<p>James McColley House is a historic home located at Milford in Kent County, Delaware. It is a two-story, five-bay, brick-and-frame dwelling in two sections. The brick section is the older section and dates to about 1790. It is in the full Georgian plan. Sometime during the second quarter of the 19th century, the house was changed to a Victorian Gothic Revival style. The house has a double entrance door and cross-gable roof with box cornice and decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Mill House is a historic home located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The house is located across from the Parson Thorne Mansion. It is a late-18th century, two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling with a frame rear wing. It has a 2/3 Georgian side hall plan. It was owned by Delaware Governor Peter F. Causey  and was a rental property for the family.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Milford New Century Club is a historic women&#39;s club house in Milford, Kent County, Delaware, USA. It was built in 1885 as a schoolhouse for the Classical Academy. It is a one-story, T-shaped building with a gable roof in the Late Gothic Revival style. The New Century Club was organized in 1898, and purchased the building in 1905, after meeting at the building starting in 1898 and leasing it since 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Old Fire House is a historic fire station located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1925 as a combination fire house for the Carlisle Fire Company and community center. It is a two-story, square brick building with a projecting two-story entrance wing and stair tower. It has a flat roof and cornice capped with pre-cast concrete blocks.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Farm, also known as the Walnut Hill Farm and The Roosa Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1867, and is a two-story, three bay "T"-planned frame dwelling in the Italianate style. The main block has a hipped roof topped by a distinctive cupola. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn, stock-pound and hog house, a shop, and corn crib.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>J. H. Wilkerson & Son Brickworks was a historic abandoned brickworks and national historic district located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The district includes the sites of three contributing buildings and one contributing site at the brickworks that operated from 1912 to 1957. The sheds, machinery, kiln, and other structures which housed the machinery remain standing, others have deteriorated or collapsed. Last standing were the storage shed, the shed over the brick-making machine, and one of the drying sheds. All of the machinery was in place as were other pieces of equipment used in the brick-making process. The walls of the kiln remain standing, just as they would have been left after the fired bricks are removed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Golden Mine is a historic home located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1763, and is a two-story, three bay frame dwelling sheathed in cypress shingles. It has a double entrance. There is a two-story, one bay, brick addition with another front entrance. Both sections share a steep gable roof. There are rear frame additions. The interior features a large fireplace, winding stairs to the second floor, and front and</p><br>
<p>rear doors, separated by a single board partition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The White–Warren tenant house is a historic home located at Sandtown, Kent County, Delaware. It was most likely built in the 1860s or 1870s as a -story, three-bay one-room plan "house and garden" dwelling. The second floor is linked by a narrow winder stair. It was expanded in the early 20th century with an addition to the gable end and a one-room, one-story, shed-roofed kitchen addition. The house was moved to its current location around 1930. It was occupied by farm laborers working on the White–Warren farm.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Sutton House, also known as the House on Game Preserve, is a historic home located at Woodland Beach, Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1733, and is a two-story stuccoed brick house, constructed on a single pile, hall and parlor plan. It has a lower two-story wing that extends the axis of the main house. It serves as a residence and office for the personnel of the Woodland Beach Wildlife Area.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Gate School is the historic former school in Gate, Oklahoma. The yellow brick building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration from 1937 to 1938. The new school building replaced an existing school; due to budgetary constraints, the WPA reused materials from the previous school in the new building. The WPA worked extensively in Beaver County, which includes Gate, due to the Dust Bowl&#39;s impact on the local economy, and the new Gate School was one of several WPA-built school buildings in the county. The school served as the local elementary and high school until the high school consolidated with the Laverne school district in 1972; the elementary school followed suit in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The WPA&#39;s standardized plans used for this school were designed by architect Walter T. Vahlberg.</p><br>
<p>The Gate School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1999. The listing included one contributing building and two contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>The Flambeau Mission Church  is a historic church south of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States. The church was the first church in Rusk County, built just below the junction of the Chippewa and Flambeau Rivers in 1882 to serve the French and Indian community called Flambeau Farms. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In the later 1800s, logging and log-driving made the Flambeau and Chippewa rivers a busy place. White settlement began around 1847 and by 1864 the Daniel Shaw Lumber Company had established a farm near the junction of the rivers to supply its logging operations. In addition to river traffic, the stagecoach line from Chippewa Falls into the logging frontier also stopped at Shaw&#39;s farm.</p><br>
<p>A mile and a half to the east, a village of Chippewa Indians had taken root on the south bank of the river. Franciscan missionaries visited the village and around 1881 they built a simple mission church facing the river, with local carpenter Thomas Orthman and other residents working under the direction of Father Chrysostom Verwyst and Father Casimir. In back was a one-story priest&#39;s quarters. In 1884 a 2-story annex was added, intended as a monastery but never used for that purpose. The bell tower was added in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The Chippewa community had about 70 confirmed members at the 1881 dedication of the church. This was around the peak of pine logging, and the Flambeau settlement had about 11 saloons. With the passing of logging, all of this has faded. The church is the only building surviving from the little logging community.</p><br>
<p>Saint Ann&#39;s Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic rural, Roman Catholic church in the town of Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located at W3963 Brehm Avenue, south of Rib Lake and north of Medford. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>St. Ann&#39;s Catholic Church and Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>The community that built St. Annes was chiefly German and German-Bohemian, mainly people who immigrated from around the border between Bohemia and Bavaria from 1881 to 1883. Clergy first came to St. Annes community by horseback or rail for services in homes. In 1884 the Wisconsin Central Railroad donated a one-acre site for the church. In 1888, following approval of Bishop Kilian Caspar Flasch of the Diocese of La Crosse, construction of the church and adjacent cemetery began. Next to the church to the west was the Highland School, and in 1892 the Thums General Store and Post Office was built across the road. With that, this rural crossroads formed the center of a fairly self-contained community.</p><br>
<p>The first Mass was offered at St. Annes on September 25, 1888 by Rev. J. W. Ritz. When a rectory was built in 1902 at Rib Lake for St. John the Baptist Church, Rev. Joseph Heeger, that churchs first resident pastor also served St. Ann&#39;s congregation. Services were conducted in German from the start until 1915.</p><br>
