<p>The Berryhill-Morris House is a historic farmhouse near the city of Bellbrook in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Built in the 1830s for an elderly veteran, it has changed little since its early years, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Berryhills were among the pioneers of Sugarcreek Township, starting when Alexander and Rachel Berryhill moved from Virginia. A great-nephew of Charles Thomson, secretary of the First Continental Congress, Alexander enlisted in the Continental Army at the age of nineteen. Fighting under the command of Nathanael Greene, Berryhill was wounded as his company was captured at the Battle of Guilford Court House. After two years as a prisoner of war, he was released in a prisoner exchange and returned home. Having married, he moved to Ohio in 1814 with his family. He became the patriarch of one of the township&#39;s premier old families, composed of eleven children, including a prominent Old School Presbyterian minister. His property was inherited by his son Samuel, who continued farming until dying in 1840. Eighteen years later, the Morris family purchased the property and began a tenure of over a century.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1832, the Berryhill-Morris House is a two-story building in the Federal style. Both the walls and the foundation are brick, and it possesses an asphalt roof and elements of stone. Its floor plan is that of a rectangular central-passage house, and it sits amid a farm of approximately 100 acre that retains its original rural appearance. In 1975, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified because of its architecture, which was deemed significant as an example of earlier settlers&#39; efforts to civilize the wilderness of early Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall Farm is a historic farmstead near the village of Yellow Springs in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Deemed a premier piece of architecture by the late nineteenth century, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Land at the site of the present Whitehall Farm was purchased in 1808 by Martin Baum, one of Cincinnatis leading early citizens. By the time of his death in 1831, the estate had acquired the name of "Whitehall", and under this name it was devised to his son David Chambers Baum. After Davids early death, his widow, Amanda Sroufe Baum, married Aaron Harlan, who in 1842 began planning to build a mansion on the property. The projects monumental size prompted it to be nicknamed "Harlans Folly". Construction on Judge Harlan&#39;s mansion began in 1846 and finished in the following year. In later years, the property was acquired by E.S. Kelly, who by the 1910s had performed extensive improvements to the house and its surrounding grounds.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall with a large four-pillar portico, Harlan&#39;s house is composed of brick walls, a stone foundation, an asbestos roof, and elements of wood and stone. Its interior is divided into twelve rooms. The brick was fired in a nearby kiln, and the ornate wooden interior was derived from standing oak and wild cherry trees in the neighborhood and the walnut trees that originally surrounded the house. Harlan chose a hillock as his construction site, and the house consequently commands a wide view in every direction. Today, the house occupies part of a large farm, which also includes another house and numerous outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>By 1918, Whitehall had acquired the status of Greene County&#39;s "most picturesque country house". Sixty-two years later, Whitehall Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While it qualified because of its important Greek Revival architecture, its place as the home of a prominent local citizen was also sufficient for its designation.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Mankato, Minnesota. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building designed by Warren H. Hayes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1855, three years after the town of Mankato was first platted. The first church building was a log schoolhouse, and the second building was built in 1865. Construction on the current building started in 1893, with the sanctuary completed in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The Yellow Springs Historic District is a large historic district that encompasses the majority of the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Development</h2><br>
<p>Yellow Springs began to grow in the 1840s. Until 1846, the community was composed of a church and two or three houses, but the mineral spring in Glen Helen began to attract those who wanted to take the cure of the mineral waters. The erection of a store in 1846 and the construction of the Little Miami Railroad near the springs prompted the community to prosper, even though no land had yet been platted. and with the construction of brick houses, Yellow Springs gradually assumed the appearance of a settled locality. The village was finally surveyed in 1853, and all extant buildings date from this period or later. Antioch College was incorporated in 1852, and after Yellow Springs&#39; residents pledged money and free land for the college, the trustees accepted their offer, and the oldest buildings were finished in late 1853.</p><br>
<p>By 1856, the village was experiencing its golden age, and much of its extant architecture reflects the popular architectural styles of the day. it burned during the war, and only in 1870 could the owner rebuild. Although his magnificent replacement building had more rooms than all of Greene County&#39;s other hotels put together, and although its first few years saw a large clientele, business dropped so much by 1890 that the owner arranged for the hotel to be dismantled and shipped to Cincinnati in 1892.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Today, many of Yellow Springs&#39; buildings are examples of the Federal or Greek Revival styles, although vernacular buildings, such as its plentiful I-houses, are numerous. Most of its commercial district was built after the golden age, making its styles more heterogenous than business districts in comparable communities.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Yellow Springs Historic District was designated and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its place in the areas history and because of its historic architecture. A total of 473 buildings are included within the districts boundaries; 261 qualified as contributing properties in 1982, and 212 were considered non-contributing. Antioch, North, and South Halls on the college campus, which are separately listed on the National Register, are included in the district, but Yellow Springs&#39; other National Register property, the South School, is not.</p><br>
<p>The Jamestown Opera House is a historic government building and community center in the village of Jamestown, Ohio, United States. It has been named a historic site because of its well-preserved architecture. Besides serving as a theater, the opera house has functioned as the community&#39;s village hall, its fire station, its post office, and its library.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>Established on 16 September 1823, Jamestowns first post office was conducted in conjunction with the postmasters store. For many years, the location of the post office was the subject of a community dispute; each postmaster moved it away from the location used by the previous postmaster, and one postmaster moved its location weekly, prompting comparisons to circuit-riding Methodist preachers. A library was functioning in the community by 1870, although its use was restricted to students in the village schools. When the community was platted, its main intersection was that of Limestone and Xenia Streets: Limestone was the north-south road connecting Urbana, Ohio with Maysville, Kentucky, while Xenia was the east-west road from Xenia to Washington Court House. In Jamestown&#39;s early years, the southeastern corner of the intersection was occupied by a tavern that had been replaced with a store by the early 1880s. On this corner of the intersection, the Opera House was built in 1889. It was not originally built as a post office, but the office was moved to the Opera House after the size of the previous post office was discovered to be insufficient for Rural Free Delivery regulations. It operated in this role until a purpose-built post office was constructed in 1902.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Opera House is a Romanesque Revival structure designed by John W. McLean and the firm of Matthew Moorman.