluff overlooking the river to prevent its destruction.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Church  is a historic Russian Orthodox church located at the corner of Mission Road and Kashevaroff Avenue in Kodiak, Alaska. It is now part of the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1945 as a replacement to a previous building that burnt in 1943. The Russian Orthodox presence in Kodiak dates from 1794, not long after the settlement&#39;s founding. The current church is about 70 x in plan dimensions.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The listing also includes a detached bell tower which is believed to be 19th century in construction.</p><br>
<p>The Nativity of Holy Theotokos Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Afognak, Alaska. The present church is the third Russian Orthodox church built in Afognak, and replaced the second which had been built in the late 1800s. Its construction began in 1901, and was completed in 1905. The community was mostly "washed out" by a 1964 tsunami, and moved to Port Lions, but the church building remained.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, it was believed that the community would return and that the church would be used again, although it would be necessary to move the church further away from the water&#39;s edge.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Nativity of Our Lord Chapel  is a historic Russian Orthodox church located in Church Street, Ouzinkie, Alaska. It is now under the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>The current building was built in 1906 as a replacement to an older, adjacent building from 1849 or 1855 that was left to deteriorate. Its design was based on that of the 1888 Russian Orthodox church at Karluk, which itself was based upon the church at Belkofski. This church has a relatively larger onion dome, though the onion dome is still small.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Protection of the Theotokos Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel on Kodiak Island, Alaska, along E Street at Akhiok, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>The church was built early in the 20th century, exact date not known but soon after 1900. It is not the first church on the site. It has a unique design, one that is simple, but with "details reminiscent of the more ambitious churches built ten to twenty years earlier at Belkofsky and Karluk". It has an approximately 30 x nave and a 16 x altar chamber.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Ascension of Our Lord Chapel at Karluk and the Holy Resurrection Church at Belkofski were also listed on the National Register on the same date.</p><br>
<p>Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel  is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel in Ouzinkie, Alaska. The chapel is named for the Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam. It was built in 1898 by Bishop Tikhon, who located it over the grave of Father Herman, the first Russian Orthodox clergyman to be canonized for service in Alaska, and who has been considered the patron saint of Alaska. It is approximately 22 x in plan and on its roof has a small, relatively recently added onion-shape supporting a high cross. An altar section and a vestibule section were added later, completing out a customary three-section design of Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Nikolski, Alaska, which is located at the southern end of Umnak Island. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>The current church was built in 1930, and is believed to be the fourth church on the island: the first was built and was burned within the 1800s, the second was burned in 1898, the third was built in 1898-1900 a few miles away then moved to the current church location in about 1918, and was replaced in 1930. The church has a customary three-element design (altar section, nave, and vestibule section), with addition of a nearly independent bell tower. Its nave is larger and taller than usual among the Russian Orthodox churches of Alaska, and it has "simple detailing coupled with small, economically severe, windows, suggests an almost Shaker design influence," according to a 1979 evaluation.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. George the Great Martyr Orthodox Church  is a historic Russian Orthodox church on St. George Island, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>A first church was built on the island during 1870–78; the current church was built about five miles away in about 1935. As there were no trees on the island, all materials had to be brought in. According to a 1979 evaluation, "of all the R. O. village churches and chapels in Alaska, this may be the best example of effective balance and integration of classic designs</p><br>
<p>to produce a building pleasing to the eye and utile in its purpose."</p><br>
<p>The current church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Church  in Belkofski, Alaska is a historic Russian Orthodox church.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as "a striking example of a special type of Russian Orthodox Church architectural heritage", with a pyramidal-shaped roof over a central tower, in a design following from the 1732 design of the Church of the Resurrection on the Moskva River at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia. It is believed that there has been a church at this site since 1881; the current church may be a reconstruction.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s design had an impact on the later Russian Orthodox churches at Karluk in 1888 and Ouzinkie in 1906.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Gradually the residents of Belkofski moved to nearby villages which offered them new economic opportunities. In the 1980s, a new Orthodox church was built in King Cove, located twelve miles away by boat. The church&#39;s inventory, which includes an iconostasis containing numerous icons from Russia, was transferred there.</p><br>