<p>In 1905 administration of St. Annes was transferred to the new Diocese of Superior. In 1908, a statue of Mary was donated by St. Anns Altar Society.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery immediately behind the church contains graves dating to 1887, including founders of the church. Two of the graves are marked by ornate iron crosses in a style which the old-timers knew from their home in "old country."</p><br>
<p>The church was wired for electricity in 1933, using light fixtures that had come from Medford State Bank, but electric power didn&#39;t become available until 1946. During the 1940s a new oil burning furnace was installed.</p><br>
<p>In 1963, the diocese closed St. Ann&#39;s Church because of a shortage of clergy. After closing, the diocese maintained insurance coverage, but routine maintenance and upkeep declined. In 1983, parishioners were presented with several options, two of which involved demolition. They chose to form a non-profit organization responsible for care and maintenance of the building and grounds.</p><br>
<h3>Historic St. Ann&#39;s</h3><br>
<p>Local preservationists and former parish members purchased the church and cemetery from the Diocese of Superior and formed Historic St. Anns Inc. Articles of incorporation were filed on August 12, 1988. Over the years, through annual work bees, members have enhanced the building, grounds and cemetery property. The 2013 annual St. Annes newsletter describes the many projects completed in the past 25 years.</p><br>
<p>The Gate School is the historic former school in Gate, Washington and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The one room schoolhouse was built in 1910. It served students from first to eighth grade until the school consolidated with Rochester&#39;s school district in 1941-1942. The school building became a community center, continuing to do so. The school has been preserved by the Gate Community Club since 1944 and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and features</h2><br>
<p>The frame building features a gable roof, eaves with decorative brackets, exposed rafter tails, a brick chimney, and a square bell tower., the schoolhouse retains its original blackboards and hardwood fir floors, cut and milled from a logging camp in nearby Bordeuax. Replica desks and benches were built to simulate the school&#39;s early aesthetics. The lumber used for the benches may have been boards taken from the original Gate train depot.</p><br>
<p>David J. Cummins House, also known as "Glen Fern," is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built in the mid-18th century, and expanded and altered in the 19th century in a Victorianized Colonial Revival style. It was originally constructed as a two-story, four-bay, hall-and-parlor plan dwelling. The house consists of a main section with wings and is constructed of stuccoed brick.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>John M. Voshell House is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in about 1850, and is a two-story, five-bay L-shaped brick dwelling with a gable roof. The roof has a heavy cornice and wide overhang in the Italianate style. It has a Federal style entrance and Greek Revival-style porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>George Farmhouse is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built between about 1915 and 1920, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. Parts of the house date to the 19th century, and the one-story and attic kitchen wing may be the oldest section of the house. It features a three-story, offset hexagonal shaped tower with a tent roof and a wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Moore House is a historic home located at Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built between in 1868, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with Italianate and Gothic Revival style decorative detail. It has an unusual, off-set double-pile, "house-on-house" plan. It has a cross-gable roof with a distinctive cornice and a wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Peterson and Mustard&#39;s Hermitage Farm is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1863, and is a two-story, L-shaped frame dwelling in the Italianate "peach house" style. It consists of a three-bay, flat-roofed main block with a rear service wing. The front facade features a Greek Revival-style entryway. Also on the property are a contributing granary-loading shed group and stable; both of pegged braced-frame construction, and probably dating from the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn, also known as the Thomas England House, was a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It was first known as Morris Rambles when built in 1741 by James Morris of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1853, it was sold by Elizabeth Berry Morris  to cousin George Wilson Cummins. After extensive renovations, the mansion was renamed Woodlawn. It was a two-story, five-bay temple-fronted frame dwelling in the Greek Revival-style. It had a gable roof and featured a monumental pedimented portico supported by six Doric order columns. It had a one-story kitchen wing with a low hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The house was demolished on July 14, 2017, despite community efforts to preserve it.</p><br>
<p>Savin-Wilson House, also known as the Dew Duck Inn Hunting Club and John B. Savin House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1820, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed brick main block with a one-story, gable-roofed frame kitchen wing. It is in a late Georgian / Federal vernacular style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant, also known as the Samuel Cahoon House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1810, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed brick main house with an interior brick chimney stack at either gable end and a one-story, gable-roofed brick kitchen wing. It is in a late Georgian / Federal vernacular style and measures 43 feet by 25 feet. Also on the property are a contributing early 19th-century smokehouse and barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Beluga Point Site  is an archaeological location along Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, near Seward Highway Milepost 110, south of Anchorage, in the USA state of Alaska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Artifacts of the area are evidence of early human habitation. Beluga Point North 1 (BPN1) artifacts are 8,000–10,000 years old and believed to be evidence of the oldest habitation in Anchorage municipality. Various other artifacts at Beluga Point South 1 and 2 (BPS1 and BPS2) are believed to be 3,500 to 4,000 years old, while some newer ones are dated at 600 to 800 years old.</p><br>
<p>Beluga Point is also a wildlife viewing area under the jurisdiction of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Beluga whales can be sighted seasonly July through August as hundreds of the cetaceans visit Cook Inlet to feed on the Pacific salmon run.</p><br>
<p>Short&#39;s Landing Hotel Complex is a historic hotel and farm complex located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. The complex consists of five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They are the brick hotel , a frame Federal-style mansion house , a small abandoned factory, and an extensive collection of outbuildings including a stable, granaries and storage sheds. The hotel is a two-story, five bay brick vernacular structure. The frame mansion house has a traditional center-hall, single-pile floor plan. The frame leadite factory was in operation mainly from the 1920s to the late 1940s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit&#39;s Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a 1 ft, 6 ft separation wall that stretches about 1/2 mi in length. 1 foot  is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet  is visible to the community. It was constructed in 1941 to physically separate black and white homeowners on the sole basis of race. The wall no longer serves to racially segregate homeowners and, as of 1971, both sides of the barrier have been predominantly black.</p><br>
