<p>Bethany Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic church in Kimballton, in Audubon County, Iowa. It was built in 1898 and was added to the National Register in 1991.</p><br>
<p>It is a T-shaped one-story gable-front frame building with a central entry tower, similar to other Danish churches in Audubon County and adjacent Shelby County. It faces to the west, and has an ell on the north which was built in 1906 to serve as a schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was deemed significant in part for its association with the history of the Danish Lutheran Church, which split in 1894, in the two county area. It was built, at least partly, by skilled Danish carpenter/cabinet-maker, Nis P. Hjuler, and reflects Danish decorative arts.</p><br>
<p>Immanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic church on W. Second Street in Kimballton, in Audubon County, Iowa. It was built in 1904 and was added to the National Register in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Located on a hill overlooking the east side of Kimballton, it is among the best-preserved historic Danish churches in Audubon and adjacent Shelby counties. It was deemed significant "for its association with the Grundtvigian synod of the Danish Lutheran Church following the historic split within the church in 1894 and for its influence upon the growth and development of the Danish community of Kimballton. Furthermore, this property is the best representation of that historic synod in the Kimballton community and the two county area." In the worldwide split of the Danish church, this is the main local church that followed the teachings of Bishop N. F. S. Grundtvig and is the only surviving "Grundtvigian" one.</p><br>
<p>A Christ-like statue on the altar is a copy of the one in Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen, Denmark, sculpted by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed and built by two craftsmen from West Denmark, Wisconsin, Niels Hansen and Jens Rasmussen, who had built a Grundtvigian church there (which burned in the 1930s, though historic photographs survive). They were brought to Kimballton by the pastor Jens Gregersen, who had come from West Denmark. Hansen drew plans for the church similar to the design of the West Denmark church, and Rasmussen created interior features such as the pulpit, the altar, and the communion railing.</p><br>
<p>The 1898-built Bethany Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, a mile or two away from Kimballton, also NRHP-listed, is a church that was on the other side of the split.</p><br>
<p>St. John Baptist Church is an African American Baptist congregation that started in 1919 and is the name of its historic church building at 715 6th Street SW in Mason City, Iowa that was built in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The building is a 24 ft by 56 ft rectangular church with a 4 ft vestibule, built on a high 5.5 ft stone foundation. According to its NRHP nomination, "St. John Baptist is an example of simple vernacular design, based on the centuries-old rectangular nave floor plan. No architect has been identified, although some believe that Spencer Brothers, a local African-American construction firm, may have drawn the plans." It was built by members of the congregation, using stones salvaged from a demolished local elementary school.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register in 2002. It was deemed significant " for its association with a strong African-American community, and the role the church played in an ethnically diverse neighborhood."</p><br>
<p>The Lazy A Motel is a historic former motel located along Old USA Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois. The motel was built in 1948–49 and had 13 rooms arranged in a U shape, with garages located between the rooms. The building was designed in the Southwestern Vernacular style, which can be seen in its stucco walls, its flat tile roof, and its cast iron railings and fixtures. The motel was one of many mom and pop motels built along US 66; however, it was one of only two dozen such motels remaining in Illinois as of 1994. Since the motel&#39;s closure, the building has been used for apartments. The motel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1994.</p><br>
<p>First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike is a historic Baptist church located at Pike, Wyoming County, New York. It was built in 1881, and is a one-story, L-shaped brick building with a steep gable roof in a Late Victorian Gothic style. It sits on a stone foundation and has a bell tower. A baptistry was added in 1917 and a rear addition in 1926.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Ypsilanti Historic District is a historic district located along several blocks on each side of the Huron River in the center of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The original portion of the district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; additions to the district were nationally listed in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Extent</h2><br>
<p>The Ypsilanti Historic District covers most of the older commercial sections of the city, as well as surrounding residential areas. The original, and largest, portion of the district extends roughly between Grove Street on the east, Hamilton Street on the west, Forest Avenue on the north, and Buffalo Street south. a southern addition running along South Adams between Ferris and Catherine Streets, and a western addition roughly extending the district west to Summit Street between Forest Street and Michigan Avenue. The district is the third largest historic district in the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The city of Ypsilanti was founded in 1823, and became an important railroad stop when the line was built through the city in 1838. As Ypsilanti grew, a commercial district sprang up on the Detroit-Chicago Road (now Michigan Avenue). In the late 1840s, a second commercial district (now known as Depot Town) grew up a few blocks to the northeast, near the railroad depot. In 1851, a substantial fire destroyed a sizable portion of the Michigan Avenue business district. The structures were quickly rebuilt, and many of the 1850s buildings still exist in the heart of the historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The core of the Ypsilanti Historic District contains approximately 400 contributing structures in two main areas. These are the commercial cores along Michigan Avenue and near the railroad depot on Cross Street (Depot Town). Huron Street, paralleling the river, links the two areas, and the structures around Huron Street are primarily residential in character. The residential structures include multiple examples of vernacular Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and brick Italianate houses. The commercial structures are substantially original two- and three-story brick structures.</p><br>
