<p>Waldensian Church and Cemetery of Stone Prairie  is a historic Waldensian church located near Monett, Barry County, Missouri.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1875, the Monett congregation was among the first Waldensian congregations to be established in the United States by some 40 settlers, including a few who had formed the first Waldensian settlement in South America in Uruguay in the 1850s. Led by the Waldensian minister Jean Pierre Michelin Salomon, a native of the Pellice Valley of northwestern Italy, this contingent left South America in early 1875, fleeing civil war in the Uruguayan countryside, traveling first back to Europe then across the Northern Atlantic to New York and by train to southern Missouri. The original congregation was composed mainly of patois-speaking Piedmontese immigrants. Waldensians living in the Cottian Alps region of Northern Italy continued to migrate to Monett until the early 1900s. The original colony was augmented by French-speaking Protestants who arrived from France and Switzerland. Both the Monett congregation and a more recent, larger settlement located in Valdese, North Carolina, use the name Waldensian Presbyterian Church. The original frame meeting house in Monett was constructed in 1875 and was replaced in 1908 by the current church building. There is an adjacent Waldensian cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri is a historic church at 131 South Main Street. It is a chapel of ease for the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Annunciation and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style using red brick with sandstone trim on a foundation of sandstone. It was designed by Irish-born architect Thomas Waryng Walsh.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul is situated on the site of Louis Lorimiers Red House. In 1821, priests began making periodic visits to settlers in the area. By 1833, the land where the church stands today had been secured, and by 1836 Cape Girardeau had its first permanent priest, Reverend John Odin. The cornerstone for the church was laid in April 1838 by Bishop Rosati of St. Louis. The church was named for the Vincentian fathers who founded it as well as St. Vincents College. This church was destroyed by a tornado in 1850. The present church was constructed on the original foundations of the first church, with construction beginning in 1851 and finishing in 1853. The church tower has been struck twice by lightning and destroyed in 1912. The church was added to the National Register in 1982. It is located in the Courthouse-Seminary Neighborhood Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, exterior 2.JPGSouth side of church</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul, Cape Girardeau, Missouri interior 2.JPGInterior</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul, Cape Girardeau, Missouri interior.JPGAltar</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul, Cape Girardeau, Missouri interior 4.JPGInterior</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, interior 5.JPGModal</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul, Cape Girardeau, Missouri altar.JPGChurch altar</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, door.JPGEntrance</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent De Paul Church, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, National Historical Plaque.JPGNational Historical Plaque</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 400 W. Wall Street in Harrisonville, Cass County, Missouri. It was built in 1895, and is a one-story, cruciform plan, Tudor Gothic Revival style church. It is constructed of yellow-beige, quarry faced limestone. It features stick work and pseudo half timbering; a square, shingled cupola; lancet windows; and a crenellated parapet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Hill and East Streets in Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri. It was built in 1853, and is a one-story, Classical Revival style frame building with a turn-of-the-20th century Romanesque Revival derivative style addition. It features a two-story plus belfry tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Antioch Christian Church is a historic church located at 4805 NE Antioch Road in Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1859, and is a one-story, frame building sheathed in clapboard siding. It has a front gable roof and measures approximately 33 feet wide and 51 feet, 6 inches, deep. It was moved to its present location in 1968.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>First Methodist Church, also known as Mt. Zion Methodist Church, First Methodist Episcopal Church, and Marietta Baptist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at 114 N. Marietta Street in Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It was built in 1948, and incorporated portions of the existing 1903 Gothic Revival style church. The interior is based on the Akron Plan. The church features square tower pavilions topped by large octagonal cupolas supported by buttresses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>New Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church and School is a historic Presbyterian church and school located on Route A in New Lebanon, Cooper County, Missouri. The church was built in 1859, and is a one-story, brick building with restrained Greek Revival style detailing. The cross-gable roof is topped by a small clapboarded belfry. The school is a small one-story frame building sheathed in clapboard.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the New Lebanon Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthew&#39;s Chapel A.M.E. Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 309 Spruce Street in Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1892, and is a one-story, rectangular, gable roofed Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a hipped roof three story projecting tower and a rectangular, hipped roof, brick apse attached to the rear.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 141 E. 9th Street in Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri. It was built in 1898, and is a small, one-story, Gothic Revival style limestone building. It has a high gable on the primary facade, a clerestoried chancel with projecting polygonal apse, and locally crafted windows of</p><br>
