<p>Chestnut Street Log House is a historic home located in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was built around 1772, and is a -story, rectangular log residence on a limestone foundation. It is three bays wide and one bay deep, with a gable roof, and central fireplace. It is believed to have been raised 1 1/2-feet about 1850, and according to National Register of Historic Places records was restored to its 1700s appearance around 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Chuck Berry House is the former home of American rock and roll musician Chuck Berry in St. Louis, Missouri located at 3137 Whittier Street. The house was Berry&#39;s home when he wrote and first performed the majority of songs with which he is identified, including "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Too Much Monkey Business" , "Rock and Roll Music" , "School Day" , "Sweet Little Sixteen" , and "Johnny B. Goode" .</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1910, the house is located in the Greater Ville, an economically depressed neighborhood of north St. Louis. The house is vacant, but retains features and integrity dating to Berry&#39;s residence, including an awning with a letter "B" for Berry on the front porch. The house is located on a narrow lot and is closely built to other similar houses; the exterior is red brick except for a small concrete-block addition in the rear built by Berry in 1956. The addition was built both to accommodate his growing family and perhaps to allow greater space for musical practice sessions.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house includes its original floor plan, hardwood flooring, plaster walls, doors, and fixtures. The kitchen underwent a renovation in the late 1950s, while a metal front door and metal window grilles were installed at a later date. The house otherwise retains its appearance from the time of Berry&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<h2>Residency of Chuck Berry</h2><br>
<p>Berry and his wife Themetta moved into the house in 1950 and lived in it for eight years. The house was Berry&#39;s home during the most critically acclaimed part of his career, and it represents the most significant site associated with Berry.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the Chuck Berry House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, which was an uncommon listing due to the house&#39;s association with a living figure.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Joseph of the Lake Church is located on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Roman Catholic missionaries had settled in the area by 1875, serving both the Menominee and other white settlers. The cemetery for Roman Catholics and a burial ground for non-Roman Catholics were established soon after. Under the direction of Father Blase Krake, the church was constructed in the 1890s. The site would become a sanctuary for the Menominee to live their way of life. As the federal government of the United States began prohibiting many Native American tribes from speaking their traditional languages and performing their traditional ceremonies, the church allowed the Menominee to do such things on the property. It has been credited for allowing the Menominee way of life and traditions to be passed on to further generations.</p><br>
<p>The Church Street Historic District is a one-block neighborhood of historic homes built from about 1857 to 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wauwatosa was founded in 1835, around the meeting of what is now Harwood Avenue and State Street. In 1853 a portion of the district was platted as the first residential street of Wauwatosa. The Congregational church constructed that year in what is now the district was the first religious structure built in the community, and gave Church Street its name.</p><br>
<p>Fourteen surviving historic structures comprise the district, exemplifying a typical progression of architectural styles for the USA They include, in roughly the order built:</p><br>
<p>The Thomas B. Hart House at 1609 Church Street is a Carpenter Gothic-style home built about 1857. Hallmarks of the style are the steep roofs, the bay window, and particularly the ornate bargeboards decorating the ends of the gables. They are cut with jigsaws to a different pattern on each gable, including an oak-leaf motif above the bay, a quatrefoil-and-trefoil combination above the porch, etc. Hart helped start Wauwatosa by building a sawmill on the Menomonee River around 1838, and a gristmill a few years after.</p><br>
<p>The A.F. Kellogg house at 1460 Church Street is a 2-story frame home built in Queen Anne style in 1885. The clapboard siding on the sides is broken by horizontal and vertical boards, a detail drawn from Stick Style.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel T. Pilgrim house at 1514 Church Street is a 2-story Queen Anne house built about 1885, with a cross-gabled form. The front end has angled corners, with windows decorated with jig-sawn hood moulds. The eaves on the gable-end are similarly decorated.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Parsonage at 1504 Church Street was built in 1885, a 2-story building across the street from the Congregational Church. Its style is Queen Anne, with a cross-gabled roof, bay windows, and complex porches.</p><br>
<p>The Emma C. Caswell house at 1530-32 Church Street is a 1.5-story house built in 1887, with a hip-roofed porch across its front, and the front gable decorated with board and batten.</p><br>
<p>The L.T. Lehmann house at 1630 Church Street is a 2.5-story Queen Anne built about 1891 with a 3-story corner tower roofed with a bell-like dome. It is decorated with shingles in the gable ends, a band of shingles between the first and second floors, and fine spindle-work in the porch.</p><br>
<p>The John B. DeSwarte house at 1622 Church Street is a 1.5-story eclectic-styled house built in 1891. The bay windows, exposed chimney, and shingled gables are clearly Queen Anne style. The pitch of some roof surfaces, the little shed-roofed dormer, and the gambrel roof could be drawn from Shingle style.</p><br>
<p>The Ferdinand Bark house at 1612 Church Street is a 2-story Queen Anne home built in 1893, with a cross-gabled roof, and cutaway corners on the first floor. Fish-scale shingles decorate the gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The August C.O. Peter house at 1621 Church Street is a 2.5-story Colonial Revival house built about 1914. Typical of the style, the front is symmetric around the main entrance, which is a porch roof supported by two Tuscan columns. On one end is a screened porch with a rooftop balustrade above.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church&#39;s current building is a Georgian Revival building designed by member Edwin O. Kuenzli and built in 1919. Kuenzli drew inspiration from the 1793 Congregational Church in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Like most Georgian Revival buildings, walls are of red brick, trimmed in white. The front entrance is through a pedimented portico supported by four 2-story Doric columns. Above that a large white belfry/steeple/spire rises three stories. This is the congregation that built a church on this site in 1853, giving Church Street its name.</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Fronk house at 1448 Church Street is a 1.5-story cream brick home built about 1920 in Spanish Colonial Revival style, indicated by the rounded parapets on the gable ends. A garage in a matching style is behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The George B. Nase house, at 7758 W. Menomonee River Parkway, is a 1-story Prairie Style home designed by Russell Barr Williamson and built about 1920. Typical features of the style are the general horizontal lines, hip roof, broad eaves, stucco exterior, and the ribbons of casement windows. Behind the house is a matching garage.</p><br>
<p>The Lowell Damon House is a historic house located at 2107 Wauwatosa Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin built from 1844 to 1846, displaying a design unusual for Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Oliver Damon was a carpenter and wheelwright who came to Wauwatosa from Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire in 1844. In that year he built the simple ell wing in the back of the house, using wood from the nearby forest. The 1935 HABS survey describes: "Some of the young saplings were simply squared on one side and used as rafters and joists. Others were hewn and squared with an adze, and the tool marks are still to be seen on many a piece of timber in the old house. Much of this timbering is of oak and black walnut." This start date makes it the oldest surviving home in Wauwatosa.</p><br>
<p>With Oliver were his son-in-law, Jonathon Warren and other family. By 1846, Oliver and/or his son Lowell had added the stylish 1.5-story front section. The broad front and 1-room depth are unusual for Wisconsin - perhaps a form the Damons knew from New England. The shape of the building could be considered Colonial style, along with the front door with its symmetry and sidelights. Greek Revival style could provide the pilasters on the front corners, the cornice returns, and the frieze boards. The diamond-paned frieze windows on the side walls are an uncommon touch.</p><br>
<p>By 1935, the fine house had fallen into disrepair. The HABS surveyor mourned, "...because it is a derelict of the past, a tumble-down structure in need of paint, because the brass knocker that once graced the front door is but a memory and its sill is worn by the tread of countless feet, it is neglected by the passer-by. The average citizen of Wauwatosa is not alive to the fact that here is an example of the purest type of architecture extant. Today (1935) the house is hardly habitable. It has outlived its usefulness as a human habitation. It is almost ready for the hand of the wrecker."</p><br>
<p>Instead of succumbing to the wrecker, the house was given to the Milwaukee County Historical Society by the sons of Alexander Rogers, a later owner. The historical society restored it, and today operates it as a museum.</p><br>
<p>In 2020 due to the costs of upkeep the Milwaukee County Historical Society sold the property to private owners. It is no longer a museum. https://www.milwaukeemag.com/oldest-home-wauwatosa-now-new-owners/</p><br>
<p>The Greendale Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the historic core of the village of Greendale, Wisconsin. The village core was designed in the 1930s as part of a New Deal program to establish so-called "greenbelt towns" as model suburbs, and is one of three such communities built by the federal government. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the USA economy sputtered and many jobs were lost as the world slipped into the Great Depression. By 1933 14 million Americans were out of work. 273,000 homes were foreclosed on that year, and housing construction fell to 10% of what it had been in 1925. Lacking affordable housing, many people crowded into city slums.</p><br>
<p>Franklin D. Roosevelts administration, inaugurated in 1933, had pledged economic recovery. To deliver his New Deal, Roosevelt had to try new things, and one of the ideas considered was the greenbelt towns&#39; program. The idea was presented to Roosevelt by Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell. Based on the garden city movement in England, the goal was to build new towns outside of population centers and aid the housing market by building new houses and slowing down the expansion of urban slums. Tugwell later explained: "My idea to go just outside centers of population, pick up cheap land, build a whole community, and entice people into it. Then go back into the cities and tear down whole slums and make parks of them."</p><br>
<p>One hundred major cities were studied as potential candidates to be the population center to have new town constructed near-by. Milwaukee, Wisconsin was chosen for its varied and stable manufacturing sector, among other reasons, and Greendale was built west of the city. During its construction, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited the project and later wrote that it had a "delightful site" and thought it was a "really good development." Then-USA Secretary of Agriculture and future USA Vice President Henry A. Wallace would also tour Greendale.</p><br>
<p>Construction ran from 1936 to 1938. 750 dwelling units were planned, but only 572 were built because of funding. About half are single-family detached houses. The other half were duplexes and row-houses up to six units.</p><br>
