<p>The Manistee Iron Works, also known as the Excello factory, was a manufacturing company based in Manistee, Michigan. While the company has since gone out of business, the factory built by the company in 1907 continues to bear the companys name and is a landmark in Manistees historic downtown area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Manistee Iron Works was founded in the 1870s as a foundry and machine shop. In the late 1880s, the facility began manufacturing heavy machinery, including pumps and evaporation pans, for the area&#39;s burgeoning salt industry.</p><br>
<p>A prior structure was destroyed by fire in July 1901. At the time of the fire, The Ludington Chronicle reported that the iron works was "one of Manistee&#39;s best industries and was doing a very large business."</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the Manistee Iron Works was contracted to manufacture "a complete salt-making plant" for an English company. The order, running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, was reported at the time to be "perhaps the largest order placed by a single English concern for goods of American manufacture."</p><br>
<p>In 1907, the plant that remains today was built at the northeast corner of Jones and River Streets. The rectangular -story brick foundry building remains a Manistee landmark. It is 120 feet wide and 270 feet long with a gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, workers at the facility participated in the Manistee Iron Works Band, which performed in area parades and events.</p><br>
<p>In June 1947, a fire substantially damaged the main foundry structure. A second fire in January 1948 destroyed the parts foundry at the site.</p><br>
<p>The plant ceased operations in 1981. The State of Michigan designated the property as a brownfield redevelopment project in April 2003. The designation was intended to assist in providing funding to clean up heavy metal and other contamination at the site and to promote redevelopment efforts. The property was also included in Manistee&#39;s tax-free Renaissance Zone.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the machine shop at the Manistee Iron Works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the late 2000s, the facility was occupied by 10 West Studios, a motion picture production company. In 2009, 10 West produced the film "What If...?" at various Manistee locations, including the iron works.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Manistee Iron Works Machine Shop is a rectangular building measuring 260 feet by 120 feet. It has a gable roof with a tall, broad, gabled rooftop monitor at the peak, so that the entire structure is seventy feet high. The building has a steel frame divided into three sections, with a broad central section flanked by two lower, narrower sections on either side. The front and rear facades are constructed of dark red brick, and the south corner originally housed a two-story office area, with an entry on the southeast side.</p><br>
<p>The Emma Petznick and Otto Schade House in Bowman, North Dakota, United States, is a Prairie School house built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It has also been known as the Opal Burns Home, as the H.A. Blocker House, and as the G.A. Tembreull House.</p><br>
<p>It was the longtime home of Opal Anderson Burns, granddaughter of Otto and Emma.</p><br>
<p>By 1908 or 1909, the Otto Schade family had four children and lived in a sod house, in front of which they were photographed.</p><br>
<p>The Blocker House is a historic plantation house located near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina built circa 1790 by John Blocker, Sr. It is a two-story, clapboard dwelling with a one-story shed-roofed porch supported by four square columns. The property includes centuries old magnolia and cedar trees, a family cemetery, and several outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Sussex County Historical Society is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1904 in the State of New Jersey. It is located in Newton, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, and pursues a mission of promoting public knowledge and interest in the county&#39;s heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Hill Memorial Museum</h2><br>
<p>Hill Memorial Museum at 82 Main Street in Newton, was constructed for the historical society in 1916 and has served as its home since then. It was built in the renaissance revival style to the design of Henry T. Stephens, an architect from Paterson, New Jersey by local contractor Thomas Farrel. It was dedicated on June 8, 1917, and named after three relatives of the main donor, Joshua Hill. It is the oldest building continuously operated as a museum in the State of New Jersey. The Hill Memorial was placed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places on 18 July 1985.</p><br>
<p>The entry hall has a grand staircase made of quartered oak. The exterior walls are constructed in brick in two shades made by the N.H. Sloan kilns of Pennsylvania. Ornaments for the entrance were manufactured by the Brick Terra Cotta & Tile Company of Corning, New York. A 1922 fireplace on the ground floor was made by George Sharp with stones of local geological and historic significance.</p><br>
<p>The second floor houses collections of quilts and other textiles, farming tools, baskets and other household items, Civil War memorabilia, and a partial skeleton of a Mastodon discovered nearby.</p><br>
<p>The Bemidji Carnegie Library is a former library building in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States. It was built as a Carnegie library in 1909 and housed the city&#39;s public library until 1961. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and education. It was nominated for being a well-preserved example of a Carnegie library and of public Neoclassical architecture.</p><br>
<p>The aging and deficient structure was threatened with demolition in the early 21st century, but received a $2.2 million restoration in 2019. The city of Bemidji now rents out the main floor as an event venue while leasing space in the basement as offices.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on the banks of Lake Bemidji in Library Park, on a 50 by lot. It is a typical one-story, rectangular, brick-and-stone library structure, Neoclassical in style. The exterior is made of brown brick with Indiana Limestone trim. It is covered with a low hip roof and is set upon a high basement, 5 ft above grade. The basement is the full size of the building.</p><br>
<p>Inside, a stone staircase led to the librarys main-floor circulation desk (in the buildings center, under a low dome) and two reading rooms; book stacks and stock rooms offered storage and work space behind it. Varnished oak woodwork provided elegant decoration throughout the main floor.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>The first Bemidji library was housed in the city&#39;s old courthouse. After a new Beltrami County Courthouse was constructed in 1902, the library was moved to the lower level of that building. The Bemidji Public Library Association was formed in 1904.</p><br>
<p>After three years of fundraising, the Bemidji Public Library was established on February 25, 1907. In 1908, Bemidji Library Board chairman A. P. Ritchie wrote to Andrew Carnegie to inquire about the possibility of funding for a new library building. On March 23, 1908, the city council commenced proceedings to vacate Fifth Street east of Bemidji Avenue to make room for a construction site.</p><br>
