<p>Saint Peter&#39;s Church/Our Lady of the Rosary is a Catholic church in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The current building was constructed from 1836 to 1840 and was designed by John R. Haggerty and Thomas Thomas in the Greek Revival style, with six Ionic columns. The church opened February 25, 1838 with Archbishop John Hughes officiating.</p><br>
<p>The parish, part of the Archdiocese of New York, is the oldest Catholic parish in New York State, and the building replaced an earlier one built in 1785–86. The original church was used for worship until 1834 when it was replaced by the present structure.</p><br>
<p>The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1965 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The present church has been declared a landmark by federal, state and city agencies.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>Shortly before, and during the Revolution, Father Ferdinand Steinmeyer, a German Jesuit missionary from Philadelphia, would periodically visit the few scattered Catholics in New York City. Gathering them together, he said Mass in the house of a German fellow-countryman in Wall Street, in a loft in Water Street, and wherever else they could find accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The merchant and recent New York arrival Dominick Lynch was one of the chief fundraisers for the new church, donating his own money as well as raising funds from his native Galway. A gift of 1,000 silver pieces from King Charles III of Spain through the prominent figures of the Spanish Diego de Gardoqui and D. Francisco de Murillo i Martinez, Count of El Ojuelo, topped off donations to start the construction of the church. Catholics constructing the original church initially tried to locate it on Broad Street, then in the heart of New York City. Due to anti-Catholic sentiments, however, New York City officials implored them to change the location to a site at Barclay and Church Streets, then outside the city limits. The builders relented and accepted the present location. The cornerstone of the original church was laid in 1785 and the first Mass celebrated in 1786.</p><br>
<p>Mexican artist Jose Vallejo painted an icon of the Crucifixion and Nunez de Haro, archbishop of Mexico City, gave it to St. Peter parish in 1789; it hung above the main altar. Father William OBrien, the first pastor, is remembered for his tireless service to the citizens of New York during the yellow fever epidemics of 1795 and 1798. In 1800 the first free Catholic school in New York State was established at St. Peters. On March 14, 1805, at St. Peter&#39;s Church, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism. Thereafter, she often prayed before the painting of the Crucifixion above the main altar. The Catholic Church later canonized her, the first native-born United States citizen so honored.</p><br>
<p>On December 24, 1806, parishioners celebrated the Christmas Eve vigil inside the church building. This Catholic celebration still infuriated some Protestants who viewed it as an exercise in "popish superstition". Protesters tried to disrupt the Mass, and the ensuing melee injured dozens, with one policeman killed.</p><br>
<p>In October 1836, the cornerstone for a larger St. Peters Church was laid, and by February 1838 the current structure was built. In addition to Roman Catholic services, from 1899 to 1916 St. Peters also hosted services in the lower church for Byzantine-rite Syrian and Lebanese Catholics, who during that period did not have their own church. St. Peter&#39;s Church is the first place Fr. Edward Frederick Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame, celebrated Mass upon his arrival in America in 1842.</p><br>
<h3>September 11, 2001, attacks</h3><br>
<p>On September 10, 2001, Father Mychal Judge OFM, chaplain for the New York City Fire Department, gave the following sermon at a Mass for New York City firefighters at Engine 73, Ladder 42, in the Bronx:</p><br>
<p>You do what God has called you to do. You get on that rig, you go out and do the job. No matter how big the call, no matter how small, you have no idea of what God is calling you to do, but God needs you. He needs me. He needs all of us. God needs us to keep supporting each other, to be kind to each other, to love each other... We love this job, we all do. What a blessing it is! It is a difficult, difficult job, but God calls you to do it, and indeed, He gives you a love for it so that a difficult job will be well done. Isnt God wonderful?! Isnt He good to you, to each one of you, and to me? Turn to God each day—put your faith, your trust, your hope and your life in His hands. Hell take care of you, and youll have a good life. And this firehouse will be a great blessing to his neighborhood and to this city. Amen.</p><br>
<p>The next day, a portion of an airplanes landing gear struck and damaged the roof of the St. Peters Church building during the September 11 attacks. When debris from the towers killed Fr. Mychal (the first publicly identified casualty of the attacks), surviving firemen brought him from the towers site to St. Peter&#39;s and laid his body before the altar. The parish also served as a staging ground for rescue and recovery operations. "We were the first place they were bringing all the emergency equipment. Everything was in disarray," pastor Father Kevin Madigan stated. "Stuff was piled six feet high all over the pews—-bandages, gas masks, boots, hoses and cans of food for the workers and the volunteers, many of whom were sleeping in the church on bedrolls." The same also occurred in the downstairs church.</p><br>
<p>Authorities also blocked public access to the parish. The church celebrated Masses occasionally only for the rescue workers and those with credentials to enter. On October 28, 2001, authorities lifted martial law in the area. "That was when we officially celebrated our first Mass after September 11," says Father Madigan. The parish quickly cut the number of Masses from that before the attacks "because the number of people coming was way down. Many who had been coming to mass at St. Peters or St. Josephs from the World Trade Center, of course, were not around anymore."</p><br>
<p>The World Trade Center cross temporarily sat on the Church Street side of St. Peter&#39;s until it was moved to the World Trade Center Memorial. A new custom cross was commissioned to stand in place, installed on August 11, 2011.</p><br>
<h3>Current status</h3><br>
<p>In August 2015 the St. Peters parish merged with Our Lady of the Rosary on State Street. St. Peters is the designated parish church, although Mass and the Sacraments will continue to be celebrated at Our Lady of the Rosary.</p><br>
<h2>Organ</h2><br>
<p>St. Peters houses a pipe organ built in 1927 by the George Kilgen & Sons company of St. Louis, Missouri. The instrument was enlarged from 37 to 41 ranks of pipes in 1931 by the Kilgen Company. In 2011, Meloni & Farrier Organbuilders completed a restoration, installing solid state combination action and relocating the console to its present location in the rear balcony. As of January 2018, the Director of Music and Organist at Saint Peters is Marcus Perry Bundy III.</p><br>
<h2>Notable parishioners</h2><br>
<p>Pierre Toussaint, a black Haitian born into slavery who arrived in New York in 1787 and joined the parish. Later known for his piety and generosity to the poor, and currently under consideration for sainthood.</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Ann Seton, saint who converted to Catholicism at St. Peter&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>Billy The Kid, a theory suggests that he was christened "Patrick Henry McCarthy" at the church on September 28, 1859. His parents were married there on June 19, 1851.</p><br>
<p>Schuyler Mansion is a historic house at 32 Catherine Street in Albany, New York. The brick mansion is now a museum and an official National Historic Landmark. It was constructed from 1761 to 1765 for Philip Schuyler, later a general in the Continental Army and early USA Senator, who resided there from 1763 until his death in 1804. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 24, 1967. It is also a contributing property to the South End–Groesbeckville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler began construction on his Georgian-style estate near Albany, New York in 1761. Prior to that time, due to the outbreak of the French and Indian War, it was considered inadvisable to build outside of the City of Albany. Therefore, the construction of the familys mansion occurred from 1761 to 1765, during the tail end of that war. The mansion was built on 80 acre of land, located approximately 1/2 mi from the city. At the time that the Schuylers moved into their new home, Philip and his wife, Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler, already had three daughters: Angelica, Elizabeth, and Margarita. Margarita was also known as Peggy. During Philip and Catherines lifetime, Catherine gave birth to fifteen children. However, only eight survived infancy. The seven that did not survive included one set of twins and one set of triplets. Of the eight surviving children, the Schuyler family had their three aforementioned daughters, born in 1756, 1757, and 1758, respectively. These three daughters, born within two and a half years and very much alike, were known as the Schuyler sisters. After the family had settled into the mansion, Catherine gave birth to three boys; John Bradstreet (1765), Philip Jeremiah (1768), and Rensselaer (1773), and then two more girls, Cornelia (1775) and Catherine (1781). During the Schuyler familys occupancy of the mansion, the house served as a center of military, business, and family affairs, including the wedding of Philip and Catherines second daughter, Elizabeth, to famed Federalist, Alexander Hamilton. The latter portion of the American Revolution saw Philip Schuyler in the position of an intelligence officer for the American side, operating a network of spies out of his home. These activities led to the infiltration of the mansion and failed attempt to kidnap Schuyler on the evening of August 7, 1781. Additionally, the Schuyler family was well known for their hospitality, and the mansion hosted guests such as George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, the Marquis de Chastellux, and James Madison. The family also hosted the British general during the Battle of Saratoga, John Burgoyne, who stayed at the mansion as a "prisoner guest" in 1777.</p><br>
<h3>Death of Philip Schuyler</h3><br>
<p>After Philip Schuylers death in 1804, the land comprised over one hundred building lots which were divided among his six living children. The house itself, however, was wanted by none of Schuylers offspring, as they had already established themselves elsewhere with spouses and children of their own. Therefore, in 1815, Schuylers mansion was sold to a furrier named John Bryan. During Bryans approximately 29 years living in the mansion, he made a number of changes to the house, including the addition of a vestibule, constructed by local architect, Philip Hooker, which still exists today. In 1844, the mansion was purchased by Ezekiel C. McIntosh, the president of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Company. After McIntoshs death in 1855, his widow, Caroline Carmichael, remarried former USA President Millard Fillmore. Their wedding took place in the same parlor as the wedding of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. The newlywed couple left the mansion to live at Fillmores estate in Buffalo, New York. The mansion was then leased to a man named John Tracey and his family. The Tracey family were responsible for the removal of any remaining outbuildings that had existed on the property during Philip Schuylers time. In 1882, following the death of Caroline Fillmore, the Traceys vacated the mansion. The next owner of the mansion was Lansing Pendleton Jr., a watchman at the local jail. His tenancy was short-lived and, in 1886, he sold the house to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany for $7,000. The mansion was repurposed as an orphanage for infants through children seven years of age that was operated by the Sisters of Charity and called St. Francis de Sales Infant Asylum. Under the ownership of the Diocese, the mansions main parlor was converted into a chapel, and many of the fireplaces were bricked up. The orphanage soon ran out of space in the mansion, even after constructing a second building (which was demolished shortly after the orphanage vacated the site). It was clear that the Diocese either had to demolish the mansion, or sell it and use the money to buy and build on another site. The sisters in charge of the asylum were enthusiastic about the notion of preservation, so refused to sell the mansion to anyone besides the state or a "patriotic society.”</p><br>
<h3>Acquisition by New York State</h3><br>
<p>On March 22, 1911, the mansion was sold to the state of New York, which planned to turn it into an historic site that would be open to the public. The museums first board of directors consisted of Philip Schuylers great-granddaughter, Georgina Schuyler, as well as the son of John Tracey, who had lived in the house in the nineteenth century. The orphanage built their new site over the next few years, and vacated the mansion on January 30, 1914. After over three years of restoration, Schuyler Mansion was opened to the public as a state historic site on October 17, 1917, the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Saratoga.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>Schuyler Mansion is a large (67.5 ft wide by 47.5 ft deep) two-and-one-half-story Georgian house, built between 1761 and 1765. It occupies a sloping site in southern Albany, facing east toward the Hudson River. The walls are brick, laid in English bond with tooled joints, over a stone foundation. The building is covered by a double-pitched hip roof. A wooden balustrade with Chinese fret panels and posts topped by urns surrounds the roof directly above the cornice. This balustrade was not part of the original structure, but was installed in the early years of the 19th century. Two brick interior chimneys rise above the roof.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the mansion was supervised by master carpenter John Gaborial of Boston, Massachusetts. At the time of the house&#39;s construction, two detached wings were erected to the rear of the house. The building on the southwest corner was used as an office and the one on the northwest corner served as the kitchen. These wings were removed during the 19th century, and the space that they once occupied is now landscaped as a garden. The house is built on the center-hall plan typical of Georgian homes. Both the first and second floors have two rooms, each about 18 by, on either side of the wide corridors. The entrance hall, 48 ft long by 20 ft wide and 12 ft high, is divided towards the rear by a pilaster-supported doorway.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the mansion is considerably decorated. The deep brick walls permit the use on every window, of inside or wainscot shutters which fold against the jambs. The walls of the central hall were plastered and then hung with a set of scenic wallpaper imported from France. The center hall stairway is decorated with spiral balusters of three different profiles on each step.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Charles F. Berg Building, also the Dolph Building is an art-deco building in downtown Portland, Oregon. It is one of the few examples of commercial use of art-deco in Portland.</p><br>
