<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church, Guild Hall and Vicarage is a historic Episcopal church complex in Oconto, Wisconsin, with its buildings in architectural styles popular when they were constructed. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1985 for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s church is a Neogothic-styled building designed by A.H. James of Kansas City and built in 1900. It has walls of limestone with low buttresses on the south side. The front gable end features an apsidiole at the center at ground level, with a rose window above that and above that on the ridge a stone cross. The main entrance is through a large square corner tower. Inside, the church has a hammerbeam ceiling. The interior was redecorated in 1911, with a maple reredos, a high altar, carved lectern, pulpit and pews. A wood screen was also added, topped with a depiction of the Crucifixion carved by the Lang family of Oberammergau.</p><br>
<p>The frame "Guild Hall" north of the current church building was built in 1866-67 across the street by the first Methodist congregation in Oconto. Typical of that period, its style is Greek Revival, with returned cornices and tall windows. In 1894 St. Marks bought the building and moved it to their site to replace their original building. Only six years later, St. Marks had outgrown it and built their current church, eventually converting the old church to a social hall. At this point, St. Mark&#39;s Guild Hall is the oldest surviving church building in Oconto.</p><br>
<p>What is now called the vicarage, north of the guild hall, was built in 1871 by lumberman Edward Fizgerald as his home. Over the years the house was expanded, including bay windows by later owner Edward Davis, a clothes merchant. St. Mark&#39;s acquired the building in 1913. Today the building is an interesting combination, with the half-turret bay window and siding suggesting Queen Anne style, but the jerkin gables and fine spindles on the porch suggesting other styles.</p><br>
<p>Connellsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins Co. It was built in 1907, and consists of a two-story administration section with a rear one-story drill hall in a "T"-plan. The 55 foot by 110 foot building is constructed of brick on a coursed ashlar foundation. It has a number of Tudor Revival / Late Gothic Revival style details including a two-story entrance arch, a gabled parapet, and brick polygonal towers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office-Connellsville is an historic, American post office building that is located in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1911 and 1913, this historic structure is a two-story, five-bay, brick building that was designed in the Classical Revival style. It measures ninety-nine feet by fifty-four feet, with a ten-foot rear extension. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under the direction of James Knox Taylor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Connellsville Union Passenger Depot, also known as the Connellsville Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, is a historic railway station located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1911 and 1912 by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and Western Maryland Railway. It is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular brick building measuring 109 feet by 28 feet. It features a three-story tower, wide overhanging eaves, and hipped roofs on the building and tower covered in blue-green Spanish terra cotta tiles. It is in an American Craftsman style of architecture. It ceased use as a passenger station in 1939, after which it housed a car dealership and auto parts store. It was purchased by the Youghiogheny Opalescent Glass Company in the spring of 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Colonial National Bank Building, also known as the Grant Myers Building, is a historic bank building located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1906, as a one-story, open bank building. It was remodeled during the 1930s, to be two-stories. It has two Classical Revival facades, featuring four, two-story Ionic order columns supporting a pediment on each side.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Mull Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the northwestern portion of the USA state of Ohio. Built in the middle of the nineteenth century, it is located near Burgoon in Sandusky County. Although it is no longer used to facilitate transportation, the bridge has been preserved and is now a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1851, Amos Mull owned a sawmill along the east branch of Wolf Creek in Ballville Township but had a significant problem: the stream hindered potential customers. After he petitioned the Sandusky County Commissioners for aid, his efforts bore fruit: the commissioners agreed to grant $75 toward the construction of a covered bridge near Mulls streamside house, and he agreed to provide the lumber needed to build the bridge. The design selected was known as the Town Lattice truss; composed of many small diagonal elements, the bridges framework appears to resemble a lattice because of the criss-crossing pattern in which the diagonal elements are attached. The structure itself is composed of the wood from Mull&#39;s sawmill, covered with wooden siding placed vertically to cover the sides; it has a metal roof, and the abutments are stone. Measuring 100 ft in length, the bridge was built as a single-span structure; at an unknown later date, a concrete support was added in the middle, converting it into a two-span bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>After more than a century of service, the Mull Covered Bridge closed on 2 August 1962 after a new concrete arch bridge was built to carry the local road that had formerly used the old bridge. Seeing the potential value of preserving the Mull Bridge, the Sandusky County Historical Society pressured the county commissioners to order its preservation; the request was successful, and the bridge was kept as a historic site. Twelve years later, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, because it was an example of historic methods of construction. At that time, it was one of just three covered bridges still standing in Ohios northwestern quarter, and one of just eleven Town Lattice Trusses statewide. Since then, the bridge has not been forgotten: it was renovated in 1990, re-renovated in 2015, and today it is part of Sandusky Countys park system. Now more than a century and a half old, it is one of Ohio&#39;s oldest extant covered bridges. No other covered bridges remain in Sandusky County, although six others — including a railroad bridge measuring nearly 1,100 ft that spanned the Sandusky River — were built and have been destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The Overmyer–Waggoner–Roush Farm  is a historic farmstead on the southern edge of the village of Lindsey in the northwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Composed primarily of buildings constructed in the middle of the nineteenth century, it has been converted into a park and designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Active farmstead</h2><br>
<p>A family of Overmyers departed one of the German principalities to settle in Pennsylvania in 1751. One of the sons of this family, Phillip A. Overmyer, was born in 1823; after moving with his family to Washington Township in Sandusky County, Ohio at the age of ten, he married Margaret Waggoner in 1848, who had moved to the same vicinity in 1830. Besides farming, Phillip operated a sawmill and engaged in wagonmaking for many years. In 1862, the Overmyers erected a farmhouse on the present property; constructed of brick, it was built in the popular Greek Revival style of architecture. The family also arranged for the construction of barns and several other buildings on their property; seven historic buildings remain to the present day, including at least one that features elements of Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Overmyer farm had passed into the ownership of a new family, the Roushes; this family owned the property and operated the farm for more than a century while transitioning from traditional draft animal power to modern mechanized equipment such as tractors. Before his 1999 death, family head Robert Roush operated the farm; his interests in conservation led him to attempt innovative techniques, such as establishing a tree farm and plowing his fields in circles to avoid damage to those fields.</p><br>
