<p>Valley View is a mid-19th-century Greek Revival residence and farm overlooking the South Branch Potomac River northwest of Romney, West Virginia. The house is atop a promontory where Depot Valley joins the South Branch Potomac River valley.</p><br>
<p>The Valley View property was part of the South Branch Survey of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a large tract that was inherited by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in 1719. It was settled by John Collins and his family in 1749, and acquired by the Parsons family before 1772. The Valley View house was built by James Parsons Jr. in 1855. After the Civil War, Parsons widow sold the farm to Charles Harmison. His wife, Elizabeth Harmison, inspired by her childhood Virginia home, Western View, and the scenic South Branch Potomac River views, named the farm Valley View. The most recent of a series of owners, the Mayhew family, bought the property in 1979. Valley Views current proprietors, Robert and Kim Mayhew, have restored the historic residence and grounds.</p><br>
<p>The house at Valley View is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural plan. The front entrance is covered by a small portico, topped with a pediment supported by wooden Doric columns. The rear of the house, with a two-story wood porch stretching across it, faces the South Branch Potomac River valley and Mill Creek Mountain. Each of the original eight large rooms of the 1855 structure contains a fireplace framed by a wooden mantelpiece with classical elements. The original windows, wooden trim, and materials in the main section of the house are intact. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as a locally significant example of Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and setting</h2><br>
<p>The Valley View house is about 1 mi northwest of downtown Romney, atop a promontory (known locally as the Yellow Banks) where Depot Valley joins the South Branch Potomac River valley. Depot Valley runs 0.5 mi from West Sioux Lane in Romney to Valley View, and an unnamed tributary of Big Run flows north along its bottom. Depot Valley Road parallels the stream.</p><br>
<p>Depot Valley is named for Romney Depot, located at the end of a former spur of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) South Branch line near the intersection of present-day West Sioux Lane and Depot Valley Road. A post office operated there from 1928 until 1937, when its mail was routed through Romney; it is assumed that Valley View farm used it, since it was 0.5 mi south of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Valley View farm property adjoins the Wappocomo farm on the northeast, the corporate limits of Romney on the east and south and the Yellow Banks on the west. As well as Valley View&#39;s 6.63 acre tract, the Mayhew family owns agricultural land rich in alluvial soils along the South Branch Potomac River west of the house. The South Branch Valley Railroad bisects this farmland, crossing the South Branch Potomac River via a wooden trestle.</p><br>
<p>Valley View Island, an island in the South Branch Potomac River just north of the mouth of Sulphur Spring Run, is approximately 0.5 mi southwest of the Valley View house. The island is ringed by forests, with agricultural fields in its center. When Lots Number17 and19 of the Northern Neck Proprietary South Branch Survey were surveyed in 1749 and resurveyed in 1788, the island belonged to Lot Number19. At that time, the river flowed east of the island, along the base of the Yellow Banks; its course later changed to run around the west side of the island.</p><br>
<p>Mill Creek Mountain, a narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises westward from the South Branch Potomac River across from Valley View. The western foothills of South Branch Mountain rise to the east. Both mountains are covered with Appalachian – Blue Ridge forests of hardwoods and pine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Royal land grant and Collins family ownership</h3><br>
<p>The land upon which Valley View is located was originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant that the exiled Charles II awarded to seven of his supporters in 1649 during the English Interregnum. Following the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, he renewed the Northern Neck Proprietary grant in 1662, revised it in 1669, and again renewed the original grant favoring the original grantees Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper and Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington in 1672. In 1681, Bennet sold his share to Lord Colepeper, and Lord Colepeper received a new charter for the entire land grant from James II in 1688.</p><br>
<p>Following the deaths of Lord Colepeper, his wife Margaret, and his daughter Katherine, the Northern Neck Proprietary passed to Katherine&#39;s son Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1719, who selected a portion of it for his manor. This tract, known as the South Branch Survey of the proprietary, extended from the north end of the Trough to the junction of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River. In 1748, Fairfax commissioned James Genn to survey the South Branch Potomac River lowlands for sale and lease, with lots ranging in size from 300 to 400 acre.</p><br>
<p>In 1749, the tract on which Valley View stands was purchased from Lord Fairfax by John Collins. The 425 acre lot was Lot Number20 on the South Branch Survey. His son Thomas Collins is thought to have inherited his fathers landholdings as an "heir at law", since there is no record of a will by John Collins dispensing of his properties. By 1772, Thomas Collins acquired Lot Number20, where he lived with his wife Elizabeth. One representative from each of Virginias 25 counties traveled to Romney to cast his vote. Collins and county commissioner William Donaldson certified the convention&#39;s election results.</p><br>
<p>In 1817, Thomas Collins sold Lot Number20 to James Gregg Parsons. It is unknown whether the Collinses moved from the tract or continued living on it after the sale. Thomas Collins died in 1822, and Elizabeth Collins in 1823.</p><br>
<h3>Parsons family</h3><br>
<p>The Parsons family members were among the first English settlers in the Thirteen Colonies in 1635; around 1740, they settled in Hampshire County. James Gregg Parsons, his eldest son, was born in Hampshire County in 1773. In 1795, he married Mary Catherine Casey (1773–1846), whose family owned the adjoining Lot Number 21. After their marriage, they lived in the main house at Wappocomo, which had been built by Mary Catherines father Nicholas Casey. The couple inherited the house after Nicholas Caseys death in 1833.</p><br>
<p>James Gregg Parsons died on January 25, 1847, leaving most of his land to his three sons: James (Big Jim) Parsons Jr. (1798–1858), David C. Parsons (1803–1860), and Isaac Parsons (1814–1862). James, his eldest son, inherited Lot Number20 (known as the Collins Tract); and his youngest son Isaac inherited Lot Number21 (which included Wappocomo). His sons also inherited the nearby "Jake Sugar Rum Tract, the McGuire Tract, and five town lots in Romney". According to historian William K. Rice, by 1846 Parsons&#39; sons and their families were all living on the tracts they would eventually inherit. Rice determined that James Parsons Jr. moved to the Collins Tract, around 1826, and was living there when his father died.</p><br>
