<p>A. Fletcher Spigner House, also known as the Spigner-Wilson-Seibels House and Hanner House, is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1920, and is a -story double-pile, rectangular frame residence in the Tudor Revival style. It has a one-story, central front portico, a red terra cotta tile roof, and faux half-timbering with a finish of stucco on the second floor. Also on the property is a -story garage. It was built for A. Fletcher Spigner, a prominent Columbia attorney, State Senator, and South Carolina&#39;s Fifth Circuit Solicitor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>J. Davis Powell House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1919–1920, and is a two-story, irregular plan, yellow brick, Prairie Style dwelling believed to be designed by Floyd A. Dernier . It has a broad, low-pitched, hipped roof and sets of elongated, repeated windows on both floors. Also on the property are the contributing garage  with a second story addition ; a pool house  and pool ; four cast stone classical columns ; a goldfish pond or pool ; and an outdoor fireplace .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<p>Union Station , also known as Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Southern Railway Station, is a historic train station located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1902, and is a brick and stone, eclectic Jacobethan Revival / Tudor Revival building. It features stepped gables and towering chimneys. It was designed by architect Frank Pierce Milburn for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Southern Railway. In contrast to the custom of union station denoting the single station for several railroads, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad had its own station one-half mile away. The formerly Seaboard Silver Star still operates through another station in Columbia.</p><br>
<h2>Historic recognition</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h3>Noteworthy trains served at the station</h3><br>
<p>Until the 1950s and 1960s the station served several named trains. In contrast to the New York -- Florida trajectories of the Amtrak trains today passing through Columbia, the trains offered service in different directions as well.</p><br>
<p>Southern Railway:</p><br>
<p>Aiken-Augusta Special: Aiken, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia -- New York City</p><br>
<p>Carolina Special, the South Carolina branch: Cincinnati -- Charleston, South Carolina</p><br>
<p>Skyland Special: Asheville -- Jacksonville, Florida</p><br>
<p>The last Southern Railway train serving the station was the Carolina Special in 1968.</p><br>
<p>Atlantic Coast Line:</p><br>
<p>Unnamed service east to Florence, South Carolina, with an additional train heading beyond Florence to Wilmington, North Carolina</p><br>
<p>The last ACL service served the city in 1954.</p><br>
<h2>Current disposition</h2><br>
<p>The building has housed California Dreaming, a high-end bar and grill restaurant, since 1984 and is popular with students and faculty alike.</p><br>
<p>Town Theatre is a historic community theatre located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1924, and is a rectangular brick building with a two-story glazed central arch with Art Deco influences. A brick annex was added to the rear of the building in the 1950s. It houses one of the first community theatres in the United States.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Building at 1210–1214 Main Street, also known as Capitol Café, is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built by 1871, and is a two-story, seven-bay, stuccoed brick building. A cast-iron railing extends across central three bays of the second floor. The Capitol Café was previously located in the building since 1913.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 1644 Main Street, also known as Tapps Department Store, is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1940, and enlarged in 1950. It is a five- to seven-story, Depression Modern building faced in stucco and dark tremolite stone. Above the main entrance is a distinctive clock face and a sign with large freestanding letters. Tapps Department Store closed in 1995.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Kress Building is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina across the street from the Columbia Museum of Art. It was built in 1934 by S. H. Kress & Co., and is a two-story, Art Deco style building faced with white terra cotta and colored terra cotta ornamentation. It features rounded storefront windows and cornice that contains the word "Kress" and surmounted by a stepped parapet.</p><br>
<p>As of 2016, the bottom floor is a Brazilian Steakhouse and the 2nd floor houses apartments. A penthouse is planned for the roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>National Loan and Exchange Bank Building, also known as the Barringer Building, is a historic bank and office building located at 1338 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a 12-story, steel frame building faced in brick and stone. It measures 184 feet high and is considered Columbia&#39;s first skyscraper. The building was owned by the Barringer Corporation from 1953 until 1974.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank, also known as the National Loan and Exchange Bank Addition, is a historic bank building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1924, and is a two-story, stone faced Neoclassical style building consisting of a two-story central section with flanking one-story wings. The front façade features four monumental 3/4 detached Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Canal Dime Savings Bank, also known as Eckerds Drug Store, is a historic bank building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1892 and 1895, and is a three-story, Romanesque Revival style brick building with a granite façade and red barrel tile roof. The building was purchased by Eckerds Drug Store in 1936.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Nutter-Rymes House is a historic house at 409 The Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1809, it is an unusual double house with an arched carriageway in the middle, and an important surviving early example of urban residential design in the city. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Currently it is occupied by the apart-hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Nutter-Rymes House stands in The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced historic houses bounded on the north by Deer Street and the east by High Street at the northern edge of downtown Portsmouth. This grouping was created by a road widening project from houses originally located on or near Deer Street. This house, located at the southeastern corner of The Hill, is one of the few in the group that remains at its original location. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its most distinctive feature is the large central keystoned arch, which originally provided a vehicular passage between the two halves of the building. The building entrances are located at the outermost bays of the long southern facade.</p><br>
<p>The two houses were built by James Nutter for himself and Christopher Rymes, a merchant and real estate speculator, and were originally mirror-image duplicates. The house is important because Nutter was a major local builder at the time, and the house serves as a window into his building practices. It is also an early surviving example in the city of a house that was specifically designed for an urban setting, rather than being an adaptation of an older rural form.</p><br>
