<p>Sears House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a -story, frame dwelling representative of a small "bracketed cottage" popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing. It is sheathed with board-and-batten and is covered with a cross-gable roof. It features long, shallow-scrolled roof brackets, a three-bay arcaded front porch, and a three-story octagonal-ended tower covered by a shallow hipped roof with dentiled cornice. It was the home of Dr. Barnas Sears , a prominent educator, who owned and occupied the house from 1867 until his death.</p><br>
<p>The house was built by Col. Robert Lewis Madison, MD, and designed by his wife, Helen Banister Madison. Their son, Robert Lee Madison, founder and former president of Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, North Carolina, was born there on February 17, 1867, shortly before the house was sold to Sears for $4,000.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Stuart House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. The original portion of the house was built in 1791, and is a two-story, temple-form brick structure fronted by a two-level pedimented portico supported by four very simple and provincial Tuscan order-like columns. The house is five bays wide and three bays deep. The house has a large -story brick wing added in 1844. The wing is fronted by a gallery ornamented with lattice-work and supported on brick piers. Also on the property is a gambrel roof frame building, erected sometime after 1783 as Archibald Stuarts residence and law office, and a pyramidal roof smokehouse. According to family tradition, Stuart received plans or suggestions for the houses design from his close friend, Thomas Jefferson. Archibald Stuart died in 1832 and the house was inherited by his son, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Newtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>C. W. Miller House is a historic home located adjacent to the campus of Mary Baldwin University at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1899–1900, and is a 2 1/2-story, three-bay, brick and stone building in a Châteauesque / Romanesque Revival style. It features four decorated brick chimneys with elaborately corbelled caps, a one-story wraparound porch, and a three-story round tower at the corner of the house. At one time the house was sold to Mary Baldwin College for the music school, but has since returned to private ownership.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Stuart Addition Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Waverly Hill is a historic mansion located at Staunton, Virginia. It was designed by architect William Lawrence Bottomley  and built in 1929. It consists of a 2 1/2&ndash;story, five-bay, center section flanked by one-story wings connected by low, one-story hyphens in the Georgian Revival style. The house is constructed of brick, and the central section and wings are topped by slate-covered hipped roofs.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Thomas J. Michie House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1847–1848, and is a three-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a two-story wing. The total size is 7,100 square feet. The front facade features a one-story, flat-roofed entrance porch supported by four slender Tuscan order columns. The interior has two elaborate country Federal mantels taken from a nearby 1820 country home. It was built by Thomas J. Michie, who represented Augusta County in the Virginia House of Delegates and may be of the same family that built Michie&#39;s Tavern in Charlottesville, Virginia as well as Michie Stadium at West Point Military Academy. It was later the home of jurist Allen Caperton Braxton  and Henry W. Holt  who was the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Gospel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>J. C. M. Merrillat House, also known as Hunter House, is a historic house located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay, Gothic Revival style frame cottage with a two-story wing. It has board-and-batten siding and a gable roof interrupted by a large central gable with a finial. The front facade features a one-story porch supported by large brackets. It was built by Dr. J. C. M. Merrillat, a prominent early administrator at the nearby Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Gospel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Oakdene is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1893, and is a large -story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with an irregular plan. It has a great variety of textures and materials, and features a carved entrance porch, a central turret with a chimney up the middle two sun porches, several tall chimneys with elaborately corbelled caps and decorative brickwork, and a turret with a conical roof. The main roof is of slate and is composed of both hipped and gabled elements. Oakdene was built for Edward Echols, who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1898 to 1902 and was president of the local National Valley Bank. His father General John Echols died at Oakdene in 1896.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Gospel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Steephill, also known as Steep Hill, is a historic home built in and located at Staunton, Virginia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It also went by the name Peyton Estate, it had been the family home for John Lewis Peyton and his heirs until 1964.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1877–1878 in the Gothic Revival style, and remodeled in 1926–1927 in the Georgian Revival style. The central portion of the house (the "original" house) is a -story, three-bay, brick structure slightly recessed from the wings. The central section has a standing-seam metal gable roof with three gabled dormers. Flanking the central block are two, two-story wings.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, the Peyton family heir&#39;s sold the family estate to Staunton Military Academy. On December 30, 2019, the Steephill structure suffered a large amount of damage from a 2nd alarm fire.</p><br>
<p>National Valley Bank, also known as United Virginia Bank, is a historic bank building located in Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1903 and is a one-story, three-bay, Beaux Arts-style building constructed of granite, brick and carved limestone. Its design was based on the Roman Arch of Titus. It features semi-engaged, fluted columns of the Corinthian order flanking the central entrance. The interior features a coffered plaster ceiling. General John Echols  founded the bank in 1865 and served as its first president. His son Edward Echols, who built Oakdene, served as the National Valley Bank&#39;s third president from 1905–1915.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Beverley Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Robert W. Hamilton House is a historic house located at 203 S. 13th St. in Murphysboro, Illinois. The house was built in 1867 for Robert Wood Hamilton, a Civil War veteran who served as circuit clerk of Jackson County and postmaster of Carbondale. The house is designed in the Carpenter Gothic style and is one of two remaining Carpenter Gothic residences in Jackson County. The front porch of the house is supported by four posts, which are linked at the top by trefoil arches. A steep dormer with ornamental bargeboards tops the porch. The opposite side of the front facade features a second-floor balcony with a quatrefoil-patterned railing. The gable end atop the balcony also features ornamental bargeboards.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1982. It is currently occupied by Fager Historic Properties, K. Fager Contracting, And Brews Brothers Taproom Offices.</p><br>
<p>Pocahontas School is a historic school building in Pocahontas, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was built in 1924 and operated for the next four decades as the community&#39;s main elementary school for white students. A new wing was added in 1957. In 1967 Pocahontas School closed as part of a Hardeman County school consolidation. and the building was sold to private owners.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The school is a single-story frame building with a brick veneer. The original portion of the school building has an H-shaped layout. Its design was based on a standardized plan for a four-teacher school that was in widespread use in Tennessee and other parts of the southern United States in the 1920s. It is similar to both the Rosenwald school four-teacher school design of that period and Plan No. 4 in the Tennessee Department of Education&#39;s 1928 Rural School Building Plans. This design provided for four classrooms, an auditorium, and a room designed to serve as both a library and a principal’s office. Pocahontas School was one of several similar four-teacher schools built in Hardeman County in the 1920s; it is believed to the only one that is still standing.</p><br>