<p>The northeast addition is residential in character, containing primarily frame Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Tudor Revival houses constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The addition has 63 contributing structures, including both modest single family residences and grander homes that once housed elite citizens of the community. The south addition contains another 12 contributing residential structures, for the most part modest frame houses. The western addition to the district includes a little over 300 contributing structures, most of them single family homes. Many of these have been converted to apartments or fraternity houses due to the proximity of Eastern Michigan University.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Chapel is a small Gothic Revival chapel in Corinna Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1871. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and religion. It was nominated as a well-preserved example of a board and batten Gothic Revival parish church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Chapel was founded in 1871 by Octavius Longworth and the Reverend David Buel Knickerbacker, who had both been members of St. Marks Church in Brooklyn, New York. Longworth moved to Wright County, Minnesota, in 1859, while Knickerbacker had moved to Minneapolis in 1856 and become rector of Gethsemane Episcopal Church. Knickerbacker occasionally visited Longworth&#39;s house to conduct services. The two decided to establish a church in Wright County, so Longworth donated the land and built the structure. Construction started in 1871 and finished the following year, at which time Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple dedicated the building. Fifteen years later Bishop Whipple returned to consecrate the building.</p><br>
<p>Rose Terrace was a private home located at 12 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Built in 1934 by Anna Dodge, widow of automobile pioneer Horace E. Dodge, it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Despite this, the house was demolished in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John and Horace Dodge were machinists and early suppliers to, and investors in, the Ford Motor Company. The Dodge Brothers became immensely wealthy, and in 1912, Horace Dodge and his wife Anna Thompson Dodge hired Albert Kahn to design a palatial red sandstone mansion on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. The landscaping featured a series of terraces cascading down to Lake St. Clair. Anna Dodge filled them with roses and the mansion was subsequently dubbed "Rose Terrace."</p><br>
<p>In 1920, Horace Dodge died, leaving his fortune entirely to his widow, Anna. She continued to live at Rose Terrace, but was reportedly unhappy and lonely. Anna and Hugh spent two years in Europe, advised by prominent art dealer Joseph Duveen, collecting art, material, and inspiration for their new mansion. They hired architect Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia to design the new mansion and the George A. Fuller Company of New York City to supervise construction, The mansion was completed in 1934 at a cost of $4 million (equivalent to $ million in ).</p><br>
<p>However, even before the new Rose Terrace was completed, Hugh and Annas marriage soured. They divorced in 1947 and Anna changed her last name back to "Dodge". After Annas last child, Horace Jr., died in 1962, she lived in seclusion at Rose Terrace until her own death in 1970.</p><br>
<p>After her death, the furnishings of the Music Room were willed to the Detroit Institute of Arts. The remaining contents were auctioned by Christies in 1971. A catalog of Anna Thomson Dodges bequests published in 1996 includes works of art given by her or acquired from her estate from 1925 to 1973, as well as artwork purchased with the Mr and Mrs Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund from 1971 to 1995. In the year 2000, the Detroit Institute of Arts de-accessioned a number of works of art made specifically for the Music Room at Rose Terrace (many by Alavoine et Cie) on commission from Joseph Duveen, which were sold at Christies in New York on May 24, namely the Aubusson carpet, the four bronze and crystal chandeliers by Baguès Fréres, the four display cabinets that had held Anna Dodges collection of Sèvres, and the copy of a pair of Jardinières ensuite with a pair of late eighteenth century Athéniennes still in the bequest (Lots 316–321).</p><br>
<p>For the next few years, the mansion was used by local organizations for fundraisers and meetings. However, its upkeep was prohibitively expensive, and there were no buyers who wanted to keep and maintain it. The mansion was eventually sold to a developer, and despite efforts to preserve the edifice for its historical significance, it was demolished in the summer of 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Trumbauer&#39;s design for Rose Terrace emerged as an enlarged version of Miramar, his 1911 design for George Dunton Widener. The house was a French-style Louis XV chateau overlooking Lake St. Clair, and was approached from Jefferson via a long circular drive. It was constructed from brick walls on a concrete foundation, and surfaced with Indiana limestone. The mansard roof was sheathed with copper.</p><br>
<p>The main floor contained numerous reception rooms, a formal dining room, a library, a breakfast room, two sitting rooms, a music room/ballroom, a card room, a bar, and a kitchen pantry. All rooms had 18.5 ft ceilings. The music room, a favorite of Anna Dodges, measured 60 ft by 36 ft, and contained an organ purchased by Horace Dodge for the original Rose Terrace. A marble staircase and an elevator connected the first and second floors. Half of the second floor was used as Mrs. Dodges private suite. She and her husband Hugh shared a sitting room and office, but each had separate bedrooms, dressing rooms and bathrooms. The other half held another second office and sitting room, and well as eight guest rooms with baths.</p><br>
<p>The attic held the servants quarters, including an apartment for the housekeeper, a valets room, twelve maids rooms, and six rooms for male servants. The basement of the house held the kitchen, the servants dining room, an ice cream parlor, a flower room, a wine cellar, a gymnasium and storage vaults for furs, rugs, and silver.</p><br>
<p>When completed and furnished, the mansion contained over 42,000 ft&sup2, (including 42 main rooms), 15 fireplaces, 40 French doors, 37 sofas, and more than 100 tables. Many of the furnishings had a notable provenance, including a bureau made for Catherine the Great, four chairs that had belonged to Marie Antoinette, a piano once used by the children of George III, a jewel casket that had belonged to Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, and a rosewood writing table made by Jean Henri Riesener.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church, also known as Garnavillo Historical Museum, was a church whose historic building is located on Washington Street in Garnavillo, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1866 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church was organized in Garnavillo in 1844 by James J. Hill, a member of the "Iowa Band" of</p><br>
<p>missionaries. This is the second church building constructed by the congregation, and was completed in 1866. After its use as a church, the building has housed a community hall and meeting house, a public library, and a school. It was acquired by the Garnavillo Historical Society in 1965 for use as a local history museum. The 32 by brick structure has a wood bell platform over the front gable. At one time a bell was located in a frame on the platform. The bell now belongs to St. Peter Lutheran Church in Garnavillo.</p><br>