<p>The wall begins across the street from the northern boundary of Van Antwerp Park, on Pembroke Avenue between Birwood and Mendota streets. It extends north until just south of 8 Mile Road. An exposed stretch of the wall with no homes to the east runs through Alfonso Wells Memorial Playground, between Chippewa Avenue and Norfolk Street. Community activists and Detroit residents collaborated in 2006 to turn this portion of the wall into a mural. Paintings have depicted, for example, neighborhood children blowing bubbles, a group of a cappella singers, Rosa Parks&#39;s boarding the bus signifying her contribution to the Civil Rights Movement, and citizens protesting for equitable housing policy.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The World War I industrial economy of Detroit afforded opportunities for women and black men to become more active participants in the labor force of the city. A large percentage of white men were drafted to fight in the war, leaving many of their jobs vacant and needing to be filled. This allowed black citizens to fill empty job positions, causing a large demographic shift in the makeup of the Detroit workforce. In light of more job opportunities, the city experienced an increase in the population of black people seeking economic and social mobility. This trend was known nationwide as the Great Migration, as more than six million black people moved from the southern to the northern areas of the United States. But as white men were returning from war and more black citizens entered the city, competition for scarce housing increased tensions between the two groups. White residents took over most private-sector housing, pushing black residents to less desirable areas of the city. The Great Depression furthered the scarcity of housing as the population continued to soar.</p><br>
<p>The New Deal legislation implemented under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt intended to make private housing more accessible to citizens. The Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created in 1933, followed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). In short, these programs reduced barriers to housing by offering discounted payment plans spread out over 20–30 years. These policies significantly improved home-ownership accessibility for working-class white Detroit residents and promoted single-family units. Yet according to Thomas J. Sugrue, a Detroit scholar and historian, black residents did not benefit from the New Deal era of legislation because "local governments had the final say over the expenditure over the federal funds, the location of projects, and the type constructed." As a result of local government bodies being composed of white politicians, white residents received federal funding, while black residents were left to seek housing with no aid.</p><br>
<p>The primary concern of white Detroit residents was maintaining racial homogeneity. Local policies allowed for the prevention of black "infiltration" into white neighborhoods due in part to the HOLC members serving as federal appraisers. They identified areas that were "safe" for banks to issue loans to by giving each neighborhood a rating: A, B, C, or D. An "A," or "green," was practically guaranteed a loan, largely due to the fact that these areas were homogeneously white and affluent. In turn, a "D," or "red," neighborhood was occupied by black residents who were systematically prevented from receiving a loan. This became a phenomenon across the United States known as red-lining. In Detroit specifically, red-lining preserved racial homogeneity and increased racial tensions. For example, if a black family moved into a white neighborhood, the rating of the neighborhood would change and everyone’s property value would decrease, creating resentment among the two communities. Between 1930 and 1950, three out of five homes purchased in the United States were financed by FHA, yet less than two percent of the FHA loans were made to non-white home buyers. In addition to generational inequalities, the practice of residential discrimination also exacerbated racial tensions in primary education. In the case of the Detroit Wall, most of the kids on the west side attended MacDowell Elementary School, which was majority white. On the east side of the wall, the kids attended Higginbotham School, which was mostly black.</p><br>
<p>Without any financial aid, black neighborhoods became starkly different than white neighborhoods. Renovations, purchasing homes, and rent in these areas were far too expensive to afford, causing deterioration in these areas and overall lower living standards. The appearance of black neighborhoods solidified white resident&#39;s opinions that Black residents were a detriment to any neighborhood. Thomas J. Sugrue wrote, “the decaying neighborhoods offered seemingly convincing evidence to white homeowners that blacks were feckless and irresponsible and fueled white fears that blacks would ruin any neighborhood that they moved into.”</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the New Deal was perceived differently by the federal and local level. In Detroit, these policies caused debates between public housing and private home-ownership, two commodities that those living in Detroit believed could not work together. These debates were often racial, with public housing aimed to help black people in the city and private home-ownership aimed at helping middle class white people become homeowners. The debate over public housing was centered around the belief that such an idea would threaten the private sector. Affordable living for the lower class, usually minorities, meant interference with a successful, free market real estate. Community groups determined to keep their neighborhoods segregated lobbied against public housing projects, and contractors found business working in private housing.</p><br>
<p>The Eight Mile/Wyoming neighborhood, where this wall is located, was one of many that was significantly affected by the housing crisis. When originally settled by Black residents in the early 20th century, this neighborhood was located outside Detroit&#39;s city limits, and was described as a farmland where residents pooled resources in order to build their own homes. The neighborhood was annexed by Detroit in 1926. The houses were small, but the residents were proud of their homes they built up from nothing. In 1938, the Detroit Housing Commission conducted a survey and found residents living here to be among the poorest in Detroit. Despite this, the residents of this neighborhood were both independent and secure with over 90% of residents living in these single family built homes.</p><br>
<h2>Eight Mile community and construction</h2><br>
<p>Due to redlining, the Eight Mile area was extremely poor and was considered a "blighted area". After World War II, a developer saw the area as a new spot to construct an all-white subdivision. This proposed subdivision was named "Blackstone Park." HOLC appraisers viewed this as high-risk because of how close it was to the neighborhood occupied by black people. FHA, as a result, was unable and unwilling to lend out loans for home construction. Sugrue reports, "the developer worked out a compromise with the FHA, garnering loans and mortgage guarantees in exchange for the construction of a foot-thick, six-foot-high wall, running for a half-mile on the property line separating the black and white neighborhoods." A representative of the owner of the Blackstone Park subdivision declared that the wall was being put up "simply to improve the subdivision by giving it a fixed border and trim." This statement was outlined in a Michigan Chronicle article which criticized the owner of the subdivision for attempting to establish a "Negro ghetto" by erecting the wall between the subdivision and the preexisting black neighborhoods.</p><br>
<p>Contractors and realtors were able to attract whites to this area because the wall would "protect them". It served to keep property values high and to keep the neighborhoods racially segregated. It became known as the Detroit Eight Mile Wall, the "Detroit Wailing Wall", and the Birwood Wall.</p><br>
<p>However, in 1948, the Supreme Court outlawed the enforcement of deed restrictions regarding race and other forms of discrimation. By the following year, houses on the west side of the wall, inside the Blackstone Park subdivision, appeared on the market, intended for black buyers. By the 1960s, both sides of the wall were majority black neighborhoods. Two black neighborhoods – one built by black activism, the other by white flight – became a single community, known as Eight Mile-Wyoming, with a wall in the middle.</p><br>
<h2>Wall today</h2><br>
<p>The wall still stands in the Eight Mile area to this day. The Wall’s function has transformed from being a racial barrier to a backyard fence and mural for the current residents of this community. The residents are aware that the Wall was originally meant to be racially divisive, but now black people live on both sides of it. In 2006, a portion of the Wall was converted into a mural by Detroit residents and community activists. It serves as a reminder and recognition of history, but also of a hopeful, more colorful future. Regarding the wall today, Rochelle Riley, with Detroit Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship remarks that "history lost is history that can be repeated." Instead of eliminating the wall to erase the history of residential segregation and discrimination, the community chose to responsibly acknowledge these histories and aimed to educate future generations about the harms of such practices.</p><br>
