<p>John M. White House, also known as Springs Industries Guest House, is a historic home located at Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It was built about 1872, and is a two-story brick dwelling with Italianate and Second Empire style design elements. It features a low-pitched, bracketed roof, a front verandah with decorative brackets, and a mansard roofed central pavilion. Also on the property is a one-story brick cottage and carriage house / garage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>William Elliott White House -- also known as Elliott White Springs House—is a historic home located near Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It was built in 1831, and is a two-story brick house with Federal design elements. It features an elegant portico. The east wing was added in 1922, the west wing in 1936, and the greenhouse/pool in 1955. The house is one of the sites believed to have held the last full meeting of the Cabinet of the Confederate States of America. It was the home of Elliott White Springs, South Carolina textile magnate and writer of short stories in the 1920s and 1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Hightower Hall  is a historic home located near McConnells, York County, South Carolina. Completed in 1856, Hightower Hall is a two-story, weatherboarded frame dwelling in a vernacular interpretation of the Italianate style. The front facade features a prominent three-story tower that rises ten feet above the main roof of the house. It also has a low-pitched roof, deep eaves, decorative brackets and verandahs. Also on the property are two barns and two slave cabins.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction began in 1854 by John Simpson Bratton Jr. and Harriet Rainy Bratton. In 1856 the home was completed and was called Forrest Hall. In 1888 John Bratton died, followed by his wife Harriet in 1912. Sophia (Bratton) Witherspoon, the daughter of John and Harriet, and her husband Robert Witherspoon gained ownership.</p><br>
<p>The home was purchased by Mr. R. F. Draper, and IBM executive, in 1958 where it gained the name "Hightower Hall." The family acquired an additional 1,285 acres by the time of his death in 1995. Brattonsville Historic District purchased the property and surrounding 485 acres of the Draper Estate with help from the Nation Ford Land Trust, the Friends of Historic Brattonsville and the York County Council. The remaining property was purchased by the State of South Carolina, becoming part of the South Carolina Wildlife Management system.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hightower Hall is now part of Historic Brattonsville and is open as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>National Guard Armory is a historic National Guard armory located at Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The armory was built in 1938 with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration. The brick building consists of a central block with tall vertical windows, two flanking sections, and two end sections. The brickwork and windows are reflective of Art Deco style architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Fort Mill Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It encompasses 16 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 4 contributing objects in the central business district of Fort Mill. The buildings are predominantly one and two-story masonry commercial buildings constructed between 1860 and 1940. The district includes the Confederate Park and its Bandstand. Notable contributing resources include the Confederate Soldiers Monument, Catawba Indians Monument, Faithful Slaves Monument, Jones Drug Store, and First National Bank / Old City Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Clover Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Clover, York County, South Carolina. It encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the central business district of Clover. The buildings are predominantly one to three-story masonry commercial buildings built between the mid-1880s and about 1935.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Sharon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Sharon, York County, South Carolina. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in the central business district of Sharon. The buildings are predominantly masonry commercial buildings built between 1908 and 1944. The buildings are the First National Bank of Sharon, Shannon and Plexico Buildings, Love and Kennedy Buildings, Hope Building and Sims Hood Drugstore, and John S. Rainey Cotton Gin, Seedhouse and Office.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Hill Complex Historic District is a national historic district located at Sharon, York County, South Carolina. It encompasses four contributing buildings in Sharon. The buildings are commercial, industrial, and residential buildings built by William Lawrence Hill between about 1890 and 1925. The buildings are the William L. Hill House , W. L. Hill Cotton Gin , W. L. Hill Cotton Warehouse and Dock , and the separately listed W.L. Hill Store .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Deerfield Town House  is the town hall of Deerfield, New Hampshire. Built in 1856, it is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of public Greek Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, as "Town House".</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Deerfield Town House is located on Church Street (formerly Old Centre Road), just west of its junction with New Hampshire Route 107. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a granite foundation, gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its corners have pilasters rising to full entablature, and the gable end is fully pedimented, with a small oculus window. There are three doors on the main facade, each flanked by Doric pilasters and topped by an entablature. Above each doorway is a sash window. Similar sash windows line the sides, with lintels that have slightly projecting cornices. The front of its lower hall has been divided to provide office space for the town and a kitchen, but has retained its original pine flooring, and there are builtin benches lining the side walls. The upper hall floor has been resurfaced in hardwood, and it has a stage with proscenium arch at the rear, which are of uncertain date.</p><br>
<p>The town hall was built in 1856 to a design by Foster & Robinson of Concord. The builder was local contractor Peter O. Woodman. It is one of the state&#39;s finest examples of public Greek Revival architecture, retaining virtually all of its original features. The interior dividers on the ground floor are an easily removable later alteration.</p><br>