<p>The structure was built in 1902, and remodeled into a womens clothing store with its signature facade in 1930. Charles F. Berg (1871–1932), the buildings namesake, was the owner of the store once located inside. At the time, Charles F. Berg was an upscale store, and featured ornate and lavish interior fixtures such as a Tiffany-designed elevator. The facade includes inlays of 14 Karat gold.</p><br>
<p>Currently, the building is used as offices, with a retail arcade on the ground floor. The Berg building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Ladd Carriage House is a building in downtown Portland, Oregon, at Broadway and Columbia. It is one of the few surviving buildings forming part of the former grand estates which once stood in the downtown core. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building served as a coach house and stables for the William S. Ladd mansion, once located across Broadway on the block bounded by Broadway, Columbia, 6th Avenue and Jefferson. The Carriage House was built in 1883, designed by architect Joseph Sherwin, to house the Ladd family&#39;s horses and carriages.</p><br>
<h2>Early subsequent use</h2><br>
<p>Helen Ladd Corbett (after the premature death of her husband Henry Jagger Corbett, eldest son of Henry W. Corbett), was the last occupant of her parents the William S. Ladds house. She later sold the Carriage House (or Ladd Barn as it was also known) in 1925 to the Hoffman family&#39;s Wauna Land Company.</p><br>
<p>The Ladd mansion and the city block that the house and garden occupied across the street (Broadway) was also later sold by Helen Ladd Corbett in 1926 for a proposed hotel, prior to her move to the south of Portland, which earlier had been known as Rivera now known as the Dunthorpe area. Her new house was located in grounds at Pacific Highway (now SW Riverside Drive) and SW Military Road and SW Military Lane. The hotel was never built owing to the Depression. The city block was subsequently purchased in 1944 by the Oregonian Publishing Company and the Pietro Belluschi designed building was built there by The Oregonian for its headquarters, which it occupied until 2014 when it was subsequently bought by Amazon&#39;s AWS Elemental, whose headquarters now occupy the building.</p><br>
<p>The Carriage house was renovated in October 1926 and was divided into specialty shops with additional windows. The architect was Morris H. Whitehouse, There were five studios on the first level and the top floor, the former hay loft, was used as a dance floor and an apartment.</p><br>
<p>The Society of Arts and Crafts and the Portland Civic Theatre each had a studio in the building. Hoffman Construction had offices there from 1933 and in later years occupied the whole building. The architect Van Evera Bailey had his office in the carriage house.</p><br>
<h2>House relocation and restoration</h2><br>
<p>The future of the building was in doubt when the neighboring First Christian Church announced plans to redevelop the block. The congregation had bought the Ladd Carriage House in 1971, and sought to expand parking for its members. As part of the redevelopment, a condominium tower, Ladd Tower, would be built above a parking garage. A demolition permit had been secured for the lot, but never used. Nevertheless, this raised alarm bells in the preservationist community and a grass-roots campaign, the Friends of Ladd Carriage House, was formed to either save or move the old building. One proposal was to move the Carriage House to Lair Hill, but this was logistically complex (steep streets, crossing bridges, cutting Portland Streetcar lines).</p><br>
<p>A compromise was agreed where the Ladd Carriage House would be moved temporarily while a new garage was excavated. The building would then be moved back onto its original site. The plans for the condominium tower were scaled back so that the tower&#39;s footprint only occupied half the block, instead of three-quarters of it.</p><br>
<p>On June 16, 2007, after ground was broken on Ladd Tower, the Ladd Carriage House was moved to the parking lot owned by the First Christian Church at the corner of 10th and Columbia streets. This meant the building didn&#39;t need to cross streetcar lines. It was moved back to its original site on October 25, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Latest renovation and use</h2><br>
<p>Extensive exterior renovations occurred after the Ladd Carriage House moved back to its original site by Venerable Properties. In April 2009 the house was repainted, going from shades of blue to shades of brown. The house was restored to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, and in 2011 the building was sold for $1 million. Interior renovations began in spring 2012, and the Raven & Rose restaurant opened in fall 2012.</p><br>
<p>This latest Ladd Carriage House restoration received a preservation Award by the Victorian Society in America.</p><br>
<p>Bankers Loan and Trust Company Building is a Queen Anne style historic building located in Concordia, Kansas that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a two-story, Queen Anne-style brick building and was constructed in 1887 and 1888 by W. H. Parsons and C. Howard Parsons of Topeka. The building features a prominent corner entrance with wrap-around stairs and archways. An oriel window is on the second story above the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Concordia, Kansas, is a historic railroad depot that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is one of many built by the Union Pacific Railroad to assist with the company&#39;s growth across the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration and current use</h2><br>
<p>The building is no longer used as a railroad depot. It has been restored and now houses the National Orphan Train Complex. The complex hosts a museum and research center dedicated to the preservation of the stories and artifacts of those who were part of the Orphan Train Movement from 1854 to 1929. The museum is open for research and is visited by around 4,000 people each year, one third of who are descendants of orphan train riders.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Nebraska Governors Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Nebraska and his family. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, it is a modified Georgian Colonial home which began operation as the governors residence on March 17, 1958.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nebraska Governor&#39;s Mansion sits on an entire city block, emphasizing the importance of the office and the building. The grounds are landscaped to include large lawns, gardens, walking paths, and a fountain surrounded by an imposing wrought-iron fence which was added in the late 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The primary entrance to the residence on the north facade is off-center and marked by six white Doric columns which support a two-story dentiled pediment featuring a high roundel window. The twelve-paneled door is flanked by sidelights and a transom window all of which have cross-hatch muntins. The doorknob is from the original governor&#39;s mansion which was demolished in the mid-1950s.</p><br>
<p>The windows on all sides of the rectangular, brick building feature decorative shutters and jack arch lintels. On the west side of the building is a one-story, three-stall garage with flat roof that doubles as a porch for the adjacent second-story guestrooms. A one-story sun room was added to the east side of the building to balance the opposite garage and is similarly by a porch which is also surrounded by white wood panels and brick columns. Windows on the east and west sides of the building are less formally arranged than those on the front of the building, focusing more on privacy and comfort inside the home than appearances outside, with single rather than double windows in bathrooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>1899 to 1955</h3><br>
<p>The original Nebraska Governors Mansion was a Neoclassical Revival private home built in 1890 for D. E. Thompson. In 1899, the state of Nebraska purchased the property, its furnishings, and the two lots upon which it sat from Thompson for $21,385 ($ in dollars). However, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, the age and floor plan of the building made it a poor choice for the governors residence. Portions of the building had been condemned by the fire department and it was felt that the private family areas of the building were too large while the reception areas of the building were too small.</p><br>
<p>From 1945 to 1953, the Nebraska legislature discussed various solutions to the problem of the governors residence, including purchasing a different building and accepting the donation of Frank H. Woods private home as the new residence. In 1953, it was decided that renovating an existing building would be more expensive than building a new structure, and in 1955 the Nebraska legislature allocated $200,000 to purchasing the lots surrounding the existing governor&#39;s mansion and constructing a new mansion.</p><br>
<h3>Planning of current residence</h3><br>
<p>The incumbent governor at the time, Victor E. Anderson, took an active role in the design process for the mansion, but was careful to distance himself from the image of a man "feathering his own nest" with public money. Anderson requested the plans for the Florida Governors Mansion and personally visited the Arkansas Governors Mansion for inspiration. Furthermore, Anderson enlisted the help of the wives of former governors of Nebraska, asking for their input. Mrs. Elizabeth Peterson, wife of former governor Val Peterson, suggested that the first floor of the mansion be reserved for all official, formal, and public functions while the personal residence of the governors family be separated to the second floor of the mansion. Mrs. Petersons suggestion was carried through to the final design of the current building.</p><br>
<p>Besides the efforts of Governor Anderson, three prominent local architects—Frank Latenser, president of the Nebraska State Architects Association; Edward J. Sessinghaus, former president of the Nebraska State Architects Association; and Professor Linus Burr Smith, the head of the University of Nebraska School of Architecture—were named to a committee to study the project and select an architect for the project. The State Building Commission selected Lincoln architect Selmer A. Solheim to design the project in January 1956.</p><br>
<p>Solheims preliminary designs were conscious of the sites proximity to the State Capitol Building and strove to complement the design of the Capitol with Indiana limestone, however, the Building Commission rejected these proposals due to cost concerns and instead decided that the new mansion would be made of locally sourced and cheaper red brick. Before demolition began on the former Governor&#39;s Mansion, Solheim selected several interior furnishings to repurpose in the new construction and an additional 300 items were auctioned to the public, raising an additional $2,416 ($ in dollars) for the construction of the new mansion.</p><br>
<p>The plans for the new mansion were published in August 1956 and instantly garnered both praise and criticism. Solheim described the design as "Modified Georgian Revival," which he chose to pay homage to a traditional, American style of architecture. Solheim, who was well known for his innovative designs which embraced contemporary design theory, especially the International Style, defended his decision to create a more traditional building because "the contemporary styles... might appear quite dated 25 to 30 years from now."</p><br>
<p>Several local architects criticized the designs, most notably a former architect of the Nebraska State Capitol, Harry F. Cunningham. In an editorial piece, Cunningham explained that despite his "deep personal affection for Selmer Solheim" and his "high regard for professional attainments," he believed that the new mansion would look like a "lost stray cat in the neighborhood of the distinguished Capitol." Cunningham particularly disparaged the use of "pink brick" alongside the "warm gray stone of the Capitol," which he blamed entirely on the State Building Commission, who he claimed did not possess "any modicum of professional knowledge in building matters or any slightest suspicion of taste in such matters." According to Cunningham, the design itself was perfectly acceptable in a different locale, but lamented its employment in this project, saying, "I am sorry that the distinguished architect, Selmer Solheim, was forced to inflict this sorry anachronism upon the people of Nebraska."</p><br>
<p>While many architects disparaged the plans, several important local architects defended the design, including Frank Latenser, a member of the committee who had selected Solheim. Cunningham had introduced a resolution at a quarterly meeting of the Nebraska Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to ask Governor Anderson to request that Solheim redesign the building. Latenser and others convinced the AIA not to pass the resolution and personally convinced Cunningham of the merits of the plans, after which Cunningham stated that he was "quite ready to call off the war."</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed and the mansion was opened to the public for tours in March 1958. An estimated 35,000 citizens from across the state toured the mansion within the first two days of opening. On the day of the mansion&#39;s opening, Solheim published a poem to honor the building, the workers who had constructed it, and the taxpayers of Nebraska who had supported the venture</p><br>