<p>Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery in rural Lincoln Township, southeast of Yale, Iowa, United States. The Methodist Episcopal Church established a congregation in 1866, and services were held in area schoolhouses until a frame building was constructed for a church in 1880. It was dedicated in January 1881. A cemetery was located across the road. Some of the graves predate the church and were moved from other cemeteries. As the congregation expanded the building was remodeled and a tower with a new entrance on the southeast corner, and an alcove on the north side were added. The orientation of the interior was changed so that the congregation, who had faced east, now faced north. A basement was dug below the sanctuary in 1925 for space for Sunday School classes. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>West Grove United Methodist Church is located in the Unincorporated community of West Grove, Iowa, United States. West Grove has always been a Crossroads village, serving the surrounding rural area. At one time it had five churches, and now it has been reduced to this one. The site was originally that of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which had been organized in 1854 and built in 1881. It eventually became a Lyceum Hall, a school, and then left unoccupied until it was torn down in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church had been formally organized in West Grove in 1899, although it had been active in town since 1871. The men of the church and friends of the church built the current frame Gothic Revival sanctuary. They followed building plans provided by the Methodist Board of Church Extension. It was completed in 1904 for $2,000. The congregation almost disbanded and lost its church in the 1920s through the abandonment of services. It was affiliated with the Methodist Church after the Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church united in 1939. Its affiliation changed to the United Methodist Church after the Methodist Church united with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Bay Settlement Church and Monument is a historic church building and structure located in rural Delaware County, Iowa, southwest of Delhi. Organized in 1846 as the Upper Bay Church, it was the first Free Baptist Church congregation in Iowa. They built a log structure for their church the same year, and it served the congregation until this frame, front gable structure was completed in 1873. A monument to honor their 14 Civil War dead was erected in the cemetery in 1865. Its dedication in August that year is believed to be the first Memorial Day service in Iowa. Services were held on May 30 in succeeding years. The church and monument were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Baptist Church, also known as Stone Church, is a historic church building in Sperry, Iowa, United States. The Baptist congregation that built this church was founded in 1840. They built this building seven years later. In addition to religious services, it was the meeting place for a variety of community events. The church building is surrounded by a cemetery, which contains the graves of some of the areas first settlers. The utilitarian design of the church building and the use of local materials is characteristic of pioneer church architecture in Iowa. The 48 by building is a single-story, gable roof structure. It features a cornice return. The roughly cut stone exterior uses larger stones at the corners for a decorative effect. The interior walls are plaster and the flooring are pine boards. It still houses the original hardwood pews, pulpit, minister&#39;s settee, and hand-carved altar. The building was damaged in a tornado in 1964, and the repairs conform to the original character of the church. It was added to the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The German Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as St. Paul&#39;s German Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church building in Burlington, Iowa, United States. The German Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Burlington in 1845. It was the second of eight German congregations established in the city of various denominations. The Reverend Sebastian Barth, the first pastor, initially held services in a small frame house, and then in the basement of another church. The first permanent home for the congregation was a small</p><br>
<p>brick church that was built in 1848. This structure was built from 1868 to 1869. It is a Victorian Gothic structure with Romanesque elements. The stone for the exterior was quarried from the site where the church was built.</p><br>
<p>Services in English were added in 1905 and all the services were in English by 1916. When the German and American branches of the Methodist church were merged in 1925, St. Pauls congregation was disbanded, and its members were absorbed by other congregations in Burlington. There was a small group that reorganized the German Methodist Episcopal Church at St. Pauls in 1930, but by 1938 the building was sold to the Church of the Nazarene. They occupied it until 1968. The Art Guild of Burlington bought the building in 1973. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and as a contributing property in the Heritage Hill Historic District in 1982.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church of West Union, also known as Regular Baptist Church, is a historic building and active church located in West Union, Iowa, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in Greek Revival style in 1867 by brickmason Ezra Crosby. Stained glass windows were installed in 1906. One of the church&#39;s galleries and a baptistry were added in 1911 during repairs after a fire.</p><br>
<p>It was individually on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Ivy Dale Farm, also known as Ivy Green and the Hoffecker Farm, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1786, as a modest house, probably erected on the "Resurrection Manor" plan, with a rear kitchen outbuilding. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1845, in a Georgian plan. The brick veneer house is two-stories, five bays wide, with a gable roof and rear wing. The front facade features a three bay, centered, frame porch. It was the home of Congressman John H. Hoffecker and his son Congressman Walter O. Hoffecker.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Duck Creek Village, also known as Salisbury, is a national historic district located at Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses three contributing buildings that are the remnants of a mid-18th century community. They are the two-story, five-bay, brick former miller&#39;s house known as "The Lindens;" a one-story, plank house with a steep gable roof; and a former grist mill measuring 80 feet by 100 feet. In 1998 and 1999, the Duck Creek Historical Society disassembled and moved the plank house to the rear yard of the Smyrna Museum Complex.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>North Milford Historic District is a national historic district located in Milford, Kent County, Delaware, United States. It encompasses 98 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the original town as laid out in 1787. It mainly consists of residential and commercial buildings, the majority of which were built before 1860. They include examples of the Greek Revival and Federal styles. Notable buildings include the "Billy Welch House," Welch/Hart House, "Sudler Apartments" , James Hall House , and the "Towers" , home of Governor William Burton . The Christ Church, James McColley House, Mill House, and Parson Thorne Mansion are located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Rosecroft is a historic estate and gardens in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver for wealthy heiress Marion James Robinson, née Marion James Duncan , and her husband Alfred D. Robinson , a retired medical instrument merchant. Rosecroft is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 15,000 ft2, Italian Renaissance style mansion, located on Silvergate Avenue in the Wooded Area of Point Loma, sits on 2.5 acre and is considered the largest parcel in the area. The property was originally 10 acre of barley fields. The Robinsons bought the property in 1903 after becoming interested in the ideas of Theosophist Katherine Tingley, who was developing a utopian community "Lomaland" in the Point Loma area. They developed the fields into half a city block of gardens, where they cultivated various ornamental plants, particularly begonias.</p><br>
