<p>Bishop Mackay-Smith House, also known as the Franklin School, is a historic residence located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903–1904, and is a -story, brick and brownstone building. It has a flat, square facade front with a deep entry porch. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. . It was built for Alexander Mackay-Smith, Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1911. He served as Coadjutor Bishop from 1902 to 1911.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Wilson Eyre House is an historic, American residence that is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1830 and 1835, this historic structure is a three-story brick dwelling with a low to medium roof and dormer. A three-story brick extension was added in 1909 by its then-owner, architect Wilson Eyre (1858-1944). Eyre purchased the home in 1909, and occupied it until his death in 1944.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Henry George Birthplace is an historic home which is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1801, this historic structure is a three-story brick rowhouse, which was designed in a late Federal style. The layout is typical of a Philadelphia rowhouse with a "front building" and "back building." It also has a "piazza."</p><br>
<p>Noted journalist and economist Henry George (1839-1897) was born in the house in 1839, and resided there until 1849.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Clarence B. Moore House is a historic home located at 1321 Locust Street at the corner of S. Juniper Street between S. 13th and S. Broad Streets in the Washington Square West section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Moore house was built in 1890 and was designed by architect Wilson Eyre as the home of the merchant, archaeologist, and writer Clarence Bloomfield Moore . It sits next to the Dr. Joseph Leidy House, which Eyre designed in 1893.</p><br>
<p>The Moore House is a three-story brick building with a raised basement and attic. It was designed in an eclectic style and features a steep slate roof, Gothic-style pointed arched openings, a Venetian loggia on the top floor, projecting walled steps, a large, circular tower inspired by Loire Valley chateaux, and two massive chimneys. The exterior uses rusticated and smooth limestone, Roman brick, and slate. Despite the unusual combination of styles and materials, the house has been called "a delicately balanced asymmetrical composition."</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Roberts-Quay House is an historic, American home that is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original section was built circa 1850; it was then expanded in 1889, 1906, 1921, and 1928.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>This historic residence was the home of Matthew Quay (1833–1904), a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Its original section measures forty-seven feet by fifty-one feet, and is a four-story building with a brownstone face and sides of stucco, scored as brownstone. It has a basement, attic, and cupola and was designed in a Renaissance Revival style. The expansions to the north added one hundred feet to the depth of the building.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>William Strickland Row was a set of seven historic rowhouses, four of which survive.</p><br>
<p>Designated as a national historic district, the remainder of homes in this series of rowhouses is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>These brick rowhouses were built circa 1815, and each measure between sixteen feet, six inches, and twenty feet wide and thirty-five feet deep. They were designed with Greek Revival-style design details and built using the typical Philadelphia rowhouse plan of the period with front building, piazza, and back building.</p><br>
<p>Noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland (1788–1854) resided at 219 South 9th Street from 1823 to 1829.</p><br>
<p>This series of rowhouses, which was designated as a national historic district in 1977, is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
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<p>Portico Row is a set of sixteen historic rowhouses located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>These brick houses were built between 1831 and 1832 and were designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887). Created using the typical Philadelphia rowhouse plan with front building, piazza, and back building, they were designed in the Greek Revival style. Each of the eight mirror-image pairs shared a common entrance portico supported by Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>The houses were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1975 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The J. Sylvester Ramsey School was an historic, American school building that was located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it has since been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1850 and designed in a vernacular Greek Revival style, this structure was a three-story, five-bay, gable-roofed building with a three-story fire tower that was added in 1894.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Clinton Street Historic District is a national historic district located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It includes 71 brick rowhouses built between 1835 and 1850. They are between 3 1/2- and 4-stories and consist of the typical Philadelphia rowhouse plan with front building, piazza, and back building. It was a fashionable residential section in the 19th century and home to such notable figures as architect Addison Hutton , Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens , and Agnes Repplier . Located in the district and separately listed is the J. Peter Lesley House at 1008 Clinton Street.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Social Service Building is a historic office building located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer  and built in 1923–1924. It is a 10-story, steel frame brick clad building with limestone and terra cotta ornament in a Federal Revival style. The main entrance features an oversized door with fanlight, framed by Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Philadelphia Lodge No. 2 BPOE, also known as the Philadelphia Athletic Club, was a historic American Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks  lodge that occupied 306-320 North Broad Street in the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h2>History and notable features</h2><br>
<p>This lodge, built between 1922 and 1925, was a thirteen-story building. The BPOE moved into the new lodge from the four-story building located at 1320–1322 Arch Street, built between 1904 and 1906, and designed by Francis Caldwell and Edward Simon, that still stands.</p><br>
<p>The Elks occupied the bottom five floors, with residential/hotel accommodations in the higher eight floors. The lower floors included meeting rooms, restaurants, ballrooms, and auditoria. The entrance featured a two-storey portal framed in limestone and capped by a giant keystone.</p><br>