<h3>Renovation</h3><br>
<p>Former Nebraska First Gentleman Bill Orr led efforts to refurbish the mansion during the late 1980s. Orr moved into the mansion with his wife, Governor Kay Orr, in 1987, and described the then interior decor as "early Holiday Inn" noting that "We can do better." Bill Orr authored a cookbook, The First Gentleman&#39;s Cookbook, with all proceeds going to a $200,000 fund to renovate and refurbish the mansion.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampshire Governors Mansion, known as "Bridges House", is the official residence of the governor of New Hampshire and the governors family. Bridges House, located at 21 Mountain Road in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire, has served as the governor&#39;s official residence since 1969. Built in 1836, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2005,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Hampshire Governor&#39;s Mansion is located in a rural-residential setting about 2 mi north of downtown Concord, on the west side of Mountain Road (New Hampshire Route 132) north of the East Concord exit from Interstate 93. It is set on eleven landscaped acres, with views toward downtown Concord, Rattlesnake Hill, and the Merrimack River valley. The house is a story brick building, with a side gable roof and end chimneys. It is oriented facing south, with a five-bay front facade. The main entrance is at the center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by an entablature and granite lintel. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with granite sills, and granite lintels on the first floor windows. The street-facing east facade has a pedimented brick gable with a deep recess at the center and ogee crown moulding along the rake edge.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Charles Graham about 1836. It is a particularly early example in the state of Greek Revival architecture executed in brick, a building material that was only then beginning to come into wider use for home construction in central New Hampshire. Styles Bridges, governor of New Hampshire (1935–37) and USA senator for 25 years thereafter, lived here from 1946 until his death. Bequeathed to the state upon the death of his widow Doloris Bridges, in 1969 it became the governor&#39;s official residence.</p><br>
<p>During the 1980s, New Hampshire First Lady Nancy Sununu oversaw the first major renovations in the mansion&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>Not all governors live in the mansion during their tenure. Recent examples include John Lynch, a resident of nearby Hopkinton, and Maggie Hassan, a resident of Exeter, who resided instead on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy where her husband, Thomas Hassan, served as principal.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Governors Residence and Heritage Garden is the official residence of the governor of Ohio. The residence was built during 1923–1925 by industrialist Malcolm D. Jeffrey and has served as the official home of the governor since 1957. The mansion is located at 358 North Parkview Avenue in Bexley, a suburb and enclave of the state capital, Columbus. It is only one of four official state governors residences in the country that is not located within its states capital .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current mansion that houses the governor is the second governors mansion and was purchased in 1957 to house the governor and his family. The original residence, the Old Governors Mansion in Columbus, was purchased after an embarrassing incident in 1916 occurred with the governor-elect James M. Cox. Governors were expected to find their own housing and Mr. Cox was expecting to move into a house after his recent election. Unfortunately, this house was rented to the newly elected Secretary of State, William D. Fulton. In an effort to avoid such incidents, House Bill 559 was passed to secure a residence for the governor during his tenure.</p><br>
<p>The first house was purchased in 1919 and had been built in 1905 for Charles H. Lindenberg, a local business owner and a founder of M.C. Lilley and Company. The house served as the official residence of the Ohio Governor until the late 1950s after the house became dilapidated and needed extensive repairs and renovations. When it was discovered these repairs were not covered in the budget, the state found it would be cheaper to find a new residence altogether.</p><br>
<p>The residence in Bexley, Ohio was commissioned by Malcolm Jeffrey, the son of J. A. Jeffrey, founder of Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. It was designed by Robert Gilmore Hanford, a Columbus-based architect. Ground was broken for the house in 1923 and it was completed in 1925. The Jeffreys occupied the home until Malcolm Jeffreys death in 1930. It was then sold to Florence Jeffrey Carlile, Malcolm Jeffreys sister. Under Mrs. Carliles ownership the house gained a master suite on the second floor as well as a screened porch. Upon Mrs. Carliles death in 1954, the house was turned over to the Very Reverend Charles U. Harris, who in turn offered the residence to the state. The house has been occupied by Ohios governors ever since, except for 1975–1983, the third and fourth terms of Governor James A. Rhodes. (He had lived in the house during his first two terms, from 1963 to 1971, but then acquired a Columbus residence of his own and remained there after his return to the governorship.) Governor John Kasich owned a private residence in the Columbus suburb of Westerville and did not live in the Governors Mansion during his two terms (2011-2019). Kasich did use the mansion for meetings, receptions and special events.</p><br>
<p>Current Governor, Mike DeWine, and his wife, Fran, moved into the home in January 2019. On weekends, the DeWines return to their family farm, the Whitelaw Reid House, in Cedarville, Ohio.</p><br>
<h2>Exterior</h2><br>
<p>The residence is framed by Parkview Avenue to the west, Maryland Avenue to the north, and Columbia Avenue to the east. The house is surrounded on all sides by the Heritage Garden; to the northeast is the Carriage House, Gift Shop & Guest Services, and Greenhouse. Directly in front of the main entrance is the Heritage Fountain.</p><br>
<h3>Heritage Garden</h3><br>
<p>When the Governors Residence was relocated to its current location the grounds were occupied by some plants and trees. Over time several works of art, perimeter fencing and low garden walls were installed and resulted in the development of the current gardens. The Heritage Garden was developed and planted in 2001, under the guidance of First Lady Hope Taft. The purpose of the garden is to depict the diverse geological areas of Ohio. The new gardens and recent additions such as the solar panels and porous driveway have led to recognition as the grounds being the greenest governors residence in America.</p><br>
<p>As one starts from the Carriage House and passes by the northern gates, the Geologic Walk is presented. This walk circles the entire residence and begins the tour of the geological regions of Ohio. The Allegheny Garden extends along the length of the property wall from the entry gates on Maryland Avenue to the entry gate on Parkview Avenue. This garden depicts the northeastern area of Ohio. Several trees and plants present in this garden are not from the Allegheny region but have remained due to being part of the original landscape. At the end of this garden is a 16-ton boulder carried by a glacier from Canada to Ohio during the Ice Age.</p><br>
<p>The rest of the west lawn consists of the Governors Grove and celebrates the residents of the home. Each governor has planted a tree in this area, such as the Honey locust planted by C. William ONeill, the Higan cherry planted by John J. Gilligan, and the six Redbuds planted by Dick Celeste, in honor of his six children. A Kentucky coffeetree was given to the residence as a gift from Governor Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>Extending from the entrance to the residence is the Arrival Plaza, a starting point for anyone touring the premises, which then forms the First Lady&#39;s Courtyard. The Heritage Fountain is a centerpiece to the courtyard. Symmetrical plantings surround the courtyard and two flagpoles flying the national and state flag frame the western end of the courtyard.</p><br>
<p>The Meadow Garden and the Woodland Garden frame the southern border of the property. The County Walk, a collection of stones bearing the names of each county, leads from the drive to the gardens and past the Taxus Hedge into the Dogwood Glade. A large brick depiction of the Great Seal of Ohio sits to the south of the glade and is a gift from Licking County during the George Voinovich administration.</p><br>
<p>Past the state seal are the Sister State Cherry Trees given to Ohio from the Saitama Prefecture in Japan. These trees frame the First Family Patio. Standing to the south of the patio is a clone of a Tidal Basin Yoshino cherry tree in the District of Columbia. The tree was formally donated by the United States National Arboretum.</p><br>
<p>The Water Garden sits to the north of the patio and consists of 6 pools with 2 large urns in the corners to recirculate the water. The water garden features a diverse collection of aquatic plants. The Black Swamp Garden is located to the east of the patio, and above this is a crab apple grove with the sculpture named To Life. This sculpture by Alfred Tibor depicts a father with a child on his shoulders, a mother, and two children playing around them.</p><br>
<p>The Headlands Sand Dune Garden, representing the Lake Erie shoreline, is located to the east of the apple grove, with the Oak Openings Sand Dune, representing the landscape to the west of Toledo, framing the path on the other side. These gardens represent an area of Ohio made when glaciers deposited a yellow-brown sand from the bed of Lake Erie. When the glaciers retreated and the lake levels dropped, the sand was left and formed hills and ridges making its own unique habitat. Some notable plants in this garden are the blue sundial lupine and the prickly pear cactus. The old willow tree standing in the garden dates back to when the house was built and provides some shade to the garden.</p><br>
<p>The Alvar Rock Garden & Fen contains two somewhat circular flower beds with large bare slabs of dolomite and limestone. The larger “island” contains slabs with glacial striations and planting of hardy plants such as the Lakeside Daisy. The smaller “island” contains a slab containing numerous fossils and is surrounded by the same plant varieties found in the larger bed.</p><br>
<p>The Appalachian Garden frames the southeastern corner of the gardens and represents the Appalachian Plateau. The garden consists of raised beds with outcropping of rocks. These resemble the rocky “hanging gardens” in which plants creep out and hang over the edges of cliff sides and outcrops of the area. These hanging gardens feature large stones from the washed out covered bridge near Zanesville and large Peebles dolomite from Adams County.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer Garden is located in the center of the eastern garden. The focal point is a cutting-grown apple tree of one of the few living trees planted by Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman. Surrounding this area are plants with major significant roles in the lives of the early pioneers of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The Earths Harvest Agricultural Garden is directly in front of the greenhouse. The garden was planted originally by Governor Celeste and was expanded to its current size. The many raised beds allow a great variety of plants to grow, as well as room for rows of fruit trees, berry plants, and grapevines. Hammy Birthday Ohio, a large sculpture sponsored by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, was placed in this garden after participating in Cincinnatis Big Pig Gig event. The sides of the pig depict a bicentennial barn on one side and a cornfield on the other.</p><br>
<p>The Walled Garden in the far northeast corner of the property provides enough flowers for the decoration of the house, and plenty of vegetables for the daily consumption of the residence. The garden also houses several plants found only along the banks of the Ohio River, including the renowned Ammon&#39;s Blue.</p><br>
<p>The Greenhouse sits between the garden and the Carriage House/Gift Shop. The main charge of the Greenhouse is to nurse sick plants back to health and to start new plants for the gardens. The Gift Shop and Service Building was built to benefit the Friends of the Governor&#39;s Residence and Heritage Garden, a non-profit organization with the responsibility of the maintenance of the property. Large solar panels grace the roof of these structures and supply the residence with electricity with the extra power being sold back to the city.</p><br>
<p>The Kettle Lake Bog rests directly to the south of the carriage house. The Kettle Lake Bog Garden is partially enclosed by curved brick walls with built-in benches. In the center is a depression once used as a fishpond, but was partially filled with quartz gravel and was transformed into a bog. Cranberry, Pitcher plant, Peat, Sphagnum moss and Bog orchid are some of the plants that fill the current garden.</p><br>
<p>The Garden of the Lost also rests in the location as the bog and illustrate the many plants that were lost to Ohio due to glacial movements and climate changes. Some of the plants in this garden are Sweetbay magnolia and Florida corkwood.</p><br>
<p>The reverse L-shaped Jeffrey-Carlile Rose Garden is located at the northern end of the East Terrace and contain several varieties of roses bred by Ohioans. There has been a rose garden located in the area ever since the building of the house. The roses planted by the Carliles died due to soil-borne illnesses and disease. Master gardeners were hired to replant and cultivate the gardens.</p><br>