<p>Spratt Cemetery is a historic family cemetery located near Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It contains graves of three generations of the Spratt family, and other early settlers of the Fort Mill area. The cemetery consists of 14 marked graves and approximately 9 graves with broken stones or partial markers. It includes the grave of Thomas "Kanawha" Spratt , one of the first settlers of the area, and located adjacent to the site his homestead along Nation Ford Road. The land was provided for the Spratt homestead by the General New River, leader of the Catawba tribe.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Watson Academy is a historic school building on Academy Street in Epping, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1883, it is the only known surviving Queen Anne style school building in southern New Hampshire. The building, which served as Epping&#39;s high school until 1966, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Watson Academy is located in geographically central Epping but north of the town center, on the north side of Academy Street between Prescott Road and Main Street. The building is basically rectangular in form, with symmetrical single-story wings extending the front facade, and is finished in a combination of wooden clapboards and fish-scale shingles. It has a variety of gables and window sizes and shapes, typical of the Queen Anne period, as well as Stick style applied woodwork. It was originally adorned with decoratively corbelled brick chimneys and a conical tower; these features have been removed.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1883, and is the only known Queen Anne style school building in southern New Hampshire. It was designed by Dover architect Charles E. Joy, who moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1884. The school was built with funds bequeathed by Daniel Watson Ladd, a local businessman, in order to provide secondary school educational opportunities to students whose families could not afford to send them to other private academies. The school was managed by private trustees for five years, and then turned over to the town. It served as Epping&#39;s high school from 1888 until 1966.</p><br>
<p>The Gov. Meshech Weare House is a historic house on Exeter Road  in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. It was built in 1723, and is notable as the home of Meshech Weare, the first Governor of New Hampshire after it declared independence from the British crown. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Governor Meshech Weare House stands in the town center of Hampton Falls, on the north side of Exeter Road at its junction with Lincoln Avenue. It is just west of the First Baptist Church, and across the street from a public school. To its west is a small park named in Weare&#39;s honor. The house is stories in height, and is of wood-frame construction with a side gable roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and full segmented-arch pediment. The interior of the building is a combination of old and modern elements, including some period paneling. The house has ells extending to the rear, which are 20th century work done to replace others destroyed in fires. After a 1957 fire the rear of the main block was extended, increasing the size of the rooms there.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1723, and was for many years home to Meshech Weare. Weare (1713-1786) was educated at Harvard, and was primarily a farmer until the time of the American Revolution. A reluctant supporter of independence, he chaired the state&#39;s executive committee during the American Revolutionary War, and became its first President in 1784 (the term Governor of New Hampshire was adopted later). Notable guests at the house include George Washington, James Madison, and the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Edwards was a historic hotel building at Main and 4th Streets in Highlands, North Carolina. The main block of the hotel, a three-story brick structure, was built in 1935. It was attached to a c. 1880 -story wood-frame structure, which was operated for many years as a boarding house or hostelry, and is now the historic main inn for Old Edwards Inn and Spa. The brick block was designed by Linton H. Young, and was built after the construction of the Highlands Country Club brought an influx of summer visitors to the area. The property was operated as a hotel by the Edwards family from 1914 to 1970 and is now owned by Art and Angela Williams  of Palm Beach, FL.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>McCorkle-Fewell-Long House is a historic home located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built prior to 1821, and extensively rebuilt about 1880, incorporating Queen Anne style elements. It is a two-story, five bay dwelling of heavy timber-frame construction sheathed with weatherboard and flushboard siding. It features a full-width front porch with square columns and decorative scrollwork. Located to the rear of the house is the former carriage house .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Stokes-Mayfield House is a historic home located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story, frame residence with cross-gabled slate roof in the Neo-Classical style. The house features a two-story tetrastyle Corinthian order pedimented portico and a balcony with decorative iron brackets above the front door.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Frye-Randolph House and Fryemont Inn are a pair of historic properties on Fryemont Road in Bryson City, North Carolina. The two buildings occupy a prominent site overlooking the Tuckasegee River and Bryson City, and are well-known local landmarks. The house is an L-shaped wood-frame structure, whose oldest portion was built c. 1895 by Amos Frye, a prominent local lawyer and landowner. The inn is a rustic mountain lodge, two stories high, part of which is clad in bark shingles. It was built by the Fryes in 1923, and is a well-preserved example of a period vacation hotel.</p><br>
