<p>The Forestville Historic District is a national historic district located at Forestville, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The district encompasses 84 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the 19th century mill village of Forestville. The vernacular buildings represent a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Italianate. The buildings date from the late-18th to mid-20th centuries and primarily include log and wood-frame single dwellings, with domestic and agricultural dependencies, that dominate the district are substantiated by a gristmill, two commercial buildings. Also in the district are a church, a cemetery, a post office, two doctors&#39; offices, and a school.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Paine House is a historic house in Xenia, Illinois, which was the home of author Albert Bigelow Paine. Built in 1858, the house was designed using elements of the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. Paine lived in the house from 1873 to 1888; during this time, he began his writing career, authoring several stories and poems. Several of Paines works were published in Xenias local newspapers, which inspired him to pursue his career. Paine later became known for his close friendship with Mark Twain; Paine edited Twains letters and wrote a multi-volume biography of the author. As of the 1980s, the house was still owned and occupied by the descendants of Paines family.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The John Miley Maphis House is a historic home located near Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1856, and is a frame, two-story, gable-roofed, L-shaped, vernacular Italianate style dwelling. The interior features unusual, boldly scaled, grain painted, late-Greek Revival interior woodwork. Also on the property are the contributing frame bank barn with forebay , a one-story frame wash house with gable roof and forebay , and a shed roofed, frame chicken house with horizontal- and vertical-board siding .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Mount Pleasant is a historic home located near Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1812, and is a -story, five-bay, brick Federal style dwelling. The four-bay, one-story southeastern wing, constructed of dressed-rubble limestone, was probably built about 1790. It was renovated in the 1930s and in 1979. Also on the property are the contributing brick, pyramidal-roofed smokehouse ; a large, frame, bank barn ; a frame wagon shed/corn crib ; a frame tenant house and garage ; an old well, no longer in use, with a circular stone wall and gable-roofed frame superstructure ; a substantial, brick, gable-roofed, one-story garage ; and the original road configuration from about 1790.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Toms Brook School is a historic school building located at Toms Brook, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was built in 1935–1936, and it is a two-story, T-shaped, red brick Colonial Revival-style school building. It features a monumental portico with tall columns that support the pediment.</p><br>
<p>The Virginia State Board of Education provided a $25,000 loan for its construction. The community also applied for $31,050 of Works Progress Administration funds for its construction, but the application was not approved. A cafeteria addition for the school was completed in 1952.</p><br>
<p>Toms Brook School "was one of many built in the county during a major modernization program. Grades 1-12 were originally housed in the school. Students attended primary school in their own communities. They then traveled to town to attend High School, Grades 8-12, if they could afford the tuition."</p><br>
<p>"In 1959 the county built three new consolidated High Schools. At that time all elementary schools in the area were consolidated into the Toms Brook School."</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s, grades 5-7 moved to Woodstock and Strasburg. In 1991, new additions were completed at the county’s elementary schools, and Toms Brook School was closed.</p><br>
<p>Toms Brook School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>It was sold to several private developers but was eventually acquired by People Inc. who converted the property into low-income housing.</p><br>
<p>The Merchants&#39; National Bank Building , Baltimore was a historic bank building at 301 Water Street, at the corner of South Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was a 7-story, Renaissance Revival style building designed by the Baltimore-based architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington, and constructed in 1893-1895. Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore businessman, abolitionist, and philanthropist, had been president of the bank from 1853 until his death in 1873.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and ownership history</h2><br>
<p>When the 7 story Merchants National Bank Building was completed in 1895 the Baltimore sun called it "a splendid building" and a fine addition to the many recent handsome office buildings erected in Baltimore. Optimistically, the Sun article also mentioned that the steel frame encased in brick masonry with granite facing on the outside made the structure "fire-proof throughout".</p><br>
<p>It burnt down 9 years later, a victim of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Almost the entire interior was destroyed, except for the banking rooms on the first floor. The bank then decided to make its headquarters a two-story building, which it remained for almost 80 years.</p><br>
<p>Merchants consolidated with the Mechanics NB of Baltimore in 1912 and consolidated at the Mechanics&#39; location. This property was then surplused and sold to Baltimore insurance company USF&G, which kept it till the 1970s. Baltimore Federal Savings & Loan bought the property in 1977, and in 1982 erected a new 17 story Postmodern style building, spanning the entire block between Water and East Lombard, South and Commerce Streets. The original two story building was preserved as a historic facade. The construction cost was approximately $20 million. The architect was Donald N. Coupard Associates (now DNC Architects), and Whiting-Turner was the general contractor.</p><br>
<p>The 1895 Merchants&#39; National Bank Building facade is a historic district contributing property, within the Baltimore Business and Government Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Glade Spring Commercial Historic District is the downtown core of the Town of Glade Spring, a community of 1,500 residents in northeastern Washington County, Virginia, less than three miles southwest of the Smyth County line. Located on the gently rolling floor of the Valley of Virginia , the town is surrounded by agricultural lands interspersed with clumps of woodland. The rugged southwest end of Walker Mountain is one mile to the northwest and Little Mountain four miles farther; the Iron Mountains define the opposite side of the Valley about seven miles to the southeast. On May 28, 2013, the "Town Square" was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Glade Spring Commercial Historic District includes twenty-four primary resources and two secondary resources. Of the twenty-four primary resources, twenty-one are contributing and three are non-contributing to the eligibility of the historic district. Primary resources include sixteen commercial buildings (only three of which are noncontributing), one warehouse, one bank, one office building, one hotel, one meeting hall, one town hall, one post office, and one multiple dwelling. Secondary resources consist of one walkway and one shed (both contributing).</p><br>
<p>The Shriver House is a historic house located at 117 E. 3rd St. in Flora, Illinois. Built in 1893, the Queen Anne house was designed by architect John W. Gaddis. The house&#39;s exterior design features multiple gables on the front facade, original windows with hinged wooden shutters, and a carved wooden front door with etched glass panels. The interior of the house includes a carved wooden staircase with spindle turned posts and three fireplaces with decoratively tiled hearths and carved wooden mantels. The house was used for student housing at Orchard City College, a defunct institution which was the only college to ever operate in Flora.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Soldiers Home Historic District, a historic Old soldiers home campus, is located in Columbia Falls, Flathead County, Montana.</p><br>