<p>Greendale was one of three greenbelt towns built by the federal government of the United States, along with Greenbelt, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. and Greenhills, Ohio outside Cincinnati, during the Great Depression.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Greendale is located southwest of Milwaukee, and its central core is roughly bounded by West Loomis Road, West Grange Avenue, Westway, and Southway. Its layout, as designed in the 1930s, has circulation patterns for both vehicular and non-vehicular movements, winding roads providing access to single-family and duplex homes, and a central business district that also houses municipal functions. Parks of various sizes are interspersed in the landscape. Originally three clusters of development were planned, but funding cuts meant that only one was actually built. Labor for the construction and development was funded in part by the Works Progress Administration. The principal municipal buildings of the village were designed by Walter G. Thomas in the Colonial Revival style. Utility lines were buried, and included a full complement of services: water, sewer, electricity, and telephone. Pedestrian circulation was designed so that public parks could be reached from residential areas without crossing any major roads. The residential buildings are typically two stories in height, with concrete cinder block walls finished in stucco on the outside and plaster on the inside.</p><br>
<p>The Greenfield School in West Allis, Wisconsin was built as a two-room school in 1887, but in an elegant Romanesque Revival style unusual for such buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers in the area arrived in the 1830s to form a community then called Honey Creek, named for 13 beehives along the stream. In 1835 they built a one-room log schoolhouse on the site of the current Greenfield School on land donated by Reuben Strong, starting out with seven students. In 1861 they replaced that log schoolhouse with a one-room red brick schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1887 the red brick school was replaced by the current elaborate building. It was designed by Herman P. Schnetzky, a 1.5-story building with walls of load-bearing cream brick. Its style is Romanesque Revival, with hallmarks being the rough stone of the foundation and the round-arched windows and entry door. Also striking are the grouped windows in the gables, the parapets on the gable ends, and the square bell tower with flared eaves.</p><br>
<p>The new school had two classrooms instead of one. At this time, people were becoming aware of some of the shortcomings of one-room schools, and the two rooms let the teachers split the elementary grades by age to provide more age-appropriate instruction. Soon they split the rooms again to make four classrooms. A few years later, the school added a high school program, with the students studying physics, history, algebra, geometry, grammar, rhetoric, physiology, English history, the Constitution, arithmetic, and some studying bookkeeping and botany. The first high school students graduated in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The building functioned as a school until 1923. After closing, it served as the School District Maintenance Department. Later it was used as a greenhouse, a Civil Defense office, and temporarily as offices of a hospital. About 1966 it was taken over by the West Allis Historical Society, restored, and put into use as the West Allis Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas B. Hart House is a Gothic Revival-styled house built in the 1840s in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Its most distinctive feature is the many elaborate bargeboards decorated with various patterns. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and is today one of Wauwatosa&#39;s oldest surviving houses.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wauwatosa was once called "Harts Mills," named for Charles Hart, who built a grist mill there in 1837 with financing from his brother Thomas back east. This house bears Thomass name, but it wasn&#39;t associated with him until thirty years after it was built.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built in the early 1840s, shortly after Harts Mills was founded. The builder is unknown and the first occupant is uncertain, but it may have been Perley J. Shumway, a blacksmith who also owned a tavern called the Wauwatosa House, which may have been part of the Underground Railroad. Shumway was active in politics and was elected to Wisconsins State Assembly in 1848. In 1856 he sold the house to Cortland D. Rose.</p><br>
<p>In 1874, after a few more changes of ownership, Thomas B. Hart bought the house. Thomas had joined his brother in Hart&#39;s Mills early on, helping to operate the grist mill, dealing in real estate, and serving on the first town board of supervisors in 1837. Thomas and his son T.W. owned the house until around 1912.</p><br>
<p>Later Dr. Stanley J. Seeger bought the house. He was Chief of Staff at Columbia Hospital and Children&#39;s Hospital, a nationally acclaimed surgeon, and a pioneer in burn treatment. In 1937 the Hemps bought the house and divided it into apartments. In 1982 Roy and Mary Jo Cole bought the house, and began restoring it.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally smaller than now, two stories with a T-shaped foot-print. Over the years, many additions have been made. (The NRHP nomination among the references below contains an educated guess at how the floorplan grew over the years.) As of a 1912 photograph, the front facade looked much like today. The bay window, the lancet-arched windows, and the style of the porch are all hallmarks of Gothic Revival style, as are the bargeboards. The elaborate bargeboards decorating the gable ends are the striking feature of the house, displaying several designs. The board over the front door and several other gables have a quatrefoil design cut with a scroll saw. On the south gable the board is an oakleaf pattern. On the southeast gable is a trefoil floral pattern. The "barn" behind the house is decorated with a board with a simple scroll design. But the NRHP nomination says that of the bargeboards, "he most spectacular is over the lancet arched window. It is a hand-carved, delicately rounded, lacey scroll."</p><br>
<p>The Hart house is the oldest house on the earliest residential street in Wauwatosa. It is located within the Church Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The W. Ben Hunt Cabin is a Rustic-styled log cabin built by graphic artist W. Ben Hunt in 1924 in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cabin was built by artist and author W. Ben Hunt in his backyard. It started as an homage to his grandmother&#39;s cabin, where he spent part of his childhood, but it developed into a Rustic Style design. Hunt used the cabin to work on his art and his writings. In 1940, he added onto the structure. The cabin has since been moved from its original location to its current one and transformed into a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Kneeland-Walker House is a 3-story mansion built in 1890 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, styled Queen Anne with Shingle style influence. Still largely intact, and possibly the finest example of Queen Anne architecture in Wauwatosa, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Norman L. Kneeland was born in 1832 in New York and educated there. After serving in the Civil War, he moved to Wisconsin in 1865 and bought a 100-acre farm from his father and uncle. He prospered and in 1889 sold the farm, which was later developed into Washington Park. Shortly after, Kneeland bought six lots on Hillcrest Drive, at that time called Center Street, and built the house.</p><br>
<p>The house is three stories tall, with a three-story onion-domed tower on one corner and a porte-cochère on the west side. It sits on a limestone foundation with the first floor clad in brick, the second in weatherboard, and the third in wooden shingles. A large gambrel-roofed dormer tops the front of the house and a tall fluted chimney rises behind the tower. Inside the house are oak pocket doors and a curved staircase leading up to the second floor. Behind the house is a carriage house with stalls for four horses. Also in the back yard is a small building which was a cider shed when an orchard surrounded the house during the Kneeland era.</p><br>
<p>While living in the house, James Kneeland was active in city politics. He was president of the city council at his death in 1900. The house stayed in the Kneeland family until 1917. In that year, the house was purchased by Emery L. Walker, an engineer for the Kieckhefer Container Company, which made cardboard boxes. The Walkers lived in the house until 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Wauwatosa Historical Society purchased the house from Constance Walker in 1987. It is now their headquarters and a museum. Additionally, it has been designated a Wauwatosa Landmark and a Milwaukee County Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Meier Homestead, also known as "The Old Fort," Isaac Myer Homestead, Isaac Meyers Homestead, and Isaac Myers Homestead, is an historic American home which is located in Myerstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1750, this historic structure is a -story, three-bay-wide limestone residence. It has a -story kitchen wing that pre-dates the main house, and is one of the oldest buildings in Myerstown. It was the home of its founder Isaac Meier.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Biever House is a historic home located in Annville Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1814, and is a -story, 5-bay wide limestone residence in a vernacular Georgian style. It has a gable roof with dormers and a two-story, two-bay stone addition dated to the mid-19th century. The addition has a two-story frame porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is a contributing property in the Annville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Dr. B. Stauffer House is a historic home located at South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1848, and is a -story, 3-bay wide by 4-bay brick residence in a vernacular Georgian style. It has a hipped roof with a flat roofed dormer over the central bay. The house has a connected brick smokehouse and features a two-story verandah. The house once included an apothecary shop.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Colebrook Iron Master&#39;s House, also known as the Colebrook Mansion and Colebrook Estate, is a historic home located at South Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was built between about 1791 and 1796, and is a -story, 3-bay wide by 2-bay brownstone residence in a vernacular Georgian style. Also on the property are a contributing spring house, kitchen house, stable, privy, carriage shed, spring trough, and an 18th-century iron fence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Annville National Historic District is a national historic district located in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of two historic districts in the community of Annville, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally an agricultural community with buildings constructed near the Quittapahilla Creek and various mills which had been built along those waters, the town of Annville was officially founded and developed between 1763 and 1764 with plans laid out by Andrew Miller, Abraham Raiguel and Adam Ulrich. Initially named Millerstown, the name was later changed to Annville, according to local lore, in honor of Millers wife, Ann, or in gratitude for the support shown by Great Britains Queen Anne to German Palatines, a significant number of whom had settled in this Lebanon County region. In addition to farming, the community also became known for its manufacture of felt and silk hats. As the community prospered, town leaders built new roads, entrepreneurs built new businesses, and local residents built new homes, expanding the town beyond its waterways and transforming the town&#39;s architectural style from primitive log cabins to Georgian stone houses and taverns to 19th century Victorian mansions and standard frame houses inhabited by working class families.</p><br>
<p>During the late 1970s and early 1980s, several members of Friends of Old Annville, an historic preservation group which was formed in 1978 to prevent the demolition of two historic buildings near the town centers bank, came together to prepare the nomination form to secure assistance from the National Register Review Committee in creating an official historic district in the city. The area proposed for recognition was the section of Annvilles Main Street, which runs from the Quittapahilla Creek on the west end to Saylor Street on the east end. The west end of Queen Street was also included.</p><br>
<p>Following its review of that application, the National Register committee officially recognized the Annville Historic District, and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, making Annville the first community in Lebanon County to have a nationally recognized historic district. According to the Friends of Old Annville, this district quickly "gained national recognition as a prime example of linear development from the very early west end to the more recent east end."</p><br>