<h2>Conversion</h2><br>
<p>In 2004, Roberts widow Frances agreed to donate the farm to Sandusky County for conversion into a county park; besides the land and buildings, the donation included family journals and money to restore two dilapidated barns. Local officials welcomed the chance to convert the property into a park, due to its conservation potential. Among their premier interests was the tree farm: they saw it as significant because Roush had established it at a time when the typical Ohio farmer saw woodlots as nuisances that needed to be removed in order to make use of vacant land. This recognition was not the first that had been accorded to the farm: it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, qualifying both because of its place in local history and because of its distinctive architecture — historians saw it as one of the areas best preserved nineteenth-century German family farms.</p><br>
<p>After the donation was made, the Sandusky County Park District announced plans to build a visitor center on the property and to convert farmland along Muddy Creek into wetland, as well as restoring the farm&#39;s barns. Plans were announced to begin a program of historic farming: a local antiquarian group made arrangements to begin farming parts of the property with early twentieth-century equipment and to use modern equipment on other parts, in order to demonstrate technological change over the century.</p><br>
<p>Presently measuring 310 acre, the site is in the process of being developed by the Park District to resemble a farm of the 1930s through the 1950s. Although access to the buildings is restricted, visitors are free to hike on marked trails. Other activities sponsored by the Park District at the site include skiing, geocaching, nature watching, and metal detecting.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the Park District removed thirty-one ash trees from the property that were expected to be devastated by the Emerald ash borer, like others in northwestern Ohio. After milling, the wood was used as replacement flooring in the barn.</p><br>
<p>The Civic Center Historic District is located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It flanks both the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers and their confluence. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988. It is part of The City Beautiful Movement and City Planning in Des Moines, Iowa 1892—1938 MPS.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The structures within the district were built between 1900 and 1938. The contributing properties include six public buildings and seven structures. The six buildings include the Armory and World War Memorial Building, the former Public Library of Des Moines, the former Post Office, Municipal Building, Municipal Court Building, and the USA Court House. The seven contributing structures include the Center Street Dam, West River Front Park, East River Front Park, the River Walls, Scott Avenue Bridge and Dam, Court Avenue Bridge, and the Riverside Drive Bridge. There are also six noncontributing structures which include the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Bridge, the Des Moines Union Railway Company Bridge, the Rock Island Depot, the Grand Avenue Bridge, the Locust Street Bridge, and the Walnut Street Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The buildings in the Civic Center district were built along the river as part of the plans for riverfront development. Both the East and West Riverfront Parks are examples of the principles found in the City Beautiful Movement. The main facades of the municipal government buildings face the river itself while those of the federal government buildings face the street. Part of the planning included flood prevention from the flood-prone rivers as well as the way the Raccoon River flowed into the Des Moines River. There have been 11,617 linear feet of river walls built as part of the flood protection efforts. An intercepting sewer system to handle storm run-off is also a part of the river wall structure. Plans to construct the walls were completed in 1908. Construction of the walls, however, was not completed until 1938 as projects of the Civil Works Administration and the Works Project Administration.</p><br>
<p>When the Locust Street, Walnut Street, and Grand Avenue bridges were reconstructed in the late 1960s their original ornamentation was removed and the bridge decks rebuilt. Even though the original shape of the spans and piers remained, the loss of ornamentation significantly altered the bridges and they are no longer capable of contributing to the historic nature of the Civic Center district. The Court Avenue Bridge was reconstructed in the 1980s and its decorative elements were left in place. The railroad bridges have always been seen as intrusions in the district and it was suggested the railroad right of way be moved when the bridges were in need of significant repairs or replacement.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Five of the six buildings in the Civic Center Historic District were built between 1900 and 1928 (library, post office, municipal building, municipal court building, USA Courthouse) and are all designed in the Beaux-Arts style. They are further unified by the use of architectural elements such as the use of stone, rustication, full-height stone columns, balustrades, simple cornices, and round-arched openings. The City Beautiful movement planned buildings that were intended to blend with each other and work as a unit rather than stand apart as a monument to an architects design. Inspiration for the district came from the White City of Chicagos 1893 Columbian Exposition, the École des Beaux-Arts, and European urban design in general on public building design. Even though it was designed in the Art Deco style, the Armory building blends in with the other buildings in the district.</p><br>
<p>The river walls were designed to be both ornamental as well as functional. Built of concrete, they feature the balustrade motif that was utilized on the public buildings and the bridges. The Court Avenue Bridge also utilizes balustrades in its design as well as the rounded arch, which is also featured in the buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Avenue Bridge over the Des Moines River and the Riverside Bridge over the Raccoon River are both open-spandrel reinforced concrete arch-type bridges. They are both located near the confluence of the two rivers. Both bridges were completed in 1937 and were funded through the Works Progress Administration.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Avenue Bridge also has a dam associated with it. It is a concrete overflow dam and was built at the same time as the bridge. The dam is eight bays across with an overflow section in the two end bays. It utilizes a gate structure of three small vertical slide gates. Both sanitary and storm sewer lines flow through the dam. It anchors the southern end of the historic district. Anchoring the northern end is the Center Street dam. It is also the terminal point for the river walls. Built-in 1917, it is a concrete multiple-arch buttress-type dam. This dam features a free overflow section that is divided into eleven bays and a gate section composed of three vertical slide gates.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of Contributing Properties</h2><br>