<p>Across the East Lawn from the Rose Garden is the L-shaped Prairie Garden. River gravel lines the beds and represents the western half of the state. Among the plants found in the garden are Shooting stars, Spiderwort, and Purple coneflower. The pergola runs along the southern border of this garden and has several climbing plants such as Wisteria and Clematis.</p><br>
<h3>Residence</h3><br>
<p>The residence is of the Jacobean Revival style, with a few modern elements blending into the original scheme. The walls consist of a combination of stucco and limestone with Bedford stone quoins on the corners, capping of the gables, and framing the windows and doorframes. The stone exterior are broken up by portions of half-timbered panels on the second floor. The gable roof is of sturdy pitched slate with several large brick chimneys protruding from the house. The second floor also contains several bay windows.</p><br>
<p>The front entrance is reached by a flight of stairs and sits within a two-story gabled projection. Doric pilasters are carved into the sides of the door frame and support carved rosettes located above and around the door. As the projection reaches towards the sky, machicolation adds interest to the vertical plane. The large oak door rests on massive hinges and has several carved recessed panels and serves as a transition to the inside.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The first floor of the residence serves as public rooms and reception areas. These rooms feature works of notable Ohioans or are historic to the house collections. The second floor houses the private quarters of the governor and his family and represents the preferences of the governor.</p><br>
<p>The entrance hall is laid out over a polished slate stone floor and carved oak paneling reaching up to the oak-beamed ceiling. A staircase with a carved open strapwork- pattern balustrade graces the hall. Two torchieres and chairs original to the house are located to either side of the door as well as a chest belonging to Mrs. Carlile, the last private resident of the house.</p><br>
<p>The formal dining room is located to the left of the entrance hall and has full oak paneling and plaster ceiling decorations shaped like rosettes. A carved stone fireplace and mantel is recessed into the wall to the right. The fireplace has a decorative carved frieze supporting the mantel and is resting on Doric pilasters. A bay window is the focal point of the room and has a small lip forming the base. The bay is formed by six large rectangular bottom windows with six smaller square windows on top. To the left of the room are two sets of French doors with a rectangular window above. A large dining table rests in the middle of the room, with a gold and crystal chandelier hanging above the table.</p><br>
<p>The sunken living room is located to the right of the entrance hall and also has full oak paneling and plaster decorative rosettes on the ceiling. A fireplace identical to the one in the dining room sits across from the entrance hall doors. To the right is a large bay window much like the one in the dining room, which overlooks the front yard and gardens. Two large French doors frame the fireplace and lead to the sitting room beyond.</p><br>
<p>The County Line Bowstring is a bridge located near unincorporated Hollis, Kansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It spans West Creek on the border between Cloud and Republic counties and has a wooden deck with a bowstring pony truss.</p><br>
<p>It is a single-span Bowstring arch truss bridge which is 80 ft long and 16 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>The span was built in 1876 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Ohio, as one of four spans in a bridge crossing in Concordia, Kansas. Later the four spans were removed to different locations in the area. It crosses West Creek, a tributary to the Republican River.</p><br>
<p>As of 2010, the bridge is open to one-lane automobile traffic on a low-maintenance county road.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph R. Brown State Wayside Rest is a National Scenic Byway Wayside Rest area. It is located on Renville County Highway 15, south of Sacred Heart, Minnesota, United States.</p><br>
<p>The Wayside Rest displays the granite ruins of Joseph R. Browns home from 1862. Brown, his multiracial wife and twelve children lived in this home, which was a center of hospitality along the Minnesota River Valley. The three-story home was then considered a mansion compared to typical pioneer homes. It was destroyed during the Dakota War of 1862 on August 19, 1862. His family was spared because of his wifes Dakota heritage.</p><br>
<p>Brown was a politician, inventor, publisher, and Indian Agent.</p><br>
<p>Pott&#39;s Ford Bridge is a bridge 1/2 mile south of Glasco, Kansas, USA that spans the Solomon River in Cloud County, Kansas. It has a wooden deck with three bowstring pony trusses and one Pratt pony truss. The lengths of the trusses are 48 ft, 46 ft, and 149 ft for the bowstring trusses, and 72 ft for the Pratt truss. It was built in 1884 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Charles W. Van De Mark House is a Queen Anne style historic building located in Clyde, Kansas, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was listed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was converted to use as a restaurant in 1979, but is now a private home.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Charles W. Van De Mark was a prominent banker and attorney in Clyde, Kansas. He and his wife Elizabeth Stevens had three sons, Martin Van De Mark, Otis Van De Mark, and John V. Van De Mark. Martin was a very successful farmer in Kansas. Otis moved to Houston, Texas, where he had a successful business career. John V. Van De Mark went on to develop real estate in Houston with his uncle, Henry F. McGregor, as well as to serve as the Vice President of the Federal Land Bank in Houston.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house was built for Van De Mark&#39;s family. The house was furnished with the finest mahogany paneling and millwork, which exist to this day.</p><br>
<p>Glasco Downtown Historic District is an early commercial, Italianate historic shopping area located in Glasco, Kansas that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 3.9 acre historic district runs roughly along Main Street from Railroad Avenue to Fisher Street and continues along Railroad Avenue and Fisher Streets between Main and Buffalo Streets in Glasco. It includes 22 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area, one other contributing structure, and six non-contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Birthplace of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Graham Building, is located in an apartment on the second floor of a late 19th-century commercial building in Tampico, Illinois, United States. The building was built in 1896, and housed a tavern from that time until 1915. On February 6, 1911, the future 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, was born in the apartment there. The Reagan family moved into a house in Tampico a few months later.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, the two-story brick building is similar to its neighbors, all of which are part of a historic district added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1896, the building was constructed by Fred Harvey Seymour for G.W. Stauffer, and later became known as the "Graham Building." From 1896 to 1915, the first floor of the building housed a tavern, while the second floor contained an apartment. On October 1, 1906, Jack and Nelle Reagan moved into the apartment above the tavern. The Reagans had two sons while they lived in the apartment. In 1908, they had their first son, Neil Reagan. Their second son, Ronald Reagan, was born on February 6, 1911, inside of the second floor apartment. The Reagans lived at the address from 1906 until May 5, 1911, when they moved into a house on Glassburn Street, also in Tampico. While the Reagans lived in Tampico, Jack was employed at the H.C. Pitney Variety Store, which was located across the street from the Reagan Birthplace in the 100 block of Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Reagans were in Tampico until Pitneys store closed in 1914, after which they settled in Chicago, Galesburg, and Monmouth for various periods of time. Pitneys store reopened in 1919, and the Reagans returned to Tampico for a short while, where they lived in an apartment above the store. Pitney&#39;s store again closed, and on December 6, 1920, the Reagans moved to Dixon, Illinois, where they occupied the house that would later be known as the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home.</p><br>
<p>From 1915 to 1919, the building housed a bakery. The First National Bank was located in the structure in 1919, where it remained until 1931. The bank&#39;s owner and president, R.F. Woods, served as mayor of Tampico from 1917 to 1919. In 1968, the building was purchased by Paul Nicely and his wife. After Mrs. Nicely died in 2003, the building was put up for sale, and was then purchased by WPW Partners of Chicago.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Reagan Birthplace is similar to most of the commercial buildings along Tampicos Main Street. It is brick, two stories tall, has three second-story windows, and features a cornice. Only the areas oldest buildings differ from the Reagan Birthplace&#39;s metal cornices and flat-headed windows.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The structure known as Ronald Reagans Birthplace is most notable for being the place where Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911. The buildings first floor interior has been restored as the First National Bank, which occupied the property from 1919 to 1931. On the second floor, the apartment&#39;s condition has been restored to reflect the historical period when Reagan was born. The site offers tours to the public, and is listed as a “significant” contributing property to the Tampico Main Street Historic District. The Main Street Historic District was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The McKinney Homestead is a former limestone home built between 1850 and 1852 by Thomas F. McKinney, owner of the surrounding land. The two-story homestead was continuously occupied until it burned in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological investigations in 1974 determined the house was built with limestone quarried from Onion Creek. The framing lumber was cypress and cedar, both abundant on McKinney&#39;s land. The same wood was used for the doors, window frames and roof shakes. The house was approximately twenty foot by forty foot and had two stories. There were three rooms on each floor and a covered porch both upstairs and downstairs.</p><br>
<p>Most of McKinneys land and the house were sold to James W. Smith in 1885, Smiths grandchildren granted 682 acre to the state of Texas in 1974. It opened as McKinney Falls State Park in 1976. The former homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It has since been stabilized to prevent further deterioration of the stone structure. The ruins can be accessed via the park&#39;s designated "Homestead Trail."</p><br>
<p>The Alexandra is a historic apartment building located on Gilbert Avenue in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1904 as the neighborhoods first large apartment building, it was one of many such buildings constructed for the real estate management firm of Thomas J. Emerys Sons. It has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cincinnatis traditional single-family houses were sufficient for city residents into the 1860s, but rapid postwar growth caused land prices to rise, and apartment living became more desirable even for the citys wealthier residents. At first, downtown was the favored location for these developments, with many lining West Fourth and West Ninth Streets. However, the rise of Thomas J. Emerys Sons saw a rapid increase in development in other neighborhoods: although Emery had participated in the downtown apartment boom, constructing the Lombardy Flats on Fourth Street to a Samuel Hannaford design, the firm made itself Cincinnatis leading apartment developer by building high-quality buildings along streetcar lines in the hillside neighborhoods above downtown, including Walnut Hills. Most of their buildings, including the Alexandra, were designed by the firm of Joseph G. Steinkamp & Brother. When constructed in 1904, the Alexandra was Cincinnatis first large apartment building constructed in a hillside neighborhood and the largest apartment building anywhere in the city. Its desirability was increased by its location near the end of the Gilbert Avenue streetcar line at the streets intersection with William Howard Taft, a significant east-west road, just one city block north of the commercial neighborhood of Peebles&#39; Corner.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of brick with a foundation of limestone and covered with a slate roof, the Alexandra is a Dutch Colonial Revival building constructed on the edge of the street, with no setback. The first through third stories are pierced with regular rectangular windows, while the fourth story, constricted by the gambrel roof, is illuminated by a mix of rectangular and semicircular arched windows, placed both in the peaks of the gables and in dormers. Porches are provided on all stories, and the Gilbert Avenue end (significantly shorter than the Taft-facing northern front) is interrupted by a central gable and additional porches. The interior was originally divided into fifty-four separate apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, the Alexandra was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architectural integrity and its importance in local history. It is one of numerous Register-listed locations in its section of Walnut Hills, along with the core of Peebles Corner to the south, the Cummins School and the tower of Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church just to the northwest, and the Park, Verona (also Emery-owned), and Ransley Apartments just to the southeast. The same designation has been given to several other Emery apartment buildings, including the Brittany, Lombardy, and Saxony (all downtown), the Parkside in Clifton, and Haddon Hall and the Somerset in Avondale. In addition to its federal landmark status, grant-funded renovations have improved the building&#39;s condition: in 2004, an office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland announced that a project to strengthen Walnut Hills and other impoverished Cincinnati neighborhoods had funded a newly completed project to convert the Alexandra into eighty-three units of housing for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>The Alkemeyer Commercial Buildings are a pair of business buildings located at 19 and 23 Court Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1879,</p><br>