<p>Although being added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the building was purchased by Hahnemann University for $2.35 million in 1991 and was demolished the following year. It was removed from the National Register in 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Packard Motor Car Company Building, also known as the Press Building, is an historic, American office building that is located at 319 North Broad Street between Pearl and Wood Streets in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>A contributing property to the Callowhill Industrial Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1910 and 1911, this historic structure was designed by Albert Kahn of the noted Detroit architectural firm of Kahn & Wilby. It is a nine-story, steel-framed, reinforced concrete building; its construction involved one of the first uses of that material in a commercial building. Clad in terra cotta and featuring an ornamented canopy and a prominent overhanging roof, the building housed a showroom and new car inventory space for the Packard Motor Car Company.</p><br>
<p>The showroom was remodeled in 1927 by Philip Tyre. In November 1928, the building became the headquarters of the Philadelphia Record newspaper, which it remained until the Record folded during a 1947 strike.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a contributing property to the Callowhill Industrial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated into apartments in 1986 by Bower Lewis Thrower and John Milner Associates.</p><br>
<p>Upper Wolfsnare, historically called Brick House Farm until 1939, is a colonial-era brick home built, probably about 1759, in Georgian style by Thomas Walke III in Virginia Beach, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas III was a major in the British Army. His son, Thomas Walke IV, was a member of the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, which voted to ratify the United States Constitution. Walke IV was one of two representatives from Princess Anne County.</p><br>
<p>The first Thomas Walke (I) settled in this area in 1662 from Barbados and began a trade business between the Virginia colony and Barbados, a trade which likely involved rum and slavery. He had strong connections with William Byrd I. Thomas Walke III died in 1761 and left his son the then-7,000 acre plantation and 55 slaves. In 1783 Thomas Walke IV petitioned to reclaim slaves taken by the British during the American Revolution. Some of those slaves made their way to Nova Scotia. Thomas IV was a Whig, whereas Princess Anne County was mostly Loyalists.</p><br>
<p>The property stayed in the Walke family until 1822, was 300 acre at the time, then changed hands many times. Currently it has about 3 acre and has been owned by the Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach Historic Society since 1966. It is still lived in.</p><br>
<p>The house is open for tour on a limited basis in the summer.</p><br>
<h2>Location and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house acquired its name because of its location next to Wolf Snare Creek, on the south side of its upper part. The house sits in a high noise area between Naval Air Station Oceana and Interstate 264. It was almost knocked down to make room for an access ramp for the interstate, but preservationists managed to save the property.</p><br>
<p>The lane to the house at 2040 Potters Road is lined by many trees, including crepe myrtles. The house is open to the public on a very limited basis. The view of the house is mostly obscured by trees from Potters Road but beyond the trees it is an open, flat, marshy, area.</p><br>
<p>The house is in two stories and built with Flemish bond brickwork. A passage runs through the center of the house. It has raised paneling and wainscoting. The house was listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register (Virginia Historic Landmark) in 1974 and the US National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The A.J. Holman and Company at 1224 Arch Street between N. 12th and N. 13th Streets in the Center City area of Philadelphia was built in 1881 and was designed by the Wilson Brothers, who also designed the nearby Reading Terminal. Andrew J. Holman founded the Bible-publishing business in 1872 and had this building constructed when their original space became too small for the growing company.</p><br>
<p>The front façade of the five-story, red brick building features cast iron piers on the first floor and a triangular pediment with Gothic arch at the roofline. It is one of the few commercial loft buildings from the period in Philadelphia which have not been extensively changed.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Young Smyth Field Company Building is a historic light manufacturing loft building located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1902, and is an 8-story, 5 bay wide building, with a limestone and glazed brick front facade. It also has terra cotta details. The building measures wide and approximately deep.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Pitcairn Building, also known as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Building, is an historic, American warehouse and light manufacturing loft building that is located at 1027 Arch Street at the corner of North 11th Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was designed by noted Philadelphia architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and built in 1901. It is an eight-story, steel-frame building that was clad in brick and granite with terra cotta details. The building, which measures approximately 74 feet wide and 172 feet deep, was originally built as a regional distribution center for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. It later housed a clothing manufacturer, H. Daroff and Sons, who originated the "Botany 500" brand.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Boekel Building is a historic factory building located in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 505–515 Vine Street, west of North 5th Street. It was built in 1922–23, and is a six-story, reinforced concrete building clad in brick with terra cotta details. It features massive brick piers and broad banks of windows; the windows were replaced in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Harris Building, also known as the Laird, Schober & Company Building, is an historic factory building which is located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1914 and 1915, this historic factory building is an eight-story, L-shaped, reinforced concrete building, which is clad in brick and has terra cotta details. From 1914 to 1942, it housed Laird, Schober & Company, a manufacturer of womens, childrens, and misses&#39; shoes. It then housed a clothing manufacturer until 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Wesley Building, also known as the Robert Morris Hotel, is an historic, American office building and hotel located at 1705 Arch Street, at the corner of N. 17th Street in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original six-story section was built in 1914 and 1915, with an eight-story addition erected in 1921 and 1922. The cornice of the original building can still be seen above the sixth floor.</p><br>
<p>The Wesley Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This building was commissioned by the Board of Home Missions of the United Methodist Church as offices and a hotel for the Methodist Church. and features intricate terra cotta detailing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Located directly across Arch Street from the fifty-eight-story Comcast Center, the tallest building in Pennsylvania, the now century-old structure was converted in 2012 to a 111-unit rental apartment building called "The Arch Luxury Apartments".</p><br>