<h3>Creation of a second historic district</h3><br>
<p>Annvilles second historic district was subsequently established during the mid-1990s when Friends of Old Annville members Kathy Moe and Tanya Richter worked with Annville Township leaders to draft and pass a zoning overlay (historic district) to further enhance the communitys protection of its historic buildings. Known currently as ordinance #587, this local legislation specifically defines the Annville Township Historic District as "running along Main Street only," and further clarifies the purposes of the historic district as:</p><br>
<p>Protection "of that portion of Annville Township which reflects the cultural, economical, social, archaeological and architectural history of Annville Township, the State and the Nation&quot</p><br>
<p>Awakening the interest of residents in their community&#39;s historic past</p><br>
<p>Promoting "the use and reuse of the historic buildings of Annville Township for the culture, education, pleasure and the general welfare of the people of Annville Township, the State and the Nation&quot</p><br>
<p>Strengthening Annville Township&#39;s economy "by stabilizing and improving property values within the historic district through the continued use, preservation, and restoration of its resources&quot</p><br>
<p>Encouraging new development "that will be harmonious with the existing historic and architecturally important buildings&quot</p><br>
<p>Establishing clear procedures to address any proposed changes which would affect historic resources moving forward; and</p><br>
<p>Encouraging "the preservation of historic settings and landscapes".</p><br>
<p>This ordinance also currently states that anyone proposing any modifications to any building in the historic district must obtain a building permit and that all such permits must be reviewed by, and must receive certification from, Annville&#39;s Historical Architectural Review Board (HARB) before any modifications may be made.</p><br>
<h2>Notable buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Annville Historic District includes 275 buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Annville.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the oldest remaining building in this historic district was the Mary Gass House. Built in 1753, it is a small, 1-1/2 story stone structure. Other notable buildings include 18th and early-19th century log dwellings, the Abraham Herr Manor House, St. Pauls Apostolic Church / St. Anthonys Coptic Church (1861), Kendig House (1830), Lewis Gilbert Inn (1800), Fleisher House and Livery (c. 1780), and the Queen Anne style Light House. Included in the district is the separately listed Biever House.</p><br>
<h2>Special events</h2><br>
<p>On June 8, 2019, the Friends of Old Annville sponsored Historic Old Annville Days, the 31st annual commemoration of Annvilles history. Held on West Main Street in the center of the historic district, the event featured performances by multiple music ensembles, including the Acoustic Blues Jam and Bluegrass Jam at Fulton Bank Plaza, solo performers on the Batdorf Stage, and concert bands at the districts bandstand.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Snable House is a historic house located on Sandyston-Haney&#39;s Mill Road near Wallpack Center in Walpack Township of Sussex County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1979, for its significance in architecture and exploration/settlement.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The house was probably built by Andrew Snable. The property is along the Flat Brook, a tributary of the Delaware River. The land was once owned by Colonel John Rosenkrans, a prominent local militia leader during the American Revolution. Andrew Snable bought the land for the house from Rosenkrans&#39; son Levi in 1801.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story stone cabin measuring 36 feet by 20 feet. It is notable for being one of the best-preserved stone cottages in the area, which preceded the larger framed farmhouses that were built from the mid-1800s on.</p><br>
<p>The Lumberman was a 3-masted schooner that sank in 1893 in Lake Michigan off the coast of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lumberman was built in 1862 in the shipyard of Allyne Litchfield at Blendon&#39;s Landing, Michigan. She was a 3-masted schooner with a wooden hull 126.5 feet long. For thirty years, she carried forest products like lumber, bark and shingles from logging outposts on the shores of Lake Michigan to markets like Chicago.</p><br>
<p>On April 6, 1893, heading from Chicago to Whitefish Bay to pick up a load of ties, the vessel sank in a fast-moving storm. Much of the ships equipment and the crews personal effects have been salvaged, but the ship itself remains largely intact and is a popular site for divers and archaeologists. She is of particular interest to marine archaeologists because of the double centerboard she was equipped with, since the reasons for fitting two centerboards in some lake schooners and one in others has been lost. She lies in 53 to 70 ft of water, roughly 10 mi north of Wind Point.</p><br>
<p>American Trust and Savings Bank, also known as the Indiana Bank, is a historic bank building located at Sixth and Main Street in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It is designed by the architectural firm Harris & Shopbell and built in 1904. It is a Beaux-Arts style limestone clad building. It was enlarged in 1913 when two additional floors were added. The bank closed on October 19, 1931, during the Great Depression.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Bethlehem Armory also known as Floyd Simons Armory, is a historic National Guard armory located in Bethlehem in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1930, and is an "I"-plan brick building in three sections. It consists of a two-story administration building, drill hall, and kitchen / locker room executed in the Art Deco style. It measures 82 by, and has a hipped roof. Additions were built in 1938 and 1968.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The George F. Schlicher Hotel is an historic hotel which is located in Alburtis, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area of eastern Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1877, the George F. Schlicher Hotel is a three-and-one-half-story brick building, which was designed in a Victorian architectural style. It features elaborate porchway arches and gingerbread woodwork.</p><br>
<p>A frame addition was built during the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The building was converted to apartments in 1944.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Americus Hotel is a historic hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1926 and 1927, it is a 13-story yellow brick building located 541 West Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown.</p><br>
<p>The hotel has a classic 1920s Jazz Age design and was built by a group of Allentown businessmen who wanted to erect a first-class hotel in Center City Allentown, the city&#39;s central business district.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, in recognition of its historic significance, the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The hotel also has been named one of the nation&#39;s Historic Hotels of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>The site of the Americus Hotel had been used as a hotel since 1810, when the population of Allentown, then known as Northampton Towne, was approximately 700. That year, Abraham Gangawere built a two-story tavern on the northeastern corner of 6th and Hamilton streets. Under the later ownership of Charles Seagraves, one of the leading businessmen of 19th century Allentown, the inn was enlarged and renamed as the Northampton Inn.</p><br>
<p>President Martin Van Buren, the nation&#39;s eighth president of the United States, slept at the hotel in 1837.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>Following its 19th century success, the old hotel gradually declined. In 1924, Aaron Potruch purchased the hotels lot from George W. Seagreaves estate for $500,000. Planning on building a new hotel and office building, he cleared the ground and tore down the hotel. A month later, however, Potruch was contacted by Albert D. "Bert" Gomery, who suggested that his idea of a new hotel was something of a local joke. Over the years, according to press accounts, many new hotels had been proposed but never built.</p><br>
<p>During the early 20th century, before automobile use became popular, a stagecoach line, co-owned by Seagraves, was headquartered at the location of the present-day hotel. Later renamed as the American Hotel, the hotel expanded to five stories prior to World War I. Used frequently by local salesmen and the traveling public, it became known for its excellent cuisine.</p><br>
<p>Gomery, president of Allentown&#39;s Chamber of Commerce, was born in Lehighton and relocated to Allentown in 1894. With his brother J. Edgar, he had built the wholesale produce firm of Gomery Brothers into a prosperous company. In 1917, Gomery had branched out by purchasing a building at 4th and Turner Streets from Cedar Crest College, then known as the Allentown College for Women, and converted it into College Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Unlike other builders, Gomery left nothing to chance; marshaling the full weight of his business influence, he formed a company with his brother, who was co-partner with fellow Allentown businessman John C. Schwartz, a partner in the Philadelphia-based firm Gomery & Schwartz. The partnership, which also included Allentown National Bank cashier Frank Cressman, was the agent for the Hudson Motor Car Co. in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Along with W. A. Gibson from Philadelphia, they formed the American Hotel Realty Co.</p><br>
<p>That winter, after an architectural competition, the Philadelphia firm of Ritter and Shay was awarded the contract. Their plans called for a 270 bedroom structure. After the first round of bids was submitted, however, Gomery found their proposal too costly, and the bid process was repeated. In negotiations, the two sides agreed that two additional floors would be added, resulting in a hotel with 324 bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>In June 1926, the construction contract was awarded to Roberts and Roller, a Philadelphia-based firm. Work crews dug a new hole for the foundation, but work on the new building did not actually begin for over another year, on July 17, 1926. As the weeks passed, the rigid steel skeleton of the Americus began to rise. At first, it was nothing more than a clatter of riveting jackhammers. But on the street level, its outline began to take shape. With a buff-colored brick, curved Romanesque arches and romantic and superfluous balconies, it was emblematic of the nation&#39;s Coolidge-era passion for the exotic world of old Spain.</p><br>
<p>Construction proceeded rapidly, and Gomery promised it would be completed by September 10, 1927. But the ambitious construction plan confronted complications, which started with an assessment that there were problems with the hotel&#39;s foundation. The high cost of materials also caused delays. But Gomery persisted, supervising every detail, including the commission of Philadelphia artist George Harding to create the large murals for the hotel.</p><br>
<p>Despite the delays, Americus Hotel opened for business only three days behind schedule, on September 13, 1927. In the newspapers of the day, it was reported that the hotel lounge was sunlit through large, full-length windows. The floors were built with colorful tiles; the furniture included overstuffed sofas and chairs.</p><br>
<p>Hanging on one wall, The Morning Call reported at the time, was a painting of a Spanish dancing girl that depicted "the life of entertainment." The kitchen staff of 22 was overseen by Swiss chef Werner Kloetzli, "formerly of the Palmer House, Chicago," and maitre dhotel Frederick Botta, who "assured a cuisine that is second to none in the country," according to the newspapers reporter, who wrote that, upon entering the building, one felt a "changed atmosphere" that created "an air of refinement, just a little bit different, that persists on intruding itself as the splendor of the surroundings unfolds." Newspaper accounts also described the highly polished walnut furniture, travertine marble floors, colorful Harding murals, and polychrome chandeliers, which created a mood in which one could "visualize the glories of old Spain.</p><br>
