<p>Central Shelby Historic District is a national historic district located at Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 229 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Shelby. The district is centered on the Cleveland County Courthouse  and public square, established in 1841. The district includes representative examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman architectural styles. The district includes the separately listed courthouse, Masonic Temple Building, and Webbley. Other notable buildings include the Webb House, Wells House, Fulenwider-Ebeltoft House, Dr. S. S. Royster House, Bateman House, Washburn Block, city hall and firehouse , Royster Building , First Baptist Church, Ascension Lutheran Church , and Southern Railway Freight Depot .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with a boundary increase in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Rogers Theater.jpgRogers Theater</p><br>
<p>Shelby City Hall.jpgShelby City Hall</p><br>
<p>Shelby First Baptist Church.jpgShelby First Baptist Church</p><br>
<p>Gardner-Webb Building.jpgGardner-Webb Building</p><br>
<p>Lake Waccamaw Depot is a historic train station located at Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, North Carolina It was built about 1900 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and is a one-story, Stick Style frame building with board-and-batten siding. It features shaped eave brackets, gable braces, and a long low slate covered gabled roof. The building was moved to its present location in 1974. Also on the property is the contributing a rectangular board-and-batten covered Section House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The depot is now operated as the Lake Waccamaw Depot Museum, with displays of local history and natural history.</p><br>
<p>Powell House, also known as The Trading Post and Wooten-Powell House, is a historic home located in Fair Bluff, Columbus County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1803, and consisted of two equal-sized rooms. Its architectural style is vernacular Federal. It has several mid-to-late 19th century additions, which were made in several stages. The house, a rambling one-story frame building, which is located on the east side of Main Street at the corner of Orange Street, is said to have functioned as a commercial outpost in the 19th century. It is one of the oldest buildings in Columbus County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1978, with its periods of significance being in the timeframes of 1800–1824 and 1825–1849. The building&#39;s areas of significance are commerce and exploration/settlement. Its architect is officially unknown; however, it was reported by local tradition to have been built by John Wooten in about 1803, and to have served the Lumber River community of Fair Bluff as a trading center for the next half century.</p><br>
<p>The Lafayette County Courthouse occupies a city block in the heart of Lewisville, Arkansas, the seat of Lafayette County. It is a two-story brick building with Art Deco styling, built in 1940-42 as a Works Progress Administration project. Although it has a basically rectangular plan, it has a stepped visual appearance, with single- and two-story projections. Ornamentation of the buff brick surfaces is minimal. It is the county&#39;s finest Art Deco structure.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace Adams Service Station is a historic automotive service facility at 523 East 3rd Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is a single-story brick building with flat roof, with a covered service bay projecting from the front, supported by brick columns. It was built c. 1929, and is the only surviving service station of its period in the city. Wallace Adams, the proprietor, lived in a house  that stood next door.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick J. Ahern Home is a Classical Revival style historic house museum located at 403 Laurel Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. It is operated as part of the Texarkana Museums System.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a large -story concrete block structure, set on a corner lot with a low retaining wall, which serves to accentuate the buildings already large scale. The hip roof projects over the street-facing sides, and is supported on those sides by two-story Doric columns. On the side facing East 4th Street, a portion of the upper level has been enclosed, one of the few alterations made to the structure since its construction. It was built in 1905, during the city&#39;s boom years, by Patrick Ahern, an Irish immigrant who owned a dry goods business, and has remained in the hands of his descendants.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 2005.</p><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>The P. J. Ahern Home was built in 1905 by Patrick J. and Mary Ahern. Patrick was an Irish immigrant who immigrated to the United States in 1882 to join his childhood friend, Roger ODwyer, in a business venture in Texarkana, Arkansas. The ODwyer and Ahern mercantile became one of the largest retail stores in Texarkana. Patrick married Mary Olive Lansdale in 1902 and the couple began plans for a large house constructed of concrete blocks. The materials used to construct the home, including window glass, was sourced locally with the exception of hand-glazed fireplace tiles imported from Italy.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Meeting House and East Bethel Cemetery are a historic religious property at 1797 Intervale Road in Bethel, Maine. The meeting house, built in 1831 and only modestly modified since, is a good local example of a typical rural church of the period in Maine; the cemetery has been in use for a longer period, with its oldest dated burial occurring in 1817. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Church</h2><br>