<p>In 2021, the wall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil Rights Movement and the African American Experience in 20th Century Detroit Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a historic church at County Highway Q and Rich Road in Shields, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed by James Clancy of Hubbleton in the Carpenter Gothic style, and constructed by local craftsmen and parishioners of cream brick and wood. The belfry is louvred with a shingled spire, resting on the gabled roof over the main entrance. A key feature of the nave are ten pointed-arch stained glass windows, added at some time after 1895, each set with a different Christian symbol in the arch and dedicated to a different individual or family. The altar was donated in 1899 and features a triptych back.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Richwood and its surrounding area was settled by Irish and German Catholics in the mid-19th century, but the only church serving the community was St. Bernard&#39;s in Watertown, almost ten miles away. A Patrick Norton donated an acre of land for the construction of a church, and the cornerstone was laid on July 3, 1864.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the Holy Cross Fathers who had been administering the parish were removed, and the parish became a mission of St. Henrys in Watertown, then of St. Johns in Clyman. By 1970, reflecting a decline in the rural population, the church was deconsecrated and the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, of which it was then part, sold it and its rectory to private owners. The church was added to the National Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 716 College Avenue in Racine, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1852 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was designed by Lucas Bradley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church was among the first religious institutions to be created in Racine. The church was founded in 1839, two years prior to the official incorporation of the village of Racine. In its first years, it frequently outgrew its established meeting places: first a schoolhouse on Main Street between Second and Third Streets, then the unoccupied upper floor of the town jail. The congregations first church building was dedicated in February 1843. In 1850 the congregations pastor, the Reverend T.M. Hopkins, and later his successor Rev. Z.M. Humphrey, solicited funds to construct a larger house of worship on the southern edge of the city. The building&#39;s cornerstone was laid at 7th Street and College Avenue on May 6, 1851, and the finished building was dedicated June 10, 1852.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in a Greek Revival style by architect and church elder Lucas Bradley. Several women in the congregation provided room and board to the builders who constructed the church. The total cost of construction was totaled at $10,600, on top of the $1,200 paid for the land. The church holds 156 pews, 138 on the ground floor and 18 in the balcony. A bell was added to the tower in 1855, which doubled as the citys fire alarm. The churchs current organ was purchased in 1886.</p><br>
<p>Church of St. Thomas the Apostle is a historic church at 822 E. Grand Avenue in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1885 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas is the oldest Catholic parish in Beloit, with roots going back to 1846, when the parishioners were largely Irish immigrants worshiping in the home of Captain Thomas and Lucy Power, where City Hall now stands. In 1854 the parish built a stone church, in which they worshiped for thirty years until it burned in 1884. Reverend J.W. Ward set right to work raising funds for a new building, partly by giving a series of temperance lectures.</p><br>
<p>The new church was built from 1885 to 1886 on the site of the stone church. James J. Egan of Chicago designed a simply massed rectangular building with a gable roof and a square corner tower, with fine details. The walls are cream brick, with brick buttresses and stone trim. The porches are in Stick style, an unusual choice for a church like this. The windows are tall, with arches slightly pointed, a typical Gothic detail. A circle-within-the-arch motif repeats in many windows. Many buttresses lead up to little towers with gablets on top. The big corner tower has its own corner gablets, then a belfry with a rose window, then a spire reaching 150 feet, topped with a cross.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the auditorium is 118 feet long and fifty-five feet wide, with an arcade of stained glass windows. Behind the altar is another large, elaborate stained glass window. The ceiling is supported by wooden trusses. The church was built by masons Marshall and Sweet, carpenters Cummingham Brothers, and stonecutter A.S. Jackson, all from Beloit.</p><br>
<p>Court Street Methodist Church, which for a time also was known as Rock County Appliance and TV, is a historic church at 36 S. Main Street in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1868 and was renovated by Masonic organization during 1905–1906. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>It is 50x138 ft in plan, designed in a restrained Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>Fulton Congregational Church  is a historic church on Fulton Street in Fulton, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1858 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1851 by Rev. Dexter Clary and Hiram Foote, and held services in the schoolhouse in the first years. The church building was constructed during 1857–59 for $2,800.</p><br>
<p>The building is one-story, 36x55 ft, built of Cooksville red brick, with local tan brick for approx. seven course rim and base trim, on a limestone foundation. The cornice returns and pitch of the roof are Greek Revival elements. The walls and tower are varied with pilasters.</p><br>
<p>Additions constructed by Roberts Construction Inc were completed in 2016, with the latest new basketball court, dining hall and lower level educational classrooms, designed by nearby Madison architect Ron Siggelkow of Dimension IV.</p><br>
<p>The addition created a new and compatible complement to the original historic chapel. The worship room/sanctuary from a previous addition accommodates a larger congregation than the original historic chapel, which now serves as a congregation room. A new lobby and entry connect the gym and the historic annex and the sanctuary overlooking the Yahara River.</p><br>
<p>Shopiere Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church in Shopiere, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1853 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Shopiere congregation was established in 1844 by Reverend Stephen Peet, riding over from Beloit. The members initially met in a log schoolhouse, then in a small chapel which they built at the south end of the church before the church was built. In 1850 they began constructing the main block of the building pictured.</p><br>
<p>That main block has walls of rough-cut locally quarried limestone laid in courses. Its style is simple Greek Revival, suggested by the pitch of the roof, the frieze board, and the entablature in the gable end. The main block was completed in 1853 at a cost of $2,000. The tower at the front was added in the following years, rectangular and wooden with two round-arched windows on the front and an entry door on each side. Resting on the tower is an octagonal belfry, and from that rises a graceful steeple topped with a cross. The style of the tower and belfry are rather unusual for Wisconsin, and may result from some early members&#39; New England origins. In 1871 the tall Gothic-styled pointed-arch windows were added on the sides of the church, and the original chapel at the back was replaced with a new chapel.</p><br>
<p>Louis P. Harvey, briefly governor of Wisconsin during the Civil War, is the most famous member of the Shopiere congregation. Today the church is probably the second oldest continuously used church in Rock County.</p><br>