<p>The Lotze Building, located at 19 Court, was designed by William Walter, a leading Cincinnati architect, for their heirs of inventor Adolphus Lotze. An Italianate structure built from 1879 to 1880, this building is today used for residential purposes. The adjacent building at 23 Court is a larger Queen Anne structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Alkemeyer Buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. Because of their importance in local history and because of their historically significant architecture, the buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company is a historic commercial building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Central Parkway on the edge of downtown, it is a late Victorian structure designed by Samuel Hannaford,</p><br>
<p>William F. Doepke, with his first cousins, William H. Alms, and Frederick H. Alms, established a dry goods store in Cincinnati in 1865 and moved to the northeastern corner of the intersection of Main Street and the Miami and Erie Canal two years later. Starting in 1878, they erected the core of the present structure at that location; it would later be expanded in 1886, 1890, and 1906. Seven-stories tall, it is a brick building with a stone foundation and a slate roof. Major architectural elements include an ornate cornice with heavy bracketing and its Mansard roof that is pierced by many dormers.</p><br>
<p>By the late nineteenth century, Alms and Doepke had built a reputation as the regions leading dry goods firm; eight hundred individuals were on its payroll in 1891. When the company chose to expand their facilities in 1886, they hired Samuel Hannaford, who by that time had become Cincinnatis most prestigious architect. During the 1870s and 1880s, Hannaford independently designed a wide range of buildings throughout Cincinnati and its suburbs, becoming known as the architect of choice for prosperous individuals and companies of the Gilded Age.</p><br>
<p>After ninety years of operation, Alms and Doepke closed permanently in 1955. Their headquarters endured after their demise; its architecture was sufficiently well preserved to qualify the building for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, along with dozens of other Hannaford buildings. Three years later, it was one of more than two thousand buildings in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood added to the Register together as a historic district, the Over-the-Rhine Historic District. Today, the Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company building is owned by the Hamilton County government, which uses it as offices for its Job and Family Services and human resources departments, as it is located across Central Parkway from the Hamilton County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church is a historic church building in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A German Gothic Revival structure built in 1868,</p><br>
<p>The church building is a rectangular two-story structure facing to the east. Worshippers enter through doors in a prominent tower that occupies the center of the façade. Such a tower is characteristic of the German Gothic churches that this church was built to emulate, as are the transepts on either side of the tower.</p><br>
<p>Located at 1205 Elm Street, Among the properties surrounding it are Music Hall, located at 1243 Elm Street, and a community park whose southwestern corner lies on the other side of Elm Street. In 1973, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its place in local history and because of its distinctive and well-preserved historic architecture. Ten years later, most of Over-the-Rhine was added to the Register as a historic district, and the Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church qualified as one of its hundreds of contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Longworth Hall is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 29, 1986. Constructed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1904 as the B&O Freight Terminal, the building was reported to be the longest structure of its type in the world at 1,277 ft long. Camden Yards in Baltimore, a similar structure, is slightly shorter at 1,116 ft long. Longworth Hall is 5 stories, while the Baltimore Freight Terminal is 8 stories.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During construction, 80,000 ft of pilings were driven to support the concrete foundations. The piers between the first floor doors are of Bedford limestone. 4.25 million bricks were used in the walls. Floor loads are carried on steel girders and these in turn are carried on steel columns. Floors, joists, roof beams, etc., are frame requiring 2.5 e6boardfeet of lumber.</p><br>
<p>The lower floor was designed as the inbound freight house with the upper four floors for storage. The facility trackage could accommodate 125 cars. Other facilities included a boiler house, a 6 stall roundhouse, a coal tipple and a USA Customs Bonded Warehouse, for the care of imported goods.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>The Cincinnati Childrens Museum occupied all four stories at the western end of Longworth Hall until floodwaters inundated the building during the flood of 1997, forcing the museum to relocate to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal the following year. WOXY.coms studios were located in Longworth Hall from September 2004 until the Internet radio station moved to Austin, Texas, in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Barefoot Proximity is currently located in Longworth Hall.</p><br>
<p>Fisher Design is currently located in Longworth Hall.</p><br>
<p>Dotloop is currently headquartered in Longworth Hall.</p><br>
<p>Industrial Reliability and Repair is currently headquartered in Longworth Hall</p><br>
<p>The John S. Baker House is a historic house in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1854 according to a design by Cincinnati architect James Keys Wilson,</p><br>
<p>The Baker House is primarily a brick structure with some elements of weatherboarding; it rests on a stone foundation and is covered by a metal roof. Its architecture is prominent in many ways, most significant of which are its overall style: no other large brick houses in the Cincinnati area feature such a distinctively Gothic Revival style. Many details produce the sense of a castle, such as its tower, its battlements and crenellations, and the decorations on the unusually placed and shaped windows. The appearance is further improved by the house&#39;s location: sitting atop a river bluff, it is visible from a great distance.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Baker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. Included in the listing were two related buildings, a studio and residence for servants; they are located on the side of the bluff below the main house.</p><br>
<p>The Balch House is a historic house in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Greendale Avenue in that city&#39;s Clifton neighborhood,</p><br>
<p>In 1892, Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad executive George Balch moved to Clifton. Four years later, deciding to construct a house for himself, he chose renowned Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford. Balch was one of many Clifton residents to commission designs from Hannaford: having built a reputation as one of Cincinnatis premier Gilded Age architects, Hannaford had designed large numbers of houses for the residents of upscale neighborhoods such as Clifton. The Balch House was one of Hannafords last residences in the area, for he retired in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick and stucco on a stone foundation, the Balch House is covered by a slate roof. Among its distinctive architectural features is the large gable on the front, which rises above a large frame porch that rests on brick pedestals. Individuals can enter the house through an ornate entrance located under a decorated smaller gable, while a large gable similar to that of the front crowns the house&#39;s western side. The overall floor plan of the house is the shape of an "L."</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Balch House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. Dozens of other Cincinnati buildings were added to the Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of buildings designed by Hannaford.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph W. Baldwin House is a historic residence in the city of Wyoming, Ohio, United States. Erected in the late nineteenth century, it was originally the home of a wealthy Cincinnati businessman, and it has been designated a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of weatherboarded walls with imbricated shingles, the house rests on a stone foundation; its roof is slate, while elements of wood and iron are also present. Two and a half stories tall, the house includes a three-story tower placed above a porch. The tower is covered with a pyramid-shaped roof, based on a cornice with dentils and topped with a delicate iron finial, while the roofs for the rest of the house are typical gables. Its overall floor plan is that of the letter "L&quot the porch and tower are placed within the angle formed by the two ells. These elements combine to make it one of Wyoming&#39;s best Italianate houses.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>Transportation networks were a leading reason for Wyoming&#39;s prosperity in the nineteenth century. The city lies near the old pre-statehood road that connected Cincinnati with locations farther north, such as Fort Hamilton and Fallen Timbers. Curves in the road were cut off in 1806, forming a new road that is today followed by Springfield Pike through central Wyoming. Improvements in the 1830s only enhanced its importance. By this time, another mode of transportation had become significant: the Miami and Erie Canal was built a short distance to the east in 1828, and the village of Lockland grew up along its side. Railroads reached the city in 1851 with the construction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad on the border between Lockland and Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>Because of Wyomings proximity to the industry of Lockland, its easy transportation to the booming city of Cincinnati, and its pleasant scenery, many wealthy industrialists purchased local farms and built grand country houses. Most such houses were built in the Wyoming Hills area, west of Springfield Pike; growth in this area continued until the coming of the Great Depression. Although not an industrialist, Joseph Baldwin was among the citys leading businessmen: much of his career was spent as an executive with C.R. Talbot, a company manufacturing nails and other iron products, while the latter part of his career was spent with Equitable Life Insurance Company. Baldwin had the house built in 1884, and he lived in it until selling it in 1900 to Lawrence Maxwell, a Cincinnati lawyer who owned it for the next seven years.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, a local historic preservation group began a citywide survey to identify Wyoming&#39;s historic buildings, and this effort culminated with a multiple property submission of eighteen houses, the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, and one historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Along with all but one of the other properties, the Baldwin House was listed on the Register in the following year, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture and because of its connection to Joseph Baldwin.</p><br>
<p>The Bates Building is a historic house in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A two-story building constructed in a vernacular style of architecture, it is one of the oldest buildings on Eastern Avenue in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1865, the Bates Building is a simple frame building with a gabled roof of shingles; it is three bays wide, and each side is a single bay. A significant exception to the houses simple construction is the ornate front porch, which appears to have been built after the rest of the house; complicated beveled woodwork covers the pillars of the porch. The eastern side of the house is otherwise the most distinctive part of the building; an outward projection on that side is the only exception to the houses rectangular shape, and included in the projection is a small oval window, which is the only non-rectangular window in the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Bates Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its historically significant architecture. It was one of seventeen Columbia-Tusculum properties included in a multiple property submission related to a historic preservation survey that had been conducted in the previous few years; most of the properties were buildings, but the Columbia Baptist and Fulton-Presbyterian Cemeteries were also included.</p><br>
<p>The Bauer Apartments are a historic apartment building in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. it is a brick building with elements of sandstone and metal. The Bauer has been rated as an exceptionally well-preserved example of the Queen Anne style of architecture. Among the most significant elements of its architecture are details such as a bracketed cornice, some courses with corbelling, and a belt of sandstone, plus larger elements such as significant rectangular panels on the facade and massive bay windows. Inside, many original details have survived to the present day, such as elaborate balusters in the halls, the wainscoting on the corners of the rooms, and the plain fireplace mantels.</p><br>
