<p>The Tabor Home for Needy and Destitute Children, also known as the Philip H. Fretz Mansion, is an historic, American home that is located in Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.</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>Built in 1879, this large, L-shaped, brownstone building was designed in the Second Empire style. It consists of a -story, five-bay main block with a mansard roof, a -story, hipped roof pavilion, and a -story, library wing. The front facade features a central three-story square tower.</p><br>
<p>It housed the Tabor Home for Needy and Destitute Children from 1913 to 1979, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The organization continues as Tabor Children&#39;s Services.</p><br>
<p>Wild Heron is a historic plantation house approximately 15 mi south of Savannah, Georgia. It is one of the oldest domestic structures in Georgia and is a relatively intact example of a typical architectural genre which flourished in coastal Georgia and South Carolina in the eighteenth century. Adding to its significance is its association with Francis Henry Harris  and his son, Col. Francis Henry Harris , prominent figures of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras in Georgia, and the operation through two hundred years as a working rice plantation, owned for much of that time by descendants of the same family.</p><br>
<p>The house was built on a 500 acre tract of land granted to Captain David Cutler Braddock in 1747. Braddock, "allowed to be an excellent seaman, according to the loyal Governor&#39;s Council President, James Habersham in 1750", most likely constructed the house between 1752 and 1756 when Braddock was loaned a large sum of money by Francis Harris. The wainscoting, chimneys, and mantels along with its double spraddle roof are all suggestive of an eighteenth-century construction date.</p><br>
<p>Francis Harris, an English-born accountant, came to Georgia about 1739 to assist Thomas Causton with the trustee accounts. In 1744, Harris became a partner with James Habersham in the commercial firm of Harris and Habersham. Harris was a member of the Royal Governors Council and the first Speaker of the House of Commons in colonial Georgia. He was married in England about 1754, and tradition holds that his wife, Mary Goodall, was heiress to an estate in Hampshire, England known as Wild Heron, which she sold about the time of her marriage and move to Savannah. Harris abandoned the mercantile trade and became a planter acquiring land on the Little Ogeechee River. He paid 1168 pounds for Braddocks tract, the high price indicating the presence of a house on the property, and the English name was transferred to the American land. The name was contracted, English fashion, to Wild Hern, a name that evolved to Wild Horn; the property was known by that name until research in 1935 discovered the original name of the plantation to be Wild Heron.</p><br>
<p>Having been granted 1,300 acre in 1762 and purchased another 1,600 acre in the same vicinity, Harris had accrued considerable holdings by 1769. After his death in 1771, his son, Col. Francis Henry Harris, inherited the property. Col. Harris fought in the Revolutionary War until 1781, when he was wounded at Etttaw Springs, dying shortly thereafter at Santee Hills. His sister, Elizabeth Harris MacLeod, inherited the property which passed, in turn, to her son, Francis Henry MacLeod. MacLeod managed the plantation until his death in 1866. He left a large estate was valued at approximately $264,000, including 450 acre planted in rice, 310 acre of rice fields unplanted, 2,000 acre of high lands, 1,000 acre of marshland, and 129 slaves. The slaves and MacLeod&#39;s Confederate bonds and notes were of no value, but were included in the appraisal of his estate.</p><br>
<p>The Ogeechee River District in which Wild Heron was located, was an extension of the great rice planting corridor of the Savannah River. In addition, the extensive high land acreage allowed for the growing of the South&#39;s king crop, cotton. When MacLeod died just before the collapse of the Confederacy the so-called "Settlement Tract," on which the house was located, was a legacy to his son, Richard, who, followed by his descendants, owned it through the difficult intervening years until Shelby Myrick, Sr., purchased it in 1935. The Myrick family accomplished a careful restoration of the house, which retains its eighteenth-century character as well as its structure.</p><br>
<p>Wild Heron was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is the oldest plantation house in Savannah and one of the oldest houses in Georgia.</p><br>
<p>Old Rock House is a historic garrison house in Thomson, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The fortified stone house was built about 1785 by Thomas Ansley. The house was purportedly the home to ancestors of former president Jimmy Carter. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The house was owned by the Wrightsborough Quaker Community Foundation, Inc., in 1970. It is owned by McDuffie County. It is the oldest well-documented house in Georgia, although there may be older ones.</p><br>
<p>Fonthill, Mercer Museum and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works is a National Historic Landmark District located at Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It consists of three properties built by Henry Chapman Mercer  in a distinctive application of the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, which are also notable for the early use of poured concrete: Fonthill, the Mercer Museum, and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works. All three are now museum properties of the Bucks County Historical Society. The landmark designation for the group was made in 1985; each property is also individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Henry Chapman Mercer was a native of Doylestown, who was educated as a lawyer. He never practiced law formally, and eventually landed a job as a curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Concerned about the rise of industrialization, he began collecting hand-made artifacts and implements of American life and industry, and also investigated Germany pottery and tile-making techniques. Influenced by the rising Arts and Crafts Movement, he founded the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in his hometown in 1898. Its tiles met with great success, and have been widely used in the United States. In 1907 he began construction of Fonthill, one of the earliest uses of reinforced poured concrete in the United States. Mercer designed it, as well as the current Mercer Museum, using an organic process. Both of those buildings, as well as the current surviving tile works building, use poured reinforced concrete as the primary building material.</p><br>
<h2>Fonthill</h2><br>
<p>Fonthill is located north of the town center of Doylestown, on the west side of East Court Street, just south of the tile works. Its appearance is loosely based on European medieval castles, and has walls of concrete 2 ft thick. The exterior is adorned by decorative tiles, the interior is furnished and decorated with Chapman&#39;s collections. The house was completed in 1912. It is open for tours by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Mercer Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Mercer Museum is located just southeast of the town center, at East Ashland and Green Streets. Its exterior is similar in inspiration to that of Fonthill, but features more numerous exterior protrusions, giving it a more fortified appearance. The interior includes a large open space surrounded by a ramp of galleries, in which Mercer&#39;s collection of agricultural and industrial implements are displayed in alcoves and nooks. Completed in 1916, it was augmented in the 1930s by a similarly styled library addition.</p><br>
<h2>Moravian Pottery and Tile Works</h2><br>
<p>The tile works complex is located just north of Fonthill, off Swamp Road. Built in 1911-12, it resembles a medieval cloister, with an arched colonnade surrounding a central courtyard. The main portion of the structure is 2-1/2 stories in height, and houses five kilns. The facility continues to actively produce tile, using molds created by Chapman.</p><br>
<p>Tuckerman Hall is a concert hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built in 1902 in the Neoclassical style and restored in 1999. The architect was Josephine Wright Chapman. It is the home of the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra.</p><br>