<p>West Luther Valley Lutheran Church is a historic church built in 1871 in the Norwegian immigrant farm community southwest of Orfordville, Wisconsin on West Church Rd. In 1980 the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a remnant of that Norwegian community and for its association with the prominent Rev. Claus Clausen.</p><br>
<p>The first Norwegian immigrants in the area then called Rock Prairie arrived in 1839. In 1844 Pastor Claus Lauritz Clausen visited from Muskego and conducted services for his Norwegian brethren in Skavlem&#39;s stone house. A congregation formed and they called Clausen to be their pastor. He arrived in 1846 and gave half his salary toward building the first Luther Valley Church - a stone building 28 by 44 feet, furnished with a home-made altar, pews, baptismal font and pulpit. Meetings of Norwegian Lutheran leaders from the upper Midwest were held at this East church in 1851 and 1853 at which the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was organized. Luther College was also planned here, at a meeting in 1861.</p><br>
<p>Clausen stepped down as pastor in 1851 and switched to publishing Norwegian language newspapers out of a stone print shop near the East Church: the church paper Maanedstidende and the secular paper Emigranten. He also served as superintendent of the Norwegian Synod from 1851 to 1852. In 1853 Clausen went to Iowa, but returned from time to time to conduct services. Clausen served as chaplain of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War and in 1861 led a church faction that declared slavery a sin. In 1868 he resigned from the Norwegian Synod over the matter. He eventually joined the Norwegian-Danish Conference, as did the Luther Valley church.</p><br>
<p>By 1871 the Luther Valley congregation had outgrown its stone church, and built two frame church buildings: the East Luther Valley Church on the site of the stone church, and the West Luther Valley Church which is the subject of this article. The west church was added as a branch congregation for the convenience of families that lived out that way. Both churches were built by Anders Bjornstad, born at Toten, Norway. The head carpenter of the west church was Jesse Woodward.</p><br>
<p>The West Church was a modest, fairly typical country church - a frame structure clad in white clapboard on a limestone foundation, with four tall windows with clear glass on each side. Above the front entry was a square tower supporting a smaller square belfry. Inside, a choir loft spanned above the front entry. When the West church was built in 1871, the old church furniture from the East church was moved there, including the altar with a locally made reredos, the railings, pulpit, baptismal font, wooden pews, and two "pens" for the pastor&#39;s assistants. These furnishings were probably present in the East church for the meetings that formed the Norwegian Synod.</p><br>
<p>The church changed over the years. A kitchen wing was added, probably around 1900. The enclosed porch was added around 1907. About 1950 the congregation added a basement and furnace under the church, a drop ceiling in the nave along with wallpaper and paneling, and they replaced the clear glass windows with colored glass.</p><br>
<p>Some Norwegian language services continued into the 1950s. In 1966 the West Church joined the Wisconsin Synod and renamed itself Bethany Church.</p><br>
<p>Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic rural church on County Highway C, 1 mile west of Denzer in Honey Creek, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1880 as a mission church for German settlers and was added to the National Register in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Honey Creek was founded in 1852 as a mission of St. Aloysius Catholic parish in Sauk City, under Reverend Adelbert Inama. St. Aloysious also established Saint Lukes of Plain and Saint Patricks of Loreta as missions about the same time. Worship was first held at Honey Creek in the living room of Katherine and John George Leidig, with the missionary priest walking 13 miles from Sauk City. By 1862 people were buried in the current cemetery at the foot of the bluff. In 1867 a log church was built on the cemeterys side of the road, but it burned shortly after, and the congregation resumed services in Leidigs home.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 the parish built the stone church very much as it stands today, across the road from the cemetery. Its walls are yellow limestone, randomly laid by local stonemasons Kasper Steuber and/or Peter Mettel and Nicolaus Allart. This uncoursed stone is framed by quoins of dressed limestone, and windows and doors are framed in the same. To make the church look more formal, the masons laid lines of mortar over the face of the uncoarsed stone, to suggest cut blocks. Windows and doors have lancet arches, a hallmark of Gothic architecture. Above the centered front door is a rose window, and above that is a square frame belfry with an octagonal steeple, topped with a simple cross.</p><br>
<p>Inside is a single room, with twelves rows of original wooden pews on each side of a centered main aisle. At the front stands a wooden Gothic-style altar built by E. Briemayer of Milwaukee in 1883–84. To the right of the altar is a pot-bellied Jewel-brand stove. Left of the altar is a confession booth. Above it is a four-foot wooden cross, on which is written "Rette Diene Seele Mission-1860-1887". The first part is German for "save your soul," and the last part indicates it was used for mission services even before the church was built.</p><br>
<p>The interior walls are plaster over lathe, then painted and stenciled - all remarkably original. Designs include stars, lattice, tulip shapes and urns. On the east and west walls are fading inscriptions:</p><br>
<p>Alle Tage deines Lebens habe Gott in Deinem Herzen und Hute dich (Every day of your life have God in your heart and protect yourself)</p><br>
<p>Ye in eine Sunde zu willigen. Tag 4. (Ye to consent to a sermon. Day 4.)</p><br>
<p>Wer euch hort der hort Mich. Wer euch verachtet, der verachtet. (Whoever hears you hears me. Who despises you, despises me.)</p><br>
<p>Du sollst Vater und Mutter ehren. 10 Geb. (You should honor your father and mother. 10 Geb.)</p><br>
<p>Furchte den Herrn von deiner gauzen Seele und halte seine Priester in Ehren Jes Sirach. 7:31. (Fear the Lord of your wretched soul and honor his priests in the honor of Sirach. 7:31.)</p><br>
<p>Nirgen ist ein Fehler gefahrlicher als hir. St. Greg. (Nowhere is a mistake more dangerous than hir.(?) St. Greg.)</p><br>
<p>A caretakers home was built nearby at the same time as the church. The first priest was Reverend Herman Grosse. Services were monthly and initially conducted in Latin. Later the language switched to German. After WWI, services switched to English. The church remained a mission church with services held monthly until 1942. By then attendance didnt justify that schedule, so services were cut back to several times each year. Edward Bender bought the caretaker&#39;s home in 1947 and moved it. In 1960 the mission church was closed.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery across the road is backed by the wooded bluff. The earliest tombstone is from 1862. Grave markers include wrought iron crosses, simple slab markers, and modern, machine-cut stones. Names on the stones include Bethscheider, Bliven, Brylla, Conner, Conway, McKenna, Mehan, Mettel, O&#39;Neill, Power and Unterholtzener. The German, Irish and English names are generally grouped in different parts of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>In 1973 Robert Jaedike bought the church for $1500, giving it to the Sauk Prairie Historical Society in 1975. Today County C still winds around the wooded bluff and between the church and cemetery. The church serves as a wedding chapel and a public museum on summer Sundays.</p><br>
<p>First English Lutheran Church  is a historic church at 354 Third St., North in New Richmond, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1906 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Around 1892, Pastor J.T. Kjollgren organized a Lutheran congregation among the Swedish settlers on the north side of New Richmond. Many of them worked in lumber mills on the north side of the Willow River – especially the Willow River Lumber Company. The congregation was probably called First English Lutheran because it held some worship in the English language. They initially held services in the Norwegian Lutheran Church on North Third Street, renting the space at one dollar per service.</p><br>
<p>In 1906 the congregation decided to build their own church. They arranged a benefit to raise money for this project, with the Arpi Quartette from Gustavus Adolphus College performing at Hagans Opera House. Tickets cost from 25¢ for children to 50¢ for reserved seats. Construction began that same year. The first service in the new building was held January 5, 1907 in the basement, because the roof wasnt yet finished.</p><br>
