<p>Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parsonage is a historic Roman Catholic church located on Route U in Rich Fountain in Osage County, Missouri. The church was built in 1879, and is a one-story, rectangular building constructed of cut- and squared buff-limestone rubble blocks. It measures approximately 45 feet by 140 feet and has a gabled, red tile roof installed in 1925. The church displays vernacular Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival design elements. It features a bell and clock tower with its slate-shingled cone steeple, gabled vent dormers and Vendramini windows at cardinal points. The associated parsonage was built in 1881, and is a limestone rubble block building with segmental arched windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Church is a historic Roman Catholic church located on Main Street in Westphalia, Osage County, Missouri. The Gothic-Romanesque building was constructed in 1848. Architectural features include limestone and cottonstone construction, a frame clerestory, and an octagonal apse. A central belfry steeple was added in 1883. The entire structure was remodeled and enlarged in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The church functioned as the headquarters for the Jesuit Central Missouri Mission from 1838 to 1883 and has been a parish church ever since.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at the junction of 6th and Tennessee Streets in Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri. It was built in 1884, and is a one-story, rectangular, gable roof brick church. It measures 60 feet by 37 feet and sits on a cut limestone foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Northern Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville, also known as Bryant Chapel AME is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 309 Smith Street in Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. It was built in 1866 and remodeled in 1915, and is a one-story, rectangular, Greek Revival style brick church. It has a front gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Episcopal Church, also known as Old St. Johns, is a historic Episcopal church building located near Eolia, Pike County, Missouri. It was built about 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, brick church in a transitional Greek Revival / Gothic Revival style. It rests on a limestone block foundation and simple ridge roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Pleasant Ridge United Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at the junction of MO P and Woodruff Road in Weston, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1844, and is a one-story, rectangular, brick building. It measures approximately 35 feet by 51 feet, and has a front gable roof. Located on the property is the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery with graves dating from 1848.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Washington Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic Christian Methodist Episcopal church located at 1137 West Street in Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story, rectangular, Late Gothic Revival style native limestone building. It has a gable roof and features a castellated corner tower and projecting bays.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Assumption Greek Orthodox Church is a historic church building at 6900 Delmar Boulevard in University City, Missouri. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church edifice was built in 1924 by First Church of Christ, Scientist, University City. The congregation had been meeting since 1921 in a store on Delmar Boulevard. After completion, the building&#39;s domed roof was especially noted for its architectural excellence.</p><br>
<p>In 1958, the congregation purchased a five acre lot in nearby Creve Coeur with the intention of moving there; and in 1962, changed its name to First Church of Christ, Scientist, Creve Coeur. The church is still active at this location.</p><br>
<p>The church community of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church was chartered in 1940, a small existing church was purchased at 1605 Euclid Avenue in the city of St. Louis. the location was perfect for the majority of parishioners who lived within walking distance. In 1948, as the parish grew, a larger facility was purchased at 1212 Academy, also in St. Louis. the property contained a gym and schoolrooms that could accommodate a growing parish.</p><br>
<p>In 1958, the parishioners began moving to different areas of the city and county, and thus the decision to relocate to a more convenient area was made. The property at 6900 Delmar Boulevard was purchased in University City. The congregation felt that the property had architecturally unique properties, and renovated it to suit the church&#39;s needs. In 1978, a Town and Country property was purchased at 1755 Des Peres Road. Here an original building was built from the ground up. In 1989, the Basilica and community center was finalized. Today the church resides at 1755 Des Peres Rd., Town And Country, MO 63131.</p><br>
<p>Eliot Unitarian Chapel is a historic church in Kirkwood, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally constructed for Grace Episcopal Church. It was built in 1859 by architect Robert S. Mitchell in the Gothic Revival style. Patrick McCullough of Kirkwood (formerly Galway, Ireland) worked as stone mason. In 1961, the building was transferred to Eliot Unitarian Chapel, and the Grace Episcopal congregation moved down Argonne Street to another building. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Towanda Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Historyand architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses 440 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Towanda. The buildings date roughly to between 1830 and 1900, and include notable examples of vernacular and high-style Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Classical Revival-style architecture.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the William Means House (1816), the Towanda Academy (1835), the Dr. Samuel Huston House (c. 1835), the Ulysses Mercur House (1851), the David Cash House (1845), the Presbyterian Church (1855), Saints Peter and Paul Church (1869-1879), the Hale Opera House (1886), the Episcopal Church (1889), Citizens National Bank (1888), the Kingsbury/Chamberlain Building (1887), the Dan Turner House (1897), a public library (1897), and the Riverside Cemetery. Also located in the district but separately listed is the Bradford County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Olive Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church  is a historic church built in 1899, and located at 309 S. Harrison Avenue in Kirkwood, Missouri. It is the oldest Protestant church in Kirkwood. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1853 by the Reverend Jordan Winston Early. Services were initially held in a private home.</p><br>
<p>The current church building, constructed in 1899, originally housed the Friedens Evangelical Lutheran Church/Peace Lutheran Church. The Olive Chapel AME congregation bought it in 1923. The church still has its original bell, pews, and stained glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The Quinette Cemetery was associated with this church from 1866 until 2002.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church is a historic Christian church located at 400 Bridge Street in Sweet Springs, Saline County, Missouri. It was built in 1882–1883, and is a one-story frame building measuring 45 feet by 60 feet. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features stained glass lancet windows and a two-story, square, bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church, also known as Rock Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at 212 E. North Street in Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, United States. It was built between 1871 and 1873, and is a one-story Gothic Revival style yellow sandstone building. It features pointed arch windows and a corner bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Free Will Baptist Church of Pennytown is a historic African-American church in Pennytown, a community of unincorporated Saline County, Missouri 8 mi south of Marshall. It was built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History of Pennytown</h2><br>
<h3>The community</h3><br>
<p>Today the church is all that remains of the small freedman&#39;s hamlet of Pennytown. The community was founded around 1871 by Joseph Penny, a former slave who moved to Saline County, Missouri from Kentucky shortly after the American Civil War. He used his life savings to purchase an eight-acre tract of land, intending it as a place of refuge and new beginnings for recently freed slaves. Penny divided the eight acres into building lots, selling them to newly arrived residents at affordable prices. Other freed slaves purchased small tracts of land around the village as well so that by 1879 the size of the community had increased about forty families and sixty-four acres.</p><br>