<p>colored cathedral glass.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. William and Elizabeth Blackburn House is a historic two-story wooden house located in Pierre, South Dakota. Designed in the Stick or Eastlake style of Queen Anne style architecture, it was built in 1883 by local banker and real estate speculator, H. O. Fishback. In 1887, it was bought by the Rev. Dr. William Maxwell Blackburn and his wife, Elizabeth Powell Blackburn, who had come to Pierre from Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he had been president of the University of North Dakota. Dr. Blackburn, a Presbyterian minister, scholar and author became the founding president of the Presbyterian University of Southern Dakota, which later became Pierre University and served as such until his death in 1898. Following his death, Pierre University was relocated to Huron, where it became Huron University. Later owners include C. B. Billinghurst, local newspaper publisher, and Harold King and his wife Irma E. King. The Kings ran a grocery store and he was a local politician while she was a poet.</p><br>
<p>On May 9, 1997, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places&#39;</p><br>
<p>The Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum is located on the former Holden Lixiviation Works facility on the western edge of the city of Aspen, Colorado, United States. It consists of two remaining buildings from the facility, as well as the relocated McMurchy/Zupancis domestic buildings. In 1990 the property was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the only district in the city to be so recognized.</p><br>
<p>The museum is housed in the former sampling building, which was built in 1891 to process ore mined from the mountains around the city into silver through lixiviation. Within two years it had to be shut down when a change in USA government policy led to a huge drop in silver production and drove it into bankruptcy. The buildings remained standing and were eventually bought by a local rancher to expand. His family later sold them to the City of Aspen, which turned the property into an open space and leased the buildings to Aspen Historical Society, to operate as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The museum occupies a 2½-acre (2.5 acre) tract on the south side of State Highway 82 just west of the residential neighborhoods in Aspen&#39;s West End. A mile to the west along the highway are the two Maroon Creek Bridges, the older of which is also listed on the Register. Aspen Valley Hospital is a thousand feet (300 m) to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>The land is generally clear and open, reflecting its past agricultural use. The mature trees that shade many of the West Ends houses end abruptly to the east, and there is a small grove of similar trees, all aspens, to the west of the museum. To the southeast is one of the ridges of Aspen Mountain, with the houses of South 7th Street near its foot. Across Highway 82 is Aspens streets department, some dwellings of more modern construction, and a golf course.</p><br>
<p>A system of paved bike paths and unpaved roads and paths leads to the museum from both Highway 82 and the official parking lot at the end of Marolt Place to the south. The main building is the plant&#39;s former sampling house, a one-and-a-half-story 77 by wood frame structure with vertical siding and a gabled roof from which a square cupola arises in the center. To the south are the remains of the salt sheds, one of which has been restored. In the vicinity are the remains of the smokestacks. portions of the sandstone foundation of the 250-foot-long (250 ft) mill building.</p><br>
<p>Up a slight slope 400 ft to the west is the original office building. It was converted into a residence in the 1940s with the addition of a 2nd story and aluminum siding - alterations which affected its historic character. These changes were considered substantial enough to preclude the buildings inclusion in the historic district. A garage next to it and the irrigation ditch that meanders around the entire property are similarly non-contributing artifacts of the propertys use as a ranch.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1870s, prospectors from Leadville began heading west, over the Continental Divide at Independence Pass into Ute country, in search of gold and silver deposits in the upper Roaring Fork Valley. At Independence, just below the pass, a small settlement grew around the gold mines. It was soon displaced in importance by the settlement established further down the Roaring Fork, at its confluence with Castle Creek. Originally called Ute City, it was soon renamed Aspen after the trees on the flood plain and surrounding mountain slopes, which turned a brilliant yellow in the autumn.</p><br>
<p>Aspen became the seat of the newly established Pitkin County, named after Colorados then-governor. During the 1880s, it grew rapidly, reaching almost 13,000 people. It was Colorados third largest city after Denver and Leadville. Investors from the East built railroads, a luxury hotel and an opera house with their fortunes.</p><br>