<p>The general form of the building is a typical small church, with a tower and steeple centered above the front door. The raised foundation is rusticated concrete block. The walls are also cream-colored concrete block, supplied by the B&W Concrete Stone Company of New Richmond. The windows and door are topped with lancet arches, typical of Gothic Revival style. The front tower is square, with the bottom built of block. On that sits a wooden section of the tower which once held a bell. On top of that is an octagonal spire topped with a cross. Inside, the church has been remodeled into an Anglican style.</p><br>
<p>In 1945 the congregation changed their name to First Lutheran Church, without the English, and merged with Norwegian Lutheran Church. The following year St. Thomas Episcopal bought the old First English Lutheran building for $3,300 and has called it home since. St. Thomas has roots in New Richmond going back to around 1867. They had a church building which was destroyed by the 1899 tornado. After that they worshiped in members&#39; homes for almost fifty years before buying the Lutheran church in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The NRHP nomination considers the building significant as a remnant of the Scandinavian community on the north side of New Richmond. It is also the only old church in New Richmond still used as a church.</p><br>
<p>St. Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic church site at Co. Hwy. Y 3 miles south of the junction of Co. Hwy. Y and SR 33 in the Town of Trenton, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1856 by a community of Catholic immigrants from the Kingdom of Bavaria. Like many early structures in southeastern Wisconsin, it is made of mortared fieldstone, and is one of four surviving fieldstone churches in Washington County, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>The church was served by itinerant missionary priests for the first twenty-four years of its existence. After 1870, the congregation was served by the same priest as the neighboring Holy Trinity Church in Newburg. In the 19th century, the church basement hosted a school where children from the area learned to read and write in German while also receiving religious education. The students were taught by Sisters of St. Agnes, whose order was founded in the Village of Barton, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the inside of the church had whitewashed walls, but in 1925, the congregation commissioned Milwaukee artist Hans Schmeidl to paint a depiction of St. Augustine behind the altar, flanked by bordered medallion paintings of Mary and Jesus.</p><br>
<p>Sermons and hymns were in German into the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The church stopped holding regular services in 1985, and the parishioners joined Holy Trinity Church in Newburg. From that point on, the building was used exclusively for holiday services, weddings, and funerals. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>St. John of God Roman Catholic Church, Convent, and School is a historic church near the unincorporated community of Boltonville in the Town of Farmington, Wisconsin. The church was built from Cream City brick in 1891, although the congregation has existed since the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The Town of Farmington was historically a German community, but the St. John of God congregation was organized by Irish immigrants who settled in the Boltonville area and elected not to join one of the town&#39;s German-speaking Catholic churches. In 1860, they constructed a church building which no longer exists and was replaced by the 1891 structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1868, the Sisters of St. Agnes, a Catholic order founded in the Village of Barton, Wisconsin, built a school and a convent on the church property. The nuns served as public school teachers until at least 1892, and also taught parochial classes in the convent until 1879. Both buildings were abandoned around the turn of the century and were stripped for materials in the 1930s. Only the buildings&#39; fieldstone-and-mortar walls remain.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>First German Reformed Church was a historic church built in 1891 at 413 Wisconsin Avenue in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The 1891 building burned to the ground in 2005.</p><br>
<p>First German&#39;s congregation began in 1866, when Prof. H. Kurtz, a missionary from Germany, organized the Erste Deutsche Reformite Kirche (First German Reformed Church) among the German-speaking immigrants in Waukesha. By 1880 the congregation had grown to 190 communicants and was worshiping in a large stone structure built in 1840 to house the Prairieville Academy, which had moved on to become Carroll College. By 1890 First German had outgrown its building, so they decided to tear it down and build a new church on the same site.</p><br>
<p>The floor-plan of the 1891 building was a 39 by 71 foot rectangular. The walls were wood frame clad in cream brick, on a raised foundation of rock-faced Waukesha limestone blocks. The walls were broken by tall round-arched windows, and separated into bays by pilasters in the brick. At the center of the north end stood a large rectangular tower, with the church&#39;s main entrance originally at its bottom. The first stage of the tower was brick, the second stage was a wood-sided lantern, and the third stage was an ornate belfry and steeple, topped with a cross. The style was High Victorian eclectic, with the symmetry and vertical lines drawn from Gothic Revival style, the rustic foundation and round arches from Romanesque Revival style, and the pilasters perhaps from Greek Revival. The architect is unknown. This 1891 building cost $8000.</p><br>
<p>Inside, two rows of pews faced the altar at the south end. Walls were plastered, with wooden wainscoting at the base. Space inside the nave rose to the collar beams, which supported a flat ceiling.</p><br>
<p>Services were conducted entirely in German until around WWI, when they shifted to both German and English. Gradually, use of the German language dwindled.</p><br>
<p>In 1924–25, an annex (chapel) was added east of the nave to handle membership that had grown to 716. H.C. Haeuser of Milwaukee designed it to match the 1891 building, with a bit of Tudor Revival style added - yet another style. At the same time, Haeuser directed renovations inside the old nave.</p><br>
<p>First German added a Wangerin-Weickhardt pipe organ in the early 1900s. In the late 1940s the congregation bought a house at the corner of Wisconsin and Maple for a new parsonage, and the old parsonage was converted to a parish house, and the old garage to a youth cottage. By the 1950s membership passed 1000, and in 1956 a modern-styled brick educational building and new vestibule entry replaced the old parsonage.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, First German&#39;s denomination merged with other similar denominations into the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and First German Reformed Church changed its name to First Evangelical and Reformed Church of Waukesha. In 1956 the parent denomination merged with others to become the United Church of Christ, and the Waukesha congregation again changed its name, to Evangelical and Reformed United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>In December 2005 a fire destroyed the old 1891 building. Little was left, so the congregation built a new church on the same site.</p><br>
<p>Freewill Baptist Church  is a historic church at 19750 W. National Avenue in New Berlin, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1859 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The hamlet of Prospect Hill (now part of New Berlin) was settled in the 1830s, mostly by Yankees from New England and New York. Rufus Cheney of New Hampshire was one of them, and in 1840 he and his wife Ruth invited two other couples to found a Freewill Baptist church, the first such church in what would become the state of Wisconsin. This denomination is a variety of General Baptists with roots in England, and Cheney came from the northern branch founded by Benjamin Randall. The congregation at Prospect Hill grew, with more families joining and with the first baptism in 1843. That same year Cheney started a school in his house for the children of members. In 1845 Cheney was recognized as pastor, though he never took payment. Not all was rosy: records show that in 1845 Cheney made visits to "delinquent" members, and the next year there was a debate about whether members should drink alcohol. Meetings were held each week in Cheney&#39;s home.</p><br>