<p>The building was heated by coal stoves until 1957, when a coal-fired central furnace and boiler room were installed. In warm weather, the windows and transoms were opened to allow fresh air to circulate. The building has a north-south orientation, which was a prescribed element of the standard design, intended to provide appropriate interior lighting. This expansion in the school and its facilities was not matched by the town of Pocahontas. During the depression and throughout the second world war the management arranged for one of the classrooms to be converted into a kitchen so that students could be fed. The town&#39;s prosperity, which was based on cotton production, declined after 1940.</p><br>
<p>Facilities in the school yard included privies, a playground with swings and a slide, two basketball courts and a baseball field. The 1957 expansion of the building included installation of indoor plumbing, including indoor bathrooms, thus eliminating the need for the privies. A cafeteria also was added in 1957.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the building was described as "a rare example of an early 20th century rural school building" with its original floor plan and architectural details largely intact. The playground and sports facilities had been removed from the school grounds, but an original metal flagpole still stood at the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Madison County Courthouse is a courthouse in Huntsville, Arkansas, the county seat of Madison County, built in 1939 by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works . It is a three-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in glazed brick with limestone trim. It has restrained Art Deco styling, including pilasters between its central window bays, and blocky limestone archways framing its entrances. It was built in 1939 with funding from the Federal Emergency Administration, and is the city&#39;s finest example of Art Deco architecture. Located within the Huntsville Commercial Historic District, the courthouse is a culturally significant landmark for both its architectural style and historical importance because of its association with the FEA. It was because of this dual significance that the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Madison County was formed on September 30, 1836, from Washington County, with county government first established in a barn near Huntsville. A log courthouse was built on the public square following the settlement&#39;s official designation as county seat on July 22, 1839. The 900 ft&sup2; single-room building cost $150 ($ today). A new, two-story brick structure was built in 1845 but was burned by Union soldiers in 1863 during the Civil War. The county incurred a $16,000 ($ today) debt building a new structure in 1871. This structure only served seven years before being burned accidentally. In 1881, another brick courthouse was completed, but only lasted nine years before another fire destroyed the building. Madison County relocated to the northwest corner of the square into a native stone building in 1905. The courthouse served until the 1930s when repairs to the roof were deemed sufficiently expensive that it was preferable to build a new building rather than rehabilitate the undersized structure.</p><br>
<p>The FEA of Public Works announced plans to construct a new courthouse at 1 Main Street in 1939. Following voter approval, three houses were purchased and moved in order to build the new structure. The FEA approved a budget of $90,090 ($ today) for the project. Dedicated November 1939, Clyde T. Ellis gave a speech dedicating the building. Future governor Orval Faubus served as circuit clerk in the courthouse shortly after its completion.</p><br>
<p>The Officers Quarters are fifteen residences located in eight historic buildings in the Washington Navy Yard. Each individual residence is labelled with a single letter such as Quarters A or Quarters B. They were built at different times but continue to serve as housing for senior officers of the United States Navy.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters A</h2><br>
<p>This house, also known as Tingey House was built around 1804 and was the home of the Commandant of the Navy Yard. It was named after the first Commandant, Captain Thomas Tingey. It is possible that the 2-story brick building was designed by Lovering and Dyer. Unlike most government buildings, it was not seriously damaged during the 1814 Burning of Washington. In 1977, it became the official home of the Chief of Naval Operations.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters B</h2><br>
<p>The first of the quarters to be built in 1801, this housed the second in command of the Yard. As with Quarters A, it was looted but not damaged during the 1814 Burning of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters C and D</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1878 on top of the former reservoir, these two residences in a three-story brick building housed the Naval Constructor and the Civil Engineer.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters E, F and G</h2><br>
<p>Built around 1837, this building housed the Master of the Yard, the Surgeon, and a Lieutenant. It was smaller than normal for officers of this rank.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters H</h2><br>
<p>Built sometime before 1824, the Gunner quarters were built against the wall separating the Yard from M street. The building was expanded and repaired throughout the late 1800s.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters K, L and M</h2><br>
<p>An octagon building originally built for muster calls, it was modified to house three residences in 1889.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters N, O</h2><br>
<p>Originally a paint shop built in 1865, which also served as a museum, this building was remodeled into two residences in 1891.</p><br>
<h2>Quarters P, Q</h2><br>
<p>Standing next to the Latrobe Gate and the Marine barracks, this building housed the ranking Marine officer in charge of the guard. The building was added to and repaired throughout the late 1800s.</p><br>
<p>The Montrose Historic District is a historic district comprising fifteen historically significant buildings in the community of Montrose, Alabama, United States. The district is almost entirely residential, with the exception of the 1890 Montrose Post Office. Montrose is located on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, and several homes in the district occupy bayfront lots. Nine of the homes in the district were designed in the Creole cottage style, a vernacular architectural style popular in the Gulf Coast states. The Creole cottage homes in the district all feature front facades with five bays and recessed full-length front porches supported by square or chamfered columns. Many of the houses were built as summer homes for residents of Mobile, for whom Montrose was a popular vacation destination.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1976.</p><br>
<h2>List of structures</h2><br>
<p>The historical district contains 27 notable structures. The structures are listed in no particular order.</p><br>
<p>Lewis-Thomasson House (Bay Lot 16); built c. 1856, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Bullock House (Bay Lot 15, east half); built c. 1940.</p><br>
<p>McCullough-Garnett House (Bay Lot 15, west half); built c. 1850, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Stanford House (Bay Lot 14, northeast); built late 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Brainard-Breckenridge House (Bay Lot 14, southwest); built c. 1855, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Ledyard-Anderson-Moses House (Bay Lot 13); built 1853.</p><br>
<p>Anderson-Phillips House (Bay Lot 12); built c. 1870, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Kearly House (Bay Lot 11, northwest); built mid-19th century, moved from Mobile in 1950.</p><br>
<p>Humphries House (Bay Lot 11, northeast); built 1930.</p><br>
<p>Fell-Hollinger-Bullock House (southeast corner Main at Chapman); built mid-1850s, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Jacobs House (Main Street, Block 4, Lot 1, east side); built 1950.</p><br>
<p>Davis House (Chapman Street, Block 4, Lot 1, west side); built 1975.</p><br>
<p>Randal-Wachter House (Main Street, Block 4, Lot 2); built 1910.</p><br>
<p>Chapman-Scott House (Main Street, Block 4, Lot 1); built 1855, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Montrose Post Office (Main Street, Block 4, Lot 1); built 1895.</p><br>
<p>Danzler House (Second Street, Block 14, Lot 3, south side); built 1960.</p><br>
<p>Jay House (Second Street, Block 14, Lot 3, northside); built 1967.</p><br>
<p>Thomson-Malone House (Second Street, Block 14, Lot 2); built 1904.</p><br>
<p>Gray Cottage (Second Street, Block 14, Lot 1, south side); built 1860s.</p><br>
<p>Brewer-Allen Boarding House (Second Street, Block 14, Lot 1, north side; now the Rudt House); built 1855.</p><br>