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 2007, the Jamestown Opera House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because of its place in local history. At the time, it was a work in progress, rather than being actively used for a specific purpose. Its one of two Greene County opera houses on the Register, along with the Cedarville Opera House in Cedarville. Using more approximately $225,000 supplied by the state government in the late 2000s in two separate grants, workers installed new windows, improved the electrical and HVAC systems, and restored the exterior walls. Another grant of $50,000 was used to repaint and restore the auditorium. The renovation project concluded in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Montpelier is a historic home in Surry County, Virginia, located near Cabin Point. While the home&#39;s builder and date of construction are uncertain, it was built by a member of the Cocke family, most likely one of two men named John Cocke. Its layout and architecture suggest that it was built in the latter half of the eighteenth century, although its date of construction has also been cited as circa 1724. The house is considered to be an "unusually distinctive example" of vernacular architecture in the Tidewater region; additionally, its features and layout provide important evidence as to how local architecture developed in the region. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Davis House and Barn, also known as Fair Meadow, is a historic home and barn located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The serpentine core of the house was built in 1740. It is a -story, three-bay, double-pile dwelling with a gable roof. It has a -story, three-bay wing with a gable roof and a frame addition constructed in 1935. The barn is also constructed of serpentine and is a bank barn structure.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The George Brinton House, also known as Wawassan and Roundelay, is an historic home which is located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built circa 1830, the George Brinton House is a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, double pile, late Federal-style fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. Also located on the property are a contributing carriage barn with stables, small carriage house, and the ruins of a large stone bank barn.</p><br>
<p>During the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, the property was the site where American gunners held an artillery position on high ground south of the house and exchanged fire with Hessian gunners across the Brandywine Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Brintons Mill, also known as The Mill at Brintons Bridge, is a historic grist mill located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The mill was built about 1720, expanded in 1769, and renovated in 1824. The granary was built about 1824, when the mill was expanded. Also on the property is a stone dwelling constructed in the 1920s and built on the foundation of an early 18th-century dwelling. During the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777, General John Sullivan and his troops were bivouacked at the adjacent Brinton&#39;s Ford. In the early 1970s, the mill property was owned by artist Andrew Wyeth. In 1958, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth purchased and restored "The Mill," a group of 18th-century buildings that appeared often in his work, including Night Sleeper .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Sharpless Homestead, also known as the Radley Farm, is an historic, American home and farm complex that is located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic house includes four green, serpentine, stone, vernacular buildings that were built roughly between 1790 and 1860. They are the farmhouse, stable, springhouse, and a smoke house. The main section of the farmhouse was built circa 1790 and rebuilt in 1860. It is a -story, four-bay, serpentine structure. The three-story, three-bay, east section was added circa 1820; the two-story northeast section was added circa 1831. It is the birthplace of Isaac Sharpless, professor and president of Haverford College.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Dilworthtown Historic District is a national historic district located in Dilworthtown, Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses eight contributing buildings in the crossroads community of Dilworthtown. They include the Dilworth House , stone house , Dilworthtown Lyceum or meeting hall , Dilworthtown Store , two tenant houses , and a two-story log cabin dated to 1686 or the early-18th century. The focal point of the district is the Dilworth House, also known as the Dilworthtown Inn, which has operated as an inn and tavern since the late 18th century. The town was at the center of the fighting during the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The William Brinton 1704 House, a National Historic Landmark, is located about a half mile south of the historic district in Chadds Ford Township.</p><br>
<p>The Worth–Jefferis Rural Historic District is a national historic district that is located in East Bradford Township and West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses forty-two contributing buildings and five contributing sites that are located in rural Chester County. It includes a variety of vernacular stone farmhouses, Pennsylvania bank barns, and farm outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>Notable properties include the Georgia Farm (1740), the Glen-Worth Farm, the Barr Farm, the Lucky Hill Farm, the Blue Rock Farm, the Allerton Farm, the Barry Farm, and the Sarah Baldwin Farm. Also located within the district is the separately listed Carter-Worth House and Farm.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>TheParadise Valley Historic District is a national historic district that is located in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses twenty-five contributing buildings, ten contributing sites, and ten contributing structures that are located in rural Chester County. It includes a variety of vernacular stone farmhouses, bank barns, farm outbuildings, a stone bridge, two mill races, and a small family graveyard. Notable properties include the William Mercer Farm, Samuel Starr Farm, George Jefferis Farm, Thomas Price Farm, Spackman&#39;s Mill site, Hannum Mill site, and Enoch Pearson Farm.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Strode&#39;s Mill Historic District is a national historic district that is located in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses eleven contributing buildings that are located in the crossroads community of Strode&#39;s Mill. The construction of these buildings dates to roughly between 1721 and 1880.</p><br>
<p>This district also includes the separately listed Strodes Mill and East Bradford Boarding School for Boys, Strode Farm, a millers house, Strode&#39;s Pork Products plant, a blacksmith/tenant house, a blacksmith/wheelwright shop, and a tenant house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Green Valley Historic District is a national historic district which is located in East Marlborough Township and Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</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>The Green Valley Historic District encompasses fourteen contributing buildings, one contributing site and two contributing structures. Located in rural Chester County, it includes a variety of vernacular stone and log farmhouses, farm outbuildings, mill sites, and lime kilns.</p><br>
<p>Notable properties include the Green Valley Farm, which was built sometime around 1810, the Green Valley School, which was erected in 1862, the William Hall log house, which was built sometime around 1795, Harvey&#39;s Mill house and mill site, which were built sometime around 1780, and the Robinson homestead, which was built sometime around 1820.</p><br>
<p>This district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Marlborough Village Historic District is a national historic district that is located in East Marlborough Township and Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic district encompasses twenty-one contributing buildings and two contributing sites that are located in the crossroads community of Marlborough Village. It includes the Marlborough Meeting House, Schoolmaster&#39;s House (1829), General Store (1834) and residence, a former brick schoolhouse (1901), a small farm, a row of five houses that were built between 1840 and 1855, a Sears House bungalow known as the Brown House (1927), another pattern house known as the Larkin House (1938), and the Bernard/Wickersham farmhouse (1726, 1771) and barn (c. 1767).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Unionville Village Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Unionville in East Marlborough 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>This district encompasses sixty-nine contributing buildings that are located in the village of Unionville and includes a variety of brick, stone, and frame residences, the earliest of which is dated to about 1750. Notable buildings include the Unionville Academy (1834), a country store (c. 1875), the Union Hotel (1834), the Cross Keys Inn (1751), the Unionville Saddle Shop (1887), the Unionville Hall (1849–50), the Grange Hall (1845; originally the Friends Meetinghouse), and the Green Lawn Seminary.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Unionville PA Friends front.jpgFriends meeting house, once used as a Grange building, is now used as a Sunday school by the Grace Fellowship Church</p><br>
