<p>The Faunce–McMichael Farm, also known as the James Cosset McMichael Farm or the William H. and Shirley A. Billings Farm, is a farm located at 11126 M68 in Burt Lake, Michigan. It is one of the oldest barns in the township, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1875, pioneer Ezra Faunce homesteaded this property, and built what was likely a log cabin to live in. Faunce was one of the first European settlers in the area, and served in multiple offices in the township and school district, including as the first township supervisor in 1877. In 1881, he constructed the barn located on this property, with help from others in the community, including the newly arrived James McMichael.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, James McMichael purchased the farm from the Faunce family. He and his wife Mary farmed the property, but in 1896 James fell ill and never really recovered. In 1900, they built a new farmhouse to replace the earlier house constructed by Faunce. The next year, they moved to Texas, hoping to improve James&#39;s health, but returned in 1903. James McMichael died in 1909. Mary McMichael began working for a local telephone company, and in 1917 returned to teaching school. She remarried in 1922. The house and farm passed to her daughter Dora Ione and her husband, and later to their daughter.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Faunce–McMichael Farm is a complex of buildings located on about seventeen acres. The buildings include the 1881 barn, the 1900 farmhouse, a chicken house, and a former pumphouse / shop building. The house is a two-story wooden frame structure with a two-story, side-gable front section and a -story rear ell. The barn is a New England barn, commonly used on smaller farms throughout Michigan in the nineteenth century. The barn is virtually unaltered from its original appearance.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The W. A. Strain Farm–Strain House is a farmstead located in Lancaster, Texas, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the W. A. Strain House in 1978. A boundary increase in 2001 expanded the area covered from 2 acres to 163 acres and the property listing name was changed to W. A. Strain Farm–Strain House.</p><br>
<p>The Strain House is an example of late Victorian architecture. It was designed by J. E. Flanders & Moad of Dallas. This firm also designed the Trinity Methodist Church in Dallas, and the Shackelford County Courthouse, which is part of an historic district in Albany, Texas. Joe Lyon built the house in 1896. The -story frame structure includes a gabled wood-shingle roof, and the brick foundation has an asymmetrical plan.</p><br>
<p>The Strain Farm is believed to be the oldest working farm in Dallas County and is one of a small number of farms owned and operated for more than 100 years by a single family. The heirs of W. A. Strain have continued to live in the old family home, maintaining it with very few alterations and much of the original furnishings still intact.</p><br>
<p>The Newton–Allaire House is a private house located at 337 Dresser Street in Cheboygan, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archibald and Carl Newton (descendants of Sir Isaac Newton) purchased the island of Saint Helena, near the Straits of Mackinac, in 1853. The brothers (married to sisters of Chippewa descent) developed the island into a fuel and supply stop for passenger and cargo ships traveling through the straits. The venture proved successful, and they used the profits to establish commercial interests in Cheboygan. In 1870, Archibald Newton was elected village president.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, Archibald Newton (a widower) constructed this house as a wedding present for his second wife, Cornelia Allaire. Archibald Newton died in 1892, and Cornelia in 1916. Cornelia willed the house to her brother, Joseph Allaire Jr., who moved in that year. The house remained in the Allaire family for 127 years. In 2013, the home reverted into the Newton side of the family when the home was purchased by the great-great-grandson of A.P. Newton.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story red brick Italianate structure with a hip roof. The symmetrical facade is three bays wide, and includes rounded arch windows with brick lintels and keystones above. Carved bracketry supports the wide eaves. At the peak of the roof sits a cupola (or belvedere) with its own rounded arch windows and hip roof supported at the eavesline with bracketry. A wide porch wraps around the first floor of the house. A projecting side-wall houses a bay window and entryway. A modern gable-roof garage is connected to the rear of the house. Multiple ghost sightings have been reported at the home by the Allaire family and residents of Cheboygan. Several incidents involve flickering lights, rooms that become ice cold, and objects that mysteriously move on their own.</p><br>
<p>Davis House  is a historic plantation house located near Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built about 1843, and is a two-story, frame vernacular Greek Revival style dwelling. It has weatherboard sheathing, a gable roof, and one-story, gabled-roofed ells at either side. The façade features a central, two-tiered portico with four pillars on each level. The house was built by Bertrand Davis, a locally known planter and militia officer.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Manning Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Manning, county seat for Clarendon County. Manning&#39;s downtown is dominated by its 1909 Neo-Classical, red brick courthouse set at the center of a landscaped courthouse square. The commercial district is characterized by one- and two-part commercial block buildings, many of them brick, that were constructed during the late-19th and early-20th century. The buildings are characterized by oblique and angled entrances, intriguing decorative cornices and corbeling, and a preponderance of parapeted rooflines give the Manning Commercial Historic District a clear and unmistakable association with the architecture typical of the early-20th century. In addition to the courthouse, other notable buildings include the USA Post Office and Federal Building, Coffey-Rigby Livery Stable, Clarendon Furniture Store, Leonard Building, Manning Hotel, Brailsford Grocery / Schwartz Building, Cut Rate Drug Store, and Pure Oil Service Station.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Summerton High School, also known as Summerton Middle School, is a historic school building located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story hip roofed, rectangular brick building. It has a central pavilion featuring a pedimented gable, supported by four cast stone plasters. Summerton High School is the only school still standing of the five schools in Clarendon County School District #22 that were associated with Briggs v. Elliott, the South Carolina case which was one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education. As of 2022 the building is used as administrative offices for Clarendon County School District #1.