<p>The properties, now under separate ownership, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The inn is still in operation.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Academy is a historic school building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a one-story, rectangular brick structure of simple design. The school was originally associated with Ebenezer Presbyterian Church until Rock Hill public schools were established about 1888 and was leased to York County for an elementary school. The school continued until 1950 when it was deeded back to the church. It is the oldest known school building standing in York County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Afro-American Insurance Company Building is a historic commercial building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1909, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The façade has a tan brick veneer, while the sides and rear are in red brick. It is an important surviving example of a commercial building related to the African-American community of the early-20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Peoples National Bank Building, also known as Franklins Clothing Store, is a historic bank building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1909–1910, and is a four-story brick building, plus basement. It was the first building in the city constructed as a speculative office building, the first with a passenger elevator, and the tallest commercial building in Rock Hill. The People&#39;s National Bank merged with Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina in 1964 and moved out of the building in 1972.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Rock Hill Body Company, originally known as Victoria Yarn Mill # 2, is a historic industrial building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1915, and is a two-story brick industrial building built as a textile mill. Later modifications include a one-story office addition and an elevator tower addition on the rear. It was the home of the Rock Hill Body Company, one of the earliest makers of truck bodies and school bus bodies in South Carolina, from 1938 to 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Rock Hill Cotton Factory, also known as Plej&#39;s Textile Mill Outlets, Ostrow Textile Mill, and Fewell Cotton Warehouse, is a historic textile mill complex located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. The mill was built in 1881, and is a two-story, 12 bay by 16 bay, brick factory. It features a three-story tower at the main entrance. A number of additions have been made to the building. The Fewell Cotton Warehouse is a one-story, brick and wood frame warehouse built before 1894.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, with a boundary increase in 2008. The building is now used as a retail and office place known as the Cotton Factory Plaza.</p><br>
<p>Bleachery Water Treatment Plant is a historic water treatment plant located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built in 1930, and is a one-story brick building and filtration/purification facility in the Colonial Revival style. The city of Rock Hill passed a bond issue to build Bleachery Water Treatment Plant, to support the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company investment by M. Lowenstein Company of New York.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Laurelwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was established in 1872, and was the first municipal cemetery of Rock Hill. It contains over 11,414 marked grave sites and includes variety of funerary art including a few raised stone tombs and a number of obelisks, table markers, spheres, and other forms. The cemetery also includes a Confederate monument and a memorial to veterans of the World War I.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Merrimack Mill Village Historic District is a historic district in Huntsville, Alabama. The cotton mill was built in 1900 by the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, reaching a peak of 1,600 employees by 1955. The mill was sold in 1946, and became known as the Huntsville Manufacturing Company. It operated until 1989 and was torn down in 1992. Houses in the adjoining mill village were built between 1900 and 1937, and encompass many mill house styles not commonly seen outside New England. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1898 the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to look for a location to build a cotton spinning mill in the Southern United States. Tracy W. Pratt, a Huntsville businessman who owned the West Huntsville Cotton Mill and would later be instrumental in building Lowe Mill, convinced the company to choose a site southwest of Huntsville. The company broke ground on 1,385 acres (560 ha) near Brahan Spring the following year, and the mill opened in 1900. The mill produced grey cloth which was finished in Rock Hill, South Carolina. When it opened, the mill employed about 500–750 people, operating 1,800 looms and 25,000 spindles. The mill was powered by steam from a coal boiler until it was converted to electricity in 1920. A village of about 60 houses was built to house the workers.</p><br>
<p>Soon after opening, Merrimack announced the construction of a second mill, which would be completed in 1904. The new mill brought the capacity up to 90,000 spindles and 2,900 looms. Joseph J. Bradley, Sr., became the mills agent in 1905; he began improving services for those in the village. The first hospital opened in one of the village houses in 1913 and was replaced by a larger, dedicated facility in 1916. The first school also opened in 1913, followed by a four-room schoolhouse in 1914 and a larger brick building in 1919, which was later named in Bradleys honor. Several new houses were also built in the 1910s. Buoyed by profits from high production during World War I, the mill expanded in 1920, adding 30,000 square feet (2,800 sq. m.) to Mill No. 1. The mill store was greatly expanded the same year, incorporating the old frame structure and adding a gymnasium, theater, two community rooms, and other amenities. Beginning in 1922, the village houses were wired for electricity, and sidewalks and a sanitary sewer system were added. Further houses were built, bringing the total to 279 by 1925.</p><br>
<p>During the 1920s and the Great Depression, the company fell into financial trouble. Merrimack reached 1400 employees in 1925, but just two years later, employment had fallen to 850. To raise capital, the mill began selling the village houses, first to employees and then to investors, although they continued to build new houses until 1937. Labor unions also became a presence among the workforce. another strike at Merrimack and Dallas Mill followed in 1937. Business rebounded during World War II, but soon after, facing aging equipment and soft prices due to overseas competition, Merrimack sold the mill to M. Lowenstein and Co. of New York City.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the sale, the mill employed about 800 and had 110,000 spindles and 2,500 looms. Lowenstein invested $1.7 million in modernizing equipment, and expanded to a 24-hour production day. Beginning in 1949, 269 more houses were sold to employees. Two years later, the school was donated to the Madison County School District and Brahan Springs, behind the mill, was donated to the city. By 1955, the two mill buildings were connected, and the entire mill was air conditioned, bringing the mill to its peak of 1,600 employees, 145,896 spindles, and 3,437 looms. Lowenstein sold the mill to Springs Industries in 1988, who operated it for one year before closing it completely. The mills were demolished in 1992, and the land today is used as soccer fields.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The mill buildings, completed in 1900 and 1904, were designed by preeminent mill architects Lockwood, Greene & Co. Mill No. 1 was three stories and Mill No. 2 was five stories, both of brick with arched lintels and stone sills. Mill No. 1 had the carding, drawing, and picking areas plus a repair shop on the first floor; weaving on the second floor; and spooling, warping, and spinning on the third.</p><br>
