<p>Hearn and Rawlins Mill, also known as the Cannon and Ross Mill and Hearn Mill, is a historic grist mill complex located near Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1880, on the site of a previous mill built in 1820. It is a water-powered mill with two overshot wheels installed in 1912. The mill and two associated warehouses are frame buildings, sheathed in metal, on brick footings. They are located on an earthen dam, rebuilt in 1912.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Seaford Station Complex is a historic railway station complex and national historic district located at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It includes two contributing buildings and two contributing structures and considered an outstanding example of a turn-of-the-20th century, unaltered, small-town railroad complex in Delaware. They are the Seaford Railroad Station, Seaford Freight Station, the Nanticoke River moveable railroad bridge, and mainline railroad tracks. The Seaford Railroad Station is brick rectangular building with a large bracketed overhang, built about 1905. The Seaford Freight Station was built about the same time, and consists of an open porch, covered by an arcaded extension of the roof, with an office and store room. The Nanticoke River moveable railroad bridge is an iron through-truss structure carrying a single track. It was built about 1890 by the Pencoyd Bridge and Construction Company of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania. The main line track north of the depot was double-tracked just before World War I.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>Milton Historic District is a national historic district located at Milton, Sussex County, Delaware. It includes 188 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Milton. The district includes much of Union, Federal, Broad, Chestnut, and Mill Streets, and encompasses a wide variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings from the late-18th century to the early-20th century. Union, Broad and Chestnut Streets include many examples of Gothic Revival and vernacular building styles popular in the 19th century, while Federal Street is noted for larger homes that include many Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Federal style homes, as well as Gothic Revival and vernacular styles. Notable non-residential buildings on Union Street include the Lydia B. Cannon Museum building , the "Irish Eyes" restaurant , and the Milton Theater . On Federal Street, there are the Sussex Trust, Title and Safe Deposit Company building , and the Episcopal Church of St. John Baptist . Located in the district and separately listed are the Draper-Adkins House, Hazzard House, and Gov. James Ponder House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, with a boundary increase in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The John Archibald Campbell United States Courthouse, also known as the United States Court House and Custom House, is a historic courthouse and former custom house in Mobile, Alabama. It was completed in 1935. An addition to the west was completed in 1940. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed to house the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and the United States Customs Service. The customs service later vacated the building and the courts expanded into their space. The courthouse served the Southern District of Alabama until 2018, when the new Mobile Federal Courthouse was completed across the street. The Campbell courthouse then underwent an $18 million renovation which was completed in 2020. Today, it houses the United States bankruptcy court.</p><br>
<p>This building replaced an earlier antebellum-era structure that served the city and region. The building is built in an austere blending of the Renaissance Revival and Art Deco styles. The façade is clad in white limestone with a granite base.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the John Archibald Campbell United States Courthouse began in 1934 on the north half of a city block facing Saint Joseph Street, then adjacent to the 1916 United States Post Office building. The block is encircled by Saint Joseph, Saint Louis, North Conception, and Saint Michael streets. Having a monumental scale and finer materials than most of the surrounding structures, this ensemble created a strong presence for the federal government in downtown Mobile.</p><br>
<p>The new courthouse building was designed by the Mobile architectural firm of Carey and Dowling, with Louis A. Simon as the federal Supervising Architect. Initial construction was completed in 1935. A new expansion of the building to the west was built between 1939 and 1940. It was designed the Office of the Supervising Architect under Simon to seamlessly match the existing structure.</p><br>
<h3>Prior building</h3><br>
<p>The new courthouse replaced an earlier United States Custom House and Post Office building that was located at the corner of Saint Joseph and Saint Francis streets. It was a three-story, granite, Neo-Renaissance structure, designed by renowned architect Ammi B. Young. Completed in 1856, this building originally housed the custom house, post office, and federal courthouse. The United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Alabama met in the old building until that court was replaced by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in 1912. It then housed that court until the new courthouse was completed in 1935. The post office relocated in 1916, when the new post office building was completed. The old Custom House and Post Office was demolished in 1963 and the First National Bank Building was built on the site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse features a blending of the Renaissance Revival and Art Deco styles. The east façade, which is the primary elevation, is divided thirteen bays on every floor except the fifth, which has eleven. The north elevation originally featured ten bays on the first through fourth floors and eight on the fifth. The 1940 expansion brought this number up to eighteen bays on the first through fourth floors and seventeen bays on the fifth. The first floor on this elevation has a bronze gate that takes up three of the bays, with windows set into the remainder. A bronze gate is situated at the point where the 1940 expansion starts. It originally provided access to a central light courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The first floor is separated from the upper floors by a molded projecting course of stone that runs horizontally around the building. It is relatively devoid of ornament, with doors set into the central three bays. Granite steps with cheek walls lead to the entry. Stylized Ionic pilasters on the exterior of the second and third floors separate each bay. The center five bays of these floors are recessed with windows that have carved limestone panels underneath each. Solid panels are substituted for windows in each bay to either side. Each of these solid panels feature a carved limestone plaque and a bronze flagpole projecting from the façade. The windows on these floors are separated vertically by spandrel panels cast from bronze. They feature fluted panels on each side of a vine motif. The fourth floor is stepped back atop the lower floors. Each bay here is separated by a simple limestone pilaster. The fifth floor is devoid of ornament and is stepped back from the fourth floor.</p><br>
<p>Significant interior spaces in the building that still have their original characteristics include the main lobby, entry vestibule, the second floor west courtroom, second floor lobby, judges suite, and second floor east courtroom lobby. The main lobby, entry vestibule, and flanking hallway are all Art Deco in style, with walls clad in corbeled travertine. Corbeled pilasters decorate the wall surfaces. The ceilings are corbeled plaster. Doors are walnut. Floors are terrazzo, accented with a white and pink double marble border. The second floor west courtroom and judges suite are notable for their walnut woodwork. The second floor east courtroom lobby also features wood paneling and terrazzo floors.</p><br>
<p>The Carter Block is a historic mixed-use commercial building in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1902 by businessman Wesley Carter to provide retail, office, warehousing, and meeting space in the developing city. The Carter Block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its local significance in the themes of commerce and social history. It was nominated for encapsulating the social impact of Carter&#39;s entrepreneurship.</p><br>