<p>By 1880 Pennytown had a population of around 200 African-Americans residing there, with a school, two churches, a blacksmith shop and other businesses. While other freedmens settlements suffered from predation by land speculators and unscrupulous neighbors, Pennytown largely avoided such chicanery. This was mostly due to Joseph Pennys insistence that residents hold clear legal title to their properties.</p><br>
<p>Because they owned the land upon which they lived, Pennytown residents were able to avoid the pitfalls and abuses of sharecropping that befell many former slaves in the postbellum era. Instead, the men of the community were able to earn wages as laborers on area farms and in Marshall. The women largely worked too, as domestic help. With the working age adults gone most of the day, the older members of Pennytown served as caregivers for the children in a communal arrangement. Pennytown began to lose population in the 1920s as more farms began using machinery thus reducing the need for hired labor. The Great Depression in the 1930s further destroyed work opportunities in and around the rural community. The last family moved away from Pennytown in 1943, leaving only a few elderly residents who remained until their deaths.</p><br>
<h3>The church</h3><br>
<p>In 1886 a white neighbor donated a half-acre plot of land to be used for a house of worship. Prior to that time various homes in the community had been used for church services or, weather permitting, in neighboring brush arbors. A simple wood-frame church was erected on the current spot, but it was destroyed by fire in 1924. It was replaced with the current tile block structure built in 1925 to 1926. Not having the funds for materials to construct a new church all at once, over a period of months church members would purchase a few tile blocks at a time as money allowed and stacked them on the site. Finally in the fall of 1925 the foundation was laid. The majority of the construction was done by the men of the community and the church over the succeeding months. At first lighting in the completed church was provided by a large suspended carbide lamp. Later, kerosene lamps were added to holders along the walls.</p><br>
<p>Through the mid-20th century as the village population of Pennytown dwindled the church building also deteriorated. By the 1980s the church was in a serious state of disrepair. Vandals had broken the few windows while the sometimes harsh Missouri weather had badly damaged the roof and foundation. Despite its poor condition, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places largely due to the efforts of historian and former Pennytown resident Josephine Robinson Lawrence. By 1996 the restoration activity was largely complete. A new foundation was constructed, new windows and doors added, the original tile blocks reconstructed, a new roof added, and the interior was refurbished with painting, drywall, and a new wood plank floor.</p><br>
<p>The building is maintained today by a volunteer organization, Friends of Pennytown Historic Site. An annual reunion, or Homecoming, of former residents and their descendants is held the first weekend of August. The Homecoming tradition started shortly after the end World War II as the former residents, now scattered all across the Midwest and nation, longed to stay connected to their roots. Adjacent to the church, but no longer part of the property or the historic site, is a natural pond that was used for baptisms during the active years of the church. A large pole-mounted sign on the property explains the history of the community and the church.</p><br>
<p>Carbondale City Hall and Courthouse, also known as the Carbondale Municipal Building, is a historic city hall and courthouse building located at Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1892–1894, and is a brick and bluestone building in the Romanesque-style. It consists of five-story, square, corner tower; three-story wing; and two-story brick wing. The three-story wing, along with the tower, houses the Carbondale City Hall. It features a massive, half-circle primary entrance and rusticated stone and brick turrets. The two-story wing was built in 1859 as the courthouse, and incorporated into the new building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s third floor houses the Carbondale Historical Society and Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Lackawanna County Courthouse is an historic courthouse building that is located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, in the USA state of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1884, this historic structure is a three-and-one-half-story, rectangular, masonry building, with a raised basement. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, it was enlarged in 1896, with the addition of a third story and reconstruction of the roof to include a number of eclectic design elements. This building measures approximately 100 by and features a five-story clock tower. The roof of the structure is covered with Conosera tile produced by Ludowici. A courthouse wing was built in 1964.</p><br>
<p>This courthouse was the site of the first session of the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, along with the monument to John Mitchell.</p><br>
<h2>John Mitchell Monument</h2><br>
<p>The monument to John Mitchell (1870–1919) was erected in 1924. It consists of a granite monolith with a niche, enclosing a bronze statue of Mitchell.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic Building is an historic Grand Army of the Republic building, which is located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</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 1886, the Grand Army of the Republic Building in Scranton, Pennsylvania is a red brick and granite building that was designed in the Romanesque Revival-style.</p><br>
<p>It consists of two sections: a three-story with full basement section measuring forty feet by sixty feet, and a forty feet by thirty-four feet section with four stories and a full basement.</p><br>
<p>It features a porch with red granite columns, a carved brick archway, an ornate carved brick cornice, cast stone arches, and corner turret with round cupola and finial rising to a height of ninety feet.</p><br>
<p>It originally housed a hotel and Masonic Temple, but was purchased by the Grand Army of the Republic in 1901.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Johnsburg in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The church is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The parish can trace its history back to 1830s German immigrants. The first church was built in 1843 and its current structure was built in 1857. The community of Johnsburg grew up around the church which now includes a school, cemetery, and rectory.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Immigrants from Prussia began settling in the Holyland region of Wisconsin in the 1830s. They began holding religious services in settler&#39;s huts with services conducted by Father Theodore Van den Broek. Members donated 2 acres of land for a permanent site and a small log church was built over the middle of 1843. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee was formed in 1843; the church has remained in the archdiocese since. Newly appointed Bishop John Henni, a Swiss native, visited the church and parishioners were excited to be addressed using their native German language. An 1844 census of the church showed 40 registered families. The Bishop named Father Caspar Rehrl the first resident pastor in September 1845. All land within 8 mi from Lake Winnebago had been purchased by settlers or was owned by Native Americans and parishioners built a church on the large hill in Mount Calvary which is now the home of the St. Lawrence Seminary High School. Father Fabian Bermadinger arrived from Austria (along with three Brothers) to assist Rehrl in 1847.</p><br>
<p>Wisconsin became a state in 1848. By 1850 the small log church was not large enough. Parishioners initially considered enlarging the log church, but the idea was struck in favor of building a new structure. A proposal to build a new structure to the south divided the parish. The bishop didn&#39;t recognize the new structure and work stopped when the money ran out with just walls completed. He started gathering materials from nearby quarries and Bishop Henni laid the cornerstone of the church by mid-1855. The church was completed in 1857 and a festival was held which included consecrating the new sacred building. Deisenrieder submitted the annual financial report showing a $1,800 loss (in a depressed economy) and resigned from the parish after receiving hostilities causing his assistant Father Maximilian Mueller to become the head pastor in mid-1857. He stopped administering in June 1858 and died on July 12 at age 33.</p><br>
<p>The parish became more peaceful and a series of part-time Capuchin priests preached at the church. Bishop Henni named Father F.X. Pfaller as the full-time pastor in 1861; he remained until May 1862. He was the first in a series of priests to preach for one year. Father Aloys Kieser was the preacher from 1866 until 1873. Bishop Henni sold the land that the original church had been built upon; he added the conditions that the cemetery remain intact at that the incomplete church be razed by April 1, 1874.</p><br>