<p>The village is laid out along a grid pattern broken by a Y-shaped street which led to the mill and contained the superintendents house in the Y. This design is identical to that of Merrimacks mill village in Massachusetts, platted in 1820. The houses followed several basic plans: Type A, a one-story, duplex shotgun house; Type B, a rectangular duplex with double central entry doors and a shed roof porch; Type J, a two-story I-house, usually with a shed roof rear addition; Type L, a two-story, cross-gable duplex with side entrances covered by shallow-pitched gable porches; and Type M, a one-story, hipped roof duplex with a shed roofed front porch. The 96 Type L houses, most of which were constructed in the first wave of construction before 1910, represent the largest collection of the type in the South.</p><br>
<p>Winthrop College Historic District is a national historic district located on the campus of Winthrop University at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It encompasses 17 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure constructed between 1894 and 1943. Architectural styles represented include Gothic Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Classical Revival, and Colonial Revival. Notable buildings include the separately listed Tillman Hall and Withers Building, as well as Alumni House, Phelps Dormitory, Thurmond Building, Byrnes</p><br>
<p>Auditorium, Johnson Hall, and the President&#39;s Residence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Marion Street Area Historic District is a national historic district in Rock Hill, South Carolina. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a middle-class residential section of Rock Hill. The bulk of the district developed between 1906 and 1925. Architectural styles represented include Victorian, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include the Rawlinson House , McCall-Jones-Byrant House , Davis House, and W. B. Jenkins House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Reid Street–North Confederate Avenue Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It encompasses 22 contributing buildings in a middle-class residential section of Rock Hill. The district developed between about 1839 and 1935. Architectural styles represented include Victorian, Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include the Steed House , Bynum House , Jenkins House , and Gross-Brock House , along with the separately listed White House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Charlotte Avenue–Aiken Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing dwellings in the Oakland section of Rock Hill. The district developed between about 1891 and 1935. Architectural styles represented include Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow. Contributing buildings are the Hughes Walker House, Paul D. Farris House, Roy Z. Thomas House, Wilson House , Armstrong-Mauldin House, and Bays-Blackman House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Highland Park Manufacturing Plant and Cotton Oil Complex is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It encompasses three contributing building and two contributing structures in Rock Hill. The complex includes the Highland Park Manufacturing Plant , the Highland Park Cotton Oil Mill , and the Highland Park Cotton Oil Mill Office . They are the surviving buildings of a larger complex, including a gin and seed house, the rest of which have been demolished. Surrounding the original mill are portions of the mill village. The mill operated until 1968.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Stelljes House is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 31 in Goshen, New Hampshire. Built about 1800, it is one of the oldest of a cluster of plank-frame houses in Goshen. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has possibly been demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stelljes House stands in a rural area of southern Goshen, on the east side of NH 31. It is a -story wooden structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A brick chimney rises slightly off-center from the roof ridge. The main facade is asymmetrical, with a slightly off-center entrance, two sash windows to its left, and a three-section modern picture window to the right. A gable dormer projects from the rear roof face. An ell extends from the southern portion of the rear of the main block, with a porch in the corner joining the two blocks.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1800, and is one of the oldest of Goshen&#39;s cluster of plank-frame houses. The framing is three-inch planking attached vertically to sills, which rests on a rubble and granite stone foundation. Dowels are attached horizontally to give this framing lateral stability. The front facade was probably originally five bays across.</p><br>
<p>Welcome Acres is a historic house in Goshen, New Hampshire. It is located on the east side of New Hampshire Route 10, about 1/2 mile north of its junction with Brook Road. Built c. 1835, it is one of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the community, and is unusual in that set for being two stories high, and for its unusual construction. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Welcome Acres is located north of the village center of Goshen, on the east side of NH 10. It is a -story wooden structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a central brick chimney, and a single-story ell extending to the right. It is framed with three-inch planking laid horizontally, one of only two houses in Goshen&#39;s cluster of plank-frame houses where the planks are not set vertically. The house is five bays wide and two deep, and occupies a prominent position in the Mill Village section of Goshen. The main facade is symmetrical, with sash windows flanking the center entry. The entry is a modern door, flanked by pilasters which rise to a peaked entablature. The second level has no window above the entry. The building corners also have pilasters, which rise to the main roof ridge, which has Greek Revival style returns on the sides.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1835.</p><br>
<p>The German-American Bank Building is a historic bank building located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was built in 1889, and is a six-story, rectangular brick building designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style with added Beaux-Arts detailing. The bank originally was created to provide service to the large number of German-speaking citizens in the region. In 1918 it was renamed the American National Bank. Later, it became First Federal Savings and Loan.</p><br>