<p>Other current uses include weddings, receptions and other events.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built for the use of the Worcester Woman&#39;s Club in 1902. It is named after Elizabeth Tuckerman, the grandmother of Stephen Salisbury III, who donated the land, which was left over from his donation to the Worcester Art Museum nearby.</p><br>
<p>On March 3, 1980 Tuckerman Hall was listed in the National Register of Historic Places within the Institutional District at the local significance level.</p><br>
<p>On October 4, 2000 Tuckerman Hall was declared an Official Project of Save America&#39;s Treasures.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson–Kearns Hotel  is a historic hotel in downtown Springville, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The hotel is located at 94 West 200 South on the western edge of the citys downtown commercial district and just over three blocks east of one Springvilles two former railroad depots (which was at the west end of West 200 South and was owned by what eventually became the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad). While located within the Springville Historic District (which was added to the NRHP in 2004), the hotel is an individually listed contributing property to the district.</p><br>
<p>The building includes Late Victorian architecture and has been known at times as the Johnson Hotel, the Kearns House. the Kearns Hotel, the Manitou Hotel, the Valley Tavern Hotel, and the Valley Hotel. The room layout of the interior is consistent with use as a hotel, having highly compartmentalized areas, with a private living section for the owner and public spaces on the first floor and guest rooms on the second floor and the basement.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was originally built in 1892 by Moses (Mose) and Anna (Annie) Kearns Johnson. Construction required a $600 mortgage and eight years to complete. Moses was a prominent actor and the youngest surviving son of the founder of Springville, Aaron Johnson. At the turn of the century, the building was known as the Johnson Hotel and was one of three hotels in Springville. Two significant railroads, as well as the later mass production of automobiles, connected the town to the rest of the county, which created a need for accommodations for visitors. Springville&#39;s success in agricultural processing also increased the need for temporary lodging.</p><br>
<p>William Henry Kearns and Loretta Chase Kearns bought it in the early 1900s for $1,000, and added onto it, sometime between 1908 and 1925, the two-story rear wing and a utility porch. Since the completed of these two additions, the structure has not been substantially altered. Loretta and her son Howard were artists and while living at the hotel, they painted multiple pieces of art, now under the care of the Springville Museum of Art. William and Loretta named the building the Kerns House and ran it until 1937. (The Kearns House name is visible on the front of the building in a photograph taken by George Edward Anderson in the 1910s-1920s.)</p><br>
<p>Throughout the following decades, it would be run as an inn under the names of Kearns House, Manitou Hotel, Valley Tavern Hotel, and Valley Hotel, amongst others. It was listed on the NRHP January 5, 1998. In the early 2000s, most of the major systems were updated and it was then run as a Victorian-style bed and breakfast for several years. Finally in 2021, extensive renovations were started and then finished in 2022 to turn it into what can be seen today, with eleven private suites available for occupancy.</p><br>
<p>The T. R. Kelly House is a historic house within the Springville Historic District in Springville, Utah, United States, that is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 164 West 200 South and was built in 1903. According to architectural historian Deborah R. Temme, writing the NRHP nomination:</p><br>
<p>The Kelly House, because on the one hand it reflects the popular trend of the time, the use of books for house designs, and on the</p><br>
<p>other hand, because it is a unique type among the types that were built and repeated, reflects the owner&#39;s desire to be up to date according to the method of design, but also expresses his concurrent wish to have a house that would</p><br>
<p>stand apart from others and express his own individuality.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the NRHP December 9, 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Gibraltar District School No. 2 is a historic one-room school on the Door Peninsula in the town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Built in the 1860s to serve children in the village of Ephraim, it operated as a school for approximately eighty years before closing and being converted into a museum. It has been designated a historic site because of its place in the area&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The school is now operated as the Pioneer Schoolhouse Museum by the Ephraim Historical Foundation.</p><br>
<h2>Community history</h2><br>
<p>Ephraim was founded by a group of Moravians who had emigrated from Norway; it was founded to be a permanent settlement, unlike the many resource extraction camps that dotted the Door Peninsula. The Norwegians settled in Wisconsin under the leadership of Andreas Iverson, who had previously lived in Milwaukee. Iverson and several other men bought, surveyed, and platted land at the communitys present site in early 1853, and small temporary houses were scattered over the townsite by the next year. Children were among some of the earliest residents, and the importance of education in the Moravian Church meant that a school was soon needed: the first educational institution was organized in 1854. Three years later, the town of Gibraltar was officially established, with Ephraim included in its borders, and Andreas Iverson donated land for a school at Ephraim and was elected to the school board. In 1857, the Norwegian settlers used this property to erect Gibraltars first school, a log building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>By the late 1860s, a new school was needed, and Ephraim built the present building in 1869.</p><br>
<p>The Gibraltar District School #2 is a substantial one-room frame school with many improvements that were intended to resolve problems with other schools that county officials had noted. Besides being larger than previous schools, it included large windows to light the interior effectively. Local schoolchildren attended it until the construction of a newer one-room school in 1948. As it was no longer needed for scholastic purposes after the new school was built, the old school was restored by a local history organization before being converted into a museum and offices for a local arts group.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the Gibraltar District School #2 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its place in the area&#39;s history. It was one of several buildings in Gibraltar to be added to the Register together as part of a multiple property submission.</p><br>
<p>The Haupt&#39;s Mill Covered Bridge was an historic covered bridge that was located in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It crossed Cooks Creek.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980, it was destroyed by arson in January 1985, and subsequently removed from the register.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1872 in the town truss style, the Haupt&#39;s Mill Covered Bridge was 107 feet long and 15 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980. It was destroyed by arson in January 1985, and subsequently removed from the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Fretz Farm was a historic house and farm complex located in Doylestown Township Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It had five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They were the farmhouse, barn, carriage house, small barn / corn crib, old barn, gazebo, and pump house. The buildings were in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was delisted in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Gibraltar , located at 2505 Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, is a country estate home dating from c. 1844 that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It takes its name from the Rock of Gibraltar, alluding to the high rocky outcrop on which the house was built. It is located just inside Wilmingtons city limits and originally stood at the center of a much larger estate which has over time been reduced to the present area of about a city block in size. The house was originally built by John Rodney Brincklé and inherited by his brothers wife and children, before being bought in 1909 by Hugh Rodney Sharp, who was linked to the Du Pont family through marriage and work. Sharp expanded and remodeled the house, as well as commissioning the pioneering female landscape designer Marian Cruger Coffin to lay out the gardens.</p><br>
