<p>Bertie County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built in 1889, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick Neoclassical-style building with a gable roof topped by a polygonal cupola. In 1941, the portico was enlarged and wings added to the main block. A rear addition was built in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Windsor Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Freeman Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame Greek Revival-style building. It features a double portico. From about 1888 until 1936 the building served Windsor as a hotel of eight rooms and two dining rooms. The building was moved to its present location in 1981.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Historic District is a national historic district located at Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina. It encompasses 78 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the town of Windsor. It includes residential, commercial, and institutional buildings that primarily date after the turn of the 20th century. Notable buildings include the Bertie County Courthouse and Confederate Monument, Masonic Lodge , Spruill Building, J. B. Gillam House, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and Cashie Baptist Church .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Woodville Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewiston Woodville, Bertie County, North Carolina. It encompasses 36 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the village of Woodville. They primarily date between 1801 and 1927, and include six pre-American Civil War houses, one antebellum church and 1870s rectory, two antebellum church cemeteries, and three early-20th century American Craftsman houses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Natural History Building is a historic building on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1892, the building originally housed the university&#39;s departments of botany, zoology, and geology. In addition to classroom space, the building also included a natural history museum. Architect Nathan Clifford Ricker designed the High Victorian Gothic building. The red brick building has a rough stone foundation and is decorated with colored brick and stone. The steep roof is supported by a timber truss system; the exposed trusses create a coffered ceiling on the interior.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1986. In 2010, it was evacuated due to structural deficiencies. After an extensive, $79 million renovation, it reopened in August 2017 and now houses the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE) including the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences, Geology and Geography and Geographic Information systems, as well as teaching space for the School of Integrative Biology (SIB).</p><br>
<p>In 2019, the building received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold status for its renovation being conducted in an environmentally efficient manner, which included using renewable materials, utilizing energy-efficient technology, and focusing on natural lighting.</p><br>
<p>The Brown–Proctor House is a historic residence in Scottsboro, Alabama. The house was built in 1881 by John A. Brown, who sold it just one year later. He sold the house to General Coffey, who bought the house for his daughter Sarah, for 3,200 dollars. John Franklin Proctor, a politician who served in the Alabama Legislature from 1892 through 1899 and was an attorney for the Scottsboro Boys in 1931, purchased the house in 1907. Proctor made numerous renovations to the house, including altering the two-story front portico with Tuscan columns into its current state of a single-level porch supported by Ionic columns with a central second floor balcony. A three-room addition was also built onto the back of the house, adding to the central hall plan of the original house. After his death in 1934, Proctor&#39;s family owned the house until 1981.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1981 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Scottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center</h2><br>
<p>The Scottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center opened in the house in 1985. The Center focuses on the history, customs, traditions and art of Jackson County, Alabama. Displays include area Native-American cultures and history, area pioneer settlers, the Civil War and the house itself.</p><br>
<p>The College Hill Historic District is a historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama. The neighborhood was the first subdivision to be platted in Scottsboro. The area takes its name from the Scott Male and Female Academy, which was built in 1878. The site has been occupied by schools since; the present building was constructed in the 1930s and currently houses the administration offices of the Scottsboro Board of Education. The district contains 14 houses, 10 of which were built between 1890 and 1929, three in the 1930s, and one in the 1970s. The earlier houses are primarily Vernacular styles, although the later construction includes Bungalow and English Cottage-style houses popular at the time. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1982 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Public Square Historic District is a historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama. Although Scottsboro had been the county seat of Jackson County since 1870, the town&#39;s earliest commercial development was centered on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad line, one block north of the square. After an 1881 fire along the rail line, some businesses began to rebuild around the square. Once the Tennessee Valley Authority brought prosperity to the region in the 1930s, development around the courthouse began to accelerate. The current Jackson County Courthouse was built in 1912 with matching Classical Revival porticos on two sides. Commercial buildings around the square are one or two stories and all of brick. While most are built in simple, lightly decorated commercial styles, some late 19th-century buildings have Victorian detailing. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1981 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The General William Rosecrans Headquarters  is a historic residence in Stevenson, Alabama. The house is a single-story brick hall and parlor house built circa 1855 as a residence for railroad engineers who were building the routes through Jackson County. In the buildup to the Chickamauga Campaign of the American Civil War, Union General William Rosecrans selected Stevenson as the staging site for battle. In addition to building Fort Harker just south of town, Rosecrans used the house as his personal headquarters. Walter Rosser, a construction engineer from Michigan, purchased the house and land before the war, and lived in the house after the war. As of 1978, the house was in ruins, with the roof, one wall and parts of the others collapsed. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Scottsboro Memphis and Charleston Depot is a historic train station in Scottsboro, Alabama, USA. Built in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War, the depot is one of three remaining antebellum depots in Alabama built by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and the only one outside Huntsville. On January 8, 1865, it was the site of a skirmish between members of the 101st and 110th USA Colored Infantry Regiment and Confederate forces which resulted in the retreating rebels setting fire it.</p><br>