<p>Several priests administered the parish until Father Julius Hellweger took over in April 1879. As of 1980, he had the longest administration in the churches history. He left Germany to avoid Otto von Bismarcks persecution of Catholics called the "Kulturkampf." In 1884 a new two-story school was built from cream-colored brick at the site of the previous school and it was completed in 1886. Archbishop Frederick Katzer visited in 1892 and urged parishioners to build a new tower. The parish council was supposed to incorporate the parish by the archbishop&#39;s order since 16 years had passed since Wisconsin had required it. The parish was named an outpost of the Milwaukee archdiocese at the same time when diocese lines in the state were redrawn along county lines because of the addition of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior. The incorporation issue came up again at the end of the 1900s decade. After being closed for a short while, the incorporation papers where finally signed on November 12, 1909 by Father Francis Ruhmann and two representatives from the state of Wisconsin. A tide of anti-German patriotism swept the United States during World War I but parish men voted 40 to 34 in favor of keeping sermons in German. The parish was able to afford limited enhancements during the Great Depression including a tile floor in the sanctuary, a tabernacle, two statues, two furnaces in the school, and a garage for the rectory.</p><br>
<p>Father Benjamin Blied took over administration in 1948 after being a professor at St. Francis Seminary. During Blieds tenure, he contracted having a deeper well, automatic bells were added, the old school was razed and converted into a playground, a heater powerful enough for the church and school was installed. On John the Baptists day in 1957, the church building&#39;s centennial was celebrated with a mass. Numerous priests who were sons of the parish had active roles in the celebration, which was led by archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer. Later that year, improvements were made including: the school yard and church approaches were asphalted, steeple repainted and its clock removed in favor of windows, and the church floors tiled.</p><br>
<p>The school was being taught by nuns and they wanted to move their housing out of the school into a separate convent to alleviate overcrowding in the school. St. Anna was interested to join since its school was being closed but wasn&#39;t invited to the first meeting since it was in a different diocese; the organization decided to decline since it arrived too late in the planning. No name could be decided for new school so the treasurer eventually had checks created using the name "Consolidated Parochial Elementary School" and the name stuck. Marytown and Johnsburg students in Grades 4 to 8 were taught at Johnsburg starting with the 1969-70 school year.</p><br>
<h2>Current events</h2><br>
<p>The school building became the home of Holyland Catholic School in 2015. In the late 2010&#39;s, St. John the Baptist joined four other nearby churches to form Our Lady of the Holyland parish under the Milwaukee Archdiocese. Services are held at the church on Sunday mornings at 10:30, the pastor is Father Fr. Paul Koenig, OFM Capuchin.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>St. John the Baptist Congregation, Rev. Benjamin J. Blied, 1980</p><br>
<p>Woman&#39;s Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain  is a historic temperance fountain at Clarinda and Sheridan Streets in Shenandoah, Iowa, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1912 by the Woman&#39;s Christian Temperance Union to provide water as an alternative to alcohol consumption. The fountain honored Mrs. Lavina Nichols, the local founder of the Shenandoah WCTU chapter. It cost $500 to install ($ in current value.), and features a 4 by base and pedestal that is 7 ft tall. The sign and column were added ten years later. The fountain was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church, also known as First United Presbyterian Church, Templar Lodge No. 514, and the West Bend Historical Museum, is a historic building located in West Bend, Iowa, United States. The first recorded Protestant services in town were led by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. David S. McComb in 1851. First Presbyterian Church was chartered on December 23, 1883, with 11 members. The Rev. Harvey S. Dickey served as their first pastor. They initially worshiped in homes until they built this church building in 1889. An addition was constructed onto the rear of the building in 1915 as the congregation grew. They continued to worship here until 1972 when lack of numbers forced them to dissolve. Templar Lodge No.514 took over the building at that point and used it until December 14, 1977. The West Bend Historical Society acquired the building and used it for a museum from 1981 until 2007.</p><br>
<p>The building is considered a rare example of a wood-frame Late Victorian church. The exterior suggests a vernacular form created by a local craftsman. It utilizes religious symbolism as decorative elements, such as the triangular hoods on the windows and doors that refer to the Holy Trinity. The narthex on the interior reflects the Victorian period of its construction, while the sanctuary reflects the Classical influences popular when the 1915 addition was constructed. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Loucks Grove Church  is a historic church in Greenfield, Iowa, United States that is.National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in 1895 and added to the NRHP November 22, 1995. Its National Register nomination notes its significance as follows:</p><br>
<p>Loucks Grove Church stands as the lone example of an unchanged Gothic influenced rural religious building of the late 19th century in Adair County, Iowa. Such buildings represented about two-thirds of the county&#39;s churches in 1895. It is a simple, white, frame building that has withstood the test of time and has undergone no structural changes in one hundred years. With the exception of electricity and a propane space heater, it is today as it was then in 1895. The vestibule with its decorative hardware on the doors and an ogee arch window, and the sanctuary with its pointed arch windows and rounded ceiling that exhibit the Gothic influence still show the original design and construction. It is the only church in Adair County with such a distinction.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was a member of the Christian Church from 1895 to 1957, and a non-denominational church after that.</p><br>
<p>Coldwater Church of the Brethren is a historic church building located in Greene, Iowa, United States. The Church of the Brethren congregation was established by Philip Moss in Coldwater Township in 1855. Initially, they held their services in area schoolhouses. The town of Green was established in 1871, and they chose to build their church there in 1873. Philip Moss&#39; son Aaron built the church. It is a 40 by front gable structure built over a raised basement. The stone was quarried locally. It is thought the lower level was used as a parsonage until a frame dwelling was erected to the east of the church in 1915. Originally one room, the upper level has been divided to create two Sunday school rooms at one end. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Tabor Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church at 403 Elm Street in Tabor, Iowa, USA.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by J.K. Nutting, who pastored The Little Brown Church and is similar in design to that church. The church building was completed in 1875. Before its completion, the congregation met in the chapel at Tabor College. The founding minister was John Todd), a prominent abolitionist in Tabor. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Ad-Lin Building, also known as Linden Plaza, is an historic, American commercial building that is located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</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 1896, this historic structure is a four-story, rectangular, brick building with Classical Revival-style design elements. It measures 45 feet by 150 feet and 2 bays by 10 bays. It features large expanses of glass and a projecting metal cornice. The building was rehabilitated in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Albright Memorial Library, also commonly referred to as the Scranton Public Library, is a historic public library located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The library is located on the corner of Vine Street and Washington Avenue. Since the library opened in May 1893, it has served the city of Scranton and the surrounding areas by providing access to books, DVDs, computer services, and more.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joseph J. Albright originally came to the city of Scranton as a general coal sales agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. He would construct a house on the corner of Washington Ave. and Vine St., which he lived in with his wife Elizabeth and their children.</p><br>
<p>After Joseph and Elizabeth’s deaths, the Albright children reached an agreement with the City of Scranton to donate the land to be used as a library. The original Albright house was demolished in 1890, so the construction of the Albright Memorial Library could begin.</p><br>