<p>Advance reservations were required for the official opening, which took place on the evening of September 13. When the guest list reached seven hundred, many hoping to attend were turned away. At 6:30 p.m., guests in tuxedos and evening gowns arrived to make an inspection tour. Serenaded by a twenty-eight-piece orchestra that was directed by Albertus Meyers, the guests gathered in the hotel&#39;s dining room. Floral displays at strategic locations added to the Spanish garden atmosphere. A series of storefronts for tailors and watch repairmen were rented to various small businesses outside of the hotel, on North 6th Street.</p><br>
<p>For the next 40 years, the Americus Hotel served as a centerpiece of the downtown business and retail district of Allentown. Celebrities and notable people who visited Allentown often stayed at the Americus, and it was common for the hotel to hold various receptions, balls, and high school graduation proms in its ballroom.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1970s, as the downtown area of Center City Allentown began to change and decline, the fortunes of the hotel mirrored those of the city. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1984,</p><br>
<p>On August 7, 1985, the Moffa family sold the property to 29-year-old Mark Mendelson, who acquired it through a $1.25 million loan from. Equibank provided the loan for the mortgage. Former Allentown Mayor Joseph Daddona at that time called the deal "the most exciting thing in this part of town in many years."</p><br>
<p>Although Mendelson stated that he had invested millions of dollars in the hotel and he was awarded by historic preservation organizations, city construction permit records show that he had, in reality, only spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, excluding the costs for new furniture or improvements that did not require city permits. The most notable improvements of the new hotel were improvements to its dining room and ballrooms.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, the hotels image was further bolstered when it secured an affiliation as a Radisson Hotel, but the affiliation lasted only six years. In 1994, facing late payments, bounced checks, and nearly $5 million in liens against the hotel, the hotel was put up for tax sale. No other potential owners stepped forward to bid on the property and assume responsibility for the hotels debt, however, leaving Mendelson in charge. Mendelson began paying off a portion of the hotel&#39;s back taxes.</p><br>
<p>During this time, the Americus became part of the Clarion Hotels chain in 1995 but continued to spiral downward with broken elevators, leaky plumbing, and accumulating garbage. In 1998, the Clarion affiliation also ended. In response to the hotel&#39;s mounting problems, city inspectors revoked its health license.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>In August 2002, after a series of fires, broken pipes, and elevator failures, the city of Allentown revoked the occupation permit of the hotel entirely, and its residents were forced to vacate the property.</p><br>
<p>A series of legal battles between Mendleson and Allentown subsequently ensued with the hotel remaining vacant. Unpaid assessments to the Downtown Improvement District Authority increased to $21,744, back taxes and fines climbed to roughly $37,000, and a water and sewer bill reached nearly $145,000 before Allentown officials finally targeted the property for sheriff&#39;s sale.</p><br>
<p>Scaffolding and canvas were subsequently erected on the sidewalk both on Hamilton Street, and on North 6th Street, to prevent falling masonry from injuring pedestrians. The storefront businesses on North 6th were ordered to close due to the building&#39;s deterioration, and the city then also ordered that utilities to the building be cut off in 2005. In 2007, the Americus was ordered sealed for public health and safety reasons. In 2009, Mendleson filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the city of Allentown assumed ownership due to the $600,000 tax lien it held on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, local businessman Albert Abdouche obtained ownership of the deteriorating hotel from the city for $676,000, announced re-development plans, spent $3.2 million to obtain the property, and started improving it in February 2010. Over the next few years, the interior and exterior were repaired.</p><br>
<p>In early 2014, Abdouche applied for funding from the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone (NIZ) Development Authority. The project received a tentative go-ahead in February of that year with $13.2 million in NIZ tax revenues to include eighty-five hotel rooms, forty-eight apartments, ten retail storefronts, commercial office space, a street-level sports bar, and restaurants. In return, Abdouche agreed to an independent review of the project to ensure that his construction estimates were correct. He also agreed to post a bond so that, if the costs proved higher than projected, NIZ would be able to select another developer to finish the project.</p><br>
<p>The newly-renovated hotel reopened on July 27, 2021. In 2022, in recognition of its extensive history, the hotel was inducted into Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Dime Savings and Trust Company, also known as the First Valley Bank, is an historic bank building located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1925, and is a T-shaped, five-story red brick building.</p><br>
<p>The base is sheathed in limestone, and the distinctive brick and limestone attic level is reflective of the Art Deco style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Drawing on the name of a bank from the 1840s, the Dime Savings and Trust Company was founded in 1921 as the fifth-largest bank in Allentown. Dime Savings building was one of three principal buildings in Allentown&#39;s central business district; the other two were Americus Hotel and the PPL Building, all which were all built in the same two-year span and reflected the Art Deco design trends then popular in Allentown and the New York City regions.</p><br>
<p>The interior main banking room is one of the best-preserved monumental banking rooms of its day in the Allentown region. Occupying the full width of the front wing, it extends back beyond the elevator core. At the rear, it is spanned by a balcony that marks the full two stories of the room, which is accented by a blind niche framed by engaged piers and consoles. The room itself is surrounded by a deep, dentelle cornice, similar to that of the exterior, which, with the arcaded walls, completes the sense of a monumental masonry space that was common to major banks of the era. In addition, a pair of handsome Art Deco bronze chandeliers with fluted sides are suspended from the ceiling at each end of the room.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>At the start of the Great Depression in 1930, the bank was one of the largest in the city; by 1932, however, it had failed, leaving only its building as a reminder of its former success. After the bank&#39;s failure, the Dime Savings and Trust Company building spent most of its existence vacant while a series of owners tried and failed to find ways to use it.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, the monumental first floor room was renovated in 1991 by a private owner, who was subsequently recognized by city leaders for his restoration efforts. It housed an antique market for a few years and survived the catastrophic sinkhole-caused collapse of its adjacent neighbor Corporate Plaza (22 North Seventh Street) on February 23, 1994.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>Ownership has changed hands several times, but the building remained vacant. Owned for a time by developer Abe Atiyeh, it was put it up for auction on eBay in 2001. In 2004, a Philadelphia-based creator of upscale furniture purchased it, planning a combination restaurant and furniture showroom, but those plans were abandoned in 2007.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the building was renovated as part of the PPL Center project that began construction in 2012. The structure was incorporated into the Arena complex. The Dime Bank Building is used as the lobby for the 170-room Marriott Renaissance Hotel that is attached to the arena. Its two-story foyer, once the main banking area, houses the front desk and upper floors include offices and meeting space for the arena operators.</p><br>
<p>During the construction of the arena, the foundation was underpinned, and the building received additional stabilization. The facade was repaired with appropriate control joints, masonry supports and drainage that replaced systems failing in the current structure. New roofing and windows were installed, adding energy efficiency but designed to match the existing look.</p><br>
<p>However, because of leaking bricks, the arena owners decided to strip the exterior above the first floor off the building, down to its steel structural skeleton. The building&#39;s existing columns and beams were reinforced with steel plates to support new uses as the Dime Bank was incorporated into the arena. Lost was the iconic attic story, in classic art deco style. Also lost was the beautiful ornate ceiling in the monumental banking chamber.</p><br>
<p>The remaining parts of the building were incorporated into the Renaissance hotel, which opened in the summer of 2015. The on-site restaurant is named The Dime in recognition of the bank.</p><br>
<p>The Allentown National Bank, originally named the Allentown Bank, is an historic bank building located on Centre Square in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1905, the building is a large eight-story, steel frame and masonry-clad structure in the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<p>Abandoned during the 1990s, it was re-developed into apartments for independent living senior citizens in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Allentown architects Jacoby, Weishampel & Biggin designed the building in a Beaux Arts style. It remains the last commercial structure downtown built in Center City Allentown before 1920 that stands in its original condition.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the building started on August 12, 1903. Its steel framework was finished on May 7, 1904. The steel came from Guerber Engineering of west Bethlehem, and the stonework was done by Carlucci Stone Co. of Scranton. The concrete ceilings were installed by Roebling Construction Co., founded by the same Roebling family that built the Brooklyn Bridge. One worker, Fred Mummey, died in the construction of the eight-story structure; he was knocked from a high steel beam on 4 February 1904, by the boom of a swinging derrick.</p><br>
<p>The Allentown Bank opened its doors on 15 March 1905 with a modern telephone exchange that was tied in with both the Lehigh and Consolidated phone systems, the region&#39;s two phone companies. In addition, the two "smoothly running hydraulic elevators" were said to be the ultimate in safety.</p><br>
<p>The building also had a "spacious dome 32 feet in height supported by 6 onyx columns surmounting the rotunda," according to a local newspaper at the time. "The carving and molding is the work of Herman Merkel, a noted local sculptor. The rotunda is not currently visible from the street.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, the Allentown Bank became the Allentown National Bank after being federally re-chartered as a national bank. It remained at that location until the mid-1950s, when it became the First National Bank. Operations were moved to a new building at the northeast corner of Seventh and Hamilton in 1959, which replaced the former Allen Hotel, and the structure was vacated. First National subsequently merged into Meridian Bank during the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The 1959 bank building remained vacant until being razed in 2012 for the construction of Two City Center. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Allentown National Bank building was home to several businesses and the Allentown Business School. It was vacated again during the early 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>In 2002, Pennrose Properties Inc. in Philadelphia purchased the property and converted the upper floors to independent living apartments for senior citizens.</p><br>