<p>After being heavily damaged during the war, the rail line and depot became operational again in 1866. While the line and depot changed hands several times in the late 1800s, the depot served both passengers and freight until 1892, when a separate passenger depot was constructed by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway.</p><br>
<p>The depot continued to service freight until it was closed by Norfolk Southern in the 1980s. Restoration began in 1991 and today it houses the Scottsboro Depot Museum. The building is divided into a 30 x 46 foot (9 x 14 m) freight room and a 30 x 18 foot (9 x 5.5 m) office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Main Library is a historic library on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1924, the library was the third built for the school; it replaced Altgeld Hall, which had become too small for the university&#39;s collections. Architect Charles A. Platt designed the Georgian Revival building, one of several on the campus which he designed in the style. The building houses several area libraries, as well as the University Archives and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Main Library is the symbolic face of the University Library, which has the second largest university library collection in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1868, the University of Illinois&#39;s first president, John Milton Gregory, personally acquired 644 volumes to establish the library. By 1880, the library housed 12,500 volumes, and by the turn of the century, the collection had grown to 70,000 volumes. The library moved from its previous space in University Hall to the newly-completely completed Library Hall (later renamed Altgeld Hall) in 1897. However, the new building quickly became inadequate for the needs of the quickly-growing student population. In 1912, university president Edmund J. James announced an ambitious plan to expand the collection to one million volumes and to build a new library building. James envisioned a library to rival those at "the great German academic institutions."</p><br>
<p>By 1909, the university was already considering expanding the campus to the area south of the Main Quad. A plan drawn in 1919 by university professor James M. White imagined a new southern quad anchored by a new library on its western edge. During the economic prosperity that Illinois experienced in the Roaring Twenties, the state legislature committed to funding a major building campaign at the university. In 1923, the University of Illinois hired landscape architect Charles A. Platt to revise the master plan and design new construction. Platt&#39;s plan for the campus adopted the Georgian Revival architectural style, which was popular at the time.</p><br>
<p>Construction on the Main Library began in 1924. The site was previously occupied by tennis courts and the Women&#39;s Field. The library was built in three phases. Upon its completion in 1929, the building had a "figure 8" shape with two enclosed courtyards. A bookstack wing abutted the library on its west side.</p><br>
<p>The library was purposely built away from the center of campus, a break from traditional campus planning, to allow the building to expand. This proved necessary; the librarys holdings grew from 649,924 volumes in 1926 to one million volumes in 1935. To accommodate the librarys ever-expanding collection, four further additions were added to the bookstack wing between 1939 and 1984. The librarys north facade was extended westward in 1962-1964 in the same style as the original construction. To accommodate air conditioning equipment, a basement extension was added to the librarys southwest corner in 1966-1968.</p><br>
<p>To help accommodate an influx in enrollment following World War II, the University of Illinois opened a satellite campus in Galesburg. When the campus closed, its library&#39;s 25,000 volumes became the core collection of a new Undergraduate Library at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Originally housed in rooms 123 and 101 in the Main Library, the facility outgrew its space by 1963. A new, separate building for the Undergraduate Library was completed 1969. Located underground between the Main Library and the Morrow Plots, it is connected to the Main Library via a 170 ft tunnel.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, the university announced plans to modify the Main Library by demolishing five of the six bookstack additions on the west side of the building, which will be rebuilt with five stories. The new addition will accommodate interdisciplinary learning spaces, and compact shelving in the new basement will help compensate for the book storage lost by demolishing the stacks. As part of the project, undergraduate services will move to the Main Library from the Undergraduate Library, which the university will remodel to house the library&#39;s archives and special collections. Library administration expects construction to begin in 2022 and end in 2026.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Main Library is one of the eleven red brick Georgian Revival buildings designed by Platt as part of his campus master plan. The main (east) facade features a three-bay main entrance with limestone archways and a green slate roof with a series of eleven dormers and four tall chimneys. Although university libraries were typically designed to be monumental focal points on their campuses, Platt instead placed the Main Library in a non-dominant position along the periphery of what would become the South Quad. However, the library&#39;s important role in university life is nevertheless expressed by its massive size. Its high arched windows are reminiscent of the Sainte-Geneviève Library and the Boston Public Library.</p><br>
<p>The Main Librarys lobbies, circulation spaces, and second-floor reading room retain their elaborately-detailed historic features. The reading room has 27 stained glass windows showing Renaissance printers marks, and four Barry Faulkner murals decorate the walls of the central stairwell. The functional spaces and secondary areas of the library interior, which were originally fitted more simply than the public spaces, still retain their original wood trim.</p><br>
<h3>Sculptures</h3><br>
<p>The plaster model of The Pioneers, a bronze sculpture by Lorado Taft, sits in the library&#39;s south lobby. Its counterpart in the north lobby is the plaster model of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell by David Chester French.</p><br>
<p>Two of the four limestone sculptures that are collectively known as Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha flank the librarys east entrance. The other two are positioned nearby, just south of Foellinger Auditorium. All four sculptures, carved by Walter Zimmerman under the direction of Lorado Taft, were displayed at Chicagos 1933 Century of Progress exposition. They were intended for a larger work called Fountain of Creation that Taft had planned for Jackson Park.</p><br>