<p>The Francis McIlvain House was a historic home, built in 1869, in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. A -story brick rowhouse faced with ashlar brownstone, it had a mansard roof in the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>The Francis McIlvain House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,</p><br>
<p>The Larkin–Belber Building, also known as the Larkin Building and the Belber Trunk & Bag Company Building, is an historic, American light manufacturing loft building that is located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1912 and 1913, this historic structure is a twelve-story, reinforced concrete building with 295,360 square feet of floor space. It was originally designed by Buffalo architect C.J. Heckman for Larkin Company, a soapmaker.</p><br>
<p>In 1920, Belber purchased the building. The company subsequently hired local architect Leroy Berman Rothschild to place Belber&#39;s own stamp on the building. Rothshild designed large rooftop signs placed along the sides of the building. In its architecture as well as its integration of manufacturing, office work, and retail functions, the Belber Building represented a "landmark of twentieth century commerce and industry."</p><br>
<p>Belber vacated the property in 1947 and Robert Hall Clothes took over the building in order to use it for production. Later, for a few years, up until 1964, the building was leased to the Philadelphia Daily News. In 1983, a developer acquired the building for a conversion to office space; however, those plans did not materialize.</p><br>
<p>By 2004, the building had maintenance problems that led to pieces breaking off and falling onto the street. Orens Brothers Inc. acquired the property and converted it to condominiums.</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, also known as the Victory Building, is an historic, American office building that is located in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it is part of the East Center City Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Henry Fernbach and Phillip W. Roos are credited as the building&#39;s architects. It was built in 1873, and is a seven-story, brick building, faced with granite, and measuring 58 feet by 176 feet. Its three lowest stories feature engaged columns, pilasters, balustrades, and arcades. The top three stories were added between 1890 and 1891. It is topped by a mansard roof in the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located on the East Center City Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Old Federal Reserve Bank Building is an historic, American bank building that is located at 925 Chestnut Street, in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The main section of this building, which was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret in the Classical Revival style with influences of the Beaux-Arts style, was built between 1931 and 1935. It incorporated the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Building, that was erected in 1889, with additions made in 1918 and 1925. Cret also designed the formal gardens, which were added in 1941.</p><br>
<p>Between 1952 and 1953, a recessed seventh story was added. It was designed by Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, the successor firm to Cret.</p><br>
<p>The building, which features sculptures of the goddess Athena that were created by Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau, is eleven bays wide and measures 170 feet wide and 113 feet deep. It has a steel-frame structure that is faced with Vermont marble and has engaged piers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located on the East Center City Commercial Historic District. The building is now part of the Center City campus of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, housing both administrative space and clinical facilities.</p><br>
<p>Witherspoon Building is a historic office building located in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Joseph M. Huston  and built in 1896. It was built for the Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath School Work. It is an 11-story, steel frame E-shaped building, faced with brick and granite. It has terra cotta decorative elements. Its exterior features Corinthian order and Ionic order columns, statues, medallions, seals of various boards and agencies of the Presbyterian Church and of related Reformed churches. It is named for John Witherspoon , a president of Princeton University.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Sculpture</h2><br>
<p>Several statues and some of the medallions were designed by sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), including statues of six historically prominent Presbyterians, Francis Makemie, John Witherspoon, John McMillan, Samuel Davies, James Caldwell and Marcus Whitman. These sculptures were removed in 1961 and later moved to the courtyard of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The Rafsnyder-Welsh House is an historic, American home that is located in the Rittenhouse Square East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The original house was built circa 1855, as a typical brick Philadelphia rowhouse consisting of a front building, piazza, and back building. It was extensively remodeled and enlarged to its present form between 1893 and 1894.</p><br>
<p>As presently formed, it consists of a four-story front building that is approximately thirty-four feet wide and thirty-six feet deep. It is connected to a four-story back building, by a four-story section. Attached to the back building is a three-story, brick wing and two-story wing. A four-story fire tower was added in 1922. It has an eclectic front facade of Pompeiian brick with sandstone and terra cotta trim.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Warburton House, also known as the Warburton Hotel and The Lucy Eaton Smith Residence, is an historic, American hotel that is located in the Rittenhouse Square East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named for Lucy Eaton Smith, whose name in religious life was Mother Mary Catherine De Ricci of the Sacred Heart, who founded a Dominican pontifical institute in Albany, New York.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by noted New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon (1878–1958) and built in 1926, this historic structure is an eleven-story, U-shaped, steel frame and brick building with cast stone and granite trim that was created in an Italian Renaissance Revival style. It has a stepped back form and rooftop loggia and was originally built as a residential hotel for professional women. From 1952 to 2001, it was owned by the Dominican House of Retreats and Catholic Guild and known as The Lucy Eaton Smith Residence. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania (EAP, a WWI relief organization) celebrated its tenth anniversary by planning a womens building as a memorial to the organization where it would also establish permanent headquarters. The hotel would be open to all women. Mary Brown Warburton, then president of the EAP, hired New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon to design a multi-story hotel building in the heart of Philadelphias growing downtown. The site of the hotel was selected on the northeast comer of South 20th and Sansom Streets where several earlier nineteenth century rowhouses were recently demolished. When completed, the Italian Renaissance Revival styled hotel had a full service restaurant, snack bar, ballroom and roof top band alcove. There were 150 guestrooms situated on the upper nine floors of the building. In February of 1927, the Warburton House opened and the EAP moved its headquarters into the building. A cast stone lintel was incorporated into the Sansom Street elevation proclaiming the building the Emergency Aid Building. The building was known as and advertised as the Warburton House in honor of Mary Brown Warburton.</p><br>