<p>The church building is a single-story wood frame structure resting on a granite foundation. It is finished in wooden clapboards and a metal roof, with a pair of brick chimneys rising from its west end. Its main facade has two doors flanking a central sash window. Each doorway has modest Federal styling, with a molded entablature and a large frieze. The sides of the building have three sash windows, and the rear has a single window between the two chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The doorways lead into separate vestibules, each with a closet, which then lead into the main sanctuary. The walls are plaster over lath, with wainscoting in the sanctuary. The sanctuary has rows of pews, a pedestal pulpit ornamented with wood paneling, and a two pump organs in the rear, behind which area a raised platform area traditionally used as a choir loft.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1831 as a "union church", serving the East Bethel communitys Baptist and Methodist congregations. Because the churchs records were destroyed in 1891, its alteration history is not fully known. Architectural evidence indicates that the side walls once had additional windows, and that the wall partitioning the vestibules from the sanctuary has been moved.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The East Bethel Cemetery is located just south of the church, and continues to be actively used. It is a roughly rectangular plot, laid out parallel to a former roadway that originally passed in front of the church. The northernmost portion of the cemetery is its oldest section, and is set off from the churchyard by a fence of wrought iron, pipe, and wire. This historic section is laid out in five rows of 22 plots. Burials include Lou Ann Gleason, the first burial, in 1817, and Deacon Asa Kimball, Jr. in 1823, who founded the Baptist congregation in Bethel. There is also a section of the cemetery which was historically dedicated to the burial of the town&#39;s poor, which is presumed to contain unmarked graves.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon Hart House is the oldest home in Westerville, Ohio, United States. Built in 1820, the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Gideon Hart and family moved from Connecticut to Ohio in 1816 to take advantage of the land tract of 380 acres. The original tract went from the current land east as far as the current Hoover Reservoir. Hart was a prominent man who built multiple sawmills (due to fire destruction), orchards, farming and a sugar maple stand. He also served as a Justice of the Peace and was integral in the development of Blendon Township, much of which was subsequently incorporated into Westerville. It is now at the front of the subdivision Woodglen. Gideon Hart died in 1859 and he and other family members are buried in the Blendon Township Cemetery on the corner of Dempsey Road and Hempstead Road in Westerville.</p><br>
<p>The house has seen multiple updates over the years, but much of the original structure and details are still intact. There are still burn marks on the original wood floors, imported tile around each of the three fireplaces (installed 1928), and even bark on the main support beam of the home. Most notably, the home&#39;s kitchen, which was added in the 1940s, was completely demolished and rebuilt in 2002–2003. An upstairs bathroom and closet was added to the master bedroom at this time.</p><br>
<p>The Mathewson Block is a historic commercial building at 101 Main Street in the center of Lyndonville, Vermont. Built in 1869, it was the first brick commercial building erected in Lyndonville, which was founded in 1866. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mathewson Block occupies a prominent position in downtown Lyndonville, facing east toward Depot Street, the main street of the business district from the west side of Main Street. It is a three-story brick structure with Italianate styling. Its ground floor storefronts are modern, while the upper floors have seven bays organized into a 2-3-2 pattern by quoined brick pilasters. Second floor windows are mainly set in segmented-arch windows, while third floor windows are a combination of round-arch and Gothic-arch openings. A decorative brick cornice and parapet extend along the top of the building on the front and sides. The building interior was extensively damaged by fire in 1996, but has been rehabilitated. The upper floors are used for housing.</p><br>
<p>The village of Lyndonville was established in 1866, after a fire extensively damaged railroad facilities in St. Johnsbury to the south, and railroad executives decides to relocate rail facilities to this area. A planned railroad community, the Mathewson Block was built in 1869 by George Mathewson, a businessman who owned a sawmill and a small metal stamp factory. The building was an immediate success, housing commercial tenants even before it was finished, with an auditorium space for social meetings on the upper floor. It is the only major building in the downtown area to survive two fires that swept the area.</p><br>
<p>Bryan House and Office is a historic home and office building located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built between 1804 and 1806 on the grounds of the original Tryon Palace. It is a -story, three-bay, side-hall plan Federal style brick dwelling. The house was modernized and a rear wing added in 1840. East of the home is a one-story, frame office building on a brick foundation. It was the home of Congressman John Heritage Bryan .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Coor-Bishop House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The original home was designed in the Georgian style by John Hawks and built about 1767. Between 1904 and 1908, the house was extensively remodeled to incorporate both Queen Anne and Georgian Revival concepts. The two-story frame dwelling features a high deck-on-hip roof, a projecting entrance pavilion, and a wide wraparound porch with Corinthian order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Coor-Gaston House, also known as the Judge William Gaston House, is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1774, as determined by dendrochronology, and is a -story, "L"-plan, Georgian style frame dwelling with a gable roof. It features a two-tier porch enclosed by Chinese trellis railings and supported by Doric order pillars. It was the home of Congressman and jurist William Gaston .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>James Coor (17371795) built the house soon after 1767. After his death it was owned by his heirs until bought by William Gaston in 1818.</p><br>
