<p>Nissly Swiss Chocolate Company is a historic factory complex located at Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes two contributing buildings. They are the three-story, three-bay-by-six-bay factory building and the one-story four-bay-by-three-bay, L-shaped, boiler room building. The buildings were both built in 1920. It was used to produce milk chocolates until 1929.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Central Hotel and A. Bube&#39;s Brewery, are a historic hotel and brewery complex located at Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The brewery building was built in 1859, and consists of a 2 1/2-story, stone flat roofed building with a one-story, attached brick building. The stone portion features large, arched double entry doors. In 1880, Alois Bube built the Central Hotel. It is a three-story, flat roofed building with a wide overhanging cornice and elaborate decoration in the Late Victorian style. The original third-floor had a mansard roof, but it was destroyed by fire in 1893, and replaced with the present configuration. The two buildings are connected by a three-story ice house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1973.</p><br>
<p>On April 25, 2012, the complex was featured in an episode of Ghost Hunters on Syfy.</p><br>
<p>The John Casper Stoever Log House is an historic American home that is located in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1740, this historic structure is a -story, log dwelling that measures thirty-six feet, six inches by twenty-two feet. It has corner posts, to which the logs are attached with mortise and tenon joints. Featuring a gable roof with dormers, it was originally erected on a stone foundation. The log structure was covered with asbestos shingles over novelty siding. A one-story, rear addition was built during the 1880s and a glass entryway was added during the 1920s. Its builder, Rev. John Casper Stoever (1707–1779), was a prominent figure in the development of the Lutheran church.</p><br>
<p>The house is no longer located at 200 West Main Street, and appears to have been moved about thirty feet south and turned ninety degrees.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Shadow of a house 200 West Main New Holland.JPGThe house&#39;s "shadow" on the building at 204 W. Main</p><br>
<p>200 W Main New Holland PA logs.JPGLog structure beneath the siding</p><br>
<p>200 W Main New Holland foundation.JPGFoundation stones lying beside the moved building</p><br>
<p>White Chimneys is an historic, American home that is located in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A large white mansion directly adjacent to USA Route 30, the premises were listed on The National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally built and operated between 1710 and 1720 as the Francis Jones Tavern, this historic house was the residence of the Slaymaker family between 1779 and 1999. It is a -story, five-bay building that was created using stuccoed limestone. It is topped by a gable roof with dormers and was built in four phases: the 1710-20 log cabin, a two-room addition in 1790, a large Federal style addition in 1807 and the west wing addition in 1923, which includes a ballroom. The mansion and grounds were considered a significant landmark by residents of the Pequea Valley during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. The house&#39;s status as a prominent marker on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike made it suitable as a stop on the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States in 1825.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, parts of the house were opened as a museum and roadside attraction.</p><br>
<p>White Chimneys has a long history as the setting of Ghost stories, with residents reporting unexplained smells, sounds and apparitions.</p><br>
<h2>Current Use</h2><br>
<p>The house continues to be maintained as a private residence. The grounds and formal gardens are open to the public by appointment. Most recently, the property has gained popularity as a wedding ceremony and reception venue. The bank barn and pastures are utilized for horses.</p><br>
<p>Mascot Roller Mills, also known as Ressler&#39;s Mill, is an historic, American grist mill complex that is located in Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This complex consists of the mill, a miller&#39;s house, a summer kitchen, and a frame barn. The original section of the mill was built in 1737. The machinery was installed in 1906. It is a three-story, L-shaped, stone building with a gable roof and cupola. The house was built in 1855, and is a two-story, gable-roofed, brick banked building. The summer kitchen that is adjacent to the house is a one-story, brick structure. The small frame barn dates to the late-nineteenth century. It is the oldest continuously operating grist mill in Lancaster County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Furnace Hills Tenant House, also known as Kurtz House and Foxfire House, is a historic home located at West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is a 1 1/2 to -story, banked sandstone dwelling, built c. 1830–1850. It is considered to be in a vernacular Pennsylvania German perpendicular bankhouse style. It measures 19 feet wide and 26 feet deep and has a gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing stone stable, also built c. 1830–1850. The stable has a frame barn addition built in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Walter House is an American historic home which located in West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Roughly built between 1750 and 1768, this historic structure is a two-story, rectangular, banked, sandstone dwellingm, which was designed in a Germanic style. It has a gable roof and features precise cut stone masonry, with a polychromatic effect from differing shades of brown and red sandstone. Also located on the property is a contributing stone and frame bank barn, with portions that may pre-date 1815.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Johannes Harnish Farmstead is an historic American home and farm that is located in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This property includes a Pennsylvania German style farmhouse, a brick Pennsylvania style ancillary dwelling (c. 1860), a frame kitchen (mid-19th century), a stone springhouse (late eighteenth century), and a frame tobacco shed (c 1925). Also located on the property are the ruins of a stone bank barn from the nineteenth century and the remains of the family burial ground dating to the eighteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built in 1774, and is a two-and-one-half-story, rectangular, stone dwelling. It is four bays by two bays and has a slate covered gable roof with shed dormer. A one-story rear addition was built between 1958 and 1960.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Hans Herr House, also known as the Christian Herr House, is a historic home located in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1719, and is a -story, rectangular sandstone Germanic dwelling. It measures 37 feet, 9 inches, by 30 feet, 10 inches. It is the oldest dwelling in Lancaster County and the oldest Mennonite meetinghouse in America.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Hans Herr house was built by the Herr family in 1719 by Christian Herr. The house served as a meetinghouse for Mennonites. The Mennonites who worshipped there formed the nucleus of what became the Willow Street Mennonite Congregation. The house continued to be use as a private residence until about 1900, after which time it was used as storage space.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Hans Herr House was purchased by Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in 1969. In the early 1970s the property underwent extensive renovations led by Ira Landis to restore it to resemble the original Herr residence.</p><br>