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Senn&#39;s Grist Mill-Blacksmith Shop-Orange Crush Bottling Plant is a complex of historic commercial buildings located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. The complex consists of three interconnected early-20th century buildings of similar size and construction. The grist mill was built about 1905, is an example of small independent grist mills that were commonplace in rural communities across the South. The blacksmith shop and bottling plant, built about 1921, are typical of early-20th century light industrial buildings. The complex supplied the local agricultural sector with essential goods and services for nearly a century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot-McGehee is a historic railroad station on Railroad Street in McGehee, Arkansas. The single-story brick building was built c. 1910 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in its distinctive Mediterranean/Italianate style. The building is of particular importance in McGehee because the town is located where it is due to the companys decision to locate the station here. The station has a basic cruciform plan, an elongated rectangle with a projecting telegraphers station on one side, and a matching projection on the other. It has a red tile roof, with a spreading cornice supported by Italianate brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Missouri Pacific Railway Van Noy Eating House is a historic restaurant building at the corner of Seamans Drive and Railroad Street in McGehee, Arkansas, US. The single-story brick building was constructed c. 1910 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and housed a dining establishment operated by the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company. It is one of a small number of such buildings to survive in the state. The building was divided into three parts: a central kitchen served a lunch counter area on one side and a dining room on the other. The establishment closed in 1948.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Mound Cemetery is a historic cemetery, located just outside Arkansas City, Arkansas in Desha County. The oldest portion of the cemetery, dating to the 1860s, is located on top of a Mississippian culture mound, one of the few places the early American settlers of the area found to be safe from periodic flooding by the Mississippi River. It is located off County Road 351, about one-half mile outside Arkansas City, and about 3 mi from the river.</p><br>
<p>The mound was probably created sometime between 1200 and 1600 AD. It was reported in the 19th century that people digging new graves would find artifacts and older human remains. The oldest dated grave is that of Rachel Horton, who died March 15, 1866. The cemetery contains 78 historic graves, and continues to be used for burials.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Signal Hill is a historic Confederate Army military site in Prince William County, Virginia. From this location, a signal station atop the hill, Confederate observers in 1861 spotted Union Army troops attempting to cross Sudley Ford. The Confederate response to this maneuver initiated the First Battle of Bull Run.</p><br>
<p>Part of Signal Hill is now part of a public park owned by the city of Manassas Park; the rest is part of a preservation area belonging to a neighborhood association. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Ashland Town Hall, at 10 Highland Street, is the town hall of Ashland, New Hampshire. Built in 1871, it is a distinctive Victorian interpretation of a typical New England town hall, which has served the town in civic roles  since its construction. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Ashland Town Hall is located on the north side of Highland Street, overlooking the town center to the south. The building is a distinctive Victorian interpretation of a typical New England town hall, with round-arch Italianate style windows, and transom and round-arch windows above the double doors that form the entry on the front facade. The porch that shelters the front entry is a later addition, although its arched surround is sympathetic to the building&#39;s other elements. The lower level of the interior, originally a large hall, has been extensively altered to provide space for an increasing number of town offices, while the upper level auditorium space is relatively little altered.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built in 1871, three years after Ashland separated from Holderness, which had retained its town hall. Prior to construction of this building, town meetings were held in a privately owned hall on this site, which burned in April 1871. The hall was used for town meetings and elections until 1950, when a larger facility was built across the street. From 1950 to 1970, the building was used by the local school district to house classrooms. It was returned to municipal functions in 1972, and now houses town offices.</p><br>
<p>The Burt–Cheney Farm is a historic farmstead on USA Route 302 in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. The main farm house, built in part about 1818, is a rare early Cape-style house, and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the town. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Burt–Cheney Farm is located in a nominally rural setting in western Bethlehem, its setting interrupted by Interstate 93, which runs north and east of the farmstead, which stands on 16.5 acre on the north side of US 302 northwest of its interchange with the highway. A stone wall lines the property along the road, and there are several outbuildings in addition to the main house, some of which date to the earliest days of the farms settlement. The house is a 1½-story wood-frame structure, with a central chimney, gabled roof, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with symmetrically arranged windows around a center entrance. The interior follows a typical central chimney plan, with a narrow entrance vestibule, parlors on either side of the chimney, and a series of smaller rooms to the rear. The houses timber framing is exposed, and walls are finished with wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The oldest part of the house was built c. 1810 by Simeon Burt, one of the first settlers in the area. The building was expanded by Burt in 1817 to achieve the main block&#39;s present center-chimney appearance. It is believed to be the second-oldest house in town, and one of the best-preserved examples of an early rural farmstead in the region. The farmstead was separated from the bulk of its associated lands by the construction of Interstate 93.</p><br>