<p>Unionville PA Friends side.jpgSide of the meeting house</p><br>
<p>Embreeville Historic District is a national historic district located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings along the east and west banks of the West Branch Brandywine Creek in the village of Embreeville. It includes a variety of vernacular, banked, stuccoed stone buildings. They were largely built between about 1822 and 1842, with the earliest house built about 1760. The buildings include a farmhouse, a country store, a storekeepers house, a blacksmiths house, a wheelwrights house and store, a grist mill known as the Embreeville Mill, a "mansion" , and millers house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Hamorton Historic District is a national historic district in the center of Hamorton, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic district encompasses one contributing structure and seventy-five contributing buildings, which are located in the crossroads community of Hamorton. This district largely consists of a variety of stone, brick, and frame residences which were built between 1780 and 1930.</p><br>
<p>The village was laid out during the 1830s, and was developed as a company town during the early twentieth century by Pierre S. du Pont (1870–1954).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Hopewell Historic District is a national historic district which is located in East Nottingham Township and Lower Oxford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The district encompasses remaining structures from the former borough of Hopewell, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>It encompasses twenty-six contributing buildings, eight contributing sites, and two contributing structures which are located in the former borough of Hopewell. This district largely consists of a variety of stone and brick residences and outbuildings that were built between 1810 and 1914. They include examples of Georgian and vernacular styles. Notable properties include the Col. David Dickey House-Hopewell Academy, which was built circa 1814, the Samuel Dickey Farm, the Schoolhouse/Lyceum Building, which was erected in 1888, the Lower Mill, which was built circa 1815, the site of the Upper Mill, a store/post office, which was built sometime around 1810, five tenant houses, and three bridges.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Northbrook Historic District, also known as Marshalls Mill and Marshalls Station, is a national historic district that is located in Newlin Township, Pocopson Township, and West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</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 fourteen contributing buildings and three contributing sites that are located in the village of Northbrook and primarily situated on five properties. Built during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they include the Blacksmiths house, a station house, a post office and store, a coal and lumber company, the Lewis Marshall house, a Gothic Revival-style Indian Rock Farm, the Baily House (1902), the Northbrook Sunday School (1900), and the site of Hannah Freemans cabin, Indian Rock, and Indian Burial Ground.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Pecan Creek School is located at 3410 Pecan Creek Road in Gillespie County, in the USA state of Texas. It was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1955. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 10, 2005. The Bernhard Friedrich house served as the first school in 1899. Land, materials and labor were donated in 1916 to relocate the structure. Originally a one-room schoolhouse, additional rooms and storage were added as needed. Included in the later additions were a stage and dance floor. The local historical club Friends of Gillespie County Country Schools has restored the building, including original desks and other furnishings. The building is now used as a community center.</p><br>
<p>The Oxford Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses 517 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Oxford. They are mostly brick residential and commercial structures that were built between 1870 and 1910 and in a variety of popular architectural styles including Queen Anne and Italianate. Notable non-residential buildings include the Oxford Hall, Octoraro Hotel, Oxford Station (Borough Hall), Dickey Building, Masonic Building, Fulton Bank Building (1925), Gibson&#39;s Store (c. 1832), Orthodox Friends Meeting House, Methodist Church (1885), United Presbyterian Church (1893), and the Oxford Grain & Hay Company granary (1880).</p><br>
<p>The Oxford Hotel is also located in the district, but is listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Kennett Square Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district encompasses 507 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Kennett Square. They are mostly residential and commercial structures that were built between 1875 and 1924 in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Colonial Revival, Victorian, and Federal. Notable non-residential buildings include the American Road Machinery complex, Kennett Consolidated School, New Century Club, Baptist church, St. Patrick&#39;s Parochial School, former Episcopal Church of the Advent, Friends Home, Bernard Building, and Municipal Building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor–Cope Historic District is a national historic district that is located in West Bradford Township, Chester 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>The district encompasses fifteen contributing buildings, including the separately listed Taylor House, and one contributing structure that are all located in rural Chester County. They are primarily residential buildings and barns that were built between 1724 and 1906.</p><br>
<p>The oldest building in the district is the English Colonial style Abiah Taylor House that was erected in 1724. The contributing structure is the separately listed Cope&#39;s Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Merrick County Courthouse was built from 1911 to 1913 in Central City, Nebraska, United States. Designed in the Classical Revival style by architect William F. Gernandt, it was built at a cost of $100,000. In 1990, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, but was removed from the Register in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first courthouse in Central City, a two-story brick building, was built in 1871. In 1911, because of the deterioration of the old building, the county voted to approve a $100,000 bond to fund a new courthouse. The county records are incomplete, but construction appears to have begun in 1911, the cornerstone was laid in 1912, and it was formally dedicated on April 24, 1913.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 66 x building, designed by William F. Gernandt, has one primary and one secondary entrance. It is rectangular in shape, consisting of two main stories with an attic floor set on a raised basement. The basement was constructed of ashlar limestone and granite. The exterior is characterized by four huge ashlar limestone columns arranged along the principal facade and the large stone steps leading up to columns and the main entrance. There are also six squared brick pilasters placed between six windows on the east and west sides of the building.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the central hallway on the first floor is cross-shaped. There are stairs up to the upper floors and down to the basement. The district courtroom is located on the second floor and the top floor (attic) is currently used for storage. The original interior includes hexagonal floor tile with a regularly spaced pattern in black, tan, rust, and ocher. There have been a few interior alterations—including offices with dropped ceilings and fluorescent lights—none of which significantly alter the original design.</p><br>
<p>The Merrick County Courthouse was selected for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places for two reasons. First, it has historical significance at both state and local levels. Second, it has a number of features of the Classical Revival style of architecture including symmetric arrangement of elements, a raised basement, an unadorned roofline, pedirnented bays, and colossal columns.</p><br>