<h2>Lancaster Longhouse</h2><br>
<p>In 2010 the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society added the first major addition to the Hans Herr property since the 1700s by building a replica longhouse based on the remnants of one found during the 1969 renovation. The stated purpose for this exhibit was to honor the legacy of the indigenous peoples who lived in Lancaster County before the arrival of Anabaptist settlers. In 2011, this exhibit was further furnished with a collection of over 200 artifacts found in the area from before the arrival of Europeans.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The Hans Herr house is known for its unique style and architecture reflecting the German medieval period. Because it was not lived in during the 20th century, it never underwent any modernization, making it a well-preserved historic structure. The building contains numerous architectural characteristics that have their roots in medieval south-German architecture, such as a steeply pitched roof with two attic levels, small asymmetrical windows, a date stone carved into the door lintel, a central chimney, and a staircase where each step is a single pegged into a diagonal beam.</p><br>
<p>The museum complex also houses the Georgian-style 1835 Shaub House, the Victorian-style 1890s Huber House, several barns and outbuildings with animals, exhibit buildings, blacksmith shop, bake-oven, smoke house, and a collection of farm equipment. Exhibits focus on Mennonite history, colonial and Victorian-era farm life, and the Herr family. The museum opened in 1974 and is administered by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Christian and Emma Herr Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located at West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes six contributing buildings. They are a brick farmhouse, a stone end barn , a frame tobacco barn , a frame summer kitchen , a tenant house , and a frame shed . The farmhouse was built in 1867, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay by two bay, brick dwelling. It has a recessed three bay by two bay east wing, and a full-width front porch. The summer kitchen is attached to the wing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Weber–Weaver Farm is an historic, American home and farm complex that is located in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic property includes the Hans Weber House (1724), the Weber summer kitchen (c. 1800), the Weber barn (c. 1724), the John Weaver House and summer kitchen (c. 1765), the Weaver barn (c. 1904), the Weaver shed (c. 1904), and the Weaver garage (1930). The Hans Weber House is a stone dwelling that was modeled on the Hans Herr House in its Germanic style. It measures thirty-six feet by thirty-four feet and was enlarged to a full two-stories and renovated between 1790 and 1810. The John Weaver House was built as a two-story, Georgian-style dwelling, subsequently enlarged, and modified again during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Frey-Haverstick Site  is a prehistoric and historic archaeological site located in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The site was excavated in 1931, 1971, and 1975 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Artifacts on the site were discovered as early as 1873, and included a helmet of Swedish origin dated to the reign of King Gustavus II Adolphus . The site features a Susquehannock cemetery, a Middle Woodland habitation site, and a Shenks Ferry village. Various artifact date activities on the site between 3500 BC. and 1650 AD.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Poole Forge is an historic, American iron forge complex and national historic district that is located in Narvon, Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes five contributing buildings and two contributing structures. They are the Ironmasters Mansion, Paymasters Building, spring house, two tenant houses, and the ruins of a lime kiln and Pool Forge Covered Bridge. The oldest section of the Ironmaster&#39;s Mansion was built circa 1779. It is an L-shaped building that was made from brownstone and ironstone, using Federal-style details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Forge Mansion, also known as Windsor Place, is an historic, American home and national historic district located in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This property was built by William Branson and later owned by the well-known local Van Leer family, who owned several nearby iron businesses. Dr. Bernardhus Van Leer and his family were listed as owners of the mansion.</p><br>
<p>This district includes four contributing buildings and three contributing objects. The buildings are the Ironmasters Mansion, a stone smokehouse (c. 1765), a stone spring house (c. 1765), and a stone summer kitchen/servants quarters (c. 1765).</p><br>
<p>The three objects are pieces by noted artist and poet Blanche Nevin (1841–1925), who purchased Windsor Forge Mansion in 1899. Her grandfather Robert Jenkins (1769–1848) had previously been ironmaster and congressman.</p><br>
<p>The oldest section of the Ironmaster&#39;s Mansion was built circa 1742; the western section was built circa 1765, and the connecting middle section was built circa 1815. A shed roof porch was added in 1899, at which time the structure was renovated. The house is stories and was built using stone. Nevin also added a studio to the house.</p><br>