<p>The gardens are now owned by a local preservation trust which acquired it in the 1990s after it was threatened with demolition and redevelopment. They have since been restored and opened to the public. The estate was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 in recognition of its importance as a well-preserved example of the Country Place era of art and design. The mansion, currently owned by a local developer, has not been occupied for many years and its condition has significantly deteriorated.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The estate was developed around 1844 by John Rodney Brincklé, grandnephew of the first Governor of Delaware, Caesar Rodney. It was located in the western part of Wilmington just within the city limits and was named for its position on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the city, in an allusion to the Rock of Gibraltar. Brincklé was said to have built it in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a woman from Philadelphia and subsequently used it as a retreat and as a base where he could carry out horticultural experiments and entertain friends and relatives. The estate originally extended over an area of about 80 acre. Around 1848 he invited his brother Samuel with his wife and their eight children to move into the house. Samuel purchased it in May 1862 and carried out planting and landscaping works on the property. It passed to his wife Julia on his death and subsequently to their children.</p><br>
<p>The estate was purchased in 1909 by Hugh Rodney Sharp and his wife, Isabella Mathieu du Pont Sharp, a member of the Du Pont family. In 1915 it was renovated under the direction of Philadelphia architects DeArmond, Ashmead and Bickley. The house&#39;s interior decor includes Colonial Revival and Italianate architecture and contains works by Albert Ely Ives and others. Between 1916 and 1923, the pioneering female landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin laid out the gardens.</p><br>
<p>Sharp died in 1968 and the estate was inherited by his son, Hugh Rodney Sharp Jr., who did not share his father&#39;s interest in horticulture. By the time he died in 1990 the gardens had not been maintained for many years and were badly overgrown. The estate was put up for sale after his death and was saved from demolition after a campaign by local people and the Preservation Delaware organization. The Delaware Open Space Council bought the development rights to the property and the Sharp family donated the estate to Preservation Delaware. In 1998 the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing included works of art, a house, a horticultural facility, secondary structures, and street furniture/objects. It included five contributing buildings, seven contributing structures and 48 contributing objects. The gardens were opened to the public in 1999. Access is free and is permitted daily between dawn and dusk.</p><br>
<p>The mansion is not open to the public and is in a poor condition, having stood empty for over 20 years. After Preservation Delaware acquired the estate, a conversion easement was placed on the property with the intention of refurbishing it as a 31-room hotel. The estates greenhouses were to be converted into a restaurant. An Exeter, New Hampshire company called Someplace(s) Different which operates historic hotels in the US and Canada signed an agreement to handle the conversion. However, this fell through. A few years later another company, CCS Investors of Yorklyn, Delaware, proposed to convert the mansion into commercial office space. Rent money and profits from the development would be used by Preservation Delaware to finance the buildings maintenance and restoration. The proposal was opposed by a number of the estates neighbors who were concerned about the effect on local traffic. The dispute resulted in a three-year legal battle which eventually reached the Delaware Supreme Court. On July 16, 2009, the court ruled in favor of the developers request to change the estate&#39;s zoning status from residential to commercial.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The estate occupies an area equivalent to an entire city block, surrounded by a stone wall standing 6 ft high with entrances on Pennsylvania Avenue and Greenhill Avenue. Pillars stand at each entrance, topped with stone vases decorated with carved floral ornaments. The mansion sits on an elevation which slopes gently down to the west but drops sharply away to the east, overlooking the gardens.</p><br>
<p>The core of the irregularly-shaped mansion is a three-story building facing east – the original Italianate house erected by Brincklé – with several wings added by the Sharps in the early 20th century. The wing to the north was built around 1915 to accommodate a dining room and porch, with a service annex behind. Another three-story wing was built at the same time to the west. The east porch appears to have been reduced to its present appearance and its Doric columns changed to square-section pillars. The architects for this expansion were the Philadelphia firm of De Armond, Ashmead and Bickley.</p><br>
<p>Around 1927, a two-story wing was built to the south of the core of the house to enlarge the living room and accommodate a conservatory. More alterations were made to the north elevation by Wilmington architect Albert Ely Ives, who oversaw the addition of a two- and three-story service wing with a one-story porch. The interior of the house is decorated in a variety of styles, principally Federal style, with a Greek Revival living room and a Colonial Revival library.</p><br>
<p>The exterior walls are made from Brandywine granite quarried locally from a site near the estate. The roofing comprises five linked slate hip roofs with flat roofs over the southeast and northeast wings, the conservatory and the front portico. A cupola occupies the center of the main roof with a widow&#39;s walk capping it.</p><br>
<p>On the east façade, the ground floor has four symmetrically spaced windows with paneled shutters, above which are corresponding casement windows with louvered shutters on the second and third stories. The house was entered through the front portico, located on the east side, which stands one story high with columns supporting the roof of the portico.</p><br>
<p>A carriage house stands next to the mansion. Built in the 19th century, the Sharps enlarged it and converted it to house a pool and a filter room. They also added a greenhouse and garage, constructed by Pierson U-Bar Co. of New York City, which included a laundry and living quarters above the garage for their chauffeurs.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The gardens were designed by Marian Cruger Coffin, one of the first female landscape architects in the United States, who had a lengthy track record of designing gardens on the East Coast. During the first half of the 20th century she was responsible for the design of over 130 gardens, many of which were commissioned by the Du Ponts. Hugh Rodney Sharp was related by marriage to Henry Francis du Pont, who was a long-standing friend of Coffin and may have recommended her for the task of creating the garden at Gibraltar.</p><br>
<p>Coffin laid out the gardens of Gibraltar between 1916 and 1923, having been commissioned by the Sharps to landscape a 2 acre piece of land on the estate. She designed it in an Italianate Beaux-Arts style as a series of "rooms" to parallel the layout of the mansion. It has a strongly geometric layout profusely planted in a style reminiscent of an informal English garden. Numerous architectural and decorative elements such as fountains, statues, urns and hand-forged iron gates provide additional ornamentation. The Sharps chose the statues themselves and bought them during their travels to England, France, Italy and Hong Kong. Coffin had designed the gardens with the intention of displaying statues in particular focal points and niches, and gave the Sharps guidelines about what kind of statues to look for. She occasionally traveled with them while they were looking for pieces to buy.</p><br>
<p>The gardens are built in a series of terraces descending down the slope from the outcrop on which the house stands. From top to bottom, there is a drop of about 30 ft. A curving staircase made from marble links the house to the bottom of the terraces, descending through the Flagstone, Evergreen and Pool terraces to the Flower Garden at the bottom. The latter is planted along the lines of a color wheel in a style closely resembling that of Gertrude Jekyll. From the Flower Garden, a 200 ft long avenue of Bald Cypresses (planted between 1921 and 1925) leads to a large fountain and a teahouse that the Sharps used for lunches and to entertain guests.</p><br>