<p>The librarys original design included porches on either side of the building, overlooking the lake. The board and the architects intended for these porches to be used in the evening, when the sun shines into the building from the west. Carnegie, however, thought they were unnecessary, and the porches were dropped from the plans, lowering the cost of the building to within the amount of Carnegies donation of $12,500.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Johnson of Bemidji was the construction project&#39;s lowest bidder and was awarded the contract for the sum of $11,300 on August 7, 1909. The building was to be completed by January 1, 1910. Johnson completed the work on time, and the building was occupied during the winter and dedicated the following June.</p><br>
<p>Although the porches the architects designed were never built, doors were installed on the library&#39;s eastern (lakeside) façade, perhaps to allow for the future construction of reading porches. While an appropriation was never made for such an addition, it remained feasible.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>Work crews thoroughly remodeled the building in 1940. The story of the remodeling, complete with pictures, made the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune. City improvement projects in the 1950s widened Bemidji Avenue in front of the library, increasing traffic and making it more hazardous to cross the street.</p><br>
<p>The building stopped operating as a library on November 28, 1961, when the Bemidji Public Library moved into a larger building. It was recognized as a historic property and placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980. The Beltrami County Welfare Board occupied the space for a time.</p><br>
<p>A major restoration largely funded by donations and grants was completed in August 2019. The interior and exterior were restored, an accessible entrance added to the rear, and the windows and HVAC system modernized. Preservation advocates initially hoped to move the building back from the street, but this proved financially infeasible.</p><br>
<p>The Alhambra Theatre, also known as the Palace Theatre, is a building in El Paso, Texas. Opened on August 1, 1914, the building was designed by architect Henry C. Trost in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with a Moorish theme, preceding spread of the Moorish Revival style of the 1920s. The building cost $150,000. It was prepared to serve either as a playhouse for live theater or as a movie house, and included a large organ to be played with silent movies of the day.</p><br>
<p>The Mountrail County Courthouse in Stanley, North Dakota was built in 1914 and served Mountrail County as its courthouse continuously since then. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in what can be termed Academic Revival architecture and/or Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; a 2.1 acre area was included in the listing.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Building is an historic, American freight station, warehouse and showroom building that is located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1929, this historic structure is a six-story, flat-roofed building that was designed in the Art Deco style. Each floor contains approximately 88,000 square feet. The first floor is clad in limestone and the upper stories are of buff-colored brick.</p><br>
<p>From 1956 to 1993, this building was the GE Re-entry Systems facility, where "thousands of engineers and technicians who solved the problem of vehicles successfully reentering the Earth&#39;s atmosphere" for NASA. Among the achievements of the men and women working at the facility was "the recovery of the first man-made object from orbit," a unique milestone for humanity.</p><br>
<p>Generations of University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University students who worked there know it as "The GE Building." It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>For this work, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) designated it as an Historic Aerospace Site in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The building has been converted to residential use and is now known as the Left Bank.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Railroad Office Building is an historic, American office building that is located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</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>Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1927, this historic structure is a fourteen-story, brick and limestone building that was designed in the Classical Revival style. It consists of a four-story, limestone and terra cotta base, topped by a ten-story, E-shaped tower of buff-colored brick.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently known as University Crossings and provides student housing and office space for Drexel University.</p><br>
<p>Drexel Development Historic District is a national historic district located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 96 contributing rowhouses dated to the mid- to late-19th century. A number of the rowhouses were designed by architect Samuel Sloan. The architectural firm G. W. & W. D. Hewitt designed rowhouses for developer Anthony Joseph Drexel on the block bounded by Pine, new 39th, Baltimore, and 40th Streets. They are representative of a number of popular architectural styles including Second Empire, Italianate, and High Victorian.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The United States Daughters of 1812, National Headquarters, also known as the Admiral John Henry Upshur House, is a Victorian Queen Anne building from 1884 which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was commissioned by near-retirement American admiral John Henry Upshur for architectural design by Frederick C. Withers and was constructed by builders Langley & Gettinger in 1884.</p><br>
<p>It was later divided into three apartments.</p><br>
<p>The United States Daughters of 1812 organization bought the building in 1928 for $31,214.44 and has used it since. Its NRHP nomination notes some irony in the historic organization&#39;s choice of a Victorian-style residence.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha Bolt, Nut and Screw Building is a warehouse building at in Omaha, Nebraska, that was built in 1889. It was designed by architect Henry Voss for the Omaha Bolt, Nut & Screw Company, a hardware distributor based in Omaha. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as part of a multiple property submission with other warehouses in Omaha that were part of an economically important "wholesale jobbing" industry that sprang up, taking advantage of Omaha&#39;s location and transportation links.</p><br>
<p>The Frank Boutin Jr. House is a historic single dwelling in Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 by Frank Boutin Jr. in the Queen Anne style architecture which is exemplified by its sweeping porches, corner turret, dormer windows, and complex gable roof. Boutin Jr. lived in the house for only a few years before moving to Idaho, where he was successful in the lumber industry.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>The house has been restored by its current owners and is now run as a bed and breakfast called Le Chateau Boutin.</p><br>