<p>This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>David Davis Farm, also known as the Christian Summers Farm and John Martin Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. They include the farmhouse, a stone bank barn , spring house , two frame tobacco barns, a small frame shed , and family burial ground. The farmhouse is an evolutionary dwelling originally built as a two-story, stone building about 1750, and extensively remodeled in 1787. Stone and frame additions were made about 1815, about 1870, and about 1890. Attached to the house is a small frame summer kitchen with beehive oven, that was once a separate structure.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Christian Habeck Farm, also known as the Abraham Brubaker Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings. They include the brick farmhouse, a frame Pennsylvania bank barn , spring house , two frame tobacco barns , a brick tenant house , a summer kitchen , a pigsty , a milk house, and a creamery . The farmhouse dates to the mid-to-late-19th century. It is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular brick dwelling, with a full-width front porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Ephrata Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 36 contributing buildings in the central business district of Ephrata. It has notable examples of the Queen Anne and Italianate architectural styles and buildings designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. The oldest building dates to 1808 and is the Eagle Hotel. Other notable buildings include the I.G. Sprecher & Sons Hardware , Richard Heitler House , J.W. Yost Liquor Store , Ephrata Railroad Station , USA Post Office , Ephrata National Bank , and Grant and Wenger Feed Mill . Located in the district is the separately listed Mentzer Building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 113 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures that are located in Lititz. It has notable examples of the Federal and Late Victorian architectural styles. The buildings date from roughly 1755 to 1930. Notable buildings include the Wardens House (c. 1757), Corpse House (Leichen Kappelchen) (1786), Werner House, Tinsley Cottage, Sisters House (1758), Moravian Church (1787), Brothers&#39; House (1759), Lititz National Bank, Commonwealth National Bank (1922), Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel (1884) on the campus of Linden Hall School, and the General Sutter Inn (originally the Zum Anker, established 1764).</p><br>
<p>The contributing site is the Moravian Church Cemetery, which was established in 1758 and contains the graves of General John Augustus Sutter, of California Gold Rush fame, and his wife Anna Dubeld Sutter, and Francis Florentine Hagen, composer of the beloved Christmas hymn "Morning Star, O Cheering Sight."</p><br>
<p>Also located in the district are the separately listed Congregational Store, Sturgis Pretzel House, and Johann Agust Sutter House.</p><br>
<p>This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Manheim Borough Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 787 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Manheim. The majority of the buildings are residential and include notable examples of the Italianate and Eastlake movement architectural styles and buildings that were designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. The buildings date from circa 1762 to 1949, with the majority built between 1860 and 1930. Notable non-residential buildings include the Stiegel/Arntz Building (1865-1875), Kready&#39;s Store, Manheim Railroad Station (1881), Manheim National Bank (1924), Keystone National Bank (1925), Eisenlohr Cigar Factory, Fuller Factory, Bond Caster and Wheel Corporation, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (1891), and Hope Hose Company Firehouse (1904). The contributing site is the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Kirks Mills Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes twelve contributing buildings that are located in the village of Kirks Mills. Those buildings are: Jacob Kirks Mansion House (c. 1752), the Brick Mill/Kirks Mill (c. 1810), the brick millers house, a stone and log barn that was converted to a residence in 1975, Joseph Reynolds House (1825), Eastland Friends Meeting and Tenant House (c. 1798, 1822), the Ephriam B. Lynch House (1880s), the Harry Reynolds House (c. 1774), the Manuel Reynolds House, the Eastland School House (1838), and the Log House.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Kirks Mansion House is a three-story, brick dwelling with a two-story ell. It features a full porch on the front and right sides. Kirks Mill is a -story brick building with a slate gable roof. It was remodeled to a residence about 1940.</p><br>
<p>This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Northeast Lancaster Township Historic District, locally known as School Lane Hills, is a national historic district that is located in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 183 contributing buildings and is almost exclusively residential. The oldest buildings date to circa 1820 and include Wheatland and the Herr House. The majority of the residences were built between 1920 and 1939, and include notable examples of the Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Foursquare architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Crawfordsville Bridge spans the Calapooia River adjacent to Oregon Route 228 near the community of Crawfordsville in Linn County, Oregon, United States.</p><br>
<p>The 105-foot Howe truss type bridge was built in 1932. The bridge was bypassed in 1963 and is now maintained by the Linn County Parks & Recreation Department as a pedestrian bridge across the river. Since 1990, the bridge has been the site of a Bridge Day festival held annually in the summer. A small park next to the bridge includes a picnic table and fire pit.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was featured in the 1976 television movie The Flood.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Grand Avenue Historic District is a platted community located in north Fort Worth, Texas. It sits two miles northwest of the Tarrant County Courthouse. The subdivision was platted in 1888. It comprises the western edge</p><br>
<p>of the original subdivision of North Fort Worth where the street curves along the bluffs above the West Fork of the Trinity River. The district encompasses the properties on both sides of Grand Avenue for approximately seven blocks. It was added to the National Register on March 1, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Andrews Bridge Historic District is a national historic district located at Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district includes nine contributing buildings in the rural crossroads village of Andrews Bridge. The buildings were built between 1800 and 1850 and are the old Roops Hotel, a former mill also known as Dobbins Store , four dwellings, and three barns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Historic District is a national historic district located at Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 833 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Columbia. The district is primarily residential with notable examples of Late Victorian architectural styles. Notable non-residential buildings include the Reading and Columbia Freight Station , Holy Trinity Catholic Church and School , American Legion Post 469, Womens Club, Columbia Lodge #1074 BPOE, Columbia Town Hall , St. Pauls Episcopal Church , Franklin Hotel , and Columbia Water Company . Located in the district is the separately listed Bachman and Forry Tobacco Warehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Freeman House Store, formerly the Lydecker Store, is a historic general store located in the Town of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia. The house lies in Northern Virginia near the District of Columbia. Built in 1859 for Abram Lydecker, both Confederate and Union Army troops occupied the house during the American Civil War. The house has been restored in accordance with historical records. Civil War paraphernalia are sold in a restored general store on the first floor of the house. A museum on the second floor of the house displays Civil War artifacts.