<p>Marion and Alfred were co-founders, along with Kate Sessions, of the San Diego Floral Association, and Alfred was the associations first president, as well as the editor of its magazine, California Garden. Alfred, a self-taught horticulturist, began by experimenting with roses and dahlias, but eventually came to focus on begonias. He became "the pre-eminent begonia expert", developing more than 100 new varieties at the Rosecroft estate. Alfreds were judged "the finest begonias to be grown anywhere in the world" by plant explorer and botanist David Fairchild.</p><br>
<p>After his death in 1942, a new owner opened the garden to the public as Rosecroft Begonia Gardens; the gardens were a popular tourist attraction through the 1960s. In the 1970s the property was sold and the garden area subdivided for residential use. Today the home is a private residence, marked by a National Register plaque. Several private residences occupy the former site of the Rosecroft Begonia Gardens; a stone wall along Silvergate Avenue is the only reminder of that attraction.</p><br>
<p>The mansion, Rosecroft, was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on September 22, 2003. It has been the scene of some notable events including Ronald Reagan&#39;s announcement of his candidacy to be governor of California (1966) and the 80th birthday party of Theodor Seuss Geisel ("Dr. Seuss") (1984). Notable guests at the mansion included Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, who spent the weekend there during a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser, and winemaker Robert Mondavi, who spent so much time there that a suite was named for him.</p><br>
<p>The estate is periodically opened to charity events, garden tours, weddings, film shoots, and other special events. In 2012, the 100th anniversary of the estate and gardens was commemorated by a tour organized by the San Diego Floral Association, which included the debut of a new variety of geranium named for Anna Gunn Marston, wife of George Marston, a contemporary of Robinson. Charity fundraisers that year included a "Great Gatsby" themed event held by the philanthropic organization Makua to benefit the charity Voices for Children.</p><br>
<p>The Sniffen Court Historic District is a small close-ended mews, running perpendicularly southwest from East 36th Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The district, one of the smallest in New York City, encompasses the entire alley, which consists of 10 two-story brick stables built in 1863–1864 in the early Romanesque Revival style. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Sniffen Court as a city historic district on June 21, 1966, and the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sniffen Court may have been named after John Sniffen, a local builder, although The New York Times could not find evidence of his involvement with the alley. As the need for carriage houses lessened, the buildings were converted for other uses. In 1918, two of the stables (#1, also known as 150 East 36th Street, and #3) were bought by the Amateur Comedy Club, which has been in existence since 1884, to be their clubhouse and theatre; they remain there today. In the 1920s the conversions continued, and by 1966 one of the buildings was in use as an architect&#39;s office, the gabled building at #2 (156 East 36th Street) was the home of a noted architect, while the remainder were small private residences.</p><br>
<p>Two artists associated with the mews were the sculptors Malvina Hoffman and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, both of whom had studios in the Court. On the rear of the alley are mounted two sculpted plaques of Greek horsemen by Hoffman.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Composer Cole Porter once owned a residence at 2 Sniffen Court as well as the townhouse next door at 4 Sniffen Court in order to discreetly put up his boyfriend at the time, all while he was in residence at the Waldorf-Astoria. In the 1930s, author Pearl Buck resided in what had been Hoffman&#39;s home. Also, legendary comedian Professor Irwin Corey owned a home on Sniffen Court for many years. Since then, the street has played host to model Claudia Schiffer, Lenny Kravitz and, more recently, British talk show host Graham Norton.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Sniffen Court is used for the cover of the Strange Days album by The Doors, released in 1967.</p><br>
<p>Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, now known as Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic church located in Swedesburg, Iowa, United States. The congregation was officially organized in 1866 by the Swedish Lutheran congregation from New Sweden in Jefferson County, Iowa. The present church was built in 1928 as the third church to stand on the same site. The first frame church, built in 1868, was destroyed in a fire in 1883. The second frame church, with a 110 ft tower, was completed the same year. In 1927 it too was also destroyed by fire. The congregation hired Burlington, Iowa architect W.F. Weibley to design the present Late Gothic Revival church building. It is composed of tan brick with Bedford stone trim. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The congregation began to use English instead of Swedish in their programming beginning with the childrens Sunday School classes in 1910. The mens Sunday School class was the last group to switch to English in the 1920s. The Rev. Delmar Karstens, who was called in 1966, was the first pastor who was not of Swedish descent. The congregation, however, continued to observe its Swedish traditions.</p><br>
<p>Dwight T. Parker Public Library is a public library in Fennimore, Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1923 to house the city&#39;s library, which had previously been based in a Methodist church and the Old Fennimore House. Dwight T. Parker, a local banker, funded the library. The architectural firm Claude & Starck designed the structure in a mixture of the Mediterranean Revival and neoclassical styles; the brick building features terra cotta ornamentation and a tile roof.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Hazel Green Town Hall is a historic building in the village of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Built in 1891, the building housed both the town clerks office and the Hazel Green Opera House, a civic auditorium. The auditorium hosted town meetings, graduation ceremonies, religious events, and entertainers; it also served as the towns jail when necessary, as a cage could be added to the stage. The auditorium closed in the 1920s; the building is now private property.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Boom Town style, which features a large facade in front of a smaller building. The facade has a tall bracketed cornice, while the building has a gable front.</p><br>