<p>Harvey Mansion is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1793, and is a three-story, brick dwelling with an exposed basement. The house was built by John Harvey who used it as a residential home and also for commercial space. The Harvey was a multi-purpose building for hundreds of years since it was first erected. Throughout its lifetime The Harvey has been an apartment house, a family owned restaurant, boarding school, military academy, and temporary barracks for elements of the Union Army and was the original home of what is now Craven Community College.</p><br>
<p>It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971.</p><br>
<p>Hawks House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built between about 1780 and 1810, and is a -story, six bay by two bay, frame dwelling with a gambrel roof. Between 1807 and 1832, it was the home of Francis Hawks, son of architect John Hawks. It was moved in the 1970s to 517 New Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Jones–Jarvis House, also known as General Foster&#39;s Headquarters and Jarvis–Slover House, is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a -story, three-bay, side-hall plan, Federal-style brick dwelling. It has a one-story brick and frame rear wing. During the American Civil War, General John G. Foster moved into this house, and it served first as his residence and later as part of the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army Corps.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Jones–Jarvis House is one of New Bern&#39;s outstanding examples of federal architecture. The lot was purchased by Frederick Jones in 1810 for $1,575 and later sold to Moses Jarvis. It was occupied and listed on tax records in 1816. The National Register of Historic Places describes it as:</p><br>
<p>"one of a small number of brick Federal houses in New Bern, all built on a side-hall plan, and all similar. Either because of site, or finish, or the occupations of their owners, however, each possesses a distinct architectural and historical character. This house, with its lots fronting on the Neuse River, is part of a group of nineteenth century brick houses at the corner of Union and East Front streets which is one of the finest architectural complexes in the state."</p><br>
<p>The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond.</p><br>
<p>The Eli Smallwood House next door and the Jones-Jarvis house are nearly identical. Across the street is the Slover–Bradham House. It was the Union Army General Burnside&#39;s headquarters, whose "distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns, derived from his last name." The house later became that of Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist who invented Pepsi-Cola in 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Timeline</h2><br>
<p>1810 Lot purchased by Frederic Jones for $1,575</p><br>
<p>1811 Purchased by Moses Jarvis</p><br>
<p>1816 House occupied and listed in tax records</p><br>
<p>1817 Transferred to Sylvester Brown</p><br>
<p>1822 Returned to Moses Jarvis, Jr.</p><br>
<p>1858 Purchased by Alonzo T. Jerkins</p><br>
<p>1862 – 1865 Occupied by Union Army as part of headquarters. Became private residence for General John Foster.</p><br>
<p>1868 Purchased by Mary C. Slover</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>National Register of Historic Homes Nomination Form. This is rich in architectural detail, the history of the house and surrounding homes.</p><br>
<p>The Attic Guest by Robert Knowles referenced in the Historic Register is based on a true story of a minister who stayed in the attic.</p><br>
<p>The Foscue Plantation cites the Jones–Jarvis House and Eli Smallwood House as inspiration to Simon Foscue for the plantation&#39;s design.</p><br>
<p>Historic American Buildings Survey completed by Thomas T. Waterman 1940, includes a photo of a cover page and the survey showing the address as 99 East Front Street</p><br>
<p>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division "1920&#39;s General View of Front and Side" photograph of Jones–Jarvis House.</p><br>
<p>USA Military Institute "Crow nest signal station, Jones–Jarvis house. Southeast corner of East Front and Johnson streets, ca. 1863." photograph showing the signal station built atop the catwalk between the two chimneys. According to A New Bern Album: Old Photographs of New Bern, North Carolina and the Surrounding Countryside by John B. Green III, Union troops used flares, lanterns and flags to communicate with the fort and troops on the other side of the Neuse River.</p><br>
<h2>Related names</h2><br>
<p>Jarvis–Slover House, Jones–Jarvis–Hand House, Jones–Jarvis House, General Foster&#39;s Headquarters, Tryon Palace</p><br>
<p>Ulysses S. Mace House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1885, and is a two-story, two-bay by three bay, side-hall plan, Italianate style frame dwelling. It has a side and L-shaped rear wing. It features a series of demi-hexagonal pavilions and the ornate bracketed cornice below a flat roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Jerkins-Duffy House, also known as the Clarence B. Beasley House, is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1833, and is a -story, three-bay, side-hall plan, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has an engaged, full-width two-story rear gallery and one-story wings. It sits on a high brick foundation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Clear Springs Plantation, also known as Dawson Place and Green&#39;s Thoroughfare, is a historic plantation house located near Jasper, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1740, and is a -story, five bay by two bay, Georgian style frame dwelling. It may be the oldest standing structure in Craven County and probably one of the oldest in North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Westview  is a historic residence near Decatur, Alabama. The plantation house was built in 1841 by Jonathan Burleson, a North Carolina native who settled in Huntsville as a child. Burleson became a large land- and slaveowner in Morgan County. One of his sons, Rufus Columbus Burleson, moved to Texas and was an early president of Baylor University. Westview was the site of a Union Army camp during the Civil War. After Burleson&#39;s death in 1866, much of his land was sold, but the 2,600 acres  surrounding the house remained in the family. The two-story clapboard structure has a double-height font portico with a second-story balcony. The house has a central hall on each floor with two rooms on either side, and a kitchen wing off the southwest rear that was added around 1912. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Slover-Bradham House is a historic house located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1848, and is a three-story, Renaissance Revival-style brick dwelling with a low hipped roof. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. During the American Civil War, under the direction of General Ambrose Burnside it served as headquarters of the Eighteenth Army Corps and the Department of North Carolina. Pepsi Cola inventor Caleb Bradham owned the house from 1908 until 1934.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Eli Smallwood House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810, and is a -story, side-hall plan, Federal-style brick town house. It features hand carved ornaments on the main cornice, the porches, and the dormer. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. It was the home of Congressmen Charles R. Thomas  and his son Charles R. Thomas  from 1873 to 1925.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Lydia is a wrecked whaling ship located below the foot of King Street in San Francisco, California. The ship was built in 1840 and wrecked in 1907. San Francisco was later built up over the site of the wreck, and it was not rediscovered until a sewer construction project unearthed the remains in 1980. The shipwreck included an intact case of twenty-four bottles of ginger beer brewed by A.S. Watson & Co. The shipwreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and a plaque marking the site was placed in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Pacific Gas and Electric Company General Office Building and Annex is a historic office building located at 245 Market St. in San Francisco, California. The building was constructed in 1923–25 to serve as the Pacific Gas and Electric Company headquarters. Architects Bakewell & Brown designed the Beaux-Arts building. The seventeen-story building features an arcaded lower section on the first two stories, a plain vertical shaft, and multiple setbacks at the top four stories. The entire exterior is clad in terra cotta, which is also used to decorate the lower and upper sections. The building&#39;s design complements the neighboring Matson Building.</p><br>
<p>Pacific Gas and Electric began a major expansion period shortly after constructing their headquarters, and they absorbed several other power companies in northern and central California. While business declined during the Great Depression, the company rebounded during World War II, and then needed more space in its headquarters. In 1945 the company built an annex to the building; the annex, which is interconnected with the original building, was designed to match the original building&#39;s architecture.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Athens was founded in 1818 when Robert Beaty and John D. Carroll began selling tracts of land. The following year, the town was chosen as the county seat of the newly formed Limestone County. Commercial development around the courthouse square was swift, aided by the strong cotton market. The town and courthouse suffered heavy damage during the Civil War in the Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle. Athens&#39; revival was slowed by major fires in 1882, 1894, and 1897, as well as the Panic of 1893. Redevelopment was spurred again in the 1910s and 1920s by a diversified economy with increased manufacturing, and in the 1930s by electricity provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Notable buildings in the district are the Limestone County Courthouse, built in 1919 in Neoclassical style with Palladian influences. The Old Post Office building was completed in 1933. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Matson Building is a historic office building located at 215 Market Street in San Francisco, California.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1922 - 1924 to serve as the headquarters of the Matson Navigation Company, then the largest shipping and transportation company between the West Coast and Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>In addition, the building held mainland offices for three of Hawaiis Big Five corporations and multiple smaller Hawaiian firms, making it a prominent fixture in San Francisco - Hawaii commerce. Architects Bliss & Faville designed the Renaissance Revival building. The sixteen-story building is divided into three sections; the lower and upper sections feature extensive ornamentation, giving the building a column-like appearance. The outside of the building is clad in terra cotta, which is also used for the buildings decorative elements. In 1945 - 1947, a matching annex was placed on the building to provide more space for Matson&#39;s offices.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Isaac H. Smith Jr. House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built between 1923 and 1924, and is a two-story American Craftsman style frame dwelling with a brick basement and small attic story. It was the home of Isaac H. Smith Jr. , one of New Bern&#39;s most financially successful African-American businessmen.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Edward R. Stanly House is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a Renaissance Revival-style brick dwelling with a three-story, side-hall plan rectangular main block and a two-story wing two bays wide and two bays deep. The brickwork is laid in Flemish bond.