<p>In 1891 a Denver businessman, E.R. Holden, formed the Holden Mining & Smelting Company with a $60,000 ($ in modern dollars) loan, most of which went to him personally. The company built a 22 acre lixiviation plant on the banks of Castle Creek. It was one of only 18 in the world to use the Russell Process, a combination of pulverization, salts and heat, to extract silver from ore samples with as little as 10 oz per ton (0.9 metric ton). Most Aspen ore ran 40–60 times that amount, and by the end of the 1880s the city was the nations leading silver producer. The plants 165 ft smokestack was believed to be the highest in the state.</p><br>
<p>The plant remained open for only 14 months. After the Panic of 1893, Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which had required the USA government to regularly purchase silver to support the dollar, in order to combat expected inflation. With the loss of a customer representing such a large portion of the market, many of Aspens mines cut back production or closed outright. The Holden company declared bankruptcy, and the banks inability to recover any of the loan led ultimately to it suffering the same fate.</p><br>
<p>With the decline in mining, many miners left Aspen. The decades of steady population decline that followed are known as the citys "quiet years". Agriculture, particularly ranching shared equal prominence with the little mining left as the pillars of Aspens economy. Several attempts were made to revive the Holden plant as a concentrator, where the lower-grade ore could be stripped out. After the last one failed, in 1904 the property was abandoned, like so many others in the once-prosperous city.</p><br>
<p>By 1930 less than a thousand people lived in Aspen. Buildings from the boom years such as the plant stood vacant and deteriorating, many long since foreclosed by the county for nonpayment of taxes. The Marolt family bought the Holden property for a dollar in 1940 and added it to their nearby ranch. The Marolts used the property for grazing cattle and sheep, and potato farming.</p><br>
<p>Shortly afterward, with USA entry into World War II looming, the Army considered the site as a possible training facility for the soldiers of the Tenth Mountain Division. Instead it chose Camp Hale outside Leadville. The Tenth nevertheless developed a strong connection to Aspen as its members were banned from Leadville and often came to Aspen when on leave. After the war, many played a role in the development of the city into a popular ski resort destination.</p><br>
<p>It thus became more difficult to sustain the Marolt ranch after the war. The USA Forest Service offered less land for grazing after the resorts were built, and the Marolt family itself experienced financial strain and health problems. In the late 1950s, they began selling off fragments of their land.</p><br>
<p>Eventually the buildings became the property of the Aspen Historical Society. A grant from the Colorado Historical Society&#39;s State Historical Fund made possible the restoration of the sampling house, which had survived due to the heavy machinery once located in it. Costs of adding heating, plumbing, electricity and making it disabled-accessible eventually reached half a million dollars. and one of the salt sheds restored. The museum was opened in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum features exhibits about the area&#39;s industrial and agricultural history. Among them is a diorama of the Holden Works as it originally stood, constructed by a local model railroading organization. Its collection includes machinery used in both mining and ranching.</p><br>
<p>The site&#39;s grounds are open to the public year-round. The Museum is open with a docent on site during the summer months, and by appointment in the spring, fall and winter. A fee is charged to adults; children are admitted free. Special group rates are available.</p><br>
<p>The Sellwood Branch YMCA, also known as the Sellwood Community Center, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon, is a 2.5-story structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1910, it was added to the register in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Financial problems led to the buildings take-over by the City of Portland in 1916 and its conversion from a Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) or (Y) branch to a secular community center. Managed by Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R), the building is equipped for basketball, yoga, music lessons, crafts, meetings, parties, weddings, and other recreational, social, and educational activities, and it contains offices and storage space.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>External features of the 60 by wooden building include large dormers, wide eaves, and multi-pane windows, all similar to nearby single-family houses. The modified T-shaped structure occupies all of a 50 by lot and part of an adjacent lot that also contains a playground, added in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Resting on an elevated concrete foundation, the structure consists of two floors, a mezzanine level, and an attic. The first-floor spaces include meeting rooms, offices, a lounge, kitchen, and a former swimming pool converted to a tumbling-mat area. On the mezzanine is a gymnasium and a small storage room. The second floor, which originally contained dormitory rooms, has been converted to spaces for dancing, yoga, music, meetings, and storage. The attic is used for additional storage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During a public meeting in 1908 a group of Sellwood boys suggested the idea of creating a Y branch near where they lived. Founded in London, England, in 1844, the Y became popular in North America, and by 1870 about 650 American cities had Ys. In Portland, the Y was incorporated in 1868 as a religious society. Activities included Bible distribution, Sunday school recruitment, and charitable giving. As time passed, the Y focused less on religious matters and more on recreational and social activities. Admission to the Portland Y was opened to women in 1874, and the membership expanded. By 1909, the downtown Portland Y occupied an eight-story building shared by the Young Women&#39;s Christian Association (YWCA). The structure included a large auditorium, classrooms, gymnasiums, a swimming pool, and 200 dormitory rooms for single adults. Although the downtown Y was open to Sellwood residents, it was about 3 mi away by streetcar, which not everyone could afford.</p><br>
