<p>The General George Crook House Museum is located in Fort Omaha. The Fort is located in the Miller Park neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and is a contributing property to the Fort Omaha Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1878, General George Crook moved headquarters for the Department of the Platte from downtown Omaha to Fort Omaha. The General Crook home was built in 1879 to be the residence of the commander. Constructed in an Italianate design, the building consists of two stories with a grand garden surrounding it. Crowned by hipped roofs, the building is asymmetrical in plan and is in good condition. A long one-story porch projects from its eastern facade.</p><br>
<p>General George Crook was the only commander to occupy the home, as the department was disbanded after his tenure. In November, 1879, Crook and his wife entertained General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant at the home. In September 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes stayed there while he was reviewing the troops at the Fort.</p><br>
<p>After Crook left Fort Omaha, the house served as a home to each of the subsequent commanders of the Fort. In 1905, the house was used as an officers club and mess hall. In 1930, it was converted back to a post commanders residence, serving until the Fort was closed in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Crook House is the oldest structure built as a private residence in Omaha.</p><br>
<p>The building was named a Nebraska State Historical Site in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>The Douglas County Historical Society restored the house in the 1980s, refurbishing it with period furniture and restoring its heirloom Victorian gardens. Today, it is open to the public for tours and for special events.</p><br>
<p>The Bowers Mansion is a mansion located between Reno and Carson City, Nevada. It was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers, and is a prime example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock Lode mining boom.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land originally was purchased in 1856 by Eilley and her second husband Alex Cowan, who returned to Utah a year later with other Mormon settlers. Eilley secured a divorce and moved to Gold Hill where she ran a boarding house and took in washing. Some miners, unable to pay for lodging and laundry with cash, gave Eilley Orrum pieces of their mining claims in payment. Thus she acquired the mining claim which, together with that belonging to her third husband Sandy, became the source of their fortune.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley&#39;s dreams of prestige and respectability. The mansion, designed by J. Neely Johnson, a builder and ex-governor of California, combined Georgian Revival and Italianate architectural styles. It was modeled after a design conceived by Eilley based on her recollection of elegant buildings in her native Scotland. Indeed, the Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction of their new home, which eventually cost $300,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s. Eilley and Sandy toured Europe from 1861 to 1863, purchasing furniture, statuary, paintings and other adornments for their home. Unfortunately, in 1874, Eilley Bowers 3rd and only living child, a daughter named Persia, died of a suspected erupted appendix at the age of 12. The first 2 children died in infancy.</p><br>
<p>Following the death of Sandy Bowers in 1868, Eilley fell on hard financial times. She generated income by renting out rooms in the mansion and hosting parties and picnics on the grounds. The mansion hosted a ball for the womens suffrage movement and was the location of the annual Miners Ball. The period of 1873&ndash;75 was the height of the mansion&#39;s popularity.</p><br>
<p>However, this was not enough to overcome Eilley&#39;s debts and she finally lost her home to foreclosure in 1876. The mansion was abandoned by the time Henry Riter acquired it and operated it as a resort in 1903.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Bowers Mansion Regional Park is located on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, approximately 20 miles south of Reno on old 395. Expansive sunny lawn areas and lots of tall shade trees make this a perfect spot for picnics. The park also offers a seasonal outdoor pool, seasonal splash pad, two children&#39;s playgrounds and restroom facilities. The building is currently owned and operated by the Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space. Some 500 Nevada families have donated period furniture housed in the mansion. Tours of the mansion are given in summer and autumn.</p><br>
<h2>Hot springs</h2><br>
<p>The hot spring was previously used to heat a swimming pool, but the spring is no longer used for swimming. The geothermal waters are still used to provided hot water and heated showers. Part of the original geothermal pool still stands and is used as an irrigation storage pond.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Jackson House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1664 by Richard Jackson, it is the oldest wood-frame house in New Hampshire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It is now a historic house museum owned by Historic New England, and is open two Saturdays a month between June and October.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Richard Jackson was a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, and built the oldest portion of this house on his familys 25 acre plot, located on an inlet off the Piscataqua River, north of Portsmouths central business district. Jackson&#39;s house resembles English post-medieval prototypes, but is notably American in its extravagant use of wood. The house as first built consisted of a two-story structure with two rooms on each floor, flanking a massive central chimney. Not long afterward, a lean-to section was added to the rear (north side) of the house, which slopes nearly to the ground. Further single-story additions were made to the gable ends of the house, probably c. 1764.</p><br>
<p>The founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England), William Sumner Appleton, acquired the house for SPNEA in 1924 from a member of the seventh generation of Jacksons to live there. Appleton undertook a restoration of the property, removing 19th century modifications, and providing the building with leaded diamond-pane windows of a type that it would have had in the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The George Rogers House, located just east of the Jackson house, is also a Historic New England property, but is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Oaklands Mansion is an historic house museum located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Oaklands is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a local landmark known for its unique Italianate design.</p><br>
<p>The plantation was caught in the middle of the Civil War and officers from both the Confederate and Union armies stayed in the mansion. The most notable visitor to the home was Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who stayed at Oaklands December 12–15, 1862 accompanied by his aid George Washington Custis Lee, son of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee. Other notable visitors were former United States First Lady Sarah Childress Polk, United States Senator from Tennessee and the 1860 Constitutional Union Party&#39;s nominee for President of the United States John Bell, Confederate General Braxton Bragg, Confederate Lieutenant-Genera Leonidas Polk, Confederate Naval Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury and Confederate Brigadier-General George Maney.</p><br>
<p>During the First Battle of Murfreesboro on July 13, 1862, Confederate cavalrymen under Nathan Bedford Forrest surprised and defeated Federal forces encamped on the front lawn of the Mansion, near the plantations spring and at the Rutherford County Courthouse as part of a raid on Union-occupied Murfreesboro. It is said that Lewis and Adaline Maneys children watched the fighting from the window of the second-floor hallway. After the surrender was signed, both armies gathered for a meal of black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes.</p><br>
<p>Colonel William Ward Duffield of the 9th Michigan Infantry, was severely wounded and captured by the Confederates during the early part of the battle. He was taken into the house and nursed by the Maney family. At noon the same day he was made prisoner by Forrest, but, in his then helpless condition, he was released upon his parole and promised not to bear arms against the Confederate States until regularly exchanged. Mrs. Duffield was a guest in the Maney home while her husband recovered for several months. The Duffields and the Maneys became friends during the Colonel&#39;s recuperation. After the war, the Duffields presented the Maneys with a silver tea service in gratitude for their hospitality and care of the Colonel.</p><br>
<p>The last residential owner of Oaklands, Rebecca Jetton, moved out of the house in the 1950s when she could no longer maintain it. The abandoned mansion was vandalized and left in disrepair. The city of Murfreesboro acquired it in 1958 with the intention of tearing it down. However, the mansion was restored to its original grandeur by a group of women who rallied together to form the Oaklands Association. The home was opened to the public as a museum in the early 1960s and now receives thousands of visitors annually and is used for various public and private functions.</p><br>
<p>Goodsprings Schoolhouse, built in the Colonial Revival style, is located in Goodsprings, Nevada, and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was designed by C.W. Price, built by Norman Price in 1913 and opened in September 1913.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed as a School District MPS in the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley Heritage Museum, originally known as the Desert Valley Museum, is in Mesquite, Nevada and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The museum displays exhibits about area pioneers and local history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Walter Warren Hughes and built by the National Youth Administration in the Vernacular Pueblo Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Opened in 1940 as a library, it was converted around 1945 to a Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital branch. From 1977 to 1984, the building was used by the Boy Scouts of America for meetings.</p><br>
<p>It opened as the Desert Valley Museum on May 23, 1985. In July 2001, the name was changed to the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed as a building in the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>The collection includes artifacts from about 1875 to 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Governor John Langdon House, also known as Governor John Langdon Mansion, is a historic mansion house at 143 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It was built in 1784 by Founding Father John Langdon , a merchant, shipbuilder, American Revolutionary War general, signer of the United States Constitution, and three-term President  of New Hampshire. The house he built for his family showed his status as Portsmouth&#39;s leading citizen and received praise from George Washington, who visited there in 1789. Its reception rooms are ornamented by elaborate wood carving in the rococo style. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974, and is now a house museum operated by Historic New England.</p><br>
<p>The house Langdon had built resembles typical late Georgian houses, with five bays across, a center entry, and four rooms on each floor, flanking a grand central hall and stairway. It is built on a larger and grander scale than most houses, and has very high quality interior woodwork. The interior joinery is attributed to Ebenezer Clifford, a leading woodworker of the Portsmouth area. The main entry is also particularly elaborate with a large door flanked by pairs of engaged columns, and sheltered by a semi-circular portico supported by Corinthian columns and topped by a balustrade.</p><br>
<p>After Langdons death in 1819, his lone surviving daughter continued to use the house, but did not live there. Between 1833 and 1902 the house passed through several hands. In the 1850s a fire severely damaged the southwest corner of the house, which was reconstructed. In 1877 the house came into the hands of Frances E. Bassett, a descendant of John Langdons brother Woodbury. Her son and daughter-in-law, Woodbury and Elizabeth Langdon, converted the house into a Colonial Revival showplace, adding a two-story wing designed by McKim, Mead & White whose details harmonize well with the original structure, and include a dining room based on one built by the ancestral Woodbury Langdon and preserved in the Rockingham Hotel. Elizabeth Langdon deeded the property to Historic New England in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It is open to the public for tours on weekends from June to October, and the grounds are available for functions.</p><br>
<p>Mary H. Wright Elementary School is a former school building in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It was constructed in 1951 as part of SC Governor James F. Byrnes&#39;s attempt to establish "separate but equal" facilities in order to avoid desegregation of schools. After integration, it continued to serve as an elementary school until 2001, when a new school of the same name was constructed nearby. The building served as a learning center and then a housing authority office over the next several years until it was left vacant in 2016. In 2022, it was renovated into Schoolhouse Lofts, a 53-unit apartment development.</p><br>
<p>It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 2007.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Hotel is a former hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada, that sits on the exact location where Reno began in 1859.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses apartments and studios for artists and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>C. W. Fuller operated a log building on this location that provided food and shelter to gold-seekers who were passing through the area in the reverse gold rush called the "Rush to Washoe" (meaning people were heading east from instead of west to California), spurred by the gold, and later silver, strikes of the Comstock Lode. Myron Lake owned the property from 1861 into the 1880s, running consecutive hotel businesses under the name Lakes House. After Lakes death, his daughter and son-in-law operated the hotel and renamed it the Riverside. A subsequent owner, Harry Gosse, converted the small frame building into a brick hotel, retaining the name Riverside. His daughter, Marguerite Gosse, was a Nevada Assemblywoman. This version of the Riverside Hotel was destroyed in a fire. Gosse intended to rebuild but was unable to finance the project and George Wingfield, Reno&#39;s most powerful man at the time, acquired the property.</p><br>
<p>Nevadas pre-eminent architect and former mining engineer Frederic DeLongchamps designed the 1927 version of the Riverside Hotel for George Wingfield. At six stories high, the Riverside was the states tallest building until Renos seven-story El Cortez hotel was completed in 1931. For the buildings design, DeLongchamps employed the rich red brick, so common in Reno, with contrasting cream-colored Gothic Revival style terra cotta detailing. Situated as it is along the Truckee River, next to the Washoe County Courthouse, also designed by DeLongchamps, the Riverside was Reno&#39;s most popular hotel. Following the passage of the liberal 1931 divorce law, George Wingfield installed an enormous roof sign advertising the hotel in glowing neon that was visible all over the Truckee Meadows. The Riverside had an international reputation and was mentioned in nearly all of the novels and films featuring Reno divorces.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Hotel was laid out to suit wealthy divorce-seekers, with 40 corner suites that included kitchen facilities and connecting rooms for children and servants. Each of the apartment suites was furnished with a specially designed cork-insulated and tile-lined refrigerator. Cold brine was circulated through the refrigerators from the main refrigeration plant in the basement. There were 60 single rooms for shorter stays as well. Such a room was occupied by Clare Boothe (award-winning author, editor of Vanity Fair, congresswoman and ambassador) when she arrived in Reno in 1929 to divorce her husband George Tuttle Brokaw:Her train arrived in Reno at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 1929, in a fierce blizzard. Clares mood turned bleak as the weather when she discovered that her reserved apartment at the Riverside Hotel (a red brick building between the Truckee River and the courthouse) was occupied and that she would have to settle for a cubby hole&#39; of a room for the first three days.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Hotel was the spot most watched by news correspondents who had been sent to cover the national phenomenon journalist Walter Winchell dubbed "Renovation". Reno had nearly as many reporters on hand as divorce-seekers, with news bureaus representing Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, The Sacramento Bee and the New York Daily News, all looking for an exclusive story.</p><br>