<p>The LaMoure County Courthouse in LaMoure, North Dakota was built in 1907. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The structure includes a highly detailed, metal-covered dome with bull&#39;s eye windows topped by a ball finial. An octagonal tower with columns and arched windows supports the dome. The front facade features four large Corinithian columns.</p><br>
<p>The Pembina County Courthouse in Cavalier, North Dakota was built in 1912. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is the only Buechner & Orth-designed courthouse in North Dakota to not have a central dome. The listing includes a second contributing building, a sheriff&#39;s residence and jail.</p><br>
<p>The Pierce County Courthouse in Rugby, North Dakota was built in 1908. It was designed by St. Paul, Minnesota architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts or Modified Renaissance style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as part of a multiple property submission for Buechner and Orth Courthouses in North Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The front facade of the building is constructed of brown Hebron pressed brick with Beford stone trim and features paired stone columns. The building includes a central tower with columns and arched windows topped by a silver-colored dome. The dome has a diameter of 28 feet and extends to a height of 100 feet from the grade line. A newspaper article in 1910 noted: "The dome is one of the show features of the court house and has no equal at the present time in the state." The interior features four murals depicting historic scenes from Pierce County.</p><br>
<p>A shield above the main entrance displays the Latin words "PAX" and "LEX." The interior rotunda and main entry hall feature purple (or dark red) marble wainscoting and pink marble pilasters. The building included a meeting room for the county commissioners and offices for the county auditor, treasurer, and register of deeds. The courtroom on the second floor has an ornamental beamed ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The historic site includes a two-story structure originally used as the sheriff&#39;s residence and jail located to the southeast of the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1911, shortly after the courthouse opened, district judge John Cowan was impeached and charged with drunken behavior, disorderly conduct, and assault. One of the incidents involved an allegation that he tried "to forcibly kiss a woman in the Pierce County courthouse at Rugby." Cowan was acquitted of the charges in a trial before the North Dakota Senate.</p><br>
<p>The Richland County Courthouse in Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA, was built in 1912. It was designed by the architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Its exterior is built of Bedford limestone atop "rusticated Kettle River sandstone". The front facade features four Corinithian columns. The building has an octagonal limestone tower with windows on all eight sides and a metal-covered dome topped by a ball finial. The interior rotunda features murals with white marble and terrazzo.</p><br>
<p>The Sargent County Courthouse in Forman, North Dakota was built in 1910. The courthouse of Sargent County, it was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>It has been described as an "economy version" of the Foster County Courthouse and Pierce County Courthouses (other North Dakota courthouses designed by Buechner & Orth). Its front facade has a center pavilion that is "virtually identical" to that of the Foster County Courthouse, with small variations.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building includes a skylight of geometric stained glass, and pink terrazzo and pink marble floors on the first floor. The interior may have had murals that have been lost, but has not been changed in terms of its spaces, besides addition of a dropped ceiling of acoustical tile in the courtroom. In particular its rotunda interior is simpler than those of other Buechner & Orth courthouses in North Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The Drayton United Methodist Church in Drayton, North Dakota, United States was built from 1905 to 1906 in a Romanesque Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was the work of New York City architect A. W. McCrea, Jr., who was from Drayton. Its exterior is Drayton brick, and the design conforms to what is known as the Akron Plan, of the Protestant revivalist movement. The church was founded by Scots-Irish Methodist immigrants from Eastern Canada.</p><br>
<p>The Hewitt Avenue Historic District is a section of downtown Everett in Washington, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Labor Temple, at 2812 Lombard Avenue, an "eclectic" building built in 1930 which was designed by architect C. Ferris White.</p><br>
<p>It also includes works by architects Benjamin F. Turnbull, Morrison & Stimson, Clayton Wilson, and A.F. Heide and work built by Howard S. Wright, contractor. A pair of early 20th century buildings were demolished in 2002 to make way for the Everett Events Center, an indoor sports arena and convention center at the southwest side of Hewitt Avenue and Broadway. The Hewitt Avenue Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 and commemorated with new street signs in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Milton Small House, also known simply as the Small House, is a modernist house built on a steep hillside on the Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh, North Carolina. Built in 1951, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>From the 1940s to the 1960s, the faculty of the North Carolina State College School of Design included several modernist architects, including G. Milton Small, FAIA (1916–1992). Small had studied under Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology before moving to Raleigh in 1948. He designed the Small House as his own family residence.</p><br>
<p>Small used builder Frank Walser to construct the house. Small went into business with Walser for a time, building homes in the Drewry Hills neighborhood of Raleigh.</p><br>
<p>In its original from, the Small House was "a compact T-shaped, flat-roofed frame box."</p><br>
<p>A 1961 addition was designed by Small, adding bedrooms to the sides of the house and separate living and dining rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Hettinger County Courthouse in Mott, North Dakota was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Its construction, during 1934–36, was barely allowed by passage of a bond issue to take advantage of a Public Works Administration grant.</p><br>
<p>It is significant for its Art Deco architecture, along with that of the Stark County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The McLean County Courthouse in Washburn, North Dakota was built in 1908. It was a -story brick building with a central tower above the front entrance. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by the Hancock Brothers architectural firm from Fargo, North Dakota. The courthouse replaced a previous courthouse built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Because of health concerns in the old building, county voters in 2010 approved the construction of a new courthouse. The 1908 courthouse was demolished in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Towner County Courthouse in Cando, North Dakota is a historic Queen Anne-style building that was built in 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a four-story wheat-colored brick building upon a cut stone foundation. Queen Anne elements of its design include its irregular plan and complex roofline, including a gable where a higher tower once rose.</p><br>