<p>From their construction in 1885 until 1947, the apartments were owned by the family of Ulrick Bauer, a local greengrocer. Both historically and in the present, they have been used both for residential purposes and as the location of a specialty store. In 1982, the Bauer Apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to their well-preserved historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The James Baxter House is a historic residence in the village of Amberley, Ohio, United States, near Cincinnati. Built in the 1800s and expanded in the 1930s, it retains much of its original architecture, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter House is a brick structure with some weatherboarding and other wooden elements, set on a stone foundation and covered with a shake roof.</p><br>
<p>James Baxter bought the future site of the present house in 1797 as part of a property approximately 0.5 square miles in total area. and much of the rest of the interior, have survived. Very little was modified until the 1930s, when the original building was expanded with a new section. The period owners derived much of the new additions design from that of a Tidewater Virginia house, the colonial-era Carters Grove. The resulting building is approximately 7,000 ft&sup2; in area and surrounded by a large lawn with early landscaping and a caretaker&#39;s house.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the Baxter House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of three Register-listed locations in Amberley, along with the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House and the ancient Benham Mound built by the prehistoric Hopewell Indian people.</p><br>
<p>The Becker House is a historic house on the outskirts of the city of Springdale, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1830 as a farmhouse, it was for a time home to a prominent figure in the national debate over slavery. Few changes have been made to the house since its earliest years, warranting its designation as a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1830, Joseph Hough decided to erect a residence on his 63-acre (0.25-km) property; the finished residence was typical of farmhouses built in the area at the time. His design consisted of a simple two-story structure with weatherboarded walls. Its facade is divided into three bays, with a porch sheltering the entire first floor. Hough owned the property until his death in the early 1850s; the probate process following his death resulted in the propertys conveyance to John Burgoyne, Jr. Burgoynes father, John Burgoyne, Sr., lived at the house from 1860 until 1864, following an incident in which he had suddenly gained a leading position in the national slavery debate: while serving as a judge of the common pleas court for Hamilton County, the elder man ruled that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was unconstitutional during a case that had already attracted national attention.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Becker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying on the basis of its historic architecture; it is Springdale&#39;s only -designated historic site. It was deemed worthy of inclusion as a well-preserved example of a mid-century farmstead, and its fine structural condition was expected to ensure its intact survival for many years into the future.</p><br>
<p>The Benham Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located in modern Amberley Village in Hamilton County, the mound is an archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>A volume of Hamilton County history, published in the nineteenth century, described the Benham Mound, named for a local farmer, as "a fine, large mound," which measured 8 ft high and with a circumference of approximately 200 ft. The mound is located on a hilltop that overlooks the valley of a tributary creek that flows west into the Mill Creek, which correlates with Section 30 of the original Columbia Township, near the Montgomery turnpike (now USA Route 22), that is, near end of present-day Grand Vista Avenue. The Norwood Mound lies approximately 1.5 mi to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>During the late nineteenth century, local residents partially excavated the mound and the ground around it; their diggings revealed significant amounts of mica and divers types of stone tools, including axes, scrapers, chisels, and flint projectile points. These findings, combined with the location of the mound itself, have led archaeologists to conclude that Benham Mound was built by people of the Hopewell tradition. Because of its archaeological value, the Benham Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The George Bennett House was a historic residence built near the city of Harrison, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the nineteenth century, it was a prominent building along one of the area&#39;s major roads, and it was eventually named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>George Bennett was among the first men of the Harrison area during the middle of the nineteenth century. Besides his wealth, which was equalled by few men in the area, his prominence derived from his politics: he gained a reputation as a premier lobbyist. Bennett also occupied a leading place in the society of northwestern Hamilton County, and his home was widely known for its numerous social gatherings as well as the political events that were held there. He arranged for the construction of his house in 1847, employing an unknown architect to produce a simple design in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall, the house was highly symmetrical, with a central section and a wing on each side of a size comparable to the center. All three segments of the facade were divided into three bays each, with the main entrance in the central bay of the central section. Each of the remaining seventeen openings was filled with a window, although the second-floor windows on the wings were substantially shorter than the windows of the central section and of the first-floor windows of the wings. Framing the ends of the building were two chimneys, with one on the roofline at each end of the house, while the center was marked by a simple four-pillared portico sheltering the entrance and permitting the central section of the house to have a substantial overhang. All roofs were gabled, and the projection at the center of the facade was topped with a pediment under the roof. Constructed on a stone foundation, the house was built with walls of mixed brick and wood, and in its last years, the house was given a tin roof. Bennetts frequent parties necessitated the reservation of a large space on the second floor for use as a ballroom, with its floor supported by springs according to oral tradition, although collapsible screens permitted its conversion into dormitory space when necessary. The overall plan bears similarities to various structures designed by Thomas Jefferson, but the Bennett Houses adherence to the later Greek Revival style was solidified by its lack of complex design elements.</p><br>
<p>Due to its large size and distinctive architecture, which were accentuated by its location on the Harrison Pike, the Bennett House was long a landmark for local residents and travellers. In mid-1975, its status was further raised by addition to the National Register of Historic Places; qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture, it was the first Harrison-area building to acquire this designation, although the Othniel Looker House was listed one week later, and four more houses followed by the end of 1976. Despite its landmark status, the house no longer occupies its place; the site is now an empty lot.</p><br>
<p>The Neill–Cochran House Museum is a historic home in north-central Austin, Texas. Master builder Abner Cook designed and built the house in 1855 as a suburban estate many years before the surrounding area was settled by other homes and businesses. The two-story Greek Revival home features prominent Doric columns and Mr. Cook&#39;s signature "sheaf of wheat" balusters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built on 17.5 acre northwest of town for Washington and Mary Hill, although they never occupied it. In 1856, it was leased to the Texas Institute for the Blind, currently known as the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, to serve as its first home until Abner Cook finished the school&#39;s campus across town.</p><br>
<p>Subsequently, the House was leased by Lt. Governor Fletcher Stockdale and, it is believed, former Provisional Governor Andrew J. Hamilton. At the end of the Civil War, Federal troops converted the House into a hospital. General George Armstrong Custer was stationed in Austin during Reconstruction, occupying the blind school and, no doubt, visit the Neill–Cochran House.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the home was sold to Colonel Andrew Neill, a Confederate veteran. Neill lived there with his wife Jennie Chapman Neill, who stayed on after Neill&#39;s death and in 1893 rented the home to Judge Thomas Beauford Cochran.</p><br>
<p>Cochran purchased the home outright in 1895 for his family and expanded and modernized the home. In 1958, the Cochran family sold the property to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in The State of Texas. The NSCDA operates the home today as a historic house museum. The Neill–Cochran House Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Texas Historical Commission landmark.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, White Rabbit Adventure Games published a walk-through computer adventure game based on the Neill–Cochran House. The game, "Sterlings Gift", features a fictional story based on published memoirs and diaries that helps the player solve a 150-year-old mystery involving George Custers wife Libbie. Royalties from the sale of this unique game go to the Neill–Cochran House Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Christian Specht Building is located at 1110 Douglas Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It is the only existing building with a cast-iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built in the state. The building was deemed an Omaha landmark in 1981, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by local architects Dufrene and Mendelssohn in 1884, the three-story Specht Building was modeled in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style. This was a popular style for cast-iron facade buildings. Christian Spechts company, the Western Cornice Works, manufactured the facade. The company was a manufacturer of galvanized iron cornices, finials and other metal building products. Today the building is renowned for its artistic value by representing this periods usage of iron.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed demolition</h2><br>
<p>In 2001 the Omaha Performing Arts Society, led by the publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, John Gottschalk, proposed building an arts center adjacent to the Specht Building. Plans called for the demolition of the entire block the Specht Building sits on, including the Specht and four neighboring historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 the City of Omaha was presented with a US$90 million gift for a downtown performing arts center contingent on the demolition of the downtown block containing the Specht Building and three other restored historical buildings. Shortly thereafter, the Omaha City Council voted to condemn and immediately demolish the Specht Building and the three other buildings to make way for green space for the performing arts center. Before voting to demolish the Specht building, the City Council did not discuss the fact that since 1981 the Specht building had been a designated Landmark of the City of Omaha.</p><br>
<p>Early reports indicated that the historic buildings would stop the project from happening, particularly after the historic building owners secured a temporary restraining order against the City of Omaha that prevented city attorneys from using eminent domain to take the four buildings. Pressure upon the major donors of the performing arts center and the donors requested that the buildings be spared.</p><br>
<p>After negotiations the plans were saved and the location of the buildings was intact. However, during the demolition of the rest of the block, some of the historic buildings were badly damaged, with one of the buildings completely demolished. The Specht Building was remodeled thereafter and is now loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art .</p><br>
<p>Since October 18, 2008, the Hall has served as home to the Please Touch Museum. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The building is located west of the Schuylkill River, at the corner of East Memorial Hall Drive and the Avenue of the Republic.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Memorial Hall was designed by Herman J. Schwarzman, and is an early example of monumental Beaux-Arts architecture in the United States. Schwarzman, the chief engineer of the Fairmount Park Commission, also designed the temporary Horticultural Hall for the Exposition. The building cost $1.5 million to construct and was made without wood, making it fireproof, which was innovative for the time.</p><br>
<p>The exterior is finished with granite and the interior is decorated with marble and ornamental plaster. The building is 365 ft by 210 ft with basement and ground floor, and 150 ft tall at the top of the building&#39;s most distinctive feature, an iron and glass dome. Surmounting the dome is the 23 ft statue of Columbia (the poetic symbol of the United States) holding a laurel branch. At the corners of the dome stand four statues symbolizing industry, commerce, agriculture and mining. Memorial Hall was the inspiration for the Reichstag building in Berlin.</p><br>
<h3>Centennial Exposition</h3><br>
<p>Construction of the hall began on 6 July 1874 and was completed for the opening ceremonies on May 10, 1876. President Ulysses S. Grant dedicated the building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The President was joined by both Houses of Congress, and Supreme Court, and the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil to kick off the event. Nearly ten million visitors walked through Memorial Hall during the exhibition that lasted from May to November.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall was designed to house the Centennial Exposition&#39;s art exhibits. The exposition received so many art contributions that a separate annex was built to house them all. Another building was built for the display of photography. The hall was one of over two hundred buildings constructed on the property of Fairmount Park to display exhibits.</p><br>