<p>St. Alexander Nevsky Chapel  is a historic Russian Orthodox church chapel in Akutan, Alaska, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1918 as a replacement for an 1878 building, reusing much of the same lumber. The chapel served the Russian Orthodox community in the trading port of Akutan and is now part of the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. Nicholas Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel in Sand Point, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1936. According to a 1979 evaluation of the church for possible historic registry listing, it is "a building of strong religious statement, clear and expressive." The evaluation notes that its entrance vestibule is within a "commanding" square tower at its west end, which "rises to a truncated pyramidal roof above its second level, and supports a handsome open-work octagonal bell tower".</p><br>
<p>As of 1979, it was in deteriorated condition and services were no longer conducted in the building (they were conducted in a private house, instead). But the building was "swept and kept neat" and secure from vandalism.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church Mission, also known as the Anvik Mission, is a historic Episcopal church mission in Anvik, Alaska. It is located near the former confluence of the Anvik and Yukon Rivers, about 2 mi below the present confluence. There are four buildings that survive from what was once a larger complex. The largest is the main mission building, is a 36 x structure built in 1932. The oldest building is the church, which was built in 1892, and was moved to the present site when river erosion threatened the previous one.</p><br>
<p>The mission site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Mission Church is a historic Episcopal log church building on the eastern fork of the Chandalar River in Arctic Village, Alaska, inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Known also as Old Missionary Church and as Old Log Church, it was built in 1917. It was one of numerous mission churches established in Alaska by the Episcopal Church in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building is significant as a mission church and for association with Reverend Albert E. Tritt. A native of Arctic Village, Tritt was converted to Christianity by gospel preaching of Episcopal missionaries at Fort Yukon, about 100 mi to the south. He returned with a Takudh-language Bible and sought to bring others into the Episcopal church. He became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1925. He helped with the building of a newer church in the village in 1939.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Presentation of Our Lord Chapel is a historic chapel in Nikolai, Alaska. The church parish is believed to have been started long before 1915, in the Old Nikolai area, and moved because of flooding of the old area.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1929 as a replacement to a log building that had been constructed on the site in 1915. One source asserts that in 1918 a different church was moved a few miles to this site in 1918; the 1929 rebuilding could incorporate that.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Now it is the St. Peter the Apostle Church under the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America.</p><br>
<p>The Tanana Mission  was a historic Episcopal church mission in Tanana, Alaska. Its abandoned church building and cemetery are listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant as artifacts of the once-large Episcopal mission, which additionally includeda hospital, a sawmill, a rectory, and a school. It is located about 3 miles up from the current Tanana village location. It was deemed "important to the history of interior Alaska as a place where permanent native (Indian) community was established near the mission which located itself opposite the prehistoric trading center of many interior Athapaskan Indians - Nuchalawoyya" and also as representing "a place where native people learned and participated in the activities of a foreign culture", and as a burial site, and as for the architecture of its church.</p><br>
<p>The church building has multiple gables above a 52 x plan. It was built in 1899 and added to the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The First Mission House  is a historic church and mission house at 291 Third Avenue in Bethel, Alaska. The wood-frame structure was the first to be built in Bethel, in 1885. It was designed by Hans Torgersen, one of the first group of Moravian missionaries sent to the area, but he died in a boating accident before it was built, and it was completed by two priests with no significant construction experience. Although the building received some alterations, it was restored to its early appearance in 1985. The building has been moved three times, primarily due to erosion along the Kuskokwim River.