<p>It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the St. Joseph&#39;s Commerce and Banking Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In 1986 a number of aspects were photographed and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.</p><br>
<p>It was announced in July, 2014, that Heartland Health and Mosaic Life Care would be renovating the building along with surrounding properties in a 2-year, $20 million effort. As part of a revitalization project in downtown St. Joseph, it will provide office space for up to 200 health workers. At the time of the announcement, it is being used by Legal Aid of Western Missouri and several other businesses. The renovation is intended to blend historic bank features such as the natural brick walls and the carved columns with the company&#39;s standard design look and modern features.</p><br>
<p>The Albany Town House is a historic town hall building at the junction of Maine Routes 5 and 35 with Vernon Street and Hunt&#39;s Corner Road in Albany Township, Maine. Built in 1848, it is the only surviving governmental structure of the former town of Albany, which was incorporated in 1803 and disincorporated in 1937. Since 1947 the building has been owned by the non-profit Albany Improvement Association, and continues to serve the area as a community hall. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The town house is a single story wood-frame structure on a small rise. Nearby area a few houses, as well as the townships two other public buildings, a grange hall (1909) and church (1877–78). It is about 35 ft square, with its main entrance facing south, toward Hunts Corner Road. The main facade consists of a central entry flanked by sash windows. There is evidence that the doorway originally had sidelight windows; these appear to have been covered over or removed in a 20th-century re-siding of the structure. The door is topped by a slightly triangular header, a vernacular nod to Greek Revival styling popular at the time of the building&#39;s construction. A small addition, containing a privy and woodshed, extends north from the main block.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building is an open hall with a small separated kitchen area in the southwest corner. The ceiling is finished in tin, a replacement (at unknown date) for the original plaster ceiling. The floor is narrow hardwood, and the walls are lined with beadboard wainscoting. There is a raised platform in the northeast corner, which once held a wood stove.</p><br>
<p>Taos Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Taos, New Mexico. Taos "played a major role in the development of New Mexico, under Spanish, Mexican, and American governments." It is a key historical feature of the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway of northern New Mexico.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Taos Downtown Historic District is located in the center of Taos, New Mexico. It is roughly bounded by Ojitos, Quesnel, Martyr&#39;s Lane, Las Placitas and Ranchitos Streets.</p><br>
<p>More broadly the area originally called Don Fernando de Taos is located in the Taos Valley, alongside Taos Creek and about 2 mi south of Taos Pueblo. In the distance is Taos Peak.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Native Americans</h3><br>
<p>Arrowheads, potshards and pictographs found in the area provide evidence that Native Americans ranged through the Taos area about 6,000 years ago. About 900 years ago Pueblo people moved into the Taos and Picuris Pueblo areas.</p><br>
<h3>Spanish settlement</h3><br>
<p>Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernando de Alvardo, entered the Taos Valley in 1540. The area was settled by Spanish colonialists starting about 1615. What had begun as good relationships between the people from the pueblo and the settlers became contentious due to "brutal treatment" of the pueblo residents by the Franciscan missionaries, pressure to convert to Christianity, and demands to make tributes to encomenderos. Some of the colonists left the Taos area in 1840 after the Franciscan priest was killed. In 1661 some people returned to the still difficult situation. Due to the poor treatment of the residents of the pueblo, a revolt by indigenous peoples in 1680 resulted in the Spanish being driven out of the area. Sixteen years later the Taos valley was resettled by Don Diego de Vargas of Spain with a renewed and more respectful perspective. Spanish families settled in the Taos Plaza area and Ranchos de Taos. In 1710 the Spanish regained the territory.</p><br>
<p>For protection against attacks by Plains Indians, many people of Spanish heritage lived on,</p><br>
<p>In 1779 the Battle of Cuerno Verde was led by Juan Bautista de Anza against the Comanches. Several tribal leaders and the chief were killed during the battle. As a result, the hostilities by that tribe subsided. In 1794 an order was initiated that prohibited Spanish, Negroes and mulattoes from living on pueblo lands. In addition, the General Indian Policy by Commandant General Teodoro de Croix resulted in a reduction in hostile attacks in the Taos Valley.</p><br>
<p>In 1796, The Don Fernando de Taos Land Grant gave land to 63 Spanish families in the Taos valley, including the Taos Plaza which was then called Don Fernando de Taos. The settlement was built as a fortified plaza, with strong gates to enclose the settlement to protect the residents and livestock at threats of attack by Plains Indians. At each corner of the thick adobe walls of the plaza sentries stood guard for protection. Within the plaza, residents celebrated during fiestas, engaged in church festivities, and traded goods. It is now a central plaza surrounded by residential areas.</p><br>
<p>Taos was the most northern stop on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, also known as the King&#39;s Highway, from Mexico City.</p><br>
<p>Mountain men who trapped for beaver nearby made Taos their home in the early 1800s. In December 1826 Kit Carson arrived and later married Josefa Jaramillo from Taos. At that time there were about 500 settlers in Taos. It was almost as important as Santa Fe and was the northernmost custom depot of the Spanish colonial settlements. As the Santa Fe Trail was established between the American territory of Missouri and Santa Fe, fur trade and goods trade developed in Taos for people of American, Spanish and Native American heritage. Santa Fe Trail traders included Charles Bent and William Bent who operated Bent&#39;s Fort. Goods produced in Taos included furs, blankets, and "Taos lightning", made from fermented wheat.</p><br>
<p>In 1826 Padre Antonio José Martínez began to serve the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He also founded a newspaper, the first one west of the Mississippi, which was the precursor to the modern The Taos News.</p><br>