<p>On May 25, 1893, the Scranton Public Library was ready to open two months earlier than originally anticipated. An invite only reception was held that night. During the ceremonies, Harry C. and John Joseph Albright handed over the deed for the ground of the Scranton Public Library to Mayor Connell, who accepted on behalf of the city. The next day, May 26, the library opened to the general public with Henry Carr as the first librarian.</p><br>
<p>The library collection was originally 10,600 volumes selected by the first librarian Henry Carr. The Scranton Republican reported that this selection covered a “wide range of subjects including works of reference, philosophy, theology, social science, national sciences, useful and fine arts, poetry, drama, essays, fiction, biography travels, history, etc.” By June 15, 1893, over 1500 people had signed up for a library card and continued to grow steadily. Between 200 and 350 books were being checked out daily.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the Scranton Public Library participated in the Victory Book Campaign, which encouraged the public to donate gently used or new books to soldiers fighting overseas. Former library director Harold A Wooster was the chairman of the Victory Book Campaign for Lackawanna County in 1942. A direct telephone line for the campaign was even installed in the Albright Memorial Library to help facilitate the donation of books. The library collected the books to prepare them to be shipped to main hubs before being transported to the soldiers. During the 1942 Victory Book Campaign, Lackawanna County collected almost 35,000 books. An additional 6,000 books would be donated during the campaign in 1943.</p><br>
<p>In April 1985, the Lackawanna County Library System acquired the First Church of Christ, Scientist church located next door to the Albright Memorial Library. The children’s section, which was located on the first floor of the library, would be moved into this building to create the Lackawanna County Children’s Library. The new Children’s Library would open on December 12, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Albright Memorial Library has remained open almost continuously from that date in May 1893. Through the years, it has briefly closed during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 and at various times throughout its history for renovations. On May 22, 1978, the Albright Memorial Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. During 2020, the library was completely closed from March through June due to the COVID-19 pandemic It would reopen to the public in mid-June. Today, library services are fully open and available to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Building Information</h2><br>
<p>The Albright Memorial Library was constructed from June 16, 1891 though May 25, 1893. Green and Wicks, an architectural firm from Buffalo, were the architects of the new library, while Conrad Schroeder was responsible for its construction. At the request of John Albright, the exterior of the building was based on the Musee de Cluny, which is located in Paris, France. To achieve this, they used Indiana limestone and Medina stone for exterior and Spanish tiles for the roof. Carvings, including lion statues and owls, decorate the exterior building.</p><br>
<p>The library’s interior includes intricate oak wood, or similar woods stained to match. The first floor contains three fireplaces made of Italian marble. These seem to be used even though the library was built to be compatible with steam heat and electricity. The first floor contains mosaic Italian marble floors. A notable feature of the second floor are Mycenaean marble pillars that existed surrounding the original overlook into the circulation department. The original railing for this overlook was made of intricate wood designs. During the winter of 1954 through 1955, renovations to the library closed the floor of the reference department. Today, sections of the original railing are displayed on a wall in the Reference Section as decoration.</p><br>
<p>The grounds of the Albright Memorial Library were originally designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. It is designated as Job #1349 under the Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot name. The original plans contain a variety of plants and shrubbery. It is unknown if this project was ever completed. If it was completed, it would have been replaced with landscape design adapted to the changing tastes over the course of the early 20th century. The Daughters of the American Revolution donated a dogwood tree, which was planted in the center of the front lawn at the library. In 2001, the gardens were restored to the original Olmsted design using a mix of modern aesthetics and the original plans. This project was funded by an Urban Forestry Grant from the United States Forestry Service. Unfortunately, the landscape surrounding the Albright Memorial Library changed once again due a project to create rainwater cisterns. Today, the area surrounding the Albright Memorial Library is primarily composed of small shrubs, some trees, and flowers.</p><br>
<h2>Artworks</h2><br>
<p>Stained glass windows can be seen in the reference and circulation departments of the Albright Memorial Library. Created by Edwin Ford and Frederick Brooks of Boston, the windows reflect important figures in the history of books through the book bindings they used. Book bindings were designs used to designate a printmaker or owner of a certain work. Ford and Brooks used designs from printers, such as Stephanus Maillet, Sebastian Nivellius, and Melchoir Novesianus, for smaller windows. Designs appearing on books owned by famous patrons of the arts, such as Francis II of France, Queen Elizabeth I, and the arms of Constable Anne de Montmorency, are the basis for statement windows throughout the library.</p><br>
<p>Four framed paintings are located in public areas at the Albright Memorial Library. The first is a painting of John J. Albright, who is shown seated in a wooden chair with his left hand on the arm of the chair while his head leans on his right hand. Next is a painting of William T. Smith, who was the vice president of the first library board. He is shown seated wearing a black suit and a bowtie. Both of these portraits were done by Theobald Chartran. The final portrait on the second floor of the library depicts Joseph J. Albright, painted by Bayard Henry Tyler. Albright is shown seated while wearing a suit. In the circulation department, a painting by V. Olbert showing three women working on a needle point craft while another woman prepares drinks hangs above a fireplace.</p><br>
<p>The administrative offices, which occupy the former children’s section of the Albright Memorial Library, contain murals painted by Elizabeth Arthur. Painted between 1933 and 1951, the murals depict scenes from fairytales, classic stories, and images from American History. These include paintings showing Robin Hood, Lassie, the Pony Express, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>Stained Glass c 1910 Albright Library Scranton PA.JPGStained-glass windows</p><br>
<p>Stained glass Albright Library Scranton PA.JPG</p><br>
<p>Albright Library 2nd floor south.JPGSecond floor reading rooms</p><br>
<p>Albright Library 2nd floor north.JPG</p><br>
<p>Albright woodwork Scranton PA.JPGWoodwork</p><br>
<p>He loved his work Scranton PA.JPGPlaque honoring the first librarian</p><br>
<h2>Associated Locations</h2><br>
<p>Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library</p><br>
<p>Lackawanna County Children’s Library</p><br>
<p>Library Express Bookstore</p><br>
<p>Silkman House</p><br>
<p>Century Club of Scranton is a historic women&#39;s club located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1913-1914, and is a three-story, rectangular, brick, limestone and wood building in the Colonial Revival-style. It measures 56 feet, 6 inches, by 92 feet, 4 inches, and has a flat roof and three bay symmetrical facade. It features an entry portico supported by groupings of three Doric order columns at the two front corners.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Dime Bank Building, also known as the Dime Bank & Trust Company Building, is a historic commercial building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It is a five-story brick building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The original three-story building was built in 1890-1891, and measured 70 by. Soon after, an additional two-stories were added, as well as a wing measuring 30 by. In 1908, the building was again expanded with a concrete and slab fireproof wing. The facade features a delicately ornamented bay window, five-story turret, and three-story rectangular projection terminated at the third floor by a large arched masonry opening.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Lackawanna Avenue Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Robert N. C. Nix Sr. Federal Building and United States Post Office, formerly known as the United States Court House and Post Office Building, is a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1937 and 1941, Nix Federal Building was designed by Harry Sternfeld in the Moderne style and features several sculptures and reliefs by Donald De Lue and Edmond Amateis. It was renamed in December 1985 in honor of Robert N.C. Nix Sr., a longtime Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania&#39;s 1st Congressional District in Philadelphia, and the first African-American to represent Pennsylvania in Congress.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and is part of the Mark East neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is located in Center City Philadelphia on a 2 acre lot bounded by Market Street to the north, Ninth Street to the east, and Chestnut Street to the south, and an alley to the west. Its seven stories have a height of about 115 ft above grade and include a basement, a mezzanine between the first and second floors, and two penthouses. It measures 170 ft along Chestnut and Market Streets by 470 ft along Ninth Street. A light court provides access to outside air and light from the third to the sixth floor.</p><br>