<p>The gardens and statues were restored in 1998–99 by Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects with the support of the Sharp family, who provided the restorers with Coffins original plans from 1916. Only a few of the original trees remained but the restorers followed Coffins plans to replant the garden in its original form. The fountains, ironwork, walkways and other architectural and decorative elements were also renovated. Several of Coffin&#39;s other formal gardens have been re-created, but Gibraltar is considered to be the most accurate of the re-creations.</p><br>
<p>The Butler County National Bank, also known as the Lafayette Building and Butler Branch Mellon Bank, is an historic bank building which is located in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Situated next to the Butler County Courthouse, it is considered the first "skyscraper" to have been erected in Butler.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1902 and 1903, this historic structure is a six-story, five-bay-by-five-bay, brick and stone building, which was designed in the French Renaissance Revival style. A two-story addition was erected in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The front entrance is placed within a curved section at the ninety-degree corner facing Diamond Park. The building housed Butler&#39;s post office from 1903 to 1913.</p><br>
<p>Between 1992 and 1993, the building was renovated and converted into an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Elm Court, often referred to as Phillips Mansion, is a historic mansion located in Butler, Pennsylvania, Butler County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Benno Janssen and built in 1929–1930. This 40-room residence is set into a hillside. The house measures 125.7 feet by 159 feet, and is built around a central courtyard. It is constructed of steel reinforced concrete and faced with limestone, marble, and slate. The house features complex slate roofs with many gables, large numbers of rectangular, oriel, and bay windows, interesting chimney treatments, and carved stone detailing reflecting the Tudor Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin D. Phillips, son of T.W. Phillips, founder of T.W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co, resided in this Tudor-Gothic mansion, noted often as "one of America&#39;s most spectacular private homes". The house was built for $1 million in 1929. It was completed in 1931 by Benno Janssen, a well known Pittsburgh architect. Construction of the home was completed by master-builder Harry Wimer, who also completed other properties in Western Pennsylvania including the T.W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company building, Union National Bank Building, and The Butler Eagle building, all located in Butler, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Although the mansion is over nearly 100 years old, it hasnt had many changes in ownership. Dean E. Burget and his wife, Undine Phillips Burget bought the mansion from the original owners in 1978. Frederick R. Koch purchased the mansion in 1988 for $1 million US dollars from the Burgets and the adjoining property for $900,000. Koch renovated and greatly expanded the mansion. Koch died in February 2020. The property is presently owned by the Frederick R. Koch Revocable Trust. John D. Olsen, Kochs long-time aide-de-camp, is publicly recorded as sole Trustee.</p><br>
<p>The mansion houses the famous Skinner Organ, Opus 783, a player instrument with full console that was completely restored in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The John Roebling House is an historic American home that is located in Saxonburg, Butler County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1832 and 1835, this historic structure is a two-story, brick and frame dwelling that sits on a partially exposed basement. A two-story rear addition was built circa 1904. Included in the listing is the Roebling Shop, which was built in 1841. A one-story, gable-roofed, clapboard-covered, frame building, it was the shop of noted civil engineer John A. Roebling (1806-1869), who was also a founder of Saxonburg. Sometime after its listing, the shop was moved from its original location at the intersection of Rebecca and Main Streets, to Roebling Park, along Rebecca Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Passavant House is an historic, American home that is located in Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1809, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The oldest house (1808) in Zelienople, the Passavant House now serves as a museum, library, and headquarters for the Zelienople Historical Society, which offers tours upon request. The interior features a large collection of furniture, clothing, personal and household items, particularly of the Passavant family, dating back to the early 1800s.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s name reflects the Passavant family, the most famous of whom was Rev. William Passavant (1821–1894), who was born in the house and became known for his charitable works on behalf of the Lutheran community in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The simple -story, three-bay by two-bay, brick dwelling sits on a sandstone foundation. Built in 1809, a two-story frame addition was added to the rear circa 1820. A two-story bay window and porch were added in 1915.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Saxonburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Saxonburg, Butler County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes fifty-four contributing buildings and two contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Saxonburg. It includes residential, commercial, and institutional buildings built between 1831 and 1952 in a number of popular architectural styles, including Greek Revival and Gothic Revival.</p><br>
<p>The original town was laid out in 1831 by prominent civil engineer John A. Roebling. Notable buildings include the Helmbold House, the Hotel Saxonburg, the Kuntz-Steubgen House, the Maurhoff Building, the Kornfelder Building, St. Luke&#39;s Lutheran Church, and the Memorial United Presbyterian Church. Also located in the district but listed separately is the John Roebling House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Approximately seventy percent of the resources in the district pre-date 1900, twenty percent were constructed between 1900 and 1930, and the remaining ten percent post-date 1930. Approximately eighty percent of the buildings are of a residential character; the balance are of a commercial or institutional character.</p><br>
<p>The Butler Historic District is a national historic district which is located in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes one hundred and twenty-eight contributing buildings, one contributing site and four contributing objects which are located in the central business district of Butler. It includes primarily commercial and institutional buildings, with some residential buildings, that were designed in a number of popular architectural styles, including Late Victorian, and built between about 1828 and 1952.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the City Hall, the former USA Post Office which was built in 1912, the Koch Building, which was erected circa 1910, the T.W. Phillips Co. Office Building, the Masonic Temple, which was built in 1910, Butler High School, which was erected in 1917, the Butler YMCA, St. Peters Anglican Church, which was completed in 1896, the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was built in 1897, St. Andrews United Presbyterian Church, which was erected circa 1900, the John Quincy Adams Kennedy House, which was built circa 1884, St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, which were built, respectively, in 1952 and 1925, First Baptist Church, which was erected in 1914, St. Paul&#39;s Roman Catholic Church, which was built in 1909, and Butler Savings and Trust, which was erected in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The contributing site is the Diamond, which contains contributing objects, including the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which was erected in 1894. Located in the district and listed separately are the Butler County National Bank, the Sen. Walter Lowrie House, and the Butler County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Nesquehoning High School is an historic, American high school that is located in Nesquehoning, Carbon County, 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 between 1917 and 1919, this historic structure is a four-story, seven-bay, school building that was designed in the Classical Revival style. It was built using structural terra cotta and faced with Roman brick. It measures 75 feet wide and 135 feet deep. The school closed in the 1960s and was renovated into apartments in 1998.