<p>The 147 acre historic district has 9 listed buildings, designed in the Victorian Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>Originally called the Montana State Soldiers Home, and now the Montana Veterans Home, the institution has served veterans since 1896.</p><br>
<p>The mission of the home is, "to honor the service of Montana’s veterans by serving them in turn in their time of need."</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1890s, Montana had 25 Civil War veterans living on county poor farms, out of a total of 2,500 veterans. In 1895, the Montana State legislature responded to lobbying by the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and authorized the establishment of a soldiers&#39; home. Columbia Falls was selected out of a group of eight communities. Its citizens donated $3,100. Additionally, 147 acres of land were donated by the Northern Improvement Co., a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway.</p><br>
<p>Charles S. Haire designed the old main building, which was built by Fred Whiteside, a builder and Montana politician, in 1896.</p><br>
<p>Haire also designed a small hospital in 1900. The hospital became the Commandant&#39;s House in 1980. A new, larger hospital built in 1908 has since been demolished. The 1919 Service Building has a chapel, and housed the employees of the home. A cemetery was established in 1897.</p><br>
<p>A new housing facility for veterans, the Montana Veterans Home, was opened by Montana Governor Forrest H. Anderson at an official dedication ceremony in 1970. It provides housing and subsistence to veterans, and in some cases, to veterans spouses.</p><br>
<p>An E. M. Viquesney statue of a World War I doughboy was moved to the front of the Veterans Home in 1972. The statue originally stood in front of the Flathead County Courthouse in Kalispell, in Main Streets median.</p><br>
<p>The Pearl and Bess Meyer House is a historic house located at 233 E. 2nd St. in Flora, Illinois. The house was built in 1912 for Pearl Meyer, who owned a local dry goods store, and his wife Bess. Frank S. Nichols, the former mayor of Flora and contractor for the citys Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, built the house in the Queen Anne style. The houses main entrance is within a wraparound front porch supported by wooden columns; the oak front doors include beveled glass panels and decorative moldings. The roof of the house features a large gable with half-timbered woodwork; a smaller half-timbered gable is located above the front entrance. The interior decorations of the house include carved oak woodwork throughout, a tiled fireplace in the living room, and stained glass windows in the library.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Clay County Jail is a historic former jail located at 195 Main St. in Louisville, Illinois. Built in 1893, the jail was the third used by the county. The brick jail was designed in the Queen Anne style; its design features gabled dormers at the front of its hip roof and a spindlework front porch. The jail building also included the county sheriff&#39;s residence, a common arrangement which allowed the sheriff to oversee the prisoners at all times. The jail is now used as the Clay County Historical Society Museum.</p><br>
<p>The jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Gila Valley Bank and Trust Building is a former bank building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Globe, Arizona. It was built in 1909 to house the bank, later known as Valley National Bank of Arizona, and it was listed on the Register in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building served as the fourth branch of the Gila Valley Bank and Trust Building, which had been founded in Solomonville in 1900, and it was the first outside of Graham and Greenlee Counties. In 1922, Gila Valley Bank merged with Phoenix-based The Valley Bank and Trust to form what would become known as Valley National Bank of Arizona.</p><br>
<p>Valley National Bank closed the branch in 1952, and the building went through several different tenants, such as a news stand and other merchandise stores. As of 2017, it is in use as an art gallery.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by architects Ottenheimer, Stern & Reichert of Chicago. It features the first known use of glazed terra cotta in Arizona as its exterior sheathing; the terra cotta was produced in Chicago. The presence of terra cotta exemplifies the economic prominence of Globe during the early 20th century as a mining and ranching center. Comparable facades were not in existence in Arizona until the late 1910s.</p><br>
<p>The building is also the only Neoclassical structure in Globe, locally considered to be "outstanding". Among the architectural features of the building are Corinthian pilasters, an elaborate frieze, and several semicircular windows.</p><br>
<p>Restoration work occurred in the 1980s, several years before the building was listed on the National Register. However, some alterations, such as the relocation of the entry to the corner of the building, the removal of decorative brickwork, and the addition of stucco, were preserved. Another alteration, the changing of the original "Gila Valley Bank and Trust Co." inscription at the top to one reading "Valley National Bank", was also left intact.</p><br>
<p>The Valley National Bank branch in Casa Grande, Arizona, is a commercial building in that city&#39;s downtown. It was built in 1950 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1950 for Valley National Bank of Arizona, the state&#39;s most prominent financial institution in the 20th century. It is located on a corner lot facing a major intersection in downtown Casa Grande, centrally located within the original town site.</p><br>
<p>Valley National was one of the first banks in the state to open branches in its smaller communities. In 1934, the bank opened its first branch in town; this location was in use until 1991.</p><br>
<p>The location of the building, at the intersection of Second Street and Florence, is also important to its history. In the 1940s, Casa Grande began to experience prosperity, further accelerating new, automobile-centric development not along Main Street and the railroad. The northern area of town developed such that by 1952, Second Street, not Main Street, represented the main highway through Casa Grande.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is constructed of a steel frame with brick sheathing and is about 5,000 ft2 in size. The building has a T-shaped layout, with an entry canopy that makes the building more rectangular in shape. The exterior also features accents of concrete and cast stone.</p><br>
<p>Important features include the exterior canopy, windows and doors. The canopy is concrete with a brick support column, while the windows are large plate glass with aluminum frames, placed in several groupings.</p><br>
<p>The building is highly horizontal; the canopy&#39;s inclusion as a soffit across the facade and the banks of windows help emphasize this design.</p><br>
<p>In September 1960, the interior received a remodeling, with a replacement of the windows and doors with new, similar ones. A cast stone motif featuring a thunderbird was added to the canopies.</p><br>