<p>The College Corner Commercial Historic Business District, also known as the Highland Park Historic Business District at Euclid and Second, is located in the north-central section of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It is located in the Highland Park neighborhood that also includes the Highland Park Historic Business District at Euclid and Sixth Avenues. The College Corner historic district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name for the district reflect its proximity to Highland Park College, which later became Des Moines University after a merger with Des Moines College. The college was founded in 1889 just after the Highland Park Land Company opened up this section of Des Moines for residential development. The College Corner commercial district was associated with the college&#39;s professors and students who in general lived nearby and patronized the establishments at the intersection of Second and Euclid Avenues. The establishments included a drug store, restaurants, cafes, a bookstore and a tea room. Until 1919 the post office went back and forth between this commercial district and the one at Sixth Avenue. An Odd Fellows hall was moved here in 1907. A bank opened in the district in the early 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The college was closed in 1929 and the business district continued to serve the residents of the neighborhood. The extension of the Second Avenue street car line in the early 20th century helped develop and sustain the neighborhood. In 1954 the college campus was sold to a developer who built Park Fair Shopping Center on the site. It was Iowa&#39;s first enclosed shopping center. To an extent it drew customers away from the older business district.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The College Corner Commercial Historic Business District is composed of seven buildings and an empty lot. One the buildings, the Odd Fellows Hall, is three stories in height and stands at the corner of Second and Euclid. At the time it was built it was the tallest building in Des Moines outside of the central business district. There are four two-story commercial buildings and two one-story buildings. The buildings are constructed of brick with the exception of the building at 208 Euclid, which is the oldest and the last two-story frame commercial building in the district. The structures in the historic district were built from the early 1890s through 1952.</p><br>
<p>The three buildings constructed in the 1890s are two-story brick buildings that feature bold cornice lines, segmental arched window hoods and narrow window openings. The storefronts on these buildings have a recessed entrance in the center, a square-cut transom above the door and large display windows on the sides. Two buildings were constructed in the first decade of the 20th century. Their features are simpler than the older buildings. Their main features are a parapet wall of corbelled brick, wider window openings and round arched window hoods. A very simple one-story building was built in the 1920s. It employed metal window frames and has a wider storefront. The last building was a single-story bank building completed in 1952 and is an example of utilitarian construction methods, which were adapted to deal with post-World War II building material shortages. It is also one of the first drive-in businesses in Des Moines.</p><br>
<p>Sunset Point is a historic vacation estate on Catfish Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Chicago gambler Mont Tennes bought land for the estate in 1921, and after several years of planning architects Rudolph Nedved and Elizabeth Kimball designed it in 1927. The French Normandy Style estate was built in 1928; a fire burned its main house shortly before completion, causing Tennes to order it to be rebuilt within the summer using fireproof construction. The Tennes family owned Sunset Point until 1951, when they gave the property to the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters operated a camp and retreat at the site before selling the property in 1974. The estate was privately bought and converted back to a vacation home in 1987 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 4, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Jordan House is an historic building located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was built by abolitionist James C. Jordan and was a station on the Underground Railroad in Iowa. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.</p><br>
<h2>James C. Jordan</h2><br>
<p>Jordan was a cattle farmer from Virginia, although the area is now in West Virginia, who settled in central Iowa in 1846. As a businessman he organized the State Bank of Des Moines and was involved in bringing the railroad to Des Moines. He platted Valley Junction and raised $70,000 to create a railhead there, which was also near his cattle operation. Today the area is the city of West Des Moines. As a civic leader he served on the Polk County Board of Supervisors, and was elected to both the Iowa Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives. While in the state legislature he led the effort to move the state capital from Iowa City to Des Moines. Jordan was married twice. He and his first wife Melinda had six children. After her death, he married Cynthia Adams and the family grew to eleven children.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Jordan&#39;s first dwelling in Polk County was a lean-to tent that he replaced with a log cabin in 1848. Two years later construction started on the present house. They moved into the basement when it was completed. It was divided into a kitchen and a bed/sitting room. In 1851 the first phase of the upper floors was completed. The white frame house is two stories tall. The first phase of the house featured an elegant entrance, two large rooms on the first floor and a walnut staircase that led to two large bedrooms on the second floor. The kitchen remained in the basement.</p><br>
<p>Before the American Civil War the house was a station on the Underground Railroad. Jordan, who was a staunch abolitionist, was considered the chief conductor in Polk County. John Brown stayed in the house at least two times, and one of those times he was leading 12 slaves to freedom. The house was also a place where travelers stopped on their journeys to the American West. It was also a gathering place for local businessmen and politicians.</p><br>
<p>The house was expanded in 1870. The addition provided space for another parlor, a dining room, library, and kitchen. Porches were added to the east and south sides of the house. A second entrance was also added with another black walnut staircase to the six additional bedrooms on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The Jordan family continued to live in the house until 1947 when it was sold to the Church of the Nazarene who used the house as a part of their summer campground. The West Des Moines Historical Society bought the house in 1978. They renovated it as a period house and use it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Southwest Fifth St. Bridge is a historic structure located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Built in 1898 after a controversy surrounding the bidding process, it is one of the last Pratt through truss bridges left in an urban setting in Iowa. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as a part of the Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was built amidst controversy in the late 19th century. The first controversy that the bridge faced was its placement. The bridge was first suggested in 1896. The aldermen on the west side of town wanted a bridge over the Raccoon River at Fifth Street. The aldermen on the east side thought that a bridge was needed over the Des Moines River at East Sixth Street to better serve that part of town. After some delay, the Fifth Street bridge was provided for with a Sixth Street bridge to be built the following year.</p><br>
<p>The second controversy, which ended up before the Iowa Supreme Court, had to do with the contract to build the bridge. J. H. Killmar won the contract with a low bid of $19,100. The other bidders charged that the specifications for the bridge were too general and Killmar&#39;s plans were flawed. Killmar had underbid the bridge combine by $5,000. The combine, or pool, had been established by the bridge building industry to counteract the ruthless competition that occurred during the bidding process as the result of the economic depression from 1873 to 1879. Killmar had been given more detailed plans for the bridge, but the city council said the other companies would have been given those plans had they asked for them. The lower court agreed with the combine, but on October 20, 1897 the Iowa Supreme Court sided with Killmar saying the specifications the other companies were given were adequate and that the work was not let for too large a sum.</p><br>