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<p>The First National Bank of St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States, is a historic bank building constructed in 1889 and doubled in size around 1918. It was designed by architect Charles Sumner Sedgwick for St. Clouds first bank, which was established in 1867 and chartered as a national bank in 1882. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for being St. Clouds "finest designed and best preserved commercial building"—in the words of historian Thomas Harvey—and for its important financial role in the development of St. Cloud and surrounding Stearns County.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed of red brick with granite trim and cast iron ornamentation. It housed several prominent businesses after First National Bank left in 1925. As of 2018 its tenants include a branch of Kensington Bank and a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>Westminster United Church of Christ, originally the First Congregational Church, is a historic church in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>The current building was built in 1890 in a Richardsonian Romanesque style and enlarged in 1927 to include larger towers and a Sunday School. Soon afterwards, the congregation merged with Westminster Presbyterian Church. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Christ the Redeemer Church in West Central, Spokane, Washington is a historic church located at 1527 W. Mallon Street. Built as the North Side Baptist Church in 1911 in a Late Gothic Revival style and was added to the National Register in 1992 under the name Grace Baptist Church, the church is today an independent evangelical church loosely connected to Moore Theological College.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded after the Great Spokane Fire of 1889, the North Side Baptist Church grew rapidly during Spokanes boom period. It initially met in the Spokane County Courthouse. By 1903, the church had hundreds of members, had established several missions, and had commissioned J. K. Dow to design a large church in what is today West Central. The churchs National Register listing described it as "one of the most substantial structures on the growing north side, and one of the finest churches in the city. Today, it retains excellent integrity, and is distinguished by its arched openings, buttresses, battlemented parapets, stained glass, and dramatic interior auditorium."</p><br>
<p>Christ the Redeemer Church began in 1993 when a group of families at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist adopted an evangelical theological outlook. After their request to plant a new Episcopal mission church was rejected by the bishop of Spokane, the group of 17 adults and 20 children began meeting in private homes. The church incorporated in 1994 under the name Christ the Redeemer. One of the founders read about Michael Youssef, who had a few years prior left the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and planted Church of the Apostles as an independent congregation. Youssef recommended that Christ the Redeemer contact Moore Theological College. In 1994, Sydney Archbishop Donald Robinson visited Spokane to teach, preach, and celebrate communion for Christ the Redeemer. Robinson later sent Peter Hayward—a future Bishop of Wollongong in the Diocese of Sydney—to serve as pastor of Christ the Redeemer. Hayward and both of his successors as pastor of Christ the Redeemer are Moore Theological College graduates.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1990s, Christ the Redeemer moved away from historic Anglican practices like having a vestry, the importance of bishops, infant baptism, and the theology of Holy Communion toward its present independent reformed, evangelical stance. In the early 2000s, Christ the Redeemer began renting space from Grace Baptist. After Grace Baptist&#39;s pastor retired, the churches began worshiping together for an interim period, after which the congregations merged and Christ the Redeemer became the owner of the historic Grace Baptist building.</p><br>
<h2>Theology</h2><br>
<p>Despite its connection to Sydney Anglicanism, Christ the Redeemer is an independent, non-denominational church. It adheres to Reformed theology, credobaptist practice, plural male eldership, and expository preaching.</p><br>
<p>Chinese Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 925 S. King Street in Seattle, Washington. It was constructed in a Late Gothic Revival style and was dedicated on October 12, 1922. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The congregation of Chinese Baptist Church broke ground on their new location at 5801 Beacon Ave S., Seattle, WA on January 24, 1975, and dedicated the building on April 3, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church had its origin in the late nineteenth century, when the First Baptist Church of Seattle established missionary churches for several of the ethnic groups of foreign laborers in the area, including a Scandinavian Baptist Church (1883) and a Japanese Baptist Church (1899). A Committee on Chinese Work was established in 1892. It conducted a school and worship services in a house at 5th and Yesler, then moved to a larger building in the Chinese district. In 1902 funds were raised to construct a church at Washington and Maynard streets. No longer a "mission church" dependent on its sponsor, from that point on the church had Chinese pastors and was admitted to the Western Washington Baptist Convention. The church served as a focal point for the Chinese American community until 1977, when the congregation moved to a larger facility in Beacon Hill. The building is now the home of the Chinese Southern Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle  is an historic building, originally built and used as a church, at 128 16th Avenue East in Seattle, Washington.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1906 and added to the National Register in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The church that was originally housed in this building, First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattle, later known as Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, was founded by Rev. Daniel Bagley in 1865 and met in buildings in downtown Seattle until the construction of this building on Capitol Hill. In 1991, due to declining membership and increasing costs of building upkeep, the church moved out of the building. The building was renovated from a church to an office building in 2004, and is currently owned and occupied by Catalysis Corporation, a Seattle-based digital marketing agency.</p><br>
<p>Neither the church nor the building should be confused with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Seattle, which was founded in 1853 (the first church organized in Seattle), which was also once housed in an historic building (at Fifth Avenue and Marion Street in downtown Seattle) built in 1906. Prior to the construction of the 1906 buildings, when both congregations met downtown, they were disambiguated by calling the Methodist Episcopal church the "Little White Church" and the Methodist Protestant one the "Little Brown Church". When the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church became a single denomination in 1939, the congregation that met in the Capitol Hill building that is the subject of this article changed their name from "First Methodist Protestant" to "Capitol Hill Methodist", while the downtown Methodist Episcopal congregation became simply "First Methodist Church&quot decades later, another denominational merger led to both adding "United" to their names.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Orthodox Church is a historic church in Wilkeson, Washington. The church was founded by Eastern European Slavic immigrants from the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Czechoslovakia.</p><br>
<p>It was built in a Gothic Revival style and was added to the National Register in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Orthodox Church is the oldest Orthodox church in Washington State. The building is a simple design that blends the lines of an American Gothic meetinghouse with the onion dome and interior iconography of the Slavic Orthodox faith. The church has served the Eastern European community across the mining towns of eastern Pierce County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As early as 1862 deposits of coal were found along the Carbon River. In 1869, Samuel Wilkeson conducted a geological survey for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Wanting access to a convenient source of coal near the Tacoma railhead, the Northern Pacific built a line to the coal fields in 1876, opening a mine three years later.</p><br>
<p>Initially, the coal was used as locomotive fuel. But in the 1880s, the coal suitable for coke was discovered, and in 1885 the Tacoma Coal and Coke Company built the first coke ovens. By the 1890s, the Wilkeson Coal and Coke Company operated over one hundred beehive ovens. Hundreds of immigrants were brought in to work the mines and ovens. Many from Southern and Eastern Europe.</p><br>
<p>The Wilkeson area continued as a center of coal and coke production through World War I. The town also supported sandstone quarries and logging operations. By 1916, coke production reached a peak with an estimated 1,200 people lived in the town. Industry remained active in Wilkeson until 1936 when the Wilkeson Coal and Coke Company ceased operations.</p><br>
<p>Immigrants to the Wilkeson area in the late 19th century included a group of miners from the Carpathian Mountains of present-day Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. The majority were members of the Orthodox church. In the late 1890s, the group organized the Holy Trinity congregation and built a wooden church.Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. Diocese of Alaska records, 1733-1938; MSS38695</p><br>
<p>Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C; Pierce County records date the building to 1900.</p><br>
<p>Beginning with a congregation of 42 and a monthly visit by pastor, Father Dimitri Kamnev of the Seattle, the community grew to 300 members at the height of the mining activities. Parishioners from across the region were of Russians, Slavic, Greeks, and Arabs origins, as this was the only Orthodox church in Pierce County.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Orthodox Church is a simple frame structure combining the Gothic vernacular form of an American country church with the distinctive onion dome and interior iconography of a traditional Slavic Orthodox temple. The building features a gable roof, arched windows, and a belfry with ogee dome.</p><br>