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Freeman House Store and Museum is located in the town of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia on Church Street. The house takes up approximately 0.83 acre, while the entire property took up six acres when Abram Lydecker purchased it. As the house is less than twenty miles from Washington, D.C., its location was important during the Civil War. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad constructed a line through Vienna, creating large growth for the town and Lydeckers business. The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail now travels along the railroads route, south of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Freeman House is a two-story, five-bay frame house. It has white paneling with a full width front porch. It has an off-center entrance slightly to the right. On each side of the house is a chimney, which can be observed through the exterior. On the right side of the house a man-made bridge was built for pedestrians crossing over the creek from the house to the railroad. Originally built in 1859, the house has gone through restorations.</p><br>
<p>After the house was inherited by Leon Freeman in 1911, he started making changes. Through 1975 through 1977 a major restoration was made. Throughout its many uses, the top floor was used as the living quarters and is now the museum. The bottom floor acted as the general store and post office.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<h3>Lydecker family</h3><br>
<p>The Freeman House was originally built in 1859 for Abram Lydecker, an immigrant from New Jersey. The top floor acted as the living area, and the bottom was the store that sufficed as Vienna&#39;s post office and fire department. Lydecker owned and operated the store/house until he and his family fled when the Civil War reached the area.</p><br>
<h3>Civil War uses</h3><br>
<p>In 1861, the house was the polling place for the secession vote. A vacant house in its location was a perfect headquarters for the Confederacy, and later the Union. For both sides, the house acted as a hospital and offices. After the war moved on and ended, the Lydeckers moved back into the house.</p><br>
<h3>Freeman family</h3><br>
<p>In 1872 Lydecker&#39;s son-in-law, Anderson Freeman, moved into the house with his wife and family and helped operate the family business. The store was transferred to Freeman, and then to his son Leon Freeman.</p><br>
<p>Leon Lydecker Freeman was an active member of the town of Vienna. He was handed down the family business at the age of eighteen. He attended public education provided by the county and at Bethel Military Academy. He then attended the Spencerian Business College in Washington D.C. His accomplishments include serving as the first president of the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department and as a member of the Town Council, including three years as mayor. After passing the house down to his wife, Hattie Belle, it was passed to their daughter Dorothy. In 1969 she sold the home to the town of Vienna. The town then began the restorations and changes.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The town of Vienna owns the Freeman House and Museum, which the town and Historic Vienna, Inc., jointly operate. The building has been restored and now includes Civil War artifacts and a small museum. The house sells a wide assortment of toys, gifts, town- and Virginia-related souvenirs and old-fashioned candy on the first floor, has the museum and administrative offices on the second floor, and operates the Used Book Cellar in the basement which is open whenever the store is open. It holds tours by appointment only by volunteers of Historic Vienna Inc. The house is open to the general public from Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. It is closed during the months of January and February, but visits are available by appointment.</p><br>
<p>Many exhibits have been staged over the years. Exhibits on World War II, the Civil War, the local railroad (which ran from 1855 to 1968), and most recently World War I have been well received. In 2019 Historic Vienna told the story of the Town of Vienna in the 1950s. Elements of the exhibit featured how the town looked, the local businesses, period clothing, a working television set, radios, 1950s model cars and trains, music, movies and other items of interest.</p><br>
<p>Today the surrounding area of the Freeman House still has its historical context of small local businesses and unique fairs. All of the outhouses that were once part of the estate have now been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Recognitions</h2><br>
<p>On September 22, 2011, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources placed the Freeman Store on the Virginia Landmarks Register. It is the only structure in Vienna to hold this designation. On April 21, 2012 the Vienna community unveiled a plaque commemorating the Freeman Store&#39;s inclusion on the register.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service listed the Freeman Store on the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Bayard Park Neighborhood is a neighborhood in Evansville, Indiana which is bounded by Lincoln Avenue, US Highway 41, Washington Avenue and Garvin Street. The Bayard Park Historic District contains approximately 87 acres including 335 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site within the neighborhood boundaries. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The architecture of residential homes in the neighborhood include quaint 1890s Queen Anne cottages, ground-hugging bungalows, American Fourquares, and high-style Early American and English revival types. The neighborhood also features Evansville&#39;s first neighborhood park and the East Branch Library, a Carnegie Library funded by the renowned philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bayard Park enclave took root in the last decades of the 19th century as the city of Evansville expanded eastward. The area&#39;s future as a residential area was determined when various owners of the land determined in 1893 to prohibit, via recorded plan restrictions, any type of commerce in their respective subdivisions. This made the neighborhood the first planned land development in Evansville.</p><br>