<p>A bust of former University of Illinois president Lloyd Morey was installed in the library&#39;s east lobby in 1911. It was stolen by a group that dubbed itself the Statue Liberation Society in 1982; the group had previously stolen the bust of Abraham Lincoln from Lincoln Hall. The Morey bust was never recovered. Its alcove, which remains empty, is still engraved with his name.</p><br>
<h2>Divisions</h2><br>
<p>The Main Library houses various University Library departments and branch libraries.</p><br>
<p>Central Access Services (CAS)</p><br>
<p>History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library (HPNL)</p><br>
<p>Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit (IHLC)</p><br>
<p>International and Area Studies Library (IASL)</p><br>
<p>Literatures and Languages Library</p><br>
<p>Map Library</p><br>
<p>Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML)</p><br>
<p>Research and Information Services (RIS)</p><br>
<p>Scholarly Communications & Publishing</p><br>
<p>Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL)</p><br>
<p>University Archives</p><br>
<h3>Rare Book & Manuscript Library</h3><br>
<p>The Rare Book & Manuscript Library within the Main Library building is one of the largest special collections repositories in the United States. Its collections, consisting of over half a million volumes and three kilometers of manuscript material, encompass the broad areas of literature, history, art, theology, philosophy, technology and the natural sciences, and include large collections of emblem books, writings of and works about John Milton, and authors&#39; personal papers.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Grove, also known as Robeson Plantation, is a historic plantation house complex and national historic district located near Tar Heel, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a two-story, frame house, five bays wide and four bays deep, in the Greek Revival style. The front and rear facades feature three bay double porches. Also on the property are the contributing dining dependency, kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, barn, well, cold frame, and scalding vat.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Desserette is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near White Oak, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1840, and is a two-story, frame double-pile house in the Greek Revival style. It rests on a brick pier foundation and has a hipped roof. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, meathouse, log barn, and family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>John Hector Clark House is a historic home located at Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built about 1865, and is a one-story, board-and-batten "coastal cottage". It features a broad gable roof and full-facade engaged front porch. It was moved to the present site in 1928–1929, and realigned in 1932. The town of Clarkton is named for John Hector Clark .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Clarkton Depot is a historic train station located at Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built as a passenger and freight station by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1915. It is a one-story, rectangular frame building measuring 30 feet by 90 feet. The station served the SAL&#39;s daily passenger train from Wilmington to its Charlotte station in Charlotte via Hamlet and Monroe.</p><br>
<p>It was moved to the present site in October 1975. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Gilmore–Patterson Farm is a historic home and farm located near St. Pauls, Bladen County, North Carolina. The Patterson farmhouse was built about 1872 in the late Greek Revival style, and modified about 1890 in the Queen Anne style. It is a frame one-story dwelling with a central hall plan. Also on the property are the contributing a smokehouse, an outhouse, a  post office, a mule barn, three tobacco barns, a garage, a granary, and two tenant houses.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Utopia Hotel is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The building is located at 206 4th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The street was called the "Men&#39;s Quarter," where no respectable woman would venture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hotel was built in 1891 to the design of architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson. It was built to accommodate the visitors of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. It has six storeys.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, it became home to a restaurant, where many men would have lunch on their workdays. It was dedicated with a dinner for the Nashville Press Club.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, it was scheduled to be turned into a luxury hotel alongside other buildings around it, with developer Bill Barkley and investors Alex Marks and Billy Frist at the helm.</p><br>
<p>It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings since March 26, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Bennie–Dillon Building is a historic high-rise building in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located on the corner of Church Street and 7th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. Its exact address is 700-704 Church Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The high-rise building was built by the construction firm Foster & Creighton from 1925 to 1926 for George Bennie, a businessman who served as the President of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, and William Dillon, a real estate developer. It was designed in the Renaissance Revival architectural style by the architectural team Asmus & Clark. It is 44.81 metre-high, with twelve stories.</p><br>
<p>It was renovated in 1999 and in 2005.</p><br>
<p>It has been added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee since August 16, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Bald Head Creek Boathouse is a historic boathouse located at the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Smith&#39;s Island, Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was built in 1915 by the United States Lighthouse Service. It is a one-story, side-gabled weathered frame structure. It sits among salt marshes on wooden pilings.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Hurricane Florence destroyed the structure in September 2018. All that remains are the timbers spread across the pilings. This is view-able on Google Maps right across from Boathouse Tract Rd.</p><br>
<p>The Castner–Knott Building is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located on the corner of Church Street and 7th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee, at 616-618 Church Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Castner–Knott Building was built in 1906 for Charles Castner and William Knotts Castner–Knott Dry Goods Company. Founded in 1898, the store moved from its original location on 5th Avenue in what was the start of the citys westward expansion along Church Street. At that time, Castner–Knott was a single five-story building with a 111-foot front at 618 Church Street. Castner–Knott leased a portion of the building at 616 Church in 1933, a separate five-story building constructed in 1911, with 28 feet fronting Church Street and as deep as the 618 Church building at 146 feet, adjacent to Capitol Boulevard. The top two floors were connected between 618 and 616 for Castner–Knott in 1936, the bottom three floors were connected in 1958–1959.</p><br>