<h2>Casino</h2><br>
<p>As a bonus to the Riversides suites, Wingfield opened the Riverside Bank and leased out casino space in exchange for a sizable (up to 25%) cut of the clubs profits. He was already getting a share of the profits from clubs like the Rex and Bank Club being run by his protégés Bill Graham and Jim McKay.</p><br>
<p>McKay and Graham decided that having access to a bank could fatten their wallets even more quickly than their casinos did. In the late 1920s, Graham and McKay worked with con men from all over the country to lure rich prospects to Reno. Once in town, the well-off vacationers were systematically fleeced of their stock holdings and sent on their way.</p><br>
<p>The casino inside the Riverside, run by Nick Abelman, provided high-class shows, excellent food, and enough table games and slot machines to keep hotel guests and local patrons coming back for years to come.</p><br>
<p>Abelman ran the gaming with his partners, Steve Pavlovich and Bert Riddick, until 1949, when Mert Wertheimer convinced Wingfield to let him expand the casino. Wertheimer, most recently working with the Nevada Club group after coming to Reno from Detroit, was well-financed from his operations at the Chesterfield Club (and others) in the Motor-City.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside added 84 guest rooms and the first swimming pool to be built in a Reno hotel. Wingfield sold the hotel in December 1955. Over the next 25 years, the club had a progression of owners, most of whom ran a casino.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the Nevada Gaming Commission revoked the gaming license at the Riverside over a dice-cheating scandal, and the Riverside closed completely in 1968. In 1971, Jessie Beck purchased the property and opened her own casino.</p><br>
<p>Beck ran a profitable operation and in 1978, she sold the Riverside to Harrah&#39;s Entertainment so they could make a deal for the Overland Casino owned by "Pick" Hobson. "Pick" took over the Riverside and ran the hotel and casino until it finally closed in 1986, nearly 60 years since Wingfield rebuilt the hotel along the Truckee River.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park is a public park located in Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, Virginia. It is administered by the National Park Service as part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The park preserves the remains of the eponymous Fort Hunt, portions of which date to the time of the Spanish–American War. The park was named after Brigadier General Henry Hunt, who served as chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Remains of several of the forts original batteries, including Battery Mount Vernon, Battery Robinson, and Battery Sater, and Battery Porter , have been preserved, and may still be visited today. The structures have been stabilized enough that visitors are able to climb on them without difficulty. Besides the batteries, the battery commander&#39;s station still stands; in addition, a flagpole has been erected as a memorial to the intelligence officers who served at the fort during World War II.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park is open from dawn until dusk, year-round; access is from the George Washington Memorial Parkway or from Fort Hunt Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fort Hunt is located along the Potomac River just 11 miles south of Washington, D. C. Its proximity to the Nations capital dramatically affected the land use history. What occurred on this site frequently mirrored the political and social history of the United States. The site began its existence as a portion of George Washingtons River Farm; though it passed out of Washingtons familys hands around the beginning of the 19th century, it remained farmland until not long after the American Civil War. A fort was constructed on the site as part of a plan, developed in the 1880s, to expand and strengthen fortifications around the city of Washington. Fort Hunt was planned to complement Fort Washington, located just across the Potomac River in Maryland, and was completed in time for the Spanish–American War, though it did not see action in that conflict. The park was named after Brig. Gen. Henry Hunt, who served as chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. On June 11, 1932 General Douglas MacArthur established a field hospital at Fort Hunt to serve military veterans known as Bonus Marchers who were camped in the Anacostia and Hains Point areas of the District of Columbia. In the 1930s the site was converted into a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. During World War II it was the setting for top secret World War II military intelligence operations (known as "P.O. Box 1142") as well as an interrogation center for high-value prisoners of war. At one time the United States Army ran a school of finance there, but this did not last long. Today, the park is a popular picnic and jogging area. A playground and sports facilities are also available, and the United States Park Police man a substation at the park, as well as stables for their police horses.</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Commander Werner Henke, the highest-ranking German officer to be shot while in American captivity during World War II, was killed while attempting an escape from Fort Hunt in June 1944. He was later buried in the post cemetery on Fort Meade, Maryland. In 1980, the remaining structures at the site were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Fort Hunt Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding community of Fort Hunt, Virginia takes its name from the original fort.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Commanders Station 2016.jpgCommanders Station</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Mount Vernon 2016.jpgBattery Mount Vernon</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Porter 2016.jpgBattery Porter</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Sater 2016.jpgBattery Sater</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Robinson 2016.jpgBattery Robinson</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Ellenville, New York, United States, serves the ZIP code 12428, which covers Ellenville and much of the surrounding town of Wawarsing. It is located on Liberty Place in the center of the village.</p><br>
<p>The building was one of many post offices in the region which were built of stone, reflecting the historical Dutch influence in the Hudson Valley, during the New Deal by the Works Progress Administration. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally approved the design. As a native of the region, he understood the importance of stone architecture and made sure that new post offices in the region were built in that style. In late 1939, villagers in Ellenville sent Roosevelt a telegram which complained that their new post office was to be brick, despite the presence of pre-Revolutionary stone houses in Ellenville&#39;s location, the Rondout Valley.</p><br>
<p>"I will stop this brick right away!" he vowed in response, and two days before construction bidding began, he sent the project back to the drawing board. The final building combined features typical of stone houses throughout the region.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is located in the Ellenville Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross is a parish of the Episcopal Church of the United States in Chapel Hill in the Diocese of North Carolina. It is the spiritual home to more than 1,600 communicants, including numerous students studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church of England was established in Chapel Hill in 1752 when a “chapel of ease” was built at an important hilltop crossroads in the southern part of Orange County to spare remote parishioners a journey to the church in Hillsborough. The small log building, known as New Hope Chapel, stood where the Carolina Inn is now but disappeared during the American Revolution. The settlement on New Hope Chapel Hill remained, the University of North Carolina was founded in 1795, and traveling clergy visited, but a permanent Episcopal congregation did not form again for half a century.</p><br>
<p>In May 1842, the Rev. William Mercer Green, a Professor of Belles Lettres at the University of North Carolina, presided over the organization of the Church of the Atonement, an Episcopal parish with fifteen communicants and no church building.</p><br>
<p>The growing congregation worshiped in one anothers homes for five years as work on their little church went slowly, using handmade bricks fired in kilns on the Rev. Greens property. On October 19, 1848, Bishop Levi Silliman Ives consecrated the new church – complete with a wooden gallery for slaves – “The Chapel of the Holy Cross.” He accurately described the scale of the building by calling it a chapel, but declared, “We’ll name it for the deed and not the doctrine.” The parish had twenty-two communicants, five of whom were University students. The Gothic Revival style church was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter. The red brick church has a gable roof and features a crenellated entrance tower and lancet windows. The original church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Chapel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>By 1921 the parish had outgrown its first church. The Vestry, under the leadership of the Rev. Alfred Lawrence (rector 1921–1944) asked the distinguished church architect Hobart B. Upjohn to design a new building to be connected to “the old chapel” by a cloister. Major funding for the church was provided by a gift from the Durham mill owner and philanthropist William A. Erwin in memory of his grandfather, William Rainey Holt, a classmate of William Mercer Green in the class of 1818. The new building was consecrated on May 14, 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross has not been untouched by the moral and political turmoil of the twentieth century. The Rev. David Yates (rector 1945–1959) insisted that a Christian community was obligated to pray for the enemy and respect the rights of conscientious objectors, however difficult, during World War II. He ensured that black people were welcomed in the parish, long before most Southern institutions were integrated. Later, on February 13, 1977, the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, the first black woman ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, celebrated her first Eucharist and also became the first woman to celebrate the Eucharist at The Chapel of the Cross. She presided in the same chapel where her grandmother, Cornelia, a slave child belonging to Mary Ruffin Smith, was baptized in 1854.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Peter James Lee (rector 1971–1984) introduced the use of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and opened the pulpit and altar to women priests. In 1980, extensive renovation and restoration of parish buildings were completed. Mr. Lee was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on May 19, 1984, and became Bishop of Virginia the next year.</p><br>
<p>On July 1, 1985, the Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams, then Associate for Parish Ministry, became the twenty-seventh rector of The Chapel of the Cross. His tenure has been marked by an intentional focus on expanding the outreach ministry of the parish and its role in the community as exemplified in the development of a Sister Parish Covenant with St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, a student-parish Habitat for Humanity partnership, continued strong campus ministry, and increased outreach funding. Christian Education and Youth Ministry programs have been expanded, and a more intentional Elder Ministry is in the process of development. The staff has been increased to keep up with expanding ministry, including the Assistant for Pastoral Ministry, full-time Organist-Choirmaster and Christian Education Director positions, and increased administrative and maintenance support.</p><br>
<p>The thirtieth anniversary of the Reverend Pauli Murray&#39;s first Eucharist was commemorated in the chapel on February 8, 2007, in a service celebrated by the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>A new parish house, designed by Washington architects Hartman-Cox, was opened in October 2014 providing the Great Hall, classrooms, preschool, and youth and music facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Elkins-Williams retired on October 11, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna became Rector on August 1, 2016</p><br>
<p>The history of the Chapel of the Cross has been marked by steady growth. The Church of the Holy Family, the second Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, was commissioned in 1952. The Church of the Advocate, an Episcopal mission of Chapel of the Cross, Holy Family and St. Matthews (Hillsborough), was founded in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<h3>Mission statement</h3><br>
<p>Its mission statement is as follows:</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross welcomes you with an open door. We are:</p><br>
<h3>Information</h3><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross holds four services every Sunday during the Fall, Winter and Spring. The Chapel of the Cross holds three services every Sunday during the Summer. Services are also held at assisted living facilities in the Chapel Hill area.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross has a strong choral tradition with choirs. The Chapel of the Cross serves students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a strong college ministry program called the Episcopal Campus Ministry, or "ECM." The church also has a strong youth program called the Episcopal Youth Community for sixth through twelfth graders.</p><br>
<p>As a university church, there is also a strong focus on adult and youth education. Sunday School is held every week with a variety of other programs and discussion groups on topics ranging from the death penalty to the environment. Along with education, other programs are offered to assist parishioners with their spiritual development and prayer life.</p><br>
<p>Troop 9 of the Boy Scouts of America began meeting at The Chapel of the Cross in 1937 obtained its charter with The Chapel of the Cross in 1946. The origins of Troop 9 predate the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America. The Troop originated on the UNC campus in 1910 as a Scout Unit of the YMCA. Along with other YMCA Scout Units, the Troop was transferred into the BSA under an agreement with the BSA&#39;s founder and the YMCA in 1912. Troop 9 celebrated its 100th birthday in 2010, at the same time the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their 100th anniversary of incorporation in the United States.</p><br>
<p>With a focus on the Millennium Development Goals developed by the United Nations, Chapel of the Cross engages in a wide variety of outreach work in the community of Chapel Hill, the United States and the world. International outreach efforts have focused on two countries, South Africa and Honduras. Another major effort undertaken by the Chapel of the Cross in the area of outreach is the annual Attic, Basement and Closet Sale (ABC Sale), which raises thousands of dollars for charities that apply for grants. In addition, the church&#39;s facilities are used by a wide variety of organizations from the University of North Carolina and the community, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. A special service is held monthly for individuals in the community with developmental disabilities.</p><br>
<p>There are currently three full-time clergy at Chapel of the Cross. The main governing body of the Chapel of the Cross is the vestry, which is composed of twelve lay people elected from the congregation for three-year terms. Four vestry members are elected annually.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross is active in the governance of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the national Episcopal Church, and the international Anglican Communion as a whole.</p><br>
<h2>Notable names with connections to Chapel of the Cross</h2><br>
<p>• The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan (First Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America) – served as the Associate for Campus Ministry</p><br>
<p>• The Rt. Rev. John Spong (Bishop of Newark) – served as a student resident</p><br>
<p>• The Rev. Pauli Murray – celebrated her first Eucharist at Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>• State Senator Eleanor Kinnaird – parishioner of Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>• Chancellor Emeritus of UNC-Chapel Hill James Moeser – parishioner of Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>The Delaware Governors Mansion, also known as Woodburn or Governors House, is the official residence of the governor of Delaware and the governors family. It is located in Dover, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Governors House" in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land Woodburn stands upon was granted to David Morgan and his heirs in 1684 by the Swedish crown. In the 1780s Charles Hillyard III purchased the land at a sheriff&#39;s sale for $110. In 1790 he constructed the home that would be called Woodburn.</p><br>