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Summit Hill High School was an American high school that was located in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the commonwealth&#39;s Lehigh Valley region.</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>This school was built in 1911 and is a three-story, H-shaped, building that was designed in the Renaissance Revival style. It was made using structural terra cotta and faced with Roman brick. It measures approximately 122 feet wide and 82 feet deep. The school closed during the late 1960s and was renovated and converted into apartments in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Raemelton Farm Historic District is a historic district in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. Composed of thirteen contributing properties, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Among its buildings are examples of the Greek Revival and Colonial Revival styles of architecture, and it includes work by landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin.</p><br>
<p>The center is a surviving part of a 2,000 acre estate owned by Frank Black, whose father had emigrated from Ramelton in County Donegal, Ireland. The main barn was built in 1850 and remodeled in 1929; it was destroyed and rebuilt after fires in 1932 and 1937.</p><br>
<p>83–85 Sigourney Street in Hartford, Connecticut was an Italianate style double brick house. Built in 1865, it was the oldest surviving residential building on the southern part of Sigourney Street in the city&#39;s Asylum Hill neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, A modern building, housing the former Connecticut Culinary Institute, was built on the site in 1981 and now stands at 85 Sigourney Street</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>83–85 Sigourney Street stood on the west side of Sigourney Street, a busy north–south artery west of Downtown Hartford, across the street from the main headquarters of Aetna Insurance Company. As described in 1979, it stood alone, surrounded by parking lots of the insurance company. It was a brick building, three stories in height, with a flat roof. Its front facade was four bays wide, with its ground floor altered in the 20th century for commercial use and lacking significant ornament. The surviving first and second floor windows were set in rectangular openings with stone sills and lintels, the lintels on the front facade peaked. Windows on the third floor were set in segmented-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built in about 1865. This type of house was at one time fairly common in the city, although few of them were built in Asylum Hill, an upper-class neighborhood area at the time. This house was the last of its type in Asylum Hill; it was demolished some time after its listing on the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Reynolda Historic District is a 178 acre national historic district located on Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It includes work by Charles Barton Keen and by landscape architect Thomas Warren Sears. The listing includes twenty-two contributing buildings and one other contributing structure. It includes Reynolda House, Reynolda Gardens, Reynolda Village, and Reynolda Presbyterian Church. The district was once part of a larger, self-sufficient country estate conceived and developed by R. J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The district is adjacent to the Wake Forest University campus. The namesake road goes through the Reynolda Historic District, with Silas Creek Parkway bypassing it.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Martin-Little House is an historic, American home that is located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic structure consists of five sections that were built roughly between 1735 and 1960. The oldest section was built circa 1735, and is a -story, stuccoed, stone, saltbox-form dwelling. A -story, five-bay, stone, main section was added as a wing in 1810. Later additions are the two-story kitchen wing, which dates to the late-nineteenth century, a two-story bedroom wing from the mid-twentieth century, and a one-story, shed-roofed, frame addition from 1960. The oldest section may have served as a stagecoach stop and post office in the mid-eighteenth century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Oskar G. Stonorov House is an historic, American home that is located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Middle Pickering Rural Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1938, from the stone walls of an existing stone and frame farmhouse, this historic structure is L-shaped, as was the farmhouse, with frame walls sheathed in cypress. Designed by its owner, architect Oskar Stonorov, it features large window openings, and a flat roof with parapet or thin edge overhang. A guest house was added to the property during the early 1950s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the Middle Pickering Rural Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Wisner House, also known as the Rapp House, is an historic American home that is located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, 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>It was built in two sections. The older section dates to 1761, and is a two-and-one-half-story, three-bay wide, stone structure. A two-bay wide extension was added in the 1840s. The addition was originally built to house a saddle and harnass-maker&#39;s shop and later housed the Sidley Post Office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Frogmore Plantation Complex, located on Saint Helena Island, in Beaufort County, South Carolina, is significant for several reasons. First, the plantation home, along with its contributing properties , offers an excellent example of the areas architectural development from 1790 to 1920. Second, the plantations long association with prominent families contributes to its significance. The plantation was first owned by Lieutenant Governor William Bull, who then willed it to his son in 1750.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, the house was purchased by two northern missionaries — Miss Laura Matilda Towne and Miss Ellen Murray — who founded the historic Penn School, located within the Penn Center. The Frogmore Plantation Complex was listed in the National Historic Register on May 26, 1989.</p><br>
<p>Ellis Williams House, also known as the Spatz Property and Allston Spatz House, is a historic home located in East Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in three sections. It is a two-story, four bay stone dwelling. The older section dates to about 1754, and was built on the Penn Plan. It is believed to have been built on the foundations of an earlier dwelling built in 1704. The original house was expanded about 1790 to a "four room house," then a workshop addition was built about 1820. Another addition was built about 1930, then rebuilt in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Lapp Log House, also known as the Hopper Log House, is an historic, American home that is located in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, 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>The original section of this historic building dates to circa 1800, and is a two-story, one-bay, log structure. The interior has an eight-foot, stone fireplace and gooseneck spiral staircase. A two-story frame addition was built during the 1800s, with an addition built in the 1900s and the former patio enclosed in 1976. The additions were created in a saltbox form. The house was restored in the 1940s. Also located on the property is a contributing stone Pennsylvania bank barn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Spring Mill Complex, also known as the Gunkle Spring Mill, is a historic American gristmill complex constructed in 1793. The complex is located in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This mill was built in 1793 by Michael and Chatharina Gunkle. It is a -story, banked stone structure with a gable roof. Also located on the property are a contributing -story, stuccoed stone miller&#39;s house, a one-story stone spring house, a one-story stone smokehouse, and a one-story stone carriage house.</p><br>