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1945 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Bear Creek Baptist Church was a historic Baptist church in Adair County, Missouri. It was located approximately four miles northwest of Kirksville on Missouri Route B. Built in 1860, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The church is no longer standing. The church, adjoining cemetery, and surrounding acreage are owned and maintained by the non-profit organization, Bear Creek Cemetery Association of Adair County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bear Creek Baptist congregation was the earliest organized Christian group in Adair County, dating to the late 1830s. Previously only small groups of neighbors would gather in private homes at various points in the county. Reverend Talbot Hight is recognized as the chief organizer of the congregation, in the period of late 1838 - early 1839. No funds or land were available to build a proper building and sanctuary, so for the first years of the congregations existence private homes were used for services, with the Reverend Lewis Connor as pastor. Following Connors 1856 death he was interred on a portion of his land informally deeded to the Bear Creek congregation for purposes of a church and cemetery. The exact date of construction for the current building isnt known, but commonly accepted as sometime in 1860. The disruption caused by the American Civil War meant that the building wasnt finished until sometime in 1865.</p><br>
<p>The church continued to grow through the remainder of the 19th century. However membership began to decline in the early 1900s until finally the last regularly scheduled services were held there on February 7, 1914. In October, 1946 a group from the First Baptist Church of Kirksville dedicated a large boulder with plaque on the site in honor of its status as the first church in the county. The cemetery continued in use long after the church had ceased regular services, the last known burials being in 1979. Among the local notables buried in the Bear Creek cemetery is Samuel Withrow, the first postmaster in Adair County, buried there in 1852. In May, 1982 a non-profit corporation, the aforementioned Bear Creek Cemetery Association of Adair County, was established to care for the property and building. Among their first projects was to secure the site&#39;s placement on the National Register of Historic Places. The Bear Creek Church survived a close call with Mother Nature in 2009. On May 13 of that year a tornado estimated as an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale passed near the church as it left a path of death and destruction from Novinger to Kirksville. Two Adair County residents were killed by the tornado about one mile from the church.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Church is a historic turn-of-the-20th century Catholic church located in the unincorporated community of Adair, 12 miles northeast of Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, on Missouri Route 11. An example of Romanesque Revival architecture, it is one of the few wood-frame structures in that style still remaining in the United States. St. Marys was constructed in 1904, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is now owned and managed by Friends of St. Mary&#39;s, a non-profit preservation organization.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early years</h3><br>
<p>The present-day building is the third church built in the village to serve the needs of Catholicism</p><br>
<p>Catholic immigrants. The first Irish Catholics began to arrive in eastern Adair County in the early 1840s, with a substantial increase thereafter largely due to the Great Famine. The first services were held in a private residence in Adair in 1844. They were conducted by Father McNamee, who journeyed to the village with his portable altar by horseback from Edina, Missouri. In 1860 the first Catholic church, a rough-hewn log structure, was constructed and the first priest, Father Ryan, assigned. The log church was replaced in 1869 with a simple wood-frame building. The village and church congregation continued to grow through the late 1800s, and by 1900 it was clear to the worshipers that something more substantial was needed.</p><br>
<h3>A new home</h3><br>
<p>The current St. Mary&#39;s Church was constructed between 1904 and 1905 under the direction of John V. Barwarth of Edina, Missouri, for a sum of $10,000. Due to its somewhat remote location in the county, lumber and most other construction materials had to be delivered by rail to Baring, Missouri, several miles to the east in Knox county, then hauled by wagon to Adair. The new church was built on the same grounds as the old, with the latter moved a short distance away for use as a school. On June 15, 1905, a dedication was held for the new church, conducted by Archbishop John J. Glennon (later known as John Cardinal Glennon) with a large gathering of Catholics from across northeast Missouri, and even some non-Catholic neighbors, in attendance.</p><br>
<p>The new building&#39;s dimensions at time of completion were 88 feet, 4 inches by 52 feet, 2 inches. The dominant features were the two towers, one each on the northwest and southwest corners of the building. The northwest, the bell tower, is 12 feet, 4 inches square and was originally 90 feet in height. However a severe storm nearly destroyed it some years later and repairs left it at the current 50 feet in height. The southwest tower is octagonal in shape and 40 feet in height with round arch openings and Corinthian style supports, topped by a dome. A highlight of the octagonal tower is a statue known as The Sorrowful Mother. It is believed to be one of only three reproductions of the statue in the United States, with the original in Rome, Italy. The buildings interior features a large sanctuary with two small vestries. Pressed Florentine style tin covers the ceiling and much of the interior walls, while the flooring is made of tongue-in-groove yellow pine. A semi-circular balcony overlooks part of the sanctuary and provided extra seating as needed. A few years after initial construction ornate lighting fixtures of Tiffany design were added to the sanctuary.</p><br>