<p>In 1830 building housing a jail and courthouse was built on the north side of the plaza. The Columbian and Don Fernando hotels, saloons and gambling establishments were built to accommodate the influx of visitors to Taos.</p><br>
<p>Taos Plaza</p><br>
<p>Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish</p><br>
<p>La Morada de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe</p><br>
<p>Kit Carson House</p><br>
<p>La Loma Plaza Historic District</p><br>
<p>Martinez Hacienda</p><br>
<p>Ranchos de Taos</p><br>
<p>Taos Pueblo</p><br>
<h3>American territory and settlement</h3><br>
<p>The United States took possession of New Mexico in 1847 (during the Mexican–American War). In retaliation, some former Mexican citizens and Taos Natives rebelled and during the Taos Revolt Charles Bent, the first territorial governor, was killed in his home. In response, the United States Army killed more than 150 people at the Taos Pueblo and destroyed the original San Geronimo Mission. In 1850, New Mexico and Arizona became an official territory of the United States.</p><br>
<p>Taos, one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the Taos valley, has examples of Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival, Pueblo Revival and Territorial architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 1930 several buildings on the plaza succumbed to fire, including the courthouse building and the Don Fernando Hotel. A new courthouse building was built and in 1933 and 1934 the Works Progress Administration funded the creation of murals within the courthouse. The frescoes were painted by Taos art colony members Emil Bisttram, Victor Higgins, Ward Lockwood and Bert Geer Phillips.</p><br>
<p>Governor Charles Bent House</p><br>
<p>Taos Inn</p><br>
<h3>Taos art colony</h3><br>
<p>In the late 19th century members of the Taos art colony settled in homes and studios around the plaza. The first of which were Bert Geer Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein who became "enthralled" by Taos scenery and clear light in 1898. The Taos Society of Artists was formed in 1912 with other artists who had moved to Taos.</p><br>
<p>Socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan arrived in Taos in 1917 and brought "creative luminaries" to the area, including Carl Jung, Georgia O&#39;Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Wolfe, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, Thornton Wilder, and Aldous Huxley.</p><br>
<p>Ernest L. Blumenschein House</p><br>
<p>Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio—Joseph Henry Sharp Studios</p><br>
<p>Nicolai Fechin House</p><br>
<p>Leon Gaspard House</p><br>
<p>Harwood House</p><br>
<p>Ernest Martin Hennings</p><br>
<p>Mabel Dodge Luhan House</p><br>
<p>Taos Art Museum</p><br>
<h3>Hippie hang out</h3><br>
<p>Inspired by the movie Easy Rider in which bikers "briefly discovered peace, creativity, and free love", Hippies arrived in Taos in the 1960s and 1970s and their residence influenced the culture of Taos.</p><br>
<h2>Taos historic places</h2><br>
<p>The Hasselborg Lake South Shelter Cabin is a historic backcountry shelter in the Admiralty Island National Monument, part of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. It is one of a number of such facilities built by Civilian Conservation Corps  on the Admiralty Island Canoe Route between 1933 and 1937. The cabin is located on the southwest of Hasselborg Lake, north of the Hasselborg Cabin, and near the portage trail leading to Lake Guerin. As built by the CCC, it was a three-sided Adirondack-style log shelter with shake walls and roof. Sills and the lower ends of its posts have been replaced due to rot.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Chilkat Oil Company Refinery Site is a historic industrial site near the ghost town of Katalla, Alaska. It is located at the head of Katalla Slough, an arm of Katalla Bay, and about 20 mi southeast of the mouth of the Copper River. The site consists of the ruined remnants of Alaska&#39;s first petroleum refinery, which operated from roughly 1911 until 1933, when it was partially destroyed by fire and abandoned. Oil had been discovered in Katalla Bay as early as 1902, and the company was formed to exploit the resource, reportedly producing more than 50,000 gallons of gasoline in 1921. Facilities at the site included a warehouse, tank house, running house, coal house, condensing house, and residence, all of which were reported to be in ruins in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Nation Ford Fish Weir is a historic fishing weir located near Rock Hill, South Carolina. It is one of the few relatively intact Native American fish weirs remaining in South Carolina. It is a double V-shaped rock fish trap or weir located in the channel of the Catawba River upstream from the railroad trestle at Nation Ford. The weir is located near the Nation Ford Road crossing point of the river and to several documented Catawba people villages.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Hugh Aiken House is a historic home located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was designed in 1948, by noted Greenville architect William Riddle Ward and built in 1952. It is a -story frame residence in the Colonial Revival style. A large, tapered stone chimney dominates the front elevation of the house. The property features an extensively landscaped lot that is a heavily wooded, natural setting with falling topography and natural springs.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Primary School is a historic school building located 200 ft on 107 E. Main Street in Otterville, Illinois. The two-story Italianate building was constructed in 1873 using limestone from the original school building, which was built in 1835. The original school was the first free and integrated school in the United States. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Silas Hamilton, for whom the school is named, was born in New England. He later owned and operated a plantation in Mississippi, hoping to influence his neighbors by treating his slave humanely. His neighbors were unimpressed, and after the death of his son, Silas abandoned his dream. In 1827, he freed his 28 slaves in Cincinnati. He then moved to Illinois, settling in Otterville (then known as Gullum) in 1830. When Hamilton died in 1834, he left $4000 for the construction of a free and integrated public school. The school, which was completed in 1835, was the first free school in Illinois and the first free and integrated school in the United States. In 1839, the Illinois General Assembly legally incorporated the school. The original building was demolished in 1872, and the current school building was built from the same stone the following year.</p><br>
<p>George Washington, one of Hamilton&#39;s former slaves, bequeathed $1500 upon his death in 1864 to build a monument to Hamilton. The marble monument, erected in front of the school the same year, is currently maintained by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. A plaque in front of the Jersey County Courthouse also commemorates the school.</p><br>