<p>Bauserman Farm, also known as Kagey-Bauserman Farm, is a historic farmstead located near Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed, balloon-framed “I-house.” It has an integral rear ell, wide front porch and handsome late-Victorian scroll-sawn wood decoration. Also on the property are the contributing chicken house , a privy , a two-story summer kitchen , a frame granary , a large bank barn , a chicken house , the foundation of the former circular icehouse  and the foundation of a former one-room log cabin .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Stoner–Keller House and Mill, also known as the Abraham Stoner House, John H. Keller House, and Stoner Mill, is a historic home and grist mill located near Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia. The main house was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed, L-shaped, vernacular Greek Revival style brick "I-house." It has a frame, one-story, three-bay, hip-roofed front porch with late-Victorian scroll-sawn wood decoration. The Stoner–Keller Mill was built about 1772 and enlarged about 1855. It is a gambrel-roofed, four-story, limestone building with a Fitz steel wheel added about 1895. Also on the property are the contributing tailrace trace , frame tenant house and bank barn , and a dam ruin .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Stafford Training School, also known as H.H. Poole Junior High School, H.H. Poole High School: Stafford Vocational Annex, Rowser Educational Center, and the Rowser Building, is a historic school building for African American students located at Stafford, Stafford County, Virginia. The original section was built in 1939, and enlarged in 1943, 1954, 1958, and 1960. After the 1954 addition, the facility consisted of: eight standard classrooms, a principals office, a clinic and teachers lounge, library, homemaking department, cafeteria kitchen, combination auditorium-gymnasium, and modern  rest rooms. Total enrollment for the 1955-1956 session was 228 and the value of the school plant was $200,000. The 1954 enlargement cost more than $100,000 and was funded with a State School Construction Funds grant and cash appropriated from the County Board of Supervisors. The 1960 enlargement added the two story cafeteria and home economics department and was built by Stafford school bus drivers.</p><br>
<p>It consists of a one-story, three-bay, rectangular main block, flanked by one-story brick wings in the Colonial Revival style. It is built of cinderblock clad in brick veneer and covered with a standing-seam metal roof. Also on the property are the contributing baseball field (c. 1940) and a diversionary drainage ditch (1939). The school was built by the Public Works Administration and was the only African American high school in Stafford County operating during the Civil Rights Movement. For a number of years, before the 1950 expansions, 11th and 12th grade students were transported to The Walker-Grant High School in Fredericksburg, because the other high school in the county was for whites only. The Stafford County School Board paid tuition and transportation to attend this accredited high school at Fredericksburg.</p><br>
<p>Two students from the school, Doretha and Cynthia Montague, entered Stafford Elementary School, an all-white institution, on September 5, 1961; this was the beginning of the desegregation of school systems in the Fredericksburg area.</p><br>
<p>The former school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. On June 18, 2013, an historical plaque was</p><br>
<p>unveiled providing a brief history of the building. It is displayed inside. Another sign, this one a state historic marker, was erected in front of the building by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Lansdowne, also known as Retreat Farm and Backus House, is a historic home located near Fredericksburg, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The property is very near the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The original section was built about 1755, and enlarged in the early-19th century and in 1950. It is a -story, three-bay, side gable-roofed, double-pile, wood-framed dwelling. It features tall exterior chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing board-and-batten, side-gabled frame bank barn , a cinderblock spring house and cinderblock pumphouse with an early pump , the remnants of a mid-19th century historic formal landscape including terracing, and an historic road trace.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Leland Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by the park, Main Street, Avenue A, and the harbor, in Leland, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The district consists of two contiguous areas: Leland&#39;s downtown and the nearby commercial fishing area colloquially known as Fishtown. The Fishtown area was listed separately on the National Register in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1853, Leland pioneer Antoine Manseau constructed a dam across the Carp River at this location. Manseau built a sawmill and docks, setting up Leland as a wooding station for steamers. By 1867, 200 people had settled in Leland. The area also began to develop a fishing fleet, with commercial increasing in importance from the 1870s through the 1890s. More development followed, and in 1886 the county seat was moved to Leland.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s, fishermen began enclosing their open boats and adding gasoline engines, which increased the scale of fishing operations.</p><br>
<p>Village Cheese shanty in 2023 Beginning in 2019 and intensifying in 2020, many of the historic shanties have become inundated with water on a regular basis due to record high waters in Lake Michigan and increased flow from the Carp river. The owner of the site, Fishtown Preservation, is raising funds to raise, repair, and stabilize the shanties and preserve current and future fishing operations. The first shanty to be moved, on January 10, 2020, was the Village Cheese shanty, with the Morris Shanty scheduled to be raised in the winter of 2020–21.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Leland Historic District, containing both commercial and residential structures, is located at the mouth of the Carp River.</p><br>
<p>The commercial area of the district contain a series of relatively plain commercial buildings, many with Gothic Revival detailing. The most prominent of these is the two-story Harbor House, whose first story is a commercial space and the second had been a meeting hall. It has recessed doorways and six over six windows under Italianate window hoods on the second floor. Also included in the district is the Hendrickson Cottage, the oldest known building in Leland. It is a one and a half story frame cottage.</p><br>
<p>The fishing section of the district, known as Fishtown, is also separately listed on the Register. It consists of structures lining both sides of the Leland River. These include vernacular wood-clad former and current commercial fishery buildings, most of which were constructed by the fishermen before 1930. Additionally, the district includes wood-frame vernacular buildings which are part of the historic Manitou Island ferry service. The district also has docks for Fishtown&#39;s commercial fishing vessels, Joy and Janice Sue, along with charter boats, private recreational vessels, and the Mishe-Mokwa ferry.</p><br>
<p>Baker–St. John House is a historic home located near Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. It was built about 1866, and is a -story, frame dwelling with Italianate and Greek Revival stylistic elements. It sits on a limestone foundation and has a cross-gable roof. It features paired brackets along the cornice line of the house, decorative sawn brackets on the porch supports, and an extended bay window.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Valley is a historic plantation house and archaeological site located near Highgate, Surry County, Virginia. The property includes a plantation house , a frame slave quarter , a frame kitchen , seven contributing 19th- and 20th-century agricultural and domestic outbuildings and structures, and an archaeological site. The house is a -story, four-bay, double-pile, side-gabled frame house on a brick foundation. It measures 40 feet, 4 inches, by 30 feet, 5 inches and features Federal style decorative elements. The one-story, two-bay frame slave quarter measures 14 feet by 16 feet, and is clad in weatherboard. The contributing outbuildings include a late-19th century storehouse and a granary, well house, silo, and three chicken houses. The property was conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation on January 14, 2004. It is now contained within Chippokes Plantation State Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Walnut Valley Plantation was established in 1636 when William Newsum, Jr. was granted 550 acres of land in Surry County, Virginia. Newsum was an English colonist who had paid for eleven other colonists to travel to Virginia, a practice which carried the promise of land from the English Crown. For each person whose passage was paid, the colonist who paid for it would receive 50 acres of land. Out of the eleven people Newsum brought to Virginia, he is known to have married three (possibly four) of them. These women were Penelope Ramsey, Sarah Fisher, Elizabeth Wilson, and Gertrude. Gertrude was Newsum&#39;s final wife, outliving him.</p><br>