<p>Gunkle was a German immigrant from Philadelphia who purchased 974 acre in 1792 in East Whiteland, where he constructed and operated the gristmill, along with a saw mill and a fulling mill.</p><br>
<p>By 1872 the mill processed 1,800 ST of flour, feed, corn, and oats yearly. At the peak of its productivity, the mill ran 18 hours a day. The mill remained in continuous operation into the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The Gunkle Spring Mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978. It is owned and maintained by the East Whiteland Township Historical Commission.</p><br>
<p>The White Horse Tavern, also known as the White Horse Inn and Old Swanenburg Farm, is a historic American inn and tavern located in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Edward Kinnison of Chester County, Pennsylvania, was the second owner of the White Horse Tavern. He was born about 1675 and a devoted Quaker. When he was 22, he was seriously ill for 26 weeks. The court paid John Sanger for keeping him during his illness. By the time he married Mary Greenaway the 11th day 10th month 1703 he already owned several lots in Chester. His intentions of marriage were recorded in several minutes of the Quaker faith.</p><br>
<p>Edward is cited as a brickmaker when he purchased 2 ½ acres from James Sunderland in 1702. He acted as constable in West Chester in 1710 and had a tavern license for many years. The Kinnison home and property were part of the White Horse Tavern.</p><br>
<p>This historic building consists of two sections. The original section dates to circa 1720, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone structure. The western section was added circa 1790. Located at mile marker 24 on the Old Lancaster Road, it was an overnight stop on the first stage from Philadelphia to Lancaster. Thomas Jefferson stayed at the tavern on September 4, 1776. It was also an important stop for Washington&#39;s messenger from Valley Forge to Lancaster, when the latter served as the temporary USA capital.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Pyramid Mound, designated 12k14, is a locally important archaeological site at the city of Vincennes in the southwestern part of the USA state of Indiana. Located on the citys edge, this substantial loess hill bears evidence of prehistoric occupation, and it is a landmark to the citys contemporary residents.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological work</h2><br>
<p>A survey conducted by the Illinois State Museum in the early 1960s demonstrate that the region surrounding Vincennes was the homeland of a Mississippian group of people known as the Vincennes culture.</p><br>
<p>Based upon the published results of the 1874 Smithsonian survey, an amateur antiquarian writing in the 1890s remarked on the relationship of Pyramid Mound to larger archaeological sites in the east central United States. Besides proposing that it was related to the large geometric earthworks that the Hopewell built in Ohio, he suggested that Pyramid and several other mounds near Vincennes marked the northeastern boundary of a confederacy that was centered at the Mississippian city of Cahokia near St. Louis, Missouri, although he appeared not to understand the substantial cultural differences between the two peoples of "Mound Builders." Two different histories of Vincennes and its vicinity, published in 1886 and 1911, regarded Pyramid Mound and the other nearby flat-topped mounds as evidence of prehistoric religious sites comparable to the pyramids of the Aztecs in Mexico City.</p><br>
<p>Later archaeological work, conducted by professionals in the late twentieth century, has largely discounted earlier conclusions. Accounts published in the 1970s and 1998 concluded that Pyramid and comparable sites nearby were actually natural loess hills that Indians of the Woodland period chose to use as cemeteries. Contributing to this conclusion is the fact that these hills are consistently of similar sizes, composed of the same sorts of soil, located on the eastern edge of the Wabash River valley, and shaped to be in line with the prevailing winds. Consequently, although these hills are definitely shaped like artificial burial mounds and consistently called "mounds", they are not truly mounds of any sort.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>Despite its natural origins, Pyramid Mound is an important archaeological site, and because of its archaeological importance, the "mound" was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Union Lookout is a lookout tower located within Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County, Illinois, United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the tower circa 1934 as part of a network of fire lookout towers in Shawnee National Forest; the fire towers were one of many CCC conservation projects in the forest, which also included planting trees, constructing bridges and trails, and preventing erosion. The tower was used through the 1960s, by which time airplanes had largely replaced towers as a means of detecting fires; it is now the only remaining lookout tower in the forest. On February 5, 2003, Union Lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The John Williams Farm, also known as the Davis B. Williams Farm and Stinson Markley Residence, is an historic farm complex and national historic district that are located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This complex includes five contributing buildings and one contributing site, including the farmhouse (c. 1800, 1827), bank barn (1834), garden and springhouse, wagon house, and the remains of the "necessary" and animal pen.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>County Bridge No. 171 is a historic stone arch bridge located in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It spans Valley Creek. It has three spans; the main span is 25 feet long and flanked by two 15-feet long spans. The bridge was constructed in 1907, of coursed rubble with brick arch rings and a contrasting parapet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Slade Hotel, built in 1891 in Adrian, Minnesota, United States, is an example of Late Victorian architecture. Its historic qualities were recognized by listing of the structure on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>In the 1990s the structure was examined and a recommendation was made for demolition. Instead, it was converted into senior housing according to plans by Oertel Architects of St. Paul, Minnesota. Although hotel rooms were combined into apartments, HVAC systems were upgraded or replaced, and other changes were made in the 1997 renovation, it preserved its historic character and designation.</p><br>
<p>The Slade Hotel was the Minnesota Brick Structure of the Month for September 2010.</p><br>
<p>Black Rock Bridge is a historic concrete arch bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 113 across the Schuylkill River between Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It has five spans; three main spans are each 116 ft long and flanked by two 103 ft spans. The bridge was constructed in 1927, and features open-spandrel arches and solid concrete parapet walls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Flora station is a historic Baltimore & Ohio Railroad depot which served Flora, Illinois. The depot was built from 1916 to 1917 by Frank Nichols; its design features several architectural styles, including Italian Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Classical Revival. After the depot opened, the B&O Railroad became the largest employer in Flora, employing approximately half of the towns population through the mid-1920s, and was credited with the towns growth and economic success. The B&O also sponsored community groups such as a band and baseball teams. Passenger service to the station ended in 1973, and the empty station is now surrounded by vacant lots. The depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998, as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot.</p><br>