<p>The steel structure is encased in concrete and the foundation and basement walls are reinforced concrete. Interior walls are concrete, clay tile, or brick. The base of the building is faced with Milford pink granite with Indiana limestone covering most of the facades facing the street. Buff-colored brick covers the facades of the interior light court.</p><br>
<p>Central air-conditioning was a feature of the original construction, but records indicate that more than 270 window units were installed over time, and then removed during a 1989 restoration. Handicapped access was installed at the eastern entrance on Market Street, but otherwise the exterior appears as it was originally designed.</p><br>
<p>The first floor is occupied by the Philadelphia Passport Agency, while courtrooms and a law library occupy the second floor. Upper floors contain offices, open plan office space, meeting rooms and similar spaces for a variety of government tenants. The National Archives at Philadelphia is entered on Chestnut Street. The facility "maintains the historically significant records of the Federal Agencies and Courts, in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, dating from 1789 to the present" and is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The James Madison School, also known as the East Scranton Intermediate School and East Scranton Junior High School, is an historic American school building that is located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1927 and 1928, this historic structure is a three-story, C-shaped, steel frame, brick, and reinforced concrete building that was designed in an eclectic, Late Gothic Revival/Classical Revival style. It measures approximately 105 feet by 165 feet and has a flat roof. The building has undergone little alteration since it original construction.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the building was renovated to house an early childhood learning program, as well as apartments for graduate students at the University of Scranton.</p><br>
<p>The North Scranton Junior High School is a historic American junior high school building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1922 and 1924, this historic structure is a three-story, brick and stone building that was designed in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a four-story clock tower and a tall Gothic arch surrounding the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The school was abandoned in 1987. In 2015, it re-opened as an apartment building for senior citizens.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Roger Williams Public School No. 10, also known as South Scranton Catholic High School, is a historic school building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It was built about 1896, and is a two-story, I-shaped brick and sandstone building in a Late Victorian style. It features a central three-story entrance tower with a hipped roof. A two-story brick addition was built in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The public school was closed in 1941, and subsequently acquired by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton for use as a consolidated Catholic high school. It was renamed in 1973, as Bishop Klonowski High School, and closed in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The property was acquired by Lackawanna Junior College in 1982. In 2012, it is occupied by Goodwill Industries.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Oaks Pioneer Church, formerly known as St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a non-denominational one-story chapel listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1851, it was added to the register in 1974. It is the oldest intact church building in Oregon.</p><br>
<p>Located in Oaks Pioneer Park in the Sellwood neighborhood, the rectangular post-and-beam structure has a footprint of 18 by. Fashioned from a partly completed house owned by pioneer Lot Whitcomb, it was the first Episcopal church in Oregon.</p><br>
<p>Whitcomb was a steamboat operator who founded the community of Milwaukie. The church, originally sited on the outskirts of Milwaukie, was moved nearer the towns center in 1862. Modifications over the years included revisions to the chancel in 1869 and the windows, siding, and belfry in 1888. The belfry contains a ships bell that belonged to Whitcomb.</p><br>
<p>Supplanted by a new church building in 1948 (St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Milwaukie, Oregon) and scheduled for demolition in 1969, the church was saved by private interests that paid to float it down the Willamette River on a barge and install it in Oaks Pioneer Park. In the 21st century, the church functions as a museum and wedding site.</p><br>
<p>Scranton Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1900, and is a four-story, 20 bays by 26 bays, brick and stone building executed in the Romanesque Revival style. The front facade features a central stone arch entrance flanked by crenellated towers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Cassese House is an historic American home that is located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1910, this historic structure is a three-story, five-bay wide, frame dwelling with an ochre brick veneer. Designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, it has a low, hipped terra cotta tile roof. The front facade features an elaborately carved limestone porch. Also located on the property is a masonry garage with a hipped roof, and contributing retaining walls. The house was converted to apartments between 1926 and 1933.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Silkman House is located at 2006 Main Ave., Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Even though it is popularly known as the Providence Branch of the Scranton Public Library, it is currently used as the technical services department of the Lackawanna County Library System and is no longer open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aaron Burr Silkman constructed the home from trees and wood that originally stood on the property in 1840.</p><br>
<p>Aaron Burr Silkman was descended from John Silkman who arrived from Germany in the 1700s. He would serve in the Revolutionary War. His son, Daniel, would marry Joanna Brundage. She was a descendant of John Winthrop, one of the founding members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Daniel&#39;s grandchildren, William and Mary, would be some of the first people to live in the Silkman House. Aaron Burr Silkman gave the house to them six years after its construction in 1849. In return Aaron received a farm in Taylor, Pennsylvania. He would live in Scranton for a time before dying in Vineland, New Jersey in 1895.</p><br>
<p>William and Mary Silkman would raise their family, including a pet parrot, in the house. During renovations items such as hoop skirts, rawhide trunks, handmade barrels, hats, canning supplies, and other family items were discovered. Some of the items, such as an old stove, are still in the house today. The last Silkman to live in the household was Augusta Silkman who passed away in 1937. After her death, the property was sold by her heirs to a group of citizens to use the building as a library and cultural center.</p><br>
<p>On November 1, 1938, the Silkman House was completely restored and set up for use as a branch of the Scranton Public Library. During the ceremonies, remarks were made by Thomas F. Kennedy who represented the Works Progress Administration, Harold A Wooster who was the chief librarian of the Scranton Public Library, and Mayor Fred J. Heuster. It also included a dedication ceremony for the Walter W. Winton Jr. Fountain located inside of the building, and a historical exhibition located on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>As the a branch of the Scranton Public Library, the Silkman House served the Providence neighborhood of the city of Scranton. It existed until December 2005, when it was closed due to low circulation numbers. At this point the Lackawanna River Corridor Association, an environmental education organization, expanded into the first floor of the building. They had been operating out of the second floor of the Silkman House since 1996 with the Providence Branch Library operating out of the first floor.</p><br>
<p>On November 10, 2009, the Scranton City Council announced a plan to create the Scranton Public Library Authority that would obtain ownership of the Albright Memorial Library, Green Ridge Branch, and the Silkman House from the city of Scranton. On December 15, 2009, this ordinance would be passed by Scranton City Council by a vote of 3–2 after a public hearing.</p><br>