<p>Newsum may have left Walnut Valley to William Batte, a non-relative, in order to pay off debts. Batte sold the plantation to Ralph Jones in 1657.</p><br>
<p>An unrelated Jones, James Jones, had come to own Walnut Valley by 1704. The house was built by James&#39; son or grandson, both named Richard Jones, around 1770. In 1806, Richard Jones, Jr. died without heir, and instead left the plantation to his unrelated overseer, William Jones. William, by a strange coincidence, was a distant relative of William Batte, and would own Walnut Valley for the next three decades.</p><br>
<p>The 1810 census recorded fourteen enslaved individuals at Walnut Valley Plantation. The remaining slave quarter and detached kitchen were added by William Jones in 1816, during a period of growth for the farm. Jones operation included oxen, mules, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys. The surrounding fields were planted in cotton, corn, and peas, and cordwood provided late-season income. Like many plantations in Surry County, Walnut Valley also produced peach and apple brandy, and featured orchards, a cider press, apple mill, and distillery. Under Jones management, Walnut Valley exploded in productivity, due in large part to the enslaved labor force he maintained. By Jones&#39; death in 1833, thirty enslaved workers toiled on his plantation.</p><br>
<p>Jones son, Bolling Green Jones, inherited the plantation, as well as guardianship of his two younger siblings, William C. and Minerva. Their mother, Ann, had passed away sometime in the decade previous. Bolling Jones continued his fathers agricultural practices, notably amending the soil with lime in the form of marl from nearby fossil deposits. This improved crop yield by 25-100%, making Bolling Jones a wealthy man. He added seven more enslaved laborers to his workforce, valued at over $20,000 (~$ in ) when Bolling died in 1855.</p><br>
<p>Bolling Jones widow, Henrietta Edwards Jones, was left in control of Walnut Valley, with the provision that after her death the property would be conveyed to Bollings two younger siblings. Minerva and William, however, felt that if they waited out the rest of their sister-in-laws natural life, their inheritance would depreciate. For this reason, the two petitioned the court of Surry County to allow them to take ownership of Henriettas property, and in 1858 they were successful. Minerva and her husband, Blair Pegram, bought out William&#39;s share, and the Pegrams took up residence at Walnut Valley. Nothing is known of what became of Henrietta Jones.</p><br>
<p>The Pegrams experienced the Civil War while living at Walnut Valley. Despite this, archaeological evidence found during renovations in 2017 indicates that they were still able to purchase new dishes and furniture during the war years. After the war, the Pegrams&#39; wealth, largely tied up in human chattel, drastically decreased. The fact that Blair Pegram had paid for his share of the house using Confederate currency caused legal issues well into the 1880s. Sometime between 1865 and 1870, the east chimney caught fire and fell away from the house. The Pegrams extended the house five feet and replaced the original chimney with a haphazardly-constructed, small, square chimney intended for use with a coal stove. By 1904, maintaining Walnut Valley had become too much of a financial strain, and Minerva Pegram leased the property to a tenant farmer named George Washington Mitchell.</p><br>
<p>Mitchell, his wife Francis, and their descendants continued to occupy Walnut Valley through many changes in ownership. In 1916, Minerva Pegram died, leaving the property to her daughters, May Jones and Carrie Warren. By 1920, both women had passed away, leaving ownership of Walnut Valley to Carries son, Walker Pegram Warren. Warren and his wife, Violet, also owned neighboring Bacons Castle and resided in Smithfield, Virginia. During their ownership, Walnut Valleys main products were peanuts and hogs. Three generations of the Mitchell family farmed and lived at Walnut Valley during the Warrens half-century of ownership. When the Warrens died with no heirs in a car accident in 1972, Walnut Valley was sold at auction.</p><br>
<p>W.W. Reasor of the Reasor Corporation, a Virginia Beach development company, bought the plantation. Despite rumored plans to construct houses on the parcel, Reasor continued to lease the land to the Mitchells until his death in 1999. His widow, Lucy Reasor, donated Walnut Valley Plantation to the State of Virginia in 2004, when it joined Chippokes Plantation State Park, with which it had shared a border. Descendants of the Mitchell family continued to farm the land until 2016.</p><br>
<p>Today, Walnut Valley Plantation and its two 1816 outbuildings (the slave quarter and the detached kitchen) have been carefully restored. The Walnut Valley House is now overnight accommodations available for rental through the park. It is fully accessible for persons with disabilities, as are the restored outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>C.P. Jones House and Law Office, also known as the Jones-McCoy House, Almond-Strickler House, and James Bell House, is a historic home and law office located at Monterey, Highland County, Virginia. The original section of the house dates to about 1850. Originally the house was a two-story, five-bay, side-gabled, four-room log building on a stone foundation. Several rooms and porches were added between the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and has a Folk Victorian style. The law office was built about 1873, and is a one-story, front-gable, frame building. Also on the property are the contributing two-story, side-gabled garage/smoke house/woodshed, a one-story, front-gabled apple shed/cellar, a one-story brick spring house ruin. It was the home of American soldier and politician Charles Pinckney Jones .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Chesterfield Highlands Historic District is a national historic district located at Colonial Heights, Virginia. The district encompasses 305 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure. The district was developed in the early decades of the 20th century as a carefully planned middle-class neighborhood in a gridiron plan. The primarily residential district includes dwellings in a variety of popular late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles. Located in the district are the Highland Methodist Episcopal Church , Immanuel Baptist Church , and Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Springdale is a historic plantation house located near Mathews, Mathews County, Virginia. The original section of the house may date to about 1750. Originally the house was a frame Georgian style two-story, side-passage gambrel roof dwelling with a brick cellar. A one-story shed addition was added in the late-18th or early-19th century. This section of the house was renovated between about 1774 and 1824. The house was expanded by 1840, with a -story, Federal style south wing and -story hyphen connecting the two wings. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse  and archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Gretna Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Gretna, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings in the central business district of Gretna. The district primarily developed in the early-to-mid-20th century, with buildings dated between about 1881 and 1963. Notable buildings include the Thomas C. and Robert H. Creasy storehouse , Masonic hall , Bank of Elba , Dalton building , W.D. Love and Co. grocery store , Amoco Service Station , former Gretna Fire Station and Town Hall, and Berger Motor Co. .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Chapel Hill is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built about 1842, and is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a lower two-story rear wing with a brick first story and weatherboard-sided second story add about 1910. It features a molded cyma recta brick cornices below a metal sheathed side-gable roof. It has highly unusual vernacular mantels and a stone chimney from a former outbuilding.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Dulwich Manor, also known as Dulwich Farm, Dulwich House, and Amherst Academy, is a historic home located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in 1909, and is a -story, five-bay, Classical Revival style brick dwelling. The façade is dominated by a large, two-story portico capped by a pediment formed by a cross gable roof with a small tripartite Palladian window in the tympanum. The house is covered by a steeply-pitched hipped roof of slate shingles. Also on the property is a contributing shed and gateposts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Clifford–New Glasgow Historic District is a national historic district located at Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. The district encompasses 43 contributing buildings, 6 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the village of Clifford. The district includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings built between about 1772 and 1961. Notable buildings include the St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church , the Saddlery , and the Clifford Ruritan Building . Located in the district and separately listed are Brick House and Winton.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was built between about 1855 an 1895, and is a one-story, rectangular brick Late Gothic Revival style church building on a full basement. The building features a square tower centered on the primary façade, pointed arch windows with stained- and milk-glass panes, a primary entry with double leaf doors topped by a pointed arch transom and, on the interior, original wood pews and beaded board wainscoting. The church was the site of a number of meetings related to the desegregation of Prince Edward County schools during the 1950s and 1960s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It is located in the Farmville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Burton House is a historic plantation-style house in Newberry, South Carolina, United States. Constructed shortly before the Civil War, it features a range of architectural details in classical architectural style. Although it changed owners in its early years, it was owned by members of the namesake Burton family for approximately a century, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Although located in the city of Newberry, the house is built in the style of plantation houses in the countryside: it features Neoclassical components, although in a diminished and vernacular mode. The house is a two-story rectangle with a central portico dominating the facade. Square wooden pillars support each story of the portico, while pilasters in a similar style are placed at the portico&#39;s junctions with the main body of the house. As a second-story door provides access to the second story of the portico, the space between pillars and pilasters is filled with an unadorned balustrade. Multi-pane transom lights are placed above both the main entrance and the second-story door to the portico, in addition to sidelights around the main entrance. Topping the house is a gabled roof, which culminates in a pediment atop the portico.</p><br>
<p>Although the precise date of construction for the Burton House is unknown, it was constructed circa 1857. From 1856 until 1858, the property was owned by one of Newberrys first men, William Walter Houseal, a merchant who was elected to hold local office. Thirty years after Houseal sold the property, it was bought by James A. Burton, who was active in the sale of insurance; a 1921 city directory records him as selling both real estate and fire insurance from an office on Caldwell Street, while still living in the house on Glenn Street. Burtons descendants owned the property into the 1980s, although it has since passed out of the family.</p><br>
<p>In November 1980, the Burton House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture; it was part of a group of Newberry locations added to the Register together as part of a multiple property submission. It is one of twenty-four individual properties and historic districts listed on the National Register in the city of Newberry and the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>The Centralia Elks Lodge was a historic building located at 328 E. Broadway in Centralia, Illinois. The Classical Revival building was constructed between 1929 and 1931 for Centralia Lodge 493, the city&#39;s chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The entrance to the building was flanked by Ionic columns. The second-story windows on the front facade were topped with limestone pediments and segmented arches; the windowsills feature decorative brackets. Limestone cornices top both stories of the building, and a cartouche bordered by scrolls sat on the roofline above the central front window.</p><br>
<p>In 1938-39, the Elks sold the building to a group of local businessmen. The businessmen then leased the building to the Shell Oil Company, and the building became known as the Petroleum Building; around this time, a bowling alley opened in the basement. In 1946, the Centralia chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars purchased the building and used the second floor as a meeting hall. A fire in 1951 caused the bowling alley to close; however, the VFW continued to use the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 2011, and was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<p>Bloomfield, also known as Holly Knoll, is a historic home located near Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built about 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, red brick I-house with a two-story service wing. The front facade has small one-story front portico with a flat roof is supported by four plain square posts. The house has Federal / Greek Revival-style details.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Cleridge, also known as Sunnyside Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located near Stephenson, in Frederick County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1790, and is a -story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a -story, four-bay, brick addition added in 1882–1883. Also on the property are the contributing brick well structure, the frame icehouse/blacksmith shop, a frame carriage house, the brick-entry, a</p><br>
<p>frame poultry house, and a farm manager&#39;s house (c. 1815). The cultivated and forested land is considered a contributing agricultural site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Christiansburg Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 32 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Christiansburg. The district includes a variety of one-, two-, or three-story commercial or office buildings built primarily from the 1915-1950 period. The courthouse square is the cultural and historic center of the district. Notable buildings include the Taylor Office Building , Bank of Christiansburg , Dr. George Anderson House , Zirkle Building , Cromer Furniture Building , Presbyterian Manse , Barnes-Surface Motor Co. , Virginia Inn Hotel , and Leggett&#39;s Department Store . The contributing objects are the Confederate Memorial  and War Memorial . Located in the district and separately listed are Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, USA Post Office, and Phlegar Building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Morgan–Copp–Mervau Building, also known as the Corner Store, is a commercial building located at 101 North Mill Street in Northport, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Morgan–Copp–Mervau Building was built in three sections. The first, a single-story building fronting on Nagonaba, was constructed in 1880 as a grocery and dry goods store. The store was owned by Northport native N. C. Morgan and his wife Abbie Voice. An attached two-story section was built on the rear in 1881-83; this served as the Morgans home. The Morgans moved to Sault Ste Marie in 1887. The two-story section was extended to front onto Mill Street some time before 1905; this section was used for quite some time as Mervaus drugstore. A third section, built diagonally to front onto the Nagonaba/Mill intersection, was built in 1927/28.</p><br>