<p>Dauphin County Bridge No. 27, also known as Seaman Bridge, is a historic iron truss bridge spanning Mahantango Creek at Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It has a single span, 162.5 ft. The bridge was constructed in 1896, by the Chambersburg Bridge Company, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic in 1978. After petitions from local residents, it was reopened, but closed again to vehicular traffic in 1983 and to pedestrian traffic in 1992 due to deterioration.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Deibler&#39;s Mill bridge over Mahantango Creek.jpgReplacement bridge</p><br>
<p>The McConnellsburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in McConnellsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This district includes 142 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of McConnellsburg. The district includes buildings reflective of the Greek Revival, Georgian, and Federal styles. The buildings date to roughly between 1762 and 1940, and include commercial, institutional and residential buildings. Notable non-residential buildings include the Fulton County Courthouse (1852), Old Fulton County Jail, former Washington Hotel (1852), and the former Albert Stoner Store (1893). The contributing site is the cemetery associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Located in the district but separately listed are the Fulton House and the log cabin of Daniel McConnell.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of the Two Villages was a Spanish attack on Taovaya villages in what is now Texas and Oklahoma by a Spanish army in 1759. The Spanish were defeated by the Taovaya and other Wichita tribes with assistance from the Comanche.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The San Saba Mission was established in April 1757 near the site of present-day Menard, Texas. Three miles away, a military post, Presidio San Luis de las Amarillas, was established at the same time to protect the Mission. The purpose of the Mission was to convert and pacify the Lipan Apache and extend Spanish influence into the Great Plains. The Spanish also wished to check the increase of French influence among the natives on their northern frontier.</p><br>
<p>The establishment of the Mission inflamed the people of northern Texas, called "Norteños" by the Spanish. The Norteños included the nomadic Comanche, the village-dwelling Wichita tribes, (the Taovaya, Iscani, and Wichita proper), and Tonkawan tribes. On March 16, 1758, a Wichita army, described as numbering 2,000 men, destroyed the San Saba Mission, killing two Franciscan priests and several Christian native assistants. The nearby Presidio, staffed by fewer than 100 soldiers, was too weak to attempt to protect the Mission. Raids continued near the Presidio. In December, Comanche killed 21 Apache and, in March 1759, another 18 men guarding the Presidio&#39;s horse herd.</p><br>
<p>The Commander of the San Luis Presidio, Diego Ortiz Parrilla, an experienced soldier and fighter, organized a punitive mission against the Norteños, especially the Wichita. The force he slowly assembled consisted of two cannons, 1,600 horses, mules, and cattle, and 636 men: 139 Spanish soldiers, 241 militiamen, 134 Apache, 30 Tlaxcala, 90 Christian Mission natives, and two priests. The soldiers and the Tlaxcalans were armed with muskets and swords; the natives mostly with bows and arrows. In August 1759, this unwieldy and mostly untrained force set forth northward from San Antonio. Ortiz Parrilla had supplies for a four-month expedition.</p><br>
<h2>The tribes</h2><br>
<p>The Wichita had only recently migrated south from their traditional homeland of Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Their migration was prompted by pressure from the Osage expanding onto the Great Plains. In the early 1750s, the Taovaya, the most important of the several Wichita tribes, had established large twin villages on the north side of Red River in Jefferson County, Oklahoma and on the south side at Spanish Fort, Texas. The Wichita had trade contacts with the French, and in 1746 a French-brokered alliance with the Comanche contributed to their prosperity. The village at Spanish Fort became "a lively emporium where Comanches brought Apache slaves, horses and mules to trade for French packs of powder, balls, knives, and textiles and for Taovaya-grown maize, melons, pumpkins, squash, and tobacco." The Taovaya villages were the objective of the Spanish army.</p><br>
<p>The Comanche were also migrating south toward the Spanish settlements in Texas and driving the Apache before them. They were among the first North American natives to acquire the horse from the Spanish and to create the nomadic, equestrian culture that would typify the Plains tribes. The Comanche were numerous, although divided into several independent bands. They were in the process of establishing suzerainty over a large area of the southern Great Plains with allies such as the Wichita.</p><br>
<p>The Tonkawa consisted of a number of independent tribes that spoke similar languages. They lived in central and northern Texas. Other tribes identified as participating in Norteño raids were Bidai, Tejas (Hasinai), and Yojuanes. The various tribes making up the people the Spanish called Norteños were united only in that they shared a common enemy, the Apache, and a concern that a Spanish-Apache alliance would be detrimental to their interests.</p><br>
<h2>The battle</h2><br>
<p>The first problem of the Spanish expedition was finding the Norteños. On October 2, Ortiz Parrilla found a Yojuane village, probably along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River near present-day Graham, Texas. Attacking the village, the Spanish killed 49 Yojuanes and captured 149. Some of the captive Yojuanes offered to guide Ortiz Parilla north to a large Taovaya and Iscani village.</p><br>
<p>On October 7, about 60 or 70 natives attacked the Spanish. The Spanish formed up in line of battle and dispersed the small force, pursuing them through the woods to the banks of a river, undoubtedly the Red. The Spanish were surprised to find there a moated fort flying a French flag. Inside the palisaded wall were the distinctive bee-hive shaped houses of the Wichita. The inhabitants of houses outside the palisade fled to the fort for shelter. Upstream were large fields of maize, pumpkins, beans, and watermelons. Downstream was a ford across the river, guarded by warriors. The Spanish could also see Comanche tipis scattered around the periphery of the village.</p><br>
<p>Spanish estimates of the numbers of the natives they faced ranged up to 6,000, including 500 cavalry, although Ortiz Parrilla estimated only that they numbered at least as many as his force of 600. He deployed the Tlaxcalans and Mission forces on the right, the Spanish in the center, and the Apache on the left. His plan was to advance on and storm the fortress, supported by his two cannon. The natives, however, menaced his flanks, and sallied from the fort in repeated assaults on the Spanish lines. Each warrior on horseback had two men on foot supporting him, each carrying two additional loaded muskets. Native scouts reported that 14 Frenchmen were inside the fortress helping direct the fighting.</p><br>
<p>The battle lasted four hours. The Spanish were unable to approach the palisaded village. The eleven volleys of cannon fire they directed at the palisade were ineffective. The fighting ceased at nightfall and the Spanish reassessed their situation. The natives had captured their two cannons, 19 men in the Spanish army, mostly Spaniards, were dead and 14 were wounded. A number of men had deserted. The priests and officers petitioned Ortiz Parrilla to abandon the fight. Next morning, he ordered a return to San Saba which the Spanish force and their Yojuane captives reached on October 25. The Spanish estimated that they had killed 100 natives in the battle, probably a large over-estimation.</p><br>
<h2>Aftermath</h2><br>
<p>The Yojuane captives were sold into slavery and the group soon disappeared from history, the survivors being absorbed by the Tonkawa. Neither the Spanish nor the Norteños followed up the battle with any serious military action. The Wichita tribes later sought peace with the Spanish and refrained from further raids. In 1767, the Spanish abandoned the San Saba mission and their efforts to Christianize the Apache. The Spanish peace with the Apache soon broke down and Apache and Comanche raiders continued to be a serious threat on the northern frontier of Spanish settlements.</p><br>