<p>McIntyre-Kennedy House (Main Street, Block 6, Lot 2); built 1855, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>Loftus-Thimbes House (Main Street, Block 6, Lot 1); built 1898, “Creole cottage”.</p><br>
<p>J.V. Cummings House (Main Street, Block 5, Lot 2); built c. 1940.</p><br>
<p>E.W. Winslow House (Main and Adams, Block 5, Lot 1); built c. 1935.</p><br>
<p>James Miller House (Adams Street, Block 5, Lot 1, center); built c. 1950.</p><br>
<p>Ed Leak House (Northeast corner Adams and Second); built 1955.</p><br>
<p>McFall House (Second Street, Block 5, Lot 2); built 1930.</p><br>
<p>Wharf Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Staunton, Virginia. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures. It is a warehouse and commercial district characterized by rows of late-19th century and early-20th century storefronts and an elongated plaza framed by small warehouses. The buildings are characteristically two- and three-story, brick structures in a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival, Federal, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings and structures include the Railroad Water Tower, American Hotel , John Burns Building , Erskine Building , and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Station .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, with a boundary increase in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Beverley Historic District is a national historic district located at Staunton, Virginia. The district encompasses 131 contributing buildings in downtown Staunton. It is a compact commercial district characterized by a well-preserved collection of 19th-century buildings. The buildings are characteristically two- to four-story, brick structures in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival and primarily Italianate. Notable buildings include the old YMCA , Hoover House Hotel , Putnam Organ Works Store , City Hall , Odd Fellows Hall , USA Post Office , and the Masonic Temple building . Located in the district are the separately listed National Valley Bank and Augusta County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Gospel Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Staunton, Virginia. The district encompasses 180 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Staunton. The district is characterized by an abundance of fine homes, ranging in size from cottages to mansions and dating from 1840 to 1930. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The buildings include distinguished examples of a century of architectural styles from Greek Revival to Bungalow. Notable buildings include "Kalorama" (c. 1800), "Capote" (1905), Effinger House (c. 1898), and Temple House of Israel (1925). Located in the district are the separately listed Woodrow Wilson Birthplace, Catlett House, Arista Hoge House, J. C. M. Merrillat House, Thomas J. Michie House, Oakdene, and The Oaks.</p><br>
<p>Newtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Staunton, Virginia. The district encompasses 414 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in a primarily residential section of Staunton. The district includes some late 18th- and early 19th-century structures, but most of the homes were built between 1870 and 1920 during Stauntons boom years. The buildings range from Jeffersonian Neo-Classical and Greek Revival to bungalows of the 1920s. Notable buildings include Stuart Halls Cochran House , Robertson House , the Smith Thompson House , and the George M. Cochran House . The magnificent grounds of Thornrose Cemetery are also included in the district. Located in the district are the separately listed Stuart Hall School, Stuart House, and Trinity Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Hair Conrad Cabin is a historic log cabin in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States, and the oldest residential structure in the county.</p><br>
<p>It is a single-pen cabin that was built in the early 1800s by a Cherokee known by the names Tekahskeh and Hair Conrad. Its construction followed the style of cabins built by white settlers of the era.</p><br>
<p>Hair Conrad, who had a white father and a Cherokee mother, farmed the land near the cabin, growing apples, peaches, and other produce. A leader in the Cherokee community and a "man of means", he was the founder of a school for the education of Cherokee children. He participated in writing the Cherokee Constitution in 1827, and prior to 1836 he was a representative of the Cherokee Nation in Washington, D.C. He was later (in 1838) to lead the first detachment of Cherokees from Rattlesnake Springs on the Trail of Tears and died soon after reaching Oklahoma in 1839.</p><br>
<p>After Hair Conrad&#39;s departure, a succession of white families owned and lived in the cabin. It is now on the property of Blythewood Farms.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Stuart Addition Historic District is a national historic district located at Staunton, Virginia. The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Staunton. The district includes some early 19th-century structures, but most of the homes were built after 1870. The medium-density residential area includes notable examples of the Colonial Revival, Italianate, and Gothic Revival styles. Notable buildings include the Blakely or Templeton House , Steele House , Kivlighan House , Arlington Flats , D. Webster Davis School , St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church , Augusta Street Methodist Church , Ebenezer Baptist Church , and Mt. Zion Baptist Church . Located in the district is the separately listed C. W. Miller House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Empire School is a school building located at 10017 West Front Street in Empire, Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first school in Empire was the schooner "The Empire," from which the town derives its name. The schooner was icebound in the Empire harbor during the winter of 1865. In 1867, a permanent school building was constructed on Brotherton Road. A new two-story school was constructed in 1891. This school, however, was destroyed by fire in 1899. As a stopgap, classes were held in the Maccabees Hall until a replacement school could be built.</p><br>
<p>The district decided their new school should be a top-quality, four-room schoolhouse. A gymnasium was added in 1932, using funds available from the Works Progress Administration. An old machinery storage shed was moved to the school property to house shop classes. In 1941, a small school building, the Boynton school, was moved from its original location to the Empire School to provide space for kindergarten classes.</p><br>
<p>However, school enrollment was declining.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Empire School is a L-plan single story structure, It clad in clapboard. The school contains two sections: the original section is a square-plan building containing the four classrooms. This section has a hipped roof with a smaller gable at each end and square cupola in the center. The main entrance to the building is off-center in the north facade. The second section, containing the gymnasium, is a rectangular, gable-roof addition to the original building.</p><br>
<p>The Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse is a school building located at 7171 South Center Highway in Bingham Township, Leelanau County, Michigan. It is now used as the Bingham Township Hall. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Bingham prospered during the lumber boom of the 1870s and 1880s. The first Bingham school, a log building, was constructed in 1870. This building was constructed in 1877 as a replacement. It was used for first through eighth grade classes through the rest of the 19th century, and as the population of Bingham declined after the timber was depleted in the 1910s. After World War II, area school districts were consolidated and the Bingham school was no longer needed. After use as a school was discontinued, the building was used as a town hall and a community meeting center. It was restored in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bingham Schoolhouse #5 is a single story wood frame vernacular structure clad with clapboards. It consists of two connected blocks, each two bays wide by three bays deep, with several projecting gables sheltering entrances. The interior is divided into two rooms.</p><br>
<p>Scarritt College for Christian Workers was a college associated with the United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The campus is now home to Scarritt Bennett Center.</p><br>
<h2>History of Scarritt College (1892–1988)</h2><br>