<p>Also on the grounds is an old schoolhouse, which has been moved to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Stutsman County Courthouse and Sheriff&#39;s Residence/Jail in Jamestown, North Dakota was built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Henry C. Koch.</p><br>
<p>The west wing of the building was added in 1926, and was designed by architect Gilbert R. Horton.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP listing was consistent with a later statewide study of North Dakota courthouses.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as the courthouse for Stutsman County until the 1980s, when it was replaced by a newer building. Though plans called for the original building&#39;s destruction, ownership instead transferred to the State Historical Society of North Dakota, who is working to restore the courthouse and has listed the building as Stutsman County Courthouse State Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>The Renville County Courthouse in Mohall, North Dakota was built from 1936 to 1937 and dedicated in June 1937. The building was designed in the Moderne style by architect E. W. Molander. The construction was partially funded by the Works Progress Administration and overseen by general contractor Iver Orheim. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The front facade is made of brick with Kettle River sandstone on the parapet. The name "Memorial Court House" is engraved in a frieze above the front entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Former McLean County Courthouse in Washburn, North Dakota was built in 1905 to replace a courthouse that had burned down, and was used as a courthouse until 1917, when the new McLean County Courthouse was built.</p><br>
<p>The building is now used as one of the buildings of the McLean County Historical Society Museums.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Covered Bridge  in Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States, is one of the last remaining covered bridges in that state, which once had about 40 covered bridges. Built in 1876 to cross Cedar Creek, the bridge is 120 ft long and is made of pine with oak lattices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is now used only for pedestrian traffic.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1876, the result of a petition by area farmers. It was constructed to serve as a permanent replacement for previous bridges that had washed out on various occasions. In 1927, an abutment was added under the center of the bridge to support heavier vehicle traffic, such as cars and trucks, which were not present at the time of the original construction.</p><br>
<p>The Ozaukee County Board took over the bridge&#39;s preservation and maintenance in 1940.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, Ozaukee County bought the bridge and surrounding land for $7,500 and developed the area into Covered Bridge County Park.</p><br>
<p>After nearly a century of continuous use, the bridge began to suffer, with the heavy traffic loosening the planks. It was decided that the only way to preserve the bridge was to alleviate the burden. In 1962, the Park Commission made the choice to relocate the bridge by moving it off the abutments to a location approximately 50 ft east of where it was. It was also restricted to pedestrian traffic. A second, modern bridge was built beside it to the west, only a few yards away. This new bridge is now used for vehicular traffic on the adjacent Covered Bridge Road. The original bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the county planned to spend over $19,000 on capital improvements for the Covered Bridge County Park, with part of the money to be used for new decking and railings for the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and specifications</h2><br>
<p>The Covered Bridge is situated in a north–south orientation over Cedarburg Creek. It is a timber lattice truss bridge, and was originally 120 ft long. It is 17 ft wide, and has a height of about 18 ft from the top of the abutments to the tip of the roof. The interior, from the deck to the top of the knee braces is approximately 13 ft.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built using oak and pine timbers, wood that was prepared at a site near Baraboo, Wisconsin. The lattices are very large, made of oak, and were assembled without the use of bolts or nails. Instead, the trusses, consisting of 3 by planks, are secured at the joints using oak pegs measuring 2 in in diameter, and having rounded ends. The boards used at the sides and ends measure 1 by, and have joints covered by 1 by battens. There are diagonal braces that measure 4 by, and are tenoned to fit into cross tie beams, and fitted with 2 by oak wedges.</p><br>
<p>The roof is shingled with cedar over 3 by rafters spaced 30 to 36 in apart. The cross tie beams at the floor are notched and bolted at each end.</p><br>
<p>The floor joists, measuring 6 by, are decked with 2 by wood laid on edge forming the deck. The interior walls were lined with a protective wheel guard about one foot above the deck.</p><br>
<p>The abutments are made of fieldstone set in white mortar. They are 17 ft wide where they meet the deck of the bridge, widening toward the ground to about 18 ft. The center abutment was originally also made of fieldstone, but sometime before 1937 was replaced with concrete.</p><br>
<h2>Plaques and historical markers</h2><br>
<p>The bridge displays a plaque, placed on it in 1955 by the Port Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, that identifies it as the "last covered bridge in Wisconsin" and lists the dates of 1876 and 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Replica</h2><br>
<p>A replica of the Covered Bridge, named the Springwater Volunteer Bridge, was built in 1997 in Waushara County, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Baird Mansion is an historic home, now apartment building, that is located at 814 N. Broad Street, in the Francisville neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1863 and 1864, this historic structure is a four-story, five-bay, brownstone-faced, brick building with nineteen rooms. Designed in a Late Victorian style, the mansion consists of the main building, an attached, three-story, brick-back building, and a two-story, brick stable. It was built by Matthew Baird (1817–1877), one of the early partners in the Baldwin Locomotive Works.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Steel Heddle Manufacturing Company Complex is an historic, American factory complex that is located in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic complex consists of four buildings: the plant (1919, 1925–1927), the main office (c. 1919–1922), the chrome plating building (1951), and the lumber storage and garage building (1930). The plant is a five-story, U-shaped, reinforced concrete building that sits on a raised basement.</p><br>
<p>The Steel Heddle Manufacturing Company manufactured heddles and other textile loom accessories. Its Philadelphia plant remained in operation until 1983.</p><br>