<p>The one-story church is in a residential neighborhood a few blocks from the business district. It is rectangular in plan and measures approximately 19 ft by 46 ft. The foundation is a post and pier design, with a wood skirt. The walls are sided with drop siding, plain corner and frieze boards. The roof is wood shingles. The cornices of the gable ends are underscored with plain square dentil blocks.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Lambert Floren, Historic Western Churches (Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1969), pp. 85–86.</p><br>
<p>Esther Pearson, Early Churches of Washington State (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980), pp. 76–77.</p><br>
<p>Constance Trasar, ed., Orthodox American, 1974-1976 (Syosset, New York: Orthodox Church, 1975), p. 36.</p><br>
<p>The Alaskan Russian Church Archives: Records of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984).</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Church is a historic church on Starr between 29th and 30th Streets in the Old Tacoma neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1873 and added to the National Register in 1974. Old St. Peters Church was the first church built in Tacoma and is now Tacomas oldest existing building. The first services were held on Aug. 10, 1873.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters bell tower is unique. The bell was a gift from the Sunday school children at St. Peters Church in Philadelphia. It arrived in October 1874, but the church in Tacoma had no belfry. Loggers cut off the top of a tree growing next to the church and a crew of sailors used the ship&#39;s rigging to hoist it up on the stump. The rings of the tree were counted when the tree was cut, revealing that it was over 300 years old. The tree claimed fame as "the oldest bell tower in America". The original tree stump was damaged by a windstorm in 1935 and had to be replaced.</p><br>
<p>Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church in Sprague, Washington, is a historic church recognized for its architectural style and its longstanding presence in the community</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church was built in 1902 and is noted for its Gothic Revival architectural style, which was designed by Spokane master architect Herman Preusse.</p><br>
<p>The church was erected in 1902 and blessed by the Bishop of Nesqually, Edward John O&#39;Dea. Before this current structure, a church was established on the site in 1883 as Mary Queen of Heaven Parish, and a church was erected at that time. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural Style</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival style of architecture is a distinguishing feature of the Mary Queen of Heaven Roman Catholic Church. This style was quite prominent for small-town parishes around the turn of the century.</p><br>
<p>This church, with its historic and architectural significance, stands as a notable landmark in Sprague, Washington, showcasing a slice of the area&#39;s heritage and religious tradition.</p><br>
<p>Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church is a historic Gothic Revival style church in Deep River, Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The church was the areas first organized Evangelical Lutheran Church. Construction by a community of Finnish settlers began in 1898 and was completed in 1902. The church became inactive in the 1930s following the decline of its congregation. Its interior has remained largely unchanged over time. A 2012 restoration of the churchs exterior included repainting of the white siding and peach-colored trim after the removal of a large buildup of moss. The church is usually open for viewing during Naselle&#39;s Finnish-American Folk Festival.</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Church of Port Hadlock  is a historic Methodist church, now a private home, at Randolph and Matheson Streets in Hadlock, Washington. Built in 1903, the church was the first permanent Methodist church in Hadlock. The congregation shared a traveling minister with the Methodist church in Chimacum. In the 1950s, the two congregations merged to form a new church; the Hadlock church&#39;s old bell and pews were moved to the new church, and the old building became a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church was a historic Polish National Catholic church at Third and Queen in Pe Ell, Washington.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1916 to serve Pe Ell&#39;s Polish immigrant community, which had come to the town to work in the local lumber industry. The building had a vernacular Gothic Revival design with two towers at its front corners. It was the last Polish National Catholic church in Washington until its demolition. It was added to the National Register in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Its condition deteriorated and the building was demolished in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Tumwater Methodist Church is a historic church at 219 W. B Street in Tumwater, Washington. It was built in 1872 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>When it was built it was one of two churches in Tumwater, (the other being Baptist); initially the minister rode circuit preaching and serving much of Thurston County over the course of the week. The Olympia Methodist Church helped to support the Tumwater church&#39;s formation.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s the adjacent parsonage was sold and a two-story addition was built uphill from the original church which added a social hall, classrooms, and plumbing.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the location of Tumwater Methodist Church for almost 100 years until they sold the property to Unitarians in the 1960s, who worshiped there it until outgrowing it and transferring ownership, in the early 1990s, to a Quaker congregation.</p><br>
<p>The building currently hosts St. James&#39; Christian Episcopal Church. This congregation worships according to the Book of Common Prayer (1928) edition. Often considered a High Church tradition, which is found in many Anglo-Catholic parishes.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church at 105 E. Alder Street in Palouse, Washington. It was built in 1895 and was added to the National Register in 2005. The chapel has one of the seven lichgates in the United States. From 1896 through 2003 services were held at the chapel until the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane sold the building to the Whitman County Historical Society, a historical society which gives tours by request and rents out the building for weddings, funeral services, local church services, recitals, and cultural presentations.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago and North Western Railway Power House is the historic power house which served the 1911 Chicago and North Western Terminal in Chicago, Illinois. The building was designed by Frost & Granger in 1909; it was mainly designed in the Beaux Arts style but also exhibits elements of the Italian Renaissance Revival style. Construction on the building finished in 1911, the same year the terminal opened. The irregularly shaped building borders Clinton Street, Milwaukee Avenue, Lake Street, and the former Chicago and North Western tracks, which are now used by Metra for its Union Pacific District. The power house was built in cream brick with terra cotta trim, cornices, and ornamentation; the corner of the house at Clinton and Milwaukee features a 227 ft brick smokestack. The building contained four rooms, a large engine room and boiler room and a smaller engineer&#39;s office and reception room. The Chicago Tribune reported in 1948 that the power house output enough power to serve a city of 15,000 people. The power house ceased to serve the station in the 1960s, but when the terminal was demolished and replaced by Ogilvie Transportation Center in 1984, the power house survived. It is one of two remaining railroad power houses in Chicago and the only remaining power house for the Chicago and North Western.</p><br>
<p>The power house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2004. It was designated as a Chicago Landmark on January 11, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Prior to its designation as a landmark, the building had long been slated for demolition, and its sub-basements were damaged by the 1992 Chicago Flood. A real estate developer purchased the building and, by adding two additional interior floors, re-developed the structure into a mixed-use office and retail building. The renovations won the Best Adaptive Reuse award from Landmarks Illinois in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Guyon Hotel is a historic former hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel was designed by Jens J. Jensen - no relation to the famous landscape architect Jens Jensen - in 1927 and was built in red and cream brick with arched windows on two floors and exquisite, detailed terra cotta ornaments typical of Jensen&#39;s work. It was built at a cost of $1,650,000 by J. Louis Guyon, a French-Canadian nightclub owner and dance instructor.</p><br>
<p>The Guyon Hotels first floor included commercial space and the hotels lobby. Two ballrooms were located on the second floor. Guyon resided in the south penhouse.</p><br>
<p>After the hotel opened in 1928, owner J. Louis Guyon mounted two AM radio towers to broadcast his radio station, WGES; the station aired morally conservative programming and music. One of the second floor ballrooms was used as the stations studio. In 1954, the stations studios and transmitter were moved to the LaSalle–Wacker Building. In 1964, the hotel was sold for $500,000.</p><br>