<p>The Scarritt College for Christian Workers started as the Scarritt Bible and Training School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1892. Belle Harris Bennett, a Southern Methodist woman missionary leader from Richmond, Kentucky, presented the idea to create a training school for missionaries in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She imagined it to be similar to what Lucy Rider Meyer had created at the Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missions. The idea was agreed upon at the Southern Methodist Womans Board of Foreign Missions annual conference in 1889. Board member Mrs. Nathan Scarritt of Kansas City, Missouri (the child of missionaries in India) was the first to offer a pledge for the new training school. Her husband, Reverend Nathan Spencer Scarritt later offered a $25,000 challenge and land in Missouri to begin the school. Within one year, Bennett had secured the matching pledges from throughout the Church and other Mission Boards. Despite some dispute within the Womans Board, the Southern Methodist General Conference approved the plan, and work began in earnest in April 1891. The first building&#39;s cornerstone was laid in Kansas City on July 2, 1891.</p><br>
<p>In 1891 the Board of Managers of the Scarritt Bible and Training School elected Miss Laura Askew Haygood to be recalled from her missionary work in China to be the principal. But Haygood was not able to leave China so Miss Maria Layng Gibson, principal of a private high grade school in Covington, Kentucky was elected instead in 1892. The first building was dedicated on September 14, 1892, and school officially opened with three students. As that first year progressed, school enrollment increased to thirty-four, fourteen of whom were boarders. Miss Layona Glenn was the first graduate in the spring and she was sent to Brazil to serve as a missionary. Curriculum included church history, history of missions, religious pedagogy, methods of work, phonetics, hymnology, and bookkeeping. A small hospital was started up for the training of nurses but was discontinued in 1905 due to difficulty in financing it.</p><br>
<p>In 1895 Bennett turned over $52,394.58 collected so far by her fundraising speeches and $20,000 given by the Conference Societies for the Belle Bennett Chair (to maintain the Bible Department). The Women&#39;s Board also allocated $55,000 for an endowment fund for scholarships, lectureships and a small student loan fund. In 1902 the Southern Methodist General Conference agreed to the plan presented by Belle Harris Bennett to establish the deaconess movement and the Scarritt Bible and Training School blossomed under the new standards for professionalizing women lay leaders.</p><br>
<p>In 1918 Dr. Edwin F. Cook, formerly Foreign Secretary for the Board of Missions, was elected president of the School with the task of finding a way to enlarge the school and expand its offerings. He resigned after one year to become a secretary of the Board of Education, and his replacement was Methodist minister Jesse Lee Cuninggim.</p><br>
<p>By 1924, under President Cuninggims leadership, Architect Henry C. Hibbs, who had designed the campus buildings of the George Peabody College for Teachers, designed the campus buildings in the late Gothic Revival architectural style. Built with Crab Orchard stone, it was completed in 1928. The Wightman Chapel was named in honor of Maria Davies Wightman, a womens rights activist in Louisiana and the wife of Bishop William May Wightman.</p><br>
<p>Sartain Lanier, the chairman of Oxford Industries, married his wife in Wightman Chapel in 1934.</p><br>
<p>By the 1930s, the college "offered a bachelor&#39;s degree and graduate education in the fields of community and family service, social work, and religious education." In 1973, J. Richard Palmer, formerly of Berea College, was brought in as president to increase fundraising and enrollment. However, he resigned in 1977 due to internal politics.</p><br>
<p>The college became known as the Scarritt Graduate School from 1981 to 1988. During that time, it was a graduate school for Church Music and Christian Education. The school closed in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>Several of the campus buildings have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 26, 1982. The historic district is made up of the original campus buildings built before 1940: Administration Building, Memorial Tower, Susie Gray Dining Hall, Bennett Hall, and Wightman Chapel.</p><br>
<h2>Civil rights history</h2><br>
<h3>Desegregation</h3><br>
<p>Scarritt College welcomed its first black students—Leila Robinson and DeLaris Johnson—in 1952, Scarritt College&#39;s desegregation also prompted Vanderbilt University, which is located across the street, to reconsider its policies on race and integration, since the two schools were affiliated through Joint University Center and Library at the time.</p><br>
<h3>Visit from Martin Luther King Jr.</h3><br>
<p>On April 25, 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Wightman Chapel at Scarritt College to the Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations. The Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations was hosted by Scarritt College and Vanderbilt Divinity School and co-sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Churches and the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. “The salvation of the world lies in the hands of the maladjusted,” King said, “…the challenge to you is to be maladjusted to the evils of segregation, the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating method of physical violence.” Dr. King spoke on the last day of the conference and addressed some 350 church leaders, the day after receiving the Social Justice Award from the Religion and Labor Foundation in New York. King&#39;s speech was titled, "The Role of the Church in Facing the Nation’s Chief Moral Dilemma".</p><br>
<h3>Student civil rights activism</h3><br>
<h4>Campus Grill boycott (1963)</h4><br>
<p>In the spring of 1963, Lorine Chan, a Scarritt College student from Fiji, was denied service at the Campus Grill, a local “greasy spoon.” Around the same time, Rev. Abel Muzorewa and his wife, Maggie Chigodora, arrived in Nashville to attend Scarritt College. The local Methodist church near Scarritt College who had sponsored them refused membership to them upon their arrival in Nashville because Maggie was black. In response to these events, Gerry Bode, Sue Thrasher, Archie Allen, Mary Pless, and others formed the Christian Action Fellowship to work against racial discrimination. They also joined students at Peabody College and Vanderbilt University to form the Joint University Council on Human Relations. The Joint University Council on Human Relations coordinated a boycott of the Campus Grill, coordinating with black student leaders, John Lewis and Lester McKinnie. By November, Vanderbilt, Peabody and Scarritt College students and faculty organized a boycott of the restaurant until it served black students.</p><br>
<h4>Downtown demonstrations (1964)</h4><br>
<p>Following the Campus Grill boycott, Scarritt College students continued to participate in civil rights demonstrations. In 1964, demonstrators, led by John Lewis and Lester McKinnie, organized demonstrations focused on establishments that refused to desegregate, including Krystal, Morrison&#39;s Cafeteria, and the Tic Toc restaurant. During one demonstration, on April 27, 1964, Archie Allen was attacked by the employees and knocked down on the sidewalk while attempting to talk with Tic Toc employees. On April 28, Scarritt College student, William Barbee, was severely beaten by police while Barbee was holding onto a light pole. Barbee was arrested on disorderly conduct charges and later admitted to Hubbarb Hospital. In addition to a concussion, the beatings Barbee endured resulted in injuries from which he suffered for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<h2>Scarritt Bennett Center (1988–present)</h2><br>
<p>After Scarritt College closed, the campus was purchased by the Womens Division of the United Methodist Church, who formed Scarritt Bennett Center, a nonprofit organization that operates on the campus today. Scarritt Bennett Center is a conference, retreat, and education center that seeks to carry on the legacy of the Scarritt College students, faculty, and staff. Scarritt Bennett Centers mission is to create space where individuals and groups engage each other to achieve a more just world. Scarritt Bennett Center&#39;s programming focuses on the empowerment of women, eradication of racism, prophetic justice, radical hospitality, sacred rituals, spiritual enrichment, and transformative education.</p><br>