<p>This complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. In 2018, NBC10 erroneously reported that the complex was destroyed by fire, but the buildings that burned were a block away and unrelated to Steel Heddle. The vacant Steel Heddle plant still stands in 2019.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Lutheran Church of Richland County, was built in 1883 by the faith community originally known as the South Wild Rice Lutheran Congregation, whose constitution was adopted on December 27, 1872. In 1882 the name of the faith community was changed to St. Johns as construction of the building began. This wood-frame church still stands on its original "single course, dry-laid, uncut fieldstone foundation," and is located east of the Wild Rice River in the Red River Valley near Galchutt, North Dakota.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The South Wild Rice Congregation was made up of Norwegian immigrants who arrived in the area in the early 1870s. In October 1873 the first annual meeting of the congregation was held, at which it was decided to reserve a 2 acre-parcel of land, found on Section 32, Range 48, Township 134, for religious purposes. One acre was to be set aside as church property, while the remaining acre was to be used as the church&#39;s cemetery. The oldest date on any grave marker is 1877.</p><br>
<p>In its early years, this congregation met in members&#39; homes. In 1874 a log schoolhouse was built and served as a church until the congregation could afford a separate building. This first schoolhouse was not very large, only 18 by 22 by 10 feet. Later it was moved to land just north of the church.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns was built in 1883, with the bell tower having been added in 1897, it was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The churchs listing on the National Register was based on its connection with the first wave of Norwegian Lutheran settlers in the region, the early settlement of southeastern North Dakota, and its retention of "greater integrity than any other church building in the region."</p><br>
<p>The church building has not been used for regular services since 1956, except for occasional events such as periodic worship services, baptisms and weddings. However, burial activity in the cemetery has continued.</p><br>
<h2>Tenure</h2><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s stands today as a monument of the early pioneers. Although regular services are no longer held, the church build and grounds are maintained by the descendants of these pioneers. Since 1956 this responsibility has been held in trust by the people of Galchutt Lutheran Church of Galchutt, North Dakota.</p><br>
<p>Park Towne Place is a historic apartment complex located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The complex consists of four eighteen-story buildings , a one-story office area, an underground parking garage, and a pool and spa complex. It was designed by Milton Schwartz in the International style, using reinforced concrete with limestone-tan brick, white marble, and bright aluminum trim and glass. It was constructed in 1958. The apartment buildings are in the shape of rectangular cuboids.</p><br>
<p>Park Towne Place is owned by Aimco, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. In 2014, Aimco selected Tryba Architects of Denver to renovate the complex.</p><br>
<p>Park Towne Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, and receives a significant tax abatement as a consequence.</p><br>
<p>In September 2021, all four towers were evacuated following flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ida.</p><br>
<p>The Blandford Church is the oldest building in Petersburg, Virginia whose history is well documented. It is at the highest point in the city, atop Well&#39;s Hill. It is today  part of a memorial to Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. It is adjacent to Blandford Cemetery, one of the oldest, largest and historically significant cemeteries in Virginia. The Blandford Cemetery did not exist until after the church building had been abandoned, in the early 1800s, and the land purchased by the city to use as a cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Blandford Church, also known as St. Pauls Church or simply "The Brick Church", was erected in 1736 on Wells Hill, the highest point in Petersburg. In 1781, during the American Revolution, the Battle of Blandford, also known as the Battle of Petersburg, was fought nearby. Following the battle Major General William Phillips was ordered back to Petersburg to meet Lord Cornwallis who was moving north From Wilmington, North Carolina. While in Petersburg awaiting the arrival of Cornwallis, Phillips fell ill and died on 13 May 1781. He was secretly buried somewhere in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>The church building was abandoned in 1806 after the construction of another Episcopal church in Petersburg when the Town of Blandford in Prince George County was absorbed by Petersburg. It became "an ivy-clad picturesque shell."</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War the church served as a major telegraph station. It was used as a field hospital, most notably after the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.</p><br>
<p>Necessary repairs for its preservation were made by the City of Petersburg in 1882. A Ladies&#39; Memorial Association of Petersburg was founded in 1866 and took on preserving the former church as a memorial to the large number of Confederate soldiers buried in the adjacent cemetery. (Some 30,000 were buried unidentified in mass graves.)</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest non-religious women&#39;s organizations in the country. Between 1889 and 1905, the Ladies Memorial Association paid for a pulpit and 34 pews. The windows were restored temporarilily with clear glass.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies Memorial Association requested from the eleven Confederate states, plus the slave states of Maryland and Missouri, funds to commission stained-glass windows. (Only Kentucky declined.) Between 1904 and 1912, windows were created and installed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Each of the large windows contains the image of a Saint, and symbols associated with that Saint. In addition to the thirteen state windows, Tiffany donated one, as did the Ladies Memorial Association.</p><br>
<p>The stained glass half-round window over the church door contains the name Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburgh, VA, the dates 1866–1909, and in the center, the only Confederate flag Tiffany is known to have made, together with the dates 1861—1865. As the citys Web site puts it, it is a shrine to its Lost Cause.&#39;"</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At their meeting on November 18, 1900, the Ladies&#39; Memorial Association decided to ask permission to make "Old Blandford Church" into a "mortuary and memorial chapel. " Fifteen windows were installed between 1904 and 1912. Most display a state seal, the figure of a saint, and an inscription. Eleven were donated by each of the former Confederate states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Two were donated by Missouri and Maryland. Kentucky, another border state, was the only state that refused to participate. In addition, there is a window of a Christian cross of jewels donated by Louis Comfort Tiffany.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Confederate state windows and representative saints</h2><br>