<p>The Hazel Green Town Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Prairie du Chien City Hall is the city of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsins historic former city hall. It was built in 1894 on the grounds of the citys former opera house, which burned down the previous year. In addition to being the center of city government, the building held a civic auditorium, Prairie du Chiens first public library, a jail, and the citys police and fire departments. From 1929 to the 1950s, the American Legion held meetings and events there as well. In 2002&ndash;03, the city government moved to a new city hall.</p><br>
<p>The city hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Bigelow School is a historic former school located at 4228 W. Bonniwell Rd. in Mequon, Wisconsin. The one-story red brick school was built in 1929; it was one of the last schools built in Mequon and is one of many extant school buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the city. Designed by William J. Redden, the school&#39;s architecture utilizes the Classical Revival and Prairie School styles and features a hipped roof, flaring eaves, and a front entry decorated with a brick surround and a stone keystone and plaque. The school closed in the 1960s due to school consolidation.</p><br>
<p>The Bigelow School was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Clark House is a historic house located at 13615 N. Cedarburg Rd. in Mequon, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1848 for Jonathan Clark, who migrated to the area from Vermont. The home was built in the Greek Revival style and is built in fieldstone with a limestone front. The house has also been used as a dentist&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>The house has been opened to the public as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies Literary Club Building, also known as the William M. Davis House or the Arden H. Ballard House, was built as a private home, and is currently used as the meeting place for the Ladies Literary Club. It is located at 218 North Washington Street in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1965 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies Literary Club Building was built in approximately 1843 as a home for William M. Davis. It was likely designed by Arden H. Ballard and built by his firm of Norris, Cross, and Ballard. At some point, it was sold to Elijah Grant, who operated a local dry goods store. When Grant died in 1851, his wife Mary and son Edward continued to live in the house. Mary died in 1883, and Edward continued to live in the house, his fortune slowly diminishing through a series of bad investments. He eventually began selling the furnishings, and in 1913 sold the house itself. The Ladies Literary Club purchased the property to use as their meeting hall.</p><br>
<h2>Ladies&#39; Literary Club</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies&#39; Literary Club of Ypsilanti was founded in 1878 by Sarah Smith Putnam, with 17 members. The club functioned as a learning society. Since learning opportunities for women remained few clubwomen developed courses of study in various historical topics from the French Revolution to early Greek and Roman societies. The club membership quickly expanded, and they held bi-monthly meetings at the homes of members or in the library. However, by 1910, the club had grown large enough that they needed to rent rooms in the Masonic temple. When the Davis House was put up for sale in 1913, the Club purchased it for $3000. The first meeting in the house was in October 1914.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building was later refurbished under the oversight of architect Emil Lorch. In the 1930s, Lorch helped the structure become a part of the Historic American Buildings Survey "because of its age and architectural interest as being worthy of most careful preservation for future generations." More remodeling was done in 1955, and an addition was built to the rear of the building in 1971–72.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies&#39; Literary Club Building is a -story rectangular brick Greek Revival house. The temple front boasts a wooden tetrastyle Doric portico with a triangular pediment above. A single story wooden wing sits to one side. Grills are placed along the frieze.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin J. Nieman Sr. House is a historic house located at 13030 North Cedarburg Road in Mequon, Wisconsin. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1928, the house was designed by Herman Bruns in the Tudor Revival style. Designed to resemble a country house, the house includes a glass conservatory with a fountain, stained glass windows, and wrought iron fixtures. Edwin J. Nieman Sr., the homes owner, was a partner in the Fromm Bros.-Nieman Co., at the time the largest silver fox breeder in the nation; the home originally bordered one of the firms fox farms on all sides. Nieman lived in the house until he died in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Southern Dairies is a loft office redevelopment of a former dairy production facility and the Empire Manufacturing Company Building located in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The primary building was built in the early 1900s as a milk distribution facility. The Empire Manufacturing Company Building facing Glen Iris Dr. was built in the 1939. In the late 1990s, renovation was started to convert the buildings into loft office space. Southern Dairies is often credited as being one of the first warehouse conversions in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta. In August 2002 the building was added the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The project is located at the intersection of Glen Iris Dr and North Avenue next to the planned Jamestown development Ponce City Market.</p><br>
<p>In October 2019, Jamestown purchased Southern Dairies campus for approximately $34.5 million.</p><br>
<p>Lenox Township Church of the New Jerusalem is a historic church in Lenox Township, Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It is the only Swedenborgian church in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The Jasper Colony was formed in St. Louis in 1851 and sent agents to Iowa to find a new home. The property was bought in what would become Lenox Township and each dwelling housed two families. A communal kitchen and dining hall was built to serve the community. A log cabin was built to house religious meetings that were led by Herman H. Diekhoner, who had organized the colony. The twenty families that formed the colony rejected communal ownership in early 1853, and the property was distributed among the settlers. Diekhoner left at that time. A New Church Sunday school was established in 1857, and a building was completed in 1859. All religious activities were held in the new building until this church building was built in 1880. It became the focal point for 35 other groups in Iowa, but none of the others built a church building. Annual meetings were held here that brought them together. After 1901 membership started to decline. While it continued to hold statewide reunions yearly, it is no longer considered an active congregation. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The frame structure was designed by the Rev. Gerald Busman and built by a Mr. Wagner. The vernacular church building measures 40 by. It features a gable roof and a square-based bell tower that projects from the east front. The tower is capped with a pyramid-shaped spire. Four narrow flat-arched windows line both sides of the structure.</p><br>