<p>The Swansea Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, at 223 Prospect Street in Somerset, Massachusetts, are a pair of religious properties believed to include the oldest extant Quaker meetinghouse in the state, with the oldest surviving meetinghouse form in which the pulpit and entrance face each other across the building&#39;s short dimension . The oldest portion of the building dates to 1702, when Somerset was part of Swansea. Originally only 24 ft wide, the building was significantly enlarged in 1746, adding side bays and a second floor gallery. In the 19th century the balconies were closed off to provide office space. The cemetery adjacent to the meetinghouse is also believed to be of great age; its oldest dated marker is 1831, but 18th century Quaker practice did not generally include the laying of markers, so there are likely a number of unmarked early graves.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Pondville Cemetery, located on Everett Street, is one of the two oldest cemeteries in Norfolk, Massachusetts. It was established c. 1757, when Norfolk was still part of Wrentham, and now abuts the town line of the two communities. Its address is just inside Wrentham&#39;s town limits.</p><br>
<p>It was established to serve the residents of the Pondville village, which was first settled in the 1730s. The cemetery is laid out on a series of terraces that rise from Everett Street to the west, with the oldest graves in the southwest corner, near the Wrentham line. The oldest stones date to the early 19th century, and one of the most prominent markers is the c.1877 Victorian memorial to Captain Abijah Pond, an American Revolutionary War veteran.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson is a historic archaeological site located in North Santee, Clarendon County, South Carolina, near Summerton. Santee Indian Mound was part of a Santee mound village complex; it was probably a burial and/or temple mound, likely constructed in some cultural period between 1200–1500.</p><br>
<p>The fortification, British American Revolutionary War post Fort Watson, was built from 30 to 50 ft high atop the mound. In 1780, Francis Marion and Light Horse Harry Lee decided to capture the fort in the Siege of Fort Watson. Fort Watson was the first fortified British military outpost in South Carolina recaptured by patriot forces after the British occupation of 1780. There are no remains of Fort Watson on the site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Today it is located in the Santee National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>The Will Rogers Theatre and Commercial Block is a historic theatre and commercial building located at 705-715 Monroe Avenue in Charleston, Illinois. The theatre, named for entertainer Will Rogers, was built in 1935 and opened in 1938. The Art Deco building was the first Art Deco structure in Charleston and is the only existing Art Deco commercial building in Coles County and the six counties it borders. The front facade of the building is decorated with colored terra cotta tiles which form yellow, red, and black stripes. The theatre has a tall tower over its entrance which supports the top of its neon marquee. The interior decorations, which also have an Art Deco influence, include recessed lighting and flowered and geometric patterns painted on the ceiling by hand.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office is a historic house located at 14 S. Pike St. in Oakland, Illinois. The house was built in 1846 for Dr. Hiram Rutherford, a doctor who settled in Oakland in 1840. Rutherford was one of the first settlers in the village, which was then known as Independence. Rutherford&#39;s house had an L-shaped I-house plan with Greek Revival details, including triangular pediments at the ends of its gable roof.</p><br>
<p>Rutherford was also known as an active abolitionist and was the defendant in the Matson Slave Trial in 1847. Kentucky slaveholder Robert Matson had brought his slaves to his farm near Oakland, and after the slaves escaped to Rutherfords house, Matson sued to recover his slaves. Abraham Lincoln defended Matson in the trial, the only known case in which Lincoln defended a slaveholder. The court ruled that Matsons slaves were freed, as Matson held them in the state and slavery was illegal under state law.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Fifteenth Street and Oklahoma Avenue Brick Street is a 4.3 mi section of brick pavement on Fifteenth Street and Oklahoma Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. The section of pavement covers eight blocks of Fifteenth Street and one block of Oklahoma Avenue at the south end of the Fifteenth Street section. The H. W. Clark Company paved the streets in 1924. The company first laid a concrete substructure and concrete curbs. An intermediate layer of sand and tar was laid on top of the concrete, and the bricks were placed on top of this layer. The segment of brick street accounts for nearly all of Mattoon&#39;s remaining brick streets, as less than 20% of its original 22.1 mi brick street system has not been paved over with asphalt.</p><br>
<p>The street was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999.</p><br>
<p>Walterboro Library Society Building is a historic library building located at Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1820, and is a small, white, Federal style frame building with a side-gabled roof. The front façade features a Palladian-style door surround capped by a fanlight. The building is occupied by the Colleton County Historical Society. When Walterboro was incorporated in 1826, the town boundaries were established as "3/4 of a mile in every direction from the Walterboro Library."</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Walterboro Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Old Colleton County Jail is a historic library building located at Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1856, and is a stuccoed brick building in the Gothic Revival style. The building was designed by noted Charleston architects, Edward C. Jones and Francis D. Lee. The jail in part resembles a miniature, fortified castle. The front façade has crenellated parapets, turret-like structures at either corner, and a massive central tower with a large lancet window above the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Starr Hotel is a historic hotel building located at 1913-1923 Western Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. Businessman George M. Custer built the hotel in 1888. The hotel primarily housed workers on Mattoons three railroads: the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis , and the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville. Mattoons economy was primarily based on railroad traffic; the city expanded greatly after the Illinois Central and Big Four opened in the 1850s, its railroad yards employed hundreds of workers, and multiple industries grew in Mattoon due to its railroad access. While the hotel mainly housed railroad workers, it also catered to other working-class groups, such as seasonal broom corn workers and hobos. The hotel became a boarding house in the 1920s, and its upper floors closed entirely in the 1960s; its first floor is still a commercial property. The building is one of two surviving working-class hotels in Mattoon.