<p>The Mackie Building is a grand commercial building designed by E. Townsend Mix and built in 1879 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which housed Milwaukee&#39;s Grain Exchange Room, and the original trading pit. In 1973 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally called the Chamber of Commerce Building or the Grain Exchange. It was built in 1879 as an investment property by USA Representative Alexander Mitchell. During the 1970s, the building underwent extensive restorations.</p><br>
<p>The exterior remains much as Mix designed it: five and a half stories, plus a tower centered above the main entrance, reaching 160 feet above the street. The first story is clad in gray Minnesota granite. Above that the exterior is gray sandstone and limestone. The windows are different at each story, but unified by alternating bands of color and texture. The roof is a complex of mansards. The north entrance is framed by granite columns and images of the Great Seal of Wisconsin and the bull and bear.</p><br>
<p>The Grain Exchange was located in a large three-story room in the building. The room was designed in a Simple Italian architectural style, with soaring ceilings, hand painted frescoes, gold leaf and over 10,000 sq. feet of space. The grain exchange is closely linked with the early commercial history of Milwaukee, when for a brief time, the city was the worlds largest primary wheat market for trading, exporting and inspecting grain. Milwaukees lake port was near vast acres of wheat in the state, so the Milwaukee grain exchange conveniently located there and invented and utilized the very first octagonal trading pit. The grain exchange operated from 1880 to 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Mackie Building is adjacent to the Mitchell Building, which was also built by Alexander Mitchell, also designed by E. Townsend Mix and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Strang School District No. 36, or the Strang Public School, is a historic school located in Fillmore County, Nebraska, in the village of Strang. The school is one of the two sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the village of Strang. The school building is a small, two-story, brick public schoolhouse, which was built to replace the schoolhouse that was previously located on that site. The schoolhouse was built between 1929 and 1930, and replaced the previous schoolhouse, which burned down in 1928. The schoolhouse still retains all original building materials. The school served high school students from 1930 to 1951, and still functions as a school today, serving grades K–8. The NRHP listing also includes a flagpole located outside the schoolhouse, and five pieces of playground equipment.</p><br>
<h2>History and education</h2><br>
<p>In October 1928 a fire destroyed the small school that had previously been located in Strang. Classes were held in two local churches and the Belle Prairie Township Hall for the remainder of that year, while the townspeople held a series of meetings to discuss the construction of a new schoolhouse. Later in 1928, plans for the new schoolhouse were drawn up and approved, and construction on the new Strang Public School began in 1929. The majority of the people that worked on constructing the school were local townspeople. The first classes in the new school were held in February 1930. The schoolhouse was constructed in a "fireproof" fashion, as to prevent another accident. The new schoolhouse was constructed to hold students from first through twelfth grades, from Strang and the surrounding communities. Primary students attending classes were located on the second floor and secondary students classes were held on the first floor. Since construction, there have been no projects undertaken to refurbish or restore the original building, as to protect its historical importance. In 1951, due to a decline in enrollment, the school reduced to serving just students in grades K through 8, and has remained this way since. By the fall of 2004 (the last published figures available), that number had fallen to just five.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Strang Public School is a near perfect example of what is considered a typical twentieth-century "fireproof" schoolhouse in Nebraska, and is constructed somewhat symmetrically. The school was constructed in a simplified version of the Renaissance Revival style, consisting of two stories, with a flat roof.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The building is constructed in a rectangular shape, symmetrical on the exterior, and measures 32 ft by 66 ft. The approximate height measurements are not provided by the Register. Large, six over six paned windows are located in the front and the back of the building on both floors. Similar windows are also located on the south side of the building, but only on the top floor. There are no windows located on the north side. The entire exterior of the building is constructed from brick. The roof is flat and constructed of roofing cement, with a parapet located around it, with a section of a chimney that sticks out of the south end of the roof. The most prominent feature of the exterior of the building is the large, central pavilion, with a stepped gable parapet wall.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The first level of the building contains two classrooms, both of which have a cloakroom, a set of three swivel doors, and a large slate chalkboard that covers one of the walls. The first story also contains two bathrooms, four small storage closets, and a central hall, as well as a large stairwell leading up to the second floor. The second story contains three classrooms, with the same features as those downstairs, along with an office and three small storage rooms. A metal fire escape door is located in the center of the west wall of the second story. The schoolhouse also has a partial basement, which contains a large storage room, a coal room, and a disused coal furnace.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and facilities</h2><br>
<p>The Strang Public School is positioned at the intersection of Main Street and Sharon Street, on the southern edge of Strang, originally planned as a convenient location for the teachers and students coming from surrounding communities. The campus consists of the main schoolhouse, five historic pieces of playground equipment, a flagpole located in front of the building, a basketball/tennis court located north of the school building, and a large playing field west of the schoolhouse. The entire property is contained inside a 300 by 300 foot square plot of land.</p><br>
<p>A flagpole is located outside the main entrance to the school building, and is included in the NRHP listing as a contributing feature. A set of gym bars, a tether ball pole, a swing set, a "slippery slide", and a merry-go-round are located on the south and west sides of the property, and are all listed as contributing features. A fenced tennis and basketball court is located on the north side of the property, and a large track and playing field are located on the west side of the property, but none of these features are included in the listing.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Strang School District No. 36 was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1992. On its nomination, Strang School District No. 36 was cited as being significant under criteria C, with the statement: "as a multi-story, brick, "fireproof" school building, an example of a type, period, and method of construction representative of school buildings constructed in many communities in Nebraska, particularly in Fillmore County, during the first quarter of the twentieth century". The school&#39;s listed year of significance was 1930, the year it was constructed. The school is considered significant to the surrounding community by Fillmore County, due to its importance to education an historic qualities, being one of the oldest buildings in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Edward French House is a historic house located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. Originally dating from circa 1865, it was acquired by the French family in 1892 and renovated by them in the Italianate style in circa 1900. Edward French, along with his uncle Daniel and other members of the French family, were prominent bankers and businessmen from early The Dalles until the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Humboldt Bay Woolen Mill manufactured woolen cloth from 1901 to after World War II. The mill was listed as a National Historic Monument but demolished by the City of Eureka in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When the Humboldt Bay Woolen Mill was built in 1901, the company was capitalized to $100,000 by several local businessmen including timber mill owner, William Carson, sheep rancher Hugh Webster McClellan, and rancher Robert Porter who continued as vice-president of the newly formed company. According to the 1902 Illustrated Map of Eureka, the other officers included J.W. Henderson, President and N. McMillan, Secretary.</p><br>
<p>The Mill manufactured woolen fabrics from 1901 until it closed after World War II. After sitting empty for many years, it was listed on the National Register on 25 June 1982, but it only survived five more years. After the city designated it a dangerous building in 1987, local preservationists and the Eureka Heritage Society tried to get funding to rehabilitate it, but it was torn down in the same year.</p><br>