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Tisdale–Jones House, also known as the New Bern City Schools Administration Building, is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1769, and is a -story, central hall plan frame dwelling with a large two-story rear ell. In 1958, the New Bern City Board of Education began using the building as offices; in the 1980s it was returned to private residential use.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>York-Gordon House, more accurately known as the Patrick and Mary Gordon house, is a historic dwelling located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1771, as documented by a letter from Patrick Gordon to William Hooper. Early title research suggested that the house was much older and belonged to Susan York; she evidently lived in an earlier house on this site; her house was probably destroyed in the great storm of 1769. The 1771 house is a -story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a gambrel roof and Georgian style design elements. A Federal chimneypiece replaced an earlier Georgian chimneypiece in the early 19 century. The house is sheathed in shiplap siding over brick-filled walls, rests on a brick over ballast stone foundation and features a full-width, one-story shed-roof porch, which was added 1786, based on estate records.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Earl S. Sloan House is a historic home located at Trent Woods, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1914, and is a -story brick dwelling, consisting of a main block and flanking pavilions under low, hipped slate roofs. It is a Colonial Revival style residence with Tudor Revival and Mediterranean style design influences.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Rhem-Waldrop House, also known as the John L. Rhem House, is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a -story, five bay by four bay, stuccoed brick dwelling in the Renaissance Revival style. It has a high deck-on-hip roof with dormers and a semicircular entrance porch with fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Baxter Clock is a historic street clock located in New Bern, North Carolina. It was manufactured in 1920 by the Seth Thomas Clock Company, and erected in 1930 opposite the front entrance of Baxter&#39;s Jewelry Store. The four-sided clock has brass and steel works contained in a spherical cast iron case which consists of three stages. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973, but in 1977, an accident resulted in the broken clock being placed in storage for almost fourteen years. The Baxter Clock is thought to be one of three operating clocks of its kind remaining in the country.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Street clocks were installed in many American cities from the 1860s to the early 20th century, with the two largest manufacturers on the East Coast being the Seth Thomas Clock Company and the E. Howard Clock & Watch Company. The Baxter Clock stands in front of 323 Pollock Street, a Dutch Revival style property built in 1918 that was the longtime home of the Baxters Jewelry Store. The building now houses Baxters 1892, a jazz club and bar. It was manufactured by the Seth Thomas Clock Company of Thomaston, Connecticut. The clock was built in 1920, but features a style and design similar to ones made in the late-19th century. Baxters Jewelry Store, previously located on Middle Street, moved to Pollock Street around 1920, but didn&#39;t have the clock installed until 1930.</p><br>
<p>On May 5, 1977, a furniture truck backed into the clock, damaging the pedestal. Benny and Della Baxter hired a salvage company the following day to use a crane to lift the clock from the pedestal so it could be repaired. During the procedure, the clock was accidentally dropped causing it to smash into pieces on the sidewalk. The cast iron casing of the clock was relatively unscathed, but much of the workings was heavily damaged. The accident shocked the Baxters and residents of New Bern. Dabney Coddington, then a curator at Tryon Palace, said "That block of Pollock Street really looks naked, believe me." The Baxters attempted to repair or replace the clock, but were unsuccessful. The surviving pedestal was all that remained on the street for the next fourteen years while the broken pieces were stored in the basement of the jewelry store. In 1990, the non-profit Swiss Bear Downtown Development Corporation wanted to see if it was possible to restore the clock. Swiss Bear was granted ownership of the clock by the Baxter family on the condition it was restored. Swiss Bear in turn told city leaders the organization would help restore the clock if the city took over ownership and maintenance costs following the restoration. A Swiss Bear representative contacted the clock manufacturer Verdin Company of Ohio which had the original patterns of the clock case. Swiss Bear began the Baxter Clock Restoration Campaign which raised the necessary $28,000 needed for repairs. The repaired clock was dedicated on April 20, 1991, with special guest Patricia Dorsey, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, in attendance. The clock is believed to be the only one of its kind remaining in North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Baxter Clock is approximately 20 ft tall and is illuminated at night. The clock is supported by a slim column on top of a tall pedestal while metal supports extending 10 ft below the ground act as an anchor. The pedestal is painted black while the clock and column are brown. The pedestal features three vertical square panels, each covered with fluting, on all four sides. The top of each pedestal face includes the imprinting, "Seth Thomas," the clock manufacturer. Behind the panels on the north and south sides are doors with an iron knob allowing access to the clockwork. The clockwork inside the pedestal is an iron weight pulled down two iron rods by gravity. When this occurs, a steel and copper pendulum is swung, which in turn moves the hands of a small clock located behind the pendulum. The face of this clock is inscribed with the text "Seth Thomas, No. 2139, July 24, 1920". The interior clock regulates the four exterior faces of the clock.</p><br>