<p>Agreeing with the boys&#39; idea of 1908, Sellwood business and religious leaders decided to fund and build an independent branch Y, smaller than the downtown Y but including a gymnasium, swimming pool, and dormitory rooms. Although construction was completed on schedule, fundraising fell short of expectations, and four local churches were responsible for ongoing mortgage payments. Membership fees, dormitory rentals, and further fundraising efforts failed to raise enough money to pay the mortgage and sustain operations. To cut expenses, the Sellwood Y cut services and operating hours, and by 1915 the building was used only for meetings and social events.</p><br>
<p>Pressed for help by Sellwood residents, PP&R leased the building in 1916 and re-established recreational programs. By 1920, the City of Portland agreed to buy the building and to maintain it at public expense. PP&R has managed the building ever since. Amenities in the 21st century include an indoor basketball court, gymnasium, kitchen, space for meetings, parties, and weddings, and an outdoor playground and picnic tables.</p><br>
<p>The T. M. Kurtz House, also known as the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, is an historic, American home that is located in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1904, this historic structure is a three-story, L-shaped, brick dwelling that was designed in the Colonial Revival-style. It features a broad verandah and bow-front bay windows.</p><br>
<p>It was the home of Theodore M. Kurtz (1868-1945), a prominent local businessman and member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Christian Miller House is a historic home located at Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1870, and is a -story, frame dwelling on a stone foundation in the Italianate-style. It features a slate covered intersecting gable roof, hipped roof front porch, and round- and segmental-arched windows. For many years the house was divided into apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Redferd Segers House, also known as the Kenneth Hoffman House, is an historic, American home that is located in Crenshaw in Snyder Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1870, this historic structure is a -story, L-shaped frame dwelling that sits on a stone foundation. It is an eclectic example of domestic Stick/Eastlake, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Shingle styles and features a hipped roof with intersecting gables, ornamental cornice, and patterned shingling.</p><br>
<p>Redferd Segers (1834-1913) was a prominent local businessman.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Theater was an historic theatre building that was located in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Punxsutawney&#39;s only remaining theater, it closed in 1978. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985,</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1905, this historic structure consisted of a lobby section that was connected to the auditorium. The lobby measured approximately seventy feet long by twelve feet wide, and was attached to the approximately seventy-foot by one hundred and seven-foot auditorium, which had a balcony and seating for more than 1,200 patrons.</p><br>
<p>It closed in 1978 and was Punxsutawney&#39;s only remaining theater. It was demolished in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The former United States Post Office in Punxsutawney is an historic, American post office building that is located in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor, this historic structure was built between 1912 and 1914 and is a two-story brick building with a raised basement that was created in the Neo Classical Revival style. It features a full Ionic order, octastyle, limestone portico with a coffered ceiling and single-step parapet gable. It housed the post office until 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center.</p><br>
<p>The current post office, built 1998, is located at 553 E. Mahoning St.</p><br>
<p>The Herpel Brothers Foundry and Machine Shop is an historic foundry and machine shop which is located in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1905, this historic structure is a one-story, red brick building, which sits on an ashlar sandstone foundation. It consists of two sections: the 41-foot-by-81-foot machine shop/foundry building and a 15-foot-by-21-foot office. The machine shop/foundry building features a stepped parapet gable and corrugated metal roof. The building was acquired by Jefferson County and houses the Reynoldsville senior citizen social services center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Ellen and Charles F. Welles House, also known as "The Old Red House," "Grovedale Farm," and Homer P. Dean Funeral Home, is a historic home located in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The original house was built about 1822, and is a transitional brick Greek Revival-style dwelling. A -story frame Queen Anne-style addition built in 1894. Also on the property are a small frame barn , a large frame barn and carriage barn , corn crib , and small frame tenant house .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, with a boundary increase in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Phillip Paul Bliss House is an historic, American home that is located in Rome, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1863 and 1864, this historic structure is a vernacular, Greek Revival-style frame dwelling that consists of a two-story front section with a one-story rear ell. It has a gable roof and a full-length front porch with a shed roof, and was the home of nineteenth-century gospel music composer Phillip Paul Bliss (1838-1876).</p><br>