<p>The Mill was described as an excellent example of Greek Revival architecture and one of the few industrial buildings historically not associated with timber or fishing. Some architectural features of the Mill were saved by historians before the demolition. The site is currently a chain pharmacy, a grocery store and parking. The destruction of this building rallied community activists to save other historically significant structures in Eureka.</p><br>
<p>Vigilant Fire Company Firemen&#39;s Monument is a historic monument located at Washington Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Erected in 1909 and dedicated on September 16, 1909, the Vigilant Fire Company Fireman&#39;s Monument is a 16-foot-high granite monument on a concrete base, which is situated on a plot of land chosen by the fire company for its visibility from the highway. Crafted by local stone mason Frank Scheirer at a cost of $2,200, the monument incorporates a 7-foot-tall statue of an early 20th-century fireman with a handlebar mustache, pointed fire hat, fire coat, and boots, holding a young girl in both arms.</p><br>
<p>Arthur Scranton, a member of the Vigilant Fire Company, was responsible for the erection of the monument, according to the monument&#39;s dedication plaque.</p><br>
<p>This monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>Initially planned as a burial site for firemen who had faced financial hardships or were without family at their respective times of death, the place of the monument was expanded to allow for the burial of career and volunteer firemen. Three firemen who are interred here are: Harry J. Henritzy. Marcus Hessman, and Theodore Hoffman.</p><br>
<p>The Frederick and Catherine Leaser Farm, also known as the Frederick Leaser Farm, is an historic home and farm located in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Frederick Leaser, who was one of the men involved in transporting the Liberty Bell to the Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, thereby preventing British attempts to capture the symbol of American independence during the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History and features</h2><br>
<p>Erected sometime around the mid-eighteenth century, the Frederick and Catherine Leaser Farm was held by members of the Leaser family from 1750 to 1998. Its originator, Frederick Leaser, was one of the men involved in keeping the Liberty Bell from falling into British hands during the American Revolutionary War by transporting it to the Zion Reformed Church in Allentown.</p><br>
<p>The farm property includes the original log cabin (c. 1750), Pennsylvania German vernacular farmhouse (1849), Pennsylvania bank barn (1888), outhouse (c. 1900), smokehouse (c. 1900), summer kitchen / baking house (c. 1850), wagon shed (1906), poultry shed (c. 1875), two frame storage sheds, and a corn crib (c. 1910), as well as the family burial ground and an archaeological site surveyed in 1981–1982.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Rodale Organic Gardening Experimental Farm, also known as the Working Tree Center, is a historic home and farm located in Lynn Township, Pennsylvania. It is important in the history of organic gardening and farming in the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The home on the experimental farm&#39;s property is a farmhouse which dates to roughly the year 1830. It was altered by J. I. Rodale (1898-1971) in order to improve the quality of life at his residence and further his work during 1940 to 1971. Also added by Rodale were a farm office and greenhouse (circa 1945), turkey/goose coop, tennis court, cabana and pool, pavilion, and clapboard and fieldstone bake house, as well as five garden sites: the cultivated gardens, the stone gardens, the Sir Albert Howard test plots, and the aerobic and anaerobic compost heaps. The farm is important in the history of organic gardening and farming in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings and structures which pre-dated Rodale&#39;s 1940 purchase include: the Pennsylvania bank barn, implement shed, corn crib, and chicken coop.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Coplay Cement Company Kilns, also known as the Saylor Park Industrial Museum, is an open-air historic site located at Coplay, Pennsylvania in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The nine kilns were built between 1892 and 1893 and used for the production of Portland cement.</p><br>
<p>The kilns are constructed from locally produced red brick, and are known as Schoefer vertical kilns. They were shut down in 1904, and the Coplay Cement Company then donated them and the surrounding land to Lehigh County in 1975, which was used in creating a cement industry museum celebrating the important role the company and cement played in the area&#39;s early economic development. It is operated as a partnership between Lehigh County, which owns and maintains the site, and the Lehigh County Historical Society, which provides educational services. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Saylor Cement Museum honors David Saylor (1827-1884), the father of the American Portland cement industry, and the people who built this industry into one of the most important in the Lehigh Valley and the nation. Lehigh County was a natural spot for cement production. Cement is made from rocks containing lime, silica, and alumina; Lehigh County limestone “cement rock” contains all three ingredients.</p><br>
<p>In 1866, David O. Saylor helped found Coplay Cement Company. In 1871, he received the first American patent for Portland cement, which is much stronger than the natural cement that had previously been produced in this country. Saylor&#39;s Portland cement built bridges, docks, jetties, roads, aqueducts, subways, and skyscrapers. By 1900, the Lehigh Valley made 72% of Portland cement produced in this country.</p><br>
<p>The first kiln at the Coplay Cement Company was a dome kiln. Dome kilns were inefficient; they had to shut down often. In 1893 Coplay Cement built Mill B, containing the Schoefer kilns standing today. Originally enclosed in a large building, Schoefer kilns could run continuously. Soon, however, the even more efficient rotary kilns came into use. Mill Bs outdated Schoefer kilns shut down in 1904, and Coplay Cement later used Mill Bs buildings for storage.</p><br>
<p>Cedarvale, also known as Hillsboro Ranch, was a dude ranch and working ranch in Carbon County, southern Montana, United States. The ranch was established about 1903 by prospector Grosvener W. Barry on the South Fork Trail Creek. Barry used the ranch as a home for his family and as a base for his mining ventures, all of which failed. His most lucrative venture was the conversion of Cedarvale from a working ranch to a dude ranch, marketed through an arrangement with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. It was the first dude ranch in the area. Barry introduced powered boats to the Bighorn River to carry dudes to the ranch from the railhead at Kane, Wyoming. As a publicity stunt Barry, his stepson and a neighbor piloted the 16 ft motorized Edith from the Hillsboro landing down the Bighorn, Yellowstone, Missouri and Mississippi rivers, leaving on May 31, 1913 and arriving in New Orleans on August 1. One of Barrys boats, the Hillmont, is on display at Barrys Landing.</p><br>
<h2>Doc Barry</h2><br>
<p>Grosvener W. Barry started life in New York and moved west with his wife Edith and her son from a previous marriage, Claude St. John. Known as "Doc, " Barry promoted a number of mining schemes. His most ambitious effort raised $50,000 to ship a gold dredge to work a claim on the Bighorn River at the mouth of Trail Creek, which never recovered its costs. Barry died in Billings, Montana of a brain tumor on January 25, 1920. Edith and Claude St. John continued to manage the dude ranch after his death. The ranch eventually reverted to a working cattle ranch, continuing into the late 1950s</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district comprises what amounts to a small town, including the 1-1/2 story log Hillsboro Post Office, the log Big Chicken House, the Small Chicken House, a milk house and a root cellar. Hulbert&#39;s Shop and the Dude Cabin are in two sections of the same small log structure. A barn, corral, and the Hulbert Cabin complete the ensemble. Nearly all of the buildings had sod roofs. The post office opened in 1915 and lasted until 1945. The main ranch house burned during the winter of 1947-48, and its replacement burned some years later.</p><br>
<p>Cedarvale was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1975. It is a preserved area within Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The Barry&#39;s landing area of the park continues the Barry name.</p><br>
<p>The Grandey Elementary School is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Terry, Montana. It was added to the Register in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1908 to entice "Professor" Charles William Grandey to stay as a teacher in Terry. It was paid for by a $20,000 bond which passed unanimously, and the former 24 x school was converted to a house for Mr. and Mrs. Grandey, who occupied it for 12 years.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story brick structure with the first floor about four feet below grade, and is about 77.5 x in plan. It has light buff-colored load-bearing brick walls, with dark reddish brick accents in bands and window caps. The building includes a fire escape on the south side of the building, via a metal chute from the third floor&#39;s art room.</p><br>