<p>North Carolina Mutual Building, also known as the Blue Palace Tea Shop and Barber Shop, is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1909 by the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is a three-story, rectangular, brick commercial block. The building housed African-American businesses, professionals, and institutions during the years of Jim Crow segregation. It is located in the Washington Street business district, the city&#39;s black downtown.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Pinkham House is a historic house at 400 The Hill in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built c. 1813–15, it is one of the finest Federal period houses surviving on the city&#39;s north side. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel Pinkham House is one of a cluster of houses known as The Hill, located south of Deer Street north of downtown Portsmouth, that was created as the result of a road works project in the 1970s. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide with a center entrance; the windows are simply trimmed, with smaller windows on the third floor. Its front entry is flanked by Adamesque pilasters with rope molding, and topped by a semicircular fanlight window. The interior features original cornices, doors, and other woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1813–15 by Daniel and Isaac Pinkham, in the wake of Portland&#39;s devastating 1813 fire. The latter was a noted local cabinetmaker, whose work is presumed to decorate the interior. Although its exterior was altered in the late 19th century by the addition of Victorian elements, these were removed when the house was renovated and moved in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Parsons Homestead is a historic house at 520 Washington Road in Rye, New Hampshire. Probably built at around 1800 but including portions of older buildings, it is a well-preserved example of a distinctive local variant of the Federal style of architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Parsons Homestead stands in the village center of Rye, on the southeast side of Washington Road, nearly opposite its junction with Lang Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has two interior brick chimneys, and a five-bay front facade. The central bay is a two-story gabled projection, a distinctive local variant of the Federal style that is now seen in only a few surviving examples. The main entrance is at the base of the projection, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a half-round transom. Sash windows are placed in the other bays, framed by moulded surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The construction date of this house is traditionally given as 1757, but there is no significant architectural evidence supporting a construction date before about 1800. Portions of the house (a stairway and some posts) appear to have been recycled from an older house. The interior woodwork is among the finest of the period in Rye. The builder of the house is not known.</p><br>
<p>Confederate Printing Plant is a historic industrial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1864, and is a large two-story, Greek Revival style brick structure. Originally it was a one-story structure, but enlarged to two-stories after the building was burned in February 1865 by General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army. It was built by the Evans and Cogswell Company for the manufacture of Confederate bonds and other printing purposes. During the 20th century, it was used as a liquor warehouse by the South Carolina Dispensary and is presently used as a Publix grocery store and residential condominiums.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Building at 303 Saluda Avenue, also known as John C. Heslep House, is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1917 as a two-story brick residence, then remodeled and rebuilt in the Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1927–1928. It features a low-pitched tile roof, coarse stucco walls, and cast iron balconies. Also on the property is a contributing guest house.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Richland Cotton Mill, also known as Pacific Mills, Lowenstein Mill, and Whaley&#39;s Mill, is a historic cotton mill building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1894, and is a four-story, rectangular brick mill building. It features a seven-story stair tower, with a circular vent flanked by two arched vents. Attached to the building are an engine room, a boiler room with chimney, and a machine shop.</p><br>
<p>It was purchased by Pacific Mills in 1915, along with three other mills in the area, collectively called Columbia Pacific Mills. In 1923, Pacific Mills began a further expansion, to Groce&#39;s Stop, South Carolina, which was later renamed to Lyman. The Columbia operations produced cloth that was shipped to Lyman or Lawrence, Massachusetts for further processing.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Southern Cotton Oil Company, also known as Columbia Mill, was a historic cottonseed oil complex located at Columbia, South Carolina. The complex was built between 1887 and 1919. It consisted of seven industrial buildings: the Seed House, Linter Room, Press Room, Machine Shop, Oil House, Cotton Storage Room, and Storage Shed. Five of the buildings were constructed of brick and the other two were constructed of galvanized sheet metal. The complex has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Olympia Mill, also known as Pacific Mill, is a historic textile mill complex located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1899, and consists of a four-story, red brick, rectangular shaped, main mill building connected to a one and two-story red brick power plant. The main building is in the Romanesque Revival style and features terra cotta detailing, large segmental arched window openings, and twin pyramidal roofed towers. The complex also includes: a one-story brick power plant auxiliary building, a one-story storage building, and two small brick one-story gatehouses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Jenkins Mikell House is an imposing Roman Revival residence in the style of a grand Italian villa that was built in 1853–1854 by Edisto Island cotton planter and enslaver. Isaac Jenkins Mikell for his wife, Mary Martha Pope. The house should not be confused with Peter&#39;s Point Plantation, an Edisto Island plantation built in about 1840 by Isaac Jenkins Mikell which is also sometimes referred to as the Isaac Jenkins Mikell House.</p><br>
<p>The southern facade (overlooking Montagu Street) is dominated by a pedimented portico with six columns with composite capitals carved from cypress and ornamented with rams&#39; heads. In addition to the main house, there is a kitchen building and a separate coach house on the premises. A 1939 photograph shows the slave quarters.</p><br>
<p>The house was bought in 1935 by the Charleston Free Library and served as a public library until the early 1960s, when it was sold and restored as a private residence. In 2008, the house sold for $4.8 million to Manhattan socialite Patricia Altschul. The house is frequently featured on the Bravo television reality show, Southern Charm; Altschul is the mother of one of the program&#39;s regular cast, filmmaker Whitney Sudler-Smith, who is also executive producer of the show. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The location of the former hospital has gained notoriety as a stigmatized property due to public perception of its haunted origins.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of the hospital building, the lot was used as the former municipal cemetery and burial grounds for the City of Houston where thousands of Confederate States Army soldiers, former slaves, and city officials were laid to rest. The municipal cemetery operated on the lot from 1840 until the mid-1890s when it fell into decay, resulting in the reclassification of the lot for use as a municipal hospital by the Houston City Council in the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural style</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Wilkes Alfred Dowdy, Architect for the City of Houston, the building for Jefferson Davis Hospital was constructed as a 4-story red brick Classical-revival style structure with handsomely detailed façade that included stone veneers and rows of double-hung windows.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior design</h3><br>
<p>The cast stone detailing, portico, and brick corner quoins, are elements of the Classical Revival style that was popular in the early 20th century. The building entrance is a square portico that is framed by four monumental Ionic fluted capital and pilaster columns. The front façade features several square rock stone walls that are believed to have been either gravestones salvaged from the original cemetery or flower beds, although neither use has been confirmed. Other neo-classical elements included keystones over the basement windows and keystones over the pedimented entry doors at the basement level.</p><br>