<p>The hotel became a bustling place. Women from every state and territory as well as many foreign countries signed the guest register. During that time, the organization greatly expanded its services. It distributed food, clothing, and healthcare accessories for indigent families and offered vocation training and sewing classes to children disabled by polio. Additional spaces were rented throughout the Warburton House providing rent money to the organization and offering services to the hotel guests. The 1930 City Directory of Philadelphia lists five small businesses along South 20th Street in addition to the EAP: a tailor, Bertha Page, a milliner, a florist, and an optician. It is not known where in the building these retail spaces were but presumably they occupied the South 20th Street storefront ground floor level.&#39;</p><br>
<p>In May of 1943, EAP moved its headquarters and sold the building. It continued to operate as a hotel under several ownership changes until 1952 when it was sold to the Dominican House of Retreats and Catholic Guild for $485,000. The Dominican Sisters renamed the establishment the Lucy Eaton Smith Residence in honor of the founder of the Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine de&#39; Ricci. The sisters purchased the building for use as a residence ministry, offering long-term accommodations for single women. By August of 1952, the hotel was full of 150 residents including businesswomen, nurses, teachers, musicians and students.</p><br>
<p>The Lucy Eaton Smith Residence, as the Dominican Sisters now called the building, was altered to suit the new owners needs. The ballroom was transformed into a chapel with the addition of an altar and pews. The former full-service restaurant was no longer used although the space was left intact complete with banquettes. The snack bar did remain in operation for a few more years, with the Sisters serving breakfast to the residents. It too was eventually closed. In 1957, Bemard W. Roney, AIA was hired to complete some alterations to the public spaces to the building. The lobby and its entrance vestibule were altered. Roney also made more renovations to the historic ballroom. The double doors that opened out on the gallery overlooking the hotel lobby were removed and replaced with single doors. These 1957 changes were kept to a minimum and little if any alterations were completed to the upper floors of the hotel. Other than changes of furnishings, little alteration had been completed to the hotel rooms. Very little modernization to the buildings systems or building fabric had been completed during the Sister&#39;s ownership other than the replacement of the two passenger elevators, installed circa 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Dominican Congregation sold the Lucy Eaton Smith Residence in 2001, as the aging Sisters were unable to operate a large facility. The property was acquired by Project H.O.M.E. as a Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit project and its 150 rooms were converted into 144 redesigned affordable apartments now known as Kate&#39;s Place.</p><br>
<p>Drexel and Company Building, also known as the Drexel Building, is a historic bank building located in the Rittenhouse Square East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1925 and 1927, and is a six-story, building with basement and penthouse in a Renaissance Palazzo style. It is faced in ashlar granite and features a rounded entrance portal, low relief zodiac roundels, carved shields, and wrought iron lamps. It was built as headquarters for Drexel and Company, which was subsequently dissolved in the 1930s. It was then occupied by a local bank.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Hockley Row, also known as Evans Row or Victoria House, is a set of four architecturally significant rowhouses, which are located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The row includes three buildings on South 21st Street at 237, 239, and 241 South 21st Street, and one on Locust Street at 2049 Locust Street. They were designed by architect Allen Evans, who was a partner in Furness & Evans. They were built as speculative housing by Evans&#39;s father, between 1884 and 1886. The architect then made number 237 at the southeast corner 21st and St. James streets his own residence.</p><br>
<p>Each features a rusticated stone basement level, with three brick stories above, bay or box windows, wrought iron railings, elaborately shaped chimneys, and shed- and gabled-roofed dormers.</p><br>
<p>The house at number 237 features a projecting, two-story, shingled corner tower; the houses at numbers 239 and 241 share an entrance stair. The house at the northeast corner of 21st and Locust Streets has its entrance from the south, and is numbered 2049 Locust Street.</p><br>
<p>The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Hockley House</h2><br>
<p>Directly north of this row, at 235 S. 21st Street, is the Thomas Hockley House (1875), designed by architect Frank Furness. Allen Evans was a draftsman in Furness&#39;s office when it was built.</p><br>
<p>Ringgold Place is a set of 26 historical, American, rowhouses located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>These rowhouses were built circa 1862, and their scale reflects the material shortages during the American Civil War. The three-story brick residences measure fourteen feet by twenty feet, with spartan facades and interiors, and sit on raised basements.</p><br>
<p>The properties were acquired in 1925, by noted Philadelphia architect George Howe (1886–1955). His office was located at 1900 Ringgold Place and he owned the houses until 1934. He, or Tilden, Register & Pepper, a firm he employed, modernized the dwellings and introduced some decorative elements to the 19th Street facades.</p><br>
<p>The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Neill-Mauran House is an historic, American double house that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.</p><br>
<p>This property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the architect Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) and built in 1890, this is a four-story, asymmetrical, brick-faced dwelling with basement and attic. The entries have brownstone trim and the overall design is in a Medieval Revival style. It has a slate covered gambrel roof, with terra cotta ridge caps and cross gable.</p><br>
<p>The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Horace Jayne House  is an architecturally significant building designed by architect Frank Furness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the southwest corner of 19th and Delancey Streets, about a block south of Rittenhouse Square.</p><br>
<p>The Horace Jayne House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built as the residence and office of Dr. Horace Jayne and his wife Caroline Furness Jayne, and was completed in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The city house was acquired by department-store heir Jacob Lit of Lit Brothers about 1928, who probably added the radiator covers of frolicking greyhounds by sculptor William Hunt Diederich.</p><br>