<p>German Evangelical Reformed Church, also known as the Zoar Church, is a historic church located north of Newton, Iowa, United States. The congregation was established in 1876 by German immigrants, many of whom settled here in the late 1860s after first living in Freeport, Illinois. They built a small frame church on this property soon after, and the first burial in the cemetery behind the church building occurred in 1877. The present frame church was built by members of the congregation in 1892. It features a bell tower in the northeast corner, a gable roof, and a rock-faced stone foundation. Both the gablets on the tower and the front gable feature scalloped shingling. The entryway on the west side of the church was added in 1961. The house to the east of the church was the parsonage, which was sold in 1957. The church and cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Raymond Neck Historic District is a national historic district located near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses eight contributing buildings and four contributing structures in a rural area near Leipsic. There are three two-story, center hall plan, brick dwellings dated between 1820 and 1867 and known as the John Raymond house , James Hoffecker house , and Robert Wilson&#39;s "Hebron" . The other contributing buildings and structures are related outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Little Creek Hundred Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Little Creek, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 21 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in a rural area near Little Creek. It consists of 11 distinct adjoining farm complexes, an</p><br>
<p>octagonal school house and the Little Creek Quaker Meeting house and cemetery. Eight of the major buildings are built of brick, three are frame, and two are stone.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church is a historic church at 923 Roland in Chariton, Iowa, USA.</p><br>
<p>It was built during 1899-1900 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It replaced an earlier Methodist church on the site, a brick Greek Revival-style church that was built in 1864. It was deemed significant as "a fine, unaltered example of turn of the century Gothic Revival design by well known Illinois architect, Samuel A. Bullard".</p><br>
<p>Rock Rapids United Methodist Church, formerly known as First Methodist Church, is located in Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States. The church building is significant for the use of blue-gray and red granite used in its construction. It was designed by Sioux Falls, South Dakota architect Joseph Schwartz utilizing the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Completed in 1896, it is the second church building for a congregation founded in the 1870s. The blue-gray granite quarried near Sioux Falls is the main building material, and it is laid in a random ashlar pattern. The red granite was acquired from the receiver of a bankrupt packing plant which had begun, but did not complete, a new stone building. It is used for the trim, especially in the voussoirs of alternating colors. The building also features a tall corner bell tower. The pipe organ was ordered from the Hinners Organ Company of Pekin, Illinois in January 1905 at a cost of $1,960. An addition was added to the south side of the church in 1966. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Iowa Yearly Meeting House-College Avenue Friends Church is a historic church building located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. The Colonial Revival structure was designed by Bloomington, Illinois architect A. T. Simmons, and completed in 1913. As their membership declined, Quakers in Iowa decided to concentrate on a few fundamental tenets of their faith, but gave way on their traditional concerns about simplicity and restraint. This more elaborate building replaced a simple 2½-story, brick and stone structure that was completed in 1865. The building project was a cooperative arraignment that included the Yearly Meeting, the Monthly Meeting, and nearby William Penn College. Oskaloosa had been chosen as the location of the Iowa Yearly Meeting, or the denominational headquarters, because of its central location to where the Quakers settled west of the Mississippi River. The previous building had separate meeting facilities for men and women, and this one does not. That separation was no longer considered necessary by the time this building was built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery  is a historic church at 1034 IA S71 in Knoxville, Iowa that was built in 1909. It replaced an 1860-built church that was destroyed in a fire on October 11, 1908, and it served the community of Coalport, which is long gone. Coalport, built in the floodplain of the Des Moines River, disappeared under man-made Lake Red Rock when the river was dammed in 1969. The church and cemetery are on a hill above the lake.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2006. Its three contributing resources are the church, the cemetery, and a historic tool shed. The property was deemed significant for its social history and its architecture. Regarding its social history, its NRHP nomination describes:The church became a gathering place in the early 20th century for the unincorporated "Down on the Ridge" community of Coalport and Coal Ridge. The church is the last remaining building of this historic community. Over the years, church activities shifted to accommodate the changing social and religious life of local residents. As Coalport and Coal Ridge declined in population, the surrounding rural population became the church&#39;s chief focus. Then, in the late 20th century, this rural area experienced a renaissance, and the church adapted to these needs. Throughout this time, the Coal Ridge Baptist Ladies Aid, an organization founded by the church in 1913 and still active, nurtured the social ties among local residents and promoted community betterment.</p><br>
<p>And regarding its architecture:The exterior of the building blends the influences of Neo-Classical and late Gothic Revival styling together in a design of striking simplicity, while the interior of the building shows a careful regard for practicality.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church  is a historic church at 824 Franklin Street in Pella, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>It is a small, one-story brick church, was built between 1858 and 1862. As of 1869, it was named the Soul Sleepers Church. During the 1880s it held the Pella Y.M.C.A. As of 2022 it is the site of an independent bookstore, Pella Books.</p><br>