<p>The architect leveraged high ceilings and rows of numerous large windows to harness sunlight and increase ventilation, thus avoiding the cost of more expensive decorative adornments. The raised placement of the building atop an above-ground basement, paired with the buildings location on a high ridge, enhanced the flow of cross-through breezes. The tall stature of the building emphasized ventilation, which was considered as a method of combating airborne illnesses and increase the spirits of the critically ill and dying who inhabited the facilities. The second and third floors of the building featured two screened balconies to allow patients an opportunity to enjoy fresh-air without having to leave the hospital premises.</p><br>
<h3>Interior design</h3><br>
<p>In contrast to the lavish exterior, the interior features of the building were simple and unadorned, which appropriately reflected its establishment as a charity hospital for the indigent. A children&#39;s rooftop garden and playground also enhanced the traversable function of the building without increasing its overall size.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, W.O. Neohaus and Associates in collaboration with Development Partner Avenue Community Development Corporation, underwent a $6.3 million renovation project sponsored by Artspace to restore the building.</p><br>
<h2>Occupancy and tenants</h2><br>
<h3>Pre-construction era (1840–1924)</h3><br>
<p>Prior to its construction, the property was first used as a municipal cemetery beginning in the 1840s to replace Old City Cemetery, one of the oldest sites in Houston, which was active until the 1880s (a.k.a., Old Houston City Cemetery). Over the next few decades, thousands of people were buried on the site and it became the final resting place for over 6,000 Confederate soldiers, former slaves, and city officials. Also included among the graves were thousands of victims of the yellow fever and cholera epidemics. Use of the location as a cemetery by the city discontinued in 1879, although family burials continued into the 1890s. By the early 1900s, the cemetery was in a gross state of deterioration due to a lack of maintenance, causing the city to reconsider use of the location for public health services.</p><br>
<h3>Operating years of Jefferson Davis Hospital (1924–1938)</h3><br>
<p>In the early 1920s, the Houston City Council began planning the construction of Jefferson Davis Hospital. Controversy erupted over the proposal that the hospital would disturb the graves of those buried in the former municipal cemetery. When construction began in 1924, the basement of the building was placed above ground in the effort to dispel the public controversy and to leave the graves undisturbed. Although many graves were relocated, later discoveries revealed that there had been no widespread removal of remains.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was named for Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, on account of the Confederate soldiers who had been buried in the cemetery and as a means to console the families of the deceased.</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed in 1924 and the hospital opened its doors to patients in 1925 under the joint operation of the City of Houston and Harris County. However, use of the building as a municipal medical facility was short-lived, lasting only 13 years. By the late 1930s, the rapid metropolitan growth of the Houston area rendered the building inadequate to support the healthcare needs of indigent population.</p><br>
<p>On January 1, 1938, the city&#39;s primary municipal medical services relocated to the area now known as the Texas Medical Center in what was to become Ben Taub General Hospital. The hospital officially closed its doors in 1939.</p><br>
<h3>Mixed use (1938–1989)</h3><br>
<p>Secondary city-operated medical services were offered in the building until 1939 when the remaining clinical facilities relocated to Buffalo Drive (now known as Allen Parkway) in a facility called Jefferson Davis, which later become a community clinic and psychiatric treatment center. The similarity between the two facilities, Jefferson Davis Hospital and Jefferson Davis on Allen Parkway, has been the source of confusion for many commentators, resulting in false rumors that Jefferson Davis Hospital was once a mental asylum.</p><br>
<p>During the period following the closing of Jefferson Davis Hospital, the building underwent numerous tenancy transfers. The building was first retained by the Harris County Hospital District as a medical records storage facility.</p><br>
<p>The probation office also inhabited a building next to the site that is also rumored to be haunted, due to its sharing of the same cemetery as the hospital building, the morgue of the former Jefferson Davis Hospital, and because it is bordered by the black earth graves, which are theorized to have been left by an English colony dating back to the 1600s. Reports of paranormal activity in the probation building have included: noises in the attic, a woman spotted in the upper stories that is believed to have been used as a dormitory for the nurses who worked at Jefferson Davis Hospital, and figures entering the ladies&#39; restroom never to be seen again, and police dogs which refused to enter the building when a fire alarm was triggered.</p><br>
<h3>Abandonment and vacancy (1989–2003)</h3><br>
<p>Half the windows in the four-story building are boarded up. The rest are wide open to the weather, which, along with a generation or two of vandals and squatters, has wreaked havoc on the inside. Plaster curls off the walls. The dirt-encrusted floors are covered with glass slides stained with indistinguishable bodily fluids. Each room has become the repository for a different type of junk: old gurneys, office furniture, surgical scrubs. A nurse&#39;s station is piled waist-high with filthy mattresses. A restroom floor is lined, wall to wall, with bags of plastic cups and lids. Weeds grow out of every crack. Trees have somehow taken root in the concrete sills of blown-out windows."</p><br>
<p>Senator John Cornyn&#39;s office described the building as, "a magnet for gangs and the homeless, as well as an attractive nuisance for youths." Due to its reputation for paranormal activity, the building had garnered tradition among the local population as a landmark that could be broken into on Halloween night for no-cost thrills.</p><br>
<p>In 1995, the site of the former Jefferson Davis Hospital was listed as a State Archaeological Landmark because of the lot&#39;s prior use as a major municipal cemetery.</p><br>
<h3>Historical declaration and rehabilitation (2002 to present)</h3><br>
<p>In March 2002, the City of Houston Archeological and Historical Commission (HAHC) approved the notion of declaring the building a city landmark.</p><br>
<p>On June 20, 2002, the Harris County Commissioners approved the sale of Jefferson Davis Hospital to Avenue Community Development Corporation (popularly known as Avenue CDC) and ArtSpace Projects Inc. of Minneapolis, which pledged to rehabilitate the dilapidated property. The building was in a severe state of dilapidation due to its prolonged period of vacancy.</p><br>
<p>31 July 2003: A group of college students looking for ghosts was robbed on the premises. KTRK Television reports that the robbers fired gunshots at them, but no one was hurt.</p><br>
<p>Efforts towards rehabilitation began in 2003, resulting in what was to become a substantial $6.3 million renovation project. The project would convert the former hospital quarters into a combined total of 34 artist lofts and residential housing units occupying a total space of 39,000 square feet, now designated as the Elder Street Artist Lofts. Funding for the project was provided in part by the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Development and Avenue Community Development Corporation. The United States Environmental Protection Agency also granted $200,000 for environmental clean-up that included asbestos abatement, lead abatement, and the removal of an underground storage tank. Construction planning commenced in 2003 and work began on September 23, 2004.</p><br>
<p>Due to the sites designation as a historical landmark and building, the USA Department of the Interior carefully monitored the rehabilitation through the Texas Historical Commission. The overall footprint of the interior space was to be preserved and a historically accurate restoration helped to restore the plaster walls, the interior window frames that were designed with curved-corners, and the modillion blocks at the buildings eaves. The concrete ceilings were left exposed and are crisscrossed with a modern intricate weaving of utility conduits, which avoided the need to modify the interior walls. Exterior preservation was also monitored to ensure historical accuracy. An archaeological survey of the property was required to precede construction to be sure that existing graves were not disturbed since the site was a designated State Archaeological Landmark. Many of the exterior bricks had to be replaced and the walls repointed. The roof where the childrens garden and playground once sat was replicated with asphalt of a similar color to the original tile that had fallen into severe disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Restoration was completed on the former Jefferson Davis Hospital building in 2005, although an unrestored building remained on the East side of the property. In 2013, the remaining unrestored portion of the historic Jefferson Davis Hospital Building was destroyed in a two-alarm fire that resulted in one casualty by a Houston firefighter struck by a falling piece of burning tile.</p><br>