<p>The William H. Hull House is a historic house located at 1517 Walnut St. in Murphysboro, Illinois. The house was built in 1887 for William H. Hull, a significant local businessman and politician. The house is designed in an asymmetrical Italianate pattern. The front facade of the house features a three-sided projecting bay topped by a half-hipped roof. The main entrance is located to the side of the bay in a porch supported by chamfered columns with decorative brackets. The cornice of the house features a patterned molding divided by ornamental brackets. The house&#39;s roof has a cross-hipped design with flared eaves.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Nymore Bridge is a reinforced concrete deck arch bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Bemidji, Minnesota. The bridge, built in 1916, has three arch spans. It is significant for its use of a reinforcing system patented by George M. Cheney during a time when engineers were experimenting with reinforcing materials and systems.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was originally built to carry USA Route 2 (US 2) over the Mississippi River. The main city traffic is now carried by Minnesota State Highway 197 (MN 197), while US 2 now bypasses the city. The reinforcing system designed by George M. Cheney consists of an arched metal truss built of angles and gusset plates, separated into vertical panels, and then connected together. The metal truss was built first, then forms were constructed around it and concrete was poured around it. The steel truss becomes embedded in the concrete. The bridge is decorated with Classical Revival elements. The Classical Revival style was part of the City Beautiful movement popular at the time for civic structures. It connected Bemidji with the village of Nymore, which was later annexed into the city of Bemidji.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 168 ft long, 31 ft wide, and has a center span of 65 ft with two adjacent spans of 40 ft each. The maximum vertical clearance is 15 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Mrs. Isaac D. Adler House is a property in Libertyville, Illinois, United States designed by architect David Adler for his mother Therese Hyman Adler.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original house on this lot in Libertyville, Illinois was built in 1914, when the Miller and Austin Subdivision was created. In 1930, Therese Hyman Adler, the widow of clothing wholesaler Isaac D. Adler and mother of architect David Adler, purchased this lot from Oscar D. and Anne F. Stern. The 14+1/2 acre property was adjacent to her sons estate. Mrs. Adler had been living in Chicago since 1925, when her husband died in a car accident. She may have lived in David Adlers apartment at 1240 North State Street. David Adler treated his mother&#39;s property as part of the estate, building a road between the two houses and coordinating a matching landscape.</p><br>
<p>David Adler extensively remodeled the house for his mother starting in January 1931. The original building was probably a Dutch Colonial. To this, Adler added a second porch on the west, adjusted window fenestrations, added a front pediment, and third-story dormers. The interior was left largely intact, although Adler did install a historic French fireplace and replaced the floors & staircase. The finished product was still largely Dutch Colonial, but showed heavy American Colonial influence. The house closely resembled a Sears Catalog Home design. Adler also extensively remodeled the garage/barn structure at the front of the property. He built a three-room apartment on the top floor and added a cupola. The final work on the property was completed in April 1934, when it was landscaped.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Adler died in 1939 and the house passed to David. When David Adler died in 1949, the house was bequeathed to his sister, Frances Elkins. However, Elkins had a successful interior design practice in California and had little interest in the Illinois property. She let the Village of Libertyville use the property for recreational purposes, but the village struggled to maintain the costly property. The house was sold to William Wittort, who had been renting the property, in 1954. Subsequent owners have made few changes to the house. The road linking the house to her son&#39;s was expanded to Milwaukee Avenue in the 1970s and was opened to the public as Parkview Drive. The 3 acre property was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 2002. It was listed as a historic district with four contributing properties: the house, the garage/barn, and two octagonal small buildings (a pump house and a tool shed).</p><br>
<p>Simeon Moore House, also known as Cane Run Farm, is a historic house and farmstead located along Cane Run on Taylorsville Road, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Simeon Moore house was built by widower Simeon Moore (1804–1873) in about 1850. He had purchased 134 acres in far eastern Jefferson County in 1836 and added 77 more acres to his farm in 1850, the year he is believed to have built his home. Simeons wife Jane (Carrithers) Moore died in 1838 at the age of 27, leaving him with at least five children. The Moores son Charles inherited the house at his father&#39;s death and owned it until about 1900 when it was sold out of the family.</p><br>
<p>The house is a 5-bay brick I-House in design with Greek Revival interior detailing which is substantially intact. The original house is unaltered in plan and consists of one room on either side of a central stair hall on each floor. A modern kitchen ell to the rear of the house replaces an earlier kitchen and porch addition. An early 20th century front porch was replaced in recent years. The form of the house is common in the area but the brick is laid in a bond pattern said to be unique in Jefferson County. The penciled mortar joints are similar to those at the Presley Tyler House at the Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead. The property includes two vernacular frame barns, a root cellar, a corn crib converted to an office and garage, and a modern garage.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Bluff Uptown Commercial Historic District is the historic downtown district of Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. There are fourteen properties in the district; of these, six buildings, one site, and one object contribute to its historic fabric as contributing properties.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Bluff, Illinois was first settled in 1836. In the mid-1870s, the Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Episcopal camp, was founded on 200 acre. Most structures at that point were of contemporary architectural styles, but were mostly one-story wood-frame buildings. In the late 1890ss, the Camp Meeting Association closed and its lands were immediately considered as a commercial district due to its proximity to the Chicago and North Western Railway tracks. The lands were platted in 1896.</p><br>
<p>James Hobbs, the former president of Camp Meeting Association and president of the Chicago Board of Trade, oversaw Lake Bluff&#39;s early development. The oldest building in the district is the Village Market, completed around 1900. It replaced a large, wood-framed building that was destroyed in a fire. Charles Helming ran the store from 1902 to 1947. Frost & Granger designed the Lake Bluff Train Station in 1904 to service the Chicago and North Western. The railway donated funds to construct a new city hall later that year. It was designed by Webster Tomlinson, a member of "The Eighteen" Prairie School architects. In 1911, several buildings were moved to create a village green. In 1917, the green was used as a rally for troops serving in World War I. This inspired the creation of a War Memorial in the green dedicated to the soldiers. Lake Bluff used funds left over from an ambulance fundraiser to construct the memorial in 1917. Tablets were later added for World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The John Griffith Store Building was built for the namesake real estate developer in 1925. It neighbors a post office building. The Sankey Building was erected in 1926 on the corner of East Center and Scranton Avenues.</p><br>
<p>The district was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2006. The Griffith Store had previously been individually recognized on February 5, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Campbell–DeYoung Farm is a farmstead located at 9510 East Cherry Bend Road in Elmwood Charter Township, Michigan. It is currently operated as a recreational area by the Leelanau Conservancy, and known as the DeYoung Natural Area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Campbell purchased an 80-acre parcel of land on this location in 1855. Campbell constructed the Victorian house about 1860. In 1885, Campbell purchased additional property bordering Cedar Lake. In 1904, he sold the property to his son Julius. The Campbells constructed most of the other buildings on the property before selling to Dr. Marc Kroupa and his wife Myrtle in 1919. The Kroupa&#39;s daughter, Iris Lucille, married Louis DeYoung in the early 1920s; in 1925 Louis and Iris purchased the farm.</p><br>