<p>Killmar had planned to start construction in the fall of 1897, however, those plans had to be delayed because the steel for the piers and the superstructure had not arrived. The Des Moines Leader reported that the delay was due to the King Bridge Company who was responsible for supplying the steel and was one of the companies that was outbid for the contract to construct the bridge. King Bridge delayed work on the bridge until after the 60 days the plaintiffs had to demand a rehearing. Work was delayed until the spring of 1898 and the structure was completed on June 17, 1898. The bridge was used for vehicle traffic until 1993 when it was closed and was used after that as part of a recreational trail.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the bridge was up for demolition. Several neighborhood and city associations attempted to stop the demolition with no success by December 2013, but then they raised $2.3 million to stabilize and rebuild it, and the city of Des Moines agreed to pay the $750,000 it had planned to use for demolition toward the project, plus another $125,000 later on, as well as $500,000 from a state grant. The bridge was restored and reopened on Friday, November 11, 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Southwest Fifth Street Bridge is one of a few pinned Pratt through truss bridges with three or more spans left in the state of Iowa. It is also one of only three left in an urban setting in the state. The structure is composed of three six-panel, pin-connected steel Pratt through trusses. Each span is 135 ft for a total span length of 401 ft. The roadway is 30 ft wide. The steel structure rests on top of stone abutments and steel cylinder piers filled with concrete. The bridge was designed by L. Higgins, the Des Moines City Engineer, based on a bridge design fabricated by The King Bridge Company.</p><br>
<p>The John Wright Mansion is a historic farmhouse located east of Bellevue in northwestern Huron County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1881, it represents an unusual combination of location and architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>A native of England, John Wright settled in the United States in 1833, moving quickly to Huron County. Here, he quickly began to increase his wealth and buy real estate; when he finished buying land, he was in possession of approximately 2,500 acre. Besides buying land, he was prominent for his military service as a four-year veteran of the United States Army during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>When Wright decided to build the present house, he chose to employ the Second Empire style of architecture. This combination was quite unusual: Second Empire houses are found far more often in urban settings, and massive residences of the style are very rare on farmsteads in the region. this three-story house is topped with a mansard roof and prominent dormers; the front is symmetrical and ornamented with a bracketed porch in the Italianate style. Toward the rear, a wing as tall as the rest of the house extends southward; the interior is composed of a substantial ballroom and twenty-three other rooms.</p><br>
<p>In early 1974, the Wright Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture. Today, the mansion is part of Historic Lime Village, a volunteer-based organization that operates it as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred Webb Investment Properties in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon consists of four Queen Anne cottages listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1891, they were added to the register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Nearly identical in their floor plans, the single-family dwellings have brick foundations and full basements. External features include multiple gables, imbricated shingles, spindlework, and other decorative features associated with small, late 19th-century working-class houses built in the Queen Anne style. Each interior includes a foyer, living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom, and features such as pocket doors. The dwellings, built on narrow lots, share a small back yard.</p><br>
<p>Webb, who owned Webb Safe and Lock Company, developed several residential properties in southeast Portland. He and his wife, Martha, who owned the four Queen Anne cottages from 1891 to 1928, lived elsewhere in the neighborhood and rented out the cottages. Subsequent owners through at least 1989 continued to maintain the dwellings as rental properties.</p><br>
<p>The Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways are a pair of historic brick streets in Fremont, Ohio, United States. Designed as small parkways, they were constructed in honor of Sandusky County&#39;s eighty-five soldiers who were killed in action during World War I. Unlike many similar streets in other cities, they were not built as centerpieces for grand city plans; instead, they were constructed to provide access to a subdivision that had recently been started.</p><br>
<p>Laid out in the form of a cross, the parkways run for four blocks with vegetation between the lanes for the two directions; they were completed in 1920 after a year of construction. Historic research has identified both streets as fine examples of the implementation of City Beautiful ideas in an extant city. Today, the parkways continue to provide access to a residential neighborhood; most of the houses that line the parkways are newer than the streets themselves, having been built primarily between 1930 and 1959.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the two parkways were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of their importance in community planning and in landscape architecture.</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Free Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was designed and built in 1901, with funds partly provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie provided $50,000 toward the construction of the Connellsville library. The grant was commissioned by Carnegie on April 22, 1899; it was the 13th library that he commissioned in America. It is a two-story Ohio buff stone structure with basement in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior features a terra cotta cornice and red Spanish tile roof. It measures 92.2 ft by 74.6 ft.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Dr. J.C. McClenathan House and Office, also known as the Medical Center Building, is a historic home and doctor&#39;s office located at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1895, and is a -story building with Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne style design details. The stone-clad building features a two-story inset porch, a sloped stone parapet, and three-story tower with decorative frieze.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas H. Thompson House, also known as Wayside Manor, is an historic, American home that is located in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1906, this historic structure is a -story brick dwelling with Spanish Colonial Revival-style design details. It has a hipped roof clad with red Spanish tile, dormers on three sides of the roof, a full width front porch, and carved stone detailing. Also located on the property is a two-story, hipped roof carriage house built in 1917–1918.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Goddard Bungalow Court Historic District is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The houses on Goddard Court were built in 1916. It is one of three "California bungalow court” developments in Des Moines. The other two are Lincoln Court, also built in 1916 and the Veneman&#39;s Bungalow Court Historic District, built from 1924 to 1926. Goddard Court was built just after the first such concept developed. When the court was built it consisted of eleven bungalows and one cottage that was already in existence. The cottage does not contribute to the historic nature of the district. They were built around a cul-de-sac that exited east onto 14th Street. No garages or driveways were part of the original concept, and today only four garages have been built in the years since. One of the bungalows was torn down in 1993 and the empty lot remains.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>There is a conscious arrangement to the bungalows in the district. The houses feature a double gable on the main façade of the structure. Each house has a mirror image twin that is positioned opposite or diagonal from it. Lot sizes and shape vary depending on where it is located on the cul-de-sac. The lot widths are between 40 and 45 feet, and lengths are between 70 and 147 feet. The bungalows feature frame structures built on brick foundations. The interiors contain five rooms, which includes two bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The B-71 radar station also known as Klamath River Radar Station, Crescent City Radar Station, and Trinidad Radar Station, was an Army Air Force early warning station in World War II. It is a rare survivor of a World War II early-warning radar station. It was disguised to look like a farmhouse. To guard against potential invasions, the USA Army built "farm" buildings; the cinderblock structures, complete with shingled roofs, and fake windows and dormers, housed an early-warning radar station. From the air, the sea, and even the road, these buildings appeared to be part of a working farm. In fact, they housed a diesel generator, electronic equipment, and two 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns. This is one of 65 that were built all along the western coast of America during World War II. It is located on Coastal Dr. just south of the mouth of Klamath River.</p><br>