<p>By 1897, the area had been annexed into Evansville which brought with it city amenities like water and sewer lines, and the erection of a public school. As the 20th century commenced, the city&#39;s middle class moved heavily into the area, with the period of 1905 to 1915 one of intense development. By the beginning of the Great Depression, the residential district was fully established.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Like many urbanized neighborhoods, Bayard Park has undergone significant demographic changes over the years. In 2009 about 22.9% of the residents in the historic district of the neighborhood lived below the Poverty line, compared with 13.7% in the city as a whole.</p><br>
<h2>Bayard Park</h2><br>
<p>Bayard Park, located within the neighborhood and giving the district its name, was Evansville&#39;s first neighborhood preserve. The ten-acre tract was donated in 1901 to the city for perpetual park use by Mrs. Martha Orr Bayard (1836–1909). The gift was made on the condition that the park be named after her late husband, banker Samuel Bayard, and that she be allowed to landscape it; however, she further stipulated that the city was to provide maintenance.</p><br>
<p>Independence Historic District, also known as the West Franklin Street-Wabash Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district located in the Lamasco neighborhood of Evansville, Indiana. The district developed after 1880, and encompasses 95 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. It includes commercial and residential properties and representative examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Beaux-Arts style architecture. Notable buildings include the West Branch Carnegie Library , Laval Block, Heldt-Voelker Hardware Store , First Federal Savings, Gerke Building, August Rosenberger House , and St. Boniface Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hyde Chapel is located in Ridgeway, Wisconsin. Originally a place of worship for Congregationalists, it also become open to Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists and Catholics. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Today, an active Hyde Community Association preserves the structure and the spirit of this tiny country Chapel. Meetings are held at the Chapel in the Spring and Fall where members, friends and family gather for indoor and outdoor clean-up projects followed by a pot-luck luncheon. In December an annual holiday party is celebrated. The public is always welcome. http://www.hydechapel.com/</p><br>
<p>The Linden Methodist Church is a historic church building at the corner of Main and Church Streets in Linden, Wisconsin. Linden&#39;s Methodist congregation formed in 1834, only a few years after Linden was established as a mining community. It built a wooden church in 1836 and replaced it with a rock building in 1840, but by 1851 it had outgrown its second building as well. The 1851 church building is a limestone structure measuring 40 by; like most contemporary churches in the area, the limestone was quarried locally by Cornish American masons. The church includes an arched entrance and stained glass windows on each side. The congregation placed a Victorian-style steeple atop the church in 1877-78.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Westbrook, a large rambling house of many gables and tall chimneys on the South Shore of Long Island, lies on the west bank of the Connetquot River.</p><br>
<p>The estate has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973 as a national historic district.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Westbrook was designed in 1886 for William Bayard Cutting (1850–1912) by the architect Charles C. Haight in the Tudor Revival style. Cutting had bought the estate for building his house on from George L. Lorillard in 1884.</p><br>
<p>Scottish heather was shipped to provide thatch for the gate house, which remains at the corner of Montauk Highway and Great River Road. In 1895 Cutting and his brother laid out a golf course at Westbrook, known to be the first private golf course in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The house and its extensive landscaped grounds, now a state park called the Bayard-Cutting Arboretum, are open to the public, having been given to the people of Long Island by Bayard Cutting&#39;s widow and daughter "to provide an oasis of beauty and quiet for the pleasure, rest, and refreshment of those who delight in outdoor beauty; and to bring about a greater appreciation and understanding of the value and importance of informal planting."</p><br>
<p>An early trustee of the Bayard-Cutting Arboretum was Lady Lindsay, born Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, on Centre Island, Long Island. She was a lifelong friend of the Cuttings and a professionally trained landscape architect who worked for a time for the great American gardener Beatrix Farrand, who had a commission at Westbrook at the beginning of her career. Cutting&#39;s daughter, Olivia James, published in 1960, “The Letters of Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay.” Lindsay was married to the British Ambassador to the United States (1930–39), Sir Ronald Lindsay.</p><br>
<h2>Activities and services</h2><br>
<p>At Westbook there is a restaurant, a gift shop, nature trails, and recreational programs.</p><br>
<h2>Films with scenes shot at Westbrook</h2><br>
<p>1993: The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Michelle Pfeiffer and Joanne Woodward. Based on the 1920 novel by Edith Wharton. (Archery/Lawn Party scene.)</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Carriger Estate  is a collection of buildings located in Sonoma, California, United States. The estate consists of three buildings: the main house built in 1847, a small house, which is a replica of the main house, built in 1860, and a winery, built in 1875. The main house and the Little Carriger house fall in the architectural Greek revival style. There also is a locally quarried "candy rock" stone small building next to the main house that may have been used as an ice house. The everflowing Yulupa Spring, which supplied water to the houses and is still flowing, is a short walk along a hillside pathway from the main house. In 1979 the estate was designated a Sonoma County Historic Landmark, and in 2001, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Carriger built the property after traveling west with his family as a settler of California. Carriger was welcomed to the area by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Vallejo and Carriger would remain lifelong friends. Carriger chose his estate property based on the scenery and the good drainage of the area. He purchased the property, 1,000 acres, from Vallejo. It was on this land that Carriger was reportedly the first American to grow wine grapes in Sonoma Valley. Cattle, purchased from Vallejo, also grazed the property. After an absence to participate in the gold rush, Carriger returned after great success finding gold, to complete the main house in 1850. In 1875, he began construction of his winery building with a large celebration where he laid the cornerstone and a box containing personal items relating to the Carriger family and Sonoma. Nicholas Carriger died in 1885 at his home and is buried with family and other notable pioneers of Sonoma at the Mountain Cemetery in Sonoma, California. After the death of his wife, Mary Ann Wardlow Carriger, in 1891, the property remained in the Carriger family until sold by daughter Levisa Carriger Lewis.</p><br>