<p>However, Louis and Iris soon divorced and Louis married Esther LaVerne ("Verney") Stolcenberg in 1929.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 1860 farmhouse is a two-story Upright and Wing style Victorian frame house on a fieldstone foundation and clad with clapboards. It may have been originally constructed as a single-room house, with the upright portion added at a later date. A second story was added to the top of the original wing at some point early in the 20th century; a porch fronting the wing was added at the same time. The exterior of the house looks substantially the same as it did at that time.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house/garage was constructed in about 1880. It is a simple two-story, wood-framed structure with a large, open first floor and a loft area on the second, connected with an internal stair. The exterior is covered with vertical board and batten siding and the roof is shingled.</p><br>
<p>The hay barn, located across the road from the main complex, was constructed in 1884. It is a timber-framed English barn on a dressed stone foundation with a silo at one corner. The front has double wood sliding doors in the center. The interior space was used for hay storage, with an additional area for cows.</p><br>
<p>The upper barn, set back from the road and the main complex of buildings, was constructed in 1886. It is a timber-frame construction on a fieldstone foundation and gable roof. A series of ornamental lightning rods line the ridge of the roof; there was originally a cupola at the top, which was removed in 1935. The basement level contains stalls for animals, while the main level was used for equipment and hay storage. Partitions are installed in the loft, likely used for migrant quarters.</p><br>
<p>The powerhouse/workshop was constructed in about 1900 to house a waterwheel to power the farmstead. It is an L-shaped, wood-framed, utility building on a stone foundation and clad in vertical siding. Inside is an overshot metal wheel within a stone and cement chamber beneath the building, which at one time was fed through a series of hand-dug troughs from a nearby stream. In about 1930 the building was converted to a workshop.</p><br>
<p>The farm has several other outbuildings. These include:</p><br>
<p>A c. 1880 single-story gabled granary.</p><br>
<p>A c. 1900 vertically sided chicken coop. The chicken coop has a double-hung window and drywall and plaster on the interior, suggesting it may have been converted to house migrant workers.</p><br>
<p>A small, vertically sided outhouse built c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>A c. 1940 washroom for migrant workers. The cement block washroom was built on the stone foundation of an earlier building. There are two entrances, labelled "men" and "women," but no interior partitions or plumbing remaining.</p><br>
<p>A c. 1940 single story, one room concrete block structure used as a milkhouse. The interior concrete floor is sloped toward the center.</p><br>
<p>The cement block remains of c. 1950 structure to house migrant workers. The building has multiple separate entrances, suggesting accommodations for multiple families, but the interior walls and roof are gone.</p><br>
<p>Building at 216 Bank Street, also known as Holland House Apartments, is a historic home located at Suffolk, Virginia. It was built about 1885, and is a -story, three bay stuccoed brick Second Empire style building. It has a polychromatic slate mansard roof and a full-width, one-story, hipped roof front porch. It was built for Colonel Edward Everett Holland as a single-family dwelling. It was occupied by the Suffolk Elks Lodge No. 685 from 1940 to 1965, then converted to a six-unit apartment building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Phoenix Bank of Nansemond is a historic bank building located at Suffolk, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, two-bay, rectangular brick building. The bank was founded by</p><br>
<p>a group of African-American entrepreneurs in 1919 and served the black farmers and laborers of Suffolk and surrounding Nansemond County. The bank survived until 1931.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Suffolk Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Professional Building, also known as the American Bank and Trust Company building, is a historic commercial building located at Suffolk, Virginia. It was built between 1916 and 1919, and is a seven-story, steel frame building with Pyrobar fireproofing. The building measures 35.2 feet wide by 81 feet deep. It is 80 feet tall and has Colonial Revival style architectural details.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is located in the Suffolk Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Godwin–Knight House is a historic home located at Chuckatuck, Virginia. It was built in 1856, in the Federal style, then elaborately remodeled about 1898 in the Queen Anne style. It is a -story, three-bay, double-pile side-hall-plan frame dwelling. hipped roof front porch. It features a wraparound porch and a corner tower with conical roof. Also on the property are the contributing summer kitchen, smokehouse, woodshed / Delco house, two chicken house, a garage, and a barn / stable. It was the boyhood home of Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the Chuckatuck Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Wheeler-Harrington House is a historic house located at 249 Harrington Avenue in Concord, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story timber-frame house was probably built around 1742, around the time of the marriage of Josiah and Mary Wheeler. It is the oldest known building in West Concord. It remained in Wheeler family hands until 1827, when it, along with 100 acre of farmland, was sold to Joseph Harrington, Jr., of Lexington. For thirty years (1877 to 1907) the farm was operated and maintained by his daughter, Lucy Harrington. In the 20th century, the farmstead was for fifty years in the hands of a single family, the LeBallisters, who operated a horse farm on land that had been reduced by subdivision. In 1974, the town acquired the house and 15 acre of farmland, extending from Harrington Road to the Assabet River. The house was restored by volunteers, and has since been rented by the town to tenant farmers.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 2013.</p><br>
<p>Grace Universalist Church is a historic church building at 44 Princeton Boulevard in Lowell, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, the building housed a Universalist congregation until 1973, when it was sold to a Greek Orthodox congregation. It is now known as the St. George Hellenic Orthodox Church. The building is a -story brick structure, with an eclectic mix of Romanesque, Beaux Arts, and Classical Revival details. Its single most notable feature is a 70 ft masonry dome designed by Rafael Guastavino Sr. and supervised by Rafael Guastavino Jr. in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The church is significant as a very early tile vaulted dome built by the immigrant architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and Jr. in the United States. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Saint Josephs Roman Catholic College for Boys, also known as Saint Josephs High School, is a historic school building at 760 Merrimack Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The three-story brick Romanesque Revival building was built in 1892 to a design by Irish-American church architect Patrick W. Ford. The school was one of a number of Roman Catholic institutions built to serve Lowell&#39;s burgeoning French-American community, a significant portion of which had settled in "The Acre", as the neighborhood is known. In 1991 the school was merged with other local Catholic schools to form the Lowell Catholic High School. The diocese sold the building in 1997 to a local nonprofit, which converted it to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House is a historic house and barn at 461A and 463 North Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The property consists of a house whose oldest portions date to c. 1732, and an attached barn from the late 19th century that has been converted to residential use. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house, a -story five-bay timber-frame structure, was probably built c. 1732 by Christopher Page, for his daughter Joanna and son-in-law Benjamin Farley. It was on property Page subdivided to make the gift and probably already had a house on it. The newer building is surmised to have been built between 1728 and 1732. The Farleys did not stay long in the house, moving to Dunstable, Massachusetts (a part that is now Hollis, New Hampshire) in 1733, selling their farmstead to Benjamin Hutchinson. In the 19th century it passed through several hands, until it was purchased in 1911 by Charles and Edith Kimball, who established a poultry farm on the premises. In 1913 the Kimballs embarked on a major renovation and expansion project, giving the house its Colonial Revival character.</p><br>
<p>From about 1920 into the 1930s the Kimballs also made and sold candy on the premises, adapting the 19th century barn for those purposes. In 1946 the Kimballs converted to barn to two residential apartments. The only major later addition to the property was a c. 1979 kitchen addition to the house, which was executed in a historically sensitive way.</p><br>