<p>It is uncertain whether the battle took place on the Texas or the Oklahoma side of the Red River. The traces of the village remaining on the Oklahoma side of the border are now called the Longest archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>Black Horse Inn, also known as Sampson & the Lion, is a historic inn and tavern located in Flourtown in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built in 1744 and is a -story stuccoed stone structure with a one-story, stone kitchen addition in the rear. The original section measures 16 feet by 18 feet, and the kitchen addition 15 feet by 15 feet.</p><br>
<p>In 1833, a three-story addition was made to the north and between 1880 and 1908, three one-story additions were made to the rear. Also in 1833, a one-story porch was added to the front, west, and south sides. The building is in the Federal style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Beam&#39;s Shell Service Station and Office, also known as C. Grier Beam Truck Museum, is a historic service station located at 117 N. Mountain St. in Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1930 by the Shell Oil Company, and is a one-story, rectangular Mission/spanish Revival style building. Associated with the service station are the original pump island and gasoline pumps. The building features a brick water table and brick trim on a stuccoed construction.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>C. Grier Beam Truck Museum</h2><br>
<p>The C. Grier Beam Truck Museum features historic trucks from the former Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation, which began in the historic gas station in the 1930s. The company was bought out by the Arkansas Best Corporation in the 1990s. The museum also features early models of tractors and trailers, trucking and company memorabilia. The museum building was constructed in 1987 adjacent to the gas station. Its exterior features a brick veneer.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrews Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in LeRoy, Wisconsin, United States. The Gothic Revival church was designed by architect Anton Dohmen and built 1899–1901, largely by parishioners. The Emil Frei Stained Glass Company later added over 20 stained glass windows to the church; these windows were described as "works of art with vivid colors and intricate details" by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The churchs congregation was composed of German farmers from the surrounding area, who paid for the church and constructed parts of its interior; the church has historically served as a focal point for community life. The church has been called the "Cathedral on the Marsh" due to its proximity to the Horicon Marsh. On January 27, 2010, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Churches Historic District is a historic district in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin consisting of four churches and five other buildings associated with the churches. The four churches which comprise the district are Grace Episcopal Church, built in the High Victorian Gothic style in 1871; First Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1929–30 in the Late Gothic style; Hope Reformed Church, built in 1937 in the Late Gothic style; and St. Martin Lutheran Church, built in 1968 in a contemporary style. The churches serve as historical examples of a century&#39;s worth of religious architecture spanning four different faiths and a variety of styles. In addition, the first Boy Scout troop in Wisconsin was founded in Grace Episcopal Church in 1911. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Kinnickinnic Church is a historic church in Kinnickinnic, Wisconsin, United States. The Greek Revival church was constructed for $2,000 in 1868 and was originally shared by a Methodist and a Congregationalist congregation. In 1895, the Congregationalists purchased the church for $300; it maintained a congregation there until 1951. In 1962, the Kinnickinnic Historical Association bought the vacant church to prevent it from being converted to a home. The church, which contains a historic pump organ, is currently used for social events in the community. On October 6, 2000, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and North-Western Land Office, now the Wabeno Public Library, is a historic building in Wabeno, Wisconsin, United States. The building was constructed as a land office for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in 1897 and was one of the first buildings in Wabeno. The Town of Wabeno bought the building in 1923 and later converted it to a library. The library is now the only log library in the state. On December 23, 1993, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Cahow Barber Shop is located in Chapman, Nebraska. It is a false-front building of frame construction with a gable roof and linteled door and window hoods, built in 1889. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places; its historical significance derives from its age, its architectural design, and its association with author-photographer Wright Morris.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The barber shop was built in 1889, but little else is known about its history until Luther Cahow (born in Stuart, Iowa) purchased the barber shop in 1902. He barbered in it for 47 years and sold it in 1949.</p><br>
<p>It is rectangular, one-story, wood-frame structure with a false-front and gable roof. It has been restored by the Lone Tree Literary Society, preserving the original structure including the foundation of limestone runners and the original clapboard siding. It was constructed from May to December in 1889 and still stands on its original site. It was altered from two rooms to one by removing the interior wall dividing the original two rooms. The front half of the interior had the original interior replaced with dry wall while the back half retained the original wainscot and plaster. The three windows and three doors are original. The original contents of the building (barber chair, mirror and backboard, clock, barber sink, and benches) are housed in the Merrick County Museum in Central City.</p><br>
<p>The Cahow Barber Shop is historically significant for several reasons. Perhaps the most important reason is its relationship to Wright Morris. It appears in his literary works and photographs, and is where his father (William Henry Morris) first met his mother (Grace Osborn). Architecturally it is significant, because it is one of the only remaining 19th century false-front buildings in Merrick County.</p><br>
<p>Meusebach Creek School is located at 515 Kuhlmann Road in Gillespie County, in the USA state of Texas. It was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1954. The school is currently being used as a community center and was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 10, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Four buildings have served as the school. Erected on land owned by local resident Fritz Lochte, the original structure was a 96 ft&sup2; shingle-roofed log cabin. In the post-Civil War years, enrollment included students whose parents had been slaves on an area cotton plantation. On the same property, the log cabin was replaced by a larger stone structure in the 1880s. In 1897, local resident Louis Bonn deeded an acre of his land over to the school. A new 1-1/2 story frame structure was erected to house the school. The current building was the fourth building to serve as the school. It was erected in 1931.</p><br>
<p>The school was originally bilingual with reading in both the German and English languages. The state of Texas eventually passed a law requiring all classes but language lessons to be solely in the English language. Tuition paid by the families supported the school and paid for the instructor. State financial education supplements allowed the district to offer free education for two months of the year, but charged tuition for the other months. The 1917 establishment of the local Social and Improvement Club helped provide improvements and furnishings for the school.</p><br>
<p>The Montrose Historic District is a national historic district located in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 386 contributing buildings and two contributing sites in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Montrose.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The historic buildings in this district were erected roughly between 1812 and 1935, and include textbook examples of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, and Gothic Revival style architecture. The district is centered on the Susquehanna County Courthouse Complex.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Courthouse complex, the Sylvanus Mulford House and Silver Lake Bank are separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable buildings include the United Fire Company aka the Jessup house (c. 1855), Montrose Theater (c. 1920), Lyons Building at 13 Public Avenue, Sayre Building (1894), Loomis Building (1893), Masonic Lodge, Phoenix Block (1854), Tarbell Hotel (1914, 1870), William H. Cooper House (1860), Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association (1907), Bridgewater Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Montrose United Methodist Church, and Holy Name of Mary Chapel Catholic Church (1886).</p><br>