<p>The congregation grew and by 1858 had raised enough money to build a church. Quincy W. Church, a member of the congregation and son of Prospect Hill&#39;s first storekeeper, designed the building in Greek Revival style, following the pattern of some New England churches. Typical of Greek Revival, the building is symmetric across the front, with the main entry door in the middle. On each side is a tall 9 over 9 window, and the corners of the building are trimmed with pilasters with capitals. A frieze and cornice run above the pilasters and windows, and a pediment sits above that on the front. The pediment is decorated with an unusual (for Greek Revival) sunburst pattern formed from weatherboard. Above that, a square louvered belfry rises from the roof, itself topped with a small pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the walls were originally lath and plaster. Deacon Hiram Hale was determined to have a choir loft, and paid for it himself. It stretched across the front of the building and was originally accessed by curved staircases at the corners of the building. The original church was expected to cost $1200, but Rev. Cheney and Hale added $300 to that.</p><br>
<p>The church has never had running water. Outside and down the hill is a small frame privy, almost hidden in the bushes. Northeast of the church there were also sheds for horses and buggies, but they are long gone.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was strongly abolitionist, collecting food and supplies for the Union Army, including "blankets, potatoes, horseradish, home-knit socks, caps and underwear and home made catsup." They were against alcohol, and had their own temperance society. The Ladies Aid Society was organized in 1886, raising money to buy furnishings and a bell for the church and sewing quilts for the Indian Childrens Home in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Theodora W. Youmans, who grew up in the church, went on to become a pioneer woman journalist and a leader of the womens suffrage movement in Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>By 1886 the Freewill Church managed to hire a full-time minister and built a parsonage. The hamlet of Prospect Hill had also grown to include two general stores, two stagecoach inns, four blacksmith shops, a sawmill, a creamery, a post office, a cider mill and grist mill, a planing mill, a school, a cobbler shop, and other businesses. The Freewill Baptists were the dominant group in the little community.</p><br>
<p>But membership declined, with attendance under a dozen by 1895. The congregation at Prospect Hill disbanded in 1925. To maintain the building, the Ladies Aid Society was renamed the Prospect Aid Society and opened to Christians of any denomination. The building was deeded to the new society as long as it "never be used for dancing, card-playing, or raffling."</p><br>
<p>The new/old organization installed a cookstove, converted some pews to tables, and hosted dinners, quilting bees, and summer Aid meetings in the building, with proceeds going to charities. The building also served as a temporary home for other denominations. By 1985 they had dropped the clause on card-playing from the deed, and were holding monthly card parties, with the money raised going to building maintenance and charities.</p><br>
<p>In 1985 a fire burned the roof, belfry and interior - a result of arson. Since then the church was restored to its old appearance, and lunches are again being served there.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Jane Eiseleys NRHP nomination among the references is available online and has more details about people and happenings in the churchs past.</p><br>
<p>The First Methodist Church in Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a historic church at 502 N. Main Street. It was built as the Wagner Opera House. The main structure was built in Italianate style 1874-75 but it was renovated extensively to its current Neoclassical appearance in 1924–25. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It is a brick building. It is unusual in Wisconsin as an urban church building with storefronts at street-level. The building was begun as an opera house, until damaged by a fire in 1874. At that point the Methodist congregation bought it and completed it as a Neo-Classical-styled church. After they moved to a new building in 1970, it was used by Boys&#39; Club and as a homeless shelter.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 110 Church Avenue in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Walter A. Holbrook of Milwaukee and built in 1893. The style is Richardsonian-Romanesque, with a complex, irregular profusion of turrets, chimneys and towers resembling Richardson&#39;s early libraries, meant to suggest it had been gradually added onto over many years. The exterior is red brick with stone trim. The interior normally seated 500 people, but could be expanded by raising doors to other rooms. A manse and office were added in 1905.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, based on its architecture.</p><br>
<p>The YMCA Hotel is a historic former hotel located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The hotel, which was designed by Robert C. Berlin and James Gamble Rogers, opened in 1916. Originally marketed by YMCA as a cheap residence for young, single men, the hotel began marketing to a wider clientele when the Great Depression created a demand for inexpensive lodging. The hotel&#39;s status and customers declined with the surrounding neighborhood, and it closed in 1979; it reopened as an apartment building in 1985. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The George E. Purple House is a historic home located at 338 Sunset Ave. in LaGrange, Illinois, United States. The Italian Renaissance Revival style house was designed by William G. Carnegie and built in 1928. The house includes several characteristic features of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, including a green tile hipped roof, large first-floor windows, overhanging eaves, decorative brackets, and extensive decorations; these decorations include bas-relief urns above the first floor windows and brick quoins on the corners. George E. Purple, founder of the Flexible Steel Lacing Company, commissioned the house; while Purple died in 1930, his family inhabited the house until 1944.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Mount View is a historic house located at 610 S. Jefferson St. in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Prairie School home was built from 1911 to 1912 and designed by Glenn Charles McAllister. The house features a hipped roof, overhanging eaves with paneled soffits and box cornices, bracketed corners, four brick chimneys, and a porch on each side. Lyman Brooks, a Sheridan businessman and politician who served in the Wyoming House of Representatives, was the house&#39;s first owner, and his family owned the home until the 1980s. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Lewis Family Tenant Agricultural Complex is a historic home and farm located at Wyoming, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1850, and consists of a dwelling and two contributing barns. The house is a two-story, hall-and-parlor plan brick dwelling with a frame rear wing. The barns are 20th century replacements for older structures that were allowed to deteriorate and had to be replaced. They were built in the 1920s. The complex was constructed as a tenant</p><br>