<p>The house was inherited by Mary, Hillyards daughter, and her husband, Martin W. Bates. Bates was a doctor, merchant, lawyer and a USA Senator. In 1820 Bates leased Woodburn to the Governor, Jacob Stout, the first time Woodburn was used as the executives residence.</p><br>
<p>Bates sold the house in 1825 to Daniel & Mary Cowgill. Cowgill, devoted abolitionist and a Quaker, freed his familys slaves and allowed them to meet in the great hall at Woodburn. The house remained in the family for years until it was sold in 1912 to Daniel O. Hastings. In his ownership the brick front porch, pillars on the south facade, a reflecting pool and numerous interior modifications were completed. He sold the house in 1918 to retired Philadelphia dentist Frank Hall, who also completed more renovations of the interior. In Halls residency, a young guest named Jessica Irby visited the house; she would later live in the house as the wife of a governor of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>Upon the Halls death in 1953 there was a proposal to secure the house as the governors mansion but it was disapproved by the legislature. The property was divided in two, with a school purchasing the majority of the land and Thomas Murray purchasing the house and a surrounding acre and a half.</p><br>
<p>The proposal of a residence for the governor was revived in 1965 when Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. and his wife, Jessica Irby-Terry, secured Woodburn for the state. The house was refurbished by Mrs. Terry with period pieces dating from the house&#39;s construction. The decoration was completed a year later and an open house was held in February 1966. Woodburn has served as the official residence ever since.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The two-story brick home is in the Flemish bond pattern and has endured more than 200 years. The main section of the house has three bays with the main entrance on the far right. The large Dutch door and original wrought-iron strap hinges and iron lock box allow the door to swing open with little effort. The door is surmounted by a large fanlight inside a projecting pediment. The double sash, 9 panel windows are framed by sandstone blocks above and below and wooden dog-head shutters. A brick chimney projects through the sloped roof. The wing has slightly smaller windows with a basement entryway.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Governor&#39;s House holds great architectural significance as an exemplary surviving specimen of high-quality 18th century residences in Delaware. It has been diligently preserved as an essential component of the State museum system, which aims to showcase representative Delaware houses from different eras and socioeconomic strata.</p><br>
<p>Charles Hillyard (1759-1814), the builder of this historic structure, belonged to the fourth generation of a prosperous landowning family that actively participated in the government, social, and economic affairs of Kent County, Delaware. The lineages progenitor, Charles Hillyard, obtained a warrant in 1683 for a substantial landholding spanning 3,000 acres. The sole surviving proof of the Proprietors visit to the town is a document signed in Dover.</p><br>
<p>Supported by local tradition, geographical circumstances, and the owners known abolitionist views, this house is believed to have served as a stop on the renowned "underground railroad." In George Alfred Townsends novel, (published in 1884), it is depicted as the site of an attempted abduction by Patty Cannon&#39;s gang. This widely-known novel has fostered a tradition asserting that Mrs. Cannon discharged a gunshot through the north door.</p><br>
<p>Furthermore, since 1965, the Governors House has acquired additional significance as the official residence of Delawares governors.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, this house has been home to notable Delaware families. Charles Hillyard, the original builder, was the son-in-law of William Killen, Delaware&#39;s first Chancellor.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, this historic dwelling once served as the residence of Mrs. Vera Davis, Delaware&#39;s pioneering female legislator.</p><br>
<p>The Kansas Governors Residence, also known as Cedar Crest, is the official residence of the governor of Kansas. Built in 1928 and bequeathed to the state in 1955, it became the governors residence in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kansas did not have an official governor&#39;s residence until 1901 when the state bought 801 Buchanan Street (a house originally built in 1887). The property was auctioned off in 1963, and the building was demolished in 1964. Portions of the building including bay windows, an oak staircase and balcony were incorporated in the downtown Ramada Inn, which was built in another part of Topeka in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Crest is on a hilltop on the west side of Topeka overlooking the Kansas River, and was designed by the architectural firm of Wight and Wight in 1928 for Topeka State Journal and Emporia News newspaper publisher Frank P. MacLennan. MacLennan died in 1933; when his widow died in 1955, she bequeathed Cedar Crest to the state of Kansas with the condition it be utilized as a home for the governor of Kansas. The gift included 244 acre of surrounding land to be used as a park (now known as MacLennan Park). After some debate, the state decided to accept the home in 1957. Since 1962 it has been used as the governor&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>During the 1990s, the mansion underwent a $4.3 million refurbishment, which was completed in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Adsmore is a living history museum located on North Jefferson Street in Princeton, Kentucky. It is the only living home museum in Kentucky. Its name is believed to be derived from numerous additions and renovations over 150 years.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adsmore was originally constructed as the Greek Revival-style residence of dry goods merchant John Higgins in 1857. Along with the residence, plus an endowment for the operation of a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Adsmore was added to the National Register of Historic Places and in 1973. It opened as a museum in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The grounds of Adsmore contain the house structure, the carriage house that now serves as a gift shop, and a log cabin. The Adsmore House and Museum conducts tours Thursday, Friday and Saturday and for special events such as the Black Patch Festival. The tour&#39;s content and the furnishings and decor change for the different "seasons" depicted in the house.</p><br>
<p>The Francis G. Newlands Home is a historic house at 7 Elm Court in Reno, Nevada, United States. Built in 1890, it is the mansion of former United States Senator Francis G. Newlands , a driving force in passage of the 1902 Newlands Reclamation Act. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The house is privately owned and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Francis G. Newlands Home is located in a residential area on the south side of the Truckee River southwest of downtown Reno, at the end of Elm Court, a short spur off the western end of Court Street. This area was a particularly fashionable residential area in the late 19th century. The house stands on about 2 acre overlooking the river to the north. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, roughly rectangular in footprint, with a gable roof and the then-fashionable Shingle Style exterior. Queen Anne characteristics of the house include a variety of protrusions, projections and gables. A front wing and an arbor were added sometime before 1908.</p><br>
<p>The house was the first mansion built on a bluff overlooking the Truckee River in Reno, which became known as Newlands Heights. Diverse architectural styles are represented in the area, as exemplified also by the colonial revival Hawkins House next door, another mansion listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Francis G. Newlands had this house built in 1890, not long after he moved to Reno from San Francisco, California. He was then managing the complex affairs of his first wife&#39;s family; she was the daughter of William Sharon, who had made his fortune in the Comstock Lode silver business. He began service in the United States House of Representatives in 1893 before winning election to the Senate in 1902. He was instrumental in advancing the Reclamation Act, which put the federal government in the business of providing irrigation infrastructure in place to facilitate agricultural development of the rural west. Later in his career he also played in important role in securing legislation that reorganized the way railroads were managed.</p><br>
<p>After Newlands&#39; death, the house was purchased by divorce lawyer George Thatcher in 1920. His client Barbara Hutton, heiress of the F.W. Woolworth Company, stayed in the house in 1935, as did other Thatcher clients from time to time.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Governors Mansion of the State of Nevada was built between 1908 and 1909. Until that time, Nevadas governors and their families found lodging where they could in or near Carson City, the capital. State Assembly Bill 10, the "Mansion Bill," was passed in 1907 to secure a permanent site and residence for a Governors Mansion. Mrs. T.B. Rickey sold the land where the mansion now stands to the State of Nevada for $10, and George A. Ferris, a Reno architect, designed the mansion with Classical Revival features and Georgian and Jeffersonian motifs, and a construction bid was awarded for $22,700. Acting Governor Denver S. Dickerson and his family were the first residents when they occupied the mansion in July 1909. The building was first opened to the public during an open house on New Years Day, 1910. The governor&#39;s daughter, June Dickerson, was born in the mansion on September 2, 1909, and is the only child yet born in the mansion.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was at the center of a legal dispute resulting from the divorce case of Governor Jim Gibbons and his now-former wife, Dawn. Several months before filing a divorce petition in May 2008, the Governor moved out of the mansion, returning to the couples private residence in Reno. Upon filing for divorce, he filed a petition seeking his wifes eviction from the mansion, citing state law which requires that the Governor maintain his or her home and office in the state capital. Mrs. Gibbons challenged that petition, citing a desire to continue fulfilling her duties as First Lady and instead offering to live in the mansion&#39;s guest house, which would allow her husband to live separately in the main house. Furthermore, her attorney also cited state law which allows divorcing couples to divide equally anything of value enjoyed by both parties until the divorce is finalized. After their divorce, Governor Gibbons moved back into the mansion, and Dawn Gibbons relocated to an apartment in Las Vegas.</p><br>
<p>The North Carolina Executive Mansion  is the official residence of the governor of North Carolina and their family. Building began in the year 1883 and it was designed by architects Samuel Sloan and A.G. Bauer. The first occupants, Governor Daniel G. Fowle and his daughter, Helen Whitaker Fowle, moved into the unfinished building in January 1891. It is an example of Queen Anne style architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original street plan of the city of Raleigh had designated Burke Square as a possible location for the governors residence. Burke Square was already occupied by the Raleigh Academy by the time the state decided to build and a different site for the house was chosen. The legislature passed a bill in 1883 under Governor Jarviss prompting, to authorize the construction on Burke Square of Raleighs third official gubernatorial residence. The bill provided for its major furnishings and required that the governor occupy the new dwelling. Prison labor was used for construction and building materials were used that could be made at the local penitentiary when feasible. Samuel Sloan, of Philadelphia, and his assistant, Aldophus Gustavus Bauer, were chosen as architects. Sloan arrived in Raleigh with his designs for the elaborate structure in April 1883 and work began in early summer. Sloan died in 1885, six years before the completion of the house, and Bauer assumed full responsibility for the remainder of the project. Bauer remained in North Carolina to become one of the states most important nineteenth-century architects.</p><br>
<p>The bricks for the house were made from Wake County clay and molded by prison labor. Many of these bricks, particularly in the sidewalks surrounding the house, still bear the inscribed names of the men who made them. The sandstone trim came from Anson County. The marble steps in front (later moved to the north side) came from Cherokee County, and oak and heart pine were shipped from all across North Carolina for use in the building.</p><br>
<p>Since its initial construction in 1882, few major changes have been made to the building&#39;s exterior. Porches on the north and east sides have been enclosed to expand kitchen and security facilities.</p><br>
<p>Frank Daniels Aycock, the son of Governor Charles B. Aycock and First Lady Cora Lily Woodard Aycock, was the first baby to be born in the executive mansion.</p><br>
<p>A Neoclassical makeover was undertaken during Governor Angus W. McLean&#39;s administration. Many Victorian features were changed or removed, including painting of woodwork; removal of stained glass, balustrades, overmantel mirrors and whatnot shelving; and replacement of columns and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>First Lady Alice Willson Broughton oversaw the addition of a service elevator in the house, and established a victory garden on the lawn during World War II. In the 1960s, a rose garden was planted on the northwest corner of the grounds by First Lady Margaret Rose Sanford.</p><br>
<p>During her tenure as first lady, Jeanelle C. Moore began a campaign for public awareness of the mansion&#39;s historic and cultural significance. Her dedication resulted in the formation of the Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee, a statutory committee which advises and supports the acquisition of gifts, purchases, maintenance and preservation. In 1970, the mansion was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1974–75, under the supervision of First Lady Patricia Hollingsworth Holshouser, the mansion underwent a major renovation which included the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems. These interior and exterior rehabilitation projects were crucial to the preservation and continued use of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, the Executive Mansion Fund Inc., a non-profit corporation, was created with the help of first lady Dottie Martin in order to provide further support for restoration and preservation. The fund is charged with soliciting grants, donations, bequests and other contributions and with investing and managing these funds. Its successful Second Century campaign resulted in the establishment of a $2 million endowment. The Executive Mansion Fund Inc. has established a membership organization—the Friends of the Executive Mansion, a group of concerned individual and corporate citizens who wish to support the Executive Mansion through their annual contributions.</p><br>
<h2>Governor&#39;s Western Residence</h2><br>
<p>The State of North Carolina also owns a second residence for the use of the governor, at 45 Patton Mountain Road on Town Mountain near Asheville. It was donated to the state by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce in 1964, in the hope that future governors would spend more time in—and hence pay more attention to—the western portion of the state. The home was built originally in 1939 by Tom Brimer, who was then owner of Good Humor Ice Cream. The 6,000 ft&sup2; mansion sits on 18 acre of land.</p><br>
<p>The Naval War College Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, is one of 10 official American museums operated by the United States Navy, under the direction of the Naval History & Heritage Command and in co-operation with the Naval War College. It is located at Building 10, Luce Avenue, Naval Station Newport. It is located in the building which first housed the Naval War College, a structure built in the early 19th century to house Newports poor. The building is a contributing element to a National Historic Landmark District, along with Luce Hall, the colleges first purpose-built building, in recognition of the War College&#39;s historical significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Naval War College established the Naval Museum in 1952, with the approval of the Chief of Naval Operations to manage its collections of historical artifacts. Since 1978, it has occupied its present quarters on Coasters Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay. This building, now called Founders Hall, was originally built in 1819 as the Newport Poor Asylum. The city of Newport and the state of Rhode Island donated this property to the Navy for use as the Naval War College. The colleges first president, Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, formally dedicated the building to the Navys use. The building became famous in the years 1886–1889, when the college&#39;s second president, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, first gave his lectures in this building that formed the basis for his famous book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890).</p><br>