<p>The complex was renovated in 1958–1959, with a small addition on the rear added in 1975. An additional renovation was completed in the late 1990s, after Castner–Knott closed its downtown store in 1996. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee on August 20, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Odell-Locke-Randolph Cotton Mill is an historic building in the city of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The original mill was constructed in 1839, as the McDonald Cotton Mills, north of the town of Concord in what is now the Locke Mill Plaza. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cabarrus County, North Carolina in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mill was constructed in 1839 as the Concord Steam Cotton Factory also known as the Barringer Mill. By 1842 the mill was producing cotton yarn, shirting, and other goods. By 1850 a railroad ran west of town and the mill had 70 employees. During the aftermath of the Civil War the mill became the McDonald Cotton Mill. John Milton Odell bought the buildings in 1877 and created the Odell Manufacturing Company in 1880.</p><br>
<p>The mill became the Locke Mill after reorganization from the bankrupt Odell Manufacturing Company in 1909. The mill became known as the Randolph Mill after another reorganization in 1939.</p><br>
<p>New Hope Presbyterian Church is a historic church located near Winnabow, Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1895, and is a one-story, frame church building with a Queen Anne style exterior and Gothic Revival interior. It features a steeply pitched, gable-front roof and rests on a brick pier foundation. A fellowship hall was added about 1941. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Oak Island Life Saving Station is a historic life saving station located at Caswell Beach, Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was built in 1889 by the United States Life-Saving Service. It is a 1 1/2-story, front-gabled frame structure. It features a large lookout tower projecting from the roof. Its siding trusswork, and brackets are characteristic of the Stick style. The station was sold to a private owner in 1938 and moved directly across the road from its original location. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Located in North Carolina on the Atlantic Coast, the Fort Caswell Historic District encompasses 2 sites, 43 buildings, and 23 structures; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The fort itself was occupied by various branches of the USA armed forces for most of the period between 1836 and 1945 and is now a part of the North Carolina Baptist Assembly, a Christian retreat, owned and operated by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. It is accessible by the public to a limited extent per the conditions set forth by the Assembly’s Director.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Sited on the eastern tip of Oak Island in Brunswick County, NC, the fort juts into the confluence of the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean. The districts boundaries also extend a little over 1/2 mile south into the Atlantic Ocean and east into the Cape Fear River in recognition of the forts association with blockade runners during the Civil War and its role in hunting down German submarines during World War II. The rifle range site is located a little over two miles to the west-northwest of the fort in the Town of Caswell Beach. Typical of coastal southeastern North Carolina, the natural topography of the site is flat, roughly ten feet above sea level with a wide sandy beach along its southern boundary. Grass covers most of the area, with Yaupon Holly and Live Oaks trees liberally spread throughout the district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Named after former governor Richard Caswell, the original pentagonal fortification of brick walls and large earthworks was completed in 1836 at a cost of $473,402. With over 61 gun emplacements, it guarded the mouth of the Cape Fear River in defense of Wilmington, then an important port 20 miles upriver and, at the time, the state&#39;s largest city. In 1861, it was seized twice by a group called the "Cape Fear Minutemen", who were subsequently ordered by Governor John Willis Ellis to return it to the keeper of the fort, the only man stationed there by the USA Army at the time.</p><br>
<p>When the state finally seceded, the new Confederate Army made it, along with nearby Fort Fisher, one of the most elaborate defensive system in the world at that time. (Fort Fisher guarded the other inlet to the Cape Fear River). This system, along with swift blockade runners, kept Wilmingtons port open longer than any other. No fewer than six plans were devised to capture the fort, but its imposing defenses and the Frying Pan Shoals just offshore deterred them; the Union Army then diverted its attention to Fort Fisher. After a massive Union assault captured Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865, orders came to spike Fort Caswells guns, burn the barracks, and explode the magazines. On January 17, the magazines were ignited, exploding approximately 100,000 pounds of powder (reports at the time state that the blast could be heard as far as 100 miles away in Fayetteville). As a result of the explosion, one whole wall of the fort was destroyed. The loss of the Confederacys last port was a major factor in Robert E. Lees decision to surrender at Appomattox</p><br>
<p>The USA Army built a full military reservation on the site in the 1890s complete with coastal artillery batteries, and most of the buildings currently extant as well as the sea wall were constructed during this period. During World War I, the fort along with the discontiguous Fort Caswell Rifle Range served as a army training facility. In 2020, a pictorial story of the rifle range along with extensive biographic sketches of all WW I Brunswick County veterans became available. Abandoned after World War I, from 1937-1941 the fort was unsuccessfully converted into a resort, with the gun emplacements used as swimming pools (two artesian wells produced hot mineral water to fill the pools). In 1941, the Navy purchased the fort for use as a patrol/anti-submarine base during World War II. The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina bought the property in 1949 as surplus for $86,000.</p><br>