<h3>Placement of this district on the National Register of Historic Places</h3><br>
<p>The nomination materials for placement of the Montrose Historic District (Montrose, Pennsylvania) on the National Register of Historic Places were reviewed by Pennsylvania&#39;s Historic Preservation Board on February 1, 2011 at 9:45 a.m. at the Labor and Industry Building in Harrisburg. Also considered for National Register placement at this meeting were: the Alden Villa in Lebanon County, the McCook Family Estate and the John A. Brashear House and Factory in Pittsburgh, the Quakertown Historic District in Bucks County, the Robb Farm in Huntingdon County, Wilpen Hall in Sewickley, and the Tindley Temple United Methodist Church and Marian Anderson House in Philadelphia, as well as multiple historic African American churches in Philadelphia that were presented together on a "Multiple Property Documentation Form."</p><br>
<p>This historic district was then officially added to the National Register of Historic Places later in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Halifax Historic District is a national historic district located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina, US that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It includes several buildings that are individually listed on the National Register. Halifax was the site of the signing of the Halifax Resolves on April 12, 1776, a set of resolutions of the North Carolina Provincial Congress which led to the United States Declaration of Independence gaining the support of North Carolina&#39;s delegates to the Second Continental Congress in that year.</p><br>
<p>Much of the district is also contained within a historic site operated by the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties, an agency of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.</p><br>
<p>The original Halifax Historic District encompassed four contributing buildings: the Constitution House (c. 1770), Owens House (c. 1760), Clerks Office (c. 1832), and Jail (c. 1838). A 2010 boundary increase expanded the district to encompass 108 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures. Located in the district are the separately listed Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Michael Ferrall Family Cemetery, the William R. Davie House, the Halifax County Courthouse, and St. Marks Episcopal Church. Other notable buildings include the Royal White Hart Masonic Lodge #2 (c. 1820), Halifax Baptist Church (c. 1855), W. D. Faucett house (c. 1868), Walter Clark Law Office (1872), Roanoke Hotel (1905–1906), Halifax Hardware Company (c. 1915), and Vinson&#39;s Drug Store (c. 1917).</p><br>
<p>The Patterson Law Office is located in Central City, Nebraska. It is a false-front building of frame construction built in 1872. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places; its historical significance derives from its age, its architectural design, and its association with John Patterson and with author-photographer Wright Morris.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Patterson Law Office was built in the same year as John Patterson, a native of Ireland, came to Lone Tree (now Central City), Nebraska. Patterson built a law practice in Merrick County housed in this building. He was a well-known trial lawyer and county attorney, played an important role in the development of Central City and Merrick County, and served as county superintendent of schools.</p><br>
<p>The law office is a one-story, false-fronted building with gable roof. It rests on a stone foundation and exhibits Greek Revival elements in the door, window, pilaster and cornice detailing. It has two rooms lined with wainscot paneling.</p><br>
<p>The building is historically significant for several reasons. It is one of the earliest known false-frame commercial buildings in Nebraska predating the majority of 19th century commercial buildings in Nebraska by nearly 20 years. It is associated with a significant figure, John Patterson, in the development of Central City and Merrick County. It also has relationships to Wright Morris appearing in his literary works.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Library, also known as Eldridge Memorial Library, is a library at 9 Greenwoods Road East in Norfolk, Connecticut. The Norfolk Library is a private charitable organization, but the facility is open to the general public. Designed by architect George Keller in 1888, and greatly expanded by Keller in 1911, it is an outstanding example of Shingle Style architecture. The building is a contributing property in the Norfolk Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Isabella Eldridge donated the building as a memorial to her parents. It was intended to be fireproof – hence, the use of tile shingles rather than wood ones – and serve as both a public library and a community meeting place.</p><br>
<p>Keller, of Hartford, Connecticut, is best remembered as an architect of war memorials. Although the datestone over the porch says "1888," the building opened on March 6, 1889.</p><br>
<p>The buildings first story is faced with red Longmeadow, Massachusetts freestone. The second-story walls and third-story gables are faced with fish-scale tile shingles. The street (south) facade is asymmetrical and features a single, great gable that continues down to join the porch roof, a two-story half-turret, a small second-story balcony, and five first-story windows with stained-glass upper panes that light the circulation desk. The original Spanish tile roof, the same color as the wall tiles, had been replaced with asphalt shingles for a short time. In 2016, a fundraising project was initiated to restore the original Spanish Tile roof. The project was completed in 2016. The half-turrets conical roof retains its Spanish tile.</p><br>
<p>The library room is a long two-and-a-half-story space with a wood barrel-vaulted ceiling. It is flanked by two-story, red-oak book stacks to the east and west. A second-story gallery with red-oak balustrade wraps around three sides of it.</p><br>
<p>A description from 1900:</p><br>
<p>"The building was designed by Mr. George Keller, a noted architect of Hartford, Ct; is eighty-six by forty-five feet upon the ground, and two stories high... The first floor contains a reception hall, a reading room, a conversation room, and the library room proper. This room, entered through the reception room, fills the height and breadth of the entire building, and is crowned with an imposing arch. As one enters the hall a fine bronze tablet upon the wall opposite meets the eye, with the inscription:</p><br>
<h2>1911 addition</h2><br>
<p>With another donation from Isabella Eldridge, Keller more than doubled the size of the building, turning its plan into that of a small cathedral. What would have been the crossing became a continuation of the library room, and the transepts became two-story stacks on the east side and a reading room with fireplace on the west side. In place of an apse, Keller added the Great Hall, a large meeting room at the end of the buildings axis. The Great Hall is also a two-and-a-half-story, barrel-vaulted space surrounded by a gallery, but it is at a grander scale than the original building. It is used for meetings, lectures, concerts and art exhibitions. Tall white-washed arches connect the additions spaces.</p><br>
<h2>1985 addition</h2><br>
<p>A one-story, pyramidal-roofed addition to the buildings east side houses the Smith Childrens Room. Architect Alec Frost was able to obtain matching stone from the same quarry as the original library and 1911 addition.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>The library is a private non-profit institution, and is operated by a board of trustees. The Norfolk Library Associates, a non-profit volunteer organization formed in 1974, raises money for expanded library services such as lectures, book-signings and concerts.</p><br>
<p>The Wright Morris Boyhood House is a vernacular-style house built in 1893 in Central City, Nebraska. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as the boyhood home of author-photographer Wright Morris.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1893 by W. C. Kerr, owner of Kerr Investment Company. It is a T-shaped, one-story vernacular frame house with two enclosed rear porches. It has three bays across the front with a centered doorway. It has a truncated hipped roof with a paneled cornice and gabled wall dormers centered on the front and rear of the house. The gabled pattern of the roof is repeated in the window and door trims. The interior includes pine woodwork, sliding doors, window seat, and a leaded glass transom window.</p><br>