<p>Founders Hall and Luce Hall were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1964, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Naval War College Museum uses this building to display exhibits on three themes: (a) the history of the Naval War College since 1884; (b) the history of naval activities in the Narragansett Bay area since the colonial period; and (3) the history of the art and science of naval warfare since ancient times.</p><br>
<p>The Utah Governor&#39;s Mansion  is the official residence of the governor of Utah and family. It is located at 603 East South Temple Street  in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1902 for United States Senator and mining magnate Thomas Kearns, the house was designed by notable Utah architect Carl M. Neuhausen, who also designed the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. The elegant home was built using the finest materials by the finest craftsmen available, resulting in a quality and style similar to that of Eastern mansions like those of the Vanderbilts and Carnegies. The mansion also served not only as a home and a place for the Senator to conduct official business, but also as a venue for entertainment where guests would dance and enjoy the music of live orchestras. During this period many political and religious dignitaries were guests in the Kearns mansion, including President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a personal friend of Senator Kearns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Senator Kearns died in 1918, and in February 1937, Jennie Judge Kearns donated the Kearns Mansion to the State of Utah. The mansion was donated with the condition that it serve as the Governors Residence. For the next twenty years the governors of Utah used the mansion as their primary residence. From 1957 to 1977, the Utah Historical Society occupied the mansion as a library, museum, and office space. In 1977, Governor Scott Matheson proposed that the mansion be restored as a governors residence and, after an extensive renovation, the mansion became a residence once again in 1980.</p><br>
<p>On December 15, 1993, a fire, caused by faulty wiring on the Christmas tree in the main hall, destroyed much of the mansion. Governor Mike Leavitt was not at home at the time, but First Lady Jackie Leavitt and her staff were quick to notify the Salt Lake City Fire Department, and their response kept the mansion from suffering more significant damage. A long and painstaking restoration was begun, to restore the mansion to its original state and salvage as much of the historical interior as possible.</p><br>
<p>The $7.8 million restoration brought the home back to its original 1902 style, while providing many current safety standards, such as a fire sprinkler system, new wiring and plumbing, new heating and cooling, a security system, and seismic upgrades.</p><br>
<p>The property is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places as the Thomas Kearns Mansion and Carriage House. The listing includes both the mansion and the carriage house on the same 9 acre property.</p><br>
<p>The West Virginia Governor&#39;s Mansion  is a historic residence located next to the Kanawha River in Charleston, West Virginia and is the official residence of the governor of West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Revival (Georgian Revival) building was completed in 1925 by Charleston architect Walter F. Martens and is part of the West Virginia Capitol Complex, which also includes the West Virginia State Capitol. The building itself has a red brick exterior, with a columned portico at the entrance. The foyer was inspired by the White House, with checkered black-and-white marble flooring and dual staircases. The first floor of the mansion includes the drawing room, ballroom, state dining room, library, and a sitting room. The second floor houses the governor&#39;s own rooms, as well as those of his family, while additional bedrooms are on the third floor. The mansion also features walled gardens, a separate garage, and servant quarters.</p><br>
<p>The total cost of the mansion, including land, construction, and furnishings, was approximately $203,000 at the time of its construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Governors Mansion was bought by the state in 1893 from a private company, using $22,000 appropriated by the state with the help of outgoing governor Aretas B. Fleming. The first governor to live in this mansion was William MacCorkle, who succeeded Fleming. The building, a large, wooden, white, two-story structure in the Queen Anne style, was built originally as a private residence for local merchants. It served eight different governors, from 1893 to 1925. Prior to its purchase, governors of West Virginia were responsible for their own housing. A fire on January 3, 1921, resulted in the destruction of the old state capitol building in Charleston. As a result, a 1921 session of the West Virginia Legislature created a seven-member "Capitol Building Commission". On July 23 of that year, Cass Gilbert was chosen to direct construction for the new complex, which was to include a capitol building as well as an executive mansion. The location for the complex was chosen on December 20, 1921. Groundbreaking for the complex occurred on January 7, 1924, and the entire state capitol building was completed in 1932. Three parcels of land for the actual mansion were acquired on July 7, 1921, at a cost of $64,270, and construction began in 1924 and ended in 1925. The work was overseen by local architect Walter F. Martens, but he was not greatly involved in the design of the neighboring capitol building. Compared to Gilbert, who was already an accomplished architect, Martens had less experience and had never worked on a project of this size. However, Martens had traveled to New York City to talk with Gilbert about designs for the project, and both had similar ideas for the buildings Georgian style. Martens also traveled to see the White House, which was to be a model for the new mansion. His visit allowed him to learn how to create a floor plan able to accommodate heavy traffic of guests, as many as 2,000 visitors at once.</p><br>
<p>The buildings first occupant, Ephraim F. Morgan, who had first proposed to the state the construction of a new residence, only lived in the new mansion for one week because his term expired during 1925. In 1926, servants quarters were added atop a garage, along with private gardens. Since its completion, the mansion has had several redecorations, including one in 1937 and one in 1958. The original building plans for the mansion included a third story, but one was not added until much later, in 1946. Before this addition, the second floor had been covered with a roof composed of tin, but it was replaced by one made of slate.</p><br>
<p>From 1965 to 1969, during the term of Hulett C. Smith, the mansion underwent a thorough renovation process, with a total of $300,000 spent in both structural improvements and historic preservation efforts. In 1985, during Governor Arch Moores third term, First Lady Shelley Moore established the West Virginia Mansion Preservation Foundation, which raised funds for the maintenance of the mansions interior and furnishings. Later, in 2005, Governor Joe Manchin cited structural defects as a reason for repairing and remodeling the mansion. Their efforts, which cost an estimated $1.2 million, used both leftover campaign money as well as private funds. Later that year, in July, it was announced that the total cost of renovations to the building had exceeded $3 million, excluding furnishings.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming Governor&#39;s Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Wyoming. The current mansion was built during 1976 in Cheyenne.</p><br>
<p>The public can tour the residence Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm. There is no admission fee.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Governor&#39;s Mansion</h2><br>
<p>The previous residence, now known as the Historic Governors Mansion, served from 1905 to 1976. It is located at 300 E. 21st Street in Cheyenne. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places during 1969 as Governors Mansion.</p><br>
<p>It is operated by the state as a historic house museum known as the Historic Governors&#39; Mansion State Historic Site. The mansion is open daily during summertime, and from Wednesday through Saturday during the remainder of the year. Rooms have been decorated to represent the 1905, 1937, 1955 and 1960s eras. The Historic Mansion is also a contributing building in the Rainsford Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Wyoming Governors Mansion uses a colonial revival style, with a modest aesthetic and represents a certain level of comfortability. The style also incorporates Georgian Colonial aspects throughout the structure. The building is defined by the entrance, "Four stately, Corinthian sandstone columns hint at the structure’s history of hosting state dinners for dignitaries and other important events" (Wyoming heritage) The mansion is a two-story mansion with historical relevance to Wyomings great history and the notable events that have taken place within its walls. The building uses different ornaments around the structure that defines the residency as there are multiple styles being used. The front has a large view of the front door that works with the large columns to create The Colonial style that defines the building. Inside the building there are multiple eras being represented through furniture and wall decor. Some of the furniture is original, Historic features include many furnishings and decor that are original to the home" (WyoParks) The two-story mansion was occupied by multiple families and governors, and with the colonial style there are some temple aspects in the entrance and the stone features that are within first view of a person upon arrival. A firm did the architecture, "After two days of judging, the five-member jury announced it had selected Entry No. 1, submitted by the firm Kellogg and Kellogg." (Taylor) This signaled the direction they wanted to take Wyoming in on formal architecture within their capital. This design was a primary residence for around seventy years and has been a symbol of Wyoming architecture that is celebrated and has historic significance. Kellogg and Kellogg are a firm that is still around today, they have worked on multiple projects, but have changed into a business-oriented firm focusing on different business aspects and consulting. The building is now run by the capital building commission along with being dedicated piece of land, "This structure continues to be operated as a state historic site by the State Parks and Cultural Resources Department." (Taylor), and this allows preservation of the architecture and history behind this structure. The Wyoming Governor&#39;s mansion is a symbol of Wyoming history and brings to life Wyoming architecture and a style that is prevalent in southern Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>The ʻĪao Theater is a Spanish Mission style theater opened in 1928, in the city of Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. It was originally both a movie and vaudeville house, until it fell into disrepair in the 1980s. Facing possible demolition, in 1994, it was listed on the State of Hawaii&#39;s Register of Historic Places. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It later became the home of Maui OnStage, a community-based theatrical organization.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In December 1927, Manuel Gomes Paschoal and H. B. Weller broke ground for Iao Theater on Market Street. The theater was designed by Edward Walsh. After nearly 9 months and $40,000 in construction costs, Iao Theater opened on August 22, 1928. The theater opened with a local play featuring local actors, and the showing of Sporting Goods starring Richard Dix at night.</p><br>
<p>The theater was one of several theaters in Wailuku, and was named after a small bait fish named the iao. Aside from screening movies, the theater also hosted live onstage performances. Notable events included appearances by Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, and Frank Sinatra for USO shows during World War II, plus showed such movies as Rio Rita, and the X-rated film Deep Throat (which got the theater owner arrested). In 1953, the Hawaii debut of From Here to Eternity was staged at the Iao. A snack concession was run by Harry Kaya for almost 40 years, from 1930 to the mid-1970s, called Harry&#39;s Sweets. The location was just outside the main theater entrance. Local Hawaiian music artists such as Kealiʻi Reichel and Amy Hanaialiʻi Gilliom also gathered experience at the Iao.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1980s, after the theater closed down, the threat of demolition loomed. Maui Community theater first occupied the theater in 1984 for $200 a month, The Hawaii State Register of Historic Places listed the Iao on June 24, 1994. It is the only surviving historic theater on Maui. The Department of the Interior placed the theater onto the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Modern usage</h2><br>
<p>The Whitehall Museum House is the farmhouse modified by Dean George Berkeley, when he lived in the northern section of Newport, Rhode Island that comprises present-day Middletown in 1729–1731, while working to open his planned St Paul&#39;s College on Bermuda. It is also known as Berkeley House or Bishop George Berkeley House and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Berkeley (1685–1753)—or Bishop Berkeley, the famous Anglo-Irish philosopher—disembarked from his ship in the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island, on Thursday, 23 January 1729. The Reverend James Honyman, minister of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island welcomed Berkeley and the group that accompanied him, inviting him to stay in his home in Newport until he could find accommodation elsewhere. In February 1729, Berkeley purchased a 96 acre farm with a small house on it, adjacent to Honeymans own farm. He also purchased several slaves to work the land. Berkeley enlarged the house to his own design and named it "Whitehall," saying that this was "in loyal remembrance of the palace of the English Kings from Henry VIII to James II." During the period he lived in this house, he wrote his book Alciphron, and occasionally preached for Revd Honeyman at nearby Trinity Church, and for Revd James McSparran at the St Pauls Church, Wickord (The Old Narragansett Church). In Newport, he founded the Philosophical Society, which eventually developed into the Redwood Library. Berkeley wrote to his friend Thomas Prior of Dublin, Ireland that Newport exhibited some of the softest rural and grandest ocean scenery in the world.</p><br>
<p>While living at Whitehall, his wife, Anne gave birth to their eldest son, Henry, and to a daughter, Lucia, who died in infancy and was buried in the churchyard at Trinity Church on 5 September 1731. On his departure in September 1731, Berkeley donated his library and the Whitehall property to Yale University, with the stipulation that the income from the property would be used to support three scholars at Yale.</p><br>
<p>After his return, Berkeley commissioned the London organ-maker, Richard Bridge to provide an organ to Trinity Church, which was installed in 1733.</p><br>
<p>By 1743, the Whitehall farmhouse was being operated as an inn. The traveler Dr. Alexander Hamilton described a visit to the inn during that year in his Itinerarium, when he was served by a daughter of the proprietor, a grandfather of the future artist Gilbert Stuart. Yale University leased the property for many years as an inn, but, by the late nineteenth century, it had fallen into derelict condition. In 1899, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America obtained a 999-year lease on the property, and in 1936, commissioned the noted restoration architect Norman Isham to restore two rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Dames in Rhode Island maintain the house and garden, which is furnished with period pieces and opened for tours on a limited basis during the summer months, when it is also used by accommodation for scholars specializing in studies on Berkeley.</p><br>
<p>The Koch Family Childrens Museum of Evansville is an interactive childrens museum in Evansville, Indiana. The museum educates and inspires children about the world. Exhibits include deconstructing objects, a water exhibit that spans multiple floors, experiences about the human body and its senses, and a gallery for freedom of expression.</p><br>