<p>The building was acquired by Temple Beth Zion in 1946 and served as its synagogue from 1946 to 1953 after which it served as headquarters for the Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania from the 1950s to the 1980s. The building was renovated in the late 1980s into the law offices of Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss & Schwartz. It was sold in 2007, and underwent a 2-year restoration by John Milner, Architects. It is now, again, a single-family residence.</p><br>
<p>Many of Furness&#39;s grandest Philadelphia houses of the 1880s and 1890s were built near or fronting on Rittenhouse Square. These included the William W. Frazier house (1881–82, demolished), at the southwest corner of 18th & Rittenhouse Square Streets; the George B. Preston house (1881–83, demolished), at the northeast corner of 22nd & Walnut Streets; the Thomas A. Scott house (1887–88, demolished), at the southeast corner of 19th & Rittenhouse Square Streets; the Alexander J. Cassatt house (1888, demolished), at 202 South 19th Street (Rittenhouse Square West); and the Thomas A. Reilly house (1891–92), at 1804 Rittenhouse Square Street. Of these, only the Reilly house and the Jayne house survive.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The eclectic buildings design is highly unusual, and its volumes are articulated on the exterior. The facade is divided into two halves; a -story southern section that contained Dr. Jaynes offices &ndash; a ground-floor waiting room and an examination room above &ndash; and a -story northern section that contained the high-ceilinged formal rooms. The floor levels coincide on the upper stories. The main entrance is off-center in a slightly projected section, with an oval window and a bracket-supported Juliet balcony above. The Colonial Revival-detailed exterior is composed of red English sandstone and brick, and features terra cotta reliefs by sculptor Karl Bitter on the east, north and west façades and the pedimented dormers. Bitter also modeled the reliefs for Furness & Evans&#39;s contemporaneous Broad Street Station (1893–94).</p><br>
<p>The interior is remarkable. The formal rooms are located a half-story above the entrance. The 2-story central hall features a grand staircase on the south wall that wraps around the fireplace, a hanging gallery (suspended from the ceiling by iron rods) that traces the other three walls, and an intricate leaded glass skylight. A favorite visual pun of Furnesss was to place a window above a fireplace, splitting the flues into the walls flanking it&mdash;as he did at Jefferson Medical College (1875–77) and the parish hall of First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (1883–86). With the Jayne houses central hall he took his punning to an extreme, placing a curved balcony and a horseshoe-shaped seating area above the fireplace (accessed from an intermediate landing behind), and splitting the flues into piers that merged to form a soaring triumphal arch.</p><br>
<p>The Physicians and Dentists Building, also known as the Professional Building, is an historic, American office building that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architectural firm of Wilson Brothers & Company and built in 1896.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure is a ten-story building with an attic. A T-shaped steel framed building, it has a limestone-faced front facade and brick sides. It features a projecting entrance portico with Corinthian order columns and shallow projecting, three-sided bays.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy, also known as the Medical Services Building, is an historic school building which is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Georgina Pope Yeatman, who was one of only four women to be licensed as architects by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the early part of her career. Yeatman later went on to become the first woman ever to be appointed to the post as director of architecture for the city of Philadelphia, which was the third largest city in Pennsylvania during the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>A three-story, five-bay, U-shaped brown brick building, which was designed in the Art Deco style by Georgina Pope Yeatman of the Bissell & Sinkler architecture firm, the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy was built in 1930 as a two-story building. A third story was added in 1939.</p><br>
<p>The front facade features sculptural iron panels, sandstone carvings, and two-story brick pilasters with decorative caps. The Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy occupied the building into the late-1950s, after which it housed medical offices associated with the University of Pennsylvania. It has been converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>Notable alumni of the school included Kamala Nimbkar and Muriel Zimmerman. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Ramcat Historic District, also known as the Schuylkill Historic District, is a national historic district that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses 613 contributing buildings and includes a mix of transportation-related, residential, and industrial properties. The mid- to late-nineteenth-century housing stock is characterized as two-story, rowhouse dwellings for the working class. Notable non-residential buildings include the Wanamaker delivery garage, Gimbel&#39;s delivery garage, Lanston Monotype Co., Lippincott and Co. Press Building, Thornton-Fuller Auto Assembly Plant (1925), Crane Ice Cream Co. (1904, 1914), and the New York Pie Baking Co.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut–Chancellor Historic District is a national historic district that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses fifty-one contributing buildings located one block east of Rittenhouse Square. It includes four-and-one-half to five-story monumental residences that were designed in the Italianate style, brick rowhouses that date to the 1860s and 1870s, some of which have mansard roofs and dormers, and nineteenth century carriage houses. Also located in the district is the Thomas Hockley House (1875), which was designed by architect Frank Furness (1839-1912).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>HockleyHouse.jpgHockley House (1875), Frank Furness, architect</p><br>
<p>The East Center City Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in the Washington Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 287 contributing structures, including large and small commercial buildings, banks, hotels, newspapers, clubs, and restaurants.</p><br>
<p>This district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and underwent boundary adjustments in 2018.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The nomination form requesting placement of this historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was completed by George E. Thomas, PhD of the Clio Group, Inc. on March 6, 1984. Following reviews by state and national historic preservation committees, the district was officially listed on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>In 2018, approval was sought and obtained to revise the district&#39;s boundaries from those defined on the original NRHP nomination form. In addition, the historical period of significance for this district was expanded to facilitate the addition to this listing of historically significant structures which had been erected after 1934. As a result, twenty-eight additional contributing elements were subsequently added, including the Rohm and Haas headquarters building.</p><br>