<p>In 1996/97, the building was rehabilitated and restored to its original appearance.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Morgan–Copp–Mervau Building consists of three sections: a single-story false-front clapboard-clad section fronting on Nagonaba, a two-story false-front clapboard-clad section fronting on Mill, and a single-story cedar stickwork addition fronting onto the Nagonaba/Mill intersection. The first two sections form an ell, with the third section oriented diagonally to the first two.</p><br>
<p>The White Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located northeast of Hickman in Fulton County in the southwestern corner of the USA state of Kentucky. Discovered in the 1980s, it was occupied during a long period of time by peoples of multiple cultures, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The White Site lies at the edge of the floodplain along the Mississippi River, north of a small river known as Bayou de Chien. Most of the soil is loam, although careless clearing of hardwood forests in the nineteenth century resulted in extensive erosion. A small stream, tributary to Bayou de Chien, flows immediately to the north and west, while the remains of a dirt road transverse the site from northeast to southwest. The site occupies a terrace with an elevation of 100 -; its overall size is approximately 400 m from east to west and 200 m from north to south.</p><br>
<h2>Investigations</h2><br>
<p>The site remained unknown to archaeologists until the 1980s; an archaeological survey of Kentucky&#39;s Mississippi River counties, published in 1981, contained the first record of the site. This project, consisting solely of surface collections, suggested that White was inhabited during the Woodland period, but test excavations in early 1986 discovered artifacts of other cultures as well. Initial stages of excavations were concentrated on a single house, the foundations of which included trenches dug for the walls and the roof supports; it was demonstrated to have been destroyed by fire, and radiocarbon dating of its postholes produced dates ranging from AD 1277 to 1427. Because the initial excavation was interested primarily in identifying the ceramic culture of the inhabitants, most work concentrated on the recovery of potsherds.</p><br>
<p>Comprising the house foundation and other nearby areas, the site yielded 154 sherds, plus a pottery trowel, quantities of daub, dozens of lithic flakes, four lithic cores, and larger stone tools such as pieces of hoes, two bifaces, and two projectile points. Pottery styles varied; Mississippian and Woodland pottery styles were approximately equal in number, with plain shell-tempered pottery representing nearly 40% of the total, in addition to a small number of sherds demonstrating Wickliffe influences. Pieces of 295 bones, all burned, were also discovered; most were mammalian, although fish bones and turtle shells were present in small numbers. By far the most common plant remains were bits of charcoal, although nutshells (primarily hickory) were also discovered, along with a small number of corn cupules. As a whole, the botanical items were similar to those of the nearby Adams site.</p><br>
<h2>Conclusions</h2><br>
<p>The team conducting the test excavation deemed its most significant accomplishment to be the excavation of the house, although their demonstration of the sites size was also important: isolated farmsteads and tiny hamlets from the Mississippian period had been found within 3 km of the Adams site, but the White Site was the first village found within that distance. Ceremonial and religious activities discovered near other major Mississippian settlements were generally centered on major mound sites, such as Adams, and the lack of mounds at White and its proximity to Adams led the archaeological team to conclude that Whites inhabitants looked to Adams for ceremonial purposes. Although the presence of Woodland-period artifacts at White was clearly confirmed, with influence from peoples such as the Baytown culture and Jonathan Creek, few solid conclusions could be drawn from the initial excavation.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In early 1988, the White Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance. It is one of five National Register-listed archaeological sites in Fulton County, along with the Adams, Running Slough, and Sassafras Ridge Sites, and the Amburg Mounds; all are Mississippian, except for the Woodland-era Amburg Mounds.</p><br>
<p>The Centralia Commercial Historic District is a historic commercial district comprising several blocks of Broadway in downtown Centralia, Illinois. The district includes 57 contributing buildings as well as a historic water tower and sign. Centralias business district developed around the Illinois Central Railroad tracks, as the town was established by and named for the railroad. The earliest buildings in the district date from the 1850s, as the city was platted in 1853. Centralias first commercial buildings were mainly designed in the Italianate style, which was predominant until the end of the 19th century; the Romanesque Revival style also gained popularity in the 1880s. Around the turn of the century, the Commercial style became the most popular style in the district. The Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival styles can also be seen in buildings from this era, and by the 1930s Art Deco and Modernist architecture became popular.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 2012. Two buildings within the district, the Egyptian Revival Sentinel Building and the Classical Revival Elks Lodge, are individually listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The East Leverett Historic District of Leverett, Massachusetts, encompasses the historic mill village of East Leverett. Centered on the intersection of Cushman Road and Shutesbury Road in the southeastern portion of the rural town, it includes predominantly residential buildings that were built during the height of the area&#39;s industrial activity in the first four decades of the 19th century. The architecture is mainly Federal and Greek Revival in style. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Leverett was separated from neighboring Sunderland in 1774. The area that is now East Leverett was acquired by Sunderland in 1729 as a "Two-Mile Addition" to increase the area of its arable land. The village of East Leverett is located in the southeastern part of Leverett, at a point that has had a bridge across Roaring Brook since at least 1794. Cushman Road approaches the bridge from the southwest, joining Still Corner Road, which arrives from the south. Cemetery Road runs eastward south of Cushman Street, eventually intersecting Still Corner Road. On the north side of the bridge, Shutesbury Road runs north and east. Portions of these roads formed a part of a major east-west road joining Sunderland to points in Worcester County to the east. The area upstream from the bridge was a site of small-scale industrial development from late 18th century to the mid-19th century, and contributed to its growth as a center.</p><br>