<p>Soon after the hotel opened, police raided the four-room suite of Jack McGurn, also known as "Machine Gun Jack McGurn", a member of Al Capone&#39;s mob, and arrested him and another man after finding a machine gun and other weapons.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the Guyon Hotel was sold to the Lutheran non-profit organization Bethel New Life, who renovated the building and converted it to affordable housing. Former President Jimmy Carter stayed in the renovated hotel for a week while working on a rehabilitation project with Habitat for Humanity; his room was reportedly "roach-infested" and "furnished with only a couch and a milk crate". The housing effort ultimately failed when Bethel New Life ran out of funds. The building currently lies vacant and has changed possession over six times since 1995. Due to building code violations, the hotel is in city demolition court; it is considered one of the ten most endangered landmarks in Illinois by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The Guyon Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Lewes Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 122 contributing buildings and 6 contributing sites encompassing most of the 17th-century town of Lewes, together with part of Pilot Town. The district is primarily residential with resources ranging from small working-class houses to large and ornate houses from the Victorian period in a variety of popular styles including Queen Anne and Second Empire. Also included in the district is the Market Street commercial area, including three frame store buildings and the elaborate Smith Block. Other notable buildings include St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church, the Ellis Marine Complex, Cannonball House, Governor Ebe W. Tunnell House, Walsh Building, Zwaanendael Museum , Cornelius Burton House, Lewes Historical Society enclave, and the De Wolf Houses. The contributing sites include the site of an 18th-century fort and the 1812 Park.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active duty installation of the United States Coast Guard located in Garibaldi, Oregon, as well as a nationally recognized historic site. A station has been operating in Tillamook Bay since 1908. The station was opened by the United States Life-saving Service a precursor agency to the Coast Guard. The current station has been in continuous operation since 1942.</p><br>
<p>In 1909 station crew rescued the complement of the coastal steamer Argo.</p><br>
<p>Over the July 4th weekend of 1980 Richard Dixon, the coxswain of a 44-foot Motor Lifeboat from the station was awarded the unusual honor of two Coast Guard Medals, for leading two daring rescues.</p><br>
<p>The station was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Mercer Log House is a large log cabin in the city of Fairborn, Ohio, United States. Home to the citys first settlers and changed very little since their time, it is one of Ohios best preserved log cabins from the settlement period, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>According to local tradition, part of present-day Fairborn was occupied by an Indian village until the 1790s, when they were driven from their village by a force of soldiers from Kentucky. The land did not remain unoccupied for long; Bath Townships first settlers had become well established by the time that Greene County was organized in 1803. By the end of the 1790s, a family from Virginia named Mercer had immigrated to the Northwest Territory and purchased a large tract of land at 25¢ per acre (approximately $61.78 per km²) that included the site of the Indian village. While the Mercers precise date of arrival is unknown, it seems certain that crops were being raised in the township before George Washingtons death in 1799. They were the first of several early families in the vicinity of modern Fairborn, which had at least five resident families by the time of the birth of the first white child in 1800. These early settlers were isolated from surrounding regions for the first twenty years after the Mercers arrived; except for the road running between the cities of Dayton and Springfield, the townships best transportation routes were paths through the dense forest, although the nearby Mad River could be used for light freight transportation during the spring floods.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Mercers constructed a log cabin on their property soon after arriving; while its precise date of construction is uncertain, the Mercer Log House is believed to have been built in 1799. Set on a stone foundation, the house is a typical example of the regions turn-of-the-century vernacular architecture, due to features such as its square appearance (produced by the nearly one-to-one ratio between its height, length, and width), the large opening for a fireplace, and the small size of the other openings in the structure. Today, it is distinguished from most surviving log cabins in Ohio by its unusual degree of preservation; in order to expand them into larger structures, most early log cabins in the state have had additional openings cut in their walls, but the Mercer cabins log walls are virtually unchanged from their original form.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1981, the Mercer Log House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of three Fairborn buildings listed on the National Register, along with the Fairborn Theatre of 1948 and the former Bath Township Consolidated School of 1924.</p><br>
<p>The house is owned by the city as part of the small Mercer-Smith Historical Park.</p><br>
<p>South Milford Historic District, or Victorian South Milford Historic District, is a national historic district located at Milford, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 68 contributing buildings. The northernmost part of the district includes part of Milford&#39;s central business district. It primarily consists of frame dwellings located on large town lots and a small number of brick commercial structures. They are in a variety of popular styles including Queen Anne and Gothic Revival. Notable buildings include the Windsor Block , Milford Trust Company building, old Post Office building , Adkins House , Causey Mansion , Garrison House, and Causey House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Milford Shipyard Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Milford, Sussex County, Delaware. The district includes 18 contributing buildings, including the original Vinyard Shipyard  and surrounding workers&#39; houses. The shipyard buildings are the combination office and warehouse , mold/sail loft , boat house , and machine shop . The remaining buildings are primarily one and two-story, frame, center hall plan dwellings built around 1870.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 114 Carlisle Boulevard SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The building was designed by architect John Gaw Meem and was built in three phases between 1949 and 1956. It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 2004 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>It was listed along with a number of other Meem works, as part of a study of multiple works by the architect.</p><br>
<p>The Reredos of Our Lady of Light is a historic stone reredos carved in 1761 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was originally installed in the Chapel of Our Lady of Light on the Plaza and is presently housed in Cristo Rey Church, which was built for that purpose in 1940. Described as "the only one of its kind from the Spanish period in the United States" and "definitely one of the most extraordinary pieces of ecclesiastical art in the country", it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The reredos has been attributed to Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785), a Spanish artist and cartographer who came to Santa Fe in the 1750s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The reredos is over 25 ft high and 18 ft wide. It was carved from soft, white volcanic stone quarried near Pojoaque and was originally painted, though only traces of color remain. Reliefs carved into the stone depict a variety of religious iconography. At the crown of the reredos, God appears above the Mother and child (Our Lady of Valvanera). In the next tier of carvings, St. James the Apostle, the patron saint of Spain, appears in the center as Santiago Matamoros, a warrior on horseback attacking enemy infidels. This depiction held symbolic resonance for the Spanish conquistadores and was consequently widely used in New Mexico and other Spanish colonies. The image of James is flanked by St. Joseph with the infant Jesus on the left and St. John Nepomuk, the protector of the Jesuits, on the right.</p><br>
<p>The bottom row of carvings depicts St. Ignatius Loyola on the left and St. Francis Solano on the right. In the center is a niche that originally housed an oil painting of Our Lady of Light. When the reredos was moved to Cristo Rey Church in 1940, the stone slab that formerly adorned the front of La Castrense was placed in the niche. This depicts Our Lady of Light holding the infant Jesus while rescuing a human figure from the clutches of Satan. Some of the iconography is unusual in that it depicts Jesuit and Benedictine figures rather than strictly those of the Franciscans, who were responsible for most of the Spanish colonial churches in New Mexico.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Chapel of Our Lady of Light, or La Castrense, was a military chapel on the south side of the Santa Fe Plaza which was built in 1760 by Governor Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle. To complete the interior of the chapel, Marín del Valle brought masons from Zacatecas, Mexico to carve a massive stone reredos. Archaeological investigations of the chapel site found chips of the same stone, suggesting that the carving took place on site. The building of the chapel was observed by Bishop of Durango Pedro Tamarón y Romeral during his visit to New Mexico in 1760; he wrote</p><br>