<h2>Notable architecture</h2><br>
<p>Notable buildings in Philadelphia&#39;s East Center City Commercial Historic District include the Curtis Publishing Co. (1907), Lits Department Store (1891), Strawbridge and Clothier (1868), Gimbels (1894), Benjamin Franklin Hotel (1922), New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building (1872, 1890), Aldelphia Hotel (1912), Blum Store (1927), Keystone National Bank (1884), Beck Engraving and "The Press" (1896), Integrity Trust (1923), Quaker City Bank (1892), Philadelphia Club, the Old Federal Reserve Bank (1932), USA Post Office and Courthouse, Walnut Street Theatre, and Forrest Theater. It also includes a set of 3 1/2-story townhouses designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for William Sansom.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Baxter, popularly called the Baxter or Baxter Hotel, is a seven-story hotel built in 1929 in the Main Street historic district of Bozeman, Montana. Designed in Art Deco style by architect Fred F. Willson, it opened for business on March 2, 1929. The grand opening party was held Saturday, March 16, 1929. The hotel is named after George Baxter, a prominent Gallatin County rancher who provided much of the funding. It originally contained 76 rooms, two bars, and restaurant facilities. An ornate lobby on the main floor includes a small water fountain. The mezzanine level features a large ballroom. Its upper floors today contain about 20 condominium-style residences, mostly one and two-bedroom apartments. Ted&#39;s Montana Grill and the Bacchus Pub are on the ground floor.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations</h2><br>
<p>In the 1970s, an initial round of renovations to the first floor upgraded the historic Bacchus Pub and added a fine dining Italian-style restaurant. In 1982, a new owner renovated the entire hotel and converted the upper floors to residential condominiums. After some years of decline and a series of owners, in 2004, David Loseff, a private equity investor and part-time Bozeman resident of 14 years, obtained a majority share in the building from a previous owner who had obtained the building in 1999. Loseff took over management and began a new round of renovations to the hotel. He initially brought in live music, upgraded the Robin Lounge (now the bar of Teds), and operated a casual restaurant while locating new tenants to run the restaurant and the Bacchus Pub. Ultimately, Teds Montana Grill, owned by media mogul Ted Turner, opened in June 2008. To accommodate the new venture, the old restaurant space as well as the former Robin Lounge were remodeled and reconfigured, so that Ted&#39;s now encompasses 4,800 ft&sup2;. The Bacchus Pub, an institution throughout the history of the hotel, had been closed for almost four years, but was renovated and reopened under its current management in December 2008.</p><br>
<h2>The Bacchus Pub</h2><br>
<p>The Bacchus Pub, designed with a medieval European decor, features unique carved, painted heads of monks that line the walls and center beam of the ceiling, as well as stained glass originally designed for the business. It operated continuously under a series of changing owners and themes for 30 years. The facility was closed from 2005 until 2008, when the current owners agreed to operate under its traditional name and concept. The space had mostly been a pub that served food and beverages, but had also been operated as a Mexican restaurant and a small Italian grille in intervening years. The new owners of the Baxter building turned down offers for various themes and held out for a tenant who was willing to restore the original pub design and atmosphere. After the business reopened, a brief legal squabble ensued over the legal ownership of the "Bacchus Pub" name, which had been purchased by another local restaurant owner, but a settlement was soon reached, allowing the pub to operate under its original name at its original location.</p><br>
<h2>Unique features</h2><br>
<p>Unique features of the Baxter building include a 32-foot high by 45-foot wide electric "Hotel Baxter" sign on the roof. Erected when the building was completed in 1929, it was intended to be seen from the top of mountain passes up to 70 miles away to "serve as a beacon for travelers." The red neon sign was nonfunctional for about 40 years, but was refurbished, repaired, and officially re-lit on January 10, 2013, in a ceremony, where USA Senator and part-time Bozeman resident Max Baucus called it "A crown jewel of Bozeman." However, a researcher at Montana State University has raised concerns about light pollution, generating some local controversy. The roof of the building also features a flashing blue light, which is turned on throughout the winter to alert local skiers when new snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area. First installed in 1988, it is activated each time Bridger Bowl accumulates two inches of fresh snow, and remains on for 24 hours thereafter. Local skiers depend upon the beacon because the ski area can have a great deal of fresh powder snow, dubbed "cold smoke" by the locals, even when it is not snowing in Bozeman. For this reason, maintenance of the light is a priority for skiers and only once in 20 years was it out of operation for two days.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph Walton School is a historic school building located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1900 and 1901, this historic structure is a three-and-one-half-story building, that was made using coursed, cast stone ashlar and has a low hipped roof, large double hung windows, and brick additions that were built in 1915 and 1924. The projecting central entrance pavilion has a Renaissance Revival-style portico.</p><br>
<p>It was among the first schools designed by J. Horace Cook after his appointment as supervising architect for the school board. The school was named for merchant Rudolph Walton (1826–1900).</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The school has been abandoned since 2003 despite attempts to re-open as a charter school.</p><br>
<p>The James R. Ludlow School is an historic American K-8 elementary school within the School District of Philadelphia. It is located in the Yorktown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The school building is a Gothic Revival structure that was designed by architect Irwin T. Catharine (1883–1944) and built between 1926 and 1927. It is a heavily constructed, three-story brick building, nine bays wide with projecting end bays, and was created in the Late Gothic Revival-style. Like many similarly-designed Gothic Revival schools in Philadelphia, it features rib vault, heavily tiled corridors, and a stone entrance pavilion with a Tudor-arched opening.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for the Honorable James Reilly Ludlow, or “Judge Ludlow” (1825-1886), president judge of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Ludlow School is located near the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, and near Philadelphia’s up-and-coming Fishtown neighborhood. St. John Neumann was a Bishop of Philadelphia who largely organized and expanded Philadelphia&#39;s diocesan school system.</p><br>