<p>farm by a large land owner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Wyoming Historic District is a national historic district located at Wyoming, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 310 contributing buildings and 10 contributing structures in the town of Wyoming. It mainly consists of residential and commercial buildings developed after the arrival of the Delaware Railroad in 1855. Significant development occurred from the 1870s to 1941 and include examples of the Classical Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, and Queen Anne styles. Notable buildings include the town hall, the former W. M. Harris & Son Vinegar & Canning Factory, Wyoming mill complex, the Wyoming United Methodist Church, First National Bank of Wyoming, and the main building of the former Wyoming Institute. The Wyoming Railroad Station is located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Smyrna Historic District is a national historic district located at Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 850 contributing buildings in the town of Smyrna. It includes the majority of residential, commercial, public and ecclesiastical buildings that pre-date 1920, the bulk of which were constructed in the mid-to-late 19th century. Notable buildings include the Cummins-Stockly House, Irishtown Tavern, Spruance House, John Cummins Mansion, A. G. Cummins, Sr. House, Governor William Temple Mansion, Daniel Cummins Tavern and House, "Greybox," Delaware House, Jones Drug Store, Smyrna/Clayton Masonic Building, the Peterson Building, Tilghman Building , Abraham Pierce Store , the "Colonial Hotel," Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Citizen&#39;s Hose Company No. 1, Benjamin Benson House , Asbury Methodist Church , Ebenezer Cloak Mansion, and Mt. Olive Holiness Pentecostal .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Telephone Factory Lofts is a mixed-use loft building along the BeltLine trail in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Western Electric Company Building.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>The main entrance is via a 75 ft-high Art Deco-style tower. There is a four-story main building, which once housed the factory floor, offices and cafeteria, as well as a single-story building, formerly a warehouse that housed the shipping and receiving areas of the factory. There are 66 loft units ranging from 750 ft2 to 10,000 ft2.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Western Electric factory and repair center</h3><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1938 and was a Western Electric Co. factory that manufactured and repaired telephones and switchboard systems that were owned by the Bell System and rented out to customers.</p><br>
<h3>Conversion to lofts</h3><br>
<p>In 1995, developers Rhodes and David Perdue decided to convert the building to lofts. They applied for bond financing from the Atlanta Development Authority (ADA), the city&#39;s development arm. As a condition of providing the financing, the ADA required, as part of an affordable housing program, that one-fifth of the units be made available for people earning 50% of the area median income, ($25,000 per year) or less. The lofts opened in 1996, and for fifteen years through 2011, units were offered as living and work space to artists, writers and designers at inexpensive prices under the program. In 2011, the units were transitioned to market rates. Upon conclusion of leases, occupants had to sign new contracts at the much higher market rates if they wished to stay.</p><br>
<p>This Western Electric building should not be confused with the demolished 1921 Western Electric Company building which stood at 117-123 Walton Street NW in Downtown Atlanta.</p><br>
<p>Centre Hill Museum or Centre Hill Mansion as its proper name, completed initial construction in 1823 and was built by Revolutionary War veteran Robert Bolling IV. The Bollings were a very prominent family for many generations, being granted a plot of land in present-day Petersburg by the then King of England. Centre Hill served as Union headquarters during the reconstruction period; therefore, a meeting between a Union general and President Lincoln took place inside the home in 1865. President Taft also spent time on the property. Its doors were opened as a museum in the 1950s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mansion was built in 1823 by Robert Bolling IV, who had served in the Revolutionary Army. An extensive remodeling was undertaken by Robert Buckner Bolling in the 1840s. It is a two-story, five-bay, transitional Greek Revival style brick dwelling. An east wing was added about 1850. The front facade features a has a flat-roofed five-bay verandah supported by six Greek Ionic order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Centre Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Today the house encompasses three American architectural styles. The mansion&#39;s South Facade is dominated by a Greek Revival-style porch with ionic columns. Greek Revival architectural ornamentation is a feature of the interior, along with elements of early Federal style and later Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The 1840s renovation also included construction of a tunnel from the back of the house to nearby Henry Street.</p><br>
<h2>Notable events</h2><br>
<p>President Abraham Lincoln spoke to Union soldiers occupying the mansion during a trip to Petersburg in April 1865. President William Howard Taft was a guest in May 1909.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was used as a set in the made-for-TV movie Killing Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was also used as the set of the Green family home in the PBS drama Mercy Street (TV series).</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>Every January 24, the ghosts of American Civil War soldiers are said to march up the stairs at 7:30 p.m. Twenty minutes later, the specters march back down the stairs and leave, slamming the front door behind them.</p><br>
<p>Neighbors also have reported seeing a Lady in White standing at an upstairs window.</p><br>
<p>The museum hosts a "Ghost Watch" on January 24 each year.</p><br>
<p>Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church on the South of US 169 on the east side of Middle Fork, Grand Road in Redding, Iowa, United States. It is now known as Middlefork United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Methodist classes were organized at the Center (renamed Rose Hill) and Clipper schoolhouses in the early 1870s. The impetus to establish Middlefork Church was a six-week revival held under the leadership of the Rev. T.G. Aten and conducted by the Rev. Bill McFarland in the Spring of 1886. The schoolhouses were no longer large enough to hold the number of people who attended services. Property adjacent to the centrally located Middle Fork Cemetery was chosen for the new congregation to build a church, and all the funds necessary to build the church were in hand when construction began. Stone for the foundation was quarried on the Riley Motsinger farm a few miles north of Allendale, Missouri. The bricks and lumber came from Bedford, Iowa. Local carpenters W. M. Staton and J. A. Saville oversaw the construction. Construction was begun and completed in 1886. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Middlefork United Methodist Church is a rectangular-plan structure that measures 26 by. The exterior is covered with white clapboard siding, and it rests on a limestone foundation. Overall the building is plain. Italianate features include the tall, narrow, round hooded windows along the sides, the double-door entryway on the front, the corner boards with capitals, frieze board trim, round hood molds above the windows and the main entrance, and moldings at the eaves.</p><br>
<p>First Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Kensett United Methodist Church, is a historic church building located in Kensett, Iowa, United States. The church was designed by local architect F.W. Kinney and built by local builders. The frame structure was completed in 1899 in the Gothic Revival style. The interior walls and ceiling are covered with a pressed decorative metal. On top of the gable roof above the main facade is a small belfry. Circular windows are located on both ends of the church. A small polygonal apse is located on the far end, and wings are located on both sides of the structure. It was founded by an English speaking congregation as opposed to the many Norwegian Protestant congregations in and around Kensett. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Regular Baptist Church, also known simply as Franklin Baptist Church, is a historic church building located southeast of Seymour in rural Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. The white frame church is associated with the no longer extant village of Livingston and its founder Livingston Parker. Parker was an Upstate New York native who relocated to Ohio before homesteading in Appanoose County in 1854. The Baptist Society was formed in Franklin Township on April 12, 1862, in the home of Peter Angle. Livingston Parker served as moderator for most of the community&#39;s Covenant Meetings before he was ordained and called as a circuit preacher for churches in Exline, Iowa, St. John, Missouri, and Livingston. The congregation in Livingston met in member homes until it was able to raise the money to complete the church building in 1881. The church originally faced a road, but the county built 135th Avenue behind the church in the 1950s. The congregation remained in existence until 1967. The church building began to deteriorate until 1999 when the local cemetery association began to look after it. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