<p>Built inside the historic old Central Library, the museum opened in September 2006. The Art Deco building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now offers visitors three floors of interactive exhibits and galleries. The museum was designed by Roto Studio, a museum design and engineering firm specializing in creating interactive educational environments and experiences for children as well as adults.</p><br>
<h2>Permanent galleries</h2><br>
<p>Live Well: The Live Well Gallery exhibit provides children with hands on experiences about the human body, sun protection, healthy eating, and the importance of exercise in order to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. Activities in the exhibit include opportunities to explore being a doctor, test reaction time, memory, a hands-on play kitchen, bistro, and farmers market.</p><br>
<p>Speak Loud: The Speak Loud exhibit encourages children to dramatize a familiar story, play instruments from around the world, create an artistic masterpiece and express their feelings through music, drama and the visual arts.</p><br>
<p>Quack Factory- Upper Deck: Every visitor has a role to play in feeding the Great Duck Machine. Visitors are "workers" and each have a task as balls and ducks are hoisted, dropped, launched, and pushed.</p><br>
<p>Quack Factory- Wet Deck: Water flows through the exhibit in amazing ways. Send a duck around the basin or see if it can survive the nearby lock system. Create a spouting masterpiece out of pipes and see if it springs a leak.</p><br>
<p>Work Smart: is a place things can be built and taken part. Exhibit activities includes digging for dinosaur bones in the Dino Dig, estimating weight, and deconstructing tools and objects.</p><br>
<p>Aluminate: a new play tower inspired by aluminum and renewable energy. Come play and slide down the two-story indoor slide!</p><br>
<p>The Governor Henry Lippitt House is a historic house museum at 199 Hope Street on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. A National Historic Landmark, it is one of the finest Italianate mansion houses in the state, and considered one of the best-preserved examples of Victorian-era houses in the United States. It is notable for its association with Henry Lippitt , a wealthy textile magnate who was the 33rd Governor of Rhode Island. The house is owned by Preserve Rhode Island, and is open to the public for tours seasonally or by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lippitt House is a large three-story brick structure, resting on a brownstone foundation, and topped by a roof that is hipped except for a projecting gable at the front (western) elevation. A two-story wing projects to the rear (east) of the house. The corners of the building are quoined in brownstone, and there are brownstone belt courses between the first and second floors. The main entry is sheltered by a semicircular porch supported by fluted and cabled Corinthian columns. The porch has an elaborately decorated roof line, as does the main roof and the porte-cochère on the north side.</p><br>
<p>The interior is in a remarkable state of preservation. The public rooms in particular exhibit a wide variety of materials and are richly decorated with wallpaper, woodwork, plasterwork, and stenciling. Original gas lighting fixtures are still present, but have been converted to electricity. Stained glass windows adorn the stair landings.</p><br>
<p>The house is the finest of a group of mansion houses built along Hope Street by wealthy Providence businessmen and politicians, which are now a part of the Hope-Power-Cooke Streets Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1865 by Governor Henry Lippitt and was loosely based upon a design by Russell Warren. Lippitt descendants lived in the house until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. In 1981, the Lippitt family donated it to Preserve Rhode Island, which maintains the house as a Victorian period historic house museum.</p><br>
<h3>150th anniversary</h3><br>
<p>To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lippitt House, the museum held a series of exhibits and events in 2015. The first of these was an outdoor exhibit of six brushed aluminum sculptures by artist Aaron Pexa. The sculptures, viewable on the front lawn of the mansion, were colorful silhouettes which represent domestic workers who worked for Henry Lippitt.</p><br>
<p>The Neff Tavern Smokehouse is a historic smokehouse located on the old Santa Fe Trail northeast of Napton, Saline County, Missouri. It is off Interstate 70 and 6 miles west of Arrow Rock, Missouri. Missouri pioneer Isaac Neff  was born in Tennessee in 1797 and died in Missouri in 1878. He originally built a log tavern on the site in 1837. The Santa Fe Trail went between the tavern and the barn , skirted the family cemetery, and continued to the northwest. The tavern was torn down in 1890. The stone smokehouse is the only remaining original structure on Neff&#39;s former property.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Catholic Church, established in 1834, is an historic Roman Catholic parish church in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is the oldest established Catholic religious institution in the city, and the oldest Catholic parish in New England outside of Boston. On March 5, 1980, its 1845 church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early establishment</h3><br>
<p>Catholics immigrated to the Worcester area as early as 1826. Most of them were Irish people hired to build the railroads and the Blackstone Canal. When they first settled, they had no clergy with them. Since all of the churches were Protestant, Robert Laverty, a private citizen, petitioned Bishop Benedict Fenwick of Boston to assign a priest to celebrate mass in Worcester.</p><br>
<p>In result, Father James Fitton, a Boston native, visited Worcester monthly starting in 1834. He laid the foundation for a church on Front Street, known as "Christ&#39;s Church". That structure was completed in 1836 and served as a church, rectory, Sunday school, and infirmary.</p><br>
<p>After 2,000 parishioners had joined the church, a new building was needed. The current building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was constructed at number 44 Temple Street in 1845 and dedicated in honor of St. John in 1846.</p><br>
<p>Besides that building, Father Fitton established Mount Saint James Seminary, which became the College of the Holy Cross in 1839. The Society of Jesus bought the school in 1843, and still own and operate it today.</p><br>
<p>From 1836 to 1848, the Penobscot Indians visited the church each winter from Maine.</p><br>
<h3>Mother Church of Springfield</h3><br>
<p>The current presbytery in use was built in 1865. When the Diocese of Springfield was established in 1870, Father Patrick T. OReilly was appointed the first Bishop of Springfield. He made the house the chancery for Springfield, and kept his pastorship at St. Johns.</p><br>
<h3>Mother Church of Worcester</h3><br>
<p>When the Worcester Diocese was established in 1950, St. Johns was (and still is) known as "The Mother Church of the Diocese". However, because of the architectural elements, St. Pauls Parish on Chatham Street was selected as the cathedral for the See of Worcester.</p><br>
<h3>Tradition</h3><br>
<p>A Novena of Grace in honor of St. Francis Xavier had been held every March 4–12 since 1922.</p><br>
<p>The first charismatic prayer group in Worcester began meeting in 1970. The group is still active.</p><br>
<p>A vigil mass at 9:15 PM on Saturday has been held from the 1980s to 2008.</p><br>
<h3>"Preserve the Flame"</h3><br>
<p>On Labor Day weekend in 2004, the interior ceiling collapsed into the sanctuary, destroying the altar and baptistry. Mass was celebrated that weekend on the parish lawn and from thenceforth at sister parish, Ascension Church, on Vernon Street, until the beginning of 2005. That weekend, masses were moved to the basement church, where space was limited. All celebrations of Confirmation and First Communion were moved to St. Paul&#39;s Cathedral to accommodate the large crowd.</p><br>
<p>The renovations were complete in September 2005 and the Mass of Rededication was celebrated on October 15, 2005, by Bishop Robert J. McManus.</p><br>
<h2>List of pastors</h2><br>
<p>Rev. James Fitton 1834–1843</p><br>
<p>Rev. Adolphus Williamson 1843–1845</p><br>
<p>Rev. Matthew W. Gibson 1845–1856</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Boyce 1856–1864</p><br>
<p>Most Rev. Patrick T. O’Reilly, D.D. 1864–1885</p><br>
<p>Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas Griffin, D.D. P.R. 1885–1910</p><br>
<p>Rev. Thomas S. Donohue, P.R. 1911–1922</p><br>
<p>Rev. Edward J. Fitzgerald, P.R. 1923–1937</p><br>
<p>Rev. John F. McDonnell, P.R. 1937–1944</p><br>
<p>Rev. Michael E. Lahey, P.R. 1944–1953</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Donohue 1954–1963</p><br>
<p>Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. O’Brien 1964–1967</p><br>
<p>Rev. James B. Kelly (Priest-in-charge) 1967–1971</p><br>
<p>Most Rev. Timothy J. Harrington 1969–1972*</p><br>
<p>Rev. William W. McGovern (administrator) 1971–1972</p><br>
<p>Rev. Cyril A. LeBeau 1972–1977</p><br>
<p>Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Scollen (administrator) 1977–1982; (pastorate) 1983–1984</p><br>
<p>Rev. Michael G. Foley 1984–1991</p><br>
<p>Rev. Charles F. Monroe 1991–1994</p><br>
<p>Rev. Joseph A. Coonan 1994–2008**</p><br>
<p>Rev. John F. Madden (administrator) 2004–2008; (pastorate) 2008–present</p><br>
<p>Rev. Richard A. Jakubauskas (chaplain for the Lithuanian community) 2008–present</p><br>
<h2>Architectural style</h2><br>
<p>The church is constructed like a Baptist or Puritan church, so that visitors may think that the building is a Protestant church. The current steeple has been in place since 1951. The brick walls have been in place since the beginning in 1846.</p><br>
<p>The interior walls have been repainted several times, most recently in 2005. The congregation has 50 rows of 4 pews (total lower seating 1,000), including a handicapped section. There are another thousand pews in a balcony on both sides of the nave, including 500 people per side. The total capacity is 2,000 persons and 100 musicians.</p><br>
<p>In the sanctuary, the high altar is located in the center, with the Blessed Sacrament located behind it. The original Tridentine Mass altar houses the tabernacle, and is in Romanesque style. The pulpit is to the left of the altar and the presider&#39;s chair at the right. To the direct left, a devotional shrine is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and often other statues, such as of St. Francis Xavier and St. Theresa, may be displayed. The baptistry dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary is at the direct right. The flooring is hardwood.</p><br>
<h2>Basement church</h2><br>
<p>The basement church is half the basement foundation. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes are taught in a format to "practice" for the "real church". The Blessed Sacrament is lit only at mass time. The "chapel" has a pre-Vatican II altar rail without the gate. The tabernacle is to the right of the altar, but the high altar is at the center with a bench as the "Novus Ordo" mass location. It is not nailed to the floor, which is marble.</p><br>
<h2>Staff</h2><br>
<p>Rev. John F. Madden, Pastor</p><br>
<p>Rev. Richard A. Jakubauskas, Lithuanian Chaplain</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Edmond T. Tinsley, Assisting Priest</p><br>
<p>Dianne Gustowski, Religious Education Coordinator</p><br>
<p>Dr. Sean Redrow, Organist and Director of Music Ministry</p><br>
<p>David M. Moulton, Organist and Asst. Director of Music Ministry</p><br>
<p>Lucia Clemente Falco, Organist</p><br>
<p>John LeDoux, Musician</p><br>
<p>Jane Rabion, Safe Environment Coordinator</p><br>
<p>Jean Grenier, Altar Server Director Emeritus</p><br>
<p>The Grand Opera House, also known as the Janey Slaughter Briscoe Grand Opera House is a historic theater in Uvalde, Texas. Built in 1891, it became a premier arts venue in Southwest Texas for plays, musicals, and cultural performances. The Opera House is the oldest functioning theater in the state of Texas and presents plays and concerts by local and touring companies. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Opera House was built by a partnership formed between local businessmen, merchants and ranchers called the Uvalde Real Estate and Building Company. The 2-story brick structure has Richardsonian Romanesque elements in its architecture. In typical Texas opera house style of the period, the building has the auditorium above commercial spaces on the first floor. There were also fashionable offices on the second floor. The Opera House was an immediate success and became the social center of Uvalde and quite well known throughout the region.</p><br>
<p>The building was sold to Fred Locke in 1900 and the John Nance Garner family in 1916. By the early 1940s, most of the office tenants had moved out, and the building went through a period of decline. In July, 1978, the dilapidated property, now owned by the descendants of Garner, was donated to the City of Uvalde. The city restored the Opera House to its 1890 condition.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Evangelical Lutheran Church is an historic Lutheran church located in Corning, Missouri. It was founded as a Confessional Church, adhering to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. It later became a member of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod .</p><br>
<p>On January 4, 2008, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church and Parochial School. In 2011, another flood of the Missouri River devastated the building, which is now in the possession of the St. Johns Historical Society, which is currently in the process of restoring it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded as the "Deutsch Evangelish Lutheraner St. Johannes" by German immigrants to Northwest Missouri in the spring of 1860. This congregation built its first church structure, a wooden building nicknamed the "Church in the Timber," in October 1860 at Hemme&#39;s Landing next to the Missouri River, approximately two miles from Corning. By 1872, the congregation began outgrowing this structure and purchased the land in Corning on which the current structure now stands.</p><br>
<p>The current brick building was constructed in 1893 by Pete Thull of Rock Port, Missouri and has been in use ever since. The wooden, parochial, one-room schoolhouse was constructed behind the church in 1912. It held regular classes in German until 1917. The parish hall addition was constructed in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The church survived damage inflicted in the Great Floods of 1951 and 1993. It is currently awaiting restoration due to severe and long-term flooding in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The current brick structure was designed in the Latin cross design (complete with narthex, nave, transepts, and choir) and with pointed-arch windows, both characteristic of churches in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The stained glass windows were installed in 1943 and were made with blue glass from Czechoslovakia. They depict various Judeo-Christian symbols, including the Luther rose, an eagle in a boiling cauldron (both symbols for St. John), a crown of thorns, a throne, a Bible, and the Ark of the Covenant (among others).</p><br>
<p>The interior also houses the original hand-stenciled pipe organ and three murals (one of Christ the Good Shepherd, one of Jesus preaching at the Sea of Galilee, and one of Heaven). A white, wooden altar-pulpit with a large hand-made representation of the Kingdom of Heaven as it is described in the Book of Revelation rises 24 feet from the floor.</p><br>
<p>Glencairn is a castle-like mansion in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, that was home to the Pitcairn family for more than 40 years. Now the Glencairn Museum, it contains a collection of about 8,000 artworks, mostly religious in nature, from cultures such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and medieval Europe, as well as Islamic, Asian, and Native American works. The museum is affiliated with The New Church, and the building is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Mansion</h2><br>
<p>Multi-millionaire businessman Raymond Pitcairn (1885–1966) and his wife, Mildred Glenn (died 1979) built "Glencairn" between 1928 and 1939. Its name was a combination of their surnames. Pitcairn, a member of the New Church himself, had no formal training in architecture and designed the Romanesque-style building using a series of models. The nine-story, granite-and-ruddy-colored-stone mansion features more than 90 rooms on 10 floors. It has three main sections &ndash; a central rectangle, and two large rectangular wings &ndash; that together measure approximately 175 feet by 135 feet. The exterior features a nine-story tower, carved doorways, pillars, and wall insets. The building also contains elaborate interior mosaics, monel metalwork, Early Medieval stained glass windows, and a replica of the Biblical tabernacle.</p><br>