<p>The William Henry Harrison School building, now known as St. Malachy Catholic School, is an historic American structure that is located at 1012 West Thompson Street in the Yorktown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was designed by architect Irwin T. Catharine (1883–1944) and built between 1928 and 1929. It is a three-story, nine-bay-wide, brick building that sits on a raised basement. It was designed in the Late Gothic Revival style and features a one-story, stone entrance pavilion with a Tudor-arched opening and a crenellated parapet.</p><br>
<p>Originally named for President William Henry Harrison, it was renamed as St. Malachy School. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, this building is also currently home to the nonprofit Independence Mission Schools, which operates a network of fourteen Catholic schools in the Philadelphia area.</p><br>
<p>The John Greenleaf Whittier School is an historic American school building that is located in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect Henry deCourcy Richards, this historic structure was built in 1913. It is a three-story, brick-faced reinforced concrete building, five bays wide with terra cotta trim, and has a Classical Revival-style entrance surround with entablature. It is named for John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The school was closed in 2013. The school is now home to KIPP Philadelphia preparatory academy.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Pennell Elementary School is an historic, American elementary school that is located in the Belfield neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This building was designed by architect Irwin T. Catharine and built between 1926 and 1927. It is a three-story brick building, nine bays wide with projecting end bays, and was designed in the Late Gothic Revival style. An addition was built in 1954. The school is named for illustrator Joseph Pennell (1857–1926).</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Feltonville School No. 2, also known as the Feltonville School, is a historic school building located in the Feltonville neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Henry deCourcy Richards and built in 1908. It is a two-story, brick building, four bays wide with a brick parapet. It is in the Late Gothic Revival-style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The building is currently used as a Head Start.</p><br>
<p>The Muhlenberg School, also known as the Bishop Miller Tabernacle Church, is an historic, American school building that is located in the Feltonville neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1874 and 1875, this historic structure is a two-story, cross-gabled, stone building that is six bays wide and three bays deep. It was designed in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is a contributing property to the Lower North Philadelphia Speculative Housing Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Arcadia Round Barn is a landmark and tourist attraction on historic USA Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma, United States. It was built by local farmer William Harrison Odor in 1898 using native bur oak boards soaked while green and forced into the curves needed for the walls and roof rafters. A second level was incorporated for use as a community gathering place. The town of Arcadia developed and prospered with the arrival of the railroad and in the 1920s the newly commissioned Route 66 was aligned through the town, passing next to the Round Barn.</p><br>
<p>With the reduction of traffic along Route 66 following the arrival of the Interstate, Arcadia and the barn likewise declined. In 1988 the 60 foot diameter roof collapsed. A team of volunteers led by Luther Robison worked to rebuild the structure, and restoration work was completed in 1992. Today the old barn is a tourist attraction and visitors admire the architectural and engineering details of America&#39;s only truly round (as opposed to hexagonal or octagonal) barn.</p><br>
<p>The Hi-Mount Historic District is a historic neighborhood located two miles north of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The eleven-block district, developed between 1938 and 1951, is one of the citys best-preserved twentieth century speculative neighborhoods. The district encompasses 168 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. Most of Hi-Mounts homes are Minimal Traditional in style, followed by Cape Cod and Ranch homes with sparse detailing. A small number of developers were involved with the district and the district also benefited from government housing financing programs such as the Federal Housing Administration and the Veteran&#39;s Administration, resulting in architectural consistency throughout the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Chandler Armory building in Chandler, Oklahoma is an Art Deco military building which now houses the Route 66 Interpretive Center, a museum devoted to understanding the construction and history of USA Route 66. The structure is apparently notable for having the only brick outhouse in Oklahoma, complete with original French fixture. It was built of local red sandstone by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1937 as a home for Battery F, Second Battalion of the 160th Field Artillery of the Oklahoma National Guard, 45th Infantry division, and after vacation by the military in 1971 was vacant until becoming the home of the museum in 2007. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Brian W. Nolan, a local architect and National Guard officer. It is constructed in two parts, with the eastern section housing gun bays, offices, classrooms and a magazine under a barrel-vaulted roof. The western half comprises a wooden-floored drill hall with a stage at one end, beneath which is a narrow rifle range.</p><br>
<p>The museum contains few physical exhibits, but uses audio-visual installations, such as footage shot from a 1965 Ford Mustang, to immerse the visitor in the atmosphere of the old highway. Visitors may relax on a bed in a virtual hotel room to view the material on an overhead screen.</p><br>
<p>Sahuaro Ranch was founded in 1886, by William Henry Bartlett, a native of Illinois. The ranch, located north of what eventually became the city of Glendale, Arizona, was rich in figs and other fruit orchards, vineyards, and fields of alfalfa. The ranch has all of its historical structures restored, and the "Sahuaro Ranch Park" is administered by the Parks and Recreation Department of Glendale.</p><br>
<p>On March 7, 1980, Sahuaro Ranch was listed in the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<h2>Ranch history</h2><br>
<h3>Bartlett era (1880 - 1913)</h3><br>
<p>William Henry Bartlett and his brother were wealthy businessmen from Peoria, Illinois who homesteaded lands in what was to become the future the City of Glendale founded by William John Murphy. What made an investment attractive was the completion of the Arizona Canal in 1885. The canal allowed 100,000 acres (40468.564 hec or 40468 hec (hectare) and 5642.2 m) of desert land to be opened up to homesteading and irrigation farming. The Homestead Act was a United States federal law that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead."</p><br>
<p>The Bartletts&#39; felt this was a great opportunity to invest in fruit ranching and farming. The brothers were owners of a grain brokerage business, and were amongst the largest traders in the Midwestern farm belt.</p><br>