<h3>After the Exposition</h3><br>
<p>Memorial Hall reopened in 1877 as the museum portion of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. The building closed in 1928 when the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Fairmount Park Commission took over the building in 1958 where it made its offices.</p><br>
<p>The hall was used as a police station for a period of time and has also housed a gymnasium and a swimming pool in its wings.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The building had fallen into great disrepair by 2000 and was used mainly for art storage. The Fairmount Park Commission sought a new tenant to help restore the building to its former glory. The Please Touch Museum signed an eighty-year lease for the building in 2005 and began extensive renovations.</p><br>
<h2>Key events and usage</h2><br>
<h3>Philadelphia Orchestra recordings</h3><br>
<p>In the 1980s and 1990s, the Philadelphia Orchestra made a number of recordings in a basketball court in Memorial Hall under the batons of Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Memorial Hall was used because the Academy of Music, the orchestra&#39;s home at the time, was considered not resonant enough.</p><br>
<h3>Richie Ashburn viewing</h3><br>
<p>In September 1997, a viewing for former Philadelphia Phillies baseball player and long-time broadcaster Richie Ashburn was held shortly after his death from a heart attack in New York City. Several hundred thousand people mourned his death as they walked by his casket in the Grand Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Please Touch Museum</h3><br>
<p>In 2005, the Please Touch Museum began an $85-million renovation to convert it into its new home. The museum opened its doors to the public on October 18, 2008. Memorial Hall&#39;s eastern lawn serves as the home field for Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, a vintage base ball team which plays by 1864 rules.</p><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill, also known as Appel Mill and Malvern Milling Company, is a 19th-century grist mill located near the unincorporated village of Malvern, Illinois, in rural Whiteside County, north of Morrison, Illinois, United States. The original mill on the site, built by 1853, was destroyed by a flood and the present mill was erected in 1858. The mill&#39;s first owner was William P. Hiddleson who operated the mill until he sold to Benjamin Hough in 1871. The mill changed hands over the years until it landed under the control of George Appel in 1892. The Appel family closed the mill in 1942 but it remained in their family until 1985. The Malvern Roller Mill was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property where Malvern Roller Mill is located was purchased by William P. Hiddleson on October 1, 1845. No records exist to indicate when Hiddleson built the mill on the east bank of Rock Creek in Clyde Township, Whiteside County but it is known that the country mill was in place by 1853.</p><br>
<p>The original mill was powered by a vertical waterwheel; the mill, at the time, utilized buhrstones to grind the meal. On the nearby property, discarded buried buhrstones can be found. In the 1870s or 1880s the mill owners added a 20 hp turbine to help the mill keep up with advances in technology. In 1888 Schriner installed a set of rollers, manufactured by Barkley and Leads Machine Company of Moline, Illinois, at the demand of his mill operator, Amos Greater, who had threatened to quit absent the rollers.</p><br>
<p>Millwright George Appel, from Sterling, Illinois, leased the mill, adjacent land and buildings in 1892. Appel, a recent German immigrant to the United States, oat huller and made oatmeal, corn meal, flour, and bran at the mill with his son. The mill, properly known as the Malvern Roller Mill or Malvern Milling Company, became known as the Appel Mill during this time period. The Appel family held the mill from its purchase in 1892 until 1985. Flour and meal, marketed under the Malvern Roller Mill name, was marketed in Sterling, shipped out the railroad and sold in far away location such as New York City and England.</p><br>
<p>John Appel took control of the mill in 1926 and operated it until its closure in 1942. During Appel&#39;s last years running the mill he limited his customers to nearby farmers who needed grains custom ground for animal feed.</p><br>
<h2>Mill</h2><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill is a country grist mill located in Whiteside County, Illinois along Old Clover Road. The mill building sits about 300 ft from the present-day roadway, Felton Road, which was rerouted in 1992. The mill is near the small northeastern Whiteside County community of Malvern, about 9 mi northeast of Morrison, Illinois. The mill building sits on the south bank of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Rock River, and to its northeast is a stone faced dam. The dam stretches the 80 to 90 ft across the Rock Creek, it is about 5 ft thick and was reinforced with concrete during the 1950s. The 1858 mill building is of studded wall construction. The rectangular-shaped building is 26+1/2 ft by 38 ft. To the west of the mill building is a circa 1890 Pratt truss bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995, because of its local significance in the areas of industry and commerce. The building operated as a grinding mill for farmers and the nearby community of Malvern from its construction until it closed in 1942. It is the only known mill in northwestern Illinois that retains all of its equipment for an all roller and no grindstone process. If the millrace and turbines are clean the mill could operate as it did when it was in business. The Malvern Roller Mill provides a glimpse at the complexity of late 19th century milling operations.</p><br>
<p>The August Bepler House is a historic residence in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Tusculum Avenue in that city&#39;s Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood, the house was built in 1869 for a wealthy inventor and industrialist, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>August Bepler made himself wealthy by inventing a machine to produce a new type of product, the flat-bottomed paper bag. The foreign-born Bepler settled in the United States in 1851; within four years he had formed a company to manufacture paper bags in the Cincinnati-area village of Lockland, although he relocated the firm to Cincinnati in 1858. Using the wealth gained from the company, Bepler arranged for the construction of the present house in 1869. He later paid for the construction of a second house to functionally the same design, but this later house, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is no longer standing.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall with a weatherboarded exterior, the house rests on a stone foundation, is covered with a tin roof, and features elements of brick. A large bay window occupies much of the side on the left of a viewer facing the front of the house, while the facade itself features a large columned porch; the columns are topped with capitals resembling those of the ancient Corinthian order. Together with smaller elements, the colonnade creates an excellent Neoclassical appearance, a style not particularly common in the area.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, the Bepler House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because it had been the home of a prominent local resident.</p><br>
<p>The Bernheim House is a historic residence in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1912, it is built of brick and stucco with wooden elements.</p><br>
<p>Morris and Delia Bernheim arranged for the construction of the house in 1912 on open land approximately 13 acre in area. One of the owners of a conveyor belt factory, Morris chose to subdivide his property in the 1920s into two separate developments. In contrast to the Bernheim House, most of the houses in the development are built in the Tudor Revival style of architecture, thus increasing the distinctive architecture of the oldest house in the neighborhood. Because of its distinctive historic architecture, the Bernheim House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Blair House is a historic house in the city of Montgomery, Ohio, United States. One of the best examples of Victorian-period Italianate architecture in the city, it was built for butcher James Blair and his wife Anne in 1875. A brick structure with a slate roof, it is a two-story structure built in the plan of the letter "L." Among its distinctive architectural elements are the ornamented single-story bay, the brackets that support the eaves of the roof, and the corbelled chimneys.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Blair House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. Its date makes it close to unique; most of the city&#39;s remaining nineteenth-century buildings were erected before 1850, and almost no other Victorian structures have survived to the present day. It is one of five locations in Montgomery that is listed on the Register, along with the Montgomery Saltbox Houses, the Universalist Church Historic District, the Wilder-Swaim House, and the Yost Tavern.</p><br>
<p>Cedric G. Boulter and Patricia Neils House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed registered historic home in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It was commissioned in 1953, with construction beginning in 1954, and completed in 1956. Additions to the design were completed in 1958.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, Patricia&#39;s parents commissioned the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House in Minnesota and Wright promised to design a home for her when she married.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed in the National Register on May 14, 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cedric and Patricia (Neils) Boulter were classics professors at the University of Cincinnati. Wright designed them a Usonian style house with a square module of 4 feet on a side. The house uses concrete block, with Douglas fir used as a structural wood.(Storrer, 407) The home is a split level, with the second floor (which has the first bathroom, the Master Bedroom and a study) overlooking the living room. Construction was initially completed in 1956 with plans for another bedroom and bath on the other side of the carport. These were completed two years later under the direction of Benjamin "Ben" Dombar, original construction manager, former member of the Taliesin Fellowship and area architect.</p><br>
<p>The Boulters lived in the home until the 1980s. After the death of Cedric, Patricia sold the home to David and Miriam Gosling. The Goslings had the building placed on the National Register of Historic Places and enclosed the carport. The third owners were Chuck Lohre and Janet Groeber who worked on the house for 15 years. They carried out needed restoration work, updated the kitchen, and addressed energy efficiency as possible.</p><br>
<p>When they were ready to sell the home, they put it on auction in February 2019. Their intention, as they said, was to get a buyer sensitive to owning a Wright structure. The home was at auction for one day and was purchased site-unseen by Brook Smith, with the intention of "using the house as a retreat space for creatives. A fire occurred at the house in August 2019 while the owner was absent. It was estimated to cause US$100,000 in damages.</p><br>
<p>The home was sold via private sale to venture capitalists Candice Matthews Brackeen and Brian Brackeen, on March 15, 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Ayres L. Bramble House is a historic residence on the eastern side of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in the Greek Revival style of architecture in 1815, Two stories tall, the house features a Neoclassical entrance portico with fluted columns in the Doric order. Although built in the vernacular plan of an I-house, it features many other Greek Revival elements, such as the decorative molding and ornate plaster casts.</p><br>
<p>Ayres Bramble himself was a large-scale hog farmer; his operation was significant enough that it attracted notice in many different periodicals of the day. Besides raising hogs, Bramble eventually entered the business of killing them: he opened a slaughterhouse in Plainville that processed more than 36,000 animals in only one year. In Bramble&#39;s day, Cincinnati was known as "Porkopolis" due to its place as the leading center of pork packing in the United States; his operation was smaller than some in the city, but it was larger than any other slaughterhouse in the remnant portions of Hamilton County.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Ayres L. Bramble House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its historically significant architecture and its place as the home of a leading local citizen.</p><br>
<p>The Brittany Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A Queen Anne structure constructed in 1885, built with brick walls and elements of wood and sandstone. It was built by the firm of Thomas Emerys Sons, Cincinnatis leading real estate developers during the 1880s. It is one of four large apartment complexes erected by the Emerys during the 1880s; only the Brittany and the Lombardy Apartment Buildings have endured to the present day. Both the Lombardy and the Brittany were built in 1885 according to designs by Samuel Hannaford; at that time, his independent architectural practice was gaining great prominence in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>Among the distinctive elements of the Brittany&#39;s architecture are the massive chimneys on each end of the building. The exterior of the building is covered with decorative pieces, such as a comprehensive cornice with boxed pediments, plentiful brick pilasters and corbelling, and prominent bay windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Brittany Apartment Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its well-preserved historic architecture. Dozens of other properties in Cincinnati, including the Lombardy Apartment Building, were added to the Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of buildings designed by Samuel Hannaford. Eight months later, the portion of Ninth Street between Vine and Race Streets was added to the Register as the Ninth Street Historic District, and the Brittany Apartments were named one of the district&#39;s dozens of contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The building has been redone as LeBrittany, housing 15 units of luxury condominiums.</p><br>