<p>Union Church is a historic non-denominational church located 2.5 mi southeast of Oreana in Macon County, Illinois. The white frame church was built in 1876; its design incorporates elements of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. In addition to religious services, the church also hosted a school, Temperance Union meetings, and Christmas and New Years parties. The church has a functional pump organ from 1879, which was originally purchased for the Temperance Union. A cemetery is adjacent to the church; its first burial dates to 1842. In 1936, the churchs congregation discontinued religious services; since then, the building has been used only for weddings and an annual Memorial Day celebration. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Calhoun Family Cemetery, located in Abbeville County, South Carolina, contains the graves of Patrick Calhoun and members of his family, who settled in Abbeville County in the 1750s. While Patrick achieved some fame as an Indian fighter, and later, as a South Carolina politician, he is perhaps best remembered as the father of John C. Calhoun, United States Senator and Vice President of the United States from 1824–1832. There are over two dozen graves in this rural and quiet cemetery. The landmark was listed in the National Historic Register on August 28, 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Chancellor James P. Carroll House, located in Aiken, South Carolina, was built in 1855 by James Parsons Carroll, Chancellor of South Carolina. Mr. Carroll was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1838, later served in the South Carolina Senate, and in 1859, was elected Chancellor of the Court of Equity. Carroll also served as a delegate to the Secession Convention and signed the Ordinance of Secession. The landmark was listed in the National Register of Historic Places November 23, 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Hammond House, located at 908 Martintown Road, North Augusta, South Carolina, was built on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River between other Hammond plantations, New Richmond and Snow Hill. The Charles Hammond House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dating from the Revolutionary War era, the columned Greek Revival home is thought to be the oldest residence in North Augusta, South Carolina. The home was built for Charles and Elizabeth Steele Hammond, prosperous planters who came to South Carolina from Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia in the 1770s. Martin Hammond, the progenitor of the Hammond family in South Carolina, arrived in Virginia from London prior to 1636.</p><br>
<p>The Hammonds were Patriots, and Charles and his sons served in the Revolutionary War. Also on the property is a granite monument in the shape of a pyramid which commemorates several of the Hammond family members who were Revolutionary War heroes.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Hammond House exemplifies a typical architectural trend of nineteenth century South Carolina that turned plain eighteenth century houses into fashionable, columned Greek Revival influenced houses. The house was originally a two-story pine clapboard structure existing from ca. 1775–1780. Also, on the property was a cellar as well as out-buildings including a kitchen and smokehouse.</p><br>
<p>Additions to the home in 1830 included front and side porches, an extension of the back porch, and a rear wing, producing an L-shape appearance. The house has a pipe stem chimney, unusual for the area. Of the three porches, those on the east and south are both two-story with four square paneled columns. The wench and pulley that was used to haul the heavy wooden beams and planks up for the second floor is still in the roof of the porch today.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1830, an English gardener landscaped a formal garden for the front and side yards. A brick path was created, magnolia trees were planted, and the cedar lined entrance drive was created.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property is a guest house and barn. A family cemetery is located adjacent to the home.</p><br>
<p>The Britton Mims Place, located in North Augusta, South Carolina, exemplifies the Greek Revival style typical of secondary country residences during the antebellum period. Built around 1830, it is historically significant due to a number of architectural features, including its gabled roof, full width front verandah with hipped roof, and a number of outbuildings, including a  kitchen, wooden dog house, and a rectangular fowl house. This well-secluded home is not visible from the public highway. The Britton Mims Place was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House is located in Aiken, South Carolina. It is significant for its association with the many federal construction programs of the Great Depression era. The building, designed by Columbia, South Carolina architects Lafaye and Lafaye, is an excellent example of a Georgian Revival building, a style often used during the 1920s and 1930s for government buildings in smaller towns. The Court House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The building was named for District Court judge Charles Earl Simons Jr. in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The B.C. Wall House, also known as the “Sesame Lodge,” is located at North Augusta, Aiken County, South Carolina. It was constructed in 1902 by Budd Clay Wall  to serve as an overflow guest home from the Hampton Terrace Hotel. The home holds additional significance in that it was designed by a female architect, Wall&#39;s daughter, Martha Louise Wall Andrews. The house, which is very visible from the public street, contains elements of the Queen Anne, Classical Revival, and Bungalow Styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 1992.</p><br>
<p>Willcoxs, located in Aiken, South Carolina, US, was an internationally known inn during the Aiken Winter Colony heyday. Operated from 1898 to 1957 by members of the Willcox family, the still-magnificent building reflects the influence of both Second Empire and Colonial Revival styles of architecture. The plan of the building is irregular in shape, consisting of a central block with asymmetrical wings. Of Aikens once famous resort hostelries, only Willcox&#39;s is still standing. The landmark property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places March 19, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1891 the Englishman Frederick Willcox, his Swedish wife Elise Wellborn, and their two sons, Frederick and Albert came to Aiken.</p><br>
<p>The family built a house on the northwest corner of Chesterfield Street and Colleton Avenue and established a catering company in their home. Elise soon became renowned for her preparation of fine foods and the business was heavily patronized by Aiken "Winter Colony" families, fabulously wealthy founders and heirs to the fortunes made during the American Industrial Revolution.</p><br>
<h3>Highland Park Hotel fire</h3><br>
<p>At about this same time, in 1898, the first Highland Park Hotel burned. It had been a notable structure that housed many winter colonists who had not yet built a "cottage" in Aiken. (A mansion in any other sense, Winter Colony "cottages" were the second or third homes of families who had great estates on Long Island, Park Avenue in Manhattan and other wealthy enclaves in the Eastern United States.</p><br>
<p>On the loss of the hotel, Mrs. Thomas (Louise) Hitchcock persuaded the Willcoxes to open a small hotel and in 1900 it welcomed its first guests. It expanded in 1906 by incorporating an adjacent two story house into the hotel. A further expansion in 1928 An increasing demand for accommodations led Willcox to add to the inn in 1906, when an adjacent two-story house at Colleton Avenue and Newberry Street became part of the hotel. In 1928, a further expansion and renovation to the west wing brought the hotel to its current appearance.</p><br>
<p>When Frederick died in 1924, his son Albert (Bert) Willcox managed the inn until it closed in 1957.</p><br>
<h3>World War II</h3><br>
<p>With World War II travel restrictions in the early 1940s, The Willcox fell on hard times and closed in the early 1950s. It was sold at auction in 1957 and over the following 20 years was sporadically repaired, but remained boarded until its renovation and reopening in 1985 as The Willcox Inn.</p><br>
<p>In a history of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church by Mac McClearen and Owen Sheetz, it is written, "The famous old Willcox Inn drew its guest list from diplomats, society leaders, visiting European royalty, wealthy sportsmen and members of the entertainment world. The Winston Churchills visited; Count and Countess Bernadotte of Sweden spent their honeymoon at the Willcox, John Jacob Astor, Evelyn Walsh McLean (owner of the Hope diamond), makeup queen Elizabeth Arden, singer Andy Williams, dancer Irene Castle, Doris Duke, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bing Crosby – all came to the Willcox to enjoy the leisurely life that Aiken had to offer. "</p><br>
<h3>The Willcox today</h3><br>
<p>In 2000 the hotel was purchased by the Garrett Hotel Group and reopened in 2002 as The Willcox. In 2009 the ownership changed when restaurateurs Geoffrey & Shannon Ellis purchased The Willcox.</p><br>