<p>By 1891, William Bartlett had under his control 2,000 acres (809.371 hectares or 809 hec and 3712.8 m) of farmland near Glendale. He established a 640-acre farm (25932.255 hec</p><br>
<p>or 25932 hec and 2559.5 m) and named it named Sahuaro Ranch. There he planted large citrus and pecan orchards. Even though he never lived permanently at Sahuaro Ranch, Bartlett took an active role in its development and had various buildings and residences built for the people who worked there and for his family. He hired superintendents to manage his ranch operations.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, the first structure in what was to become the ranch was built. It was an adobe house which served as the residence and office of Stephen H. Campbell, the first superintendent to manage the ranch. In 1895, the superintendent&#39;s residence was moved to the main house of the ranch and the adobe house was used to house the ranch employees. Bartlett had his hired hands plant figs and other fruit orchards, vineyards and alfalfa.</p><br>
<p>Other structures which were built on the ranch in the 1890s were the Foreman&#39;s House, the blacksmith shop and the horse barn. The Fruit Packing House, the largest packing house in the Salt River Valley, was built in 1891.</p><br>
<p>The farm animals raised in the ranch included cows, bulls and hogs. Between 500 and 1,000 hogs were raised in the ranch in the 1890s. Horses and mules were used to pull orchard wagons, mowers, rakes and other farming equipment.</p><br>
<p>The Guest House was built in 1898. When Bartlett&#39;s youngest son was stricken with tuberculosis while living in Chicago, his doctor recommended that he move to a warmer climate. Bartlett had the guest house building designed to accommodate the needs and comforts of his son and family.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, Bartlett had a pump house built for an oil-fired electrical generator. The pump house provided electricity to his ranch buildings with the help of a pump water. By 1905, the first automobiles were used in the ranch and Bartlett had a garage built to store his wagons and autos.</p><br>
<h3>Bradshaw (1913 - 1927) and Smith (1927 - 1977) eras</h3><br>
<p>In 1913, Peter E. Bradshaw purchased the ranch, and planted long-staple cotton in 1915.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, Richard W. Smith purchased the ranch and planted large citrus and pecan orchards.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, Smith built a dairy barn and raised dairy cows commercially. The milk from the cows was sold in bulk and shipped to local dairies in cans.</p><br>
<p>Richard W. Smith died in 1944. His son, Richard S. Smith, inherited the farm and established a retail dairy on the ranch, known as the Sahuaro Jersey Dairy Milk House.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1960s, 120 acres of the ranch were sold to develop the Glendale Community College campus.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>In 1966, the City of Glendale, with the initiative of then Mayor Max Klass. began a process to purchase 80 acres (32.3748 hec</p><br>
<p>or 32 hec and 3748.5 m) of the original 640 acres of the ranch. In 1977, the purchase was made possible by a federal grant and the City of Glendale proceeded to restore the historical structures in the ranch. After the City of Glendale purchased the land, Richard S. Smith was allowed to lease the ranch until 1980.</p><br>
<p>On March 7, 1980, Sahuaro Ranch was registered on the National Register of Historic Places after the city applied for the registration of 17 acres of the ranch. The ranch is open to the public and is located at 9802 North 59th Avenue and Mountain View.</p><br>
<h2>The Sahuaro Ranch fire</h2><br>
<p>In September 2017, the ranch site endured a string of fires on September 18, 23 and 26. The blacksmith shop, granary building, and the milk house, all caught fire and were permanently destroyed. This was seen as a terrible loss of important historical assets for the community. The park was closed on September 26, 2017, to allow for an investigation of the fires and reopened the following day.</p><br>
<p>In February 2018, a 14-year-old was arrested for trespassing the night of Sept. 26, 2017, the night of the “most extensive fire” at the park. However, no evidence was ever found to connect the teen to any other crimes, such as the suspected arson.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were fixed and reopened in February 2020. They were rebuilt to as closely match the style and look of the originals as modern day regulations allowed. The city of Glendale used photographs and staff memories to match the look and had much of the lumber shipped from Flagstaff to get it as unprocessed as possible, as that is how it would have been built in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of historical Sahuaro Ranch</h2><br>
<p>The Parkway Center City Middle College is the first ever Middle College in the state of Pennsylvania. It is also an historic, American vocational school that is located in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Helen Fleischer Vocational School.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure was built between 1925 and 1927 and is a brick building that was designed in the Academic Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>Prior to its current status, Parkway Center City Middle College was known as Parkway Center City and was located at 1118 Market Street. The school served as a division of the former Parkway Program, a school without walls program.</p><br>
<p>Also, this building served as the former Stoddart-Fleischer Junior High School and later Middle School until it closed in June 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Helen Fleischer Vocational School.</p><br>
<h2>Middle College</h2><br>
<p>In 2017, Parkway Center City Middle College became the first ever Middle College school in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Parkway offers first-generation, college-bound students the opportunity to earn associate degrees from the Community College of Philadelphia while also earning their high school diplomas. Students take classes at the community college while in their ninth and tenth grade years. They take two college classes each school year, while taking high school classes.</p><br>
<p>In their junior and senior years, students at Parkway take full time college classes and then graduate from college before they graduate from high school. In 2017, incoming ninth graders became the first class of students to be included as part of this program; the remainder of the school functioned as a traditional high school. In 2021, the entire school began operating as a middle college.</p><br>
<p>The Northeast Manual Training School, also known as Edison High School, was an historic, American school building that was located in Fairhill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1903 and 1905 as a 3-story, random-coursed, granite building, it was designed in the Romanesque style. It featured a center turret, flanked by projecting gable ends.</p><br>
<p>A fire on August 3, 2011, destroyed most of the interior, but the structural walls remained in good condition. The school, which had been closed in 2009 and then inhabited by squatters, was demolished in late 2011.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