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Hampstead Farm Archeological District is the site of a significant collection of Native American prehistoric and historic settlement remains in rural Orange County, Virginia. A survey of the farm&#39;s 780 acre in 1983 identified 49 different sites of archaeological interest. Sites were found near the adjoining Rapidan River, as well as in upland areas of the farm. Along with sites found at the nearby Montpelier estate, the upland sites demonstrate the significance of that area in Native American occupation patterns. Test pits dug near the river located well-preserved settlement sites at a depth of up to 2 m. The farm is also the location of minor military fortifications from the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Hampstead Farm site was listed as an archeological historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984; the farm was also included as a contributing element to the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District in 1991, although this was principally for its architectural and scenic merit.</p><br>
<p>Mount Sharon is an historic estate house and plantation remnant in rural Orange County, Virginia. Located off Route 600 about 4 mi northeast of the city of Orange, the Mount Sharon estate house is a two-story Georgian Revival house built of concrete and faced in brick. It was designed in 1937 by Louis Bancel LaFarge for Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus, on a plantation they purchased in 1935 from the Taliaferro family, which had owned it since the early 18th century. The Augustuses demolished the deteriorating Victorian-era plantation house on the site to build the house, which has restrained exterior styling, and high quality interior woodwork designed by LaFarge.</p><br>
<p>The property, consisting of the estate house, several outbuildings from the 1930s, and 77.5 acre of surrounding land (reduced from the more than 1,000 that made up the original plantation), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Jewish Cemetery of New Bedford, Massachusetts is located in the far north of the city, on Old Plainville Road, just north of New Bedford Regional Airport. The cemetery was established in 1898 as the principal burying ground for two congregations, Chesed Shel Emes and Ahavath Achim. It is the second Jewish cemetery in the city; the first, a small section of Peckham West Cemetery, was filled up in the 1890s. The developed portion of the cemetery lands is about 13 acre, with another 24.5 acre that is undeveloped forest. The cemetery land is now owned by a number of organizations: the Tifereth Israel congregation owns about 19 acre, Ahavath Achim owns 5.25 acre, and two small parcels are owned by other organizations. Entrances to the cemetery are marked by stone posts with bronze plaques. There is also the Temple Sinai section that sits in the grounds of the New Bedford airport that was accessible from the Old Plainville Road but is now blocked off.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. It is noted for its significance with the growth of the Jewish community in New Bedford, and for its encapsulation of changing Jewish funerary customs, and their difference from those of other ethnic and religious groups.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver House, also known as the Smith-Oliver House, is a historic house at 58 Oak Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Probably built in the late 18th century, this Federal period house is distinctive for its association with the now-suburban area&#39;s agrarian past, and as a two-family residence of the period, with two "Beverly jogs". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Oliver House is located at the northwest corner of Oak Street and Crosby Road in the Greenwood section of southern Wakefield. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. The entrance, at the center of the south-facing facade, is flanked by fluted pilasters, and is topped by a transom window and projecting lintel. The rear of the house has several additions built under a roof that slopes down to the first floor, giving the house a saltbox profile. The outer additions extend beyond the sides of the main block, a local example of a "Beverly jog". These additions each added a kitchen to the building. The interior of the house has well-preserved Federal period woodwork.</p><br>
<p>Long thought to have been built in the mid-18th century, stylistic analysis suggests that it was more likely built in the late 18th century. It is built on land that was first settled in the 17th century by the Smith family. In the late 18th century, the property went through a rapid succession of owners, and it may be that this house was built by William Williams, not long after his marriage and purchase of the property in 1797. Williams died in 1813, leaving his wife and eight minor children. It is thought that additions to make multi-family living in the house possible date to after that time. The house was sold in 1814 to Ezekiel Oliver in 1814, the widow retaining a share of the house. The house would be used by multiple families, or extended families, or families with boarders, for more than 150 years.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Roberts House is an historic house in Sandy Springs, Georgia.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located at 9725 on Roberts Drive in Sandy Springs, Fulton County, Georgia, north of Atlanta.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1894 for Isaac Roberts, chief engineer for the Roswell Railroad and later founder of the Roswell Bank. It spans 2,730 square feet and contains two stories, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two parlors, and seven fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>In 1961, the property was purchased by Ruby and Lloyd Pittman, who are the current owners.</p><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 10, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Jewett-Kemp-Marlens House is a historic house on North Road in Alstead, New Hampshire. Probably built sometime between 1798 and 1806, the house is notable for the well-preserved and conserved stencilwork of the itinerant 19th-century folk artist Moses Eaton. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jewett-Kemp-Marlens House stands in what is now a remote rural location, at the effective end of North Road, an unpaved road that was once a main road between Keene and Acworth. It is a -story timber-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and large central chimney. The front roof face is pierced by two gabled dormers, and the center entrance is flanked by sidelight windows. A single-story ell extends to the left of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built sometime between 1798 and 1803, and was definitely standing by 1806. The building was restored in 1996, principally to conserve the artwork of Moses Eaton, an itinerant folk art stenciler, that is on its walls. The stencilwork was probably applied not long after the houses construction, and was protected from damage by alterations in the 1860s that doubled the thickness of the walls as protection against the severe weather conditions that sometimes afflict the area. Although this caused some damage to this artwork, the five walls that have been stenciled are among the best preserved of Eatons work. Their attribution to the elder Moses Eaton is significant, as much of the known Eaton stencilwork is attributed to his son, who would have been seven in 1806.</p><br>
<p>The Shedd-Porter Memorial Library, located at 3 Main Street, is the public library of Alstead, New Hampshire. The library building was a gift to the town from John Graves Shedd and Mary Roenna  Shedd, and is a Beaux Arts building built in 1910 to a design by William H. McLean and Albert H. Wright. Shedd also donated 2,000 books to the library, whose collection now exceeds 10,000 volumes. The library building, one of the finest of the period in the state, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010,</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The library stands in the village center of Alstead, on about 0.5 acre on the west side of Main Street just south of the Cold River. It is a small but imposing masonry structure, built out of granite with Classical Revival details. It is symmetrical and basically rectangular in shape, with projecting pavilions at the centers of the front and rear facades, and a domed roof at its center. Large windows flank the front pavilion, which houses the main entrance in an elaborate surround with Ionic columns, pilasters, and an elaborate entablature and pedimented gable.</p><br>
<p>The interior follows a typical plan for early 20th-century libraries, with an entry vestibule in the front pavilion, a central librarians desk, and reading rooms to either side. The pavilion to the rear houses book stacks. The buildings basement originally housed a small auditorium, which has been re-adapted for use as a children&#39;s collection and reading room.</p><br>
<p>The library building was the gift of John Graves Shedd, chief executive of Marshall Field & Company and an Alstead native, and his wife Mary Roenna (Porter) Shedd, a native of Langdon, and was given in memory of their parents.</p><br>
<p>The Acre is a historic house at the corner of Main Street and Dublin Road in Harrisville, New Hampshire. Built about 1880 by the Cheshire Mill Company, it is a good example of period worker housing constructed by the company for itinerant workers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Acre is located south of the industrial village center of Harrisville, at the northeast corner of Main Street and Dublin Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its gable ends have short returns in the Greek Revival style, and there is an Italianate-style gabled wall dormer at the center of the main street-facing facade. That facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The entrance is sheltered by a portico with a low-pitch gabled roof, and is flanked by pilasters. The house was originally attached via a connecting ell to a barn; both of these structures have been removed, leaving a flushboard outline of the ell on the right wall.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1879 or 1880 by the Cheshire Mill Company, the major operator of Harrisville&#39;s mills, for itinerant construction workers. Its name is taken from a trend in mill communities to name the mundane areas where such quarters were located as "The Acre".</p><br>
<p>Local historical traditions state that the house was occupied by workers on the railroad link that brought the mill&#39;s products to market. The house is locally distinctive as an unusually late example of the Greek Revival, and for its unusual front gable.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Daniel Adams House is a historic house at 324 Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire. Built about 1795, it is a good example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival architecture, with a well documented history of alterations by its first owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Daniel Adams House is located south of downtown Keene, on the east side of Main Street at its junction with Gates Road. It is a 2½-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gabled roof, four interior chimneys, and clapboarded exterior. It is predominantly Greek Revival in styling, with a five-bay front facade topped by a pedimented gable, in which there are two small sash windows. The front entry is sheltered by what was formerly a porch, but is now an enclosed vestibule with gabled roof. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block. There are significant surviving Federal-style details on the interior.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1795 by Doctor Daniel Adams, a prominent local physician who also served as the town postmaster for a time. Adams undertook a number of alterations, restylings, and enlargements of the house prior to his death in 1830. His son, also a doctor, is probably responsible for the conversion of its original hip roof to the gabled one seen today. Its only major alteration since then was the addition of a bay window on the north side during the Victorian period, and the enclosing of the entry porch in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Unity Church, now known as Trinity Episcopal Church, is a historic church located at 2200 Western Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. Mattoons Unitarian congregation built the church in 1872. The church was built with red brick with stone decorations and a wooden cornice. A rectangular bell tower stands at the churchs southeast corner; the tower is louvered and contains two bells. The churchs main entrance is located at the bottom of the tower. The churchs nave is on the south side of the church; the nave features a wheel window and a large stained glass window with a wheel and two arches. The top of the nave and bell tower is decorated with corbelled brickwork. Mattoon&#39;s Unitarian congregation disbanded in the 1900s, and the church is now occupied by an Episcopal congregation.