<p>Saint John the Evangelist- Virginia</p><br>
<p>Saint Paul- Louisiana: The Washington Artillery funded the Louisiana window. It is the only state window that doesn&#39;t include a state seal. Instead, it features the insignia of the Washington Artillery.</p><br>
<p>Saint Bartholomew- North Carolina</p><br>
<p>Saint Philip the Apostle- Tennessee</p><br>
<p>Saint James the Less- Mississippi</p><br>
<p>Saint Luke- Texas</p><br>
<p>Saint Peter- Missouri</p><br>
<p>Saint Mark- South Carolina</p><br>
<p>Saint Andrew- Alabama</p><br>
<p>Saint Thomas the Apostle- Georgia</p><br>
<p>Saint Matthew- Florida</p><br>
<p>The Christian Leinenweber House is a house located in Astoria, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1874 by a local businessman named Christian Leinenweber. It is also known as the Otto Gramms House; Gramms and his family owned it from 1916 to 1965.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1874, but not originally in the Italianate architectural style for which it is known; rather, changes which placed it in this style came in 1883.</p><br>
<p>Christian Frederick Leinenweber was born in Pirmasens, Bavaria in February 1839. He settled in Astoria, Oregon in February 1866, and married Mary Powers the same year. Leinenweber influenced the growth of Astoria through his business dealings. Leinenweber was the first of five postmasters for the town of Upper Astoria. He served in the Oregon Legislature in 1884–1885, and died several years later in March 1889. At the time of his death, his estate included three partnership companies with Hiram Brown: Tillamock Packing, Nestucca Packing, and Badollet & Co. Leinenweber was also a school district manager at the time of his death.</p><br>
<p>The Cliffs Ranger Station is an early United States Forest Service ranger station in what is now Walnut Canyon National Monument in northern Arizona, United States. Also known as the Old Headquarters of the national monument, it was built in 1904 by the Forest Service, and served as the monument headquarters after it was established in 1915. The log cabin is one of the oldest remaining log cabins in northern Arizona. It served as the living quarters for the park&#39;s early custodians. The cabin measures 45 ft by 15 ft overall, including an addition at the east end. The roof overhang of the addition has been cut back to allow an alligator cypress to grow close to the building. The interior is divided into four rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Old Headquarters was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1975. The listing was enlarged and renamed in 2019.</p><br>
<p>The North 23rd Street Bridge in Tacoma, Washington, United States, is a concrete rigid frame bridge that was designed by engineers Waddell & Harrington in 1909. It was built for the City of Tacoma by contractors Creelman, Putman, and Healy.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as an early concrete rigid frame bridge. It has "massive, overdesigned concrete beams" that are "6 feet wide at the center, and 13 feet at the ends". The beams are "8 feet deep at the center, and 12 feet deep at the ends." It is 312 ft long and 30 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 13th St. and N Street in Sacramento, California, was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant for its architecture. The Presbyterian church was designed in "Spanish Eclectic" style with Byzantine influences as in the Hagia Sophia, by Sacramento architects Dean and Dean. It has a bell tower and tiled dome. It is constructed of reinforced concrete with stucco covering and decorations made of pre-cast cement.</p><br>
<p>Westminster Presbyterian Church is listed as an American Presbyterian and Reformed Historical Site No. 373 by the Presbyterian Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania State Office Building is a historic office building located in the Hahnemann neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1957 and 1958, and is an 18-story, steel frame and reinforced concrete building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Philadelphias application to place the Pennsylvania State Office Building on the National Register of Historic Places was reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at its meeting on October 6, 2009, along with applications for: the Hamburg Historic District in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, the Hamnett Historic District in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, the Newville Historic District in Newville, Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot in Philadelphia, the Experimental and Safety Research Coal Mines in Allegheny Countys South Park Township, and the Cheney Farm, Hopewell Farm, and Chandler Mill Road Bridge in Chester County.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania State Office Building was then officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places later in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The historic Pennsylvania State Office Building is clad in white marble exterior panels and measures 63 feet by 259 feet. Its style is reflective of the Modern movement. The building is surrounded by a group of formal concrete plazas. At one end is a black granite fountain with a double concave shape.</p><br>
<p>This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Burk Brothers and Company, also known as Diskmakers, was a historic factory complex located in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The complex consisted of 12 interconnected brick and reinforced concrete buildings, built between 1855 and 1913. The buildings were designed for the processing of kidskins into morocco or glazed kid leather.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. They have since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The lookout trees in Kaibab National Forest are the survivors of a system of improvised fire lookout towers that used tall, straight trees as vantage points. The practice of using trees as lookouts was widespread in the western United States during the early 20th century, as there was no need to build a foundation or to pack and assemble a tower structure. Instead, a prominent tree could be selected, and a ladder or a series of spikes could be attached to the tree trunk. For transient use this could be all that was done, but for more permanent use the top 10 ft of the tree could be lopped, and a platform constructed on the resulting stump. This railed platform was then outfitted with a seat and a platform for an Osborne Fire Finder.</p><br>
<p>A Multiple Property Submission survey of lookout trees in Kaibab National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona was carried out in 1987 as an addendum to a survey of fire towers in Arizona. Surviving trees with significant remains of their lookout function were individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places and were described in the MPS. Many of these lookouts were established between 1905 and 1920. Many more trees existed than were nominated, but the missing trees have either disappeared or were not located. No lookout trees were noted in Grand Canyon National Park, though some had existed.</p><br>