<p>The Plum Grove Primitive Methodist Church is a historic church on County Trunk Highway BB in Ridgeway, Wisconsin. The church was built in 1882 for a newly formed Methodist congregation, an outgrowth of the large Methodist community in Mineral Point. In the 19th century, both Mineral Point and Iowa County as a whole had a large Cornish immigrant population who came to the area to work in its lead and zinc mines; as the immigrants were predominantly Methodist, they build many new Methodist churches for their congregations. The Plum Grove church is a one-story Gothic Revival wood frame structure with board siding, an arched entrance and windows, and a gable roof. The church changed its affiliation to the Congregational Church in 1913, and regular services in the 1882 building stopped around the same time. The Plum Grove community converted the building to a community center in the 1930s and used it for local events until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Unity Chapel is located in the town of Wyoming in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Unity Chapel was designed in Joseph Lyman Silsbees Chicago architectural office in 1886. Silsbee was one of the leading practitioners of Shingle style architecture in the Midwest and designed the chapel as a simple execution of this style. Although not officially in the employ of Silsbee, eighteen-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright "looked after the interior." This makes the chapel Wrights earliest known work. The chapel was designed for Wright&#39;s uncle, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, to serve as a private chapel for his surrounding Lloyd Jones relatives; Jones had commissioned Silsbee to design his All Souls Church in Chicago the previous year. The chapel grounds include a cemetery for the family, including the grave of famous Hollywood actress Anne Baxter.</p><br>
<p>After Unity Chapel was built, Wright moved to Chicago and joined the employ of Silsbee.</p><br>
<p>The building was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is a small building shaped in a reversed "L&quot the short leg points north and the long leg points east. The short leg operated as an entryway and the long leg is the main chapel hall. The hipped roof is steeply-pitched and features a belfry at the intersection of the gables. The belfry is square with a bell-cast hipped roof. Each of its four sides has a semi-circular arched opening. Consistent with Shingle style design architecture, a layer of wood shingles covers both the roof and the exterior walls. Unity Chapel rests on a rock-faced stone foundation. Double-hung windows in groups of three are found on the north, south, and west walls. The upper sash has twelve lights and the lower sash is one large pane.</p><br>
<p>The chapel graveyard holds the remains of Wright&#39;s side of the family, the Lloyd Joneses. Wright himself was originally buried there, but his remains were moved to the grounds of his winter home, Taliesin West, in Arizona on the wishes of his widow following her death in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Bucher Thal Historic District, also known as Bucher Valley Historic District, is a national historic district located at East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the rural hamlet of Bucher Thal. The buildings were built between about 1760 and 1900 and include the Bear&#39;s Mill , Jacob Keller House , Keller Barn , Lutz House or Brookside Farm , Eberly-Lutz House , and Lutz Barn .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Chickies Historic District is a national historic district located at East Donegal Township, West Hempfield Township, and Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district includes 32 contributing buildings, 16 contributing sites, and four contributing structures in three areas. They are: 1) floodplain along the Susquehanna River containing archaeological remains of iron furnaces; 2) the "Ironmasters&#39; Hill" area of Marietta with five residences associated with ironmasters ; and 3) the Donegal Creek area with farmland, iron pits, and limestone quarries owned by the ironmasters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Marietta Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, with a boundary increase in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 373 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Marietta and are notable examples of the Italianate and Federal architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Duffy House, Marietta Community Center, Shelly House, the Pierre de Vittry House (c. 1825), Marietta Theater, First Farmers&#39; Bank, David Smith House, English Presbyterian Church (1853, 1898, 1909), Liquor Control Board Office, the Railroad Hotel, Union House Gallery, Eckmans Hotel, White Swan Inn, Henry Musselman House, former Grove Hotel, and the Old Town Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, with a boundary increase in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Strasburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 206 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Strasburg, including notable examples of German, vernacular, Georgian and Federal architectural styles that were built using log, brick, limestone, and sandstone. Some of these structures date to before 1815.</p><br>
<p>The building at 33 East Main Street, now known as the Limestone Inn, was built in 1786. It was the home of Strasburg&#39;s first chief burgess (mayor) and served as the first post office beginning in 1805. As many as fifty students from the Strasburg Academy boarded in the house from 1839 to 1860.</p><br>
<p>This historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Strasburg E Main 33 c1786.JPGStrasburg&#39;s first post office, now the Limestone Inn</p><br>
<p>Strasburg E Main 109.JPG109 E. Main</p><br>
<p>Strasburg 27 E Main 1754.JPG27 E. Main St., built c. 1754</p><br>
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<p>Strasburg S Decatur 102.JPG102 S. Decatur St.</p><br>