<p>The two floor nurses quarters, built in the mid-1920s, were designed by W.A. Dowdy, an architect working for the city government. A January 2017 storm damaged the buildings roof. Due to the damage it ultimately did not receive historic status, and the county proposed demolition that year.</p><br>
<h4>Artist lofts</h4><br>
<p>Following its completion the building was renamed the Elder Street Artists Lofts. The 34 residential/studio units were originally intended for only artists&#39; occupancy, but was later opened to the community-at-large. HGTV presented the developers with a "Restore America award".</p><br>
<p>The lofts are within the Houston Independent School District (HISD), and the zoned schools are Crockett Elementary School in the Sixth Ward, Hogg Middle School in Woodland Heights, and Heights High School (formerly Reagan High School) in the Houston Heights.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<h3>Film</h3><br>
<p>The former Jefferson Davis Hospital building was featured in the Hollywood production of RoboCop 2 as the location where the fictitious drug "nuke" was manufactured.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank is a historic bank building in Huntsville, Alabama. The temple-form Greek Revival structure was built in 1835–1836. Designed by locally famous architect George Steele, it occupies a prominent position, facing the courthouse square and sitting on a bluff directly above the Big Spring. It was the longest-serving bank building in Alabama, operating until 2010 when Regions Bank moved their downtown branch to a new location. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The First National Bank building is situated on the west side of Courthouse Square, on a bluff above the Big Spring and Big Spring Park. The site is where the founder of Huntsville, John Hunt, built his cabin in 1805. The first bank to open in what was then the Mississippi Territory was the Planters and Merchants Bank, chartered in 1817. Beginning in 1818, they occupied a small brick building on the square, which had been built as a mercantile store two years prior. Despite its long list of wealthy local investors, the bank soon became over-leveraged. Governor Israel Pickens ordered the bank to be shut down in 1822, but legal challenges staved off dissolution until 1825. The bank&#39;s building burned sometime between 1828 and 1830.</p><br>
<p>Pickens won re-election as governor in 1823, running on a platform that included the establishment of a state bank. The bank was founded in 1824 in the capital, Cahaba, moving to Tuscaloosa along with the government in 1826. Assets came from bond sales and trust funds owned by the State. Branches were established in Mobile, Montgomery, and Decatur in 1832. Feeling slighted that the North Alabama branch was given to the younger and smaller Decatur, Huntsville legislators fought for a branch, which was awarded in 1835. Construction of the building was completed the following year.</p><br>
<p>The availability of credit further fueled the land rush known as Alabama Fever. The banks provided enough revenue to the state government that the legislature abolished state taxes. The good times were short-lived, as the bank quickly became over-leveraged in the Panic of 1837. Benjamin Fitzpatrick was elected governor in 1841, promising to shut down the state bank. The charter expired in 1844, and was not renewed; the bank&#39;s debts were not settled until 1853.</p><br>
<p>The same year, the Northern Bank of Alabama was founded in the old State Bank building. It operated until the Civil War, when Union troops occupied Huntsville in 1862. During the war, the building was used as a commissary. At the end of the war, the National Bank of Huntsville was founded, using assets hidden from Union troops inside the building. In 1889 the bank changed its name to the First National Bank of Huntsville. First National merged with the Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham to form the First Alabama Bank in 1971. First Alabama changed its name to Regions Bank in 1992. Regions occupied the building until February 2010, when they moved their downtown branch to a larger location and donated the building to a non-profit redevelopment group.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The National Bank represented a shift in architectural design, both for architect George Steele, and for North Alabama as a whole. Prior to submitting a bid for the bank, most of Steele&#39;s work was in the Federal style, which was popular in the first quarter of the 19th century. Steele drew inspiration for his design from a trip to Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, Virginia. The building is similar in form to the Bank of Pennsylvania and has a similar floorplan to the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, both buildings featured in pattern books of the day. Steele also won the bid for the second Madison County Courthouse, another temple-form Greek Revival building located across from the bank and completed in 1840.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the building is 53 feet (16 m) wide by 77 feet (23.5 m) long. The hexastyle portico and façade are constructed of locally quarried limestone blocks, with the rest of the building constructed of stuccoed brick. The Ionic columns support a plain entablature, adorned only with the name of the bank (currently Regions). The 15 foot (4.5 m) tall double entry doors are made of red cedar, and have five square relief panels each. Two smaller doors, which open directly into front offices, flank the main door, each of which is topped with a four-panel transom; these doors were added in 1899. An iron-railed balcony formerly stretched across the middle portion of the front, but was removed sometime between 1934 and 1973. Windows on the second floor façade and sides are sashes, with five narrow, vertical panes in the top and two in the bottom. First floor windows along the sides are six-over-six sashes. The small cupola and weather vane atop the copper gable roof are from the second Madison County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance to the building opens into a vestibule which is flanked by the two offices. The vestibule opens into the main lobby area, which is bisected by the mahogany tellers desk. Between the teller stations, the desk has columns and entablature that mimic the façade. A tellers room and the directors room are behind the desk, on either side of the bank vault. A fireplace mantel in the directors room also mimics the façade with Ionic pilasters. A service room and stair hall are at the rear of the building. The second floor was living quarters for the cashier, which was required by law when the bank was built.</p><br>
<p>Behind the main block, off the southeast corner, is a two-story wing, originally used as slave quarters. There are four rooms on each floor, and four more in the basement. A stair loggia with a deck above opened onto a sidewalk between the main building and Fountain Circle; the loggia was enclosed and access to the deck removed sometime after 1934. The northwest side was originally an open courtyard overlooking the Big Spring, but further additions now cover the entire area. The basement was used to house slaves who were being kept as collateral for mortgages by their owners. Windows on both floors on the Fountain Circle side are the same as those on the second floor of the main building. A door to the basement was removed and replaced with a night drop.</p><br>