<p>The school building served Otterville&#39;s students until 1971. The Otter Creek Historical Society took control of the building in 1982; however, the school has suffered from poor maintenance since then due to insufficient funding. Landmarks Illinois named the school as one of the ten most endangered historic places in Illinois in April 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-story, limestone school has an Italianate design. The limestone used to build the school came from the 1835 school building and was originally from the Hiram White Quarry in Mississippi Township; due to its local abundance, limestone was a popular building material in Jersey County in the mid-19th century. The front entrance has an arched double door below a second-floor arched section with two arched windows and an oculus; another oculus is above the opening, and a pediment tops the entrance bay. The other first- and second-story windows are tall and narrow with arched hoods. The school&#39;s roof has wide eaves with decorative brackets and is topped by a cupola.</p><br>
<p>T. Q. Donaldson House, also known as the Dr. Davis Furman House, is a historic home located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built about 1863, and is a two-story, frame, vernacular Italianate style cottage. It consists of a two-story rectangular block with a one-story wing and one-story rear ells. Also on the property is a contemporary three-room frame, weatherboard outbuilding built for use as a kitchen and servant&#39;s quarters. It was built by William Williams for Thomas Q. Donaldson, a lawyer and member of the South Carolina Senate from Greenville County from 1872 to 1876.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Belk Hudson Lofts  is an apartment building in Huntsville, Alabama. Originally two buildings, the first was built on the corner of Washington Street and Holmes Avenue in 1930 to house Fowlers Department Store, one of several department stores on Washington Street . The second building, adjacent to the first along Holmes, was constructed in 1936 as a farm supply store. Fowlers went bankrupt in 1938, and Belk Husdon purchased the corner building in 1940. Beginning in 1944, they also leased the Holmes building, and the two were joined. After Belk Husdon left the downtown area, the building was renovated into offices in the 1980s. The one-story Holmes building was occupied by Olde Towne Brewing Company from 2004 until 2007, when the building was destroyed by fire. In the 2010s, the corner building was reconstructed into a loft apartment building, with the original façade kept largely intact.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Rivercroft Farm is a historic farm complex on River Street  in Fryeburg, Maine. The farm has been in the hands of the Weston family for many generations, and is one of the largest agricultural operations in Fryeburg. The centerpiece of the complex, on the south side of River Street, is a Second Empire house built 1870–73, and believed to be designed by Portland architect Frances H. Fassett. It is a -story wood-frame structure on a stone foundation. Its main block has a mansard roof; ells extend to the rear of the house that have gable roofs. The main facade is three bays wide, with a center entry flanked by paired sash windows, and a four-column porch extending across its width. The roof cornice and dormers have fine woodwork decoration typical of the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<p>Adjacent to the house is the Yellow Barn, which was built sometime before 1880, and added to in c. 1950 and c. 1985. It is connected to a c. 1950 silo by a short single-story connector. The farm stand, which is also one of the older buildings in the complex, was originally used as a wagon shed, and was converted to its present use in the 1980s. An addition with modern facilities was added to the rear at that time. On the north side of River Street, across from the main complex, stands the White Cape. This -story wood frame Cape style house was built c. 1834.</p><br>
<p>The first colonial settler of the farm was Henry Brown, who was granted land believed to be north of that granted to Joseph Frye, for whom Fryeburg is named. Brown sold the land when it was established that his grant fell within Fryeburg, and it was purchased in 1800 by Ephraim Weston. In the first half of the 19th century Weston and his successors amassed a significant number of land holdings in Fryeburg and surrounding towns in Maine and New Hampshire, reaching over 1,000 acre at its greatest extent. John Weston (1834-1909) specialized the farm for livestock production, and had what is now the main farmhouse built, replacing an older Federal-style house.</p><br>
<p>A portion of the Weston&#39;s farm holdings, encompassing more than 185 acre and including their houses and major outbuildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Gurley Historic District is a historic district in Gurley, Alabama. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1995 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town was originally the plantation of John Gurley, who came to Madison County from North Carolina in the 1830s. In 1857, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad built its line through the property, and Gurley constructed a water tank to service the lines locomotives. A post office was established in 1866, at which time only a few families lived in the area. The town incorporated in 1890, and the population immediately began to grow. Industry was attracted to the area by its abundance of lumber; many sawmills, producers of wooden barrels, and the Eagle Pencil Company set up shop near the town. Retail establishments were centered on Joplin Street, however a fire in 1923 destroyed most of the structures. Depletion of the areas timber and the greater influence of neighboring Huntsville drew industry away in the 1920s and 1930s, though despite declining population a new Madison County High School was built in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The oldest extant building in the district is the Captain Elijah F. Walker House, built in 1874 by the Civil War veteran who would later serve in the Alabama House of Representatives. The majority of the remaining structures were built between 1891 and 1910; notable among them is the H. A. Smith House, an elaborate Queen Anne house built by a carpenter who would later serve as postmaster. Several other houses exhibit Queen Anne, American Craftsman, and Bungalow details, though most are less decorated folk architectural forms. Two churches in the district, the United Methodist church built in 1891 and the Presbyterian church built in 1912, are Gothic Revival in style.</p><br>