<p>The David W. and Jane Curtis House is a very intact Queen Anne-styled house and matching carriage house built in 1885 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>David Whitney Curtis moved from Vermont to Jefferson in 1845 with his father. He helped his father farm, attended school, and apprenticed as a mason. In 1860 he married Miss Jane Howard of Hebron. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army and served in the Civil War. After the war he and partner Oscar Cornish started a lumber and produce business. In 1868 he invented the Curtis rectangular churn and the partnership began manufacturing them in Fort Atkinson. Gradually the firm expanded to make and sell a full line of dairy and creamery supplies. In 1878 D.W. was appointed as an aid to Governor Smith. He also served important roles in the Wisconsin Dairymen&#39;s Association and the Agricultural Society.</p><br>
<p>Around 1885 David and Jane had Henry C. Koch of Milwaukee design the house pictured. The style is Queen Anne, at that time considered more progressive and comfortable than the Carpenter Gothic and Italianate styles that preceded it. Its limestone foundation supports frame walls covered with cedar siding. Typical of Queen Anne, the gable peaks are decorated with fish-scale shingles and sunburst patterns. The gable ends are framed in bargeboards. Some of the windows are multi-pane leaded glass. The current porch on the south was built around 1900, replacing the original porch which was smaller and more elaborate with one in the simpler style of late Queen Anne. Inside, the first floor has a side-hall plan, with a marble fireplace in the living room and pocket doors between some rooms. Upstairs are bedrooms and a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>The two-story carriage house was also built in 1885. It is simple and rectangular, but decorated to match the house, with multi-pane windows and fish-scale shingles in the gables framed by barge-boards. Both house and carriage house are very intact, little changed from 1885.</p><br>
<p>Curtiss patented churn was given the highest award at 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago. In 1898 his company was worth $5,000,000. He lived in the house until his death in 1919.</p><br>
<p>After D.W.&#39;s death, the house and business interests passed to his wife Jane and their son Harry. By then the company was called Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, and Harry kept it running well. After Harry died in 1938 and his wife Mary in 1945, their daughter Lucile lived in the house. After she died, it passed to her daughter Mary D. Gates in 1966. In 1971, after a legal battle, it left the family, sold to Jerry and Pat Landowski.</p><br>
<p>The First Kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, is the building that housed the first kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1856. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Margarethe Schurz (née Meyer) was born in Hamburg, Germany, and at age sixteen listened to a series of lectures from the German educator Friedrich Fröbel. In that time and place, young children were often viewed as little beasts to be tamed so that they could become productive workers. Fröbel instead saw natural curiosity in children, which he encouraged with play, carefully chosen toys, music, stories, and nature study. He compared children to plants and a teacher to the gardener who helps them grow and bloom - hence the "garden of children."</p><br>
<p>Margarethes family was prosperous and socially progressive, favoring the unification of the many small German states into one democratic nation. After losing in the revolutions of 1848-49, some of the family left Germany. In London, Margarethes sister started a kindergarten, and Margarethe helped, gaining experience.</p><br>
<p>By this time Margarethe had a three-year-old daughter Agathe, and she started a kindergarten in her home for her daughter and four cousins, conducting classes in German.</p><br>
<p>After the Schurzes left, the Watertown kindergarten operated sporadically until the First World War, when it closed due to suspicion of all things German. While it was a store, the front was substantially altered. In 1956 it was threatened with demolition, and the Watertown Historical Society moved the structure from its original location on North Second St. to its current site alongside the Octagon House and began to restore it as the kindergarten building. The building now serves as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Schurz home, in which Margarethe began her kindergarten, burned and no longer exists, so this schoolhouse is the best representative of that first kindergarten. Because this building was moved from its original location and substantially changed, the National Register doesnt consider it of great architectural significance. It does consider it significant to the history of education at a national level, because Schurzs school in Watertown was the first kindergarten in the USA</p><br>
<p>Mention has been made of two attempts to found kindergartens, perhaps as early as 1849-1850, in Belleville, Illinois. There is no record of whether the attempts succeeded. One of the entrepreneurs, J. Fraus, married Marie Boelte who had a reputation as a kindergarten pioneer.</p><br>
<p>Christian Stauffer House is a historic home located at East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1769, and is a two-story, four bay limestone dwelling, in a melded Pennsylvania-German and Anglo-American Georgian style. It has a two-story, two bay frame addition on a stone foundation built in the 1890s. Also on the property are a contributing late-18th century bank barn, stone and frame summer kitchen, and late-19th century carriage house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Sehner-Ellicott-Von Hess House is a historic home located at 123 N. Prince Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1780 by George Sehner, and is a finely restored house built in the Georgian style of architecture. It was occupied by Andrew Ellicott , first United States Surveyor General, from 1801 to 1813. Ellicott helped prepare Captain Meriwether Lewis for his exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is now the home of the, and open to visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Krauskap House, also known as Henry Krauskap House and Store and Meiskey&#39;s, is an historic home which is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1874, this historic structure is a -story, three-bay, brick, combined, commercial-residential building, which was designed in the Italianate style. It has a two-story rear wing. A small brick one-story commercial addition was built between 1886 and 1888. It is the oldest surviving structure for the manufacturing and marketing of cigar boxes and tobacco related products.