<p>Claussens Bakery, also known as Claussens Inn, is a historic commercial bakery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a two-story, trapezoidal plan, brick building that contains a total of 25,000 square feet. The Columbia bakery ceased operating in 1963. It was later converted to a boutique hotel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Pier Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Newport, New Hampshire. Originally built in 1907 to carry the Boston and Maine Railroad across the Sugar River, it now carries the multi-use Sugar River Trail, which was built on the abandoned right-of-way. It is one of a modest number of historic covered bridges in New Hampshire, and is named for the fact that it has a central pier. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pier bridge is located about 0.5 mi east of the former Chandler railroad station in western Newport, crossing the Sugar River at an angle with a roughly east–west orientation. It consists of two Town-Pratt lattice trusses, resting on granite abutments which have been capped by concrete, and a central pier of similar construction. The western span is 106 ft long, the eastern one 121 ft. Its trusses consist of Town-style lattice trusses sandwiched between Pratt trusses. Elements of the truss and lattice networks are joined by a combination of wooden pegging and iron rods, with iron turnbuckles joining some of the chords. The exterior is finished in vertical board siding, with a ventilation gap of about 2 ft between the siding and the roof.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1907 for the Boston and Maine Railroad. The railroad line it was built on dates to 1872, and was built by the Sugar River Railroad, which was merged into the B&M in 1887. The line was operated by the B&M until 1954 when it was sold to the Claremont & Concord Railway. The C&C last ran to Newport in 1977 and the line was subsequently abandoned. The bridge is one of two surviving railroad bridges on the line; the other is Wright&#39;s Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Pike House is a historic house, located on New Hampshire Route 10 in the village of Goshen, New Hampshire. Built about 1812, it is one of a cluster of 19th-century plank-frame houses in the rural community. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Pike House is located near the southern edge of the village of Goshen, on the east side of NH 10 a short way south of its junction with Brook Road. It is a -story wooden structure, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in aluminum siding. The walls are framed with three-inch wood planking, oriented vertically, with dowels placed horizontally for lateral stability. It originally had two windows on either side of the central door; these have been replaced with modern multi-pane windows. The entry is sheltered by a gabled porch with turned posts, and is flanked by sidelight windows. One brick chimney rises off-center through the rear roof face, and another is set at one end. Attached to this main block are a connecting ell and garage of modern construction.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1812, probably by Oliver Brooks around the time of his marriage. In the first half of the 20th century, it was the home of Althine Sholes Lear, a locally prominent poet.</p><br>
<p>The Monte Sano Railroad Workers&#39; House is a historic boarding house in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Built in 1888, it is the only remaining building relating to the Monte Sano Hotel and Railroad. The North Alabama Improvement Company built the three-story, Queen Anne hotel on Monte Sano Mountain in 1887. The following year, construction began on a rail line connecting the hotel with the Memphis and Charleston Depot downtown. The house was constructed to house workers building and later operating the railroad.</p><br>
<p>The workers&#39; house was originally a saddlebag plan building, consisting of two rooms sharing a central chimney. A shed roofed, two-room addition was added in 1925. The façade has two doors, flanked by two-over-two sash windows. The house is clad with board-and-batten siding, and topped with a gabled metal roof. The structure was modernized after 1997, and a shed-roof front porch added.</p><br>
<p>The hotel and railroad venture was not a financial success, and the railroad shut down in 1895, followed by the hotel in 1904. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Schiffman Building is a historic commercial building in Huntsville, Alabama. The main structure of the building was built in 1845. Originally, it was a three-bay brick building divided by large, flat pilasters. The southern bay, at the corner of East Side Square and Eustis Avenue, was remodeled in the Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1895. The other two bays were demolished in the 1970s. Future Speaker of the USA House William B. Bankhead used the building as an office while he was Huntsville&#39;s city attorney from 1898–1902; his daughter, actress Tallulah Bankhead, was born in the second floor apartment. Issac Schiffman, a businessman and banker, purchased the building in 1905 and it has remained in the family since.</p><br>
<p>The façade is of rough limestone blocks, and is dominated by turrets on the corners that extend above the cornice. The arched entry sits beside a large, arched window on the first floor. The window&#39;s keystone acts as a corbel for a massive bay window on the second floor. Above the door is a stone panel, flanked by turrets and marked with "I. Schiffman". Above the panel are two small windows and a smaller version of the cornice. Three windows on the third floor, two above the bay window and one above the door side, each have a decorative stone arch above a single lintel. The stone cornice has large dentils; the same design is carried down the Eustis side of the building on a pressed metal cornice. The side is faced with stuccoed brick and divided into five bays by protruding pilasters. Each bay has a one-over-one sash window on each floor, with the final bay containing a door surrounded by a stone arch. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Cowee–Wests Mill Historic District encompasses an area of Macon County, North Carolina, which has historic significance predating the arrival of European settlers, and extending into the 20th century. It is located about 6 mi north of Franklin, the county seat, along either side of Cowee Creek as it flows toward the Little Tennessee River. The district includes the archaeological site and platform mound of the Cherokee town of Cowee, a major settlement until the time of the American Revolutionary War. In the first half of the 19th century the area was developed as a mining community centered on a mill operated by the West family, and after the American Civil War it became one of a small number of rural African-American communities in western North Carolina. The core of the Wests Mill area is centered on the junctions of SR 1350, SR 1341, SR 1340, and West&#39;s Mill Road, and North Carolina Route 28 is the major road passing through the district. Its northern and southern bounds are roughly where the valley floor gives way to hills on either side of Cowee Creek, ending in the west at Hall Mountain and in the east at the mouth of Caler Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Humphreys–Rodgers House  is a historic residence in Huntsville, Alabama.</p><br>
<p>Since its construction in 1848, it has been expanded and altered at least three times, saved from demolition twice, and moved once. The house was built by David Campbell Humphreys, a four-term member of the Alabama House of Representatives and anti-secessionist during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally a two-story, hall and parlor design with a gable roof. Prior to 1861, an additional room was added to the west of the entrance, creating a three-room plan with a central hall. Many Greek Revival details were added to the interior around this time. The house was extensively modified around 1886, when Augustus D. Rodgers bought the house from Humphreys, who had been appointed a judge on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. A one-story, two-room ell was added to the rear of the east side of the house, adding an attached kitchen and dining room. The previous gable roof was replaced with a hipped roof, and a two-story hipped roof portico was added to the façade, giving the house its current Colonial Revival appearance. By 1913, the ell had been replaced with a central, two-story ell that featured a one-story portico with fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, the house was vacant and in disrepair, and the encroaching development of a Coca-Cola bottling plant and the Von Braun Center threatened its demolition. Efforts by preservationists led the bottling plant to purchase the house and renovate it for use as offices and a Coca-Cola memorabilia museum. Part of the effort led to the house&#39;s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. In 1990 the bottling plant needed to expand, and the house faced demolition once again. The house was purchased by the Alabama Constitution Village and moved to a site one block from the museum. Today, the house is owned by the City of Huntsville and the property is managed by, who use it for their International Headquarters. The historic Humphreys Rodgers house is available for events both business related and purely social.