<p>Andrew Rabb House is a historic home located at German Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1773, and is a -story, 5-bay, stone dwelling in a vernacular Georgian style. It measures 44 feet by 24 feet. Andrew Rabb  was a locally prominent and wealthy distiller who was significant in the Whiskey Rebellion in Fayette County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Josiah Frost House is an historic American home that is located in Menallen Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built roughly between 1816 and 1819, this historic structure is a two-story, rectangular, sandstone dwelling that measures forty-eight feet by twenty-four feet. It was designed in a vernacular, Federal style, and was built as part of the Searight Tavern complex at Searight&#39;s Corners, an important stop for nineteenth-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The house pictured opposite the site of the demolished Frost house, also known as the Searight House. The Frost house was on the north side of Route 40.</p><br>
<p>Abel Colley Tavern is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located at Menallen Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1835, and is a -story, 5-bay, brick dwelling with a -story rear kitchen ell. It sits on a sandstone foundation and is in the Greek Revival style. It was built as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Peter Colley Tavern and Barn is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located at Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1796, and is a -story, 3-bay, stone building with a -story sandstone rear addition. Also on the property is a contributing bank barn, built in 1848. It served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Wallace-Baily Tavern is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located at Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1840, and is a -story, 3-bay, stone building. It has a frame kitchen ell an features a double stacked portico with Greek Revival design influences. The ruins of a wash house/summer kitchen are also on site. The tavern served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Hopwood-Miller Tavern is an historic American home that also served as an inn and tavern. It is located in the village of Hopwood, South Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1816, this historic structure is a -story, five-bay, stone building with a center hall floor plan. It was designed in a vernacular Federal style, and has a -story, rear kitchen ell. Also located on the property is a stone spring house.</p><br>
<p>This tavern served as a stop for nineteenth-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Morris-Hair Tavern, also known as Heinbaugh&#39;s Hand-Picked Produce & Special Gifts, is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located at South Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1818, and is a -story, 5-bay, sandstone building with a center hall floor plan in an Early Republic style. It has a -story, kitchen ell. It served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Monroe Tavern, also known as McMasters Tavern, is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located at South Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1825, and is a -story, 5-bay, sandstone building with a center hall floor plan in an Early Republic style. It has a -story, kitchen ell. It served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Downer Tavern, also known as the Jonathan Downer House, is a historic home that also served as an inn and tavern located in Chalk Hill, Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1826, and is a -story, 5-bay, brick building with a center hall floor plan with Federal style detailing. It has a two-story, kitchen ell. Also on the property is a -story stone spring house  and a late-19th century frame wash house. It served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Mahnke House is an historical residential building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The house was built by prolific Des Moines builder Fred W. Weitz in 1909 in the Prairie School style. The exterior is covered in Flemish bond brick veneer. It features a hip roof, a single-story west side solarium, a rear porch and a flat-roofed centered front portico with a raised entrance and square paned window lights. George and Emma Mahnke owned the house between 1909 and 1952 when they transferred the property to the Des Moines Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. The house then became the residence of the organization&#39;s superintendents. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and it was included as a contributing property in the Ingersoll Place Plat Historic District in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Park Historic Business District at Euclid and Sixth Avenues is located in the north-central section of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It is located on the border of the Oak Park and Highland Park neighborhoods. The commercial historic district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998. The Highland Park neighborhood also includes the College Corner Commercial Historic Business District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Des Moines was growing in a northward direction in the late 19th century with the establishment of the city of North Des Moines. Developers extended that growth in the late 1880s by developing Oak Park and Highland Park across the Des Moines River. They built a bridge at Sixth Avenue, a zoo on the river lowlands and Highland Park College, a non-denominational institution. They also lobbied to have a streetcar built to their development. The river bridge made Sixth Avenue a major farm-to-city road when there were few bridges over the Des Moines River north of the city. The business district itself has the appearance of the downtown of a modest-sized Iowa town. It had banks, fraternal halls, a fire station, post office, local newspapers, department stores, a variety of retail stores as well as other businesses. Most of the business lived a rather short life, but a few lasted for a couple of generations. The first bank in Des Moines outside of downtown was located here. A streetcar line served the district and it was on a major farm-to-city road.</p><br>
<p>The historic district lies along Sixth Avenue, which is the north–south border of the Highland Park and Oak Park neighborhoods. Both neighborhoods are located on a plateau three miles north of downtown Des Moines. It is considered one of the highest spots in the city. “Highland Park” was chosen for the name of the historic district because it became the more dominant of the two neighborhoods starting in the early 20th century. From its very beginning the business district was organized under the title of Highland Park Business Men&#39;s Club. Most of the buildings in the historic district cluster at the intersection with Euclid Avenue. Only six of the properties are not oriented in some way on Sixth Avenue, which is the primary street in the district. All the buildings are brick commercial structures that were built from the early 1890s to just after World War II. The buildings built from the 1920s on were, for the most part, built along Euclid Avenue. Euclid was transformed from a residential street into a state highway at this time.</p><br>
<p>Highland Park is the largest neighborhood-centered commercial district in the Des Moines area. The district remains largely intact with only a few lots that are vacant. Two of the lots were the location of large frame commercial buildings, which had to be replaced. One lot is vacant while the other is occupied by an infill building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The buildings in the historic district fall into three classifications. The older buildings, which were built between the early 1890s and 1907, are first generation brick buildings in the High Victorian style. They tend toward exaggerated ornamentation on the façade. The windows are narrower and feature window surrounds, narrow storefronts and either cast iron or stone storefront supports. The last buildings in this group replaced older structures that were destroyed in a fire in 1906. It was the only major fire in the district. Corbelled brickwork replaced the tin work, stone and terra cotta of the older buildings.</p><br>