<p>James Parsons Jr. was a farmer and cattleman who was born in Hampshire County. Parsons family genealogist Virginia Parsons MacCabe wrote the following description of James Parsons Jr. in her book Parsons&#39; Family History and Record (1913): "He was square and honorable in business, and had a large circle of friends; he had the urbanity and the gentility of manner which characterizes the true gentleman". Parsons married Elizabeth Miller on January 8, 1829. The couple had eleven children, several of whom attended college.</p><br>
<p>In 1855, Parsons began building the present-day Valley View house on the Collins Tract. Although he wrote many letters to his sister Mary Gregg Parsons Stump about farming, cattle, family, health and community events, no letters are known to remain from the time of the house&#39;s construction. The Parsons family owned several slaves who are thought to have assisted with construction.</p><br>
<p>After living in his new house for three years, Big Jim died of tuberculosis on October 14, 1858. His widow, Elizabeth, lived in the house until after the Civil War. In 1867 or 1869, she sold the house, the Collins Tract and the remainder of Lot Number20 to Charles Harmison (1823–1896) for $8,500, moving with her remaining children to Missouri (where she died in 1883). The cost of building the house financially strained the Parsons family; historian Catherine Snider Long suggests that Elizabeth Miller Parsons sold the house as a result of further, war-related, financial stress from which the family could not recover.</p><br>
<h3>Harmison family</h3><br>
<p>Charles Harmison was born in Franklin County, Illinois, to Nathaniel and Lydia Harmison, and married Bettie Ann Smith (1827–1903) on May 4, 1854, in Taylor County, West Virginia. Bettie, the daughter of C.C. and Martha W. Smith, By 1867, Harmison and his family were living in Harrison County. His older brother had moved to Romney, where he established and operated the Virginia House hotel. In 1867, Charles Harmisons brother learned that the Parsons farm on the Collins Tract was for sale, and he advised Charles to buy it. Charles wife, who wanted to live nearer to Virginia, also urged Charles to buy the property. Charles purchased the farm and he, his wife, their seven children, and a young African American boy named Snoden moved from Harrison County to Hampshire County in three days. They traveled on the Northwestern Turnpike in an ambulance Charles had bought after the war. Elizabeth Harmison named their new house and farm Valley View, which was influenced by the name of her childhood home, Western View, and the view of the South Branch Potomac River valley from their property.</p><br>
<p>Harmison prospered in Hampshire County, acquiring adjacent properties and enlarging his Valley View estate. He later gave his acquired lands to his children to establish their own homes when they married. The South Branch line bisected the small valley to the immediate east of the house, which became known as Depot Valley.</p><br>
<p>Charles Harmison died on October 31, 1896, after being thrown from a buggy. His son George Edward Harmison (1863–1916) inherited Valley View around 1903 and brought his wife, Carrie Belle Fox (1870–1953), there after their marriage on October 4, 1905. George demolished the old log kitchen at Valley View, replacing it with a contemporary one.</p><br>
<p>In June 1909, construction commenced on the Hampshire Southern Railroad between its northern terminus on the B&O Railroads Romney Depot spur and the South Branch Potomac River within the bottomlands of George Harmisons farm. In October 1909, the first train on the Hampshire Southern line passed over Harmisons bottomlands and crossed the river on an unfinished trestle across the South Branch Potomac River. By 1910, the 18 mi line from the Romney spur terminus at Valley View to McNeill was in operation. The Hampshire Southern Railroad Company operated this line until 1911, when it was purchased by the Moorefield and Virginia Railroad Company. Moorefield and Virginia transferred the rail line to the B&O Railroad Company in 1913, when it became part of the B&Os South Branch line.</p><br>
<p>In 1911, George Harmison subdivided the Valley View fields on the Yellow Banks overlooking the South Branch Potomac River. The new development, known as the Valley View Addition to Romney, was south of the Valley View house and west of Romney Depot. Twenty-one lots were sold at public auction on September 27, 1911, and several more were sold privately.</p><br>
<p>Harmison died in 1916, and Carrie continued to live at Valley View until her death on February 8, 1953. Harmisons nephew, Paul Cresap Harmison (1893–1972, a grandson of Charles Harmisons brother Jonathan Harmison), and his wife Nancy Parker Harmison (1896–1981) had moved to Valley View to live with her. After Carrie&#39;s death, Paul and Nancy Parker Harmison inherited the house and farm. Valley View remained in the Harmison family until 1963, when it was sold to Philip Newell and his wife Martha.</p><br>
<h3>Mayhew family</h3><br>
<p>During its changes in ownership, the original Lot Number 20 of the South Branch Survey was repeatedly partitioned and sold. By 1976, the original property was divided into five farms and other parcels, including the Valley View Addition. The Valley View residence lies on a 6.63 acre tract.</p><br>
<p>Valley View was purchased by Robert Mayhew&#39;s father and a business associate in 1979. Mayhew later bought the house from his father, and he and his wife Kim restored the residence and its grounds. In 1991, the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad began operating on the old B&O South Branch line, which bisects the bottomlands below Valley View.</p><br>
<p>After surveys of historic properties in the county, in 2008 the Hampshire County Historic Landmarks Commission and the Hampshire County Commission began an initiative to place structures and districts on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The county received funding from the State Historic Preservation Office of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History to survey and document the structure&#39;s architecture and history.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house at Valley View is significant for its Greek Revival architectural elements. Valley View was added to the NRHP as a locally significant example of Greek Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>Valley View&#39;s house consists of the original 1855 brick section and a board-and-batten 1961–1962 kitchen addition.</p><br>
<p>The bricks from which the house was built were fired in the immediate vicinity (along the banks of the South Branch Potomac River), and the brick walls were reinforced with hand-wrought structural iron angles. The nails used in its construction were fabricated by a local blacksmith, and the wooden sills and joists were sawn by hand.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Valley Views house is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural plan and exterior dimensions measuring about 49 by. The houses exterior brick walls are 9 in thick and laid in an American bond. The house is topped with a steep metal gabled roof with standing seam profiles. Two sets of double inside chimneys extend above the steep roofline on the northwestern and southeastern ends.</p><br>
<p>The front façade of the house faces a hill to the southwest. It is five bays wide, with the front entrance at the first floors center bay. Wide double-hung sash windows are uniformly placed on the houses front façade, with four nine-over-six double-hung wooden sashes on the first story and five six-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the second. Each window is surrounded by green-painted wooden shutters and white-painted wooden lintels and sills.</p><br>