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Railway Express Agency Building was a historic building located at 1804 Western Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1918 to serve as the Mattoon office of the Railway Express Agency. The Railway Express Agency provided rail express shipping services to Mattoons citizens, allowing them to ship money and packages along Mattoons two major railways, the Illinois Central Railroad and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis . The agency formed in 1917, when the federal government ordered that all existing express services consolidate into a single service; this measure ensured consistent shipping of goods during World War I. The agency shipped goods to and from Mattoon until 1964, when the Big Four went bankrupt; the building served as a freight depot until 1971.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1994. It fell into disrepair due to disuse, however, and was demolished in July 2013. It was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Roytek House is a historic house located at 3420 Richmond Avenue in Mattoon, Illinois. Local businessman Richard Roytek built the house for his family in 1949–50. The house has a ranch style design with Prairie School details; Roytek chose this design after visiting Harlingen, Texas in 1948. The single-story house has the characteristic low profile and gently sloping roof of the ranch style. In addition, the house has large picture windows on its front facade and an attached garage, both common features of ranch-style houses. The houses Prairie School features include its use of wood and stone, its horizontal limestone exterior, its overhanging eaves, and its wide chimney. The house is one of roughly twelve ranch-style houses in Mattoon which predate the citys ranch-style subdivisions developed in the mid-1950s.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Hotel Albert Commercial Block, also known as the Shoppes at the Albert House, is a historic hotel building located at Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina. The complex was built in 1912, and consists of four two-story brick structures. It was operated as a hotel until 1960, after which it housed apartments and various commercial enterprises. They buildings were restored in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Tom Williams House is a historic home located near Williams, Colleton County, South Carolina. The house dates to the 19th century, and is a one-story, clapboard dogtrot style house on brick piers and with a spraddle roof. It features a front porch supported by six tapered, hand-hewn columns. The house was owned by and housed the family of Tom Williams, a much respected middle class farmer who donated land for the town that was named in his honor. In 1914, it was used as a tenant house for the Warren and Griffin Lumber Company.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Forrest J. Stimpson House, also known as the Mackinaw City Marine Recording Station, is a private house that was located at 516 N. Huron Boulevard in Mackinaw City, Michigan; it has been moved from its listed location on Trails End Road. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1978 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Forrest J. Stimpson was the Mackinaw City postmaster and American Express agent. He constructed this house in 1882 at 516 N. Huron Boulevard in Mackinaw City. He also operated a marine recording station from his house along the lakeshore, recording the passage of vessels through the straits and contacting the appropriate shipping companies via Western Union to inform them of the ship&#39;s current location. Stimpson drowned in 1888 while delivering mail to a ship. His widow, Luella, remarried John Overton; in 1895 the couple constructed additions onto the front of the original house. An attached kitchen was constructed in 1912. The Stimpson House remained in private hands. At some point it was moved to it present location.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Forrest J. Stimpson House is a two-story wood-frame house sided with clapboard. The original section, used as Stimpson&#39;s marine recording station, is a square, two-story building with a gable and a recessed entryway at one corner. The 1895 additions fronting the original building are single-story Italianate gable roofed sections, with brackets under the eaves, a bay window, and carved window framing. A cobblestone chimney is located near the bay window and a simple shed roofed porch shelters the entryway.</p><br>
<p>Fort Cricket Hill is an historic American Revolutionary War site in Mathews County, Virginia. The site is located near the Gwynns Island bridge, which carries Cricket Hill Road  to the island from the mainland near the village of Cricket Hill. From fortifications on this site , rebel Patriot forces fired on British forces controlled by the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, that had occupied Gwynns Island.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Birthplace of Patrick Henry , the Founding Father and American statesman from Virginia, was a farmhouse called "Studley", located in what is now the village of Studley in Hanover County, Virginia. The house, a two-story brick structure, was built in the 1720s by John Symes, whose wife Sarah married Patrick Henry&#39;s father John after Symes died. Patrick Henry was born in the house on May 29, 1736. By 1796 the farmstead included a significant number of outbuildings. The house was destroyed by fire in 1807, and now only archaeological remnants remain.</p><br>
<p>There is an interpretive plaque near the site at 9620 Studley Farms Drive. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Adams Farm is a historic farmhouse on MacVeagh Road in Harrisville, New Hampshire. With a construction history dating to about 1780, and its later association with the nearby Fasnacloich estate, it has more than two centuries of ownership by just two families. The house and a small plot of land around it were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The Adams Farm is located in southern Harrisville, on the southwest side of MacVeagh Road north of Howe Reservoir. The farmhouse is set high on a ridge, with commanding views of Mount Monadnock to the south. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a projecting polygonal bay to the left of the centered entrance. Attached to the west side of this structure is an older 1½-story frame structure, which has two gabled dormers in its gabled roof. Its western end is attached to a small barn. The basic styling of the exterior is Greek Revival, although the window bay and main entrance are later Victorian modifications, and the window shutters, which exhibit a pine tree cutout pattern, are a 20th-century Colonial Revival addition.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is the ell, at least part of which dates to c. 1780 and was built by Moses Adams, Jr. The property remained in the Adams family until about 1910, when it was purchased by Charles MacVeagh, who owned the nearby Fasnacloich estate, one of Harrisville&#39;s finest early 20th-century summer estates. MacVeagh used the Adams Farm as an extension of Fasnacloich, stabling horses there and using his farming staff to work the land.</p><br>