<p>Southport Historic District is a national historic district located at Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 161 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object. Over half of the structures in the historic district date from the 1885-1905 period. It includes residential, commercial, and institutional buildings and is considered the best example of a Victorian coastal town in North Carolina. Notable buildings include the River Pilots Tower and Building , Frying Pan Lightship , Fort Johnston Officers Quarters , Walker-Pike House , Brunswick Inn , Fort Johnston Hospital , Former Brunswick County Court House , Saint Philips Episcopal Church , Trinity Methodist Church , and the Adkins-Ruark House .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>T. B. McClintic, also known as the Atlantic IV, is a historic quarantine boarding tug located at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. She was built in 1932 by the Bath Iron Works for the USA Public Health Service. The vessel is 60 ft in length overall with a 16.5 ft breadth and a 9.2 ft draft. For most of her service, she was stationed at the Baltimore Quarantine Station in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1961, the City of Wilmington, North Carolina acquired the ship for use as a fireboat and renamed her the Atlantic IV. She was sold to a private party in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Tilton Island Park Bridge is a foot bridge in Tilton, New Hampshire. It spans a portion of the Winnipesaukee River just east of downtown Tilton, providing access to Tilton Island Park, located on an island in the river. Built in 1881, it is a rare surviving example of a bridge with cast iron components, designed by a distinctive patent issued in 1858 to Lucius Truesdell. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tilton Island Park Bridge is located at the eastern end of downtown Tilton, extending from the northwest shore of the Winnipesaukee River to the wooded Tilton Island Park. It consists of two Truesdell truss spans, which rest on granite abutments and a central granite pier. The bridge is 85 ft in length, and 10 ft wide. Its trusses are made of cast iron, using a patented design similar to that of Ithiel Town for wooden lattice bridges. The principal innovation in Lucius Truesdell&#39;s 1858 patent was the clamps which fix the lattice members together where they cross, providing additional rigidity, and a series of horizontal and vertical members which are integrated into the diagonal lattice members. The decking of the bridge is wooden planking laid over crossbeams that rest directly on the lowest truss members. The decking is stabilized by diagonal bracing tie rods fastened beneath these elements.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was manufactured by A. D. Briggs & Company and installed in 1881 by J. R. Smith. It, along with the park, was a gift to the town by Charles Tilton. Albert Briggs, the builder, apparently specialized in the construction of Truesdell patent bridges; this is one of the few of the design known to survive. It is also rare for its survival despite the use of cast iron, which later gave way to more weather-safe wrought iron and steel.</p><br>
<p>The park was closed some time in late 2021 due to structural concerns about the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Tilton Downtown Historic District encompasses a roughly one-block section of Main Street  in the center of Tilton, New Hampshire. It extends from Central Street in the west to Bridge and School Streets in the east, including all of the buildings on the north side of this section, and a cluster of buildings on the south side near Bridge Street. The area has long been a commercial and industrial center for the town, although most of the buildings now date from the late 19th century onward, and include a fine array of Victorian architecture. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Tilton was part of a colonial land grant made in 1748 and first settled in 1764 as part of Sanbornton. The first bridge in the area over the Winnipesaukee River was built near the site of Tiltons Bridge Street bridge in 1763, and the first sawmill and gristmill opened on the river in 1765-66. The area between the bridge and the mills became what is now Tiltons Main Street. A store was opened near the bridge in 1798, and it is home to Tiltons first church, the 1838 Greek and Gothic Revival Northfield-Tilton Congregational Church, which still stands and is the districts oldest building. The village&#39;s growing economic independence prompted its eventual separation from Sanbornton in 1869.</p><br>
<p>The district includes a single block of Main Street, which runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Winnipesaukee River. Its eastern boundary is the junction with Bridge Street, where there are two memorials to the towns war dead. It extends westward on the north side of Main Street about 2/3 of the way to Prospect Street, and for a shorter distance on the south side. Prominent buildings include Tiltons town hall, built in 1879-80 as a gift by the town&#39;s major benefactor, Charles E. Tilton. It was probably designed by Edward Dow, who also designed the 1872-73 Trinity Episcopal Church, a fine example of stone Gothic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Laconia District Court is located at 26 Academy Street  in Laconia, New Hampshire, in a Second Empire brick structure which was built by the city in 1886-87 to house its high school. It was designed by Frederick N. Footman of Boston, though preliminary designs had been obtained from Dow & Wheeler of Concord, New Hampshire. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Laconia District Court is located south of downtown Laconia, on the east side of Academy Street a short way south of Court Street. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, with load-bearing brick walls with granite trim. It is topped by a tall mansard roof and a square belfry with pyramidal roof. The front facade is seven bays wide, with a stepped appearance. A three-bay section, continuing the mansard roof, projects at the center, and the main entrance pavilion, capped by a gabled roof, projects from that. A stone stringcourse separates the first and second floors of the central section, and its second-floor windows are set in recessed panels. The entrance is in a wide round-arch opening, and the bay above has two sash windows, with a recessed decorative half-round panel above.</p><br>
<p>Laconias first high school used the old building of the Gilford Academy, and was by the mid-1880s overcrowded. The present building was completed in 1887. It housed the citys high school students as well as the local district elementary school. It was used by the city as a high school until 1922, and then as the Academy Elementary School until 1975. The building received a major rehabilitation in 1977 and was converted for use as a courthouse at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Tapoco Lodge Historic District encompasses a historic mountain lodge and resort in Robbinsville, North Carolina. The lodge was developed in the 1930s by Tapoco, formerly the Tallassee Power Company, which developed hydroelectric power projects in the area. The lodge and associated cabins were built to provide housing for Tapoco employees working in the area. The main lodge, a 2-1/2 story Colonial Revival structure, was built in 1930, and the facilities were gradually enlarged during the next decade to include a number of guest cabins. Around 1950 a theater, guard house, and other utility buildings were added to the complex. Gazebos and tennis courts were added in the late 1990s.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Pendergrass Building is a historic commercial building at 6 West Main Street in Franklin, North Carolina. The two-story brick building was built in 1904, and is a virtually unaltered example of retail construction of the period. It was used as a retail store until 1975.