<p>The Silkman House began operating as the Tech Services department of the Lackawanna County Library System. It is where books, magazines, DVDs, audiobooks, board games, and more are processed and cataloged for each library in the county. Once this happens, the books are then sent to the libraries of the Lackawanna County Library System to be enjoyed by patrons.</p><br>
<h2>Building Information</h2><br>
<p>The Silkman House was considered an example of true colonial design in the United States, and blueprints of it are located in the National Archives in Washington D. C. Built in 1840, the wooden house is a -story, rectangular frame building in the Neo-Greek Revival style. Originally, the house was surrounded by a wrought iron fence with a grape design. Other exterior features included white painted wooden siding. The columns of the front portico are square rather than the traditional tapered round columns. The interior of the two-story house includes a basement where the kitchen, dining room, and vegetable storage rooms were originally located. The first floor contained living quarters, a pantry, storage areas, and a bedroom, and the second story has the remaining bedrooms and storage areas. Later additions to the home included a nook on the second story and a sun porch.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, the house was surveyed as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey. As part of this process photographs and floor plans were created. In 1938, renovations funded by the Works Progress Administration with help from consulting architect, Searle H. VonStorch, were completed. The building to opened as the Providence Branch of the Scranton Public Library complete with library stacks and an exhibit space on the second floor in 1938. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Florence Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908, and is a six-story, U-shaped building with Colonial Revival style design details. It has a steel and concrete structure with exterior limestone on the first and second stories and brick above. The front facade features two three-story rectangular bays clad in pressed metal and the main entrance is surrounded by two Tuscan order columns supporting an entablature inscribed with the name "Florence." It was the first multi-story apartment building in Scranton.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Dickson Works, also known as the Stacor Building, is a historic factory building located at 225 Vine Street in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a town in Lackawanna County. It was built about 1856, and is a long three-story, brick industrial building measuring 100 feet by 300 feet. It features a tower measuring 100 feet tall, a double pitched roof with clerestory windows, and shallow segmental arched windows. It once housed the Dickson Works, a shop to repair and manufacture mine machinery and boilers. The Stacor Equipment Company occupied the building in 1963, and manufactured library tables and furniture.</p><br>
<p>In December 1977, Jerome Fink, then CEO of Pennsylvania Paper & Supply Co., purchased the Dickson works building at 225 Vine Street. It was submitted by Fink to the National Register of Historic Places in March of 1979 and entered into the register in May of the same year.</p><br>
<p>The Dickson Manufacturing company built locomotives, stationary engines, and boilers. The company also provided materials to railways including gas pipes and fittings, steam and water fittings and engine furnishings.</p><br>
<p>Lackawanna Avenue Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 69 contributing buildings in a variety of architectural styles, including Late Victorian, Classical Revival, and Art Deco. The buildings are mostly three to four stories in height and three to five bays wide. Located in the district and separately listed is the Dime Bank Building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site is a national historic district located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses the Steamtown National Historic Site and Scranton Army Ammunition Plant and includes 16 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and five contributing structures. The yard includes buildings and structures related to the yard&#39;s expansion in 1899-1939, and its usage as steam locomotive maintenance complex. The Dickson Manufacturing Company built steam locomotives, and the site of its works are included in this district.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings at the Steamtown National Historic Site include the following:</p><br>
<p>Gas House (1909)</p><br>
<p>Office and Storage Building (1909)</p><br>
<p>Green Sands Storage Bin and Dryer (1917)</p><br>
<p>Oil House (1912)</p><br>
<p>Maintenance Shop (1865–1949)</p><br>
<p>Roundhouse Office and Storeroom (1902)</p><br>
<p>Roundhouse remnants (1902, 1937)</p><br>
<p>Mattes Street Signal Tower (1908) and Warehouse (1876, 1901, 1926).</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant include the following:</p><br>
<p>Pattern Shop/Office Building (1907–1909)</p><br>
<p>Foundry/Forge Shop (1907–1909)</p><br>
<p>Blacksmith Shop/Heat Treat Building (1907–1909)</p><br>
<p>Machine and Erecting Shop/Production Shop (1907–1909).</p><br>
<p>Note: This includes and</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Co-operative Block Building is a commercial structure in downtown Crawford, Nebraska, United States. It was built in 1909 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1985. It is also known locally as Co-op Block, Midwest Block, or The Broken Spur, after the business that it currently houses.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Co-operative Block Building is a two-story Victorian commercial edifice in Crawford at the northwest corner of 2nd and Linn Streets on lots 9, 10, 11, and 12 of block 10 of the original townsite. It was built in 1909 of reinforced concrete and has plastered exterior walls; however, the interior structure utilized a wooden infrastructure. The edifice is square in shape, at 100 ft by 100 ft, and has a relatively flat roof. The front (east) facade is symmetrically organized and divided into four bays, a division which is further achieved inside the building. The storefronts have been replaced since the original construction (although they still consist mainly of glass), and some of the upper-story windows have been filled in. The facade is topped by a pressed metal cornice with brackets designed to look like dentils. Although a sign inscribed with the buildings name originally embellished the top of the structure, it has since been removed, along with other cornice embellishments. There is a basement entrance on the buildings south side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Crawford Co-operative Company was founded on June 11, 1907 by William J. A. Raum, C. H. Britton, W. A. Eversull, Bernard Soester, J. H. Hulseman, and Edwin Kluman. The purpose of the organization was to be "the buying, selling and holding of real estate, engaging in the general merchandise business, the buying and selling of all kinds of farm products, poultry and eggs". The Company officially began business on July 9, 1907; its capital stock was worth $100,000. On April 14, 1908 the company approved the plans and specifications submitted by William Stanton & Sons for the construction of the present Co-operative Block Building. Although it was originally to be built with its floors and roof entirely of concrete, the interior infrastructure was ultimately built using slow-burning heavy mill construction. Erected in 1909, the Co-operative Block Building was the first building to use reinforced concrete construction in the Crawford area. The Company dissolved in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The structure has been occupied by a grocery store, a funeral parlor, and Midwest Hardware. It was also used for offices, apartments, and a meeting space for the Ku Klux Klan. A 1939 fire, thought to originate in the basement, caused considerable damage to the building, although no casualties occurred. In 1978 a restaurant, ODohertys, was opened in the building by Tom and Donna Spence. The structure was refurbished, and a back bar from a historic saloon in Summit, South Dakota was added. Some of the new furbishing came from the Crawford&#39;s former Gate City Hotel. Later, the business was acquired by Butch and Becky Sellman, who in turn sold it to the Kreman family. The building is currently owned by the Juhlin family, and the restaurant is currently in operation as The Broken Spur Saloon, as well as housing Waning Moon Studio.</p><br>
<p>The Houghton Fire Hall, officially called the Continental Fire Company Building, Built in 1883, it was the original home of the Michigan Mining School. The building is listed as a Michigan State Historic Site and is a contributing property of the Shelden Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Fire Company organized in 1860 in Houghton. The department&#39;s first fire hall was built in 1861 along the waterfront near the site of the modern-day Portage Lake Lift Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The new fire hall was built in 1883 Village offices were on the second floor. The Michigan Mining School, now Michigan Technological University, held its first classes on the second floor and in the basement from 1886 through May 1889. In the early 1900s, the building was extended to the north to store more oats and hay for the horses. In 1916, an addition was built on the western side to store two more fire engines.</p><br>