<p>The front entrance is covered by a small Greek Revival portico measuring about 12 by, topped with a pediment supported by wooden Doric columns and engaged columns at the wall. The front porch is flanked by modest wooden handrails and balusters on its left and right sides.</p><br>
<p>The rear façade of the house faces northeast, across the South Branch Potomac River valley toward Mill Creek Mountain. A two-story (double) wooden porch about 9 ft deep extends across the rear of the house, topped by a shed roof extending from the main gabled roof at a shallower pitch. The first-story porch supports are brown wooden turned posts with no handrail or balusters, and the porch&#39;s second story has white painted square wood posts and vertical railings. Like the front façade, the rear façade is five bays wide; access to the double porch is through a door in the central bay on both levels. The other four bays have nine-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the first story and six-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the second story. The northwestern and southeastern sides of the house have one small square window at attic level, between each pair of inside chimneys.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The interior of the Valley View house has a two-room-deep, central-hallway floor plan. Its wide central hallway contains a staircase from the first floor to the attic, with a wooden handrail supported with square balusters and a modest wooden turned newel post. The ceilings are 10 ft high. Although the house&#39;s foundation is low, the height of the interior walls and the full-sized attic make the house appear tall from the outside.</p><br>
<p>The original house has eight large rooms, each with a fireplace framed by a wooden geometric trabeated mantelpiece with classical elements. The four large rooms on the first floor open from either side of the center hallway. They contain simple wide wood trim, including skirting boards and door frame moldings with "subtly demarcated corners". The house&#39;s living and dining rooms have wide, wooden dado rails. Most of the wooden decorative trim is painted white, and the walls are plaster. The lone exception is the room serving as an office and den, which has dark stained wooden trim and interior brick structural walls (exposed by the removal of its plaster during the 1960s). All rooms have the original wide plank wooden floors. The second floor has four bedrooms, with closets on either side of a fireplace and simple wood skirting boards and door frames. Parsons family members painted signatures and graffiti in the attic around 1856, which remain visible on the stairwell wall.</p><br>
<h3>Kitchen addition</h3><br>
<p>A one-story kitchen addition, built in 1961–1962 and measuring about 21 by, extends from the northwest side of the original 1855 house. The addition has a gabled standing seam metal roof, and its exterior is covered in white-painted board-and-batten siding. It has a vinyl bay window on the southwest side, a one-over-one double-hung vinyl window on the northeast side and a door (adjoining the wall of the 1855 house) on the southeast side. An enclosed board-and-batten porch, measuring about 14 by, and a shed roof extend from the front (southwest) of the kitchen addition. The original basement under the 1855 house is accessible through this porch extension. A ghost building outline on the northwest side of the 1855 house indicates an earlier structure where the present kitchen addition stands.</p><br>
<h3>Ancillary structures</h3><br>
<p>There are several ancillary structures near the house at Valley View, including a smokehouse and a water well, and the foundations of an ice house and a summer kitchen. Although the smokehouse, the summer kitchen and the ice house are believed to have been built by the Collinses before Big Jim Parsons built Valley View, the dates of construction are uncertain.</p><br>
<p>The smokehouse, measuring about 15 by, is adjacent to the kitchen addition. It is set into a hillside, allowing at-grade entry to its two levels. Built of square-cut logs with white chinking atop a rubble masonry foundation, the smokehouse is topped with a standing seam metal gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>South of the smokehouse is the brick foundation of an ice house measuring about 15 by and topped by modern wooden pergola and patio structures. The 15 by brick foundation of Valley View&#39;s summer kitchen is north of the smokehouse and topped by a contemporary wooden pavilion with a gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>In the rear yard of the house is a water well, enclosed by a brick building about 7 by in area and 3.5 ft in height. In the center of the well cap is a metal hand pump. Although the well cap&#39;s bricks are similar to those used in the construction of the main house, the well may date from an earlier residence on the site.</p><br>
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<p>The chapel served as a place of worship for the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers Home, which was the nations first successful and longest operating residential complex for Confederate veterans of the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Not only did the chapel represent a place of worship, but it also played a significant role in the daily lives of those that lived at the soldier&#39;s home as the structure served as an auditorium for lectures, concerts, and meeting. The chapel also held the distinction for holding approximately 1,700 funeral services.</p><br>
<p>The chapel&#39;s interior is of pine with vaulted ceilings. Rows of hand-hewn pews face a raised chancel furnished with gothic revival chairs, lectern, and pulpit. These are then framed by a soaring three-arch opening inscribed with gilded lettering. The central arch proclaims: "This Chapel is Dedicated to the Memory of the Confederate Dead" and its flanking arches state: "In this Place Will I Give Peace" / "Saith the Lord of Hosts."</p><br>
<p>The sides of the chapel also features eight commemorative stained glass windows manufactured by the Belcher Mosaic Company which all date back to the 19th century and are dedicated to the soldiers and/or battalions of the Confederacy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
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<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Davol Mills Company was organized in 1866, with nineteen persons, with initial capital set at $270,000, and named in honor of William C. Davol, a machinery builder who is credited with importing the Roberts Self-acting Mule from Great Britain to Fall River in the early 1840s. Mill No. 1 was built in 1867 at the corner of Rodman Street and Eight Rod Way (now known as Plymouth Avenue). The machinery was in operation by March 1868. The Davol Mills initially produced cotton shirtings, sheetings, silesias and fancy fabrics.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, Mill No. 2 was built along Hartwell Street, connected to the first mill. By 1917, the Davol Mills contained 44,000 spindles and 1,258 looms. The company acquired the nearby Tecumseh Mills in 1924. It shut down in 1935.</p><br>
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<p>The building was empty for two decades until being converted into retail space and offices after 2004 with the support of tax credits.</p><br>