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. J. A. Reuter House is a historic house in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. John Alexander Reuter  practiced medicine in The Dalles for 44 years , joining a partnership that established the citys first hospital  and nursing school, as well as a large private clinic . He bought this house  in 1909 and radically transformed it by jacking the old house up to become the second floor and building a new first floor beneath. He also completely remodeled it to become the citys finest example of the Craftsman style.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Wardlaw Junior High School, also known as Wardlaw Middle School, is a historic Middle school located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1926–1927, and is a three-story, rectangular brick structure with a central courtyard. It features Gothic window tracery, arched entrances with one-story porches, and decorative cast stone panels. It was the first junior high school building in South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Noden George House is a historic house in rural Graham County, North Carolina. It is located on the south side of a private road, 0.4 mi west of SR 1200 and 1 mi north of United States Route 129, near Tulula Creek. It is a single-pen log structure built c. 1853, which faces east at the top of a 20 acre pasture and overgrown orchard. The logs are poplar, and are joined by half-dovetail notches. A fieldstone chimney rises from the uphill side of the structure, and there is a kitchen ell and a wraparound porch on the south and west sides, added c. 1900. It was built by a veteran of the War of 1812 during the second major wave of development in western North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Plainfield Town Hall is one of two town halls in Plainfield, New Hampshire. This town hall stands on New Hampshire Route 12A, north of its junction with Daniels Road. Built in 1846 using timber from an earlier town hall, it is a good example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture. It is further notable for the artwork on its stage backdrop, executed by Maxfield Parrish. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Plainfield Town Hall is located in the village center of Plainfield, on the east side of NH 12A. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by what appear to be tall sash windows, but are in fact 20-light fixed sashes topped by blinds. The left window is itself flanked by high-set smaller sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in three phases, the first occurring in 1846, when the Greek Revival main block, a simple rectangular wood-frame structure with wooden clapboards, was built. In 1916 an addition was made to the rear of the building, increasing its size by about 1/3, in which a stage and theatrical facilities were added. This section is particularly notable for the stage backdrop and wings, which are one of only three known examples of such work decorated by the artist Maxfield Parrish, a resident of Plainfield and a participant in the nearby Cornish Art Colony. A shed addition was later added to the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>Governance of Plainfield has traditionally been divided between Plainfield Village and Meriden, where a second 19th-century town hall stands.</p><br>
<p>The band Okkervil River used the stage as the set of their lyric video for the song."</p><br>
<p>The Prentiss Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Langdon, New Hampshire. Built about 1874, it spans Great Brook just east of the modern alignment of Chester Turnpike, which it carried until it was bypassed by a modern bridge in 1955. At 36 ft in length, it is the shortest 19th-century covered bridge built for use on a public roadway in New Hampshire that is still standing. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Prentiss Bridge is located in a rural setting in southern Langdon, spanning Great Brook east of Chester Turnpike, about 0.2 mi south of its junction with Lower Cemetery Road. It is a Town lattice truss, 36 feet long and 15 ft wide, set on stone abutments. Its exterior is finished in vertical board siding, with a ventilation gap between the siding and the gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>Bridges are known to have stood on the site since at least 1791, when the town requested a report on a bridge standing here. In 1794, the town appropriated funds to build a bridge near the mill of Jabez Rockwell and John Prentiss. In 1874, the town appropriated $1,000 to replace that structure; the present bridge was presumably built soon afterward.</p><br>
<p>Langdon&#39;s Prentiss Bridge was constructed by Albert S. Granger in 1874. The town of Langdon paid $1,062.09 for the project. Granger himself was paid $197.50 for labor, $34.97 for lumber, bolts, and spike, and $23 for the use of a derrick; nineteen other men were paid for labor and supplies.</p><br>
<p>The Prentiss Bridge was bypassed in 1955. A new, two-lane steel and concrete bridge was constructed next to the Prentiss Bridge to allow traffic to cross Great Brook without the bottleneck caused by the one-lane bridge.</p><br>
<p>Measuring thirty-five feet long, the Prentiss Bridge is the shortest historic covered bridge in New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The Protectworth Tavern, also known as the Stickney Tavern, is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 4A in Springfield, New Hampshire. It is a nearly-intact example of a late-Georgian early-Federal vernacular house, dating to the time of the construction of the "Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike", a major early highway through this region of central New Hampshire whose route is followed here by Route 4A. The house was long used as a tavern, and one of its early owners was Daniel Noyes, a proprietor of the Turnpike. Meetings of the Turnpike&#39;s owners are known to have taken place here. A later owner, Nathaniel Stickney, was also a stagecoach driver on the route. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The tavern is located north of the village center of Springfield, on the west side of NH 4A. It is set at an angle to the road, which has been realigned since the tavern was built. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Brick chimneys rise through the front roof face. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance. The entrance is simply framed, with a transom window and slightly flared lintel. The interior has had only modest alterations, most notably the movement of a wall on the ground floor to increase the size of the room that originally housed the kitchen. Many original fixtures and finishes survive on both the first and second floors.</p><br>
<p>The Garrison Place was a historic house in rural Dallas County, Arkansas. Built c. 1861, it was a rectangular single-story braced-frame structure clad in weatherboard, and was the only 1860s house of that type in the county, exhibiting other construction features not found in any other period buildings in the county. It was located on a dirt road 1/2 mile south of Highway 48.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Nutt–Trussell Building is a historic commercial building at 202 North Main Street in downtown Fordyce, Arkansas, USA. Built in 1883, this two-story structure was the first brick building erected in Fordyce, a railroad town in southwestern Arkansas. Its exterior was covered in stucco c. 1920. It was built by Robert Nutt, who operated a dry goods shop on the premises. It later housed the Bank of Fordyce, and its upper floor has a long history of use for social club meetings , and also housed the city&#39;s first telephone exchange. The descendants of L. L. Trussell, a later owner, gave the building to the city in 2000 for use as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Wommack Kiln is a history pottery site in central rural Dallas County, Arkansas. Built in 1891 by John Welch, it is the best-preserved of a series of pottery works established in Dallas County in the later decades of the 19th century. Welch established this site after abandoning an earlier site he set up in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The kiln site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located off County Road 302, roughly midway between its junctions with CR 301 and CR 314.</p><br>