<p>The second group of buildings was built between 1915 and the mid-1920s. The automobile was growing in importance and these buildings reflect that development. The design flow of the buildings is more horizontal and the window openings are broader and simpler. The decorative elements were constructed with stone or concrete inserts and string courses.</p><br>
<p>The last group was built in the late 1920s to the years right after World War II. The architecture is a continence of the second group and was influenced by the Modern architectural style. Ornamental materials utilized in the construction include glazed tile, Carrara glass, aluminum, and steel. The buildings in this latter group are all one-story, but one.</p><br>
<p>The Cotton House is a historic house located at 2640 South Webster Avenue within the Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance on April 28, 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cotton House was built right around 1840, and was originally located at the corner of Beaupre and Webster Avenue. It was built by Judge Joseph Penn Arndt for John Cotton, whose family stayed in the house until 1893 when it was sold to J. W. Woodruff. Woodruff lived there until 1896, when he sold it to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, who used it as an orphanage until 1933. In 1938, the Brown County Historical Society began moving the house to its current location. The house has served as a museum since 1941.</p><br>
<p>Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery is a cemetery for soldiers of the Confederate States located on the eastern side of Fayetteville in Washington County, Arkansas. Added to the National Register of Historic Places  in 1993, the cemetery encompasses 3.5 acre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Many American Civil War battles were fought in northwest Arkansas, including the Battle of Cane Hill, Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Prairie Grove, and many small skirmishes such as the action at Fayetteville. Initially scattered throughout Benton County and Washington County, efforts in 1878 by the Southern Memorial Association of Washington County succeeded in collecting the remains of fallen Confederate soldiers and burying them in the new Confederate cemetery. The Association paid for the remains to be moved and re-interred.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The hundreds of graves are arranged into tree-shaded rows surrounded by an 1885 wall of native stone. The cemetery also offers a view from the hill down onto Fayetteville. A monument was constructed around 1898 at the center of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Wherry Block, also known as Wherrys Hall, Scruby Brothers Grocery, and Scrubys Grocery Store, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1887 in what was then the suburb of North Des Moines by S.C. Wherry, a local contractor-builder. He built it as an investment and an income-producing property. It was the first of the commercial buildings built at this intersection, which was one of two commercial areas in North Des Moines. The two-story brick structure reflects the styling of the Late Victorian era with cast stone trim work, window hood molds on the second floor, and a pressed metal cornice. The commercial space on the main level has two storefronts, and four apartment units on the second floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 2005 the building was extensively renovated. A new building was constructed to the north of the old building. Its architectural style complements the older structure.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Church and Convent is a Roman Catholic church complex in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with six structures built from 1862 to 1932 in various architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Currently, it is also a church school. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 2001 for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross parish has roots going back to 1834, when Father Van den Broek established a chapel in the Bay Settlement area. Around 1852 Father Edward Daems bought land at the site of the current complex and the parish built a pine church building, which no longer exists. In 1862 the rectory was built next to the pine church. In 1868 a school was added, which no longer exists. Surviving buildings include:</p><br>
<p>The Holy Cross Church Rectory was built in 1862, a two-story cube with Italianate details, including a fine wooden bracketed cornice and a hipped roof. Walls are local limestone with quoins of cut stone. In 1900 a block of matching style and materials was added, probably as a kitchen. Another one-story addition was added around 1950.</p><br>
<p>The Old White Laundry is a simple one-story frame building built around 1870, on a stone foundation. The north-facing gable has an oculus window. The building is now used for storage and as a root cellar.</p><br>
<p>The bathhouse/outhouse, built around 1880 just south of the laundry, is a one-story cube with Italianate details matching the rectory. It is wooden, but the wood is scribed to look like limestone to match the rectory. Inside are two rooms. The front room was a washroom, and the back a privy.</p><br>
<p>The Rectory Garage was built in 1930, brick and stone in Craftsman style.</p><br>
<p>The current Holy Cross Church was built in 1931 to replace the original 1852 pine church. It was designed by William E. Reynolds of Green Bay in Romanesque Revival style, with an exterior of brown brick. The main entrance is flanked by two square towers, with the left tower larger and holding the original 1852 bell. Inside, the nave has a barrel-vaulted ceiling supported by columns.</p><br>
<p>The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross Convent was located to the North of the rectory, and consisted of several sections. A frame convent was built in 1880. In 1916, a two-story red brick building was added to the south of the 1880 section, designed by Foeller, Schober and Berners of Green Bay with Neo-Gothic details. It had a corner turret, a center bay, and a gable roof topped with a stone cross. In 1932 a three-story section was added to the north, designed by William E. Reynolds with Colonial Revival details. After a fire in 1959, the original 1880 convent was replaced with a four-story brick section, joining the other two sections into a U-shaped floorplan. In 2006, The Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross moved into a new convent closer to the bay, to the west. The entire former convent was razed in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Kellogg Public Library and Neville Public Museum is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1981, for its significance in architecture and social history. It was built in 1901 in the Classical Revival architectural style. In 1983, the County took full control of the museum and moved it across the river to its current location.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is an American Baptist Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The church was designed by E. Townsend Mix in the Gothic architecture style and was built in 1872. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1983, for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>Baptists first met in Waukesha in 1836 in Nathaniel Walton&#39;s cabin. In 1844 they built their first dedicated church building on the site of this later church. In 1871 it was moved to make space for this building.</p><br>
<p>Mix designed a rectangular main block with walls of rock-faced stone, pointed-arch windows, and buttresses lining the walls. On the front corner stands a tall tower and steeple set diagonally. The main entrance is through that corner tower. A rose window decorates the end with the tower.</p><br>
<p>Bishopstead was the residence of Episcopalian bishop Jackson Kemper. The house is located in Delafield, Wisconsin, and was built in 1846. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1984, for its religious significance.</p><br>