<h3>Decline and resurrection</h3><br>
<p>St. Marys Church, and the surrounding community, continued to grow for the first two decades of the 20th century. Adair had a sizable business district catering to area farmers – a population of over 400 – and a Catholic school was built. The years after World War I and then the Great Depression were not kind to either the village or the church. A general trend in America saw younger generations leaving the agriculture field for job opportunities in cities. A loss of children caused the closure of the Catholic school in 1925. The emergence of the automobile and improved roads in rural Missouri meant families could easily travel to larger towns in the area like Baring, Edina, and Kirksville to shop. Each town also having its own Catholic church – in the case of Edina and Kirksville, quite substantial congregations – meant combining morning Mass with an afternoon of resupplying before returning home. By 1942 only 30 people were counted as part of the St. Marys parish. In 1958 St. Marys was relegated to being a mission of Mary Immaculate Church in Kirksville. In December, 1972, with the congregation reduced to less than twenty adults – most elderly – it was announced that all Masses at St. Marys would be discontinued for the winter. They would not ever resume. The church rectory was sold off in 1973 and it appeared a grim fate awaited the church. However, a small group of former parishioners and non-Catholics interested in historical preservation refused to let the unique church architecture be destroyed without a fight. A petition to have the building placed on the National Register of Historical Places was filed, and on December 16, 1974, that request was granted. The following May the non-profit Friends of St. Mary&#39;s Church of Adair, Missouri, Incorporated was chartered by the state of Missouri with the purpose of preservation and restoration of the church. On July 12, 1976, the Diocese of Jefferson City (Missouri) deeded the church to the group. Since that time the group has focused on maintenance, with some restoration as money allows. A variety of fundraisers are held to support the efforts. At present no services are regularly held and the building is open to the public only by special arrangement.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building at 124 N Mulanix Street in Kirksville, Missouri, United States. Displaying an eclectic style, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in January, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal Church congregation has been a mainstay in the Kirksville area since 1870, when first established as an outreach mission. The first church building, a wooden structure, was constructed in 1870 on the site of the current church and served the congregation until 1916. A fire in 1907 caused major damage and despite repairs it was apparent the original building would not remain usable. In October, 1915 the congregation petitioned the Episcopal Diocese for assistance and were successful in reaching an agreement on financing.</p><br>
<p>Well-known local architect and congregation member, Irwin Dunbar was selected to design the new building and during 1916 the former wooden structure was razed to clear path for the new church.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in a bungalow/craftsman, Gothic Revival style with the finished dimensions approximately 37 feet by 67 feet. With the 1907 fire still fresh in their minds, the congregation chose the slightly higher cost of a brick structure as opposed to wood. The building is somewhat asymmetrical in nature and sits atop a raised basement. When designing the interior, Irwin Dunbar chose some features that reflected not only a blend of Craftsman and Gothic Revival styles, but his own background as an engineer. Most notable of those are the open beam ceiling in the nave, constructed of black walnut. These trusses provided support for the heavy English tile roof, yet kept the worship area free of cumbersome columns. Black walnut was used extensively throughout the interior for trim, window frames, and other ancillary features.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The sanctuary is very much as originally designed and constructed. The replacement of a section of flat roof with an inclined one in 1998, has taken place. Save for upgrades in electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, the interior is largely untouched. An accessibility project in 2015, designed by Chinn, Rother, and Associates, of Columbia, Missouri, added a new wing to add accessibility improvements, including a lift, a new, wider entrance, and restrooms. As part of this project, one of the original stained glass windows was moved from the sanctuary to the new addition.</p><br>
<h3>Wicks Pipe Organ</h3><br>
<p>The church features a pipe organ, built in 1967 by Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois, with an additional Dulzian rank added later. The electro-pneumatic organ is at the front of the room, and exposed pipes. The organ was renovated by Quimby Pipe Organs of Warrensburg, Missouri in 2015.</p><br>
<p>St. Oswald&#39;s Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in southeastern Atchison County, Missouri. It is located about eight miles west of Skidmore and ten miles north of Mound City.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1892, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, Shingle style building on a brick foundation. It is sheathed in rough-sawn weatherboard and has a gable roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