<p>The renovation also included the adjacent former Trojan Powder Company building at 17 North 7th Street, which was built in 1912. The rehabilitative scope of work included the complete remediation of all environmentally hazardous elements and the removal on non-historical elements throughout the building; the complete stabilization of the structure of the buildings, including the stabilization of the ornamental cornices and façade elements; the restoration of the Allentown National Bank interior elements, including the removal of the floor inserted into the bank lobby and the restoration of the interior building elements; complete rehabilitation of the 11 floors of the Trojan Powder building and eight floors of the Allentown National Bank building into 63 apartments and related community spaces.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, Allentown Center Square Senior Housing re-opened with 63 one-bedroom apartment units for independent seniors aged 62 and older. The 62 one-bedroom units are sized at 548 square feet and rent for up to $469. There is one efficiency unit, which is 395 square feet and rents for $375. About half the units are targeted to people earning up to 60 percent of the median income. The development also has a gym, a computer lab, a community room, and an examining room for visiting doctors and nurses. Lease-up began April 2006, just a month before completion. Full occupancy was achieved in eight months.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Sterling is an historic hotel, which is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1889 and 1890, it is a three-story rectangular brick building that was designed in the Romanesque Revival style with Queen Anne and Eastlake influences.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Sterling is three bays wide, with a gabled parapet at the middle bay. When nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it had 33 sleeping rooms.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built simultaneously with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Railroad stations. Situated directly across Hamilton Street, the proximity of the hotel and stations provided travelers with convenient places to eat and stay in Allentown. With the end of passenger rail service in the 1960s, the hotel was adapted to other uses.</p><br>
<p>It was subsequently added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is used as the venue for the Deja Vu nightclub, which features live music acts. On June 20, 2019, it became the site of gun violence between two rival gangs, the Bloods and Latin Kings, in which ten people were shot.</p><br>
<p>The Houmas, also known as Burnside Plantation and currently known as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a historic plantation complex and house museum in Burnside, Louisiana. The plantation was established in the late 1700s, with the current main house completed in 1840. It was named after the native Houma people, who originally occupied this area of Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>The complex, containing eight buildings and one structure, and the 10 acre they rest upon, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Houmas plantation had its beginnings when Alexander Latil and Maurice Conway appropriated all of the Houma tribe&#39;s land on the east side of the Mississippi River in 1774. Alexander Latil built a French Colonial style plantation house at the site around 1775.</p><br>
<p>It was a working sugarcane plantation by 1803, when the United States obtained the area through the Louisiana Purchase. Shortly afterwards The Houmas was purchased by Daniel Clark, who began to develop the property and built one of the first sugar mills along this stretch of the river. In June 1807, Clark and territorial Governor William C. C. Claiborne fought a duel on the property, in which Claiborne sustained a gunshot wound to his leg.</p><br>
<p>In 1811, former American Revolutionary War general Wade Hampton purchased Daniel Clark&#39;s land holdings and slaves. Hampton was one of the wealthiest landowners and largest slaveholders in the antebellum era South.</p><br>
<p>The earliest surviving building is the original main house. Its construction date is the source of contention among scholarly sources, with some believing it is the original Latil house, with later alterations. Others point to evidence that it is from the Wade Hampton era. It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior. It has two rooms on each floor with a central hall and staircase and is linked to the later main house by a carriageway.</p><br>
<p>Management of the property was taken over by John Smith Preston about 1825. Preston was married to Caroline Hampton, Wade Hamptons daughter. The Prestons built a new main house in front of the old one in 1840. The Greek Revival mansion is two-and-a-half stories high and surrounded by 14 monumental Doric columns on three sides. The hipped roof is crowned with arched dormer windows and a belvedere. Additional structures from this period include matching brick octagonal garçonnières, or bachelors quarters. They are two-stories, with a sitting room on the first floor and a bedroom on the second. There are also numerous other brick service structures adjacent to the house.</p><br>
<p>The more than 10,000 acre estate was sold to John Burnside, a native of Belfast, Ireland, in 1857. Burnside had increased the acreage to 12,000 acre within the span of a few years and built four sugar mills to process his crop. With approx 750 slaves on it and Burnside&#39;s many surrounding plantations, it was the center of the largest slave holding in Louisiana prior to the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>During the war, plans were made to use the plantation house as a headquarters for Union general Benjamin Franklin Butler, who governed New Orleans for about seven months following the city&#39;s capture in May 1862. Burnside, still a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, reputedly prevented this by suggesting that international complications would arise if his estate was seized by Federal authorities.</p><br>
<p>A lifelong bachelor, John Burnside died in 1881 and left the estate to a friend, Oliver Beirne. It then went to William Porcher Miles, Beirne&#39;s son-in-law. Following the death of Miles in 1899, the property began to be divided up and the house began to fall into disrepair. The Mississippi River flood in 1927 and the Great Depression further endangered the property.</p><br>
<p>The house and what was left of the property was finally purchased by Dr. George B. Crozat in 1940. Crozat began an ambitious program of restoration of the house and gardens. In the process he stripped off some of the original decorative elements of the interior and exterior to give the house a simpler, "Federal style," look.</p><br>
<h2>Filming location</h2><br>
<p>The Houmas has been the filming location for a variety of motion pictures, television series and commercials. Houmas House is most associated with the Bette Davis movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), in which the house has a Tara-like presence.</p><br>
<p>Other films shot in part at The Houmas include Mandingo (1975), Fletch Lives (1988), and Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011). Television films and series include Moon of the Wolf (1972), A Woman Called Moses (1976), Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (1978), All My Children (1981), A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse and Company (one episode, 1990), Snow Wonder (2006), K-Ville (2007), Top Chef (one episode, 2009), Midnight Bayou (2009), Revenge of the Bridesmaids (2010), Wheel of Fortune (one episode, 2011), and The Bachelor (one episode, 2017). Commercials have been shot at the plantation for Budweiser, Virginia Slims, Best Buy, Hibernia National Bank, and the Louisiana Office of Tourism.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<h3>The Antebellum</h3><br>
<p>Houmas was the inspiration for The Antebellum, an 8,212 sqft estate and gardens in Grogan&#39;s Point. It is one of six historically inspired estates developed by the Westbrook Building Company in 1988. In-kind, The Antebellum inspired three additional plantation estates in East Shore of The Woodlands.</p><br>
<p>The Zollinger-Harned Company Building, now known as The Sovereign Building, is a historic department store building on Hamilton Street in the Center City section of Allentown, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Zollinger-Harned was founded as Lawfer & Steckel by William R. Lawfer and W. R. Steckel in 1866 in Allentown, at the corner of Church and Hamilton streets, at 626 Hamilton Street. The store carried a large stock of dry goods, notions, and groceries.</p><br>
<p>The business was continued by the original partners until 1874, when Steckel disposed of his interest to George W. Hartzell. Hartzell retired in 1876, and the firm was reconstituted as W.R. Lawfer & Company.</p><br>
<p>Lawfer expanded the business and purchased the larger buildings at 611 and 613 Hamilton Street, combining the structures into one large building, which opened in March 1882.</p><br>
<p>The firm sold a wide number of womens dresses, and coats. As the firm grew, it expanded with books, toys, jewelry, kitchen crockery, carpets, and mens and children&#39;s clothing.</p><br>
<p>To accommodate the expansion, Lawfer expanded the store by first purchasing two properties at 12 and 16 North Sixth Street, which were merged into an "T" shape with the Hamilton Street buildings extending north to Court Street and the Sixth Street buildings merging into the Hamilton Street building on the right side of the property. The present-day Sovereign Building retains this basic design. A second expansion added the stores at 607 and 609 Hamilton Street to the store. Lawfer adverted the store as "Allentown&#39;s Big Department Store".</p><br>
<p>Lawfer was friends with John Wanamaker, a Philadelphia-based retail entrepreneur. Lawfer worked for Wanamaker in the 1850s and 1860s prior to opening his own store in Allentown.</p><br>
<p>William Zollinger, who lived in Sandusky, Ohio, operated the Zollinger Department store the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The new owners tore down the amalgamation of separate storefronts and erected a single large three-story building at 607-613 Hamilton Street that wrapped around to the right with a double storefront at 14 to 16 North Sixth Street.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>While still at Wanamakers department store, Lawfer began decorating his own store as early as Christmas in 1904. Lawfers was the first local department store to feature a separate toy department that it called "Toyland". At the center of the toy display that Christmas was a twenty-four-foot-tall, one-ton figure it called "Santa Claus’ Father." It is not known if this was an attempt to combine the English figure known as “Father Christmas” with Nast&#39;s character.</p><br>
<p>On December 9, 1905, local newspapers ran the first announcement of Lawfer&#39;s live Santa Claus. "Visit Santa Claus at his Cave in Toyland," it read. "If you haven’t paid Santa a visit in his pretty Toyland, you had better come soon. Santa remembers every little face, you know, and he says there are some chubby little folks on his list he hasn’t seen yet. Bring your letters and put them in the letter box in his cave."</p><br>
<p>W. R. Lawfer died suddenly on September 11, 1900, and the store was taken over by his three sons, J. Harry Lrawfer, John N. Lawfer, and Alvin W. Lawfer. They ran the business for the next several years until 1903 when J. Harry Lawfer retired from the firm, turning his share of the business to John N. Lawfer. John N Lawfer subsequently sold his share to Alvan Lawfer prior to starting his own carpet and drapery store at 709 Hamilton Street.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, the business was sold to Nathan Polwell of Philadelphia, who sent his nephews W.C. Harned and C.J. Early to manage Allentowns first department store. The establishments name was changed from W.R. Lawfer Co. to Lawford-Harned Co. and later to Zollinger-Harned Co.</p><br>
<p>The "Zollinger" refers to a W.R. Zollinger, who owned a department store in Canton, OH. In addition to W.R. Lawfer Co., Polwell had also purchased Zollinger&#39;s store in Ohio and a third store owned by a Mr. Smith in Wilmington, Delaware. Polwell used the "Zollinger" name for all three stores to further his plan of establishing a chain of department stores.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, the store expanded again by purchasing 605 Hamilton Street, which it incorporated into its existing building. As part of the expansion, the store was remodeled into a seven bay wide building with Classical Revival style influences. It featured architectural terra cotta panels and richly detailed bronze display window surrounds. This remodeling was completed in 1926.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Polwell passed ownership over to his nephew Charles E. Polwell, who retained ownership until 1960. At that point, ownership was taken over by Allen Theodore Vollmer and Robert V.H. Harned. Allen Vollmer served as president until he retired due to poor health in 1963, when his son Donald Vollmer assumed control.</p><br>