<p>Its primary historical significance is its connection to Wright Morris, who was born in Central City, Nebraska on January 6, 1910, and lived in this house until 1919. The city and the house played a significant role in his literary works and photography. In a private letter he wrote: "The house in which I spent my childhood, and remains the center of all my boyhood impressions, is on the southwest corner of B and D, across from the Baptist Church. I confess I feel a great attachment for it."</p><br>
<p>The Arcadia Free Public Library is a Carnegie library serving Arcadia, Wisconsin. The citys library service was established in 1899 through a donation from State Senator Levi Withee and was originally based in the city hall. The Carnegie Foundation funded a library building for the city in 1905, and the library was built the following year. The building was designed by Diedrik A. Omeyer in the Classical Revival style. The library still serves the city; as it is located across the street from Arcadias high school and elementary school, it has extensively served both schools throughout its history. On April 29, 1994, the library was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Harmonia Hall is a meeting hall in Waumandee, Wisconsin which was originally used by the Harmonie Gesellschaft, a group of German and Swiss Freethinkers. The Harmonie Gesellschaft, founded in Waumandee 1861, built the hall in 1890 for the group&#39;s meetings and events. Joseph Schafer, a carpenter from Arcadia, designed and built the hall in the Mid 19th Century Revival style. The Harmonie Gesellschaft had shrunk in size by the 1930s and consequently began to meet in homes rather than the hall; the group ultimately disbanded in the 1950s. The Town of Waumandee later purchased Harmonia Hall and uses it for events and meetings. The hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Parkhurst Memorial Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church that located in Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was built in 1889, and is a two-story, brick church structure that was designed in a Late Victorian Romanesque style.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic church building features a central tower at the entrance with belfry and tall steeple.</p><br>
<p>The Parkhurst Memorial Presbyterian Church of Elkland, Pennsylvania received its name from the Parkhurst family of the same borough. The church was built as a memorial to Joel Parkhurst who was a leading citizen of Elkland, having established a number of businesses there in 1828 that grew to such large proportion as to make him the leading merchant of the valley. His philanthropy and civic responsibility earned him the respect of the citizens of Elkland who mourned his passing at age 84 December 6, 1884. His three living children, Anna Pattison, Susan Grier and Benjamin Parkhurst agreed that the most fitting memorial to Joel&#39;s faith and good works would be the construction of a church and to this end approached architect Otis Dockstader of the Elmira firm of Pierce & Dockstader, to design and construct a church on the original site of the various edifices that had served the Presbyterian community of worshipers. The church was built and dedicated in 1890 as the Parkhurst Memorial Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Bridge between East Manchester and Newberry Townships is a historic Pennsylvania  truss bridge spanning Conewago Creek East Manchester Township and Newberry Township, York County, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1889 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company and measures 299 ft in overall length. The bridge was taken out of service about 1985, and is located alongside the new bridge.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Anduiza Hotel is a historic hotel located in Boise, Idaho, United States. The hotel was constructed in 1914 to serve as a boarding house for Basque sheepherders. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was built by and/or for Basque immigrant Juan "Jack" Anduiza.</p><br>
<p>It contains a fronton for playing Basque pelota.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architects Nisbet & Paradice.</p><br>
<p>Nisbet and Paradice designed the "Anduiza Hotel, built as a Basque boarding house with its fronton (pelota court). The Anduiza is on the National Register of Historic Places and still serves as a centre of Basque cultural heritage in Boise."</p><br>
<p>The Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives, also known as the Ah-Gwah-Ching Center, was opened in 1907 to treat tuberculosis patients. The name "Ah-Gwah-Ching" means "out-of-doors" in the Ojibwe language. The center remained a treatment center for tuberculosis until January 1, 1962. During that time, it treated nearly 14,000 patients. In 1962, it became a state nursing home known as the Ah-Gwah-Ching Nursing Home, serving geriatric patients with various mental and physical illnesses. At its peak in the 1970s, the nursing home had as many as 462 patients.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Minnesota more than 20,000 people died of tuberculosis between 1887 and 1899. At the time the only widely accepted treatment was fresh air and a healthy environment, which stimulated the body&#39;s immune system. The therapy did not always work but, lacking a suitable alternative, officials across the country erected sanatoria to quarantine and treat patients.</p><br>
<p>In 1906 construction began for the Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives about 3 mi south of the city of Walker. Overlooking Shingobee Bay on the south shore of Leech Lake, the hospital evolved into a massive complex of distinctive buildings exhibiting Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>The sanatorium adopted new procedures as they arose. Artificial pneumothorax, for example, involved collapsing a diseased lung, which inhibited growth of tubercle bacilli. Patients survived on one lung while the damaged one healed. Then, in the 1940s, came antibiotics, which were so successful at killing the bacterium that tuberculosis was almost eradicated in the USA by the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>As cases plummeted, tuberculosis hospitals began closing. After serving nearly 14,000 patients, the Minnesota Sanatorium was shuttered in 1962, eventually reopening as a nursing home. The facility was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, and was delisted in 2019, after the facility&#39;s demolition.</p><br>
<p>It closed in 2008, and the state divided the land, giving fifty acres to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a wildlife management area, selling sixty acres to Cass County at a low price for its use, and offering the remainder for public sale. All buildings at the site, with the exception of a small gazebo, have been torn down, and the site has been made ready for future development.</p><br>
<p>By 1990, it was down to about 300 patients, and by 2003, it was down to about 150 patients. Various Minnesota governors, from Arne Carlson to Jesse Ventura, supported closing the center after 1990. The center closed in 2008. Despite a reuse study, a viable use for the complex was not found, and it was demolished in 2010. Of the 250,000 ft&sup2; of buildings on the site, the only remaining structure was a small gazebo. The Cass County government acquired 60 acre of the property for redevelopment, and the remaining 50 acre was given to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a wildlife management area.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic church in Rollingstone, Minnesota, United States, built in 1869 and expanded in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement. It was nominated for its Gothic Revival architecture and central role in the religious, social, and—through its associated parochial school—academic life in a Luxembourg American community.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement of Rollingstone was established in 1855 by ethnic Germans from Luxembourg, and by 1861 they had established a wood-frame church and a cemetery. However the community quickly outgrew the original building, so they constructed a new church of local limestone in 1869. At that time the building measured 35 ft wide and 60 ft long.</p><br>
<p>In 1893 the parish had again outgrown the building, so they built an addition which doubled the seating capacity. The addition also measured 35 ft wide and 60 ft. The new wing also included a transept chancel, measuring 35 ft by 24 ft, which gave the building a cruciform plan.</p><br>