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to the Macon County Historical Society and Museum.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Minnie Alexander Cottage is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by Richard Sharp Smith and built about 1905. It is a two-story, rectangular frame dwelling with a number of projecting bays. The exterior walls are plastered with a roughcast concrete aggregate. It has a hip roof with deep overhanging eaves and brackets. The house has been converted to accommodate offices.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>William E. Breese Sr. House is a historic house located at 674 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1891 by architect Charles B. Leonard, and is a -story, rectangular timber-framed dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features an off-center entrance tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal roof. The building housed a sanatorium, called Sherwood Sanatorium, from around 1927 to 1932. After 1939, the building housed a tourist home known as Cedar Crest.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Building at 130–132 Biltmore Avenue is a historic residential building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It is one of a row of granite apartment buildings on the lower end of Biltmore Avenue. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story, uncoursed rubble granite apartment building with a high, slate-shingled mansard roof in an English Queen Anne style. It features three tall chimney stacks on either side elevation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Building at 134–136 1/2 Biltmore Avenue is a historic residential building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It is one of a row of granite apartment buildings on the lower end of Biltmore Avenue. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story, uncoursed rubble granite apartment building with a coursed, rock-faced granite front facade in an English Italianate Revival style. It features a low, hipped roof with three, tall brick chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Building at 140 Biltmore Avenue is a historic residential building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It is one of a row of granite apartment buildings on the lower end of Biltmore Avenue. It was built in 1915, and is a two-story, uncoursed rubble granite apartment building covered with a smooth, tan stucco. It features a low, hipped roof, two story porch on either side, and four chimney stacks.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Demens-Rumbough-Crawley House, also known as, is a historic home built by Peter Demens, located at 31 Park Ave. N., Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story, brick Victorian-style dwelling on a stone foundation. It features a low hipped roof, rigid and geometrical exterior ornamentation, and projecting three-stage tower and bay. Also on the property is a contributing small frame garage.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Douglas Ellington House is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926 by architect Douglas Ellington, and is an eclectic stone and brick cottage set into its terraced, hillside site. It consists of a two-bay, -story brick "cottage" under a broad-eaved, wood shingled hip roof; a five-bay, uncoursed stone central block; and a traditional, single-room log cabin, said to have been on the property when Ellington&#39;s brother, Kenneth Ellington, bought it. They thought it to be over 100 years old.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Douglas Ellington House, Asheville, NC 02.JPGA closer view of the front of the house</p><br>
<p>Douglas Ellington House, Asheville, NC 03.JPGAnother view of the house</p><br>
<p>Thomas Wadley Raoul House, also known as Raoulwood, is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story, hollow tile and wood frame dwelling in the Tudor Revival style. It is clad in stucco with half-timbering and has a hipped and gable slate roof. It measures 92 feet, 6 inches long and 20 to 30 feet deep. Also on the property is a contributing servant&#39;s cottage  in the Bungalow style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Reynolds House is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and renovated in 1905 in the Colonial Revival style. It consists of a two-story double pile plan brick core structure with a third floor within a dormered mansard roof. It features a wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Carl V. Reynolds House, now known as the Albemarle Inn, is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1909, and is a three-story, square frame dwelling in the Colonial Revival / Neoclassical style. It features a flat roofed portico with pairs of fluted Corinthian order columns and half-round pilasters. The home was converted into apartments in the 1940s and now houses an inn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Richard Sharp Smith House, now known as Stoneybrook, is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed and built by architect Richard Sharp Smith in 1902–1903. It is a -story, stone and stucco American Craftsman / bungalow style dwelling. It features a projecting front gable bay and leaded glass windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Whitford G. Smith House is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1894, and is a -story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features a wraparound porch and a myriad of projecting pyramidal or gable-roof bays. The house was divided into apartments in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Zealandia is an historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1908, and is a three-story, "T"-plan, Tudor Revival style dwelling. It features a three-story porte cochere, projecting masses, steep gables, heavy wrought iron entrance gates, and massive chimneys.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, after thirty years of fortune-making in New Zealand, John Evans Brown returned to Asheville to build his dream castle atop Beaucatcher Mountain. Brown called his castle Zealandia. Completed in 1889, Zealandia is a pebbledash-on-brick enclosure modeled after Haddon Hall in England. Six years later, John Evans Brown died. Zealandia was sold to O.D. Revell in 1901.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, Sir Phillip S. Henry, an Australian born diplomat acquired Zealandia. Under Sir Henry, Zealandia flourished. The castle doubled in size with a granite addition and was filled with ancient and sacred relics. In 1919, Sir Henry commissioned an artist to paint a mural in the style of the fifteenth century Italian painter, Benozzo Gozoli. This mural, located in the old dining room, portrays family members and friends clad in classical robes, posing languidly with hounds, horses and flowers.</p><br>
<p>In 1930, Sir Henry opened a public museum on the grounds of Zealandia.</p><br>
<p>An avid equestrian, Sir Henry also built an imposing Tudor-style stable for his horses. The stable was destroyed by fire in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Zealandia passed to Violet Henry, Sir Henry&#39;s daughter, and her husband British General Hartley Maconochie.</p><br>