<p>The areas development began in a substantive way after 1794, when land sales and house construction began to occur on a noticeable scale. The earliest surviving buildings in the district date to this period, with one of the oldest being the Federal style house at 21 Still Corner Rd, built c. 1806 by the Nutting brothers, who also owned some of the mill properties. The house at 173 Shutesbury Road, built c. 1800, may have served in part as a mill structure, as it stands on a property sloping down to Roaring Brook. Development continued through the first half of the 19th century, when a number of Greek Revival houses were built, as was the East Leverett School, built c. 1835 to meet the growing populations needs.</p><br>
<p>In the second half of the 19th century, the inefficiency of the smaller mill operations in the village led to an economic decline. The mill buildings themselves have long been lost, but foundational remnants survive, including mill raceways and other stonework. Because of the economic decline, the population also shrank, and there was relatively little new construction. There is only one surviving house that was built between 1870 and 1910; it is also the district&#39;s largest, a Queen Anne Victorian at 167 Shutesbury Road.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Thayer House is a historic house at 200 Farm Street in Blackstone, Massachusetts. Built around 1790, it is the best-preserved property associated with the Thayer family, who were prominent landowners and one of the first Pilgrim families. Benjamin Thayer and his descendants lived and farmed here until about 1920, when the property, much reduced in size, was sold out of the family. The house and its surrounding 9 acre of surviving farmland was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thayer House is located in a rural area of northeastern Blackstone, on the southwest side of Farm Street, historically one of the main roads joining Woonsocket, Rhode Island and Mendon, Massachusetts (of which Blackstone was a part until the 19th century). The house is set back from the road, the street lined by a low retaining wall, with period stepping stones leading to the front entrance. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, large off-center chimney, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. The main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance, flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window and entablature. A single-story gable-roofed wing extends to one side. The interior of the house has a typical Georgian center-chimney layout, with a vestibule area housing a winding staircase to the second floor, parlor chambers to its left and right, and a long kitchen in the rear with small rooms at either end. The interior retains a significant number of original fixtures and finishes, including doors and door hardware, wainscoting, and plaster.</p><br>
<p>The first Thayer to settle in Mendon&#39;s South Parish, which later became Blackstone, was Ferdinando Thayer, who probably arrived in the area in the 1670s. This house was built about 1790 by Benjamin Thayer, who purchased the land it stands on in that year. His farm of more than 100 acre was divided by his widow among his heirs, the property including the house going to their son-in-law, Alanson Adams. Adamses and Thayers owned the property throughout the 19th century, and it was finally sold out of the family in 1920, portions of the farmland having been progressively removed from the holding. Only two other families held the property during the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Safety Fund National Bank is a historic bank building at 470 Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Completed in 1895, it is a prominent work of local architect H.M. Francis, and one of its only buildings to continuously house a bank since its construction. The building, now home to a TD Bank branch, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Safety Fund National Bank is located in downtown Fitchburg, on the south side of Main Street between Oliver and Prichard Streets. It is a five-story structure, with a steel frame originally clad in yellow brick with brownstone trim. Its bottom two floors have been refinished with granite facing and limestone trime, with a glass-covered projecting marquee at the main entrance. The upper levels retain Renaissance Revival styling, including rounded arches above the fourth-floor window bays. Original interior features include a bank vault in the bank offices on the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was one of many Fitchburg commercial buildings designed by architect Henry M. Francis and was completed in 1895. It is the only one of three Francis-designed bank buildings to survive in the city. It underwent major remodelings in 1934 and 1963. The Safety Fund National Bank (which through mergers and acquisitions became part of BankBoston) was established in 1874, and this was its first permanent home. In 2000, it became part of TD Bank, which continues to operate a bank branch in the building. The upper levels have been converted into residential space.</p><br>
<p>The Manning-Ball House is a historic house at 370 Manning Street in Jefferson, a village of Holden, Massachusetts. It is estimated to have been built c. 1790, and is a well-preserved vernacular four-bay Cape style house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is set on the west side of Manning Street, in the northeastern part of the rural town of Holden. The main house is a -story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and stone foundation. Modern additions extend the house to the right and rear. The main entrance, in the bay second from left, is flanked by sidelight windows, with otherwise simple framing topped by a cornice. The interior of the main block has retained much original detail, including its fireplaces, wide wainscoting, and wide pine flooring in the kitchen. The floor plan is a central hall plan modified because the house is not a typical five bays wide, with a larger parlor and a smaller hall space on either side of the chimney, and the kitchen behind. Modern facilities have been built into the ells.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1790 by Captain Israel Manning, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Mannings son sold a portion of his fathers original tract, with this house, to Josiah Ball, who had married his sister. The house remained in the hands of Ball descendants until 1947. At some point in the 20th century it was converted into a two-family, but has since been restored to single-family use. The house is unusual in Holden as a four-bay Cape, and is well-preserved for its age.</p><br>
<p>Robinson House, also known as The Grove, Main Building, and Fleming Hall, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the present-day campus of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and on property that also bears the designation of the R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park. It is a three-story, 7,900 square foot, brick Italianate style building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally built in the late 1820s by Richmond banker Anthony Robinson Jr. (1792-1861) as a modest one-story summer home, it was expanded in the late 1850s to a two-story mansion for year-round residency by the Robinson family. In late 1884 it was sold along with 36 acres by Robinsons son, Channing, to the newly formed R. E. Lee, Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans organization to create a home for indigent and disabled veterans. The R. E. Lee Confederate Soldiers’ Home, funded primarily by the Commonwealth of Virginia after 1892, grew to a large complex of over 30 buildings, including residential cottages and a hospital. Robinson House—then called Fleming Hall for the architect/donor who contributed the third floor and pyramidal belvedere in 1886—served as the homes administration building, library, and war museum. When the Soldiers’ Home closed in 1941, the Commonwealth of Virginia transferred the care of the building to the state Department of General Services, and, in 1993, to VMFA which still owns and maintains it today. After extensive renovations the refurbished house now features a Richmond regional tourism center and a history exhibition, open to the public daily, admission free.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Virginia Landmarks Register in 2013.</p><br>