<p>The interior has been remodeled substantially since the church was built, so almost none of the original interior design remains.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson Farm is a historic farmstead in rural Merrick County, in the east central part of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Originally settled by Swedish immigrants in 1879, it was expanded and improved over the subsequent eighty years and more, remaining in the founder&#39;s family into the fourth and fifth generations.</p><br>
<p>The farm is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as providing a physical record of the style of houses and buildings on farmsteads in Merrick County from the late 1880s to the 1950s, and as illustrating how building styles, uses of buildings, and uses of land changed with the introduction of new technology.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1858, the Nebraska Territorial Legislature established Merrick County and Lone Tree (renamed Central City in 1866). Most of the early settlers in the county were from Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Wales, and Scotland.</p><br>
<p>In 1879, Swedish immigrant John Magnus Nelson moved to Merrick County in 1879 with his wife Ina Peterson, after arriving in the United States at the age of 22 and then living for six years in Illinois. Nelson claimed a parcel of 160 acre west of Central City under the Homestead Act. He built a sod house, where he and his family lived for seven years.</p><br>
<p>In 1887, Nelson built a two-story frame house; in 1916, he added a barn. In laying out the farmstead, it is thought that he was guided a variety of sources: Swedish periodicals, guidebooks such as The Farmer&#39;s Almanac, Swedish ethnic tradition, the advice of his neighbors in Merrick County, and his own experience as a farmer in Illinois and in Nebraska. As his son Herman Nelson began to play a larger role in the management of the farm, elements of "scientific farming" or "progressive farming", based on newer guidebooks, were incorporated into the arrangement of the farmstead. By 1921, the farm had expanded to encompass 480 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Great Depression was a difficult time on the Nelson Farm, and the expansion of the farm may have added to the difficulties. During this period, improvements to the farmstead were limited. By 1935, Herman Nelson had concluded that some means of irrigating the crops was necessary. Since there was no ditch system to bring water from the Platte River, he installed a system of deep-well irrigation, making the Nelson farm one of the first in Merrick County to use this water source.</p><br>
<p>This period also marked the construction of the final house on the Nelson farmstead in 1935, built by Herman Nelson in anticipation of his son’s marriage in 1935. Other improvements to the farmstead followed. A cement silo was added in the 1940s. The original granary was converted into a machine shed. In the 1940s and 1950s, an Aerometer windmill was installed to water the livestock, and a metal shed was built. Few changes were made to the farm from 1959 until 2002, when it was changed over from deep-well to center-pivot irrigation.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, the farm was occupied and operated by members of the fourth and fifth generations of John M. Nelson&#39;s family.</p><br>
<p>Through the farms history, crops have been raised chiefly to feed livestock, with any surplus being sold on the market. In its early years, the chief crop was probably corn; later, alfalfa was added to the mix, both because of its use as animal feed and because it added nitrogen to the soil. Livestock kept on the farm included horses, necessary as draft animals until they were supplanted by machinery. Cattle and hogs have been raised for the market through most of the farms history. In the early 1900s, the farm maintained a dairy herd of 40&ndash;50 Holsteins, and poultry were raised for meat and eggs by the farm&#39;s women.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nelson Farm consists of the northern 80 acre of John M. Nelson’s original homestead and the farmstead is centered in the southern 40 acre of the farm. An unpaved road leads to the houses on the farmstead. The farmstead is a rectangular site measuring approximately six acres (6 acre). It is bounded on the north by a windbreak of trees; this once bounded the farm on the west side as well, but has largely been removed. The south and east sides are bordered by agricultural fields. The houses rest on eastern third of the farmstead. The other two-thirds of the farmstead consists of agricultural buildings for livestock, machine, and crop storage. This area includes the large barn, the machine shed (formerly the granary), a metal shed, concrete and metal silos, feed and water tanks, and a windmill. Agricultural fields used for the cultivation of row crops compose the rest of the Nelson Farm.</p><br>
<h3>Buildings</h3><br>
<p>House (1887): Constructed by John M. Nelson, it is a variation on ell house architecture, commonly found on farms of this period in the Midwest. It is a two story clapboard house resting on a limestone block foundation. Decorative features are limited and always simple.</p><br>
<p>Barn (1916): Constructed by Herman Nelson, the large frame barn is the most prominent structure on the Nelson Farm. It is 84 *, which makes it one of the tallest structures in Merrick County. In 2007, 135 gal of traditional red were used to repaint it. The barn contains a large hay loft above a main floor for livestock. The massive gambrel is the barn’s most impressive feature. Both ends of the barn are nearly symmetrical in arrangement of openings. Alterations to the barn have been minimal.</p><br>
<p>House (1935): Constructed by Herman Nelson, it is a vernacular interpretation of the bungalow style house. It is a one-story house resting on a raised concrete foundation. It has gable roof with an overhanging eve supported by exposed beams, which is a hallmark of the bungalow style. The rear of the house has a two-car garage.</p><br>
<p>Concrete Silo (1940s): It is nearly as tall as the barn and is used to store corn and other grains. It was built by stacking identical pre-cast interlocking concrete staves, creating a ringed appearance.</p><br>
<p>Machine Shed (1940s): It was originally a granary but was converted into a machine shed. The original granary structure was probably built at the same time as the barn. To convert it to a machine shed, the elevator and south wall were removed. The alterations occurred during a period of historical significance, illustrating the transition from "horse power" to mechanization. This was made possible by using silos to store grain.</p><br>
<p>Metal Shed (1950s): It is a pre-fabricated, corrugated metal building that is hallmark of a style of utility building developed by the military in World War II. It was added to provide additional storage for agricultural equipment. The company responsible for fabricating it is unknown.</p><br>
<p>Windmill (1950s): It is a model 702 Aermotor Windmill used to pump water for the livestock. It is approximately 40 ft in height, with a steel wheel approximately 8 ft in diameter. It is no longer in use, but is in good condition.</p><br>
<h3>Sites</h3><br>
<p>Windbreak (1880s): John M. Nelson planted it after he selected the site for his farmstead. It extends approximately 900 ft east from the western edge of the farmstead. It is composed of mature deciduous coniferous trees.</p><br>
<p>Agricultural Fields (1880s–1920s): They surround the farmstead on the north, south and east sides. The fields are used for cattle pasture and to grow row crops.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>In 2009, the farmstead was added to the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Nelson Farm". According to the nominating documents, it was historically significant for several reasons. It was typical of how farms in rural Merrick County were first established and subsequently developed from the homestead era through the 1950s. It represented an example of progressive agricultural practices in Merrick County during this time, and it illustrated how styles of building design and use changed with technological development. The windbreak, for example, was planted to shelter livestock rather than people, illustrating the early reliance on “horse power” for plowing and other farming activities. The 1916 barn was initially constructed to shelter horses, but its function changed later with the mechanization of the farm.</p><br>
<p>The Nelson Farm was also one of the largest in Merrick County’s Lone Tree Township during portions of its history: in 1921, the Nelson family farmed more acres than any other family in the Lone Tree Township.</p><br>