<p>The store operated successfully for decades, and was the first of the Allentown department stores to open a branch at Whitehall Mall in Whitehall Township, an Allentown suburb, in 1966.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, Donald Vollmer, then president of the store, purchased Bears Department Store in York, Pennsylvania and renamed it Zollinger-Harned, making it the third store in the then Zollinger-Harned chain. A fourth store in the Wyoming Valley Mall near Wilkes-Barre opened in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Like many other major department stores in the 1970s, however, suburbanization and the growth of indoor shopping malls led to declining sales of large department stores in Allentowns central business district. In 1975, Zollingers was still profitable, but in 1976 the losses began to mount.</p><br>
<p>In February 1977, Vollmer sold his interest to Allentown clothier Sigmund Levin for $1 and other considerations. A month later, Levin filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection from creditors while the company reorganized. Over the next eleven months, the company initiated a variety of tactics to return to financial health, but the financial slide continued.</p><br>
<p>A few months after the petition was filed, the company abandoned its York store, and its merchandise was eventually sold and the store closed. In October 1977, its Wyoming Valley Mall store was sold to Hess&#39;s. Its Allentown flagship and Whitehall Mall stores lasted through the Christmas shopping season of 1977. However, Zollinger-Harned filed for complete bankruptcy on January 30, 1978, and closed its doors for the last time.</p><br>
<h4>Sovereign Building</h4><br>
<p>The Whitehall Mall store was sold to Leh&#39;s. For several years, the flagship store on Hamilton Street in Allentown remained vacant.</p><br>
<p>In December 1982, the Allentown store was purchased by Sovereign Realty and Development. The building was renovated and reopened as the Sovereign Building in May 1984. Renovations included a glass-arched entrance from a pedestrian plaza between Hamilton and Court streets leading to a "grapefruit-domed" lobby with a decor of antique brass, mirrors, greenery and wing-backed chairs. The main floor and basement were developed into retail spaces, while the upper floors were turned into forty-two private office suites.</p><br>
<p>Sovereign later went into financial difficulties and the building was sold at a sheriff&#39;s sale on September 22, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Zollinger-Harned Company Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>The building now operates as an office building with an owner who resides in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The Neuweiler Brewery, also known as the Germania Brewery, is an historic brewery complex located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1911 and 1913, the complex consists of the office building, brew house, stock house, pump house, wash house, chemistry lab building, boiler room, bottling house, garage, fermenting cellar, and smokestack with the name "Neuweiler" on it.</p><br>
<p>The office building is a two-story, brick and granite building. The remaining buildings in the complex are built of brick. The brew house stands six-stories, and has a copper hipped roof with cupola. The stock house is a long, narrow four-story building. The brewery closed in 1968.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Neuweiler Brewery was founded by Louis Neuwiler, who bought out longtime local brewer Benedict Nuding in 1900. Nuding&#39;s operation was limited by its location, and in 1911 Neuweiler and his son, Charles, eager to expand, hired Philadelphia architects Peukert and Wunder to build a new complex some distance away, at Front and Gordon streets.</p><br>
<p>The brewery, featuring its own generators for electric power, opened in 1913. By 1932, the brewery buildings and the warehouse building were joined as one structure, and the former machine warehouse became an independent electric plant with an ammonia tank and ice machine. A pump warehouse had been added onto the northwest corner of the former stock warehouse, and a two-story bottling plant with a basement was located to the north of the other buildings. Neuweiler produced several brands of beer: Light Lager, Cream Ale, Stock Ale, Premium Ale, Bock (seasonal), Half & Half, Porter, Stout and Hochberg. Most were available in the 12 oz. "Steinies" or Export bottles, quarts, cans or kegs. When in full operation, Neuweilers was one of Allentowns largest employers.</p><br>
<p>By 1950, the bottling plant was extended to the corner of North Front Street and Liberty Street, the stock warehouse was extended toward North Front Street, and a tile ash hopper was located behind the boiler house.</p><br>
<p>Brewery operations ceased in 1968 due to competition from national breweries; however, the Neuweiler recipes and brand names were kept alive via the purchase by the Ortlieb Brewery of Philadelphia, which also bought the Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company in 1966. After the brewery&#39;s closure, the F&S Brewery produced several of the Neuweiler beers (Porter, Light Lager and Cream Ale) from around 1970 until closing in 1975. After F&S closed, the Ortlieb brewery continued Neuweiler Cream Ale at the Philadelphia plant until the late 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The building was abandoned for over two decades until the bottling house was leased to Ingnatios Hadjiloukas from 1992 to 1998. Mr. Hadjiloukas operated a pesticide, herbicide and detergent re-manufacturing business under the company names of J.L. Hoffman Company and Trading, Inc. for a period of approximately ten years. The site was abandoned in the fall of 1998 and has been vacant ever since.</p><br>
<p>Although the buildings have been vacant or underutilized since the brewerys closing in 1968, the towering structure and copper cupola atop the brew house has been an iconic part of the citys skyline for nearly a century, symbolizing Allentown&#39;s rich industrial history.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The site is currently listed on Preservation Pennsylvania&#39;s "Pennsylvania at Risk" list.</p><br>
<h2>Neuweiler and the Neighborhood Improvement Zone</h2><br>
<p>Neuweiler was recently zoned as part of the Waterfront Redevelopment district of the new Neighborhood Improvement Zone (NIZ) in Allentown. A New York Firm, Ruckus Marketing, purchased the brewery for $1.7 million in March 2014.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013, it has plans to redevelop the entire property, converting the majority into a new brewing facility. The remainder of the space will be converted to mixed use commercial office space. The new plans call for a $30 million renovation.</p><br>
<p>Trout Hall is an historic home located at Allentown in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. One of the older homes in Allentown , it was built between 1768 and 1770, and is a two-and-one-half-story, built with stone in Georgian architectural style.</p><br>
<p>Built as a summer home by James Allen, the third son of William Allen, founder of Allentown, it currently houses the library and museum of the Lehigh County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1735, William Allen (1704-1780), a wealthy shipping merchant, purchased 5,000 acres of land in the eastern region of what was then the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>By 1762, Allen laid out the plans of a 42-block town that he called Northampton Towne. The name however, never took hold, and the settlement was commonly known as Allen&#39;s Town, and then was combined into Allenstown, prior to being formally named Allentown.</p><br>
<p>James Allen (1742-1778), William Allens third son, followed in his fathers footsteps. He graduated from college in 1759 and law school in 1765, and he was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court. On October 6, 1767, James Allen was elected as common Philadelphia councilman and then the Pennsylvania Assembly by an almost unanimous vote.</p><br>
<p>Since his busy life allowed little time to manage Allentown himself, he delegated the responsibilities of running it to the people he trusted most. At times, however, he would make the 60 mile journey from Philadelphia to Allentown, which eventually justifed the need for his own house. He built the two-story stone house and called it Trout Hall after the abundance of trout in the various creeks and the Lehigh River that surrounded Allentown.</p><br>
<p>James Allen died of tuberculosis on September 19, 1778. After he died, his wife remarried and his daughters became frequent residents at Trout Hall.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>On May 17, 1789, James Allen&#39;s daughters left Allentown, and the home would be unused until the winter of 1825, when James’ eldest daughter, Anne Penn Greanleaf, gave a few blocks of the original property where Trout Hall was situated to her daughter. It was at this time that the name Trout Hall was dropped and the home was renamed The Livingston Mansion.</p><br>
<p>The Livingstons were merchants, and in 1847, when a business deal went bad, the house and surrounding land was sold to make up for his lost profits. The new owner, Comegys Paul, sold the house a week later and earned a profit for the sale. In 1848, it became the Allentown Seminary. In 1867, it became the original location of Muhlenberg College prior to the college&#39;s development of its current campus off Cedar Crest Boulevard.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>On January 9, 1904, the Lehigh County Historical Society was founded to find and restore historical landmarks in Lehigh County. Their goal was to preserve the homes past, and they restored the homes east wing, which had not been touched in decades. One year later, in 1905, Muhlenberg College relocated its campus, and the Historical Society renamed the building Trout Hall again.</p><br>
<p>Used now as a museum, Trout Hall houses Revolutionary-era artifacts for the public to view and showcases the home.s early 18th century architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, in recognition of its historical notability, Trout Houl was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Cook House is a High Victorian Italianate-styled house built in 1875 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by pioneer stone merchant Cook. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>In 1853 Thomas Cook began a limestone quarry business, supplying building materials for local construction. In 1860 he and Edwin Hyde formed the Cook and Hyde Stone Company, which over the years supplied stone for the Mackie Building, the Plankinton House Hotel, St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church, the Milwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Central Library, and Forest Home Cemetery Chapel, among others. Many of these projects were designed by E. Townsend Mix.</p><br>
<p>Cook continued his association with Mix in this house, which he had built in 1875 as a double-house rental property. The building is 2.5 stories, on a foundation of rusticated block. Walls are cream brick. Some windows are topped with multi-colored arches, some are bays, one is lancet-arched. The roof is chalet-style, supported by scroll-sawn brackets and a sawtooth frieze board. The exterior has changed little from the time it was built.</p><br>
<p>The Edward J. Dahinden House is a large Craftsman-style house built in 1914 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an officer of the Franzen Paper Company. In 1986 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Edward Dahinden was an organizer of the Franzen Paper Company. He served as secretary and treasurer of the company and then president. During that time he had Milwaukee architect Charles Tharinger design a home for him, and it was built in 1914. The house is stories, in the then-popular Craftsman style, clad in dark brick and stucco, with a full-width front porch, and a jerkin-head gable roof with wide eaves. The NRHP nomination deems it "one of the largest and best Bungalow style residences in the city."</p><br>
<p>After serving as a residence, the building housed a doctor&#39;s office and then a law office.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Avenue Methodist Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, is a Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1891 by Milwaukee&#39;s first German Methodist congregation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The congregation, founded in 1846, was the first German Methodist congregation in the state of Wisconsin, and the mother-church of that denomination in the state. The German Methodists in America were organized in a separate conference from the English-speaking Methodists until the two groups combined in 1933. The congregation built church buildings on North 5th Street in 1848 and West Juneau and 11th in 1872.</p><br>