<p>The school was still in use in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Yellowstone River Bridge is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Fallon, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on January 4, 2010. It is a 2-span, riveted, continuous steel Warren truss bridge. Built between 1943 and 1944, it was one of very few major bridge projects undertaken by the Montana Highway Department during World War II.</p><br>
<p>The placard reads:</p><br>
<p>The Yellowstone River Bridge is the longest truss bridge built in Montana at 1,142 feet. It is also one of the few bridges built in Montana during World War II. During the 1930s, the Montana Highway Department welcomed an influx of New Deal money by embarking on ambitious road improvements, including building more than 1,000 bridges. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, bridge building screeched to a halt, except on roads designated as critical to national security. These included USA Route 10, which connected Seattle to Minneapolis. Thus, in 1943, when an ice jam destroyed the bridge at Fallon, forcing motorists and critical war materials to make a 55-mile detour, the Secretary of Defense ordered the highway department to build a replacement. Specifically designed for wide river crossings, the steel and concrete bridge is a continuous span Warren through truss structure. The trusses are arranged in a "W" configuration that identifies them as Warren trusses. The highway department used this style of bridge from 1933 to 1946. Despite authorization from the War Production Board, labor and steel shortages slowed construction, as did high water and inclement weather. The W. P. Roscoe Company of Billings hired men from the Crow Reservation to help pour the concrete piers and subcontracted with another company to erect the steel trusses. To spectators&#39; amazement, crews worked high in the air, sauntering across I beams seventy feet above ground "as nonchalantly as if traveling on a broad highway." The bridge opened to much fanfare in late November 1944.</p><br>
<p>The Burgess Garage is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Lambert, Montana. It was added to the Register on December 30, 2004. The building is now used as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The placard reads:</p><br>
<p>The Burgess Garage was constructed circa 1913 and is the oldest building standing in Lambert. That year the Northwest Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad, platted the new townsite. Business at the garage (then called Winkes Garage) was already booming by the time the first train pulled into Lambert in 1914. One of the first sources for motorized vehicles and machinery in Richland County, the garage is a testament to the role mechanization played in the homesteading boom. By 1915, local physician Dr. George Armour had established his practice in the front office while Winkes continued operating his garage in the rear. Winkes died of acute appendicitis in 1918, and his widow sold the garage to Dr. Armour. Armour hired two mechanics and continued to run both his medical practice and the garage from the building, which was renamed Armour’s Garage. Drought, agricultural depression, and depopulation caused many Lambert businesses to close after World War I, including Armour’s garage and medical practice in 1927. In 1931, Alvin Burgess purchased the building from Richland County for $62.00 and reopened the garage, which he operated until his death in 1966. Originally built of wood, the building was covered with stucco early in its history; the one-inch stucco may have protected the garage from a series of catastrophic fires that burned much of Lambert’s business district in 1923, 1925, and 1931. Now owned by the Lambert Historical Society, the building today looks much as it did in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Peoples&#39; Congregational Church in Sidney, Montana was a church built in 1910 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was also known as Sidney Lutheran Brethren Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by James W. Anderson, the first reverend of the church, and built from milled lumber brought from Mondak, Montana, a railway town. It has an "engaged norman tower" which is "an infrequent feature used in this otherwise distinctive, popular church design". The church building has subsequently been torn down and replaced by a single-story commercial building.</p><br>
<p>Hale&#39;s Filling Station and Grocery is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Roosevelt County, Montana. It was added to the Register on August 16, 1994. It was a service station and a grocery store built probably in the late 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It is located on what was in 1994, an abandoned segment of old USA 2, between Bainville and Culbertson, Montana in the far northeastern corner of the state. It was the only remaining original building of the former town of Lanark.</p><br>
<p>When listed in 1994, the building was vacant and not in use.</p><br>
<p>The Vogt–Nunberg Farm is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wibaux, Montana. It was added to the Register on April 10, 2008. The application papers state the farm "is an important example of an early twentieth century diversified farming operation in eastern Montana".</p><br>
<p>The placard reads:</p><br>
<p>Twenty-year-old John Vogt arrived in the Beaver Valley in 1910 at the height of the homesteading boom. Boosters promoted "good soil, good climate, good schools, good markets" and touted new dry-land farming techniques that promised high crop yields without irrigation. Not all would-be farmers took out homesteads. The Northern Pacific Railroad already owned 13.3 million acres in Montana, which it had acquired from the federal government to help finance construction of its transcontinental line. Eager for new customers, the railroad aggressively marketed its holdings, offering good terms to anyone interested in acquiring land. With his brother Jacob homesteading nearby, John Vogt purchased this farm from the railroad in 1911. He hired local builder Joe Novantey to construct a two-story residence as well as the farms centerpiece, a 73-foot-by-35-foot balloon-frame cattle barn. Balloon framing, which used milled lumber instead of timber, was standard practice on the Great Plains. A chicken coop, feed house, and hog shed, also built during Vogts tenure, reflect his diversified operation. John married Charlotte Bott in 1917, and together the couple weathered drought and low commodity prices before selling the farm to Alfred and Victoria Nunberg in 1929. The Nunbergs survived the Great Depression by raising pigs, chickens, sheep, beef and dairy cattle, wheat, barley, oats, and hay. They also hosted community dances in their barn&#39;s large hay loft to supplement their income. Despite hard times, they raised nine children, improved the farm, and enlarged their holdings. Son Fred took over the operation in 1958, actively farming until 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Pierre Wibaux House is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wibaux, Montana, United States. It was added to the Register on September 10, 1971.</p><br>
<p>A placard reads:</p><br>
<p>Pierre Wibaux, scion of a distinguished French textile family, arrived here at the settlement of Mingusville in 1883, establishing a cattle ranch about 12 miles north. His herds fared well during the devastating “Hard Winter of 1886-1887,” after which he borrowed family money to buy out less fortunate ranchers. By the mid-1890s, his ranch was one of the largest cattle operations in the nation, running about 65,000 head of cattle and 300 of horses. He sold from 3,000 to 9,000 cattle each year. Wibaux and others persuaded the Northern Pacific Railroad to build stockyards here in 1883, and to enlarge them in 1894. Wibaux campaigned to have Mingusville platted and renamed for him, both of which occurred in 1894. Two years previously, he and Henry Boice of the Berry-Boice Cattle Company had built this office/residence. Wibaux soon took it over completely, and used it during the week to oversee his business interests. The building faced north until W. A. Orgain, a local merchant, purchased the property in 1903 and moved the building to the rear and facing west. Originally it was surrounded by a lush park of grass and arbored vines tended by a French gardener, the water for irrigation and two artificial ponds supplied by an elevated tank filled by a windmill.</p><br>
<p>The Wibaux Commercial Historic District is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wibaux, Montana. It was added to the Register on December 28, 1989. It then included 12 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Chappell Block (109 Wibaux Street South)</h2><br>
<p>Prominent resident Stephen B. Chappell was the main financial contributor and owner of this magnificent edifice constructed in 1911. The building combines two structures that are unified by a single façade treatment. The Chappell Hotel, First State Bank, and a grocery store were the original occupants. Meticulous craftsmanship, colorful brickwork, and lavish architectural ornamentation above the two main entries result in a beautifully sophisticated example of early-twentieth-century architecture in a small western town.</p><br>
<h2>Clark Hardware Company (110 South Wibaux Street)</h2><br>