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<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Tecumseh Mills Company was organized in February 1866, by Augustus Chace and group of eighty-eight other investors. The steam-powered cotton mill was built on the banks of the Quequechan River. Built of locally quarried Fall River granite, it is 196 feet long by 72 feet wide, with 5-1/2 stories. It initially contained 20,480 spindles and 480 looms, and powered by a 400-hp Corliss engine.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, Mill No. 2 was built at a separate site at the corner of Eight Rod Way (now Plymouth Avenue) and Nashua Street. It began operation in 1873. Mill No. 3 was added in 1895, to the north of Mill No. 2 at the corner of Plymouth Avenue and Rodman Street. It was 310 feet long by 100 feet wide, with three stories. By 1917, the company operated 79,952 spindles and 1,698 looms. In 1924, it the Tecumseh Mills merged with the nearby Davol Mills, which operated until 1935. Mill No. 3 was later occupied by Mason&#39;s Furniture for many years (later Cabot House). It was demolished in the 1990s for construction of a Stop & Shop. Mill No. 2 was removed for a one-story structure that was also demolished for the supermarket.</p><br>
<p>Mill No. 1 was converted into apartments in the 1980s.</p><br>
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<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2004.</p><br>
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<p>It was located on the A & V (Alabama and Vicksburg) Railroad. It was built in, and later operated by the Illinois Central. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad Depot. It is now used by the Newton Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, with an enlargement of the listing in 2019.</p><br>
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<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>background</h3><br>
<p>The sanctuary was started in 1867 by John Jasper. The church began as a confederate horse stable which was situated on Brown&#39;s Island. The church congregation moved to 14 Duval Street in 1869, and in the 1880s a sanctuary was added by George W. Boyd.</p><br>
<p>In 1878 Jasper delivered his controversial "De Sun Do Move" (The Sun Do Move) sermon at the church.</p><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>It is a two-story, Late Gothic Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a large off-center tower that houses the church bell in belfry and accommodates a large stairwell to the gallery. Attached to the sanctuary is the two-level Jasper Memorial Education Annex added in 1925.</p><br>
<h4>Expansion</h4><br>
<p>In 1925, the church was remodeled and extended by an African American architect named Charles Thaddeus Russell.</p><br>
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<p>The Purcell House was also the boyhood home of Bishop Clare Purcell (1884-1964). In 1955 he was elected President of the Council of Bishops, the highest place of recognition ever achieved by a native-born Alabama Methodist minister.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Church is an historic Episcopal church complex in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The complex consists of the church , school , parish hall , Instructive Nurse Association Building , and William Byrd Community House or Arents Free Library . The church is a rough-faced Virginia granite, cruciform Gothic Revival style structure dominated by a 115-foot corner tower. The school and parish hall are three-story, brick buildings on a stone basements.</p><br>
<p>The woodwork for the structures was provided by Richmond Wood Working Company. A.H. Ellwood and Noland & Baskerville are credited as the architects. The Gothic Revival architecture site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Adams-Leslie House is a historic house located in rural Bradley County, Arkansas, near Warren.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two-story, timber-framed house was built in 1903 by William James Leslie and his father-in-law, Julius Henry Adams, and is the only historic house remaining in the Sand Tuck-Hickory Springs part of the county. It was designed by Thomas L. Brown in a vernacular late Victorian style, with pilastered corner boards and gable ends decorated with vergeboard and alternating fish-scale and diamond shingles.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Bailey House is a historic house at 302 Chestnut Street in Warren, Arkansas. The story Victorian house is one of the most elaborately styled houses in Bradley County. It was built around the turn of the 20th century by James Monroe Bailey, an American Civil War veteran and a local druggist. The house he built originally occupied  an entire city block near the Bradley County Courthouse; the estate has since been reduced to just the house. Its dominant features are an octagonal cupola and a two-story porch with delicate turned balusters and bargeboard decoration.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Blankinship Motor Company Building is a historic auto dealership building at 120 East Cypress Street in Warren, Arkansas. Its construction in 1940 was heralded as part of an "era of progress", as the Art Moderne building supplanted a horse barn on the site. The building was designed by H. Ray Burks, whose other commissions included the Lonoke County Courthouse and the Drew County Courthouse. The building was used as a Ford and Lincoln dealership and service station until 1965, when the dealership closed. It continued to operate as a service center until 1982, after which it has had a succession of other uses.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins County Courthouse, located on Lincoln St. in Grant, is the county courthouse of Perkins County, Nebraska. Built in 1926–27, the courthouse is the third used by Perkins County. Architect J.F. Reynolds designed the courthouse in the County Citadel style, a type of courthouse design heavily influenced by Classical Revival architecture. The courthouse is built with rusticated brick and features a recessed main entrance, massive Ionic columns above the entrance, and a parapet with a carved eagle and decorative panels on the front side.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Grant City Park is a public park in Grant, Nebraska. The Works Progress Administration constructed the park between 1936 and 1939. Before the parks creation, Grant had no public parks other than a public swimming pool and softball field; recognizing a need for additional recreation facilities, the citys Garden Club convinced the Village Board of Trustees to approve a public park in 1935.</p><br>
<p>The main feature of the park is an arched concrete band shell. The band shell hosted free concerts from its construction through the 1960s. Thirty concrete and wood benches provide seating for spectators at the band shell. A 33 by concrete fountain, now used as a flower bed, is located in front of the band shell&#39;s stage. The park also includes two stone entrances: an arched main entrance at its southeast corner and a walled southern entrance leading to a tiered rock garden. Recreational facilities at the park include tennis courts and a swimming pool, the latter of which was added in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Fairmount School, which became known as Helen Dickinson School from 1925 until 1958  and is now the Fairmount House, is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The two-story brick building was constructed circa 1895 on a high basement in the Gothic Revival style. It features two slate-covered, mansard roofed towers. A two-story addition designed by Albert F. Huntt  was added in 1908&ndash;1909.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The school is similar architecturally to Randolph School (Richmond, Virginia) which also survives.</p><br>