<p>After WWII, the Maconochie&#39;s attempts to sell Zealandia were futile. In 1950, portions of the original castle were dismantled for economic and safety reasons.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the construction of Interstate 240 demolished part of Beaucatcher Mountain, including the structure that once housed the public museum. Despite fervid community protests and registration as a National Historic Place, the old museum fell.</p><br>
<p>Zealandia is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Kimball Castle is the former summer estate of railroad magnate Benjamin Ames Kimball. It is located on a hill overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Gilford, New Hampshire, United States. Although portions of the Kimball&#39;s original 300 acre estate have been subdivided, much of it remains conservation land managed by the town. The 20.1 acre subdivided portion on which the -story medieval-style castle stands is privately owned and no longer part of the Charlotte Kimball trust.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Benjamin Kimball, a director of railroad companies operating in the region, built the castle and estate outbuildings beginning in 1894, and used it as his summer estate until his death in 1920, in his home in Concord. The castle was built by Italian stonemasons using local granite and materials imported from Europe; its construction cost was about $50,000.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, Charlotte Kimball, Benjamin Kimballs daughter-in-law and last remaining heir, died and in her will donated the land to the Mary Mitchell Humane Foundation (an adjunct to the MSPCA-Angell), to manage the property as a wildlife preserve and sanctuary. Over the next several years, the funds left to carry out the wishes of Charlotte Kimball went missing, and the Mary Mitchell Humane Foundation attempted to sell the entire estate. During this period, the property fell into disrepair and the buildings became subject to extensive vandalism. A group of concerned citizens, led by Sandra McGonagle, petitioned the New Hampshire Attorney Generals office of Charitable Trusts, and an investigation into the missing funds ensued. As settlement of the lawsuit, the Attorney General and the Belknap County Superior Court ordered that the town take over as trustees of Charlotte&#39;s estate and carry out the tenets of her will.</p><br>
<p>The town of Gilford took over as trustees in 1981 under the directives of the court and performed a study as to how best carry out Charlottes wishes. The master plan recommended that the land be subdivided and a portion of the land, including the castle, be sold to a private party for commercial development with the intent that proceeds of the sales be used to replenish the missing funds and carry out Charlottes wishes of managing the remaining land still held in trust. In 1990 the town and attorney general successfully had the non-commercial stipulation vacated allowing for the sale of the subdivided portion. The town established the Kimball Conservation Committee to oversee the use of those funds, and created a conservation area with hiking trails on the remaining 280 acre of conservation land. Proposals have been made, but not acted on, to develop the castle into a resort hotel.</p><br>
<p>The castle and its associated outbuildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Lockes Hill Hiking trails are accessed via a parking lot and trailhead on Route 11. The 20.1 acres on which all the buildings stand are now private property, posted with No Trespassing signs and are not open to the public. The castle has been condemned by the town of Gilford as unsafe, and the town has issued a make safe order to the owners, requiring them to keep it fenced in until they raze the castle.</p><br>
<p>The Meredith Public Library is located at 91 Main Street in Meredith, New Hampshire. It is housed in a handsome brick Classical Revival structure designed by George Swan and built in 1900–01, with a major expansion in 1985. It was a gift from Benjamin Smith as a memorial to his parents, and is known as the Benjamin M. Smith Memorial Library. The building, one of the town&#39;s most architecturally sophisticated buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Meredith Public Library stands in the town center of Meredith, on the west side of Main Street opposite its junction with Lake Street. It is set on a rise, and looks over the southern end of the village commercial district. It is a single-story masonry structure with Classical Revival styling. The original main block is a T-shaped structure with a hipped roof and a slightly projecting gable above an entry recessed under a round arch. The building corners are pilastered, and there are bands of elaborate corbelling below the main roof. Windows are typically set in rectangular openings, with stone sills and keystoned lintels. The rear wing is less architecturally sophisticated, but with sympathetic styling. The building interior retains many original features, including panelled wainscoting, and Palladian carved motifs on arches separating sections of the interior.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of this building, Merediths public library was housed in rented quarters. Construction of this building in 1900-01 was funded by Benjamin Smith as a memorial to his parents, with the proviso that the town acquire the land. It was designed by George Swan, and is the second library in New Hampshires Lakes Region that was built in the Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Sargent Bridge was a Pratt through truss steel bridge that spanned the Middle Loup River near Sargent, Nebraska. In 1992, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as one of the few remaining steel truss bridges constructed in Nebraska during the early 20th century. It was destroyed by flooding in 2019, and was delisted in 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was a six-panel, Pratt through truss steel bridge, with two 120 ft spans. When completed in 1909, it was reported to be 242 ft long; but on the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, the reported total length was 136 ft. The bridge width was 18 ft.</p><br>
<h2>History and significance</h2><br>
<p>On March 19, 1908, the Custer County, Nebraska supervisors unanimously approved the construction of the Sargent Bridge.</p><br>
<p>At that time, there was a wooden bridge over the river that was expensive to maintain. Building a steel bridge was viewed as more expensive by the board of supervisors, but in the long run they believed that it would save money on maintenance.</p><br>
<p>Work began on the bridge on November 19, 1908. However, construction on the bridge had been delayed and the starting date was approximately one month after its planned finish. The Standard Bridge Company was commissioned to build the bridge and they were under bond to build the bridge by October 13, 1908, but according to the bond they were only liable for damages and additional expenses if the bridge was not built on time.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was finally completed during the first week of January, 1909, and it was inspected and approved by the county bridge committee.</p><br>