<p>In 1965, the house was opened as the Philip P. Bliss Gospel Songwriters Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>PP Bliss House Rome PA 1.jpgBliss House</p><br>
<p>The Spalding Memorial Library-Tioga Point Museum is an historic, American library and museum building that is located in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Part of the Athens Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1897 and 1898, this historic structure is a Colonial Revival/Classical Revival-style civic building. The main section measures 60 by, and is two-story, brick structure with Indiana limestone trim on a raised basement. It features a central entry pedimented portico reached by a set of stairs and supported by four Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>A two-story, rear addition was built in 1928, and measures 43 by. An elevator tower was added to it in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is located in the Athens Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Protection of the Flag Monument  is a historic war memorial located in Academy Park at 715 South Main Street in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Designed in the Classical Revival style by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, with a sculpture by George Thomas Brewster, it was erected between 1900 and 1902, and has a granite pedestal topped by a bronze sculpture group. The sculpture depicts an adult soldier and a young drummer boy attired in Revolutionary War clothing and protecting their flag from falling into enemy hands. A commemorative plaque indicates it was dedicated in memory of the soldiers who fought in defense of the flag.</p><br>
<p>This monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is located in the Athens Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Located in Academy Park at 715 South Main Street in Athens, Pennsylvania, the Protection of the Flag Monument was completed in 1902. Erected on the front of the lot where it stands, it occupies the center of the sites western half. The front of the monument may be reached from Main Street via a concrete sidewalk while the monuments eastern side may be approached via a brick walkway, which is flanked by two stones affixed with bronze commemorative plaques. Situated between those stones is a state historical marker and a flag pole.</p><br>
<p>The monument itself, which is situated 50 feet east of the sidewalk, is surrounded by a 26-foot ornamented, raised granite coping square. The monument&#39;s polished, Stony Creek granite pedestal, which stands at the center of that square, is composed of a plinth, molded base, die, and a cap, is roughly nine feet tall, and is topped by a roughly eight-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a wounded adult Revolutionary War-era soldier holding a rifle and a young, barefooted drummer boy. It was created by sculptor George T. Brewster.</p><br>
<p>The monument&#39;s sculpture was commissioned in 1900 by Joseph Whipple Stickler and his wife, Charlotte Snell Stickler, and was unveiled in June 1902. Stickler, a native of New York who became a successful realtor and philanthropist, had wed Charlotte Snell in Hoboken, New Jersey; Snell, who had attended school at the Athens Academy which had previously been located where the monument now stands, was a daughter of Captain John Snell, an Athens resident who "was one of the first white children born in Bradford county about the time of the Wyoming Massacre," according to historian Henry Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Inscriptions</h3><br>
<p>The front of the monument, which faces west in the park, is adorned with a bronze bas relief of entwined laurel wreaths, below which were placed the words of the statue&#39;s dedication:</p><br>
<p>"PRO PATRIA ET GLORIA</p><br>
<p>ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN DEFENSE OF THE FLAG."</p><br>
<p>The inscription on the opposite (rear), eastern-facing side of the monument reads:</p><br>
<p>"PRESENTED TO THE TOWNSHIP OF ATHENS, BRADFORD COUNTY BY JOSEPH WHIPPLE AND CHARLOTTE SNELL STICKLER OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY MDCCCC."</p><br>
<h3>Placement of this monument on the National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination application for the Protection of the Flag Monument was formally reviewed by Pennsylvania&#39;s Historic Preservation Board at its March 13, 2001 meeting at 9:45 a.m. at the State Museum in Harrisburg. Also considered for NRHP status at this time were the: Normandy Farm, George K. Heller School, and Upper Roxborough Historic District in Montgomery County; Awbury Historic District and Harris/Laird, Schober & Company Building in Philadelphia; Michael Derstine Farmstead in Bucks County; Chester Heights Camp Meeting Historic District in Delaware County; John Nicholas and Elizabeth Moyer House in Berks County; William Shelly School and Annex in York County; and the Zeta Psi Fraternity House in Northampton County.</p><br>