<p>September 1958, upon its conversion to a Negro school with pupils from Bowler, Buchanan, George Mason, and Woodville. Under Plan III, Fairmount was paired with Francis.</p><br>
<p>It became Fairmount School again in 1958, after being renamed Helen Dickinson in 1925 to honor a former principal, and became a school for African-Americans. It closed in 1979, was sold by the City of Richmond in 1981, and was restored by Churchill-Fairmount Limited Partnership for use by elderly and handicapped persons.</p><br>
<p>The Virginia is a historic apartment / office building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1906, and is a five-story, Classical Revival style brick building. The building features limestone, granite, and pressed metal decorative elements. The building originally housed the headquarters of the Virginia State Insurance Company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>St. Sophia Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, also known as the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, is a historic Roman Catholic hospital and convent located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The original residence known as "Warsaw" was built in 1832, and subsequently incorporated into the Italianate style brick hospital building between 1877 and 1881. A convent wing was added in 1894 and a service wing in the 1950s. The building is a -story, brick structure on a brick basement with a Second Empire style mansard roof. The charity hospital was operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor order, who vacated the home in 1976. The building was subsequently converted to apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Davis-Adams House is a historic house at 509 North Myrtle Street in Warren, Arkansas. It was built c. 1860 in a Plain Traditional style, but received a significant Victorian facelift in the 1890s, when its two-story porch was decorated with spindled balusters and jigsawed details. This work was probably done for its first documented owner, Dr. S.M. Davis, who bought the house in 1888. His daughter, Zena Davis Adams, who married a man with interests in a local grocery store, occupied the house her entire life.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Ederington House, known locally as the "E" House for the decorations on its fences, is a historic house at 326 South Main Street in Warren, Arkansas. It was built in 1926-27 for Louis Ederington, a local shopowner. It was designed by H. Ray Burks, an architect of some local reputation whose other designs include the Blankinship Motor Company Building and the Drew County Courthouse. This house is one of a few definitely attributed to Burks, and is set on imposing grounds in central Warren. The house is built primarily of red brick, with stucco gable ends and cast stone trim details. The property is lined on two sides by a concrete fencing with iron gates. The posts flanking the driveway and lining the fence are topped by large bronze "E"s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Almshouse, also known as the City Home is a historic almshouse and hospital complex located in Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Almshouse</h3><br>
<p>The Richmond Almshouse and hospital complex includes the Main Building, a one-story administration building built, the West Building, and the Garage. The Main Almshouse Building was built in 1860–61, and is an Italianate style brick building consisting of three symmetrically spaced pavilions linked by hyphens. Each pavilion is three stories tall, three bays wide, and rises above a raised full-story basement. The West Building was built in 1908. Its basic design is very similar to the 1860-61 Almshouse, except that each pavilion is two stories tall.</p><br>
<h3>The Colored Almshouse</h3><br>
<p>The West Building was built to be the new Colored Almshouse, also known as the new Colored Home. It replaced the old "Colored Almshouse" and hospital which was opened in 1868., Chronicling America, Library of Congress</p><br>
<p>It was located on what is now the grounds of the Hebrew Cemetery Annex. Those same grounds were the former location of the City Hospital for smallpox, along with a portion of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground. The new Colored Almshouse also housed a charity hospital for African-American residents of Richmond. The garage is a two-story masonry and wood frame two bay building. The Almshouse, later called the Richmond Nursing Home, continued to serve the less-fortunate members of the Richmond community until the late 1970s. It is now in use again as a privately managed home for low-income residents.</p><br>
<h3>General Hospital #1</h3><br>
<p>From 1861 to 1864, the Almshouse served as a Confederate States hospital, officially designated General Hospital No. 1 but also widely known as the Alms House Hospital. It operated under the direction of Dr. Charles Bell Gibson, the head of surgical department at the Medical College of Virginia. Many casualties from the battles of First and Second Manassas, Ball&#39;s Bluff, the Seven Days, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville were treated here. For much of that time, Union sick and wounded were treated in the building as well. In 1864, the building transitioned briefly to use as an officers-only facility until closing as a hospital in mid-1864. In December 1864, it became the home of the Virginia Military Institute, after that campus had been burned by Union troops under the command of Gen. David Hunter. The institute and its cadets occupied the building until the fall of Richmond to Union forces in April 1865.</p><br>
<h3>Temporary and former Almshouse</h3><br>
<p>While the new 1861 Almshouse was under construction and also during the Civil War, a temporary Almshouse was operated on the property of John W. Smith, the former keeper of the Gun Powder Magazine. The new Almshouse was the replacement for the former Almshouse also called the Poor-house and the Poor and Work House which was located at the same place. Its construction was completed in 1806. It was once the third largest building in the city of Richmond.</p><br>
<p>The 1861 Almshouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, with a boundary increase in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. John Wilson Martin House is a historic house at 200 Ash Street in Warren, Arkansas. In addition to being a well-preserved specimen of an antebellum Greek Revival farmhouse, it is believed to be the oldest surviving residence in Warren. It was built for John Wilson Martin, one of the first doctors in Warren County. Its construction date is uncertain, but local tradition places its start in 1860, and its completion after the American Civil War. The two story porch and doorway with transom and sidelights are typical of the vernacular Greek Revival structures built in the area. Although it received some Folk Victorian modifications in the early 20th, it has retained its basic Greek Revival character.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It now houses the Bradley County Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>St. Albans Hall, also known as The Crenshaw Building, is a historic Masonic Lodge located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1869, and is a three-story, stuccoed brick Italianate style building. The Hall consisted of shops, a concert hall, as well as Masonic meeting rooms, and served as an important focus of post-Civil War Richmonds social and political life.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke Building is a historic office building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1902, and is a four-story, brick Edwardian style building. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1915–1920. The building has a yellow pressed-brick facade and red brick secondary walls. The building held the offices of the Independent Order of St. Luke, an African-American fraternal society. The office of Maggie L. Walker, longtime head of the Order, is preserved as it was at the time of her death in 1934.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hasker and Marcuse Factory, originally part of the American Can Company, is a historic factory building located in Richmond, Virginia. The original section was built in 1893 and expanded through 1915. It is a four- to five-story, brick industrial building. The factory housed manufacturers of printed, polychromatic tin boxes and tin tags  for plugs of chewing tobacco.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is now the Church Hill House Apartments.</p><br>