<p>Cooper Ridge Lookout Tree, reference number 91001962, 36&deg;44&prime;48&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;13&prime;5&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Corral Lake Lookout Tree, reference number 91001954, 36&deg;36&prime;18&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;15&prime;58&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Fracas Lookout Tree, reference number 91001955, 36&deg;39&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;16&prime;16&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Grandview Lookout Tree, reference number 91001945, 35&deg;55&prime;58&Prime;N latitude, 111&deg;58&prime;44&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Hull Tank Lookout Tree, reference number 91001947, 35&deg;56&prime;25&Prime;N latitude, 111&deg;57&prime;28&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Little Mountain Lookout Tree, reference number 91001950, 36&deg;35&prime;22&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;21&prime;30&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Summit Mountain Lookout Tree, reference number 91001948, 35&deg;7&prime;51&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;7&prime;56&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Tater Point Lookout Tree, reference number 91001946, 36&deg;32&prime;22&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;6&prime;5&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Telephone Hill Lookout Tree, reference number 91001952, 36&deg;32&prime;50&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;10&prime;33&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Tipover Lookout Tree, reference number 91001953, 36&deg;21&prime;56&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;8&prime;19&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Tusayan Lookout Tree, reference number 91001951, 35&deg;58&prime;16&Prime;N latitude, 112&deg;8&prime;11&Prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>All were individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Desert View Tower is located on Interstate 8, in Boulder Park, in western Imperial County, Southern California. It is also adjacent to remaining sections of Old USA Route 80.</p><br>
<p>It is at 3,000 ft in elevation, in the In-Ko-Pah Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Travel through this area has existed for centuries, and is documented in many of the nineteenth century newspapers of San Diego and elsewhere. Pioneers are known to have crossed here on trips between Yuma and San Diego. The first crossing in wheeled vehicles may have been the 1856 journey of Lt. E.B. Williston from San Diego, briefly through México, then up through Jacumba and on to Yuma. An historical plaque next to the tower marks the site of the Mountain Springs Station, a stone house used in 1862-1870 as a store from which ox teams pulled wagons up a 30% grade. Beginning in 1915, the Old Plank Road provided additional assistance for making the crossing in motorcars.</p><br>
<p>The stone tower was built over several years beginning in 1922 by Bert Vaughn, a San Diego real estate developer who owned Jacumba. Vaughn dedicated it to the pioneers, and highway and railroad builders who opened up the area. It also served as a roadside advertisement of a restaurant and bar located on the old road across from the tower. The five-story Tower houses a museum and has an observation deck on its upper level. The gift shop at the base of the Tower is a later addition.</p><br>
<p>An ensemble of sculptures of animals and other figures, called Boulder Park, is adjacent to Desert View Tower. They were sculpted in the local stone by Merle Ratcliff (spelling of his name varies across different sources) over two years during the 1930s while he was unemployed during the Great Depression. Both the tower and Boulder Park are works of folk art.</p><br>
<p>The tower and Boulder Park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1980. As folk art, the tower and Boulder Park were included in the Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments in California Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>Barnard&#39;s Mill is located in Glen Rose, Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The building is owned by the Somervell History Foundation, and operated as Barnards Mill Art Museum. The museums collection include works from Jewell Miears Fielder, Amy Miears Jackson, Robert Summers, Jack Bryant, R. Kleinfelder, Morris Henry Hobbs, Asian and Native American art and artifacts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mill was originally a water-powered gristmill and then a steam powered burr mill. It was sold by Charles E. Barnard to Major T.C. Jordan in 1874. Jordan sold the mill to Dr. J. J. Hannah in 1943 where it became a health spa with mineral water. Dr. Hannah added a wing to the building. In 1949 it became a hospital and clinic with the arrival of Dr. Roger Marks. The building was sold to Dr. Marks and Dr. Robert English in 1955, and it became the Marks-English Hospital and Clinic. The building was sold to Richard H. Moore in 1979. Mr. Moore gifted the mill to the Somervell History Foundation in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Kensington Branch of the Philadelphia YWCA is a historic YWCA building located in the Hugh neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1911 and expanded in 1916. It is a six-story, brick with terracotta trim building in the Colonial Revival style. The original three-story section was built as the Hoffman Memorial wing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Girard Avenue Historic District is a national historic district which is located in the Cabot neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses one hundred and thirty-seven contributing buildings, which were largely built during the mid- to late-19th century and consisted of residential, commercial, and industrial properties.</p><br>
<p>The residential buildings include blocks of nineteenth century speculative rowhouses. Residential buildings include notable examples of the Greek Revival, Late Victorian, and Beaux Arts styles.</p><br>
<p>Notable non-residential buildings include the Church of the Gesú (1879), designed by Edwin Forrest Durang, and Northwestern National Bank (1886).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Dobson Mills is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located in the Hunting Park Industrial Area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures. They were built between 1858 and 1928, and are primarily of heavy timber frame construction with load bearing masonry walls. They range from two to five stories in height. The complex included blanket, overcoat, and wool yarn production facilities, a carpet mill, and plush mill.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery was located 10 miles from south of Denbigh, North Dakota and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1994. The NRHP listing includes the main church structure, a cemetery, and two contributing privies to the west and rear of the church, all situated on a 4.4 acre site. A pyramid-shaped monument topped with an iron cross is located at the northeast corner of the cemetery and marks site of an older log church. Norwegian skier Sondre Norheim was buried in the cemetery in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1907 with sand bricks from the Denbigh Brick Plant. The church was designed in a Late Gothic Revival style with a bell tower that reaches a height of 65 feet from the foundation. It was built on a hill above the Souris River and is visible for miles.</p><br>