<p>This monument was then officially added to the National Register of Historic Places later in 2001. It is located in the Athens Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Bradford County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1896 and 1898, and is a four-story, cruciform-shaped building, with Classical Revival and Renaissance Revival-style design influences. It has rusticated sandstone exterior walls and a 50-foot-diameter octagonal dome atop the roof. It features an entrance portico supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property is a modest two-story brick annex building that was built in 1847–1848. Also on the property is a large soldiers&#39; monument, erected about 1905.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Van Dyne Civic Building, also known as The Court House, is an historic, American courthouse building that is located in Troy, Bradford 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>Built in 1894, this historic structure is a two-and-one-half-story, rectangular building that measures fifty feet wide and eighty-four feet deep. It has red brick exterior walls and sits on a cut stone foundation. The front facade features an entrance arch reflecting Richardsonian Romanesque-style design influences. It also has pointed gable ends, a bracketed cornice, and two tower at either end of the front facade.</p><br>
<p>The building originally served as a courthouse for the western portion of Bradford County. It also originally housed a bank and insurance company. Court sessions ended in 1923. In 1916, it was purchased by E. Everitt Van Dyne, who deeded it to the school district and refurbished it as a civic center for the community. Over time, it has also housed the post office and library.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>AME Church of New Haven is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 225 Selma Street in New Haven, Missouri. The church was built in 1893 for New Havens AME congregation; founded in 1865, it was one of the first black churches in the city. Church member Anna Bell campaigned heavily for donations to build the new church building; Bell was also one of the new churchs original trustees. After her death, the building was named the Anna Bell Chapel in her honor. The church, located in a predominantly African-American section of New Haven, maintained a congregation of roughly 20 people until 1960; during this time, it also served as a community center for the citys African-American community. After 1960, the churchs congregation declined, and by the early 1990s the church had only four members.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Church  is a historic Methodist church located on Missouri Highway T near Labadie, Missouri. The church was built in 1868 to replace a log building constructed in 1840 for Franklin County&#39;s first Methodist congregation. The red brick building has an unornamented Greek Revival design. The building has a Greek temple form with a low gable roof and square brick pilasters flanking the door and separating the large side windows. The interior of the church has a high ceiling, a balcony above the narthex, and white-painted features.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>St. Ludger Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church in Germantown, Henry County, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>The earliest parish record is from December 1832, when Dekon Tiof baptized John Freyrik, but the community was not assigned a permanent parish priest until 1840, when Joseph Rosati, the Bishop of St. Louis, named Henry Meinkmann as pastor. In the early days, the parish built a log church. This was replaced with another in 1842, and then by a permanent church in 1858. The church was named for Saint Ludger, first Bishop of Münster, as many families who settled in the area originated in Westphalia.</p><br>
<p>In August 1874, a Rocky Mountain locust plague struck large swathes of the Midwest, destroying the wheat, oats, and corn sown in May. According to Germantown and St. Ludger’s, 1833-2002, a history by Donna (Koch) Talbott, nearby farmers rushed to the church and “made a solemn promise before the Blessed Sacrament to keep May 1 holy if they would be averted from this plague.” The grasshoppers departed after the prayer service, and for the next 115 years, the parish held a public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on May 1.</p><br>
<p>The current variegated red brick Romanesque Revival-style church building was completed in 1927. It sits on a concrete foundation and has a 60 foot tall bell tower. Also on the property is the contributing brick rectory constructed in 1942. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, the parish was suppressed and became a mission church of Immaculate Conception Parish in Montrose. The May 1 celebration was changed to an evening Mass, now held on the closest Saturday to May 1 and followed by a procession around the church and blessing of crops and farmlands with holy water.</p><br>
<p>Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 602 Commerce Street in Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1865, and is a small one-story, vernacular brick building with simple Greek Revival style design elements. The rectangular building measures 32 feet by 52 feet and features a stepped gable and six brick pilasters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Glasgow Presbyterian Church, also known as Glasgow Community Museum, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Commerce and 4th Streets in Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri. It was built in 1860–1861, and is a one-story, brick building with simple Gothic Revival style design elements. The rectangular building measures 57 feet, 5 inches, by 37 feet, 3 inches, and features a board-and-batten vestibule and a Gothic arcade supported by brick pillars. It houses a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri located at 104 West Davis Street in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. The Gothic Revival style church structure was built in 1849, and is a small rectangular one-story structure constructed of vertical board and batten on a brick foundation. It measures 18 feet by 50 feet with an additional vestibule area which measures 8 feet by 10 feet.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church came to Missouri two years before the creation of the state, in the person of the Rev. John Ward, who arrived in St. Louis in 1819. It was not until 1835, however, at the General Convention of the Church in Philadelphia that the Missionary Diocese of Missouri was created, and its first bishop, the Rev. Jackson Kemper, was consecrated.</p><br>