<p>The pedestal and column are separated by two stepped stages. The fluted column features a molded base and Corinthian style capital decorated with fern palmettes. The top of the clock was cast as four separate sections. There are visible seams on each corner of the clock as well as decorative lion heads surrounded by a palmette border. Each lion has an iron ring in its mouth. Each face of the clock measures 3 ft in diameter and is protected by a glass cover. The time is indicated by hour, minute, and second hands made of iron, with black capital Roman numerals (hour), black squares (minutes), triangles (hour divisions), and diamonds (three hour intervals). The north and south faces feature black lettering reading "BAXTER THE JEWELER" while the east and west faces include the lettering "DR. J. O. BAXTER EYESIGHT SPECIALIST". The top portion of the clock includes Arabesque crockets above each face and a three-tiered finial. The finial is decorated with twisted fluting and leaf molding.</p><br>
<p>Central Elementary School is a pair of historic school buildings in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The First New Bern Academy is located on New Street and was built about 1806. It is a two-story, Flemish bond brick building with a hipped roof and two interior ridge chimneys. It features a semicircular tetrastyle entrance porch with Tuscan order columns and a roof cupola. It has a rear addition dated to the late-19th century. The Second New Bern Academy was built in 1884 to replace the previous building. The buildings retained their educational functions until 1971. The 1806 building now houses a museum, while the 1884 building has been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>City Hall, also known as the Municipal Building, is a historic municipal building in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was originally built in 1897 by the federal government to house a post office, federal courthouse, and custom house. It is a -story, brick and granite building with a -story wing in the Romanesque Revival style. The building has hipped roofs with dormers. The Baxter Clock, a clock tower, is in the square outside. It became the municipal building in 1936.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was established in 1800, and is encircled by a magnificent paneled coquina wall built in 1853 and broken by a towering triple-arch entrance. It includes family plots, some of which are enclosed by cast iron fencing. Located in the cemetery is the Confederate memorial. The cemetery was owned by Christ Episcopal Church until 1853, when it was transferred to the town of New Bern.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Congressman Charles Laban Abernethy (1872–1955)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Graham Arthur Barden (1896–1967)</p><br>
<p>Pepsi inventor Caleb Bradham (1867–1934)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Samuel M. Brinson (1870–1922)</p><br>
<p>Author Mary Bayard Clarke</p><br>
<p>Congressman Richard Spaight Donnell (1820–1867)</p><br>
<p>Congressman and jurist William Gaston (1788–1844)</p><br>
<p>Educator Moses Griffin</p><br>
<p>Confederate General Robert Ransom, Jr. (1828–1892)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Charles Biddle Shepard (1808–1843)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Furnifold McLendel Simmons (1854–1940)</p><br>
<p>Congressman John Stanly (1774–1833)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Charles R. Thomas (1827–1891)</p><br>
<p>Congressman Charles R. Thomas (1861–1931)</p><br>
<p>Congressman William Henry Washington (1854–1940)</p><br>
<p>Artist William Joseph Williams (1813–1860)</p><br>
<p>New Bern Battlefield Site is a historic site of the American Civil War Battle of New Bern located near New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The battle was fought on 14 March 1862. The New Bern Battlefield Site consists of two discontiguous sites.</p><br>
<p>The Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The New Bern Historical Society owns about 27 acres of the battlefield site and protects it as New Bern Battlefield Park, which includes a visitor center and monument. The Society offers guided tours of the park by appointment. Self-guided brochures are available from the Society&#39;s website. The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 25 acres of the battlefield as of mid-2023.</p><br>
<p>J.T. Barber School is a historic high school building for African-American students located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in stages between 1951 and 1955, and is a one-story, flat roofed, concrete block school with brick veneer in the Modern style. The school consists of seven separate wings consisting of a cafeteria, a library, a gymnasium flanked on either side by classrooms, an auditorium and music room, and three additional classroom wings. Also on the property are contributing athletic fields. The school has also operated as a middle school and elementary school.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Street Recreation Center, also known as the Jasper G. Hayes Omega Center, is a historic community center building located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, United States. It was built between 1948 and 1952, and is located in a historically African-American section of New Bern. It consists of a one-story, 110-foot-by-91-foot, concrete-block main block with a 30-foot-by-91-foot wing. The building is in the Modern style. It was initially used as a recreational center and basketball arena for the African-American youth of the community and later as a venue for neighborhood gatherings and social events.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Historic District is a national historic district located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It encompasses 101 contributing buildings and 4 contributing sites developed as a suburban residential neighborhood in New Bern between 1894 and 1921. The district is characterized by dwellings in the Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow / American Craftsman styles. Notable non-residential buildings include the Riverside Graded School, Riverside United Methodist Church, S. B. Parker Company Building, Sadler&#39;s store, and Hawkins Grocery Store.