<p>Harold G. Clark and Orlando Burgess, owners of the Clark Hardware Company, constructed this one-story brick and stucco commercial building in 1916. Representative of the period of Wibaux&#39;s major economic development, it originally housed the hardware store, a funeral parlor, jewelry store, and tailor. Six decorative relief panels ornament the upper portion of the structure. Multicolored brick in a chevron and diamond pattern adorn the space above the center door.</p><br>
<h2>Kinney Block / First National Bank Building (125 South Wibaux Street)</h2><br>
<p>In 1910, J. C. Kinney and other local capitalists created the Wibaux Improvement Company to build this handsome two-story business block. Contractor Charles Charmichael of Miles City constructed the “large and commodious building … faced with a high grade red pressed brick and trimmed with red sandstone” for $33,000. According to the Wibaux Pioneer, the building was “strictly modern, hot water heated and hot and cold water in every suite.” A year later, the Improvement Company installed an electric plant with a six-hundred-light capacity in the basement. In addition to a generator imported from St. Paul, Minnesota, the plant also boasted a “large storage battery,” which supplied “commercial lights early in the mornings, dark afternoons,” and at other times the main plant did not operate. The building&#39;s early tenants included a clothing store, drug store, post office, barbershop, and realty and loan company. Kinney was president of First National Bank, and the bank had offices on the second floor. In the 1950s, John Dobrowski converted the building into the Palace Hotel and Cafe, which it remains today.</p><br>
<h2>Smith Saloon</h2><br>
<p>Constructed during Wibaux&#39;s transition period from a cattle town into an agricultural center, this Queen Anne commercial style building originally housed the Smith Saloon. Partners William H. Smith, John R. Cornell, and W. H. North built the saloon between 1904 and 1906 and later sold the business to W. H. Rucker, who operated it until 1917 when he sold the property to the State Bank of Yates. Renamed the Wibaux County Bank, it operated out of here until its failure. In 1923, Wibaux County purchased the building for use as the county courthouse and jail. Since 1952, the City Hall and the public library have occupied the space. The Smith Saloon is an excellent example of early-twentieth-century commercial architecture, with front parapet and battlements, corner pilasters, a tiered belt course with modillions, recessed doorway, and a concrete hood with ornamental concrete support brackets. A primary structure in the historic district, the building remains as the best representative of early Wibaux County government.</p><br>
<h2>Woodburn Building</h2><br>
<p>Brothers Burl and William Woodburn collaborated to construct this substantial commercial building in 1917. The Masonic Temple was located on the upper floor and the Woodburn Brothers Grocery occupied the ground space until the building changed hands in 1921. Its striking polychrome brick, gently sloping gable parapets, and terra cotta tile-framed windows and doors add unique contrast to the plain rectangular plan. Numerous T- and diamond-shaped terra cotta medallions ornament the upper level.</p><br>
<p>The Graves Hotel was a historic hotel located at 106 South Central Avenue in Harlowton, Montana. A. C. Graves, a leading figure in Harlowton&#39;s early development, had the hotel built in 1909; it was one of the first businesses to be built after a fire destroyed much of downtown Harlowton in 1907. The hotel was the first sandstone building in Harlowton, though the stone eventually became a common building material; its design featured a projecting corner oriel window topped by a metal cupola. In addition to hosting visitors and railroad travelers, the hotel also served as a community meeting place and business center.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was destroyed by a fire on February 12, 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Big Horn River Bridge is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Custer, Montana. It was added to the Register on January 4, 2010. The bridge is a riveted Pennsylvania through truss structure that was constructed over a two-year period between 1931 and 1933. It is 624 feet in length and 21 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is located in a floodplain near the mouth of the river, which has historically been prone to flooding. Flooding has been reduced since the building upstream of Yellowtail Dam, completed in 1967, but high waters have occurred since, including notably 1978 and 2011. The classic Western novel The Virginian, published by Owen Wister in 1902, mentions a washout of the Northern Pacific railroad bridge over the Big Horn River near here:</p><br>
<p>The Sanders Gymnasium and Community Hall, located in Sanders, Montana, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. With.</p><br>
<p>A placard at the site reads:</p><br>
<p>A sense of community and a place to gather were essential in homesteading settlements like Sanders. In 1910, the areas residents rallied together to build a club house on this site. Each donated $15 or its equivalent in labor, and the building, though crudely assembled, served for nearly thirty years. By the late 1930s, the club house was in disrepair. The Sanders School District wanted a facility that could double as a gymnasium serving Sanders Elementary School next door. A bond election secured funds and the old building was cleared away. Acclaimed regional architects J. G. Link & Company drew the plans while Billings contractor Steve Mercer won the bid at $3,500. The rustic exterior of rugged square-notched logs is a surprising contrast to the interiors lofty ceiling of arched fir and polished hardwood floor. A basketball court, raised stage, built-in seating and state-of-the-art lighting reflected modern technologies despite a lack of indoor plumbing. A community dance christened the new hall and gymnasium on June 29, 1940. Sanders&#39; population began to dwindle and the school closed in 1948. It was later moved to Hysham, but the front gate and two-hole privy remain part of the historic landscape. The hall continued to host dances, reunions, receptions, school plays, and rousing games. Local residents, including descendants of area homesteaders, have carefully refurbished this well-loved place. Its unassuming presence is a shining example of grand things that can be found in unexpected places.</p><br>
<p>The building is significant "as a representative work" by architect John Gustavus Link. Its NRHP nomination notes thatUnlike many other more stylish and substantial buildings, Link&#39;s design for the Sanders gym employs functional rustic log construction, in a direct and utilitarian manner. The rugged log exterior does not belie the more finished interior gymnasium, its arched fir pressboard ceiling formed to fit under the gable roof. From the exterior, the building fits with the body of log architecture that was common to frontier settlements, with its square notched logs, plain rectangular massing, basic gable rooflines, shingled gable ends, and lack of adornment. By contrast, the carefully designed ulterior, with its formed wood ceiling arch, highly polished hardwood floor, built-in seating, raised stage and electrical lighting reflects the modern design ideals and technologies of the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Bethany Lutheran Church is a historic wood-frame church building located in Oilmont, Montana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the Great Northern Railway built a line through the area, Scandinavian immigrants began to settle in Toole County. The immigrants brought their religion with them, and starting in 1885 the Lutheran Church developed a presence in the county. The influx of immigrants reached its peak in the 1910s; it was in this decade, in 1911, that Norwegian settlers formed the congregation which became Bethany Lutheran Church. The congregation initially met in members houses and the local school, but in 1916 it acquired land to build a church on. Economic difficulties stalled construction plans until 1923, when the congregations Ladies Aid group bought a church building to place on the site. The church building was moved to the churchs land the next year, and final construction was completed in 1925. The church remained active until 1960, when its congregation merged with St. Lukes Parish in Shelby.</p><br>
<p>Bogert Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is a 145 ft, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It was restored by the Allentown Parks Department.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Bogert&#39;s Bridge was built between 1841 and 1842. It takes its name from the Bogert family. Peter Bogert purchased the land on which the bridge is located in 1744 as part of his farm. Settlers are said to have put stones in the Little Lehigh River at the location of the bridge, which were used as a crossing prior to its construction. In the 1760s, a crude log bridge, later replaced by a wooden plank bridge, was built on the site.</p><br>
<p>When Indian tribes complained that the bridge blocked their canoes, Bogert was called on to settle the dispute. The Indians believed he treated them fairly, and called Bogert "the Peacemaker."</p><br>
<p>Bogerts Bridge is a Burr Truss, named after a design created by Theodore Burr of Connecticut in the early 19th century. Its most distinctive feature is two long arch trusses resting on abutments at either end. It was built by local men. John Waltman of Allentown worked on the bridge as a carpenters apprentice at the age of 16.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1945, management of the bridge was transferred from Lehigh County to the Pennsylvania Department of Highways since it carried South 24th Street, which linked state routes Hamilton Street and Lehigh Street.</p><br>