<p>In August 1836 the Rev. Fredrick Foote Peake, a deacon, was appointed Missionary for Central Missouri following an earlier visit to the area by Bishop Kemper. Rev. Peake was sent to Boonville. This community, along with the thriving village of Franklin (located across the Missouri River and the second largest community in Missouri), and Fayette (the newly created seat of Howard County) contained a number of people of the Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church located at E Pine and N Ziegler Street in Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri. It was built in 1861, and is a simple, rectangular, frame building. It measures 30 feet, 7 inches, by 45 feet, 7 inches. It is sheathed in clapboard and has a gable roof topped by a hexagonal cupola with a steep, pyramidal roof and apron.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at the northwestern corner of Knob and Reynolds Streets in Ironton, Iron County, Missouri. It was built between 1870 and 1871 and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival–style frame building. It measures 23by60 ft. It has a steep ridge roof and three story corner bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Church, School and Rectory was a historic site at 2540–2544 Madison Avenue and 910 West 26th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The church was built in 1896 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Rectory and School building were demolished in 2010 but the original church building and its parish hall remain.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is now known as Sacred Heart Guadalupe due to its merger with Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in 1991</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church at 409 North Liberty Street in Independence, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1881 in a Late Victorian style. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Future US President Harry S Truman married Bess Wallace at Trinity Episcopal on June 28, 1919. The church was also the site of the 1956 wedding of their daughter, Margaret.</p><br>
<p>Troy Public High School, also known as Troy Area Senior High School and Troy High School, is an historic, American high school building that is located in Troy, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure is a two-and-one-half-story, Colonial Revival-style building that is roughly "E-shaped and measures 435 feet wide and 165 feet deep. It has red brick exterior walls and the front facade features a central pilastered block of nine bays, with ten Doric order pilasters. The building is topped by an octagonal cupola.</p><br>
<p>The original building was built between 1923 and 1924, and was then enlarged incrementally with wings on each end in 1936 and 1939, and, in 1954, with an enlarged gymnasium/library and new auditorium.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Roger A. Madigan (1930-2018), Pennsylvania state senator and representative</p><br>
<p>St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church and Rectory is a historic Roman Catholic church and rectory located at 812 Pearl Street in Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri. The church was built in 1906, and is a Late Gothic Revival style building constructed of Carthage limestone. It measures 63 feet, 6 inches, by 122 feet, 8 inches and features circular windows; tracery; Gothic arched windows and doors; and the triple portal entry. The rectory was built in 1917, and is a two-story Prairie School style dwelling with a finished basement. It is constructed of Carthage limestone and has a low pitched, hipped roof with wide overhang. Also on the property is a contributing concrete block garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as a national historic district.</p><br>
<p>Warren Street Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Warren Street United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at 201 South Warren Street in Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri. It was built in 1898–1899, and is a one-story, Late Gothic Revival style orange-tinted brick building. It features a square entrance tower with a concave dome and a gabled cornice. It was erected by a local African-American congregation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Eighth and Center Streets Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at 722 Center Street in Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. It was built in 1872, and is a red brick, two-level rectangular Romanesque Revival building measuring approximately 70 feet long by 40 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Central Park Historic District and Maple Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Jude&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 301 North Main Street in Monroe City, Monroe County, Missouri. It was built in 1867, with the south transept added in 1877 and two-story bell tower added in 1904. It is an asymmetrical, one-story Gothic Revival style limestone building. It features crenellation, stepped buttresses and lancet windows with stained glass.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Bridge in Athens Township was a historic Pennsylvania  truss bridge in Athens Township and Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It spanned the Susquehanna River. It was built between 1913 and 1916, and measured 540 ft long. It had two spans; one measuring 253 ft long and built by the Penn Bridge Co. and the second measuring 287 ft long and built by the Bethlehem Steel Bridge Co.