<p>Its significance includes that, according to its NRHP nomination:"...it calls attention to religion and social history among the Pella Dutch. During the 19th century, attempts to unite the various stripes of Dutch Protestantism in the United States, evolving since the 17th century, failed and resulted in schism and the formation of two separate denominations. This national schism exacerbated a religious volatility already simmering in Pella. First Christian Church calls attention to this strife within the otherwise homogeneous Dutch-American community, as religion became the focus of local controversy during the 1850s and 1860s. These controversies centered on Domine Henry P. Scholte, the pastor of the original flock of Dutch Reformed settlers in Pella, and divergent forms of worship then emerging among some of the settlers. Elder Jacob Maasdam, a charismatic layman, led one of these latter groups. His adherents built the First Christian Church, where they worshipped until circa 1869, splitting Scholte&#39;s flock, which built another church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Union Presbyterian Church is a historic building located northwest of Stacyville in rural Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. Early settlers to the area of German descent established the Presbyterian congregation in the late 1850s. They initially worshiped in the homes of various church members before joining St. Peter&#39;s Lutheran Church in nearby Toeterville. Doctrinal differences resulted and the Rev. Jacob Kolb reformed the Presbyterian congregation in 1873 or 1874. Services were held in a schoolhouse until this church building was erected in 1888. It is a small frame structure with Gothic-style elements, with extensive use of pressed tin on the interior. A cemetery is located on the church grounds. Services were held in German until 1918. There was a steady decline in membership until the congregation was disbanded in 1975. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>First Lutheran Church of St. Ansgar is a historic church located at 212 N. Main Street in St. Ansgar, Iowa, United States. It was added to the National Register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>St. Ansgar congregation was organized by pioneer Norwegian-American Lutheran minister Claus Lauritz Clausen in Mitchell County, Iowa on December 4, 1853. In 1856, a log house was built by the congregation for use as a school and church. A stone schoolhouse was built in 1858, which was used for church services until the stone church could be built. In 1864, work was started on the building of the stone church. The new church was completed and dedicated on September 27, 1868. A stone narthex was added to the building in 1941. In 1959, the building of the new First Lutheran Parish Center was started with completion in 1960.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Valley Seminary is a historic seminary building currently at N. 7th and Chase Streets in Osage, Iowa. Prior to June 2016, it had been located at N. 6th and Mechanic Streets.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The school was founded at Osage, as a Baptist academy, in 1862, by the joint efforts of Rev. Alva Bush, the citizens of Osage, and the Cedar Valley Baptist Association. On Monday morning, January 12, 1863, Prof. Bush opened the first term of the school, with seventeen boys and fourteen girls.</p><br>
<p>In his memoir "A Son of the Middle Border", Hamlin Garland recalled that in the late 1870s "The school was in truth a very primitive institution, hardly more than a high school, but it served its purpose. It gave farmers&#39; boys like myself the opportunity of meeting those who were older, finer, more learned than they, and every day was to me like turning a fresh and delightful page in a story book, not merely because it brought new friends, new experiences, but because it symbolized freedom from the hay fork and the hoe."</p><br>
<p>Before going to the University of Chicago, the orientalist John Merlin Powis Smith taught Greek at Cedar Valley Seminary.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 1910 because, according to one historian, "Waldorf College was established in Forest City by the Norwegian Lutheran people and took away many students and much financial support that would naturally have come to the seminary; the grade of work in the public schools improved with time, and the Cedar Valley Seminary was a near neighbor. These reasons made it seem unwise to longer continue to maintain the seminary".</p><br>
<h2>Relocation and future</h2><br>
<p>On June 24, 2016, the building was moved 960 feet to the corner of Chase Street and North Seventh Street. After a new foundation is built and renovations are completed, the building will be used as a community gathering place & home of Old Central Coffee.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Notable alumni of Cedar Valley Seminary include:</p><br>
<p>Hamlin Garland (1881), American novelist</p><br>
<p>Sciola Missionary Baptist Church, also known as Sciola Community Church, is a historic church located in Sciola, Iowa, United States. It is the only building left from the former town, and a rare example of an early Iowa frame church building. The Sciola Post Office was established in 1855, and was the first one established in Montgomery County. The village was composed of a few stores, the church, and the post office.</p><br>
<p>The Baptist congregation was founded in January 1869 with nine families. They bought land from member John Yergey in June 1871, and they dedicated their small frame church on June 30, 1872. It cost them $1,600 to build it. They bought land from Yergey in 1882 for a cemetery. The Baptist congregation remained here until 1929. The church building was used for a variety of community functions until it was rededicated as the Sciola Community Church in 1946. It continued to be used for community functions and elections. The church was relocated in 1970, and the township took over ownership of the building in 1980. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Little&#39;s Young Ladies Seminary is a historic seminary building at 541 6th Avenue in Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate style building was constructed in 1867 as a school for women, which was founded by a Presbyterian minister, George Little. Unfortunately, "lthough the Rev. Little’s school received very favorable publicity, he encountered great difficulty in collecting the money pledged to construct his building. On Jan. 1, 1870, his board of trustees informed him that no more payments would be forthcoming. The Rev. Little closed the school, filed suit against the trustees for the money due him and eventually was awarded title to the property. He sold the building and moved to Nebraska where he became a missionary." Several prominent businessmen later owned the building, and in the early 1900s it was converted to apartments. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It currently houses a law office.</p><br>