<p>In 1896 the congregation built this church at Highland Avenue. Charles Crane and Carl Barkhausen designed the building in a German Gothic style, with a cross-shaped footprint, and a square corner tower. Walls are brick with corbeling and other decoration formed from brick and terra cotta. At the center of the main facade is a large arch containing various stained glass windows. The steeple on the tower transitions in an interesting way from a square tower to an octagonal spire. Inside, the lectern, table and choir are on a raised dais in the corner, with the pews arranged around it in concentric arcs.</p><br>
<p>When the Highland Ave. church was built in 1891, the congregation was changing from German to English services. The whole German Methodist conference merged with other USA Methodists in 1933. The Highland Avenue congregation dissolved in the 1960s. After that a black congregation moved into the building, then the Church for All People, then the Solomon Community Temple, and as of 2019 the Rehoboth New Life Center.</p><br>
<p>The church building is the only one known to have been designed by the Milwaukee architectural firm Crane and Barkhausen, which specialized in schools and residences. It was placed on the NRHP as an important example of German Gothic style and because of its connection to the mother congregation of German Methodism in the state.</p><br>
<p>The David W. Howie House is a 2.5-story Queen Anne-styled house built in 1886 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, still very intact. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>David Howie was an agent of the Northwest Fuel Company, which dealt in coal, wholesale and retail.</p><br>
<p>The Howie house became a rooming house after WWII. In 1978 it was stripped and further subdivided. In 1993 it was bought by Andrew and Marie Parker and restored, now operating as a Manderley bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel Presbyterian Church is a High Victorian Gothic-styled church built 1873–75 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1974 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, it was designated a landmark by the Milwaukee Landmarks Commission in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel congregation was formed in 1870, a merger of First Presbyterian Church and North Presbyterian Church, which were founded in 1837 and 1849. By 1873 the merged congregation was ready to build a new church building.</p><br>
<p>The new building was dedicated in 1875, grand and exuberant, with asymmetric square towers, various groupings of lancet windows, and rose windows. The exterior was clad in carefully laid ashlar Wauwatosa limestone, with openings trimmed in red-orange and gray sandstone. The building was designed by E. Townsend Mix, Milwaukee&#39;s prominent architect at the time. The vertical emphasis seen in the towers and upward-pointing windows are characteristics of Gothic style, and the use of multiple colors makes it High Victorian Gothic. Inside, the original auditorium was "as bold and colorful as the exterior," with a nave arcade, a vaulted aisle, and "sumptuous ornament."</p><br>
<p>Then on December 31, 1887, during a snowstorm in the night after a choir performed Handel&#39;s Messiah, a fire started. It gutted the nave and chancel, collapsed the roof, and damaged the north wing, leaving only the limestone walls. When the auditorium was rebuilt in 1888 and 1889, it was simplified.</p><br>
<p>Art-glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Co. were added around 1900. In 1937-38 the building was remodeled, with changes to the main vestibule, the chapel, the north wing parlor, and the gallery at the north end of the nave. In 1957-58 the chancel was expanded, the pastors study and custodians workshop were added on the south, the pews and pulpit were replaced, and the old wood trim in the auditorium was bleached to match the new pews.</p><br>
<p>Gauff-Roth House is a historic home located at 427 to 443 Auburn Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The house features a wraparound porch, third floor balcony, a polygonal turret, and a hipped roof with multiple gables and dormers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1880 for Mary Craig and Elizabeth Craig Gauff with money inherited from their grandfather. Mary met William Gangewere while the house was being constructed and married him. She lived only a short time in the home, or not at all, according to some historians.</p><br>
<p>The home is a two-and-one-half-story, irregular rectangular brick dwelling, which was designed in the Queen Anne style. It has sixty-six windows, two working chimneys and two interior non-functional chimneys. Inside the house, an oak staircase stretches three floors. The home&#39;s forty-three doors and extensive wood decoration have retained their original finish with few minor changes over the years.</p><br>
<p>Throughout its history, the home was occupied by the Gauff family in 1880, the Roths in 1930 and the Ziegler family in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The home was completely renovated in the mid-1990s.</p><br>
<p>Shelter House is a historic home located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1734, it is believed to be the oldest continuously occupied building structure in both Lehigh County and the Lehigh Valley and among the oldest still-standing building structures in the USA state of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first floor was built around 1734. In 1741, a three-room second story and a two-story annex were added. The house was built by early Pennsylvania German settlers and is a medieval-type Germanic log house made out of oak and chestnut and measuring approximately 40 feet by 25 feet. Mud, straw, and horse hair were used as the filling, or chinking, in between the gaps in the log walls, providing protection and insulation from outside elements. It has a gable roof and large, square stone chimney.</p><br>
<p>The Shelter House got its name from the German word "zufluchtshaus," meaning "house of refuge or shelter." The House is situated in a clearing of woods along a well-traveled Indian path and often served as a stopover for travelers. The house was inhabited at a time when there existed conflicts in the area between American settlers and British colonialists and Native Americans. Many years later after the founding of Emmaus in 1759, the House became a hostel and tavern for wayfarers.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the cabin was purchased at a public sale by a group of preservationists who raised $35,000 to stabilize and restore the structure and its grounds. In 1963, the Borough of Emmaus assumed ownership of the property, while the Shelter House Society continues with the responsibility of maintenance and preservation.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 1803 House, also known as the Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr. House, is a historic home in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, US, built in 1803 for Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr., a son of one of the town&#39;s founders.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1803, the house is a -story, fieldstone house with a Federal side-hall plan. It was built for Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr. whose father, Jacob Ehrenhardt Sr., had been one of the founders of the town of Emmaus as a settlement of the Moravian Church in 1747. The home&#39;s original owner, Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr., was a member of the Northampton County militia in 1782, and served in the American Revolutionary War. Expelled from the Moravian Church for serving in the military, he was later reaccepted into the church and supported himself as a shoemaker, farmer, and tavern-keeper.</p><br>
<p>This historic house has a -story, rear kitchen wing, and a slate-covered roof.</p><br>
<p>Occupied into the 1950s, it was restored in the 1980s. It is open as a historic house museum. It had been changed so that the toilet was near the old living room. A Rodale-funded restoration put furniture back in its original place.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, in recognition of its historic significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Present day usage</h2><br>
<p>The house is open for tours by appointment by the Friends of 1803 House.</p><br>
<p>Kemmerer House, also known as the Mr. & Mrs. Russell L. Pellett Residence and Irongate, is a historic home located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1840 and 1850 and is a two-story, masonry dwelling with Georgian style influences. It has a five bay wide front facade. Also on the property is a Pennsylvania-German forbay barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the nomination form which was completed during the 1970s and submitted to the USA Department of Interior by Madeline L. Cohen, Office of Historic Preservation, John K. Heyl, and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pellett, which ultimately led to the homes placement on the National Register of Historic Places, "it is evident from the height of the ceilings, the type of fireplace and the profiles of the millwork that the date of construction antedates the period of the Civil War.... Another feature reinforces this; in the cellar of the existing house is an 18th century root cellar (a further, deeper excavation beneath the basement floor) entered by a flight of steps and closed with wood batten doors. The oldest (1750) house still intact in nearby Emmaus has an identical sub-cellar for the storage of food and wine."</p><br>
<p>The nomination form completed by Cohen, et al. also provided the following additional historical details:</p><br>
<p>"Frederick X. Camerer was the original settler of the Kemmerer Homestead. John George, his son, received part of the original parcel. John Georges son, Henry Walter, also worked the farm. Henry Walter Kemmerer was probably responsible for the building of the main house at the time of his fathers death (1851)."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The nomination form submitted to the USA Department of the Interior, which requested placement of the Kemmerer House on the National Register of Historic Places, describes the home during the 1970s as a "sizable brick masonry structure" and provides the following additional details regarding its architectural and landscape features:</p><br>
<p>"Its main (southern) facade has five equally spaced bays with the central one at grade being a transomed, side-lighted entrance door. Originally there was a square columned entrance portico with simple Greek Revival detail.</p><br>
<p>.... A small story wing (once detached summer kitchen) is definitely of an earlier period and suggests that the present main house is a latter-day replacement of an earlier one that used the same stone foundations....</p><br>
<p>The main interior stairs have been refurbished, the hall retaining them has had one wall removed to enlarge the present living room; also the dividing wall separating the original paired parlors has gone to provide a single, ample living room space. The dining room and kitchen on the eastside of the house retain their original areas but are thoroughly modernized.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs the original configuration of rooms is still apparent but modern clothing storage closets have been constructed for each bedroom and a bath provided. The attic space has also been completely finished so that the original structural timbering is now out of sight except for the main struts.</p><br>
<p>.... Set back in a completely fenced yard which once contained orchard trees, ornamental flower beds and a kitchen garden, would have been framed by a pair of evergreens and several specimen trees of English box."</p><br>
<p>Kemmerer House 03.JPGFront south side</p><br>
<p>Kemmerer House 02.JPGEast side</p><br>
<p>Kemmerer House Barn 04.JPGForay barn</p><br>
<p>Kemmerer House Barn 06.JPGForay barn, backyard</p><br>
<p>The Troxell-Steckel House is an historic, American home that is located in Egypt, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1756 by Johannes Peter Troxell (1719-1799), the historic structure is a -story, fieldstone dwelling with a high-pitched gable roof. Designed in the Pennsylvania-German style, it measures 48 feet (14.6 m) long and 35 feet (10.6 m) wide. Also located on the property are a contributing stone spring house and late-nineteenth century barn. The house and property were given to the Lehigh County Historical Society in 1942, and are now open as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The Bad Pass Trail, also known as the Sioux Trail, was established by Native Americans on the border of present-day Montana and Wyoming as a means of access from the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming to Bison-hunting grounds in the Grapevine Creek area of Montana. Marked by stone cairns, the trail led across Bad Pass and was established in pre-Columbian times. After Europeans arrived in the area it was frequented by fur trappers and mountain men, beginning in 1824. Trappers assembled pack trains at the junction of the Shoshone River and the Bighorn River, using the Bad Pass Trail to avoid Bighorn Canyon. The trail ended at the mouth of Grapevine Creek on the Bighorn, from which the pack train could float down the Bighorn on rafts to the Yellowstone River and then to the Missouri and on to St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>Approximately three hundred cairns are known to exist along the trail, particularly in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The cairns are believed to have been built incrementally, with passer-by placing stones on the pile as a good luck offering. Much of the trail itself has been altered beyond recognition by the construction of an access road for area ranches. The trail runs along the western side of Bighorn Canyon. It is estimated to have been in use for ten to twelve thousand years. The trail features as many as one thousand tipi rings on either side of the trail, some of which have been evaluated by archeologists.</p><br>