<p>George Washington Building, also known as the Virginia State Office Building, is a historic state office building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1922–1923, and is a 12-story, steel frame, V-shaped Beaux-Arts style building. The building has a one-story basement, two-story limestone base, nine-story brick shaft, and attic story with a deep cornice that features elaborate terra cotta ornament.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh College is a historic school building located at 13043 Walnut Street in Shiloh Hill, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>Preparations for Shiloh Colleges founding began in 1836. In 1839, area residents purchased 80 acres for the school and the Illinois legislature officially incorporated the college. Shiloh Colleges students included John A. Logan, the future Civil War general, Congressman, candidate for Vice President, and founder of Memorial Day.</p><br>
<p>By 1896, the college was financially strapped, ceased operations, and leased the building to the Shiloh Hill school district. The building served as a public school until 1954, when the school was consolidated into Trico School District.</p><br>
<p>The only surviving building from Shiloh College is a Greek Revival building constructed in 1881. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2005. It is one of two one-room schoolhouses remaining in the Shiloh Hill area.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the Randolph County Historical Society took ownership of the College building. In 2004, the Shiloh College Foundation was founded to support restoration of the college building.</p><br>
<p>The Red Bud Historic District is a commercial and residential historic district which includes the originally developed portions of Red Bud, Illinois, United States. The district is centered on Main and Market Streets, the primary roads through the city. One hundred and ninety-five buildings and structures, including 138 contributing buildings, are included in the district. The oldest building in the district, the Greek Revival Durfee and Crozier Store, dates from 1855, seven years after Red Bud was platted. The community rapidly developed between the 1850s and 1880s, and architectural styles from these decades are prominently represented in the district. The Federal and Italianate styles are the two most prevalent in the district, the latter being an especially popular commercial design. Gothic Revival churches, Second Empire buildings, and a number of German-style cottages can also be found in the district. Development and population growth in Red Bud remained stable in Red Bud from the 1890s through most of the 20th century, and the historically developed core makes up most of the modern city.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Sparta Historic District is a residential historic district in Sparta, Illinois. The district consists of fourteen homes in a neighborhood of southern Sparta known as Bricktown. As indicated by the neighborhoods name, all but one of the houses are brick buildings; the remaining house is a wooden Victorian home with a decorative brick chimney. The houses were constructed between 1860 and 1879 and exhibit a variety of architectural styles, including Federal, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Victorian. Developer William Rosborough, who lived in the house at 303 West Third Street, planned the district to be an exclusive neighborhood. Rosboroughs plans for the district made extensive use of the bricks produced by Spartas brickmaking industry; in addition to the houses, the neighborhoods streets and sidewalks were originally paved with brick.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Dominion Hills Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 446 contributing buildings in a residential neighborhood in western Arlington. It was platted in 1942 and developed between 1945 and 1948. It was designed to attract working and middle-income residents and is composed exclusively of two-story Colonial Revival style dwellings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine, both who both would grow up to become acclaimed actors, lived with their family at 930 North Liberty Street in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Charles M. Goodman House is a historic home located at Alexandria, Virginia. It consists of a two-story 1870s Victorian-era farmhouse with an unusual International Style addition designed by architect Charles M. Goodman in 1954. Also on the property are the contributing stone-lined well , a wooden fence , and discontinuous low stone walls .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Treasures of Madison County is a museum in Madison, Madison County, Florida. The museum is located in the historic W. T. Davis Building at 200 Southwest Range Avenue. The building has a metal front, one of just three remaining in the state of Florida according to the Treasures of Madison County website.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Pattington is a complex of 72 apartments in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>At the date of construction in 1902, the building was the largest apartment complex in Chicago. The building is built with bay windows in a courtyard style.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by architect David E. Postle and was added to the National Register of Historic Places March 8, 1980. The Pattington annex was designed by Andrew Sandegren.</p><br>
<p>The Old Athol High School building is an historic school building at 494 School Street in Athol, Massachusetts. It is now a senior living center. The H-shaped two story brick Art Deco building was constructed in several stages between 1915 and 1937. The building originated with a central portion that was built in 1892, to which two sides of the H were added in 1915. In 1937 the original 1892 central portion was demolished and replaced by the present central section. The building served as the town&#39;s high school until 1957 when it was used for junior high and middle grades in the Athol-Royalston Regional School District. It served that purpose until 2003. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Athol High School is located on a plateau above a bend in the Millers River, about 0.5 mi east of the downtown center of Athol. It is located on the north side of School Street, from which it is separated by a low stone retaining wall dating to the 19th century. Its H shape is oriented with one opening of the H to the south, and the other to the north. The right leg of the H has a widened northern end. Each of the wings is fronted by two bands of three sash windows on each level, which share stone sills and lintels and are divided within each group by panels of dark brick. The central pavilion has groups of four windows on either side of the main entrance, similarly styled except that the dividing panels are considerably narrower. The main entrance projects slightly, framed by a surround with Art Deco stylistic elements.</p><br>
<p>The towns first high school was built on this site in 1856. A new school was built here in 1892, as part of a program for greatly expanding the towns schools in response to rapid population growth. Continued growth prompted the addition of the two wings in 1915, which were designed by George Funk and William Wilcox. The central pavilion was built in 1937 with funding support from the federal Public Works Administration, a Depression-era jobs program. This section was designed by J. Williams Beal, Sons, a firm working out of Boston with credit for a number of school designs in the state. The Art Deco style of this element, popular at that time, is extremely rare in Athol. In 1957, a new high school was built after the town joined with Royalston to form a combined school district, and this building was used as a junior high school. It was closed in 2003, and adapted for residential use as a senior living center in 2012.</p><br>