<p>The Sylvester Millard House is a historic log house in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. Built in 1893 for a Chicago lawyer, the house was designed by William W. Boyington and remained in the family until the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sylvester M. Millard was raised on his fathers farm in Michigan. With little previous schooling, he attended a boarding school in Lansing and the enrolled at the Agricultural College. He graduated in 1864 and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to study law under Butler & Cottrell. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and moved to Chicago, Illinois the next year. He became one of the citys most prominent lawyers, focusing on chancery litigation and counseling.</p><br>
<p>In 1878, Millard moved to Highland Park on Chicago&#39;s North Shore. He was elected alderman of the city the next year, serving until 1891. Illinois Governor Shelby Moore Cullom appointed Millard a trustee of the Illinois Industrial University, where he served for twelve years including a six-year stint as President of the Board. From 1885 to 1891, he served on the Highland Park Board of Trustees. He was a longtime member of the Union League of Chicago and the Chicago Bar Association. In 1893, Millard commissioned prominent architect William W. Boyington to design him a home that resembled a log cabin. The Millard house, which Millard called "Ravine Lodge" but which later became known as "The Log House," was built with elm logs and remained in the family for about 100 years. Millard died at the Lake Geneva Sanitarium on December 1, 1905, after a three-year illness. On September 29, 1982, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It was listed as part of the Highland Park Multiple Resource Area.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Millard house was the first on Highland Parks east side. Its address was initially on Sycamore Lane, but in the early 20th century its driveway was rerouted and named Sylvester Place, and eventually Sylvester Place was made a public road. The Log House was originally a summer home with many screened porches, but over the years the porches were enclosed and removed to create a year-round residence. A housekeepers wing was added in 1918. An open porch on the south side of the first floor was enclosed in 1929 to create an enlarged dining area. Second-story porches were removed in 1949 to open up the first-floor porch on the east side, and windows were added to the second story at that time to bring in more light. The house was damaged in a 1977 attic fire but the top floor was rebuilt with only minor modifications. After the Millard family sold the Log House in 1998, extensive remodeling was undertaken including the addition of a massive stone stairway on the west side.</p><br>
<p>The Log House property originally encompassed 11 acres including a beach and adjacent bluff on Lake Michigan, but over the years most of the land was subdivided and sold. In the 1970s, the bluff and beach were acquired by the Highland Park Park District and were combined with the Shaffner property to create Millard Park.</p><br>
<p>The Two Brothers Rocks–Dudley Road Historic District encompasses a historically significant rural area of Bedford and Billerica, Massachusetts. The district covers 230 acre of predominantly rural and residential property, along Dudley Road, a narrow, winding road that was laid out in colonial days. It also includes a significant amount of conservation land, including local, state, and federal lands. The federal lands of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge which line the banks of the Concord River, include the "Two Brothers Rocks", which were used to mark a land boundary between grants given to early Massachusetts Bay Colony governors John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley, and which featured as boundary markers into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The two large rocks were inscribed with the year 1638 and the names Dudley and Winthrop by a descendant of Dudley&#39;s named Dudley Leavitt Pickman, as noted in the Bedford Town Report in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The Two Brothers Rocks are accessible either via watercraft on the Concord River, or by trails through Bedford&#39;s Altmann Conservation Area.</p><br>
<p>The old Groton High School is a historic school building at 145 Main Street in Groton, Massachusetts. It has also variously been known as the Prescott School, Groton Junior High School, and Butler School. The building is two stories, with a flat roof. It is divided into four sections: a central portion that protrudes slightly from the main facade, which is topped by a pedimented gable, two wings that flank the central portion, and a rear section behind the central building. Because the building sits on a sloping lot, the rear section is actually three full stories; its ground floor section is made of concrete, while the rest of the building is predominantly made of brick, laid in a variation of an English cross bond pattern. The central portion was built in 1871 to a design by Henry M. Francis, originally with Second Empire styling, and named the Butler School in honor of a long-serving town clerk, Caleb Butler. The school served all grades until 1915.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1920s the building was extensively altered, adding the three wings, and removing the third floor of the original building, which had been damaged by fire in 1925. Exterior changes also gave the building its present Colonial Revival appearance. Despite significant alterations in use to accommodate different grades over the years, the building&#39;s interior also remained remarkably intact. In 1975, the town joined with neighboring Dunstable, and its high school students were relocated to the Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. This building was renamed the Colonel William Prescott School, and house lower grades until it was closed in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The M.H. Merriam and Company is a historic factory building at 7-9 Oakland Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. The single story wood-frame factory building, built in 1882, is located just outside Lexington&#39;s central business district. It is unusual in part because Lexington was at the time a primarily rural town, and is important for its association with Matthew H. Merriam, a businessman, industrialist, banker, and civic leader, whose principal business was leatherwork associated with the manufacture of footwear.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, and has been converted for use as a long-term medical care facility.</p><br>
<p>The 1774 Alexander Rock House in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, is the oldest house in Mecklenburg County and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Originally built by the Alexander Family who finished construction in 1774, the Rock House and its various outbuildings have had many owners over the years with The Charlotte Museum of History being its steward today.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hezekiah Alexander (~1728–1801), bought more than 600 acres on Sugar Creek in 1767 and finished building the Rock House in 1774. Originally from Cecil County, Maryland, he moved to Pennsylvania, then to Delaware, and finally North Carolina. He worked as a blacksmith and a farmer, was a member of the Fifth Provincial Congress which wrote North Carolina&#39;s first constitution and was a trustee of Queens College (which should not be confused with the present-day Queens University of Charlotte.)</p><br>
<p>After Hezekiah&#39;s death, the homesite passed to his wife Mary Sample Alexander (1734-1805). She never remarried and thus the land was divided between her youngest sons, Joel and Oswald, after her death. In addition to the land, Oswald also received the Rock House and outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>In 1826, Oswald married Mary Moore only to die suddenly and without a will before the year&#39;s end. After his death, she filled a petition for and ultimately received the estate including the Rock House in 1828. She married William Lucky the same year and, because of how property law worked at the time, the house then passed from her to Lucky and out of the Alexander Family.</p><br>
<p>William and Mary had three children, Dorcus, William and Catherine, who all received portions of the land when William died without a will in 1845. Mary was also given a portion of the land but was not given the house, which went to Dorcus. Dorcus married and moved to South Carolina in 1852, leaving the property to her uncle, John W. Moore, who sold it to Joseph W. Cadwell in late 1858.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Joseph Cadwell lived in the Rock House for two years until his death at age 28 in 1861. His brother, Samuel Cadwell, inherited the property and moved in with his parents and younger sister. After living there for 22 years, he sold the property to Adam Yandle in March 1883.</p><br>