<p>The city moved its offices out of the fire hall in the 1930s. The fire bell was removed in October 1975 and transferred to the new location. The western addition was sold and became an auto supply store.</p><br>
<p>The fire hall was listed as a Michigan State Historic Site on August 6, 1976. The western addition became vacant in October 2011 when the auto supply store moved to a new location.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The fire hall is a flat-roofed, three-story brick structure designed in the Italianate style. The foundation is built of rubble and painted white. A small, four-faced clock tower was originally situated on the cupola at the front of the building. The vertical space provided room for fire hoses to hang and dry.</p><br>
<p>Bethel Church is a historic church building in rural Morning Sun, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized by the Wapello mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Iowa in 1854. In addition to the Morning Sun congregation, the Wapello mission included congregations in Concord, Long Creek, and two in Wapello. The property for the church building and its adjacent cemetery was donated by Merit Jamison. Members of the congregation built the building under the supervision of stonemason Francis McGraw. The limestone structure is a Vernacular form of Iowa folk architecture. The small cornice returns are influenced by the Greek Revival style. The plain interior features plastered walls, plank flooring and wood-carved furnishings from the church&#39;s early years. The iron fence that runs along the gravel road was added in 1861. The church is no used for regularly scheduled services. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Union Church, also known as Brick Church, is a historic church building located in Davis City, Iowa, United States. For the first 20 years of its existence, Davis City did not have a church. This church was built at the instigation of John Clark in 1878. Clark was a native of Scotland who was of no particular religious affiliation, but thought "the moral and religious training of the Christian faith of fundamental importance." The church building was accessible to all denominations, and is now owned jointly by Methodist, Presbyterian, and Christian congregations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The 36 by brick structure features a clock and bell tower on its front facade. The bell is mounted on the outside of the tower. Entry doors, with fan lights, flank the tower. Roman arch windows are used throughout the building.</p><br>
<p>The Sidney D. Miller Middle School, also known as the Sidney D. Miller Junior High and High School, is a school building located at 2322 DuBois Street in Detroit, Michigan. It served as a high school from 1933 to 1957, and was significant as the de facto high school serving African American students in Detroit. It was designated a state of Michigan Historic Site in 1986 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Detroit experienced a phenomenal increase in population of almost 700,000 people during the 1910s. To accommodate the influx of residents and their children, numerous schools were built during the decade. Ground was broken for what was then called the "Dubois School" in 1918; the school was intended to serve as a junior high. The school was designed by the architectural firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham, the architects of nearly all Detroit Public Schools in the period 1894 to 1923, and constructed at a cost on $245,616. However, construction plans were changed several times, and the school was not opened to students until 1921. The building itself was finally completed in 1922.</p><br>
<p>During the 1920s, the citys population continued to grow, stretching the capacity of the school system. An addition to Miller, including a girls gymnasium, was completed in 1931. Although the area around the school was predominantly white when the building opened, the percentage of African Americans in the Black Bottom neighborhood increased so that soon it was predominantly black. Parents of white students at nearby Eastern High School complained about the rising Black student population, and in response the Detroit School Board converted Miller to a senior high school in 1933. A liberal school transfer policy allowed white students zoned to Miller to attend Eastern, which left Miller as the de facto, if not de jure, African-American High school.</p><br>
<p>The school is significant in part because of its association with the education of African American students, beginning in 1933. Due in part to concerns from the black community, the School Board installed a number of Black teachers and administrators at Miller. However, in 1955, steps were taken to end the de facto segregation of the Detroit School system, and in 1957 the building was converted back into a middle school. It remained a middle school for 50 years and was closed in 2007.</p><br>
<p>In the early 2010s the building was repurposed and reopened as University Prep Science and Math Elementary School, which it continues to operate as to today.</p><br>
<h2>Athletics</h2><br>
<p>Miller High School met Detroit St. Joseph High School in 1947 at Detroit&#39;s Olympia Stadium in what became the first City Basketball Championship game in Detroit PSL and Catholic High School League history. Miller won that game 47 to 34 before a Michigan high school record attendance of 11,563.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Miller School is a 2-1/2 story Jacobethan building with a flat roof, built of red brick with limestone beltcourses. The front (west) and rear façades are asymmetrical, with three-story projecting bays. The entrance is through a Gothic arch flanked by piers; the words "SYDNEY D. MILLER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AD 1919" are carved above the entrance. The original 1921 building occupies an L-shaped footprint. Later additions in 1931 and 1951 extended the building further east and enclosed a small courtyard within the building, making the perimeter nearly rectangular.</p><br>
<p>The Edmund Atkinson School is a school building located at 4900 East Hildale Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is currently operating as Legacy Charter Academy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Edmund Atkinson was a Detroit lawyer who served on the city council from 1900 to 1904, and worked as Assistant Corporation Council for the city and for the Detroit Board of Education. His namesake, the Edmund Atkinson School, was designed as a multi-unit school by the architectural firm of McGrath, Dohmen, & Page. The first unit was built in 1927 with a capacity for 580 pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade. It opened the following year, serving students who were primarily first generation immigrants from Eastern European or the Middle East, as well as African American students.</p><br>
<p>The second unit, containing an auditorium, gymnasium, practical arts room, three classrooms and a combination lunch/playroom, was built in 1931. The third unit planned by McGrath, Dohmen, & Page was never built; however, a temporary building with two self-contained classrooms was installed in 1955, and by 1961, the school was serving 880 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The new owners invested $6 million to renovate the building, and reopened it in the fall of 2010 as Legacy Charter Academy.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Atkinson School was built as two major units. The original 1927 unit is a two-story symmetrical orange-brick and random range ashlar, Collegiate Gothic Revival structure five bays wide. The central entrance bay has a projecting entrance vestibule on the first floor with a compound Gothic arch above. The flanking bays contain large openings with groupings of windows, while the outer bays contain a single window opening per floor. The side of the building contains nine bays and a single entrance.</p><br>
<p>The connecting 1931 unit, also of orange brick, begins at the end of the nine-bay span of the first unit with a tower-like bay containing groupings of windows and a third entrance. The unit continues with a two-story rear elevation. All entrances and towers have limestone surrounds and quoining.</p><br>
<p>The Duane Doty School is a school building located at 10225 3rd Street in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Duane Doty School was named after former Superintendent of Schools for Detroit Duane Doty, who was appointed to that post in 1865. and ending in 1909. When it opened, the school contained 20 classrooms and was intended to hold 640 students from kindergarten through eighth grade. which added 320 students to the school&#39;s capacity. A gymnasium addition was constructed in 1928. In 1959, the building was substantially remodeled, and six new classrooms were added in the basement and first floor. By the end of 1960, enrollment in the school was 1,193 students.</p><br>