<p>The Pitcairn fortune derived from control of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, of which his father John Pitcairn, Jr. (1841-1916), was director, 1896–1906. Adjacent to "Glencairn" is Raymond Pitcairns first architectural success, the Gothic Revival Bryn Athyn Cathedral (1913–19), and his fathers house "Cairnwood". The Pitcairns were funders of the American Liberty League. Following Mildred&#39;s death in 1979 (Raymond died in 1966), the mansion, with its collections and Pitcairn archives, was given to the Academy of the New Church.</p><br>
<p>"Glencairn" was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is a contributing property of the Bryn Athyn Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Glencairn Museum</h2><br>
<p>Guided tours of the building and collection are available year-round. Tours are offered Tuesday through Friday at 2:30pm or by appointment, and weekends at 1:00, 2:30 and 3pm. The Museum&#39;s first floor, including the Great Hall, Upper Hall, Bird Room, and current temporary exhibition, is open for self-guided viewing on weekends from 1:00 to 4:30 pm.</p><br>
<p>Glencairn Museum also offers a variety of events and exhibitions throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>The Barre Opera House is an opera house in Barre, Vermont, USA. It is located in the Barre City Hall and Opera House, a historic government building at 6 North Main Street in downtown Barre, Vermont. Built in 1899, it houses the city offices; it was built to replace the Barre City Hall/Opera House which burned down in 1898, and its upper floors have served for much of the time since its construction as a performing arts venue. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History of the building</h2><br>
<p>The current opera house, designed by George G. Adams, a leading architect of public buildings in New England, was finished on August 23, 1899.</p><br>
<p>Barre City Hall stands near the eastern end of the city&#39;s commercial business district, on the west side of Vermont City Park, a triangular park formed by North Main, Church, and Washington Streets. It is a four-story brick and stone building with Beaux Arts styling. The main feature of its facade is a three-story recessed arch, flanked by pilasters and topped by a gabled pediment. Within this recess, the main entrance is framed by ironwork and topped by a series of arcaded windows. Above these windows a wrought iron arched balcony spans the arch, whose interior is capped by a large half-round fanlight. The interior of the building houses city offices on the ground floor, and the facilities of the opera house on the upper three floors.</p><br>
<p>The city hall was built in 1899 to a design by George Adams, a native of Lancaster, New Hampshire. Its theater was used until World War I for all manner of performances, meetings, and lectures, and fell into decline with the advent of motion pictures. Although it was modified to show films, the decline continued, and the theater was closed in 1940.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Barre Opera House</h2><br>
<h3>Beginnings</h3><br>
<p>In the decades that followed its opening, the opera house served as a venue for staged plays, speakers, traveling shows, bands, and politicians. People such as Helen Keller, Eugene V. Debs, George M. Cohan, Emma Goldman, John Philip Sousa and Tom Mix graced its stage. In 1912, two presidential candidates made speeches from the outer balcony: William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.</p><br>
<h3>1930s, 1940s, and Closing</h3><br>
<p>During the Great Depression and World War II, the opera house served the community primarily as a movie house. As other, competing movie venues were built in and around Barre, the opera house fell out of favor with the advent of motion pictures and closed its doors in January 1944, remaining vacant for nearly 40 years.</p><br>
<h3>Re-opening and Renovation (1982-1993)</h3><br>
<p>With significant community support, a dilapidated Barre Opera House re-opened in October 1982. The facility was in an advanced state of disrepair; windows were broken, few seats were left, and the outdated heating system did not function. Community support led to the theaters reopening in 1982, and by the 2000s it had been fully restored with updated amenities. It is one of northern New Englands best-preserved theatrical spaces of the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>For a decade after its reopening, the opera house underwent a series of incremental upgrades which added curtains, stage lights and a working heating system. In 1993, funds were raised for a massive renovation which added an elevator and balcony seating. The modern seating capacity was raised to 649, bringing it to more than half of the original, 1899-era capacity. The renovations, which have totaled nearly 2 million dollars, are ongoing, with another $400,000 of improvements in the works.</p><br>
<h3>The Barre Opera House today</h3><br>
<p>More than 20,000 people attend events at the opera house annually.</p><br>
<p>Many major artists, such as Jackson Browne, John Hiatt, and Shawn Colvin have performed at the BOH in recent years. As an example of the breadth of artists who perform in a given year, the 2013–2014 season has included Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Robert Cray Band, Mavis Staples, Lunasa, The Capitol Steps, Le Vent du Nord, Colin Quinn and pianist John O&#39;Connor.</p><br>
<p>The opera house is renowned for its acoustical purity and it is the central venue of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.</p><br>
<p>The Opera House was mentioned in a National Geographic feature on towns in America.: "The proudly blue-collar city supports the arts; rust-peppered pickup trucks jostled newer cars in the overflowing parking lot of the 1899 Barre Opera House for a recent performance of Carmen. But crowds also packed the place for the Miss Vermont pageant last year. You can rent the same stage for your kid&#39;s piano recital."</p><br>
<p>Highfield House is a high-rise condominium in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was designed by Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1964. It was the second of two buildings designed by Mies in Baltimore. One Charles Center was the first.</p><br>
<p>Highfield House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as an outstanding example of International Style residential architecture.</p><br>
<p>Highfield House was featured in held at the in October 2012. The Baltimore Modernism Project included renderings from the archives of the, alongside a rendering and drawings on loan from the Highfield House Board, and contemporary photography by Jeremy Kargon. In October 2014, Highfield House celebrated its by revealing a new plaque noting its addition to the National Register of Historic Places. Architectural plans for Highfield House are held in the Mies van der Rohe archives at the. Artist Philip Tomaru has published a three-part series of artists&#39; books about Highfield House held in the.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Highfield House is a 15-story concrete tower facing east. Set on a platform, the main residential floors are 20 feet above the base. 36 columns frame an enclosed lobby and two equally sized areas of sheltered terrace to the north and south. The windows are made of dark gray tinted glass. Below each window is a brick panel. The use of brick decoration can also be seen in his buildings at IIT. To the rear of the building, a round, sunken swimming pool is surrounded by a landscaped garden and plaza.</p><br>
<p>Commonly known as the Denmark Vesey House, the house located at 56 Bull Street in Charleston, South Carolina was for a long time thought to be the house once inhabited by black abolitionist Denmark Vesey. Veseys home, listed as 20 Bull Street under the citys former numbering system, is now evidently gone. A nearby home, most likely built in the 1820 and currently numbered 56 Bull Street, was thought in the 1970s to have been the home of Denmark Vesey, and it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 by the Department of Interior. Vesey was hanged on July 2, 1822 and his body was never found. Despite these findings, the house has continued to be listed as a National Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house described as the Vesey house is a single story wood-frame structure, oriented sideways to the street. The narrow street facade has two windows, while the longer west side has a porch extending across the front portion, with a wider addition to the back. Two doors enter the house from the porch. The interior of the front portion has three rooms, one beside the other, and the rear addition has four more.</p><br>
<p>Hibernian Hall is a historic meeting hall and social venue at 105 Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Built in 1840, it is Charleston&#39;s only architectural work by Thomas Ustick Walter, and a fine example of Greek Revival architecture. The wrought iron gates were made by Christopher Werner, a German-American master ironworker in Charleston.</p><br>
<p>The hall is nationally significant for its use during the 1860 Charleston Convention, in which the Democratic Party, divided by opinions on slavery, failed to select a presidential nominee, ensuring victory for the anti-slavery Republican Party in the 1860 presidential election. The building was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1973. The building continues to be used as a function and meeting space today.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hibernian Hall is located at 105 Meeting Street, just north of the intersection of Meeting and Broad Street in central Charleston, an intersection known as the "Four Corners of Law". The hall was constructed in 1840 to a design by Thomas U. Walter of Philadelphia for the Hibernian Society of Charleston, an Irish benevolent society. This group had organized in 1801, made up largely of Irish immigrants. This is the only known work of Walter&#39;s in Charleston.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick structure, clad in white-painted stucco, its principal architectural feature a Greek temple front with six Ionic columns, supporting an entablature and pediment. The architect modeled the columns and entablature on those of the Temple of Illisius. Master artisan Christopher Werner crafted the iron gates.</p><br>
<p>The classical effect was modified in the late 19th century by the addition of dentils and modillions to the cornice, and the insertion of an arched Italianate window into the tympanum of the pediment. These alterations were made during repairs and restoration after the building was damaged in the 1886 Charleston earthquake.</p><br>
<p>Hibernian Hall is the only remaining building associated with the 1860 Democratic National Convention, one of the most critical political gatherings in United States history. The building served as convention headquarters for the faction of the Democratic Party supporting presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas. The first floor was used as a meeting space, and the second floor as living quarters for the delegates, who slept on hundreds of cots set up for the occasion. None of the candidates could garner sufficient support, and the party&#39;s divisiveness contributed its defeat by the Republicans and Abraham Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>McLeod Plantation is a former slave plantation located on James Island, South Carolina, near the intersection of Folly and Maybank roads at Wappoo Creek, which flows into the Ashley River. The plantation is considered an important Gullah heritage site, preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance to African-American and European-American cultures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was first recorded on maps from 1678 under the name "Morris."</p><br>
<p>In 1780 in the American War of Independence, British General Sir Henry Clinton used the original house as his headquarters while planning the siege of Charleston. Many enslaved workers joined the British lines seeking freedom and were evacuated from the city.</p><br>
<p>The plantation house standing on the land today was constructed in about 1858 in the Georgian style. Also on the property are six remaining clapboard slave cabins, a detached kitchen, a dairy building, a pre-Civil War gin house for the long-staple cotton grown on the Sea Islands, a barn, and a carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The plantation was occupied by Confederate forces during most of the Civil War, and the Big House served as a hospital. After the evacuation of Charleston in early 1865, the site was occupied by the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiments, African American soldiers of the US Colored Troops. Later, the home was occupied as offices by the Freedmens Bureau. At one point, newly freed enslaved people camped out on the plantations lands.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, owners renovated the house, changing what was designated as the front and rear, and altering the front facade.</p><br>
<p>The home was occupied by the McLeod family until 1990. A share was given to the Historic Charleston Foundation, which proceeded to consolidate shareholders. In 1993, ten acres were designated for the growing of sweetgrass to help ensure a supply of the basic component used in crafting sweetgrass baskets, a product of the creole Gullah culture of African Americans.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the plantation was sold to the American College of the Building Arts. Unable to support both the development of its school and the plantation, ACBA returned it to Historic Charleston in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>McLeod Plantation Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>In 2011, Historic Charleston Foundation sold McLeod Plantation to the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission, thereby ensuring the buildings would be restored and protected under public ownership. The McLeod Plantation Historic Site opened to the public on April 25, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The site is designated as part of the federally recognized Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in South Carolina. The corridor stretches along the coast from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, encompassing the Lowcountry and Sea Islands, with South Carolina representing most of the area. Enslaved people who survived the Middle Passage, were imported here mostly from west and central Africa. They were forced to labor on rice, indigo and cotton plantations such as McLeod. From various ethnic and cultural groups, these men, women, and children developed the creole Gullah/Geechee culture and language, which has many African retentions.</p><br>
<p>It was also named one of the African American Historic Places in South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Byler Road is the oldest public road in Alabama still in use today. Constructed in the mid-1820s, it connected Courtland near the Tennessee River with Tuscaloosa near the Black Warrior River.</p><br>
<p>Byler Road was named for Captain John Byler, who served in Andrew Jackson&#39;s army at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. On December 16, 1819, Governor William W. Bibb signed a bill authorizing Byler and his associates to construct a toll road that would link the Tennessee Valley with the Black Warrior River. Byler would be allowed to keep the tolls from the road for twelve years as long as the road was maintained.</p><br>
<p>The road spurred development in Lawrence, Winston, Walker, and Fayette counties, and was traveled by both Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. A half-mile section of the road in Tuscaloosa County was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>In 2024, the state of Alabama began adding historic markers along the route of Byler Road.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Grand Forks is the original commercial center of Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. Located on the western bank of the Red River of the North, the downtown neighborhood is situated near the fork of the Red River and the Red Lake River. While downtown is no longer the dominant commercial area of the Greater Grand Forks community, it remains the historic center of Grand Forks. An 80.4 acre portion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, as Downtown Grand Forks Historic District. Today, downtown Grand Forks is home to many offices, stores, restaurants, and bars.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>Grand Forks was first settled in 1870. In 1872, seven pioneers staked claims to land on the Red River. The 9 acre piece of land that would become downtown Grand Forks was first platted by Grand Forks&#39; "founding father", Alexander Griggs, and his wife Etta, in 1875. This was done in anticipation of the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad (later the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway and eventually the Great Northern Railway). A collection of wood-frame buildings quickly sprouted up and, by 1880, the new city was home to 1,705 residents. The city was incorporated on February 22, 1881.</p><br>