<p>The Squire Chase House is a historic house on Main Street in Fryeburg, Maine. The oldest portion of this house, now a portion of the elongated ell attached to the main block, was built c. 1767 by Nathaniel Merrill, one of the early settlers of Fryeburg after its land was granted to Joseph Frye in 1762. It was sold in 1799 to James Osgood, the son of another early settler. Stephen and Mary  Chase inherited this property in 1824, and moved the main block of the house across the street to its present location, and attached the older house to it. The exterior of this house was Federal in styling, although its interior is now Greek Revival in character.</p><br>
<p>The property was acquired in 1854 by David R. Hastings, who extended the main block&#39;s eaves, adding the brackets and cupola of the then-fashionable Italianate style. In 1908 the house was purchased Hattie Pike, a descendant of James Osgood, and was reported in 1979 to still be in the Pike family.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house connected via the ell to a 19th-century barn. A single-story porch extends across the south side of the house, and another extends across much of the eastern face of the ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located on the northwest side of Main Street, just south of its junction with Bridgton Road, and opposite part of the campus of the Fryeburg Academy.</p><br>
<p>The Barrows-Steadman Homestead is a historic house at the northeast corner of Main and Stuart Streets in Fryeburg, Maine, United States. Built c. 1809, this frame house is a good vernacular example of Federal architecture, but is most notable for the murals painted on the walls of one of its bedrooms by Rufus Porter and Jonathan Poor, noted itinerant painters of the 19th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Barrows-Steadman House is a -story timber-frame structure, resting on a fieldstone foundation. It is sheathed in clapboard siding, and has a gable roof pierced by two large internal chimneys. Its main facade, facing Main Street to the northwest, is five bays wide, with a center entry flanked by sidelight windows and Doric pilasters and topped by a fanlight and entablature. The secondary entry is on the southwest side, facing Stuart Street, and is centered on a three-bay facade. The house&#39;s southwestern gable features a round-arch window and paired brackets, later Italianate additions. An ell, built c. 1910, extends to the rear (along Stuart Street). It has two doorways in its four bays.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1809, and has been owned by members of the Barrows family since 1820. The house&#39;s most notable feature is a room in which murals were drawn in 1830 by the itinerant artist (among many other professions he engaged in) Rufus Porter and Jonathan Poor. This mural is a landscape work, featuring richly colored trees, and is extremely well preserved.</p><br>
<p>Marquis de Lafayette is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette by artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, located at Union Square Park in Manhattan, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Donated by French residents of New York and dedicated on September 6, 1876, the portrait statue rests on a Quincy granite pedestal. In 1991, it was conserved by the Municipal Art Society and the New York City Art Commission&#39;s joint Adopt-A-Monument Program.</p><br>
<p>The New Market Historic District is a historic district in New Market, Alabama. The town was founded in the 1820s as a trade center along the road between Huntsville and Winchester, Tennessee. The town incorporated in 1837, and had grown to around 500 residents by the 1850s. Although much of the town was destroyed in the Civil War, some antebellum structures survive, including Classical Revival houses built in 1854 and 1860, and the Whitman-Cobb House built circa 1861.</p><br>
<p>After the war, the town rebuilt, and a dam was constructed across Mountain Fork Creek to power various mills; it was rebuilt in 1913. The New Market Presbyterian Church built their first building in 1852, which was destroyed in the war. Its second building, constructed in 1884, was destroyed in a tornado in 1885; the current Gothic Revival building was completed in 1888. An Akron Plan New Market United Methodist Church was built in 1923. Many commercial buildings that were constructed in the early 1900s were destroyed in a fire in 1925. Many were rebuilt, including the Classical Revival bank.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1991 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph D. Bernard House  is a historic house located in Rayne, Louisiana in the United States. The house is the former home of the first mayor of the city of Rayne, Joseph Bernard. As one of the oldest homes in Rayne. Today, the house serves as the Rayne Cultural Center.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house, built in 1881, is the former home of Joseph D. Bernard, co-founder and first mayor of Rayne, Louisiana, which was incorporated in 1883. The house was built on West South 1st Street. Bernard sold the house in 1918 to E.J. Bertrand, who ran the town power plant. Around 1999, the house was threatened to be demolished. That year, it was moved to its current location to avoid demolition.</p><br>
<p>The John and Amelia McClintock House is a historic building located at 321 E. Main Street in Grafton, Illinois. Boat builder John McClintock built the house for his family circa 1910. The rock-faced concrete house, an unusual departure from Grafton&#39;s limestone buildings, has a Queen Anne design. The entrance is located at the corner of a wraparound front porch and is topped by a conical roof. The front of the house has a cutaway bay, giving the house an asymmetrical appearance, and the gable roof has multiple components; both features are typical of Queen Anne designs. The building is now used as a commercial property.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1994.</p><br>
<p>Leluh is a major prehistoric and historic archaeological site, encompassing the remains of a city on Lelu Island, a satellite of the larger island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia. The remains are those of a civilization that peaked around the 14th and 15th centuries, with elements still visible at the time of European contact in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The rulers of Leluh gradually conquered and thus unified the island of Kosrae. From the capital at Leluh, they ruled the island with a monarchy that archaeologists believe was similar to the kingdoms of Tonga or Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>The city itself is built of blocks of coral and basalt. It consists of housing, royal tombs and sacred spaces. Housing regrouped the king, his family, the high and low aristocracy and of course the commoner population. The materials used for the construction of housing depended on social class, as did the spatial situation of the people: in the center the King and the aristocracy behind high walls of basalt (similar to those of Nan Madol), to the west, the lower aristocracy in modest houses of coral, and the rest of the population in simple huts.</p><br>