<p>The building was later used as the Boykin Continuing Education Center. After major renovations completed in 2012, the building was re-opened as The Henry Ford Academy: Elementary School. In 2019 it was renamed to University Prep Art and Design Elementary School.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Duane Doty School is a two-story L-shaped, red brick, hipped roof structure placed on a high, windowed basement. The front facade has five bays, with the central bay projecting substantially outward. The two main entrances are located in single story vestibules flanking the main bay. The central and end bays of the school contain rows of wooden six-over-six sash windows with stone sills. The roof eaves are supported by paired or triples sets of oversized decorative brackets. A square tower behind one of the entrances pierces the roofline. A hipped roof addition dating from 1921 sits behind the building, and the flat-roofed gymnasium from 1928 extends further.</p><br>
<p>Inside the building, the main entry vestibules have terrazzo floors, with staircases leading up to the first floor. The original L-shaped building has two intersecting corridors leading to classrooms. The kindergarten classrooms are located between the two main entrances at the front of the building. The additions contain a one-story auditorium on the first floor with a gymnasium below in the basement.</p><br>
<p>Hynds Lodge is a conference and accommodation lodge originally built by Cheyenne, Wyoming businessman Harry P. Hynds and donated to the Boy Scouts of America  in 1922. It is open from May 1 to October 1 by reservation only. It has accommodations for 30 people , a large kitchen, dining room, living room, covered porch, stone fireplace and chimney, and 9 acre of land. The lodge was originally used by Wyoming Boy Scouts as a recreational camp. Later it was used by churches, social groups, and businesses. It was built on land that became part of Curt Gowdy State Park in 1971 and is now operated by the park. The south fork of Crow Creek lies nearby, with a granite outcrop and woodlands of cedar and spruce.</p><br>
<p>The lodge has many large trees around it, towering granite behind it, and is built into a hillside. Its construction with granite stone in ashlar masonry gives it a unique architectural style. The University of Wyoming&#39;s Department of Geology and Geophysics offers summer field courses in the area of the park and stays at the lodge. The lodge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 23, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Hynds arrived in Cheyenne in 1882 from Illinois. He began working as a blacksmith but in 1883 he acquired the first of several gambling saloons. This made him quite wealthy and he entered other businesses and also became an philanthropist. He was a founder of Frontier Days Rodeo. The Boy Scouts of America was very popular in Cheyenne by 1922 and their leadership approached him to help raise money for a cabin. Instead, Hynds paid for the cabin himself. The cabin was completed in the summer of 1922 and measures 36 x 35. The lodge was operated by the Young Men&#39;s Literary Club for the Boy Scouts until 1935, when the City of Cheyenne took over. Many civic organizations have used it since, including the Boy Scouts. Major repair efforts were made in 1966. In 1971, the lodge and its land were leased to the Wyoming Recreation Commission by the City of Cheyenne.</p><br>
<p>The Granada Theater, located on 2nd and Washington streets in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, was built in 1929. The exterior of theater is in the Moorish Revival style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The theater was designed by architect William A. Cutts for the Universal Film Corporation and building owner M.R. Matthew. Initial costs totaled $125,000.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s corner marquee was added in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>In 1986 the building was added to The Dalles Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The city of The Dalles purchased the theater in September 2010. In March 2017 the building was sold to new owners, who planned to renovate and reopen the building. The theater reopened in November of that year, with its facade repainted as it would have been in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The theater received funding from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to fund repairs and to keep the building open.</p><br>
<p>Van Salsbergen House, also known as the Black House and Van Hoesen Stone House, is a historic home located in Greenport near the city of Hudson in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1700, and is a -story stone dwelling with a steeply pitched gable roof. Originally two-rooms large, it was expanded about 1860 with the addition of the north room. As its name implies, the house derives from the original owner and builder, Jan Hendricksen Van Salsbergen, an early settler of the area. He was known to have been born in the Netherlands in the 17th century and died in Columbia County in 1710 as per available records. It is currently undergoing restoration by its private owner. The structure is unique by reason of its scissors- truss design being infrequently employed in the geographical area but typical of housing design seen in the Netherlands.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office in downtown Crawford, Nebraska is a historic edifice built to house the Crawford branch of the United States Postal Service. It was built in 1938-1939 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1992, as part of the Nebraska Post Offices Which Contain Section Artwork MPS.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Crawford US Post Office is located at the northwest corner on 2nd and Main Streets in the commercial district of Crawford, Nebraska. It was built in the Moderne style in the late 1930s from standardized blueprints. Included in the listing are three contributing objects: two ornamental lampposts flanking the staircase to the main entrance and a flagpole. The structure has one story with a basement and measures approximately 60 by. It is constructed of red brick with a concrete base and topped by a limestone parapet. The main entrance features an aluminum grill with a stylized eagle above the doorway. Two recessed windows with limestone sills are located on each side of the entrance. Although they were originally triple-hung, the upper thirds have been filled in with wooden panels. The architectural features of the front facade are echoed on the remaining sides of the structure. A handicap ramp has been added on the structure&#39;s west side, and an enclosed stairwell on the east side provides access to the basement.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the lobby features original marble floors and wainscoting, radiators, and woodwork. The space immediately inside the front entrance is surrounded by a vestibule that projects into the lobby. The building&#39;s original light fixtures have been replaced since the original construction, as have the front doors.</p><br>
<p>The lobby&#39;s most prominent feature is a mural on the upper portion of the east wall. It was painted by G. Glenn Newell, an artist and dairy farmer from Dutchess County, New York, and installed by post office workers in May 1940. The piece depicts a wagon train beginning to ford a stream. The lead wagon dominates the scene with other wagons visible in the background, along with local landmark Crow Butte.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first area post office was established in June 1884. It was located four and one-half miles (about seven kilometers) south of what is now Crawford, and was known as the Crow Butte/Sioux County branch. After Dawes County was formed from the western portion of Sioux County, the post offices name and site changed to Crawford. It became a second-class branch on July 1, 1912. City delivery was established on July 1, 1930. After being located in many different locations in town, it moved to the current building, which was built in 1938-1939 and dedicated during the communitys 1939 Labor Day celebration.</p><br>
<p>The edifice&#39;s mural, titled "The Crossing" and painted by G. Glenn Newell, was one of hundreds commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Newell received a notice from the section inviting him to submit designs for the Crawford Post Office in August 1939. Newell immediately accepted the commission, for which he would be paid $800. Although he did not visit Crawford before painting the mural, he received several photographs from the Crawford postmaster to aid him in accurately painting the setting. Newell originally conceived the idea of including a poem with the mural, which read, "Seeking the westward sunshine/ Leaving storms behind/ Taking sires of the future with them/ And dams of a better kind." He was informed this was unnecessary. The completed mural was shipped to Crawford in April 1940. It was professionally cleaned and restored in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Crawford postmasters have included John Walsh, Cyrus Fairchild, Lee Van Voorhis, C.W. Fritts, George C. Scott, John Pat Davis, John Lemons, Edwin Gorton, Frank Reeves, and Mary Jo Knoell.</p><br>