<p>A later visitor, Fray Atanasio Domínguez, recorded a very detailed description of the chapel in 1776. According to his measurements, La Castrense was about 100 ft long overall and 22 ft wide, extending to 40 ft wide at the transept. The ceiling, supported by corbeled beams, was about 26 ft high with a clerestory above the sanctuary. As to the reredos, he wrote</p><br>
<p>Ultimately, although highly critical of many of the churches he visited in New Mexico, Domínguez conceded "Its interior is very attractive." The chapel remained in use by Spanish, and later Mexican, troops stationed in Santa Fe until the 1830s. The chapel was last regularly used during the first term of Governor Manuel Armijo (1827−29), who attended services in full uniform along with the military garrison. However, the Mexican government later withdrew its financial support for military chaplains and La Castrense was left empty, eventually falling into disrepair. By the time the USA Army occupied the city in 1846, the roof had fallen in and bones were sticking out of the earthen floor. The army repaired the chapel and turned it into a storehouse.</p><br>
<p>When Jean-Baptiste Lamy arrived in Santa Fe as its new Vicar Apostolic in 1851, one of his first tasks was to take control of La Castrense and other property that he saw as rightfully belonging to the church. The Territorial Legislature had vowed not to interfere but Grafton Baker, the Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, was opposed to handing over the chapel and drunkenly declared that he would hang Lamy if he tried to take it. This created an uproar in the heavily Catholic city and Baker, fearing for his own safety, was forced to back down. Lamy tried for a few years to revive the chapel, but without much success, and ended up selling it in 1859 to raise money for his new cathedral project. The building was converted into a store and remained standing at least until the 1870s, though it was later demolished. When the site was cleared for a new building in 1955, the foundations of La Castrense were uncovered and studied by archaeologists.</p><br>
<p>Before disposing of the chapel, Lamy had the reredos and a stone medallion from the facade removed and transferred to La Parroquia, the main parish church of Santa Fe at the time. Later this church was replaced by St. Francis Cathedral. Once the cathedral was completed, the reredos was consigned to a small room behind the altar away from public view. In 1940, it was moved to the new Cristo Rey parish church on Canyon Road, which was built specifically to house it, and has remained there since. The church was designed by noted New Mexico architect John Gaw Meem.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Memorial Episcopal Church and Guild Hall is a historic church at 714–716 National Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Construction took place from 1886 to 1888, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Though the church structure was constructed in the late-1880s, it was not completed until 1950. The 1950 work, completing a sanctuary and chancel, was designed by architect John Gaw Meem. It is built of local red sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The St. John&#39;s Methodist Episcopal Church in Raton, New Mexico is a historic church. It was built in 1897 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included three contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It is a 24x36 ft stone building. It was built of native red sandstone, originally with a mortar similar to adobe which deteriorated. In more recently it was repointed with cement and a cement foundation was put into place.</p><br>
<p>It is located on Johnson Mesa about 17 mi east of Raton on New Mexico State Road 72.</p><br>
<p>Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Mission is a historic mission church in Dona Ana, New Mexico near Las Cruces. It was built around 1844 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is built in the adobe vernacular in style.</p><br>
<p>It is notable as the oldest example of an adobe vernacular church in southern New Mexico. According to its National Register nomination, its ornamentation and detail "is simple, reflecting the modest resources of the congregation that built it in the middle of the 19th century. The building is of a cruciform floor plan with thick walls made of adobe brick molded by the parishioners and carried up to the site from the valley land below. Until the 1920s, when it was covered with tongue and groove hardwood, the floor was of dirt which often had to be wetted to keep the dust down. As shown by the oldest available photograph of the church taken around 1910, it was built with a flat roof using the traditional viga (beam) and latilla (small poles laid across the vigas) ceiling, and sealed with packed mud that would routinely have to be maintained. This stark, massive structure of earth had a plain twin-leafed entrance with a small window above it. The windows along the church walls are the 6 over 6 double hung wood type. It was probably around the turn of the century that a small wood-louvered bell tower was built above the entrance. The church faces south onto an open dirt plaza which now serves as parking. A garden bordering the east side of the church is enclosed with a stone wall which features an open arch parallel to the church entry."</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing building in the Dona Ana Village Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Phillips Chapel CME Church  is a historic Christian Methodist Episcopal church building at 638 N. Tornillo Street in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It was built in 1912 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story adobe building, about 29x38 ft in plan, with buttresses against its front. It was described in its National Register nomination as "representative of vernacular church architecture showing a modest influence of local Spanish/Hispano architectural traditions."</p><br>
<p>It underwent an extensive restoration project starting around 2010 and ending in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The St. Joseph Apache Mission Church is a historic Catholic parish church at 626 Mission Trail in Mescalero, New Mexico, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The church was built upon the stone floor of a prehistoric Jornada Mogollon-culture ruin, estimated to date from 200 to 1400. Priest Albert Braun oversaw construction beginning in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The altar of the church features Apache Christ, an 8-foot painting, executed by Franciscan friar Robert Lentz in 1989, that depicts Christ as a Mescalero holy man greeting the sun atop Sierra Blanca; inscriptions around the painting are in both Apache and Greek. In 2024, the Diocese of Las Cruces removed the icon, a smaller work showing Native dancers, and ceramic chalices and baskets donated by the local Pueblo community for use in serving the Eucharist. The removal touched off a debate within the Catholic Church regarding inculturation and the melding of Apache and Catholic traditions. The diocese restored the works after their removal angered Apache parishioners; after the works were reinstalled, Bishop Peter Baldacchino met with the parish council.</p><br>
<p>Sagrada Familia de Lemitar Church, Los Dulces Nombres  is a historic church off Interstate 25 in Lemitar, New Mexico. It was constructed in the early 1830s and has been renovated and added to several times thereafter. Work in around 1900 gave the adobe building a pitched, metal roof and clear glass windows; in 1950 Conrad Hilton made a donation which, with funds raised by parishioners, paid for stained glass windows and wooden flooring. The present facade and bell towers were added in 1963. Unfortunately in 2010 the west wall of the church collapsed during renovations started the previous year; the building was deemed irreparable and was totally rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Sacred Heart Church in Tombstone, Arizona, United States, a Roman Catholic church, was established in 1881, as the first church of any denomination in rough-and-tumble Tombstone, founded in 1877, which had quickly become the largest and busiest city between San Francisco and St. Louis. It was only the sixth Catholic church in the Arizona Territory, and its 1882 building is the oldest known surviving frame church in Arizona. Its courtyard behind holds rose bushes of unusual size.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The church is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. The church complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The listing included three contributing buildings, some non-contributing buildings, and two rose tree roses rose trees which are considered to be contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The oldest building is the 1881-built original church building, a one-and-a-half-story stuccoed south-facing vernacular adobe structure which included two church rooms on the first floor and a two-room rectory above.</p><br>