<p>On February 19, 1956 at 3:15 a.m., a speeding truck pulling a trailer smashed into the bridge, splintering seven of the bridge&#39;s twelve-by-twelve-inch crossbeams. Its roof sagged in the middle. Lehigh County officials initially wanted to tear down the bridge, believing it had become a traffic hazard. The following year, on May 30, 1957, a second accident involving a truck carrying an earthmover crashed into the bridge, smashing the roof and causing extensive damage.</p><br>
<p>In 1957, a letter writing campaign by the Save the Bogert&#39;s Bridge Committee obtained state approval to redirect South 24th Street to a new bridge located a few hundred feet away from the structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, the covered bridge was reconstructed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and its management was then transferred to Allentown.</p><br>
<p>Bogert&#39;s is the oldest covered bridge in Lehigh County, and among the oldest in the country. It is open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only. In 1980, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Cold Spring Bridge is a historic concrete open-spandrel arch bridge located at Whitehall Township and North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1930, and is a 228 ft bridge, with a single 160 ft arch consisting of six symmetrically placed spandrel arches.</p><br>
<p>The bridge crosses Spring Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the bridge was considered to be structurally deficient and scheduled to be replaced by a three span bulb T-beam bridge costing $3.8 million. It had an average daily traffic volume of 2,461 vehicles.</p><br>
<p>The First Street Historic District, also known as the Main Street Historic District, is a commercial historic district in Menominee, Michigan containing over 40 structures spread over a 29 acre area. The district is roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, the north side of Tenth Avenue, Second Street, and the Green Bay Shoreline; the boundaries are approximately equivalent to what is locally known as the Historic Waterfront Downtown. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the mid 19th century, Menominee&#39;s location on the shore of Lake Michigan and within a heavily forested district facilitated the growth of both shipping and lumber industries in the area. Starting in the 1850s, prosperous local citizens built commercial blocks along First Street, employing local architects and using materials plentiful in the region. By the early 1900s, the growth of the mining industry brought a new wave of industrialists, who employed architects from Chicago to design elaborate public buildings in the area.</p><br>
<p>The First Street Historic District is significant as a well-maintained example of a commercial district as it appeared in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The First Street Historic District contains over 40 commercial buildings and civic structures, as well as several private houses, spread over a 29 acre area. Most of these buildings date to Menominee&#39;s prosperous era which began around 1890. Many of the commercial blocks are of a vernacular Midwestern design, constructed of local red sandstone. Some are Romanesque Revival structures of locally made bricks, and several have elaborate classical or Beaux-Arts facades. Many of the buildings are in substantially original condition, or have only minor alterations.</p><br>
<p>Dorsch&#39;s White Cross Bakery, also known as the Wonder Bread Factory, is a complex of historic structures located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was entered in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2011 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Peter Michael Dorsch (1878-1959), who was a Washington, DC native, established the business in 1904 on Seventh Street and moved to the present location in 1913. The buildings that front S Street, NW were built in 1915 and 1922. They were designed by different architects, but they are composed of similar materials, treatment and details. They features elements of the American Craftsman style. White terra cotta tile crosses in the center pediments identify the building with White Cross Bakery. The building has been redeveloped into a mix of office and retail uses.</p><br>
<p>On the 2018 reboot of Murphy Brown, the building served as the Cable News Channel studios from which the title character&#39;s show Murphy in the Morning was broadcast.</p><br>
<p>Margaret Murray Washington School, also known as the M.M. Washington Career High School, is a historic structure located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was entered in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main block of the school was opened in 1912 as the O Street Vocational School. It was designed by District of Columbia Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford. The school was renamed for Margaret Murray Washington, the wife of Booker T. Washington, in 1926. She had been a leader of several black feminist organizations and the anti-lynching movement. Additions designed by Albert Harris and Albert Cassell were added in 1928 and 1938 respectively. A gymnasium was added in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The curriculum provided "manual training for boys and domestic science and art for girls." Nursing was added during World War II and it was accredited afterwards. The school offered instruction to students at area elementary schools as well as high-school-age students who made up its student body.</p><br>
<p>The building was one of many schools closed in 2008 as part of budget cutting measure. In 2012, work began to turn the school into senior housing which opened in 2013 as the 82 apartment House of Lebanon.</p><br>
<p>The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania Western Headquarters Building  is a structure at 201 Stanwix Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 12-story building, which was built between 1956 and 1957. In 1985 it was utilized for office space, corporate television & fiber optic teleconferencing facilities for intra-organization, face-to-face meetings. An historic #5ESS cutover in 1986 was covered by the news crew here marking the entrance into the digital age of telecommunications for an antiquated landline infrastructure in the United States. Converted to luxury rental apartments in 2012. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Wehr Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a three span, 117 ft, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has horizontal siding and gable roof. It crosses Jordan Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. After an incident in July 2014 in which a grossly overweight truck crossed the bridge, it was closed for several days for inspection. The bridge did not sustain significant structural damage, but county officials decided to reduce the posted weight limit from 20,000 lb to 8,000 lb.</p><br>
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<p>Centennial Bridge was a historic stone arch bridge located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It was built in 1876, and was a 233 ft bridge, with three 23 ft, horseshoe shaped arches. It crossed Saucon Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>The proposal for the bridge was created by local farmers for a safer means to transport their cattle and dairy products to market. The east side of Center Valley was known as Milk Town because of its many dairy farms. The west side of Center Valley had a rail station part of the North Pennsylvania Railroad which opened on December 26, 1856. The two sides of the valley where separated by the Saucon Creek which proved to be a formidable hazard, especially in poor weather.</p><br>
<p>In 1874, the Allentown & Coopersburg Turnpike opened and sparked further interest in building a bridge. August 2, 1875, the Lehigh County grand jury recommended to county Commissioners Jacob Leiby (of the nearby Jacob Leiby Farm), Jesse Solliday and Daniel Lauer that the bridge be built. That September 13, the commissioners allocated $1,200 for the bridge. The turnpike&#39;s owner, Enos Erdman, was contracted for most of the construction and the bridge opened on September 18, 1876. A local legend persists that Penal labour was used to build the bridge, although all records point to contracted laborers under the employ of Erdmen.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>Repairs were made to the Centennial Bridge in 1918 and in 1933. County inspectors described the bridge as being in “fair shape.” In 1936, the state Highways Department took over responsibility for the bridge from the county. Unlike the surrounding roads, the bridge was never expanded or renovated to handle large motor vehicles. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. After 116 years of use, on April 2, 1992, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation closed the bridge after a large crack was discovered in the supporting arches and the bridge was deemed unsafe. The bridge was demolished in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center is a multi-purpose civic building located in Payson, Utah, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The facility is named after Chief Peteetneet, the indigenous clan leader of a Tumpanawach (Timpanogos) Ute band, and a monument of him stands at the front of Center. The building houses a Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum of pioneer artifacts, the Payson Historical Society, and the Peteetneet Arts Council as well as many community art and dance classes and events. The large hill behind the building is a popular place for watersliding in the summer and sledding in the winter.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to serving as a museum and cultural arts center, the Peteetneet School or Peteetneet Academy was erected in 1901. The architectural design combines both Victorian and Romanesque Revival architecture and was done by Richard C. Watkins, who designed many other schools through Utah and Sanpete counties. The Victorian belfry makes this school more flamboyant than other prominent schools designed by Watkins such as the Maeser School or Old Spring City School. The building served as an academy and then elementary school until 1989 when Payson City planned to demolish the building. A group of concerned citizens formed People Preserving Peteetneet and were instrumental in saving and restoring the school. Since the building is located on the Nebo Loop Scenic Byway, the Utah Department of Transportation awarded over $100,000 to assist in the restoration. The building was transformed into a museum and civic center. A glass elevator was added in 2008. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 30, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The North Sherman Boulevard Historic District is a largely intact neighborhood of stylish homes built from 1907 to 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before 1890 the land that now contains the district was rural, outside the city limits of Milwaukee, but the city was growing. In that year the Milwaukee Park Commission bought the land that would become Washington Park. In 1891 it bought the 24 acres that would become Sherman Park. In 1899 the city annexed both parcels. By 1901 the name "Sherman Boulevard" was in use and in years that followed, residential subdivisions were laid out in the area. In 1910 the city officially designated the street as a boulevard, meaning that a landscaped median runs between the two roadways.</p><br>
<p>Here are some good examples of structures of different styles in the district:</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Franklin Hambach house at 2134 N. Sherman Blvd. is a -story house built in 1911, designed by Theo. F. Schutz in Spanish Colonial Revival style, characterized by the shaped parapets that front the gable ends and the brick arcade that is the front of the porch.</p><br>
<p>The Herman Hummel house at 2411 Sherman Blvd. is a -story bungalow designed by Charles Valentine and built in 1912. It is clad in brick and stucco, with a full-width front porch.</p><br>
<p>The Albert & Elizabeth Nortmann house at 2141-43 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story Neoclassical-styled house with a colossal front portico supported by four Ionic columns. It was designed by F.W. Andree and built in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur F. Milbath duplex at 2401-03 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story Tudor Revival-styled structure, designed by Charles Valentine. The upper story is clad in stucco with half-timbering framing some windows. Milbath was an executive of Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Co.</p><br>
<p>The Rottman and Dapper duplex at 2319-21 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story Prairie style structure designed by Leiser and Holst and built in 1916. Hallmarks of the style are the horizontal emphasis and the banks of windows.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Phillip Schmitt house at 2124-26 N. Sherman Blvd is a -story Queen Anne style house with Craftsman influence. It was designed by F.W. Andree and built in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The Floyd E. Jenkins duplex at 2811-13 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story duplex built in 1922 by Gilbert Steuerwald. The style is Craftsman, its hallmark being the exposed rafter tails below the eaves. The hip roof is also fairly typical of Craftsman, but the large cube-like form is not.</p><br>
<p>The Third Church of Christ Scientist at 2915 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 3-story Neoclassical-styled church designed by Frank Howend and built in 1923. Each side features a colonnade with arched windows between the columns and a low dome rises in the center of the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Henry L. Grieb house at 2430 N. Sherman Blvd. is a -story brick house built in 1923. Its style is Colonial Revival, signaled by the columns that support the surround above the doorway. Grieb was an insurance agent. Timothy Heggland observes in the NRHP nomination that Colonial Revival style is much less common in this district than in most around the state that were constructed in the same period. He posits this is because this style is usually clad in wood, and the settlers of this district had enough money to choose houses clad in more expensive brick and stucco, which require less maintenance in the long run.</p><br>
<p>The William & Amanda Maertz house at 2602 N. Sherman Blvd. is a rambling 1-story Rustic-styled house built in 1924 with walls of whole saddle-notched logs, and with tapered cobblestone chimneys. William and his family owned and managed movie theaters. William also worked for Schuster&#39;s Department store.</p><br>
<p>The Sol & Esther Blankstein house at 3259 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story house built in 1939, designed by R.O. Razall in Mediterranean Revival style, with round-arched French doors and windows on the first floor and a hip roof covered in reddish barrel tile - characteristic of the style.</p><br>
<p>Haines Mill, also known as the Haines Mill Museum, is an historic grist mill located in South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Built sometime around 1840, it is a four-story, stone building with a slate covered gambrel roof, and is three bays by three bays, by.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The interior of this mill was rebuilt after a fire in 1908. A three-story brick addition was built in 1930, with a lean-to roof. A cupola sits atop the main roof. Haines Mill remained in full operation until 1957.</p><br>
<p>Haines Mill is operated as a partnership between Lehigh County, which owns and maintains the site, and the Lehigh County Historical Society, which provides public tours of it.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Linden Grove Pavilion is a historic pavilion located at Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1900, and is a -story, rectangular building with textured wooden siding and a slate covered hipped roof in the Queen Anne style. It is 10 bays wide, 60 feet by 40 feet. It was used as an exercise and auction pavilion for animals and machinery, and later as a warehouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is a contributing property to the Coopersburg Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Dorneyville Crossroad Settlement is a complex of three historic buildings, which are located in the Dorneyville section of South Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The complex&#39;s three buildings include King George Inn, John Dorney House, and William Dorney House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The King George Inn is a large stone building that was erected in four sections. The oldest dates to roughly 1755, with additions made circa 1790, 1796 and 1930. It was operated as an inn and tavern.</p><br>
<p>The John Dorney House and William Dorney House are two stone dwellings that were built sometime around 1832 and 1835, respectively. They are representative of the Georgian style.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>King George Inn, which operated as a tavern and restaurant since 1756, closed unexpectedly in August 2012. It is scheduled for demolition.</p><br>
<p>Bierys Port Historic District is a national historic district located in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and includes 90 contributing buildings in the Bierys Port section of Catasauqua.</p><br>
<p>The district includes mainly mid- to late-19th century dwellings, and some 2 1/2-story stone dwellings built in the early 19th century by Frederick Biery. Notable non-residential buildings include the Americana Hotel (1852) and Dery Silk Mill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Biery’s Port is the oldest section of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, which was initially settled in 1805.</p><br>
<p>In 1839, Catasauqua was the first community in the United States to launch anthracite iron manufacturing operations. The site of several of Catasauquas first commercial and residential buildings, Bierys Port became "the commercial heart of a thriving town," according to historians at the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor."</p><br>
<p>According to Lehigh Valley historian William H. Glace, David Thomas, a native of Glamorgan, Wales, who became an iron worker at age 17 and then supervisor of the blast furnaces at the Yniscedwyn Iron Works in the Swansea Valley, was recruited by Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company to erect "a furnace and run it successfully for three months by the exclusive use of anthracite coal for fuel." Lehigh Coal then "selected Biery&#39;s Port along the Canal, three miles above Allentown (later named Catasauqua) as the location for their great undertaking."</p><br>