<p>The John Adams Homestead/Wellscroft is a historic farmstead off West Sunset Hill Road in Harrisville, New Hampshire. The oldest portion of the farm&#39;s main house is a -story wood-frame structure built in the 1770s. It is one of the least-altered examples of early Cape style architecture in Harrisville, lacking typical alterations such as the additions of dormers and changes to the window sizes, locations, and shapes. The farmstead, including outbuildings and an area of roughly 2 acre distinct from the larger farm property, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Adams Homestead is located in a rural setting of western Harrisville, on the west side of Sunset Hill Road accessed via a drive north of Wells Lake Road. The main house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is three bays wide, with sash windows on either side of the center entrance. The entrance is topped by a transom window. The gable ends on the sides each have two small sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The house was probably built in the early 1770s, and is one of Harrisvilles oldest surviving buildings. The only notable alteration is to the front door surround, made c. 1825 when an ell was also added to the house. One of the upstairs rooms also has stencilwork on its walls that may be the work of folk artist Moses Eaton, Jr., a Harrisville resident. Among the surviving outbuildings is a barn dating to the early 19th century. The propertys name, Wellscroft, derives from an early 20th century summer residence that was built on the property, and torn down in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Aldworth Manor, also known as the Arthur E. Childs House, is a historic summer estate house in rural Harrisville, New Hampshire. The house is located at the top of a hill at the end of Aldworth Road, formerly the estate&#39;s access drive, and was one of the premiere estate houses of the early 20th century in the town. The house was originally built c.1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was inherited by Arthur E. Childs, a Worcester native from a wealthy family, in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The house that would become Aldworth Manor was originally built by the iron founder William W. Wheeler by 1851 on land in Worcester, Massachusetts that he had acquired in 1848. The house was first located at 104 (originally numbered 30) Lincoln Street, a few blocks from Lincoln Square. In 1867 the house was purchased by Philip L. Moen, president of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company. Upon his death in 1891, the house was willed to Philip W. Moen, his eldest son. When he in turn died in 1904, it was willed to his sister, Alice, wife of Arthur E. Childs of Boston. This came with the stipulation that she must live in the house to receive the property. As residents of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Childs apparently had no interest in living in Worcester, but they were in possession of a farm in Harrisville, New Hampshire on which Childs had proposed to build a hunting lodge. As Alice Childs had also been willed $1,000,000 along with the house, they decided to find a workaround that allowed them to keep the money but not have to reside in Worcester.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1905 the Childs had the house transported in pieces to Harrisville by train on seventeen railroad cars, and then hauled to what was then called Chesham Hill Farm, where it was reassembled and restyled in the Colonial Revival style. The architect for the relocation and initial remodeling was the Fuller & Delano Company of Worcester. This first phase of development was complete by 1908. In 1915 the Childs had the house renovated again, this time into a Renaissance villa. The architects this time were Kilham & Hopkins of Boston.</p><br>
<p>In addition to moving the house, Childs extensively landscaped the farm property, which was 500 acre at its greatest extent. The entry drive is flanked by rhododendrons Childs had imported, and built an elaborate terraced garden east of the house. Beyond the terraced garden is a reflecting pool and pergola supported by Tuscan columns. South of the pergola is a garden house with tile roof and brick flooring. A carriage house from 1915 stands to the northwest of the main house.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>The property has seen a variety of uses in the years since Childs owned it. The property has been reduced in size, and the main house has had mainly institutional owners. It has been used as a sanatorium, served as campus for several educational institutions, including Thomas More School, a boys boarding school, in the 1960s, Antioch University New England, and as a missionary publishing house. These uses, necessitating alterations of the main houses interior, have to some extent compromised its integrity. The Mountain Missionary Society undertook some restorative work in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>After being in danger of demolition, a new owner purchased the manor in 2014 and began restoring it in 2015. It now serves as a venue for weddings and other events.</p><br>