<p>The Willcox has become one of South Carolina&#39;s most luxurious small hotels. In 2016 it was ranked by Travel + Leisure as the 7th best hotel in the world and the best in the South. In addition to rooms, the hotel features a restaurant, bar, spa, horse boarding and rents nearby houses for vacation rentals. It also offers vacation packages which include horseback riding, golf, polo and trap and skeet shooting.</p><br>
<p>The Oquawka Wagon Bridge is a covered bridge located 2.5 mi south of Oquawka in Henderson County, Illinois. The wooden bridge was built in 1866, replacing an earlier bridge called the Eames Bridge; the bridge structure cost $2,125, while its stone abutments cost $2.40 per perch. The bridge carried a road over Henderson Creek until 1935, when the state government moved the roadway; in the following year, the bridge became a pedestrian bridge, and the state opened a picnic area in its vicinity. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Lambrite–Iles–Petersen House is a historic home located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. This was the first residence built in the city in the Italian villa style and one of the earliest examples in the state of Iowa. The house is named for three of its early owners: Joseph Lambrite, a lumber mill owner who built the house, Dr. Thomas Iles, a physician, and John H.C. Petersen, who founded Davenport&#39;s largest department store that grew to become Von Maur.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lambrite–Iles–Petersen House was designed by one of Davenport&#39;s first professional architects John C. Cochrane, and it was built in 1856. Soon after the house was built Lambrite lost everything in the Panic of 1857. Several other people owned the house until it was purchased by Thomas Iles around 1863. The Petersen family retained ownership of the house for ten years, selling it to Joseph Schick in 1920. Schick enclosed the porches in the craftsman-style, creating sunrooms, and built a craftsman-style bungalow on the west lawn in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The house was eventually turned into three apartments until co-owners Gordon Muller and Dean Christensen restored the house in the mid-1970s. Since that time, maintenance on the house has been neglected and it was declared uninhabited by the city in 2010. Its local landmark status recognizes its significance, history, and assists the citys historic preservation commission if it decides to intervene on the structures behalf. The house was added to Iowa&#39;s most endangered properties list in 2013. In May 2014 the city of Davenport began the process of condemning the house. It was the first time the city has attempted to save an abandoned house through condemnation. In September 2014 the city purchased the house through condemnation for $34,000. In February the following year, Dick and Linda Stone of Muscatine, Iowa bought the house for $38,000. They have been restoring the house ever since, including the restoration of the original secco fresco that covers the walls on the three-story central staircase.</p><br>
<h3>Joseph Lambrite</h3><br>
<p>Joseph Lambrite was a partner in Davenports largest sawmill, a major industry in the citys early history. The mill was located on the Mississippi River between Scott and Ripley Streets.</p><br>
<h3>Thomas Jefferson Iles</h3><br>
<p>Thomas Iles was a physician in Midway, Kentucky. He married Maria Louisa Nuckols and together they had eight children, seven boys, and a girl. In 1862 the family moved to Davenport. He served as the chief surgeon of the Civil War Confederate prison camp located at the Rock Island Arsenal. Iles became a prominent doctor in Davenport after the war, and he owned the house until his death.</p><br>
<h3>John H.C. Petersen</h3><br>
<p>John H. C. Petersen was born in Schleswig in present-day Germany and went to school until he was 16 when he was apprenticed to a dry-goods seller. Petersen married Johanna Elsbeth Hansen in 1844 and they had ten children together. The family immigrated to the United States in 1860 and settled in Scott County, Iowa where he initially worked as a farm hand. Two years later he began his mercantile career. For the first few years, he had a partner to whom he later sold his interest in the business. In 1872 he established the business by which he would be known for the rest of his life. The J.H.C. Petersens Sons Store was located at 219 Second Street. As the business grew he added the building at 220 Second Street and then later 217-217½ Second Street. The store became one of the foremost mercantile establishments in Davenport. In 1916 it was sold to Charles J. von Maur, R.H. Harned, and Cable von Maur, who owned their own store. The two stores were merged into a new store named Petersen Harned Von Maur in 1928. In 1989 the store&#39;s name was shortened to Von Maur.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story frame structure in the Italian Villa style. It features a three-story tower, bracketed eaves, tall windows, and quoins on the corners. It is unknown who painted the three-story fresco in the central staircase. It was painted using the trompe l&#39;oeil style that makes the walls look like white marble with inset panels of green marble that are trimmed with wood molding. The porches added in 1925 have been removed and two small porches and a balcony have been restored. The roof is composed of a synthetic slate. A two-story addition was built onto the back house, and it has been rebuilt in the 21st-century restoration. A two-car garage that is architecturally compatible with the house was built into the hillside next to the house.</p><br>
<p>The Administration Building, Treasure Island, on Treasure Island, California, is a Moderne style building designed by William Peyton Day and George William Kelham. It has also been known as Building 1, as Command Naval Base San Francisco Headquarters, and as Naval Station Treasure Island. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1937 with landfill and site preparation, and was completed in 1938. The United States Navy took over Treasure Island when the exposition ended and rather than continue as an airport, the building became an administration building.</p><br>
<p>The building housed a museum until 1997. In 2011, San Francisco purchased Treasure Island from the USA Navy and there are plans to reopen the museum as part of a redevelopment project.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Administration Building served as the "Berlin Airport" in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It appeared as a hotel in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and also appears in the second season of Netflix&#39;s The OA.</p><br>
<p>The Boone-Douthit House is located on the outskirts of Pendleton, South Carolina. The house is an excellent example of how an “upstate”  South Carolina plantation house has been expanded as its occupants needs changed over time, and/or as the occupants pursued other interests. In addition to the main home, the site also includes a large barn, a secondary house, a building that may have once served as a doctors office, a small storage building, and another small building that may have been used for silkworm culture, all of which contribute to the site&#39;s historical significance. The house is thought to have been constructed around 1849.</p><br>
<p>A site visit in 2012 confirmed that much impressive restoration has recently taken place. Limited views of this historic landmark are available from the public highway.</p><br>
<p>The Boone-Douthit House was listed in the National Register on July 3, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Samuel Marshall Orr House, is an historic house located in Anderson, South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1885, the two-story Greek Revival style house features a front façade of four columns that support a broad, plain entablature with low-sloped, boxed cornice pediment. The cornices of the hipped tin-covered roof, pediments, and shed roofs of side porches are adorned with modillions.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance consists of double doors surrounded by a three-light transom, four-light rectangular sidelights, and a pilaster molding that supports a paneled entablature. Directly above the main entrance a double casement window flanked by single casements opens onto a small balcony with a wooden balustrade.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Orr practiced medicine in Anderson for 25 years, and was active in the community. The house was listed in the National Register on April 13, 1973.</p><br>