<p>E. M. Todd Company, also known as Todd&#39;s Ham Building, is a historic factory building located in the Three Corners District of Richmond, Virginia. The original section was built in 1892 and expanded in 1919 and 1920. The expansion included five story smoke houses. It originally housed the Richmond Brewery, and was later acquired by the E. M. Todd Company a manufacturer of smoked ham and bacon. The E. M. Todd Company ceased operations at the plant in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The building has been converted to loft apartments called the Todd Lofts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Southern Stove Works is a historic factory complex located in the Three Corners District of Richmond, Virginia. The complex includes four contributing red brick buildings built between 1902 and 1920. The buildings housed the foundry, assembly operations, warehouse storage, and metal storage. In 1920, Southern Stove Works vacated the buildings and moved to their new facility, Southern Stove Works, Manchester. By 1921, these buildings were occupied by the J. P. Taylor Leaf Tobacco Company .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The building has been converted into loft-style apartments.</p><br>
<p>First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory, is a historic armory building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story. Late Victorian style brick structure. It also is known as the Leigh Street Armory, the Monroe School, and the Monroe Center.</p><br>
<p>It features four brick towers, two circular turrets, a rectangular tower over the center front entrance, and a square tower, with crenellation along the roof parapet. The interior was rebuilt after a fire in 1985, and a 1940s gymnasium removed in 1998. The building originally housed the armory for an African-American militia company until 1899. It then housed a school for African-American children until World War II, when it again was used as a reception center for servicemen of color. It returned as a school for African-American children until 1954 and desegregation. For a period it housed The Black History Museum of Richmond. It is the oldest of three identified African-American armories in the country. It is currently home to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, which finished construction in May 2016.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Southern Stove Works, Manchester is a historic factory complex located in Richmond, Virginia that replaced the company&#39;s original factory. The complex includes two contributing prefabricated steel frame buildings built in 1920. The west building contains the original two-story office building that has been connected by one-story infill to the long one-story warehouse building that contained the pressing and mounting departments and a three-part warehouse. The office is a five-by-three-bay, two-story, building measuring 40by80 ft and brick curtain walls. The east building today consists of the foundry with attached original washrooms and office, charging room, and an expanded mill room.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>English Village is a historic cooperative apartment complex in Richmond, Virginia. The planned community was designed by Richmond architect Bascom Joseph Rowlett and built in 1927. It consists of Tudor Revival style brick and half-timber buildings. The building complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The development includes 17 attached 2 1/2-story units organized in a U-shape around a central courtyard set back from the street.</p><br>
<p>English Village is one of the first cooperatives in the city of Richmond, an early example of a 1920s planned community. The infrastructure is largely shared amongst the units, with radiant heating utilizing water delivered from a central boiler system.</p><br>
<p>The LaPorte County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in La Porte, Indiana, the county seat of LaPorte County. Previous courthouses were built on this site on 1833, and the second 1847-1848. The current courthouse was designed by Brentwood S. Tolan and built from 1892 to 1894. It is Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in style and was built with Lake Superior Red Sandstone. The building includes a tower with skylight, gargoyles and contains stained glass. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The courthouse is part of the Downtown LaPorte Historic District.</p><br>
<p>There is a historical marker that was erected in 2001 by the Indiana Historical Bureau, La Porte County Board of Commissioners, and La Porte County Historical Society, Inc..</p><br>
<p>The Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor are a collection of breakwaters, piers, and other structures in Lake Michigan located at the foot of Second Street in Frankfort, Michigan. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1854, running from a violent storm, Buffalo captain George Tifft ran his schooner over a sandbar and into the protection of Lake Betsie. After the storm, while digging back out, Tifft took the opportunity to explore the area and realized it was an ideal location for a harbor. Soon after Tifft brought word of his discovery back home, a number of people began purchasing property around the lake. In 1859, private interests constructed two short piers and dredged out a channel between them, connecting Betsie Lake to Lake Michigan.</p><br>
<p>The harbor quickly became a popular refuge, and in 1867, Congress directed the Army Corps of Engineers to begin improvements on the harbor. A new channel was cut, and by 1873 two new wooden piers had been constructed and a beacon installed at the pierhead. As the harbor became more utilized, the piers were extended in 1884 and again in 1896, and a new lighthouse (the Frankfort Light, also on the National Register of Historic Places) was installed on the north pier in 1912.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, construction began on a pair of concrete breakwaters at the harbor entrance. Construction was complete by 1932. With the earlier piers now rendered obsolete, plans were made to shorten them, and the 1912 lighthouse was removed from the north pier and relocated at the head of the north breakwater. In 1934 the remaining stub piers were capped with concrete. Piecemeal repairs were done on sections of the piers in the 1950s and 60s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The exterior basin of the Frankfort Harbor is formed by two breakwaters, 450 ft apart at the outer ends. The main section of the north breakwater is 972 ft long, with a shore connector of 1,000 ft. The main section of the south breakwater is 1,188 ft long, with a shore connector of 1,400 ft. Two stub piers line the entrance to the harbor within the breakwaters.</p><br>