<p>David Jackson Kemper was born in New York in 1789 and trained for the Episcopal ministry in Philadelphia. After ordination in 1811, he served as a missionary in then sparsely populated western Pennsylvania and Ohio for 20 years. In 1834 he was assigned to assess conditions at a mission school further west, in Green Bay. A year later, he was made the first "missionary bishop," and charged with organizing the church in Missouri and Indiana. In 1838, his mandate was expanded to include Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Kemper traveled constantly through these half-settled areas. His tasks included organizing Episcopal congregations and finding clergymen to serve them.</p><br>
<p>In 1842 Kemper established Nashotah House near Delafield, which became the Episcopal Church&#39;s western seminary. He considered building a "rather grand" home for himself on Lake Nemahbin, but decided that was too financially risky, so instead in 1846 he bought a parcel two miles from Nashotah and began to expand an already-existing building into what would become his home, Bishopstead. His wife had died before he came west, but now he brought from the east to Wisconsin Territory his two sons, his daughter, and two unmarried sisters to live with him.</p><br>
<p>That pre-existing building was probably built around 1842. Kemper added to it by the winter of 1846 and continued adding over the years. Today the west wing is a two-story stone building with a chimney at each end of the roof - suggesting Federal style. Inside, the walls are mainly plaster and the flooring is pine. The east wing is a two-story frame structure with Greek Revival stylings, and its parlor has French doors and a fireplace with a Gothic mantle. Kemper added other wings in his day.</p><br>
<p>Kemper&#39;s house was his home base as he organized the early Episcopal church in what would become states ranging from Indiana to Minnesota to Kansas. In 1859 he resigned from his post as missionary bishop, but he continued to live in this house, remained Bishop of Wisconsin, and stayed active in church affairs at the national level until he died in 1870.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a Gothic Revival-style church started in 1855 on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin by the oldest congregation in the city. In 1976 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In July 1838, when Wisconsin was still a territory and Madison was not yet incorporated as a village, while workers were building the first territorial capitol, Episcopal Bishop Jackson Kemper visited the new community and helped initiate worship services in a "roughly built storefront." In 1846 that congregation formally organized as Grace Church.</p><br>
<p>In 1855 the new congregation began the building in the photo on the west side of the capitol square. They had hired architect James Douglas of Milwaukee, and he designed a Gothic Revival-style structure much as you see it today. Its walls were clad in blocks of cream-colored sandstone, with the masonry work supervised by James Livesay. The openings had pointed-arches - one of the hallmarks of Gothic Revival. The main entrance was through a large square corner tower with corner buttresses, rising three stages to an octagonal wooden spire, which is topped with a cross. The main building and tower were completed in 1858 and in February of that year, worship began in the building.</p><br>
<p>But construction continued, little by little. In 1868 the basement was finished. The spire was added on the tower in 1870. The congregation found the building hard to heat due to the original high ceiling, so in 1885 they inserted a lower ceiling with hammerbeam trusses decorated with quatrefoils and a pointed arch, designed by David R. Jones and Burling & Whitehouse of Chicago. Stained glass windows were added one by one:</p><br>
<p>1887 - the Resurrection Window, made in England, was the first one.</p><br>
<p>1899 - the Baptistry Window, made by Tiffany&#39;s of New York.</p><br>
<p>1898-99 - the "West window" was given by the Sunday school children, with new glass added in 1958.</p><br>
<p>1925 - other windows were installed, designed by Conrad Schmitt Studios of Milwaukee and made in Munich, Germany.</p><br>
<p>A second bay window was added in the 1920s and a chapel was added along Carroll Street.</p><br>
<p>In 1976 the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in art, architecture and religion. The nomination summarized: The architectural dignity which characterizes this church is due partly to Douglas&#39; skillful arrangement of its forms, and to the beauty of the memorial windows, where color design and symbolism form an integral part of the total composition. Since 1855 Grace Church has been a center of life in Madison, both for worship and recreation. Its architectural significance and the history of the parish form a significant part of the history of Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic parish of the Episcopal Church in Watertown, Wisconsin. Its buildings display different phases of Gothic Revival architecture, and in 1979 the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls, the first Episcopal church parish in Watertown, was organized in 1847 under the guidance of Rev. Melancthon Hoyt, a missionary circuit preacher from Fox Lake who had been visiting Watertown for two years. Services were initially held in Watertowns Methodist church, but within a year the parish built its own church on Third Street between Market and Jefferson. In the following years the parish grew and became self-sufficient. By 1859 it included seventy communicants.</p><br>
<p>In 1859 the parish decided to build again. They constructed a new church building on 2nd St. - the main church hall that stands today. It was designed by James Douglas of Milwaukee in a style described in 1859 as "modern Gothic style." We now consider the nave rather quaint Gothic Revival, marked by the steep roofs, lancet windows, and simple decoration. It is sixty feet long plus an 18-foot recess chancel, and 38 feet wide including buttresses. The walls are of Watertown cream brick from D.S. Chadwick&#39;s brickyard. Inside, the walls and ceiling are plastered, with wood wainscoting on the walls. The masons were John and James Ford, and the builders were Samuel Vaux and William Honey.</p><br>
<p>In 1885 a rectory was added, with cream brick walls in two colors, tall windows and doors, and steeply pitched cross-gabled roofs. Its style is Gothic Revival too, but in a flavor quite different from the graceful nave.</p><br>
<p>In 1886 a chapel was added connecting to the church. It is brick, with lancet windows and buttresses like the church, but with less emphasis on the vertical. The roof is less steep and a round window is in the wall above the entrance.</p><br>
<p>In 1890 over a side entrance they built a large square tower with a tall octagonal spire topped with a cross. In contrast to the simple, graceful 1859 nave, the new multi-colored tower was in High Victorian Gothic style, more ornate, heavy and solid.</p><br>
<p>From 1890 to 1909 the original stained glass windows in the church were replaced with windows made by the Milwaukee Art Glass Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 a gable-roofed guild hall was added, of brick to match the other buildings, and perhaps a hint of Gothic style, but with round-arched, segmental-arched windows and rectangular windows.</p><br>
<p>Today St. Paul&#39;s is one of the oldest church buildings still in use in Watertown. The NRHP considers the church complex architecturally significant, illustrating how Gothic architecture changed over time.</p><br>