<p>Thomas emigrated from South Wales in 1839, and subsequently rented a home in Allentown with his family after arriving on July 9, 1839, "until the two-story frame dwelling at Biery&#39;s Port was completed for them by the Crane Iron Co.," successfully completed his initial assignment for Lehigh Coal, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, which later became known simply as the Crane Iron Company, and making him a wealthy man and local philanthropist.</p><br>
<p>According to Glace, Thomas "took much interest in the political, financial, religious and charitable affairs of the town, and therefore he came to be commonly recognized as its founder," and was also "particularly concerned in the establishment and success of the First Presbyterian Church of Catasauqua, and encouraged temperance and thrift amongst the numerous workingmen under him."</p><br>
<p>Catasauqua Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 63 contributing buildings in Catasauqua. It consists mainly of large mid- to late-19th century dwellings in a variety of architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and Neo-Classical Revival styles. Notable residences are the Dery Mansion, David Thomas House, Fatzinger House, and Oscar Stein House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Coopersburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Coopersburg, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 175 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Coopersburg.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The buildings are in a variety of architectural styles including Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and Federal styles. Notable buildings include the Norcross House (1790), Barron House (social hall of the Coopersburg Fire Company), Odd Fellows&#39; Hall, Baldwin House hotel (1856), Gander (or Boye) House, the Cooper Estate, Coopersburg Elementary School (1909), First National Bank of Coopersburg (1920), and Congreve House. Located in the district is the separately listed Linden Grove Pavilion.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District is a United States Historic District south of Booneville, Arkansas that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The sanatorium was the relocation center for all white Arkansans with tuberculosis. By the time the facility was closed in 1973, it had treated over 70,000 patients. The main hospital, named the Nyberg Building after Leo E. Nyberg, a former sanatorium patient and state legislator who sponsored the bill funding the construction, was completed in 1941. The facility became known worldwide as one of the most successful and modern hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis of its day.</p><br>
<p>The sanatorium complex was self-sustaining, with dormitories, staff entertainment buildings, a chapel, laundry, dairy, water treatment plant, independent telephone system, and even a fire department. At the height of its use, the complex employed nearly 300 staff members. At one point, the total population of the center was greater than that of Booneville, in the valley below.</p><br>
<p>With the introduction of more effective drug therapy, the patient population began to decline. Eventually the sanatorium was closed in 1973. The campus was then used as the Booneville Human Development Center, a state-run residential program for adults with mild and moderate mental retardation and other developmental disabilities which is what it remains today.</p><br>
<p>The main buildings were designed by the architectural firms of Haralson & Mott of Fort Smith, Arkansas and Erhart & Eichenbaum of Little Rock, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The Charles G. Janson Garage is a commercial structure located at 524 Tenth Avenue in Menominee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Charles G. Janson Garage was originally constructed in 1915 for Charles G. Janson, a Ford auto dealer. Janson was a Swedish immigrant who started as a blacksmith before getting into the automobile business. An addition was made to the original building in 1933. In 1937, Janson retired, selling his business to Herbert J. Norton of Escanaba, Michigan, but retaining ownership of the building. Janson died in 1955 at the age of 82.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Charles G. Janson Garage is a two-story commercial building constructed of brick. The original section of the building is a deep building with a narrow front, a gently sloping roof, and a stepped parapet on either side. The second floor is relatively shallow. The front facade is faced with dark red brick and the remaining sides are faced with a yellow brick. The front has a wide center entrance originally used as an auto entry, but since converted to a double-door with sidelights. Two large shop windows are placed on either side of the entrance, and a large central window, flanked by narrower windows, is in the upper story.</p><br>
<p>A single-story brick addition is connected to the side of the original building well back from the street, giving the overall plan an L-shape. The addition originally had three garage bays and a large window in front; the garage entrances have since been converted to doors.</p><br>
<p>The Allen Hazen Water Tower, also known as the Municipal Water Tower, is a historic structure located on the west side of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first water storage facility in the city of Des Moines was located at Seventeenth and Crocker Streets, and it was completed in 1891. Before it was torn down in 1939, the Allen Hazen Water Tower was completed in 1931. It was designed by New York engineer Clinton Mackenzie of Everett & Hazen. Allen Hazen, one of the partners in the firm and a pioneer in water treatment, was a consulting engineer to the Des Moines Water Works in the 1920s. He also supervised the tower&#39;s construction. Hazen died just before construction was completed and the tower was named in his honor. While there are other water storage facilities in Des Moines, this is technically the only water tower in the city. At one time a large arrow was painted on top of the structure to guide pilots to the Des Moines airport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The tower was constructed in concrete and steel. The structure is 110 ft tall and holds 1.7 million gallons of water.</p><br>
<p>Herndon Hall, also known as the Bergmann Mansion, is an historical residential building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The house was built in 1881 in the Queen Anne style. It was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Foster & Liebbe for attorney Jefferson Polk. He named the house after his wife, Julia Herndon. Over the years it has been the home of three bishops of the Diocese of Des Moines, a clothing store, and it served as the National Headquarters for Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Service. It now houses a cosmetic & reconstructive surgery practice It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Nob Hill Business Center is a historic shopping center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built in 1946–7, it was the first modern suburban shopping center in New Mexico, and its construction marked a shift away from pedestrian-oriented development in Albuquerque in favor of decentralized, auto-oriented sprawl. Located on Central Avenue  at Carlisle Boulevard, the building is the focal point of the Nob Hill district.</p><br>
<p>The shopping center was developed by Robert Waggoman on what was then the eastern fringe of the city, more than two miles from the downtown commercial district. Local commentators dubbed the project "Waggoman&#39;s Folly" because it was so far from the center of town, but the shopping center turned out to be a major success and served as a model for future commercial development in Albuquerque. The building was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1983 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Nob Hill Business Center is a one-story, U-shaped building with an interior parking lot facing Central Avenue. The building was designed by Louis Hesselden in a predominantly Streamline Moderne style with rounded corners, decorative towers, and white stucco walls with horizontal bands of terra cotta tile and brick. Some of the architectural features are also reminiscent of the local Territorial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Albert and Theresa Marx House is a historic house located in Cashton, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Perhaps the defining feature of the house is its open, two-story circular veranda and adjoining entrance porch, which wraps around the southeast corner of the house, dominating the front elevation. Two-story Ionic columns support the flat roof of the 9-foot wide veranda, while square posts support the decked entrance porch that extends variously from seven to thirteen feet from the house. The house was originally built for Albert Marx and his wife, Theresa Mashak Marx. Albert had originally moved to Cashton in 1894 and married Theresa in 1901.</p><br>