<p>Broadwell House is a registered historic building near Newtown, Ohio, listed in the National Register on May 29, 1975. It was built in 1820 by Cyrus Broadwell  in the Greek Revival style. It has 23 columns, 12 feet high and each made from a single pine tree.</p><br>
<p>Former owners included Hamilton County prosecutor John V. Campbell.</p><br>
<p>Not to be confused with the Broadwell House of the Cincinnati Country Day School, built ca. 1804 by John Broadwell, located about 5 miles to the north.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Uses</h2><br>
<p>Single Dwelling</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Bromwell House is a historic residence in the city of Wyoming, Ohio, United States. An Italianate house constructed in the late nineteenth century, it was originally the home of a USA Representative, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Jacob Bromwell</h2><br>
<p>Jacob H. Bromwell was among the most prominent politicians in Wyomings history. Besides serving as a lawyer and a professor, he held office as the city solicitor, as a common pleas court judge (1907-1913), and as Wyomings mayor (1880-1886). He was elected as a Republican Party to the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a special election in 1894 and continuing in office until 1903. The present house was built in 1876, while Bromwell was teaching in the public schools of southern Indiana and Cincinnati.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>Good transportation is a leading reason for Wyoming&#39;s prosperity. The city lies near the old pre-statehood road that connected Cincinnati with locations farther north, such as Fort Hamilton and Fallen Timbers. Curves in the road were cut off in 1806, forming a new road that is today followed by Springfield Pike through central Wyoming. Improvements in the 1830s only enhanced its importance. By this time, another mode of transportation had become significant: the Miami and Erie Canal was built a short distance to the east in 1828, and the village of Lockland grew up along its side. Railroads reached the city in 1851 with the construction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad on the border between Lockland and Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>Because of Wyoming&#39;s proximity to the industry of Lockland, its easy transportation to the booming city of Cincinnati, and its pleasant scenery, many wealthy industrialists purchased local farms and built grand country houses. Most such houses were built in the Wyoming Hills area, west of Springfield Pike; growth in this area continued until the coming of the Great Depression. Bromwell was typical of these rich industrialists, building a large house and commuting to Cincinnati daily.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Two stories tall, the Italianate Bromwell House is built in the shape of the letter "L". The walls are weatherboarded, built on a stone foundation and covered with an asphalt roof. Among the house&#39;s details are shutters on many of the windows, a side bay window, and an oculus in a gable on the front. Matching porches are placed on the front and rear of the house, featuring chamfered and bracketed pillars and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, a local historic preservation group began a citywide survey to identify Wyoming&#39;s historic buildings, and this effort culminated with a multiple property submission of eighteen houses, the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, and one historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Along with all but one of the other properties, the Jacob Bromwell House was listed on the Register in the following year, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture and its place as the home of a leading local citizen.</p><br>
<p>The Burchenal Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Located in the village of Woodlawn, Overlooking the West Fork of Mill Creek, it was once part of a farm owned by the Burchenal family.</p><br>
<p>A test excavation of the Burchenal Mound was conducted in 1850. However, the results were never published; consequently, the cultural affiliation of its builders is unknown. Based on excavations of similar mounds, it is believed to be the work of the Adena or Hopewell peoples, who typically interred their dead and various grave goods within their mounds. While no further excavations have been conducted since 1850, soil tests have been performed on the surface; these have demonstrated that the mound is built primarily of sand. Its shape is almost perfectly circular.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the Burchenal Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological potential.</p><br>
<p>The Margaret Sanger Clinic is a historic building at 17 West 16th Street in Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1846, it is notable as the location of the Clinical Research Bureau, where birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger and her successors provided contraceptive services and conducted research from 1930 to 1973. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1976 for its Greek Revival architecture, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with Sanger.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Margaret Sanger Clinic site is located between Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood and Union Square, on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It is one of a series Greek Revival rowhouses that line much of the streets north side. It is a -story brick structure, with a two-bay facade and dormered gable roof. The left bay is a locally rare example of a rounded projecting bay, with two sash windows on each level that have brownstone sills and lintels. The main entrance is in the right bay, recessed under a brownstone surround with a projecting modillioned cornice. The interior of the building retains many original Greek Revival features, including fireplace surrounds, marble floors, and a winding main staircase.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1846 to a design by Edward Mesier. Margaret Sanger opened her first birth control clinic, the Clinical Research Bureau, in 1916, in a building on Amboy Street in Brooklyn that is no longer standing. It was next quartered in rented rooms on West 15th Street, and purchased this building in 1930 as its first permanent home. Sanger and her clinic were instrumental in fundamentally altering how Americans talked about sex, venereal diseases, and contraception. The clinic housed in this building had the space not just to educate women on these matters, but also to provide education to medical professionals that was not widely taught in medical schools at the time.</p><br>
<p>The building is now privately owned. It became a New York City designated landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Samuel D. Mercer House was built in 1885 in the historic Walnut Hill neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Samuel Mercer was the chief surgeon of the Union Pacific Railroad, and the founder of Omaha&#39;s first hospital.</p><br>
<p>A grand 23-room red brick mansion built in the Queen Anne style, the key feature of the home is a three-story square tower that rises above the south side main entrance. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Melrose Apartments were built in 1916 at 602 North 33rd Street in the Gifford Park neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. The Melrose was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>A three-story, L-shaped building, the Melrose was completed during Omaha&#39;s first apartment "boom" period from 1912 to 1917.</p><br>
<p>Two separate three-story buildings are positioned adjacent to each other in an L-shape with a large courtyard between the buildings. Both buildings are made of brown brick with identical limestone and darker brown brick detailing, with the west building being larger than the north one. There are balconies flanking each building&#39;s entryway with "The Melrose" inscribed above.</p><br>
<p>The Melrose was rehabilitated in 1991, with virtually no alterations to the exterior and only minor changes in the interior.</p><br>
<p>Camp Olmsted is a summer camp and retreat in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, operated by the Five Points Mission, a Methodist organization. It is located along Bayview Avenue, NY 218, near Storm King Mountain.</p><br>
<p>It was founded in 1901 when the mission, which had been working to improve conditions for residents of the eponymous Manhattan slum (depicted in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York) since 1848. At the turn of the century, they realized children from the immigrant families they were helping needed a place to get away from the city during the summer. Sarah and John Olmsted donated the 21-acre (8 ha) parcel that was originally known as the Olmsted Fresh Air Home. Campers would take the Hudson River Day Liner from the city to Cornwall and then proceed to the camp.</p><br>
<p>In 1966 the New York City Society took a role in operating the camp, which, when three cabins were winterized, allowed for year-round operation. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and accredited by the American Camp Association two years later. The addition of two adjoining properties in 1998 brought the facility to its current 76-acre (30 ha) size. Today the camp runs four 12-day sessions for city children in the summer, and religious retreats year-round.</p><br>
<p>The Farwell Barn, also known as Jacobson Barn or Jacobson&#39;s Barn, is a historic property on Horsebarn Hill Road in Storrs, Connecticut, on the campus of the University of Connecticut. The property is also the site of the archaeological remains of the Farwell House. The barn "is a 19th-century post-and-beam framed clapboarded barn that was built as part of a family farm and then in 1911 was acquired by the Connecticut Agricultural College, the institution that became the University of Connecticut at Storrs." The corresponding house was burned in 1976. and</p><br>
<p>The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jacobson Barn occupies a prominent position at the northern end of the University of Connecticut campus, at the northeast corner of Horsebarn Hill Road and Connecticut Route 195. It measures 62 x, and is covered by a gabled roof with the long axis in an east-west orientation and a ventilating cupola at its center. The exterior is finished in wooden clapboards, which appear to be nailed to original vertical board siding. The barn&#39;s main entrance is at the western end, with a paved drive leading from Horsebarn Hill Road to a stone ramp and large sliding door. The door is fashioned out of vertically oriented tongue-and-groove boards, and has a normal pedestrian door built into it. The stone ramp is composed of large granite slabs, which also serve as cover for an underground storage space.</p><br>
<p>The barn was built about 1870, during the ownership of the farm by Isaac Farwell. The Farwell family had been farming in this area since the 18th century, and Isaac was primarily a dairy farmer. After his death, Isaac Jr. and Fidelia Farwell operated the farm, selling it to George Jacobson in 1908. Jacoboson sold the property to the Connecticut Agricultural College in 1911. The school added a sheep barn to the southeast of the structure in 1913–1915. The Farwell house burned down to its foundations in 1976, and today remain as an archaeological site. Archaeologists at the University of Connecticut have excavated this site through the Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST) program and have found various artifacts, including combs and coins.</p><br>
<p>The Rafael Gonzalez House is an historic house in the historic center of the city of Santa Barbara, California. Built in 1825, it is one of a small number of surviving adobe houses from the Mexican period of California history. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970, and added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Gonzalez House is located north of Santa Barbara&#39;s central business district, on the south side of Laguna Street between East Canon Perdido Street and East De La Guerra Street. It is a single-story adobe structure, with seven rooms. It is built in the U-shape (with the longest part being parallel to Laguna Street) and stands on a hill, separated from both Laguna and Canon Perdido streets by garden walls. Its walls are up to 2 ft thick, covered with lime plaster, and its long sides are sheltered by wooden verandas. When built, it had packed-earth floors, which were tiled during restoration in the 1920s. The roof, now shingled, was historically covered in terra cotta tile.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1825 by Rafael Gonzalez, a landowner who in 1829 became an alcalde of Santa Barbara. At this time, Santa Barbara was a part of Mexican California. After his death, in 1866, the house was inherited by one of his daughters, Francisca Ventura Gonzalez de Ramires. She lived in the house until 1923, when it was sold out of the family. It has seen mainly commercial uses since then.</p><br>
<p>The Johannes Miller House is a Registered Historic Place in the Orange County, New York, Town of Montgomery. It is located on NY 211 just opposite its junction with NY 416 and another Registered Historic Place, the Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery. Orange County Airport is nearby.</p><br>
<p>It was built originally as a Georgian in 1771 by Hans Smith, one of the early German settlers of the town. Twenty years later, Miller, a prosperous local businessman, acquired it and rebuilt it in the Federal style. In 1835, his descendants added some Greek Revival elements.</p><br>