<p>The coming of the Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway in 1880 led to dramatic growth. New multiple-story brick buildings replaced the old wood structures. The Hotel Dacotah, the St. John&#39;s Block, and the Security Building - all five stories - were witness to the fact that the city was prospering and that downtown Grand Forks was becoming one of the busiest commercial districts in the region. By the dawn of the 20th century, downtown Grand Forks had become the commercial, transportation, health care, entertainment, and cultural center of the region and boasted many amenities.</p><br>
<h3>The 20th Century</h3><br>
<p>Throughout the early and mid parts of the 20th Century, downtown Grand Forks was easily the dominant commercial neighborhood in Grand Forks. In the later part of the century, the coming of the Interstate Highway System, urban renewal, and new commercial developments on the outskirts of the city signaled the start of a period of decline for downtown. Major shopping malls (South Forks Plaza in 1964 and Columbia Mall in 1978) relocated much of the commercial activity which had once been centered downtown. Over time, institutions which had once been a major part of downtown - the city&#39;s hospitals, post office, and public library - were replaced with new facilities outside of downtown.</p><br>
<p>A major downtown urban renewal project during the 1960s and 1970s saw the destruction of whole downtown blocks in favor of new office building, a city auditorium, and a new street overpass spanning the Grand Forks rail yards. Built in large part as a response to the new shopping malls in Grand Forks, the City Center Mall saw the blocking off of one whole block of South Third Street to vehicular traffic. A roof was built over the street and the entire one-block section became an indoor shopping center. The City Center mall was, in large part, a failure. The 1980s and 1990s saw little development taking place downtown. Indeed, several major businesses such as Griffiths Department Store, Norbys Department Store, and Silverman&#39;s clothing store either moved elsewhere within the city or shuttered their doors forever.</p><br>
<h3>Flood of 1997</h3><br>
<p>The Red River Flood of 1997 devastated downtown Grand Forks. The entire district was inundated with several feet of water and a major fire destroyed eleven historic buildings. An iconic image of the flood was the flooded and charred shell of the old five-story Security Building on North Third Street.</p><br>
<p>After the flood, a renewed effort was put into revitalizing downtown. A new Grand Forks Corporate Center was built in the center of downtown to replace office space which had been destroyed by the flood and fire. Remodeling of the old Empire Theater, which had been started before the flood, was completed and the building became known as the Empire Arts Center. The roof of the City Center Mall was removed and historic storefronts were once again visible. Other building projects following the flood included a new office building for the Grand Forks Herald, a new office building for Grand Forks County, a new "Town Square" community plaza, and the remodeling of countless downtown properties including the Metropolitan Opera House and the former First National Bank (now Alerus Financial) building.</p><br>
<h3>Historic district</h3><br>
<p>The Downtown Grand Forks Historic District is an 80.4 acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The area is also known as the Grand Forks Original Townsite and as the Central Business District.</p><br>
<p>The National Register nomination includes some significant dates:</p><br>
<p>1872, when settlers staked claims on the Red River</p><br>
<p>1875, when the town was platted</p><br>
<p>1880, when the Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway reached the city and was constructed through the center of downtown</p><br>
<p>1885, when a branch line of the Northern Pacific Railway reached the town</p><br>
<p>1997, when the Red River flood covered all of downtown, and the resulting flood and fire damage brought significant destruction and then reconstruction</p><br>
<p>Architects who designed buildings in the area include Buechner & Orth, Joseph Bell DeRemer, Cass Gilbert, Theodore B. Wells, and others.</p><br>
<p>When listed, the district included 42 contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and 15 non-contributing buildings. The area was surveyed in a 1981 study of Downtown Grand Forks historical resources.</p><br>
<h3>Downtown today</h3><br>
<p>In recent years, a number of new stores and restaurants have opened up downtown. The city has recently been encouraging the construction of new apartments and condos in the downtown area. Several new and remodeled buildings offer upscale housing in stand-alone buildings or above businesses for varying prices.</p><br>
<p>Also, a is held every Saturday (9AM to 2PM) from mid-June to mid-September in the Town Square on the corner of 3rd Street S. and DeMers Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Each June, the downtown area and the neighboring Greater Grand Forks Greenway play host to the Grand Cities Art Fest.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>Central High School</p><br>
<p>Grand Forks Herald</p><br>
<p>Metropolitan Opera House</p><br>
<p>The Commodore Apartment Building, also called Commodore Apartments, is a luxury condominium complex located in Louisville, Kentucky&#39;s Bonnycastle neighborhood. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 11-story 120 ft high rise Commodore Apartment Building was opened in 1929 and designed by the architectural firm of Joseph & Joseph in 1928. The architects designed four other buildings in the Louisville area including the Republic Building (1916) and the Elsby (1918) in New Albany, Indiana. The building is located near Cherokee Park.</p><br>
<p>The building is built on land that was once owned by Isaac Everett, one of the founders of the Galt House. Everett purchased about 150 acre of land for $25,000 (USD). The land then was used to build himself a mansion. The estate passed down to his daughter Harriet, who later married and became Harriet Bonnycastle. After her husband&#39;s death, she donated land to Louisville to build Cherokee Park to spur future developments in 1891. Harriet would sell parcels of land for over the next twenty years and eventually in the late 1920s the Commodore Apartments went up.</p><br>
<p>After surviving the Great Depression, and continuing as a luxury apartment building, it was sold for $650,000 and restored for another $125,000 in 1978 by Louisville native, actor and entrepreneur Roger Davis. Davis sold the Commodore in 1980 for $1,000,000 to Jack MacDonald of Acre Realty, Chicago which converted the Commodore from an apartment building to a condominium complex of 59 units.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s passenger elevators are among the few remaining that require an elevator operator. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Hall is the oldest building at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1883, the four-story Italianate structure formerly housed the entire school. Constructed of red bricks and topped with a belfry, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 as Pioneer Hall, Linfield College. Part of the hall serves as residences and part as classrooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1879, what was then known as McMinnville University began plans to construct a new building to house the school. After a professor, W. S. White, drafted plans for the building that year, the school waited until 1882 to begin construction. That year the cornerstone was laid where the cabin of the Cozine family once stood until they donated 20 acre to the school the prior year. The building was dedicated June 12, 1883, and at that time housed the entire college.</p><br>
<p>In November 1907, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted visited the campus to advise the school on the design of the campus. At the time Pioneer Hall was the only hall on campus and a wooden gymnasium was the only other building. Olmstead described Pioneer Hall as ugly, and the other building as cheap. In 1922, the school became Linfield College. In 1929, the building was renamed as Pioneer Hall in honor of the pioneers of the school.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Hall was then remodeled in 1946. On February 23, 1978, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Pioneer Hall also used to house the Linfield College radio station, KSLC 90.3 FM, until 2007 when it moved into Renshaw Hall. The radio station - as KLIN AM - was also housed in the music and art building (old Frerichs Hall) which burned down in 1969, while the transmitter remained in Pioneer.</p><br>
<p>On January 8, 2008, the nearby Old Oak tree estimated at 250 years old fell down. As of 2008, the building is used for a variety of uses. It was a 47-person residence hall on the upper floors, but as of 2018, the top two floors are no longer inhabited. Now the lower floors are home to the departments of Psychology, History, and Political Science.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Atop the hall is a square belfry, which is topped by a dome and spire. The architectural style of the brick structure is Italian Bracketed. Pioneer Hall is a mixture of the cruciform plan and Italianate style. W. S. White designed the four-story building which has three above-ground stories atop a stone basement.</p><br>
<p>The Mother Mosque of America, once known as The Rose of Fraternity Lodge, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, is the oldest standing purpose-built mosque in the United States, having been completed in 1934. The Al-Sadiq Mosque in Chicago and the Powers Street Mosque are older by a decade but were converted from existing buildings to be used as a Muslim house of worship.</p><br>
<p>An older purpose-built mosque is the Highland Park Mosque, built in 1921 to serve immigrant workers in the Detroit Metro Area, which was sold in 1926. Another older purpose-built mosque was a mosque near Ross, North Dakota, which fell into ruin; a smaller mosque was built near that site to commemorate its history in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mosque was built by a local community of immigrants and their descendants from the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Lebanon and Syria. Construction was completed on February 15, 1934. The small structure served as a place of worship for Muslims for nearly 40 years. When a larger local mosque, the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids, was built in 1971, the building was sold. Successive owners over the next 20 years allowed it to fall into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the Islamic Council of Iowa purchased the building, refurbished it and restored its status as a Muslim cultural center. The effort was mainly organized by the local Muslim community led by Imam Taha Tawil and Dr. Thomas B. Irving.</p><br>
<p>The Mother Mosque stands in a quiet neighborhood, flanked by houses on both sides, with a small marker off of First Avenue pointing the way to the site. Due to its small size, the majority of the Muslim population in Eastern Iowa and the Cedar Rapids area worship at other mosques, but the Mother Mosque remains a prominent center for information, prayer, and community.</p><br>
<p>The Mother Mosque is listed on both the Iowa State Historical Register and the National Register of Historic Places as an "essential piece of American religious history, which symbolizes tolerance and acceptance of Islam and Muslims in the United States." It was listed on the National Register in 1996 as Moslem Temple.</p><br>
<p>Floods in June 2008 filled the mosque&#39;s basement with 10 feet of water, resulting in the loss of the extensive collection of books, archival records, and artifacts stored there.</p><br>
<p>The Mission Church is a historic Congregational church located at the corner of Huron and Tuscott Streets on Mackinac Island, Michigan, United States. Built in 1829, it is the oldest surviving church building in the state of Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the Mission Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The parish of Sainte Anne Church (Mackinac Island) was organized before this, as the island had a historic French and Metis population before Anglo-American settlement. Sainte Anne’s original building was replaced by a new structure in 1874, which is still used.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mission Church was constructed in the New England Colonial church style. The base construction is of heavy timber, and the interior is plastered. The front facade has a double-door center entrance, and boasts a square tower topped with an octagonal belfry. The roof is covered with wooden shingles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>French Jesuits established a mission to the Ottawa in this area in the 17th century. Their church did not have a permanent priest after suppression of the Jesuits in Canada in the late 18th century; the log structure was moved from Fort Michilimackinac to Mackinac Island about 1780-1781 by British orders. This Sainte Anne Church was used by the French and Metis residents who were the majority of the permanent population through the early 1800s, most connected to the fur trade. The church did not have a permanent priest for some years, but devoted parishioners kept the congregation active. Magdelaine Laframboise, a prominent Métis fur trader, donated land next to her mansion for the church when it needed a new site. In 1874, a new Sainte Anne Church was built there which is still in use.</p><br>
<h3>Original Protestant mission</h3><br>
<p>The first permanent Christian pastoral presence on Mackinac Island was that of David Bacon, who lived on the island for a short time beginning in 1802. Following the conclusion of the War of 1812, the number of Anglo-American residents on the island and in the region increased. In 1821, Jedidiah Morse (the father of Samuel F. B. Morse) was reputed to have preached on the island on a Sunday; he later advocated for a permanent Protestant mission on the island.</p><br>
<p>In 1823, missionaries William Montague Ferry and his wife Amanda founded a Protestant mission on the southeast corner of Mackinac Island at the location since known as Mission Point. This mission was primarily to educate Indian youth, and enrolled students from all around the Great Lakes region. In 1825, they built a boardinghouse and school at the site, During the winter of 1828-29, the Ferrys&#39; congregation rapidly grew, adding 33 people to total 52 congregants. The church was dedicated on March 4, 1831.</p><br>
<p>The congregation eventually grew to number about 80. But changes soon came to the island: the American Fur Company withdrew as the fur trade declined in the 1830s. The tribes which the mission school served were being removed to locations west of the Mississippi River. The mission, and with it the church congregation, declined. The Ferrys left Mackinac Island in 1834, and in 1837, the mission was closed. In 1838 the mission property, including the church, was sold to a private owner.</p><br>
<h3>Later years</h3><br>
<p>The church was used for some years for political meetings and plays, and occasionally for church services. The building continued to deteriorate.</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, the island became used a summer resort destination for people from major cities such as Chicago and later Detroit. The Grand Hotel was constructed in 1887. The seasonal influx of summer residents soon overwhelmed the space available for the island&#39;s small Protestant congregation. In 1894, a group of residents purchased the church for nondenominational services, restored it, and opened it in the summer of 1895.</p><br>
<p>It was used for years for Protestant services, primarily in the summer. The Mackinac Island State Park Commission purchased the building in 1955 and did some renovation. In the 1980s, the church was extensively restored. As of 2012, the church is open to the public daily in the summer, and can be rented for weddings.</p><br>
<p>The Mission House, on Mackinac Island, is a historic structure owned by the state of Michigan. Built in 1825, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is operated as part of the Mackinac Island State Park. The Mission House is a wood-frame structure covered in clapboard siding and constructed in a U shape. The center section is three stories, and the flanking wings are two stories. The front facade has a single-story porch covering the entrance in the center.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In 1823, missionaries William Montague Ferry and his wife Amanda founded a mission on the southeast corner of Mackinac Island at the location since known as Mission Point. In 1825, this mission house was built at the site by a building crew led by Martin Heydenburk, a fellow missionary who was a teacher and carpenter. It is the centerpiece of a major effort by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to disseminate Christianity among the Native Americans of the upper Great Lakes. It is also a standing remnant of the fur trade era of Great Lakes history.</p><br>
<h2>Dormitory</h2><br>
<p>The Mission House was designed as an American Indian boarding school for students of Native American, meti, and Euro-American ancestry. The students were boarded at the school, taught manual crafts and rudimentary liberal arts, and trained to adopt the standards and living patterns characteristic of New England and the American East Coast. In 1827, 112 students were enrolled in the school.</p><br>