<p>The piers are stone-filled timber cribs, 20 ft wide, with the exception of the shoreward portion of the south pier, which is constructed of wooden pilings filled with sand. The original piers were wrapped in sheet piling in the 1950s-60s, and the entire structure capped in concrete; the piers now range from 27 ft to 33 ft wide. The lakeward sections of the breakwaters are stone-filled concrete, with riprap piled against the outside. The shoreward sections are wood pilings filled with stone and capped with concrete. The breakwaters range from 14 ft to 17 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>The Frankfort North Breakwater Light is located on the head of the north breakwater. It is a square steel pyramidal tower standing 44 ft atop a 25 ft tall square steel base.</p><br>
<p>The American Woolen Company Townhouses are a collection of brick townhouses built c. 1907 by the American Woolen Company in Lawrence, Massachusetts. They were part of a program of company-built housing between 1906 and 1910 that included the nearby American Woolen Mill Housing District. The townhouses are located on a series of short streets off Market Street in South Lawrence. A historic district comprising these six buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The townhouses stand on a large parcel of land 100 ft deep, with 475 ft of frontage on Market Street. The lot has been divided into three sections, each of which contains two townhouses facing each other across a central private road (Wood Way, Washington Way, and Prospect Way). The short ends of the townhouses face Market Street. When originally built the central areas provided foot access to the units, but they have been paved over and are now used for parking.</p><br>
<p>The six buildings are identical in all major details, and were designed by local architect James E. Allen. Each one is a two-story brick 98 ft long and 39 ft deep, and houses seven living units. Each unit presents 14 ft of frontage into the central area. There are minor variations in the front facades of the units. In some cases the entries of adjacent units are paired, and some entries or entry pairs are sheltered by a pilastered pediment. The rear of all units was substantially identical: a recessed porch, set under a segmented arch, provided access to the unit&#39;s back door.</p><br>
<p>Tuckahoe Apartments, also known as The Tuckahoe, is a historic apartment building in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by W. Duncan Lee and built in 1928–1929. It is a massive, six-story, red brick, Georgian Revival style building. It was built as a luxury "apartment-hotel". The building features original brick-walled entry court, parlors, galleries, solaria, roof terraces, and a domed cupola. The building has 59 apartments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Young Women&#39;s Christian Association is a historic YWCA building in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1913–1914, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick and stone Renaissance Revival style building. The two-story rear block contains the gymnasium. The building features an elaborately designed entry portico with a curved exterior staircase.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthews Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral located in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Wyoming. The cathedral is a contributing property in the St. Matthews Cathedral Close, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Matthews was established in 1868. The Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, the first bishop of the newly created Missionary District of Wyoming and Idaho chose Laramie as his See city. He then led the effort to build St. Matthews Cathedral from 1892 to 1896. The cathedral cornerstone was laid on September 21, 1892 and it was dedicated on December 17, 1896. The church was consecrated on August 11, 1901. The 1967 General Convention of the Episcopal Church created the Diocese of Wyoming. The first diocesan convention was held at St. Matthews on January 30, 1968. The Diocese of Wyoming is contiguous with the state of Wyoming. The cathedral is a part of the St. Matthews Cathedral Close historic district placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The other elements in the district include the Deanery, Hunter Hall (formerly known as Sherwood Hall), and the First World War Memorial Cross.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>New York City architect William Halsey Wood designed St. Matthews Cathedral in the Gothic Revival style. The structure is built of native sandstone that was quarried nine miles northeast of Laramie. The church building is cruciform is shape with the bell tower and spire above the main entrance. The cross at the top of the spire is 118 ft feet above the ground and 7,276 ft feet above sea level, which makes St. Matthews the highest cathedral in the United States. There are 11 bells in the tower that were cast by Meneely & Co., of Watervliet, New York. The clock on the tower was made by the E. Howard Clock Co. of Boston.</p><br>
<p>Several artists created the cathedrals stained-glass windows. They include Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London and New York City, Charles Connick of Boston, and Rowan and Irene LeCompte of New York and Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>Organ</h2><br>
<p>The pipe organ was installed by the E.M. Skinner Organ Co. in 1925, Opus 523. It features four manuals, 51 ranks, and 3,111 pipes. The console was replaced in 1998 by a 1928 Casavant console, from Opus 1275, rebuilt by Morel & Associates.</p><br>
<p>The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Regional Headquarters building in Omaha, Nebraska was built in 1957 as the headquarters of Northwestern Bell, the telephone company that served Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 for its architectural significance as a modern corporate office building in Omaha, as well as Omaha&#39;s status as a regional center of communication and commerce at the time.</p><br>
<p>The twelve-story building was originally built in 1957 on the northeast corner of the block bounded by Dodge Street on the north, Douglas Street on the south, 19th Street on the east, and 20th Street on the west. In 1964, an addition was built on the northwest corner of the block, also twelve stories high. The southeast corner of the block was the original company headquarters and switching center, built in 1918. The 1918 building has been altered by additional equipment installation and removal of the ornamental façade, so it is not listed on the National Register. Finally, the southwest corner of the block was built in 1970, making it too new for listing.</p><br>
<p>The company was formed by the merger of the Nebraska Telephone Company, the Iowa Telephone Company, and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange. They were effectively operated by one general office and its staff by 1909, but they were not officially merged until 1921. The company grew during the 1920s, but then faced financial difficulties during the Great Depression in the 1930s. During World War II, most telephone company resources were being applied toward military and government jobs, so by the end of the war, there were about 59,000 outstanding requests for residential and business service. Northwestern Bell realized that after the war, the development of new jobs and new homes would result in a demand for more telephone service. By 1953, the company had 1,750,000 telephones and was spending $50 million in construction costs. This growth in service produced a sizable economic effect on the region&#39;s economy. The company also recognized the importance of hiring and retaining skilled telephone employees in order to provide outstanding telephone service.</p><br>