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>DeGraffenried Park Historic District is a national historic district located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It encompasses 86 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a residential section of New Bern developed between 1926 and 1956. The district is characterized by dwellings in the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles. Located in the district is the site of DeGraffenried Park.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Levi D. Jarrard House is a historic building located on the Douglass College campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1868 by an unknown architect, as a private residence for Levi D. Jarrard. Levi D Jarrard, was acting as Postmaster of New Brunswick from 1881-1883, but was previously employed as a New Jersey State Senator as well as the Middlesex County Collector. In 1883 he was found to have embezzled approximately $20,000, and had fled to Canada with the funds, leaving his family to struggle with payments on the house. The house was then purchased by John N. Carpender, who would later lease it to the New Jersey College for Women.</p><br>
<p>This historical building is a well-preserved example of the large brownstone villas that populated New Brunswick during the late nineteenth century; one of the porches has since been enclosed, but the house remains otherwise unaltered. Brown sandstone has been a common building material in New Brunswick for almost 200 years, beginning with 18th and 19th century houses and late public buildings, shaping the civic appearance of New Brunswick. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1982, for its significance in architecture and politics/government.</p><br>
<h2>Douglass Residential College</h2><br>
<p>In the summer of 1918, the Board of Trustees of Rutgers College voted to establish a college for women that would be encompassed by the larger Rutgers University. Since the university’s original chartering in 1766 as Queen’s College, it had been committed to give the young adults of the state of New Jersey access to higher education. At the turn of the 20th century, as more and more young men went off to fight in the war, education for women began to be discussed further and was of greater importance. In fact, Mabel Smith Douglass, the first dean of the Women’s College, “along with the New Jersey federation of Women’s Clubs, led the movement, which began in earnest in 1911, to establish the institution." At this same meeting where the board of trustees voted to establish this college, a special committee was appointed to oversee the planning and management, to basically oversee the fruition of this decision. Locations for the college we are discussed in length as well as how much it would take to establish the college and who would run it. According to the recorded minutes, “The Board of Trustees has decided to take over the estate of Mrs. John N. Carpender, New Brunswick, near the college property” and Mrs. Douglass was to be appointed the Dean of the Women’s College. The estimated cost for the establishment of the college was $75,000. In addition to this, the board also hoped that the college could be established quickly enough to open that coming September. In the address given by university President, William Henry Demarest, in reference to the board’s meetings, he states, “An item of utmost importance is the coming into the market of the John N. Carpender property, near the college farm, 9 acres and a very large stone house, which in the judgement of all consulted would be a best possible location and building for a start of the enterprise.” He later goes onto mention how the asking price for said property is $60,000, and himself and the board do not know how to finance their purchase. This leads to various meetings that would result in different campaigns to fund the purchase of the estate and the founding of the college. For each of these campaigns, more money was collected from private donors as well as the state so that the property could be rented out the college for the first few years of operation. However, the location of the college was not secure until a donation of $50,000 from Mr. James Neilson was made for the purchase of the College Hall Property in 1921.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, it was leased to the New Jersey College for Women, which later became Douglass Residential College, and it is now known as College Hall, housing offices for faculty. The Levi D. Jarrard House held the entirety of the school at the time of its opening in 1918, only three years after the state voted against womens suffrage. 54 girls used the house as their residence, dining facility, and classroom setting until other accommodations were made. This school was New Jersey’s second college for women, and first college available to commonwealth women that provided its students with the same access to education as their male counterparts. This in and of itself makes the Jarrard House unique because every other womans school at the time was conceptualized and created at the hands of a male-dominated, elitist educational institution, while Douglass College has its roots in the convictions of women. Though the Levi D Jarrard House was left with a negative legacy from the original owner, it did not take long for its true legacy to be uncovered. The building truly represents the hard work done by Mabel Douglass, her peers, and her students, which permanently altered the way women were viewed in the United States.</p><br>