<p>Yandle bought the house paying mostly upfront and promising the rest in January the following year. Knowing he would not be able to pay by the deadline, he mortgaged his home to Victor Barringer in order to pay Samuel Cadwell. This second loan went equally as well as the first and, in 1888, Barringer took the property and sold it at auction to Joseph Reid in 1890.Joseph Reid and his wife Rachel renovated the house several times including adding a large front porch and replacing the flooring on the ground level. He died in 1913 without any children so the house went to Rachel who died 15 years later in 1928 without ever remarrying, so the house passed to the control of their estate who put it up for sale.</p><br>
<h3>Museum</h3><br>
<p>In 1943, Eugene Cole donated the house to the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church which had plans to use the site as a retirement community. In 1949, the home and some of the surrounding property was leased by members of the Daughters of the American Revolution in order to preserve and restore the historic building. The Hezekiah Alexander Home Foundation was formed in 1969 to better manage the property and to fundraise for further work. After passing through several hands, The Charlotte Museum of History became independent in 1986 and maintains the Rock House to this day.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone house was built in a Georgian style typical of those built by Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and by the Dutch in the Hudson Valley. Germans who moved south to North Carolina brought this style of architecture with them. The Alexander House is one of the few examples of this architecture still in existence.</p><br>
<p>The &#39;Coolidge School is a former historic building at 319 Arlington Street in Watertown, Massachusetts. Managed by Hallkeen Management, It is a large two-story Classical Revival brick building with pressed stone trim on a granite foundation. It was designed in its present configuration by local architects Clarence Hoyt and Curtis Bixby and built in two phases. The first phase, built in 1915, was a U-shape structure that is the western portion of the building. In 1925, the eastern wing was added, giving the building its present E shape. The building replaced a previous four-room wood-frame schoolhouse on School Lane  near Mount Auburn Street. The new building, with ten rooms and a capacity for over 400 students, was used as an elementary school until 1984. It was afterward used for various purposes, including office space and some educational use until it was formally closed in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The building has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The John Proctor House is a historic house at 218 Concord Road in Westford, Massachusetts. It is one of the oldest houses in Westford. Its main block was probably built between 1720 and 1740 by John Proctor II, although deed evidence surrounding the houses construction is scanty. The main house is a two-story timber-frame structure with an asymmetrical facade, somewhat resembling a typical First Period half house , although the chimney was removed in the 19th century. Most of the buildings interior finishes date to the 1820s or 1830s. A two-story bay was added to the house&#39;s west side between 1830 and 1850, and a real ell added c. 1900.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located at 405 E. Main Street in Carbondale, which is known for hosting one of the first Memorial Day celebrations in the United States. The cemetery was established in 1854, two years before the incorporation of Carbondale. Over twenty Civil War soldiers, most of them Carbondale natives, were buried in the cemetery during the war. In April 1866, three Civil War veterans from Carbondale organized an event to honor the dead soldiers and decorate their gravesites; this event was one of the earliest observations of Memorial Day. The event included a speech by General John A. Logan, who in 1868 called for the national observance of Memorial Day as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Butters-Avery House is a historic First Period house located in Wilmington, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story, three bay wide, timber-frame house with an integral rear leanto section. When it was built, c. 1720, it sat on a tract of some 100 acre (originally granted to William Butters c. 1665) which remained intact until subdivided for housing in the 20th century. Analysis of its framing suggests that there was probably once a large chimney in the right-hand bay, although there is also some evidence that the house might have been larger, presumably the five bay width of typical colonial houses.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 2010. It was acquired by the town of Wilmington in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Depot is the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad station serving Murphysboro, Illinois. Built in 1888, the station was the largest on the Mobile and Ohio line between St. Louis, Missouri and Cairo, Illinois. The station was probably designed by Philip N. Frew, a railroad employee who designed several other prominent buildings in Murphysboro. The railroad provided a benefit to Murphysboros economy in several ways. The citys business and entertainment district developed around the station, which brought passengers and workers to the city. The railroad also exported the produce and fruit grown by Murphysboro&#39;s agriculture industry. In addition, the repair shops adjacent to the station employed over 500 workers. The Tri-State Tornado destroyed the shops and roundhouse at Murphysboro, but the depot survived the storm.</p><br>
<p>The depot closed in 1977, by which time the railway had become part of the Illinois Central system. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Mr. Fred L. Mandel Jr. House is a French Eclectic house in Highland Park, Illinois. Designed by David Saul Klafter, the house was built for a Mandel Brothers executive.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Fred L. Mandel Jr. House was built on five lots (and part of a sixth) in the Highland Park Syndicate Subdivision in Highland Park, Illinois. This area was platted on March 29, 1926, when it was owned by the Bard family. Francis N. Bard built a bridge across a ravine in September 1927, allowing development on the other side. Some time in the next eight years, the property was sold to their neighbors, the Buckley family. On July 30, 1937, Fred L. Mandel Jr. purchased these lots from Buckley. He contracted his father-in-law, architect David Saul Klafter, and contractor Joseph T. Carp to design a French Eclectic house for approximately $127,900.</p><br>
<p>Mandel was an executive at the Mandel Brothers Department Store, one of the most successful department stores in Chicago. He was the grandson of Leon Mandel, one of the namesake brothers. He was working at the store at the time, but soon would leave it to manage his investments full-time. He was also an owner of the Detroit Lions. Mandel and his wife Lois divorced on March 29, 1944, and they moved out. The house was purchased by Jules J. Reingold, the owner of the Moraine-on-the-Lake Hotel, in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The property was restored to its original condition in the late 2000s. It was recognized by the National Park Service for its architecture with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Chuckatuck Historic District is a national historic district located at Chuckatuck, Suffolk, Virginia. The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the crossroads community of Chuckatuck in Suffolk. The district includes dwellings in a variety of popular 19th and early-20th century architectural styles including Federal, Queen Anne, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include the Saunders House , Howell House, Cannon House, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church , W. C. Moore House, and the Gwaltney Store. Located in the district is the separately listed Godwin–Knight House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Driver Historic District is a national historic district located at Suffolk, Virginia. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the crossroads community of Driver in Suffolk. The district includes eight residences, two churches, two school structures, a lodge, an outbuilding, and five commercial structures. They are in a variety of popular 19th and early-20th century architectural styles including Federal, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival. Notable buildings include the Parker House , Norfolk and Carolina Railroad depot and station masters house , Brannon House , Arthurs Store , Randy&#39;s Rods, Driver Variety Store, Beech Grove United Methodist Church, Berea Congregational Christian Church , Dejarnette High School , and Harmony Lodge #149 .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