<p>The Bad Pass Trail was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The M L Ranch was established by Henry Clay Lovell and his financial backer Anthony Mason in Wyoming&#39;s Big Horn Basin in the late 1870s to the south of the present location. The second and final location was established farther north as a cattle line camp in 1883 to be closer to markets in Billings, Montana. In 1884 it became the headquarters for a ranch that reached 25,000 acre in area. The bad winter of 1886–87 killed half the livestock on the ranch, more than 10,000 head., but the M L fared better than most. Mason died in 1892. Lovell died in Oregon in 1903. Lovell, Wyoming was named in his memory. The Lovell family ran the ranch until 1909. In the early 1960s the ranch was purchased by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Bighorn Lake reservoir project. In 1966 the headquarters site was transferred to the National Park Service as part of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.</p><br>
<p>The M L Ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 15, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Town of Milwaukee Town Hall was built in 1872 in what is now Glendale, Wisconsin. It was the seat of government of the Town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin until the town ceased to exist after portions of it were annexed into different municipalities. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Town of Milwaukee was formed in 1838, basically the northern half of what is now Milwaukee County, reaching to Greenfield Avenue. It was then largely farmlands, settled by farmers mostly of German, Swiss, French and Dutch origins. In the early years, the town officers met once a year in homes or taverns, but in 1872 the town decided to build its own hall. For $1000, Louis Severin constructed the hall at the corner of what are now Bender Road and Port Washington Road, a fairly simple one-story frame building with a front porch supported by chamfered posts and a lunette window in each gable end.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the surrounding cities and suburbs annexed bits of the rural Town of Milwaukee until in 1950, the City of Glendale was incorporated out of half of the remainder. With that, the Town dissolved and more of it was annexed by Glendale. By 1962, the town hall was deteriorating and its site on Bender Road was wanted for a water filtration plant. Avoiding demolition, it was moved in 1963 to its current site and restored by the Glendale Women&#39;s Club. Today it serves as a museum and occasional meeting room.</p><br>
<p>The building was moved to a new part of Glendale&#39;s city hall property in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Randolph Tabernacle is a Victorian-styled meetinghouse for the Randolph Ward  of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  and is located in Randolph, Rich County, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>On July 5, 1898, after the creation of the Woodruff Stake, it was decided to build a large meetinghouse for the Randolph Ward that could accommodate people from small outlying communities. Given that the meetinghouse was to be built and used primarily by the Randolph Ward (one congregation) and not multiple congregations within the Woodruff Stake, it is technically not a tabernacle, but a meetinghouse, though its size and elaborate architectural style may be why it has been known colloquially as the Randolph Tabernacle. Members of the Randolph Ward provided almost all of the cost of the building, which by some estimates was around $24,000. The brick walls were complete by 1901 and the roof was finished in 1902. In November 1904, the building was in usable condition and the first meeting was held. The two-story tower was completed in 1909. The building was dedicated on July 26, 1914, by then-LDS Apostle George Albert Smith. The architect, John C. Gray, also served as the bishop of Randolph Ward from 1901 to 1921.</p><br>
<h2>Modifications</h2><br>
<p>Minor renovations occurred in 1936 and 1977. An extensive renovation took place between 1984 and 1985, which included a large rear addition for classrooms, a cultural hall, and offices. The meetinghouse remains in use by the Randolph Ward.</p><br>
<p>The Wellsville Tabernacle was built as a Gothic Revival-styled meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  and is located in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Ground was broken in 1902 by William H. Maughan, who had served as bishop in Wellsville, Utah for forty years. The cornerstones were laid by LDS Apostle Abraham O. Woodruff and Seymour B. Young in 1903. The tabernacle was built using stone quarried from nearby Sardine Canyon and red brick. The tabernacle was dedicated June 28, 1908 by Anthon H. Lund of the LDS Church&#39;s First Presidency. The Tabernacle seats approximately 800. The cost of building the tabernacle was $65,000. With the pulpit in the northwest corner and a diagonal aisle with semi-circular pews facing the pulpit, the tabernacle has a unique floor plan for LDS meetinghouses, which typically have centered pulpits.</p><br>
<h2>Modifications</h2><br>
<p>The main tower was destroyed by fire in 1959 and the replacement was much shorter. The original red bricks were painted white in the 1950s.</p><br>
<h2>Current use and ownership</h2><br>
<p>The tabernacle was sold to the city of Wellsville in 1981. The city was unable to adequately maintain the building and it was sold to the Wellsville Tabernacle Foundation, a group of concerned private citizens who have made the building available to rent for private and community events including weddings. Part of the tabernacle served as a museum of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Facing structural deficiencies in the roof, the tabernacle was closed in 2010 and the Wellsville Tabernacle Foundation is currently hoping to raise $150,000 in funds necessary for renovation in order to reopen.</p><br>
<p>Helfrich&#39;s Springs Grist Mill is an historic grist mill which is located in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. The mill, which was built in 1807, is located along Jordan Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. A boundary increase in 1999 added the Peter Grim House with NRHP reference number 99001288.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure is a three-story, fieldstone mill, which is approximately thirty feet wide by fifty-eight feet deep. It has a slate roof.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall Township acquired the property by eminent domain in 1963.</p><br>
<p>The building is owned and operated by the Whitehall Historical Preservation Society, which began restoring it in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. A boundary increase in 1999 added the Peter Grim House with NRHP reference number 99001288.</p><br>
<p>Dent Hardware Company Factory Complex, also known as the D.W. Coombs Textile Machinery Company, is a historic factory complex located in Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, built between 1894 and 1913 and consisting of eleven reinforced concrete buildings.</p><br>
<p>The company was the nation&#39;s leading producer of brass refrigerator hardware and one of the two largest producers of cast iron toys in Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Ewing-Snell Ranch was established between 1896 and 1898 by Erastus Ewing in Carbon County, Montana, on Layout Creek between Bighorn Canyon and the Pryor Mountains in a region called Dryhead Country. Ewing took up ranching after failing as a gold miner.</p><br>
<p>Erastus Ewing was born in Tennessee about 1846, arriving in Montana in the 1880s to look for gold. He staked numerous claims, one of which controlled the water rights for Layout Creek. After giving up prospecting, he used the rights to establish his ranch, digging a ditch to his homestead from the creek.</p><br>
<p>Ewings place was designated a post office in 1898, operating until 1906 as Ewing, Montana before moving to the Caroline Lockhart Ranch. Erastus died in 1904. His son Lee sold the ranch to Clint Hough in 1911, who sold it to Philip Snell in 1918. The shop building operated as the Dryhead School in 1945–57. Snells descendants sold the ranch to Newell K. Sorenson in 1964. Sorenson sold 640 acre to the Bureau of Reclamation for the construction of Yellowtail Dam in 1968. The ranch is part of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.</p><br>
<p>The Ewing-Snell Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Hugh Glenn House is a historic house located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. It is one of the most notable and historically well-preserved Queen Anne-style houses in The Dalles. Hugh Glenn, a prominent architect and businessman in The Dalles, designed and built the house around 1882 and lived there until his death in 1927.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Valentine Weaver House, also known as the Weaver House, is an historic, American home that is located in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1876, this historic structure is a three-story brick dwelling that was created in the form of a Gothic Cottage. It has a central projecting pavilion on the front façade, a patterned slate roof, and a full-width front porch. Also located on the property are a brick octagonal outhouse, a brick smokehouse, a spring house, and an ice house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Fireman&#39;s Drinking Fountain is a historic drinking fountain located at Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1909, and is a 12-foot high monument, with a 7-foot, 3-inch, statue of a volunteer fireman holding a child in his left hand and a lantern in his right.</p><br>
<p>The zinc statue was manufactured by the J. W. Fiske & Company. It was restored in 1979, after being hit by an automobile.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Caroline Lockhart Ranch was established in 1926 by Caroline Lockhart, who purchased a 160 acre homestead near Davis Creek at the foot of the Pryor Mountains in Carbon County, Montana, while in her fifties. Lockhart expanded the ranch, adding buildings, land and grazing rights until the ranch comprised about 7,000 acre. The region, known as Dryhead Country, is one of the most isolated places in Montana.</p><br>
<p>Caroline Cameron Lockhart was a writer in Philadelphia, who worked as a reporter in Philadelphia and Boston, specializing in investigative reporting. Born in Illinois in 1871, she had grown up on a ranch in Kansas. Lockhart moved to Cody, Wyoming in 1904, writing novels, screenplays and working for the Denver Post. She bought the Cody newspaper, the Park County Enterprise, renaming it the Cody Enterprise in 1921, and selling it in 1925. In 1926 she bought the ranch, living at the L/♥ in the summers and in Cody in the winter. She moved back to Cody in 1950 as her health declined, selling the ranch.</p><br>
<p>The Tippetts family bought the ranch from Lockhart in 1955, primarily for the land rights. The structures were left to deteriorate. In 1980 the property was acquired by the National Park Service and incorporated into Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The structures have been restored by the Park Service as nearly unique examples of local ranching culture and vernacular construction.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The main ranch house was built by Lockhart using hired labor, adding to a cabin built by the previous owners. The rambling log and stone house with a sod roof was completed around 1938, eventually comprising twelve rooms. Other structures include a guest cabin, a bunkhouse -storehouse, a spring house, and stables and barns.</p><br>
<p>The Caroline Lockhart Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1989. The present property comprises 6 acre, the core of the ranch.</p><br>