<p>At the time of European contact, the population of Kosrae was estimated at 6,000 persons; it dropped to 200 in 1870. In the wake of increased settlement, materials of the city were recycled for other uses over the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Sidney Park Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Sidney Park Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1893, and is a brick Late Gothic Revival style church. It features the only set of octagonal towers in Columbia; each is topped by an octagonal steeple. The church also has lancet windows and pointed arches, wall buttresses, and a heavy timber truss system. The African-American congregation has a long history of involvement with civil rights activity and connection with the NAACP.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Randolph Cemetery is a historic cemetery for African-Americans in Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1872 and expanded in 1899. It was named for Benjamin F. Randolph , who was reburied at the cemetery in 1871. Randolph was a militia leader protecting African Americans when he was assassinated. A memorial in his honor and for other African-American leaders killed was erected. Gravemarkers include both manufactured and vernacular homemade varieties. The cemetery holds eight Reconstruction Era state legislators. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Randolph Cemetery was established as the first cemetery for Columbias African-American population (up until then, African-Americans has been buried in the local potters field called Lower Cemetery between the river and the current Randolph Cemetery). The cemetery initially consisted of three acres purchased from Elmwood Cemetery in 1872. An additional acre was purchased in 1899.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery fell into decline as the descendants of those interred and the owners of the remaining plots moved away, many as part of the Great Migration. The area became wilderness by the middle of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The city of Columbia began to clear it out with bulldozers as part of its urban renewal program in 1959, but the clearing was halted when Minnie Simons Williams, a local resident, drew the city&#39;s attention to the historical significance of the cemetery. Williams, along with descendants of the founders of the cemetery, reestablished the Randolph Cemetery Association and were given (through a legal suit) stewardship of the cemetery. The association has organized donations and volunteers to restore and maintain the cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Henry Cardozo (1830–1886), state senator</p><br>
<p>George Elmore (South Carolina), businessman who challenged South Carolina&#39;s whites-only Democratic Party primary system</p><br>
<p>William Fabriel Myers (1850–1917), state senator</p><br>
<p>William Beverly Nash (1822–1888), state senator</p><br>
<p>Robert John Palmer (1849–1928), state representative</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Franklin Randolph (d 1868) state senator</p><br>
<p>William Simons (d 1878), state representative</p><br>
<p>Samuel Benjamin Thompson (1837–1909), state representative</p><br>
<p>Charles McDuffie Wilder (1835–1902), postmaster and city council member in Columbia, South Carolina</p><br>
<p>Lucius Wimbush (1839–1872), state senator</p><br>
<p>The Plaistow Carhouse was a historic streetcar carhouse at 27 Elm Street in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Built in 1901, it was a surviving reminder of a short-lived trolley service that served the town until 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was demolished around 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Plaistow Carhouse was located in Plaistow&#39;s central village, at the southeast corner of Elm Street and Palmer Avenue. It was a brick structure, consisting of a large structure in which trolleys were serviced, and a smaller area originally used as an office and waiting room. The service area measured 50 x, and was covered by a flat roof with a monitor section at the center. The office was two stories in height, also with a flat roof, and was five bays wide and two deep.</p><br>
<p>The carhouse was built in 1901 for the Haverhill, Plaistow & Newton Street Railway, which introduced service that year between Plaistow, Haverhill, and Amesbury, Massachusetts. This company was eventually consolidated into one providing service as far as New Hampshire&#39;s seacoast. The company provided year-round service to the industrial employment centers of Haverhill and Amesbury, with seacoast service running mainly in the warmer months. It became part of the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway in 1913. Coastal service was abandoned in 1920, and altogether by 1930. The Plaistow carhouse was one of several to survive in southern New Hampshire, and was one of the least-altered. It was designed by the New York City firm Sheaff & Jaastad.</p><br>
<p>After trolley service was discontinued, the building was used as a storage facility by an amusement company. It was purchased by the town in 1979 with the intention of conversion into a public safety complex. The former carhouse was demolished around 1985, however, in favor of a new structure.</p><br>
<p>The General Porter House is a historic house at 32-34 Livermore Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built about 1751, it is a well-preserved example of a Portsmouth gambrel-roofed double house, and has been home to a number of prominent individuals. Now housing residential condominiums, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The General Porter House is located on the east side of Livermore Street, a short residential street facing Haven Park south of downtown Portsmouth. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboarded exterior. A "Portsmouth double house", it is five bays wide and two deep, with additions on either side, and an ell to the rear. The main entrance is at the center of the facade, topped by a rounded pediment and flanked by pilasters. The roof is pierced by five dormers, all but the center one with gabled roofs. The center one matches the entry trim in having a rounded roof. The right-side projecting has a secondary entrance, also flanked by pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1751 by Matthew Livermore, who was New Hampshires first formally-educated lawyer, and was a representative to New Hampshires provisional government during the American Revolutionary War. The house has been moved twice, both times in the 19th century. Another major owner was Samuel Coues, a leader of the shipbuilding industry in Portsmouth during the 19th century, and leader of the American Peace Party in the 1840s. Its most recent notable resident was General Fitz John Porter, a United States Army general who served in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The building was converted into condominiums in 1983, at which time the doorways were reconfigured, removing one in the left projection.</p><br>
<p>The Portsmouth Cottage Hospital was the first hospital built in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Opened in 1884, it was one of the first hospitals in New Hampshire, and it served as the city&#39;s primary hospital facility until 1986, when Portsmouth Regional Hospital opened. Its 1895 campus has been repurposed to house city offices and the police station, and a senior living facility. A portion of that facility, representing its oldest buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Portsmouth Cottage Hospital was founded in 1884, and was an outgrowth of charitable impulses that included the operation of almshouses for the poor and needy, and the provision of care for wounded veterans of the American Civil War. The driving force in its founding was Harriet Kimball, the daughter of a local pharmacist. The hospital was originally located at 51 Court Street, in a large house now located in the Strawbery Banke museum complex. That building quickly proved inadequate as a hospital facility, and fundraising began in 1889 for construction of a proper dedicated facility.</p><br>
<p>Land for the new facility was purchased on the south side of the South Mill Pond, and the core of the hospital complex, a -story brick building designed by Boston architect Harry Ball, was opened in 1895. The hospital was run as a secular charity, providing a significant number of patient stays at no or reduced cost. It received a small amount of funding from the city until 1903. The main building was enlarged several times before 1962, when a more modern facility was built directly adjacent. At that time, the old building was converted to house an outpatient mental health clinic as well as hospital administrative offices. The entire complex was acquired in 1983 by the for-profit Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). HCA opened the Portsmouth Regional Hospital in 1986, closing the old campus.</p><br>
<p>The city purchased the campus in 1986. The 1962 building and a former nurses&#39; housing building were adapted to house city offices and its main police station. The original 1895 building was converted in 2004 into a senior living facility by the Portsmouth Housing Authority (PHA) and renamed “Connors Cottage” after Timothy Joseph “Ted” Connors, two-time Portsmouth mayor, and Director of PHA who championed saving the aging hospital and converting it to senior housing. Connors was born in the Cottage Hospital in 1937.</p><br>