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Boorman House is a historic 19th century residence located at 211 North Union Street in Mauston, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by English immigrant Benjamin Boorman for himself and his first wife Elizabeth Boorman. After Benjamin Boorman&#39;s death, the house was owned by Jeff T. Heath, Tom Powers, John Tremain, and Francis Gardner.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Juneau County Historical Society was formed at the house in 1963. In 1987, the society purchased the house from Edward W. Pierce and transformed it into a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The American/Consolidated Tobacco Companies, also known as the Domestic Tobacco Co., is a set of two historic, American tobacco warehouses that are located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1907 and 1910, these historic warehouses are brick buildings that sit on stone foundations. They are set parallel to one another, twenty-five feet apart. The south building is three stories tall and measures seventy feet wide by 220 feet deep. An addition was built circa 1925, making the total depth 300 feet. The north building is two stories, fifty feet wide by 300 feet deep. It was expanded to its current size circa 1925.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The B.F. Good & Company Leaf Tobacco Warehouse, also known as the P. Lorillard Company Tobacco Warehouse, is an historic tobacco warehouse which is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1899 and 1900, this historic warehouse is a three-and-one-half-story, rectangular, brick building that was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It sits on a high foundation of gray limestone.</p><br>
<p>The Lorillard Tobacco Company purchased the building in 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to RGS Associates and the Lancaster office of BrandYourself.</p><br>
<p>The Basch & Fisher Tobacco Warehouse is a historic tobacco warehouse which is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1880, this warehouse is a one-and-one-half-story, rectangular, brick building, four bays wide and five bays deep, with a front gable roof. It sits on a stone foundation covered in stucco or brick.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Henry B. Friedman Tobacco Warehouse is an historic, American tobacco warehouse that is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was built circa 1880, and is a -story, rectangular, brick building with a raised basement and stucco-covered stone foundation. It has a moderately-pitched gable roof. It is three bays wide and six bays deep.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Pevely Dairy Company Plant was a former factory complex of the Pevely Dairy Company in St. Louis, Missouri, located at 1001 South Grand Boulevard and 3626 Chouteau Avenue. The eight-acre property included three contributing buildings and one contributing object. While in operation, the plant operated as a dairy production facility, a stable for horses for wagon delivery of milk, the company&#39;s headquarters, and a soda fountain. The company itself was owned and operated by the Kerckhoff family from its founding in the 1880s through 1989, when it was bought by Prairie Farms Dairy. The building was one of the oldest independent dairies remaining in St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>The oldest building on the site dates to 1915 and was located at the southwest corner of Grand Blvd. and Chouteau. Located at 1001 South Grand Blvd., it housed the offices for the company on four stories. The red brick office building has a three-bay facade on the first story, and inside it retained its white glazed brick walls and flooring. The upper floor roof line included a decorated cornice. In 1916, Pevely added a brick and concrete factory building on the site, located at 3626 Chouteau Avenue. The factory underwent expansions in 1943, 1945, 1975, 1985, and 1997; in addition, a garage was built south of the factory at 1101 Motard Avenue in 1928, and a smokestack on the site that dates to 1943 included glazed brick lettering that spells out Pevely.</p><br>
<p>In October 2008, Prairie Farms closed the factory, which was the last Pevely facility still in use. The property is currently vacant. That same year, the complex was nominated and accepted to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In August 2011, Saint Louis University purchased the site from Prairie Farms.</p><br>
<p>Despite its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, Saint Louis University requested permission to demolish the entire complex in December 2011. The St. Louis Preservation Board initially denied the university permission to demolish all buildings on the site, but in February 2012, the city Planning Commission overturned the denial. In place of the complex, the university intends to construct a $75 million outpatient care center.</p><br>
<p>Demolition of the plant began early April 2012. In September 2020, the newly constructed SSM St Louis University Hospital opened for patient care on the site of the former plant.</p><br>
<p>The Bradford Community Church, originally the Henry M. Simmons Memorial Church and later the Boys and Girls Library, is a historic church built in 1907 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States under the leadership of Kenosha&#39;s first woman pastor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Henry M. Simmons Memorial Church was built in 1907 for pastor Florence Buck. Buck was ordained at the Meadville Theological School in Chicago, Illinois and came to Kenosha, Wisconsin to preach in 1901. She was the first woman to have a ministry in Kenosha and was involved in the design of the church. Buck was later named the acting director of the Department of Religious Education for the American Unitarian Association. The building was designed by N. Max Dunning, a Kenosha native.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, the church was purchased by the city of Kenosha. It was converted into Wisconsin&#39;s first Boys and Girls Library, dedicated to serving the youth of the community. It served in this role for fifty years. The city sold the building to a private developer in 1979, beginning a period where it was used for various restaurants and bars.</p><br>
<p>In 2020, the adjoining car lot was burned during the Kenosha unrest.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed in the Gothic Revival style. The limestone building sits on a differently-coursed limestone foundation. The main building has a prominent water table. The northeast corner of the church features a crenelated square tower. The double-door entrance, centered on the tower on the main facade, is in a pointed arch with stone molding. The rest of the building is a gable-roofed nave. The main facade of this gable features a large decorative leaded glass window. A small organ room was built on the north side of the building; this room was later used as a chapel and now serves as the minister&#39;s office and library.</p><br>