<p>The next oldest is the larger one-story church building built in 1882, which allowed the first building to be used entirely as a rectory. It was built with leadership of Irish-born entrepreneur Nellie Cashman. Now located directly behind the 1881 building, it was built originally on the corner of 6th and Stafford, facing east. It was constructed with board-and-batten walls over wood framing, with a high-pitched wood-shingled roof. It is best termed vernacular in style, but has a Gothic-styled doorway and windows. Its walls were stuccoed over in about 1925, and it was moved in 1946 to its present location, on a concrete foundation, to make way for the 1947 current church. It now serves as the parish hall. Adjacent to the 1882 building was a separate bell tower with a 610-pound bell, added in 1883; this was destroyed in 1946 with the bell eventually placed in 2000 above the rear of the new main building.</p><br>
<p>The main building now, built in 1947, is a stuccoed concrete block building at the corner facing south. It was designed by Tucson architect Terry Atkinson in a modern Spanish Colonial architecture / Mission Revival architecture style. It has a simple interior with heavy pine ceiling beams and pine doors and trim. Several stained glass windows are donated memorials to church members. This served the need for more church space deriving from military personnel and their families post-World War II.</p><br>
<p>A gathering place known as the Rose Tree Courtyard is behind the church. It features two rose "trees" planted in the 1880s by the Giacoma-Costella family at their property on Sixth Street, which was later donated to the church. Father Thomas Doyle began tending the roses in 1965 and built a wooden support system. By 2001, the trees were each about 5 ft in circumference at the base and provided a canopy over a 2,500 ft&sup2; area. The courtyard also includes a stone altar and a memorial wall with plaques naming deceased members of the church. While large, these rose trees are dwarfed by the World&#39;s Largest Rosebush, located at 118 S. 4th St. in Tombstone, planted in 1885.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 the complex also included a school building, a modern rectory, and a storage building or two.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Nellie Cashman was a noted miner and local businesswoman owning a hotel /restaurant, who also worked as a nurse. She was said to have provided spiritual support to the convicted killers of the Bisbee Massacre, and to have prevented a public spectacle of their execution in Tombstone.</p><br>
<p>The complex was deemed significant and eligible for NRHP listing "for its association with the early development of Tombstone and its continuous role in the social history of the town, particularly as a focus for the Hispanic community." It was "the first church of any denomination built in Tombstone and was the sixth Catholic church constructed in Arizona Territory. The new building provided the “wild west” town of Tombstone&#39;s residents their first opportunity to worship in a real church building. The church has proven itself an invaluable part of the community since 1881 and continues to serve community needs today. Two of the buildings are also significant... for their close association with well-known entrepreneur and humanitarian, Nellie Cashman, who among her many charitable actions raised money to construct the 1881 church building/rectory and the 1882 church building.... The 1881 building is a rare example of an adobe building in Tombstone that is more than one story. Rarer still is the 1882 building, which is the oldest known frame church still standing in Arizona."</p><br>
<p>The complex is located at 516 Safford Street in Tombstone, on the northwest corner of Safford and Sixth St., just one block to the north of the Tombstone Historic District, a USA National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>St. Patrick&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a historic church on Oak Avenue, on Higgins Hill in Bisbee, Arizona, United States. It was built in 1915 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect Albert C. Martin of Los Angeles.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "because it embodies distinct characteristics of the Late Gothic Revival period of architecture and high artistic value in its decorative fittings, most specifically the stained glass windows and alters."</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing building in the Bisbee Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It is located about 200 feet up Higgins Hill, on the southerly side of Tombstone Canyon.</p><br>
<p>Holy Angels Church in Globe, Arizona, at 231 S. Broad Street, was built in 1916, and is notable for its architecture and stained glass. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is primarily Romanesque Revival in style but with Mission Revival influences. It has numerous stained glass windows created by Emil Frei and Associates. Its "tufa stone walls are remarkable," as is the story of its construction:A new priest in 1915, Father Virgil Genevrier, "decided that the relatively modest, wood frame and stucco Sacred Heart Church building should be replaced by a new, more inspirational edifice. Father Genevrier had been born and educated in France and, thus, probably recalled the many Romanesque churches"in his native land when he commissioned James S. Pigott, an^architect from Newark, New Jersey, to design the Holy Angels Church for a vacant portion of the Sacred Heart Church site. (The Sacred Heart Church was demolished, and the rectory was built on the site in 1928.) The construction of the church, which began in 1916, was clearly a community undertaking. Father Genevrier acted as the contractor for the project, probably without the assistance of the distant architect. Furthermore, according to the priests carefully detailed parish account book, most of the craftsmen who cut the tufa stones and erected the building were members."</p><br>
<p>It is 96x46 ft in plan, is built upon a reinforced concrete foundation, and has a four-story bell tower. The belfry has three bells weighing 500 lbs, 300 lbs, and 200 lbs cast in 1918 by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore. As of 1983 the bells were no longer being used due to poor condition of their cradles.</p><br>
<p>"Adjacent to the church is the Holy Angels Rectory, built in 1928 in the Romanesque Revival style with Spanish Colonial Revival overtones; it was substantially modified in 1952 to assume a Pueblo Revival image. The church exhibits good integrity, as it is essentially unaltered."</p><br>
<p>"The stained glass windows of the Holy Angels Church are particularly noteworthy. These splendid windows render a memorable quality to the light which they admit into the building and create an atmosphere uncommon to other frontier-era churches in the Southwest. These windows were designed and executed by Emil Frei, one of the most influential stained glass artists in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. (It is necessary to note that the designer of the Holy Angels Church windows was Emil Frei, Senior, founder of the Emil Frei Studios of St. Louis. His son, Emil Frei Junior, continued his fathers work and gained a level of prominence even greater than his father. The son discontinued the use of "Junior" after his fathers death. Unless one is knowledgeable of the fact that there were two Emil Freis, the extensive literature on the Freis can become confusing. Further confounding the matter, father and son collaborated on a number of works. However, the work of the son, especially that executed in the 1940s and later, is readily identified by its modern, cubistic character.)"</p><br>
<p>It also has an organ manufactured by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona, is a historic church designed by architect Norman F. Marsh. Located at 402 W. Monroe Street, the church was built in 1927, in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>It is a U-shaped building 100x100 ft in plan.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the building was acquired by City of Grace, a nondenominational church, to serve as their Phoenix campus.</p><br>
<p>Garfield Methodist Church is a historic church at 1302 E. Roosevelt Street in Phoenix, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1926 in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is currently home to Aim Right Ministries.</p><br>
<p>The church is a two-story 80x40 ft building designed by local architect Vere Wallingford. It is built of wire-cut bricks, with a gable roof, on a concrete foundation. It has a two-story corner entry vestibule resembling a bell tower.</p><br>
<p>Grace Lutheran Church is a historic Evangelical Lutheran Church in America church at 1124 N. 3rd Street in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.</p><br>
<p>The church as a congregation has been in existence since 1914, making it one of the oldest Lutheran churches in Arizona.</p><br>