<p>Earle Town House is a historic house in Greenville, South Carolina. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1969, and is included in the Col. Elias Earle Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Until the end of the 20th century, the house was widely believed to have been built about 1810 for Congressman Elias T. Earle; but Earle never owned the property. The house is more likely to have been built c. 1829-1833 by one Samuel Green or possibly as late as 1834 after the land had been acquired by Elias Drayton Earle, half nephew and son-in-law of Elias T. Earle.</p><br>
<p>In 1856 James A. David bought the house and 35 acres. His son, Charles A. David (1853-1934)—a merchant by profession and essayist, humorist, and cartoonist by avocation—lived in it until 1922. David described it as a "rambling old affair" with a framework "mortised and put together with wooden pegs....The ceilings were so high, the only way it could have been heated in winter would have been to set it on fire."</p><br>
<p>In December 1927, the house was bought by Mary Chevillette Simms Oliphant, granddaughter of 19th-century novelist William Gilmore Simms and the author in her own right of more than a dozen books, including a once widely adopted public school history of South Carolina. In the 1920s Oliphant had Greenville architect William Riddle Ward renovate the house to what she believed was its original Federal style, demolishing one wing, removing the colonnaded porch, and adding three rooms to the second floor. Some original features were preserved, including hand-hewn timbers, brick and rock supports, six-paneled doors, a hand-carved mantelpiece, and a Palladian window in the second story. Oliphant was able to have her house and nearby Whitehall listed on the National Register, the first buildings in Greenville to be so recognized. She also organized a successful petition campaign to dissuade local officials from running a proposed highway bypass through James Street.</p><br>
<p>Whitehall is a historic home located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1813 as a summer residence by Charlestonian Henry Middleton on land purchased from Elias Earle. Whitehall served as Middleton&#39;s summer home until 1820. It is a simple white frame structure with shuttered windows and wide first and second story galleries, or piazzas, in the Barbadian style.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Josiah Kilgore House, now known as the Kilgore-Lewis House, is a historic home located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built about 1838, and is a two-story, L-shaped, vernacular Palladian style dwelling on a low foundation. It features a pedimented portico supported by square posts. It has a projecting rear wing with a three-bay porch. The structure was moved to a five-acre site in McPherson Park to prevent its demolition.</p><br>
<p>The Kilgore-Lewis House serves as the headquarters for the Greenville Council of Garden Clubs, which provides tours of the house, arboretum and gardens.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Lanneau-Norwood House  is a historic, late 19th-century house on Belmont Avenue in Greenville, South Carolina. The house is an outstanding example of Second Empire architecture in the American South and is one of the last surviving Victorian-era homes in Greenville. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1876 by Jacob W. Cagle (1832–1910) for Charleston native and textile entrepreneur, Charles Henry Lanneau II (1834-1913). The grounds may be the site of the last Civil War skirmish in South Carolina, fought May 23, 1865, between Union cavalry and Greenville home guards.</p><br>
<p>After returning from service in Hampton&#39;s Legion during the Civil War, Lanneau began his textile career as the bookkeeper for the Camperdown Mill. By 1888, Lanneau founded his own mill, Lanneau Manufacturing Company, on ten acres adjacent to his home.</p><br>
<p>Lanneau built the grand and fashionable residence on thirty-nine acres purchased from his sister, Sophie Lanneau Edwards, the widow of Rev. Peter Cuthbert Edwards, perhaps using money inherited from his first wife, Louisa (Lula) Williams Lanneau.</p><br>
<p>Bankrupt by 1907, Lanneau sold the house for $12,000 to South Carolina banker and textile financier, John Wilkins Norwood, a relative by marriage. At Norwood&#39;s death in 1945, the house passed to his son-in-law and daughter, Claud Sapp and Frances Norwood Funderburk, and then to their son and daughter-in-law, George Norwood and Ann Downen Funderburk, who took special interest in the gardens. The house was owned by John Fulton and Rosalind Sebastian Mills from July 2012 to October 2021, then sold to the Jennings-Gresham family.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story, brick Second Empire-style mansion with a Mansard roof. The symmetrical façade is divided into five sections, with projecting central and corner pavilions, and an octagonal tower that extends a half-story above the cornice line of the main block of the house. The front porch spans the full-width of the façade, and consists of slender posts with scrolled brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally at the center of the area now known as Alta Vista, facing McDaniel Avenue with a long, curved driveway that extended from the corner of Crescent Avenue to McIver Street. The property included a barn with livestock and fields that were planted with corn, butter beans, and spinach.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, a granddaughter of J. W. Norwood commissioned a dollhouse replica on a 1:12 scale.</p><br>
<p>C. Granville Wyche House is a historic home located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1931, and consists of a two-story, five bay central blocked flanked by one-story balconied projections. It is of blond brick in the Italian Renaissance style with a low-pitched tile roof, wide eaves with brackets, and full-length, first floor windows. It features a massive portico with grouped classical columns and pilasters. Also on the property is a small grotto and an unpainted barn dating from the mid-1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Davenport Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1915–1916, and is a three-story, U-shaped, brick building. It consists of a large rectangular section in the rear with two smaller wings that extend from the rear block to the street. The front façade features two one-story porches with stone elliptical arches and brick pillars.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>American Cigar Factory, also known as Stone Manufacturing Company, is a historic factory building located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built about 1902, and is a four-story, rectangular brick building with segmental arch openings. It has a low-pitched gable roof with a projecting eave and floors supported by wooden posts.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