<p>The Christian Turck House is a log farmhouse from the late 1830s which currently serves as a museum called the Schottler House at Old World Wisconsin in Eagle, Wisconsin, United States. It was originally built by a German immigrant near Germantown, Wisconsin. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1830s Christian Turck walked into a swamp near his home a mile south of Kirchhayn in Washington County and began to cut cedar logs to build a house. He squared them and laid them horizontally on top of each other, notching the corners to hold them together. A summer beam runs down the center of the house at each level, with other beams connected to it by mortise and tenon joints. Perrin points out that in this eastern German Blockbau style, the logs aren&#39;t fitted as tightly as in most Norwegian log construction, since the logs would shrink anyway, and chinking would be needed. This house was chinked with clay, rye straw, and lime plaster. The resulting log cabin was large - two stories plus attic. Across the front (sunny south) Christian built a full-width porch sheltered by a cantilevered shed roof. On the back the roof extends down to a one-story level, adding a couple rooms and giving the building a saltbox profile. Near his house, Christian laid up a brick structure which served as a smoke house, bake oven and summer kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Perrin points out that the Turck house is important because few examples of this German Blockbau style (solid logs) remain in Wisconsin, in contrast to the more common German Fachwerk style, where the framing logs are filled with brick or some other material. Because of this, the Historic American Buildings Survey carefully documented the house in 1936. At that time John Schottler was living in the house and the surveyor described its condition as excellent in one place and fair in another. That 1933 survey produced these documents:</p><br>
<p>By 1971 the NRHP nomination described the condition of the house as "ruinous." Vandalism could not be prevented in its location near Kirchhayn, and it was facing demolition. Recognizing its importance as a representative of its style, the State Historical Society bought it. Because it couldn&#39;t be moved as a whole, it was carefully disassembled, with each piece numbered, and placed in storage. A few years later, the house was moved to Old World Wisconsin and reconstructed as the Schottler House - an example German farmhouse.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is located in Hartland, Wisconsin. The church was built in the Gothic Revival architecture style in 1923. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1986, for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded by 1842, meeting in Henry Cheney&#39;s barn. It built a church in 1847. The present church was built in 1923.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed to be one of two "fine local examples of the Gothic Revival style" in Hartland, with the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, also NRHP-listed as part of the same study. The Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Kirke was deemed to be a more unusual example of the style.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church in Beloit, Wisconsin was built in 1859 from a design by Lucas Bradley, blending elements from Greek Revival and Romanesque Revival styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance on January 23, 1975. On August 24, 1998, the historic building was damaged by fire, after which it was razed and replaced with a new building, which is pictured.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The core of the current church was built in 1867 and has been expanded and remodeled since. The church is also used as a church school. On January 30, 1992, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>When First Evangelical Congregational Church of Prairieville (as Waukesha was then called) was organized in 1838, it was the first Christian congregation organized in Waukesha County. The members met in homes and the log school house until 1840, when they built a small frame church on the southeast corner of Maple and Wisconsin Avenues. This building was the first Congregational Church building in Wisconsin Territory.</p><br>
<p>In the 1840s Waukesha became a center for antislavery sentiment, and some members of First Congregational were leaders, both in Waukesha and the Territory. In 1842 when Caroline Quarlls, who had escaped from slavery in St. Louis, found her way along the Underground Railroad to Waukesha, parishioner Lyman Goodnow drove her in a wagon under cover of night on her way to Ontario. In 1845, the congregation passed resolutions against slavery that received country-wide notice. In 1848 Ichabod Codding, who had edited the abolitionist newspaper American Freeman became pastor. A member of the congregation took his place as editor of the paper.</p><br>
<p>In 1867 the growing congregation decided to build a new, larger church. They sold their old church and built the new one at 100 E. Broadway. This 1867 building forms the core of the current building, but it was quite different from now. It was a frame building adapted from plan #2 in The Book of Plans of the Congregational Union. The floorplan was a simple rectangle and the style was Greek Revival, covered in clapboard. The 80-foot steeple rose above the front entrance, with the lantern and spire looking as they do today.</p><br>
<p>By 1899 they needed more space and the congregation decided to expand the 1867 building. They hired the Milwaukee architectural firm of Crane and Barkhausen and added an ell to each side to convert the floorplan from rectangular to cruciform. The additions increased space for seating in the nave, the Sunday school, a kitchen, and the pastor&#39;s study. They also restyled the building to the more current Gothic Revival style, replacing many flat-topped windows with pointed tops.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 the congregation decided the expand again. They covered much of the old clapboard exterior with brick, and added an 85 by 20 foot 1-story addition across the eastern end of the church. The addition is in a Tudor Revival style, with stucco and half-timbering. Inside, the addition made more space for Sunday school rooms and more space in the basement for dining and kitchen. In 1928, they added on again, adding a half-story above parts of the 1922 addition to add space for Sunday school rooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1961 the church added a modern-styled education wing.</p><br>
<p>Fayette Springs Hotel, also known as Stone House Restaurant, is a historic inn and tavern located at Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1822, and is a -story, 5-bay, brick building with a center hall floor plan with Federal-style detailing. It has a -story, kitchen ell. It was built by Congressman Andrew Stewart . It served as a stop for 19th-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson-Hatfield Tavern is an historic, American tavern house that is located in Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1817, this historic structure is a -story, five-bay, stone building with a center hall plan. Also located on the property is a stone spring house. This tavern served as a stop for nineteenth-century travelers on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Rush House, also known as the Sebastian Rush Hotel and Tavern, was an historic, American inn and tavern that was located in Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978,</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1837, this historic structure was a -story, five-bay, brick and stone building with a center hall floor plan that had a rear ell. The South and East sides of the building built using brick, and the North and West sides were built with fieldstone.</p><br>
<p>Built by Congressman Andrew Stewart (1791-1872), it served as a stop for nineteenth-century travelers on the National Road. It operated as a hotel until 1962. The house was demolished in January 2018.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Wharton Furnace is an historic iron furnace located at Wharton Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built in 1837, and is a stone structure measuring 33 ft wide, 31 ft deep, and 31 ft high. It was built as a blast furnace, placed in blast in 1839 and went out of blast by 1850. It was built by Congressman Andrew Stewart .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Alliance Furnace, also known as Jacob&#39;s Creek Furnace and the Alliance Iron Works, is an historic iron furnace, which is located in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1789, the Alliance Furnace is a stone structure measuring twenty-five feet square by fifteen feet high.</p><br>
<p>The Alliance Furnace was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Mount Vernon Furnace, also known as Jacob&#39;s Creek Furnace and Alliance Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace located at Bullskin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1795 and rebuilt in 1801. It is a stone structure measuring 24 feet square and 30 feet high, with two arches. It was built as a blast furnace and went out of blast in 1825.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