<p>Its building was built in 1928, in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story stone building 80x100 ft in plan. It is divided into bays by buttressed pilasters. It has a rose window, stained glass and lancet windows at the rear, and crenulated parapets.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Its listing was in accordance with a study of historic church architecture in Phoenix.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Marys Church – formerly Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, and also known as "The Old Church: – at 230 East University Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, is a historic church at the built in 1903 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Father Severin Westhoff. It is the longest standing church in the Phoenix metropolitan area and served as a Catholic parish for the Tempe area until 1968, when it became home to the Arizona State University Newman Center. It currently serves as home to Mary College at ASU, a center for Catholic Studies formed in partnership between the University of Mary and Arizona State University, the Diocese of Phoenix, and the All Saints Catholic Newman Center. The Newman Centers offices and chapel stand adjacent to the historic church.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 under the name "Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church". It is the only example of Romanesque Revival architecture in the Tempe area, and one of only a few in Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The current church, which was built in 1903, replaced an earlier adobe chapel, built in 1881 as a mission to serve the Mexican inhabitants of the village of San Pablo, which sat at the foot of Hayden Butte. By 1891, Tempe had become part of St. Marys parish in Phoenix, and that name, "St. Marys", appears on the cornerstone of the new brick church built to serve the growing number of Anglo members of the church, along with the older Mexican ones. With the exception of two trained brick layers hired from Phoenix, labor for the construction came from volunteers.</p><br>
<p>The structure, an example of Territorial Victorian Romanesque Revival architecture, was constructed with bricks fired with clay colored with red soil from Fort McDowell and stands on a foundation of stone quarried from the base of the butte. It is adorned with twelve tall arched stained glass windows, two in the front of the building, and five more on each side. There is a stained-glass fanlight above the door.</p><br>
<p>The building, which measures approximately 77 x, has a steep gabled roof and features a square bell tower with an octagonal steeple. The tower rises above the double-door entrance and houses a bell constructed in St. Louis in 1903 specially for the church. There is a choir loft above the vestibule and a full basement, which is partly below ground level.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church was remodeled between 1937 and 1941, and a parish house constructed. In 1957, the growth of the congregation required that a new church be built, along with a rectory, school and convent, on 10 donated acres on Rural Road. The church building was sold to Newman Catholic Center in 1962 for $60,000. Services continued to be held in the building until 1968, when the city of Tempe would no longer allow large assemblies in the building. It was almost sold at one time to make way for a hamburger stand.</p><br>
<p>A 2019-2020 renovation of the interior undertaken by Mary College at ASU, in conjunction with the All Saints Catholic Newman Center, added a new paint scheme and a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe emblazoned with her words to St. Juan Diego, “¿No estoy yo aquí, yo que tengo el honor de ser tu Madre?” (Am I not here, I who have the honor of being your mother?)</p><br>
<p>As home to Mary College at ASU, the historic church is now utilized as a study library, transformable into a lecture hall and event space. The lower level consists of classrooms, offices, and student computers.</p><br>
<p>Catalina American Baptist Church  is a historic church in Tucson, Arizona. The original sanctuary there was built in 1960–1961. Its "primary character-defining feature...is a thin-shell concrete hyperbolic paraboloid roof." Its walls have floor-to-ceiling glass windows and aggregate concrete.</p><br>
<p>The church building features notable Modern Movement and Sculptural Expressionism style elements in its design.</p><br>
<p>A multi-purpose church complex was also built on the property, in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently home to Christian Faith Fellowship - A Wesleyan Church.</p><br>
<p>Saint Philips in the Hills Episcopal Church is an historic church at 4440 N. Campbell Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, United States. It was built in 1936 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. John and Helen Murphey, residents of Tucson, initially sought to commission architect Josias Joesler to construct a private chapel for them at their home. Joesler convinced them to fund the construction of a church at the intersection of Campbell Avenue and River Road in a then-undeveloped area of Tucson. The churchs first rector was Fr. George Ferguson.</p><br>
<p>San Pedro Chapel, located in the Fort Lowell area of Tucson, Arizona, is a historic and iconic architectural site with deep roots in the local community, dating back to the early 20th century. The adobe chapel was established by Mexican and Sicilian immigrants who settled in the area after the abandonment of Fort Lowell by the USA military. The center of a small settlement known as "El Fuerte," this area grew into village with rich cultural traditions. The chapel served as a cornerstone of community life and together with the Fort Lowell School House, the 1917 adobe Fort Lowell Union Church, and nearby small adobe houses made up the informal plaza and center of the community.</p><br>
<h2>Founding family: Egnazio and Gios Mulé</h2><br>
<p>Egnazio Mulé, a Sicilian immigrant, seeking better health migrated from San Jose, California arriving in Fort Lowell around 1908. He and his wife, Gios, established a store, a truck garden, and homesteaded the quarter section of land that would eventually house the San Pedro Chapel. Egnazio was appointed postmaster of Fort Lowell in 1911 but tragically died shortly after, at age 38, due to pneumonia. The day of his death, the store he and his wife operated was burglarized but Gios continued to live in the area and became a key figure in the construction of religious buildings that served the community.</p><br>
<p>Gios’s vision and generosity played a significant role in the development of San Pedro Chapel. She was integral to the construction of three religious structures: La Capillita (1915), a substantial adobe church building (1916), and eventually San Pedro Chapel (1932). She gifted the land that all three structures were built upon.</p><br>
<h2>La Capillita</h2><br>
<p>Built about 1915, La Capillita was the first religious building on the San Pedro Chapel property. The men of the neighborhood erected a tiny structure – eight by nine feet – from adobes made on the land. Large enough to hold just a simple altar and a priest, it was served by a Carmelite father who came out from Holy Family Parish near downtown Tucson every month or so. The communicants gathered in front under the shade of mesquite trees.</p><br>
<h2>Iglesia del Rillito & La Capilla de Fort Lowell</h2><br>
<p>The first full chapel was constructed in 1916 and had a number of names including “Iglesia del Rillito”, “Iglesia de Fort Lowell” “La Capilla del Rillito”, and “La Capilla de Fort Lowell”. La Capilla was blessed by Bishop Henry Regis Granjon, on Sunday October 8, 1916. Rev. Father Duval, priest of the Cathedral of Saint Augustine (Tucson, Arizona) said the mass, El Tucsonense noted at the time, “The chapel was definitively established, and although it does not have a regular staff for now, the Carmelite fathers will attend the religious services that it demands.”</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, the village of Fort Lowell was a vibrant hub of rich cultural traditions. Each year, the community came alive with celebrations and festivities that centered around the chapel including:</p><br>
<p>June 13: The celebration of San Antonio de Padua.</p><br>
<p>October 3: The lively fiesta of Los Santos Ángeles.</p><br>
<p>May 15: The annual mass in honor of San Isidro, the patron saint of the Rillito.</p><br>
<p>Tragedy struck. On August 4, 1928, El Tucsonense reported that Fort Lowell Chapel was destroyed by a cyclone. “The roof was blown off at a very long distance, some of the walls were destroyed, and the images were torn from their place and also carried away from the Chapel.”</p><br>
<h2>La Capilla de San Pedro / St. Peters Chapel</h2><br>
<p>In the throes of the depression, the community came together to rebuild the church. Led by Mulé, the men of the village began construction on what would become San Pedro Chapel. The adobes were handmade on-site, with local men working during their spare time, often on weekends. The chapel was completed in 1931 and named San Pedro Chapel in honor of Saint Peter. The building was designed in a Mission Revival/Spanish Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The new chapel was built over the ruins of the destroyed chapel facing north looking towards the Santa Catalina Mountains. The San Pedro Chapel, also known as San Pedro de Fort Lowell (St. Peter&#39;s at Fort Lowell Mission), was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1993, ref.: #93000306. It is also listed as a City Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was dedicated on September 27, 1931 at 4 o&#39;clock by Rev. Daniel James Gercke D.D. bishop of the Tucson Catholic Diocese.</p><br>
<h2>Later years and restoration</h2><br>