<p>The inclusion of the site on the NRHP was based on its historic integrity, its being "one of the best and well-maintained examples of a rural church" on the North Dakota prairie, and the use of bricks rather than wood in the construction of the church.</p><br>
<p>The Granville State Bank, also known as the Former Granville Service Agency, is a two-story commercial building on Main Street in Granville, North Dakota. The structure was built by Granville State Bank president George E. Stubbins in 1903 using sandstone and prairie granite from Kottke Valley Township to the northwest. The architect was James S. Cox of Estherville, Iowa, who also designed the Grand Auditorium and Hotel Block in Story City, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1977. It served as the headquarters for the state banking boards examiners and receivers until 1929. It was occupied by the Granville State Bank from 1929 until the time of the banks liquidation in 1941. An International Harvester dealership also did business in the building.</p><br>
<p>The bank had "ornate wooden fixtures" which were transferred in 1973 to a bank museum within what was the First Bank of Crosby, at Divide County Pioneer Village in Crosby, North Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The Perris Depot is a railroad depot built in 1892 to serve Perris, California. The station replaced a previous wooden structure at the same site on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line, originally the California Southern Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The station was built by J.W. Nance, a Perris developer, and was designed by Benjamin Franklin Levet, Sr., son-in-law to Fred T. Perris. The depot served both passenger traffic and the considerable agricultural traffic associated with the farmlands of the Perris Valley. However, passenger traffic declined and ended in 1947. Agriculture declined due to limited water supplies and salinization, and farms were replaced with suburbs. All but one track in the station yard was abandoned in 1975. From 1974 the depot has been used by the Perris Valley Historical and Museum Association as a museum of local history. In the 1990s the depot was proposed as a commuter rail station.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The red brick depot is in the Queen Anne style, with a conical-roofed turret, round windows and an arched entry. The depot is a one-story structure, generally rectangular in plan, with a raised central mass at right angles to the plan with flanking wings. The central mass features an arched entry on one side and a projecting round bay with a cupola opposite. The brick gables are partly hipped, with prominent "PERRIS" signs on each. A comb-like finial decorates the ridge of the central roof mass and wings, with "SANTA FE" signs facing either platform.</p><br>
<h2>Present use</h2><br>
<p>The Perris Depot is used by the Orange Empire Railway Museum as a terminus for its excursion train line. The depot was renovated in 2007–2008. The building is now home to the Perris Valley Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Perris Multimodal Transit Center was opened in 2010 adjacent to the depot, with bus and Metrolink train service. The Metrolink 91/Perris Valley Line extension through Perris was completed in June 2016 and stops at the adjacent Perris–Downtown station. The museum continues to operate in the depot.</p><br>
<p>The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Locke Block on Fifth Street in Devils Lake, North Dakota was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Built as a residential building, its four-story height "would make the building a sky scraper in comparison to the other buildings in the city," per a contemporary local newspaper article. The roof drain system was innovative.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination in 1986 identified it as "the best remaining example of Chicago School commercial architecture in Devils Lake."</p><br>
<p>Danish-born builder Valdemar or Vlademar Grams name originally appeared in the date block for the building, but only Lockes name appears now. Gram was prominent in Devils Lake and built the Devils Lake Carnegie Library (also NRHP-listed),</p><br>
<p>The Devils Lake Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located in Devils Lake, North Dakota. It was built in 1909 and designed by architect Joseph A. Shannon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It was opened on January 21, 1910, with no ceremony, but the local newspaper afterward declared the opening to be a "great event", marking a "new era in the intellectual advancement of Devils Lake".</p><br>
<p>Danish-born builder Valdemar or Vlademar Gram built the library, the Locke Block (also NRHP-listed), and numerous other Devils Lake buildings.</p><br>
<p>After 93 years, on November 26, 2003, the library was moved from its historic location- due to deterioration and much-needed space and renovations- to a new facility down the street, located at 423 7th St N. They added more meeting rooms, handicapped-accessible entrances (one of the goals of the move), and a one-floor model for improvement to the staffing model.</p><br>
<p>This brought about questions about what to do with the historic landmark, which became lofts in 2015, bought by Paula Hasse Anderson for $1,000, wishing to keep the building from being razed by the city. Gary Martinson, city assessor and building official for the City of Devils Lake, said at the time that Anderson has accomplished the city&#39;s goal of preserving the historic building while finding a new use for it.</p><br>
<p>From a 2015 Grand Forks Herald article: "Each of the 925-square-foot, one-bedroom lofts is fully furnished and features an open-concept kitchen and living room with original fireplace, one and a half baths and a 12-by-12-foot combined laundry and dressing room, complete with a full-size washer and dryer.</p><br>
<p>The lofts&#39; amenities include unlimited WiFi, a 50-inch smart TV with cable, high-end designer bedding, a pillow-top queen bed with storage, spa-quality towels and private parking.</p><br>
<p>In the dressing room closet, guests will even find a full-length, fluffy bathrobe.</p><br>
<p>The kitchen features custom cabinetry, a built-in microwave oven, a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, a Keurig coffee-maker, a wine center and a large island with bar-stool seating.</p><br>
<p>Granite counters top the kitchen island, wine center and bathroom vanity."</p><br>
<p>Lake Region Public Library, Devils Lake, North Dakota.jpgLake Region Public Library, Devils Lake, North Dakota</p><br>
<p>Carnegie Library changed its name to Lake Region Public Library with the move and opened on Monday, December 22, 2003. This followed a fundraiser that began in spring 1992. The new library is 9,033 square feet, all on one-level and is fully compliant with Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. The library cost $1.1 million, with 70% raised through private donations, bequests and grants; a portion of the City sales tax proceeds provided the balance of funds. The library&#39;s collection houses over 43,800 items, and has eight Internet-accessible computers and WiFi available to the public.</p><br>
<p>Jim Chattin served as Library Director for the Lake Region Public Library for over four decades.</p><br>