<p>Sheldahl First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a historic building located in Sheldahl, Iowa, United States. The community was platted by Osmund Sheldahl and J.S. Polk. Sheldahl was a lay Lutheran minister who settled in Illinois in 1845. He and three others came to this area in 1854 in search of cheap available land. The following year, 21 families that had organized themselves as the "Palestine Congregation" relocated to Story County. Sheldahl became a large land owner and the regular pastor for Palestine Lutheran Church in 1860. He built a house in town in 1877 and he and his two sons built this church building in 1883. Osmund Sheldahl served the congregation as an unpaid pastor for 13 years. His will stipulated that the church building be made available to any Christian denomination that emphasized Bible teaching. It remained in regular use until 1936.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular structure features a balloon frame covered with clapboard and built on a rubble stone foundation. The interior furnishings with decorative cabinet work details were locally made. The building is an unusual example of a private church built on private land, maintained by the founders family and descendants, and made available for public use. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is noteworthy for its association with the Norwegian settlement of this part of Story County and Osmund Sheldahls volunteer ministry.</p><br>
<p>Pilotburg Church is a historic church building southeast of the town of Wellman, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The former church building is the only remaining structure from the town of Pilotburg, which had been established in 1839 as Pilots Grove. Built by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1881, it was the second church in the town. The frame structure measures 50 by. In the 1950s the church was moved from its original limestone foundation, still extant, to a poured/concrete block basement. A kitchen was added inside at the same time. The Methodist congregation disbanded in 1968, and the church was sold and converted into a house.</p><br>
<p>Washington Prairie Methodist Church is a historic church building located southeast of Decorah, Iowa, United States. The congregation was established by Ole Peter Petersen. He returned to his native Norway in 1853 and founded the first Methodist congregation there. Washington Prairie Methodist is considered the mother church of Methodism in Norway. In the early years the congregation met in private houses. They built this church building themselves from 1863 to 1868. With its pediments and entablature/cornice it is Greek Revival in style. However, the windows on the side elevations are Gothic. It also features a round-arch entry on its gabled end. By 1888 services were only held here quarterly, and continued until about 1920, when the church was officially closed. Over the years some vandalism and settling of the structure occurred. The Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah restored the church and adjacent cemetery in 1972. The bishop of the North European Methodist Conference participated in its re-dedication later that year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station, also known as Rock Island Railroad Depot and the Rock Island Depot Railroad Museum, is a historic building located in Clarion, Iowa, United States. The station was built in 1898 by contractor A. H. Connor & Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad . Clarion also had a Chicago Great Western Railway depot, no longer extant. At one time there were 14 trains that served the city. In 1903 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway acquired the BCR&N, and this depot served that railroad. The single story, Romanesque Revival, brick structure measures 26 by. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The depot was restored in 1984 and currently serves as the Rock Island Depot Railroad Museum with displays of local and railroad history, and also serves as the office for the Clarion Chamber & Development office.</p><br>
<p>St. Anthony&#39;s Church and School is a Romanesque Revival style church and an accompanying school at 514 West Main Street and 103 North 6th Street in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Both the current church and the school were designed by Omaha architect Jacob M. Nachtigall. The school was built in 1911 and expanded in 1926; the church was built during 1918–1919.</p><br>
<p>The complex was added to the National Register in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Saint Martin&#39;s Catholic Church  is a Roman Catholic church building near Deweese, Nebraska. The church was built to serve a Czech immigrant congregation.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1907–08. It was added to the National Register in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a frame Gothic Revival church on a concrete foundation, and is 32.5x48.5 ft in plan. It was designed by architect James H. Craddock and built by John E. King for a Czech immigrant congregation.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Methodist Protestant Church, also known as Stone Church, is a church building located south of Culbertson, Nebraska, United States, on Nebraska Highway 17. It was built in 1900 and was added to the National Register in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1885, a sod church was built to accommodate the growing population of the area along Driftwood Creek. Methodist minister M.H. Noe led the first worship services in the sod building the same year. The current building stands across the road from the original sod church.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>Building the Stone Church which succeeded the sod church was a community endeavor, with most of the labor donated by parishioners. Church members cut, hewed, and loaded the limestone by hand under the supervision of Jim Flynn and local stonemason James Lewellyn Hoyt. Hoyt&#39;s sons, who at ages eight and ten were too small to load the stones, were tasked with placing dynamite charges to blast the limestone apart in the quarry. The acre of land upon which the church was built was donated by Rebecca Hart.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s construction is impressive considering that, at the time of its construction, the majority of its parishioners still lived in unimproved sod houses and dugouts. Construction on the church was finished in 1900 and dedicated as the St. Paul Methodist Protestant Church led by Reverend J.E. Darby.</p><br>
<h3>Dedication to Disuse</h3><br>
<p>Four years later, the congregation of St. Paul Methodist Protestant Church merged with the local group of United Brethren in Christ in 1904. In 1907, the church was formally reorganized as United Brethren. Regular church services continued in the building until 1951.</p><br>
<p>The Stone Church was a cornerstone of the Driftwood Community until the 1950s. The church was the home of the local Sunday school, an orchestra, and various local events. In the early twentieth century, the Stone Church was also the polling place of the community.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>At a celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the church&#39;s construction, a committee was organized to restore the building. Over the course of seventy-five years, the structure had been damaged in several ways. Since the restoration process began, the roof has been replaced, the walls have been reinforced, and faulty electrical wiring has been removed. The interior of the building has been restored to a similar state to its original construction.</p><br>
<p>The Stone Church has neither plumbing nor electricity due to the era of its construction and its remote location. The building is not in regular use, but is maintained by the Stone Church Community Association as a memorial to the settlers who built it. Annual gatherings are held at the Stone Church to commemorate and celebrate the church and its construction.</p><br>