<p>This was the first steel bridge built in Custer County. Nebraska state engineers had estimated the cost at $10,000 ($ today) and the original cost of the bridge by the county supervisors was $5,500 ($ today). However, because of the quicksand in the river bed, bridge supports were sunk 10 ft deeper at an additional cost of $1,500 ($ today), which brought the total cost of the bridge to about $7,000 ($ today).</p><br>
<p>In 1920, the Custer County board of supervisors asked the Nebraska state highway authorities to rebuild the Sargent Bridge to meet state and federal specifications. Funds were never appropriated to rebuild the bridge, but it was subsequently incorporated into US Highway 183. In 1960, the route of the highway was moved a short distance to the east, and the 1909 bridge was closed to public traffic. It was subsequently acquired by the Middle Loup Irrigation District.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, the bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as one of only a few multiple-span steel truss bridges constructed in the early 20th century that were still extant in Nebraska. At that time, the east web of the north truss had broken, but the bridge was still structurally sound, and providing non-public access to a diversion dam.</p><br>
<p>In March 2019, ice chunks carried by heavy flooding in the river destroyed the bridge. The north span was carried about 80 yards downstream, where it caught on the diversion dam; one end of the south span was pushed off a piling, and the span was twisted some 45 degrees. It was deemed necessary to remove the remains of the bridge from the river, lest future flooding carry them downstream to damage the current Highway 183 bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Newichawannock Canal is a man-made canal which drains Great East Lake into Horn Pond at the border between Wakefield, New Hampshire, and Acton, Maine, in the northeastern United States. It is at the head of the Salmon Falls River, which the Abenaki called Newichawannock, meaning "river with many falls". Begun in 1850 by the Great Falls Company to increase the water available for its mills in Somersworth, New Hampshire, The canal and bridge, along with related artifacts, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Newichawannock Canal is located between Great East Lake to the north and Horn Pond to the south, on the southern portion of the north–south border between Maine and New Hampshire. The canal is 13 ft wide and about 16 ft deep, and is lined with unmortared stone. An unmortared stone-arch bridge, built at the same time, carries Canal Road over the waterway. Horn Pond is the source of the Salmon Falls River, a tributary of the Piscataqua River, both of which form the New Hampshire-Maine border south of the pond.</p><br>
<p>The Great Falls Company was founded in 1823 to operate textile mills using the water power of the Salmon Falls River at Somersworth, New Hampshire. By about 1860 the mill complex there had grown to include six large buildings and employed 1,500 workers. In order to increase water flow at the mills, the company purchased water rights at Great East Lake and Horn Pond, and began construction of the canal in the 1850s. Other mills, such as Cocheco Woolen Mills in East Rochester, benefited in subsequent decades. The canal was not completed until the 1860s due in part to the Civil War. The canal was built by Hiram Paul, a civil engineer who lived in Wakefield and operated a tavern.</p><br>
<p>As of 2020, the northern half of the canal is largely blocked by collapsed sides but the southern half is navigable, reached from Horn Pond. The Great East Lake Improvement Association has a "Save the Newichawannock Canal" program.</p><br>
<p>The Lehoullier Building is a historic mill tenement house at 161-169 Main Street in Somersworth, New Hampshire. Built in 1843, it is one of two surviving tenement houses of the many that once lined Main Street near the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lehoullier Building is located on the west side of Main Street, at its junction with Fayette Street. It is a brick building with a gabled roof and five irregularly placed chimneys. It is set on a sloping lot, presenting three stories to Main Street and two to the rear. It is nine bays wide, representing an original division into three separate townhouse-style units. Each unit has since been further subdivided into two units, for a total of six. The ground floor of each section has a center entrance flanked by paired sash windows. The second-floor units, accessed by a two-story porch, have entrances in either the left or right bay. A hip roof covers the porch, and there are smaller sash windows in the third floor bays.</p><br>
<p>The tenement was built by Thomas Parks and Job Harris c. 1843 under a grant from the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, which operated the major textile mills in Somersworth. It is one of two surviving tenement houses that once lined Main Street, and is, along with the mills themselves, one of the few surviving reminders of the city&#39;s textile manufacturing past. During the 20th century, the building underwent a number of alterations, many of which have since been reversed by restoration. The ground-floor spaces were adapted for commercial use, and the upper-floor exteriors were rearranged to provide access to the upper units from the back of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Milton Town House is a historic civic and religious building at the junction of Town House Road and New Hampshire Route 125 in Milton, New Hampshire. Built in 1803 as a meeting place for civic and religious uses, it has served as Milton&#39;s town meeting site since then. It ceased religious functions in 1855, when it was reduced to a single story. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Milton Town House is located in central eastern Milton, in the middle of the triangular junction of Town House Road and New Hampshire Route 125. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. There are two entrances on the eastern facade, with flanking windows at a raised elevation, and a central window in the gable above. All of the building&#39;s windows have fully operable shutters that are normally closed when the building is not in use. An iron railing, originally intended as a means to tie up horses, extends around the north and west sides. The interior is finished in knotty pine, with a pressed tin ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally two full stories, and was built in 1803 (one year after the town was incorporated) to serve as a church and civic meeting space. The town purchased the building in 1855 after the local congregation became divided over religious issues and decided to sell the building. The town reduced it to a single story, and removed its interior religious trappings. The pulpit was reinstalled in 1965, but not at its original location, as a reminder of the building&#39;s religious past.</p><br>
<p>The National Register listing includes a rebuilt copy of the town&#39;s original animal pound, a unique circular fieldstone structure which stands across Route 125. It was built in 1804, rebuilt in 1823, and moved and rebuilt when the highway was widened in 1928. It is one of three surviving stone 19th-century pounds in New Hampshire.</p><br>