<p>The Mission House was constructed as a two-story building. It was built in a spare, utilitarian style suitable for its purpose. There has been little exterior decoration on the building since its original construction in 1825. The dormitory structure was built with local sawn timbers from nearby Mill Creek, and a close study of these timbers enabled archeologists to reconstruct what kind of steel saw had been used to cut the logs and even how fast the saw blade had moved.</p><br>
<p>The Mission House was the largest structure of a complex that also included a church, the Mission Church (built 1829–30), and nearby fields for training students in agriculture. The Ferry family lived in this house for 12 years, from 1825 until 1837. Here their son, Thomas W. Ferry, a future USA Senator, was born in 1827.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel</h2><br>
<p>The Mackinac Mission never succeeded in financially supporting itself and, in the late 1830s, its functions were undermined by the decline of the upper Great Lakes fur trade. In 1837, Michigan Territory was admitted to the Union as a state, and the Ferry family moved to what was to become Grand Haven. The Mackinac mission complex was abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The decline of the fur trade was caused by "civilization" and the increasing immigration of settlers and homesteaders into Michigan. For many decades in the early and mid-19th century, Mackinac Island was a key junction point for the short-run lake steamboats of the day. Many immigrants to Lake Michigan changed boats at Mackinac Island, and needed places to stay during their stopovers. In 1849 Edward Franks bought the unused Mission House, added a third story to the two-story structure, and reopened it as a hotel/boarding house. He did not change the structure&#39;s name.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, pleasure travel increased in northern Michigan, and the Mission House readapted itself as a somewhat spartan pleasure resort. As the 20th century began, however, the aging building was increasingly ill-adapted to provide a comfortable experience to travelers. The Great Depression dealt the Mission House a blow from which it could not recover. The hotel, still operated by the Franks family, closed in 1939.</p><br>
<h2>Moral Re-Armament and living space</h2><br>
<p>Once again unused, the Mission House found a new owner in 1946 as the temporary base of the Moral Re-Armament movement. Under the leadership of the Rev. Frank Buchman, MRA made Mackinac Island their world headquarters and built a large conference center to the east of the old dormitory. MRA decided to convert the center on Mackinac Island into a liberal arts college in 1965. The college did not prove successful and closed after graduating its first class in 1970. The following year MRA officially ceased activity on Mackinac Island and divested itself of its island holdings, selling most of it to Rev. Rex Humbard of Akron, Ohio. Rev. Humbards attempts to operate a resort and revive the college were short lived, owing to other financial difficulties in his organization, and ceased in 1973. In 1977 a Dallas-based property and investment firm purchased the property and converted it into the “Mackinac Hotel and Conference Center.” Fearing that the historic 1825 Mission House would not survive much longer, the Mackinac Island State Park Commission purchased it from the Humbard organization and restored it. Its interior was remodeled into living space for Mackinac State Historic Parks seasonal workers. The interior is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Representation in other media</h2><br>
<p>In 1863 Edward Everett Hale published a fictional story called The Man Without a Country. It opened with the sentence: “I was stranded at the old Mission House in Mackinaw, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come.” However, in his lifetime Hale visited neither Mackinac nor Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In his 1893 and 1900 reminiscences, E.E. Hale stated that ‘To write the story of “The Man Without a Country” and its sequel, “Philip Nolan’s Friends,” I had to make as careful a study as I could of the history of the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States.’ In Hale&#39;s many publications, he described other locations that he had never seen. He was able to do this because he had extensive libraries and publications available to him. Hale was a writer, editor, and Unitarian minister who resided in and traveled throughout New England; he visited Texas once.</p><br>
<h2>Registered historic site</h2><br>
<p>The Mission House was listed on the National Registry of Historic Sites in 1971, and was listed in the Michigan Registry of Historic Sites in 1993. It is Michigan Historic Site #SO313. A historic marker was erected.</p><br>
<p>St. Rose  Church, also known as St. Rosa Church, is a Roman Catholic church located in Cincinnati, Ohio&#39;s East End neighborhood at 2501 Riverside Drive . Located near the banks of the Ohio River, the church has endured many floods as evidenced by a high water mark painted on the rear side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation organized January 15, 1867. The parish was named for St. Rose of Lima, the first saint from the Americas. The parent parishes were Saint Philomena and St. Francis de Sales. The congregation was mostly German.</p><br>
<p>The church was erected in 1867; the cornerstone was laid October 6, 1867. The dedication occurred May 21, 1869. The building is brick, with stone trimmings in the Roman style, measuring 57 by. Its steeple, over 190 ft high, is a landmark on the Ohio River. The cost, including lot, was over $60,000.</p><br>
<p>On January 31, 1894, the church and the school were almost entirely destroyed by fire &mdash; with only the walls remaining. The church was rebuilt at a cost of $30,000; every dollar was donated. The congregation numbered 200 families in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The parish remains active today.</p><br>
<p>White Furniture Company, was a major American producer of hand-crafted fine furniture for over a century . Founded by the White Brothers of Mebane, North Carolina, the factory notably produced furnishings for the US government and the Grove Park Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>In 1881, brothers Dave and Will White founded White Furniture Company. They used a small loan and $275 from working as telegraph operators as capital. Their father, Stephen A. White III, had acquired an amount of debt which soiled the familys name. Dave and Will pledged to repay their fathers creditors, and such was the catalyst behind starting the factory.</p><br>
<p>Will White served as president of the company and Dave White as general manager. "The White Brothers were aggressive businessmen who took seriously their place in the town, and who, like many in the New South, equated industrial growth with civic duty and regional pride."</p><br>
<p>Working with only a plane and a boiler, the initial manufacturing was limited to only round oak dining tables and wagon wheels. While reaching an early success in 1886, a local businessman invested funds to expand White Furniture and purchase more advanced machinery. Within a brief time, the company employed 32 people and manufactured tables, chairs, and a bedroom set. The solid-oak bedroom set sold for nine dollars and included a bed, dresser, and washstand.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<h3>The Panama Canal contracts</h3><br>
<p>In 1906, under the command of Chief Engineer John Frank Stevens, hundreds of new building were built in Panama. These buildings were created to house army engineers and canal workers constructing the Panama Canal. The US government was in need of furniture for both enlisted men and American officers in Panama, and the bulk of the contracts was awarded to Whites. A local newspaper reported, "The first installment of furniture for the Panama Canal, contracted for the government with the White Furniture Company. This train of cars was handsomely placarded, each car bearing a 20-foot banner worded FROM THE WHITE FURNITURE CO., MEBANE, N.C., FOR USA GOVERNMENT, PANAMA CANAL, and then the company trademark, The White Line Guarantees Satisfaction."</p><br>
<p>This was the first time a government contract of this type had been awarded to a southern factory. A total of 58 boxcars was whipped from North Carolina to the Panama Canal.</p><br>
<p>Just one year after being awarded the Panama contracts, in 1907, White Furniture Company was awarded "Best manufacturer of American furniture" at the Jamestown Exhibition. (A World&#39;s Fair celebration during the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown Settlement.)</p><br>
<p>The Rundlet-May House is a historic house museum at 364 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1807, it is a well-preserved example of a high-end Federal style mansion, built for a wealthy merchant. The house is of particular significance due to the survival of early documentation related to its construction. It is now owned by Historic New England and open seasonally for tours. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rundlet-May House stands in what is now a predominantly residential area south of downtown Portsmouth, on the west side of Middle Street, a busy north–south road. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, topped by a low-pitch hip roof surrounded by a wooden balustrade. It is finished in wooden clapboards, and has four chimneys, symmetrically placed with two on each side. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelights and a fanlight.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1807 by James Rundlet, who acquired his wealth in the textile trade. Rundlet imported his wallpapers from England and purchased his furniture from local cabinetmakers, whose work was noted for its fine craftsmanship and striking use of veneer. Rundlet also saw to it that his house was equipped with the latest technologies. The kitchen boasts both a Rumford roaster and a Rumford range, as well as a set kettle and an elaborate venting system that services a smoke room on the third floor. There is an early coal-fired central heating system and an indoor well. Details of the house&#39;s construction are well-documented, because Rundlet and his heirs retained detailed records of work done on it.</p><br>
<p>Ralph May, a descendant of Rundlet, gave the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. The house contains many of its original furnishings, as well as some pieces added by later generations. The formal gardens, orchard, and attached outbuildings (including two privies) remain as first used by Rundlet, and there is also a small pet cemetery on the grounds. It is open to the public on weekends between June and October.</p><br>
<p>Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic Landmark. The building itself is designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark, recognizing the two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry that have resulted from research done in the building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gilman Hall was built from 1916 to 1917 to accommodate an expanded College of Chemistry under the leadership of Gilbert N. Lewis. Designed by John Galen Howard, the building provided research and teaching facilities for faculty and students specializing in physical, inorganic and nuclear chemistry. It was named for Daniel Coit Gilman, president of the University of California from 1872 to 1875.</p><br>
<h2>Room 307</h2><br>
<p>In 1942, the Berkeley campus became quite involved in the war effort of World War II. The top floor, or "attic," of Gilman Hall was fenced off for classified work in nuclear chemistry. Half of the rooms in the attic had small balconies that could be used as outdoor fume hoods, but the actual hoods in Gilman Hall were not equipped with fans. They operated only as chimneys, with a burner flame that produced a draft. For the war work, electrically powered fans were finally installed to vent the hoods. Plutonium research in Gilman Hall was part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. In 1942, Seaborg left Berkeley to join the Manhattan Project in Chicago. He returned to Berkeley after the war and directed the university&#39;s nuclear chemistry research.</p><br>
<p>Between 1976 and 1983, as part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, the Department of Energy conducted remedial action to remove or shield floor and walls contaminated with uranium from the nuclear research done in the Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Nobel Prizes</h2><br>
<p>Two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded for research done in the building. The first was to William Giauque in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Seaborg received the second one in 1951 for discoveries in the transuranium elements.</p><br>
<p>Four other individuals who did research here received Nobel Prizes for later work as well.</p><br>
<h2>Gilman Hall today</h2><br>
<p>Gilman Hall has been used continuously by the College of Chemistry for 80 years; today it is occupied by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. However, its laboratory equipment is no longer suitable for modern chemical research and as such, the University has renovated and converted some of the rooms into offices, classrooms, and small research laboratories.</p><br>
<p>Following the FUSRAP remediation work, Gillman Hall has been certified as safe to current radiologic standards. The University of California is responsible for maintenance and monitoring of the shielded contamination.</p><br>
<p>Camp Hill, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the site of a plantation house built by Dr. John Winsmith in 1835. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>It had originally been the camp site of British Major Patrick Ferguson prior to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 17, 1780. This was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia overwhelmed the Loyalist militia led by Major Ferguson. In The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, "This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution."</p><br>
<p>South Hall is the oldest building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, built in 1873 in the Napoleon III style. It is the only remaining building of the original campus. South Hall was originally the counterpart of North Hall, which no longer exists, but was located where the Bancroft Library currently stands.</p><br>
<p>The first physics laboratory in the United States was hosted in South Hall in 1879. It also has been home to the College of Agriculture, a business school, and a temporary museum for the state geological survey. It currently houses the UC Berkeley School of Information. When Wheeler Hall was planned, the entrance of South Hall was removed from the west side and added on the east side entrance. The original wooden porch was replaced in 1997 with glass fiber reinforced concrete.</p><br>
<p>Campus tour guides often point out a small stone bear, sculpted by Michael H. Casey, in the architecture of South Hall, on the balcony railing above the entrance, in the third circle from the left, claiming it is the smallest bear statue on campus.</p><br>
<p>The four-story building is located southwest of Sather Tower.</p><br>
<p>St. Michael the Archangel is a Roman Catholic church located at 3114 Scranton Road in the Tremont neighborhood on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio. The church is named in honor of St. Michael the Archangel and was completed in 1892.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1881 as a mission of Ohio City, Clevelands St. Marys on-the-Flats to serve a growing German immigrant population on Cleveland&#39;s west side. The original church and school building were constructed in 1883 but burned on June 29, 1891, while the new building was under construction. The current church, which had its cornerstone laid in 1889, was completed five years ahead of schedule in 1892.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation reached its peak size in the 1950, when only 25% of the parishioners were of German descent. The first Spanish Mass was said in 1971 for the growing number of Hispanic parishioners. The congregation now is mostly Latin American. The church now offers Masses in both English and Spanish. An annual Good Friday Procession begins or ends at St. Michaels. St Michaels and La Sagrada Familia church alternate every year to begin or end at one of the two churches. There is a stop at St Patricks on Bridge Avenue to hear the first part of Mass before continuing on the journey to either St Michaels or La Sagrada Familia. The parish has become a center of Hispanic culture in Cleveland.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church building is considered a good example of High Victorian Gothic architecture with its two towers of unequal height, the taller of which rises 232 ft, and three archways. An architecturally notable school adjacent to the church began construction in 1906 and was completed in 1907. For many years the church was one of the most costly and artistically notable churches in the Cleveland Diocese.</p><br>