<p>A 4 acre parcel including the main house and a number of outbuildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Seaside Plantation House, also known as Locksley Hall, is a historic plantation house located at Edisto Island, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a -story, Federal style brick dwelling with a gable roof. The house is one room deep with a long porch across the southeast elevation and sits on a raised basement. The central portion of the house is stuccoed brick with frame additions on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Spanish Mount Point is a historic archaeological site located at Edisto Beach State Park, Edisto Island, Colleton County, South Carolina. Spanish Mount is an oyster-clam shell midden, about 27 meters long and 3 meters high. The site is bordered by water and marsh on three sides. Spanish Mount dates between 2200 and 1800 BC and represents a transitional period of pre-history and the midden accumulated during the site&#39;s short term occupation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Hickory Valley Historic District is a national historic district located at Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings in Walterboro. The majority of the properties in the district are residences constructed between 1821 and 1929 which includes a concentration of early homes dating from Walterboros heyday as a pineland resort village for lowcountry planters. The architectural styles in the district include Federal, Greek Revival, Victorian carpenter, Neo-Classical and Federal Revival. The district is important historically for its associations with Walterboros founders as well as with several generations of prominent Walterboro families.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Samuel Allison House is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 101, overlooking Howe Reservoir, in Dublin, New Hampshire. Built about 1825 by a locally prominent mill owner, it is a good local example of Federal style residential architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Captain Samuel Allison House is located on a rural stretch of New Hampshire 101 west of Dublin center, on the north side of the road a short way east of its junction with Charcoal Road. It overlooks a portion of Howe Reservoir located south of the road, and has fine views of Mount Monadnock. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, end chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the main entrance. The entrance features Federal style sidelight windows and a semi-oval transom. A single-story hip-roof porch extends across the front, supported by square posts.</p><br>
<p>The house was built between 1825 and 1830 by Samuel Allison, a captain in the local militia and later town selectman. Allison established a sawmill nearby in 1830, but sold it in 1848 when he moved to Marlborough. The front porch is a later 19th-century addition. The subsequent house owners also operated the sawmill; one of them was Micah Howe, for whom the reservoir is named. The house is stylistically similar to the Rufus Piper Homestead.</p><br>
<p>The Amory Ballroom is the only surviving remnant of a large summer estate house off Old Troy Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. Built in two stages , it is an architecturally distinctive reminder of the community&#39;s early 20th-century period as a summer resort area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The Amory Ballroom is located on the grounds of the former Amory country estate, a large tract of land rising on the northern slope of Mount Monadnock between Old Troy Road to the west and the mountains Pumpelly Ridge to the east. It is accessed via a private road that snakes across the historic estate. It stands in a grassy clearing that includes remains of the estates formal garden and swimming pool. The building is a rectangular single-story structure, finished with stucco and covered by a flat roof at two different heights. The front of the building, facing toward the mountain peak, is defined by five large round-arch bays with the main entrance in the center bay. The interior of the space includes a Renaissance style fireplace, and is decorated with tile from Henry Chapman Mercer&#39;s Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The original house, a palatial Italian villa, was built 1910-11 by the widow of William Amory, and was designed by Boston architect Charles Goodell. Of this construction, only the entrance hall survives; the ballroom, set behind the entrance hall, was designed by Harry Little and built 1926–27. This section was originally flanked by large three-story sections, giving the building a total length of more than 100 ft. The Amory family actively used the property until after World War II, when many of its elements were torn down.</p><br>
<p>The Amory House is a historic house on the slopes of Mount Monadnock, on a private drive off Old Troy Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. Built in 1898–99, it is a distinctive local example of a Dutch Colonial Revival summer country house. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Amory House is located on the grounds of the former Amory country estate, a large tract of land rising on the northern slope of Mount Monadnock between Old Troy Road to the west and the mountain&#39;s Pumpelly Ridge to the east. It is accessed via a private road that snakes across the historic estate. The house is a rambling -story wood-frame structure, with multiple gambrel roof gables and a clapboarded exterior. Some of the gables are adorned with half-round three-part windows, while one has an oriel window at its center. A screened porch with round columns provides a fine view to the west. A carriage house with similar styling stands nearby.</p><br>
<p>The house was built 1898–99 to a design by Boston architect John Lavalle. It was built for Boston businessman William Amory, who died in 1900; his wife Louise built a much larger Italian villa nearby in 1910-11 (of which only the ballroom survives), and rented this house out. Notable occupants of the house include United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge and historian Henry Adams.</p><br>
<p>The Hoopeston Carnegie Public Library is a Carnegie library located at 110 N. Fourth St. in Hoopeston, Illinois. Hoopeston&#39;s library program began in 1898, when the Mary Hartwell Catherwood Club started a library in the town hall. In 1903, the program acquired a $12,500 grant from the Carnegie Foundation for a library building; the building was completed in 1904. Architect James F. Alexander designed the Classical Revival building, which features a portico entrance supported by four Tuscan columns. In 1975, an addition was placed on the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Fithian House is a historic house located at 116 N. Gilbert St. in Danville, Vermilion County Illinois. The Italianate house was built in 1855 for William Fithian. Fithian was a physician and a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. In addition, Fithian donated land for and was the namesake of Fithian, Illinois, a Vermilion County village located west of Danville. Abraham Lincoln was a close friend of Fithian&#39;s, and while visiting Danville during his 1858 senatorial campaign, he stayed in the house and gave a speech from its second-floor balcony.</p><br>
<p>The house is now part of the Vermilion County Museum, a history museum which exhibits both the house&#39;s period interior and displays on local history and historical figures in a separate building.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1975.</p><br>