<p>The Old Lehigh County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at 503 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>The courthouse&#39;s original section was built between 1814 and 1819 and was a two-and-one-half-story stone building with a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>It was remodeled and enlarged in 1864, in the Italianate style. An addition on the west was added in between 1880 and 1881.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>Between 1914 and 1916, a second addition was added to its north between 1914 and 1916 in the Beaux-Arts style.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is featured on the Lehigh County seal, which was introduced in 1944.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, in recognition of its historical significance, the Old Lehigh County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Mount Airy Historic District, also known as Mount Airy Park, is a national historic district located at Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 27 contributing buildings in a residential area of Bethlehem. It includes large, ornate residences built between 1910 and 1930. A few date as early as 1895.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The George McFarlan House, built around 1857 at 1410 Second Street, is one of the oldest remaining houses in Eureka, California and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The boards of the house are numbered suggesting it was either brought to Eureka in pieces to be constructed or had been assembled somewhere else before being rebuilt at its current location.</p><br>
<p>The style is Greek Revival, although its facade has been altered to its current appearance. An Italianate wing and porch were added in the late 1880s. The building was reconstructed without the Italianate additions following a fire in 1982. At present the facade retains the upstairs original Greek Revival fenestration, while the first floor retains the four across pattern of the Italianate remodeling. Early photos show three windows with a centered doorway and two windows above to have been the original facade.</p><br>
<h2>George McFarlan</h2><br>
<p>George McFarlan (b. c. January 1821 - d. 25 December 1875) was an early pioneer to Humboldt County arriving with a group of Canadians from New Brunswick that included Willam Carson whose sister later married another McFarlan.</p><br>
<p>Like many other newcomers to the area, they sought gold first, working for a group from Arkansas to dam the Trinity River about ten miles from Weaverville to divert the flow to an old channel revealing a three-quarters of a mile long dry bed of riffled gold and pebbles in the summer of 1850. As with McFarlan, most of the Canadian laborers on the dam went on to become the leading men of Humboldt County.</p><br>
<p>After the gold fields, McFarlan came to Eureka and purchased large tracts of redwood timbered land, in an area south of Myrtle Avenue, to feed a saw mill that he built and operated, and once owned the land, but did not log it, that would become Eureka&#39;s Sequoia Park. McFarlan street is in his former holdings. McFarlan and his wife, Catharine A. McFarlan (b. c. 1838 - d. 14 July 1878), lived in the home on Second street at the time it was built. He was found drowned in Humboldt Bay, 24 December 1875, although his gravestone says he died 25 December 1875. He is buried with his wife, Catharine in Myrtle Grove Memorial Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Hose House No. 10, also known as Old Hose House No. 10, is a historic fire station located at Evansville, Indiana. The Italianate style brick structure was built in December 1888 to serve the then-northeast side. A tower attached to the building was removed in 1947. In 1977 the fire department moved to a new station on the opposite side of Columbia Street.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The David W. Smouse Opportunity School is a historical building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The building was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Rawson, Souers & Thomas in the Tudor Revival style. The school opened in 1931 and served the educational needs of 165 students with physical disabilities that were unable to attend a regular public school. It was the only school in Iowa that was built to desegregate handicapped children, who were generally institutionalized in isolation. The facility was designed for their individual needs. The blackboards were tilted to prevent glare for the visually impaired, rooms were designed to carry sound vibrations for the hearing impaired students. Large windows and three courtyards provided fresh air. One of the courtyards had a fountain. The restrooms were adapted, temperature controls in each classroom, and a rooftop playground was included in the building&#39;s design. A swimming pool was added in 1955. Financial gifts were used to purchase works of art throughout the building. Imported ceramic tiles, wrought iron signs, working fireplaces and decorative light fixtures also adorned the facility. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Colored Home, also known as the Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home, was opened March 8, 1898 and remained in operation in Springfield, Illinois until 1933. It was one of the first orphanages for African American children in the United States. The actual building is still standing and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The home, located at 427 South 12th Street in Springfield, IL, was built in 1904 after the original home at the same site was razed. Currently, the home stands empty in a state of disrepair, although the last two owners of the property have made efforts to restore it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home was founded by Eva Carroll Monroe in 1898. Monroe had moved to Springfield from Kewanee, Illinois two years earlier and managed to save $125 in that time and place a down payment on the property. Despite her fellow townspeople thinking her foolish to do so, Monroe wished to open a home to care for black orphans. Three other orphanages were in operation in Springfield at that time but none of them would take in children of color.</p><br>
<p>Monroes efforts were brought to the attention of Mary Lawrence. Lawrence was the widow of Rheuna Lawrence, a past mayor of Springfield. If not for Lawrences involvement, the home would have been closed when Monroe had fallen behind on the property mortgage and was in danger of foreclosure. Lawrence not only paid $1400 to bring Monroe current on her debts but also brought considerable political attentions to the home through her community connections.</p><br>
<p>Lawrence persuaded Monroe to raze the existing structure, which the locals had referred to as the "Haunted House" when Monroe first purchased it, and build a new structure. The new house included doors, windows, stained glass and chandeliers from Lawrence&#39;s own home after she and her daughter Susan Lawrence Dana commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to remodel their Victorian mansion on East Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, which some say was the highest commissioned job he had taken on at that point in his career.</p><br>
<p>On March 11, 1906 the new Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home was dedicated to the memory of Mary Lawrence on the anniversary of her sudden death a year earlier. At that time Monroe was caring for 29 children and eight elderly women. A big part of the homes continued success was due to Susan Lawrence Dana, who continued her mothers support of the home both financially and politically.</p><br>
<p>The homes demise began when philosophical and social changes began occurring in the mid-1920s. Across the United States people began to feel that foster-parenting was a more acceptable way of raising children who were without parents. Many people also felt that a college education was mandatory for someone who ran a facility such as the Lincoln Colored Home. These two shifts in the countrys mind-set led to the home losing its licensing to care for the elderly. In 1933 the State of Illinois would not grant a new license to the home to care for orphans. The 32 children in the home at that time were dispersed either back to their own homes or to boarding homes, ending Monroe&#39;s dream.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>The home and the property it sits on were sold at auction in 1944 and the proceeds went to pay for Danas medical bills. Ownership of the property has changed hands a few times since then and is now owned by the estate of Lyman Hubbard Sr, a former Tuskegee Airman who died in 2012. Members of Hubbards family hope to see their father&#39;s dream of restoring and preserving the site come to reality.</p><br>
<p>The Hulman Building  is a ten-story art deco high rise in downtown Evansville, Indiana. Construction began in 1928 and was completed in 1930 with a brick facade of light yellow. It was the first of several Art Deco buildings to grace Evansville&#39;s skyline.</p><br>
<p>It was initially built as the new Central Union Bank Building and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Morris Plan (Central Union Bank)". However, the bank failed on 11 January 1932 during the height of the Great Depression. It is more commonly known as the Hulman Building due to its subsequent ownership by the Hulman Family of Terre Haute, Indiana, former owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.</p><br>
<p>The building was the headquarters of Vectren and its predecessor companies until May 2005, when Vectren&#39;s new headquarters was completed next to the Ohio River. It currently houses the Evansville Commerce Bank and a law firm, among others.</p><br>