<p>Belden-Horne House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1831, and is a -story, three bay by four bay, side-hall plan Late Federal style frame dwelling. It features a two-tier porch with a hip roof and Palladian entrance. Barge&#39;s Tavern was moved to the Belden-Horne House property in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Blackburn House  is a historic residence near Athens, Alabama. The house was built around 1873. It is a one-and-a-half-story Saltbox-style house with an Italianate portico. The portico has four chamfered edge columns supporting a hipped roof. The portico is flanked by two-over-two sash windows on each floor; the same windows are used on the sides on the first floor and for the front rooms on the second floor. Small casement windows are found above the portico and in the attic areas on the rear sides of the house. The house has a center-hall plan with four rooms on the ground floor and two on the upper floor. Since restoration in the early 1980s, the house has served as an antique store. The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1983 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Donnell House  is a historic house located at 601 South Clinton Street in Athens, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1840 by Robert Donnell, a minister who had come to Athens in the 1820s to establish a Presbyterian church. After his death in 1855, the house passed to his son, James. It was purchased in 1869 by Joshua P. Coman in order to establish the Athens Male College, beginning the house&#39;s association with education. In 1879, it was purchased by the city and became part of the public school campus, and sold ten years later to the North Alabama Experiment Station and Agricultural School. The house returned to city ownership in 1936, and is today part of the campus of Athens Elementary School (formerly Athens Middle School). The house is a two-story frame structure clad in clapboard. A double-height portico with paired square columns covers the entry. The main block has a center-hall plan, with a two-story, gable roofed wing off the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 1973.</p><br>
<p>The George S. Houston Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. The district lies to the west and north of the public square, and features homes of some of the town&#39;s most prominent residents. Development began in the district soon after the town was founded in 1818; there are five homes remaining from the antebellum period. The district saw moderate growth between the Civil War and the early 1900s, most of which are Queen Anne and Victorian styles. The majority of houses in the district were constructed between 1908 and 1939. As the need for housing in the town grew, larger antebellum lots were subdivided and new construction was added. Larger houses tended to be American Foursquares, while middle-class houses were bungalows and cottages, some with Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival details. The district is entirely residential, with the exception of the First Methodist Church, built in 1925 in Neoclassical style; 400 North Jefferson was built in 1935 as a hospital, but later converted to apartments. Other notable properties in the district include the George S. Houston House, which was converted into a public library. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The house at 1254–1256 Montgomery Street is a historic house located in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. Construction commenced in the early 1860s and sits on a secondary summit of the hill, which was also the site of a windmill that burned in 1861. The house&#39;s Italianate architecture design features large windows on the front corner, double-hung sash windows decorated with pilasters and cornices, and a bracketed cornice along the roofline. While the house originally had only one story, its second story was part of its original plan and constructed by the 1890s. The house is one of the few buildings on Telegraph Hill which survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Beaty Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Robert Beaty was one of the original founders of Athens. An Irish immigrant who settled in Virginia, Beaty and his associates purchased 160 acres  around a spring, and began subdividing the land for sale in 1818. A small village of log structures had formed by 1826, and began to be replaced by permanent homes over the next decade. Beaty&#39;s own house was completed in Federal style in 1826. William Richardson, whose son William, Jr., served in the USA House of Representatives, completed his home the following year. The district contains 86 contributing properties representing architectural styles including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Eastlake, Victorian, and Spanish Colonial Revival. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Sulphur Trestle Fort Site is a historic Civil War battle site near Elkmont, Alabama. The fort was the site of the Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle on September 25, 1864. After defeating Union Army forces and recapturing Athens, Alabama, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest moved north to attempt to destroy a key railroad trestle. The trestle was defended by a fortification manned by 1000 Union soldiers. Forrests troops easily defeated the Union forces and burned the trestle. Today, about 400 yards  of trenches dug around the outside of the forts parapet remain. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Brownlea, also known as the Rufus C. Brown House, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a five-part Colonial Revival style stone dwelling. It consists of a two-story main block, flanked by -story wings, with garage and sunroom appendages. Also on the property are a contributing well house and barbeque pit, both built in 1939.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Cool Spring Place, also known as Cool Spring Tavern, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1788, and is a two-story, five bay by four bay, rectangular Federal-style frame dwelling. It low hipped roof and features a double porch on the front facade. It operated as a tavern until 1795, and is believed to be the oldest existing structure in the city of Fayetteville, having survived the disastrous fire of 1831.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