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It was replaced by a new bridge in 2005 and delisted from the National Register in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Second Baptist Church, also known as Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. It was built in 1896, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building with Gothic Revival style design elements. It sits on a stone foundation, has a gable roof, and features a projecting, centered, two-story brick belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Patricks Church, also known as The Stone St. Patricks Church, is a historic Roman Catholic church located near Gravois Mills, Morgan County, Missouri. It was built between 1868 and 1870, and is a one-story, rectangular masonry structure with a one-story, L-shaped stone addition. The church measures 24 feet, 3 inches, wide and 44 feet long.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Mount Horeb Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Mineola, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built in 1897, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building with gable roof. It measures 28 feet, 3 inches, by 46 feet, 5 inches, and houses a single room. The church is representative of rural Baptist congregations in Mid-Missouri.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Orphanage of Missouri, also known as Farmington Childrens Home and Presbyterian Childrens Home, is a historic orphanage and national historic district located at 412 West Liberty Street in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. The district encompasses five contributing large brick buildings built between 1939 and the early 1950s in the Georgian Revival style. They are the Administration Building and Dining Hall, built in 1939 and enlarged in the 1940s, two large dormitories built in the early 1950s , and a smaller "hospital" building known as Holmes Cottage built in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The Presbyterian Childrens Home vacated the campus in 1999 when it moved to the 600 block of Pine Street. After a 2018 merger with a Texas charity, the organization is now known as Presbyterian Childrens Homes and Services. Although a file photo of the historic building appeared in a 2019 article about the agency, the Liberty Street campus remains an apartment complex for senior citizens.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>African Church, also known as the A.M.E. Church of St. Charles, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 554 Madison Street in St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. It was built about 1855, and is a small brick building with a low-pitched gable roof. The building was renovated in 1947 as a residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Midtown Neighborhood Historic District.</p><br>
<p>New Hope Primitive Baptist Church, also known as New Hope Church, is a historic Primitive Baptist church located near Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. The church was established c. 1820 as North Bluffton and the building was constructed in 1897. It is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building. It measures 30 feet by 40 feet and has a high gable roof. Adjacent to the church is a contributing cemetery containing 166 graves dating from 1856 to 1973.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Catholic Church, also known as Brush Creek Church, is a historic Roman Catholic church located near Rensselaer, Ralls County, Missouri. The church was built about 1862, and is a one-story, rectangular limestone building with limestone and sandstone ornamentation. It is topped by a gable roof with belfry. It features lancet windows and has a frame two-room addition sheathed in weatherboard. It is the church on the site where Augustus Tolton, the first ordained African American Catholic priest, was baptized.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Athens Historic District, also known as Tioga Point Historic District, is a national historic district located at Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 97 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential area of Athens. The buildings date between about 1801 and 1935, and include notable examples of vernacular and high style Greek Revival and Queen Anne style architecture. Also located in the district are the First Presbyterian Church , Trinity Episcopal Church , and Riverside Cemetery / Old Athens Cemetery. Located in the district and separately listed are the Protection of the Flag Monument and Spalding Memorial Library-Tioga Point Museum.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul Catholic Church, also known as St. Paul on Salt River and Center Parish, is a historic Roman Catholic church located near Center, Ralls County, Missouri. The church was built in 1860, and is a one-story, rectangular limestone building on a stone foundation. It measures 33 feet, 6 inches, by 58 feet, 8 inches and is topped by a gable roof with cupola. It features lancet windows in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Greenlawn Methodist Church and Cemetery, also known as Scobee Chapel and Greenlawn Memorial Chapel, is a historic Methodist church and cemetery located near Perry, Ralls County, Missouri. The church was built about 1883, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building on a stone pier foundation. It measures 26 feet, 6 inches, by 40 feet, 6 inches, has a gable front, and is sheathed in clapboard siding. The cemetery contains 196 graves with stones dating from 1883 to the present.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