<p>For nearly two decades, San Pedro Chapel was a central place of worship for the community. However, in 1948, with the opening of St. Cyril&#39;s Church in Tucson, the chapel was deconsecrated and fell into disuse. For a short period, it served as a movie house and later stood empty, occasionally being used by local children as a haunted house.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, abstract expressionist artist and dancer Nik Krevitsky purchased the deconsecrated Chapel; that year, he converted the building into a residence, art studio and gallery. Krevitsky began renovating the chapel, humorously dubbing it "Mission Impossible."</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1982, the City of Tucson recognized the significance of San Pedro Chapel by designating it as the city’s first historic landmark. It was subsequently placed on both the State and National Register of Historic Places, cementing its importance as a symbol of Tucson&#39;s multicultural heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural significance</h2><br>
<p>Throughout the early 20th century, the village of Fort Lowell was a hub of cultural activity, with annual celebrations of religious feasts such as San Antonio de Padua (June 13), Los Santos Ángeles (October 3), and San Isidro (May 15), the patron saint of the Rillito.</p><br>
<p>San Pedro Chapel and the earlier chapels were instrumental in serving the spiritual needs of the tight-knit community of El Fuerte, which was composed of families primarily from Sonora and Baja California. The chapel remains a testament to the resilience and cultural heritage of the community.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use</h2><br>
<p>Today, San Pedro Chapel is no longer used for religious services but serves as a center for Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood Association, activities and community events. The brass bell, gifted by Mrs. Stephan Claflin and originating from a mission church in the Caribbean, still hangs in the chapels bell tower, and the pews, made from missile crates by neighbor Cuauhtémoc García, are a reminder of the communitys resourcefulness and dedication. Pima County supported the conservation of the building and the construction of a support building on the site with 2004 voter approved Bond Funding.</p><br>
<p>The property is owned by the 501(c)3 Non-Profit Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood Association and is rented for weddings, events and used to host lectures, fundraisers and special events throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>San Pedro Chapel stands as a lasting monument to the cultural and historical fabric of Tucson, preserving the legacy of the people who built it.</p><br>
<p>The Santa Cruz Catholic Church is a historic church near the Santa Cruz River at 1220 S. Sixth Avenue in Tucson, Arizona. It was designed by Bishop Henry Granjon of Tucson and built between 1916 and 1918. The Santa Cruz Catholic Church, or Santa Cruz for short, is significant for its construction using unstabilized mud-adobe bricks made in the Tohono Oodham Indian Reservation. It is also the largest known mud-adobe building in Arizona, and the states only surviving example of a major public building built of adobe. Santa Cruz was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Santa Cruz Catholic Church was built Manuel G. Flores in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with Islamic nuances, including a minaret-like bell tower. The overall plan is that of a long rectangular basilica adjoined by the Convento surrounding a courtyard. All of the building&#39;s masonry is covered with white paint and plaster. The roof is a frame of wooden trusses and decking with a low pitch. The rood is surrounded by a parapet with decorated perforations and piers with baroque finials. A small dome was added to the top of the altar when it was expanded in the 1940s. A continuous choir loft on the eastern side of the building above the entryway creates a sequence of compression at the entry, which opens up into a tall space above the nave. A rectangular skylight on the western side of the building lights up the altar.</p><br>
<p>Santa Cruz&#39;s bells rang for the first time at the end of World War I on November 11, 1918, when Granjon, after hearing about the surrender of Germany, ran to the church, climbed the steps of the tower, and rang the bells to announce Armistice Day to the city. The church, whose name means "Holy Cross" in English, was dedicated just a few months later in February 1919.</p><br>
<p>In November 1924, some Mexican copper miners that were striking for better wages and better hours set some dynamite off inside the church, although nobody was hurt. The strikers, many of whom were veterans of the recently concluded Mexican Revolution and Carmelite exiles, caused a significant amount of damage to some of the buildings trusses, which can still be seen today. Furthermore, the blast was so powerful that it blew the front door of the church off and cracked the buildings plaster walls. Although the trusses have been repaired, to this day only a limited number of people can use the choir loft at one time.</p><br>
<p>Oracle Union Church, formerly All Saints&#39; Church, is a historic church in Oracle, Arizona, United States.</p><br>
<p>The small village Gothic Revival church with Spanish influences was designed by Tucson-based architect Robert Rust and built in fall 1901. Constructed of dark granite by stonemason Jesus Osoma, the small building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1984. It is a non-denominational Christian church.</p><br>
<p>According to the Arizona Daily Star of September 25, 1902, “One evening a gentleman staying at the Arcadia Hotel announced his approaching marriage. At once the suggestion came, “Why not be married at Oracle?” The response was, “You have no church, and in a church we must be married.” Naturally the query followed. “Why shouldn&#39;t Oracle have a church?” There and then, the decision was made to build and three hundred dollars were subscribed at once.</p><br>
<p>C. H. Cook Memorial Church was a historic Presbyterian church on Church Street in Sacaton, Arizona. It was a large, two-story  mission revival building built of adobe and cement. The addition of the cement allowed for the unusual height for an adobe building. The church was one of the few two-story adobe buildings in Arizona, and could hold approximately 400 people. There is a small cemetery in the churchyard which includes the graves of the son and first wife of Dr. Cook, who died in 1884 and 1889 respectively.</p><br>
<p>The first church began in April 1889. The congregation moved to a new neighboring building in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The vacant church was destroyed in a fire on March 25, 2019.</p><br>
<p>Casa Grande Stone Church is a church located at 110 West Florence Boulevard in Casa Grande, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The church was originally built by Michael Sullivan, a local stonemason. It was the largest fieldstone building to be built by Sullivan in Casa Grande and served as the First Presbyterian Church of that town. Sullivan built the structure with the help of Los Angeles architect Robert Orr. The first service held in the church, with its glittering copper-plated dome, was in January 1928. The Casa Grande Historical Society acquired the Stone Church in June 1977. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is currently home to The Museum of Casa Grande.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a Conservative Baptist church at 218 E. Eighth Street, at the northwest corner of intersection with N. Olive, in Casa Grande, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1920. Its building constructed in 1938 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The listing included two contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant "as a good example of the Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style.... Indicative of the Mission style is the simplicity of form, the arched windows that punctuate the facade, and the minimal use of surface ornamentation. This property, like many properties that utilized revival styles during the era of this building&#39;s construction, borrows elements of other revival styles such as Gothic, Tudor and Romanesque. This property also has good integrity, as the only alteration appears to be the addition of solid material in place of glazing in the main arched window light on the front facade." The building is also significant one of only three public buildings in a surveyed area that is of wood-frame construction.</p><br>
<p>Saint Anthony&#39;s Church is a Roman Catholic religious complex on Picacho Street in Casa Grande, Arizona. The church, along with the associated rectory, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The church is built of adobe covered with stucco and has Spanish Colonial Revival influence. It was built in 1935. The north corner of its front facade has a bell tower surmounted by a small cross.</p><br>
<p>The rectory was built in 1936, and also is of Spanish Colonial Revival influence. Its interior has a large 16x31 ft open beamed ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The church or the rectory is also known as Murphy Hall.</p><br>
<p>The Clear Creek Church was built between 1898 and 1903 and is located on Clear Creek Road 3.5 mi southeast of Camp Verde, Arizona. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It was built of limestone blocks taken from Hayfield wash on the Middle Verde River. Blocks ranged from 10x13 in to 12x18 in in size. It is 40x25 ft in plan. It has a high gable roof.</p><br>
<p>The builders placed in the cornerstone of the building a bible and a $5 gold piece (which was chiseled away in the 1920s). It was Camp Verdes only church until 1913, when it was transformed into the citys one-room schoolhouse. In 1946, the church was abandoned. Later the Clear Creek Church was looked after by the Camp Verde Historical Society.</p><br>