<p>Other growth at Northwestern Bell during this time included work with the Strategic Air Command, with its headquarters south of Omaha at Offutt Air Force Base. The Strategic Air Command spent millions of dollars on communication equipment, including the "red telephone" system that connected 200 SAC locations to the command post at Offutt. The need for instant communication made SAC the Bell Systems first customer for Touch-Tone dialing. Residential customers also benefited from faster service via coaxial cable and crossbar switching equipment. Since a large amount of equipment had been added to the original Douglas Street building, many of the telephone companys employees were working in leased office space.</p><br>
<p>Design of the building began in the mid-1950s, following newly developed standards within the Bell System for building design. These standards were influenced by modern architecture, particularly with respect to building mass, site selection, and materials. The 1955 administration building in New Haven, Connecticut, the 1958 regional headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, and the 1960 administration building in Denver, Colorado followed similar trends in architectural design. These buildings were built with simpler, solid planes instead of Art Deco setbacks, such as had been used in the Northwestern Bell Building in Minneapolis built in 1931. The building was designed by Leo A. Daly, which is now one of the largest architectural, engineering, planning, and interior design firms in the United States. In 1962, an addition was built due to enlarged departmental needs, as well as the need to house more equipment.</p><br>
<p>The Balcony House is a historic building located at 1006 Court St. in Imperial, Nebraska. Initially constructed as a school, the building served as a hotel at a local tourist camp during the 1920s; it currently functions as a bed and breakfast. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed outside of Imperial in the 1880s and initially served as a school. In 1921, the Nebraska Fire Marshal condemned the school, and the building was moved to its current location. A two-story addition was added to the building after its move to replace a similar addition which was left at the original site. At its new site, the building served as a hotel for a tourist camp along the Detroit-Lincoln-Denver Highway, a transcontinental highway which crossed Nebraska along the modern route of USA Route 6. The tourist camp became a prominent local business, hosting as many as 300 visitors in a day; it also hosted events such as free concerts and received regular coverage in the local newspaper. The camp closed in 1930 after the Great Depression reduced leisure travel and deprived the business of its customers.</p><br>
<p>In later years, the Balcony House served as a boarding house, a dormitory for high school students whose families lived out in the country or in small apartments. In the late 1980s, the house was abandoned after the owner and operator moved out of state. In 1997, the Balcony House was purchased by Jim and Linda Pirog. Renovation began that year, with the Pirogs finishing their major remodel of the house in 1999, and it was re-opened as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>Richmond Academy of Medicine is a historic medical library building in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1931–32, and is a two-story, five bay square, brick and concrete Georgian Revival style building. The building features an elaborately-designed entry with a large broken pediment and a cartouche bearing a caduceus. The building houses a library, dining room, auditorium, and offices. It was designed specifically to house what once was a regionally significant collection of early medical manuscripts, art work, instruments and incunabula.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Moore&#39;s Auto Body and Paint Shop, formerly known as Standard Gas and Oil Supply Station, is a historic filling station located in Richmond, Virginia. The oldest section was originally built as a stable in 1875. It was enlarged in 1926. It is a one-story, stuccoed brick building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The structure has an irregular plan, with the northern facade formed in a crescent shape and the rest of the building in rectangular forms. The central section features heavy paneled stuccoed pilasters connected by a corbeled brick table and a paneled parapet. The building was used as a filling station until 1936, after which it was occupied by a series of automobile repair businesses.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Cary Street Park and Shop Center, also known as the Cary Court Shopping Center, is a historic shopping center developed by the C.F. Sauer family in the Carytown district of Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1938 in the Art Deco style. Two rectangular wings to the west and east were completed in 1949 and 1951. The structure is essentially a one-story structure in the shape of an elongated "U" and constructed of brick, granite, limestone and marble veneer. It features a prominent parking area, an uninterrupted string of large modern aluminum and glass doors and commercial storefront windows, a stepped limestone parapet, curved windows, and a low, projecting stucco canopy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Yorkville School, also known as Parkview School, is a historic multi-room school in Yorkville, Illinois, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Yorkville, Illinois was founded in 1833 when Earl Adams built a log cabin on the south side of the Fox River. As the area developed, the river split the population into Bristol, north of the river, and Yorkville to the south. Yorkville and Bristol remained separate communities through the 1880s. During that decade, however, Yorkville and Bristol officials agreed to form a single school district.</p><br>
<p>The Yorkville School was the first large school building in the area and held classes from first grade through high school. Grade school students were largely drawn from the two communities, but high school students would attend from as far as 20 mi away. Despite the name, the school was built in what was then still called Bristol. Yorkville residents filed a lawsuit to stop construction, but the district was able to construct the building before the case went to court. It replaced an 1830s one-room schoolhouse on the south side of the river and an 1850s four-room school building on the north side. Bristol was later merged into Yorkville.</p><br>
<p>A large addition on the east side was built in 1907. Yorkville High School was built in 1959. The old Yorkville School continued to house grade and middle schools for another nine years. In 1968, the school building became home to Waubonsee Community College, who renamed the structure Parkview School. Waubonsee later moved to Sugar Grove, Illinois. The building was still used for grade school classes until 1991.</p><br>
<p>The building is now used by Parkview Christian Academy as its main campus and houses grade levels Preschool through 5th grade.</p><br>
